he used ciara's phone that day.ust remember my daughter handing me the phone saying that it was her older brother in indiana and that he wanted to talk to me. dennis murphy: and they weren't worried at all about that jailhouse snitch. he was totally not credible, as most snitches are not. because if you talk with any jurors, they don't want-- they don't believe them. i mean, you don't call somebody and talk about another crime unless you expect to get something out of it. do you live right here? dennis murphy: but what about the kids and their ever-important stories? the defense questioned the new details, dad changing his shirt, the white bottle of what could have been bleach. you're saying that the cops in this case are seeding the story. they're coaching the kids. i absolutely think that they were asking leading questions that were leading them to conclusions that they didn't originally have. dennis murphy: jarod's attorney was confident the jurors would understand the facts if they heard from jarod directly. i k

ciara had become a nurse. her friend and co-worker at the hospital, samela payne, says the main thing keeping ciara in georgia was being near her ex. samela payne: she didn't want the children be without their father. she tried her best to co-parent. and like, you understand that she didn't have anybody here. so she'd sacrificed her short-term happiness. right. for the kids. samela payne: for her children. that's the type of mother she was. dennis murphy: her friend, kendra, lived in tennessee, but they were as close as could be. dennis murphy: when did you talk? end of the day? start of the day? middle of the day? all day. we were single moms dealing with our exes. and she was my support system, and hopefully, she thought of me as hers. dennis murphy: by june 2012, ciara decided it was time for a fresh start. she made a plan to move home to indiana to be near her family. their kids, ages 6 and 7, would stay with jarod for the summer and join her later. was she dating again? - yes. she was. absolutely. she was

dennis murphy: the children, what they saw, what they heard, what they remembered, ciara's friends say what's more important now is what they know about the woman lost on that day. if her kids start to forget her, the memory dims, what would you sit down and tell them about their mother? mainly how much she loved them. she did. those kids were everything to her. you know, she-- they were her world. that's all for this edition of "dateline." i'm andrea canning. thank you for watching. >>> good morning, and welcome to this sunday edition of morning joe: weekend. it was another fast-moving week of news. here are some of the conversations you might have missed. >> how many illegal immigrants would you estimate, your administration has release into the country over the last 3 1/2 years. >> i'm glad you raised the issue of immigration. i agree with you, it is a topic of discussion that people want to rightly have. you know what i'm going to talk about. >> just a number? do you think it's 1 million, 3 million? >> brett, let's just get to the point. the point is we have a broken immigration sy

ciara has calmed down for now. they picked up a little bit of snow last night, too, but we're all looking out for the next hit of weather coming friday night because the pacific remains active in this low pressure system is going to sink to the south. and as it does, it will start to bring us more precipitation. but right now, a little cool, but pretty nice. we are in the upper 50's in san francisco sunday 60's inland. you could nothing to warm, right? so some mid to upper 60's around rest of the day. 50's out at the coast and tonight looking he's conquered as an example here. so we're in the 60's now as we start our trick-or-treating around 6 o'clock about 62 degrees and then we'll take it down into the 50's to just make sure you have the jacket and you're ready to go. i'll be back in a little bit. we'll talk about the rain coming our way tomorrow night. thousands of hotel workers on strike stopped traffic in downtown san francisco last night. police arrested 85 people. >> for blocking the street. they're the ones

ciara. hey, girl. [ light laughter ] ah! >> jimmy: yeah. [ cheers and applause ] yeah! come on!y: we're still in it -- yes. we're still doing it. you're the best. you're going to perform a song off the new album for us tonight. it's called "love you, miss you, mean it." >> yeah, which has been happening since i haven't seen you last. i've loved you. >> jimmy: thank you. you wrote this for -- it's written for me. >> i've missed you. and i've meant it. >> jimmy: yeah, i cannot wait for you to sing that to me tonight. >> luke bryan, everybody. "mind of a country boy" is out now. more "tonight show" after the break. stick around, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ ♪ have you always had trouble losing weight and keeping it off? same. discover the power of wegovy®. ♪ ♪ with wegovy®, i lost 35 pounds. and some lost over 46 pounds. ♪ ♪ and i'm keeping the weight off. wegovy® helps you lose weight and keep it off. i'm reducing my risk. wegovy® is the only fda-approved weight-management medicine that's proven to reduce risk of major cardiovascular events in adults with known heart dis