mark jumped in and pull ed out 9-year-old desiree rod he re. the only survivor, her mother, father, sister and aunt and uncle perished, she had been in the water 20 hours. >> it was against all odds that she was alive and coherent. >> reporter: this was the last time that paul and mark saw little desiree, and they have always wondered about her. that is why they were invited to a podcast show. along with a surprise guest. >> i'm going to allow her to introduce herself to you. >> i'm desiree. >> oh, my gosh. >> the brims of their ball caps were not wide enough to hide the joy. 35 years not nearly long enough to erase the bond. >> i'm so happy. >> when i connected with them, they brought a lot of closure. >> reporter: since then, they have stayed in touch. and this week, paul and mark invited desiree the aunt that raised herr and the rest of the family to take a little trip. it was her first time back on the ocean, a journey that would bring her full circle. >> this is basically the area right here. >> reporter: right back to where it all happene

mark jumped in and pulled outd nine-year-old desiree rodriguez, the only survivor. sister, aunt and uncle all perished. desiree had been in the water 20 hours. >> it was against all odds that she was still coherent and alive. >> reporter: this was the last time paul and mark ever saw little desiree, and they've always wondered about her. >> okay. >> reporter: which is why a podcaster named phil friedman invited the men on his show. >> mark pisano. >> hi. >> reporter: along with a surprise guest. >> i'm going to let her introduce herself to you. ( sighs ) >> i'm desiree. ( crying ) >> reporter: the brims of their ball caps weren't nearly wide enough to hide the joy. 35 years not nearly long enough to erase the bond. >> i'm so happy. >> when i connected with them, they brought a lot of closure. >> reporter: since then, they have stayed in touch. and this week, paul and mark invited desiree, the aunt who raised her, and the rest of her family to take a little trip. it was desiree's first time back d brhee.cean, a journey that >> this is basically the area right here. >

. >> desiree wallace has always been proud of her son and even prouder now to stand with him. >> withw for justice and equality, that makes me nervous as well. a lot of haters out there since all this happened. one text was, i know bubba came out about struggling with depression, you know, i just wish he would go on and kill himself. >> no. >> i went off on them, and i told them to go kick rocks in a nice way. >> but then desiree got an unexpected response. >> this young man says, i owe you a major apology from back in the summer. i hope you will accept i have grown as a person and come to understand your son is a great ambassador of our sport. >> i just graduated last year. >> and now bubba is focused on the future with a goal of making nascar more diverse. he's taken raja caruth under his wing and mentoring this young driver. so bubba wallace was your inspiration. >> i have gone through the program and it was a road map i could get through the sport. >> what has it meant to you to mentor people like raj? >> a lot of people turn on the tv. they see someone that looks like them and th

desiree says the reduced possible punishment for her son's killer down to 25 years in prison.on policies that create more victims. governor gavin newsome will face his recall fight without the support of the largest state worker's union. this is a big deal. the new leader of the union tells the a.p. that we're going to run his ass out of office. he will speak with us in just a moment. but first, we go to william la jeunesse with the very latest from los angeles. hi, william. >> he's angry because newsome demanded a 9% pay cut when they thought they were broke and they were not. this is the head of one union. the president of the statewide union opposes the recall. this union president did not say he would campaign against newsome, only that he wouldn't support him. finally, a new poll shows 57% of voters favor keeping newsome. 40% want him out. still, newsome to lose any union support is a big deal. richard brown told the a.p. that he will need support from public sector unions to help fight this recall. when i become president of local 1,000, he wouldn't get any support from

a few years later, 18-year-old desiree washington accused tyson of rape. >> i begged. i cried.i couldn't. and nothing worked. >> he was convicted of rape in '92 and sentenced to six years in prison. >> it looked to a lot of black people like this was another successful black guy who became too successful and the powers that be went to put him in his place. >> after serving three years of his prison sentence, tyson got back in the ring, staging a series of comeback bouts, one in 1997 became legendary. >> halfway through that fight, i could see thingsike mike's conf was leaving. i could see that evander holyfield's confidence was constantly building. they were clashing a lot. >> in the first couple of rounds, he had been head-butted again. caused a huge gash over tyson's eye. >> he was screaming look what he did, look what he did, look what he did. looked through him like he didn't exist. and that's when mike lost it. >> and all of the sudden it wasn't mike tyson the champion. it was mike tyson from brownsville that got underestimated and didn't receive the proper love and guidan

the quartet of beth dobbin, imani—lara lansiquot, bianca williams and desiree henry won the a—by—ioomfull points for the team. and you can watch day two live on the red button, as well as the bbc sport website and app, from 11.55. now on bbc news, here's ben with the papers. hello and welcome to our look at what the the papers are bringing us today. with me are bloomberg economics reporter — lizzy burden and independent features writer, james rampton. good to see you both. we will chat in a moment. let good to see you both. we will chat in a moment-— in a moment. let us first look at the papers- _ the sunday telegraph leads with the news that the prime minister has married his fiancee carrie symonds at westminster cathedral. the independent leads with the news brentford football club has been promoted to the premier league — ending their 7a—year exile from the top flight. it also reports scientists warn travellers may import variants of coronavirus when returning to the uk . the sunday times leads with the origins of covid—19. it says british spies say a lab leak from wuhan in china w

so when the pandemic hit, he and his mom desiree got creative ell people who ssage struggle with mentalhey don't feel alone. >> reporter: joseph's father byron serving in the army since 2007 says he's proud of his son for helping those -- who are struggling. >> i thought it would be great for him to send out those hugs and help them get through. >> we have had people from different states reach out, and he's sent them hugs. so it's been a great support system overall. >> i learned a faster, more efficient way to sew masks, and it's called the chain method. >> reporter: 11-year-old rhyannon edwards is making an impact one stitch at a time. >> i enjoy everything about sewing. all the different things you can sew, all the different ways you can sew them. i just love it all. >> reporter: it's a hobby she learned from scratch while stuck inside during the pandemic. her mom teaching her the basics. >> she took a post-it and wrote instructions down and said, can you teach me? i said, of course. the family, including dad justin, a marine corp. gunnery sergeant helping her send masks all across

. >> desiree gonzalez says she used to hang out on the streets and says she knew several of the missingd also heard those same rumors. >> i came out here looking for my cousin i bumped into cinnamon and she told me that the girls were getting their heads cut off and took it to the mesa and i got scared. it seems like they knew, or something. >> ida didn't completely disbelieve with the girls were telling her. but the mesa, a vast expanse of desert west of town where people frequently dumb things they no longer have any use for, was simply too big an area to launch a search based on just a rumor. and so this case was going nowhere. until late in the afternoon on february 2nd, 2009. >> sit. >> when christine ross decided to take her dog for a walk. >> okay. >> they strolled out of her new subdivision, one of many that hit recently sprouted up in the desert west of albuquerque, and then over to an abandoned construction site where christine let her dog off the leash to run. >> she ran up ahead of me, and she was messing with something on the ground. and then she left it. we came upon it, a