gianna's very artistic. loves, like, animals. >> reporter: but this story is about what sandra claims is not captured on home video. she says despite those smiling faces, there was a shocking, ugly secret in the family. years of emotional and physical abuse by david. what would he do? >> throw things, hammers at me if he got mad, um, there was black eyes, there was broken ribs. we had to lock ourselves in the bedroom because we were scared. we just didn't know how his behavior was going to be from one day to the next. >> reporter: during all those years during the marriage, did you ever take any photos? ever seek medical help? >> yes. we had photos, and we have police reports that prove it. >> reporter: and she claims david didn't just target her, but went after the children too. how often did that happen? >> once is more than enough. it happened a lot. >> reporter: after 20 years of marriage, sandra says she reaches her breaking point and finally files for divorce. she says, frightened for her life, she als

. >> reporter: 13-year-old gianna and 14-year-old samantha rucki disappear. the only trace, footprints in the snow. but oddly, there is no manhunt to find the girls, no police press conference. >> how can two children in the state of minnesota be gone, and no one knows where they are? >> reporter: their parents are embroiled in an ugly divorce and custody dispute but they insist they are united in their desperation for the girls. >> i'm concerned. i'm worried. i don't know what to think. >> you don't want sleep. you drive around at night. you're always looking. >> reporter: where did they go? who are they with? and why does our journey begin by asking questions to their mother inside the ramsey county jail? did you have anything to do with your two daughters running away? >> no. >> reporter: do you sit here and think, how did this happen? >> clean record, never had a problem. >> reporter: clean record and here you are in jail on a million dollars' bai this shouldn't be what happens in a divorce. >> reporter: this divorce is more like guerrilla warfare than a

we want to talk to hadad a fox5 political contributor and also gop strategist gianna caldwellaw both this morning. mni hadad i want to start with you u want to look at the big picturec right now. on-going battle between b president trump and as he refere to it as the media.ed a lot of the members of theembes media and publications that hadh been attacked by the presidentrn were actually quiet kind inind i response to the speech lastpeecl night. what's your take?ake? >> exactly. i think a lot of the media t eoo it as the most presidential houh and few minutes that trauma tra donald trump has had in his 40 day or so presidency, because he kind of laid off a lot of these trivial attacks that hee specifically reference to do only made one reference to theoe media and it was pretty mundanea compared to what he's beenee talking about in the past he th just said the media doesn't dsn just the people he's speaking to, people he's trying to work w for to get jobs and health carer and things like that. so this is probably going to beo one every the best days forsor president trump thus far in

. >> reporter: ask little gianna she'll assure you she has mother nature all figured out. >> march is -- goes in. >> like a lion and out like a lamb. >> reporter: but those he only kids on the block out enjoying the snow before the sun meltit away. these next door neighbors made the best of the white stuff. >> all right, last one for the season i hope. >> reporter: the afternoon shoveling often interrupted by discussions about mother nature and which of her weather moods was better. >> it's a nuisance. >> it's a nuisance. >> in march, yeah. >> for m great. look how beautiful. trees are whit >> i'm ready for springtime. >> reporter:obviously opinweather. coming back out live i want to give you an example of just how bad t today. we are about 200 yards from tbarely because of that snow squall earlier today so certainly be careful. spring is not here yet and that good weather not here to stay just yet. be careful as you head out today. reporting live in allentown, jeanette reyes channel6 "action news." monica. >> thanks jeanette. >>> police in delaware county trying to track down an atta

ktvu's janine de gianna caught yoma -- jana caught yoma -- catiama points to a ven vendetta. >> reporter: the fbi raided a house connected with juan thompson. thompson was arrested and accused of making bomb threats by phone to eight jewish community centers and the antidefamation league in new york city. >> haven't been there. >> in how long? >> a couple of months now. crazy. >> reporter: some say what's crazy is the possible motive suggested in the fbi's criminal complaint. it charges thompson with cyber stalking and says he had been harassing his ex-girlfriend from july through november, threatening to release nude photos, telling her employer she had a dui, stds and was antisemitic. the fbi complaint says thompson began calling in bomb threats in january using his ex- girlfriend's name and his own name. on social media thompson appears to have posted messages suggesting his ex-girlfriend was framing him. thompson was fired from the online publication intercept last year after fabricating a story about the charleston, south carolina church shooter dylann roof. >> our center on extremi