our oldest daughter is amy and jacob was next, and trevor and carmen. >> jacob was our first-born son name is jacob wetterling. my favorite food is steak. my favorite color is blue. my best friend is aaron larson. my favorite thing to do most is watch football. what i want to be when i grow up is a football player. >> anyway, after the game jake and trevor and i, we played a little football game out in the driveway. >> jerry would throw a pass, and those two, one would try to intercept and the other one would try to catch the pass. and always it ended up in tears. they were very competitive. they took this game seriously. >> it was a fabulous day, and i will always cherish that day. >> i think one of the tough things for americans to grasp is that a predator can be anywhere. a crime can happen to anyone at any time. >> a little after 5:30 or 6:00, patty and i went to a dinner party at some friends' about 20, 25 minutes away. >> we weren't going to be gone very long, and they were just going to stay home. >> our oldest daughter amy was at a sleepover that night, and jacob's best friend

jacob, come on, put it down.se i knew he was not going to do anything whatsoever. now, if it was another kid that is a batterer, i wouldn't have been nearly as familiar with him. he signed a contract with me that he would behave and he would stay out of trouble and not self-mutilate if you would let him sit in the chairs. >> jacob tells us that episode started when his entire unit was locked down because one offender acted out. >> i don't like being punished. i don't like being in my room. >> how did you find something to wrap around your finger? >> that's not hard. they sew the pillows with different strings. i put the pencil in, cut the string off. >> does it feel good to you at the time when you're doing that? do you like pain? >> no, i can't feel it in my left hand. >> you know the drill with this, right? so you're not going to harm yourself? if so, you're going to let us know, right? >> it just takes off a lot of stress off me because i'm diagnosed stpd. social stress disorder. i'm diagnosed with adhd, bipol

for jacob bell, it's tension of another kind. today he faces a hearing for a fight with a fellow inmate. >> there's a classification committee day. my counselor called me in this morning. i was just involved in a mutual combat where i lost 90 days of credit. if i don't get my time back, i'm going to be in a lot of trouble. if i don't get it back, i'll be going home 90 days later. i'm hoping to get 100% back. >> you're here for your annual review. you're in front of the captain and the staff assistant. we're going to have cc 1 pacifica. this is a 36-year-old parole violator with a new term, serving a four-year sentence, for assault with force gpi with a weapon. cdcr 115 on 7/27 for mutual combat. it was a division "b" offense. he was found guilty. and assessed 90 days loss of credit. increasing his release date. to 6/13/2008. inmate bail has met the disciplinary free period and applied for the loss of credit to be restored. >> i'm going to go ahead and grant you your restoration of credit for the mutual combat, which is 90 days, s

>> yeah. >> whenever i talk to jacob he's pretty outgoing. how are you doing today, jacob?g okay for being under these circumstances. yeah. doing all right. all of a sudden his hair is cut different. completely cut off. he wasn't his normal self. he was just kind of like, yeah. i'm here. >> all the mental health staff's gone for today. of course holiday. >> good friday. >> yeah. >> yeah. unfortunately. >> unfortunately. >> it's our day. >> if you need anything just holler at me. i'll be here about 7:00 to 9:00. >> okay. >> i do not condone what these people have allegedly done or are accused of. my concern is their well-being while they're in here. i'm governed by state and federal laws that i must do these things and i am mandated to do these things. i don't have to like it. a lot of times i don't like it. but i do it because i am the one responsible for making sure these mandates are met. >> hi, alvin. >> hey, sergeant collette. >> how you doing? >> i'm doing pretty good. >> all right. you know why i come by, to check on you. it's the anniversary of what allegedly you hav

. >> reporter: nancy goodman's son jacob was 8 1/2 when he started getting debilitating headaches. >> he ended up being diagnosed on sunday afternoon, and monday we went in to see the neurologist. tuesday morning he had emergency brain surgery. >> reporter: nay jeh cob had a blastoma, a rare brain cancer. after hi surgery, his doctors prescribed a renl men of chemotherapy drugs even though they feared it wouldn't work. >> the protocol they suggested was 40 years old. >> reporter: jacob was one about 15,000 kids in the u.s. diagnosed with cancer annually. it's the leading cause of death among children after accidents. yet the number of kids with cancer peals in comparison to that for adults. pediatric cancers represent 1% of all diagnosed according to the american cancer society. with such a disparity in market sizes, nancy came to realize drug companies don't focus on cancer affecting kids. >> we open up the newspaper and learn about all these wonderful advances in science and in treatments for cancer. i was shocked to learn they don't apply to kids. kids don't get access to these dru

when jacob proposed to erica, he wrote her a children's book. there's a lot of creativity in this family. >> don't turn around. >> jacob is bawling because the poem is letting him know that she is pregnant. >> i love this. i love his reaction. >> just wait till the very last words of the video. >> we did it. >> adventure is out there. i know this to be true. all my greatest adventures have always been with you. adventures out there, you always make it so. whenever inhibition finds me you remind me to let go. adventure is out there and always will be, now that the two of us are to be three. baby jackson. >> that's awesome. >> it's like a giant tongue. it's like a giant tongue cleaning the table. >> there are all kinds of freaky clam videos. watch this. i don't think i want to eat clams any more. we learned something today. clams are weird. >>> time for us to give away another ipad mini. >> you need the buzz word, 18 years of ij or older and a legal u.s. resident. >> head over to rightthisminute.com. >> enter the buzz word facebook, twitter or bot

. >> mark jacobs, retired energy executive, really bringing a persona. >> i've never been in politics before, i'm someone that will go in and shake things up. i have the real world experience done. >> earps is a milt -- joni ernst is a military commander, farmers daughter turned state soirment. enator. >> stand for a smaller government. greater liberty. >> if you can't look them in the eye and answer questions, you have no business doing this. sam, a deeply conservative college professor also was on the conservative talk show host. >> i was asked earlier on who do you find yourself alining yourself with. after i stopped laughing, i said i hoped the questions get harder. i say right now i aline myself with senator ted cruz, maybe after a few months senator cruise would like to be like sam close. >> candidate. >> he is the best candidate. >> mark jacobs had the early momentum. he's a wealthy guy. he pitched his candidacy saying i have deep pockets and invested millions of his own money into the race. he'll use the money machine to stop the other candidates. >> iowa is one of two states

we turn once again for this story tonight in nbc's jacob raskon in the mojave desert tonight, jacob, good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening. it is almost unbelievable that anybody could survive a rocket plane crash at the speed of sound. but new information from sources close to the investigation make peter siebold's story of survival even more astonishing. sources close to the investigation of the failed virgin galactic test flight tell nbc news, at 45,000 feet after co-pilot michael alsbury prematurely unlocked the plane's tails, or feathers, and they deployed, the space plane actually broke up around the pilots, thrusting them at the speed of sound into an atmosphere with almost no oxygen. and sources confirm the pilots had no oxygen supply of their own outside the aircraft. both crewmen were wearing parachutes but only pilot peter siebold was able to deploy his. investigators theorize either alsbury's parachute failed or he blacked out and was never able to deploy it. the ntsb now says wreckage from spaceshiptwo landed as far as 35 miles away from the original debris fiel

again this family missing their two children sarah and jacob. their mentally ill mother suspected of abducting the children and wraps killing them. she's currently in a mental hospital and she's not talking about the situation leaving the grief stricken fath and family to work with police to find these children any way they can. today they announced the victims rights foundation based here in montgomery county is now raised in a reward to try to get additional information about these kids. and a message from the police today as the weather has turned, so has the terrain turned. leaves have dropped. the woods are more open and they're asking people to search their properties. be mindful to look for anything unusual, perhaps signs that some bodies may be somewhere on their property. despite that, the father troy keeping his spirits up. i talked to him before the press conference a short time ago. here are some of his thoughts on the situation as it stands. >> my message is simple. a lot of it is gratitude for everything that's happened over the pa

it will also support additional lbe participation as a major player in the jacobs contract is taylor consulting which provides the well needed cost estimating to validate the project change orders and advancement of payments. the position -- it also positions the team to address some additional services that i cecuming in the coming year. in terms of status we should be substantially complete with the project come may and we're about 88 percent expended, we're looking to have final completion by september of 2015 with occupancy in december of 2015. so this team will afford us an ability to keep the status quo in terms of the talent on board to address the issues coming in the next year in terms of finishing this project as well as addressing some issues with the service building, seismic, as well as kind of an extension of additional work in the building 5 basement and second floor where the tunnel and the bridge intersect the existing building. this is just a quick summary of what their contract has done. we've completed the preconstruction, construction phase services are provided

jacob, good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening. tonight the ntsb is much closer to understanding why the test flight failed while investigators are far from announcing an official cause, they're looking now at what one of the pilots did just before the space plane broke apart. tonight, the ntsb investigation has a new focus, the feathers or speed brakes on the tail of virgin galactic spaceship two. 20 minutes after takeoff at 45,000 feet, spaceship two separated from its carrier and its rocket ignited propelling the plane toward the edge of the atmosphere. nine seconds later the ntsb says cockpit video shows co-pilot michael alsbury unlocking the plane's feather. something usually done at a higher speed in altitude. the locks are in place to prevent aerodynamic forces from inadvertently deploying the feathers. the ntsb says once the feathers were unlocked, they deployed and the aircraft broke apart. 22 miles away from where it took off in a debris field five miles wide and this is the biggest piece of what's left of virgin galactic

this is sarah and jacob hoggle. they have not been seen since the beginning of september despite a massive search that has covered big swaths of montgomery county. a 25 thousand dollar reward is offered for information leading to their recovery. >> in gaithersburg, the hunt is on for a gun man who may have robbed a business and shot two people. this happened on premier court right next door to the montgomery county airpark. stephen tschida is there, and this is not the first time thieves have targeted this business? >> this is the second time, that's right. they are mopping up after the apparent robbery. the shattered window. his 60'sere a man in and a woman in her 70's were shot. gunfe echoed through this strip mall at 1:00. the man who called the police from next door does not want to be identified. >> for gunshots. in a few minutes, one of the victims came by and said she was shot. herof our assistance help control the blood. she was shot in the back. suspects shote out the door of sweeney business services, and

. >> i am delighted to now introduce the board of trustees, jacob weisberg, who has been involved in the internet before we knew what it was since 1996. eer in then a pionw field and what we talked about how to take on the topic whouding experts and people signed net neutrality and their eyes glazed over and we got the perfect person would be jacob weisberg so over to you. >> thank you. want to think of the fordham system for sponsoring this event. we are going to do way better than have your eyes glaze over. a hallucination of this interesting and lively and very urgent issue. i want to briefly introduce the panel and then give them a chance to make opening statements and will mix it up and save time for questions. i will start with my old friend micah sifry and i know him going back to when he was a writer for "the nation." that he works for the democracy for and author of a new book called the "big disconnect." agree with the premise. to my left is tim wu, you may recognize him from his recent unsuccessful yet widely successful campaign for lieutenant governor with 39% of the vote

jacob, good evening. >> reporter: lester, good evening. tonight we're learning more about the pilots who were onboard, the surviving pilot was in surgery today. this is a first of its kind investigation with more than a dozen ntsb investigators on the ground. this as the commercial space community is reeling but remains optimistic. the pilot killed when virgin galactic space plane exploded over the mojave desert was identified today. the california resident now the first person ever to die during a commercial space flight. virgin galactic's founder, richard branson. >> in testing the boundaries of human capabilities and technologies, we are standing on the shoulders of -- yesterday we fell short. >> reporter: it was just after 10:00 a.m. friday when first responders learned the flight meant to test a new engine and fuel mixture had gone terribly wrong. at 45,000 feet spaceship two started breaking apart. in a first of its kind investigation the ntsb is analyzing all the debris and data which could lead to recommendations to the federal avi

brother and sister jacob and sarah hoggle disappeared within days of each other in september. their father just spoke with us. news 4's megan mcgrath is live with how the search is taking a turn. >> reporter: barbara, we're learning that a montgomery county nonprofit will be helping with the search, lending their experience, their organizational skills, to the search for the hoggle children. police, family members, and even complete strangers have spent hours and hours searching for sarah and jacob hoggle. the toddlers have been missing since the beginning of september. their father hopes that a new reward fund will help continue that search. they have been missing for two months. father troy turner holds out hope his children will be found safe. now, some more help to keep the search going. the victim's rights foundation, a nonprofit group dedicated to the victims of violent crime, is starting a reward fund. whatever donations are collected will go to the person who finds the missing children. >> it gives us more organization. it gives us a greater base to pull volunteers fro

meet josh, jacob and mo three amazing young men who have been featured on disney's "citizen kid" seriessh williams is a miamian with a big heart and his foundation, joshua's heart has been feeding people in need for almost nine years. that's right. he started when he was 4 1/2 and since then, joshua's heart has fed 30,000 families with the help of 1200 volunteers. >>> across the country in california for the last three years, 10-year-old jacob has been using his energy literally to participate in triathlons for a great cause. >> go. >> he's not in it alone he and the join jacob triathlon team has so far raised $48,000 all donated to the food bank of santa barbara, county. and last but not least there is mosiahp. bridges mo of mo's bows. in just three years this 12-year-old memphis native has cornered the bow tie market, keeps his mom, aunt and three seamstresses busy making the coolest bow ties anywhere and in the process funds a kids' lunch program. so welcome to all of you. thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> mo, i'm going to begin with you. it's amazing you already have the en

joining me now, msnbc military analyst, retired army colonel jack jacobs. this was big breaking news. what do you see in this news? >> hagel was nominated at least partially because he was have easy confirmation. he was well liked. he had served in vietnam as an enlisted man. thought this was the ideal guy to carry forward the whole white house concept of reducing forces in southwest asia. but he had a very very rocky confirmation hearing. and despite the fact he'd been in the congress for a long long time, everyone knew him well and respected hip eded him as a senator. he didn't do well. he really came under intense grilling, at least partially because the senate was trying very, very hard to parse the direction in which the president himself was going with the war in southwest asia. so he didn't do very well. and then a lot of other things happened on his watch too. i think that finally it got the better of him. >> let's talk about that. because, you know, the situation on isis caught many in the administration off guard really. it's the perfect way to de

jacob weisberg so over to you. >> thank you. and thank you, karen. and i want to thank the fordham center for sponsoring this event. we are going to do way better than have your eyes glaze over. we are going to aim for an active elucidation of this lively and very urgent issue. i want to briefly introduce the panel and then give them a chance to make opening statements and will mix it up and save time for questions. i will start right here with my old friend micah sifry and i know him going back to when he was a writer for "the nation." but more recently he works for the democracy forum author of a new book called the "big disconnect." why the internet has not transformed politics yet. good line, i agree with the premise. to my left is tim wu, you may recognize him from his recent unsuccessful yet wildly successful campaign for lieutenant governor with 39% of the vote. >> 40%. 40.1. >> that is amazing with no background in politics. his background is "slate" writer. they tend to over perform unexpectedly. he is the author of a book called "the master

jacob is so many things to hi brother thomas.he making for sure. >> reporter: the film was shot in just four hours in july at the ft. mcarthur museum during their living history event, featuring more than a thousand war reenactors this year, including two very special little boys. >> this is a beret. >> i've been involved in a lot of projects, probably the most fulfilling one i've ever done. >> just trying to hold it together. because i tell you, when he put the flag in the culmination of movie at the top of saluted the flag, i get all choked up. >> oscar for that kid. >> jacob's tumor was removed just days after it was found. >> and after six months of treatment, doctors say he's now cancer-free. >>> up next, the ordinary people in the bay area doing extraordinary things to help save lives. >>> coming up at 5:00, the run on recycling and the big-time deficit from too much of a good thing. >>> plus, scientists studying the sea stumble on to something they've never seen before. they've never seen before. those stories and oh chris

that makes caleb jacob this week's hero. by most account, 16-year-old billy jacob is a typical, active teenager. a junior at sherman high school and plays ice hockey on an all girls team. >> gets connected here. >>>> sarah has juvenile diabetes, known as type one. she ars an insulin pack and was diagnosed at age four. and her family have been walking in the juvenile diabetes research foundation's walk to cure diabetes. their team is called sarah's soldiers. they have raised more than $200,000. >> thank you so much. we really appreciate it. >> sarah is also a teenage ambassador. she speaks at fundraising events like the annual walk for a cure. she also lobbies on capitol hill to raise awareness about the disease and the importance of funding research. role the teen finds most rewarding is helping other children with diabetes. it's really useful to have somebody to talk to who knows what is happening. 13-year-old austin was diagnosed with diabetes two years ago. he says sarah has been his lifeline. >> she has always been there

sarah and jacob have been missing more than two months. to help with the cost of searches, the salon is donating 20% of proceeds from services to find sarah, find jacob fund. the fund-raiser will be today and tomorrow. >>> today we could learn the name of a pilot who died in a plane crash in virginia. right now investigators are working to find out what went wrong. the plane was traveling from frederick, somed phd to martinsburg, west virginia. a student pilot survived that crash. >>> today virginia lawmakers return to richmond to finish up business before the holidays. they will vote to make final changes to the state budget and vote on a state supreme court justice and two new judges for the court of appeals. a a similar bill passed the senate -- or the state house earlier this year. >>> d.c. mayor elect muriel bowser shows off her transition office today. she will officially introduce her transition team and talk about her transition plan. it includes three former players, including moyer yon berry. >>> people with a criminal past will

you're no longer jack jacobs. you're jack jacobs, medal of honor recipient. there's an argument that says once you're a seal you're always a seal and you can't act any differently for the rest of your life. >> seeing the commanding aufrgs of the seals make this public statement, both talking to seals and saying it publicly, this is our culture. this is the cultural norm here and we will enforce it, essentially, within our community is a message to us about the seals as much as it is a sort of rebuke of anything going on in that community. it's a rebuke of our desire to know absolutely everything. >> retired u.s. army colonel jack jacobs. our nation's highest military award. thank you for being here, sir. >> thanks for having me. >> while we were still trying to figure out how tuesday's elections will change the way we do politics, one particular politician is already hard at work trying to change the way his state does elections. stay with us. . >>> still toe come tonight, we've had some late-breaking news tonight from the federal courts. this is a decision t

but tonight the effort to find and jacob hoggle is getting a new push. josie is live in our newsroom to explain. >> family and friends of sarah and jacob hoggle hope a new fund will help drum up leads. they believe the children are alive. police, though, are less optimistic but still very focused on this case. >> my job as my children's father is to believe in my kids, believe in myself, and go police, though, find them, period. into hisnths children's disappearance, and troy turner's mission is unwavering. >> my babies are still out there. we still have to find them. are saying tips are drying up. today the victims' rights foundation announced the to payn of a reward fund for information that helps police find jacob and sarah. there are people that can provide us answers. catherine can provide us answers. there may be other people that can provide us answers. >> police have to rely on strangers, because they can no longer speak with catherine. voluntarily told them they were in a montgomery refused, afterge defense attorneys argued she's not competent.

and mark murray, and colonel jack jacobs, and ayman mohyeldin. chris, a loss of confidence. we saw the debacle that was hagel's conformation hearing but one would think over two years secretary hagel could, if he didn't have respect after the hearings be able to earn respect. >> he never really seemed to recover from what was a poor showing in that conformation process. in addition, there have been a number of what white house officials see as missteps including the way he characterized the threat posed by isis very different than what we heard from the president. recently he sent a letter to susan rice on another topic. there were some questions within the administration why he did that. if that should have been done. he was brought in, really, to look at winding down the wars in afghanistan and iraq. in fact, now there's a whole different set of circumstances on the ground there. new national security crises have come to the forefront. foremost of which is isis but ebola and others. they didn't feel like he was the person to do it. he never really got into the president's

he said, you're jack jacobs, medal of honor recipient, and he better behave accordingly.? >> it definitely weighs on me, knowing the responsibility that i'm going to have. and i'm not, i guess, timid or scared in any way. i am excited for the opportunity to represent the military and this nation. but it's definitely, i guess, a double-edged sword. >> almost everything, even if it's good, we hang together trying to help each other out because we do know we don't wear the award for ourselves. we wear it for all those people who can't. who served and sacrificed. who performed valiantly and nobody saw them or somebody saw them, but they died themselves. you have a real heavy burden not just because you're a medal of honor recipient, but because there's so few. and you're relatively young. so the burden is going to fall on you and the other guys of your age to carry on talking about service and sacrifice and how we represent all those kids who didn't come home. >> yes, sir. >> two genuine heroes. and sometimes i struggle to sleep at night, and stay awake during the day. this i

jacob rascon, nbc, sacramento. >>> now, back to the east where the death toll has sadly climbed to ten people tonight in western new york. where so much remains paralyzed in a state of emergency in and around buffalo, new york. the region mother nature has placed inside some sort of a bullseye. 135 miles of new york throughway remains closed, travel banned in towns outright after second wave of snow. and roof collapses are a fear because of the weight of it all. lester holt starts us off tonight in a community with over six feet of snow on the ground. >> reporter: day three. >> this is absolutely crazy. >> reporter: and the snow keeps falling. and the weight of it all, over five feet of snow and counting, is beginning to cause roof collapses. more than 100 patients had to be evacuated from this nursing home in cheektowaga today when the roof began to show signs of weakening. >> the roof is compromised. obviously has not collapsed yet, but there's potential for it. >> reporter: in hamburg more than two dozen people driven from the roads in whiteout conditions and deep snow have been hol

made an up expected attempt to find miss -- an unexpected attempt to find missing children sarah and jacob hoggle who have been missing for two months now. family and a close friend over the weekend said their mother made claims she wanted to show police where sarah and jacob are. these people were present today along with police as the state's attorney asked the judge to grant a motion that would allow catherine to go with the sheriff and show this location. however, hoggle's competency report still hasn't been returned, so the judge ruled today until then she is not competent and is not to have contact with police. her attorney agreed. >> to think that she is in a position where she would be able to render any meaningful assistance or nonassistance just logically makes no sense given the circumstances of this case. >> if the children aren't there, she returns to where she is either way and nothing would have been gained or lost. so i just think it was a chance that was missed and it's sad, very sad. >> reporter: hoggle is due back in court again january 5th. the state's attorney says we

. >> later on in the hour, don't miss medal of honor recipient conditional jack jacobs. we're going to go the trader blitz in a second. but give me a quick comment. we touched on the record setting day for alibaba. you own the stock, pete. >> yep. >> some are asking questions as to whether this was the top. >> i heard that before too. apparently not. do i think this is the top? absolutely not. far more runway in front of them right now. >> coming up you will hear from jack ma as well. let's do the trader blitz though. four trades on four stocks. pol poll pollo loco. >> the pressure on the stock, this is an opportunity. i have not bought it yet. i bought it into earnings. i own the stock. i sold calls and bought back the coals. and looking at potentially buying for today on the dip because i think it is unjust. >> zynga, second upgrade this week josh. >> and seems like people are bullish about words with friends. and -- i can't even. that is heavily shorted stock. i'm sure the game is great. i'm sure the stock can bounce further. i would not be a buyer here. looks like a

jacob rascon, nbc news. >>> tonight, we are coming to the end of a very nasty week of weather. in the northeast more than 100,000 customers are still without power after the thanksgiving eve snowstorm. and in the middle of it all, one family went into crisis mode when two boys went out to play in the snow and went missing. we get our report tonight from nbc's miguel almaguer. >> reporter: the northeast whiteout wiped out power across pockets of the region. so much snow in new hampshire and maine, frozen power lines snapped. some 300,000 lost power during the holiday. >> been pretty hard. >> reporter: today, from as far away as toronto crews scrambling to help. no lights, no heat. many spending black friday in the dark. in upstate new york, a critical situation, this, the desperate scramble to save two boys buried under six feet of snow. >> me and my cousin were building a fort in the snow. and the whole top of the fort just fell on us. >> i was thinking that me and my cousin were going to die. >> reporter: an unsuspecting snowplow driver dumps snow on top of 9-year-old jason an

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colonel jack jacobs. i heard a lot of people talk about the fact that there is no policy guidance that we don't have any strategy and it's difficult to put together a force in order to achieve national strategic military objectives when there not any. unless you are going to jump the fence. get the guidance and so on. if you are in the pentagon, unless you are a junk yard dog and somebody who was doifl deal with and you are going to stand up and be tough, if you are a bob gates, leon panetta. you are going to be compliant. that's one of the reasons why they were selected in the first place. compliant and easily confirmed. it doesn't work out in this environment. >> mick, i just received an e-mail from senator udahl who is on the committee as well over the last year. we have seen the emergence and other security threats that required a response with little room for mistakes. he goes on to thank and praise chuck hagel. he was brought in to drawdown from afghanistan and iran to manage the budget. we have the

jacob rascon "nbc nightly news." >>> and that is it for "nbc nightly news."liams will be back tomorrow night. stay tuned for nbc football night in america. for all of us here at nbc >>> in kansas city, missouri, as the final month of the nfl regular season begins, tonight it's afc west rivals at arrowhead. the chiefs host the broncos. after leading the chiefs to the playoffs, alex smith has this team in postseason contention again. but like last year, it's wes welker and the broncos who are atop the division standing led by a future hall of famer at

-- sarah and 2-year-old jacob. the problem? her psych evaluation has not come back, so the judge found her to be in the same state, not competent. family members see it as a setback. >> anything about it. they're putting the court case before finding my kids. >> we were hoping and praying she would have been taking to where she's saying the children are and if they aren't there, she returns either way. nothing would have been gained or lost. >> those children have been missing since september 7th. she is charged with two counts of child neglect and obstruction in their disappearance. >>> tonight molly shattuck is free on 87,000-dollar bond, but the story of the 47 nfl ex- cheerleader and her assault of a 15-year-old boy is still generating discussion. experts tell wusa9 this is not a victimless crime and gender does not matter says john wilkinson, an attorney for a washington-based organization dedicated to defending the rights of sex abuse victims. >> the future harm to these individuals, their healthy development

just want to come back and want sarah and jacob to come home.ng them back a lot quicker and make sure they are safe. >> the children were last seen with their mother back in september. katherine hoggle faces charges of child neglect and hinder ring the investigation into her children's disappearance. maryland judge ruled she is not competent to stand trial. >>> 38 d.c. children have permanent new families tonight. their adoptions were finalized during today's 28th annual d.c. adoption day. ann and natasha riley became a family today at the d.c. superior courthouse. both mother and daughter say it took a lot to happen, but it was well worth the wait. >> glad to have it over. glad to be here to celebrate and bring my daughter home for real. >> what are the plans for the future? >> finish school, get a good job, and help my mother when she gets older. >> family service agency says there are some 1100 children in foster care in the district. 85 of those children are eligible for adoption. >>> more than 20 people were hurt in central japan when an ea

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our science and technology editor jacob ward explains why. >> winning the latino vote only strengthens the party's grip on support they already have. this may explain why the republican house majority simply doesn't seem interested in attracting latino voters. and works for instance to keep immigration reform from becoming law. but here is the problem. republicans are starving themselves now of votes they're going to need down the line. that's going to be true in 2016. without enough of them republicans really will lose. the number of hispanic voters is increasing every election so republicans need to gain support from latino voters in several states including florida, nevada to be competitive in 2016. at some point john republicans may find they need the very votes that they've ignored all this time. >> jake, thank you. >>> wendy corillo is latino strategist and head of knowledge is power. wendy, welcome. the president said executive orders would go away if congress passed immigration reform. this sounds like the last time. >> it does, doesn't it? i think it sets up a really good conv