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jaycee dugard held behind this house. this case brings back memories here. >> the quiet neighborhood where jaycee dugard was held captainist seems back to normal. her kidnappers were arrested and sent to prison. the home has been fixed up and sold. neighbors have lost -- left. >> these people are new. he's gone. >> but helen is here and lives next door. she watched coverage of the three women, she saw similarities to the garido case. >> i thought not another case like garido. i thought how terrible. terrible. >> in the cleveland case neighbors never expected anyone was being held against their will. same in antioch. no one thought it was the garidos who kidnapped dugard. she later gave birth to two children. >> tried to find out what is going on. releasing a statement, quote, these activities need the opportunity to heal this, isn't who they are. it is only what happened to hem. the human spirit is resilient this, reaffirms we should never give up hope. some neighbors are still upset they didn't discover dugard sooner. >>

understands better what the women in cleveland who just made their break for freedom experienced than jaycee dugardas held for 18 years. today, dugard issued a statement saying, this isn't who they are. it is only what happened to them. abc's cecilia vega, now, on strength and survival. >> reporter: from this house on this street in cleveland comes a story of survival. and it is a story others have lived to tell. >> how did you stay sane? >> i don't know. i was still alive. there was still -- there was still hope. still hope. >> police started searching -- >> reporter: jacyee dugard, kidnapped on her way to school at age 11, imprisoned in a backyard for 18 years by a convicted sex offender and his wife. jacyee told diane she found ways to cope. that sight of the moon, a reminder her mother could see it, too. and all those years she remembered a pinecone, the last thing she touched before being taken. >> now, it's a symbol of hope and news beginnings and that there is life after something tragic. >> there's something that people have which is an innate resilience. and it varies tremendously from per

jaycee dugard held behind this house. this case brings back memories here. >> the quiet neighborhood where jaycee dugard was held captainist seems back to normal. her

dugard. she wrote her master thesis on why police officers ignore their intuition. >> i got a lot of slack for taking the time i did on the jaycee case. a lot of time police departments, not all of them, but a lot of time police departments are not supportive of outside the box thinking. >> both jacobs and due guarded guarded -- dugard stressed the need for more people to be aware and alert. >> and last of all i would like all of us to remember to just ask yourself to care. >> jaycee dugard emphasized the importance of these cleveland women to heal in private. the case reaffirms her belief that many more missing children are still waiting to be found. dan, carolyn? >> alan, thank you. and later this evening "nightline" will look into the suspected it cleveland abductors and the women who broke free" nightline" airs at 12:35. >>> a peninsula legislator plans to introduce a bill that would make limos safer. this following last week's deadly fire. limos with fewer than eight people are not required to have fire distinguishers. jerry hill will introduce a bill that would require the fire distinguisher in the passenger compartment of

dugard. she wrote her master thesis on why police officers ignore their intuition. >> i got a lot of slack for taking the time i did on the jaycee case. a lot of time police departments, not all of them, but a lot of time police departments are not supportive of outside the box thinking. >> both jacobs and due guarded guarded -- dugard stressed the need for more people to be aware and alert. >> and last of all i would like all of us to remember to just ask yourself to care. >> jaycee dugard emphasized the importance of these cleveland women to heal in private. the case reaffirms her belief that many more missing children are still waiting to be found. dan, carolyn? >> alan, thank you. and later this evening "nightline" will look into the suspected it cleveland abductors and the women who broke free" nightline" airs at 12:35. >>> a peninsula legislator plans to introduce a bill that would make limos safer. this following last week's deadly fire. limos with fewer than eight people are not required to have fire distinguishers. jerry hill will introduce a bill that would require the fire distinguisher in the passenger compartment of

jaycee dugard who lived to tell the story of her ordeal is honored in washington.can learn about her resilience and message. >>> brain drain. the arizona man who thought he had a chronic runny nose or sinus problem, gets a surprising diagnosis. how this could happen. >>> taking action, new jersey's governor known for his big personality and large size addresses some serious political weight. chris christie explains why he had a secret operation. it is wednesday, may 8th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now" with john muller and diana perez. >>> happy hump day. i am happy to be back. >> yes, welcome back. looking tan, rested. do you feel good? >> yes, in miami for a long weekend, surprise birthday party for my husband. >> he was in fact surprised right? >> yeah. didn't know we were going to miami. >> you got him somehow from new york to miami without him knowing and all the people? >> at the airport he knew we were going to miami. >> still a views. didn't know it was a party? you'll show pictures later on? >> later on i will show pictures. very exci

dugard. she wrote her master thesis on why police officers ignore their intuition. >> i got a lot of slack for taking the time i did on the jaycee case. a lot of time police departments, not all of them, but a lot of time police departments are not supportive of outside the box thinking. >> both jacobs and due guarded guarded -- dugard stressed the need for more people to be aware and alert. >> and last of all i would like all of us to remember to just ask yourself to care. >> jaycee dugard emphasized the importance of these cleveland women to heal in private. the case reaffirms her belief that many more missing children are still waiting to be found. dan, carolyn? >> alan, thank you. and later this evening "nightline" will look into the suspected it cleveland abductors and the women who broke free" nightline" airs at 12:35. >>> a peninsula legislator plans to introduce a bill that would make limos safer. this following last week's deadly fire. limos with fewer than eight people are not required to have fire distinguishers. jerry hill will introduce a bill that would require the fire distinguisher in the passenger compartment of

in something of a notable coincidence, one of this nation's most famous kidnapping survivors, jaycee dugard, happens to be receiving an award in washington tonight from the national center for missing and exploited children for her efforts to help families who have had loved ones go missing. dugard released a statement today about the young women found in cleveland. she said, quote, these individuals need the opportunity to heal and connect back into the world. this isn't who they are. it's only what happened to them. the human spirit is incredibly resilient. more than ever this reaffirms we should never give up hope. jaycee dugard was abducted at the age of 11 at a california bus stop back in 1991, held captive for 18 years before she was freed. >>> from this stunning news out of cleveland, we turn to other news which tonight includes disturbing numbers from the pentagon on sexual assault in our military. these new stats come just one day after we learned the air force officer in charge of preventing sexual assault has been charged with committing one. the military's been saying they are g

jaycee dugard whose own kidnapping story in antioch normally keeps a profile. dugard and her mother are being honored. this is happening in washington, d.c. this evening. the award is for creating the foundation to support families which have experienced abduction or other trauma. dugard was kidnapped at the age of 11 and gave birth to two daughters during her 18 years in captivity. >> what an amazing time to be talking about hope with everything that is happening. i want to thank -- >> dugard and her mother say recapturing the missing 18 years has not been easy. >> another miracle happened yesterday. and three girls are alive. and i feel the same relief and joy that i felt when jaycee was returned to me after 18 hellish years. >> amazing perspective there. earlier today dugard issued a statement about the women in cleveland and that statement read these individuals need the opportunity to heal and connect back into the world. this isn't who they are. it is only what happened to them. more than ever this reaffirms we should never give up hope. >>> lawyers from a

this reminds me of the jaycee dugard story. she was snatched by a car.g to be with her tonight. tell me a little bit about -- of the similarities between the cases and what we can learn ab the next process, the healing for these women because of the jaycee dugard story. >> there's tremendous parallels there. in jaycee dugard's case, neighbors called repeatedly and said we had seen activity in the backyard. and phil leap give ree do was a second offender who beat her almost to death and kept her in a storage unit and he got out on parole. if i was the sheriff in the town and he said it it repeatedly, we should have gown in the backyard. he violated his parole and probation and went away for an entire month while his psychopath wife kept jaycee in the backyard. so you have a similar situation here. you have three missing women. you have a child created by assault, by a sexual assault probably and you have neighbors calling up. why don't you go in? you have every right. go in, get a search warrant, ask. and they went inside phillip's house twice. but not an

let's reflect back on jaycee dugard. there were multiple tips from neighbors that philip garrido, her rapist who is now convicted of that case, that he had children in the backyard and he actually violated his parole, was taken out by authorities and served a month in jail while his deranged wife kept jaycee dugard and those two little girls in the backyard. so this is not unusual that these lowlifes, these creeps, think they not only have kidnapped this child but this child and this person or this woman, in this case a 20-year-old woman, and two adolescents, 17 and 14, that they are their sex slaves and that they control their lives and terrify them and scare them and function as normal people. they function as your normal next door neighbor. several police sources have told me on the way here to sit in this chair that this guy functioned in society and he seemed like a normal guy and was a school bus driver. but i've said it to you many times before, piers. it is very difficult to find the pedophile living next door. t

i think that the jaycee dugard investigation revealed all kinds of missed opportunities. think lisa is being charitable when she talks about it. it was almost like a keystone kops situation. here, you take a look at that neighborhood, this is a densely populated, houses sitting on top of one another. it's hard to believe that somebody could be there for a decade and as lisa says, screaming, if that's the case, and nobody does any kind of further investigation, especially given this kind of neighborhood, where apparently these guys are coming and going as well. the whole thing, there's got to be much more to this story, given my experience in handling criminal cases. i can't believe that we're not going to find in the days ahead or the weeks ahead much more that unravels about this that blows your mind. >> ernie allen, in terms of the psychology of all this, quite unusual, i would think, but you can tell me this, that the chief suspect here, ariel castro, who may have been working with his brothers in this monstrous activity, he seems to have been a perfectly normal member

a statement from jaycee dugard. she was held for so many years captive after she was abducted when she was 11 and she was released when she was an adult. this is the statement she just released moments ago. "these individuals need the opportunity to heal and connect back into the world. this isn't who they are. it's only what happened to them. "the human spirit is incredibly resilient. more than ever they reamps we should never give up hope." one of the big questions right now centers on the man arrested in the case. his name is aerial castro. police also arrested his two brothers, but say the 52-year-old owns the house where these women were found. according to the cleveland dealer castro was arrested at a nearby mcdonald's. castro and his brothers have not yet been charged are, but we do know that he is a former school bus driver. a spokesman for the school district does not know how long castro worked there or whether he left voluntarily or whether he was fired. castro's facebook page shows his love of guitars. h

phillip was a registered pedophile in the jaycee dugard case. i have to switch gears. to both of you. >>> another big story that had just captivated this country. literally living a nightmare in an italian prison. two years after gaining freedom amanda knox is talking a lot about it and telling cnn about what her greatest fear has been. >> i'm afraid to go back there. i don't want to go back into prison. >> a lot more of amanda knox's interview with cnn's chris cuomo coming up right after the break. [ female announcer ] crest + scope gives you the ultimate in fresh breath. so you have the courage to jump in... ♪ or make sparks fly. it's the only toothpaste that combines the freshness of scope with the cleaning power of crest. life opens up when you do. >>> nor amanda knox, right now is one of the most agonizing periods in her young life. believe it or not, even after spending four years in a prison. because she faces the possibility of returning to italy and being retried for the murder of her study abroad roommate six years ago. knox did four years in that italian pri

. >> the return of the three kidnapped women in cleveland early similar to the says of jaycee dugard found in antioch back in 2009. phil philip gurdo and his wife kidnapped them in 1991. dugard missing 18 years. they kept her in the backyard in contra costa county until arrested. both convicted and now serving life sentences. dugard release add statement this morning saying, quote, these individuals need the opportunity to heal and connect back into the world. this isn't who they are. it is only what happened to them. the human spirit is incredibly resilient. more than ever, this reaffirms we should never give up hope. coincidentally jaycee dugard is being honored tonight by the national center for missing and exploited children at the organization's annual hope awards in washington, d.c. nbc news will be there with a camera for that event. >>> back in the south bay, san jose officers are crediting fantastic detective work for finding and arresting the suspects in this morning's armed robbery of a 7-eleven. a crime she might have gotten away with if she hadn't been so predictable. po

you very much. >>> the of the three kidnapped women in cleveland, eerily similar to the case of jaycee dugard antioch in 2009. phillip garrido and his wife, nancy, kidnapped the 11-year-old while she was walking to a bus stop from her south lake tahoe home in 1991. dugard was missing for more than 18 years. garrido and his wife kept her in their backyard in contra costa county until they were eventually arrested. both were convicted and are serving life sentences. coincidentally, jaycee dugard is being honored at the organizations annual hope awards in washington, d.c. nbc news is sending a camera to that event. >> time now, 6:47. we are watching that weather as we give you a live look outside at the golden gate bridge. traffic looks pretty good. a lot of clouds in the sky there. the gray outcast. christina loren is here to talk about what has happened ahead. >>> we have had a mixed bag. we are going to keep it going. we will tell you what's coming next, more showers, pop-up thunderstorms for today. then, we are going to heat you back up. a return of the dry heat. something we have had an abs

>>> no one knows what the three kidnapping survivors in cleveland are going through quite like jaycee dugardtive for 18 long years. she even gave birth to her abduct abductor's children while she was in captivity. last night the national center for missing and exploited children honored dugard for her work helping other families of missing children. and she did reference the cleveland case. >> it's hard to believe that story is me. it's just, thank you for tonight and i want to say what an amazing time to be talking about hope with everything that's happening. i feel like i have come full circle. and we are all finally together celebrating the wonderful hope that you keep alive every day. i am so thankful for the team of people that have supported me throughout these last few years. i am so grateful to all of you. i can't say they have been easy, but anything in life worth doing is hard, like speaking. >> but she spoke so very well. >> also awarded last night, a man you might recognize from tv shows like "breaking bad," actor brian cranston and his wife. they were honored for their support o

. >> the cleveland situation is similar to the bay area's own kidnapping of jaycee dugard. she was just honored in washington, d.c.. these awards sponsored by national center for missing and exploited children. she received a warm welcome. she took the stage with her mother. today, jaycee dugard released a statement about the rescue and said these individuals need to heal z connect back into the world. this isn't who they are. it's only what happened to them. the human spirit is incredibly resilient. more than ever, this reaffirms we should never give up hope. >> what an eloquent statement, oh, my. bay area restaurants have been serving a delicacy that is banned in california, foie gras, fatty liver of duck that has been force fed. >> it's their way of protesting a law that went into affect last year. >> tonight dan noyes is back with an under cover investigation. a new wun that is right. the state only foie gras farm is closed because california law makes it illegal to force feed ducks for foie gras so when we learned restaurants are still selling it we went under cover an

the center of missing and exploited children gave jaycee dugard for her heroic fight and bravery and she has two children by her kidnapper. but this is three women. three women who will be home for mother's day. i mean, nancy dejesus gets to see little gina. amanda berry, can you imagine this, she's going to celebrate her first mother's day without this monster looking over her shoulder. she's free for mother's day with her beautiful daughter. and, of course, michelle knight probably had the worst of it and i recommend that the media go home, leave these families alone. talk to them when they feel like it and when they're ready. and it's going to be a wonderful mother's day. >> it's obviously, very hard. we're hearing how these tarps have been put up at gina's house, just so she can go outside. they were captive for ten years and now they go home and they're captive because, well, the media is trying to do their job. but that's frustrating. how do these women begin to heal after this kind of ordeal? >> well, they need counseling. i mean, they need full-time professional counseling an

. >> the cleveland situation is similar to the bay area's own kidnapping of jaycee dugard. she was just honored in washington, d.c.. these awards sponsored by national center for missing and exploited children. she received a warm welcome. she took the stage with her mother. today, jaycee dugard released a statement about the rescue and said these individuals need to heal z connect back into the world. this isn't who they are. it's only what happened to them. the human spirit is incredibly resilient. more than ever, this reaffirms we should never give up hope. >> what an eloquent statement, oh, my. bay area restaurants have been serving a delicacy that is banned in california, foie gras, fatty liver of duck that has been force fed. >> it's their way of protesting a law that went into affect last year. >> tonight dan noyes is back with an under cover investigation. a new wun that is right. the state only foie gras farm is closed because california law makes it illegal to force feed ducks for foie gras so when we learned restaurants are still selling it we went under cover an

that again from jaycee dugard. we have eld smart on the phone. his daughter, elizabeth smart, her story captivated the attention of the country when she was found alive and well after being kidnapped nine months earlier. ed, a lot of parallels that play out i guess when it comes to the hiding in plain sight almost of what these women might have gone through if it turns out to be that way. but as what elizabeth has learned, what your family has learned, what's the road ahead for these women as they get back to their lives, try to reintegrate into their families? >> they're never going to be able to go back to the old normal they had, but there will be a new normal. i think the comments that have been made from so many people about giving the love and support to the family and understanding that, you know, a person can be out in plain sight yet they're as good as handcuffed because of what can happen around them, whether it's threats of their family, their children. it's just -- it's as good as -- i mean, i would say that these people are incredibl

i mean, this harkens us back to the case of jaycee dugard in california. and as you recall, she was kidnapped for 18 years and fathered two children by the man who kidnapped her. >> you know, and hearing the police department, you could tell, getting defensive, saying they pursued every three months, they said, there was some lead on one of these three women they pursued here. but obviously there is going to be questions. you just pointed out, three women kidnapped from basically the same neighborhood and this went dry for a decade. >> sure, it did. and, again, in similar type cases, like jaycee dugard, again, where we know she was held in a -- in a house, she was held in a backyard, she was held in tents. where neighbors could look over, authorities had been to the house. in jaycee's case, awarded $10 million because the state of california said we screwed up. we should have found this young girl and saved her. and we didn't do it. well, this is their early stages. the last thing we want is finger-pointing. but chuck, there is usually less than 1% of kidn

. >> kidnapping survivor jaycee dugard. >> it's hard to believe that story is me. >> reporter: talking about the women that are finally free of their abductor. >>> new at 10:00, a proposal to go green. it would mandate that all construction include solar power. ken wayne has more on the story and when the decision takes place. >> reporter: some like to call sabasta pool berkeley north. and now it's surging forward with solar power. it was a unanimous vote. 5-0 in favor of requiring all new building construction use solar power. advocates say the new solar requirements will not only save homeowners and businesses on their utility bills they will also clean up the environment. >> it takes off the grid the dirtiest of the energy that's produced by pg & e or whoever is supplying it and replaces it with clean energy. >> reporter: but some are worried about nanny government requiring people to go green. >> i would like to see the ordnance changed and remove the word mandatory to voluntary. >> reporter: sometimes there needs to be laws to encourage safety. like seat belts. >> our county and s

june of 1991, 11-year-old jaycee dugard, kid 23457d, missing for eight teen years. finally freed in 2009. after giving birth to two of her abductor's children. sean hornbeck was found four years later along with another boy who also had been kidnapped. there is elizabeth smart, who was taken from her bedroom in atta at the age of 14. she was found nine months later, about 20 miles from her home in salt lake city utah. martha: unbelievable stories, all of these. we are very glad to be joined this morning by a man who knows this story all too well, ed smart. as bill said, his daughter liz became a household name after being kidnapped from her home in salt lake city. she was 14 years old held in captivity for nine months. ed smart rejoins us. he has been here before. welcome back. >> thank you. martha: this has to bring it all back for you, when you hear this story this morning? >> it is just so wonderful to think that three young women are back with their families where they are loved and, supported and, what a miracle. it is just, it's exciting and i just, god bless

. >>> an incredible story developing in cleveland that reminds us here of the jaycee dugard abduction. three girls have been found alive, held inside a baseme dunge dungeon. >> reporter: tears, cheers and jubilation erupt when three women have been found alive. the women were rescued from this house and a 5 it 2 year old suspect has now been taken into custody. one of the missing women called 911 after neighbors kicked open the door when they heard cries for help. >> i've been missing for ten years and i'm free now. >> reporter: amanda berry disappeared in april of 2003 when called her sister to say she was getting a ride home from her job at burger king. it was the day before her 17th birthday. a year later, gina was 14 years old when she disappeared walking home from middle school. the teenagers were the subject of ha intense search. >> we're happy that they're safe and in good condition. and we'll get to the bottom of it. >> reporter: the third woman was identified as michelle knight. she disappeared in 2002. >> police have identified a school bus driver who had the girls. we will

. >>> an incredible story developing in cleveland that reminds us here of the jaycee dugard abduction. three girls have been found alive, held inside a baseme dunge dungeon. >> reporter: tears, cheers and jubilation erupt when three women have been found alive. the women were rescued from this house and a 5 it 2 year old suspect has now been taken into custody. one of the missing women called 911 after neighbors kicked open the door when they heard cries for help. >> i've been missing for ten years and i'm free now. >> reporter: amanda berry disappeared in april of 2003 when she called her sister to say she was getting a ride home from her job at burger king. it was the day before her 17th birthday. a year later, gina was 14 years old when she disappeared walking home from middle school. the teenagers were the subject of ha intense search. >> we're happy that they're safe and in good condition. and we'll get to the bottom of it. >> reporter: the third woman was identified as michelle knight. she disappeared in 2002. >> police have identified a school bus driver who had the girls. we w

. >> saying if those three were held 10 years and jaycee dugard for 18 she believes michaela can be still alive. >> they can keep them for a month, they can keep them for a decade two, decades. what is the difference? >> there is a blog dear michaela.com she writes to her daughter in hopes she may see it one day. she included the cleveland kidnappings. >> i posted this video and said look the people on the streets cheefring for these girls this is what is waiting for you. you don't need to be afrid frayed. >> the families don't tell me reporter as approach them every time there is a story. and they say the best hope of finding them is by keeping the city in the neighborhood. >> state lawmakers are raising concerns about the safety of limousines in the wake of the deadly accident. they grilled executive director of the public utilities commission today nannette miranda joins use a budget committee also wanted assurances about limo services. this is as thousands of families are hiring limo services for prom night saturday's deadly limousine fire killed five nurses alarmed state lawmakers. l

some details are showing this was a case very much like jaycee dugard. missed opportunities.eighbor saw a naked girl crawling around the yard, called the police, the police didn't react. a man was seen with coming out with lots and lots and lots of mcdonald's. and signs and symptoms that are our worst fear of having been there seem to have been there. cenk: let me open it up to everybody. you know mainly of course throughout the show, we're going to talk about politics and i'll talk with the guys from. >> who but i'm a parent and i don't know if you guys are parents, but anybody who wants to jump in here as to your gut reaction? my gut reaction, i'm going to be completely honest with you was massive violence. i would have wanted to retaliate in the biggest way against these guys. >> i hate to play the michael dukakis of this conversation, but my reaction was oh, god this is horrible, these things happen in a nation of 310 million, it is so horrible and luckily we have a legal system to deal with it fairly. cenk: bless your heart. you're absolutely right about that. that's why

like i mean, like jaycee dugard i think that is her name went missing for 18 years, and they found her, and you know, so, when you hear stories like that, that keeps your hope alive. >> i want to bring in karen mchenry who is a program director in cleveland, and many people are horrified by the details of the case and people cannot believe that three women were kidnap and held in the dungeon for ten years and without anybody knowing anything about them, and what is your explanation for this and how nobody could have had a clue that they were there? >> well, you know, i don't know how they couldn't have had a clue they were there, but we know that when victims and we work with victims of sexual trafficking and abuse and negligent, and when they are under the control of someone who is so aggressive and abusing them physically and sexually they develop a learned helplessness, and this is because of the abuse. so, because they were living in ultimate fear, many of the victims that we work with every day at bellfair have been living in fear and unpredictable lives and never sure when they w

. >>> the cleef lands case has a lot of eerie similarities to the jaycee dugard story. ee was held captive in the backyard near antioch for 18 years. >> that story is me just thank you for tonight and i want to say what an amazing time to be talking about hope with everything that's happening. >> jaycee says the cleef land women need the opportunity to heal and connect back into the world. >>> well, we have breaking news tonight. a bay area fire station hit by bullets tonight. firefighters tweeted they had to dive for cover. jewel yeah goodrich is at fear station 18 in oakland, has the latest. juliette. >> ken, it was a close call. check this out bullets actually going through the window here. firefighters were inside the apparatus room. they were check out all of their equipment at the time. the baaalon chief telling me his guys were right here. they actually had to duck when gunfire went through the station. they ducked under the fire engine, and you can see the bullet going clear across to the other side, just up the street turns out 50th avenue and melrose avenue, th

. >>> well, kidnapping survivor jaycee dugard came to washington to urge people not to give up on missing children. she got the hope award at a ceremony in the district. dugard was abducted from a california bus stop in 1991 at the age of 11. she was held captive for 18 years in a backyard. in her brief speech, she made a reference to the missing women recently found alive in ohio. >> i want to say what an amazing time to be talking about hope, with everything that's happening. i want to thank my mom for the hope she has always had for me, even when i was far away. >> jaycee's mother says she feels the same relief and joy for the cleveland survivors as she did when jaycee returned home. >>> dozens of drivers are getting tickets today for doing something a lot of people do all the time. they fail to yield to pedestrians in a crosswalk. news4's chris gordon was there as montgomery county police carried out a sting operation to catch drivers in the act. >> reporter: mtgomery county police are cracking down. >> you're being stopped today because when there's a pedestrian in the crosswalk, you

it's raised memories of other similar cases including jaycee dugard. but it also brings to light another case of a berkeley student, a newspaper heiress. from her abduction to her apparent conversion to sla revolutionary, to her capture to her trial on federal bank robbery charges would flood the headlines. on the 30th anniversary, dennis richmond who covered the case from the beginning had this look back. >> police swarmed over the berkeley apartment shared by patty hurst. heavily armed gunmen had fired warnings to discourage curious neighbors. two years later the first of many tapes arrived. >> mom, dad, i'm okay. >> we love you patty. and we're all praying for you. i'm sorry i'm crying but i'm happy you are safe. and be strong. i know god will bring you back. >> reporter: it was then learned that patty hurst had been kidnapped by a group calling them the sambienes liberation army the sla. the sla claimed responsibility for a killing because they said they didn't like some of their programs, allowing searching of school lockers for guns. romero was a

in another shocking case, jaycee dugard's 18 years of captivity ended because two california police officialsthing that didn't add up and told them to dig deeper. he saw philip garrido, dugard's kidnapper, was with his two children. something about the two children wasn't right. a hunch to call the parole officer cracked the case. garrido didn't have two daughters to their knowledge. great to have you here. also, amber, a waitress at an idaho restaurant who spotted a child seen in a missing children's poster. rather than ignore the resemblance, she called the police, saving the kidnapped child. heroes certainly in our eyes. so explain to me how did philip garrido come to you? >> philip garrido came -- i was an events manager at u.c. berkeley with the police department. he came into the office in an attempt to get a permit for an event he wanted to host on campus. >> what about him -- what was that gut intuition? >> he was peculiar in and of himself, but the fact he had two young daughters with him was even more alarming. that's where the bells started going off. philip, i could not determine

in the last few years we've had jaycee dugard. in austria, natasha campus and joseph fritzl and his daughter. how many more children have been abducted and are being held in dungeon situations? >> it's incredible. dr. landis, steven anthony said, i'm quoting him, these young ladies have provided us with the ultimate definition of survival and perseverance. i have to say, their suffering to me is unimaginable. how did they survive? >> i think that we've seen in these other cases that some of these girls and these young women are so resilient and when they come out they feel such gratitude and for all the small things of life and they want to make their life worth something and go on and be, you know, something other people can look up to. >> dr. landis, these are children. where do they draw these resources of resilience and perseverance from? >> i think it was nice that they were together for a lot of this time, and the will to live just kicked in and they just kept going. hoping that sometime they would get their chance and there

. >>> an incredible story developing in cleveland that reminds us here of the jaycee dugard abductionree girls have been found alive, held inside a baseme dunge dungeon. >> reporter: tears, cheers and jubilation erupt when three women have been found alive. the women were rescued from this house and a 5 it 2 year old suspect has now been taken into custody. one of the missing women called 911 after neighbors kicked open the door when they heard cries for help. >> i've been missing for ten years and i'm free now. >> reporter: amanda berry disappeared in april of 2003 when she called her sister to say she was getting a ride home from her job at burger king. it was the day before her 17th birthday. a year later, gina was 14 years old when she disappeared walking home from middle school. the teenagers were the subject of ha intense search. >> we're happy that they're safe and in good condition. and we'll get to the bottom of it. >> reporter: the third woman was identified as michelle knight. she disappeared in 2002. >> police have identified a school bus driver who had the girls. we will

. -- >>> and this case is an obvious reminder of the jaycee dugard kidnapping. phillip and nancy garrido kidnapped her as she walked to a bus stop near south lake tahoe on the morning of june 10, 1991. on august 26th, 2009, more than 18 years later, phillip garrido brought dugard and their two daughters to a parole officer and dugard revealed her identity. both people pleaded guilty and they are serving life sentences. >>> a car crash in san jose leads to three arrests. kpix 5 reporter cate caugiran is in san jose this morning with more. >> reporter: they were linked to other robberies which is how the officers were able to catch them and now they are all three suspects are in custody but that chase ended here at the intersection of yerba buena and silver creek. the tree, that's where the car was turned over. we have video earlier. at 2 a.m. there was a robbery at a 7- eleven at the intersection of kirk and foxworthy. an armed female suspect walked in with a revolver and stole cash and lottery tickets. now, once this suspect description came out, an officer was

for those of us here in the bay area, this case is very reminiscent of the jaycee dugard story. she was missing before being rescued from a home in antioch. the other question we have this morning is a 6-year-old was also rescued from that home in cleveland. we don't know the answers just yet. we are hoping to learn more when the news conference starts at 6:00. >> a lot more to come on that one. thank you very much. what a story. the former head of san mateo county's probation department returns to court on charges of possessing child pornography during his years on the job. >> stuart forest will be arraigned on two felony child porn charges this morning. he resigned his position at the end of last year in the midst of a federal investigation into the pornography accusation. he now faces more than three years in prison if convicted >>> the man accused of killing a 13-year-old girl and dumping her body in a fairfield park expected back in court today. anthony lamar jones was arrested in february and charged with the murder of janelle conway allen. she disappeared on her way home

elizabeth smart and even j jaycee dugard. she would go out in the yard and phillip even took the children that jaycee has and even to the campus of berkeley. again, i understand politically correct, these three men have not been charged yet. these are alleged incidents, i understand that. but it almost appears from past incidents that they get this sense of entitlement. that they can just, abduct these women, and just take them out in broad daylight and just have them be someone else. and then bring them back into the home. >> michelle, perhaps the fear, we know elizabeth smart from her account and talked about how she would walk past people hoping this would get a glimpse of her and she was consumed by fear of what would happen. >> same thing with shawn hornbeck. and even after michael devlin kidnapped dawn omby, they are in fear. they are in fear because they are threatened with their lives, their family lives are threatened. their families' lives are threatened as well. they are threatened with food. threatened with all typ

marshals, every law enforcement agency in the country was looking for jaycee dugard for 18 years.eelings saved that woman and her two girls' lives. >> and your gut feeling as well. you were a waitress. it was late at night. a little girl comes in. explain what happened. >> it was about 2:30 in the morning on a friday night, i believe. i was fully pregnant with my second child at the time, working a night shift. >> thrilled to be working the night shift, i'm sure. >> oh, absolutely. not being able to bend over was great. but it was odd to have children come in. we did have a few regulars who would swing in and grab something because the baby wasn't sleeping. but to see a 7, 8, 9-year-old little girl walk into a restaurant looking completely just depressed. tried to give her crayons to have something to do, and she wouldn't make eye contact. she kept her hands in a prayer position between her legs, head down, shoulders slumped forward. >> did you recognize her right away as shasta groene? >> i didn't -- how can i put this? i recognized her, but i didn't recognize her. something in t

that is jaycee dugard. we know her story all too well. the fact she is saying, we should never give up, these women, one of them, amanda's mother passed away. she died not knowing the whereabouts of her child and not giving up the search. this development is amazing. and ron makes the point that this is not a rural farm somewhere in the middle of nowhere. this is in cleveland, ohio. >> this is cleveland, ohio, tamron. how many cases of missing women have we covered over the years and here we are at a house in a neighborhood. you can reach out and touch someone. much like the neighborhood where jaycee was held. i've been to the neighborhood where jaycee was held and the neighbors are very close by. yet no one saw anything. no one heard anything. no one knows anything. police did confirm earlier that they are looking into other places where they're serving search warrants so maybe there could be other evidence held at other places. what we know right now from investigators earlier is that the other two women after amanda berry broke free ea

this is jaycee dugard. >> reporter: that's the same message from jaycee dugard. know her from this picture when she's 11. that's when she was kidnapped, held for 18 years by phillip garrido and his wife, nancy, in northern california. garrido fathered two children with his victim. dugard lived as a prisoner in plain sight, until a local police officer's suspicions tracked her to a secret back yard compound. she is also a victims advocate. >> if you see something that looks wrong or amiss, speak out. you might be wrong, but you might just save someone's life. >> reporter: in a statement about the cleveland victims, dugard says, "this isn't who they are. it is only what happened to them. the human spirit is incredibly resilient. more than ever this reaffirms we should never give up hope." dugard's mother told piers morgan that joy and heartache follow a kidnapped child's return. >> nothing is normal after something like this happens to you. and you have to accept that fact. and you have to move forward. >> reporter: these survivors moving ahead after living lives o

jay see due d jaycee dugard, who i'll see tonight, got counseling for a year and didn't talk to the media. cowens slg is so important. amanda berry is going to go through what jaycee did, that she has a child by her kidnapper, by her rapist. that's a tough thing that they're going to have to go through. my advice is they get professional counseling. the national center for missing and exploited children provides that. i'm sure the law enforcement and fbi in that area will say before you do any interviews, before you go out to the public, get some counseling. they've been through holy hell for ten years and that's the way to proceed because this fight and this battle for these women is just starting. they'll have to go through the trial. they'll have to reintegrate into society. another tough part of this journey is just starting. >> john walsh, thank you so much as always. clint van zandt, andrew setters, aappreciate all of your expertise. >>> up next, make or break this week for immigration reform. >>> this is live with sandra ruiz, the aunt of one of the three women found in cleveland.

we're hearing reaction from jaycee dugard. in a statement released today through her publicist, dugard said the human spirit is resilient and the case reaffirms that people should never give up hope. dugard wrote "a stolen life" about her life in captivity. and elizabeth smart also says she's overjoyed to hear that these three kidnapping victims are now free after ten years of captivity. she advised the women to focus on their future and get rid of the past of the smart's father said it's important for the women to know what happened to them is not their fault. >> usually the captors will make them feel guilt or responsibility. heaven only knows what type of nightmare they've lived for the past ten years. >> smart was kidnapped from her bedroom when she was 14 years old and held hostage for nine months. >>> one bay area man knows what the families of those have endured. marc klass talked about the loss of his daughter. sal castanedo has more. >> reporter: good afternoon, tori. marc klass told me whenever something like this ha

i think the word of advice just from jaycee dugard yesterday, this is something that happened to these women but not who they are. >> clint, one of the things that keeps running through my mind is how many other people are there out there living in these sort of horrible conditions that we don't know about and obviously, we don't hear about these sort of cases very often but kidnapping is horrifically common and certainly missing people, incredibly common. how unusual are these set of circumstances? >> well, number one, i think that's one of the world's dirty little secrets is the number of people, men, women, children held in some level of bondage, sexual bondage. otherwise all over the world. so let's express that now back down to out. if you take my number, 850, 875,000 people, that's only the people reported missing, how many others are gone that we aren't there to say they are gone. how many people aren't recovered. we don't know what happened to them. i agree with casey, that i think there are other people in this similar type of situation that are out there and again, the someti

report >>> the return of the three kidnapped women in cleveland, eerily similar to the case of jaycee dugard. phillip garrido and his wife, nancy, kidnapped the 11-year-old while she was walking to a bus stop from her south lake tahoe home in 1991. she was missing for more than 18 years. garrido and his wife kept her in their backyard until they were arrested. both were convicted and are now serving life sentences >>> we are learning more about the deadly limo fire on the san mateo bridge and what may have hindered the nine women in the back from trying to escape. the 14-passenger limo had only two passengers at the back of the vehicle and they were locked when the limo was in park and unlocking them may have been too much in the terrifying moments. >> these doors won't unlock until you hit the auto unlock button. >> in the front? >> in the front. you can manually unlock it here but if you are pulling on this door and it is not opening, i don't know if you will have the presence of mind to stop pulling on this and pull this up. >> the company that owned the limousine could be facing trouble

and kidnapping survivor jaycee dugard is commenting on the events in ohio. dugard was held captive for 18 years by phillip and nancy garrido at a home near antioch. this morning she released a statement about the women who escaped overnight. dugard says, quote, the human spirit is incredibly resilient. more than ever, this reaffirms we should never give up hope. >>> all lanes of highway 680 in fremont are now open following a fatal crash this morning. four vehicles collided on the highway north of vargas road around 4:30. a 65-year-old man from san jose was pronounced dead at the scene. another driver was transported to a local hospital. >>> two women one of them pregnant are under arrest. police say they crashed their getaway car after fleeing a robbery. kpix 5's cate caugiran says it's how police found them that suggests this isn't their first time. >> reporter: an armed robber tried to get away with two others in a stolen car. this time san jose police caught the bad guys or, rather, bad women and guys. >> we had the driver who was responsible for tonight