. >> reporter: jonesboro is both a college town and a farm town. tends to the needs of young minds and rice farmers on the vast plain of sticky, fertile clay west of the mississippi river. it's where marc despain breezed through school with his easy charm. tana is his mother. >> he was the only freshman that we know of that was chosen by a senior to go to the senior prom. >> reporter: marc became a high school football star and his sister jacque watched him bring his trophies home to lay at the feet of his father, jack. >> he really did look up to-- to dad. and he -- you know, he always wanted to, you know, impress him and stuff. >> reporter: and then? well, it's an old story, really. >> when i was 18 and he was 19, we just bumped into each other. >> reporter: pretty michelle. she was sitting on top of a car when marc spotted her one night. tiny, doe-eyed. and, before long, pregnant. >> the way i was brought up, if you got a girl pregnant, you married her. that's just what you did. >> reporter: so there was a shotgun wedding. two families thrown to

you just never know behind closed doors. >> in jonesboro, 11 alive news. >> we saw the video, and hes back with his mother. >>> an ambitious project is scheduled to break ground. a trans-oceanic canal. some call it the biggest scam in the country's history. others say it will help the economy. johnath johnathan mann has more. >> reporter: if all goes as planned, construction on a giant planned oceanic canal in nicaraugua will begin next month. the planned route is 172 miles long, more than three times the length of the panama canal. coming with the promise of economic benefits but many questions remain unanswered like who is going to foot the bill for the $50 billion project. >> there is no sense, and i want to underscore, no sense as to where this $50 billion would come from. they have not floated any international bonds in the markets, the country doesn't have the internal capital to put up the equity itself. and so far we've heard nothing from the chinese government as to whether or not it may be willing to finance a big chunk of this project. >> reporter: what happens to farmers

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you never know behind closed doors. >> reporter: in jonesboro, 11 alive news. >> people say they should have seen the warning signs, but it's impossible to tell with these things. police arrested five adults, including the boy's father and stepmother. >> they were all charged with obstruction of justice, false imprisonment and cruelty to children. >>> time for a check of the weather. drought-stricken california is now due for rain and lots of it apparently. >> getting some relief from the drought they've experienced. it's a very thirsty state. and they will take whatever they can get, i'm sure of it. just a statistic for you. we have a low pressure system developing across the pacific. we're going to see a dip in the jet stream over the western half of the united states, and this is just the beginning of the rainy season across this area. people from los angeles to san francisco getting used to rainfall this time of year. and we want to see the reain. it just hasn't come yet. coastal rain will bring much-needed relief. we're already experiencing that relief across central and northern p

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. >> reporter: in jonesboro, ryan krueger. 11 alive news. >>> michael brown's family commissioned a privatefter he was killed by officer wilson. shawn parcels assisted with that autopsy. >> but he's now the subject of scrutiny himself as questions have now emerged about his qualifications. here's our elizabeth cohen. >> reporter: the ferguson, missouri case created a media star out of an assistant pathologist, but he may not be exactly what he appears to be. out of the death and violence in ferguson, missouri, a media star for a man named shawn parcels. >> two gunshot wounds to the head, indicating that mr. brown was bending over, as they were coming down. >> we're back with shawn parcels, who assisted in the autopsy. >> reporter: even here on cnn. he's appeared in the media time and again as a forensic pathology expert. we know he assisted dr. baden in the private autopsy. baden said he was a good assistant. parcels is not a doctor. we know he calls himself a forensics medical consultant, a medical investigator and a professor. but is he what he says he is. so you call yourself a professor

. >> it might seem like he has the air of inevitably, but thanking volunteers in jonesboro, tom is leaving nothing to chance. >> it's not up to me. it's up to you. >> now everybody get back to work. >> congressman cotton is the man republicans hope will retire mark pryor. pryor is making a last stand. whom prior help when the pentagon with drew her health benefits. he never asked me my political affiliation. he did for me what was the right thing to do. pryor is also going farther than every has to distance himself from president obama who is deeply unpopular here. pryor told me the president is a huge weight on his reelection bid. >> he has been a drag. i mean, i will be honest about that. people here know that i've had my fair share of disagreements with him. >> to cotton such talk is too little too late. why wasn't pryor standing you want to president years ago. >> it's been keeping to what he has been doing the way in the past years. he votes like an obama liberal. >> it is cotton who is bad for arkansas taking positions that are, quote, out of the mainstream voting against the violenc

wxia's ryan kruger is joining me from outside the house where he was found in jonesboro, georgia. what do we know about this case? >> reporter: here's the interesting thing, alex. i've spoken to several neighbors here. they've all said they saw the kid out here quite frequently. in fact, they saw him always out here doing yard work. the other day, one neighbor saw him sweeping off the roof. they didn't think anything of it. they were told by his father and his stepmother who lived here that they were homeschooled. so they never thought anything of it. last night, police showed up, they received a call about the missing boy, missing for almost four years. they checked the house, didn't find him. so then they left. shortly after that, two or three hours later, they get another phone call from the child's mother and she gave them one final clue that the police really needed. she said that she believed the boy was being kept in a false wall. whenever police checked the house one more time, sure enough, they tell us they found the boy behind a false wall. in fact, the family had tried

police tell us they found the 13-year-old boy hidden behind a false wall at this jonesboro home earlyday morning. it was their second visit to the house within hours on a well check for a juvenile. police failed to find anything the first time the occupants allowed them inside the home. >> upon their initial contact with individuals inside the home, they all did not have knowledge of who this juvenile was. >> the sergeant says police received another call from the teen's mother sending them back to the house. they tell us while police were at the home, the second time, the teen called his mom apparently with his cell phone. the mother we're told then conveyed the information to police. >> she was able to give them more specific details on where the child might be located. based on the information given, they were able to find the child located behind a false wall inside the interior of the hou house. >> reporter: gregory jean the boy' father and samantha davis were arrested charged with obstruct, false imprisonment and cruelty to children. the teen's mother who lives in florida has cu

kerry has more from jonesboro, georgia, for us. hi, kerry. >> alex, police today are investigating what they believe could be a custody dispute that led to a kidnapping four years ago. in this home behind me, they say they found a room with a false wall. and behind that wall, a 13-year-old boy. >> it was an emotional reunion filled with tears and grateful prayers. a mother tightly hugging her n son, a 13-year-old she has not seen in four years. police say they were called to this house in jonesboro, georgia, late friday night for a welfare check on a child. when officers arrived, they say several people inside denied knowing anything but gave them permission to search. >> they didn't locate any child. so they left the premises. >> a couple hours later, around 2:00 in the morning, police got another call. this time, while they were still at the house. the boy called his mother to say he was being kept behind a false wall. >> from all indications, it appears the child was being hidden. >> the neighbor says her son was friends with th

clayton county police, the 13-year-old was kept behind a fake wall inside this home on duke court in jonesboro. neighbors tell me the family moved to this house about six months ago. they also say they saw the boy out here all the time out in the yard, but they had no idea he was being held captive. >> the mother told me he was homeschooled. i didn't question as far as why he was always home. >> reporter: a neighbor that lives across the street says he and his wife saw the boy nearly every day, and now is he left wondering if there were any warning signs that they missed. >> gosh, it's right up under our nose, and we could have done something, but he was never in distress, it didn't seem like. >> the young man didn't seem like he was under any distress or anything. just you never know behind closed doors. >>> a family was devastated when they lost their 21-year-old son and brother. their loss was another family's gain. the emotional moment when they met and heard a very special -- >>> first, a weekly look into the future. today we go to the bank. that is now in our hands. here's richard quest.

host: jonesboro, arkansas, next the republican line, ray is waiting. good morning, ray. caller: good morning. from what i have read and callers this morning there seems to be almost near universal agreement that laws are unjust and maybe ly abused except for law enforcement and prosecutors. i'm curious why nothing is being to either get rid of them entirely or to at put serious curbs on how used.re able to be why is nothing being done? is t: the primary reason that there is so much money at stake. andlaw enforcement agencies prosecutorial authorities, they arrangement ent very much. they have gotten tens of and in some ollars cases billions of dollars coming their way and they do not want present arrangement upset. ow, as these stories of abuse spread and people learn about t, you are right, people are outraged by it and want to see the laws changed. overt is very difficult to ome the status quo when the police and prosecutors are very much wanting to fight for the way things are. that is why it has become so difficult. host: there are some members of looking into re thi