was in any way connected to any of the missing or murdered women along highway 16. >> so, said judy thomashway of tears. but wendy could still have left prince george of her own accord, there was that after all the sighting at the greyhound bus station. but no, said thomas, false alarm. >> with various files you get people saying, i saw this person and they are sure. but when i spoke to the woman, she said sure, i would not be able to say that at all. we flagged bank accounts. credit cards. social insurance numbers. we put wendy on a canada wide database, we checked the airlines and border crossings. there was nothing. >> what about the religious group the emmisaries of divine light? >> they had never heard of her. >> reports that windy was mentally ill? that it was not her but her alter ego that hey have left town. thomas interviewed her mother about her daughter's troubled youth. >> we spoke at length. >> did she bring up the idea that wendy may have had a mental break down? >> there was talk of issues that end withey had. we looked in to medical records and there was nothing recent. the

thomas: thank you. thank you for having me. ♪ judy: we will be back shortly with reflections from teenagers on how theired during the pandemic and what they are looking forward to after it is over. but first, a moment from your local pbs station, a judy: for tr of quarantine and remote school forced an unprecedented experiment in learning and coping. we asked our network of student journalists to reflect on how their world has changed and what they're looking forward to once the pandemic is over. here is a sample. >> it's been a year. >> covid-19, the virus that changed everything for everyone. >> it's very overwhelming in this time just to, like, exist. >> i think the pandemic affected me the most was mainly through sports, because there was a solid eight months where we just had no sports, no hope. >> i hate being in the house, and i hate my car just sitting outside. my car has been lonely. he wants to go skirt, skirt. >> the first thing i would love to do again is go to a movie theater. i have not been to a movie theater in probably over a year. >> the pandemic has also made me a lot more of a humble

judy: fred's reporting is a partnership with the under-told stories project at the university of st. thomasrom a battle over voting rights to wrangling over covid relief. there's a lot to break down this week. joining us is brooks and capehart. that's new york times columnist david brooks and jonathan capehart, columnist for the washington post. hello to both of you on this friday night. let's start by talking about what is on the senate floor, whether there is any action underway or not, according to lisa. jonathan, what do you make of the arguments on each side for this bill and what do you think will happen? jonathan: [laughter] if i knew what was going to happen, i would be a billionaire. look, i think president biden, as much as he wanted to be bipartisan in that he wanted to work with republicans, and he did meet with 10 senate republicans early on, the first meeting in the oval office to talk about this till, he has been forging ahead as if you will not get any republican votes and tt is indeed the case. there is a solid wall of opposition to the one point $9 trillion relief bill. ho