news4darcy spencer sat down with lindsey hoggle and joins us with more. >> reporter: doreen, lindsey hoggle describes herself as a private person, but she invited us into her home today to share her experience as the mother of someone with a mental illness. her daughter, catherine hoggle, is sitting in a jail cell, accused of taking her children. those children, sarah and jacob, still have not been found, and kath catherine is not telling anyone where they are. we talked to her mother where she often watched sarah and jacob while their mom got treatment at a day program. she started showing signs of mental illness while in middle school. but the family didn't know until the last year that she suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. so mood disorder that occasionally wreaked havoc the rest of us. and i have three other than children. so it impacts the whole family. it's not just one person. and it's not that she necessarily meant for it to be that way. but it's the illness. >> reporter: i talked to lindsey hoggle as part of our changing minds series. we'll have much more from that interv

. >> reporter: lindsey hoggle remembers the weekend catherine disappeared with the kids.he erased a picture of sarah and jacob from her phone. >> there were some beginning subtle signs that something was on. but it's -- not sure that would ever be anything you would predict. >> reporter: darcy spencer, news4. >> lindsey hoggle says her daughter has refused to speak to her since her arrest. she is considering seeking guardianship so she can make medical decisions for her. to see more of the interview with libds see hoggle, go to nbcwashington.com. >>> and we are looking at the possibility of more rain coming our way. >> more rain coming our way, barbara, but also some rough weather we could potentially see tonight. we have put together a graphic to show you just what we're going to see out of the storms. what's the highest threat. that will be high winds. i think we could have some gusts over 50 miles per hour. that means some isolated power outages. and we could also see heavy rain. all be it, i don't think we're going to see flooding. chance of hail. so that threat is lo

lindsey hoggle wants to find her grand kids. she says catherine doesn't want to speak to her since she was arrested. if lindsey could talk to her daughter, she would tell her to take her medicine and ask where she took sarah and jacob. >> there were beginning subtle signs that something was going on. not sure this would be anything you would predict. >> she says she's considering seeking guardianship over her daughter. it would allow her to make medical decisions for her. go to our website and search changing minds to find mental health resources. >>> words like tweet and like and post and link and share and discuss. these are all words of engagement. imagine a day when everyone engages with the news. that's the goal of national news engagement day. >> that's nightly news anchor brian williams encouraging everyone to be engaged. as he said, it's national news engagement day. local professors are joining us to talk about the challenge of getting people to pay attention to events taking police here and around the world. especially

. >> reporter: lindsey hoggle has stayed out of the spotlight since her two grand children disappeared and her daughter who suffers from mental illness was arrested. >> i'm very private, but this is -- takes away that privacy. but if it brings the children back, we're willing to do it. >> reporter: she is doing her first-ever interview about her daughter's struggle with mental illness and the need to improve the way it's treated. >> we've got to stop thinking that the brain is not connected to the rest of the body. because it is. >> reporter: her daughter, catherine hoggle, started showing signs of mental illness when in middle school. >> difficulty with school, with situations, life stresses. >> reporter: but her mom says it wasn't until the last year that catherine got more of a diagnosis, paranoid schizophren schizophrenia. >> we just knew that it was a -- some sort of a mood disorder that occasionally wreaked havoc on the rest of us. and i have three other children. so it impacts the whole family. >> reporter: it's been more than a month since catherine disappeared with her childre