and i'm craig melvin. and this is dateline on mynetworktv. my imagination and i would play out possibilities of what happened that night. i thought about how scared she must have been. it was hard to go to sleep some nights. natalie morales: a young woman living on her own murdered in the middle of the night. she was at her most vulnerable, alone and in bed. natalie morales: a crime that jolted a sleepy seaside community. a killer walking among them. i don't think it really sets in that we're all a little more in danger at that point. natalie morales: young, fun, and pretty, corey had plenty of admirers.

i'm craig melvin. thanks for watching. >>> good morning. i'm philip mena at msnbc world headquarters in new york. it's 6:00 in the east, 3:00 out west. hears what's happening. doubling down. president trump threat jeopardies to bus migrants to sanctuary cities from "coast to coast" as a federal appeals court makes another big ruling on asylum seekers. where will they say? >>> under fire. one word from bill barr raising the stakes ahead of his release of the mueller report. >>> plus out of the embassy and locked up. what's next for julian assange and could a look at wikileaks and the 2016 election make things uncomfortable for president trump? >>> developing this hour, growing political and legal backlash as the president gives

." >>> i'm craig melvin. >> i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." >> it was packed. but as night fell, fear grew. >> they're asking who would want to harm your sister? >> was it someone that was a

melvin simmons is the epitome of what this ordinance is set up to do. he has pulled himself up by his boot straps and is trying to do everything in the manner in which it is set forth. i hope the commission finds in his favor. and thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i introduced myself already, but i'm a local operator and i've been going to a lot of the local meetings, and working my own company through this process. i was at their presentation before the citizens advisory committee in the bay view, and they sound like they're doing it right, too. i've been meeting a lot of operators, and there are people trying to take advantage of the situation and moving in, and there are people who have been around here a long time and doing this already. i think getting all of us pre-existing operators who know the game and want to play well, and introduce everybody else to the game is really important. i hope you'll give consideration to us pre-existing operators, and this group in particular. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next spe

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. let's begin at the beginning. but at the beginning, all she had was a memory. >> a twin canopy bed with pink ruffles around it. kind of waved over the top of it. >> it was dream-like really. and for years it was all that felt real in her upside down life. >> and it was all pink and white. it was -- everything matched. >> the closet full of dresses. the dolls, the teddy bears. >> i actually -- there was a little old-fashioned where you put the baby in the wagon. >> and the reason for those tormenting memories? >> it's a lot of hurt, sadness. sadness for the little girl that didn't have a life. >> for most of her life, the part after that little girl's bedroom, she has been pepper, and the baffling, terrifying story of what happened to her, kidnapped, held captive for years, is the reason she gripped that life preserver of a memory. shocking where that memory will lead by the end of this hour. she was certain of this, an only child and spoiled, most likely. showered with attention and t

i'm craig melvin. >> and this is "date line." >> >>> my mother called and says, "michelle's dead." how is that possible? >> a young mother found brutally murdered. her little girl left to wander in her mother's blood. police had a suspect and they say he had a motive. >> we had an intimate relationship. >> we ended up having sex. >> but could they prove he was the killer? >> it was a circumstantial case. >> except for that witness. the girl who left those footprints. >> we will never know what cassidy saw and what she didn't see. >> maybe she couldn't tell detectives who the killer was, but maybe she didn't have to. >> the fact that cassidy was spared, would that mean anything to a jury? >> the person that killed the mother cared about cassidy. hello and welcome to "dateline extra." i'm craig melvin. michelle young had a smile that would light up a room. she was the last person anyone who knew her would expect to be murdered. but it happened. she was at home with her toddler, cassidy, pregnant with her

. >>> that's all for therks addition of "dateline," i'm craig melvin. thanks for watching. >>> i'm craig melvin. >> i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dayli dday datd "dateline." >>> i don't know what it is about my mom that has captured the heart of so many people. there's just something to her that people connect with. >> she was the real estate broker who sealed the deal. >> her customers love her. >> hands down the most genuine person you ever met. >> she headed to a house that day and never made it home. >> i'm texting her, i'm calling her. >> oh, gosh, what's happened here? >> something's wrong. >> was she in danger? was someone behind this? ? . >> i haven't hurt. please don't call the police. if you call the police, it could be bad. >> you can hear how scared she was. >> suddenly an all-out manhunt. >> this is like a movie, this chase and this kidnapping. >> oh, yeah. >> could anybody reach her in time? >> i had to be strong for everybody. i had to be. >> emotions were everywhere. >> i know she pleaded. i know she pleaded. >> did you find her?

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seton melvin. the cheryl and philip lstein family. dr. p. roy vagelos and diana t. vagelos. the j.p.b. foundation. rosalind p. walter. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that'shy we're your retirement company. additional support has bee provided by: and by the corporation for publ contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thank you for joining us the white house insisted today that president trump did not encourage violence against democratic congresswoman ilhan omar when he tweeted a video that included snippets of comments omar made in a speech last month interspersed with footage of the world trade center's twin towers burning on 9/11. the tweet, posted friday, remains onr. trump's twitter feed. the video in it includes snippets of omar's speech to the council on american-islamic arlations, edited without the context of her r which pr

i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." >>> i fell to the floor. i just remember, like, she's dead, she's dead! and i was so confused. i was like, what's going on? what happened? >> a small texas town, two super close friends, and a summer night in the park. >> they have this lookout, and you could see the harbor bridge lit up. it's really pretty when the stars are out. >> it was the next morning that they found them. >> i could see two girls laying there. it was horrifying. there was duct tape on their mouths, on their hands. >> a mystifying scene. >> the only thing we have are cigarette butts and suspicion. >> dna would point one way. >> he's like, serge, you've got to take a look at this. >> a bombshell message would point another. >> i read the letter and immediately knew this was something very important. >> a twisted trail leading to a sinister suspect. >> it takes a special kind of mind that wants to do something like that. >> to crack a case this convoluted, it

seton melvin. the cheryl and philip milstein family. dr. p. roy vagelos and diana t. vagelos. e j.p.b. foundation. rosalind p. walter. rbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support hasedeen provy: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, andy contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thanks for joining us. as worshippers gathered for easter services in christian churches in sri lanka this morning, a wave of bombings killed more than 200 people, including several americans. police there say it was a coordinated terrorist attack carried out by suicide bombers at churchesnd hotels in three cities. at least 207 people were killed, and 450 wounded in eight sarate bomb blasts. in sri lanka's largeo, city of coloombs went off at a catholic church, and at three luxury hotels. a few hour church

i'm craig melvin. zach brannam was a recent college graduate when he left his small midwestern town to teach english in japan. it was there he med georgia and they fell in love. soon, they would be torn apart by a devastating disaster as the unimaginable images of whole towns wiped out played around the world, a family sat around waiting for news. here's keith morrison. >> who can say what lurks out there past the horizon, waiting impersonably, utterly at random as thousands of lives tick to their unknowing ends. simple coincidence, a young man from middle america made a single decision. >> could you imagine back there in indiana to make your life flip on its head? >> no. never. >> how could he know on the other side of the world a young woman made exactly the same decision, or that they'd meet practically on the eve of one of the biggest natural disasters in recent memory. or how could he know in the middle of disaster he'd lose her. >> i wouldn't know what i would do without her. >> so, coincidence,

seton melvin. the cheryl and philip milstein family. dr. p. roy vagelos and diana t. vagelos. the j.p.b. foundation. rosalind p. walter. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- signing customized individual and group retirement products. at's why we're your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs ation from viewers like you. thank you. atom the tisch wnet studio lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thanks for joining us. in washington, d.c. the topic continues to be the u.s.-mexico border, the president's threat to somehow close it, the increase in asylum-seekers, and e state department's statement that it will cut off aid to three central american countries. white house counselor kellyanne conway sd the president is serious about closing the ose metrics.: you're giving. what he's loing at is that 4,000 migrants were apprehended in one day recently. we're on track thimonth for close to 100,000. >>

seton melvin. the cheryl and philip milstein family. dr. p. roy vagelos and diana t. vagelos. the j.p.b. foundation. rosalind p. walter. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual ro and group retirementcts. that's why we're your retirement company.ad tional support has been provided by: innd by the corporation for public broadca and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening, and thanks for joining us. president trump used a speech to the republican jewish coalition's anal leadership meeting in las vegas today to ispeat his claim that ther crisis at the u.s.-mexico border and that asylum-seekers should be turned back. >> and i told my people yesterday, our country's full. we're full. our sys our country is full. can't come in. our country is full. what can you do? we can't handle anymore. our country is full. can't come in. rym sor it's very simple.>> reenivasan: although the pr

seton melvin. the cheryl and philip milstein family. dr. p. roy vagelos and diana t. vagelos. the j.p.b. foundation. rosalind p. walter barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you.is from the wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thank you for joining us. mourners came to honor the victims, the day after a gunman opened fire in a southern california synagogue, killing a 60-year-old woman and injuring three others. the 19-year-old whitofman suspectehe hate crime attack remains in custody. a growing number of flowers and messages covered a ml on the street outside the chabad of poway synagogue-- just northf san diego. 60-year-old lori gilbert-kaye died in the atck. she was at services on the last day of passover to say a praye

i'm craig melvin. she was a vivacious young woman, a fitness executive, adored by friends and married to the man of her dreams. but when she disappeared, investigators wondered was nicky's charmed life as perfect as it seemed? they soon discovered a dark secret iniki nikki's past but t truth would hide in plain sight. here's dennis murphy. >> seattle was long after a week of relentless rain, a woman was found in the tangle of blackberries, a naked body, small tattoo on the back, necklace and signs of strange gulation. the detective sent to a patch of trees mere the seattle's runways guessed it was her. they would soon be proved correct. nine days to find her. the answer, where, another seven years still ahead to answer the question of all homicides, who and why? but we have to go back, before the crime scene photos and the medical examiner's findings before she became those chilly words, "the victim," to find the dearly loved person, nicky, wife and daughter, sister and friend see. she seemed to be abl

i'm craig melvin. with doting grandfather jack jessie at the helm, his big and blended california family seemed like one happy bunch. then, jack was found stabbed to death in his living room and police wondered if the jessies weren't as close as they seemed. the case went unsolved for years until an ace detective hatched an unconventional plan to catch jack's killers. here's keith morrison. >> the game is called 80 mouse track," the little ball on its trap which unless every lever works in unison, will not be caught. how often things go wrong to allow thes my to get away. so odd that what really happened could so thoroughly mimic a children's game. >> how nice! >> these are the people that it happened to in orange county, california. they vacationed together. >> i'm tired and ready to go home. >> shared birthdays. >> this one is for bev. >> happy birthday! >> even got together information a monthly game of pins. what these grainy home videos don't show is what is yet to come, murder, conspiracy, one br

i'm craig melvin. detectives were convinced garrett kopp was involved in the family shooting, and they didn't think he acted alone. but with no evidence tying chris to the crime, they needed a confession to connect chris to the case. could they get garrett to come clean? returning to our story, here is keith morrison. >> detectives larry bellevue and art manning had a theory to explain the shooting of john sutton and the murder of his wife susan which was that christopher sutton hired his dope-smoking buddy, garrett kopp to kill his parents. it was really just a theory. while the case against kopp was fairly strong, remember the murder weapon was found in his possession. the evidence against christopher was circumstantial. little more than guilt by association. the samoa boot camp may have given christopher a motive. but. >> i certainly needed more than that to make the arrest. i decided it was time to act. we are going to need a confession, i believe. >> given what they had against kopp, detectives ga

>>> i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and there is when "dateline" continues. -- and this is "dateline." ♪ >>> we were in love. >> they were so happy at first, sharing a lover's perch high atop a cliff. but romance turned to danger. she fell from the edge. >> i would call this an accidental death. >> but was it? >> she said that if anything happens to me you'll know who did it. >> a mystery of nearly 20 years heads into court, and the husband is on the precipice. >> did you kill your wife, jody? >> i did not hurt jody. >> what happened on the cliff's edge? >>> hello, and welcome to "da "dateline." when police got word that someone had fallen off a cliff, they weren't surprised. the place was known to be dangerous. but even though couldn't guess that it would take almost 20 years to find out what really happened to a woman out on an evening hike with her husband. here's chris jansing. ♪ >>> every couple has it -- a shared song. a favorite movie. or maybe a special place. stephen schaaf says for him and his wife jody this was it. two rocks forming a lover's chair on the edge

i'm craig melvin. thanks for watching. >>> my dad on the phone told us jenny was gone. >> a house in flames. the body of a woman inside. >> we have a body. i need a medic. >> but it wasn't the fire that killed her. she was dead before it started. >> accidents will happen. this was no accident. >> who wanted her dead? her boyfriend said he knew. >> there's people after us. >> what does that mean? >> they're trying to get us. >> but police knew better. >> strangulation is a very personal killing. that's a very angry killing. >> hello. welcome to "dateline extra." i'm craig melvin. at first, a fatal fire that struck a young couple's home appeared to be an accident. then investigators took a closer look, and what they discovered about this fire and this couple left them with "burning suspicion." here's keith morrison. >> is everybody out of the house? >> i don't know, but it's on fire. >> the fire in the cottage on addison avenue was hungry, devouring almost everything in the bedroom. >> we'll have fire de

craig melvin is in paris with iew video that shows some of the challenges that l ahead. >> reporter: the damage only fully visible from the air. ost of the roof cpletely gone. leaving the bare ribs of the building beneath. had just 30 minutes to save the towers fromhe blaze. battling very close to the flames to save the structure. precious statues sawed away to reduce stress on the northern building.the this is how itooked before tuesday's destructivenferno. one of the most iconic and well-loved buildings in the world. the cathedral main structure remaining largely in tact and including thoseco ic stone to y youersnd ahe three -- to youers and the three stained windows and the incredible organ all safe. and the priceless relics including the crown of thorns rushed to the louvre to safety. so far roughly a billion dollars has been pledged to help rebuild cathedral. also we can tell you that tonight church bells all over france will rin around the same time that this fire broke out. craig melvin, nbc ne, paris, france. >>> france's president has set an ambitious goal to restore the rat

i know that craig melvin feels exactly the same way. >> indeed, craig melvin does.sary, my friend. >> reporter: thank you so much. what a treat. >> a pros pro. >> reporter: an exciting thing to celebrate. thank you so much. >> we look forward to 25 more. >> reporter: me too. >> all right. thank you. and thank you as well for joining us on this thursday morning. craig melvin here. he's in. after much speculation former vice president joe biden announcing his third presidential bid for the white house. he wasted no time going after president trump. using images from charlottesville saying we're in a battle for the soul of this nation. will the president be his biggest challenge in 2020? >>> also, this is quite the image. it's a summit between vladmir putin and kim jong-un. and they were talking denuclearization. >>> breaking news on this thursday. 32 people hospitalized because of an ammonia spill just north of chicago. this is the scene. we're going to go to chicago live as

craig melvin here.m the national rifle association convention in indianapolis, that is where president trump will be delivering his third keynote address just moments from now. before he left the white house last hour though, the president sharing a message for the 2020 democrats about his own youth. first though, controversy and former vice president joe biden wasting no time finding each other on the very same day the democratic frond rt runner announced his white house bid, anita hill say his amends did not go far enough. we'll talk all things 2020 including a conversation with one of the candidates,

melvin? >> mr. sir. >>> coming up, did nike bribe the family of college basketball's biggest star? the allegations being looked into by duke university this morning. >>> plus, prince william's spy games. inside the royal surprise work undercover with top british security and intelligence agencies. >>> a lot coming up, you guys. the winners and the drama that ruled the night at the academy of country music awards. >>> also ahead this morning, the great michelle pfeiffer making her way to studio 1a live. lots to discuss. lots to discuss. movies, her family, everyday more and more dogs are declaring their freedom from grains and now they're free to run, play and be their best and for these dogs there's no better food then blue freedom made without the grains that contain gluten free your dog with blue freedom from capital one.nd i switched to the spark cash card i earn unlimited 2% cash back on everything i buy. and last year, i earned $36,000 in cash back. which i used to offer health insurance to my

i'm craig melvin. thanks for watching. thanks for watching. >> this is "dateline. ♪. >>> this is a tragedy on top of a tragedy now. >> it happened so quickly. their parents in the backyard spa. their mom in trouble. >> my dad just panicked. >> a sudden slip. a fatal fall. >> you're losing your mother. you're watching her go right in front of you. >> someone else was watching her too. >> it was scary. the look on his face was almost undescribable. >> what had she seen? was this drowning really an accident? >> she's got a huge gash on her head. something like that is not consistent with just falling down. >> a husband and father is suddenly under suspicion. >> he's crying and we're crying. he said, they think i hurt mom. >> three daughters stand by their dad. and one prosecutor stands firm. >> he's holding his wife of almost three decades under the water. my job is to get justice for cristi hall. >> was it murder? hello and welcome to "dateline a young woman peers into her neighbor's yard and sees something for a few seconds

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >>> this doesn't happen in our happy little world. >> their world shattered. a young mother strangled. >> also, no evidence. but police found a dark side behind that bright suburban facade. >> she slept with the children and the door locked. >> and finally, a vital clue. what happened to nancy? "the day she disappeared." was a puzzling case that happened in a safe suburban neighborhood, the kind of place where crime is unexpected. >> nothing about that morning made any sense. >> it all seemed like just such a bad nightmare. this doesn't happen in our happy little world. >> it was a saturday morning in july 2008. the happy little world, a sweet and livy suburb of raleigh, north carolina. a place a young family would aspire to. if you were someone like hannah pritchard, for example. >> there's always lots of friend-making going on through someone you meet. lots of cookouts and family functions. >> like the one in the neighborhood the night before. so hannah would

i'm craig melvin.ey framed steven avery for the murder of teresa halbach. after all, his nephew, brendan, confessed. >> all the renewed attention in the steven avery saga has shed light on the other defendant in the case -- brendan dassey. the teenager had been convicted of rape and murder, but to his family, none of it ever made any sense. is brendan someone capable of rape? >> no. no. i don't even think he knew what that was at the time. >> in 2008, attorneys took up dassey's case for his appeal. they saw a mentally challenged teen with a low i.q. >> how do you spell garage? >> g-a-r-a-g-e. >> what did you think of brendan dassey when you were able to meet him in person? >> brendan is a simple soul. i was struck by his humanity. this is not somebody i could see committing a crime like this. >> that's the psychological power of interrogation. >> the two attorneys are based at the northwestern school of law in chicago. they've worked to free a number of wrongfully convicted defendants and say what they

i'm craig melvin.tive tom dove had just secured a warrant to wiretap murder suspect brett schrauben's shown, then he learned schrauben was relocating to arizona, a move that threatened to derail the investigation. dove didn't miss a beat, he simply engineered another plan, an elaborate trap requiring the help of nearly 100 officers across two states. could the detective pull it off? or was he headed toward another dead end? here again is keith morrison. >> reporter: after two years of relentless police work, tom dove's investigation of the murder of jack jessee had generated enough evidence to fill this mail cart. all apparently for naught. the suspect and his key to cracking the case had skipped the state, and detective dove's jurisdiction. >> we were so close. >> reporter: the jessee family sensed dove had been beaten and sandra jessee had won. had gotten away with murder. >> i put his pictures away. i couldn't -- it's tough. because he was so -- he was so fantastic. >> put his pictures away? >> i ha

i'm craig melvin. >> i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." >> when i saw her, i lost concept of time. i reached in, pulled her out. i started screaming "help!" >> please! please, wake up. wake up! >> it was the worst seconds of my life. >> how was it possible? >> i would give anything if she were alike today. >> such a sweet, young wife and mom. such a shattering death. >> i cried all fight long. >> he was downstairs with the kid. she was upstairs in the bath. then it happened. >> okay. how long has she been here? smr i don't know, she was taking a bath. >> we didn't know if it was a tragic accident or something else. >> questions quickly swirled about a wife's secret. >> what did you do today? >> she did have an addiction to prescription pills. >> and a husband scorned. >> she just collapsed on the floor. >> was it an accident or maybe murder? >> she said, i'm scared of him. >> the whispering started almost immediaty. you're a murderer. >> when are you innocent, you don't think it can happen

. >> greg: this is the melvins. everyone loves the melvins.ound you heard is everybody staying the channel. shout the music. [laughter] 2020 democratic field leaning even further left with outspoken trump critic congressman eric swalwell jumping into the race. basically every democrat trying to take on trump is pushing radical socialist policies while at the same time attacking capitalism. >> the only way to meet some of these historic challenges is to be able to use the engine of capitalism. having said that, it is clearly an imperfect, unfair, unjust, and racist capitalist economy. >> we are going to transform this economy and this government and create a system that works for all of us, not just the 1%. >> i believe in capitalism. i see the wealth that can be produced, but let's be really clear. capitalism without rules is theft. >> jesse: former starbucks ceo howard schultz is calling out these 2020 liberal contenders. >> all these politicians who are crying about capitalism, have they ever made a payroll? have they ever worked in a busine

i'm craig melvin.iderman's wife andrea took the stand in her boss' murder trial, and prosecutors had some tough questions for her. here again is dennis murphy. >> he pretended to be my friend, and i was doing the best that i can to deal with that situation. and he had my whole life wrapped up. >> jurors had heard a harrowing tale from rusty sneiderman's widow of a monster of a boss who became obsessed with his new hire, andrea. but now the prosecution was suggesting that the toxic triangle among boss, employee, and husband, was even more complicated than it seemed. and that the wife, andrea, was holding back important details of her story. prosecutor don geary. >> there was this kind of watergate question. what did she know and when did she know it? >> we went in, we knew she was lying. we told her we knew she was lying and that didn't seem to affect her. so we knew what we had to do on the stand, and we simply did it. >> in court, hemy neuman was the accused, but at times it looked as though andrea wa

. >>> that's all for therks addition of "dateline," i'm craig melvin.nd this is "dayli dday datd "dateline." >>> i don't know what it is about my mom that has captured the heart of so many people. there's just something to her that people connect with. >> she was the real estate broker who sealed the deal. >> her customers love her. >> hands down the most genuine person you ever met. >> she headed to a house that day and

." >>> i'm craig melvin. >> i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." >> it was packed. but as night fell, fear grew. >> they're asking who would want to harm your sister? >> was it someone that was a stranger? was it someone that we knew? >> i just had this weird feeling that there was something she was hiding tucked away. in her kitchen a clue to it all. >> on top of the refrigerator was a manila folder. >> did it just give you chills? >> it was horrible. why didn't she just tell us? >> reporter: did a secret lead to murder? >> i'd ask that you all close your eyes for a few minutes this morning. i'd like for you to envision roane county in the middle of october. the leaves are changing, there's a little bit of a nip in the air. now envision brooke morris standing there and brooke feels like she's been punched in the throat. she's been shot. brooke feels like a bomb goes off in her body, this is the second shot, and it tears through her chest. she's terrified, and she's in extreme pain. thank you, you can open your eyes. >> reporter: the final minutes of a young woman's

one church leader tell's "today" show's craig melvin, they are trying to assess the risk of collapse. >> right now there is a risk of stones falling. so they want to be sure that they test everything in the structure of the building. >> investigators are still in the preliminary stages of determining the cause. so far it is being tied to renovation work crews were doing. >>> we are hearing from one san diego firefighter who pitched in to put the flames. he was visiting in paris for easter week. he said his instincts kicked in. >> there was this bizarre need to want to try to do something. they were doing everything they could. >> he says he was amazed to see his french counterparts pwraebr entering to save artifacts. >> an unusual attempt to an tkub abduct a toddler. >> "today in the bay" spoke with both of them about the frightening ordeal. >> just an awkward smile is the best way i can kind of explain it. >> it was a disturbing situation in many ways, according to adam walker. he and his family were walking through friday afternoon when they passed a woman and her two young children

craig melvin here's at msnbc headquarters in new york city. >>> border chaos. the personnel changes but president trump's policies remain. the one constant, disorder that may be in the growing number of families trying to cross the border illegally. >>> and cautioning democrats in a speech about the perils of purity test. who were the comments aimed at? talk about it with a top member of the top democratic presidential campaign jarngsd live to las vegas. some trying to set themselves apart from the growing pack. take a look at that in a moment but we start at the southern border. the president's signature campaign issue -- devolving into chaos and the plan to fix it seems to be a third secretary of homeland security. right now on the border, a record number of families and children trying to enter the united states. more than 40,000 in february alone. a year after the administration announced its zero tolerance policy that separated migrant children from their parents, 65 kids still have not been reunited with their families. and you could be two years before i

back to you. >> our thanks to craig melvin chris jansing is also in paris. you have something else that's happening today in paris. protests set to happen near the cathedral. >> reporter: yeah, so let's start with the news on the cathedral. even the rector says it could be six years to rebuild. that's in contradiction with the five-year time line that president macron set out. there are others who think it could take decades. take a look at the top of the cathedral. that's the concern right now. i just got back from talking to officials who are investigating the structure of the building, how solid it is and they say that time is of the essence, that they are very concerned about the three openings on the roof. they are already talking about a design to cover that roof. they are say iing the vault and the rose windows could be in danger if they don't protect it from the elements and protect it soon. but the this is the path that protesters are going to walk maybe just about an hour or two from here. this is more of the yell low vest protesters. some of those

thank you so much, craig melvin live in paris, france. it's 5:00 here. 11:00 a.m.n the west coast -- excuse me, 11:00 a.m. on the east coast. we start here in paris. devastated after that fire nearly destroyed a piece of the city. a piece of the world's history as well. on the left side of your screen, a live look at what is happening along the right tower right now. on the right side of your screen, a closer look. you can see several workers there in a cherry picker. we're told they're in the process right now of making sure that notre dame is safe. safe enough for investigators to go back in and figure out precisely what it was that nearly destroyed this church. parisians, of course, looking on with some relief this morning as the cathedral, badly damaged, tore through the 800-year-old structure. it remains essentially intact, but there are still a number of concerns over its stability. daybreak over a new and diminished

this is the figure of victory in morning for the melvin bradford -- melvin brothers. three of them died during the civil war, the living brother funded this beautiful memorial which is in the cemetery in concord. one died of disease, one at andersonville, and one at petersburg. his most famous work of the 19th century with this. he was hired by the world columbian exposition, the world's feral fair of 1893 in chicago, the white city. 148 sculptures were invited to produce works for that event, but he got the big gown, the republic was supposed to rival with the statue of liberty. it stood 65 feet high on a 35 foot base, and had reigned over the lagoon in the white city. carved on site by the way from a model he brought back from a second trip to europe, from paris this time. they build a stairway inside so that they could work on the head. the crown was illuminated by electricity, and the face, this beautiful supple clutter white city. all of the buildings and save for the one that later became the art institute and the science museum in chicago, all of them were made

i'm craig melvin. for watching. >>> this doesn't happen in our happy little world. >> their world shattered. a young mother strangled. >> also, no evidence. but police found a dark side behind that bright suburban facade. >> she slept with the children and the door locked. >> and finally, a vital clue. what happened to nancy? "the day she disappeared."

craig melvin here at msnbc. breaking news at this hour, the unrest in venezuela.continues. vice president mike pence telling the opposition, quote, we are with you as its leaders call for mass protests backed by the armed forces. >>> a few moments ago in this country, congressional leaders arriving at the white house. can president trump and speaker pelosi, can they find common ground on anything? today it's all about infrastructure. we're going to check in on that meeting and how it could set the tone in washington for the next year and a half or so. >>> right now, the president's acting head of homeland security is testifying on the hill. president trump wants to charge migrants who apply for asylum. more on the other changes the president wants to make on the border. >>> we start with the breaking news in venezuela. they are

craig melvin here's at msnbc headquarters in new york city. >>> border chaos.resident trump's policies remain. the one constant, disorder that may be in the growing number of families trying to cross the border illegally. >>> and cautioning democrats in a speech about the perils of purity test. who were the comments aimed at? talk about it with a top member of the top democratic presidential campaign jarngsd live to las vegas. some trying to set themselves apart from the growing pack. take a look at

. >> and while that does it for me this hour, my colleague, craig melvin will have much more on thisbunch of other news coming up now live there in new york. just fresh off of his exclusive interview with steph curry. hey, pal. >> good to see you, hallie. good to see you, as well. craig melvin here, msnbc headquarters in new york city, where we are watching several big stories play out live at this hour. here in new york, right now, the 2020 democratic candidates for president courting a key and influential block of voters at the national action network. we are also live on capitol hill. that is where the house judiciary committee is challenging president trump. the committee just moments ago voting to force the department, the justice department, to hand over that full and unredacted mueller report. and also, a live look at chicago, celebrates going on after lori lightfoot made history there, winning the race for mayor. i will speak to the new mayor live in just a few moments about becoming the first black woman and the first openly gay person to hold that office in chicago. we'll g

. >>> i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." she was a college student found on a longlely road in texas. >> we figured she had been dumped here. >> tough questions for her boyfriend. >> what i was doing, where i had seen her. >> while police tried to prove it, another attack. >> he's got me by the throat, shaking me, yelling at me telling me not to say a word. >> you're a prisoner in this apartment now. >> yes. >> her body had kind of been propped up on to the bed. >> even law enforcement, they thought what do we have on our hands here. >> there's growing danger because police are looking in the wrong place. >> i lived to tell, and nobody believed me. >> this monster is walking free while they're wasting their time on me. >> can the killer be caught before he kills again? >> it makes you realize how fragile your life is. and that anybody can take it. >> welcome to "dateline." a killer was on the loose in a texas college town leaving students and their parents terrified. with the shocking discovery of jamie hart's body, investig

right now more news with craig melvin. >> always good to have you. good morning to you. kr craig melvin here. tray to keep up. so much going on this hour, especially on capitol hill. breaking news right now, we will of course continue to watch attorney general william barr back in the hot seat for a second day. barr being grilled again this time by senators on how he is handling robert mueller's report. president trump just weighing in a few moments ago. once again claiming victory. also right now on the hill, freedom caucus members about to take the podium any minute now as a new book reveals just how donald trump's president is city has paralyzed congress in its ability to get anything ne. surprising revelations how republicans handle the president's chaos. we'll talk to the authors. and right now in washington, potential democrats vying for the whithouse trying to win over voters in trade unions. they are speaking one by one with senator cory booker about to step up to the mike i go cmi. we'll go there live. but let's start with the attorney general's second day of te

craig melvin here msnbc headquarters in new york city. a busy day on the road for president trump and the democratic presidential candidates. president trump heading to atlanta any moment now for a summit on opioids. he leaves behind, though, a massive fight over subpoenas. we'll look at whether the president can thwart the will of house democrats to compel white house staff to testify. we're also live in new mexico, along the southern border. president trump went patrolling the area and now is promising to send more armed troops. and she the people. a brand new presidential forum for and by women of color it has now nabbed the biggest names in the democrat 2020 field. we'll talk about one of the hosts about what is in store for the candidates at this historic event. we start right now with president trump about to leave the white house, live look there at joint base andrews. we are told the president is not there just yet. he is still at the white house. again, president trump heading to atlanta, georgia, leaving behind what may be a new

right now, craig melvin has more up in new york. >>> good to see you.ur holiday weekend here. we start with breaking 2020 news on this friday. vice president joe biden expected to launch his presidential campaign next week. the exam timing is unknown, but biden sits atop most national and state polls. younger progressives questioning his issues of crime and behavior around woman has become a flashpoint. the question whether his persona fits this particular political moment. our biden is

craig melvin here msnbc headquarters in new york city.esident trump and the democratic presidential candidates. president trump heading to atlanta any moment now for a summit on opioids. he leaves behind, though, a massive fight over subpoenas. we'll look at whether the president can thwart the will of house democrats to compel white house staff to testify. we're also live in new mexico, along the southern border. president trump went patrolling the area and now is promising to send more armed troops. and she the people. a brand new presidential forum for and by women of color it has now nabbed the biggest names in the democrat 2020 field. we'll talk about one of the hosts about what

craig melvin here, new york city. that breaking news continues. assange arrested.r of wikileaks appearing inside a london courtroom moments ago. he was, of course, arrested this morning. we're going to take a look at what charges he might face here in the united states. the charges he currently faces. we'll take you to that courtroom outside the courthouse, at least, when his attorneys speak there. >>> back here the contenders hitting the trail with senator kamala harris who will be attending a campaign house party in iowa soon. what she is saying to do about that controversial new medicare for all bill. >>> and bracing for battle. one city's response to massive gun violence. now that response under attack by the national rifle association. we'll dig into that a little bit later. >>> let's start with that breaking news. a fast moving day for julian assange. right now the weikileaks founde in a courtroom. moments ago assange, convicted of skipping bail about an hour after the u.s. justice department accused him on conspiring with convicted leaker chelsea manning, th