>> once in meridian, idaho, were two happy successful families. enough for some of them and the wreckage is forever are. >> that's all for this edition of "dateline. " i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >> >> i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is dateline. >> a mystery in los angeles. a missing woman. >> he said, cindy words my mom? >> and i just instantly knew. and i just in michael, called the police, i'm on my way. >> a loving mother. >> always there for me. >> a beloved friend. >> she was just so easy to like. >> vanishes. >> some people something was very, very wrong. >> was she murdered? was it for her money? >> how much money

shell is taking ownership of meridians's -- in australia.s buying it's in the structure assets. seven group is going to offload is 15% interest in the lng project operated by shell, nwa. as a stallion borders reopen, bloomberg intelligence has the spending offshore to sap demand domestically. the markets are still awaiting results -- the embattled casino operator worth $6.2 billion. the private equity giant says it can rehabilitate a company that has left reeling from the series of scandals. steve johnson is the cio of forager funds. it is a tension lysing prospect for blackstone, the ability to see crown reinvented. and then you have these two monopolies across two major cities. how big is it there? steve: i think it is an opportunistic time. they have been working away at this for a number of years. crown has been going through its traumas. -- dramas. these assets are very resilient to those dramas. it is not like the customers are noticing a lot different. as you just touched on, they are pretty unique as far as assets in this industry go

to 80 near meridian avenue to know. that's around san jose. fine this morning, just slow it down. as you encounter that fog back to you. thanks a lot, john. it's 5.33 and happening in the south bay. >> x their nose founder elizabeth holmes is going to be cross examined by the prosecution in her criminal fraud trial that she's accused of misleading investors and doctors and patients about her blood testing device in order. >> to take their money. kron four's will tran standing by live outside of the courthouse there in santa clara county with the latest. what will expect today will. >> james this trial is 3 months long and it is still the biggest story in san jose. as far as court cases. look at the people right behind me. they have to format around 4 o'clock in the morning outside the courthouse and it doesn't even open until 8. just so they can be in sizes to say that they were part of this trial. look at all those people in the cold here as far as elizabeth holmes. this will be her 5th day on the witness stand for the last 4 days. she was ex

katharine clouser in hackensack meridian health opened one of the first covid recovery centers in the. do you think now that that's available, covid in children will decrease? >> i hope so. there is anecdotal evidence that symptoms improve. >> reporter: one of her patients, 4-year-old aaron estrada, healthy till he got covid a year ago and developed multi-system inflammatory syndrome and lost his hair and couldn't walk or stand for a month. do you remember, after you got sick, how it made your legs feel? >> bad. >> reporter: bad? aaron needed months of physical therapy to learn how to walk again. they paid you better, right? >> mm-hmm. >> reporter: how does that make you feel? thumbs up. after 12 months of treatment, aaron's doctors are hopeful he will make a full recovery. aaron doesn't turn five till next spring, but his doctors will vaccinate him early this month because his symptoms were so severe. norah. >> o'donnell: meg oliver, thank you for the story. tonight a look at newly released and disturbing body cam police video out of chicago, showing an innocent black teenager stoppe

ah, i'm hello meridian enjo her with the headlines on al jazeera, the united nations, as pushing for the release of 16 ethiopian staff who've been detained by the governments in addis ababa, u. n. and humanitarian sources say they were arrested during government rates targeting to grants, $72.00 drivers for the world food program have also been arrested. mohammed adult has more from ada sub over they are all. busy to guy as solicitude, they are to grade people and the government is accusing them off and get the men in terrorism activities, which is a thin live vedic accusation that they are in support of the to ground rebels were currently fighting the european defense forces now and it's not known why they were targeted, specially given, but they are, you and the workers, even the drive was, was involved in the process of taking much did at 8 to the, to guy region. and so the main reason why there so many gram drive us with the wi fi is because of the existing pensions and animosity to in different communities in ethiopia. it's only to glen drive us who can deliver it inside at the

emily: our very own ed ludlow in an exclusive interview with vivian's -- meridian -- rivian's seal.oordash going global, jumping on a deal to buy a european delivery app. i will talk to the ceo about what it all means and how food shortages are impacting the business. that is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: a surprise deal from doordash, the food delivery giant buying a finish delivery food startup. it is one of the largest mergers of a finland base company ever according to bloomberg. i spoke earlier with the doordash ceo about what this means for international growth. >> i am super excited about the partnership. for us it represents our long-term investment in building a global business. in revolt -- volt we see three amazing things. it is a team that shares our vision for transforming global commerce and they also compete on building superior products, caring about taking every ounce of inefficiency out of the system and building something for all stakeholders. it has an incredible runway for growth. they are at 2.5 billion dollars. when you combine capital efficiency with how

i would love to do this with the meridian campaign if you known.where you see great sherman developing strategies w to use in georgia and the carolinas later that year. if you are interested in anything like this like i have been focusing on tonight with traditional military history to understand what they are going through but also the back story to the books you have been studying and reading over many years. questions. any questions? baloney think dissent was a lot bigger than you think. do you want to go ahead and repeat the question? >> one thing that intrigued me is a person like wt roland who is from mississippi he left to join the union army were left when he got my guess what happened when he got home? >> this is the fun part because we have almost no letters that i have been able to find. after the war, i can find him in mississippi for a while. he is justin north mississippi.l he comes back and i lose track of him after the 18 eighties. my sense is that it becomes an increasingly uncomfortable place to be for union veterans. it just does

katharine clouser and her team at hackensack meridian health in new jersey opened one of the first pediatric covid recovery centers in the state last spring. do you think that now that the vaccine's available to younger children, that's going to start to decrease? >> i certainly hope so. there has been some anecdotal kind of evidence that their symptoms do improve. >> reporter: one of her patients is four-year-old aaron estrada. he was healthy till he got covid a year ago, then developed multi-system inflammatory syndrome, and lost his hair and couldn't walk or stand for a month. do you remember, after you got sick, how it made your legs feel? >> bad. >> reporter: bad? aaron needed months of physical therapy to learn how to walk again. they made you better, right? >> mm-hmm. >> reporter: how does that make you feel? thumbs up. after 12 months of treatment, aaron's doctors are hopeful he will make a full recovery. aaron doesn't turn five until next spring, but his doctors here will vaccinate him early, this month, because his symptoms were so severe. norah. >> o'donnell: all right, meg oliver

katherine and her team at hacken sack meridian health in new jersey opened one of the first pediatricy centers last spring to help aaron and kids like him. >> what're long-hauler symptoms? >> in children, we tend to see they have persistent fatigue. some kids are having persistent headaches and a lot of kids are having anxiety symptoms they maybe didn't have before. >> reporter: 25 times more likely to get severe covid than those without, but aaron had no-known pre-existing conditions, nor did 14-year-old madison ford from michigan. >> it feels like scary like i just can't breathe. >> reporter: madison is a competitive dancer. she was healthy and thriving, before she got covid in january. she never used an inhaler before. but ten months later, she still needs one and gets winded easily, especially while dancing. >> i get really tired and i need to sit down. and, um, my heart starting pumping really fast and my lungs. it's just like constant need for air. >> reporter: mariah lynn fore is madison's mom. >> i am worried this could have done more damage than what we even realize. um, but

prior to joining blue meridian, she served as president of enterprise committee partners, a national nonprofit focused on affordable housing and community element. welcome, miss blatchford. you may proceed with your opening remarks. >> thank you. chairman peters, reiki member portman and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today as president biden's nominee. i am deeply humbled to have been nominated for this important role, and will be honored to have the chance to serve the american people of confirmed. i want to thank my husband of 21 years and our two children for their love and support. i know he and they are watching alongside many friends. thank you all for your love and support. i set before you today because i am at heart a public servant. this calling comes directly from my parents. i father was an accomplished teacher and school administrator, whose leadership impacted the lives of many kids and their families. my mother is also an educator and community leader who has shared the challenges and blessings of her own lived experience

but insisted that the prosecution hadn't even prove there was a murder, let alone that martyr meridian >> i submit to you that none of the circumstances that the prosecution has submitted to you is consistent with homicide. they don't rise to the level of proof of beyond a reasonable doubt. >> and then the jury began deliberating. they huddled hour after hour late into that friday night. midnight came and went. they were still talking. >> the longer the deliberations went, the more worried i got. >> quicker deliberations are? better >> in this case, i thought so. because our case was simple. >> then, after 11 hours, a verdict. two quick, that the prosecutor, a signal. >> when they were coming back after 11 hours, i was nervous. >> it was 1:00 in the morning on saturday, november 9, do you thousand 13. >> we the jury, find the defendant, as the count one, murder, guilty. >> at that moment, michele's family couldn't fide hide the relief. finally, after years of fighting, they got with they wanted and demanded. but until that moment, martin's defense attorneys believed, perhaps more than

i'm not saying all is good because people on the upper west side and also meridian, mississippi. make it a kind of self-fulfilling downfall if we don't get out there and actually see people unlike us. and the thing about new york city, i spend a lot of time studying maps of how people voted. yes, it was new york city 78% joe biden, but there are big patches of brooklyn, new york full of 80%, 90% trump voters. so diversity exists everywhere even in new york. and the trick is to sort of see people as people, not as character cares trying to destroy our democracy. and this human to human necessity to sort of cool the temperature a little bit i think is really important. >> craig, you made the point very smart earlier that we tend because it is easier to retreat to our bubble sometimes, but those bubbles that are cable news and the specific facebook page i look at or twitter are not representative of what is going on out there. i grew up in the new york area, lived in new york a long time, consider myself a new yorker, but i went to college and lived in the south for ten years and th

>> once in meridian, idaho, were two happy successful families. it wasn't quite enough for some of them and the wreckage is forever are. >> that's all for this edition of "dateline. " i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >> >> i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is dateline. >> a mystery in los angeles. a missing woman. >> he said, cindy words my mom? >> and i just instantly knew. and i just in michael, called the police, i'm on my way. >> a loving mother. >> always there for me. >> a beloved friend. >> she was just so easy to like. >> vanishes. >> some people something was very, very wrong. >> was she murdered? was it for her money? >> how much money tissue have in the bank? >> i think it was over seven figures. >> or was it something more or someone else. >> it really threw him for a loop when he found out that my mom had met somebody else. >> police had a suspect and a case. that was about to take an unbelievable turn. >> one of the most shocking things i have ever seen in a courtroom. >> hello and welcome to "datelin

likely meridian oil sales to china. the act requires -- china has been importing 600,000 barrels of iranian oil per day. the administration knows it on december 28th reuters reported, and i quote, a senior u.s. official said we are aware of the purchases of chinese companies of iranian oil. i'm sure you acknowledge that if the required sanctions on purchases of iranian oil, right? >> the law does require -- >> okay. and you acknowledge that chinese companies are buying iranian oil? >> i am aware that a number of people are attempting to buy iranian oil. our goal is to make sure -- >> okay. the attempt -- it is a factual matter that chinese companies are routinely, daily buying hundreds of thousands of barrels of iranian oil, and direct violation of our sanctions. right? >> we continue to monitor purchases of iranian oil and we look forward to -- >> okay, so you are making my point. i'm going to submit a written question and for the sake of time i would appreciate a written answer as why it is that you believe that the m

meridian, mississippi, 55 degrees. that's 13 degrees below average. ch >>> good friday morning.here's your view right now in palo alto. visibility has been pretty low and the fog is slowly starting to lift and we will continue to see fog clearing out in the next couple of hours. we have sunshine in the forecast for the rest of the day. early next week, more clouds and cooler temperatures. by next tuesday into wednesday, we will see highs in the valleys in the mid-60s. for san francisco, a very nice weekend ahead. >> and that's your latest weather. guys >>> still ahead, the emotional story being shared by gold medalist suni lee saying she was pepper sprayed in a recent anti-asian attack. why she's now opening up about that disturbing incident but first, these messages. or taking mom to get that vaccine. ♪ healthier means bringing stuff to the folks ♪ ♪ that really need it. ♪ ♪ like help at 2 am or care that's right at home. ♪ ♪ believe it. ♪ ♪ and caring for them all means ♪ ♪ we're doing healthier right. ♪ ♪ so, let's do it all together people, ♪ ♪ 'cause this is what healthier

she is currently a managing director at blue meridian partners, a nonprofit and philanthropic organization, then invest in economic and social mobility nationwide. she served as president of enterprise community partners, and national nonprofit, focused on affordable housing and community development. welcome, you may proceed. laura: thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. i am deeply humbled to have been nominated for this important role in would be honest to have the chance to serve the american people if confirmed. i want to thank my husband of 21 years and our two children for their love and support, and i know they are watching alongside many friends and colleagues. i sit before you today, because i am a public servant. this calling comes directly from my parents. my father was an accomplished teacher and school in ministry or whose leadership and vision impacted the lives of many. my mother is an educator and community leader who has shared that challenges and blessings of her own experience as a deaf woman to help others in countless ways. their lives of purpose an

back in the u.s., meridian automotive speaking a valuation just above 60 of billion dollars $60 billion.itlans to sell shn 57 and $62 a share. it is being backed by companies amazon, ford, cost enterprises among others. amazon disclosing last week it holds a 20% stake in that company. its valuation would make it more valuable than fellow you automar honda. american airlines canceling hundreds more flights next week after 1900 cancellations this weekend. thousands of passengers remain stranded as the airline grapples with staff shortages while blaming bad weather for the cancellations. thousands of first responders are leaving the job because they say they don't want to take the vaccine. the company hopes to make up the losses. the stock this morning as you can see, down about 1%. the cdc could green light the covid vaccine for kids as young as 5 years old beginning today. an fda panel authorizing pfizer's lesser dose shot last week, if the cdc agrees on it, vaccinations for children 5-11 could begin by the end of the week. the former hud secretary and neurosurgeon dr. ben carson weighed in