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♪ >>> it's been 12 years since natalee holloway >>> it's been 12 years since natalee holloway disappearedver convicted in her disappearance. thanks to a contact with her father, dave holloway there may be new information in this case. >> reporter: natalee holloway vanished and beginning a nightmare for her father, dave. >> the worst thing you can do is lose a child. i think about her everyday. >> person of interest, joran van der sloot was arrested for kidnapping and murder. >> reporter: he was eventually released. >> he is in a prison in peru after confessing to the 2010 murder of a young woman there. >> joran is the last person seen with my daughter. he knows what happened. >> reporter: after 12 years of false hopes and dead ends, he hired investigator t.j. ward and appeared in a new oxygen series to investigate the latest lead in the whereabouts of natalee's leads. >> we have a person who says he was directly involved with joran van der sloot in disposing of natalee's remains. i thought, there may be something to this. >> reporter: it came from a man named gabriel who says his friend h

. >>> then the natalee holloway investigation. wh

the investigation is part of a six-part docu-series on t oxygen channel, "the disappearance of natalee hollowayen.com dna results to conclusively determine whether the bone fragments belong to holloway are expected by next month. >> why would van der sloot in '05 know about this spot? >> good question. >> reporter: holloway disappeared in 2005 while on a high school trip to aruba. joran van der sloot was the man last seen with natalee after a night of drinking before she disappeared. the 30-year-old is currently serving time in a peruvian jail for killing a different woman. many say natalee's parents were victims of a botched investigation from the start by aruban authorities. now natalee's father dave says he won't give up on finding the truth and getting justice for his daughter as he told abc's juju chang. >> if the dna test is positive, where do you put that? in your mind? in your heart? >> it will be the end of a long, long journey. but we're not there yet. >> reporter: investigation with private detective t.j. ward is chronicled in the series. >> what we're doing is building a criminal ca

but preliminary dna tests seem to indicate that remains unearthed in aruba could be those of natalee holloway 18-year-old infamously disappeared back in 2005, her body never found. well, now her father dave holloway is working with a private investigator. that investigation led to the remains found in an aruba backyard. test results so far match her profile but more concrete answers are expected next month. >> well, there are two teenagers from florida who are sharing their incredible survival story after a remarkable rescue out of the grand canyon. best friends reese mcmichael and rowan fitch spent five days lost in the national park surviving on only two granola bars and puddles of water. with food and drink sparse and temperatures reaching 100 degrees the teens say they were exhausted but they tried not to panic. what they did to survive they rationed the few resources they had. >> we found a few areas where water would just barely trickle out of the ground. >> every day we would eat a piece of the granola bar about that big. we made a big sign with rocks at the base of the trail that poin

new developments in a cold case surrounding natalee holloway's disappearance.hat investigators are now saying about dna found on human remains in aruba. >> plus a new smartphone app can prescribe women birth control without being a doctor in person. details on that in health check when "action news" at 5:00 comes right back. >> frightening new video out of houston texas. a big rig with its bucket raised slammed into a highway sign and that caused the metal trestle to fall on the truck. the driver's condition isn't known. >> two teens who were lost in the grand canyon for five days are thanking the rescuers tonight. in 100-degree heat reese mcmichael and rowan fitch survived with two granola bars and puddles of water. they say their survival instincts kicked in. finally on the fifth day a rescue helicopter spotted them and scooped them up. >> lucky young men. >> no doubt. >> it's not conclusive but preliminary dna testing indicates remains in aruba could be that of natalee holloway. >> her body was never found. now her father is working with a investigator. rema

. >>> families -- family of a missing young woman, natalee holloway may be getting answers. her father announced yesterday remains have been found in aruba where his daughter went missing on graduation trip. the tip came from someone who claimed to have helped dispose of the body with jaran van der sloot the man suspected of playing a role in her disappearance. the remains were found behind a house. jaran van der sloot is serving a 28 year sentence in peru for killing another woman . >>> we are helping you get to school as more children are going back to class. >> we are beginning to see a transition of the commute from the summer pattern which, by the way wasn't very light. we won't be going from completely light traffic to heavy traffic we're just going from heavy to heavier. this is a look at the bay bridge backed up now that things are improving a little bit as we can tell looking at the ramps from 8802 the toll plaza. 880 is quite slow this morning we had two crashes one at fifth and one near 23rd, they have been moved but traffic is still slow. i would recommend using

. >>> well, after more than 12 years of searching natalee holloway father's says there may be a break in her 2005 disappear an. dave hollaway says a tip led him and a private investigator to human remains behind a house in aruba. the family is awaiting results of dna testing to see if they belong to her missing loved one. natalee was just 18 when she disappeared after vacationing with friends joran van der sloot remains the main suspect and is in prison in peru after the death of another girl in 2010. >>> a new england convenience store clerk says he couldn't help but laugh at two people that tried but failed to rob him. the man and woman demanded money and the man swiped at him with a knife and he moved away no trouble giggling the whole time many the pair ultimately gave up and walked away and the clerk found it riddic will you was not hurt. meets are still looking for the would be robbers. >>> a woman in canada never thought she would find her engagement ring. mary lost the ring gardening on the family farm 14 years ago, she searched for it and couldn't find it. and went and bought

a shocking discovery that could finally shed light on the dpis appearance of natalee holloway. >> 12 ld bring the first step in closure for natalee's family. >> we go inside the undercover investigation that her father says may have uncovered what the police never did. >>> plus whitney can i be me. the new documentary revealing never before seen footage of

a shocking discovery that could finally shed light on the disappearance of natalee holloway. >> 12 years in closure for natalee's family. >> we go inside the undercover investigation that her father says may have uncovered what the police never did. >>> plus, "whitney can i be me." ♪ one moment in time the new documentary revealing never before seen footage of whitney houston. an intimate glimpse into the struggles behind her clean-cut

. >> next up has the mystery around natalee holloway's disappearance been solved?of human remains in aruba. the remains are undergoing dna testing and results are expected next month. the tip came from a gabriel who lived with van der sloot's best friend john. he claimed van der sloot spiked holloway's drink with a date rape drug and she then choked on her own vomit. >> peter dinklage is that begging fans to stop adopting huskies only to abandon them later. dinklage says it hurts the deserving homeless dogs waiting for a good chance at home in shelters. shelters reported a spike in the number of huskies being abandoned since the "game of thrones" aired. >> an elderly canadian woman found her long lost diamond ring wrapped around a carrot. a carrot. 84-year-old mary grant said that she probably lost the ring pulling a large weed from her farm in 2004. she says she thought she'd never see that ring again but 13 years later, the carrot showed up and so did the ring. that's weird. well -- >> that is weird. was it like a -- okay. well, she found it. that's the good news