tonight, where is 29-year-old shantina smiley and her 8-year-old little boy? >> it looks to be an abandoned car or a stolen vehicle on my beach property. >> i miss her more than you could ever imagine. >> and it's partially submerged. >> the only one that knows f sure is god. >> shantina smiley and her son, 8-year-old azriel carver, are still missing. >> it makes no sense. >> baffling. >> it's really bizarre. >> we just don't know. >> there's no rational explanation for why shantina's van ended up abandoned and stuck on a puget sound bch surday night. >> we have no idea what happened. >> the van doors were open. >> i can't put it into words >> and no one was inside. >> empty. >> shantina and her 8-year-old son were last seen driving all over olympia. >> this video shows santina and her son at a west olympia minimart about 8:00 p.m. saturday. >> she's very intelligent, well read, well spoken. >> she was apparently lost and can be seen on the video looking at a map and getting directions. workers say her behavior was odd and she fell in the parking lot. >> i wis

azriel james carver is just 8 years old, shantina "kat" smily is 29.ent to visit the grandfather, got lost have not been seen again. their vehicle found behind. i want to go to dr. joshua perper, chief medical examiner, broward county. dr. perper there is no evidence they went into the water but the water is being searched. at this juncture, could they be identified? >> i'm sure that they could because there is not enough time which lapse sod there would have been postmortem changes. there is no question at this time they could be identified, the feature including skeleton features, size, any kind of other condition and dna finger printing f they would be unfortunately found, this is such an identification would not be a problem. >> and to brian shapiro, kiro radio in seattle, brian thanks for being with us, why would they call off the search so soon? >> well, that is a very, very good question but what we do know right now is she did have problems with alcohol and she relapsed last week. >> i don't care if she had a problem with alcohol what about the

>> no, no. >> and stuck on a puget sound beach saturday night. >> doors are all open. >> shantina and her 8-year-old son were last seen driving all around olympia. >> this videshows them at a west olympia mini mart about 8:00 p.m. saturday. >> she's very intelligent, well read, well spoken. >> she was apparently lost and could be seen on a video looking for a map and asking for directions. workers say her behavior was odd and she fell in the parking lot. >> on the darker side of that, you have to wonder, does somebody have her? >> straight out to ed troyer, spokes person, pierce county sheriff's department, joining us, fox island, washington. ed, thank you for being with us. what can you tell us about the little boy's body that has wash ashore? >> we have identified it as being the missing boy from thirston county. once we processed the scene in the last half hour, got a better look, had the mohawk haircut. we unraveled the clothing, it was the same clothing we last saw in the surveillancvideo. his father's here, and we went ahead and made notification. thmedical examiner has taken hi

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gave up the body of azriel carver last week, but the search is still on for his mother, 29-year-old shantinagoing slow enough so we'll be able to get a really good look at all the things we need to look at. >> reporter: the pair was on a road trip. halfway through, smiley unexpectedly got off the freeway and spent the next several hours driving in circles. they were seen at a convenience store, at a restaurant, and finally at a home where they asked to use the phone and get directions. but the next morning, their van was found on a remote beach, half submerged and empty. their belongings, washing ashore, including a half empty wine bottle. >> crazy series of events that unfolded and ended so tragically. >> reporter: azriel's father says it doesn't appear to be foul play. sheriff's detectives agree. but something happened on that beach that night that no one can explain. lee cowan, nbc news, los angeles. >>> former presidents bill clinton and george w. bush make a one-day visit to haiti today. president obama put them in charge of u.s. fund-raising in response to the devastating january 12th