we're going to be watching this hearing as it's about to get underway. we want to get now to major new developments in that deadly kidnapping of four u.s. citizens in mexico. right now the two survivors of that horrifying ordeal with back in the u.s. and their families are speaking out. we're also learning more about where officials say they were held. take a look at your screens. you can see the house where officials say they were violently taken, where somebody was actually standing guard, and we're also learning more about the area where they were violently taken at gunpoint in the first place. nbc's morgan chesky is in brownsville, texas, near the mexican border. ellison barber where the victims are from. so morgan first to you, these people, these four people are childhood friends. they traveled down to mexico together, and they did so to share driving duty.