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Care. >> reporter: you can see this dog has scars all over his face, woe. this is how we know hes recovering. they dont play fetch the ball in captivity but after a couple weeks here, hes ready to play. remember that fearful tan dog we showed you, an aspca therapist is working with her to slowly build her trust and alleviate her fear and convince her shes loved. >> this may be the second largest dogfighting bust in u.s. history but a drop in the bucket. this is going on all over the united state...

>> but you feel they can lead a good life? >> i think he could have a good quality of life with the proper care. >> you say this dog has scars all over its face and its emaciated. but we know hes recovering because he wants to play ball. they dont play fetch the ball when theyre in captivity. but now after a couple of weeks here hes ready to play. >> good girl. good girl. >> reporter: and remember that fearful tan dog we showed you? well, an aspca therapist is working with her to slowly try to b...

Each of these dogs a chance to some day be adopted. >> weve given medication to get rid of fleas. we can put them on pain medication. we dont have all of our diagnostic results yet. some dogs in these circumstances have heartworm disease, they have -- >> reporter: but you feel they can live a good life? >> i do. i think he could have a good quality of life with the proper care. >> reporter: you can see this dog has scars all over his face. whoa. and hes emaciated. heres how we know hes recoverin...

To get to school. i wanted what is in front of me. my mother said, cant do that, dont be here, be in the house at night. dont stand over there. theres white folks over there, dont go over there. it was where they come from. so being a child hearing all of that, it was my mind. the thing that helped me to get it was one three little letters. "why." id ask my mother, "why?" shed say, well, because youre poor. why cant you do that? or because youre black. none of those things made sense to me. once...

Aside. not to suppress them entirely, but to put them aside and to focus on the client and the clients case. >> is there a case that sticks out to the you, though, specifically? >> i say in my essay, and you know, i guess im willing to admit that -- to put it in its most pif if i form, probably rapists and racists are are the hardest kind of cases for me, especially the sort of case thats kind of, you know, part of the ariel castro kind of category of cases. rape, captivity, abduction cases, you...

It was in 2011 that nbcs kate snow first brought us the incredible story of america lindhout who was kidnaped with a friend by somali. she detailed her 15-month nightmare in captivity for a ""dateline" nbc" episode that will air tonight. kate snow is joining me now. kate, i read the recent magazine article that she published which was absolutely excruciatingly extraordinary. how did you first hear about her? and tell me about your relationship with her and this story. >> its interesting, luke. w...

Somalia. we met her when she was actually believe it or not going back into somalia two years after her captivity ended. she was going back as an aid worker to help to raise money for food and famine relief and really help people in somalia. we went along on that trip. and from there weve been in touch. shes written a book, the excerpt you saw in the "new york times" magazine was the excerpt from that book called "house in the sky" which is out now. and she details in this book and on "dateline"...

Thats mommy giving birth at the smithsonian national zoo. panda cubs are born so undeveloped, you cant even tell what sex they are, but almost two weeks after the birth, genetic testing has revealed its a girl! >> its got a fat, little belly. its very active. its very vocal. >> reporter: looking like a lizard with a twitch, but youd be twitching, too, if everyone were asking, whos your daddy? how could the zoo not know who the father was? i mean, it wasnt as if a female panda was out whooping it...

If they were concerned about him harming himself in the county jail didnt exist in the state prison. >> john yang, thank you. i want to bring in missing and sploied children marc klaas. his daughter polly was kidnapped and murdered in 93. he is president of the beyondmissing.com. good morning. >> good morning. >> the man who killed your daughter was sentenced to die in 1996. he is still in prison. what was your reaction when you heard that ariel castro apparently killed himself? >> i thought i...

He was just released at the end of july. hes here to share his unique perspective. jonathan and the project director join both join us in studio. so, jonathan, you just got out. you seem remarkably in good shape. you were held where and by whom? >> i was captured near damascus by islamist rebels and i was covering the conflict from their side. starting at a end of april. and by that point, i had been covering the war for about a week, then i decided to go south toward the capital and this is whe...