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The four U.S. citizens kidnapped in Mexico last week were revealed to be a South Carolina mother of six and her three friends, according to the womans mother, and they were traveling south of the border so that the woman could undergo a medical procedure.

Smugglers. diane dgallagher is in south carolina, kylie atwood is monitoring the situation from the state department. diane, lets start with you and what were learning about the victims and what happened. >> reporter: victor, im in lake city, south carolina, which family says is where three of the four americans who were abducted grew up here together. they describe them as a friend group that is tight knit. the sister of one of the americans says they were like glue when they got together. they...

Americans who were abducted just absolutely terrified right now by what has happened, two of those families have identified the four americans as la dave i cant washington mcgee, woodard, brown and their friend eric. they are a tight-knit group of friends, three of the four grew up in the lake city, south carolina, area. were told they traveled down to mexico together because one of those friends, tae mcgee, was set to have a medical procedure there. her mother says that on friday morning she ne...

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Norah? >> norah: and have we heard from speaker mccarthy at all today? >> reporter: not yet, but we are expecting he may address reporters soon. nikole killion, thank you. tiktok could be banned from the u.s. under a new bipartisan bill proposed today. the senate legislation would give the commerce secretary new powers to act against tech companies based in six foreign nations, including china. president biden has ordered that tiktok be removed from government devices over concerns that china co...

We are fighting as hard as possible. >> mexican president lopez observe door says one man is in custody while they look for others. mexico believes the attack was likely a mistake that cartel scouts mistook the will as rival gang. >> a vehicle in their turf that they they dont recognize for might be a threat to them something they respond with gunfire rather than to verify to see who those individuals in that vehicle are like many this group traveled to mexico to save money on a procedure. a tri...

Roisin is watching a feed coming from an operating room at st thomas�*s hospital in central london where a patient is undergoing robot—assisted surgery to remove a section of their colon thats been affected by cancer. more than 2,000 surgeries have now been conducted at the hospital using the platform, which has been developed by a company called proximie. there are four cameras in this operating room. two are giving an overview of the entire procedure from different angles. vicki is wearing...

A medical procedure, and now were facing with incredible grief and loss here as something that, according to federal officials, lindsey, comes down to mistaken identity. >> you juxtapose that with what were seeing behind you and while you were talking, we see people crossing by foot, cars behind you. this is a busy area. people are crossing to and from to go to work, maybe to run errands, see family and friends, who knows. but is there a -- a sense of heightened alarm right now where you are? >>...

The moment the three men and one woman were abducted on friday. heavily armed men dragging one person after another into the back of a pickup truck shortly after the americans entered the city of matamoros just over the border from brownsville, texas. the suspects are seen holding long guns and wearing bullet proof vests. house oversite committee chair james comer says the u.s. needs to get tougher with mexico. >> i believe we should have a military presence at the very least on the southern bor...

It was not the first time and two or three years ago she went down there as well. the family of another one of those individuals said that they had grown up together with these friends, and they described the friend group as being like glue, and he came from a very close-knit family and he and his sister were inseparable, and always right there at her knee, and the family were keeping all they could with the faith they had that everything would turn out okay in the end. the woman who was receivi...