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Ended their week long nightmare. >> and really the thousands of other people who have said the prayers and went out to try to help find the grandchildren. we are very appreciative of that. >> reporter: the day after the hakkens lost their parental rights in connection with the fathers arrest and erratic behavior in 2012 deputies say joshua hakken broke in the home. patricia hauser called for help. >> my son-in-law just kidnapped my two chagrandchildren. >> reporter: investigators learned joshua ...

>> patrick is in havana, cuba. you approached this couple, you spoke to them. what did they say? >> they didnt act like fugitives on the run. they were in this marina, there were boats from around the world, including some from the united states and the son was playing on the top deck. and i wouldnt have thought it was them, but of course, you recognize the boat from the police photographs. and i went up to josh and immediately confirmed who he was. and thats when i knew that cnn had, in fact, t...

Marina. i didnt see unusual presence of security. it seemed like a beautiful day. lots of boats including boats from the united states. and then we get to the last slip and sure enough we see the name there "salty" i see the paw print on the side. i see a boy playing on the top deck. and a man with a large beard comes out. i say are you josh. he says yes who are you. i say i am from cnn. he gets angry and goes into the boat. and then cuban security comes out of the bushes mptd they immediately s...

Charges. rnlg turning to texas, a teenager is lucky to be alive after his car plunged off the top deck of a five story parking garage. the teen was racing another car whether he drove off and that he would likely have been killed if he was not wearing a seat belt. now back to florida where a robbery suspect head butted a police officer as being handcuffed. the man was immediately pushed to the ground, had his ankled tied and lifted into the back of a police cruiser. in california, this one i...

Getting off the ship just excited and hugging. what are you seeing now? >> were seeing more people boarding buses and walking off the ship. and im still here with julie and her family. she gets reaqainlted with her son. and julia, i want to ask you as we continue our discussion the air looked like theyd set up a tent city on the top deck. what is that? >> just sheds tide together. i dont know how they found the equipment. they turned chairs upside down. and theyd make a city around each group. >...

His final act. rob, diana? a showdown in the senate today over chuck hagels nomination as the defense secretary. democrats are going to force a vote on the nomination, rejecting demands for more information on hagels finances. hagel got an important vote of confidence when john mccain said he was leaning towards confirmation. that carnival cruise ship thats stranded in the gulf of mexico is being pulled to mobile, alabama instead of mexico. its been dead in the water since sunday when a fire...

Me. i got up and started calling across where i could determine the crisis for help were coming from, and i would yell where are you? where are you? ill come. ill get you. keep yelling. and all the yelling that took place and screaming was somebody please help me. help me. the cries for help were very, very haunting, and very serious. i stayed up on the top deck and my fiance at the time went down stairs to call harbor patrol. they never answered the phone, so in desperation, he called avalon wh...

Me. i got up and started calling across where i could determine the crisis for help were coming from, and i would yell where are you? where are you? ill come. ill get you. keep yelling. and all the yelling that took place and screaming was somebody please help me. help me. the cries for help were very, very haunting, and very serious. i stayed up on the top deck and my fiance at the time went down stairs to call harbor patrol. they never answered the phone, so in desperation, he called avalon wh...

do believe right now is him but they are waiting for fingerprint tests to come back and confirm it. this man himself says he is the suspect. he says he is luca magnata. he was caught in an internet cafe and there were reports that they had seen activity on his account. he still had his own personal mobile phone. they figured this gi sooner or later would give himself up in a sense. because he want doing a good job of trying to cover his tracks. >> lets bring viewers back it last week w...

Night. the heat is unbearable. and so we had to spend most of our nights on the top deck of the ship. >> the costa allegra, the sister ship to the costa concordia, not a good few months for costa. you remember that ship capsized off the coast of italy last month. 32 people died. here we go again, another green energy company touted by president obama laying off workers. heres what the president said about abound energy in 2010. >> the second company is abound solar manufacturing which will manuf...