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milk carton he vanished in 1979. in 2001 declared legally dead, remains never found. tonight, though, just blocks away from his home in manhattan's soho district, police and fbi agents believe they're on to something. susan candiotti is there for us. what do you know? >> reporter: law enforcement sources tell me that they came here based on new and old information that led them to a man. a man who is now in his mid-70s. but at the satime he was a car carpenter and and befriended the boy and given him a dollar. we don't know the circumstances how this came about, in fact this informat...

areished in 1979. in 2001 declared legally dead, remains never found. tonight, though, just blocks away from his home in manhattan's soho district, police and fbi agents believe they're on to something. susan candiotti is there for us. she has the latest breaking developments. i understand you have something that tells us what led officials to that building. what do you know? >> reporter: law enforcement sources tell me that they came here based on new and old information that led them to a man, a man who is now in his mid-70s. but at the time he was a carpenter and and part-time han...

away from his home in manhattan's soho district, police and fbi agents believe they're on to something. susan candiotti is there for us. what do you know? >> reporter: law enforcement sources tell me that they came here based on new and old information that led them to a man. a man who is now in his mid-70s. but at the time he was a carpenter and and befriended the boy and given him a dollar. we don't know the circumstances how this came about, in fact this led authorize into a basement picking up a human scent, bringing in a team of investigators certaining the searching the basemen...

dead. his remains never found. tonight, though, just blocks away from his home in manhattan's sojo district, police and fbi agents believe they're on to something. susan canned yacht okand yaucan developments. you have some information on what led investigators to that building. what do you know? >> reporter: law enforcement sources tell me they came here based on new and old information that led them to a man, a man who is now in his mid-70s. but at the time he was a carpenter and part-time handyman. i'm told that he had contact with this little boy in his basement, had befriended h...

The state of maryland first went to washington back in 1976, before i was born. there were just 19 women in congress then. today, though, 74 women in the house and count another 17 in the senate. >> i was 1. all of 1, and probably out of diapers that year. >> hopefully, maybe. you developed quickly. the mississippi valley is getting pounded by severe storms that have already triggered widespread flooding from oklahoma to louisiana for many areas where the rain and wild weather have stopped. the nightmare is far from over. we get more from abc's jim ryan. >> the walls were vibrating and all o...