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leave you tonight on an uplifting note of how throughout these crises, some are making the best of a very bad situation. >> reporter: when that monster storm hit the buffalo area, siblings carla and corey rodriguez were on the road, trying to reach their mother in the hospital. >> next thing you know, we're in a whiteout. >> reporter: with nowhere to turn, the bright lights of a target came calling, but the store was closed. >> and i said i know i'm not buying anything. we just need shelter. >> reporter: target employees took them in, for more than 40 hours. carla passed the time making tiktok videos. ♪ feliz navidad, feliz navidad ♪ >> reporter: even sleeping in a box store and giving her followers the grand tour. but also paying it forward, at times helping others get their cars free. in texas, more spontaneous good will. flight cancellations left three college
football players from pitt stranded in dallas. >> you have to be 25 to rent a car. so we're in line at the car rental place, scrambling, trying to reserve a car. >> reporter: that's when basketball coach joel golding from a completely different school jumped in to offer the players a ride down to el paso, driving nine hours overnight so they could practice for the upcoming sun bowl. >> by the time the trip was over, i felt like we had become really a family, man. >> reporter: back in new york, corey and carla made it out of the target store and on their way home kept helping, just like those target workers helped them. >> the situation definitely just really showed that when we're going through it, the community will be there. they will be there. in everywhere that they possibly can. >> and that's "nightly news" for this tuesday. thank you so much for watching. i'm tom llamas. for all of us here at nbc news, good night.
someone, i could just ask. sara >> cyrus was always there. she was there at all was kind of amazing. a gift. >> sarah? she was a miracle child. >> the only child of mike stern and his wife carla. >> she didn't think she could have children and finally sarah came along. >> i fell in love with this kid. >> robin, carly and sam's mom, was there from the beginning. >> carly and i raised our kids together. it was amazing. >> they hang out at your place a lot? >> they did. we had a pool. sometimes ten, 12 kids just splashing around for hours and hours. and it was a good time. >> until it wasn't. in 2013 when sarah was just 15 years old, her mom, carla, died after a long struggle with cancer. >> what was it like when her mother died? >> sara was at our house that
>> on the day bowman had found out that suna had turned, birch loose team was out on the reservation with the bia with a helicopter looking for carla. they thought that they needed to bring suna that night but, it would not be so easing. >> suna was hiding, and he had shut off his phone. his phone could not be located. >> were you starting to get worried as he is not responding now? he is stopped communicating? >> absolutely starting to get worried that he is going to leave us on a wild goose chase. >> nevertheless, the next day lissa and detective bowman went up to spirit lake to connect with bergman's team, all of them counting on suna promised to take them to carla body. as you are pulling up to spirit lake, how are you feeling? >> i was in full anticipation. i just wanted to hurry up and get this over with and make
>> even though i knew, but when she told me no it was like, oh my god, i really started crying. this is something that you don't ever want to hear in your life. >> this was your first born. >> yes. >> so i did not think, i did not ever want to be true. >> in mandan, detective bowman had also spoken with suna that day. he told her he feared the men involved in carla were after him. >> he is being convinced that he is being monitored too. he is very paranoid at this point. >> bowman thought that suna could well be in danger. >> this is a monumental moment in this case, and you need help. >> i know the fbi can cover everything. they can go anywhere and so i need the fbi. >> the fbi is responsible for investigating major crimes on reservations. special agent birch lure had been in contact with bowman about carla disappearance.
every surge, has taken a toll. >> there are times that i will never get back with my family. my kids are all grown now. >> all of those sacrifices would steal her for the hardest fight of her life. the search for her own niece, carla. who made september, 2016, detective bowman was tracking down tip she had received about carlos case. >> there is a report she had been a silver car and been hanging out with tuna, dakota, and daylan. >> all three had lengthy criminal records. all three resided on the spirit lake reservation. bowman contacted tribal police. she said they never put her through to the investigator on the case, just told her they talked with tuna and told her she had not seen cara. if bowman wanted to interview carla herself, since she had no
everybody does feel. i do my best to make sure that this does not happen to anybody else. >> carla represent so many other women. >> she does. but >> are you going to keep fighting, surging? >> for sure. the most evidently. i do not want another family to feel like how we felt. what. >> that is all for this edition of dateline. why am craig melvin, thank you for watching. for watching good evening once again, i am
sure it was her. >> but suna was not there. fbi agents eventually found him at a relative's house. suna got into an fbi vehicle and they drove a few miles down the road. this is where suna led you to? >> this is the spot. >> an isolated field on the reservation. >> it was surreal, i think, at this moment. we've got three or four or five law enforcement vehicles out. here suna gets out of the car, we are all walking. it is anticipation has built up to this moment. we are right around this area and we kind of stop, and then suna just points and says it is going to be over there. where the pushes are. as we walk a little bit further, once we get to a certain point in time, we can see some of carla clothes. >> you can see the body from? here >> we probably walked up a little bit further and then we could see some of those bright colored clothes. >> so you knew you'd founder?
>> you did not feel like they were doing enough? >> they were not doing anything to begin with. . that is kind of how they operate. >> the bia told us that in carla's case, they assisted the fbi with search efforts on foot, and with helicopters, drones, and atvs. but lissa it is not counting on bia the to find carla. i suna was still her biggest lead, but she had hung up from. >> did you think that you are never going to hear from him again? >> no. >> turns out, she was right. >> hello, lissa? >> he called you back? >> he did. >> the power dynamic had shifted. suna was seeking her out, seemed to want to tell her something. >> lissa kept the pressure on, she needed suna to feel guilty. >> so were you betting on his conscience that eventually he