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speaking up saying, wait a minute, we have seen him in the neighborhood, he's been here the whole time and sure enough, when police spoke with rudy, they found that he had returned home the very next day, but they say that his mother never said a thing. i want to play some of what police had to say. >> the mother, janie, continued to deceive police by remaining adamant that rudy was still missing. she alleged her nephew was the person friends and family were seeing coming and going. however we disputed that. >> reporter: and since all of this has come to light there have been concerns raised from other family members and advocates about possible abuse allegations. police say that they have not found that in their investigation, that there was any abuse, no kidnapping, anything like that. so for now, no answers about why this mother and son would have lied for all of these years. ana? >> so strange. priscilla thompson, thank you for that report. turning to the fallout after
because of potential side effects, brain bleeds, brain swelling. how comfortable should people feel taking this drug? >> let me emphasize here that almost 80% of individuals that were thought to have some degree of brain swelling, most of those cases resolved. those were identified on mris, not because of symptoms or some other diagnostic, and so, yes , there is a risk. these are serious potential consequences. they do occur in about 10% of patients. there are genetic tests that patients that might get one of these therapies should take. a certain gene might increase the risk of these side effects, but again, in most of these patients, asymptomatic even if an mri showed the presence, say, of brain swelling. something to keep in mind, something we're looking out for. >> dr. vin gupta, thank you very much for joining us. hope you have a wonderful weekend. up next on "ana cabrera reports" a houston teen believed to be missing for eight years was actually at his mother's
his mother the next day. nbc news correspondent priscilla thompson joins us now. i think a lot of people are saying, wait, what? this is just so bizarre, priscilla. break down what happened here. how did no one know where rudy was for nearly a decade? >> reporter: yeah, i'll start at the beginning. in march of 2015, rudy was 17 years old, his mother said he went out to walk their dogs and he never returned home. he effectively vanished. and for eight years police were investigating this as a missing persons case. there were volunteer groups that would go out and search for rudy and then fast-forward to last week, he was found unresponsive outside of a church. and this was hailed as a miracle that he was found after eight years of being missing, his mother released a statement saying -- thanking the public and the media for their support, saying he was recovering from his trauma. but then, neighbors began
blast are screened for traumatic brain injury, so these were identified during post attack medical screenings. >> are all the screenings complete? >> those will be ongoing as a matter of standard procedure. always the possibility there could be additional. that's where we are at right now. >> one quick thing, the white house announced russia has reached out again to north korea for some additional weapons, etc., support for the war. has the pentagon seen indication that additional military support is either preparing or moving from north korea to russia? >> we have not at this time beyond which had been previously announced, beyond the shipment that wagner group had arranged for, something we keep a close eye on. all right, go ahead and janie and then -- >> thank you, general. i have two questions.
has the pentagon seen any indication that any other additional weapons or any other military support is either preparing or moving from north korea to russia? >> we have not at this time beyond the -- which had been previously announced beyond the shipment that wagner group had previously arranged for, but it's, again, something we continue to keep a close eye on. all right. let's go ahead and go to janie and then edris. >> thank you i have two questions the senate relations committee has mentioned the review of improvement of tactical nuclear weapons in south korea what is the pentagon's position on that? >> i'm sorry, i didn't understand that. >> the u.s. senate foreign relations committee has mentioned review of lead deployment of tactical nuclear --
groups. they will do an assessment in terms of the attack, but the fact is that these irgc backed groups conducted this and unfortunately an american was killed. >> why wasn't there a contingency to shoot down the drone. >> it's a dangerous place and we'll look into the details of that. thank you. janie. >> thank you, i have two questions. announced it had conducted a nuclear underwater explosion test and said that [inaudible] to u.s. and south korea. how did the u.s. react to this? >> so i'm aware that north korea issued a press release about