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Welcome back to dateline. i'm craig melvin. kidnapped victim had been released from her jungle captivity, but what about the fate of her son and her cousin? here again is keith morrison. >> reporter: in the dark of a philippine jungle, surrounded by men with hate in their eyes, gerfa lunsmann looked, terrified, at her 14-year-old son. an approaching car had put the kidnappers on alert. and now one of them held an automatic rifle to kevin's head. >> i just said, "don't move, son" while my entire body was frozen. >> reporter: and then the car passed. and they kept walking. and several hours late...

Will never see my family again. so i looked up toward heaven. and there was this one star just blinking. i pointed at the star, this one star up in the sky. and i told them to -- if they can get that star, my husband can give them $10 million. >> reporter: gerfa knew heiko would have sent all the money they had, even as the kidnappers squeezed him by putting his terrified son on the phone. >> dad! just send the money. that's all they want. >> reporter: heiko didn't realize that the kidnappers were beating kevin as he spoke. gerfa was forced to watch. helpless, full of rage. >> he get hurt from...

>> reporter: this is gerfa's cousin. the young man who forced the kidnappers to take him so he could protect her and kevin. >> he takes the shorter place here. i would sleep here, and kevin will take the longest area of the cage because he's taller. we cannot move. we take one spot, and that's it. >> reporter: they sat in silence, forbidden to speak. they were, bit by bit, starved. fed a little rice and dried fish -- a single plate per day to share. then one night, about a week after they'd been taken hostage, the group's leader told gerfa about the price abu sayyaf had put on her head. that 1...

Month can be made by october. i talked to admiral giraud, he said 100 million and then 12 million after that. >> excellent news. sanjay, thank you very, very much. more on breaking news coming up, including very latest from louisiana where hurricane laura caused tremendous devastation and left more than three-quarters of a million people without electricity. later president trump lashes out at nba players for boycotting games but u.s. athletes have a very long history of using their star power to try to bring about social change. this is my body of proof. proof i can fight moderate to severe...