i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >>> i'm krig craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." she's the little girl who won the heart of the big city. >> they call you the miracle baby. why do they call you that? >> shot in the head at point blank range, a crime scene that shocked even hardened police. >> dora the explorer pillow, and it had blood on it. >> as she fought to live, this detective vowed to catch whoever left her to die. soon, he turned up a promising lead. >> bells and whistles go off in my head. >> in the hospital she battled back. >> to know that she had survived was a pretty powerful moment. >> not just her body, but her mind. >> they would come in the daycare and erica would say don't let them hurt me. >> she handed investigators what could be a vital clue, but would it be enough to crack the case? against all odds. >>> hello and welcome to "dateline." i'm craig melvin. it all started with a crime that not even police could believe. the girl, just a toddl

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. r. >>> i'm craig melvin. >> i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." >>> the first time i saw her, i thought she was beautiful. we just loved being together. we were always together. our kitchen back door was opened, and the glass was broken. >> my wife! oh my god! >> it was him who found her. >> i just didn't know how to handle it. i wish i could have been there to protect her. >> a wife murdered. and later a husband under suspicion. >> he was such a nice guy. you would have never have guessed that he would have done something like that. >> you think he faked that burglary and killed his wife? >> yes. >> he wanted the house. he wanted her money. and if he divorced her, he lost everything. >> in court, a stunning verdict. >> this cannot be happening. i did not kill my wife. >> but more stunning still was what came after. a mysterious witness with a secret. >> this is a woman who essentially says, i saw the murderer. and it wasn't tom foley. >> would her

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >>> i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." >>> she told archie she was dating this man. if he didn't like it, he could leave. >> he had been stabbed multiple times. nobody saw anything. >> i went, dad. and i touched him. i will never forget that feeling. >> it was just before dawn when he found his father dead in the driveway. >> there was no doubt in my mind what happened. i immediately knew. >> there was someone else who may have known too. >> i turned around and looked at my mom. i go, you know who did this. that son of a [ bleep ]. >> but there was one thing no one could know. the strange twist still to come. >> it was a bit of a surprise. kind of a shock when you found out she was seeing him again. >> yes. >> a lover's triangle always leads to trouble. >> how could you do such a horrible thing? you've destroyed me. >> did this one lead to murder? >> what was it like watching him walk out of jail? >> he beat the system. ♪

i'm craig melvin. >>> i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." >> i can't believe that your baby's lying there lifeless. >> she was everything to me. she was so sweet to everybody. >> the state troopers said bonnie had died in a hiking accident. >> they said she fell off a cliff. her mother said they were wrong. >> i'm screaming to them, these are defensive wounds. >> no witnesses, no weapon, nothing left behind but a stranger's dna. >> we no longer have some accidental death. this was a homicide. >> they had no suspect, but for years her mother kept fighting to find bonnie's killer. >> bonnie's mother continues her own crusade. >> then after more than a decade of searching, a phone call. >> they just got information there was a match. >> can we get a conviction on just the dna? >> and there was something else, something about bonnie herself. >> it was almost like she knew something. >> hello and welcome to "dateline." we often see headlines about dna evidence exoneratin

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watch iing. eye. >>> i'm craig melvin. >> i'm natalie morales. >> this is "dateline." >>> it was a small new year's eve party. we took off and then shortly after saw the police car. my gut was telling my feet to run back to that house. this can't be happening. >> when the party ended, the mystery began. >> it was just crazy. i didn't understand what was happening and why. >> his wife, the hostess, had seemed fine all night. then -- >> heap me

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >>> i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is dateline. >> my heart breaks for this mother. people don't randomly disappear. >> she was a design original. christina, the fashionista. it was news nationwide when she vanished. >> see went out for drinks with friends and never came home. >> we realized this was real. >> who was the last to see her? >> she wept away. that's all i can tell you. >> and where was her exmodel boyfriend? someone had something to hide. >> he thought he was getting away with it. >> she was fighting for her life. >> all i can do is pray with all that i have. tell me what happened that night. >>> welcome to dateline. 23-year-old christina morris had vanished without a trace. with no clues and only blurry security video to go on, could the clue investigators had needed really be scribbled on a trash post-it note? >> reporter: christina morris was afraid of the dark. >> up through even, like, you know, grade school. you kno

and i'm craig melvin. and this is dateline on mynetworktv. omach, i just knew mething's not right here. i just felt something bad had happened. must have been so, so scared. craig melvin: they were so happy at first. michelle hopkins: kevin just fell in love with her. morgan was very, very charming. craig melvin: but when the marria went bad, he went miing. he just disappeared. craig melvin: was this a husband who didn't wanto be found? was this a wife who hasomething to hide? chris:hey're getting in the truck. they're leaving. craig melvin: at had happened behind closed doors. she laughed and said, no, ere's no affair.

i'm craig melvin. it seemed like an idyllic small-town life. brad and lisa jennings had been married nearly two decades and ran the farm that had been in the family for more than a century and a half. there were movie nights with the kids, family vacations. but there were also late-night arguments. so what happened on that tragic evening in the jennings home? here's keith morrison. >> reporter: it was his secret that started it, a secret gift. it was christmas eve in the year 2006. a little farm not far from a little town called buffalo. buffalo, missouri. and on that farm in the fine, new house brad and lisa jennings had built for their family, the stockings were hung. the children were snug in their beds. and lisa was sitting up very late, drinking wine and crying. meaning? well, who knew. but for one thing, with lisa in the way, brad couldn't sneak that secret of his into her stocking, which is what started it, the flaring argument, the slamming doors, the sudden silence. before amanda woke up to the sound of her dad on 911. >> and he's very

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >>> i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie moralis. >> and this is "dateline." all of a sudden i realized, what's going on? why are they late? something definitely was wrong. he said, your family was in an accident. and my whole world just dropped out from underneath me. >> the scene told the story. >> what did you find? >> something i don't want to see again. >> a deadly crash on a dark road. two gone, one barely alive. a tragic accident. but look closer. in all of the broken glass and twisted metal, was there a clue to a crime? >> the last thing i wanted was to have to take a double fatality and now treat it as a homicide. >> murder. an accusation no one saw coming. >> i couldn't deal with it. >> two families in torment. >> we were both just, ugh. >> a small-town trial with big emotions. >> you took him. you did it. >> and a verdict -- >> we the jury -- >> -- that would shake them all. >>> hello and welcome to "dateline." a dangerous highway in big sky country.

i'm craig melvin. thank you very much. melvin thank you very much. [ music playing ] >>> one of the investigators brought someone over to me saying this is our violent crime advocate. i was stilling mafl for it already because of the massive police presence. they said that they believed that he had been murdered. >> craig rideout, dad of seven, cared deeply about his kids. >> he was a loving man, provider, warm. >> so it was puzzling and alarming when he vanished. >> she said, craig is not here. i said, that's weird. >> i didn't know what was happening. >> i know something is wrong. i don't know how wrong. >> a disturbing discovery in the basement. >> one particle is found on the wall. >> it appeared to be some sort of ambush. >> something about his wife. >> craig didn't want to believe there was a romantic relationship between them. it became painfully obvious there was. >> in the park two young men acting strangely. >> they identified alexander rideout. >> the victim's two sons? >> the victim's two s

i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is dateline. >> her name is pepper. >> i lived a secret life. >> she was kidnapped at age 4. >> we got in the car, and we never went back. >> she spent decades trying to find her way home again, and she finally made it. or so she thought. >> i said, i think i'm rhonda christie, or do you know rhonda patricia christie. and then there was a long pause. >> pepper's story had many ups and downs. >> when i looked at the e-mail, i just couldn't even believe it. >> but after so many tears, so many years, and so many turns in her story -- >> i was like, whoa. >> -- there are still more stunning twists to be revealed. >> that's amazing. it's the best gift ever. >> welcome to dateline. a 4-year-old girl was abducted and raised by her kidnapper. for the next four decades, she searched for her family, her name and herself. her story has an extraordinary ending and, as it turns out, that ending was just the beginning. here is keith morrison. >> our story beg

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. ng >>> i'm craig melvin. >> i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." >>> she had missed a meeting and then not to hear from her, this isn't right. it would have been impossible to get up every day knowing that she was gone. i had to believe we would find her alive. >> text her, she always got right back. >> i've seen her step out of the shower to answer her phone. >> then one day she didn't. >> immediately my spidey senses were high. >> where was nailah? >> i sent her an e-mail all caps, "are you alive?" >> there was no sign of her. and such a confusing trail of clues, even the calls to 911 were silent. >> no voice, no struggles could be heard. >> this could be kind of eerie. >> yes, it is. >> in my heart, i knew she's not coming back. >> one of the suspects had an alibi, until a camera caught him in a lie. >> he lived a life of a lot of smoke and mirrors. >> and the strangest clue of all. there in an empty parking lot. >> six perfectly stacked cardboard boxes. >> why were they

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watch iing. eye. >>> i'm craig melvin. >> i'm natalie morales. >> this is "dateline." >>> it was a small new year's eve party. we took off and then shortly after saw the police car. my gut was telling my feet to run back to that house. this can't be happening. >> when the party ended, the mystery began. >> it was just crazy. i didn't understand what was happening and why. >> his wife, the hostess, had seemed fine all night. then -- >> heap me please, prepare help me. >> her death ruled a suicide. not everyone agreed. >> i always was agreed he would hurt her. always. always. >> did a fight that night lead to something much worse. >> i knew that ashley wouldn't take her own life. >> a troubled woman or a troubled marriage. >> that wound on the back of her head isn't where she could do it herself, tom. >> oh, [ bleep ]. >> suicide or murder? >> i didn't do this. >> i just knew that my whole world is never going to be the same again ever. >>> hello and welcome to "dateline."

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. g melvin thank you for watching >>> i have a lot of guilt still in me. it makes me sick how i could do something like that. i am the responsible one. >> a working mom, new at the office. she loved her job and really loved her handsome young boss. >> the thing that i never wanted to face was the hurt that i was going to cause. >> a passionate non-confined affair. the problem, she was married and so was he. >> i grabbed his face. i was like, you know what, i love you, i am not going anywhere. just tell me what happened? >> scheming husbands, unfaithful wives, suburbs are full of secrets but being unfaithful to your spouse isn't criminal. is it? that would come next. >> oh my god! >> it was like everything rush possible in one second. >> i went, oh my god. >> murder in the dark. who was behind it and who would pay? >> when you see him on the video, he's armed and ready. >> two families and this single moment that shattered it all. >> i knew one day that this was all going to come out. >>

i'm craig melvin. >>> i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." >> i can't believe that your baby's lying there lifeless. >> she was everything to me. she was so sweet to everybody. >> the state troopers said bonnie had died in a hiking accident. >> they said she fell off a cliff. her mother said they were wrong. >> i'm screaming to them, these are defensive wounds. >> no witnesses, no weapon, nothing left behind but a stranger's dna. >> we no longer have some accidental death. this was a homicide. >> they had no suspect, but for

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >>> i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie moralis. >> and this is "dateline." >>> he said, "nicole has gone missing." we are frantic.ss calling, all her friends are calling. you think that that sort of thing happens to other people. it's the most frightening thing in the world. t >> a young wife.or >> she always saw the good in ng people. >> she had a way to make you smile. >> missing for nine days.ad >> it's so wrong, and nicole isg somewhere where she shouldn't be. >> it was hard enough when they didn't know. much worse when they did. >> it came over the tv that a body had been found. i'll never forget that, as longe as i live. >> one mystery solved. another just beginning.ju what had happened to nicole? >> this could go down any number of paths. >> and it did. >> had her troubled past finally caught up with her?t >> i saw the pill bottle and i freaked out. >> or was it something much darker? >> he told me that he would put it in her red bull. >> how did she c

craig melvin: did someone have it all wrong?

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >>> i'm craig melvin. >>> and i'm natalie moralis. >> and this is "dateline." >> she was crying and crying. >> i said, what's wrong? >> she said, gabby's dead. we all wanted to believe it was an accident. there's no possible way he could do this on purpose. >> a dark house, a husband with a gun. a wife dead on the floor. >> make sure that she is still breathing. >> oh, i don't think she is, dam it. >> there was no question who killed her. the mystery was why. >> i hear the door squeaking and i hear a grumbling and i hear the dog growling. >> how could you not tell it was your wife? >> he kept saying it was an accident, he didn't do anything wrong. >> others disagree. >> we never for a second didn't know who that was standing in front of him. >> was it a tragic mistake? >> he was broken. >> or cold blooded murder. >> the emotions are only done in front of the detective. they're not done when he's alone. >> a room too dark to see or a story too hard to believe. >

i'm craig melvin. investigators deny they framed steven avery for the murder of teresa halbach. after all, his nephew, brendan, confessed. but did he tell detectives the truth or what he thought they wanted to hear? here with more of our story is andrea canning. >> all the renewed attention in the steven avery saga has shed light on the other defendant in the case -- brendan dassey. the teenager had been convicted of rape and murder, but to his family, none of it ever made any sense. is brendan someone capable of rape? >> no. no. i don't even think he knew what that was at the time. >> in 2008, attorneys took up dassey's case for his appeal. they saw a mentally challenged teen with a low i.q. >> how do you spell garage? >> g-a-r-a-g-e. >> what did you think of brendan dassey when you were able to meet him in person? >> brendan is a simple soul. i was struck by his humanity. this is not somebody i could see committing a crime like this. >> that's the psychological power of interrogation. >> the two atto

i'm craig melvin. investigators believed craig was being hunted. he received a phone call from a stranger who offered to turn over potentially damaging information but instead led greg into ab ambush. scouring the scene, police did not find the gunman but they did track down a promising clue, one that was about to lead deterkt tifs to a startling conclusion. >>> greg mullvahill had been shot and barely survived. someone had lured him to the scene and now people gathered around sargeant darby ernst security screen to see who bought the burner. >> who was it? >> it was diana loafjoy. >> diana lovejoy. his soon to be ex-wife. >> is this a smoking gun, getting this photo of diana lovejoy? >> it points us in a direction. there's a lot more to be done. >> sargeant ernst team searches for more. >> police had enough to arrest diana and bring her in for questioning. at first she denied any involvement in the shooting. >> what is her alibi? >> that she was at home all night long. she never went out. >> police realized she might be telling the truth about tha

i'm craig melvin. >> i'm natalie moralis. >> and this is "dateline." >> here is the person i love. he's dying. >> her husband, a decorated military officer, shot in the dark of night. >> it was an execution. >> was this some sort of hit? >> he was in special forces. there must have been something at work. >> that's what police thought too. until they learned about the secret life of this husband and wife. >> they would meet couples on the internet. >> was there a forbidden affair? >> they were probably meeting for sex about four times a week. >> and did it lead to murder? >> she is absolutely cold-blooded. >> soon, there would be questions for a mother and daughter. >> it was another shock. >>> welcome to "dateline." when a respected military officer was attacked in the middle of the night, police launched an investigation that would reveal eyebrow raising secrets that might hold a key to murder. here is keith morrison. >> the wind in the northern prairie sweeps across a vast flatland. grave markers ar

i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline". ♪ >>> one woman, two men. her husband, the air force captain, and the staff sergeant, her rendesvous man. >> he was a playboy himself. >> announcer: one man too many. then suddenly there was one man less. >> it wasn't like bang, bang, bang. it was bang, pause, bang, pause. >> which sounds like what, excuse? >> you could take it that way, yes. >> announcer: a cold-blooded killing but who pulled the trigger? did jealousy drive someone to murder or did she? >> michelle theer was a brilliant, coming, ruthless woman. ♪ >> announcer: hello. welcome to "dateline". the story you're about to see centers on a death of a military man thousands of miles from a battlefield. a dedicated officer who survived war zones only to be caught in the cross fire of a lover's triangle. here is keith morrison. ♪ >> reporter: what was she thinking when she went to the computer, when she typed in those five little words? did she not understand where th

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. m craig n thank you fo thank you for watching.r watchig >>> all the thing that are coming out about this case are just mind-boggling. >> a young wife dead but it didn't stop there. >> he shot me. >> what in the world was going on? >> that's what i wanted to know. >> his wife is brutally beaten. did he hire somebody? we just don't know. >> her husband had an alibi and something else, a lover.

i'm craig melvin. >> i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." >>> she was there. >> she'd walk into the room and kind of brightened. >> and then she wasn't. >> my initial reaction was what has happened? oh, my god. >> the mother they adored missing. in her place, a trail of blood. >> my biggest fear was that we were going to find her. >> what police found instead was a puzzle. >> in my 28 years, i have never seen that before. >> a missing woman. a mystery with few clues. >> did you find any fingerprints? >> no >> hairs, anything? >> no. >> but did one man have a motive? >> you stole $300,000 and are about to be exposed of it. >> excellent without proof, how could anyone convince a jury? >> you don't think they had any evidence against you? >> can anybody name anything? >> can anyone solve the mystery gentleman >> we, the jury, find the defendant, david martin hawk -- >>> he will low little low and welcome to "dateline." the three children discovered their moir was missing but for them the truth

i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." >>> three people come to me wearing suits, and one of them tells me that he hadn't made it. and i was like, no, he did. just go check. they come back and tell me, mrs. hall, your husband didn't make it. >> two women racing down a texas highway. >> she saw me, and then made the u-turn.he >> bonnie, the mistress, in one lane. >> i looked in my rearview mirror, and it was frances. >> frances, the wife, in the other. >> i get her little finger. >> the middle finger? >> right. >> i start following her. >> i said, what the hell? >> she brakes.ol and i brake. and i heard a thump. >> he's pronounced dead at the hospital. >> two women in love with one man, hating each other. i >> you're getting text messages from bonnie of the two of them having sex? >> uh-huh. >> a hollywood love story? >> this was the man i wanted to marry.th >> or, a fatal attraction? >> he goes, i can't get rid of this person. >> and so many about to lose so much. >> w

i'm craig melvin. her children received the news they dreaded. their mother's body was found 100 miles from her home. it was a tragic blow. but came with the potential for answers. detectives went looking for clues. and that's what they would find. a downtown street in san diego in july 2004, dee dee keller had finally been found, dead in the trunk of her silver mercedes. the car had been the subject of a massive search ever since dee dee had been discovered missing a week earlier from her home two hours north in l.a. homicide detective jimmy gates, who had always thought finding the car would be the key for finding dee dee. now gave the mercedes a thorough going over. fingerprints or dna in the car? >> there wasn't one fingerprint either on or in that car or was there any partial print. nothing. >> reporter: dee dee's or anybody else? >> nobody. >> reporter: so what does that say professional? >> well, someone went to great lengths to make damn sure they were not identified by fingerprints, that's for

i'm craig melvin. karen penel was the youngest in her family, the only girl, sharing a house with five ram burning rambunctious boys. she was smart as she was beautiful. then karen was found murdered in her florida home. a coded message scrawled above her head that baffled investigators. it with take a dogged forensic specialist with a keen eye to crack the code and unravel the mystery. here's dennis murphy. >> if year round sun and water is your thing, florida's west coast should be high on your check-out list of places to live. it was for pretty karen panel. once the one-time months he will and flight attendant got sand in her shoes, she never looked back. >> she loved the beach, diving, boating, wildlife. i just remember jumping on the boat and going to these little islands and having picnics and coming back at sunset and it was just so much fun. >> good friend kathryn worked the counter at american airlines in tampa with karen. if you were a frazzled passenger -- and who isn't these days -- karen w

i'm craig melvin. >> andite natalie moralis. >> and this is "dateline." >> i learned that he was arrested. i was shocked. i was just so confused. i didn't think it was real. i didn't think it was possible. >> in the rarefied world of the ivy league, he was the package. star student, gifted athlete, wildly popular. >> he is one of the nicest guys ever. >> no one could understand how a weekend visit to his parents' house ended in gunfire. >> who's already dead? >> charlie told the officers outside he was going to kill my mom. i had to do it. >> yes. >> a brave son protecting his mom, a harrowing story, but was it true? >> he's seated behind the desk, the father. >> defenseless, really. >> this seems to be an execution. >> was this campus hero actually a cold-hearted killer? >> the defendant sends an email to his fraternity brothers called "showtime." >> one of the things always in question was, was charlie covering up for someone else. >> a trial where nothing went by the book. >> three of the jurors wer

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crime craig melvin. larry beaumont was a relentless federal prosecutor who had just sent a smooth-talking drug dealer named jimmy keene to prison for ten years. now beaumont was working another case, trying to get incriminating evidence against a man he believed to be a very dangerous criminal. so what did jimmy keene have to do with that investigation? that's what jimmy wanted to know. here's lester holt. >> two enemies who didn't trust each other faced off across a table. one of them in handcuffs was a clever con named jimmy keene. the other a hard-charging prosecutor. >> in court he called me the john gotti of kankakee. >> the prisoner was worried sick. the prosecutor that convicted keene and put him behind bars suddenly wanted to talk, a top secret meeting, no less. what more could he do to jimmy? >> he was the last person i expected to hear from. he was my biggest fear. >> but keene's fears went off the chart when the prosecutor slid an accordion file in his direction. on top was a grisly photo of a

craig melvin: that's all for this edition of "dateline." i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. [music playing] >>> good morning and welcome to "street signs. were live from davos i'm joumanna bercetche >> i'm with you from london. these are your headlines. >> european stocks see red as the coronavirus outbreak worsens. authorities are acting fast. >> we have international cooperation and transparency on what is going on in china. china is dealing with it and the countrys that had a case in their countries are dealing with it in a proper way >> u.s. president trump takes the fight to davos steven mnuchin shares that he will go ahead with tariffs >> our motto is to identify multilevel solutions we prefer to work with the solutions i think europe has to be as such together. >> certainty is better for the markets saying he is optimistic for the trade talks. >> christine lagarde is posed to post the first review in years and talking about the fine line between monetary and fiscal policy >> politicians were in charge of central banks or a world where it sometimes has to shut up even

craig melvin: that's all for this edition of "dateline." i'm craig melvin. thanks for watching. >>> welcome to "street signs." i'm willem marxs >> and i'm julianna tatelbaum. these are your headlines >> the stoxx 600 hits a height after president trump says he will not stand down. >> stocks on track for the worse day in two years as a fall at home compounds a tough christmas trading period >> european ally stocks flying high departure time for aig standing down after more than a decade at the top. >> china confirms the vice premier will travel to the u.s. to engage the preliminary trade deal as washington and beijing coordinate closely over the arrangements for the signing ceremony >> welcome to the program, president trump says tensions between iran and the u.s. are easing and are standing down after it launched multiple missiles against the target and reiterated the demand other world powers should abandon the nuclear deal with iran it's worth looking at how and where looking at the map of the region here, of course, you've seen the location for these atta

craig melvin: that's all for this edition of "dateline". i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. "street signs. we are live from davos i'm joumanna bercetche >> i'm with you in london. these are your headlines >> cnbc speaks to donald trump >> the world health organization prepares to hold an emergency meeting on the outbreak of the coronavirus after the first victim has died. >> we are the number one pharmaceutical company it matters to us we care a lot and we monitor this it really looks that it is contained for the time being >> barclay's ceo says the effectiveness of monetary policy is losing its grip >> it makes it harder to sail into the head winds of our lower interest rates at some point they have to look into the health. discussing the future of the markets featuring the treasury steven mnuchin, uk chancellor and axel weber >> also today, we speak to renault chairman at 10:15 cet. >> good morning, welcome to "street signs. we are live from the world econom economic forum in davos. president trump lauded the u.s. economy. make sure to stay tuned to our u.s. colleague joe

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. it is monday, january 6th, i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian. lots of headlines to get through today. we begin with president trump's latest threats against iran, warning against retaliation for the assassination of its top general cass sem soleimani. while on saturday the president tweeted, quote, let this serve as a warning that if iran strikes any americans or american assets, we have targeted 52 iranian sites representing the 52 american hostages taken by iran many years ago. now, some at the very high level of government and important to tehran and the iranian

that's all for this edition of "dateline," i'm craig melvin, thank you for watching. thank you for watching >>> breaking overnight, the stunning admission from iran on what really caused a plane full of western tourists to come crashing down in a ball of flames. >> i can reveal that i believe it would have been four embassies. >> and this morning, the president says four embassies were under threat from iran but reporting today suggests otherwise. >>> danger on the high seas, new details on the different stories emerging after a russian spy ship nearly sideswipes a u.s. destroyer. >>> shocking poll, a big change in who's leading iowa days before the c

craig melvin at msnbc headquarters in new york city. right now we're 26 hours away from the start of president trump's impeachment trial on the hill. we're looking the senator mitch mcconnell to give us a better idea of how the trial will actually work. that could happen very soon. meanwhile, right now at the white house the president's legal team has less than an hour to lay out their case in a new brief. plus, my exclusive interview with 2020 candidate mike bloomberg. i asked about his pitch to black voters, why he jumped into such a crowded race when he did and why it seems like getting the president out of office has become so personal for him. also right now, massive protest s starting this minute in virginia. this is the scene in richmond. they put white nationalists, militia groups and supporters of background checks in gun purchases all in one place. a lot of folks, and justifiably so, are worrying about a repeat of charlottesville in 2017. we start with big unanswered questions about the third presidential impeachment trial in

i'm craig melvin. leon jacob's obsession with meghan verikas had escalated from stalking to something potentially lethal. after a tip that leon was in the market for a hit man, police set up a sting and caught the doctor and his new girlfriend on tape, apparently plotting to have both of their exes killed. but the meeting did not provide enough proof to arrest the pair. so investigators hatched another plan. here again is andrea canning. >> reporter: after some anxious days in pittsburgh, meghan verikas got a call from investigators to come back to houston. soon after she arrived, they called again with a surprise. >> they said we're outside. we need you to get in the car with us. >> this is like out of a movie. >> it is. they take me so some lot that looks like a junkyard kind of. there's cars with bullet holes in them. >> reporter: just then, another car pulled up, and a man got out. meghan recognized valerie's ex-husband, mack, and learned he too was the target of a hit. >> he just hugged me, and he

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craig melvin here in new york city. it is another historic day there in the nation's capital. we are watching the senate floor there. that is senator cindy hyde smith of mississippi. senators tackling the biggest question they may face in their time in the upper chamber, whether to remove a sitting president from office. but before at the get there, any minute now they're going to start voting on a trade deal as well. also any minute as kasie just mentioned there, house speaker nancy pelosi is expected to take to the podium there and speak to reporters any moment. we're listening for when she starts to talk about impeachment. also breaking in the last hour, a major announcement about the trump administration's decision to hold back that congressionally approved aid money for ukraine. the aid money at the center of the impeachment investigation. the nonpartisan government accountability office now says the trump administration broke the law. this hour i'll talk to senator chris van hollen, the man who asked for that review of the decision in the first place. and at this critica

i'm craig melvin. >> i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." >>> he had deeper feelings for me than just friends. he managed to get me to care about him. he had my whole life wrapped up. >> she's at the center of a riveting courtroom drama. the wife whose entrepreneur husband was found murdered one cold autumn morning. >> our whole family has lost its brightest light, and we don't know why. >> he's the one accused of the crime. so why is she under the microscope? >> she's gotten caught in the middle of this crossfire, and it's really unfortunate. it goes against everything i know about andrea. >> was she cheating with her executive boss? >> "be with me forever." would that be normal communication between your boss and you? >> scheming widow or suffering victim? >> who kills someone else's husband? there was no affair. >>> hello and welcome to "dateline." he was a young entrepreneur who wanted to change the world, but someone wanted him dead. at first no one knew what to make of this case, but a

craig melvin here in new york city. it is another historic day there in the nation's capital. we are watching the senate floor there. that is senator cindy hyde smith of mississippi. senators tackling the biggest question they may face in their time in the upper chamber, whether to remove a sitting president from office. but before at the get there, any minute now they're going to start voting on a trade deal as well. also any minute as kasie just mentioned there, house speaker nancy pelosi is expected to take to the podium there and speak to reporters any moment. we're listening for when she starts to talk about impeachment. also breaking in the last hour, a major announcement about the trump administration's decision to hold back that

craig melvin is picking up the ball and running with it in new york. >> good to see you, hallie jackson. >> new york city in the last hour as you saw and heard there, secretary of state mike pompeo talking about the escalating showdown with iran. pompeo defending the administration's actions in iraq, says they got it right. >> the right decision, we got it right. the department of defense did excellent work and the president had an entire legal, appropriate and a basis as well as a decision that fit perfectly within our strategy and how to counter the threat, a malign activity from iran more broadly. >> all of it threatening to overshadow how congress moves forward with impeachment and scramble the conversation on capitol hill. let's get right to nbc's kristen welker, richard engel is in northern iraq for us and courtney covers national security on the pentagon. kristen, what is the administration's message at this hour? what's your headline from secretary of state pompeo there? >> reporter: well, secretary of state mike pompeo continues to insist that this was the right move. you didn'

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >>> she was just so beautiful. >> they'd found each other, and their own tropical island. >> we saw the lump in the water and said that's it. that will be our spot for the rest of our lives. >> she said it's like living in a postcard. >> a picture perfect life. until she disappeared. >> imagine you were calling. leaving messages. >> calling, texting, and we started wondering. >> why should she just leave? >> i called her best friend and said did she meet somebody? does she have a man that i don't know about? is something going on? >> where would she go? >> she wasn't selling it. she loved it. >> and why did someone new now own her slice of paradise. >> i was convinced this guy killed these people and stole their property. >> and he was getting away with it. >> he was literally getting away with murder. >>> t a dream that seems so out of reach. quit the rat race, move to an exotic land and buy your own private island. >> even when she was young, she wanted to se

. >>> i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." >>> three people come to me wearing suits, and one of them tells me that he hadn't made it. and i was like, no, he did. just go check. they come back and tell me, mrs. hall, your husband didn't make it. >> two women racing down a texas highway. >> she saw me, and then made the u-turn.he >> bonnie, the mistress, in one lane. >> i looked in my rearview mirror, and it was frances.

i'm craig melvin. thanks for watching. [theme music] >>> strong orders help the chip supplier beat the fourth quarter sales estimates. >>> out with a bang. kicking off earnings season with a bang investors turn their focus from results from bank of america and goldman sach due out later today. >> economic and political polarization the largest short-term concerns. >> the two highest ranking risk for short-term increases in 2020 are in the geopolitical sphere one is economic confrontation and the other is expanding domestic political partnership >> just to bring you some gdp data from determine any, the economy there for 2019 has grown 0.6% that's the weakest sings back in 2013 in 2018, that was 1.5% the public sector budget surplus was 1.5% of gdp. that's fall evan significantly from the 2018 number which was 1.9% the forecast in line, 0.6% was the forecast those are numbers from the german office. this is all about export economy here in germany. we are seeing trade war overall economic slow down challenges when it comes

." >>> i'm craig melvin. >> i'm natalie morales. >> this is "dateline." >> he married the woman of his dreams, beautiful and sweet. >> she was just angelic. >> and was folded into her tight-knit family headed by an elderly religious might arc. >> you were part of their family or you weren't. together they had a little girl, sydney. >> their view, sydney was their property. >> one day he went to pick up his little girl for a visit and was never seen alive again. >> he died right there. >> but who would kill a devoted dad?

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. [music playing] "street signs. i'm joumanna bercetche these are your morning headlines. european stocks start in the green with all major indices and sectors moving higher after china cut its trip of r again. >>> minors outperform after president trump sets a day for the signing of the beijing trade deal >>> the french company has reclaimed the spot of the world's largest plane maker surpassing boeing. >>> questions mount over carlos ghosn's escape his lawyer will hold a press conference on january 8. >>> good morning, everybody. happy new year and thank you for tuning in to cnbc. on january 2, a lot to get through today. we are getting the final eurozone manufacturing data for december that comes in as a whole higher than the flash estimate coming in at 46.3 versus the initial estimate of 45.9 the manufacturing down turn deepened towards the end of 2019, we are seeing signs things are beginning to stabilize at least in the right direction in terms of individual countries just before "street signs" started, we woul

i'm craig melvin. thanks for watching. [theme music] >>> good morning welcome to "street signs." i'm joumanna bercetche >> and i'm julianna tatelbaum. these are your headlines losing the label positive sentiment fades in europe after the u.s. drops its branding of beijing a day ahead of the signing of the phase one trade deal >> u.s. futures point to a lower open with the big banks in the spotlight. they get ready to kick off earnings season. >> an unforgivable error iran president said armed forces admitting their mistake is a good first step and that all involved in the accident will be punished >> renault denies reports of a possible split with nissan and france finance minister calls the rumors malicious >>> welcome to the show. one of the main stories moving markets overnight, china's yuan strengthened to the highest level after the treasury department removed the label of the country as a currency manipulator. steven mnuchin said the country made moves they first attached the label when they accused them of using the yuan to get an unfair trade voontage >> the first rise in

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. [music playing] >>> welcome to "street signs." live from davos. here are your headlines at this hour >> president trump lands in davos after striking another trade truce reaching an agreement with french leader macron to avoid a digital tax and tariffs. >> it is true only to say but i believe the lower the uncertainty, the better for business >> the better economy. we have strong consumer demand if uncertainty is going down >> davos braces for a show down between trump and thunberg the 17-year-old activist encourages more to combat the climate crisis >> the climate is a hot topic. if you see it from another perspective, pretty much nothing has been done since the global co 2 emissions have not been reduced. >> the hang seng has fallen. we speak to chief executive carrie lam at 16:30 cet. >> european equities fall after the open after a new virus fares weighs on asia >> swiss banking giant ubs falls to the bottom of the market after the bank misses return on equity returns for the year but their ceo tells us there may be obstacles

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >>> good morning welcome to "street signs." i'm joumanna bercetche >> and i'm julianna tatelbaum. these are your headlines >> president trump hails the g biggest deal ever seen focus swiftly turns to existing tariffs and the second stage of the deal >> i'm leaving them on because otherwise we have no cards to negotiate with and negative yoesh ating with leo is very tough. they will all come off as soon as we finish phase two >> shares tumble as the education company announces the departure of the cfo and also leaving, telling cnbc, there are good reasons for the change >> he's at a different and earlier stage of his career. there are good and personal reasons why he's made the decision he has. >> british recruiter hayes citing tough market conditions >>> renault's chairman says there is a strong desire to make the automaker's partnership with nissan work and there is no stress to appoint a new ceo in the near term. >> welcome to the show a lot to get through let's start with the monthly oil report to bring you some of the headl