CNN Reunites 15 Families, Triples NCMEC Calls; Missing Persons Scroll Continues

CNN’s effort to reunite missing children with loved ones has tripled the phone calls to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and helped more than a dozen families.

“23 cases were resolved over the weekend, 15 of them directly with CNN’s help. So, obviously, it worked, and so we’re going to continue it,” Soledad O’Brien said this morning.

The on-screen graphics were scheduled to conclude at 11pm Sunday, but it continued throughout the night and into this morning. “With your help, more parents, more children could be reunited throughout the day. Those pictures will keep coming, and we hope there will be more happy endings to these tragic stories,” Miles O’Brien said. CNN is apparently now in charge of saving children…

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