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A Nebraskan family's Easter Sunday celebration is followed by tragedy when their parents are murdered in cold blood. Keith Morrison reports on this unimaginable crime and how justice prevailed in a case where nothing was what it seemed.

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NEW YORK—September 28, 2010—NBC News was a strong competitor at the 31st Annual News and Documentary Emmy awards on Monday, September 27. The network took home six awards, including two for NBC News' coverage of "Inside the Obama White House."

"NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams" won two Emmy awards—the first for "Miracle on the Hudson," which covered the emergency landing of Airbus' A320 in the Hudson River, and the second award for "Unlikely Refugees."

"Dateline NBC" was also recognized for its own "Miracle on the Hudson" coverage, picking up the award for outstanding coverage of a breaking news story in a news magazine.

"Today" took home the outstanding feature story in a regularly scheduled newscast Emmy award for "Fighting Grossmans"— the story of eight brothers, all World War II veterans, and their fight for the American Dream.

The following is a full list of NBC News Emmys Wins and Credits:

OUTSTANDING COVERAGE OF A BREAKING NEWS STORY IN A NEWS MAGAZINE:

"Dateline NBC"
Miracle on the Hudson

Executive Producer: David Corvo; Executive Editor: Liz Cole; Managing Editor: Aretha Marshall; Directors: John Libretto, Judith Farinet; Senior Producers: Ellen Mason, Jim Gerety; Senior Producers: Liz Cole, Ellen Mason; Supervising Producer: Joe Delmonico; Anchor: Ann Curry; Correspondents: Peter Greenberg, Chris Hansen, Hoda Kotb, Dennis Murphy; Producers: Tim Beacham, John Block, Katherine Chan, Bradley Davis, Cameo George, Bob Gilmartin, Marianne Haggerty, Meade Jorgensen, Sarah Longden, Marianne O'Donnell, Robin Oelkers, Mary Ann Rotondi, Susan Simpson, Dan Slepian, Justin Smith, Jane E. Stone, Tim Uehlinger, Esther Zucker; Field Producers: Falguni Lakhani, Alex Waterfield, Katie Yu; Coordinating Producer: Biju Mathew

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OUTSTANDING COVERAGE OF A BREAKING NEWS STORY IN A REGULARLY SCHEDULED NEWSCAST:

"NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams"
Miracle on the Hudson

Anchor and Managing Editor: Brian Williams; Executive Producer: Bob Epstein; Senior Broadcast Producer: Patrick Burkey, Aurelia Grayson; Director: Brett Holey; Senior Producers: Subrata De, Mary Laurence Flynn, Tracey Lyons, Albert Oetgen; Supervising Producer: Jay Blackman; Correspondents: Robert Bazell, Tom Costello, Rehema Ellis, Martin Fletcher, Mike Taibbi, Chuck Todd; Producers: Donna Bass, Beverly Chase, Christine Colvin, Bob Croce, Tom Dawson, Clare Duffy, Carol Eggers, Lauren Fairbanks, Andy Franklin, Anthony Galloway, Mario Garcia, Hilary Guy, Jody Henenfeld, Robert Kaplan, Maggie Kassner, Susan Kroll, Victor Limjoco, Daniel Linden, Carla Marcus, Megan Marcus, Daniel Nagin, Samuel Singal, Robin Skolnick, Christina Vallice, Kelly Venardos

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OUTSTANDING CONTINUING COVERAGE OF A NEWS STORY IN A REGULARLY SCHEDULED NEWSCAST"

"NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams"
Unlikely Refuges

Anchor and Managing Editor: Brian Williams; Executive Producer: Bob Epstein; Senior Broadcast Producer: Aurelia Grayson; Director: Brett Holey; Senior Producer: Mary Laurence Flynn; Correspondents: Richard Engel, Adrienne Mong; Producers: Maria Alcon, Bredun Edwards, Madeleine Haeringer, Maggie Kassner, Adrienne Mong, Paul Nassar, Matt Softley, Rachele Webb

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OUTSTANDING FEATURE STORY IN A REGULARLY SCHEDULED NEWSCAST

"Today"
Fighting Grossmans

Producers: Amanda Marshall, David Emanuele; Correspondent: Bob Dotson

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OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: EDITING—QUICK TURNAROUND

NBC News Special
Inside the Obama White House

Editors: Rob Allen, Chad Bergacs, Deb Brown, Bruce Burger, Saverio Camporeale, Sam Casalino, Justin Cece, Linda Diehl, David Emanuele, Victor Fabilli, Anthony Innarelli, Paul Nichols, Richard Platt, William Ray, Bob Spencer, Alvaro Trenchi, Irene Trullinger, David Varga

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OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: WRITING

NBC News Special
Inside the Obama White House

Writers: Doug Adams, Marisa Buchanan, Robert Buchanan, Matt Carluccio, Katherine Chan, Bradley Davis, Subrata De, Joe Delmonico, Andrew Franklin, Annette Freeman, David Gelles, Meade Jorgensen, Mark Lukasiewicz, Amna Nawaz, Benita Noel, Meaghan Rady, Rayner Ramirez, Mary Ann Rotondi, Tim Uehlinger, Brian Williams

When 14-year-old Amber DuBois left for school one morning and never returned home, police, family and friends searched across the country, even across the Mexican border, but found no trace of her. Just over a year later, in a neighboring town in California, another teenager, Chelsea King, left to go for a jog and never returned. In Chelsea's case, authorities used DNA samples to link a convicted sex offender to the scene of her attack and murder, but there was no evidence in Amber's disappearance. It's every parent's worst nightmare and as a result of their tragic story, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed "Chelsea's Law" earlier this month to better protect children in California.

This Friday, Sept. 24, at 8pm/7c, Dateline kicks off with a two-hour season premiere 'In Broad Daylight'. Keith Morrison brings viewers inside the disturbing story of how these two teenage girls suddenly vanished during the day and how their families received justice for these unspeakable acts. He speaks exclusively with San Diego Sheriff's homicide detectives who offer details, never heard before, about their investigation into the Chelsea King and Amber Dubois murders.

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If you have any helpful tips about this unsolved murder case, please contact the following:

Saanich Police Department:
tips@saanichpolice.ca
1-888-980-1919

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Click here for more key dates and videos related to the case. Video of the full hour will be available on the Dateline site by Sunday, noon ET.

In an upscale suburb of British Columbia, a young female realtor is murdered while showing a mysterious couple a lavish home. Years later with no arrests made and no clear answers, the frustration among family and friends continues to mount. Josh Mankiewicz reports: 'Unsolved: The Dream House Mystery', which aired Friday at 8pm/7c.

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Also in the hour, a young man with a new love goes missing, and family members and detectives crack the case by connecting a series of seemingly random crimes. Dennis Murphy reports on the young man who was 'Taken', airing Friday at 9pm/8c.

Let me start by saying, “I am not the perfect parent.” I knew that going in. Don’t we all?

But what I’ve discovered about parenting over the past month has really been eye-opening for me.

We approached this special hour of Dateline NBC with a simple question—We all try to be “good” parents, but are we being “effective”? Are the lessons we try to teach our children about critical decision-making moments really sticking with them?

To be honest, we brainstormed dozens of ideas that we could test in action. But we couldn’t fit that many in an hour of television so we had to limit ourselves to a few key areas.

We looked for issues that face kids from toddler-hood to adolescence and we chose four:
• What would children do if they witnessed bullying?
• Would teenagers get into a car with someone who they think has been drinking?
• How would they deal with a stranger at their front door?
• Would teenagers text while driving even when they know a camera is in the car?

And we turned the tables to ask kids how they view their parents’ use of hand-held technology. This is the one that really got to me.

I sat with a group of four to seven-year-olds who told me how “sad” they feel when mommy or daddy picks up the cell phone or Blackberry in the middle of playtime and starts typing or talking.

When I had a producer call me in the middle of our interview (to see how the kids would react), little Jake said, and I quote: “I feel like you don't even care about me. You only care about the phone.”

Ouch.

I went home that night and immediately talked with my own kids—ages five and seven. I knew I was guilty of the occasional lapse but, oh boy, did they give me an earful.

Since then, I’ve tried to enforce “no phone” zones and I’m more consciously trying to get down on their level and look them in the eye when they want my attention. Little things, I know, but they’ve noticed.

And there’s more. Children—even the little ones—told us they see mom and dad texting while driving. The teens said that’s one of the reasons they think it’s OK to do.

What else did I learn? We need to talk with our kids early and often about all of these subjects. And role playing—as weird as it might sound—is key. At my house we’ve been acting out what to do if someone comes to the door. For teens, we need to give them the tools to find a way out of a bad situation. All the experts say that we can help them to save face and avoid embarrassment if we parents make ourselves the bad guys. For example, saying “My Mom will take away my license if I get in the car with someone who’s been drinking so I just can’t” is a lot easier than trying to come up with an excuse.

I’ve told my friends to try and watch the hour with their kids. I hope you will too.

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Benita Alexander-Noel, Dateline NBC Producer

I've never forgotten her name: Morgan Lee Pena, a gorgeous little 2-year-old girl from Pennsylvania who loved to sing. I never met Morgan, only her grieving parents. Morgan was killed when a driver talking on his cell phone ran a stop sign and slammed into her mom's car.

Dateline's story about Morgan, and the dangers of distracted driving, aired 9 years ago. That was before texting was ubiquitous, and before a single state had passed a ban on the use of cell phones behind the wheel. It was also before I became a mom myself. But I was so distressed by the anguish Morgan's parents were dealing with, and so moved by her mom's determined efforts to educate anyone who would listen about the dangers of distracted driving, that I promised myself I would never again use my cell phone while driving.

It's a promise I've broken too many times, and each time, I've thought about Morgan. Once, my daughter heard me say "Sorry Morgan" out loud as I scrambled to find the earpiece I should have been using all along. "Who's Morgan Mommy?" she asked from the backseat. I paused for a moment. "Morgan was a very special little girl, just like you, who was hurt in a car accident because someone was talking on a cell phone instead of concentrating on driving. And that's why Mommy shouldn't use her phone either."

These past few weeks as we put together our segment on distracted driving for Kate Snow's Dateline hour "The Perils of Parenting," I've thought about Morgan a lot. On the legislative front, a great deal has changed since her tragic death, with 30 states now banning texting behind the wheel, and 28 restricting the use of cell phones by novice drivers. But in many ways, the landscape has become far more complicated. Everyone seems to have a cell phone now, if not two, and with blackberries and texting added to the picture, we've become more addicted to our devices than most of us really want to admit. I'm fairly certain you could stand on virtually any busy intersection with a camera these days, and in no time, capture video of one driver after another dangerously distracted by a phone or blackberry.

So, really, how shocked can we be to learn that although most teens say they are well aware of the potential dangers of texting behind the wheel, 1 in 3 of them fess up to doing it anyway?

On the one hand, parents are sternly lecturing their teens about not using phones behind the wheel, yet on the other many of them do it themselves. What this seems to teach kids, beginning at a very young age, is that no matter what mom and dad might say, this is just what everyone does. One teen we interviewed about texting behind the wheel told us "We know we're not supposed to do it. But sometimes, I don't know. We just do it anyways. I don't really know why. It's just that's how it was while we were growing up. Just people would talk on their phones while they were driving."

Even if we don't mean to, are we teaching our children that our devices are like some kind of appendage, permanently attached to our hands, okay to use anywhere and everywhere?

As you'll see in our story, we learned from kids as young as 4-years-old that they truly resent our constant use of phones. It turns out that not only are we sending them mixed messages about the safety of phone use, but we're also making them feel rejected and shoved aside, as if they're not really as important as our beloved devices.

My daughter is only 7, but even before this story made me think really hard about it, I'd already wondered what kind of example I'm setting. She's seen me pick up my phone at a stoplight to quickly try and answer a text, she's been the kid yanking on my arm impatiently because I was too glued to the blackberry to give her the attention she needed.

I think this story has taught me a lesson, or at least I hope it has. As we were nearing the end of Kate Snow's interview with our group of adorable 4 to 7-year-olds, I picked up my blackberry, which had been on silent during the interview but was blinking madly. Suddenly I heard a lot of laughter as several people called my name, and someone said "Let's turn the camera on the producer." I looked up to see Kate, the camera crews, and all of the kids, looking at me as if they'd just caught me with my hand in the cookie jar. Kate had been trying to ask me a question and I was so immersed in my blackberry, I didn't even hear what she said. I apologized sheepishly and begged our cameraman to please not make me part of our story.

Sometimes things just have to wait, at least until you can pull over, at least until you can take a moment with your child instead of using that dismissive "just a second honey, I'm on the phone" wave of the hand. I feel I owe that much to Morgan, and I definitely owe it to my own daughter. If you're a parent, I'm guessing the "The Perils of Parenting" will make you pause to think about your own phone habits too.

Benita Alexander-Noel
Producer, Dateline NBC

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When a mother’s claims that her husband sexually abused their children are discredited, she takes the children and runs. After years of hiding and legal turmoil, the future of this family is still unclear. Keith Morrison reports.

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In an upcoming report on parenting, NBC News' Kate Snow helps parents find out if the lessons they've been teaching their children are really sinking in. For the primetime special, airing on Monday, Sept. 13 (10:00-11:00 PM/ET), "Dateline" cameras capture kids reacting to various real-life situations such as being confronted by a stranger at the door, dealing with a bully, and getting into a car with a driver who says he has been drinking – as their parents watch on hidden cameras. The parents agreed to participate in the hopes of learning some valuable lessons and prompting a conversation between other parents and their children across the country.

Snow sits with the parents as they watch their children handle the different scenarios and gets their take – what surprised them, what didn't. In addition, parenting expert Dr. Michele Borba offers effective techniques for better parenting during this digital age.

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In an American primetime exclusive, the chief suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, Joran Van der Sloot, is speaking out for the first time since his arrest three months ago in Peru for the murder of a young Peruvian woman, Stephany Flores. In the interview, licensed by NBC News, Van der Sloot admits to feelings of guilt, makes some startling admissions and shares some new details about the alleged crimes against him and his relationship with the Holloways.

"Joran Van der Sloot: Behind Bars," reported on by Chris Hansen, will air this Friday, Sept. 10 (10:00-11:00 PM/ET) on "Dateline." For the report, Hansen retraces Van der Sloot's jet-setting odyssey across four continents with exclusive details and photos, and interviews the veteran Dutch crime reporter John van den Heuvel who conducted the interview with him last week at Lima's Miguel Castro-Castro prison.

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Below are excerpts from the interview:

On accepting money from Natalee Holloway's family in exchange for the location of her remains
VAN DER SLOOT: I have had five years long that people have just been blaming me for something. And yeah, I have a lot of anger built up because of that also. And yeah, at one point I just thought that, OK, you know, "You keep insisting that you want to give me this money. I've already told a lot of different stories. I'll do it--I'll do it again." And yeah, I know it's very wrong--very wrong, what I did.

Why he told so many different stories about the disappearance of Natalee Holloway:
VAN DER SLOOT: There were--people were paying me to--paying me to--yeah, to make up stories, and I was really good at making up stories. Everybody keeps coming at you, asking you questions, asking you stuff and, you know, you don't know something, and finally you start to think, `OK, well...(censored by network)...you. If you--if you want something, then I'll tell you whatever you want to hear. Sure. I misused the situation for my own advantage and I feel bad about that. And if I could change that, I would take it back for sure.

On the impact his actions have had on his family
JORAN VAN DER SLOOT: For everything that happened since 2005, all the things said in the media and everything, I feel guilty for it, yeah.

VAN DER SLOOT: I was doing a lot of things that I shouldn't have been—I shouldn't have been doing, and mostly only going out all the night and sleeping all the day. I have always been very, how you call it, impulsive, always been--take action right away and make a decision immediately and not think about what the consequences are.

Chris Hansen investigates lottery ticket clerks who are stealing winning numbers from unsuspecting customers and claiming their prizes. Monday, 10 p.m./9 C.

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Detectives play the role of "Cagney and Lacey" in a cold-case murder where the key evidence is a burned-down cigarette. But the real "closer" in this 20-year-old case is the victim herself, from beyond the grave. Keith Morrison reports. REPEAT. Sunday, 7 p.m./6C/