deadline. >>> we switch gears and begin with new developments in the murder of nicole lovell. her mother overcome with emotion as she tried to speak about her daughter and new details about how the teen may have met the man charged with her murder. abc's eva pilgrim has the latest. good morning, eva. >> reporter: we're learning disturbing details about nicole's final moments. police still not releasing a motive as to why two college students would allegedly kill a seventh grader. new details this morning on the murder of 13-year-old nicole authorities now saying at least one of the two virginia tech students had been planning it for weeks. >> a very preliminary determination of the cause of death is stabbing. >> reporter: nicole's mother remembering how her daughter beat the odds fighting to survive childhood cancer and illnesses. >> she had a passion for pandas, music, dancing. >> reporter: heartbroken. >> nicole touched many people throughout her short life. >> reporter: unable to complete her statement tuesday. >> i can't do that part. >> reporter: 13-year-old nicole lovell last seen

that virginia murder mystery. as friends and family mourn 13-year-old nicole lovell one of the suspect's former teammates is speaking out. we'll talk to a leading fbi profiler after this report from eva pilgrim. >> reporter: overnight mourners, nicole lovell. her funeral just hours away. >> everybody is going to tell smile because she had some kind of, you know, magic. i will miss her potential. >> reporter: two virginia tech students david eisenhauer and natalie keepers behind bars facing charges for her death. >> one in five people don't have jobs. >> reporter: this video on youtube belonging to a student named natalie keepers may be giving us a glimpse at the now 19-year-old more than a year before the alleged murder. authorities say eisenhauer, a former member of the track team was abusing his relationship with the seventh grade girl he chatted with on a message, kik, his teammates stunned by the charges. one writing, none of this had to happen yet i'm left here wondering why it did. gaige kern posting this open letter to his friend. i hate what you've done but i don't hate

nicole lovell. prosecutors say one of the students facing charges has confessed saying she did it for the thrill and one of the victim's friends claimed she tried to warn the police something was wrong. abc's eva pilgrim is in blacksburg, virginia, with the latest. good morning, eva. >> reporter: we are learning this morning exactly how two virginia tech students allegedly plotted to murder 13-year-old nicole lovell. these details are coming out as the girl's family buries their child. detailing about the murder of nicole lovell. her family filing into the courtroom thursday wearing blue clothes and ribbons. prosecutors allege virginia tech students natalie keepers and david eisenhauer planned the murder of the middle school student for weeks, scouting out locations, even buying tools when police showed up to talk to keepers she tried to warn eisenhauer texting him police, investigators that eisenhauer killed nicole and put her body in his lexus reportedly saying the two drove with the body in the car to walmart where they crime telling authorities where to locate the murder weapon an

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unimaginable. her 13-year-old daughter had been found dead. >> nicole touched many people throughout her short life. >> reporter: according to investigators nicole had secretly been messaging with this virginia tech student. 18-year-old david eisenhauer on the social media app kik and snuck out of her parents' how to meet up with him and never returned home. nicole's story now stands as a reminder to parents of the dangers lurking on social media. >> i mean, i think it's probably impossible if you have a teenage daughter right now that she doesn't know what kik is. it's known for a place where you sext. it's not set up that way but that's how kids use it. and the secret lives of teenagers" by journalist nancy jo sales explores the lives of girls who are coming of age in a world ruled by social media. tell me about the role this is playing in the life of the average teenage girl in this country. >> one of the first conversations that i had with some girls in los angeles really set the tone for the whole book to me. she said social media is destroying our lives. and i said, so why don'

morning, nicole lovell's father talks about his daughter this morning. the father of nicole lovell speaking out for the first time about the details of his daughter's death. >> i know she fought like a wildcat. i mean, she's my kid. >> reporter: two virginia tech students, 18-year-old david eisenhauer and 19-year-old natalie keepers are behind bars accused of allegedly plotting to murder the 13-year-old for weeks. authorities say eisenhauer had an inappropriate relationship with her, communicating with her on social media. lovell's father telling dr. phil that her family tried to step in talking to older men online. >> my daughter in ohio had dug around in nicole's instagram accounts and kik and so on and she screen shotted me a few of those. >> reporter: abc news finding this screen shot of her kik account showing that around thanksgiving she was chatting with a guy named david. >> they had actually had some very vigorous and on-point discussions about her social media activity in november and december leading up to this. they had taken her phone away from her because they felt li

. nicole herwitz knows the stress of going from one to two. just getting into a routine with her firstborn max when she welcomed a new baby two months ago. >> mornings used to be really easy. my son would wake up, and we would do breakfast for him and get him off to school. and now it's a lot of preparing at night to get the toddler out the door and then start things all over again with the newborn. >> reporter: parenting experts say the key for new moms and kim kardashian is enlist help from a baby sitter or spend time with mommy friends who understand the stress and schedule some "me" time on a regular basis. >> if your older child is feeling jealous or left out, you can always make them feel included in taking care of the baby. >> reporter: for "good morning america," reena ninan, abc news, new york. >> and you have to pull the older child off the younger child. >> yeah, you have to watch those two, right? >> absolutely. >> and kim is very fortunate. she has her resources to be able to help her out that some other mothers might not have. >>> now to the moment we've been waitin

it really hits home. >> reporter: nicole lovell's parents said she vanished wednesday between midnight, and 7:00 a.m. after pushing a dresser against her bedroom drawer and climbing out of her window. by friday more than a thousand volunteers searching to find her. family and friends worried that lovell a liver transplant recipient, needed medication daily. the investigation led us to 18-year-old david eisenhower, a virginia tech student. saturday morning, police arrested a freshman engineering student, charging him with abduction, saying that's eisen eisenhower knew lovell and used that to his advantage. around 4:00 that afternoon they found her body. sunday a second student natalie keepers charged as an accessory, accuse of helping eisenhauer dispose of the girl's body. both being held without bail for "good morning america," eva pilgrim, abc news, blacksburg, virginia. >>> the world health organization is holding an emergency meeting on the mosquito-born zika virus. whether to declare it a global health emergency. zika is linked to thousands of birth defects in latin americ

used this relationship to his advantage to abduct and then kill her. >> reporter: nicole lovell's mom telling "the washington post" that police believe the 13-year-old met eisenhauer online. authorities believe lovell active on kik, a messaging app which offers users anonymity and ability to send photos. eisenhauer, a track star, his high school principal remembering him as goal driven and focused. >> it's just very difficult to hear something like that. i don't want to speculate at this point. just very concerned. >> reporter: the second student, natalie keepers, an engineering nasa, accused of helping eisenhauer get rid of the girl's body. >> i was really shocked to see her face as one of the suspects for the murder because i didn't know she was like -- she didn't seem like that type of person. >> reporter: her parents say lovell pushed a dresser up against her bedroom door before climbing out her window. thousands joining the search for her but, on saturday, police discovered her body 80 miles away in north carolina. neither student was charged with using a gun and neither has ente