BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: We want to get to Ed Lavandera. He is standing by live in New Mexico. We do know of a handful of American POWs, now being held by the Iraqis, and there is some videotaped broadcasts yesterday. Ed Lavandera is tracking that part of the story with one family watching and waiting back in New Mexico. Ed, hello.</s>ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi Bill. There are several families desperately hoping that good information will come out of Iraq today. They are the families of several U.S. soldiers that were taken as prisoners of war by Iraqi forces in the town near Nasiriyah (ph). There is intense fighting that has been going on there. Some of the fiercest fighting we're told by military officials that has gone on to date. We're told one of the people that is under Iraqi forces controlled is 23-year-old Army Specialist Joseph Hudson. He works as part of the 507th Maintenance Company which has been under the operational command of the 3rd Infantry Division. Essentially this is a group of soldiers that helps with the maintenance of these units, making sure that everything runs properly for those other soldiers so they can accomplish their mission. It was yesterday where Joseph Hudson's mother, who is from the Philippines originally, says she was in her living room watching satellite Filipino television as she has doing since this war has started, getting her news that way, when on the TV screen appeared the images of her son being interviewed by Iraqi forces. She says she dropped her coffee cup and just started crying when she heard the interview with her son. She has just a simple message for the Iraqi forces who are holding her son right now.</s>ANECITA HUDSON, JOSEPH HUDSON'S MOTHER: I would just like to pass the word of the Iraqi people that I hope they don't get mean to this prisoner, and I hope - I hope that they just going to let my son go home. You know? Like the American</s>HEMMER: Tough, tough going. Ed Lavandera live in New Mexico. Ed, thanks to you.
Family Watching, Waiting in New Mexico