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This is W V T M 13 breaking news is happening right now in that late breaking news out of Birmingham. The arraignment of you on Vandersloot is just wrapped up down at the federal courthouse. That's where we find wt thirteens, John Pepy this midday, John, what do we learn from this hearing? I'll paint the picture for you, sir. It was *** very short hearing scheduled to start at 11 o'clock basically was over by 11 05. The family of Natalie Holloway walked into the courtroom about five minutes or 10 minutes. I'd say before the hearing was to begin. Five minutes after that, you walked in himself. He was dressed in *** white Michael Jordan T shirt and jeans and handcuffs. Basically, he spoke very *** little during the hearing. He was offered *** translator during the hearing but said his, in his words, that his English was very perfect and that he did not need *** translator whenever the judge asked him specific questions and every response he said, yes, sir. Now he ultimately pleaded not guilty through his attorney, his attorney waive the reading of his indictment in this case to the two charges extortion and wire fraud. And then he said his client pleaded not guilty. And in the end, that was it, the hearing was over. Now, we were not sitting very far from Vander Slot about 10 ft behind him in the courtroom and we were about eight ft to the right of Beth Holloway. That would be Natalie's mother. We watched her the entire time as Vander Slot was walking into the courtroom, she showed no expression, very stern and stoic. *** look on her face throughout the entire short hearing that we mentioned. Now, in addition to Beth Holloway, her ex husband, Dave Holloway, Natalie's father was in the courtroom along with Matt who is Natalie's brother was on the same row in the courtroom. And we also did get *** chance to speak with *** few of Beth's friends outside the courtroom and asked him what this was like having the top suspect in the disappearance of Natalie Holloway appear in *** Birmingham federal courtroom. They said they were glad to see him here, but watching him walk into the courtroom, they felt sick to their stomach but felt *** bit of relief. We'll have more coming up tonight on 45 and six. Back to you. I just want to ask you real quickly. You mentioned talking to best friends there. You know, obviously, you know, you on is facing charges on extortion and wire fraud. However, they are hoping, how hopeful are they that this could lead to some answers in Natalie's disappearance. Well, there are *** few questions about that to not only them, but there's also *** media representative, I guess *** public relations representative for the Holloway family. You never know with negotiations between the prosecution in this case and the defense side. Perhaps if there's ***, maybe *** guilty guilty plea arrangement, maybe he agrees to offer some more information. But of course, the last time he offered more information, that was, that was *** false information which led to these charges. So we're going to send it back to you. We've got something else we got to check out. All right, thanks so much John.