Hello from CNN, I'm Joe Beck, with the five things you need to know for Wednesday, February 21st.

Officials in Texas say they have a suspect in the disappearance and death of 11 year old

Audrey Cunningham. We believe the appropriate arrest warrant is going to be for

capital murder in the death of Audrey Cunningham. He is currently still in jail under an unrelated felony charge here.

Prosecutors described the suspect as 42 year old Don Stephen McDougal, a family friend trusted to drop

Audrey at a school bus the day she vanished and say he even helped in the massive days long search for the girl.

Audrey's body was discovered in an East Texas River yesterday after she went missing last Thursday.

The sheriff says the medical examiner's office will determine her cause of death.

Alabama's Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos are children, and critics are warning that it could

have a chilling effect on IVF. It's after three sets of parents who underwent IVF filed lawsuits

over security at a clinic, alleging that a hospital patient got access to

frozen embryos and dropped them on the floor, destroying them.

The justices ruled that those embryos counted as children, so they were essentially killed and said the parents

could file a wrongful death lawsuit.

It's the first ruling of its kind in the US, and some experts say it could have a huge impact

on fertility treatments in Alabama and nationwide if other states follow suit.

Critics warn that it could hugely increase liability costs, put medical providers off performing IVF, and mean parents are forced to pay for lifelong

storage fees of embryos they'll never be allowed to get rid of, even if they don't want any

more children.

Here's Barbara Kalura from the National Infatility Association.

The goal of IVF is to create as many embryos as possible so that you have the greatest number of attempts at pregnancy.

Those embryos are the rights of the people who created them. Now we simply

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