EMERGENCY EPISODE: Help Find Missing Teen Thomas Medlin | Have A Seat
Have A Seat with Chris Hansen
Chris Hansen
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | AI is incredible. They can teach you how to fry an egg and even write a poem, pirate style. |
| 0:07.0 | But it knows nothing about your work. Slackbot is different. It doesn't just know the facts. |
| 0:14.0 | It knows your schedule. It can turn a brainstorm into a brief and it doesn't need to be taught. |
| 0:20.0 | Because Slackbot isn't just another |
| 0:22.4 | AI. It's AI that knows your work as well as you do there's an important breaking story that you all need to know about. |
| 0:49.2 | As you know, I've talked about this many times here and we've interviewed guests about this topic. |
| 0:53.8 | We are investigating the gaming platform Roblox. You can't. I've talked about this many times here and we've interviewed guests about this topic. |
| 1:01.4 | We are investigating the gaming platform Roblox because of the hundreds and actually thousands of cases, |
| 1:06.3 | tens of thousands of cases we've come across where young people have been groomed on the platform and sometimes abused by predators. |
| 1:08.7 | There's a case developing in New York out on Long Island and Suffolk |
| 1:12.2 | County that we need your help is. A young man, 15-year-old Thomas Medlin, has been missing |
| 1:20.2 | since January 9th after having a discussion on Roblox with someone after telling people in his |
| 1:25.9 | circle of friends that he was going to meet this person that he initially met on Roblox with someone after telling people in his circle of friends that he was going to meet this |
| 1:27.8 | person that he initially met on Roblox. His family is, as you can imagine, beside themselves. |
| 1:35.8 | And it's important that we and you as my viewers and my team do everything we can to help in this |
| 1:43.1 | situation. |
| 1:51.0 | Eva Yan is Thomas' mother, and she's kind enough, brave enough to sit with me now. |
| 1:53.2 | Eva, thank you for joining me here and having a seat. |
| 1:55.4 | Thank you for having me, Chris. What is the latest? |
| 1:56.5 | What do we know about where Thomas might be and where he was last seen? |
| 2:01.6 | Bring me up to speed here. |
| 2:03.9 | Based on the latest update this week, Thomas was still information from Friday today. |
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