Tonight, for the first time, we have the story of the rescue of Jessica Buchanan.

It is the tale of a secret mission by SEAL Team 6 that few people have heard about until now.

On a January night in 2012, members of SEAL Team 6 jumped from a plane into the skies of Somalia.

Jessica Buchanan was being held hostage, and the SEALs 6 jumped from a plane into the skies of Somalia.

Jessica Buchanan was being held hostage, and the SEALs were descending just in time.

Buchanan was a humanitarian aid worker who had come to help children in one of the most dangerous places on Earth.

Hers was an ordeal that ended in a flash of violence, but had begun 93 days earlier when her car was stopped by bandits in a place she calls hell.

I'd become so ill that I couldn't stand up. I couldn't walk because I was in so much pain.

And I said, I think I have a kidney infection.

And I started to cry, and I said, I think I'm afraid I'm going to die out here.

When that call was received here in Nairobi, it set off a chain of events that led all the way to the Oval Office.

The FBI and the military consulted doctors who said that if Jessica had a kidney infection,

she might have just two weeks to live.

That was transmitted to the president, who was also informed that in just a few days,

there would be a new moon.

Perfect darkness for a SEAL Team rescue.

Jessica Buchanan had chosen a star in the Somali sky to represent her mother who had passed away a year before.

She spoke to it every night, and with no moon, it was especially bright on January 25th.

What did you say that night?

Please tell God that I need some help.

We need to get out of here.

You couldn't have known that that prayer would be answered that night.

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