Three women who disappeared as teenagers more than 10 years ago have been found alive in a house in Cleveland, Ohio - just a few miles from where they went missing.
Cleveland's police chief said three people have been arrested including a 52-year-old man.
Amanda Berry disappeared aged 16 on April 21, 2003, when she called her sister to say she was getting a lift home from her job at a Burger King.
Police say Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight have been taken to a hospital for checks and will be reunited with relatives. They have also been described as being in good health.
A poster with images of Amanda Berry on Ms DeJesus went missing aged 14 on her way home from school about a year later.
The third woman, Ms Knight, had been missing since 2002.
Cheering crowds gathered on the street near the home where the women were found.
It appears Ms Berry contacted police on Monday when she called 911 and pleaded for officers to arrive at the home on Cleveland's west side before her alleged kidnapper returned.
She told the dispatcher: "I've been kidnapped, and I've been missing for 10 years. And I'm here. I'm free now."
Gina DeJesus went missing on her way home from school Neighbour Charles Ramsay told how he rescued Ms Berry after hearing her screaming for help.
"I hear this girl screaming and she's going nuts. So I come outside and I know there's nobody supposed to be screaming next door to my house because there's no girl that lives in that house.
"When I came to the front door and looked at her she said: 'My name is Amanda Berry - please get me out of this house'."
Local journalist Julie Courtright, of WTAM Ohio, told Sky News:"From what I heard Amanda Berry was actually able to escape by kicking the door in and she ran to a neighbour's house.
"A neighbour was able to go into the house and rescue Amanda, Gina DeJesus and another girl Michele Knight and four children."
Her father wants a change in Amber Alert rules Kayla Rogers, a childhood friend of Ms DeJesus told The Plain Dealer newspaper: "I've been praying, never forgot about her, ever.
"This is amazing. This is a celebration. I'm so happy. I just want to see her walk out of those doors so I can hug her."
Ms Berry's cousin Tasheena Mitchell told the newspaper: "I'm going to hold her, and I'm going to squeeze her and I probably won't let her go."
In January, a prison inmate was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison after admitting he provided a false burial tip in the disappearance of Ms Berry.
Two men arrested for questioning in the disappearance of Ms DeJesus in 2004 were released from the city jail in 2006 after officers did not find her body during a search of the men's house.
Age-progressed images of Gina DeJesus (L) and Amanda Berry No Amber Alert was issued the day Ms DeJesus failed to return home because no one witnessed her abduction.
The lack of an Amber Alert angered her father, Felix DeJesus, who said in 2006 he believed the public will listen even if the alerts become routine.
"The Amber Alert should work for any missing child," he said then. "It doesn't have to be an abduction. Whether it's an abduction or a runaway, a child needs to be found. We need to change this law."
Cleveland police said then that the alerts must be reserved for cases in which danger is imminent and the public can be of help in locating the suspect and child.
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