00:00Late Wednesday night, Today Show host Savannah Guthrie and her two older siblings
00:04posted a plea to their mom's possible kidnappers.
00:08We are ready to talk.
00:12However, we live in a world where voices and images are easily manipulated.
00:21We need to know, without a doubt, that she is alive and that you have her.
00:30We want to hear from you and we are ready to listen.
00:34Then, speaking directly to her mom, Savannah said,
00:38your children will not rest until we are together again.
00:41The family video was posted online a short time after federal agents and their canine teams
00:46returned to Nancy Guthrie's home and launched what's been described as a massive search of
00:51the wooded area around her property and police also inspected Guthrie's garage.
00:56But about two hours after it began, the police tape was removed and authorities left the scene.
01:01President Trump waited on Truth Social Wednesday night after speaking with Savannah earlier in
01:05the day, posting,
01:06we are deploying all resources to get her mother home safely before adding,
01:11God bless and protect Nancy.
01:14Now, authorities are still not sharing too much information.
01:17But what we do know is that Nancy Guthrie is still missing.
01:21She may be injured and she hasn't had access to life-saving medication for more than four days.
01:28And yet, Chris Nanos, the Pima County, Arizona sheriff overseeing the investigation, still has hope.
01:35He told NBC News on Wednesday,
01:37quote,
01:38We have nothing else to go on but the belief that she is here, she's present, she's alive, and we want to save her.
01:44Nanos added that while his department still has no suspects,
01:47They do have what he called critical leads, and perhaps that's what brought them back to the house on Wednesday night.
01:55Now, earlier in the day Wednesday, authorities questioned the last person to see Nancy before her abduction,
02:00her son-in-law, Tommaso Cioni.
02:03He was the person who dropped her off at her Tucson area home Saturday night.
02:07Nanos told the New York Times that Cioni ensured that Guthrie was safely inside of her home that night before he left.
02:13Cioni is a local sixth-grade science teacher, and his wife Annie, that's Savannah's older sister, is a jewelry maker in the Tucson area.
02:21Planned talks between the United States and Iran about the Islamic Republic's nuclear programs scheduled for tomorrow have been canceled.
02:29Tehran demanded changes to the venue and the content of the discussions.
02:33Here's what President Trump told NBC News.
02:36Should the supreme leader in Iran be worried right now?
02:38I would say he should be very worried, yeah, he should be.
02:43The stated purpose of the now-on-hold sit-down was to hash out a nuclear deal.
02:48So Iran attempting to make these changes at the 11th hour didn't sit well with the U.S.
02:53and prompted the administration to pull out.
02:55Special Envoy Steve Whitcoff and Jared Kushner had agreed to meet with Iranian officials in Istanbul, Turkey,
03:01but Iran wanted to move the location to Amman and block any foreign observers.
03:07Now, that was a non-starter for the U.S., who, according to Axios, suspected that the move was made to allow Iran better control of the conversation.
03:15Before the talks were put on hold, Secretary of State Marco Rubio had already expressed doubt over whether they would have produced any meaningful results.
03:23But it wasn't all doom and gloom, praising the Iranian people and hoping that pressure from the public could force a change in the theocratic regime.
03:31Remember, this all started, or at least this most recent flare-up started, when the Iranian government started killing protesters looking for change.
03:40That is what motivated President Trump to send an armada into waters near Iran, just in case.
03:47ICE agents in New Orleans nabbed an illegal immigrant with an active deportation order last month.
03:53But here's the twist.
03:54Law enforcement should have found him sooner and pretty easily.
03:57He was hired by the Big Easy's Police Department and was just a week shy of graduating from the police academy, which means he was also issued a firearm.
04:0746-year-old Larry Temma, originally from Cameroon, was picked up at his home on January 26th.
04:13Now, Temma entered the U.S. legally on a visitor visa back in 2015 and was given conditional residency when he married an American citizen the next year.
04:22But his green card application was rejected in 2022 over concerns that the marriage was a sham.
04:29He then failed to show up in immigration court three times, and so a judge slapped him with that deportation order.
04:35The Trump administration is slamming the New Orleans PD for hiring the man, but the department says that he was deemed eligible for employment through ICE's e-verify system.
04:45That system has had similar issues in the past, with people being verified who shouldn't have been.
04:50The sheriff's office said, quote, any claim that NOPD knowingly violated the law is false.
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