00:00Authorities provided a chilling update on the search for Savannah Guthrie's mom, Nancy, on Thursday.
00:06Among the information they disclosed, confirmation of a ransom note that set a deadline of 5 p.m.
00:11Mountain Time last night. Right after that deadline, Savannah's brother Cameron recorded
00:16this impassioned plea to the kidnappers. Whoever is out there holding our mother,
00:21we want to hear from you. We haven't heard anything directly. We need you to reach out
00:26and we need a way to communicate with you so we can move forward. But first, we have to know that
00:31you have our mom. We want to talk to you and we are waiting for contact. Now, the ransom note is a
00:37bit unusual because it also included a second deadline for Monday. Exactly what else was
00:42written, we don't know. But the note did include pieces of information about the crime scene,
00:47things only law enforcement or the kidnappers would know. And that is what has investigators
00:52taking the whole thing seriously. The specific details concern Nancy's Apple Watch and a floodlight
00:57on her property. The FBI special agent in charge noted that not contacting the family is abnormal
01:04in a kidnapping like this, but that investigators are continuing to treat this as a, quote,
01:09normal kidnapping. Also on Thursday, the Post spoke to one of Nancy Guthrie's neighbors,
01:14who said he spotted a suspicious white van parked in the street in the days before her disappearance.
01:20He thought it odd enough that there were no markings for a business that he spoke to the
01:25police about it. We also got some disturbing new details about the timeline of Nancy's abduction
01:31from authorities on Thursday. At 5.32 on Saturday evening, Nancy took an Uber to a family member's
01:37nearby home. At 9.48, she was dropped back off at her house and her garage door opened.
01:42That garage door closed two minutes later, so 9.50. Then at 1.47 a.m. on Sunday morning,
01:49four hours later, her doorbell camera disconnects. At 2.12 a.m., software tied to the security camera
01:55detects a person. The sheriff said they haven't been able to get that video because Nancy didn't
02:01subscribe to the service that holds on to such captures. And without it, there's no way to prove
02:06it was actually a person and not, say, an animal. This takes us to 2.28 a.m., when Nancy's pacemaker
02:12disconnects from her phone. The next nine and a half hours are basically a black hole. There's
02:17nothing until the family checks in on her shortly before noon Sunday morning after she missed church.
02:23A 911 call was placed less than 10 minutes later. Now, as for who the police are looking at as a
02:29possible suspect, well, they're casting a wide net. When the sheriff was asked whether Savannah
02:35Guthrie's brother-in-law, Tommaso Cioni, the last person to see Nancy that night, had been eliminated
02:40as a possible suspect, he said this.
02:43We're actively looking at everybody we come across in this case. Everybody. We would be irresponsible
02:51if we didn't talk to everybody. The Uber driver, the gardener, the pool person, whoever. Everybody.
03:00It's so cliche. But everybody's still a suspect in our eyes. That's just how we look at things.
03:05And think as as cops. Does that mean we have a prime suspect? No. And the family's been very
03:11cooperative. The sheriff also said with all the information his team had unearthed that he
03:17believes Nancy is, quote, still out there. We're a week from the DHS funding deadline and things
03:24aren't looking good. Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries threw down the gauntlet
03:29demanding 10 conditions before they'll agree to funding. The long list of demands was unveiled
03:35this week. And the biggies are ones Dems have been rallying for for some time now and ones you've
03:40likely heard before. A ban on ICE entering private property without a warrant and putting a stop to
03:45agents wearing masks. The Dems are also asking to halt ICE operations near schools, churches and
03:51polling places, as well as medical and child care facilities. They also want to prohibit stops based
03:56solely on a person's job, race, ethnicity, language or accent.
04:00You know how I just said things weren't looking good? Well, Republicans have already said no to
04:05the anti-mask and warrant demands. The Department of Homeland Security is the only major federal
04:11agency that does not have full funding through the end of the fiscal year, which is September 30th.
04:16Without a budget agreement, there's a risk of yet another shutdown that could affect things like
04:21TSA screenings, Coast Guard missions and FEMA disaster responses. So here's hoping lawmakers are
04:27ready to work through the weekend. And speaking of immigration enforcement, a new show of support
04:32for ICE agents is popping up across the country to counter growing anti-ICE sentiment. And it's
04:37coming in the form of billboards placed in swing states full of positive encouragement for DHS
04:42and noting, quote, liberal hypocrisy. Messages reading, let them do their jobs or ICE officers,
04:49our fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins, friends were plastered along high traffic
04:54areas in Georgia, North Carolina and Michigan. Another sign that points out what it calls the
05:00hypocrisy of liberals features a quote from former President Obama that reads, quote,
05:05Americans are right to demand better border security and better enforcement of the immigration
05:09laws. The sign then asks, hey, liberals, what's changed? The conservative nonprofit Citizens for
05:16Sanity footed the billboard bill. The executive director of the group told The Post the campaign
05:21is meant to remind voters that, quote, enforcing the law isn't partisan, it's common sense.
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