"TODAY" co-anchor Savannah Guthrie issued a new plea Friday to bring her mother home, just one day after an FBI official said that the agency has amassed as many as 10,000 hours of video in the investigation into the missing 84-year-old.
The official described the collection, review and analysis of video as one of the key parts of the weekslong investigation into the disappearance and possible abduction of Nancy Guthrie, which began after she was reported missing Feb. 1.
"Please — be the one that brings her home," Savannah Guthrie wrote in a Friday Instagram caption attached to a clip of a "TODAY" show segment about the case. She reminded followers that "Tips can be anonymous, reward can be paid in cash."
She also brought attention to the family reward of up to $1 million for her mother's recovery, which the family announced on Tuesday.
In another Friday Instagram post, Savannah Guthrie re-posted a shortened version of one of her previous videos with the caption: "Please bring her home. You can be anonymous."
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Guthrie was last seen around 9:45 p.m. Jan. 31 after dinner at her daughter Annie Guthrie’s home, Nanos has said. She was reported missing after she failed to show up at a friend’s house to watch a virtual church service.
The FBI official said Thursday that tools can be used to enhance the videos, but each one must be watched in real time, noting that slowing them down or enhancing them takes more time.
The official said additional canvassing was done last week to gather more material from camera systems in the Arizona neighborhood where Guthrie lives.
Among the videos is Ring camera footage obtained by Fox News Digital that shows a car driving around 2:30 a.m. the night Guthrie disappeared. The Pima County sheriff’s office said it was aware of the video, which was taken about 2.5 miles from Guthrie’s home. That is outside the 2-mile perimeter that investigators had sought video from.
A Friday update from the sheriff's office said that investigators are reviewing videos of vehicles traveling in the Catalina Foothills area, including areas farther from Guthrie's home, and have asked homeowners in the "surrounding community" to submit "relevant footage." The department, however, did not specify in which areas they are looking or how far from Guthrie's home they are now searching.
The FBI released a widely circulated security video two weeks ago showing a masked, armed man with a backpack appearing to tamper with a Google Nest doorbell camera at Guthrie’s home.
Authorities have described the man as a suspect, but he has not been publicly identified. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has said investigators believe Guthrie was taken from her Tucson-area home, possibly in the middle of the night.
“Please keep praying without ceasing,” Savannah Guthrie said in a previous Instagram video. “We still believe. We still believe in a miracle. We still believe that she can come home, hope against hope. As my sister says, ‘We are blowing on the embers of hope.’”
FBI Director Kash Patel has said the images from the Nest camera were recovered from “residual data in backend systems” because Guthrie did not have a subscription that would have saved the video.
Patel said the images were captured the morning Guthrie disappeared. Two law enforcement sources told NBC News this week that one of the images he released was captured earlier.
The agency has declined to comment on possible dates linked to the image, which shows a masked man without a backpack. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department has said any suggestion that it was taken on a different day is “purely speculative.”
Authorities are examining other potential evidence, including DNA collected from Guthrie’s home and related search locations. Nanos has said authorities may use genetic genealogy — a forensic tool that combines advanced DNA analysis with traditional genealogical research — in the investigation.
