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Agents fan out near Nancy Guthrie's home in search for evidence connected to suspect · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: We begin tonight here with the breaking news and what
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  Speaker 1: has been a dramatic twenty four hours and the desperate
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  Speaker 1: search for Nancy Guthrie, the mother of today's show hosts
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  Speaker 1: Savannah Guthrie. Tonight, the FBI launching a new extensive search
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  Speaker 1: in the area surrounding Nancy Guthrie's home and neighborhood, calming
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  Speaker 1: the Catalina Foothills area north of Tucson. The new search
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  Speaker 1: coming just twenty four hours after the release of that
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  Speaker 1: chilling video showing a masked man armed with a gun
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  Speaker 1: outside Nancy Guthrie's front door. Tonight. In this new search,
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  Speaker 1: authorities are looking for anything the abductor might have tossed aside.
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  Speaker 1: Tonight the p Mac County Sheriff's office receiving at least
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  Speaker 1: four thousand tips already in counting since the release of
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  Speaker 1: this video, and just hours after the video was released,
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  Speaker 1: word came in last night here that the FBI and
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  Speaker 1: authorities were racing to the scene fifty miles south of Tucson,
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  Speaker 1: where they detained a man for hours, questioning him then
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  Speaker 1: releasing him. Tonight, that delivery man is asked if he
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  Speaker 1: ever delivered anything to Nancy Guthrie. In fact, he answered
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  Speaker 1: a series of questions from reporters and Tonight, eleven days
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  Speaker 1: after Nancy Guthrie was taken from her home, authorities, with
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  Speaker 1: no official suspects or persons of interest publicly named, ABC's
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  Speaker 1: chief investigative corresponded Aaron Katursky, leading us off now from.
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  Speaker 2: Tucson, eleven days since Nancy Guthrie's abduction, taken from her
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  Speaker 2: home in the middle of the night, FBI agents tonight
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  Speaker 2: are fanned out across her neighborhood in the foothills of
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  Speaker 2: the Catalina Mountains, searching through the brush along roads, looking
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  Speaker 2: for anything the man at her front door might have
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  Speaker 2: discarded along the way. It comes after a frantic twenty
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  Speaker 2: four hours and what appeared to be the first major
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  Speaker 2: break in the case, The FBI recovered these images from
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  Speaker 2: her front door nest camera. Google said it assisted the investigation.
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  Speaker 2: They show a masked man with what appears to be
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  Speaker 2: a gun on her doorstep. Just hours after that video
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  Speaker 2: was made public, authorities raced to Rio Rico, fifty miles
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  Speaker 2: south of Tucson near the Mexican border, where they questioned
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  Speaker 2: this delivery man for hours, then released him.
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  Speaker 3: They told me I was being detained from kidnapping, and
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  Speaker 3: I asked him, iowa kidnapping of who? And it told
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  Speaker 3: me this stady, I don't know her name, and.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Guthrie, Yeah, that sir. Tonight, Law enforcement sources tell
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  Speaker 2: ABC News the man, who identified himself to reporters as Carlos,
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  Speaker 2: had been on investigator's radar in connection with this case,
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  Speaker 2: even before the public release of that video of a
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  Speaker 2: figure and a mask at Nancy Guthrie's front door. The
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  Speaker 2: sources tell ABC News the FBI wanted to speak with
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  Speaker 2: the man. After using digital techniques including cell phone usage
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  Speaker 2: information and traffic data, they obtained a warrant to search
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  Speaker 2: his car and his home before releasing him hours later
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  Speaker 2: without charge. I worked into his Do you think you
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  Speaker 2: might have delivered a package to Nancy Guthrie's house?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, might have been a possibility to all.
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  Speaker 2: Carlos, who did not reveal his last name, says he
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  Speaker 2: had nothing to do with the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie.
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  Speaker 2: I hope to get the suspect because I'm not it.
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  Speaker 4: Ay better do their dob and find the suspect.
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  Speaker 2: They did it so they can clear my name.
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  Speaker 3: I'm done look I want to put in my family.
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  Speaker 2: To Tonight, investigators are studying every frame of that doorbell
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  Speaker 2: video for any identifying detail the potential weapon, the clothing,
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  Speaker 2: the backpack, his mannerisms, and what appears to be a
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  Speaker 2: flashlight in his mouth, and tonight a closer look at
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  Speaker 2: this image that shows the man at one point did
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  Speaker 2: not have the backpack on, so authorities want to know
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  Speaker 2: where was it.
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  Speaker 3: We don't know if these were taken after the backpack
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  Speaker 3: was handed off to somebody else or dumped or put
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  Speaker 3: into a car, or maybe just the light is so
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  Speaker 3: bad until he gets onto the porch that we can't
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  Speaker 3: see where the backpack is.
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  Speaker 2: In the twenty four hours since those images were released,
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  Speaker 2: investigators say they've received more than four thousand tips.
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  Speaker 4: When you throw up a picture after the public, you're
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  Speaker 4: going to get well literally hundreds, if not thousands, of leads,
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  Speaker 4: of which most of them won't amount of anything, but
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  Speaker 4: there'll be a nugget here and there that might well
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  Speaker 4: catch this guy.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Guthrie's daughter Today hosts Savannah Guthrie, immediately shared those
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  Speaker 2: images put out by the FBI on Instagram, posting, someone
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  Speaker 2: out there recognizes this person and saying of her mother.
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  Speaker 2: We believe she is still alive. The FBI showed those
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  Speaker 2: images to the Guthrie family before they were released, and
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  Speaker 2: the Guthries did not recognize the man in the video,
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  Speaker 2: and tonight the FBI is still trying to trace the
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  Speaker 2: sender of those two unverified ransom messages to local television
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  Speaker 2: stations that demanded millions in bitcoin and set deadlines that
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  Speaker 2: have come and gone. The Guthrie family at one point
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  Speaker 2: promising to pay, but there was never any proof of life.
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  Speaker 2: This is very valuable to us, and.
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  Speaker 4: We will pay.
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  Speaker 2: For eleven days now. Investigators have been combing every inch
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  Speaker 2: of this quiet desert community, but tonight still no one
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  Speaker 2: in custody, no suspect named, just a chilling image of
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  Speaker 2: someone at the door, and neighbors are praying and hoping
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Guthrie comes home. This woman's mother used to play
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  Speaker 2: tennis with Nancy.
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  Speaker 3: Scary, I mean backpack and just scary.
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  Speaker 2: I can't imagine anybody going in there and taking an
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  Speaker 2: eighty four year old warrant. Unnerving times around here. David,
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  Speaker 2: that man who was detained for questioning released without charge.
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  Speaker 2: He's under no law enforcement restrictions. Tonight. But David, remember
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  Speaker 2: what the sheriff told us. He said there are no suspects,
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  Speaker 2: but until someone is in custody, they're ruling out no one.
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  Speaker 1: David, Eric Getursky leading us off here again tonight. Aaron,
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  Speaker 1: thank you,