Mystery surrounds the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of US TV host Savannah Guthrie.

The 84-year-old went missing from her home in Arizona under suspicious circumstances.

She was last seen at her home near Tucson on Saturday evening and was reported missing the following morning.

Investigators said they had found signs of forced entry and believe she was taken against her will.

In a case that has more questions than answers – here’s everything we know so far.

What do we know about the disappearance?

The NBC News anchor’s mother was last seen at around 9.30pm on Saturday, when she was dropped off at home by family after having dinner with them, the sheriff’s department said.

Ms Guthrie, who lives alone, was then reported missing by her family on Sunday after she did not attend church.

Chris Nanos, the Pima County sheriff, said on Monday: “We don’t see this as a search mission so much as it is a crime scene.”

He said Ms Guthrie has limited mobility and requires daily medication.

“This is not dementia related,” he said. “She’s as sharp as a tack. The family wants everyone to know that this isn’t someone who just wandered off.”

He warned whoever took her that she could die without access to medication.

He said: “If she’s alive right now, her meds are vital. I can’t stress that enough. It’s been better than 24 hours, and the family tells us if she doesn’t have those meds, it can become fatal.”

What do we know about the investigation?

Search and rescue teams were supported by volunteers, Border Patrol, and the homicide team after Ms Guthrie was reported missing, but they were stood down by the end of Monday as the case started to be treated as a criminal investigation.

Police have said there were signs of forced entry at the property, and DNA samples have been gathered and submitted for analysis as part of the investigation.

“We’ve gotten some back, but nothing to indicate any suspects,” Mr Nanos said.

A person familiar with the inquiry told the Associated Press that evidence in the home indicated that she had been kidnapped during the night.

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They said that several of Ms Guthrie’s personal items, including her mobile phone, wallet and her car, had been left in her property.

Investigators do not believe at this point that the abduction was part of a robbery, home invasion or kidnapping-for-ransom plot, the person said.

Police officers have been reviewing information from licence plate cameras and surveillance video from nearby homes while working to analyse data from local phone towers.

Several media organisations reported receiving apparent ransom notes earlier this week that they handed over to police.

The sheriff’s department said it’s taking the possible ransom notes and other tips seriously but has yet to comment further.

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What has Savannah Guthrie said?

Savannah Guthrie shared a video on social media in which she addressed her mother’s captor alongside her sister Annie and brother Cameron.

“We are ready to talk,” the anchor said. “However, we live in a world where voices and images are easily manipulated.

“We need to know without a doubt that she is alive and that you have her. We want to hear from you, and we are ready to listen. Please reach out to us.”

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She added: “Our mum is our heart and our home. She is 84 years old. Her health, her heart, is fragile. She lives in constant pain. She is without any medicine. She needs it to survive, she needs it not to suffer.

“Mummy, if you are hearing this, you are a strong woman. You are God’s precious daughter.”

Shortly after the video was posted, Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social: “I spoke with Savannah Guthrie, and let her know that I am directing ALL Federal Law Enforcement to be at the family’s, and Local Law Enforcement’s, complete disposal, IMMEDIATELY.

“We are deploying all resources to get her mother home safely. The prayers of our Nation are with her and her family. GOD BLESS AND PROTECT NANCY!”

Savannah Guthrie co-hosts Today, the morning show on NBC News, the US sister network of Sky News.

She often brought her mother on as a guest. Speaking on the show in 2022 on Nancy Guthrie’s 80th birthday, she said: “She has met unthinkable challenges in her life with grit, without self-pity, with determination and always, always with unshakeable faith.

“She loves us, her family, fiercely, and her selflessness and sacrifice for us, her steadfastness and her unmovable confidence is the reason any of us grew up to do anything.”

A fire broke out at a building attached to Lehigh Valley Hospital in Pennsylvania on Wednesday night, prompting a large emergency response and the evacuation of patients, officials said. 

The Dickson City Fire Department said in a Facebook post that it and other first-alarm companies were dispatched to the hospital complex around 9:40 p.m.

Upon arrival, Fire Chief Richard Chowanec upgraded the response for additional units after determining the fire was burning in the roof of the original Scranton Orthopedics building, an older structure attached to the newer Lehigh Valley Hospital facility.

Officials said there was no active fire inside the main hospital building, though smoke and water damage were reported.

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Crews worked to contain a fire that broke out at Lehigh Valley Hospital on Feb. 4, 2026. (Facebook/ Dickson City Fire Dept)

Police officers from across the Mid-Valley area, along with hospital staff and EMS crews, assisted in evacuating patients with support from the Lackawanna County Emergency Management Agency and Pennsylvania State Police. 

WNEP-TV 16 reported that 77 patients were transferred from the hospital to local facilities and no major injuries were reported.

The local station said crews battled the blaze as parts of the orthopedics unit collapsed before the fire was ultimately contained around 11:15 p.m.

Crews worked to contain a fire that broke out at Lehigh Valley Hospital on Feb. 4, 2026. (Facebook/ Dickson City Fire Dept)

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The Dickson City Fire Department said the Pennsylvania State Police Fire Marshal Unit will investigate the cause and origin of the fire.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks during a re-election campaign kickoff event in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026. (Rachel Wisniewski/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro thanked first responders in a post on X for “running toward danger to help their fellow Pennsylvanians.”

“Lori and I are praying for the staff, patients, their families, and the entire community tonight,” he wrote.

One person has died, and three others have been hurt after a double-decker bus crashed into pedestrians in Dublin city centre.

Ireland’s justice minister confirmed the news to the Irish parliament, adding that those injured are being treated in hospital.

It is understood that the incident, in the pedestrianised North Earl Street, is being treated as a road crash.

Emergency services were called shortly after 12.30pm to the junction of Talbot Street and Marlborough Street.

Images from the scene show a police cordon has been established and a tent erected around the crash site.

The front window of the bus, which remains at the location, has been smashed, but it is not clear how that happened.

The operator, Bus Eireann, confirmed one of its vehicles was involved but said it was not in service at the time of the incident.

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Many Democrats long claimed the only way to solve the border crisis was for Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform, but a Trump-era enforcement posture in the absence of new legislation has led to a 55-year low in crossings.

Data from the Border Patrol cited by Pew Research this week found there were 237,538 migrant encounters at the Mexican border in 2025; the lowest number since Richard Nixon was president when 201,780 were encountered in 1970.

Those figures are a drop from more than 2 million in 2022 and 2023, which neared only the 1986 figure of 1.6 million and the 2024 figure of 1.5 million. President John F. Kennedy had the best luck with border security, as less than 21,000 crossed in any of his three years in office before his assassination.

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A construction vehicle builds the border wall near Sunland Park, N.M. in 2026. (Christian Torres/Getty Images)

Several Democrats were asked about the latest figures and the stark change in absence of legislation they’ve said would be the cure:

BARACK OBAMA

Former President Barack Obama previously called the border crisis during his deputy’s term as president “a painful reminder that we don’t have this right yet,” according to ABC News.

At the time in 2021, Obama said that as a “nation-state, we have to have borders,” and many conservatives have pointed to Obama’s relative success with deportations and the awarding of a medal to then-future Border Czar Tom Homan as an example of when Democrats sought a strong immigration enforcement posture.

But, as Obama told ABC News at the time, the crisis was the reason he proposed comprehensive immigration reform for Congress to pass.

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Fox News Digital reached out to Obama’s office for comment on the border numbers in the absence of such a law.

SEN. CHARLES SCHUMER, D-N.Y.

In September 2024, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer said he would always fight for DREAMers and comprehensive immigration reform.

“Comprehensive immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship has long been a priority of mine. It is one of the most important things this Congress can do,” he said in 2021.

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President Barack Obama, with Vice President Joe Biden at his side, urges Congress to revive comprehensive immigration reform during remarks in the East Room of the White House on Oct. 24, 2013. Obama said that with the partial government shutdown over, Republicans and Democrats should be able to work together to fix what he called “a broken immigration system.”  (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Fox News Digital reached out to Schumer for comment.

KAMALA HARRIS

At a campaign rally in 2024, Kamala Harris pledged to work with Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship for DREAMers.

She criticized President Donald Trump for tanking the Lankford-Sinema reform bill and said that politicians should “stop treating immigration as an issue to scare up votes.”

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Fox News Digital reached out to Harris’ office for comment.

SEN. RICHARD DURBIN, D-ILL.

Meanwhile, Sen. Richard Durbin helped craft the original DREAM Act years ago and has said repeatedly that the way to solve the border crisis is through such reforms.

“For more than 35 years, Congress has failed to fix the immigration laws of America,” he said in 2023.

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Fox News Digital reached out to Durbin for comment.

At the top of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday, Durbin obliquely addressed the subject, saying that the Trump administration’s “second iteration… has gone to unprecedented lengths to upend the rule of law, violate the constitutional rights of Americans, and blatantly ignore court orders” with regard to immigration.

REP. NANCY PELOSI, D-CALIF.

In 2014, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters that “what’s happening at the border is a case for passing comprehensive immigration reform.”

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The Hon. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker Emerita, U.S. House of Representatives, speaks onstage during the 2025 Concordia Annual Summit at Sheraton New York Times Square on Sept. 23, 2025 in New York City.  (Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Concordia Annual Summit)

“Some are using that as an excuse not to pass comprehensive immigration reform — any excuse will do; they said they’re not going to do it — They should not take any hope in saying that because of this we cant have it — because of this we must pass comprehensive immigration.”

In 2023, she doubled down, saying that the “MAGA Movement would rather use newcomers to our nation as political pawns than work across the aisle to achieve comprehensive immigration reform,” and in January said the “strength of our democracy” depends on it.

Fox News Digital reached out to Pelosi for further comment.

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DAVID TRONE, D-MD.

David Trone, a former Maryland Democratic congressman seeking his old seat this year, has been vocal in opposition to Trump’s immigration enforcement posture, ridiculing ICE for allegedly “executing” people and condemning the administration for its purchase of a sprawling facility in Williamsport, Maryland, that DHS told Fox News Digital would aid in that endeavor.

While running for Senate in 2024 against Angela Alsobrooks and Larry Hogan, Trone remarked, “forget the border,” saying it was a “Republican talking point and distraction.”

“You know who builds all of our homes in the construction industry, virtually all? Latinos. Our immigration policies just don’t make any sense. We need more lawful [immigration].”

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He said at the time that one million immigrants come per year and that policies have not changed for 25 years: “Why? Because Congress is waiting for comprehensive immigration reform.”

ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS

Former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas repeatedly blamed congressional inaction for some of the border woes during his tenure overseeing it.

From the White House podium in 2023, Mayorkas declared the border was “not open,” leading to GOP uproar.

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U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas holds a press conference at a U.S. Border Patrol station on January 08, 2024, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (John Moore/Getty Images)

“People who cross our border unlawfully and without a legal basis to remain will be promptly processed and removed,” he said, though the figures from Pew paint a different picture.

“Our current situation is the outcome of Congress leaving a broken, outdated immigration system in place for over two decades, despite unanimous agreement that we desperately need legislative reform. It is also the result of Congress’s decision not to provide us with the resources we need and that we requested.”

Mayorkas was unable to be directly reached for comment.

SEN. RUBEN GALLEGO, D-ARIZ.Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., has also called for reform but has offered more nuance in that regard.

“We don’t have to choose between border security and immigration reform. We can and should do both,” Gallego said in announcing a five-point plan in 2025.

Gallego called for hiring more border agents and reconfiguring the asylum process, but also called for a pathway to citizenship like other top Democrats.

When asked Wednesday about the sudden drop in border crossings in the absence of any such reforms, Gallego said the news was a “win for Arizonans” but also comes with its own issues.

“We can’t replace one form of chaos with another,” Gallego told FOX News Digital.

“Under this administration, ICE has become a rogue agency, with agents who feel they can trample on Americans’ Constitutional rights—including the right to bear arms—with total impunity.”

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Gallego said Congress must still pass “durable laws” to reflect the approach he laid out in his 2025 plan.

“[That] prioritizes actual security over lawless intimidation.”