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Video From Guthrie's Home Shows Armed, Masked Person Obstructing Camera; Trump Threatens To Block Opening Of New U.S.- Canada Bridge; Greer: Trump Wants U.S. To Get "Fair Share" Of Bridge Proceeds; NBC: Guthrie Family Does Not Recognize Person In New Images. Aired 3-3:30p ET

Aired February 10, 2026 - 15:00   ET

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BORIS SANCHEZ, CNN HOST: There's stunning new evidence in the search for Nancy Guthrie. New videos released by the FBI showing an armed individual outside her home. Savannah Guthrie posting online, quote, "we believe she is still alive. Bring her home."

BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN HOST: Is this a bridge too far? Why President Trump is threatening to block the opening of a nearly $5 billion bridge connecting the U.S. and Canada?

And the dramatic moments when a plane landed on a busy road. As the pilot told air traffic control, please tell my wife I love her.

We're following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to CNN NEWS CENTRAL.

SANCHEZ: Breaking news into CNN. The FBI today releasing new videos and photos of a potential suspect in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie. The doorbell camera footage showing a person wearing a ski mask and gloves, carrying a backpack as well. This person appears to be armed, carrying a gun and a holster in their front waistband. You can see in the video the suspect seems to be tampering with the camera at one point stepping away, looking around and picking up what appears to be shrubbery plants from the front yard, attempting to use them to cover the camera.

KEILAR: The FBI says this footage was recovered from, quote, "residual data." Last week law enforcement revealed that at 1:47 A.M. Nancy Guthrie's doorbell camera was disconnected. Twenty-five minutes later, a different camera detected a person.

At the time, officials said, this footage was inaccessible because the video subscription Guthrie had did not appear to have been renewed or she didn't have it active at the time. But it now appears there is hope and that that video clearly was retrievable.

Let's go straight to Tucson, Arizona. CNN's Jake Tapper is outside the Pima County Sheriff's Office as this breakthrough is happening.

Jake, what more are you learning about these new images from Nancy Guthrie's home?

JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR, THE LEAD: It's just been a remarkable turn of events in the last few hours, Brianna, and -- and the word you just used, hope, is the pivotal one, because until today, hope was in rather short supply for the Guthrie family, the Pima County Sheriff's Office and the FBI, frankly, with very few leads to go on. We're entering now the 10th day since the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie.

And while there was information at the house, information in which it was clear when her pacemaker in her -- in her chest disconnected from her phone, which was left behind, information having to do with the blood on the porch suggesting that it was, in fact, her blood, Nancy Guthrie is 84 years old, based on DNA tests. Since then, there has been almost nothing to the point that Savannah Guthrie took to social media yesterday, as we discussed yesterday, and talked about the need to crowdsource this.

For anyone out there, please, if you have any information, if you see or you hear anything that strikes you as unusual that could be relevant to this case, please contact law enforcement. Well, thankfully, the FBI was able to work with private company partners to recover some of that nest camera footage that had been thought to have either not existed or have been destroyed. And while the footage was corrupted, they were able to work diligently with the private companies to restore some of it.

And this remarkable footage today that you're seeing on the screen right now, three videos, six still images that really provide a fount of information about this individual's build, clothes that this individual has, this -- how this individual walks, mannerisms that this person has. It appears to be a man, although the law enforcement sources that we're -- we've talked to are not ruling anything out. And as Savannah Guthrie wrote when she posted some of the video this afternoon, someone out there recognizes this person.

We believe she, meaning her mother, is still out there. Bring her home. And in a previous post of the still photographs, the initial four, Savannah Guthrie writing: "We believe she is still alive. Bring her home."

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And asking for more information. And we should just step back and acknowledge that there have been huge cracks in cases based on far less information than this. When you look at the gruesome and horrific murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO that led to the arrest of the alleged killer, Luigi Mangione, that was based on a few photographs and then some alert individuals at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

When you think about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, that killer seemed to have escaped into almost thin air. But it was some images, again, not as good as these images, that made the alleged shooter's father think that, oh, maybe this was my son that did this and talked him into turning himself in. Time after time, there have been big breaks in case in case -- in

cases when information has been crowdsourced and this is a lot of information. These six still photographs, especially the one of his full body close to the camera and the three videos, perhaps especially the one three or four second clip of the individual walking up from the driveway to the -- through the arched doorway to Nancy Guthrie's porch, showing the gait of the person as he or she tries to avoid the camera, really remarkable.

SANCHEZ: Yes, definitely the -- the biggest piece of evidence that we've seen thus far, these images and this footage.

Jake Tapper, thank you so much for that.

Let's go now to Ed Lavandera. He's outside Nancy Guthrie's home.

Ed, this is huge for investigators as they're hoping that the public has some bit of information that will help them identify this person.

ED LAVANDERA, CNN SENIOR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes. No, this is key as people start looking through all of that, and I thought -- I think it would be helpful to go through the timeline of this situation, because that will help people kind of, you know, pinpoint the specific time that they're looking for.

Remember, Nancy Guthrie was dropped off at her home here 10 days ago on a Saturday night, about 9:45. She presumably goes in. She went into the garage, we're told. And then, you see just above the sheriff's vehicle here, you see the archway, the big archway there.

That is the front entrance to the home. That is the spot from where you're seeing those videos.

So, somewhere between 9:45 P.M. and 1:45 A.M. early Sunday morning, that is when the -- the suspect shows up here at the house. But what investigators really want to know is like the hours before that. Clearly, this person had to have gotten into this neighborhood on a -- on a vehicle and be able to escape.

There's a multitude of ways to get in here and there's -- where depending on which path you follow in, Boris, it takes about a mile or so to get into this specific area where we're at. So, you can imagine that investigators are now kind of fanning out from here and trying to find and map out the areas that are a path that this person would have taken to escape from this neighborhood undetected with -- with Nancy Guthrie.

So, they're hoping that maybe somebody saw something. Maybe they're out on one of the main roads around this neighborhood and they might have seen some guy driving with gloves on his -- on his -- on his hands that might have been strange.

So, all of that work is going -- and we know it's going on, because investigators continue to canvas and recanvass and talking to people in this vicinity. And they have been doing that for several days now. Boris. KEILAR: Yes. Ed, thank you so much. If you can stand by for us.

Here now to discuss, we have retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent Steve Moore.

Steve, what are you seeing in this video about this person's actions? And what should people be on the lookout for as they're looking at this person's actions and -- and appearance?

STEVE MOORE, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT CONTRIBUTOR: Well, I -- first of all, I -- I'd get that clothing description out so that people might recognize the backpack or the clothes or something that they wear. But the amount of information that's coming out of this is just amazing.

Like, if you look at the guy's gun that he's carrying, it's -- it's kind of ridiculous. He's got a small, semi-automatic pistol meant for concealment that he could have put in his pocket. But instead, he's holstering it in a -- in a holster made for a large frame revolver. They don't even match. I think one thing -- one picture looks like he's trying to make sure it doesn't fall out. And it's holstered right up -- right at his belt buckle, which is crazy.

So, he's obviously not familiar with guns or the use of guns or the deployment of guns. The, gloves he wears, those appear to be like nine-millimeter nine-mil workman's gloves, not medical gloves. I'd look at hardware stores, Harbor Freight, things like that. And then, you know, those bricks, those pavers, those are unknown size, probably hardware stores, Harbor Freight, things like that.

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And then, you know, those bricks -- those pavers, those are a known size, probably like a foot square. That gives you his shoe size. From the shoe size, you get height and you get height from how far he cleared that archway, which is a known height. There is so much that they learn from this.

And the guy is such an amateur. I mean, he -- if he case the place, why didn't he bring just some electrical tape for the ring?

SANCHEZ: Yes, that -- that leads to an important question, which is from this footage, how do you gather, Steve, whether this person has thought this through in a sense that they've cased the exterior of Nancy Guthrie's home? He appears to improvise and grab that shrubbery to try to cover the ring doorbell. Yet he's also moving without any urgency. It doesn't appear that he's moving fast or seeking to get in and out of there. How do you -- how do you classify his movements and what does it tell you about a level of premeditation, if at all?

MOORE: Well, this is this tells me that it's highly premeditated and very poorly planned. Obviously, I mean, I think this is the first time he's ever done something like this, I think he probably read books, got -- got information from people he knows, studied other cases and figured out some things that he had to do, but it doesn't tell you everything you have to do. And what this strikes me as is somebody who doesn't know what he doesn't know. He's really -- you know, he thinks he's being clever, but he's just

showing off that he's an amateur.

KEILAR: I also wonder, Steve, there has to be an assumption on the part of this perpetrator of -- you know, I mean, it's taken 10 days to get this video out. But how would this person necessarily know that -- that that video wouldn't be readily available to law enforcement? And -- and I wonder how you think that might have informed their behavior.

I thought it was really interesting in Savannah's recent -- one of her recent videos where she was urging people to keep their eye out for anything strange, even if they are far from Tucson. Because as far as this individual knew, all they had was several hours of perhaps lead time before someone may notice that Nancy Guthrie was missing.

MOORE: Right. I -- I'm kind of intrigued by the fact that it took so long to get a ransom demand. It's possible that during that time they were just waiting to see whether there was camera footage of them, whether they needed to get out of the state or out of the country.

I think there was a lot of uncertainty in what they were going to do immediately after the kidnapping, which leads you to believe that they -- they didn't know if they were on that ring camera. They didn't know what law enforcement had and they may have left the area temporarily.

KEILAR: Yes, that's assuming if the ransom demand is definitively someone holding Nancy Guthrie, which, of course, there are still ...

MOORE: Absolutely.

KEILAR: ... some questions about.

SANCHEZ: Yes, no doubt. And -- and if anyone out there has information that they can glean from these images that they think would be helpful to investigators, you're asked to call 1-800-CALL-FBI.

Steve Moore, thank you so much for sharing your analysis.

Still to come this afternoon, top immigration officials grilled by lawmakers on Capitol Hill. What they said about the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good and about the detention of five-year-old Liam Ramos.

KEILAR: Plus, why President Trump is threatening to block the opening of a new bridge. This bridge connecting the U.S. and Canada, even though it was paid for and will be maintained by Canada.

Then later, a pilot's touching message to his wife and family during a terrifying crash landing in Georgia. We'll have that and much more coming up on CNN NEWS CENTRAL.

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SANCHEZ: Canadian leaders are optimistic that a new bridge linking the U.S. and Canada will soon be open to traffic, despite President Trump's threats to block it from opening. In a Truth Social post, Trump writing, quote, "I will not allow this bridge to open until the U.S. is fully compensated for everything we've given them, and also, importantly, Canada treats the United States with the Fairness and Respect that we deserve."

The nearly $5 billion bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, is named after the famous Canadian hockey player, Gordie Howe, and was set to open this year. Under a 2012 agreement, Canada is responsible for its construction, operation, maintenance and funding, though it will be jointly owned by the Canadian government and the state of Michigan.

Let's talk to Drew Dilkens about this. He's the mayor of Windsor, Ontario.

Mayor, thank you so much for being with us. Let's just start with what would happen if Trump somehow followed through on these threats. What would be the impact of this bridge closing, not only for your city, but also for your neighbors in Michigan?

MAYOR DREW DILKENS, WINDSOR, ONTARIO: Yes, well, Windsor and Detroit is home to the busiest commercial border crossing between the United States and Canada. A billion dollars of trade every four days crosses at the port of entries here in Windsor-Detroit. And so, we haven't had this second bridge. This is a redundant bridge. It's going to be the smoothest, most technology efficient bridge between our two countries.

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And there is another bridge here, the Ambassador Bridge, which is nearing a hundred years of age. So, I suppose everyone will just continue to use the Ambassador Bridge until the Gordie Howe opens.

SANCHEZ: So, as Prime Minister Carney says, the situation will be resolved. What do you make of the threats from Trump or how confident are you that this will get resolved?

DILKENS: Well, I'm -- pretty confident, Boris, because the entire bridge is built. It's -- from the start of the conversation until the bridge opens this year, it will have been 25 years.

So, think of the success of presidents, prime ministers, governors, premiers and mayors that have been involved in moving this project forward over the course of 25 years. It is fully constructed and fully connected to the interstate systems on both sides of the border. And so, I'm confident it will open. I'm -- I'm sure the prime minister will find a pathway with President Trump.

But the president put forward a number of mistruths in his social media post talking about no U.S. products being used or U.S. labor. In fact, half of the bridge, the -- the Michigan half was built with U.S. steel. The port of entry on the U.S. side was built with U.S. steel and U.S. building materials. And of the 15,000 people who helped build this bridge, 8,000 came from the United States. And so, to say that somehow the U.S. wasn't involved and it -- you

know, there has to be some more equity in this, it makes no sense based on the facts.

SANCHEZ: It -- it also goes to the U.S. trade representative saying the U.S. is looking to negotiate a fair share of any proceeds from the bridge and the economic activity that it generates. What should the proceeds be? I mean, what do you make of that angle of this?

DILKENS: Well, let -- let's go back. You talked about the $5 billion U.S. that it took to actually construct the bridge. The Michigan side paid for all of the connections to the interstate system, hundreds of millions, if not a billion dollars on the -- on the Michigan side to do the connections that were required. And we jointly own this bridge together, the state of Michigan and the government of Canada.

The costs of construction are going to be repaid through tolls and it's going to take many years to repay that amount to make the -- the project whole. But at the end of the day, once that's done, Michigan and Canada are going to be the owners of the bridge and split the proceeds.

And so, listen, we have the busiest commercial border crossing. The auto industry, we're home to the auto capital of Canada. The Motor City, of course, just the other side of the border. The whole industry function -- functions on a just-in-time basis. This bridge, being the most technologically efficient bridge, removes the friction from the border crossing and actually helps support thousands and thousands of jobs on the U.S. side in the auto and parts sector.

SANCHEZ: On the overall picture, the broader picture of U.S. relations with Canada, it's fascinating that President Trump would say that Canada and Canadians are being disrespectful toward the United States and even toward him when he's said so much about Canada becoming the 51st state, seeming to downplay Canada's history and the fact that it's a sovereign nation with its own government. When you hear about President Trump threatening to put a tariff on all Canadian goods to a hundred percent, if there's a trade deal between Canada and China, how does all of that make you feel?

DILKENS: Well, listen, I -- I'm hopeful that the U.S. Supreme Court steps up in a very loud and proud way with respect to the Section 232 tariffs. I hope residents in the United States are watching the chaos that is being created around the world by the United States and recognize that we have trade deals in place that go back decades and decades that have served to the benefit of putting a lot of bread on the table of U.S. families, as well as Canadian families that was so successful, we added Mexico to the equation.

Where we need some fine tuning, let's sit down and talk about that with our USMCA and CUSMA agreement this year. This is the year to actually repackage the whole trade agreement and figure out what the future looks like moving forward.

But to cherry pick different issues, this is the hallmark of Donald Trump. Let's cherry pick auto, steel, aluminum, dairy, softwood lumber, and just deal with the issues one by one. That's not really the way to negotiate. And I'm hopeful that this year, our federal governments will be able to figure out the pathway that allows us to reset and move forward in a way that continues to allow productive -- the productive economy in both countries. It's -- it's to our mutual benefit and -- and certainly interest to find that pathway going forward.

SANCHEZ: Mayor Drew Dilkens, thank you so much for the time.

DILKENS: Thank you.

SANCHEZ: Of course. Still ahead, more on these newly released videos and images of a masked armed person at Nancy Guthrie's front door the morning she disappeared. Stay with CNN.

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KEILAR: This just in, NBC News is reporting that the Guthrie family does not recognize the person seen in these just released videos outside of Nancy Guthrie's Tucson home. The clear black and white grayscale really images and video of an armed masked person are the biggest break yet for investigators since she went missing 10 days ago. And FBI Director Kash Patel said the visuals were recovered from, quote, "residual data" located in back-end systems and that they had been, quote, "previously inaccessible."

SANCHEZ: Guthrie's doorbell camera was removed the night that she disappeared and in the videos you see the individual trying to tamper with the camera. So, how did officials get these new images? For answers, let's turn to CNN Media Correspondent Hadas Gold.

Hadas, the FBI has talked about working with private sector partners. Help us understand the process of recovering media from a device that's been tampered with.

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HADAS GOLD, CNN MEDIA CORRESPONDENT: Yes. So, previously investigators had said that the doorbell camera software did detect movement.