This is CNN Breaking News.

Welcome to lead. I'm Jake Tapper, live in Tucson, Arizona. I'm outside the Pima County Sheriff's Department, and we're going to start with the breaking news.

A shocking development this afternoon in the search for Nancy Guthrie, one that could end up bringing the much-needed break in this high-profile

case involving the missing 84-year-old mother of NBC Today's Show anchor Savannah Guthrie.

The FBI releasing six still photographs and two videos, three videos rather, of a masked,

armed individual. These images from the front door camera of Nancy Guthrie's

home taken in the early morning of February 1st when she disappeared. Last week, of course,

we learned that that front door camera had been disconnected at 1.47 a.m. Sunday morning,

February 1st. Today, FBI Director Cash Patel says it appears that this individual tampered with the camera.

These photographs and videos were obtained through residual data on back-end systems.

We're going to have more on that in a second as the search for Nancy Guthrie here in Arizona hits day 10.

It cannot be said enough how critical these images could be to bringing her home.

They provide the Guthrie family for perhaps the very first time in this awful ordeal, one simple thing.

That's hope.

Let's take a closer look at these images one by one.

In the first image, the person appears

at Nancy Guthrie's front door in noticeably nondescript clothing trying to hide their identity.

The person is masked, gloved, seems to have a gun position at the front of his waist. You can

also see the straps of a backpack. A second image, the person holds up a plant, as if he or she is trying to obscure the lens

of this family camera, this nest camera, a security camera.

Then in a third image, the person is holding up a gloved hand to the camera as well.

And in this one, too, this is the last

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