Savannah Guthrie's Mother Missing One Week After Arizona Kidnapping and Kaiser Permanente Workers Raise Fight Against AI

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🗓️ 10 February 2026

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Sunday marked one week since Nancy Guthrie, the mother of "Today" show anchor Savannah Guthrie, was kidnapped from her home in Arizona. Meanwhile, in Italy, the home of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, U.S. athletes are speaking out about politics back home. And in 1946, Minute Maid figured out a way to make orange juice a year-round breakfast staple. But now, after 80 years, the company is halting sales of its frozen juice cans. In business, healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente are raising one of California’s first major labor challenges over artificial intelligence, and 25-year-old Ali Ansari is nearing billionaire status after co-founding an AI startup that employs human experts like lawyers and doctors to train AI models. Read more at LATimes.com.

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0:00.0	This is an L.A. Times Studios podcast.
0:09.0	Hi, I'm Faith Pino from L.A. Times Studios in New York City.
0:13.1	And it's still dangerously frigid in the big city.
0:16.1	We saw wind chills below zero and feels like temperatures as low as negative 15 over the weekend.
0:21.5	Oh, my friends, it is one of the coldest days that New York City has seen in a long, long time.
0:26.7	It's actually colder today in New York City than in parts of Antarctica.
0:29.7	At least 18 people have tragically died in the cold.
0:32.9	So please stay safe and look out for one another.
0:35.6	Meanwhile, in Southern California, the buzz was over a heat wave,
0:40.1	but it seems rain and chillier weather are on the horizon early this week. And Sunday marked one
0:45.8	week since Nancy Guthrie, the mother of today's show anchor Savannah Guthrie, was kidnapped from
0:50.7	her home in Tucson, Arizona. The 84-year-old was reported missing last Sunday after friends and family were worried when she didn't show up to church.
0:59.6	While the investigation turned up new leads over the weekend, authorities still don't have a suspect.
1:05.6	LA Times reporter Grace Toey has been covering this and joins us with the latest on a case that's Grip the Nation.
1:11.6	The first notes started to appear on Thursday, and they were actually sent to media outlets,
1:17.0	which was kind of an interesting twist in this case. But the notes, as far as we've learned,
1:23.3	included two things that made them seem credible. So there were two details that officials and
1:31.4	people who have seen the letters said that you wouldn't have known unless you were at the
1:35.3	crime scene or involved in this actual abduction. One included specifically something about
1:41.7	an Apple Watch and its placement. So it appears to be probably a Guthrie
1:47.0	family Apple Watch and where it was left behind or where it was seen something along those lines.
1:51.9	We don't know the actual specifics of that. And then there was actually a new note that
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