It's Friday, February 6th, and the Guthrie family wants proof of life.

We start here.

Amid fake ransom notes, one of them is being treated as real.

They want any would-be kidnapper to know that they are ready to talk and ready to listen.

Inside the public pleas on behalf of Nancy Guthrie,

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Britain is being rocked from Buckingham Palace to Parliament,

and the opening ceremonies are about to get underway.

There's so much Olympic energy in the air.

Our team will fill you in on what to expect in Milan.

From ABC News, this is Start Here.

I'm Brad Milkey.

Unfortunately... start here. I'm Brad Milkey. Unfortunately, we've covered a lot of kidnappings over the years, whether it's journalists and war zones or families here at home. An abduction always raises the question, what do

the perpetrators want? Is it to inflict violence? Is it to make a political statement?

Or could it be to collect a ransom?

Well, in the case of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of NBC broadcaster, Savannah Guthrie,

when police said she had been taken from her house in the middle of the night,

authorities appeared to have no leads on who did it, let alone why.

We have nobody of interest or any suspects that you would consider a prime suspect.

Hours went by, then days. Chatter started to emerge of ransom notes out there, but authorities

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