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ABC News Update

Tuesday, February 03, 2026 08:00PM ET

ABC News Update

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🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 4 minutes

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0:00.0

From ABC News, I'm Stephanie Officer.

0:04.0

The Pima County Sheriff's Department says they're looking into the possible ransom notes as part of the investigation into Nancy Guthrie's disappearance.

0:12.0

ABC affiliate KGUN says it received one of the letters which it forwarded to police.

0:16.0

Officials determining if any of the letters are legit, as the frantic search to find the 84-year-old mother of the Today Show hosts Savannah Guthrie continues.

0:24.7

When Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos was asked by ABC News if a ransom demand has come in, he would only say his teams are following all leads.

0:33.0

But he says there is no DNA to indicate who else was in the home, no information on cars seen in the

0:38.4

area, no tire tracks or footprints. Nanos saying, Nancy was taken from her home against her

0:44.9

wheel, and that's where we're at. He says her racing to hopefully find her alive, but they don't know

0:49.4

where she is. The FBI is analyzing cell phone and cell tower data in the area.

0:54.5

Alex Stone, EBC News.

0:57.0

Asked about nationalizing elections.

0:58.9

White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt today saying President Trump, quote,

1:02.5

believes in the United States Constitution.

1:05.2

However, he believes there has been fraud that has taken place in American elections, unquote.

1:10.9

What the president was referring to is the SAVE Act, which is a huge common sense piece of legislation

1:16.6

that Republicans have supported that President Trump is committed to signing into law during his term.

1:22.9

And he spoke with the speaker directly about that yesterday, about the need to get that bill on the floor for a vote because it provides very common sense measures for voting in our country, such as voter ID.

1:34.3

An AVF 35C fighter jet shot down a Shahid drone in the Arabian Sea today.

1:40.3

ABC's Tom Sufi Burrage.

1:42.3

What we do know from US officials is that that drone was flying

1:45.7

and making maneuvers aggressively towards the ship. And even when the U.S. military said it took

1:51.9

de-escalatory steps, the drone continued its path towards the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln.

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