TUCSON, Arizona: Popular US morning news anchor Savannah Guthrie posted a video message on Wednesday addressing anyone who might be holding her missing elderly mother, presumed abducted from her Arizona home this week, pleading for them to open a line of communication.

“We need to know without a doubt that she is alive and that you have her. We want to hear from you and we are ready to listen. Please, reach out to us,” the co-host of NBC’s “Today” show said in the video message posted to Instagram.

The emotional appeal came three days after Nancy Guthrie, 84, was reported missing from her home at the edge of Tucson by family ‌members in what ‌investigators said they believe was an abduction.

It coincided with a two-hour ‌flurry ⁠of intense police activity ‌at Nancy Guthrie’s home, where yellow crime-scene tape was strung up around the property for the first time this week and investigators were seen coming and going from the house.

FBI agents are assisting in the investigation.