India, Feb. 8 -- On February 8, Today co-host Savannah Guthrie and her siblings released a new video message addressed directly to whoever may be holding their mother, Nancy. In the appeal, Guthrie said the family had received a message and was prepared to comply.

"We received your message, and we understand," Guthrie said, seated alongside her sister Annie and brother Camron. "We beg you now to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her. This is the only way we will have peace. This is very valuable to us, and we will pay."

The video marked the family's second public appeal since Nancy Guthrie, 84, disappeared in January.

Multiple news outlets have reported that an apparent ransom note was sent earlier this week to seve...