and analysts right now following the very latest for you right now. but we are going to start with that breaking news in haiti, where reportedly up to 17 american missionaries and their families have been kidnapped by a gang. that s according to the new york times who spoke with haitian security officials. nbc news has not independently confirmed these details, but we have reached out to the state department and to other u.s.-based charity christian ministries in the overnight hours. we re waiting for a response from all of those. but nbc news foreign correspondent sanchez has the latest for us. reporter: u.s. officials are scrambling to find out what happened to these american missionaries and their families in haiti, but that is not an easy task in one of the most chaotic and violent countries in the western hemisphere. here s what we do know. the associated press is reporting a group of 17 people were kidnapped by an armed gang, coming back from an orphanage on saturday. but t