well-being and so that has been very encouraging. if there s someone who is watching who may knowing? what s your message? it was announced yesterday the authorities listed about it s on the web site a series of things to be looking out for in co-workers or classmates and family members that may be behaving differently, may be agitated or change their appearance or have were missing and had absenses around that time so the authorities now are being much more specific in what we should be looking for and so i think that will be really helpful. helpful to focus things a bit more. we will continue to stay on top of this as well. we appreciate rob tibbets, dalton jack, thank you for taking time for us this morning. if you have tibbs, you see the number on your screen,
university student mollie tibbets. brian: the reward for her return now hitting over $270,000. steve: mollie s father rob says he believes she is still alive and could actually be with somebody she knows. her father, rob tibbets, joins us right now live from brooklyn, iowa. rob, good morning to you. good morning. good morning. steve: since the get-go you believe she was abducted. now you believe she was abducted by somebody n.i.e. she knows. explain that. i just think that because the situation in brooklyn that everyone knows everyone, i just don t think that anyone set out to harm mollie. and the longer we go without finding her, the more optimistic we are that she is with someone that doesn t want to harm her but doesn t know how to extricate themselves from this situation. steve: do you think that
they are all putting forth the effort to try to find her. steve: rob, before we leave, what s the last thing you would like to tell everybody watching right now? just think. think about what you saw and call the authorities. i really think that s how we are going to get mollie back. i really do. steve: all right. fellows, thank you very much for joining us now live from grinnell, iowa, if anybody has any information about missing mollie tibbets call the sheriff s office at 641-623-5679.
whether they saw mollie or whether they saw something that was out of place that seems insignificant and they are reluctant to come forward with that information because they don t want to clog up the investigation, there is no information too insignificant or if they re suspicious about a loved one or a friend that they are reluctant to turn into the authorities for something that they suspect, if they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear. and so turn that information over to the authorities and let them sort out what s right and what s wrong. steve: so far, rob, how many tips have they received? we don t know. we don t know anything about that. we rely on our partners in law enforcement to handle the search and the investigation. they share virtually no information with us, which is exactly the way we want it. and the way they want it. we rely on them for that they rely on us to help keep
dalton, do you have any idea what may have happened? no, i m kind of just leaving all the investigating to the fbi and all the authorities that are on the case. steve: do you have a theory? not really. steve: okay. i know this week you and mollie were supposed to be in the dominican republic. tell us what you were planning to do. my brother was doing a destination wedding down there and we were going to go down today actually for his wedding. steve: but that was canceled given what was happened with mollie. rob, let s talk a little bit about one of the reasons have you come on television so frequently in the last week or so is because you feel that there is somebody out there, whether it s in brooklyn, iowa or somebody who is just passing through that saw mollie that night and knows something.