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hello, i m victor blackwell. welcome to cnn newsroom. and i m bianna golodryga. a tragic discovery in the search for the four americans abducted in mexico. two of them were found dead and two are pack on u.s. soil. they were all found in a medical clinic in a boerder town. one of the two survives is injured. the group was traveling from south carolina so one of them could undergo a medical procedure. authorities say a group of unidentified men shot at the victims vehicles and took them away. investigators believe the americans were targeted by a mexican cartel that likely mistook them for haitian drug smugglers. diane dgallagher is in south carolina, kylie atwood is monitoring the situation from the state department. diane, let s start with you and what we re learning about the victims and what happened. reporter: victor, i m in lake city, south carolina, which family says is where three of the four americans who were abducted grew up here together. they describe ....
Procedure. they were live streaming. they were face timing.until the. family members have said that they suddenly couldn t get in touch with them anymore. it was all going to voice mail. it was just ringing until they couldn t get in touch with them and they became worried and began communicating with the conf fbi. mcgee is the mother of six children. in speaking last night they were holding out hope that it wouldn t end like this, bianna, victor. i heard you say earlier today that they viewed it as no news was good news. we re thinking of those six children. kylie, how is the biden administration responding? listen, it s clearly an all hands on deck effort here. we just heard from the white house press secretary talking about how dhs is involved, the ....
Fbi is involved, dea is involved. we know of course the state department and the justice department are involved. and all of those u.s. government agencies are working their contacts in mexico, working with their counterparts in mexico to try to figure out ned price at the state department giving an update. let s listen. we extend our deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of the deceased. we thank our mexican and u.s. law enforcement partners for their efforts to find these innocent victims and the task forward is to ensure that justice is done. next, earlier today at the launch of the 2023 joint response plan for the rohingya humanitarian crisis in bangladesh, the united states announced $26 million in additional humanitarian assistance coming in at the tail end of his comment. all right. so we had ned price there, the spokesman for the state department giving a few moments ....
About these four americans, two of whom are dead, one injured, one unharmed. let s go back to kylie atwood at the state department. i m sure we ll get more as the questions begin for ned, but kylie, continue. yeah, well, i don t think we ll hear too much more from the state department if he didn t include them in the opening remarks. that s probably because the state department is still working to get in touch with the family members of those who actually died in this incident. we know according to mexican officials that two of the americans died and two of them are still alive. but we still haven t gotten, you know, specific confirmation on that from the u.s. government. they need to reach out to the families first and then we ll learn more. they also haven t given us many details about the circumstances surrounding this. we have on taped video that helps tell the story here. mexican officials have provided some details and the fbi have provided some details but there are still a lo ....
Rented a hotel in brownsville, texas. she struggled, the group, when they went into mexico to find the doctor s office. the friend describes the fact that mcgee said they were lost. they were having a hard time communicating with the doctor s office because of spotty and poor cell phone signal. on saturday when this friend had not heard from mcgee or any of the others, she became concerned and reached out to that doctor s office. they confirmed that they had been trying to communicate but mcgee never showed up. mcgee s mother also confirms the doctor was concerned she had never showed up and contacted them. she says that the fbi contacted her on sunday telling her that her daughter had in fact been kidnapped and that she was in danger. mcgee s aunt says that she began looking online for information and found a video where she recognized her niece being kidnapped because of the blonde hair and because of the clothes she was wearing. again, this was a friend road trip. they were going to ....