Finding Gabby News Today

Laundry. this amid growing frustration over the investigation as protesters gather outside laundrys home in north port. we have team fox coverage. laura ingal live in jackson, wyoming on the search for gabby. first to charles watson in north port, florida. charles. >> reporter: the search for gabbys boyfriend enters day two. authorities are back out, searching for any trace of brian who has been missing for five days. yesterday, authorities called off the search around sunset, about 50 officers ...

In the vast nature reserve. additionally, police tell us they are also working on getting tracking data for brians cell phone, but its not clear how far theyve gotten in that effort. earlier in the week north port police sounded pretty confident in knowing brians whereabouts. it wasnt until friday when his parents reported him missing that authorities learned he hadnt been seen since he left to go hiking at the carlton reserve on tuesday. but there are a lot of questions about how the 23-year-ol...

There was nobody there. >> reporter: now, this is where the fbi has put out a map asking for he anyone who was in this specific area during the august 27th through august 30th timeframe to be on the lookout. law enforcement has that area completely shut down to the public while the they investigate this area and this very rugged terrain today. this new clue, which came overnight, gives teams an even greater bulls-eye to hone in on their search for any signs of gabby or clues into her disappearan...

In contact with her family. senior correspondent laura ingal is live in jackson, wyoming with more. laura, what can you tell us? >> reporter: hi, arthel. the ground search efforts to find any sign of gabby continue on and press on today, both with the fbi, national park service and local law enforcement and today we are learning of a new potential clue that could help place her and her van in this general area before her fiance, brian laundry, took her van back to florida. this is a new developm...

Night at a candlelight vigil to show solidarity with the family as they go through what many would describe as every parents worst nightmare. >> you know, we just think if it was our child, we would need the support because emotionally i cant imagine what theyre going through. >> reporter: now, earlier in the week, police sounded pretty confident in knowing brians whereabouts. it wasnt until friday when his parents called police and reported him missing when authorities learned he hadnt been see...

Of their home. but jon, right now, there are a lot of questions about how this 23-year-old was able to slip away without a trace. >> brian was not going to speak with us. he would not speak with us. so knowing that, we werent dedicating a whole lot of resources to following around someone who is not wanted on a crime. our focus was finding gabby. >> and jon, i want to make it clear, that police have maintained that brian is only a person of interest in regard to the disappearance of his girlfrie...

To find her. >> reporter: now, the petito family released a statement through their attorney that a reads, quote: all of gabbys family want the world to know that brian isnt missing, hes in hiding. gabby is missing. protesters demanding answers popped up outside of the family home as questions mount why brian returned home to florida alone after that cross-country trip he and gabby were on together and why hes refused to investigators about his girlfriends whereabouts. >> he has to say what happ...

>> well, the parents are going to have a hard time saying at any point in this investigation that they didnt know anything because simply by virtue of the fact that they did not respond to text messages from gabbys parents who were, by all accounts, good friends of theirs shows their complicity. so theyre going to have a real hard time backing out of that one if, in fact, this thing goes the way some of us think it might go. arthel: yeah. she lived with the family for over a year. her name is ga...

>> all that matters is finding her and bringing her home. were still trying to get the word out there, you know, and try to find that one person that might have some details that we need. just trying to get out there and find that person and, hopefully, they can help us with anything, you know, thatll bring her home. >> reporter: thousands of tips have been pouring into the fbi and the police. according to a report in the east idaho news, the owner of a local shop in victor, idaho, near the wyom...

Near the wyoming border told the fbi that she saw gabby and brian landry either on august 25th or the 26th, thats a day or two after gabbys mother last spoke to her daughter. the owner said the couple seemed happy and mentioned they were thinking about going to yellowstone next but still with brian silence a big piece of the puzzle is missing. >> you need to just really give us at least are we looking in the correct spots because theres a lot of space in between here and we cant just keep doing ...