Sudiksha Konanki's whereabouts remain unknown 9 days after she went missing at a Punta Cana resort on spring break. FOX's Nate Foy joined LiveNOW from FOX's Josh Breslow with the latest details from the Dominican Republic.
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00:00The investigation does continue after a University of Pittsburgh student
00:04seemingly vanished while in the Dominican Republic. I do want to bring in Nate Foy with
00:09Fox News joining us live now with the latest information. Good afternoon Nate. Obviously
00:14a lot of information coming in but still so many questions.
00:20So many questions Josh and I want to show you some of the search efforts real quick
00:24if we can catch this helicopter before it disappears into the tree line right there.
00:28You see that the search efforts continue as we're now in the second week of this investigation and
00:33Josh we're learning more about the person that Sudeeksha Kananki was last seen with. He's now
00:38identified as Joshua Reby of Iowa. He's been questioned multiple times this week by both
00:45American and Dominican investigators and thanks to our colleague Brian Yannis at Fox News we were
00:51able to obtain a transcript of his interview with Dominican investigators. A nearly four
00:56hour interview on Wednesday of this week. So behind me you see the Rio Republica Resort.
01:02That's where Kananki was last seen and according to the transcript of his interview with Dominican
01:07authorities Reby says they met at the resort that night. They started drinking at the hotel bar.
01:14They went into the ocean. They started kissing each other and then a big wave hit them took them
01:19out to sea. He then tried rescuing her bringing her back to the shoreline. Once they got there
01:26they were in knee-deep water and he asked her if she was okay. He didn't hear her response because
01:33of all the seawater that he had swallowed during that rescue. Then he passed out on the beach
01:41and didn't leave for a few hours and then told authorities that he didn't realize that she was
01:45missing until the following morning. Now his family has put out a statement saying that he's
01:51been irregularly detained and that his lawyer wasn't present for all of the questioning. We do
01:58know that his lawyer was there for a questioning from Loudoun County detectives. Loudoun County is
02:05where Kananki is from in Virginia. They had boots on the ground here in the Dominican Republic but
02:10those Loudoun County detectives have since gone back to the United States and I want to ask my
02:16photographer to show the red flags here outside the Rio Republica resort. Those indicate dangerous
02:22ocean conditions and then we can also pan off to the ocean here. You see a lot of people are
02:27enjoying themselves. There are waves and I mentioned the red flags but we're seeing children
02:34in the ocean today as well. We're told that those red flags didn't go up until after Kananki
02:40disappeared. So Dominican authorities promise that they're evaluating all possibilities
02:45including the idea that possibly her disappearance wasn't an accident. We'll send it back to you.
02:51Yeah and Nate I did want to ask you because we've seen a few brief statements that have been put out
02:56by authorities there in the Dominican Republic. We know that there were some American agencies that
03:01were out there as well. Do we know if there is going to be a full-fledged news conference anything
03:07like that? Have we heard of any official news conference that could be coming up with maybe
03:12some more details? We're not getting a lot of cooperation from authorities. The Dominican
03:18Attorney General's office said that they were not going to hold a news conference until they
03:23had a significant development in the investigation. Now we have learned about that interview
03:29since they told us that. So that could or could not count as a significant development. It is
03:35important to point out at this point Reby is only described as a witness. He's not a suspect. He's
03:40not a person of interest and this is still just a missing persons investigation rather than a
03:46criminal investigation. But if there is a major change we're told there will be a news conference
03:51and if that happens we will certainly be there to cover it. Of course Nate Foy there with Fox
03:56News. Thank you so much as always for joining us and providing all the details. We appreciate it.
04:02You got it.