Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie said on Saturday her family will pay the ransom for their missing 84-year-old mother, whom authorities believe was abducted last weekend.

“We received your message, and we understand,” Guthrie said in a brief video. “We beg you now to return our mother to us, so that we can celebrate with her. This is the only way we will have peace. This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.”