UPDATE: A full-scale search is continuing Tuesday for missing CNET senior editor James Kim, who left his family's stranded car in snowy southwest Oregon Saturday to seek help.
Kim's wife and two young daughters were found alive and well Monday after surviving more than a week stranded in the wilderness of southern Oregon. They have been reunited with family.
The ground and air search has now shifted to the 35-year-old editor, who left the car on foot Saturday morning to seek help and has not yet been found, Josephine County sheriff's authorities said at a news conference in Merlin, Ore. "He's a resourceful guy and we're hoping for the best," said Mike Weinstein, a detective with the Portland Police Bureau's Missing Persons Unit.
Kati Kim, 30, and daughters Penelope and Sabine--4 years and 7 months, respectively--are being treated at Three Rivers Community Hospital in Grants Pass and are listed in good condition. Hospital spokeswoman Laura Biggers said Sabine is being held overnight for observation.
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The lost family had "minor provisions" and stayed warm using the car heater, then burning tires when they ran out of gas, authorities said. After searches in Oregon's Curry and Douglas counties, cell phone signals narrowed the search back to the Bear Camp area in Josephine County, according to reports.
Authorities said search teams, including a helicopter equipped with night vision capabilities, worked through the night Monday to locate James Kim.
Trackers had been following his footprints, Anderson said Tuesday, but that got more difficult as they reached areas of dirt and rocks.
At about 1:45 p.m. PST, search-and-rescue officials were notified that a vehicle and a female waving an umbrella were spotted by a helicopter search crew near the Rogue River in the area of Bear Camp Viewpoint off Bear Camp Road in Josephine County near the Curry County line, according to a statement from Oregon State Police. The helicopter that spotted the trio was reportedly a private aircraft contracted by the family.
The helicopter that spotted the trio was reportedly a private aircraft contracted by the family. Authorities have not yet released details of how the family got lost.
Rescue efforts Monday shifted back to the Bear Camp area in Josephine County after information surfaced that a cellular tower received a signal from one of the family's phones. Authorities credit an employee of Oregon cell provider Edge Wireless with creating computer models to triangulate the phone's location.
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CNET readers, who have posted hundreds of messages of support and concern on the site's boards, were quick to express their relief. "Now that Kati and the kids have been found, it won't be long that James will be found," one reader wrote. "This is incredible news for the Kim family."
Messages of encouragement were also pouring in to a Web site set up by family and friends.
The Kim family left their home in San Francisco two weeks ago on a Thanksgiving road trip to the Pacific Northwest. They had been last seen on the Saturday after the holiday in Portland and later at a Denny's restaurant in Roseburg, according to the San Francisco Police Department's missing persons' report.
The family was expected to return to San Francisco on Monday, November 27. When both James and Kati failed to show up for appointments on Tuesday, November 28, co-workers began to worry for their safety. The Kims are known for keeping in touch daily with their friends and co-workers, either by phone or e-mail.
Samantha Martin-Evans is a neighbor and close friend of Katie Kim's with daughters close in age to the Kim daughters.
"I can't put it into words how I feel right now," said Martin-Evans. "I didn't want to give up hope, but after nine days hope was starting to ebb last night. But now...just thinking of her waving on the side of the road is quintessential Katie: 'Here I am come get me,' is so like her."
She remained optimistic about James Kim as well. "To know that two days ago he was well enough to set out and now they can narrow the search...I can't describe the feeling. It's a miracle."
At CNET, co-workers let out shouts of jubilation at hearing the news of Kati, Penelope and Sabine, then focused their attention on finding James.
"We're thrilled that Katie has been found and cautiously optimistic about the condition of the girls. And we're glad the search can now focus on James," said Lindsey Turrentine, James Kim's supervisor and executive editor of CNET Networks' Mobile and Software division.
Kim is a senior editor covering digital audio who also co-hosts a weekly video podcast for Crave. He has been writing a book on Microsoft's Zune MP3 player. Formerly, he was an on-air personality on the now-defunct cable television network TechTV.
He and his wife own two stores in San Francisco--Doe, a clothing store in the city's Lower Haight area, and the Church Street Apothecary in the Noe Valley neighborhood, where they live.
Niki Magtoto, an employee at the Church Street Apothecary. "We are very relieved but we're all still trembling at this point," she said. "Everybody from the neighborhood came over the shop to celebrate the news."
At that moment of the conversation with a reporter, Magtoto's father, a UPS employee who delivers packages to the Kims' business, shouted into his daughter's phone: "Let's go, James!"
