ZT: CNET编辑一家在Oregon失踪九天找到, Editor still missing

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CNET editor's wife, daughters found; search continues
Kati, Penelope and Sabine Kim have been transported to a hospital in "good condition"; search continues for missing James Kim.
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By Leslie Katz and Greg Sandoval
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

Published: December 4, 2006, 3:55 PM PST
Last modified: December 4, 2006, 6:15 PM PST
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update The wife and two young daughters of missing CNET senior editor James Kim have been found alive and well after surviving more than a week stranded in the wilderness of southwest Oregon, authorities said Monday afternoon.

A full-scale 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.


Video: Rescuers continue search for James Kim
Kati Kim, 30, and daughters Penelope and Sabine--4 years and 7 months, respectively--were treated at Three Rivers Community Hospital in Grants Pass. Hospital spokeswoman Laura Biggers said Sabine is being held overnight for observation. Kati and Penelope planned to stay with Sabine Monday night, though not as patients, according to a statement made by the hospital.

The lost family had "minor provisions" and stayed warm using their 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, will be working throughout the night Monday to locate James Kim, whose footprints are visible in some spots. The search could include dogs and horses on Tuesday, as well as rescuers from three counties.

"We have two Forest Service officers that are following the footprints the best they can. We will be out all night and we will be working 24/7 until we bring him home," a sheriff's representative said. "The weather has been cold at night, but the family that was found today is in good shape. They did well for nine days."

At about 1:45 p.m. PST, rescuers 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, according to a statement from Oregon State Police.


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.

CNET readers, who have posted hundreds of messages of support and concern on the site's boards in the last few days, 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.

In a search-and-rescue mission spanning multiple counties, state and federal personnel began searching highways and remote area roads by land and air for the family's silver Saab station wagon. Some of those roads are difficult to travel, described by authorities as narrow and curvy with steep bordering embankments. Sno-Cats have been assisting with the search in sections covered with up to 6 inches of frozen snow.


James, Kati and Sabine KimSamantha Martin-Evans is a neighbor and close friend of Kati Kim's with daughters close in age to the Kim daughters.

"I can't put it into words how I feel right now," Martin-Evans said after receiving the news of the rescue Monday. "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 Kati: 'Here I am, come get me,' is so like her."

She remained optimistic about James 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 Kati has been found and cautiously optimistic about the condition of the girls," said Lindsey Turrentine, James Kim's supervisor and executive editor of CNET Networks' Mobile and Software division. "And we're glad the search can now focus on James."

Kim is a senior editor covering digital audio who also co-hosts a weekly video podcast for the Crave gadgets blog. 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, was overwhelmed by the news. "We are very relieved, but we're all still trembling at this point," Magtoto said. "Everybody from the neighborhood came over to the shop to celebrate the news."

At that moment in 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!"