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State Dept. joins search for American couple missing in Peru

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    Molly Line reports from New York

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Turning -- now a desperate search to find an American couple who went missing while on a vacation of a lifetime the pair from California.

Vanishing in the room -- They haven't been heard from in weeks and now the US State Department.

Is getting involved Molly Line is joining us now live from our New York newsroom with the latest on this story Molly -- this young California couple set out in a very ambitious adventure this biking trips through South America.

It kicked up as you mentioned in November but as of late January they have not been heard from and were last seen in Peru -- -- and -- hand both in their mid twenties.

-- -- keeping in regular contact with family members through FaceBook posting shots of their travels through Argentina and she'll lay.

On January 25 the couple purchased bus -- headed from historic town of -- go to the capital city of Lima but then.

Everything went dark the FaceBook post stopped emails and it.

There's been no further phone or financial activity family and friends hope the couple was just in an area too remote for contact.

Last week they decided to get the US embassy involved in the hunt after nearly a month without hearing from them.

A FaceBook page created to help find -- in hand reports government officials confirm they got off the bus in Lima and got into a taxi -- on that.

There is no confirmed information.

Anything can happen from -- you know I hope that she's just having a blast.

And they're -- with a win today you know.

Had I not -- you guys are.

Anything and just waited.

I mean.

-- really -- when there.

Meanwhile the US embassy in Peru has issued a warning to US citizens posting on the agency's website the embassy has received information that members of a criminal organization.

May be planning to kidnap US citizens tourists incomes go and a much -- -- area.

Possible targets and methods are not known and the threat is credible at least through the end of February 2013.

The US embassy is posted an update that says family members have informed them.

But the couple may plan to travel on to put to the call but that's a river city in eastern -- US officials in -- and Peruvian authorities are working together to find this couple.

Keeping family members up to date on the search -- -- -- -- have that that has a good ending thank you Molly thank you.

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