NBC’s Ann Curry Reunites U.S. Family With Missing Relative In Japan

On NBC’s TODAY this morning, Ann Curry had a happy story to share amid the widespread misery in Japan: an early-morning tweet from a family in the U.S. led Curry to find a family member unaccounted for in one of the country’s hardest-hit areas. Equipped with a photo of the missing relative, a schoolteacher, Curry searched–and found her.

The missing teacher, Canon Purdy, had just returned to Japan on the day of the earthquake–returning to the village of Minamisanriku, which was largely washed away by the tsunami.

Purdy was in Japan to visit students she’d taught who were about to graduate. Her family lost touch with her, and knowing the extent of the destruction in Minamisanriku, reached out to Curry via Twitter asking for help: “@AnnCurry my sister American English teacher is missing in Minamisanriku please help with any news of evacuees.”

Watch the reunion here, from NBC:

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