The family of a missing woman who vanished en route to a ‘bucket list’ trip said they are ‘extremely’ concerned for her welfare after new footage of her final known movements emerged.

Hannah Kobayashi, 31, disappeared in the middle of her journey to New York from her home on the Hawaiian island of Maui, and has not been heard from since 10 November.

She first flew to Los Angeles on November 8, where she was supposed to pick up a connecting flight to the Big Apple the following day – however, she never boarded the plane.

Hannah’s frantic mother, Brandi Yee, explained that her daughter had planned to meet up with her aunt in the US city while ticking off one of her ‘bucket list’ destinations, but she didn’t turn up.

Her relatives reported her missing on 10 November and have not heard from her since then.

More than a week on, her family said they are becoming increasingly worried about Hannah’s whereabouts, especially now new CCTV footage of her has emerged.

According to Hannah’s aunt, Larie Pidgeon, the 31-year-old was picked up on surveillance cameras in downtown LA near a Metro station on 11 November with an unidentified person.

Larie says she was accompanied by an unknown individual and did ‘not appear to be in good condition’.

Hannah Kobayashi, 31, disappeared after arriving in Los Angeles (Sydni Kobayashi/Facebook)

Speaking to the New York Post, the aunt explained that the footage had caused ‘major alarm’ for Hannah’s loved ones and also ‘kind of solidified the family’s suspicion that something has been awry’.

“It has made us extremely worried,” Larie said.

The relative also told KTLA 5: “She is not safe, and she is not alone.”

The development has only exacerbated the fears of Hannah’s family, as she had also sent a series of concerning texts to people before vanishing.

In one message to a friend, the missing Maui woman said she had ‘got tricked into pretty much giving away all my funds’.

Another saw Hannah explain she had been fooled by ‘someone she thought she loved’, while a third read: “Deep Hackers wiped my identity, stole all of my funds, & have had me on a mind f**k since Friday.”

Her sister, Sydni Kobayashi, claims that the texts are ‘really weird’ and unlike Hannah.

She told HawaiiNewsNow: “I personally don’t think that was my sister. It’s weird to me because it doesn’t sound like her, like there’s just something off about it…I don’t know if it’s her or if someone else was texting.”

Her family are desperately trying to track her down (ABC7)

Larie also explained that the family do not have any connections in LA, adding: “She knows no one in LA. Our entire family knows no one in LA.

“We try not to think the worst. We’re trying to keep hope alive…but our mind is now going to abduction and, I hate to say the word but, trafficked.

“We’re doing the best that we can, but the family at this point is now, we’re having to come to the reality that those things could be a possibility.”

Hannah’s phone has been switched off since 11 November, her family claim.

The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed that an investigation into her disappearance has been launched and that the FBI are assisting with the probe.

But Syndi says authorities have ‘not been much help’ so far, while Larie said that Hannah’s relatives are ‘doing their own investigation on the ground’.

They hope that this might ‘put a little bit more pressure on [the police] to do as much as the family’s doing’, especially in the wake of the emergence of the new CCTV footage.

Hannah is described as being 5ft 10ins and around 140lbs, with brown hair, brown eyes, fair skin and freckles.

In Japan, or perhaps more accurately just off the coast of it, there is an international airport which has been open for close to 30 years.

Millions of people use it every year and it’s the closest international airport to the cities of Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe.

There’s just one teeny tiny problem with this very busy and important airport – it’s sinking into the sea.

Basically, the Kansai region of Japan was losing out on trade to Tokyo and it was decided that the place needed a bigger airport.

However, with the existing airport surrounded by suburbs and with no room to expand, not to mention the noise complaints from locals, it was decided that the area needed a new airport altogether.

If there wasn’t enough available land then they’d make some more, creating an artificial island to build the airport on.

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Work to create this island started in 1987 and by 1994 the Kansai International Airport was ready to be opened.

This artificial island proved it could survive natural disasters when Japan was struck by the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995 and the airport was basically fine.

In 1998 it proved it could survive being hit by a typhoon as well, but nevertheless something rather worrying was happening.

Experts had factored in that the artificial island would start sinking as the weight of the airport would push down onto the soft soil of Osaka Bay, and reclaimed land is like a ‘wet sponge’ at first, but they’d expected it to sink by 5.7 metres by 1990 and instead it had gone down 8.2 metres.

Predictions had suggested that the island and airport would sink for a 50 year period before eventually settling at a safe level of 13 feet above sea level, but according to Smithsonian, the safe levels of sinking were reached in just a few years.

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Extra money has been spent on a sea wall to protect the airport but some experts reckon the airport only has until 2056 before it sinks to sea level unless more can be done for it.

One of the major problems is that different parts of the island are sinking at different rates, with the middle of the airport going down faster.

The overall cost of building the airport and keeping it from sinking too quickly is somewhere close to $20 billion (£15 billion), but since millions of people use it, the airport can’t really be allowed to just sink into the sea.

Since construction it’s sunk more than 11.5 metres in total, and the uneven nature of the sinking is dangerous for the building as well.

Still, the window of opportunity to do something remains, let’s just hope we don’t get to 2056 only to find everyone’s been sitting on their hands.

The Monticello Dam is the seventh largest man-made lake in the Vaca Mountains, located in Napa County, California.

Locally known as the ‘glory hole’, the lake became famous after someone tragically died from falling in the spillway.

Well, one man decided to fly his drone into the ‘glory hole’ to see what it was really like. Take a look:

The 300 foot high arch dam is made fully out of concrete and is 72ft in diameter, deep at the lip.

Naturally, when the lake reaches 1,602,000 acre-feet, with a reservoir elevation of 440ft above sea level, water spills over its lip.

This causes a morning glory-type spillway.

However, the last time the reservoir spilled naturally was on 26 February, 2019.

Back in 2017, Matt Casias, who runs the YouTube channel, NorCal H.I.D. Matt Casias, provided us with a close up look of the glory hole and specifically the site where a person once died.

Monticello Dam is known for its uncontrolled morning-glory-type spillway. (YouTube/NorCal H.I.D. Matt Casias)

Emily Schwalek, of Davis, is the only known person to have died from the spillway drain.

In 1997, the swimmer died after being caught in the current and was tragically swept down the pipe.

She held onto the rim for about 20 minutes before falling down.

As you can imagine, swimming near the glory hole has since been prohibited, for obvious reasons.

Recreational use of the lake has also been declining since 2008.

Back in the day, 1.3 million visitors used to visit the lake each year. That number has now dropped to less than 400,000.

Despite the frightening thought of getting sucked into a water hole, viewers are stunned by its ‘hypnotic’ views.

“Well done, nice to see the whole hole and not just the top side. Looks like it is functioning as it should. Thanks for the vid!” one person commented.

A YouTuber got a close-up look at Monticello Dam by flying their drone right above the lake’s ‘glory hole’. (YouTube/NorCal H.I.D. Matt Casias)

A second added: “This is the best video of the Glory Hole that I have seen. Awesome, thanks.”

While a third viewer said: “This is so f**king hypnotic.”

Someone else wrote: “Nice drone work. Thanks for showing where the water comes out, too. Not many do that. Would’ve preferred the water sound to the music.”

A fourth viewer said: “As a person who is scared of water and height, I find this so terrifying.”

“Nice drone work. Thanks for showing where the water comes out, too. Not many do that,” commented a fifth.

When it comes to travelling the world, there are certain places that we’re advised not to visit.

This can be for a variety of reasons, including conflict, natural disasters or even health risks associated with certain regions.

While the government sometimes advises Brits to only travel in emergencies – or essential situations – there are some parts of the world in which a ‘do not travel’ order is issued.

There are a number of countries Brits shouldn’t travel to (Getty Stock Photo)

This essentially means that Brits mustn’t travel there and if they do, not only could it be incredibly dangerous for those travelling, but any travel insurance would be instantly invalidated.

“British people make around 50 million trips abroad during an average year. Almost all of these trips are trouble-free,” explain The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO).

“But every year the FCDO helps tens of thousands of British nationals who have got into difficulty abroad. In many cases, these difficulties could have been avoided.”

There’s 19 countries in which the FCDO advises against all travel, and a number of other regions in which only parts of the country are advised against visiting.

So which countries are on the ‘banned’ list?

FCDO advises against all travel

1. Afghanistan
2. Belarus
3. Burkina Faso (except Ouagadougou)
4. Central African Republic (except Bangui)
5. Haiti
6. Iran
7. Iraq (except the Kurdistan Region of Iraq)
8. Israel (Northern Israel)
9. Lebanon
10. Libya
11. Mali (except Bamako)
12. Niger (except Niamey)
13. Russia
14. South Sudan
15. Sudan
16. Syria
17. The Occupied Palestinian Territories – Gaza, The West Bank and Northern Israel
18. Ukraine (except Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, Chernivtsi and Lviv)
19. Yemen

Haiti is on the list (Getty Stock Photo)

To find out the travel guidance for different countries and regions, you can head over to the FCDO website and type in the name of the country.

While the government also advises against all travel to certain parts of specific countries, there are also regulations in place on travelling within a certain distance of borders.

For example, the FCDO advises against all travel within 30km of Algeria’s borders with Libya, Mauritania, Mali, Niger and Tunisia.

There’s also a ‘do not travel’ order in place for within 10km of Turkey’s border with Syria.

Meanwhile, other countries have an ‘all but essential travel’ warning which means only vital travel is permitted.

The FCDO advises against travel to certain countries (Getty Stock Photo)

Explaining what constitutes as essential travel abroad, the FCDO says: “Whether travel is essential or not is your own decision.

“You may have urgent family or business commitments which you need to attend to.

“Only you can make an informed decision based on your own individual circumstances and the risks.”