New video appears to show Texas teen who vanished on Christmas Eve

Authorities have released new footage that may show a Texas teen who vanished outside her home on Christmas Eve.

Camila Mendoza Olmos, 19, was last seen leaving her house in San Antonio for her regular morning walk. The search, now going on for nearly a week, has turned up few clues and her parents say they are praying for her safe return.

On Monday, local authorities released dashcam video that they said might show the missing woman walking near her home.

Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar told a news conference that he couldn’t say for certain it was her, but the person’s clothing in the video “certainly does match up with what she was wearing”.

Salazar said authorities were looking into all potential scenarios in their search, adding that the sheriff’s department was working with the FBI on the case.

“We’ve got to consider all possibilities from disappearing wilfully to the possibility of self-harm, to somebody may have taken her,” Salazar said.

The teen’s parents have told reporters that they are holding out hope she will be found soon.

“I miss her, come home,” her father Alfoso Mendoza told CBS Mornings, adding that he has been “praying to God” since she disappeared. “I might sound strong…but it hurts.”

Her mother also told CBS, the BBC’s US media partner, on Sunday that “we are hopeful everyday”.

“At times we are broken but we are staying strong because my daughter is missing and we don’t know where she is at,” she said in Spanish.

Police previously released video believed to be of Mendoza Olmos recorded the day she disappeared. That footage showed a woman searching in the back of her car for an unknown item, the sheriff’s office said.

Authorities believe she then walked somewhere on foot, leaving her car behind. They were concerned that she left without her phone, which was unusual.