New video of missing teen released

Myrtle Beach police have released a previously uncirculated short video taken of Brittanee Drexel, a New York teen last seen in Myrtle Beach nearly a year ago.

The video first aired Friday when Drexel?s mother, Dawn Drexel, and Monica Caison, director of the Community United Effort Center for Missing Persons appeared on the ?Today? show.

It showed the teen in a Myrtle Beach hotel room texting on her cell phone. It is not clear who shot the video clips, which are about 30 seconds in length, and shot at 10:30 and 11:45 p.m. April 24, 2009.

Brittanee Drexel was last seen on video surveillance leaving the Blue Water Hotel on Ocean Boulevard while on spring break in the area on April 25, 2009. Dozens of searchers have scoured Myrtle Beach and wooded areas in Georgetown and Charleston counties looking for clues in the teen?s disappearance.