A body has been found offshore in Mexico near where an Arizona couple disappeared while kayaking on Thanksgiving, officials said Sunday.

The body was discovered near Playa Encanto in Puerto Peñasco, also known as Rocky Point, Mexico, as search and rescue crews combed the area for Corey Allen and his wife Yeon-Su Kim, Mexico’s Sonora Civil Protection said.

"After an intense search operation by air, sea and land, the Secretary of the Navy reports to Sonora Civil Protection, the discovery of a body on Playa Encanto, with characteristics similar to one of the two missing persons," the agency tweeted Sunday afternoon.

Authorities did not immediately confirm the identity of the body.

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Allen and Kim of Flagstaff were kayaking with their teen daughter around 1 p.m. Thursday in Puerto Peñasco when winds began to pick up, family and friends have said. Allen helped their daughter back to shore and it is believed he went back for Kim before the couple went missing.

"With the wind and that current I know that they probably knew something was up," Tavane McCombs, who has been coordinating the search, told AZ Family. "Even an experienced kayaker would have trouble with what was going on that day."

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Flagstaff police told FOX10 Phoenix that it is aware of reports of the missing couple but did not have any direct information on the search.

Authorities in Mexico had tweeted Saturday that a search for two Americans was ongoing, along with a photo of the couple.

Allen is a real estate agent and Kim is a professor of Ecological Economics at the School of Forestry at Northern Arizona University. The couple reportedly has two teenage children.

Rocky Point is a popular vacation spot for Arizonans, and is about a four-hour drive from Phoenix.

A Los Angeles city council member told Dr. Phil on Friday that kids have to "step over needles, human waste," and deal with people exhibiting "psychotic behavior" on their way to school due to the homeless crisis in California.

Dr. Phil explained how a recent piece of local legislation to address the dangerous homeless tent cities has caused outrage among activists. 

"At a recent Los Angeles city council meeting, members voted to prohibit homeless people from setting up tents within 500 feet of schools and daycare centers," Dr. Phil summarized. "Protesters at one point shut down the meeting, angered by new restrictions that will expand the number of locations where sleeping and camping are prohibited."

L.A. City Councilman Joe Buscaino, a Democrat, defended the vote.

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"No child in America should be afraid to walk to school, and what we have found in Los Angeles [is] kids are afraid to walk to school," he warned. "They tell their parents they have to step over needles, human waste, and deal with individuals unfortunately suffering from psychotic behavior - right next to their playground area."

Buscaino went out of his way to say this is not about bigotry against homeless people, but recognizing the need to protect certain vulnerable public spaces in society. 

"So, I’m saying again, it’s not a crime to be homeless, but these are sensitive spaces we have to protect, the most sensitive spaces among us. Playgrounds, beaches, libraries, parks - and have some accountability for those who are in these spaces," he said. 

Dr. Phil also spoke to TikTok star Franky Bernstein, who has made multiple videos chronicling his encounters with homeless crime in Venice, California. 

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Bernstein's TikTok videos ranged from him describing an encounter with a "homeless guy with a shotgun," noting that "it took the cops 30 minutes to show up, which is insane," to his confrontation with a "homeless man with a club" trying to break into his neighbor’s house, after which the homeless man allegedly attempted to break into another home "three doors down."

Dr. Phil praised Bernstein for not just recording the problem, but for using his own time to take part in actually solving it.

Bernstein said, "I’ve dealt with my own fair share of addiction and mental health problems, just like I’m sure everybody in this room has, or a family member, so I totally get it."

He said that the homeless crisis is more a matter of will for the American public than a matter of money, claiming, "One of the main problems as a civilian is that most people don’t do anything."

He added, "We could have all the money in the world to solve this problem, but if we don’t have enough people showing up to volunteer, it’s not really going to work."

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Elsewhere in the episode, Dr. Phil dropped some alarming stats about homelessness in California, such as the claim that the state has "more than half of all unsheltered homeless people in the United States, and the highest number of homeless encampments." 

He also warned that "this problem is not going away, it seems to be growing, if anything, I think maybe inflation is making it even worse."