NBC Today show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie made her return to television Monday morning, resuming her hosting duties more than two months after her elderly mother disappeared in what authorities are investigating as a kidnapping case in Arizona.
Broadcasting from NBC’s Manhattan headquarters at 7 a.m., Guthrie dove into the day’s top stories, covering topics ranging from U.S.-Iran tensions to NASA’s Artemis II lunar mission, before taking a moment to address her extended time away from the program.
“We are so glad you started your week with us, and it is good be home,” Guthrie told viewers.
Her co-host Craig Melvin welcomed her back, saying “Yes, it is good to have you back at home,” while offering a supportive gesture by patting her hand.
“Well, here we go, ready or not, let’s do the news,” Guthrie responded.
Guthrie’s last appearance behind the anchor desk was in January, just before the disappearance of her 84-year-old mother, Nancy Guthrie, from her residence in the Tucson area. Security footage captured a masked, armed individual interfering with the home’s doorbell camera system before Nancy Guthrie went missing.
The family launched a desperate search effort, with Savannah Guthrie and her brothers and sisters making heartfelt public appeals for information about their mother’s whereabouts. They put up a $1 million reward for her safe return, but Nancy Guthrie’s location remains unknown.
During a February video message, Guthrie shared that her family was “blowing on the embers of hope” that her mother might still be alive, while also confronting the painful possibility that “she may already be gone.”
