Savannah Guthrie returns to 'TODAY' amid search for her 84-year-old mother

U.S. newsSavannah Guthrie returns to 'TODAY' amid search for her 84-year-old motherNancy Guthrie, 84, went missing Feb. 1 from her home near Tucson, Arizona.Listen to this article with a free account00:0000:00Add NBC News to GoogleSavannah Guthrie calls mother’s disappearance ‘unbearable’ in first interview02:05Get more newsLiveonShareAdd NBC News to GoogleApril 6, 2026, 5:00 AM EDTBy Daniel Arkin“TODAY” co-anchor Savannah Guthrie is set to return to the flagship NBC morning show Monday, more than two months after her mother disappeared.Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.Guthrie, who has co-anchored “TODAY” since 2012, stepped away from her role in early February after Nancy Guthrie, 84, went missing from her home near Tucson, Arizona. Authorities have described the case as a possible kidnapping or abduction. Guthrie told an Easter church service on Sunday "I still believe," while speaking about how her Christian faith has been tested during the search for her mother.In her first interview since the start of her family’s ordeal, Guthrie told Hoda Kotb last month that she believed returning to the “TODAY” anchor desk is “part of my purpose right now,” even though it was difficult to imagine going back to a workplace she associates with “joy and lightness.”“I can’t come back and try to be something that I’m not. But I can’t not come back because it’s my family,” Guthrie said in the interview, which aired in March. “I don’t know if I can do it. I don’t know if I’ll belong anymore, but I would like to try.”“TODAY” co-anchor Craig Melvin, announcing Guthrie’s return on the March 27 broadcast of the show, said: “It’s where she belongs. It’s where we all want her to be. We cannot wait to welcome her back with open arms here in Studio 1A.”Nancy Guthrie’s family reported her missing around noon Feb. 1 after she did not show up at a friend’s house for virtual church services, according to the Pima Coun...