{"id":384781,"date":"2026-04-06T14:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/384781\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:27:07","slug":"savannah-guthrie-back-on-air-after-mothers-abduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/384781\/","title":{"rendered":"Savannah Guthrie back on air after mother&#8217;s abduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American television journalist Savannah Guthrie has returned to her job as co-anchor of NBC&#8217;s Today show, more than two months after her 84-year-old mother vanished from her Arizona home in an unresolved kidnapping.<\/p>\n<p>At 7:00am in the show&#8217;s Manhattan studio, Guthrie launched into the headlines \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/2026\/0406\/1566880-iran-conflict-blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the US war on Iran<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/world\/2026\/0406\/1566869-artemis-moon-mission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Artemis II astronauts&#8217; travelling to the far side of the Moon<\/a> \u2013 before briefly acknowledging \u200cher absence.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Savannah Guthrie Returns to TODAY: &#8216;It Is Good to be Home&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ViRkTHByzF\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/ViRkTHByzF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TODAY (@TODAYshow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TODAYshow\/status\/2041113035578699900\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are \u2060so glad you started your week with us, and it is good be home,&#8221; Guthrie said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, it is good to have you back at home,&#8221; her co-anchor Craig Melvin replied, patting Guthrie&#8217;s \u200chand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, here we go, ready or not, let&#8217;s do the news,&#8221; Guthrie said.<\/p>\n<p>She was \u2060last at the anchors&#8217; desk in January, \u200cshortly before her mother, Nancy Guthrie, was taken from her \u2060home near \u200cTucson.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\" Savannah Guthrie and mother Nancy Guthrie\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0023d710-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nSavannah Guthrie and Nancy Guthrie, pictured in the Today studio in June 2023<\/p>\n<p>An armed man wearing a ski mask was recorded tampering with her doorbell camera before the disappearance.<\/p>\n<p>Savannah Guthrie and her siblings \u2060later recorded emotional pleas for their mother&#8217;s return, offering a $1 million \u2060reward, but she has yet to be found.<\/p>\n<p>In a video she recorded in February, Savannah Guthrie said her family was &#8220;blowing on the embers of hope&#8221; that Nancy Guthrie was still alive, but she acknowledged that &#8220;she may already be \u200cgone&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Source: Reuters<\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The American television journalist Savannah Guthrie has returned to her job as co-anchor of NBC&#8217;s Today show, more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-384781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}