The 54-year-old anchor returned to the Today news desk on Monday, April 6, after more than two months away amid her mother Nancy Guthrie\u2019s ongoing abduction investigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n Savannah stayed stoic during the 7 a.m. broadcast alongside Craig Melvin<\/a>, only acknowledging her return by saying, \u201cIt’s good to be home.\u201d<\/p>\n However, Savannah let her emotions show during the 8 a.m. hour when she joined her colleagues out on the Today show plaza to greet well wishers. Fans were holding signs and wearing yellow ribbons and shirts in a show of support for Savannah and her mother.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a special Monday morning for us and for this crowd as well, special, because we\u2019re welcoming back our North Star, SG, come on out here,\u201d Melvin said as Savannah walked out, holding hands with her friend and colleague, Jenna Bush Hager<\/a>.<\/p>\n Savannah Guthrie greens a fan on the ‘Today’ Show Plaza on Monday, April 6. “These signs are so beautiful. You guys have been so beautiful,” a visibly emotional Savannah told the crowd. “I\u2019ve received so many letters, so much kindness to me and my family. We feel it. We feel your prayers so thank you so much.”<\/p>\n Weatherman Al Roker<\/a> offered Savannah his handkerchief, and she jokingly replied, “This is such a nice pocket square I don\u2019t want to slobber on it.”<\/p>\n As the group continued, Bush Hager noticed a fan wearing a shirt that read, “Welcome Home Savannah,” and urged Savannah to look. The pair shared a sweet hug and an emotional exchange.<\/p>\n Jenna Bush Hager, Savannah Guthrie, Carson Daly, Sheinelle Jones, Craig Melvin and Al Roker on the ‘Today’ Show Plaza on Monday, April 6. One plaza attendee, Amanda Burt, traveled from upstate New York to be there for Savannah’s first broadcast back. “It was so special. When I heard she was coming back, I just knew I had to be here to welcome her back,” Burt tells PEOPLE. “This worked out perfectly. I couldn\u2019t believe she actually turned around and saw me and my shirt. She\u2019s so sweet. I\u2019m so proud of her. I love that she\u2019s back.”<\/p>\n Amid their embrace, Burt said Savannah “just kept saying, \u2018Thank you, thank you, thank you for being here.\u2019 It was really special.”<\/p>\n Before Savannah’s April 6 return, she had not been on air since January 30.<\/p>\n Carson Daly and Savannah Guthrie share a laugh on the ‘Today’ show on Monday, April 6. Hoda Kotb<\/a> announced that her former co-anchor would return on April 6 during the March 27 broadcast. “We cannot wait to welcome her back with open arms here in Studio 1A,” Melvin said.<\/p>\n While she hadn’t returned to the desk, Savannah did visit Studio 1A in March amid the continued search for Nancy<\/a>. On March 5, a Today spokesperson told PEOPLE that Savannah visited the studio “to be with and thank her Today colleagues.” At the time, the spokesperson said she “remains focused right now supporting her family and working to help bring Nancy home” but was planning to “return to the show.”<\/p>\n During her visit, Savannah thanked the entire staff and crew for all of their love, prayers and support<\/a> and for “caring about my mom as much as I do,” PEOPLE learned. She said in part, “I wanted you to know that I’m still standing, and I still have hope, and I’m still me. And I don’t know what version of me that will be, but it will be. I\u2019m holding onto my faith. I still believe. And as my mom would say, \u2018where else would I go?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Savannah Guthrie and her mother, Nancy Guthrie, on the ‘Today’ set in 2023. In an emotional interview with Kotb, Savannah opened up about her return to the show. “It\u2019s hard to imagine doing it because it\u2019s such a place of joy and lightness and I can\u2019t come back and try to be something that I\u2019m not. But I can\u2019t not come back because it\u2019s my family<\/a>,” she said.<\/p>\n “I think it\u2019s part of my purpose right now. I want to smile. And when I do, it will be real. And my joy will be my protest. My joy will be my answer. And being there is joyful. And when it\u2019s not, I\u2019ll say so. I have been so grateful to have this family. I consider this my family, my greater family, and when times are hard, you want to be with your family. And I want to be with my family.”<\/p>\n “I don\u2019t know if I can do it. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll belong anymore, but I would like to try,” she continued. “I\u2019m not gonna be the same, but maybe it\u2019s like that old poem, more beautiful in the broken places.”<\/p>\n The search for Nancy began on Feb. 1, after she failed to show up for a virtual church service, and the Pima County Sheriff’s Department (PCSD) launched an urgent search. She was last seen on Jan. 31, after her family dropped her off at her home in Tucson.<\/p>\n Investigators believe that Nancy was kidnapped overnight, citing surveillance footage<\/a> of a masked man at her front door. There have been no suspects named. Guthrie and her family continue to plead with the public for their help bringing their mom home.<\/p>\n Savannah Guthrie sits down with Hoda Kotb![\"Savannah](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/d74213eb883181b479c19e889806b1dd.jpeg\"\/)
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