{"id":549335,"date":"2026-03-27T23:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T23:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/549335\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T23:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T23:13:07","slug":"savannah-guthrie-to-return-to-nbcs-today-show-on-april-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/549335\/","title":{"rendered":"Savannah Guthrie to return to NBC’s ‘Today’ show on April 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

Savannah Guthrie<\/a> will return soon as co-host of NBC\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d show after a nearly two-month absence sparked by the disappearance of her 84-year-old mother, saying in an interview that \u201cjoy will be my protest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hoda Kotb, who is filling in for Guthrie, said Friday after an emotional interview with Guthrie that she\u2019ll be back April 6. <\/p>\n

Guthrie said while it\u2019s hard to imagine returning to a place of joy and lightness, she wants to try, even as she acknowledged she\u2019s not sure she can do it or if she\u2019ll belong anymore. <\/p>\n

\u201cI 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,\u201d Guthrie said. \u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nancy Guthrie<\/a> was reported missing from her Arizona home on Feb. 1. Authorities believe she was kidnapped, abducted or otherwise taken<\/a> against her will. The FBI released surveillance videos<\/a> of a masked man who was outside Guthrie\u2019s front door in Tucson on the night she vanished. Authorities have not released new evidence publicly in weeks.<\/p>\n

The Guthrie family has offered a $1 million reward for information leading to the recovery of their mother. <\/p>\n

Savannah Guthrie, who\u2019s co-hosted NBC\u2019s morning show since 2012<\/a>, pulled out of covering the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, which began just days after her mother\u2019s disappearance. <\/p>\n

Abductions are rare.<\/a> The vast majority of people who are reported missing are believed to be runaways \u2014 not kidnapped or abducted. Throughout all of 2024, the latest year that the National Crime Information Center published data, over 530,000 missing person records were entered. Roughly 95% of the hundreds of thousands of cases filed in 2024 were believed to be runaways and only 1% were listed as abducted.<\/p>\n

Savannah Guthrie, acknowledging her mother is among the many missing, donated to the Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The organization on Thursday highlighted the cases of three children who disappeared in Arizona \u2014 Jimmy Hendrickson in 1991, Karen Grajeda in 1996 and Jesse Florez in 2001. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe encourage everyone to stay alert,\u201d the center said in a statement. \u201cIt\u2019s up to the public to keep their eyes open. You never know when the next lead will be the one that brings someone home.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Pima County Sheriff\u2019s Office said Friday that tips are still coming in on Nancy Guthrie but at a declining rate. <\/p>\n

Portions of Kotb\u2019s interview with Savannah Guthrie were released over multiple days<\/a> this week. In the videos, Guthrie said she and her siblings knew their mother didn\u2019t wander off, given her medical condition, and that doors were propped open at her house. Authorities also discovered blood and a missing camera near the doorstep. <\/p>\n

Some media outlets reported receiving ransom notes tied to the case. Guthrie and her siblings responded to two that they believed were real and offered to pay money. Guthrie said her celebrity status might be the reason her mother was taken, but that possibility was \u201ctoo much to bear.\u201d<\/p>\n

She again appealed for information, saying the family can\u2019t be in peace or move forward with healing without knowing what happened to their mother.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow can someone vanish without a trace?\u201d Guthrie asked. \u201cHow? Someone knows something. Even if that something is someone\u2019s been acting strange for the last seven or eight weeks. Even if it\u2019s just that. Somebody knows. And maybe somebody\u2019s afraid and I understand that, but our hearts are in agony.\u201d<\/p>\n

___ Associated Press writer Jacques Billeaud in Phoenix contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Savannah Guthrie will return soon as co-host of NBC\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d show after a nearly two-month absence sparked by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[190960,1017,3830,88,793,64883,244624,244626,244625,29378,209536,66501,795],"class_list":["post-549335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-2026-milan-cortina-olympic-games","tag-arizona","tag-az-state-wire","tag-entertainment","tag-general-news","tag-hoda-kotb","tag-jesse-florez","tag-jimmy-hendrickson","tag-karen-grajeda","tag-kidnapping","tag-nancy-guthrie","tag-savannah-guthrie","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}