Savannah Guthrie ‘plans to return’ to the ‘Today’ show, NBC says

By Brian Stelter, CNN

(CNN) — Savannah Guthrie “plans to return” to the “Today” show at some point, NBC said Thursday, in the network’s first public comments about her future on the telecast.

Guthrie’s mother, Nancy, has been missing for 33 days, as the “Today” show noted in a brief news update about the case on Thursday morning.

Guthrie spent several weeks in Tucson, Arizona, helping with the search, before recently returning to her home in New York.

NBC said Thursday that she stopped by the “Today” show’s iconic home, Studio 1A at Rockefeller Center, for the first time since her mother’s apparent abduction.

“Savannah Guthrie stopped by the studio this morning to be with and thank her TODAY colleagues,” NBC said. “While she plans to return to the show on air, she remains focused right now supporting her family and working to help bring Nancy home.”

Jenna Bush Hager and Sheinelle Jones talked about Guthrie’s visit during the 10 a.m. hour of “Today.”

Guthrie “hugged every single person in this room,” Hager said.

“She said that, you know, she has the intention to return to the show — even though it feels like the hardest thing to do, it’s also her home and where she feels so loved, and she is beyond loved here,” Hager said.

“Whenever you are ready, we are here,” Jones said, channeling what the co-hosts told Guthrie during the visit.

CNN reported last week that the timeline for Guthrie’s return to work was highly uncertain, and completely up to her, given the agonizing and all-consuming search for Nancy.

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