Savannah Guthrie has been back at the Today anchor desk for nearly two weeks after a two-month hiatus following the disappearance of her mother, Nancy Guthrie, whose case continues to grip the public’s attention.

On Wednesday’s show, Today viewers questioned whether Savannah was OK after she seemed to suddenly dip out of the episode despite teasing an upcoming interview with Anne Hathaway. When the show returned from a commercial break, former co-anchor Hoda Kotb, who has been filling in for Craig Melvin while he’s on vacation this week, spoke with the Oscar winner instead.

Some people wondered whether Savannah had stepped away because she received an update about her mother. The show didn’t address the sudden switch, but Savannah did return to the episode later on.

The area around Nancy Guthrie’s Catalina Foothills neighborhood, north of Tucson, Ariz., has seen increased activity in recent days amid complaints about vloggers and amateur journalists. Patrols have also increased around the home of Savannah’s sister, Annie, and brother-in-law Tommaso Cioni.

Nancy Guthrie, 84, was last seen at around 9:45 p.m. on Jan. 31, when family members dropped her off at her home in the Catalina Foothills north of Tucson, Ariz., following dinner. She was reported missing around noon the next day after she did not show up at a friend’s house to watch an online church service.

The FBI released footage of a masked and armed individual taken from her doorbell camera the morning she went missing. But authorities have still not named a suspect or identified a motive in Nancy Guthrie’s apparent abduction.

Guthrie and Kotb are co-anchoring Today for the first time since Kotb stepped down in January 2025. On reuniting amid this challenging time, Kotb told People, “I feel like I get to be in the seat to watch what strength looks like. There's nobody like her.”

In late February, Savannah Guthrie announced that the Guthrie family was offering $1 million for information leading to Nancy Guthrie’s “recovery.”

Anyone with information is encouraged to call the Pima County Sheriff’s Department tip line at 520-351-4900 or the FBI tip line at 1-800-CALL-FBI.

This week, Hoda Kotb, who filled in for Savannah Guthrie during her two-month Today show hiatus, has returned to the NBC morning show alongside Guthrie to fill in for coanchor Craig Melvin while he is on vacation. “It’s been fun holding her hand,” Kotb told People. “I mean, that’s been my favorite part.”

The outlet said Kotb got visibly choked up and said, “Just sitting next to her. That’s it. It’s been really beautiful and I feel privileged to be able to sit there for a little while.”

Kotb also argued that while Guthrie said she is “helping” her, “I don’t feel that. I feel like I get to be in the seat to watch what strength looks like. There’s nobody like her.”

Before Guthrie returned to the Today show, Kotb sat down with her in an emotional interview that aired last month to talk about the investigation into her mother’s disappearance and what her mother was like.

Entertainment news website TMZ reported on Monday that it received two new purported ransom notes that claim to know where Nancy Guthrie’s body is located and who is responsible for her disappearance.

Monday was the same day Savannah Guthrie returned to the Today show for the first time after her mother’s disappearance.

According to the outlet, the pair of notes is from the same person who, back in February, demanded bitcoin in exchange for information related to Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance.

“We got another letter today from this person, an email saying, ‘I know where her body is and who the kidnapper is. Give me half a bitcoin and I’ll tell you,'” TMZ founder Harvey Levin said live on air Monday.

TMZ also reported that shortly after it went live on the air on Monday, a second note was sent, which said, "I saw her alive with them in the state of Sonora, Mexico." The Mexican state shares a major southern border with Arizona. Nancy Guthrie’s home is located in Tucson, Ariz., about 70 miles from the Mexican border.

The outlet said it has alerted the FBI.

Savannah Guthrie joined her colleagues on Monday to thank fans gathered outside of the Today show’s studio in Rockefeller Center. Cheering fans were seen wearing yellow ribbons, a symbol representing hope, and holding up signs of support as the search for her missing mother is in its third month.

“We ❤️ you Savannah,” one sign read. Another sign read, “Decide and do,” a tribute to the grieving advice Savannah said she received from her mother, Nancy, after her father died when she was a teenager.

“These signs are so beautiful,” Savannah said tearfully. “You guys have been so beautiful. I’ve received so many letters, so much kindness, to me and my whole family. We feel it. We feel your prayers, so thank you so much.”

Savannah Guthrie returned to the Today show anchor desk on Monday for the first time since her mother’s disappearance.

“It is good to be home," Savannah Guthrie said at the start of the NBC morning show. Craig Melvin, Guthrie’s Today show cohost, said, “Yes, it is good to have you back at home.”

Nancy Guthrie, 84, was last seen on Jan. 31 at her Tucson, Ariz., home. She was reported missing the next day.

Savannah Guthrie wore a yellow dress, a nod to the color of flowers and ribbons left by well-wishers during the search, now in its third month. Melvin wore a yellow tie.

“Well, here we go, ready or not. Let's do the news," Guthrie said before turning to a segment on the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.

She later fought back tears when she gathered with her colleagues to thank fans gathered outside of the show’s studio in Rockefeller Center.

Guthrie announced her return during a March interview with colleague Hoda Kotb.

"I can't come back and try to be something that I'm not," she said. "I don't know if I can do it. I don't know if I'll belong anymore, but I would like to try."

Savannah Guthrie is set to return to NBC's Today show on Monday, April 6 — her first appearance since her mother, Nancy Guthrie, disappeared from her Tucson, Ariz., home on Feb. 1. She will cohost the first two hours of the program, which airs at 7 a.m. ET.

Guthrie announced her return during a March interview with colleague Hoda Kotb.

She described the decision as purposeful.

"I want to smile,” Savannah Guthrie said. “And when I do, it will be real. My joy will be my protest."

It has now been two months since Nancy Guthrie was reported missing from her home near Tucson, Ariz., where the 84-year-old mother of NBCToday show cohost Savannah Guthrie was last seen. Authorities have not named a suspect or identified a motive in her apparent abduction.

Here is a timeline of key developments in the investigation.

Jan. 31

Nancy Guthrie is last seen around 9:45 p.m. when she is dropped off by her family at her home in the Catalina Foothills north of Tucson, Ariz., after having dinner with her daughter Annie Guthrie, who lives nearby.

Feb. 1

Nancy Guthrie’s pacemaker stops syncing with her Apple devices at 2:28 a.m., according to police. She is reported missing around noon after she did not show up at a friend’s house to watch an online church service.

Feb. 2

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos says police believe Nancy Guthrie was kidnapped and didn’t leave her home on her own.

Feb. 3

TMZ and two Tucson television news stations receive what appears to be a ransom note, demanding millions of dollars in bitcoin. The FBI is not able to immediately verify its authenticity.

Feb. 4

Nancy Guthrie’s adult children post an Instagram video addressing a possible kidnapper, saying that the family is ready to talk, but they need proof that their mother is alive.

Feb. 10

The FBI releases video and images of what it said was an “armed individual” appearing to tamper with a doorbell camera at Nancy Guthrie’s home on the morning she was reported missing.

Feb. 16

Nanos releases a statement saying all members of Nancy Guthrie’s family, including siblings and spouses, have been cleared as possible suspects. “To suggest otherwise is not only wrong, it is cruel,” Nanos said.

Feb. 17

Police say DNA from gloves found about 2 miles away from Nancy Guthrie’s house turned up no matches in the FBI’s national database.

Feb. 24

Savannah Guthrie posts a new video announcing the family’s $1 million reward for information that leads to Nancy Guthrie's “recovery.” The Today host says that while the family still believes “in a miracle,” they also know that “she may already be gone.”

Feb. 27

The Pima County Sheriff’s Department says it is “refocusing resources” in the Nancy Guthrie case but not giving up the search. “This remains an active investigation and will continue until Nancy Guthrie is located or all leads have been exhausted,” the sheriff’s department said.

March 25

In her first interview since her mother’s disappearance, Savannah Guthrie tells Today show cohost Hoda Kotb that she fears her mother may have been targeted because of her own fame.

“It’s too much to bear to think that I brought this to her bedside, that it’s because of me,” Savannah said. “And I just want to say I’m so sorry, Mommy. I’m so sorry.”

The investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie is about to enter its third month.

The 84-year-old mother of NBC Today show cohost Savannah Guthrie was last seen around 9:45 p.m. on Jan. 31, when family members dropped her off at her home in the Catalina Foothills north of Tucson, Ariz., following dinner. She was reported missing around noon the next day after she did not show up at a friend’s house to watch an online church service.

The FBI’s release of security camera footage showing a masked and armed individual taken from her doorbell camera on the morning of Feb. 1 yielded thousands of tips, but authorities have not named a suspect or identified a motive in her apparent abduction.

Police in Scottsdale, Ariz., have identified the body of a woman recovered from a canal over the weekend as Passion Schurz, a 28-year-old who was reported missing from the Salt River-Pima Maricopa Indian Community on March 22.

“The initial identification was made based on specific tattoos, her physical characteristics, and clothing description,” the police department said in a post on X. “We can confirm that there were no injuries related to fractures, stab wounds, or gunshot wounds. The medical examiner is still determining the official cause of death.”

Officials said there is “no apparent connection” to the Nancy Guthrie case.

Scottsdale, Ariz., police confirmed Saturday that a woman's body recovered from a canal near Indian Bend and Hayden Roads on Saturday has no connection to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie. The body has not been identified; a death investigation is underway.

Former FBI special agent Harry Trombitas told Yahoo that the timing of Savannah Guthrie’s interview is probably not coincidental. Because there are no major breakthroughs, no suspects identified and no motive publicly released in the case, Trombitas said about the interview, “I really believe that that's most likely coordinated between the sheriff's office, the FBI and the Guthrie family.”

He said that, speaking as a former FBI agent, some of the interview's goals were likely to humanize Nancy Guthrie as a person, persuade the suspects to do the right thing and keep the case in the public eye.

Trombitas said there are still people out there who likely have no idea that Nancy Guthrie is missing. “We've got to keep getting that information out there because it may finally come across the right person, and all of a sudden they realize that what they saw or the information that they have may be significant to the case.”

Read more from Yahoo: An ex-FBI agent analyzes what we learned from Savannah Guthrie's 'Today' show interview amid the search for her mother, Nancy

Savannah Guthrie will talk more about her mother’s disappearance in a Dateline special this evening on NBC, airing at 9 p.m. ET. The true-crime show typically features in-depth investigations, interviews and mystery documentaries.

Savannah Guthrie told Hoda Kotb that another reason she wants to come back to the Today show is that it brings her joy.

“I want to smile. And when I do, it will be real. My joy will be my protest,” she said. “My joy will be my answer. Being there is joyful, and when it’s not, I’ll say so. And I’ve been so grateful to have this family — I consider this my family, my greater family. When times are hard, you want to be with your family, and I want to be with my family.”

Hoda Kotb asked Savannah Guthrie what it was like to return to Studio 1A, from where the Today show is broadcast, in New York City, earlier this month amid the ongoing search for her missing mother.

“I really wanted to come and see everybody,” Guthrie said. “I just love this beautiful place that we call home, where we get to come and be every day. And I know how much people have prayed for me and loved me, all the people that you see on TV and then all the people that you don’t. All the notes and messages that I have received are just so beautiful. I just wanted to be with my family — they’re my family too.”

Kotb said she remembered Guthrie saying to her colleagues, “I don’t know how to come back, and I don’t know how not to come back.”

“Yeah, that’s how I feel when I look at the Today show. It’s just the answer to all my dreams, actually better than my dreams. “

Last weekend, the Guthrie family issued a statement thanking the Tucson, Ariz., community for their support in the search for Nancy Guthrie — but also asking neighbors and locals to think back for any information that could help the investigation. “Especially around the key timelines of January 31 and the early morning hours of February 1, as well as the late evening of January 11,” as it’s possible someone might have seen or noticed something odd amid Nancy’s disappearance.

“How can someone vanish without a trace? How?” Savannah Guthrie questioned in the Today interview. “Someone knows something. Even if that something is, ‘Someone’s been acting strange for the last seven-eight weeks,’ even if it’s just that. Someone knows. And maybe somebody’s afraid. And I understand that. But our hearts are in agony. We can’t breathe, we can’t live. We can’t go on, we can’t be at peace, we can’t go forward. We have to know what happened to her.”

Savannah Guthrie speaks openly about how she’s deeply rooted in her Christian faith. When asked by Hoda Kotb if she’s “wrestled” with that faith amid her mother’s disappearance, Guthrie acknowledged: “Yes.”

“And I’m not done. But God doesn’t tell us not to wrestle with him. This isn’t some cheap faith — and my mom taught me that,” she said, adding that: “Faith is how I stay connected to my mom. God is how I’m holding hands with my mom. And I won’t let sadness win.”

Guthrie spoke about how she saw her mom’s world “shatter” when her husband died: “I saw her faith. She taught me — she taught all of us. And I may not do it as well as her but I will do it. I will do it for my kids. I will not fall apart.”

“I will not let whoever did this take my children’s mother from them. I will not let them take my joy,” she said. “They will not take our love. They will not take our faith.”

“But our anguish is real. We need help. We need someone to tell the truth. I have no anger in my heart. I have hope in my heart,” Guthrie continued. “This family needs peace.”

In the third part of her interview with NBC, which aired on Friday, Savannah Guthrie said she plans to return to Today on April 6.

She believes it’s "part of my purpose right now.”

"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 told Hoda Kotb in the interview. "I don’t know if I can do it. I don’t know if I’ll belong anymore, but I would like to try. I would like to try."

"I’m not gonna be the same. But maybe it’s like that old poem, 'More beautiful in the broken places,'" she said.

In the Today show interview that aired on Thursday, Hoda Kotb asked Savannah Guthrie to tell viewers about her mother.

“She is present tense to me,” Savannah said. “My mom is so incredible. She’s resolute and strong, quiet strength, quiet faith, but hard fought. She’s funny and a little mischievous, I would say, in her humor. She’s a noble creature, she does what’s right.”

Savannah also talked about her childhood home, describing it as her mother’s “safe haven.”

“It’s the house where all of our memories are. Good and bad, so it’s hallowed ground. My mom loved and treasured that house.”

“It’s really hard to see that violated, and the terror that she must have felt is unbearable,” Savannah said tearfully.

Nancy Guthrie was last seen when she was dropped off at her home on the night of Jan. 31 by a family member, according to a timeline from the Pima County Sheriff’s Department. In the immediate aftermath of her disappearance, intense online speculation grew that Savannah Guthrie’s family members had something to do with Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance.

When asked by Hoda Kotb how the family has dealt with those rumors, Savannah Guthrie said “it’s unbearable.”

“It piles pain upon pain. There are no words. I don’t understand,” she said. “I’ll never understand, and no one took better care of my mom than my sister and brother-in-law, and no one protected my mom more than my brother.

“And we love her, and she is our shining light,” she continued tearfully. “She is our matriarch, and she’s all we have.”

Savannah and her siblings are particularly close to their mother, as their father, Charles Guthrie, died when Savannah was 16 years old.

In the days after Nancy Guthrie was reported missing on Feb. 1, authorities said that multiple ransom notes were sent to various media outlets and the Guthrie family.

The Pima County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI said in February that they were investigating the validity of the ransom notes, but have not said publicly whether those notes were believed to have been from any person who may have abducted Guthrie.

During her first interview since her mother’s disappearance, Savannah Guthrie weighed in on whether she thinks they were real.

“There are a lot of different notes, I think, that came,” Savannah Guthrie told Hoda Kotb. “And I think most of them, it’s my understanding, are not real. And I didn’t see them, but a person that would send a fake ransom note really has to look deeply at themselves — to a family in pain. But I believe the two notes that we received, that we responded to, I tend to believe those are real.”

Savannah Guthrie said that her brother Camron, who spent his career in the military and worked in intelligence, immediately knew that their mother was taken.

“He saw very clearly right away what this was, and even on the phone when I called him, he knew. He said, ‘I think she’s been kidnapped for ransom,’ and I said, ‘What?’” she recalled through tears.

“I just said, ‘Do you think because of me?’ and he said, ’Sorry sweetie, but yeah, maybe,’” Savannah said, adding that, deep down, she already knew that.

“I mean, we still don’t know, honestly, we don’t know anything. I don’t know that it’s because she’s my mom, and somebody thought, ‘That lady has money, we can make a quick buck,’ I mean, that would make sense, but we don’t know,” she said.

Savannah said it’s “too much to bear to think that I brought this to her bedside. That it’s because of me … And I just want to say I’m so sorry, mommy, I’m so sorry.”