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Savannah Guthrie made a graceful return to NBC’s ‘Today’ show

Poynter · Tom Jones · last updated

Back on Monday, months after her mother’s disappearance, Guthrie and her colleagues acknowledged the moment without letting it overtake the broadcast

Savannah Guthrie is back to work.

On Monday — for the first time since her 84-year-old mother, Nancy, went missing from her Arizona home in the early hours of Feb. 1 — Guthrie was back as co-host of NBC’s “Today” show.

Unfortunately, Nancy Guthrie’s whereabouts remain unknown. Authorities believe she was taken from her home against her will. And that makes Savannah Guthrie’s return to the “Today” show all the more heart-wrenching.

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