Savannah Guthrie was spotted at the Today show studio for the first time since her mother Nancy’s disappearance.
Guthrie, 54, has stepped away from her hosting duties on the morning show as the search for her 84-year-old mother continues.
However, in new photos obtained by TMZ, the news anchor could be seen hugging staff and crew at Studio 1A at Rockefeller Center Thursday morning in New York City.
“Savannah Guthrie stopped by the studio this morning to be with and thank her Today colleagues,” a Today show spokesperson told the outlet. “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.”
During her visit, Guthrie reportedly thanked the staff and crew for “caring about my mom as much as I do.”
“I wanted you to know that I’m still standing, and I still have hope, and I’m still me,” she said, according to People. “And I don’t know what version of me that will be, but it will be. I’m holding onto my faith. I still believe. And as my mom would say, ‘where else would I go?’
“I have every intention of coming back,” Guthrie added. “I don’t know how to come back, but I don’t know how not to. You’re my family. And, I would like to try.”
The veteran newscaster last appeared on-air during the show’s February 2 episode. Hoda Kotb has returned to the show, more than a year after her retirement, to fill in for Guthrie.
Nancy was last seen alive January 31 at her home in Catalina Foothills, near Tucson, Arizona. She was reported missing the following day after failing to appear for a church service.
Police have said that she was abducted from her affluent neighborhood as she slept in the early morning hours of February 1. Authorities have been desperately searching for Nancy, releasing photos and video of her suspected kidnapper taken on Nancy’s doorbell camera the day she vanished and asking for the public’s help in the case.
Guthrie and her two siblings have also posted a series of video messages online pleading with their mother’s purported abductor and the public to ensure their mother’s safe return. They are offering a $1 million reward for any information that leads to their mother’s recovery.
“It’s been two weeks since our mom was taken, and I just wanted to come on and say that we still have hope, and we still believe,” Guthrie said in one video. “I wanted to say to whoever has her, or knows where she is, that it’s never too late. And you’re not lost or alone, and it is never too late to do the right thing, and we are here.
“We believe in the essential goodness of every human being, and it’s never too late,” she added.
In the latest update on the case, a pair of black gloves were found about 2 miles from Nancy’s home, the sheriff’s office told The Independent.
Police recently identified the owner of the gloves, but the individual has no ties to Nancy’s disappearance.
“There was some talk and discussion that it was police officers out in the field just discarding them, that is so far from the truth,” Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told local NBC affiliate KVOA this week. “We knew that at that time, we believed wholeheartedly that those gloves belonged to a restaurant and guess what? The owner of the glove, we found working at a restaurant across the street. It has nothing to do with the case.”
Nanos has sent another pair of gloves to a Florida lab for analysis.
“It’s a challenge because we know we have DNA but now we have to deal with that mixture and how we’re going to separate it,” Nanos added in his interview with KVOA.
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