Savannah Guthrie Returns as ‘Today’ Anchor for First Time Since Mother’s Disappearance

“Today” show anchor Savannah Guthrie returned to her television job on Monday morning, the first time since her mother went missing more than two months ago. No suspects or arrests have been made.

“Here we go, ready or not,” Guthrie stated as the NBC-owned show opened on April 6. “Let’s do the news.”

Guthrie, who has been co-hosting “Today” since 2012, stopped making appearances on the program after her 84-year-old mother, Nancy Guthrie, went missing on Jan. 31. Officials have said that the case was a possible abduction and have expressed concerns about her health.

The Guthrie family in February announced a $1 million reward for any information leading to the recovery of their mother. The FBI, meanwhile, is offering $100,000 for information that could lead to a capture and conviction.

The woman’s disappearance has drawn intense media speculation, prompting reporters to take photos and videos of investigators working at her home in the Tucson, Arizona area. Volunteers have done their own searches for Nancy Guthrie.

But attention has faded from an investigation that the FBI and local authorities had declared to be a top priority in February. In the past several weeks, few details have been released.

The FBI and the Pima County Sheriff’s Department both said this past week that they had no updates. Early on, some media outlets reported receiving ransom messages tied to the case. Guthrie said she and her siblings responded to two that they believed were real and offered to pay.

The FBI released video footage in mid-February showing a masked man tampering with the doorbell camera at Nancy Guthrie’s home. Officials say the suspect has a medium build and is between 5 feet, 9 inches and 5 feet, 10 inches tall, and was wearing an Ozark Trail Hiker 25-liter backpack.

In her first televised interview, Savannah Guthrie told “Today” co-host Hoda Kotb that the family was having difficulty dealing with the disappearance and offered another plea to the public.

“Someone needs to do the right thing,” she said in an excerpt of an interview last month. “We are in agony. We are in agony. It is unbearable.”

During an interview with the Arizona Daily Star in late March, Nanos said the case has not gone cold but that it could take years to resolve. Because of the investigation, Nanos said, details can’t be released to the public.

“The case will get us there. We let the evidence show us the way, and that’s what we base everything on,” Nanos told the paper. “Right now, everything is speculative. We don’t have anything in front of us that says ‘This is who did this, and this is why.’”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.