Savannah Guthrie Says She Has ‘Every Intention’ to Return to Today Show

The Today show is sharing more details about Savannah Guthrie’s return.

Guthrie visited the Today show set on Thursday for an emotional off-camera appearance. In the surprise visit, she thanked her colleagues for their love, support and for “caring about my mom as much as I do,” the NBC News talk show shared after her visit. The longtime Today co-anchor has been off the air since her mother, Nancy Guthrie, was seemingly abducted in Tucson, Arizona, on the weekend of Jan. 31. Nancy Guthrie, who is 84 and has a heart condition, has not been seen or heard from since. The Pima County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI currently have not publicly shared any serious leads.

“I wanted you to know that I’m still standing, and I still have hope and I’m still me. I don’t know what version of me that will be, but it will be,” Guthrie told the Today team during her visit.

It has been unknown whether Guthrie will make a return professionally to Today, but she revealed during her visit that she does plan to, she just isn’t sure on the logistics.

“I have every intention of coming back. 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,” Guthrie told the team, per Today.

There is no date set for Guthrie’s to return to the program. Today alum Hoda Kotb and Sheinelle Jones have mostly filled in for Guthrie aside her co-anchor Craig Melvin.

During Savannah Guthrie’s visit, it was revealed that meteorologist Dylan Dreyer led the team into a prayer saying, “We’re here holding hands as a family, in a place where we don’t understand why this is happening. It is not too bold to ask God for the biggest miracles every day.

“It felt like the right moment for all of us,” Dreyer said on Friday’s show to leading the prayer. “When I feel helpless, I pray… We asked for that miracle.” Dreyer also said it was their “gift” to give Guthrie the love and support in that moment.

“I think we needed to see her as much as she needed to see us,” co-anchor Al Roker added of the reunion that fellow anchor Carson Daly noted wasn’t planned.

“She came into the middle, no speech, spoke from the heart. Said the most perfect words you could ever imagine and looked every one of this family in the eyes,” Daly said. “Yesterday was one of the most special days not just in our lives professionally but personally.”

Laura Jarrett praised Guthrie for still being herself despite the “nightmare” she is living: “She’s still Savannah. She’s still funny. She was still cracking jokes. She was still sarcastic.”

“Her grace is second to none under pressure,” Daly added.

When talking about Guthrie’s possible return, co-anchor Jenna Bush Hager said, “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.”

Jones added, “I hugged her and I’m like ‘you know what you are here and we love you. Everyone loves you and whenever you’re ready, we are here.”

They shared that Guthrie also told the team that she still believes in her faith in God: “And as my mom would say, ‘Where else would I go?’”