Today show host Savannah Guthrie opens up in a two-part interview with Hoda Kotb about her mother's disappearance since January 31. Guthrie expresses her fears that her mother may have been targeted for a ransom due to Guthrie's fame, sharing emotional reactions and details about the ongoing investigation with her family.
Savannah Guthrie visits the Today show at Rockefeller Plaza in New York on Thursday, March 5, 2026. In this image provided by NBCUniversal, Savannah Guthrie , right, her mom Nancy speak, Wednesday, April 17, 2019, in New York.
The “Today” host’s mother has been missing since January 31, and Guthrie has been grappling with the idea that she may have been taken for a “quick buck” due to Guthrie’s fame. In the first part of a two-part interview with Hoda Kotb being broadcast on “Today” this week, Guthrie cried as she said, “I think my brother, my siblings are so amazing, my brother, he spent his career in the military and worked in intelligence and is a fighter pilot and just brilliant and 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?!’ It sounds so — how dumb could I be — but I said, ‘Do you think because of me?’ He said, ‘I’m sorry, sweetie, but yeah, maybe,’” she explained. Guthrie added, "I hope not. I mean, we still don’t know. Honestly, we don’t know anything. We don’t know anything. So I don’t know that it’s because she’s my mom and somebody thought, ‘Oh, that lady has money we could make a quick buck.'""That would make sense, but that’s probably which is too much to bear. To think that I brought this to her bedside, that it’s because of me?" Guthrie confessed."Can I just say, I’m so sorry, Mommy. I’m sorry to my sister and my brother and my kids and my nephew and Tommy, my brother-in-law. I’m just so sorry. I’m so sorry. If it is me, I’m so sorry,” she said. The Pima County Sheriff's Department launched an urgent search for Nancy after she failed to show up for a church service on Feb. 1, the day after her relatives had dropped her off at home. A memorial grows outside the home of Nancy Guthrie, the missing mother of "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie, on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026, in Tucson, Ariz. Investigators believe she was kidnapped overnight and have obtained surveillance footage of a masked man at her door. Earlier this month, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos admitted that investigators believe they know the motive behind the kidnapping but didn't offer any details. He told NBC News, "We believe we know why did this and we believe that it was targeted, but we’re not 100% sure of that. I think day one, we had some strong beliefs about what happened, and those beliefs haven’t diminished.”519 Plaza on East Ridge Road could be deemed a public nuisance, pending an upcoming decision by the Irondequoit Town Board.Webster,N.Y. — Emergency responders are at the scene of a fire at a home on Holt Road near Shoemaker Road.The fire department says people were home at the timeA Batavia police sergeant, along with other first responders and bystanders, raced to pull a driver from a burning vehicle after a crash Monday.An Orleans County man faces a peeping tom charge in South Carolina after a woman said he left an audio recording device in her home.
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