TV host Savannah Guthrie to return to 'Today' show on April 6, mother still missing

WASHINGTON - Savannah Guthrie is scheduled to return to her job as a co-anchor of NBC's "Today" show on April 6, the network said on Friday, more than two months after her 84-year-old mother's unresolved abduction.

It will be her first in-studio appearance on the show since January 30, two days before her mother, Nancy Guthrie, was reported missing from her Arizona home, NBC said.

"It’s hard to imagine doing it because it’s such a place of joy and lightness, and I can’t come back and try to be something that I’m not," Savannah Guthrie said in an interview broadcast on the show Friday. "But I can’t not come back, because it’s my family. I think it’s part of my purpose right now."

Nancy Guthrie was last seen by family members on January 31 after spending the evening at the Tucson home of her older daughter, Annie Guthrie, and her son-in-law.

The family has received ransom notes and has offered a $1 million reward for information that leads to the recovery of Nancy Guthrie.

-Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Aidan Lewis/Reuters