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Savannah Guthrie made a sudden exit during Wednesday\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d show.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
After 90 minutes into the broadcast, Savannah\u2019s co-host, Craig Melvin, announced that she was done for the day.<\/p>\n
\u201cSavannah had to leave a little early,\u201d he told viewers, adding, \u201cShe\u2019ll be right back tomorrow, though.\u201d<\/p>\n
No other explanation was given, and Savannah has yet to address the moment on her social media accounts. However, a source told Page Six Savannah left \u201cfor some sort of appointment, and her exit had nothing to do with her mum.\u201d<\/p>\n
Page Six reached out to reps for Today,<\/i> but didn\u2019t receive an immediate response.<\/p>\n
Savannah\u2019s abrupt exit comes as her mother, 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, remains missing. Nancy has been missing since Jan. 31, when police believe she was kidnapped from her home in Tucson, Arizona.<\/p>\n
The journalist has made emotional pleas on social media <\/a>alongside her siblings, Annie and Camron, for any information in order to bring her mother home.<\/p>\n After taking two months off from the NBC morning show in light of her family emergency, Savannah, 54, returned to <\/a>Today <\/a><\/i>on April 6.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is good to be home,\u201d she said at the beginning of the show. \u201cReady or not, let\u2019s do the news.\u201d<\/p>\n Sources told Page Six that ahead of the broadcast, NBC staffers were explicitly instructed not to address Nancy\u2019s disappearance, or even formally welcome the anchor back.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was supposed to be business as usual. [Producers] said to act totally normal,\u201d one source said. \u201c\u2018Move forward\u2019 is the vibe. It\u2019s been a hard year and a draining time.\u201d<\/p>\n In an interview with fellow Today <\/i>anchor Hoda Kotb that aired in March, Savannah shared how she came to the hard decision to return to the show while her mother was still missing.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s hard to imagine [coming back] because it\u2019s such a place of joy and lightness. I can\u2019t come back and try to be something I\u2019m not, but I can\u2019t not come back because it\u2019s my family,\u201d she said. \u201cI think part of my purpose now.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI want to smile and when I do, it will be real,\u201d she continued. \u201cAnd my joy will be my protest. My joy will be my answer, and being there is joyful and when it\u2019s not, I\u2019ll say so.\u201d<\/p>\n Former FBI agent Jason Pack exclusively told Page Six last month the \u201cwalls are closing in\u201d on Nancy\u2019s kidnapper after Savannah returned to Today, <\/i>explaining that her being back on TV will help bring renewed attention to the case.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery day that passes the pressure builds. Keeping a secret like this is exhausting \u2026 and that gets harder with every morning that Savannah Guthrie sits behind that anchor desk,\u201d Pack said.<\/p>\n \u201cMost criminals in cases like this count on the media moving on,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n \u201cThey count on the family fading from public view. They count on people forgetting. This case is different. Savannah has a national platform and she shows up on it every single day. Every time a viewer sees her face, they think about her mother.\u201d<\/p>\n