“We need you,” she wrote, urging viewers to pray for her mother. “Bring her home.”
Kotb, who co-hosted with Savannah from 2018 until 2025, shared three posts to her own account Monday, one with police contact info and “pls help,” a photo of Savannah and Nancy with prayer hands emojis, and another image simply reading, “Hope.”
TODAY led each hour of the show Tuesday with a news snippet about Nancy, with the hosts sharing emotional pleas for anyone with any information to contact the Pima County Sheriff’s Department. Hager called Nancy “a woman who is deeply loved by everyone here,” while Jones revealed that she had been having trouble sleeping due to worry over her colleague. “Behind the scenes, we’re all rattled, we’re all shaking,” she said. “We’re family around here.”
“We just are asking you all to pray for her, but please, if you know anything, contact the Pima County Sheriff with any tips,” Hager added. “Nothing is too small.”
“We’re wrapping you in love for sure, but we are also giving you collective action,” Jones said.
Other journalists, such as Katie Couric, shared their concern for Nancy, Savannah, and the Guthrie family.
“I cannot stop thinking and worrying about Nancy Guthrie, Savannah, her siblings, and her children,” Couric, who did a TODAY stint of her own from 1991 to 2006, wrote in an Instagram caption Tuesday. “There is just so much sadness and anxiety in the world—so much cruelty, it is almost impossible to fathom. Sending them and all of you out there love and support and praying for the safety and well being of this lovely mom and grandmother and honestly, right now for an entire country that seems lost.”
Journalist Yashar Ali, too, posted on behalf of “the wonderful Savannah Guthrie,” writing in an Instagram caption late Monday night, “No one deserves to be abducted or to have their parent taken from them. But for this to happen to Savannah—who is so wonderful, generous, and kind—is just incredibly unfair. For those of you who pray, Savannah is asking for your prayers.”
When Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos held a Q&A session with media Tuesday afternoon, one which yielded few new details about the investigation, both NBC News Now and NBC’s national affiliates broke into broadcasting to stream the press conference live.
“We have a lot of work in front of us,” Nanos said. “We have a job to do and we have someone’s life who is in jeopardy. Job number one is, we gotta find her and we gotta work hard to do that.”
Nanos confirmed that the FBI is involved with and supporting the investigation, and that law enforcement has cleared Nancy’s home as a crime scene. Though the LA Times reported that blood was found inside the home, Nanos would not confirm that. “There’s a lot of detective work being done, I just can’t get into those weeds,” he said. The Sheriff’s Department believes that Nancy was abducted, but Nanos declined to offer details around whether any ransom demands had been received. “We’re following all leads,” he said.
