Savannah Guthrie will return to the TODAY show for the first time since her mother’s disappearance. American news

American television presenter Savannah Guthrie is returning to NBC’s Today show on Monday for the first time since her mother disappeared more than two months ago.

Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old, was last seen at her Arizona home on January 31 and was reported missing the next day.

Authorities say his blood was found on the front porch. The alleged ransom notes were sent to news outlets, but the payment deadline has passed.

Authorities believe she was kidnapped. During the investigation, the FBI released surveillance video showing a masked man on the porch that night.

Today, co-anchor Ms. Guthrie, 54, admitted she has changed since her mother disappeared, and it is difficult to move on without knowing what happened to her.

Despite a search that involved thousands of federal and local officials and volunteers, there has been no sign of the mother of three since she went missing.

In a video message released by her New York church on Easter Sunday, Ms Guthrie said she felt “a moment of deep despair toward God, a feeling of complete abandonment.”

But he said the resurrection is only fully celebrated when we acknowledge the feelings of loss, pain, and, yes, death.

He said, “Perhaps this is too deep a message to share on Easter morning, but I have long believed that we miss out on celebrating the Resurrection if we do not acknowledge the feelings of loss, pain, and, yes, death.”

“It is the darkness that makes this morning light so brilliant, so dazzlingly beautiful.”

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In his closing message, he said, “I see a bright vision of the day when heaven and earth will cease to be as one, on earth as it is in heaven.

“When we celebrate today, that’s what we celebrate, and I celebrate too. I still believe. And so I say with conviction, ‘Happy Easter.'”

Announcing her return to NBC’s flagship morning show, Ms Guthrie said she was unsure whether she would feel like she still belonged there.

“It’s hard to imagine doing this work because it’s this place of joy and lightness,” she said in her first interview since her mother’s disappearance on Today a week ago.

“I can’t come back and try to be something I’m not. But I can’t come back because this is my family.”

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Ms Guthrie, one of US morning television’s most recognisable faces, has been co-anchor on Today since 2012.

There was a lot of speculation about whether she would return to the show or not.

“I want to smile, and it will be real when I do,” she told broadcaster Hoda Kotb, who returned to Today to fill in for Ms Guthrie while she focused on the search.

“It’s a joy to be there, and I’ll say that when it’s not.”

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Nancy Guthrie made occasional appearances on Today over the years, once taking part in a cooking demonstration and surprising her daughter on the set.

When Savannah Guthrie returned to her hometown of Tucson for a segment recorded for the show last year, the pair partied at one of her favourite restaurants and talked about their love for Arizona.

The Guthrie family has been offered a $1 million (£754,000) reward for information leading to the return of their mother.

Both the FBI and the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said late last week that they had no updates.

Initially, some media outlets reported receiving ransom messages related to the case.

Ms Guthrie said she and her siblings responded to two they believed to be genuine and offered to pay.

Ms. Guthrie speculated that her mother’s celebrity status may have prompted the move, but she found this possibility “too much to bear.”