“Right this moment” present host Savannah Guthrie can be absent from screens on Monday after her 84-year-old mom, Nancy Guthrie, was reported lacking from her Arizona residence on Sunday.
Savannah, 54, issued an announcement by way of her co-hosts, Craig Melvin and Sheinelle Jones, thanking “Right this moment” viewers for his or her messages of help—and urging anybody with any details about her mom’s whereabouts to contact native authorities in Pima County.
“On behalf of our household, I need to thank everybody for the ideas, prayers and messages of help,” the assertion started. “Proper now, our focus stays on the secure return of our pricey mother.
“We thank regulation enforcement for his or her laborious work on this case and encourage anybody with info to contact the Pima County Sheriff’s workplace at 520-351-4900.”
In keeping with native police, Nancy was final seen by her members of the family at round 9:45 p.m. native time on Jan. 31. She was reported lacking by her family in Tucson Sunday morning.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos revealed at a press convention held that very same day that foul play has not been dominated out, including that sure particulars discovered inside Nancy’s residence had given trigger for “grave concern” among the many attending officers, though he didn’t give any additional details about what had been found.
In a while Monday, Savannah’s co-star and shut buddy, Jenna Bush Hager, revealed in the course of the remaining hour of the “Right this moment” present that Nancy is at present with out treatment that she must survive.
In keeping with Right this moment.com, Sheriff Nanos added that his division is especially involved for Nancy’s welfare due to her age and bodily situation, though he famous that she is known to have full management of her cognitive skills.
“She has some bodily illnesses that restrict her potential to maneuver round,” Nanos stated, later including: “Miss Guthrie is 84 years outdated and isn’t in good bodily well being.”
A number of regulation enforcement departments responded to the scene, together with murder detectives, he additional revealed, stating: “You don’t usually get the sheriff out at a scene like this, nevertheless it’s very regarding what we’re studying from the home.
“I hope we discover her secure and sound, however we are able to’t ignore what’s in entrance of us.”
Lacking particular person posters describe Nancy as being 5 toes 5 inches tall, weighing 150 kilos, with brown hair and blue eyes.
Native authorities are utilizing each software at their disposal within the seek for Nancy, together with drones, a helicopter, an airplane, and search-and-rescue canines. Volunteers are additionally combing the world surrounding the Guthrie residence seeking Savannah’s mom.
“We’ve just about simply thrown every part at this as we are able to,” Nanos added.
Talking to “Right this moment” early on Monday morning, NBC crime reporter Tom Winter revealed that the FBI has additionally been introduced into the search.
“They’ve enlisted the assistance of the Customs and Border Safety—clearly, not too removed from the border there in Mexico. They’ve some particular assets. The FBI can also be conscious of this case as nicely,” he stated.
The “Right this moment” present host, who was born in Melbourne, Australia—the place her father was working on the time—spent a lot of her childhood and adolescence residing in Arizona, after her household returned to the U.S. when she was a toddler, in the end settling in Tucson.
Property data present that Nancy, whose husband died when Savannah was simply 16, has resided in the identical dwelling for the previous 50 years, having bought the abode for simply $85,000 in 1975.
Savannah not too long ago returned to Arizona to tape a phase all about her hometown for the “Right this moment” present, which included a visit to see her mom on the residence the place she grew up.
Forward of the phase airing, Guthrie revealed the importance of her journey—and her want to highlight the numerous locations in Tucson that helped her to change into the particular person she is right this moment, explaining to Tucson.com that she had maintained shut ties to the neighborhood even after transferring away.
“I’m emotional about it. I’m very happy with Tucson. I believe it’s a completely gorgeous and distinctive place to be from, and I’m actually happy with it, so this has simply been a pleasure,” she stated in the course of the phase.
Savannah, who attended the College of Arizona, solely moved out of the state after graduating, when she was given a job in Butte, MT, a job that she stated her mom actively inspired her to take, regardless of being devastated in regards to the concept of her daughter transferring away.
“My father died after I was coming into my senior yr in highschool,” she recalled to Hager throughout a 2022 episode of “Right this moment.” “I then lived at residence all by means of school. We did not have cash to afford the dorm.
“And that was factor one, however the different was that my sister and I actually felt like we should always stick to my mother and never go away her alone. However after I moved to Butte, Montana, this was it. And it was actually laborious for me to depart her.
“And that is when she stated, ‘If you cannot go away me, then I did not do my job proper, Savannah.’ She simply gave me permission to go, you understand?
“She may have held onto me. It would not have taken very a lot. If she stated, ‘Properly, you understand, Savannah perhaps you possibly can discover one thing a bit of nearer to residence…'”
Savannah relocated to New York full time in 2011, when she was named the official co-host of the “Right this moment” present’s fourth hour, alongside Al Roker and Natalie Morales.
Having initially resided in a Tribeca house together with her husband, Mike Feldman, the on-air star has since moved to a Brooklyn townhouse together with her partner and their two kids.
They stated on the time that they moved into the Brooklyn pad in 2023 after they bought off their Tribeca house as a result of that they had a “imaginative and prescient and dream of residing in a townhouse.”
