Savannah Guthrie's 'Today' Return Date Announced Following 2-Month Absence amid Search for Mom Nancy

TLDR: * Savannah Guthrie will return to her seat at the Today show anchor desk after a two-month absence. * On Friday, March 26, Hoda Kotb announced Kotb will be back on Monday, April 6. "We cannot wait to welcome her to Studio 1A," said her co-anchor Craig Melvin on air. * Moments before the date was announced, the second part of Guthrie's interview with Kotb aired, in which she explained her decision to come back on air. "It's my family, I think it's part of my purpose right now," Guthrie told Kotb of her colleagues. "I want to smile, and when I do, it will be real. And my joy will be my protest."