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TODAY Show anchor Savannah Guthrie discussed her family's "unbearable" agony while speaking to longtime co-anchor Hoda Kotb in her first sit-down interview since her 84-year-old mother Nancy was kidnapped nearly two months ago.
“Someone needs to do the right thing,” Savannah said in a clip that aired on the TODAY Show ahead of a lengthy two-part series set to air in full on Thursday (March 26) and Friday (March 27). “We are in agony. It is unbearable. And to think of what she went through.”
“I wake up every night in the middle of the night, every night,” she added. “And in the darkness, I imagine her terror. And it is unthinkable, but those thoughts demand to be thought. And I will not hide my face. But she needs to come home now.”
Nancy Guthrie is believed to have been abducted in the early hours of February 1, when security footage later recovered from her doorbell camera captured a masked man on her doorstep. The investigation into Guthrie's disappearance has no clear suspects nor strong leads more than a month after being launched on February 1.
Savannah shared a statement on behalf of her family "desperately" pleading to the Tucson, Arizona, community to give "renewed attention" to her mother's kidnapping case in a statement shared on her Instagram account on behalf of her family Sunday (March 22).
"We are deeply grateful for the outpouring from neighbors, friends and the people of Tucson. We are family now," the Guthrie family said. "We continue to believe it is Tucsonans, and the greater Southern Arizona community, that holds the key to finding resolution in this case. Someone knows something. It's possible a member of this community has information that they do not even realize is significant.
"We hope people search their memories, especially around the key timelines of January 31 and the early morning hours of February 1, as well as the late evening of January 11.
"We desperately ask this community for renewed attention to our mom's case -- please consult camera footage, journal notes, text messages, observations, or conversations that in retrospect may hold significance.
"No detail is too small. It may be the key.
"We miss our mom with every breath, and we cannot be in peace until she is home. We cannot grieve; we can only ache and wonder. Our focus is solely on finding her and bringing her home.
"We want to celebrate her beautiful and courageous life, but we cannot do that until she is brought to a final place of rest.
"Thank you for continuing to pray without ceasing."
Savannah, her sister, Annie Guthrie, and brother-in-law, Tommaso Cioni, carried flowers while being escorted by Pima County Sheriff's Department deputies to the memorial site in front of Nancy's home in a video shared by NewsNation reporter Brian Entin earlier this month. The TODAY Show anchor also shared a photo of flowers at the memorial on her Instagram account.
"We feel the love and prayers from our neighbors, from the Tucson community and from around the country 💛," Savannah wrote. "Please don’t stop praying and hoping with us. Bring her home."