NEW YORK: US television journalist Savannah Guthrie returned to her job as co-anchor of NBC`s Today show on Monday, more than two months after her 84-year-old mother vanished from her Arizona home in an unresolved kidnapping.

At 7am in the show`s Manhattan studio, Guthrie launched into the headlines the US war on Iran, the Artemis Il astronauts` traveling to the far side of the moon before briefly acknowledging her absence.

`We are so glad you started your week with us, and it is good be home,` Guthrie said.

`Yes, it is good to have you back at home, her co-anchor Craig Melvin replied, patting Guthrie`s hand. `Well, here we go, ready or not, let`s do the news,` Guthrie said.

She was last at the anchor`s desk in January, shortly before her mother, Nancy Guthrie, was taken from her home near Tucson. An armed man wearing a ski mask was recorded tampering with her doorbell camera before the disappearance.

Savannah Guthrie and her siblings later recorded emotional pleas for their mother`s return, offering a $1 million reward, but she has yet to be found.

In a video she recorded in February, Guthrie said her family was `blowing on the embers of hope` that Nancy Guthrie was still alive, but acknowledged that `she may already be gone.`-Reuters