Savannah Guthrie’s mom taken from Arizona home ‘against her will’ say cops: Live updates

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos stressed during a press conference Monday that Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance was “not dementia related.”

“She is as sharp as a tack,” he said. “The family wants everybody to know, this isn’t somebody who just wandered off. Her physical limits are based on just age.”

A neighbor of Nancy Guthrie, who went missing from her Arizona home over the weekend, said her disappearance was surprising.

“It’s a very quiet neighborhood. It’s a very safe neighborhood. This is highly unusual, and we are very concerned about her,” neighbor Jeff Lamie told The Arizona Republic.

Lamie said that authorities were knocking on doors to talk to people and asking to see Ring doorbell footage.

He also noted there has been a “high response” to the disappearance, and that a volunteer rescue group searched through the night to try and find her.

Today show host Savannah Guthrie has previously discussed her close relationship with her mother on-air, who has been missing since Saturday.

The anchor lost her father, Charles, when she was 16 years old to a heart attack, leaving her mother, Nancy, as a single mother to Savannah and her two siblings, according to TODAY.

"My father died when I was entering my senior year in high school. I then lived at home all through college. We didn't have money to afford the dorm. And that was thing one, but the other was that my sister and I really felt like we should stick with my mom and not leave her alone," Savannah told Today co-host Jenna Bush Hager in 2022.

“But when I moved to Butte, Montana, this was it. And it was really hard for me to leave her,” she added.

Savannah said she recognized her mom’s selflessness in encouraging her to pursue her dreams.

"It's not because she didn't want me to stay. Of course she wanted me to stay," she said. "But she's like, 'I'm not going to stand in the way of your dreams. I'm going to tell you, go go go go go.'"

Nancy Guthrie, the missing mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie, has appeared on the NBC morning show several times in the past.

The 84-year-old most recently appeared on the show in November during a segment to promote tourism in Tucson, Arizona, where she currently lives.

In 2013, Guthrie appeared to tell the show’s audience how to make a bed properly.

“When I was in my 30s, I really wished to be married and to be a mom, and things just did not happen that fast for me,” Savannah once told viewers.

“And my mom’s confidence that I would be a mom — even as the years ticked by and ticked by and ticked by — meant so much to me.

“She said, ‘Of course you’ll be a mom, and you’re going to be a wonderful mom,” Savannah continued. “And for her to have that confidence and faith was so meaningful to me.

“It got me through some really hard times.”

Savannah is the youngest of Nancy’s three children with husband Charles Guthrie.

Arizona authorities are utilizing technology, including artificial intelligence, to try to solve the case.

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said his department is using license plate readers, “our camera systems throughout the community, anything, everything.”

He confirmed that Nancy Guthrie’s home had surveillance cameras that authorities were looking through, as well as the missing woman’s cell phone.

Nanos also noted the department’s use of AI, which he said was “extremely valuable to solving crimes just like this.”

Today show host Savannah Guthrie is expected to drop out of hosting the 2026 Winter Olympics opening ceremony for NBC as her mom, Nancy Guthrie, remains missing.

Savannah Guthrie was set to arrive in Italy on Friday for the start of the 2026 Games, but will likely no longer be in attendance, sources told Page Six.

She was going to stay in Italy for a week and record Today alongside her former co-host Hoda Kotb, who is expected to be at the Olympics, per the report.

“There is no way Savannah will be there,” an NBC source told the outlet.

She previously hosted the Olympic opening ceremony for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics.

The family of Nancy Guthrie says they were alerted to her disappearance after someone at their church called to say she didn’t come to church.

Her family received a call from someone saying that Guthrie, whose daughter Savannah Guthrie hosts the Today show, was missing at church Sunday morning, authorities said.

The family then went to her house in Tucson to look for her before calling the police.

Guthrie lives alone and has house staff, some of whom contacted the sheriff’s office, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said.

Authorities in Arizona said they did not know if Nancy Guthrie, who disappeared from her home Saturday, was targeted because she is the mother of Today host Savannah Guthrie.

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said Monday that Guthrie, 84, has limited mobility and that she didn’t walk out of the house on her own.

Nanos later told reporters that Guthrie “could not walk 50 yards on her own.”

However, police do not know if Guthrie was targeted because of her daughter.

“We’re not going to dismiss any angles for sure, but right now immediately we don’t know of anything like that,” he said.

Authorities do not believe the public is in any danger.

They also have not shared any details about why her home is being treated as a crime scene, with Nanos saying “it would be inappropriate at this time” to share.

The Today show opened Monday with coverage of host Savannah Guthrie’s missing mother, Nancy Guthrie, 84, who vanished from her Arizona home over the weekend.

“Let me get right to what is a deeply personal story for us,” host Craig Melvin began the show.

Melvin later read a statement from Savannah Guthrie on behalf of her family.

“I want to thank everyone for the thoughts, prayers and messages of support. Right now, our focus remains on the safe return of our dear mom,” the statement read.

“We thank law enforcement for their hard work on this case, and encourage anyone...anyone with information to contact the Pima County Sheriff’s Department.”