Savannah Guthrie during a Today show interview that aired on Wednesday, and Savannah Guthrie and Nancy Guthrie on the Today show set in 2015.
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In the third part of her NBC interview that aired on Friday morning, Savannah Guthrie revealed she will return to the Today show on April 6.

She told Hoda Kotb, who has been filling in for her on the NBC morning show, that she believes returning is “part of my purpose right now.”

“I can’t come back and try to be something that I’m not. But I can’t not come back because it’s my family,” Guthrie said. “I don’t know if I can do it. I don’t know if I’ll belong anymore, but I would like to try. I would like to try.”

The first two parts of the wide-ranging interview aired on Thursday. Savannah said she fears that her mother may have been targeted because of her fame as cohost of Today.

She said it’s “too much to bear to think that I brought this to her bedside. That it’s because of me … And I just want to say I’m so sorry, mommy, I’m so sorry.”

It’s been nearly two months since Nancy Guthrie disappeared, and investigators have had no significant breakthroughs in trying to locate her.

Last weekend, her family issued a new public appeal, asking Tucson residents to review home security footage, text messages and personal notes for anything that might help investigators.

“It’s possible a member of this community has information that they do not even realize is significant,” the family said in a statement to KVOA in Tucson. “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.” The Pima County sheriff and the FBI have not publicly named a suspect or a motive for the apparent abduction. Harry Trombitas, a former special agent for the FBI, told Yahoo that authorities are likely to “continue as long as there is an investigation to conduct.”

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told NBC Nightly News earlier this month that investigators believe they know why Nancy Guthrie’s home was targeted — and didn’t rule out the possibility that her kidnapper could strike again.

The family of Nancy Guthrie, 84, is offering $1 million for information leading to her “recovery.”

Anyone with information is encouraged to call the Pima County Sheriff’s Department tip line at 520-351-4900 or the FBI tip line at 1-800-CALL-FBI.

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Former FBI special agent says the timing of Savannah Guthrie’s ‘Today’ show interview likely coordinated with authorities

Former FBI special agent Harry Trombitas told Yahoo that the timing of Savannah Guthrie’s interview is probably not coincidental. Because there are no major breakthroughs, no suspects identified and no motive publicly released in the case, Trombitas said about the interview, “I really believe that that’s most likely coordinated between the sheriff’s office, the FBI and the Guthrie family.”

He said that, speaking as a former FBI agent, some of the interview’s goals were likely to humanize Nancy Guthrie as a person, persuade the suspects to do the right thing and keep the case in the public eye.

Trombitas said there are still people out there who likely have no idea that Nancy Guthrie is missing. “We’ve got to keep getting that information out there because it may finally come across the right person, and all of a sudden they realize that what they saw or the information that they have may be significant to the case.”

Read more from Yahoo: An ex-FBI agent analyzes what we learned from Savannah Guthrie’s ‘Today’ show interview amid the search for her mother, Nancy

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NBC’s ‘Dateline’ to air a special tonight, Savannah Guthrie to speak more about mother’s disappearance

Savannah Guthrie will talk more about her mother’s disappearance in a Dateline special this evening on NBC, airing at 9 p.m. ET. The true-crime show typically features in-depth investigations, interviews and mystery documentaries.

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Savannah Guthrie on returning to the ‘Today’ show: ‘My joy will be my protest’

Savannah Guthrie told Hoda Kotb that another reason she wants to come back to the Today show is that it brings her joy.

“I want to smile. And when I do, it will be real. My joy will be my protest,” she said. “My joy will be my answer. Being there is joyful, and when it’s not, I’ll say so. And I’ve been so grateful to have this family — I consider this my family, my greater family. When times are hard, you want to be with your family, and I want to be with my family.”