US TV presenter Savanah Guthrie is returning to work 50 days after the kidnap of her elderly mother

Now a high-profile TV presenter in the U.S. is returning to work 50 days after the kidnapping

of her elderly mother. In an emotional interview, Savannah Guthrie said she believed her mother

Nancy's abduction was a kidnapping for ransom and that two notes demanding a payment were most

likely genuine. She was speaking on the today program on NBC.

The two notes that we received that we responded to, I tend to believe those are real.

Really? We still don't know. Honestly, we don't know anything. We don't know anything.

So I don't know that it's because she's my mom, but yeah, that's probably which is

too much to bear. To think that I brought this to her bedside.

Let's talk now to New York-based journalist Harriet Alexander. Harriet Savannah Guthrie

is a huge star in the United States and there's been a lot of interest in this case.

Have there been any developments in recent times?

Well, I mean, in a word no, it's been quite remarkable really that there has been so little

known about this case. So Nancy Guthrie, she's 84. She disappeared in the early hours of February

the 1st and basically we don't know what's happened to her. The suspicion has always been that she

was kidnapped for ransom given her daughter's high profile career and her daughter's wealth.

There were these ransom notes. There was a flurry of ransom notes and actually there was an

arrest of someone for sending a false ransom note demanding Bitcoin. But we don't know what's

happened to her and it does seem that the investigation from from what we can judge has rather

gone cold. We heard a little there from that interview with Savannah Guthrie. What else did she say

about what's happened? Yeah, she said that that she didn't have any anger in her heart which,

you know, is quite remarkable really what's given what she's been through. She said it has been

absolute agony. She talked about how she appreciated the support from so many people around the

country across the world really for what she was enduring. But she praised her mother. She talked

about her as a wonderful lady who was resilient and resourceful. Her husband died when she was just

46 leaving three children. So she raised them on her own. She was determined and she was a woman

of faith and Savannah was very tearful throughout this interview and she said that she was praying

and she was asking God where is she and she realized that Nancy was with him.

She also Savannah also said that she was returning to work which I can't imagine will be easy when she's

constantly going to have all of those eyes on her and on how she's getting on. Yes, yes she's

going to be returning to work on on April the 6th. She said she said she doesn't know if she'll be

able to do it but she would like to try. That's what she said. She said that work has always been

for her a place of joy and she loves the team that surrounds her and that she wants to have a

go and to see if she can do it, to see if she can return some sort of resemblance of normality and

certainly there's an awful lot of good will for I think in the United States because it really is

just so horrific what seems to have happened to her mother. Harriet Alexander in New York thank you

for that.