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Savannah Guthrie, Craig Melvin and Al Roker were all absent from the "Today" show broadcast on Tuesday, July 21, days after the show faced an intruder incident.
Willie Geist greeted viewers at the top of NBC’s morning program with Sheinelle Jones, who co-hosts “Today with Jenna & Sheinelle.”
“Thank you for joining us on this Tuesday morning,” Geist, 51, said. “We are in for Savannah and Craig.”
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Later in the episode, meteorologist Dylan Dreyer filled in for Roker.
Guthrie, 54, previously announced that she’d be missing from “Today” for a “few weeks,” while she filmed the first season of the “Wordle,” a game show inspired by The New York Times game, in which players guess a five-letter word. Guthrie predicted the new series would likely air on NBC “in the New Year.” Her absence comes amid the ongoing search for her mother Nancy Guthrie, who disappeared from her Arizona home on Feb. 1.
Guthrie also mentioned during the July 20 broadcast of “Today” that Melvin, 47, was out for a "little family vacation."
Meanwhile, Roker, 71, has recently shared moments from a trip to Chicago with his followers on social media, including a trip to Wrigley Field. While in The Windy City, Roker hosted the Chicago International Film Festival’s Cinema Soirée on Saturday, July 18.
Guthrie, Melvin and Roker’s absences follow a July 16 incident when a person identified as Andrew Truelove, slipped past "Today" security and managed to confront Melvin off-air, allegedly calling him a racial slur, according to records reviewed by USA TODAY. There was "no altercation, and no one was injured" during the incident, per a "Today" show statement.
USA TODAY has reached out to “Today” for comment on when the anchors would return.
On July 17, Roker expressed his appreciation for those who reached out after the incident on Instagram.
“A really heartfelt thank you to all who reached out over the last 24 hours to check in on my brother, [Craig Melvin],” Roker captioned a montage of images of the two. “We are both okay. It’s moments like these that serve to pull us together. You all, like Craig, said “You come after one of us, you come after all of us”.
Contributing: Taijuan Moorman and Liza Esquibias
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Al Roker absent from 'Today' show as Savannah Guthrie, Craig Melvin remain out
