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Why Hoda Kotb Has Been Missing From NBC's Today
Hoda Kotb is backmost successful her Today chair with a household update.
The beloved co-anchor returned to the greeting amusement connected March 6 aft a weeks-long absence and shared that her youngest girl Hope Catherine, 3, is recovering from a wellness matter.
"My youngest, Hope, was successful the ICU for a fewer days and successful the infirmary for a small much than a week," Hoda shared with co-host Savannah Guthrie—who was besides returning to the amusement aft a positive COVID trial past week—during the opening of the show. "I'm truthful grateful she's home."
"I was waiting for that time to come," Hoda, who is besides ma to 6-year-old girl Haley Joy, added. "And we are watching her closely. I'm conscionable truthful happy."
The 58-year-old besides noted that she truthful appreciates for the outpouring of emotion and enactment she's received implicit the past fewer weeks.
"You cognize what I realized too, Savannah?" she said. "When your kid is ill, the magnitude of gratitude you tin person for radical who helped you out. So, I'm grateful for the doctors at Weill Cornell, who were astonishing and the nurses."
"And I'm grateful to my household and I'm grateful to friends similar you, who were determination each azygous day," she told Savannah. "So, I privation to accidental convey you for that. I emotion you
Hoda's Today household had been sharing updates with acrophobic viewers implicit the past week. "We cognize immoderate of you are wondering however she's doing," Craig Melvin said during the March 1 broadcast. "We tin archer you, Hoda's OK. She's got a household wellness substance she's been dealing with."
NEW: Hoda Kotb returns to TODAY aft handling her daughter’s wellness matter.
“I’m truthful grateful she’s home,” Hoda said. pic.twitter.com/z5f8herdyB
Shortly earlier the commencement of Today, Hoda shared a punctuation connected her Instagram by Christopher Reeve that read, "Once you take hope, anything's possible." She captioned the post, "Happy monday xo."
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