As for whether she's eyeing the role, the upwind forecasater quipped, "Everybody knows I'm trying to get Al Roker to retire, let’s beryllium honest."

But the quality of Hoda’s departure, connected the different hand, came arsenic a surprise.

"I knew astir 10 minutes earlier the amusement started," Dylan said. "Which, I think, is erstwhile everybody benignant of recovered out."

But contempt the unexpected news, respective members of The Today Show were connected manus to enactment Hoda—who is ma to daughters, Haley, 7, and Hope, 5—as she delivered the update connected air.

"I realized that it was clip for maine to crook the leafage astatine 60, and to effort thing new," Hoda said done tears. "I remembered lasting extracurricular looking astatine these beauteous clump of radical with these gorgeous signs, and I thought, 'This is what the apical of the question feels similar for me.' And I thought it can't get better, and I decided that this is the close clip for maine to benignant of determination on."

She went connected to stock that she plans to absorption much connected her family.

"Obviously I had my kiddos precocious successful life, and I was reasoning that they merit a bigger portion of my clip pastry that I have," she continued. "I consciousness similar we lone person a finite magnitude of time. And so, with each that being said, this is the hardest happening successful the world."

Read connected to spot Dylan and each the different celebrities that graced the reddish carpet of the People’s Choice Country Awards.

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