Savannah Guthrie, a host of NBC's Today programme, has visited the network's office in New York as she makes plans to return to the airwaves while the search for her missing mother continues.
Guthrie's 84 year-old mother Nancy has been missing from her home in Arizona since 1 February, when authorities believe she was abducted. Few clues have emerged in the more than five weeks since.
Guthrie, meanwhile, has remained off air, although she has posted emotional pleas on social media for her mother's return.
Her co-host Jenna Bush Hager told viewers that Guthrie had visited and "she said that she has the intention to return to the show", but "I don't know when she's actually returning".
"Even though it feels like the hardest thing to do, it's also her home and where she feels so loved," said Bush Hager. "And she is beyond loved here."
