It has been nearly two months since Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Today cohost Savannah Guthrie, disappeared from her Tucson, Ariz., home. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI have not had any significant breakthroughs in locating her since she was reported missing on Feb. 1.

NBC’s Hoda Kotb sat down with Savannah in her first interview since her mother went missing. The first two parts of the interview aired on Thursday, and the third part of the interview is scheduled to air Friday, when Savannah’s plans for returning to Today will be revealed, Kotb said.

In the wide-ranging interview, Savannah told Kotb about the first moments she learned her mother was gone, about whether the ransom notes sent to the media were real and the message she said she heard from God about her mother.

Here are eight of the biggest takeaways from Savannah’s interview.

The moment Savannah Guthrie learned her mother was missing

The weekend Nancy Guthrie went missing, Savannah said her husband, Mike Feldman, had been out of town on a tennis trip, and she had taken their two kids to colleague Carson Daly’s house. She said they all returned home at the same time when she got a phone call from her sister Annie.

“My sister called me, and I said, ‘Is everything OK?’ and she said, ‘No.’ She said, ‘Mom’s missing,’ and I said, ‘What? What are you talking about?’ She said, ‘She’s gone,’” Savannah said through tears.

The Guthrie family found the back doors of Nancy’s home propped open 

Savannah recalled speaking with her sister Annie. “She was in a panic. I was in a panic.” She advised Annie to call 911, to which her sister replied that she had already done so and that they were already at Nancy Guthrie’s home.

“We thought that she must have had some kind of medical episode in the night and that somehow the paramedics had come because the back doors were propped open,” Savannah recalled. “That didn’t make any sense. We thought maybe they came and there was a stretcher and they took her out the back, but her phone was there, and her purse was there, and all her things, and it just didn’t make any sense.”

She said her sister and her brother-in-law, Tommaso Cioni, called local hospitals, and Savannah decided to start calling hospitals too. She said the police were at their mother’s house talking to Annie at the same time she was talking to Savannah and “it was just chaos and disbelief.”

Nancy Guthrie was physically unable to ‘wander off’ because of her bad back

Within hours of learning of her mother’s disappearance, Savannah rushed to Tucson to be with her family.

When she first saw her sister and her brother, Camron, she said they were all in “disbelief and hugging each other.” They were also on the phone with the Pima County sheriff.

Savannah said that from very early on in the investigation, Annie and Annie’s husband told investigators that it wasn’t just a case of someone wandering off.

“My mom, she was in tremendous pain, her back was very bad,” Savannah said. “On a good day, she could walk down to the mailbox and get the mail, but most days not. So there was no ‘wander off.’ And the doors were propped open and there was blood on the front doorstep and the Ring camera had been yanked off,” she recalled. “Something is very wrong here.”

Savannah agonizes that her mother was targeted because of her fame

Savannah said in the interview that Camron, who spent his career in the military and worked in intelligence, immediately knew that their mother was taken.

“He saw very clearly right away what this was, and even on the phone when I called him, he knew. He said, ‘I think she’s been kidnapped for ransom,’ and I said, ‘What?’” she recalled through tears.

“I just said, ‘Do you think because of me?’ and he said, ‘Sorry sweetie, but yeah, maybe,’” Savannah said, adding that, deep down, she already knew that.

“I mean, we still don’t know, honestly. We don’t know anything. I don’t know that it’s because she’s my mom, and somebody thought, ‘That lady has money, we can make a quick buck,’ I mean, that would make sense, but we don’t know,” she said.

Savannah said it’s “too much to bear to think that I brought this to her bedside. That it’s because of me … And I just want to say I’m so sorry, mommy, I’m so sorry.”

Savannah believes 2 of the ransom notes are ‘real’

Multiple ransom notes were sent to various media outlets and the Guthrie family in the days following Nancy’s disappearance, authorities said.

The sheriff’s department and the FBI said in February that they were investigating the validity of the ransom notes, but have not said publicly whether those notes were believed to have been from any person who may have abducted Guthrie.

Savannah weighed in on whether she thinks they were real.

“There are a lot of different notes, I think, that came,” she said. “And I think most of them, it’s my understanding, are not real. And I didn’t see them — but a person that would send a fake ransom note really has to look deeply at themselves — to a family in pain. But I believe the two notes that we received, that we responded to, I tend to believe those are real.”

Savannah addresses speculation of the Guthrie family’s involvement 

Nancy Guthrie was last seen on the night of Jan. 31 when she took a rideshare to Annie’s nearby home and was dropped back off at her home by her son-in-law, Tommaso, according to a timeline from the sheriff. In the immediate aftermath of her disappearance, intense online speculation grew that Savannah Guthrie’s family members had something to do with Nancy’s disappearance.

When asked by Kotb how the family has dealt with those rumors, Savannah replied, “It’s unbearable.”

“It piles pain upon pain. There are no words. I don’t understand,” she said. “I’ll never understand, and no one took better care of my mom than my sister and brother-in-law, and no one protected my mom more than my brother.

“And we love her, and she is our shining light,” she continued tearfully. “She is our matriarch, and she’s all we have.”

Savannah and her siblings are particularly close to their mother, as their father, Charles Guthrie, died when Savannah was 16 years old.

Nancy Guthrie’s home was her ‘safe haven’

The house in Tucson was where Savannah and her siblings grew up. “That’s my mom’s safe haven,” Savannah said. She recalled that as a teenager, it was also where she found out from her mother and sister that her father had unexpectedly died at the age of 49.

“It’s the house where all of our memories are. Good and bad, so it’s hallowed ground. My mom loved and treasured that house.”

“It’s really hard to see that violated, and the terror that she must have felt is unbearable,” Savannah said tearfully.

The message Savannah says she heard from God

Savannah had to make the difficult choice to leave Arizona amid the investigation to return home to her family in New York. She recalled looking out the airplane window at the vast desert landscape and thinking of her mother, she thought: “Where are you?” and “How could I leave you?”

Much like her mother, Savannah said her faith is “strong and resolute.” She said during this ordeal has been one of the few times in her life that she heard God speak to her.

“As I said to myself, ‘I can handle anything, God, I can handle anything,’ I just can’t handle not knowing,” she said. “And I heard a voice, and it said, ‘You do know where she is. She’s with me,” Savannah recalled. “So whether she’s on this Earth still or whether she is in heaven, I know where she is, I know who she’s with. But we need to know.”