United Kingdom, March 27 -- Savannah Guthrie has accepted her missing mom Nancy Guthrie is "with God" but she "needs to know" what happened to her.

The TV presenter's 84-year-old mother disappeared from her Arizona home on February 1 and police have been treating her disappearance as a kidnapping - now Savannah has admitted she believes Nancy is no longer alive after receiving a message from a higher power.

During an interview with her Today show colleague Hoda Kotb, Savannah cried as she explained: "Early on, I felt that I heard, one of the very few times in my life, I did hear God speak to me.

"As I said to myself: 'I can handle anything. I just can't handle not knowing ... I have to know'. And I heard a voice and it said: 'You do kn...