NBC Beefs Up Today Show Security

NBC's Today show now feels a bit more like a "fortress" than a morning-TV set. After months of unease triggered by two high-profile security scares, the network has now installed multiple new layers of protection at its 30 Rockefeller Center studios, according to insiders who spoke to Page Six. The changes follow the February abduction of co-anchor Savannah Guthrie's mother, Nancy Guthrie, from her Arizona home—she remains missing—and a July incident in which a man identified as Andrew Truelove allegedly slipped past guards and reached the area just outside the Today studio.

Truelove is accused of confronting co-anchor Craig Melvin, asking for Al Roker, and using a racial slur before Melvin alerted security and Truelove was arrested. A security guard was later fired over the breach. While tighter measures can sometimes draw complaints, insiders say Today employees are welcoming the new protocols, calling them overdue and "much needed."

In regard to the still-missing Nancy Guthrie, her daughter spoke of her lovingly ahead of the Today crew's upcoming trip to Ireland, per the Hill. "I love that we're all going. I've never been to Ireland," Savannah said. "My mother was Irish, [as was] her grandmother. They were from Galway." The New York Post makes the sad note that Savannah Guthrie mentioned her mother in the past tense with that statement.