Jenna Bush Hager's Baptism Day Dash to Today

Jenna Bush Hager explained her late arrival to the Monday broadcast of Today, noting she had just returned from a trip to Maine. She was in attendance for a special family occasion: the baptism of her nephew, Edward Finn Coyne, who is the 2-year-old son of her twin sister, Barbara Pierce Bush.

During the baptism ceremony, held at a church where she and her grandparents, George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush, had worshipped, Bush Hager became visibly moved while reading Mary Oliver's poem "When I Am Among the Trees." She described the emotional experience of seeing her twin sister with the baby, acknowledging she was "kind of weepy."

Bush Hager assured her cohost Sheinelle Jones and the audience that producers were aware of her travel plans and permitted her to miss the earlier hours of the show. The show also featured an interview with actress Chrissy Metz, discussing her experience with GLP-1s. Meanwhile, co-anchor Savannah Guthrie had recently returned after filming a new game show, and her extended absence also followed the ongoing search for her mother, Nancy Guthrie, who went missing over six months prior.