Craig Melvin isn't even a week into his tenure as co-anchor of the 'Today' show and already his co-anchor has left him. Melvin, 45, joked about Savannah Guthrie's absence at the top of the Thursday, Jan.

Today's Savannah Guthrie was noticeably absent from the NBC morning show's Jan. 16 broadcast not even one week after new cohost Craig Melvin took over Hoda Kotb's place at the news desk.

Wofford College alumni dressed in black and gold and carrying signs were in the plaza outside the Today Show studios in Rockefeller Center Monday to cheer on their fellow graduate and South Carolina native Craig Melvin on his first day as co-anchor of the Today Show.