NBC’s Longtime ‘Today’ Show Host Hoda Kotb Announces Her Departure

Hoda Kotb, longtime host of NBC’s “Today” show, has announced her departure from the morning program after nearly two decades. In an emotional statement she made to her co-hosts and staff, Kotb said the “monumental moment” of turning 60 moved her to reflect on the next chapter of her life. “I realized that it was time for me to turn the page at 60, and to try something new,” she said. “I remembered standing outside looking at these beautiful bunch of people with these gorgeous signs, and I thought, ‘This is what the top of the wave feels like for me.’ And I thought it can’t get better, and I decided that this is the right time for me to kind of move on.”...