‘Fun ride while it lasted’

Craig Melvin loves his TODAY gig and family, but he thinks there’s one thing that just might make him quit.

 On the Monday, August 10 installment of the long-running news program, the TV anchor and co-host Savannah Guthrie — who returned on the day after a brief hiatus to film the new Wordle game show in London — discussed the current Powerball jackpot, which has reached a whopping $905 million.

“Here’s the thing, you might not see me again. If I hit the Powerball tonight, I’m playing tonight, if I hit it, SG, it was a fun ride while it lasted,” Craig teased, with Savannah joking back: “You’re not one of those, ‘I’ll still go to work every day’ [people]?”

“It’s $905,000,000, a lot of people are dreaming big this morning,” she added.

Craig joined TODAY as a weekday news anchor in August 2018, and has been main co-anchor alongside Savannah since January 2025, following Hoda Kotb‘s exit.