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Al Roker has returned to today<\/em> after a two-month absence. He revealed that in addition to having blood clots, he had major surgery, including to resection his colon. (Photo: Today)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

Al Roker has returned to the today<\/em> show after a life-threatening health battle.<\/p>\n

The weather anchor, who has been off the air for more than two months as he recovered from to back-to-back hospitalizations as he coped with blood clots and internal bleeding that necessitated major surgery, was greeted by his colleagues Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie as soon as he arrived at NBC’s Studio 1A in 30 Rockefeller Plaza on Friday.<\/p>\n

“Yes!” shouted Kotb in the clip as Roker, 68, stepped off the elevator in a full suit and hat accompanied by his wife, ABC News’s Deborah Roberts. “You are home,” Guthrie told him.<\/p>\n

At the top of the show, Guthrie said, “It is a really special Friday morning. I’m sorry but the tears are already flowing. Al Roker is back! … To say we have missed you doesn’t begin even describe it. It is nothing without you here.”<\/p>\n

Hotb said the crew was “weepy” and the crowd outside has “been bummed every day we’ve walked out there” without him. “They’re like, ‘Where is Al?'” Outside, fans held up a sign spelling out, “Welcome back Al” and held posters with his smiling face on them.<\/p>\n

Roker called everyone behind the show his “second family” and said “it’s great to be back \u2014 and wearing pants” after a month-long hospitalization followed by recovery at home. He said his heart was “just bursting” as his colleagues pulled out all the stops, including welcoming him with his hype music, the A-Team<\/em> theme song.<\/p>\n

Roker’s sense of humor, a constant since he joined the show in 1996, was turned on even if he admitted he was running on adrenaline. Later in the show, when Carson Daly made a joke about Kotb using Roker’s dressing room as additional closet space while he was gone, Roker shot back, “Actually, they’d already cleared them out. [But] I am wearing her Spanx right now. These are fantastic!”<\/p>\n