NBC "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie overslept for the first time in the two and a half years that she has been working as an anchor on the leading morning news show.

Guthrie shared a message on Twitter revealing she may have hit the snooze button on her alarm clock too many times Thursday morning.

After sleeping through her alarm, the 43-year-old new mother tweeted a message asking the executive producer of "Today," Don Nash, to show her mercy.

"This is a first. Overslept. @Studio1ADon please be merciful," Guthrie said in the tweet, which was posted less than one hour before she was expected to start the live show at 7am.

Despite waking up late, the veteran news host still managed to make it to the studio on time and anchor the live show with her co-anchors without a hitch.

She added in a second tweet, posted a few minutes after 7 a.m. that read, "Can't today wait until tomorrow?"

After sharing her mistake on social media, several news reporters tweeted their support for Guthrie, reassuring her it is a common occurrence that has happened to the best of them. Others said they understand why she overslept since she is the mother of a 6-month-old baby. Guthrie and her husband Michael Feldman welcomed their first child, Vale, back in August.

"I have done it before. ... Sometimes your body just shuts down. Esp [with] little ones -- these [hours] are hard!" tweeted Sara Dayley, a morning news anchor for Missouri-based KSDK, reports The Daily Mail.

Another user wrote, "'You will get much sympathy from viewers. Show me one person who hasn't overslept." Someone else added, "Hang in there! You've got this! You made it to work and are ready to rock the news for us and that's great!"

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