A massive state and federal effort, the likes of which we've never seen is going to be needed. We can do it for tsunami victims half a world away. We can do it for our own citizens.

2011: The Talk Show Murders. Roker initially wanted to be a cartoonist. In 2005 Roker reported from inside Hurricane Wilma.

He is best known as being the weather anchor on NBC's Today. Writing with Dick Lochte Roker began a series of murder mysteries in 2009 that feature Billy Blessing a celebrity chef turned amateur detective.