Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America.

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.