Last year, when we were in Mobile, Al., covering Hurricane Ivan, we heard the stories of poor people, many of them black stranded downtown because they had no way out.

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.