American weather presenter, journalist, television host, and author Albert Lincoln Roker Jr. was born on August 20, 1954. He currently presents 3rd Hour Today on NBC and is the show’s weather anchor. His American Meteorological Society Television Seal #238 is inactive.

He joined the network in 1978 as a weatherman at WKYC in Cleveland, then an NBC-owned-and-operated station. From 1983 to 1996, he was a substitute for Joe Witte on the NBC News program NBC News at Sunrise.

Since 1995, Al Roker has presided over NBC’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade coverage. He is known as the “uptown” host, whose primary responsibilities include interviewing famous people and cutting the ribbon at the parade’s ribbon-cutting event. He performed as Joe in the Broadway production of Waitress in 2018.

Al Roker is the co-author of a series of murder mysteries with Dick Lochte. The second book in the series, The Midnight Show Murders (2010), was nominated for a 2011 Nero Award. His non-fiction book has Been There, Done That: Family Wisdom for Modern Times was published in 2016.

In December 1984, Roker married WNBC producer Alice Bell after a brief marriage and divorce. In 1987, he and Bell adopted Courtney when she was a baby. Later, Bell and Roker got divorced. On September 16, 1995, Roker wed TV journalist Deborah Roberts. Leila, born on November 17, 1998, and Nicholas are their children (born July 18, 2002).

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Who is Alice Bell? Meet Al Roker’s first wife

Australian screenwriter and director Alice Bell. She was raised in Sydney’s harbourside Balmain neighborhood.

She decided not to pursue formal training and started working in the film industry as a production assistant, eventually working her way up to Production Manager at Leah Churchill-company Brown’s The Doll Collective after a string of “terrible” jobs, including a stint as a dental nurse and a position at an electroplating factory.

Bell has written for Australian dramas for shows such as The Beautiful Lie, The Slap, Spirited, Rush, and Puberty Blues. She has directed music videos for artists such as Silverchair, Toni Collette, and the Finish, Jimmy Barnes, Little Birdy, and Missy Higgins; she and co-director Paul Goldman won the ARIA Award for Best Video for Straight Lines by Silverchair in 2007.

She was one of the original writers for Channel Ten’s police rescue drama, Rush. In 2009, she completed a five-month intensive writer’s workshop at the prestigious Binger Filmlab in Amsterdam.

Bell is the co-creator, script producer, and co-writer of 2015’s “The Beautiful Lie”. She wrote four of the drama’s six episodes. The original adaptation of Christos Tsiolkas’ novel of the same name “The Slap” was called “quotidian and naturalistic” by The New York Times.