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Al Roker Reveals What He Really Thinks of Retiring After 30 Years on ‘Today’
It's cloudy with a chance of…billboards of Al Roker in New Jersey.
After all, Today co-host Carson Daly revealed that there is a billboard honoring the beloved weatherman in the Garden State.
"This was sent in to us," Carson explained on the Feb. 27 episode of Today alongside the billboard. "This is an actual billboard spotted in New Jersey on Route 17 just last night, and it reads: 'THINGS WE ALL AGREE ON: AL ROKER.'"
While Al's colleagues Craig Melvin and Hoda Kotb were amused by the sign—which is a simple black screen with white text—they aren't so sure where it came from.
"We don't know what that is, who put it up," which he explained, while Hoda teased, "We're investigating."
But when it came to the tribute, Al was humble as ever.
"I've never seen that," he admitted. "But the second part of that is '...is a real jerk.'"
But it's especially surprising since the 71-year-old doesn't know anyone in that area—and his only connection is a restaurant nearby. As he explained, "I still always love the Tick Tock diner off Route 3."
Nonetheless, the Today family knows that, although they aren't responsible for the billboard, it's not wrong.
"I thought it was nice, though, because the sentiment is right," Carson added. "It's a crazy world right now, but you're sort of at the epicenter of calm."
Meanwhile, Al quipped, "That tells you how bad things are!"
Despite the journalist's self-deprecating jokes, he has continued to be a beloved member of the NBC show for the team and fans. When a blizzard hit New York City days prior, he documented their show's makeshift sleepover with a smile.
"Here we go, off to work," Al said in a Feb. 22 video on Instagram. "Getting ready for the big blizzard of 2026. Ten years since we've had a blizzard in New York City, so we're going to see what happens with this one, but we're going in early because they're shutting down the New York City streets."
As he put it, "We're going to have a little sleepover, all the folks at the Today show—it'll be fun."
For a closer look at the Today family, keep reading.
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Sheinelle Jones
The cohost of the fourth hour of Today shares son Kayin as well as twins Uche and Clara with her late husband Uche Ojeh, who passed away in May 2025 after a courageous battle with brain cancer.
“With all three of my children, I try to show them that they're ALL a team, and they have to take care of each other," Sheinelle wrote in a 2015 essay for Today. “At the same time, I'm learning that they each like to know they're special on their own."
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Craig Melvin
Three years after the anchor married fellow broadcaster Lindsay Czarniak in 2011, he earned his most cherished title yet: father.
And now, he seizes every opportunity to gush about their son Delano and daughter Sybil.
"When I wake up in the morning," Melvin said to his son during a May 2024 episode of Today, "part of the reason I work so hard is for you and your sister."
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Jenna Bush Hager
The Today with Jenna & Sheinelle cohost and her husband Henry Hager are proud parents to kids Mila, Poppy and Hal.
As she put it during a March 2025 episode of the morning show, “I’m pretty sure I’ve come to terms that three, even though it’s an imperfect number, it’s the perfect number for our household."
Hoda Kotb
"Another Halloween in the books," wrote the former host as she celebrated the day with her daughter Haley Joy.
She is also mom to daughter Hope Catherine.
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Lester Holt
The former NBC Nightly News anchor shares sons Stefan Holt and Cameron Holt with his wife Carol Hagen.
But more recently, he became a proud "granddude" to three grandchildren: Henry, Samuel and James.
“When my daughter-in-law was pregnant with her first baby ... she said, ‘Well, what do you guys want to be called?’" Holt said on The Kelly Clarkson Show in 2021. "I said, ‘I think I want to be ‘Granddude’ because ‘grand,’ it bows to the fact that I’m older. But ‘dude’ says, ‘I still got a little bit. I still got a little,’ you know?"
Carson Daly
In 2020, the anchor and his wife Siri Pinter welcomed their fourth child, Goldie. The little one joined the couple's older kids Jackson, Etta and London.
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Kathie Lee
Hoda's former cohost is a loving mommy to her own two children, Cassidy Gifford and Cody Gifford, with her late husband Frank Gifford.
Savannah Guthrie
The TV personality is a mom to two little ones, Vale Guthrie Feldman and Charles "Charley" Max Feldman, with her husband Mike Feldman.
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Al Roker
The anchor and his wife Deborah Roberts are parents to Leila Roker and Nicholas Albert Roker.
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Willie Geist
The anchor of Sunday Today has been married to his wife Christina Geist since 2003. They're parents to two children, George William Geist and Lucie Joy Geist.
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