shouted Robyn Roberts, who was conducting the interview.

You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications. In 1990, she joined NBC News as a general-assignment reporter and later served as a correspondent for Dateline NBC, an NBC News newsmagazine program.

She graduated from the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia with a Bachelor of Journalism in 1982.

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Roberts resides in Manhattan with her husband Al Roker, whom she married in September 1995;[9] they have a daughter and a son. Later that year, when NBC started the newsmagazine Dateline NBC, Roberts was picked as a reporter for the show. She also worked as substitute anchor on the evening news.