His father, Chris, was a war correspondent while in the United States Navy during World War II and covered the Surrender of Japan on board the USS Missouri and later was an administrative aide for Burr Harrison.
[2] In 1993, he won the American University-Investment Company Institute Award for Personal Finance Journalism for Caring for Aging Parents, which aired on Good Morning America.
He also won an Emmy Award for a report on Black Monday (1987) that aired on WCBS-TV in New York.
In June 2004, he married Joanne Lamarca, a producer for Today.
[1] In the 2016 United States presidential election, he voted for Michael Bloomberg as a write-in candidate.