- Currently resides in Boca, Florida [February 2020].
- Began his career in New York at WNBC in 1958 as a meteorologist and later a health and science reporter.
- He introduced the NBC audience to the Heimlich maneuver before the medical establishment embraced it.
- His son Storm and daughter Allison also became television meteorologists.
- In 1983, in a daring television news broadcast, he covered a kidney transplant live - from first incision to final suture.
- Earned a degree in geology at Brooklyn College, a Bachelor's degree in optometry at Columbia University, and a doctorate on the faculty of Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
- Has three children, seven grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
- Served as an Army Air Force meteorology officer in the European theater during World War II.
- He spent his post-TV weather forecasting years campaigning for fire safety.
- Learned meteorology at Brown University and MIT.
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