Al Roker addresses retirement rumors after 30 years at “Today”

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Al Rokeris ready to deliver his career forecast.

The legendary weatherman and longtime TV anchor recently celebrated his 30th anniversary atToday, a milestone that spurred a flurry of rumors about Roker's eventual departure from the show. But during a recent chat withPEOPLE, Roker insisted that as far he knows, retirement isn't in the near future.

"Let's put it this way: I haven't thought about retirement," he told the outlet, before joking, "Somebody at NBC, that might be a different story."

He continued, "I love what I do. I feel good. I love this job. I love doing it. At some point I guess I won't be, but I don't feel like that's anytime soon, so I'm just gonna keep going."

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The veteran meteorologist has been part of the morning show's team ever since 1996, when he stepped in to replace the late Willard Scott. Three decades in, Roker acknowledged that much has changed, but praised the show's continued dedication to delivering on its values.

"I think that's the beauty of the broadcast is that the mission over these 74 years has not changed," Roker said. "The fact of the matter is we are each temporary custodians of this legacy. At some point I won't be part of the show, somebody else will be, but to be part of a pretty cool club is very special. To say that this was a dream job isn't really accurate because it never dawned on me that I could be on theTodayshow."

Roker added that he's been "really, really fortunate" to have been part of the show for such a long stretch of time.

To celebrate Roker's professional milestone,Todayhosted an"Al-iversary" specialthat was jam-packed with tributes from his costars, celebrity guest appearances, and even a playful recreation of Roker's signature fashion style — fedora and all. At one point,Howard Sternpopped in torequest that Roker spill the teaon which guest "had the worst breath," along with other secrets from hisTodaytenure. But Roker responded by reiterating that he expects to be around for a while longer.

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"After I'm finally off the air — but not until then," he said about revealing such info. He then joked, "I need this job. I got a daughter getting married this spring."

Roker also serves as the co-host of the "3rd Hour" block ofToday, alongside Craig Melvin and Dylan Dreyer. The Emmy-winning TV personality has interviewed numerous notable figures in entertainment including Betty White, Carl Reiner, and Dick Van Dyke.

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After being honored by his fellowTodayanchors witha look back on his career, Roker turned to the audience to say, "My family here means so much to me. I think about my parents, too. I wouldn't be here if it weren't for Allen and Isabel Roker. And all of you," he added with a nod at the camera. "It's just been an honor."

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“A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” showrunner admits to making a 'mistake' on “Game of Thrones” spinoff

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This article contains spoilers fromA Knight of the Seven Kingdomsepisode 4, "Seven."

Knight of the Seven Kingdomsshowrunner Ira Parker is offering his apologies to all the Dunk and Egg diehards.

Thus far, theGame of Thronesprequel series has been celebrated for bringingGeorge R.R. Martin'sThe Hedge Knightnovella to life while being impressively faithful to the source material (an aspect of the show that Martin himself has repeatedly applauded). But Parker has alsotaken a few creative libertiesand made adaptational alterations — including a key conversation that the showrunner now regrets leaving out.

During a recentReddit AMA, a fan chided Parker for omitting a scene between Dunk (Peter Claffey) and blacksmith Steely Pate (Youssef Kerkour). The moment, which would have slotted into the show's fourth episode, comes as Dunk prepares to fight for his life in his Trial of the Seven. As the pair walk towards the arena together, Dunk is greeted by several smallfolk who pat him on the back and wish him luck in the upcoming trial by combat.

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Dunk is confused and asks the blacksmith, "Why? Who am I to them?" Steely Pate replies, "A knight who remembered his vows."

The fan complained, "Many readers consider [this] to be the soul and the moral of the entire novella. The impact comes not just from the exchange itself, but its careful placement at Dunk's lowest point, before he realizes any champions have answered his call... It's an odd choice given how faithful you've otherwise been to the novella."

Parker offered a candid response to the criticism, writing, "Honestly it was a mistake on my part. Not my first, not my last on this show."

He continued, "That scene was in the script at one point, then fell out. I agree that 'a knight who remembers his vows' is the soul of this story, but I think that is still very much at the core of the show, even if I stupidly left out this scene. It may not be said explicitly, but Dunk's actions remain the same."

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Below Parker's answer, several fans praised the showrunner for the sincere answer with one Redditor writing, "Your honesty is really refreshing."

To Parker's point, the sentiment that Dunk is appreciated for remembering his vows is echoed elsewhere in the episode by those who rally to his side, including Prince Baelor "Breakspear" Targaryen (Bertie Carvel), who arrives to fight beside him, stating, "This man protected the innocent, as every true knight must."

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Elsewhere in the Reddit AMA, Parker fessed up to another mistake he made when one fan asked why Prince Maekar andPrince Aerionaren't wearing their personal coat of arms as described in the books. As the commenter pointed out, both princes wear the traditional Targaryen family heraldry, while in the book, they've added personal touches to the symbols on their armor.

"So far I've seen fans point [out] 2 mistakes in this show that I was unaware of," Parker replied. "This is one of them. Definitely should have had Maekar's... That would have made it soooo easy to distinguish him in the fog. Whoops."

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Luckily, neither of those slip-ups prevented Parker from getting showered in praise by Martin, who has made it very clear that he "loved" all six episodes ofA Knight of the Seven Kingdoms'first season. As for fans and critics, the series has earned glowing scores on Rotten Tomatoes (95% from critics, 73% from viewers) and IMDb (8.7 out of 10), with two episodes left to go.

New episodes ofA Knight of the Seven Kingdomsair Sunday nights on HBO and HBO Max.

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What to know about the investigation into Nancy Guthrie's disappearance and the search for clues

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Law enforcement agents have been gathering more potential evidence as the search for "Today" show hostSavannah Guthrie's mother heads into its third week.

Savannah Guthrie Mom Missing

Nancy Guthrie, 84, was last seen at her Arizona home on Jan. 31 and was reported missing the following day. Authorities say her blood was found on the front porch. Purportedransom noteswere sent to news outlets, but two deadlines for paying have passed.

Authorities have expressed concern about Nancy Guthrie's health because she needs vital daily medicine. She is said to have a pacemaker and have dealt with high blood pressure and heart issues, according to sheriff's dispatcher audio on broadcastify.com.

Here's what to know about her disappearance and the intense search to find her:

Video of masked man

The Federal Bureau of Investigationreleased surveillance videosof a masked person wearing a handgun holster outside Guthrie's front door in Tucson the night she vanished. A porch camerarecorded videoof a person with a backpack who was wearing a ski mask, long pants, jacket and gloves.

On Thursday, the FBI called the person a suspect. It described him as a man about 5 feet, 9 inches tall with a medium build. The agency said he was carrying a 25-liter "Ozark Trail Hiker Pack" backpack.

Investigators initially said there was no surveillance video available since Guthrie didn't have an active subscription to the doorbell camera company. But digital forensics experts kept working tofind images in back-end softwarethat might have been lost, corrupted or inaccessible.

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Studying DNA

Investigators collected DNA from Guthrie's property which doesn't belong to Guthrie or those in close contact with her, the Pima County Sheriff's Department said. Investigators are working to identify who it belongs to.

Evidence requiring forensic analysis is being sent to the same out-of-state lab that has been used since the beginning of the case, the department said.

Investigators found several gloves, the nearest about 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) from Guthrie's home, and submitted them for lab analysis, the sheriff's department said. It did not specify what type of gloves.

The sheriff stressed his department is working closely with the FBI.

Sorting through tips

The Pima County sheriff and the FBI announcedphone numbersand awebsiteto offer tips. Several hundred detectives and agents have been assigned to the case, the sheriff's department said.

The FBI said it has collected more than 13,000 tips since Feb. 1, the day Guthrie was reported missing. The sheriff's department, meanwhile, said it has taken at least 18,000 calls.

The sheriff's department has not said whether any tips have advanced the investigation.

Intensive searches

Late Friday night, law enforcementsealed off a roadabout 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) from Guthrie's home as part of their investigation. A parade of sheriff's and FBI vehicles, including forensics vehicles, passed through the roadblock.The investigators also tagged and towed a Range Rover SUV from a nearby Culver's restaurant parking lot late Friday.The sheriff's department said Saturday the activity was part of the Guthrie investigation but no arrests were made.On Tuesday, sheriff deputies detained a person for questioning during a traffic stop south of Tucson. Authorities didn't say what led them to stop the man butconfirmed he was released.The same day, deputies and FBI agents conducted a court-authorized search in Rio Rico, about an hour's drive south of the city.Family pleasSavannah Guthrie, her sister and her brother have shared on social mediamultiple video messagesto their mother's purported captor.The family's Instagram videos have shifted in tone from impassioned pleas to whoever may have their mom, saying theywant to talkand are even willing topay a ransom, to bleaker and more desperate requests for the public's help.The latest video on Thursday was simply a home video of their mother and a promise to "never give up on her."A quiet neighborhoodNancy Guthrie lived alone in the upscale Catalina Foothills neighborhood, where houses are spaced far apart and set back from the street by long driveways, gates and dense desert vegetation.Savannah Guthrie grew up in Tucson, graduated from the University of Arizona and once worked at a television station in the city, where her parents settled in the 1970s. She joined "Today" in 2011.In a video, she described her mother as a "loving woman of goodness and light."

Late Friday night, law enforcementsealed off a roadabout 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) from Guthrie's home as part of their investigation. A parade of sheriff's and FBI vehicles, including forensics vehicles, passed through the roadblock.

The investigators also tagged and towed a Range Rover SUV from a nearby Culver's restaurant parking lot late Friday.

The sheriff's department said Saturday the activity was part of the Guthrie investigation but no arrests were made.

On Tuesday, sheriff deputies detained a person for questioning during a traffic stop south of Tucson. Authorities didn't say what led them to stop the man butconfirmed he was released.

The same day, deputies and FBI agents conducted a court-authorized search in Rio Rico, about an hour's drive south of the city.

Family pleas

Savannah Guthrie, her sister and her brother have shared on social mediamultiple video messagesto their mother's purported captor.

The family's Instagram videos have shifted in tone from impassioned pleas to whoever may have their mom, saying theywant to talkand are even willing topay a ransom, to bleaker and more desperate requests for the public's help.

The latest video on Thursday was simply a home video of their mother and a promise to "never give up on her."

A quiet neighborhood

Nancy Guthrie lived alone in the upscale Catalina Foothills neighborhood, where houses are spaced far apart and set back from the street by long driveways, gates and dense desert vegetation.

Savannah Guthrie grew up in Tucson, graduated from the University of Arizona and once worked at a television station in the city, where her parents settled in the 1970s. She joined "Today" in 2011.

In a video, she described her mother as a "loving woman of goodness and light."

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US military boards another oil tanker in Indian Ocean after tracking it from the Caribbean

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. military forces boarded another sanctioned tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking the vessel from the Caribbean Sea in an effort to target illicit oil connected to Venezuela, the Pentagon said Sunday.

Venezuela had faced U.S. sanctions on its oil for several years, relying on a shadow fleet of falsely flagged tankers tosmuggle crude into global supply chains. President Donald Trump ordered a quarantine of sanctioned tankers in December to pressurethen-President Nicolás Madurobefore Maduro was apprehended in January during an American military operation.

Several tankers fled the Venezuelan coast in the wake of the raid, including the ship that was boarded in the Indian Ocean overnight. The Defense Department said in a post on X that U.S. forces boarded the Veronica III, conducting "a right-of-visit, maritime interdiction and boarding."

"The vessel tried to defy President Trump's quarantine — hoping to slip away," the Pentagon said. "We tracked it from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean, closed the distance, and shut it down."

Video posted by the Pentagon shows U.S. troops boarding the tanker.

The Veronica III is a Panamanian-flagged vessel under U.S. sanctions related to Iran, according to the website of the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control.

The Veronica III left Venezuela on Jan. 3, the same day as Maduro's capture, with nearly 2 million barrels of crude and fuel oil, TankerTrackers.com posted Sunday on X.

"Since 2023, she's been involved with Russian, Iranian and Venezuelan oil," the organization said.

Samir Madani, co-founder of TankerTrackers.com, told The Associated Press in January that his organization used satellite imagery and surface-level photos to document that at least 16 tankers left the Venezuelan coast in contravention of the quarantine.

The Trump administration hasbeen seizing tankersas part of its broader effortsto take controlof the Venezuela's oil. The Pentagon did not say in the post whether the Veronica III was formally seized and placed under U.S. control, and later told the AP in an email that it had no additional information to provide beyond that post.

Last week, the U.S. militaryboarded a different tankerin the Indian Ocean, the Aquila II. The ship was being held while its ultimate fate was decided by the United States, according to a defense official who spoke last week on condition of anonymity to discuss ongoing decision-making.

Associated Press writer Konstantin Toropin contributed to this report.

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