As an anchor at WNBC, he has led coverage of many major news events, including Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United States, the commissioning of the USS New York, President Barack Obama's visit to Ground Zero after Osama bin Laden's death, Hurricanes Irene and Sandy, the New York Giants' ticker-tape parade, the 2012 Empire State Building shooting, the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, and the death of Ed Koch. In 2014, he traveled to eastern Afghanistan to cover the last deployment of a unit of the United States Army's 10th Mountain Division. (He reported on the same division in Iraq in 2007, and had also reported from Kuwait and Iraq in 2004.)