During his two hour show tonight, anchored from outside Fox News headquarters, Geraldo Rivera got personal. After doing a Q&A with his younger brother Craig Rivera, Geraldo said that his 92-year-old mother, who had been staying with him, was moved inland to Craig Rivera’s home. But now that Craig is reporting on the storm, she’s staying with his sister… whose name just happens to be Irene.
“It is a very extraordinary situation, ladies and gentlemen, when you are used to reporting these storms hitting somebody else. When it is somebody else’s family involved you can report objectively and swagger and do everything you have to do to get the story. But with your family it is divided attention,” Rivera said, adding that keeping track of his 5 kids is like “herding cats.” Rivera’s wife and young daughters are staying at a Times Square hotel “on a low floor.”
Earlier in the show, Rivera said his son Cruz was “standing by on my dock.” Rivera is an avid sailor.