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Dave Price was the weather anchor for CBS's The Early Show for eight years and covered major weather events for the CBS Evening News. In addition to meteorology and reporting on-site from natural disasters, he has traveled throughout the country and around the globe bringing amazing stories to millions of viewers.

Dave has had a first-person view of some of the most momentous events of our time. He was in New York City, on-air, as the first tragic moments of September 11 unfolded. He was one of the few reporters who spent the night enduring Hurricane Katrina inside the Superdome in New Orleans with the people he was covering. He also covered the earthquake in Haiti in 2010 and the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico for the network. He's been on the front lines of the war on terror in Afghanistan and has been through Iraq seven times (including the night Saddam Hussein was executed).

On more pleasant occasions, he has been at the center of the action for Inaugurations, Super Bowls, NBA Championships, World Series, Final Fours, U.S. Opens, Olympics, and Ticker-tape parades. In addition, he's flown with the Blue Angels over the Florida coastline, canoed down the Amazon in Ecuador, and ridden Harley Davidsons in the Australian Outback. His stops have taken him to every state in the nation and to over 80 countries.

Dave has covered an incredible array of stories for someone who didn't even enter the broadcasting industry until he was almost 30. Armed with a bachelor's degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell and a master's degree in Organizational Psychology from Columbia, he spent almost a decade as a human resources executive with Pepsi-Cola, Texaco and Taco Bell. His job was to advise those companies on how to "run better." That was until the fall of 1995 when he finally started listening to his own advice. He aggressively shed 80 pounds and turned his life around.

He quit his job and pursued his passion. His transition took him from the office chair to the anchor chair. He started his broadcast career as the morning weather anchor at the CBS affiliate WSEE-TV in Erie, Pennsylvania and a year later joined WBBM, the CBS Network-owned station in Chicago. Eventually, he anchored Fox's Good Day Philadelphia before moving to New York and Fox's flagship station to do weather and co-host WNYW-TV's Good Day New York. He later joined WCBS-TV and then CBS News. He's won five Emmy awards and a Gracie award for his work.