 Geist was on the air for seven successive hours in an NBC News Special Report that aired across the United States.Willie Geist later did voice work in "Kung Fu Panda 3" where he voiced Sum opposite of Al Roker's Dim where their characters are twin panda brothers who are related to Po.On May 24, 2003, Geist married his middle-school sweetheart Christina Sharkey, in Humacao, Puerto Rico.