In October 2012 , Mendte co-anchored with Kaity Tong the day that Hurricane Sandy pounded the New York City area . For the next ten days , he co-anchored an extended 5 and 10 pm newscast at WPIX with Jodi Applegate . In April 2013 , Mendte solo anchored the coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing and then co-anchored 12 hours straight with Tamsen Fadal as Boston Police killed one of the suspects , Tamerlan Tsarnaev , in a shootout and later captured his brother and second suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Boston Marathon bombing
Boston Marathon bombing
Larry Mendte