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KCBS All News
"al roker" Discussed on KCBS All News
"And download the free Odyssey app today. Everyone, Al Roker here. As a guy with his own catch phrase, I appreciate that smokey's only said only you can prevent wildfires. But I'm feeling it because there's a lot more to report. Like when there are parched or windy conditions out there, you got to be extra careful with things like burning yard waste. After all, wildfires can start anywhere, even in your neck of the Woods. Go to smokey bear dot com to learn more about wildfire prevention, brought to you by the U.S. forest service, your state forester, and the ad council. California department of public health reminding you of ways to help stop the spread of COVID and other viruses this winter. Boost your immunity by staying up to date with COVID boosters and flu shots. Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, cover your mouth when you cough or sneeze and protect others by staying home and testing for COVID when sick and consider masking up in indoor public places. Do something good for yourself this winter, get protected, and if you have to, get tested. More tips at COVID-19 dot CA dot gov. So, you've unwrapped a new device this year. Don't forget to take your favorite stations and podcasts with you. No matter where you go. With the Odyssey app, stream the music and shows you love on your phone, tablet, black top, smart speaker, and more. Create an account to save your favorites across devices. And jump back to the moments that matter most, with rewind. Your favorite local listening available when and how you want. Download the Odyssey app today to get started. With patriots software dot com accounting in payroll. Keep your time in money my careful here is serial entrepreneur. I hired my
AP News Radio
Tree lighting, concert at Rockefeller Center lights up New York
"New York's Rockefeller center Christmas tree is all aglow after a star studded concert and lighting ceremony. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in midtown Manhattan. NBC broadcast the Rockefeller center Christmas tree lighting ceremony Wednesday night, an event that featured hosts from The Today Show and artists including Catherine mcphee, Alicia Keys, Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani. The tradition of the tree started with one put up by construction workers building the center in 1931. This year's 82 foot Norway spruce from queensbury, New York, was decorated with 50,000 multi colored LED lights and a crystal star weighing 900 pounds. Audio courtesy and BC. Absent from the ceremony was 68 year old Today Show weatherman Al Roker, who has been battling health issues and reportedly returned to the hospital after missing his first Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in 27 years. I'm Jennifer King
AP News Radio
Al Roker Recovering After Being Hospitalized for Blood Clots in His Leg and Lungs
"Al Roker the NBC Today Show weather anchor says he's recovering after he was hospitalized last week for blood clots Al Roker took to his Instagram on Friday to announce that last week he was in the hospital after blood clots in his leg sent some clots to his lungs The 68 year old said after some medical whack a mole I am so fortunate to be getting terrific medical care and on the way to recovery and he thanked everyone for their well wishes Roker's wife ABC News correspondent Deborah Roberts posted
Bloomberg Radio New York
"al roker" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"After nearly 6 feet of snow fell on western New York. I'm Brad Siegel. The average Thanksgiving meal was up 14% this year across America, all because of inflation. These folks say they're cutting back. We're just not buying as much of any leftovers. So we're not gonna have as much on the table. Kids are kicking in this year. Usually they make mama do it, you know? But the average cost for a classic Thanksgiving feast is a little over $53 for ten people. That's according to a survey by the U.S. farm, bureau. It's the most expensive dinner in the 37 years of the bureau's holiday survey. A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy who was filmed kneeling on an inmate's neck will not be charged with a crime. Daniel martindale has more. The LA county district attorney's office says based on surveillance video of the incident. There's not enough evidence to conclude the deputy committed assault. It also says there's no evidence to suggest there was excessive force, the deputy through the inmate to the ground and set a courthouse pickup area in March of 2021 after the men punched the deputy in the face. The inmate was not seriously hurt. I'm Daniel martindale. The average 401k balance is down 23% in the last year, fidelity investment says it now stands at just over $97,000 despite that the average 401k contribution rate stands at just under 14%. The president of workplace investing at fidelity says folks should contribute to their 401k consistently no matter what happens in the stock market. Slightly fewer Americans are filing for jobless benefits. The Labor Department says 222,000 initial claims were filed last week. That's down 4000 from the previous week's revised total, Kentucky, California and Texas were among those to see the largest increases in first time claims for the week that ended November 5th, Oregon, New Jersey and Florida saw the largest declines. Today Show weather anchor Al Roker is in the hospital, the Emmy Award winner has been absent from The Today Show for two weeks now. On Friday, it was revealed that he's been hospitalized due to blood clots in his leg and lungs. He expects to return to the air soon. I'm Brad. And I'm susannah Palmer in the Bloomberg newsroom. Elizabeth Holmes was ordered to spend more than 11 years in prison for fraudulently building her blood testing startup theranos into a $9 billion company that collapsed in scandal. Bloomberg laws June grosso has some insight. The prosecution asked for 15 years, home made the ridiculous request for 18 months home detention, but the U.S. probation office asked for 9 years. So it's very close to what the prosecution asked for and more than the probation office as for. So I think it's a tough sentence. And I think, you know, sentence, it's not only punishment, but it's deterrence. And the judge is sending a message an example to the world of startup. Bloomberg laws June Grasso there. New York City is getting its first professional soccer stadium as we hear from Bloomberg's Larry kofsky. Susannah, the stadium will be built and will its point queens across from city field as part of a 23 acre mixed use development. It will also include a hotel thousands of housing units and a new public school, the 25,000 seat stadium will be home to the New York City football club, which is played at Yankee Stadium since 2015. It is expected to be completed in 2027. Susanna, Bloomberg's Larry koski. More Americans are feeling financial strain going into the holiday shopping season. A recent poll from financial services company LendingClub found 60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and increase from the 56% who said the same last year. A separate survey found about half of shoppers plan to buy fewer items this year due to high prices. Stocks are wound up with weekly losses after several days of bumpy trading for the week. The S&P 500 fell 7 tenths of 1%. The Dow was down less than one tenth of 1%. The NASDAQ fell 1.6% this week. Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. I'm Suzanne Palmer. This is Bloomberg
Bloomberg Radio New York
"al roker" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Earlier in the week. Left side? Left side. Oh. So we know what we know where this is going. Yeah, you can just ignore that. That'll sort itself out. I thought it was a Charlie horse. Really? I played a little basketball with buddies. This was right at the end of a Thanksgiving holiday. And I got a group of buddies lifelong friends. We always played basketball together. And I thought it was a Charlie horse, pain in the leg went away a couple of days later. I'm having this pain in my chest. And I take myself to the hospital. She goes, did you tell them about your leg? And I said, no. She goes, into the head of the emergency room's office. The guy comes back out, and he says, how come you didn't tell me about your leg? I said, well, my leg doesn't hurt anymore. It's my chest. I got pneumonia. X-rays. This is where equity research guys talk themselves into a hole. They think they know more than they do. I know a lot about telecom. I know nothing about healthcare. All right? So the guy comes out and he says, well, we got to give you what we call a D dimer, right? There's a test for blood clots, essentially. They do the tests, I am at this point, the second sickest person, highest priority in the emergency, they roll me in, they give me an MRI. They see the blood clots in my lungs. They see some remnants in my leg. I'm immediately brought into the hospital and I'm there for several days to give me blood thinner. They want to make sure that these clots don't show no bypass or anything crazy. No, no, no, no, no. So what I had was a blood clot, right? So did not have a heart attack. I'm in the stroke center there, the hospital in D.C.. And for me, it was really a point where you start thinking about your life in a different way. It had to be terrifying when your wife comes in and the head of the ER says, stat, let's get this guy taking care of immediately. It is. But not as scary until you realize what's really happening. And that there's things that they called widow makers, which are these bilateral blood clots that you get across the aortic valve. I mean, you just go away. You're done, right? You're done, right? As somebody that's kind of steeped in mathematics, probabilities, investment. You always be thinking about the future. And my greatest story from that is that I actually upgraded a stock Pandora media from the ICU in the hospital. They love that. Yeah. To which my wife responded, if you die writing a research report, I'll kill you. Right? So this is where you start putting it together. You put a little bit of life together and you start thinking like an investor and you start investing in yourself and thinking about how are you going to measure the return in your life. And for me, I had done well as an analyst. We did well. And I said, I really want to find ways that I can impact and help others with the years that I have left, because it could have gone away right then and there. Tell us about what took place when you got out of the hospital. Stuck around for a few more months at the firm that I was working. And then decided to do some other things. And that included doing some work with small and medium sized businesses. Organization that I looked at doing some work with was management leadership for tomorrow and John rice and the team at MLT do a great job. New John a little bit and knew about the work that he had done. I had written recommendations for mentees of mine into that program. And John asked me to come out and can you help raise some money? Running business development. And what I recognize is I got tremendous fulfillment out of seeing young people
Bloomberg Radio New York
"al roker" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Pain earlier in the week. Left side? Left side. Oh. So we know we know where this is going. All right. Yeah, you can just ignore that. That'll sort itself out. I thought it was a Charlie horse. Really? I played a little basketball with buddies. This was right at the end of a Thanksgiving holiday. And I got a group of buddies lifelong friends. We always play basketball together. And I thought it was a Charlie horse, pain in the leg went away a couple of days later. I'm having this pain in my chest. And I take myself to the hospital. She goes, did you tell them about your leg? And I said, no, she goes, into the head of the emergency room's office. The guy comes back out, and he says, how come you didn't tell me about your leg? I said, well, my leg doesn't hurt anymore. It's my chest. I got pneumonia. That's what x-rays did. This is where equity research guys talk themselves into a hole. They think they know more than they do. I know a lot about telecom. I know nothing about healthcare. All right? So the guy comes out and he says, well, we got to give you what we call a D dimer, right? There's a test for blood clots, essentially. They do the tests, I am at this point, the second sickest person, highest priority in the emergency. Wow. They roll me in. They give me an MRI. They see the blood clots in my lungs. They see some remnants in my leg. I'm immediately brought into the hospital and I'm there for several days to give me blood thinner. They want to make sure that these clots don't show no bypass or anything crazy. No, no, no, no, no. So what I had was a blood clot, right? So did not have a heart attack. I'm in the stroke center there, the hospital in D.C.. And for me, it was really a point where you start thinking about your life in a different way. It had to be terrifying when your wife comes in and the head of the ER says stat, let's get this guy taking care of immediately. It is, but not as scary until you realize what's really happening. And that there's things that they called widow makers, which are these bilateral blood clots that you get across the aortic valve. And you just go away. You're done, right? You're done, right? As somebody that's kind of steeped in mathematics, probabilities, investment. You always be thinking about the future. And my greatest story from that is that I actually upgraded a stock Pandora media from the ICU in the hospital. They love that. Yeah. To which my wife responded, if you die writing a research report, I'll kill you. Right? So this is where you start putting it together. You put a little bit of life together and you start thinking like an investor and you start investing in yourself and thinking about how are you going to measure the return in your life. And for me, I had done well as an analyst. We did well. And I said, I really want to find ways that I can impact and help others with the years that I have left. Because it could have gone away right then and there. Tell us about what took place when you got out of the hospital. Stuck around for a few more months at the firm that I was working. And then decided to do some other things. That included doing some work with small and medium sized businesses. Organization that I looked at doing some work with was management leadership for tomorrow and John rice and the team at MLT do a great job. New John a little bit and knew about the work that he had done. I had written recommendations for mentees of mine into that program. And John asked me to come out and can you help raise some money, running business development and what I recognize is I got tremendous fulfillment out of seeing young people
The Kicker
"al roker" Discussed on The Kicker
"And he would dress uncle webby for the weather. Obviously, for kids watching. And there was, I don't know if you've ever heard of the little art thing called color forms. No. It's like it was a background. And you could put plastic pieces like dress up characters and things like that. Anyway, there was a there was a uncle web B color forms kit. And I loved color forms, and I added on a web view. And so I would watch TV, I will watch them on channel four, and he would tell you what to put on uncle webby. And so I would do that. So it was like fate, I guess. But it's a long way around of saying, you know, as a kid, I was, I think I had the same interest as any other average kid or and or adult. It's going to rain tomorrow. It's going to be sunny. What does it look like to the weekend? And I think in New York, it's still, I think people are still just as fascinated with it. It's just that, you know, it doesn't quite affect us in the same way as it would say in the plains or Florida or yeah. But I think people still care about it and have cared about it all this time. I think in New York there's so much more going on. But we only have so much bandwidth. So when you first came in, this was still the era where the weather person was kind of the light part of the broadcast, right? Well, you know, it depends on it depending on where you worked at. And I think it also depended on your station. You know, like if you went to almost any local market. Yeah. There was the quote weather girl very attractive young woman who did weather. There was the kind of funny kind of more personality was probably the station staff announcer or, you know, whatever. And then there was usually the person who was an accredited meteorologist who was a scientist. And was on the air. So, and there are obviously shades, gradations, and permutations of that formula. But I think at any given market, you would find some mix of those. Yeah. Did that, did that the fact that that was still the case in some of these markets? Was there ever a point? I mean, you said that you sort of got into this because it was a job. And then you just sort of stayed, was there ever a point where you're like, okay, this is enough. I got to get out of this. I got to do something else. No, I didn't, because I didn't realize I did radio.
The Kicker
"al roker" Discussed on The Kicker
"We're living in a moment where extreme weather is becoming more common and the effects of the climate crisis are happening more every single day. And it really has put increased attention on whether people on television and whether reporters around the world. They are now sort of at the front lines of what's happening and are trying to sort of like put what's happening in whether in a broader climate context. It turns out that one of the people sort of leading this charge is Al Roker, who is the weathercaster on The Today Show, has been for years, has now become one of the most well-known and trusted names in the media world, but has also been a leader in making people understand the ties between weather and climate. I'm really happy to be joined by Al today. I'll also has been a big supporter of covering climate now, which is the journalistic collaborative CJR cofounded. He hosted the covering climate now journalism awards last year, those awards, we've just picked and finalists for those and those are being announced this week. I'm really happy to be joined by Al Roker on the podcast. Talk to me about your interest in whether reporting you started doing this when you're in college. Right. And my interest in it was a paycheck. I was a radio and TV major. Now, today, it's communications, but then it was radio TV. And I really had no interest in not just no interest in weather. I had no interest in being on television. I was going to be a writer or producer, something like that. Behind the camera and you know my sophomore year of college professor put me up for a job doing weekend weather at the station he worked at in Syracuse. And at the CBS station. And it was one of those weird serendipitous things in that I had taken a meteorology course intro to meteorology and the beginning of my sophomore year. And taken an environmental then it was called ecology. It's environmental sciences. But just kind of an intro introduction classes. And I was kind of interested in it, but it was I had no intentions of following up. And then I got the weekend weather job. And that was in May of 1974. And here I am today. A very old and doing this. You grew up in New York City, right? I did. Yeah, you can test the theory that I have. I've lived here for 25 years or so, but I grew up in Texas and weather seems to have less relevant in New York. In the city. I've lived in places where you really track the weather and it becomes a part of your daily life. It seems less so here. As a kid, I mean, this was not on your radar as a kid. Well, no pun intended. My mother told me this. And I didn't remember it. There was a weather actually, it was a meteorologist. He was an air force and a former air force meteorologist. By named Tex Antoine. And that's a great name. He was a channel four and that yeah, and then channel 7. And he was also an artist. He did kind of a nagy learned to draw kind of Bob Ross kind of thing. But he also did weather. And he did this thing that he had this character named uncle web B and it was kind of an easel and there was an art piece of artwork that kind of looked like him..
77WABC Radio
"al roker" Discussed on 77WABC Radio
"Hour to discuss races that are taking place somewhere in the country Because elections have consequences not only in your town not only in your city not only in your county not only in your state but all over the country When somebody is elected to the House of Representatives from Illinois it affects the people who live in New Jersey and vice versa and all around When somebody's elected to the United States Senate they don't just vote for their state They vote on matters that affect you directly So it's important that we get involved in these races It's important that I use this microphone to help expose you to some of these candidates And we're going to continue to do it We're going to continue to do it Because it's important I view it as a public service to patriots and conservatives But before we do Al Roker on The Today Show Al Roker on The Today Show This just shows you how cold blooded These people in the media are They are utterly cold blooded And I want you to seriously listen to this This is from The Today Show cut 14 go Speaking of being interconnected I mean climate is one of those things that gets pushed down when things happen For example now we've got Ukraine And there's a talk about let's ramp up production of fossil fuels because inflation higher gas prices Do you worry that that's going to push back the initiative Do you wary That the Ukrainians defending themselves Trying to save their lives and save their country Against the Putin military machine is going to take our attention away from climate And Obama can't wait to jump in Right Right Right Because Obama knows nothing about everything And everything about nothing But don't worry as an opinion The fact of the matter is climate change takes precedent that everything else including genocide that's taking place In Ukraine I just hope I pray to God that people like Al Roker Barack Obama Joe Biden and other pute knights impute noids although they deny it But they are giving aid and comfort in one form or another That history remembers them That history remembers them Because now is the time to take a stand now is the time to speak out Now is the time to have real priorities Remember I mentioned that individual wrote that piece about white liberals and black activities It's not just black activists It's black liberals and white liberals Or I would argue closer to marxists Who pushed their agenda Do they care about these people on Ukraine No Apparently not They need helicopters no helicopters They need jets no jets They need tanks no tanks And what about climate It gets pushed to the back you know Go ahead Interestingly when we see what's happened with Russia's invasion of Ukraine it argues for.
AP News Radio
Today Show 70th Anniversary-Today Intro and Wrap
"A a milestone milestone today today in in morning morning television television N. N. B. B. C. C. news news this this is is a a special special edition edition of of today today seventieth seventieth anniversary anniversary the the today today show show first first aired aired on on January January fourteenth fourteenth nineteen nineteen fifty fifty two two with with Dave Dave Galloway Galloway as as the the host host co co host host now now our our Savannah Savannah Guthrie Guthrie and and Hoda Hoda copy copy but but Guthrie Guthrie was was not not on on the the set set today today she she tested tested positive positive for for the the coronavirus coronavirus Savannah's Savannah's always always front front center center I I mean mean she she may may not not physically physically be be here here but but we've we've always always had had a a name name but but eight eight thousand thousand times times and and this this is is just just one one of of those those unlucky unlucky moments moments where where you you happen happen to to get get you you know know get get Kobe Kobe during during this this moment moment al al Roker Roker has has been been delivering delivering the the weather weather on on the the today today show show for for more more than than thirty thirty years years it's it's not not an an act act yeah yeah you you know know you you see see that that on on TV TV I I think think a a lot lot of of places places of of tried tried to to manufacture manufacture that that it it but but I I think think it it speaks speaks to to the the seventy seventy years years speaks speaks to to the the the the the the the the genuineness genuineness of of what what goes goes on on in in Studio Studio One One last last night night the the lights lights on on the the Empire Empire State State Building Building in in New New York York or or in in the the today today show's show's trademark trademark orange orange I'm I'm at at Donahue Donahue
VICE News Reports
"al roker" Discussed on VICE News Reports
"Hi everyone al roker here as a guy with his own catchphrase. I appreciate that smokey's only said only you can prevent wildfires but oscillated because there's a lot more to report like when there are parched. Windy conditions out. There you gotta be extra careful with things like burning yard waste after all wildfires can start even in your neck of the woods doda smokeybear dot com to learn more about wildfire prevention. Brought to you by the us forest service. Your state forester and the ad council. I want to get back to being a community group. I want to continue having a soccer season. So i can throw parties again so i can go to her. Party's it really nice to dine in instead of getting delivery for a change. So i can feel safe and protected for myself and my students we each have our own reason for why we're getting vaccinated against cova nineteen what we are spe- visit get vaccine answers dot org for information on the covert nineteen vaccines. It's up to you brought to you by the ad council. Hey everybody it's time for today's stem tip wanna know how to make yourself as even better okay. Let's use science. The best time for photos is golden hour. That's the moment right before the sunsets when the atmosphere scatters blue and violet wavelengths makes perfect soft and golden cellulite. To show off that beautiful face of yours click checkout. She can stem for more inspiration. A message from the ad council special. Thanks to david yang thing that about it. Thank you for listening. So faith hoffman. This morning i was tired on on now. Ready let's go back to bed. But now i'm like let's back up trailer another but we don't have to go through so we'll just go prepare for the next one motto on tool by nikola chavez court again and i'm.
The Scathing Atheist
"al roker" Discussed on The Scathing Atheist
"Fire bending again to again bring dealt shoes literally. But don't worry it gets way dumber her next piece of evidence. Kris jenner said on twitter. I need these socks that say which please on them. Why because she's a manipulator of dark forces. Thanks to the blood black jim made was satan and she needs novelty socks to represent that. Have which socks eli. It's not complicated. Okay i guess so. Yeah and you know what else you know what else the youtube video goes onto say. Sometimes they wear stuff with pictures of butterflies uae. I feel like al roker is to have something to do with. It has all the earmarks is what it is yes. They are part of the n. k. Ultra subdivision program that turns women into sex slaves and also cowl roker. Yes got it. Wait wait. Did she just accuse al roker of being a sex slave or a butterfly. Cise this enough. It is ongoing very unclear. Hope it's both so then. She spent some time on their halloween decorations. She mentioned that they get what's known as a vampire. Facial which is like a real thing. It's a facial you get with human blood that is ria. That's absolutely a real thing. And and hey did they get human blood for what's unions and eight credit. Where credit's due to sheila's alinsky saint magic is a real but it's fucking hard to prove that when people are out there getting blood facials got the alumina accusations keeps getting. Bumped down the weirdest thing about this story. Sweet one last thing at one point in the video. She's talking about you know. Illuminated is m. k. Ultra whatever's and she says quote and oh how they love their black men don't they that could be a whole nother video and quote and then she goes right back to look at howard shape like try never acknowledges that sentence again in the podcast so yeah. It's obvious that sheila has blown this thing wide open and just as soon as i report back on her three part video series about how al roker is a brainwashed to be a sex slave butterfly or get a turn to fuck al roker.
NPR News Now
Willard Scott, Legendary TODAY Show Weatherman, Dies at 87
"Willard scott has died at the age of eighty seven. The death of the former today show weatherman was confirmed by al roker. Npr's aren't disciple. Looks back at scott's career. Millions of americans spent the eighties and nineties waking up to willard scott on. Nbc's today he served up a reverent weather forecasts along with his trademark birthday wishes for the nation centenarians purse out hundred four driven longevity. The loving his wife and eating an apple every single day but the longevity of scott's career went beyond the today show he spent a decade hosting the macy's thanksgiving day parade and was a prolific commercial pitchman early in his career. Scott played bozo the clown. He was also the original ronald mcdonald but no matter where they saw him. Tv viewers could depend on willard scott to be good natured and good for a
Here & Now
"al roker" Discussed on Here & Now
"In in these reports. And you have to keep that in mind so some of this may be noise but i think this is also a strong signal that This economic recovery still depends very much on gaining control of the pandemic August we lost some control. Were not doing as well. Getting people vaccinate is we need to. And it's those case counts go up and the hospitalizations go up. Adesco up has taken a toll on the economy. And we're seeing that very clearly in this report this morning. yeah. I i recall talking to economists who said the leading economic indicator is the virus. Sydney seem to be suggesting that much as well scott horsely. Npr's chief economic correspondent. Thanks for the time. Good wicked the who. Much of the country from the deep south to the northeast is trying to recover from a raging hurricane ida more than sixty people are dead across eight states at least forty eight in the northeast which saw record rainfall. Some were swept away in flooded. Cars others drowned in basement apartments in new york. We're going to go to several spots. Beginning with new york. And jen chung is executive editor editor at gotha missed gender people trapped in their basement apartments. This is heartbreaking. Is this an economic reality of life in new york that so many people have to live in these spaces. Absolutely new york is one of the most expensive housing markets in the world and for many people the most vulnerable immigrants people who are working gig jobs basement. Apartments are sometimes the only places they live and many of the landlords of these apartments are just middle class homeowners many immigrants themselves who want to give these people who are looking for opportunity a chance to so it is a very at this point unregulated housing stock. And this morning. The mayor was talking about new initiatives to try to formalize evacuation procedures in order to make sure that people who live in basement dwellings aren't forgotten about now. I don't know if these these tenants knew about any emergency warnings. I understand. there's a system for new yorkers to to try to provide. Some kind of you know this is coming. Is this the kind of warning dad. Most or all new yorkers really pay to so this is the real issue that a lot of people are asking the mayor and governor about was city and state adequately warning residents about this threat of ida and things you.
Here & Now
"al roker" Discussed on Here & Now
"Sunday show with jonathan kaye. Part screw you up up okay. Talker to them. I will drop them like a bag of dirt. That fighting spirit is all over l. Wrokers latest book along with a few life lessons. He's learned over four decades of telling us the weather. It's called you look so much better. In person. true stories of absurdity and success. I spoke with al roker about the book on skype when it was published in two thousand. Twenty as you right. You weren't always confident. Tv personality that we know now. In fact you were a nerdy highschool av club kind of guy and you write that while in college. You got your first job as a weekend weather forecaster in syracuse new york. And tell us the story from there by department chairman. Dr luo donald the late dr laura. Donald decided it worked at the station w. h. Anyway he put me up for the job and You know i went down. I did the audition and they said okay. We'll let you know. And i just kept calling the news director and back in the day. You gotta remember this. One thousand nine seventy four. There were actually switchboard. Operators and the switchboard operators name was rosy. And you got to the point where she knew my name. I kept calling to ask the news director. Well oh dear. He's not in right now but tell him he called and finally there's one time she put me through and he said look i i gotta get you off my ass. You've got the job. And i said okay. I didn't ask if one i started. What do i do yes. Yes yes and but that was my start in television. That is the theme of this. Entire book is really taking a step and saying yes to so much I wanna to talk with you. Though about the emotion and the book. I mean you cried at work out. I mean they tell us that is like the number one. Cardinal rule is not to cry at work. tv nbc so cutthroat. I mean what lessons do you want people to take away from this story. This you bring heart to your work. I think it's about passion and being able to tell people it's okay to be passionate. It's okay to show emotion. I had a very good role model in my dad and that he was a very emotional demonstrative person and so i learned from him that you know as a man you. It's okay to cry. So cain show emotion. Yeah one of the great love. Stories of our time on television is really you and legendary weather caster and personality willard. Scott learned about the power of mentor ship. Just by watching youtube interact with each other on the today show. It's a small but really powerful part of your book. Well he's just a terrific human being. he's he literally is like my second dad. In fact he's the same age now that my dad would have been at. He was still alive. Most people in business are not generous enough to reach out to to akali little on a total stranger as he did that. Out of the blue called me invited me to dinner. And from that day on we've had this we didn't work together. We worked at different stations in washington. Dc and then. He got plucked from dc to go to the today show and i went to. Cleveland worked at the nbc station and we kept in touch and then i moved to new york To work at w. nbc and he was the one in Said look you know. It's time for me to step back a little bit. You ought to put out there Ed so the generosity and the just the sharing is something. That's always stayed with it. Yeah i want to ask you about something else. Oh we're in a moment. Where so many media. People are sharing their stories of experiencing racism in the workplace or or racist remarks from co workers. You tell the story in this book an anchor. You worked with early in your career. Who said something racist to you on air on air not even in the newsroom Can you tell that story and what you want readers to learn from that story at the time i was working in cleveland and our station was in downtown in downtown. Wasn't great spot at that point and there was a homeless gentleman. Who's african happen to be african. american and one night are anchorman. Doug was going to his car. And this guy ran up vitamin bopped. Him on the back of the head and ran off and there was no harm. No foul It's basically something that all of us wanted to do to doug at one time or another. Well it's now six o'clock in world news and his wife slash kgo anchor. Mona starts to introduce me and doug interruptions mona before you introduce ow ow i if you heard but last night after the eleven o'clock news one of your people attacked me. And that's one of those time standstills moments. You're not quite sure what to say. And i just looked at him. And i said doug. Why would a weatherman attack you and then just turned to. My single cameron went off into the forecast at what i did know. Of course the switchboard was flooded. People are outraged and he was suspended demoted to a reporter and then eventually within six or seven months left the station. I could have gotten really angry on air. And i felt that it was better and the point was made by kind of pointing out the ridiculousness of the statement not everything requires a sledgehammer sometimes a chisel at a small hammer could create more impact than brute force and a quick wit because al. I don't even know if i would have come up with that. Line that quickly. Well look every now. And then like i say a broken clocks right twice a day. You mentioned your father quite a few times He was a bus driver in queens new york and he gave you advice so many parents of color give their kids that you have to work twice as hard and be twice as good as the kid next to you. Our kids are experiencing such a different life than we did. A lesson that you impart on your your kids today. I still do even before. George floyd as we've become more aware of different standards of policing and especially because i have a a black sun with all the kids i look. You can't act the way your white friends do they. Like son takes the subway. And you know kids sometimes just for final. Jump the turnstile. Well you know you. It's okay if you're white friends do it. But if it's a group of you you'll be the one that's picked out. And of course he should be in any case but especially dealing with the police. It's yes sir no sir. You don't try to think funnier show off and it wasn't until all of this that i i was able to crystalize what i feel every day. And that is i involuntarily breath aside relief when my son comes home every day. And he's a kid who's got some special needs and he. He's a big kid. He's got a deep voice he sometimes. He's not aware of the space that he takes. Could bump somebody. i just worry. yeah. I wanna talk with you about way. Most of us know your journey and this book is called. You look so much better in person which. I chuckled because as a former television reporter. I've heard this so many times. I also heard i wanna know you've heard this. I've also heard you're not as big as i thought you were. When people seem the opposite. I thought you were a lot taller and i gave the book that title because it literally. I hear it every day. I would go out to the plaza shake hands. Somebody will say every day someone will say. Oh my gosh you look so much better in person and and you know they don't need it as an insult and so your thank you but do about really a compliment. I make my living on tv. Yeah is it true that despite having to get up at three forty five every morning for decades. You've only overslept. Once yes technically. I did oversleep at the time. I was doing a two hour morning show before the today show on the weather channel. Wake up without so. The show was on at five. I woke up at five twenty. G's so i called in..
Here & Now
"al roker" Discussed on Here & Now
"Longtime today. Show weatherman in co anchor. Al roker recently turned sixty seven but he shows no sign of slowing down. He was in new orleans covering hurricane ida this week and haters on twitter. Who said he was too old to be doing that kind of thing he had this to say on. Msnbc's the sunday show with jonathan kaye. Part screw you up up okay. Talker to them. I will drop them like a bag of dirt. That fighting spirit is all over l. Wrokers latest book along with a few life lessons. He's learned over four decades of telling us the weather. It's called you look so much better. In person. true stories of absurdity and success. I spoke with al roker about the book on skype when it was published in two thousand. Twenty as you right. You weren't always confident. Tv personality that we know now. In fact you were a nerdy highschool av club kind of guy and you write that while in college. You got your first job as a weekend weather forecaster in syracuse new york. And tell us the story from there by department chairman. Dr luo donald the late dr laura. Donald decided it worked at the station w. h. Anyway he put me up for the job and You know i went down. I did the audition and they said okay. We'll let you know. And i just kept calling the news director and back in the day. You gotta remember this. One thousand nine seventy four. There were actually switchboard. Operators and the switchboard operators name was rosy. And you got to the point where she knew my name. I kept calling to ask the news director. Well oh dear. He's not in right now but tell him he called and finally there's one time she put me through and he said look i i gotta get you off my ass. You've got the job. And i said okay. I didn't ask if one i started. What do i do yes. Yes yes and but that was my start in television.
Here & Now
Everyone's Favorite Weatherman, Al Roker, Releases a New Book
"Longtime today. Show weatherman in co anchor. Al roker recently turned sixty seven but he shows no sign of slowing down. He was in new orleans covering hurricane ida this week and haters on twitter. Who said he was too old to be doing that kind of thing he had this to say on. Msnbc's the sunday show with jonathan kaye. Part screw you up up okay. Talker to them. I will drop them like a bag of dirt. That fighting spirit is all over l. Wrokers latest book along with a few life lessons. He's learned over four decades of telling us the weather. It's called you look so much better. In person. true stories of absurdity and success. I spoke with al roker about the book on skype when it was published in two thousand. Twenty as you right. You weren't always confident. Tv personality that we know now. In fact you were a nerdy highschool av club kind of guy and you write that while in college. You got your first job as a weekend weather forecaster in syracuse new york. And tell us the story from there by department chairman. Dr luo donald the late dr laura. Donald decided it worked at the station w. h. Anyway he put me up for the job and You know i went down. I did the audition and they said okay. We'll let you know. And i just kept calling the news director and back in the day. You gotta remember this. One thousand nine seventy four. There were actually switchboard. Operators and the switchboard operators name was rosy. And you got to the point where she knew my name. I kept calling to ask the news director. Well oh dear. He's not in right now but tell him he called and finally there's one time she put me through and he said look i i gotta get you off my ass. You've got the job. And i said okay. I didn't ask if one i started. What do i do yes. Yes yes and but that was my start in television.
Here & Now
"al roker" Discussed on Here & Now
"Longtime today. Show weatherman in co anchor. Al roker recently turned sixty seven but he shows no sign of slowing down. He was in new orleans covering hurricane ida this week and haters on twitter. Who said he was too old to be doing that kind of thing he had this to say on. Msnbc's the sunday show with jonathan kaye. Part screw you up up okay. Talker to them. I will drop them like a bag of dirt. That fighting spirit is all over l. Wrokers latest book along with a few life lessons. He's learned over four decades of telling us the weather. It's called you look so much better. In person. true stories of absurdity and success. I spoke with al roker about the book on skype when it was published in two thousand. Twenty as you right. You weren't always confident. Tv personality that we know now. In fact you were a nerdy highschool av club kind of guy and you write that while in college. You got your first job as a weekend weather forecaster in syracuse new york. And tell us the story from there by department chairman. Dr luo donald the late dr laura. Donald decided it worked at the station w. h. Anyway he put me up for the job and You know i went down. I did the audition and they said okay. We'll let you know. And i just kept calling the news director and back in the day. You gotta remember this. One thousand nine seventy four. There were actually switchboard. Operators and the switchboard operators name was rosy. And you got to the point where she knew my name. I kept calling to ask the news director. Well oh dear. He's not in right now but tell him he called and finally there's one time she put me through and he said look i i gotta get you off my ass. You've got the job. And i said okay. I didn't ask if one i started. What do i do yes. Yes yes and but that was my start in television.
Here & Now
Life Lessons From Al Roker
"Longtime today. Show weatherman in co anchor. Al roker recently turned sixty seven but he shows no sign of slowing down. He was in new orleans covering hurricane ida this week and haters on twitter. Who said he was too old to be doing that kind of thing he had this to say on. Msnbc's the sunday show with jonathan kaye. Part screw you up up okay. Talker to them. I will drop them like a bag of dirt. That fighting spirit is all over l. Wrokers latest book along with a few life lessons. He's learned over four decades of telling us the weather. It's called you look so much better. In person. true stories of absurdity and success. I spoke with al roker about the book on skype when it was published in two thousand. Twenty as you right. You weren't always confident. Tv personality that we know now. In fact you were a nerdy highschool av club kind of guy and you write that while in college. You got your first job as a weekend weather forecaster in syracuse new york. And tell us the story from there by department chairman. Dr luo donald the late dr laura. Donald decided it worked at the station w. h. Anyway he put me up for the job and You know i went down. I did the audition and they said okay. We'll let you know. And i just kept calling the news director and back in the day. You gotta remember this. One thousand nine seventy four. There were actually switchboard. Operators and the switchboard operators name was rosy. And you got to the point where she knew my name. I kept calling to ask the news director. Well oh dear. He's not in right now but tell him he called and finally there's one time she put me through and he said look i i gotta get you off my ass. You've got the job. And i said okay. I didn't ask if one i started. What do i do yes. Yes yes and but that was my start in television.
Here & Now
"al roker" Discussed on Here & Now
"Head out to gather samples from other streams shoreline areas and rivers sterner says scientists concur. Climate change is driving lake superior's blooms. We just have a higher likelihood of really really big storms now than we did and so if all of this is right the lake was sort of on the edge and then it warmed up enough and we got these big storms and that just kicked it over the edge and now we're seeing these phenomena that's what we think though sterner hopes building a body of scientific data can help pinpoint areas where conservation programs can reduce the risk of algae feeling run on though we. We just can't shy away from affected if climate is an important driver. That's a global problem. And we're not gonna fix it here in duluth or milwaukee or you know only as part of the earth system for hearing now. I'm susan vance longtime today. Show weatherman in co anchor. Al roker recently turned sixty seven but he shows no sign of slowing down. He was in new orleans covering hurricane ida this week and haters on twitter. Who said he was too old to be doing that kind of thing he had this to say on. Msnbc's the sunday show with jonathan kaye. Part screw you up up okay..
Here & Now
"al roker" Discussed on Here & Now
"The water from the surface to the bottom to the west off the shore of cornucopia university of wisconsin milwaukee researcher todd miller's lending his expertise to the lake superior research lab does that toxin analysis. But we also do real time monitoring using data and. That's what we're out here to do. Today miller and two students designed the system. He's deploying off. Meyer speech one of the most popular spots within the apostle islands national lakeshore. That's where i meet national park service aquatic ecologist rental francois. She points to todd miller's buoy bobbing in the bay. It's kind of a little yellow guy right out there. The real Great attribute of this new buoy. That's been deployed in kobe. Is that It is generating data in real time. In fact i just checked my phone right before We chatted and the water temperatures are. They're running around. Eighteen plus degrees centigrade with recording also Chlorophyll and cyanobacteria pigment so those are indicators of how much allergies in the water and how much santa bacterias in the water. So we can look at that in real time and i could for example if those numbers were starting to climb i could go up and you know. Tell the ranger at the ranger. Kiosk there Maybe it's a good day to keep an eye out for any kind of surface gum. Love soi is an upbeat type. But she's dead serious about harmful. Algae cyanobacteria commonly called blue-green algae have a variety of looks including resembling pea soup. Some types not all can produce toxins dangerous to fish wildlife pets and people. Meyer speech is a favourite launch for lake superior kayakers but lefrancois says. No one would've wanted to paddle here three years ago after a huge storm hit people down here throughout the day on the first day of the bloom. Where reporting you know. Green colored water surface comes on the water all the way from here at the meyer. Speech launched point over toward the sea caves area east but it lasted probably seven to ten days and it stretched over probably almost one hundred miles of lake shore. Six years earlier a bloom popped up and quickly. Dissipated lafrance was says she was among the scientists who wrote it off as a fluke but the two thousand eighteen events. She says set off a wave of sampling research. Scientists no nutrients especially phosphorus feed blue-green algae allowing it to grow but law. Francois says they haven't yet figured out what would make the harmful. Algae fountain lake superior switch on its toxin production. It differs a little bit for different species. And unfortunately we don't know what the what makes this one Go boom yet bob. Sterner slab at the university of minnesota duluth pivoted nearly all of its research energy to lake superior's blue-green algae issue in twenty eighteen right now. Latex gloved students are analyzing matt hudson samples from shawarma megan bay next l. head out to gather samples from other streams shoreline areas and rivers sterner says scientists concur. Climate change is driving lake superior's blooms. We just have a higher likelihood of really really big storms now than we did and so if all of this is right the lake was.
The South Florida Morning Show
"al roker" Discussed on The South Florida Morning Show
"Yeah i'd probably get booed by their. That's terrible we'll get that coming up. We got more on hurricane ida now tropical storm identity latest done afghanistan all next the flow morning. Show this bill. Keep it here. Got the appreciate very much the morning. Show this gen diener bill next news coming up top of the hour Boy this storm and just in the news break there at the bottom. We are watching more of the impact this entire thing. All of new orleans let alone the surrounding areas all in new orleans without power right now. That amazing it's unbelievable. They showed I they showed canal street which looked like a canal and then they showed the french quarter which everything was boarded up. Now they don't have any power which is worse This system just turned into a tropical storm. It's like thirty six hours after made landfall. That's crazy you strong. It was and its way inland but still in louisiana. I'm like get the heck out of. I'd be like get the heck out a dodge. That's like holy cow. So this was the report from al roker when it made landfall yesterday storm surges upwards of fifty to sixty feet twenty eight inches of rain or more with this system. The wall did not miles wide with one hundred fifty miles per hour wind. It's basically a fifteen mile wide after three tornado and then except lake pontchartrain. The waves were in that. Oh it was crazy. It looks like the ocean. I and in a hurry. You're right. And then the mississippi according to the us geological survey people went in the opposite direction which rarely as they said happens. Rarely i don't even know when the happened last time. Did it even happened during katrina invite. I know it's happened before like you said not a lot by the way. Nbc gut destroyed for put. Now roker out there. They everybody started attacking. The networker goes i s to go. I wanted to go. And he said He he's somebody gave him a hard time and said you know. Want jesus send somebody younger or one of the new kids. He goes all he goes. I just try to keep up and he joked to all of his critics. I'll drop them like a bag of dirt if they try to take me on. I'm like listen to l so wait a minute. So america banded together to save al roker. They were concerned about like like a. They called them. The sixty seven year old legend didn't deserve to be out in the middle of the hurricane about him because he's a little fellow he's a little. It was going to lead float away and he's old. Yeah yeah you're right. I guess that's paris into like the other ones. They got out there. Twenty years old these cub reporters out there. They're the ones who want you. Know the the dare devils. Here's a. al like getting blown all over the place so people were concerned about safety. But he said i'll drop them like a bag of dirt..
NBC Nightly News
"al roker" Discussed on NBC Nightly News
"Or only transporting high risk patients in their coastal by you hospitals. They've told all their patients to keep them safe before and after the storm. I'm told they have a ten day supply of food and medicine. Jose tom yomas in new orleans. Thank you once i hits. It's expected to linger and that has forecasters concerned about the potential for massive rainfall and deadly flooding. San brock is port. Vincent louisiana sam. Good evening winter officials telling you about the threat evening. There hope expectations that it's a quick moving storm because if it's not we've seen the potential for what can happen. I'm standing to the river which runs throughout baton rouge share in 2016. Sixteen it got to forty six feet in one section to the point. Jose right here where it hit the top of that roof of the bar next to me. That was after about thirty inches of rain in several days. Here they're expecting somewhere in the neighborhood of eight to sixteen inches of rain but the potential always exists for more and jose. If you want to try to get out of town right now on interstate ten. Which is the main thread through the area. It is congested. All flights tomorrow are largely cancelled except for a couple of in the morning. It's time to find a safe space. Jose san rock in vincent louisiana. Thank you the hours are head are critical. Al roker is new orleans with the latest on the storm track out. Where's it headed well right now. Jose the latest track brings it right toward us. We are in lake pontchartrain. And you can see. We are already looking into category two storm one hundred five mph winds moving northwest at sixteen miles per hour. This storm system is going to be going over very warm gulf waters so we expect rapid intensification to continue. In fact by sunday afternoon it could be a category four storm with one hundred thirty mph winds continuing to move up on on inland as we move on into monday afternoon but slowing down. We do have a right now. Storm surge forecasts up to fifteen feet along the louisiana coast and rainfall amounts jose upwards of twenty inches of rain. And of course you know we're going to continue to track this all night long. Jose al roker in new orleans. Thank you now to. The latest developments in afghanistan and president bides new warning that another ice. It's attack could happen there as soon as tomorrow. Alley mattel has late details. President joe biden warning that another terror attack in afghanistan is imminent the president in a statement. Saturday echoing warnings given to him by top. Us commanders that an attack is highly likely in the next twenty four to thirty six hours but they assured him they have all the authorities resources and plans to protect our men and women on the ground this after making good on his earlier. Promise for revenge we will hunt you.
WGN Programming
Al Roker says he is 'relieved' his prostate cancer surgery is done and is recovering back home
"Out broker is home after having his prostate surgery he is doing well back home. Thanked all. The doctors thanked everybody for all of the care that he had. For his surgery last week, he's posted pictures of himself. In the hospital. But he says, you know, the good news is is that we caught The prostate cancer early, So you know, right now that the surgery's over, he is resting at home. Good to hear that, Um, let's talk about
Business Rockstars
Al Roker to take time off work to battle prostate cancer
"Morning show. Personalities is facing a health battle Lance. Surprising US Phase West Coast Bureau, NBC weatherman L. Rooker on the Today show Friday revealed he has cancer. Turns out I have prostate cancer on ditz. Good news. Bad news. Kind of thing and good news is we caught it early. Not great news is that it's a little aggressive, So I'm going to be taking some time off to take care of this. The 66 year old wanted to
Tim Conway Jr.
Al Roker to take time off work to battle prostate cancer
"Roker has revealed he has prostate cancer broker says he's going to take some time off work and have his prostate surgically removed next week. Broker says the cancer is somewhat aggressive, but he caught it early. Johnny Depp has been
Colleen and Bradley
Al Roker Reveals He Has Prostate Cancer
"Has shared some scary personal medical news. He's been diagnosed with prostate cancer. But he's taking aggressive steps to beat it
Bob Sirott
NBC News’ Al Roker announces prostate cancer diagnosis
"From the Today show has announced that he has a prostate cancer now just came through a few minutes ago. Said he had done a routine checkup. The prostate specific auntie gin levels that they check were at a very, very high level, so they did a biopsy and memory. Confirm the diagnosis. He does have prostate cancer. They did catch it early, but it is an aggressive form of prostate cancer. So hopefully he he says, I don't want anyone feeling sorry for me. I'm going to be okay. Is going to be off the today show for a little while. And
Good Life Project
Al Roker | Weathering Life
"It sounds like your jam when you're young younger also was drawing with or being cartoonist that was the the thing that was calling. Yeah I I I loved animated cartoons. I love comics. By Green job was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Ed I really wanted to a lot of the Golden Age Comic Book Artist went to New York School of graphic art design public. School. And I thought, okay. I'M GONNA go there for high school and my parents have no, you're not. You're not going to go to school to draw comics You can do that at home and I got a scholarship to Xavier high-school, which was a a Jesuit military school on Sixteenth Street and I thought my life was over 'cause back the you know I was. Okay whatever my parents said I did yet so. I thought that. That would be it but later on in life I, was able to work. Cartoon animation stuff into some computer work that I did you know for doing the weather but you know everything happens for a reason because of that going to Xavier High School, we had a closed circuit. Television, station where we did the news in the morning and that got me interested in TV otherwise not quite sure what I would have done. Yeah. I mean I I, know Unite share another parallel, which is both AV crew nerds. There you go. Yeah I mean and that was the thing. I mean it was it was sad. Really Looking back in it that we thought we were cool and we were the antithesis of cool here we are wheeling around projectors and slide units and tape recorders on a rolling cart you know. We thought we were in I. Mean we had our little gang's on you know a it was I was in perhaps every uncool activity in highschool again because it was a military I was on the Supply Corps where we supplied the uniforms and and rifles and things like that I I was on newspaper I was in a yearbook May. Everything that said. I mean thankfully, it was an all boys school other I mean because there was no way I was going to get dates anyway. So You know at least I had an excuse. Wow there. No girls here at school so Yeah. I mean. But it does sound like there was for shadowing there. Right because then you end up at us, we go really focused. Communications when you were there was more radio and TV. Radio. TV. there. was. The only communications was he'd call somebody and say, Hey, look go out for beer but. yeah it was. It was interesting in that you know along the way and I for a lot of us, there's somebody. Who? Makes a decision that changes your life. Could be for good or for bad. For me. It was a Lu. Dr Liu O'Donnell. Who was department chairman at that time but he was also Mr Trolley on the magic toy shop which was a local kid show on the CBS station and we all make fun of it because he had like a trolley head cow catcher on his beard we joke and you can go ahead laugh. But that freaking trolley put my kids through college. But Anyway, I guess the news director there said Hey we're we're starting up a laden a full complement of newscasts on the weekend out. So we need to have a weather person because I put up until they had one person do everything on the weekends what the Anchorman read the news read the sports so My my department chairman put me up for the job I I did a tape at school He took it down. And I got the job. If he had decided Oh have outlets have roker do the the audition. I don't know what I'd be doing today. Yeah
Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Radio
Al Roker Cooks Up a Storm
"Al Welcome to Milk Street. Well, it's good to be your Chris good to chat with you. You were born in Queens about the same time I was I won't mention the year. and. You said from my mother I got a slightly twisted sense of humor and for my dad I got the. Work. Ethic. What was her sense of humor like? Well it was it was a little biting. It was a little sarcastic you know. For example she thought it was funny. She would kind of sing operatic style but make up. A language and my friends author she was speaking some foreign language. Singing it. At the time I thought it was highly embarrassing but you know I've kind of come to appreciated. Your Dad. There's a great story in your book where you're going to take the driving test. Yeah, you know. It was one of those things where we we were literally going for the road test. And He said, you know I don't really think that good. Your broken U-TURN. Let me see. You do a broken u-turn and you know I kinda got through the turn and. Instead of stepping on the brake I stepped on the gas. And my dad very quietly just break break break as we go over the curb, we run through our neighbors prized Rhododendron Bush break, and he never raised his voice really and I finally kind of snapshot of Him stepped on the break. And he goes goes all right again. So We back off the lawn over the Bush and then he's okay leave a note for Mr. Rain. And we leave a note and then I went and took my driver's test and by the way past, and then afterwards you know the next day patched up as long went to the nursery a bought a new Bush planted it and apologized. One of your themes in your blood is don't give up your first job as a weatherman. You say the book I wouldn't stop until I. got the job or be when the issued a restraining order against me since you were relentless. And as you said, you got the job not because you were necessarily the best candidate, but you just hustle. I hustled more and like in the case of of my first job doing weekend weather I was cheap I was a college student. You know the news director Santa can afford a drunk or a college student and I was making ten dollars a newscast So you know but but I kept calling and kept calling him and he turned out to be a terrific mentor. You've done a lot of interesting segments over the years but I particularly love the Daniel Balut episode where you go work in the restaurant one night and someone comes up to you and says, see that expletive on right there. If you don't get that out now I'm GonNa stab you in the eye with a bone nights. You know because it's the a penny of civility and gentility fine dining at its at its best very quiet hushed tones and then you're you go in the kitchen and I'm just stunned they're not bringing people out in bodybags. You know it's like and I was I was petrified. Yeah, we did this segment where Danielle balloon was going to do the weather and I would step in as a chef on a Friday night pre theater dinner. Like, what was I thinking?
Glenn Beck
Louisiana, NBC And New Orleans discussed on Glenn Beck
"It millions are bracing as tropical storm very six back to to create massive flooding as it hits the Louisiana coast flooding is going to be a big problem on high risk of flooding throughout much of Louisiana into central Louisiana and all on into the south the with the rainfall rates three to four inches per hour that could overwhelm the pumps in New Orleans NBC meteorologist al Roker forecasters say the storm could dump up to twenty five inches of rain in the next couple
Investor's Edge
Al Roker slams 'nitwit' Governor Bevin over cold weather comments
"Governor Matt Bevins' says America's getting soft by keeping kids at home from school in extreme cold. The Republican governor of Kentucky has received some flak for his comments, even from NBC weatherman, Al Roker who called him a nitwit Bevin joins Fox News and explains what he means by his comments. I'm folks getting soft it in general, we are getting soft, and it's interesting. I mean, my children's schools were cancelled and guess what they did today. They played outside in the snow. So did most kids he did a little tease at the front end about these kids. And I it's awesome. They went out and shoveled people's walkways terrific. I don't believe those kids in Wisconsin froze to death. There are people who are freezing to death. It's very dangerous year ago at this time last January. There was a story that went viral about a town where the temperatures were expected to get a hundred degrees below zero with the wind chill factor. It went viral all over America. That's the. Town. I grew up in. I understand cold weather. Northern New Hampshire is a brutally cold place underneath the valleys in underneath mount Washington. I understand it's important for people to be careful, but we also are getting soft in America in anybody. That would question that is really not paying attention as indicated by some of the things we've mentioned earlier. The governor also noted that his comments on a local radio station about getting software taken out of a little bit of context in his opinion. It should be noted that in ten states folks, did not get mailed due to the extreme cold temperatures
Toby and Chilli
Kim Kardashian makes another trip to the White House after zeroing in on the next prisoner she hopes to help free
"JR Kim Kardashian west not done with DC. She met with members of the administration, including Jared Kushner at the White House yesterday talk about the clemency process. Oh, Kim recently revealed that she's been working on a case of Chris young who is serving a life sentence for drug offenses. Now, the judge who convicted Chris reportedly joined Kim at the White House to advocate for prison reform. If you recall earlier this year, Kim and met with President Trump and was able to get Alice Marie Johnson released who was also given a life sentence for drug related.
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‘House of Cards’ Season 6 teaser reveals Frank Underwood’s fate (Spoiler Alert)
"Am I favored TV shows on that flexes house of cards? It was Kevin Spacey's vehicle. Remember Kevin Spacey was the star. He started his Frank Underwood, buddy. Kevin spacey. Even though he's not going to be indicted by Los Angeles belief. He's off the show what happens to Kevin Spacey's character. Frank underwood. And this season's house of cards which will debut in November. What happens to Jeff? What happens doing he is assassinated? I'll give that to you. I was wondering for them all. I would say Steve they'll play that. Steve. Yes. Okay. He dies. He dies because I saw trailer today where she did he die. I don't know yet. Incorrect being assassinated as you tattle usually die when you're absent. Unless it's an attempt. Thank you for that. Yes. Yes. He dies because the trailer today. I saw Robert Wright to place guy Spacey's someday somehow makes it