Alabama’s Celebrity Weatherman Pleads for the National Weather Service. Meteorologist James Spann appeals to his 1.3 million Facebook followers to support the agency, threatened by Trump cuts, that produces the data he relies upon for his forecasts.

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1. At around 11 p.m. Saturday night, James Spann was winding down his ninth hour of live news coverage of a deadly storm system that spawned 16 suspected tornadoes across central Alabama.

   The National Weather Service in Birmingham has confirmed at least nine tornadoes touched down in central Alabama, with damage surveys still underway. The weekend storms killed three in Alabama, and at least 40 nationwide.

   Through it all, Spann, 68, held his post on the air in his traditional white dress shirt, tie and suspenders, as he has throughout nearly every major storm event in central Alabama for the last 47 years.

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