Nick Jansen<\/a>, Rochester news station KTTC\u2019s chief meteorologist, texting while standing in front of a map graphic during a live broadcast. He then briefly briefly apologized.<\/p>\nJansen was covering storms in southeastern Minnesota and Northern Iowa overnight Monday, July 28.<\/p>\n
“Sorry I just had to text my wife. [The] baby was sleeping the whole night. So that’s going to be over with at this point in time,” Jansen said in the video.<\/p>\n
Jansen proceeded to discuss high winds of 40 to 70 mph forecasted in the Rochester area going into Tuesday, July 29.<\/p>\n
And while the forecast continued with no further interruptions, Jansen revealed in the Wednesday, July 30 Facebook post that he received critical email from a viewer who was bothered by the moment and questioned Jansen’s professionalism.<\/p>\n
Jansen addressed the email by saying he takes both his job and the safety of his viewers “very seriously” but that he is “also a husband and a father.”<\/p>\n
“In the middle of severe weather, I decided to take a brief moment to make sure my wife and child were safely in the basement. That’s not me being unprofessional, it’s me being human. I am a husband and a father FIRST,” he wrote. “Let’s all try to show each other a little more understanding and respect in life.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Minnesota meteorologist is making no apologies for text messaging his wife to ensure his family was safe…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":114672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,2693,425,728,72062,3663,2698,2702,938,948,50,3883,939,67,132,68,313],"class_list":{"0":"post-114671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-disaster","10":"tag-local","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-meteorologists","13":"tag-minnesota","14":"tag-natural","15":"tag-natural-disaster","16":"tag-network","17":"tag-network-trending","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-storms","20":"tag-trending","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114962835960733365","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}