'Get downstairs': Meteorologist interrupts live broadcast to call family about tornado warning

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'Get downstairs': Meteorologist interrupts live broadcast to call family about tornado warning
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'I gotta warn my kids because I know what my kids are doing right now,' he said with a map of a storm radar behind him. 'They are probably online gaming and not seeing this.'

Drone footage captured the extensive destruction from tornadoes in Louisiana.A meteorologist paused during a live broadcast to call his family with a warning: Get down stairs because a tornado may be nearby.

Doug Kammerer, chief meteorologist for NBC Washington, was on air Thursday night doing a live weather report when he learned the National Weather Service issued a tornado warning near his area. , he said the path of the tornado was"right over my house" and decided to call his son in the middle of the broadcast.He advised him to go into a bedroom and wait for 15 minutes or so. He then hung up the phone and returned to the broadcast.

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