A few days after a positive test she couldnt breathe and went into ICU. Simpson, others react on social media after Alex Murdaugh is found guilty, South Carolina running back forced to say goodbye to the game, Todays South Carolina-Clemson baseball game start time changed because of weather, SC ruby-throated hummingbirds are back! Race Day tornado outbreak that butt in the 88th running of the Indy 500. ALLYSON: WE HAD WYFF 4 ARE A FAMILY AND APPRECIATE YOUR KINDNESS AS WE GRIEVE. ALLYSON: THE SARAH SPOKE TO US SAYING "ON THE HALF OF JERRY MACK BROWN, THE COUNTY OFFICE SENDS ITS DEEPEST CONDOLENCES TO THE FRIENDS, FAMILY, AND COLLEAGUES OF MIKE MCCORMICK AND AARON SMELTZER. In 2014, he was also named anchor of WYFF News 4 on Sundays at 6 and 11 p.m. Mike tragically died, alongside his photographer, Aaron Smeltzer, on May 28, 2018 when a tree fell on their SUV. A few days later she underwent an emergency C-section and immediately went on a ventilator, Justus wrote. "It personally affected me a little bit because I had done an interview with Mr. McCormick about 10 minutes before we got the call. Anchor/Reporter, WYFF-TV Location: Greenville, South Carolina Area Industry: Broadcast Media Work history: WYFF-TV (NBC affiliate) Greenville/Spartanburg, SC/Asheville, NC Anchor /Health and Medical Reporter since 1985 WOKR-TV (now WHAM) News Anchor /Reporter Jun 1982 - Apr 1985 Full Profile Dana Wachter Greenville, SC Professions & Specialties Yes. She joined the station in September 2019 and can be seen from Monday through Friday every morning starting at 4:30 a.m. The family is well known in the region as owners of the century-old Justus Orchard, an apple operation in Hendersonville, North Carolina. FOR HIM, IT WAS ABOUT BEING A JOURNALIST WHO CAME OUT THERE AND DID THEIR JOB. The station's digital signal is multiplexed: Digital subchannel 4.2 originally carried "WYFF 4 Weather Plus," which operated as an affiliate of NBC Weather Plus. She currently works for WYFF News 4 ( NBC Affiliate) based in Greenville, South Carolina. Your Sunday evening team in our Easter pastels! pic.twitter.com/ZSUEXwLetw, Mike McCormick (@MikeMcCWYFF) April 5, 2018, Co-worker Allyson Powell wrote on Twitter, I have no words. Nigel Robertson joined WYFF News 4 in December 1999 as a reporter working the night shift for the late news. Tennant said he had just spoken with Mike and Aaron before the accident. WEBVTT SMELTZER. According to her bio on the WYFF website, she has two adult children and a master's degree in health and nutrition education. We are a family and we thank you, our extended family, for your comfort as we mourn and as we seek to comfort the families of Mike and Aaron.. When Parella is not busy at work, she likes all things outdoors including running, kayaking, hiking, and skiing. She was smelling my gingerbread-flavored ! JOURNALISTS, USA JOURNALISTS' BIOS Reporter Tim Waller, who has been with WYFF News 4 for 25 years, has announced that he's leaving the station. The station rebranded its newscasts from Action News 4 to NewsCenter 4 in the early 1980s. Geoff and his wife Sara are proud parents to their three daughters and a son. Hannah became part of the WYFF 4 in June 2020. Sports. He attended and graduated from Cardinal Gibbons High School. In 2014, he was also named anchor of WYFF News 4 on Sundays at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m.Mike came to the Upstate from Arkansas, where he was a reporter and fill-in anchor at one of WYFF 4's sister stations, KHBS/KHOG, for nearly three years. It is currently operated by their parents, Don and Margo Justus, according to the orchards website. It sat back off the road a good ways it was probably three foot in diameter. WYFF News 4 anchor, photojournalist tragically die when tree falls on SUV WYFF News 4 70.5K subscribers Subscribe 98 Share 17K views 4 years ago WYFF News 4 anchor, photojournalist. WYFF weekend anchor and reporter Mike McCormick and cameraman Aaron Smeltzer died Monday when a tree fell on their SUV while covering heavy rain in Polk County, N.C. "All of us at WYFF. Twitter Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters was found guilty on Friday of obstruction of government operations. TYLER WAS A PART OF THE WYFF 4 TEAM IN THE MID TO LATE 1990S BEFORE MAKING THE TRANSITION TO NEWS. WYFF news crew dies after tree falls on vehicle in Polk Co., On the Friday before Christmas we wear red! Atlanta CNN . Mike joined WYFF News 4 in April 2007 as a reporter in the Spartanburg newsroom. Geoff joined the station in 1993. he worked for 18 years as a Sports Director. It's the nation's 36th television market. She is a woman of above-average stature. On March 3, the station changed its call letters to WYFF-TV (standing for its slogan "We're Your Friend Four," which was used from 1979 to 1991). He joined the WYFF News 4 family in February of this year. He was originally from Tazewell, Virginia. Parellas husband passed away on May 21, 2019. However, Parella has not disclosed any information concerning her education to the public. This email address is already subscribed to the selected list(s). Tryon Fire Chief Geoffrey Tennant said the engine of the SUV was running and the transmission was in drive when authorities arrived at the scene about 2:30 p.m. Goldsmith announced the wedding on her verified Facebook page, sharing photos of . The 1980s brought new talent to the station including anchor James Baker, sportscasters J. D. Hayworth (later an Arizona Congressman), Roger Berry and Mark Marino and weatherman Charlie Gertz. WYFF signed on its digital signal on May 1, 2002. A local fire chief, who had given the men an interview only 10 minutes before, called the accident a freak of nature., Both men were remembered as talented, positive personalities. He joined the WYFF News 4 family in February of this year.Aaron shot news for more than a decade in our region. It also declined to carry Saturday Night Live (then known as NBC's Saturday Night) from its debut in 1975 to early 1978, NBC's daytime reruns of The Facts of Life from during the 19841985 season (which aired on WAXA-TV), game shows The Who, What, or Where Game (in favor of the local talk show Today in The Piedmont), Super Password and Time Machine (both of which aired throughout their runs on WAXA-TV) and the soap opera Santa Barbara (which was initially cleared by the station during its first few years on January 6, 1986, after the low-rated syndicated TV show America aired its final episode on January 3, 1986). College Sports. All of us at WYFF News 4 are grieving. TV meteorologist Chris Justus of South Carolina station WYFF says his sister-in-law died of COVID symptoms after an emergency. 2.9K views, 166 likes, 51 loves, 59 comments, 4 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Amanda Crawford: This is it. News-Piedmont merged with Southern Broadcasting to form Multimedia, Inc., with WFBC-AM-FM-TV as the company's flagship stations. Two weeks ago, life was completely normal. They and their wives Lauren and Brianna all ensure this family farm keeps going., Chris Justus, a UNC Charlotte graduate, concluded his Facebook post by saying visitors to the orchard this fall will find a new little Justus saying hello and one special angel watching over the farm from heaven.. 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Despite being a public figure, Parella has managed to keep information regarding her parents and siblings away from the public eye. Smeltzer was the photographer in WYFFs Spartanburg bureau. I love Heather. Mike was a regular visitor to Spartanburg Two and always brought lots of excitement and smiles to our schools when he came out to do a story. WE THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT DURING THIS DIFFICULT TIME. Deadly 7-vehicle crash blamed on I-85 death trap traffic pattern near Gaffney, SC, Experienced skydiver dies after getting stuck upside down during fall, NC officials say, I could have prevented this, Virginia man says in videos showing his COVID decline, Stark drone videos of empty US cities become online trend amid coronavirus pandemic, You can get some of the best tacos in SC at these 10 restaurants in 2023, Yelp says, Alex Murdaugh found guilty of murdering wife, son in June 2021, Alex Murdaugh sentenced to life in prison for murders of wife, son in June 2021, O.J. 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WYFF news anchor Mike McCormick (right) and photojournalist Aaron Smeltzer (left) were covering "rain impact" in Polk County when a tree fell on their SUV, killing both men. 0:57. Her net worth is$1.5 million. All rights reserved. HE LOST HIS LIFE DOING WHAT HE LOVED. On May 20, 2021, Geoff made an announcement that he would not go back to WYFF after he was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimers disease. Dorcas Estes was replaced Friday on the 6 p.m. and 11 p.m.. Try some of the delicious tacos at these top-rated South Carolina restaurants whenever you get the chance. The station first signed on the air on December 31, 1953,[1] as WFBC-TV; it was the fifth television station to sign on in South Carolina, and transmitted its signal from a tower located on Paris Mountain. Geoff got his first TV job in Wilmington, NC in 1989. ANNOUNCER: LIVE, LOCAL, BREAKING NEWS. Alberto not keeping people from having fun so far.. Another recent post, now tragic in retrospect, said, Weve got you covered when it comes to Subtropical storm Alberto. Some of his segments focused on mens health. >> IN THE 44 YEARS OF THE FIRE CHIEFS CAREER, HE HAS NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE. WYFF, virtual channel 4 (UHF digital channel 36), is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Greenville, South Carolina, United States. My prayers with the @wyffnews ,Mike's family, and the family of photojournalist Aaron Smeltzer. TYLER WAS DIAGNOSED WITH ALS. Aaron shot news for more than a decade in our region. First Tee. >> WE WERE DISPATCHED FOR A TREE DOWN ON A MOTOR VEHICLE. Aaron was the photographer in the Spartanburg bureau. WYFF (channel 4) is a television station licensed to Greenville, South Carolina, United States, serving Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina as an affiliate of NBC. By Chris Arienson May. VShe also learned everything concerning microclimates and also how the oceans, lowlands, and mountains interact to change the forecast just a few miles away from each other. Geoff Hart is a former American anchor and reporter. THANK YOU to this community for. WYFF presently broadcasts 38 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with six hours on weekdays, four hours on Saturdays and 4 hours on Sundays). He was 75."Jim was an outstanding journalist, and he was also known for his laugh," "Special Report" anchor . This story was originally published August 3, 2021, 1:45 PM. News reporter and anchor Mike McCormick and photojournalist Aaron Smeltzer, both of NBC-affiliate station WYFF in Greenville, South Carolina, died after a tree fell on their vehicle while. ", Other news:Oktoberfest celebrations coming up in Greenville, across the state and Georgia. 0. High School Red Zone. "I have never seen an event like this one," Tennant, who has been in fire service in Polk County for 44 years, said.Tennant said he had just spoken with Mike and Aaron before the accident. Hearst Television participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites. It is with a heavy heart that I share my sister-in-law, Brianna Justus went home to be with Jesus this evening. Carol Clarke is an American news anchor. She was married to her husband David G. Landquist who died on May 21, 2019. Carol Clarke is an American anchor and reporter. RAIN FALLING, SOAKING THE GROUND, AND OF LOOTING A TREE. According to WSPA-TV, the two WYFF employees were hit by a tree while driving southbound. The television station reported that they were in Polk County covering the dangerous weather conditions there., WSPA-TV reported that the two men were traveling south on Highway 176 when a tree fell and hit the vehicle. Tennant said in a news conference: What has happened is that some time around 2:30 this afternoon, we were dispatched for a tree down on a motor vehicle with people trapped.. In North Carolina, one million COVID cases have been reported and nearly 14,000 have died, the state says. Our morning anchor, Amanda Crawford, has taken a job in Boston.. Charlie Gertz retired as evening meteorologist in 1991. OUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ARE WITH THEIR FAMILIES, FRIENDS, AND THE ENTIRE STAFF. Geoff also holds a masters degree in communication from Emerson College based in Boston. He loved using local, fresh ingredients from the Hub City Farmers Market. In 2006, he joined the Stations team in Italy where he covered Torino Winter Olympics. [11], During the CATV period in the 1970s and 1980s, WYFF was once carried as far east as Cabarrus County, North Carolina and also as far north as Bristol, Virginia.[12]. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Mike joined WYFF News 4 in April 2007 as a reporter in the Spartanburg newsroom. He was an avid baseball fan. The sad news broke the WYFF family as the stations President and General Manager John Humphries broke the news to his co-workers. Before joining NBCUniversal, she worked for WYFF News 4 Today in Greenville, South Carolina as a weekend morning anchor and covers breaking/trending news in-studio weekday mornings. Ann Phlomena 0:05 0:49 Long-time Upstate newscaster Annette Estes has lost the anchor job she has held for the past four years at WYFF-TV in Greenville. THIS IS WYFF NEWS 4 TODAY. WYFF maintains studio facilities located on Rutherford Street (west of Route 276) in northwest Greenville, and its transmitter is located near Caesars Head State Park in . WFBC-TV began transmitting locally produced programming in color in February 1967. "Mike and Aaron were beloved members of. WYFF weekend anchor and reporter Mike McCormick and cameraman Aaron Smeltzer died Monday when a tree fell on their SUV while covering heavy rain in Polk County, N.C. All of us at WYFF News 4 are grieving, said anchor Michael Cogdill during this afternoons newscast. PEOPLE ENTRAPPED ON U.S. HIGHWAY 176. His first TV gig actually came in high school when he was an anchor for PCS Journal - a show airing on a community access television station run by his school district. More:WYFF weather anchor and family farmer shares why 2018 is bringing bumper crops of apples. In 1961, the News-Piedmont Publishing Company purchased WBIR-AM-FM and WBIR-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee from the former Taft Broadcasting Company. (WYFF is also a CNN affiliate.) WYFF 4 became the first television station in the GreenvilleSpartanburgAsheville market to begin broadcasting on a 24-hour daily schedule in the fall of 1988. The co-anchor of WYFF News 4 Today in the mornings, Hart announced on May 20, 2021, that he is battling Alzheimer's disease. He loved using local, fresh ingredients from the Hub City Farmers Market. The accident happened on Highway 176 in Polk County while. However, Geoff spent most of his childhood in England. There was no evidence at the scene that it was a slide. "I have never seen an event like this one," Tennant, who has been in fire service in Polk County for 44 years, said. FORGET THE RECOGNITION. They were talented colleagues. Before working at WYFF, she served as a reporter in Orlando. >> TRAGEDY HIT A LITTLE HARDER WHEN IT HIT A LITTLE CLOSER TO HOME. She currently serves as traffic as well as breaking news anchor/reporter at WYFF News 4. We are a family and we thank you, our extended family, for your comfort as we mourn and as we seek to comfort the families of Mike and Aaron. In 2017, alongside Gabrielle Komorowski and Chief Meteorologist John Cessarich, she was appointed full-time co-anchor of WYFF News 4 at 4. HIS FAMILY SAYS AFTER A BRAVE BATTLE, HE PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY ON TUESDAY. Brianna Justus was married to his brother, Cory Justus, and the couple also have two sons, he said. HE THEN MOVED ON TO OUR SISTER STATION KOCO IN OKLAHOMA CITY. States move to crack down on nurses with bogus diplomas wyff4.com GEOFF: THEY ARE TRULY SADDENED BY THE LOSS. pic.twitter.com/FjRxh5oPrM, Mike McCormick (@MikeMcCWYFF) August 21, 2017, On Twitter, Mike McCormick wrote that he was a Reporter/Anchor for WYFF News4. She worked for WYFF for 3 years and 2 months (March 2018 - April 2021). After working for CBS News, she was the primary anchor for WGCL-TV in Atlanta.A native of Greenville, South Carolina . Keisha Kirkland, a former weathercaster at WYFF in Greenville, S.C., has died of lung cancer. In addition, she loves writing and recording music as well as working on voice-overs. Clarke works for WYFF News 4, broadcasting out of Greenville, South Carolina, and serving the upstate of South Carolina, western North Carolina and northeastern Georgia. For the past week Brianna fought hard, so hard. WYFF operates nine digital translators across the mountains of western North Carolina. https://t.co/VZZKA6K6qq All of us at WYFF News 4 are grieving. Most recently, He served as the co-anchor of WYFF News 4 ( NBC affiliate ) based in Greenville Sc. We are a family. Chris Justus, chief meteorologist for WYFF in Greenville, reported the development in a Facebook post. Longtime WYFF 4 anchor Geoff Hart is retiring after almost three decades on the WYFF 4 news team, the station announced May 20. And we had talked a little bit about how he wanted us to stay safe and I wanted him to stay safe and of course 10 or 15 minutes later we got the call and it was him and his photographer," Tennant said. Tyler spent his career traveling the world as a broadcast journalist and strategic communications executive. It was a large tree. Although Pulitzer closed on its purchase of WXII later in the year, the acquisition of WYFF wouldn't be finalized for another two years until January 1985 as Pulitzer had to sell off WLNE-TV in Providence in order to comply with FCC ownership limits of the time that limited the number of stations one company can own to twelve; in the interim, Pulitzer took over the operations of WYFF through a time brokerage agreement with Multimedia.