An Oklahoma TV news anchor had a stroke live on air as she read the news about the cancellation of a Nasa rocket launch.
Julie Chin, who works for an NBC station in Tulsa, started to stumble over her words as she read from a teleprompter over the weekend.
Despite trying to finish her report, Chin stumbled and stammered over her words and then said: “‘I’m sorry, something is going on with me this morning and I apologize to everybody.” She then passed the broadcast over to the weather forecaster.
Chin then did not return on air. She was taken to hospital.
In a Facebook post, Chin explained what had happened.
“My co-workers recognized the emergency situation unfolding and called 911,” Chin said in her post, revealing that she had been hospitalized and undergone a rapid series of tests.
“At this point, doctors think I had the beginnings of a stroke, but not a full stroke,” Chin said. “There are still lots of questions, and lots to follow up on, but the bottom line is I should be just fine.”
A graduate of upstate New York’s Syracuse University, Chin worked at television stations in New York City, North Carolina and West Virginia before arriving in Oklahoma two decades ago.
