![]() I want to take the time to thank our neighbors. Thank all of our family, thank all of our friends for the enormous amount of support you have given us since the very, very beginning. Before we get to that I do want to take the time to thank you. We wanted to take the time to address what has happened over the last several days since my weathercast on Friday. Hey everybody, Jeremy Kappell and my wife, Lisa, here. Here is a full transcript of the entire Facebook video: "In the meantime, thank you so much for being here and thank you for your support." "Judge not lest thou be judged," he said. Kappell concluded the video by asking people to hold back their judgment. In no way, and if you know me I don’t even have to say it, I would never intend to harm that way to anyone." "I can’t speak to (WHEC's) intent, I can only to speak to mine. "With that being said I’m so disappointed that my career could end this way, and extremely disappointed at the decisions at my television station whom I expected a certain level of support from which I did not receive at all," Kappell said. Kappell, who was hired as WHEC's chief meteorologist in October 2017, said that he's thankful for his family's support as he's pursued his love for meteorology for 20 years and has enjoyed his time in Rochester. He earned an Emmy in 2015 for work on a documentary about the 1974 tornado Super Outbreak and was named Best Weather Anchor in 2016 by the Kentucky Associated Press when he was at WDRB in Louisville, Kentucky. Kappell has previously worked at stations in Texas, Kentucky, Kansas and Ohio. Martin Luther King Jr., one of the greatest civic leaders of all time." I would never want to tarnish the reputation of a such a great man as Dr. If you did feel that it hurt you in any way, I sincerely apologize. "That is not a word I said I promise you that. "I’m my mind I knew I mispronounced but there was no malice nothing that I could’ve … I had no idea the way it came across to many people," Kappell said. He didn't initially realize how the gaffe was interpreted by viewers. Kappell said that he spoke too fast on the air and jumbled Martin Luther King Jr.'s name. Related: Jeremy Kappell fired for slur but ESPN's Mike Greenberg kept job for same phrase More: WHEC apologizes to viewers after firing meteorologist Jeremy Kappell for racial slur We’ve had hardly any sleep at all and it’s just been very, very hard on me and my family." "It’s been such a tumultuous couple of days for us. "It’s been so heartwarming and we needed it," Kappell said. Kappell called the ordeal a "simple misunderstanding." He added that he is disappointed in WHEC's decision to let him go and that he expected more backing from his employer.įlanked by his wife, Lisa, in the Facebook video, Kappell thanked friends, family, neighbors, his church and social media users for their outpouring of support. "These words have no place on News10NBC’s air, and the fact that we broadcast them disheartens and disgusts me." ![]() "As a result of that broadcast, meteorologist Jeremy Kappell is no longer with News10NBC," Reingold said. Reingold announced Monday that the station parted ways with Kappell. WHEC vice president and general manager Richard A. Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren and City Council President Loretta Scott made a public call for Kappell's firing on Sunday night. Kappell said that he jumbled his words by mistake during a four-minute Facebook video that he posted on Monday evening. WHEC-TV fired Kappell on Monday, three days after he appeared to refer to a Rochester park as "Martin Luther Coon King Jr. ![]() and issued an apology to anyone who may have been hurt by his slip-up during a television broadcast last week. Meteorologist Jeremy Kappell promised that he did not use a racial slur in reference to Martin Luther King Jr. Watch Video: Jeremy Kappell, fired WHEC-TV meteorologist, denies using racial slur
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