Reside tv scare as CBS Los Angeles meteorologist faints and collapses throughout broadcast

It was a harrowing second of reside tv Saturday when a CBS Los Angeles (KCAL) meteorologist fainted and collapsed throughout a morning newscast.

“KCAL Information Meteorologist Alissa Carlson was about to begin her climate forecast this morning when she fainted,” CBS Los Angeles stated in an replace on Saturday. “Our workforce jumped in to assist and luxury her whereas ready for medical assist to reach.”

In video of the Saturday morning newscast, co-anchors Rachel Kim and Nichelle Medina tossed to Carlson for an replace on climate.

“Who is prepared for some sunshine? I do know I’m. Let’s begin off with a verify of your subsequent climate with meteorologist Alyssa Carlson. She joins us reside within the studio,” Medina says.

As Medina continues to speak, viewers see Carlson’s eyes roll into the again of her head earlier than she slumps over and collapses.

Kim let’s out a involved “Oh” earlier than Medina says they’re going to go to interrupt.

Following the incident, KCAL posted to Twitter that Carlson “is now resting and recovering.”

Carlson posted to her personal Fb thanking folks for “all of the texts, calls, and properly needs.”

“I’m going to be okay!” she wrote.

The information station and Carlson didn’t disclose any particulars about why Carlson fainted.

KCAL stated the meteorologist will probably be again to work “as quickly as she’s properly sufficient to return.”

This isn’t Carlson’s first time getting ailing on air.

The meteorologist, who beforehand labored for NBC affiliate KGET, threw up throughout a newscast in 2014, she stated.

Carlson thought she was having flu signs, however was later advised by a physician that she had a leaky coronary heart valve.

“So I went to the physician and so they stated to me ‘have you ever ever considered having a coronary heart situation?’ And I stated ‘are you kidding me? No, I am method too younger for that and I am very wholesome.'”

Carlson stated that stem cells from her being pregnant along with her daughter had began to restore her leaky coronary heart valve.

“The stem cells from my child had began to heal my coronary heart,” Carlson stated tearfully. “I really feel like I owe it to folks and everyone and to God, to present again and to unfold the story and to assist folks notice that you will have one thing you do not even know what you will have.”