
Eventually, she joined FOX 8 News in November of 2006 on the morning news. Later, after a brief work there, she got employed at the WYTV ABC 33 situated in Youngstown.Īfter working there for three years, she got spotted by Fox News.

Melissa Mack initially started her career when she joined WTAP-TV situated in Parkersburg, WB. Similarly, her Instagram has more than 20.3k followers. She has more than 25.4k followers on her Facebook account, she has over 11k followers on Twitter. She has a number of followers on social networking sites such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Furthermore, she is also the holder of the AMS Seal of Approval. Caption: Melissa Mack and her husband Ryan (Source: Nestlords)Īdditionally, she attended the Mississippi State University and obtained her Broadcast Meteorology Certification. While he’s excited, he says he’ll definitely miss FOX 8.Talking about her education, Melissa Mack graduated from Youngstown State University with a Telecommunications degree.

His symptoms are now under control, but the scare helped steer David to a new calling. And we were able to rule out any significant other health causes for this,” he said. And it really wasn’t until last year and 2021 that most of my symptoms started to go away. It caused an enormous amount of stress for me. And when we got to Hurricane Zeta at the end of 2020, by the end of the storm my feet were so bad I could barely walk out to the car. “You know, there were times when I couldn’t even stand up. Many nights, he delivered the weather in pain. The diagnosis led to David spending much of 2020 and half of the following year feeling stressed and uncertain as doctors tried to figure out if there were other underlying issues. Well, I had full-blown symptoms with this,” he said. Once referred to a retina doctor, he was diagnosed with toxoplasmosis, a disease that results from an infection linked to a parasite.Ī post shared by David Bernard people who are immunocompetent have gotten this at some point in their lives, but don’t ever present symptoms. He eventually ended up at the eye doctor, who told him there was something wrong with his retina. I was having horrible neuropathy, my face was burning, I mean, just all these symptoms,” he said. Nobody could figure out what was wrong with me. “At the end of 2019, I started getting sick. And during all of that, David was also dealing with a health scare, that left him battling through serious pain. The past few years have been hard on David, from COVID to serious storms, to the death of his father.

He says there were many factors that led to his decision to step away. Some people are administering nonprofits, some people go into direct practice, like I plan to do, like doing group therapy, but it can be used on a much wider basis as well,” he said. Now, he wants to help people in another way.Ī post shared by David Bernard you get a degree in social work, you can do a lot of different things with that. He’s calmly led viewers through some of the country’s most powerful weather events. His passion for helping people can be seen in his work as a meteorologist over the past 30 years. This past August, David started scaling back his duties at the station as he focused on his schoolwork. But the one thing that makes me feel okay about it, I guess, is because I do think I am striving to do something for the greater good still, just like we do here at FOX 8, and I am staying here to help the community but just in a different way,” he said. I feel like I am disappointing people and letting people down by making this decision. David admits, it was a hard decision to make.

He’s enrolled at Tulane University and is earning his master’s degree in social work. Since the fall, David has been back in school. NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - After nearly seven years of leading the FOX 8 weather team, David Bernard has decided to step away from local television.
