Al Roker sets record for longest live weather telecast

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Al Roker, the NBC and Weather Channel avuncular meteorologist, just crossed a threshold no weatherman has ever done before. At 8 a.m. ET on Friday, Roker finished a 34-hour live weather report, setting a world record

It wasn’t easy or always pretty. As Roker, 60, told the tale of a massive cold front enveloping the whole nation, his voice grew hoarse and he often had to sit down to rest his legs and back.

See also: Unrelenting outbreak of frigid air smashes temperature records in U.S.

He did have a little help in that area. The network's senior fitness trainer Jen Wilson arrived to massage Roker's legs with a bar. The video (below) made for one of the two-day event's weirder images. Wilson later told Mashable that "it seemed less weird in the moment." Read more...

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