The present mentioned Scott died this week, in keeping with fellow weatherman, Al Roker.
“We misplaced Willard Scott,” Roker wrote on Twitter. “Handed peacefully at 87 surrounded by household, together with his daughters Sally and Mary and his beautiful spouse, Paris. He was really my second dad and am the place I’m at this time due to his beneficiant spirit. Willard was really a broadcast #icon.”
Tributes to Scott poured in from former colleagues and buddies following information of his demise.
“My longtime good friend within the DC bureau, a ray of sunshine it doesn’t matter what the climate or how grim the information,” NBC Information Chief Washington Correspondent Andrea Mitchell mentioned on Twitter. “Beloved by followers and colleagues alike.”
Former ‘At this time’ co-host Katie Couric shared on Twitter she was “heartbroken” to listen to the information.
“He performed such an outsized function in my life & was as heat & loving & beneficiant off digicam as he was on. Willard, you did not make it to the entrance of the Smucker’s jar however you modified so many lives for the higher,” Couric mentioned.
A Washington-area native, Scott began with NBC’s Washington radio station WRC in 1950 as a web page and thru the years was a radio host, a kids’s tv character, an area climate forecaster and a ‘At this time’ mainstay.
