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Oklahoma TV news anchor has partial stroke on live broadcast

Julie Chin said: ‘There are still lots of questions, and lots to follow up on, but the bottom line is I should be just fine.’
Julie Chin said: ‘There are still lots of questions, and lots to follow up on, but the bottom line is I should be just fine.’ Photograph: Julie Chin/Facebook

An Oklahoma TV news anchor had a stroke live on air as she read the news about the cancellation of a Nasa rocket launch.

Julie Chin, who works for an NBC station in Tulsa, started to stumble over her words as she read from a teleprompter over the weekend.

Despite trying to finish her report, Chin stumbled and stammered over her words and then said: “‘I’m sorry, something is going on with me this morning and I apologize to everybody.” She then passed the broadcast over to the weather forecaster.

Chin then did not return on air. She was taken to hospital.

In a Facebook post, Chin explained what had happened.

“My co-workers recognized the emergency situation unfolding and called 911,” Chin said in her post, revealing that she had been hospitalized and undergone a rapid series of tests.

“At this point, doctors think I had the beginnings of a stroke, but not a full stroke,” Chin said. “There are still lots of questions, and lots to follow up on, but the bottom line is I should be just fine.”

A graduate of upstate New York’s Syracuse University, Chin worked at television stations in New York City, North Carolina and West Virginia before arriving in Oklahoma two decades ago.

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