KTLA “Morning Information” weathercaster Mark Kriski is on the mend after struggling a stroke — simply weeks after longtime on-air colleague Sam Rubin died from a coronary heart assault.
The native TV station reported the information about Kriski in a social media put up on Wednesday, saying he’d had a “delicate stroke” earlier this week and that the veteran reporter and nine-time Emmy winner was recovering.
“Mark checked in with us earlier on Wednesday and we’re completely satisfied to report that he’s in good spirits,” KTLA Channel 5 wrote. “He additionally needed to thank everybody who has reached out.”
Kriski’s spouse, Jennifer Gould, informed TMZ that the seasoned weathercaster suffered the stroke early Monday morning at their house in Los Angeles.
She informed the outlet he was hospitalized however was recuperating.
KTLA wrote, “All of us at KTLA are pondering of Mark and his household right now and stay up for seeing him quickly.”
Kriski’s well being scare arrives on the heels of the demise of fellow KTLA fixture Rubin.
Veteran leisure reporter Rubin died Might 10 after going into cardiac arrest at his West Valley house. Rubin was taken to a hospital, the place he was pronounced useless. He was 64.
Rubin’s demise devastated the tight-knit crew at KTLA and followers of the reporter.
Kriski and Rubin each joined KTLA’s “Morning Information” in 1991, the place they spent greater than 30 years as on-air colleagues.
In the future after Rubin’s demise, Kriski wrote on the social media platform X, “There’ll by no means be one other Sam Rubin. Love and can miss you my buddy.”
The put up is accompanied by images of the present’s personalities collectively, not too long ago and of their earlier days.
On the time of Rubin’s demise, founding co-anchor Carlos Amezcua described him as “the connective tissue” that helped him, climate forecaster Kriski and co-anchor Barbara Beck attain their supposed viewers.
Kriski suffered a critical affliction in 2011, when he was out of fee for a number of months after contracting pneumonia adopted by a hospital-borne “tremendous bug” that landed him within the intensive care unit.
As he was making ready to return to work, Kriski informed The Occasions the sickness was “a life and demise expertise that has given me a brand new perspective: On one hand, this was the worst factor that has ever occurred to me. Alternatively, it’s the smartest thing that has ever occurred.
“You actually do begin to respect the little issues in life.”
