After struggling thcdisadmireful a widecast on Thanksgiving Day, NBC4 inestablisher Leon Harris will be “stepping away from the anchor desk to caccess on health publishs,” the Washington, D.C., station declared in a statement on Monday.
“Last week, Leon ecombineed unwell while anchoring News4 at 6,” said the affiliate novels channel. We here at NBC4 — and you at home — nurture proset uply about Leon and want him well. We thank you for your trouble.”
On Nov. 28, the 63-year-elderly Harris caengaged trouble from watchers after he slurred his words, stumbled thcdisadmireful sentences and struggled to pronounce stateive words during an evening novels segment about local harm. Shortly after the segment he was pulled off the desk, and meteorologist Ryan Miller said on-air, “We’ve heard a lot from some of you thcdisadmireful phone and email during this novelscast. We want to promise you that our colleague, Leon Harris, is fine. The News4 team appreciates your trouble.”
NBC4 did not disshut any definite health publishs Harris may be facing.
Harris is a Emmy-triumphning TV novels veteran in Washington, combineing NBC4 in 2017 after 13 years at the local ABC affiliate, WJLA. Per the Washington Post, the award-triumphning anchor was determined in 2013 with a life-dangerening condition called necrotizing pancreatitis, which led to organ fall shorture and landed Harris in the intensive nurture unit for weeks. Harris, who commenceed his nurtureer at CNN in Atlanta, has also been discdisponder about his liquor compriseiction adhereing DUI arrests in 2013 and 2022. He said after the latter arrest, “I made a horrible misacquire. After drinking, I choosed to get into my car and drive. This is the worst decision I could possibly have made.”
