David Murphy, Meteorologst, ABC6 Philadelphia

>> My name is David Murphy. I am the weekday morning and noon meteorologist at 6ABC here in Philadelphia, and I'm a former television anchor and news reporter. Well, I get up early in the morning. I get to work at about 4, and my job essentially is to take an overview of what's going on with temperatures, cloud cover, precipitation. Is everything still lining up the way we thought it was going to the previous day? I plot temperatures for the day, and then I dive into graphics production. I make all of my own graphics using our weather computers. And then I have to put together a forecast. I deliver that extemporaneously. The show lasts from 4:30 to 7, so it's 2-1/2 hours of hits about every six minutes, which gets interesting. At the same time, I'm producing a weather cast on our website, doing Facebook live webcasts, Twitter, answering people's questions, all of that. So it's a pretty busy job. And then from 7 to 9, it slows down a little bit. I do cut-ins, about eight of them over those two hours during Good Morning America. Then on a quiet day I get a break, and at about 11, I'm back and do a radio hit, and I'm preparing for the noon newscast which is an hour. You mentioned natural disaster. It's interesting because part of the meteorological training actually does involve physical geography. You have to know about tsunamis, oceanography, earthquakes, and all of that stuff because for some reason they turn to the meteorologist when it comes to things like that. But we actually have some tools built into our weather equipment that involves earthquakes, and we can actually show you pretty easily by calling up the right products. You know, where something has happened and how strong it is, and we do have knowledge about that stuff too.