South Dakota News Anchor's Rant Makes Her Web's Newest Star | Trending Now - Yahoo News

Days after a South Dakota news anchor became the Internet’s latest star, she tells Trending Now that she has no regrets about her off-the-cuff on-air rant.
KSFY anchor Nancy Naeve's rise to YouTube celebrity began on Sunday night. Her co-worker at the ABC affiliate in Sioux Falls, meteorologist Shawn Cable, broke in to regularly scheduled programming to report a confirmed tornado in the area. The tornado touched down in Hospers, Iowa, which is about 70 miles from Sioux Falls.

Viewers, however, were outraged and took to the phone and Facebook to complain about Cable interrupting the season finale of "Once Upon A Time."



On Monday morning on the air, Cable showed footage of the tornado and then apologized for interrupting a TV show the night before. Next to him was Naeve, who fiercely rose to his defense.

"No show is as important as someone's life," Naeve states. "But I tell you what. If it was your home and your neighbors, you would feel differently. So please don't do that. That's not nice."



 Naeve's impassioned plea was posted to YouTube by Cable, and it has been viewed more than 283,000 times. If anyone can relate to the situation, it is fellow meteorologists such as Bill Evans of WABC-TV in New York.

"I feel overwhelmed," Naeve wrote in an email to Trending Now. "I've had an outpouring of emails, Facebook messages and tweets from Meteorologists across the country thanking me for taking a stand. It's been great hearing from everyone."

Meteorologists such as Bill Evans of WABC-TV in New York can relate to the initial viewer reactions.

"Because we're in the tristate area, if you have thunderstorms in New Jersey, people from New York will go, 'I don't care what's going in Jersey, and you're interrupting "Grey's Anatomy,"'" he told us. "Or (the storms will) be in New York, and it'll be the same thing in Jersey or Long Island."