Al Roker of the Today show is notorious for doing human interest soundbites and then turning it over to local weathermen with his trademarked catchphrase "That's what's going on around the country, here's what's happening in your neck of the woods," having said nothing whatsoever about the national weather.
For all his quick wit, Al Roker is perfectly incapable of changing his catchphrase. Lately he has actually been talking about weather in his weather segment. With the Iceland volcano Eyjafjallajokull continuing to spew ash into the air, it makes sense that Roker talks about how the jet stream is taking the ash over to Europe. Sometimes he then says something about weather in America, sometimes not. Either way, his segue to local weather is exactly the same.
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He doesn't change it because it's an audible cue to the master control operators at the local stations to switch to the local cutaway. I know to press "roll cue" right when Al says "your" and it will be a clean cut.
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