It's time to trade in reading the news for reading more bedtime stories! This Thursday is my last day at
@KOMUnews
🥲 My husband has accepted a new job opportunity back in North Carolina and I'm excited to let him lead our next move. ❤️
Won my first Emmy tonight! It’s a story about a boy who saved his allowance to buy gifts for other kids. I’m reminded that GOOD wins whether I earned a trophy or not. Landon’s story of a giving heart is what earned this award, I was just lucky enough to share it! ❤️
My final newscast on
@KOMUnews
is tonight at 10 pm! I've worked with such wonderful colleagues, told stories about amazing people in our community and watched my babies grow up running around the news set. And, I've loved every moment. ❤️
Grinning ear to ear after learning our community chose me for Best of Columbia's Local TV Personality. I hope to be a trusted source of information for our
@KOMUnews
viewers and to bring joy into their homes through my EmVP series. I love this city. Thank you for loving me back❤️
Miss Mary in Moberly will celebrate her 110th birthday next week! 🥳🎉 She told me she rode a horse to school because buses weren’t around yet. Born in 1912! Her story next week on
@KOMUnews
We just did a cheers to the new year with sparkling grape juice with our 5-year-old. And she held her glass up and said, “To romance!”
May your 2022 be filled with romance! 😂🎉❤️🥰🥂
Excited to share my story on artist David Spear’s Blind Boone mural won an
@emmymidam
last night! Thankful for a boss who supports my ideas, a community who lets me share their stories and a family who cheers me on! Such a fun night!
A big win for our heart warrior! Doctors gave us the green light to remove her g-tube last weekend. And so far, so good - it's closing on its own. And so is another chapter in her battle with
#chd
. Her journey will be lifelong, but this next chapter will be TUBE FREE!
Don’t forget to thank the people keeping your workplace clean! This is Melissa and I’m thankful for her every day, BUT especially right now. She’s working extra hard to keep
@KOMUnews
spotless and safe. Here’s our social distancing selfie! Thank YOU! 🧼✨
Hate we are back
@BostonChildrens
, but so proud of this girl. She rocked her 22nd heart cath on 11/11/22. Seemed fitting. Got a tune up on her pesky left sided veins. Got to see our fav docs &nurses. Catie was so brave this trip. She’s growing up! And for that we’re so thankful!
Catie got interviewed by
@KBIA
today
@dbrl
the library! Always neat to hear how she answers different questions. I especially love how she LOVES the library and reading. ❤️
Emmy nominated, a career first for me. Feeling extra grateful to work alongside the
@KOMUnews
team and for the wonderful people in our community who trust me to share their stories.
I covered charter schools frequently while in NC - especially how these schools receive taxpayer $$ with no oversight. A lot of the issues former CPS superintendent
@PStieple
raises in this article are similar to those I reported on. Worth a read.
Update - Boone County commission to buy more than 1,300 hot spots for CPS students to assist with access to online learning. Commission will use CARES act funding. Via
@PStieple
@KOMUnews
My child is introducing herself to all the nurses at her cardiology appointment
@ChildrensMercy
as “Princess Catie of Missouri” 😂👑❤️ I about died when that came out of her mouth.
#chd
#heartwarrior
Oops… we did it AGAIN! I swear we aren’t planning this. You should see our faces when we walk into work 🤣 It’s always a good day to twin with
@EvieBNewsTV
on
@KOMUnews
Happy New Year from the
@KOMUnews
studio! Another holiday with my pal
@KentonGewecke
! This guy has been busy with the first major weather system of the new year. What a way to welcome in 2021! ❄️
A year ago this month Catie was recovering from open heart surgery
@BostonChildrens
… today she’s going to football games and learning in school. She’s my hero. Smiling through it all. I’m so lucky to be her mom.
#chd
#chdawareness
❤️🩹
Thankful for the
@KOMUnews
weather team all the time, but especially when we have these systems roll through. They’re extremely devoted to getting it right and keeping our viewers safe. Not to mention they’re so dang smart!!
@KentonGewecke
@KOMUMatt
@komuTim
In tonight’s EmVP, I’m thrilled to introduce you to Elmo Winterhalter. He’s a 94-year-old WWII veteran who still works, still lives alone and still serves his neighbors. I learned so much from him and I hope you’ll watch tonight at 10 pm on
@KOMUnews
Such a beautiful snow tonight! It’s a wet and slushy snow. Very easy to clean off my car. Drive safe everyone! Updates on
@KOMUnews
tomorrow morning or download the weather app. And follow
@KOMUMatt
! ❄️
First day! Let’s go!! 📚🥳🎉❤️ Thrilled for our heart warrior’s first school experience. Miss her already…I think baby brother is enjoying the extra attention though!
A big congrats to our good friend and co-worker
@KOMUChrisG
on his induction into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame! Glad to celebrate his accomplishments with some of my
@KOMUnews
favorites.
@KentonGewecke
@komuJim
It’s event season! This week I had the pleasure of helping moderate a Q&A with Olympic gymnast
@Aly_Raisman
! Aly’s message focused on mental health, discipline and advocacy. Her candidness was refreshing and I hope all who came walked out with a new perspective! 1/2
@KOMUnews
Catch
@NoahKleinNews
’ last show on
@KOMUnews
tonight at 6! He’s heading east to
@WRAL
! Can’t wait to watch him succeed in his next chapter! He’s become a part of the family and we are all going to miss him, especially Catie! Congrats, Noah!!
Congratulations, Jim Riek on your final newscast. We will miss you! Enjoy retirement and a few rounds of golf.
If you missed the 6 p.m. newscast, watch it here:
Excited to see the untold story of Negro League legend John Donaldson receive a Regional Murrow Award. Donaldson's talent and the small town of Glasgow correcting history are worthy of recognization. I'm just glad I could help share their story!
BREAKING: CPD confirms the human remains found at RB State Park have been identified as Mengqi Ji - the Columbia mother who went missing in 2019.
@KOMUnews
Her sweet little voice. 😭 I will cherish this interview done by
@KBIA
on our Saturday visit to
@dbrl
! Hope it brings awareness to all the little heart warriors out there battling congenital heart defects. They're the bravest bunch.
#chd
#chdawarness
Needed these smiles this weekend. ❤️ How are you taking care of you today? I’m getting extra snuggles and holding the babe while he naps this morning. Oh! And two cups of coffee. I’ll see you at 5 and 6 on
@KOMUnews
!
My daughter has underlying conditions. There are faces behind the numbers of all of those who have died from COVID-19 with underlying conditions, who wouldn't have otherwise. Please read this rumor control from
@CoMo_HealthDept
RUMOR CONTROL: We are aware of articles circulating that claims that the CDC has stated only 6% of these are due to the COVID-19 virus is a misrepresentation of the data. This is a misrepresentation of the data.
Practice live shots and live interviews in my performance class tonight! I promise wearing their backpacks during it was not a requirement 🤪 Love watching them grow as broadcast communicators!
#MissouriMethod
#MizzouMade
@mujschool
Tonight at 10 on
@KOMUnews
a behind the scenes look as the station’s nearly 70 y/o tower comes down! And hear from a man who helped build it in 1953. Glad someone’s willing to do this job, I’ll stay on the ground… 😅🏗️
Drone video from
@DomPhotog
is 🔥
Don’t miss it at 10!
A moment of silence at 1 pm outside of MU Women’s and Children’s hospital. Medical personnel lined the sidewalk along Keene Street in Columbia.
@muhealth
@KOMUnews
BREAKING NEWS: Police presence outside of Boone Co Prosecutor Dan Knight’s house in Columbia. Four police vehicles and the crime scene investigation van. CPD Chief Geoff Jones also on the scene. Police not taking questions yet.
@KOMUnews
I talked with Columbia Police Chief Geoff Jones within the last half hour about the human remains. He told me, "Today advances the investigation and prosecution and the evidence located was significant."
@KOMUnews
Browning says she personally wears a mask indoors when she doesn't know the vaccination status of everyone there. And she says she's learned during this pandemic that "people lie."
@KOMUnews
The old tower
@KOMUnews
is coming down! Today I talked with a 92y/o who helped put it up in 1953. He had great stories of climbing the tower 70 years ago, like when he wore a backpack with the 60 lb light for the top!
@DomPhotog
getting all the angles! Stay tuned!
Unintentionally matching with one of my favorite weather guys
@KOMUMatt
! Join us on
@KOMUnews
at 10 for his latest forecast which includes some cooler temps! 🎉
Which band is LEADING the
@Macy
’s Thanksgiving Day Parade?
None other than
@MarchingMizzou
! 🎉🥁🎺🐯
The parade begins Thanksgiving morning at 9 a.m. The band will play
#MizzouMade
@SherylCrow
's iconic hit "All I Wanna Do!"
Details ➡️ ️
Hear from CPS teachers tonight on
@KOMUnews
at 5 and 6. We heard from dozens anonymously about the situation inside their school buildings related to COVID-19. One saying, "It feels like we are experiencing 'institutional betrayal' at every level."
Columbia Public Schools teachers are frustrated about current staffing issues.
So far this week, CPS has needed 316 substitutes. It only filled 138 of those spots.
One teacher said, “This is not the full picture. Your teachers are not okay. Your kids are not okay.”
@KOMUnews
Me to my 3-year-old: “Catie, go ask your, Dad.”
Catie: “No, mama. He’s busy. He’s on a Zoom call.”
😂😂😂
A sign of the times that Zoom is now a word in my toddler’s vocabulary.
@zoom_us
CPS Superintendent
@PStieple
walks us through the district's decision to close schools until April 13. He said the decision was one of the hardest they've had to make.
@KOMUnews
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