CNN's Brooke Baldwin Was Not Prepared For Minnesota's Monthly Tornado Siren Test
Minnesota tests their tornado siren around 1pm on the first Wednesday of every month. Having never been to Minnesota, I had no idea about this. Neither did CNN. During a live hit outside the courthouse where Derek Chauvin is on trial in Minneapolis, the siren went off. Soon to be former CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin made the executive decision to take Josh Campbell off the air.
That moment @cnn thought the monthly tornado siren was a threat #derekchauvintrial #GeorgeFloydIsNotOnTrial #DerekChauvinTrail pic.twitter.com/v0Yte6SRjS
— CrazyTacoLadyCD (@CrazyTacoLadyCD) April 7, 2021
Credit to Baldwin for worrying about the safety of her co-workers, but for anyone familiar with the monthly tradition, it was quite amausing. And probably something they get a kick out of whenever some out-of-towner unexpectedly experiences the siren for the first time.
They just switched away from his coverage altogether "to make sure he's okay." We test our tornado sirens around 1:00pm on the first Wednesday of the month.
— Hunter Cantrell (@HCantrellMN) April 7, 2021
Hey @CNN it’s only our weekly tornado alert testing #Minneapolis #Chauvin
— Linda De ✏️ (@1_SweetnSassy) April 7, 2021
Brook @BrookeBaldwin The siren you hear in Minneapolis at 1:00 PM is our first Wednesday of the month tornado siren test.
— Lynda Shindley (@LyndaShindley) April 7, 2021
CNN just took their caster off air in Minneapolis b/c there were sirens going off, that they mentioned not at the gov center, but she wanted to “make sure he was okay” happy 1st Wed. of the month tornado sirens r working , media misses the riots so much ????
— sheridan lair (@Little_Lair) April 7, 2021
Literally everyone in Minnesota was waiting for this. Nothing brings us greater joy than getting to explain to outsiders that we test the tornado sirens on first Wednesdays. https://t.co/tZnLtZov6W
— Sam Bergman (@violanorth) April 7, 2021
Baldwin is leaving CNN later this month.