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UP TV weatherman out after refusing to get vaccine

NEGAUNEE, MI (AP)--   The man who spent more than 30 years reporting the weather on TV 6 in Negaunee is out of a job.

Karl Bohnak says he was fired from WLUC after refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Bohnak says control over his body should be up to him. He says he was fired for not following a vaccine mandate from the owner, Gray Television.

WLUC declined to comment.

Bohnak began working at TV 6 in 1988. He says the Upper Peninsula was one of the most challenging places in the U.S. for weather forecasting.

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