‘Can I go back to my regular job?’: US sports reporter’s weather dispatch goes viral

Mark Woodley was sent by Iowa TV station to report on the bitterly cold conditions – and he did not like it that much

As a huge winter storm battered the US, a short-staffed TV station in Waterloo, Iowa dispatched a sports reporter to describe the scene outside.

Footage of Mark Woodley’s increasingly stressed video reports for KWWL, from a bitterly cold and snow-covered highway, duly went viral, registering 27m views by Saturday.