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Fired TV meteorologist denies he used on-air MLK slur

A TV meteorologist in Rochester, New York, was fired after being accused of using an on-air racial slur in reference to Martin Luther King Jr. However, WHEC-TV chief meteorologist Jeremy Kappell says he simply "jumbled" his words during Friday's broadcast.
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