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>> My name is David Murphy.

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I am the weekday morning and noon
meteorologist at 6ABC here in Philadelphia,

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and I'm a former television
anchor and news reporter.

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Well, I get up early in the morning.

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I get to work at about 4, and my job essentially
is to take an overview of what's going

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on with temperatures, cloud
cover, precipitation.

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Is everything still lining up the way we
thought it was going to the previous day?

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I plot temperatures for the day, and
then I dive into graphics production.

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I make all of my own graphics
using our weather computers.

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And then I have to put together a forecast.

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I deliver that extemporaneously.

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The show lasts from 4:30 to
7, so it's 2-1/2 hours of hits

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about every six minutes, which gets interesting.

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At the same time, I'm producing a weather cast
on our website, doing Facebook live webcasts,

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Twitter, answering people's
questions, all of that.

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So it's a pretty busy job.

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And then from 7 to 9, it
slows down a little bit.

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I do cut-ins, about eight of them over
those two hours during Good Morning America.

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Then on a quiet day I get a break, and
at about 11, I'm back and do a radio hit,

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and I'm preparing for the noon
newscast which is an hour.

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You mentioned natural disaster.

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It's interesting because part

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of the meteorological training actually
does involve physical geography.

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You have to know about tsunamis,
oceanography, earthquakes, and all of that stuff

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because for some reason they turn to the
meteorologist when it comes to things like that.

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But we actually have some tools built into our
weather equipment that involves earthquakes,

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and we can actually show you pretty
easily by calling up the right products.

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You know, where something has
happened and how strong it is,

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and we do have knowledge about that stuff too.