Milwaukee CBS network affiliate WDJT-TV (Channel 58) has hired a meteorologist to fill the position vacated in January with the station’s firing of Sam Kuffel.

A meteorologist was let go from her job after criticizing Elon Musk on social media for his gesture that's been likened to a Nazi salute.

Meteorologist Sam Kuffel was fired last week by Milwaukee’s CBS58 station one day after making Instagram posts critical of Elon Musk, the world’s richest person and close confidant of ...

On Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, Sam Kuffel, a weather forecaster at CBS58 in Milwaukee, was unexpectedly let go from her position. Staff at WDJT-TV (Channel 58) received an email that day informing ...

A Milwaukee TV station dismissed Kuffel after she called Elon Musk’s gestures Nazi salutes on her Instagram page. Her community is not letting her firing stand.

He’s a Nazi.” “Meteorologist Sam Kuffel is no longer employed at CBS58,” CBS 58 news director Jessie Garcia wrote to staffers in a memo that was obtained by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.