Hurricane Andrew Coverage With ANN BISHOP, TODD TONGEN, WALT CRONISE and MAX MAYFIELD To Start Us Off!! Who Else Grew Up With Them and Almost Felt Like They All Family?? 💖💝🤔 Ann Bishop started at the station in 1970 and was the first female broadcaster in a major market to co-anchor the early and late evening newscasts. She stopped on-air broadcast in 1995 after a 25 year career but remained with the station. Ann Bishop died in 1997 of colon cancer at age 66. Walter "Uncle Walt" Cronise was a

24 years ago today, one of the most powerful storms destroyed parts of South Florida. Take a look back at #HurricaneAndrew: Do you have a story about Andrew? | WSVN-TV

33 years ago this morning, NWS Miami captured one of the most terrifying radar loops in U.S. history: The eyewall of Category 5 Hurricane Andrew making landfall just south of Miami, Florida. The loop stops because the radar was blown off the roof of the National Hurricane Center. A nearby residence recorded a wind gust of 177 mph. About 63,000 homes were destroyed, and over 101,000 others were damaged. Andrew left roughly 175,000 people homeless, caused $27.3 billion in damage, and left 65 peopl