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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

BREAKING TONIGHT: This downtown Louisville skyscraper, the vacant Fifth Third Bank building, is sent to become the city's next luxury hotel. Ghoman Group Indianapolis says it will put a JW Marriott and 418 guest suites into the tower by 2027.

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

❄️ WINTER STORM TOTALS. 8am Sunday update near Pewee Valley KY! Light sleet right now. @NWSLouisville

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

🎄 Merry Christmas! Great hike along Floyds Fork in southeastern Jefferson County. Lots of people out exercising big time on Christmas morning. :)

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

❄️ FRIDAY SNOW UPDATE! 4" Inches on the money near Pewee Valley KY in far eastern Jefferson County! We've had Snow on Nov 10, Dec 2, Dec 8 and now the 12th. Fantastic start to winter. We may be challenging our friends in Louisville, Colorado! 🌲🎉

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Louisville's NFL TEAM! Mary Pat Sexton's grandfather played & coached "The Breck's", our city's first & only football team in the NFL. They played the Packers, Bears, Cleveland. I'll have the story after ABC'S Monday Night Football on WHAS11. 🏉🏟️

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

🎂Happy Birthday to the best brother out there! My brother Jeff. Lots of fun with his amazing wife Cristina, and -- the always tremendous ---Anne at Porcini tonight! 60 never looked so good!! 🎂❤️

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

🏦🏆HISTORIC PROTECTION: The American Life Building on the Belvedere is now on the National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1973, it was quite the investment as people were fleeing downtown to suburbs. One of the last buildings by famed German architect Mies Van der Rohe.

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Louisville horse trainers supremely worried about potential ICE raids at Kentucky race tracks like Churchill Downs after Louisiana track raid DURING a quarter horse race. www.whas11.com/video/news/l...

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Thoroughbred trainer on edge after ICE raid at Louisiana racetrack

Dozens of migrant workers were detained by immigration officials at Delta Downs, a racetrack in Louisiana.

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

WHAS CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN Sunday! I have always loved this day.. it's like a HUGE family reunion. From 1st timers to longtime Crusade supporters🤎. Crusade #72 went over $3M at 1pm today .. CALL 502-582-7511 or 888-382-7511 To DONATE. We've got a long way to go! @CrusadeChildren

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

JUST IN: YORK vandalized last night on Louisville Belvedere. City adds mobile security camera & protective barrier. Sculptor Ed Hamilton tells me vandals tried to cut off hand & rifle. York, the enslaved explorer w/ Lewis&Clark. Gathered in Clarksville before St.Louis. @WHAS11

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Cicada anyone?! I once ate one covered in chocolate as a young reporter and it tasted like a peanut 🥜🤣. So I love Cicadas. One weekend when I was working, WHAS sent me to a Cicada invasion on a street off Frankfort Ave.... Peterson Ave!! So many they were jumping off the trees, ONTO YOU🙂

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Keeneland in Lexington had some amazing spring days this week. I'm always stunned by the # of Louisvillians AND Kentuckians who've never been here or even heard of it. Central KY horse heaven for sure.

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

**TONIGHT please support as we turn THUNDER OVER LOUISVILLE into a giant fundraiser for flood relief. 6PM: WHAS11 News news team covering the Saturday recovery. 7:00P:: Our LIVE telethon 9:15P : a vintage Thunder DRONE show. 9:30P: Honoring Thunder FIREWORKS over the years!

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

🌱♨️❄️💦 Welcome to the 1st day of Spring in Louisville!! Of course, wind chills, snow flurries, light sprinkles. Louisville Cardinals tip off at 12:15p at UK's Rupp Arena. March Madness! #MarchMadness

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Great to visit WAVE for John Boel's final day. He leaves their newsroom with love and respect for his incredible work ethic & journalism. Plus the T-shirts are amazing! He and I started competing against each other in 1989, loving every minute.

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

6 days on the job with WHAS11 , April 28,1987. Starting a long career covering Louisville's modern day champion of civil rights Rev. Louis Coleman, Jr. As Black History Months ends, found this in an old file! With his bull horn in hand, he uncovered injustice. 📸Mike Fisher CJ

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

NOW: I'm standing in the middle of a vacant, snow covered Frankfort Avenue tonight. A rare treat on an amazing old city street in Louisville!!

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Anne and I had a wonderful time honoring the AMAZING Jordan Yuodis at his goodbye party. After serving Jefferson County in the fire service as a tremendous public servant, he's heading to Atlanta to be the public information officer/communications Chief for the Sheriff's Office there.

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

WATCH: Massive pothole temporarily shuts down Interstate in Louisville! #snow #ice youtube.com/watch?v=Easq...

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Umbrella or snow shovel?!! BOTH. Wet snowfall covering Louisville right now. Out for the morning walk..2" already near Pewee Valley KY ❄️🚶‍♂️🐾 #snow #kywx @NWSLouisville

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The amazing mackerel sky over Louisville's Cherokee Park Friday afternoon.

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

They are like Derby guests who don't want to leave Louisville: THE SNOW MOUNTAINS. They've been hanging around since Jan 5 and are now familiar friends. But tomorrow it's down the drain! Going to be 60 degrees. 🔥#snow

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

44 years of excellence! The final day as our beloved assignment editor Steve Duncan retires. I brought Steve his favorite: Ollie's Trolley 🍔🍟 & he got deserved hugs all around. His big party was last week. 🪅🎉

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

WHAS11 NEWS AT 6 is online tonight and on the WHAS11+ app!! We're covering Kentuckiana folks who traveled to DC for President Donald Trump's Inauguration. Watch at whas11.com too.

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

❄️🍞🥛SNOW IS BACK!! Loving the Kentuckiana snow squalls moving through the Middletown area of Louisville KY this afternoon as I was hiking around .

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

*TONIGHT AT 11 ON THE WHAS 11 NIGHTTEAM*: *Snow covered EVERYTHING, again! 📷 Scenes across downtown Louisville. *At 11: an emergency shelter opens in Louisville for homeless. *Travel watch for Floyd & Clark Counties Indiana.

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

🧊🧊Polar walk this morning in Louisville! It's a balmy 🌴 -13 -degrees but feels like -0-. The air is refreshing😍 more SNOW tomorrow. We'll have it all on WHAS11 NEWS. Plus TWO Mayors: Greenberg at 4p on the snow. ABRAMSON at 5:30pm talks Jimmy Carter. @WHAS11 #winterstorm

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

❄️❄️WINTER STORM FLURRIES! We're out for the morning walk and loving these snow showers! Getting ready for 1-4 inches on Friday 🎼🎺

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

🧊❄️🌬DAY TWO! Brother Jeff to the rescue. (And Anne!🌞) Can you believe it?! After zipping home great after our 11pm news last night, where do I get stuck? On my street. Love ya Brother!! (The main roads were no problem 🙃🙃)

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

🧊❄️WINTER STORM UPDATE/NOON. Mayor & NWS. *It's outta here! Another hour or so, another INCH of snow. Then it's over. *Louisville as of 7am: 9 inches snow. *Harrison Co IN: 12 inches. *Stay home again today. *Lou escaped worst of power outages. #WINTER

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

-2-2-2 WINTER STORM/Mayor's 5:30pm update: *JCPS: "We've made no decision yet on school for Monday. But IF no school is eventually called , it's a traditional SNOW DAY, that means no online instruction. " *LG&E: 1,000 restoration crew members week be in Louisville by tomorrow.

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

❄️🧊JUST IN WINTER *STORM* UPDATE: 5:30PM News conf. *"Real deal"--NWS Lou *Starts 7am-10am *Louisville: SNOW first, then Heavy snow, sleet &snow, freezing rain, then back to SNOW. (3 to 6 inch snow) *ICE: half inch to 3/4th inch. *NOT PRETTY SUN NIGHT: ALL FREEZING RAIN.

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

NEW: SNOW❄️. Here are some of the forecast snow totals for Metro Louisville & our surrounding counties for Sunday-Monday. ICE totals for Louisville to near E-town: 0.25 to 0.75. @WHAS11

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

❤️New Years Day 2025 for your heart! Famed Louisville cardiologist Henry Sadlo MD leads 3-4 mile hikes every weekend and holidays with groups of folks all over Louisville. Anne and I loved the hike this morning with snow flurries and arctic cold😍

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

❄️Snow Blast! Breckenridge Colorado getting hammered with the most amazing snow! Anne, Boone and I had a tremendous time snow shoeing from the Nordic Center... family owned snow paradise! #snow

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

🎄❄️Merry Christmas to YOU and YOUR family. Hey, I'm a snow lover in Louisville KY. Growing up here I remember several snowy Christmases. But NO more. So we headed out to find REAL snow after years of not even DUST😊

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

🌞Hidden history in a Louisville neighborhood. This wall just shows up in a Highlands neighborhood full of homes. Once the outer wall of a great estate that still exists but long ago sold off its land.

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I-65 SB HAY/STRAW TRUCK FIRE. Ironically near the Fairgrounds exit tonight. WHAS11 Reporter Ian Hardwitt's amazing photo , as he stopped to find out everyone is OK.

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

This amazing red tail Hawk, Beautiful raptor, just flew past me on the Crescent Hill Reservoir in Louisville KY.

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

🎄This week: the Christmas tree by the PNC Bank tower (I still call it the First National Tower🤣) in downtown Louisville. Across from Vincenzos restaurant. #christmastree

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

🎄🎺Louisville's historic homes seem to really enjoy Christmas. You can almost picture Charles Dickens here again. In 1842 when he visited the River City, he said "We slept at the Galt House. A splendid hotel and we were as handsomely lodged as though we had been in Paris." ❄️ #Christmas

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Funny that I'm the trend setter at WHAS🤣..welcome Ben Pine!!

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

NEW: U.S. Dept of Justice in Louisville today to make "civil rights announcement ." ASST U.S. ATTY Kristen Clarke, for 11:30a news conf with LMPD Chief & Mayor. She has been involved in the Lou Metro/LMPD consent Decree negotiations since March 2023. @usdoj.bsky.social

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Norton West Louisville UPDATE: CEO Russ Cox LIVE at 5:30p to say 1 month in: 1,800 diagnostic screenings so far; plus patients coming from West Lou, East end, Shively, New Albany. GREAT to have fmr WHAS11 Renee Murphy (Norton SR VP Communications) @connieleonardtv.bsky.social

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

❄️🌊SNOW IS BACK! Loving our morning walk of the snow. 😊 But it's short... rain on the way

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

🎺🌲Holiday Pops! Great honor to M/C the tremendous Christmas concert by IU Southeast Orchestra Concert Choir &Community Chorus. Santa told everyone that bringing families together was his most favorite gift to deliver. #Christmas

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

🎄Christmas Trees up across downtown Louisville. 4th Street LIVE got their tree lighted tonight, this year under the Atrium. Getting ready for Saturday: Light Up Louisville, Bardstown Road Aglow, big traditions in a few days. #Christmas

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

30 degrees, FROST FLOWERS, with the Monks! Have always wanted to hike the trails of the Abbey of Gethsemani in Trappist KY..Hundreds of miles here in beautiful Nelson Co with statutes on the highest knobs. (🌬🧊The tundra coat is out) #winter

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Doug Proffitt WHAS 11 News Anchor @whas11doug.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

📽WATCH: CNN's Jim Sciutto visits Louisville's WHAS where his mother broke barriers as a young woman hired into a TV newsroom in 1951! youtu.be/aVPA7hODi6U?...

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CNN anchor visits WHAS11 basement where his mother made history

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