mast of their electronic news-gathering van (holding a microwave antenna for the remote pickup unit used for outside broadcasting) contacted 115-kilovolt high-voltage powerlines while leaving the Fulton County Jail. Georgia Power staff were surprised that anyone survived, but the two were treated for minor burns and smoke inhalation at Grady Memorial Hospital and released later in the day. The massive electric spark caused an explosion, left a crater underneath the van, arced to and broke a water main, and caused a brief power outage; the vehicle was a total loss. In August 2018, WSB-TV added two additional hours to its weekday morning newscast during Good Morning America, an expansion exclusive to its 24-hour streaming channel, WSB NOW, available on its website and apps. In April 2020, WSB-TV changed the name of its 11 p.m. newscast to WSB Tonight. The station's nightly newscast had been called the Channel 2 Action News Nightbeat since the early 1990s. The newscast began as a nightly update on the COVID-19 pandemic, but the name change appears to be permanent. The Nightbeat name was still used for weekend newscasts, but the station began using the new name for weekend newscasts later in the year. Unlike the Nightbeat, which was a rundown of the day's top stories, WSB Tonight goes into detail about the biggest stories of the day. The weather forecasts for the Nightbeat were filmed live, whereas most of the forecasts for WSB Tonight are pre-recorded. On September 5, 2020, WSB-TV became the first station in the Atlanta market to expand its weekend morning newscast to 5:00 a.m.. Notable current on-air staff Sophia Choi – anchor/reporter Linda Stouffer – weekday morning anchor Eboni Deon – weekend meteorologist Notable former on-air staff Sandra Bookman – anchor/reporter (1989–1998; now at WABC-TV in New York City) Tom Brokaw – anchor/reporter (1965–1966; retired NBC Nightly News anchor and NBC News contributor; began his journalism career at WSB-TV) Steve Buckhantz – sports anchor/reporter (now play-by-play announcer for Washington Wizards) Glenn Burns (AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist Seal of Approval) – chief meteorologist (1982–2022) Dale Cardwell – investigative reporter (1996–2007; 2008 Democratic candidate for Georgia in the U.S. Senate, now has own consumer website called trustdale.com) Milo Hamilton – sports director (1968–1976) Ernie Johnson, Jr. – sports anchor/reporter (1982–1989; now sports host for Turner Sports) Monica Kaufman Pearson – anchor (1975–2012; now at WANF) Stu Klitenic – sports anchor/reporter (1989–1996; now Atlanta