“It’s a simple misunderstanding,” Kappell said in a video posted to Facebook. “If you watch me regularly you know I try to contain a lot of information into my weather forecast, which forces me to speak fast. And unfortunately I spoke a little too fast when I was referencing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — so fast to the point where I had jumbled a couple of words. Now in my mind, I knew I mispronounced but there was no malice…I had no idea the way it came across to many people.”