The video was part of a Sunday Science franchise that Herbst started at the station, one way he sought to make a connection with viewers at home. Posted by Alex Herbst, CBS 4 News on Sunday, September 8, 2019 Another cool #SundayScience experiment coming your way! Today, we’re melting crayons 🖍 and trying to create a cool pattern on a t-shirt.Follow along for updates and tune in to CBS 4 Valley This Weekend at 5:30 for the results.
In it, he describes a science experiment in which he encouraged viewers to melt crayons exposed to the Texas heat in order to create a “cool pattern on a t-shirt.” One of Herbst’s last social media posts was made on September 8. A meteorologist at a competing station said they were also told Herbst’s death was a suicide (the meteorologist did not want to be identified because of the sensitivity of the topic and because they were not authorized to speak to members of the media without prior station approval). The station did not say how Herbst died, but a law enforcement source with knowledge of his death said it appeared Herbst took his own life. Herbst was found dead last week at his apartment near the station, sources told The Desk on Monday. “And that’s exactly what happened - and he did it without missing a beat.” You’re on the front lines,” KGBT Chief Meteorologist Bryan Hale said.
“One minute you’re sitting there waiting to be trained, and the next second, you’re in it. It was his first television after college graduation, and he moved from his native New Jersey to pursue a career in television meteorology. That was the opening line of the 26-year-old’s obituary published by his employer, Brownsville, Texas CBS affiliate KGBT (Channel 4). On his first day at work, Alex Herbst was faced with “some of the worst flooding the valley has ever seen.”
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