Brokaw back in play after brief hospital stay
09/06/12 12:23 PM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom
NBC News mainstay Tom Brokaw has been released from Carolinas Medical Center and pronounced in "great health" after feeling light-headed Thursday on the set of MSNBC's Morning Joe.
The 72-year-old anchor/reporter/author underwent a "medical evaluation and a round of tests" before being discharged, NBC News said in a statement.
Brokaw has been in Charlotte for this week's Democratic National Convention. "Out of an abundance of caution," he was taken to Carolinas Medical Center for a check-up, NBC News president Steve Capus said in a statement.
Brokaw sent out an all's well on Twitter earlier Thursday morning.
"Early AM I mistakenly took a half dose of Ambien and made less sense than usual," he tweeted. "Made a better comeback than Giants."
Brokaw was referring to Wednesday night's 24-17 loss to the Dallas Cowboys on NBC's prime-time kickoff of the NFL season. The game rubbed out NBC's convention coverage, save for a brief halftime update by Brokaw's Nightly News successor, anchor Brian Williams.
Brokaw has been covering national political conventions since 1968.