Rafer Weigel, a three-time Emmy Award-winning journalist, joining KUSI in November of 2022 was like coming home. Rafer began his television career at KUSI back in 2005. Since then, he has worked in major markets across the country and built a reputation for covering ground-breaking stories. Weigel earned accolades at the St. Louis anchor desk during the protests in Ferguson, Missouri and received national notoriety for being the reporter who broke the story that Chicago police would be charging Jussie Smollett with staging a fake hate crime.