Overview
- Appearing on the third hour of Today on Jan. 16 to promote his Dancing Words Tour, Mellencamp opened by questioning modern forecasting.
- He asked Roker why forecasts are no better than in the 1950s, prompting laughter, Craig Melvin’s “You have just spoken for America,” and Roker’s reply that he is still doing the job and making money.
- Mellencamp piled on with a quip that former Indiana weatherman David Letterman was “much righter” than Today’s team.
- He then disclosed that his daughter, Teddi Mellencamp Arroyave, now has stage 4 cancer with spread to her brain and lungs, and that she is receiving immunotherapy rather than chemotherapy.
- Mellencamp said the treatment leaves her feeling ill for several days after each dose and noted he has urged her to move back to Indiana, which she has declined.