in fall 2006, stephanie abrams left the show for "abrams &amp; bettes beyond the forecast" with mike bettes and was not replaced. a year later, samantha mohr joined the weather channel to replace kelly cass, who moved to "pm edition". cass returned to the program in may 2008. in april of that year, dao vu (who was the second non-meteorologist to host a live program, the other being liz jarvis-fabian, who was with the weather channel from 1986 to 1989) left and was not replaced.