Al Roker Spotted in Humiliating Battle With His Malfunctioning Tesla on Streets of NYC: Report

Al Roker, the weatherman on 📺NBC’s “Today” show, and his ABC News broadcaster wife, Deborah Roberts, have experienced some unsettling mishaps with their luxury electric SUV — and this weekend was no exception.

After Sunday brunch at a posh downtown Manhattan restaurant, the couple was spotted struggling to close one of the trademark gull-wing doors on the Tesla Model X, witnesses told the New York Post’s Page Six.

“Al was sitting in the car trying everything he could think of to get the door to close,” one said.

“The diner said the ‘Today’ star seemed to make a call before manhandling the door closed (which, the source noted, ‘may not be great for a car with motorized doors’) and eventually got it working properly,” the report said.

Page Six quoted a source close to Roker as saying a piece of cardboard had blocked a sensor, preventing the door from closing.

While this incident wasn’t serious, in November, Roberts was forced to take a cab when Roker was rushed to the hospital because the malfunctioning door on the electric car would not open.

“The popular weatherman, 68, was taken away by ambulance as his frantic wife, Deborah Roberts, attempted to break into their malfunctioned Tesla to retrieve her mobile phone to follow her husband to the uptown Manhattan hospital, sources say,”