Carol Lin
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Carol Lin anchors CNN Saturday Night and CNN Sunday Night on CNN USA. She is based in Atlanta. Starting her career at CNN in 1998, she anchored CNN Early Edition, CNN Live at Daybreak and the former news-magazine program CNN NewsStand.
She covered the shootings at Columbine High School, the rebuilding of Kosovo, CNN's Millennium night coverage from New York City's Times Square (and did a chat with CNN.com users) and the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001.
However, Lin will be most remembered as the first anchor to break the news of the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. She broke into a commercial at 8:49 a.m. ET, 3 minutes after the first plane hit and said:
- "Yeah. This just in. You're looking at obviously a very disturbing live shot there. That is the World Trade Center, and we have unconfirmed reports this morning that a plane has crashed into one of the towers of the World Trade Center. CNN Center is just beginning to work on this story, obviously, calling our sources and trying to figure out exactly what happened, but clearly something relatively devastating happening this morning there on the south end of the island of Manhattan. That is once again, a picture of one of the towers of the World Trade Center."
Lin earned a bachelor's degree in political history from UCLA. Template:Tv-bio-stub