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Encyclopedia > Fredricka Whitfield

Fredricka Whitfield is a weekend anchor and newsroom reporter for CNN who anchors the weekend newscasts CNN Live Saturday and CNN Live Sunday. The neutrality of this article is disputed. ...


Since joining CNN in 2001, Whitfield has reported many major stories, including the Elian Gonzalez affair, the death of Ronald Reagan, the death of [[[Johnny Carson]], and the devestating Asian tsunami which occurred in December 2004. Whitfield also reported from the Persian Gulf region during Operation Iraqi Freedom. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Elián González (born December 6, 1993) was a young boy when his mother escaped from Cuba (which has strict laws forbidding emigration) and floated to freedom in Florida. ... President George W. Bush, First Lady Laura Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney, Lynne Cheney, and former President Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Clinton, watch the casket of former President Ronald Reagan carried into the Washington National Cathedral The death and state funeral of Ronald Reagan took place in June 2004. ... For related articles, including charities accepting donations, see Category:2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Map of the Persian Gulf. ... For other uses of the term, see Iraq war (disambiguation) The 2003 invasion of Iraq (also called the 2nd or 3rd Persian Gulf War) began on March 20, 2003, when forces belonging primarily to the United States and the United Kingdom invaded Iraq arguably without the explicit backing of the...


Prior to joining CNN, Whitfield was a correspondent for NBC News and served as an Atlanta-based correspondent for NBC Nightly News and other programs for the network including The Today Show. While at NBC, Whitfield was a morning and afternoon anchor as well as an assignment reporter. NBC News Logo NBC News is the news division of American television network NBC. Its current president is Steve Capus. ... This article is about the state capital of Georgia. ... Current anchor Brian Williams on NBC Nightly News in 2005. ... Today (commonly referred to as The Today Show) is a morning news and talk show airing on the NBC television network in the United States. ...


Before joining NBC, Whitfield worked at WPLG-TV in Miami, News Channel 8 in Washington, D.C., KTVT-TV in Dallas, WTNH in New Haven, Conn., and WCIV in Charleston, S.C. WPLG, Local10 is a ABC-affiliated television station based in Miami, Florida. ... This article is about the city in Florida. ... Map showing Washington, D.C.s location in relation to the surrounding states of Maryland and Virginia Washington, D.C. is the capital city of the United States of America. ... KTVT, CBS11 is a CBS owned and operated television station in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas designated market area with its transmitter in Cedar Hill. ... Dallas redirects here. ... WTNH is New Haven, Connecticut, USAs ABC affiliate owned by LIN Television Corporation. ... This article is about the city in Connecticut. ... WCIV is the ABC affiliate for the Charleston, South Carolina area sign on in 1962 as WTMA-TV. It used to be the NBC affiliate until 1996 when they switched to ABC because of their owners Albritton Communications have the same network affliation. ... For more related articles, see alternate spelling Charlestown Charleston is the name of a dance and of several villages, towns and cities in New Zealand, the United States and Scotland. ...


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WHITFIELD: Dan was explaining a moment ago just kind of refreshing our memories that it's Kelly James whose cell phone was kind of detected in an area near this summit in some sort of snow cave there, which Kelly James had described to his family where he was holed up.
Fredricka, you will recall exactly a week ago one of the climbers, Kelly James, phoned his family frantically saying that he was in some kind of trouble and that he was in a snow cave.
And Fredricka, as we reported earlier, about an hour ago a helicopter observed a snow cave and saw some equipment next to it and a rope and an ice spike and some sort of distress signal that's been characterized as a giant Y in the snow.
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