Dana King, born in Cleveland, is an Emmy Award-winning American

United States

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 broadcast journalist currently serving as anchor for San Francisco CBS Affiliate KPIX.

King won a local Emmy Award for her reporting in Honduras in 1998 and 2000, reporting on the consequences of Hurricane Mitch

Hurricane Mitch

Hurricane Mitch was the most powerful hurricane and the most destructive of the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season, with maximum sustained winds of 180 mph . The storm was the thirteenth tropical storm, ninth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the season. Along with Hurricane Georges, Mitch...

. King also won an RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award in March 2005 for her reporting on the tenth anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide

Rwandan Genocide

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. She is also known for her coverage of the conflict in Afghanistan, and the September 11 Attacks.

In the early 1990s King co-anchored ABC

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's Good Morning America Sunday, before moving to CBS

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's CBS Morning News

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(1994–95) and other CBS News programs.

King is a graduate of Ferris State University

Ferris State University

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