However , of all the news stories Lin reported on and anchored , she is best remembered as the first television anchor to break the news of the September 11 attacks to a worldwide audience . It was three minutes after those attacks began in New York that CNN interrupted a Ditech TV commercial at 8:49 a.m. EST with a live picture of the World Trade Center 's north tower on fire and Lin reporting from CNN Center in Atlanta : Yeah . This just in . You are 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 right now 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 . Less than two months after Lin reported the news of the September 11 attacks , she was once again traveling the globe to bring world news to CNN viewers , this time from Pakistan , reporting on numerous topics , including Afghan refugees in that country
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Carol Lin