Earhardt was hired as a reporter for WLTX-News 19 , the local CBS station in Columbia , South Carolina , before she graduated from USC . From 2000 to 2004 she worked as the morning and noon anchor . She traveled to New York City after the September 11 attacks to cover South Carolina middle school students ' raising nearly half a million dollars for firefighters to buy a new fire truck to replace one lost at the World Trade Center site
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Ainsley Earhardt