In December 2013 , Lynda Kinkade resigned from Seven Network and moved to New York City to work as a freelance foreign correspondent . She covered breaking news and filed reports for Sunrise ( Australian TV program ) , Seven News and Today Tonight . She also wrote for The Courier-Mail and The Daily Telegraph ( Sydney ) . Her stories including 2014 East Harlem gas explosion , the Ebola virus disease outbreak , and the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 and the Early 2014 North American cold wave known as the ' Polar Vortex . ' Kinkade began commuting from New York City to Atlanta in August 2014 to anchor for the weekend editions of CNN Newsroom ( CNNI ) . After several months freelancing CNN signed Lynda Kinkade full-time in January 2015 as an anchor and correspondent
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
Lynda Kinkade