Kyra Phillips

Kyra Phillips is a news anchor and correspondent for CNN/U.S. Based in the network's world headquarters in Atlanta, Phillips anchors the weekday newscast "Live From."

Phillips has reported a wide range of breaking news, including the Atlanta courthouse shooting and Hurricane Katrina from New Orleans in 2005. She has also covered the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, CNN's Election 2000 and Election 2002 coverage, and the Elian Gonzalez custody controversy. In 2003, Phillips reported as an embedded journalist aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln for CNN during the war in Iraq. Phillips wrote and reported about Billy Graham's last revival in New York City for a CNN Presents documentary.