Carol Lin was anchoring a slow news day at CNN on Sept. 11, 2001, when a plane hit the World Trade Center. She became the first network journalist to report the attacks. In this interview, Lin talks about the weight of that moment, the chaos inside the newsroom and how the devastation of 9/11 led her to start a family — and eventually write a memoir, "When News Breaks," with the aim of showing her daughter her whole, honest self.
