Carol Costello

Carol Costello (born October 11, 1961) is a CNN correspondent assigned to The Situation Room, working out of the network's Washington, DC bureau. In the past, she has reported on a variety of fitness issues during "The Bod Squad" reports shown throughout CNN programs. Previously, Costello anchored the CNN early morning program CNN Daybreak and also was news reader on American Morning. On October 4, 2006, the industry website TVNewser reported that Costello would be leaving American Morning but would remain at CNN as a New York-based correspondent. A former resident of Atlanta, Georgia, Costello had moved to the New York area after getting married in 2004. She later moved with her husband to Baltimore, Maryland, where she currently resides.Costello is a graduate of Minerva High School in Minerva, Ohio and Kent State University where she earned a B.A. in journalism in 1983. After attending Kent State University, Costello worked at Akron, Ohio's WAKR-TV doing features reporting.... more