Natalie Morales
Natalie Morales was born in Taipei, Taiwan on June 6th, 1972 and is the Journalist. At the age of 51, Natalie Morales biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Natalie Morales-Rhodes (born Natalie Leticia Morales, 1972) is an American journalist working with NBC News.
She is the Today Show West Coast anchor and appears on other television shows including Dateline NBC and NBC Nightly News. Morales moved to Los Angeles in August 2016, where she became both the Today show's West Coast anchor and Access Hollywood Live host, as well as a correspondent for Dateline.
Early life
Morales was born in Taiwan to a Brazilian mother, Penelope, and a Puerto Rican father, Lieutenant Colonel Mario Morales, Jr., and she spent the first eighteen years of her life in Panama, Brazil, and Spain as a "U.S. Air Force brat." She graduated from Caesar Rodney High School in Camden, Delaware, in 1990.
Morales has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University with dual majors in Journalism & Media Studies and Latin American studies. She was a founder of Phi Beta Kappa and received the coveted summa cum laude.
Personal life
On August 22, 1998, Morales married Joseph Rhodes. They bought a US$1 million townhouse in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 2002 and raised it to 3,600 square feet in 2008. The family bought the Hoboken townhouse on the market in June 2016 and later moved to Brentwood, California, the following month. Morales was made the West Coast anchor of Today. The townhouse had sold for $3.1 million by October.
Morales gave birth to Josh, the son of Hoboken's St. Mary Hospital, in November 2003. Luke Hudson, their second son, was born in late 2008.
Morales is a runner who has competed in five marathons, including three New York City Marathons. She has run and won the 1995, 1996, and 2006 NYC Marathons. Morales are also active in triathlons. She has appeared in a full article as well as on the front page of Triathlete Magazine's October 2010 issue.
Career
Morales worked at Chase Bank in college before embarking on to pursue her journalism interest. She began her on-air job at News 12 – The Bronx as the first morning anchor under News 12's first news director Roberto Soto, as the Bronx's first morning anchor, and original studio developers Tom D'Elia, Brian Webb, Darryl Stith, and David Rein. She has also worked as a camera operator, editor, and producer for the network.
Morales went on to be a weekend anchor/reporter and morning co-anchor at WVIT-TV in Hartford, Connecticut, where she specialized in the Columbine shootings, Hurricane Floyd, the 2000 Presidential election, and the September 11, 2001 attacks. Save Our Sound, an Emmy-nominated documentary that was co-produced with WNBC on the preservation of the Long Island Sound, co-hosted and reported. In 1999, she was named one of the top Latinas for her news coverage and reports by El Diario La Prensa, a Hispanic daily newspaper. Morales had been working behind the scenes at Court television for two years before.
Morales served as a anchor and reporter for MSNBC from 2002 to 2006. She covered a variety of major news stories, including the 2004 presidential election, the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Columbia massacre, the 2002 D.C. sniper attacks, and Scott Peterson's investigation and conviction. In addition, she was named one of Hispanic Magazine's Top Trendsetters of 2003.
Morales came as a national reporter on the Today show in 2006 and was named co-anchor of the third hour of the show in March 2008. When Curry took over As the host of Today in June 2011, Morales will replace Ann Curry as the news anchor for Today. Morales will be based in Los Angeles and become the West Coast anchor of Today, and has been announced that it would be heading west to host Access and become the West Coast anchor. Morales departed from hosting Access in 2019 and remained on Today.
Morales would leave NBC News after 22 years, and the CBS Daytime talk show The Talker announced that she will serve as a permanent co-host and moderator in October 2021. Morales would join CBS News as a reporter in October 2022.