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Rose Arcehas 11ern a producer in ti't' CNN New York Hurtau jor threeYt'ars. Whilt: 7l'Orking at WCBS-TV hi Nt"lLI York, shewon hi'" NelL' YorkEmmysfor spot 1lL'U'S and inl't'Stigafiug reporting. Size shared a Pulitzer Prize with collmgues for a slI l1way crash story while at New York Nro1Stllly. Insome ways, Rose Arce was un iquely qualified to cover the events ofSep t. 1I. As a WCBS-TV re po rte r, she had c o v e r e d the World T r a d e Ce nter bombing on Feb. 26, 1993. She had shared a Pulitzer Prize with colleagues for a subway crash story she had covered for New York Newsday.She covered plane crashes and othe r disasters there. Rose,a CNN producer, just wanted to spend a few minutes enjoying a beautiful, sunny day in New York City before running ove r to her local polling cen ter to cast her vote in the primary mayoral race. "I was goi ng to vote and then cover the e lection . I was told 1 would be working a late shift," she sa id . But first, she we nt to get coffee at a deli across the st reet. "It was a really beautiful day, just a gorg e o u s day . Usually by Sept. II it' s gray already." After she got her coffee, she heard on NPR radi o that something happened at the World Trade Center. " It sounded ominous . I immed iately flipped on my cell phone and called the office. 1 said, ' I heard abou t the World Trade Center. Where do you want me to go because I'm going to start running downtown?' Whoever answered the phone said, 'Just go, go, go and call us when you get there: " Rose lives near Horatioand Washington, which make a straight line down to the Trade Center. "I started running south, and people were just standing in the stree t. Iooking up.1got