 erica hill-yount (born erica ruth hill, july 20, 1976) is an american journalist working for nbc news. she is co-anchor of the weekend edition of today, as well as a national correspondent for all platforms of nbc news, including nbc nightly news, today and dateline nbc. she made this switch in 2012 after being at cbs since 2008. hill is also a substitute anchor on nbc nightly news. ==personal life== hill was born in clinton, connecticut. she graduated with a ba in journalism from boston university in 1998. she is a member of alpha epsilon phi. she is fluent in french. hill married david yount on october 15, 2005, and on november 25, 2006, gave birth to her first son, weston robert yount. her second son, sawyer steven yount, was born on march 23, 2010. in 2006, hill was listed at #35 in people magazines 100 most beautiful people issue. == career == hill began her journalism career in 1998 as a production assistant for "pc week radio", the online news program for pc week magazine. during this time, she also worked as a conference coordinator for the software publishers association europe. she worked at techtv from 2000 to 2003 as part of the techtv news program, later named techlive. from 2000 to 2001, she served as reporter, and from 2001 to 2003, she was co-anchor and correspondent for the program. she is noted for her live reporting of the september 11, 2001 terrorist attacks when she was working for techtv. hill joined cnn's headline news channel in january 2003, working as a general news anchor for different programs. in 2004, she joined cnn newsource as a national correspondent. she co-anchored prime news tonight from 2005 to 2006 before becoming anchor of prime news with erica hill from 2006 to 2008. she began providing news updates for anderson cooper 360Â° (ac360Â°) in april 2005, and was named a full-time member in february 2008. hill also co-anchored cnn tonight during its november 2009 to januar
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