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Catherine Garcia Biography

Catherine Garcia is an American journalist who joined NBC 7 San Diego as the station’s weekend 6 pm and 11 pm co-anchor in 2003. She now anchors the San Diego News at 4 pm with Monica Dean and the News at 6 pm and 11 pm with Mark Mullen.

Catherine Garcia Age

Garcia’s age information will be updated soon.

Catherine Garcia Education

A California native, Catherine received her bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism with a minor in Spanish from the University of Southern California. She also studied abroad through the Semester at Sea program, traveling to South America, Africa, and Asia.

Catherine Garcia Career

Catherine comes to San Diego from Dallas, Texas where she worked as the morning and weekend evening anchor for the ABC station WFAA. She also spent three years in Austin as a morning anchor at KTBC-TV and a year in El Paso at KTSM-TV as an anchor/reporter. She got her start in journalism working behind the scenes at CNN Headquarters in Atlanta and with the CNN Los Angeles Bureau.

Catherine Garcia Fun Facts

Catherine spends her free time hanging out with her husband, son and two cats. She also enjoys volunteering throughout the community, cooking and trying new restaurants, playing tennis, cheering for the USC Trojans and traveling.

Catherine Garcia The Week

The week’s good news

1. Fishermen pull 11,000 pounds of metal from Spokane River
This is a win-win for Spokane, Washington. Since June, the H20 Magnet Fortunes group has pulled 11,000 pounds of metal from the Spokane River, KXLY reports. The magnet fisherman has spent their weekends at the river, hooking everything from manhole covers to cell phones. They will now turn in the metal for recycling money, with all proceeds going to SOAR, an organization that provides in-home care and therapy for children with autism and special needs. H20 Magnet Fortunes founder Paul Swanson said they’ll continue to go magnet fishing until the river is clean. To give SOAR an added boost, a local recycling facility will pay double the usual price for prepared iron, and Swanson said he’s contacted Guinness World Records, as this is likely a record for most metal collected by a magnet fishing club. [KXLY]

2. Kids help California police officers locate a missing 97-year-old woman
When a group of five young friends learned a 97-year-old woman was missing in their neighborhood, they decided they would be the ones to find her. Police in Roseville, California, shared on Facebook Monday a woman had wandered away from her care facility and asked people nearby to be on the lookout. A large search party soon formed, which included Makenna Rogers, 10, and four of her friends who wanted to help. “Kids can make a difference just as much as parents can,” she told KCRA. After hours of searching, they spotted the woman, who was safe and called the police. “Our dispatchers were a little surprised to hear a 10-year-old on the other line telling us they had found this missing person,” officer Rob Baquera said. Baquera praised the “junior detectives,” and suggested they call the police department in 10 years. “Maybe we can give them a job,” he said. [KCRA]

3. 9-year-old runner accidentally wins adult 10K
Kade Lovell didn’t set out to win a 10K for adults, but that’s exactly what the 9-year-old did last month. The St. Cloud, Minnesota, resident loves to run, and his mom, Heather Lovell, entered him in the St. Francis Franny Flyer 5K. She kept waiting for Kade to run by her and became concerned when he didn’t appear. It turns out Kade had listened to someone who said go straight when he should have turned, and he wound up on the 10K course. After reaching the finish line, he was greeted by his relieved mother. They thought he came in last because no one else was around, but he actually was first, running the 10K in just over 48 minutes — a minute faster than the 40-year-old man who came in second. Now, Lovell told the St. Cloud Times, “We laugh about it. … It’s one we’ll never let him forget: Remember that time you accidentally won a 10K?’” [The St. Cloud Times]

4. Cousins reunite 75 years after being separated during the Holocaust
Morris Sana and Simon Mairowitz both spent 75 years believing they would never see each other again. Sana, 87, and Mairowitz, 85, are cousins and were best friends while growing up in Romania. After the Nazis invaded, their families escaped separately, and Sana’s daughter, Carmela Ofer, told ABC News her dad was always searching for information on his relatives, but “they were listed as perished in the Holocaust.” Ofer’s cousin placed an ad on Facebook nearly a decade ago, saying she was looking for people with certain last names, and Mairowitz’s granddaughter finally saw it this year and got in touch. In late September, Mairowitz, who lives in England, flew to Israel, where Sana resides, for a reunion decade in the making. “Seventy-five years you waited,” Mairowitz told his cousin. “I know, it’s a long time. We’ve got each other now. And we can see each other.” [People, ABC News]

5. On his way to receive an award for outstanding service, airman saves child’s life
While collecting an award for being an outstanding airman, Air Force Tech Sgt. Kenneth O’Brien did something else deserving of accolades: He saved a baby’s life. On Sept. 11, O’Brien, a member of the 320th Special Tactics Squadron, was on a flight from Japan to Texas. Selected as one of the 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year, he was headed to the Air Force Association’s conference, where he would receive the award. O’Brien saw that one of his fellow passengers, a 1-year-old baby, was unconscious and unresponsive, and ran to help. The baby had a blockage in its airway, and O’Brien conducted several back thrusts and finger sweeps of its mouth, soon clearing the blockage. He gave the baby CPR for a minute until the child regained consciousness. O’Brien said he was “thankful” the baby survived and he “happened to be in the right place at the right time.”

Catherine Garcia Article

Rudy Giuliani has been asking an imprisoned Paul Manafort for information on Ukraine

Unable to chat face-to-face with Paul Manafort due to his imprisonment, Rudy Giuliani has been communicating with President Trump’s former campaign manager through his lawyer, seeking information on Ukraine.

Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer, told The Washington Post this week that he’s spoken with Manafort via intermediary several times over the last few months. Giuliani, who said he’s been investigating Ukraine since last year, asked Manafort about a ledger The New York Times reported on in August 2016. This secret ledger, discovered by Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau, showed that former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s political party paid Manafort $12.7 million in cash.

Giuliani said he thinks that this ledger was faked and is the key to proving the already debunked conspiracy theory that it was Ukraine, not Russia, that meddled in the 2016 presidential election, seeking to help Hillary Clinton. Manafort said the ledger doesn’t exist, Giuliani told the Post. The FBI had a case open against Manafort prior to the 2016 election and the discovery of the secret ledger. After being convicted of tax and bank fraud last year, Manafort pleaded guilty to laundering the money he received from Ukraine.