Jamie Yuccas

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Emmy Award-Winning Journalist, CBS News & KCAL News Mornings

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Jamie Yuccas: Biography at a Glance

  • Jamie Yuccas is a CBS News correspondent known for her coverage of high-profile stories including the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, the wildfires across the Western United States, and the social justice protests following the murder of George Floyd.
  • She is a co-anchor for KCAL News Mornings, a seven-hour weekday morning news program. 
  • Yuccas joined CBS Newspath from WCCO-TV, the CBS-owned and operated station in Minneapolis where she won two Emmy Awards and contributed reporting to the CBS Evening News and CBS This Morning for breaking news stories in the Midwest.
  • She also won an Emmy Award for coverage of Hurricane Sandy.
  • As an anchor, reporter, and producer at WBBH-TV in Fort Myers, Florida, Yuccas won a Florida Associated Press award for a feature story about a U.S. Marshals operation.

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Biography

Jamie Yuccas is a CBS News national correspondent based in Los Angeles currently serving as co-anchor for KCAL News Mornings, a seven-hour weekday morning news. Yuccas joined CBS News as a New York-based correspondent for CBS Newspath in August 2015. Her reporting is featured across all CBS News broadcasts and CBS platforms, including Nick News where Yuccas is a contributing host. 

During her time at CBS News, Yuccas has covered high-profile stories including the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, the wildfires across the Western United States, and the social justice protests following the murder of George Floyd. Yuccas joined CBS Newspath from WCCO-TV, the CBS-owned and operated station in Minneapolis, where she had been a morning anchor and general assignment reporter since 2011. While there, she won two Emmy Awards and contributed reporting to CBS Evening News and CBS Mornings for breaking news stories in the Midwest, including flooding in Minot, North Dakota, the Minnesota state government shutdown, winter weather, and flooding across the region. She also won an Emmy Award for coverage of Hurricane Sandy.

Previously, Yuccas was an anchor, reporter, and producer at WBBH-TV in Fort Myers, Florida. She won a Florida Associated Press award for a feature story about a U.S. marshal’s operation. She began her career at KTTC-TV in Rochester, Minnesota.

Yuccas graduated from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor's degree in journalism.

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