About Me

Natalie Morales joined Today as a National Correspondent in February 2006. She also co-anchors for the program and fills in regularly at the news desk. Prior to joining Today, she was an anchor and correspondent at MSNBC, covering major breaking news stories including Hurricane Katrina and the recovery efforts, the tsunami disaster, the death of Pope John Paul II, the battle for the White House in 2004, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. She began her on-air career as a reporter for News 12 - The Bronx, and spent three years as morning co-anchor at NBC's WVIT in Hartford, Connecticut. Morales, who speaks Spanish and Portuguese, was born in Taiwan and spent much of the first 18 years of her life living overseas in Panama, Brazil and Spain as an Air Force "brat." Hispanic Magazine named her one of the "Top Hispanics to Watch" in 2005. She currently lives in New Jersey with her husband and son.