The robber picked the wrong couple. Russell has been a deputy sheriff, private investigator and martial artist. Her husband, who also reported for CNN, is an ex-special forces man with a bio that reads like an adventure novel. They had his and hers guns with them in their hotel room. How they managed on CNN, I don’t know.
Via NY Post:
A road trip down old Route 66 led to a Wild West-style motel shootout for a pioneering CNN anchor and her former-soldier hubby.
Lynne Russell — the first woman to ever solo-anchor a primetime network news show — and Chuck de Caro, 65, had stopped at a Motel 6 for the night in Albuquerque when an intruder slipped into their room as Russell went to grab something from the car around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday.
“I opened the door and he materialized out of nowhere; he was inside,” she told The Post. “And he pushed me into the room and onto the bed and closed the door.”