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Sean Callebs has been a network reporter in four different decades. He comes to CCTV with more than 20-years experience at CNN, where he covered a wide array of stories. Sean was CNN’s point person based in New Orleans during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Sean also put a face on the problem of poverty in the United States when he lived on food stamps for a month, and was nationally recognized for his work as the number of people dependent of food stamps surged from about 26-million to more than 32-million in the United States.
Sean has worked in a number of countries including China, Cuba, Guatemala, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Kuwait. He reported from Ground Zero in New York for weeks in the aftermath of the attacks on 9-11.
Sean also anchored news programs on CNN and CNN Headline News, and was in the anchor chair the morning Saddam Hussein was captured in Iraq. Sean also got the only interview with Timothy McVeigh’s co-conspirator in the aftermath of the horrific attack on the federal building in Oklahoma City.
Sean has been widely recognized for his work –among his awards, a National Emmy for his coverage in the aftermath of the Mississippi River flood in 1993. He received a Gold Medal at the New York Film Festival that same year for a documentary on Alaska three years after the Exxon Valdez Spill. He won numerous awards for spot news reporting, including that involving Hurricane Katrina, and the Oklahoma City Bombing.
Sean also served as a diplomat in 2011 in Afghanistan working for the US State Department in helping rebuild the TV, radio, and film industries in Afghanistan.
He is a distinguished alum from Marshall University, and delivered the commencement address at the University in 2010.
China is taking steps to improve its air and water quality -- as well as fight climate change. It is one of the nations pushing for tough measures in the Paris Climate Agreement adopted nearly a year ago. China recently outlined some more specifics.
For more discussion, we're joined by our correspondent Sean Callebs in Washington.
For more, we are joined by our correspondent Sean Callebs from Washington.
A truck rammed into crowd in Nice, southern France, killing dozens and injuring around 100, local media reported early Friday.
As protests over recent police shootings of black men continue around the United States, the Dallas Police Chief made a plea to the government. He says too many of society’s ills are being left to the police to solve.
We go live to our correspondent Sean Callebs in Orlando for more.
For more on this, we're joined now by our correspondent Sean Callebs who's standing at the scene of the attack in Orlando. Sean, thanks for joining us.
A memorial service has been held in Louisville, Kentucky to remember boxing legend Muhammad Ali. Thousands attended the interfaith service held at a local sports arena. The ceremony was followed by a private burial.
A lockdown at the White House has been lifted, following a shooting nearby. Federal law enforcement officers have swarmed the area, and an investigation has begun into the incident. CCTV's Sean Callebs has more from Washington.
For more on U.S. President Obama's visit to Saudi Arabia, we are joined by our correspondent Sean Callebs from Washington.
An exhibition of nuclear products has been held in Washington. It showcases the most cutting-edge nuclear products and technologies, and highlights the issue of nuclear security.
Crossover: nuclear energy leaders meet in U.S. captial
It's 88 years since a US president last set foot in Cuba. That man was Calvin Coolidge. CCTV's Sean Callebs looks back at Coolidge's reasons for visiting Havana.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has met with US President Barack Obama at the White House on the final day of his visit to Washington.
Top diplomats from China and US have discussed tensions on the Korean Peninsula and the South China Sea issue in Washington. Wang Yi and John Kerry said 'significant progress' has been made on a UN resolution on the DPRK.
President Xi Jinping's visit to the UK is the first one to the European country by a Chinese president in a decade, as it is believed to herald a golden era for the bilateral ties.
For more, we're joined live by our correspondents Sean Callebs in Washington DC and Michael Voss in Havana. First from the US perspective,
Yemen's President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi is believed to be held captive by Houthi rebels.
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has ordered an overhaul of the U-S nuclear program due to systematic problems. This move could cost the Pentagon billions of US dollars, a 10 percent increase on its nuclear program budget over the next five years.
The US-led coalition has continued airstrikes on a fresh set of IS targets in Iraq and Syria. The US said it will spend five-hundred million dollars on training Syrian rebels, but insisted the country will not "put boots on the ground".
Afghanistan’s election commission has named Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai the new president of the country.
Iraqi military evacuate beseiged town of Amerli
Weeks of fighting across the north between extremists of Islamic State Sunni insurgent group and government troops, has hampered the country’s already fragile economy and put a cloud over its future stability.
For the latest on what’s happening in Iraq, we’re joined by our correspondent Sean Callebs who is in the northern city of Erbil.
For more on the ground, let’s go live to our correspondent Sean Callebs in the city of Erbil in northern Iraq.
The US is launching airstrikes, as Kurdish forces launch a counter-offensive to retake Mosul dam from Islamic State fighters in the north of the country.
Tens of thousands of Yazidi and Christians in Iraq have fled their homes, since the Islamic State militant group advanced across the country.
After years of searching and diplomatic efforts to free him, US Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl is now back with his fellow US troops and making his way home.
In Bosnia and Serbia, it’s hard to imagine the flooding could get any worse. But a second wave of rising rivers is expected to further swamp that area. So far, dozens have been killed, and hundreds of thousands forced from their homes.
Insight: Week-long series investigates firearms in the US.
CCTV’s Sean Callebs is in Kabul, where he visited the training place for troops who provide security for the election.
The Pentagon plans to scale back the US Army by more than an eighth to its lowest level since before World War Two, signalling a shift after more than a decade of ground wars.
Earlier, we spoke to our correspondent Sean Callebs in Washington. He told us there was no response from the US on Snowden's latest revelations, and little media coverage.
For more, we are joined live by our correspondent Sean Callebs in Washington.
Sean Callebs has this report from Washington.
In US Midwest state of Minnesota, people are doing all they can to keep warm in the lingering freeze.
Now let's speak to our Sean Callebs who's in Minneapolis, the largest city of Minnesota.
The united states is one of the first countries to have sent up probes to the moon. it was the first one to land human being on the moon, providing valuable knowledge for other countries. sean callebs takes a look at its experience with lunar probes.
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Now let's go live to our correspondent Sean Callebs in Washington to get US reaction on the latest development.
Now let's go live to our correspondent Sean Callebs in Washington to get more information.
For more, let’s talk to our correspondent Sean Callebs in Washington.
One of the US’ most trendy-- and depending on your taste buds, delicious-- products to come out of Brazil is smaller than a grape. But it packs quite a nutritious punch.
For more on that, we are joined by our correspondent Sean Callebs in Washington DC.
Let’s go back to our correspondent Sean Callebs.
India’s free meal program helps millions of underprivileged children across the country. But after at least 23 school children died from eating lunches contaminated with pesticides, there are concerns that the program could also be tainted.
A gunman has opened fire at an elementary school in the US state of Connecticut. 28 people are dead, including 20 children.
The eastern coast of the United States is fighting a rising tide.In fact, sea levels are creeping up from Boston, Massachusetts to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina more than anywhere else on earth, according to a new study out by the U.S. Geological Survey.
