September 11, 2001, started off as an unusually slow news day at CNN’s Atlanta headquarters. “Our lead story was whether basketball great Michael Jordan would return to play in the NBA followed by an update on the Washington, D.C., Capitol Building renovation,” anchor Carol Lin recalls exclusively to Us. “None of us thought the day’s news would keep the audience tuned in.” Then, at 8:47 a.m., an executive ran past Lin during a commercial break to alert the control room of unconfirmed reports that a passenger plane had just crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City...