Hopkins native Aaron Brown, who died Sunday at the age of 76, will best be remembered as CNN’s breaking-news anchor in the early 2000s. I also knew him as my 9/11 soulmate. On that fateful day in 2001,

Aaron Brown, a veteran television news anchor whose steady hand helped guide CNN viewers through the unfolding tragedy of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, has died.

Aaron Brown, a longtime anchor for both ABC and CNN died Sunday at 76, the latter network reports. He was most famed for his live reporting on 9/11.