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Thuy is an Emmy award-winning reporter and substitute anchor at CBS 5. She joined the station in December 2005, based in the San Jose bureau.
She co-anchored live coverage of the fatal tiger attack at the San Francisco zoo in December 2007 and provided additional reporting that day on the zoo's troubled history. The coverage won an Emmy for "Best Newscast" and a west coast Associated Press award for "Best Anchor Team."
She also earned Emmy and Associated Press awards for a feature on the 30th anniversary of the Babylift flights at the end of the Vietnam war.
Other honors include three national awards from the Asian American Journalists Association and a Best Reporter award from the northern California chapter of American Women in Radio and Television. She also earned a best Special Program award from the Peninsula Press Club for a half-hour show on how Vietnam has changed since the war.
This is Thuy's second stint at the station. She was at KPIX as a reporter and fill-in anchor for four years in the 1990's. She has also worked at KTVU as a reporter and fill-in anchor and at ABC7 as a weekend anchor and reporter.
She started her journalism career in public radio at KQED-FM in San Francisco. She later moved on to National Public Radio (NPR), where she first covered Congress and national politics in Washington, D.C. before returning to their San Francisco bureau.
She has covered many major stories, including the Loma Prieta earthquake, the Oakland hills fire, the O.J. Simpson trial and verdict in Los Angeles and the mass cult suicide of Heaven's Gate members in Rancho Santa Fe.
In 2000, she traveled to Washington, D.C. to cover the historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the contested Florida vote in the presidential election.
Thuy immigrated from Vietnam in 1975, fleeing the country with her family as Saigon fell to the communists. She has returned to her homeland twice for special reports on the country's post-war life.
In 2004, readers of AsianWeek selected her as their favorite broadcaster. San Francisco's Focus magazine (now renamed San Francisco magazine) once named her one of the Bay Area's most talented people under 40 years old.
She was the recipient of a Jefferson Fellowship from the University of Hawaii's East-West Center in 1992. At the time, she was the youngest person ever admitted to the competitive program, traveling throughout Asia to better understand the cultures and governments of the region.
Thuy is a member of the Asian American Journalists Association. She's also on the board of directors for the Asian Pacific Fund, a community foundation that provides scholarships to students and funding grants for Asian non-profits in the Bay Area.
She holds a Bachelor's Degree with Honors in rhetoric from U.C. Berkeley.
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