Leigh Waldman - Correspondent, CNN Newsource
Leigh Waldman
Correspondent, CNN Newsource
Latest
-
Broadway costs add up for producers. But on stage, the show must go onDec 20, 2025For over a century, Broadway has been at the heart of New York City culture, with glittering marquees welcoming millions of tourists and locals every year. -
Suspects charged in alleged terror plot cited ISIS and may have tried to replicate Paris terror attack on US soil, FBI saysNov 4, 2025Two men face federal charges for allegedly plotting an ISIS-inspired Halloween attack – possibly on the scale of the 2015 Paris terror attacks that killed at least 130 people, authorities say. -
What we know about Michigan church shooter Thomas SanfordSep 30, 2025Thomas Jacob Sanford, who police say attacked a Sunday morning mass a Michigan church, was an Iraq War veteran and outdoorsman. -
ICE shooter’s writings were ‘definitively anti-ICE’ and included ‘hatred for the federal government,’ prosecutor saysSep 25, 2025Evidence the FBI has gathered on Wednesday’s shooting that killed a detainee at a Dallas ICE field office includes a handwritten note indicating a desire to “give ICE agents real terror,” as well as other clues suggesting “a high degree of pre-attack planning,” FBI Director Kash Patel said Thursday morning on X. -
Exclusive: School records show doors weren’t closing at Robb Elementary before Uvalde massacreSep 4, 2025Maintenance records still being withheld by the Uvalde school district show entry doors at Robb Elementary School had repeated problems before the May 2022 massacre, CNN can reveal. -
Columbia University student from China among those killed in the NY bus crash. Here’s what we knowAug 24, 2025After spending the morning taking in the breathtaking sights at Niagara Falls, a group of tourists boarded a bus to return to New York City, not knowing about an hour later, their bus would be lying on its side in the ditch off the New York State Thruway. -
Exclusive: Uvalde school officials holding back key emails even after court orderAug 22, 2025Uvalde school officials are withholding documents about classroom security and a payout to the sacked police chief even after a court ordered such documents released in the wake of the May 2022 massacre at Robb Elementary School in Texas. -
Uvalde County and school district release troves of records about the Robb Elementary shooting that left 21 people deadAug 12, 2025After a yearslong legal battle, Uvalde County and the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District have released records related to the 2022 mass shooting that killed 19 children and two adults in Uvalde, Texas. -
Trump’s using tariffs to get you to buy American. For US maple syrup, that’s a sticky situationApr 12, 2025For nearly 30 years, Kevin Keyes and his brother-in-law Bob Chambers have run Dry Brook Sugar House in Salem, New York. -
• Video 2:46Video As bird flu cases rise, farmers seek ways to protect raw milk 2:46Feb 22, 2025Health officials warn raw milk is one of the riskiest foods people can consume, noting that prior to the required pasteurization of milk, up to 25% of foodborne illnesses came from it. As raw milk consumption continues to rise, CNN’s Leigh Waldman meets with dairy farmers, raw milk advocates and doctors to discuss the trend and efforts to protect people against diseases like bird flu. -
‘Everything’s getting weird’: New Yorkers have experienced tornadoes, an earthquake, and an extreme fire season this yearNov 17, 2024Floods, fires, hurricanes, and a lot more of them. People will lose their homes and possibly loved ones. -
Ex-Uvalde schools police officer pleads not guilty to charges of child endangerment and abandonment in 2022 massacreJul 25, 2024One of the first officers who responded to the Uvalde school massacre in Texas pleaded not guilty Thursday to more than two dozen criminal counts. -
Uvalde shooting indictments: What to know about the charges against two former school police officers and what comes nextJun 30, 2024More than two years after a massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde left 19 children and 2 teachers dead, a grand jury indicted on Thursday two former Uvalde school police officers in the botched law enforcement response to the 2022 mass shooting. -
Former Uvalde school police chief, officer indicted in 1st-ever criminal charges over failed response to 2022 mass shootingJun 28, 2024A grand jury has indicted two former Uvalde school police officers in the botched law enforcement response to the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary school that left 19 children and two teachers dead, two Texas state government sources with knowledge of the indictment told CNN Thursday. -
Birmingham 16th Street Baptist Church bomber denied paroleAug 3, 2016Ex-KKK member Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., the last living convicted bomber of Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church in1963, was denied parole Wednesday. -
Retired astronaut charged with murder in crash that killed 2 girlsJun 8, 2016A retired NASA astronaut has been charged with murder following an auto collision in Alabama that resulted in the death of two girls.
About
Leigh Waldman is a correspondent for CNN Newsource, based in New York, reporting for the network’s more than 1,000 affiliate partners nationwide. Since joining the network, Waldman has covered the deadly 4th of July flooding in Central Texas, the devastating impacts of hurricanes along the Gulf, school shootings, and astronauts aboard the Boeing Starliner’s historic launch and return.
Before joining CNN in 2024, Waldman was an investigative reporter at KSAT 12 in San Antonio, Texas, the top-rated station in the market. She played a leading role in the station’s team coverage of the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting, work that earned an Emmy Award, a regional Edward R. Murrow Award, two Telly Awards and a Texas Broadcast News Award.
At KSAT, Waldman helmed enterprise and led investigative stories for the station’s 10 p.m. newscast. She also created and hosted “Texas Crime Stories,” the market’s No. 1 podcast, producing multiplatform audio and visual storytelling focused on high-impact true-crime cases across Texas.
Previously, Waldman served as weekend morning anchor at WOWT in Omaha, Nebraska, contributing to the station’s coverage of historic snowstorms, widespread Heartland flooding, and the COVID-19 pandemic. She has also worked as an anchor, reporter, and producer at Victoria Television Group in Victoria, Texas.
Waldman holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.
