Elise Finch, an Emmy-award-winning CBS New York meteorologist, has died aged 51, the station announced Sunday.
Ms. Finch died at a local hospital and her cause of death has yet to be determined, CBS News said in a statement expressing their “profound sadness” at the news.
“Elise was on the air with us just this past Friday,” CBS host Mary Calvi said. “Her death is sudden and unexpected, leaving us all trying to understand how this could happen to our beautiful Elise, who was just 51 years old.”
The station described her as a “gifted and consummate professional who took great care with her work,” “a wonderful ambassador in the community,” and above all, a “fiercely loving and devoted” mother to her daughter Grace and wife to WCBS photojournalist, Graig Henriques….