 With CNN, Battista was one of the original anchors on the CNN Headline News station, and then moved to the main network in 1988, where she served as host of numerous daily and regularly scheduled shows as well as handling anchor and reporting duties.She anchored "CNN WorldDay", "CNN NewsDay", "CNN NewsHour", "CNN Daybreak" (during the Gulf War), "CNN PrimeNews", and "CNN WorldNews".During that time, she also reported on historic events including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, the Gulf War, and the September 11 terrorist attacks.