Aaron Brown, the longtime television anchor whose coverage during CNN’s live broadcast of the Sept. 11falcon play, 2001, terror attacks became one of the most well-known accounts of the day, died on Sunday in Washington, D.C. He was 76.

His family confirmed the death in a statement, which did not cite a cause.

Mr. Brown joined CNN in June 2001 and was still training for his role on the morning of Sept. 11. He was not supposed to appear on the air for several more weeks, but when the attacks on the World Trade Center began, he was rushed up to the roof of CNN’s Manhattan headquarters to cover the events live.

His broadcasts have endured as one of the most memorable reports during the attacks, with Mr. Brown veering between cleareyed reporting and horrified human emoting.

“Good lord,” he said at one point, turning from the camera to watch the South Tower collapse. “There are no words.”

The polls of these three states, taken from Sept. 17 to 21, presented further evidence that in a sharply divided nation, the presidential contest is shaping up to be one of the tightest in history.

Ms. Harris was an assistant district attorney in the city. Ms. Guilfoyle was in discussions to join the office. Ms. Harris was calling, according to Ms. Guilfoyle, to suggest there was no job for her there.

For his work that day, Mr. Brown would win an Edward R. Murrow Award, one of broadcast news’s most prestigious honors. Still, it would be years before he spoke openly about his coverage of the attacks, and he remained conflicted about his place in it.

“Sometimes I’m a little embarrassed, I suppose, at this notion that anything I did mattered,” he told NPR’s All Things Considered in 2011. “I think I just told a story.”

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