Carl Willis is a seasoned journalist whose return to Central Florida is truly a homecoming. He was born at Halifax Hospital in Daytona Beach and grew up watching Channel 9. Carl built the foundation for his journey in TV news at WFTV 20 years ago as a cub reporter. He fondly remembers delivering live reports alongside legendary anchors Greg Warmouth, Vanessa Echols, Bob Opsahl, Martie Salt, Barbara West, and Marla Weech. He also hunkered down with Tom Terry for four separate hurricanes in 2004. Since then, he’s built an impressive body of work, reporting and anchoring at KPRC in Houston, at Cox Media Group sister station WSB-TV in Atlanta, and most recently at WJLA in Washington, D.C. Even after moving away from Orlando, Carl was dispatched back to Orlando to cover the George Zimmerman trial and the shooting at Pulse Nightclub. Carl and his wife, another Central Florida native, are excited to come home and cheer on his Seminoles and her Gators (sometimes) and bring their son closer to family.