Elita Loresca aka Elita biography

Real biography: Introduction

Elita Loresca is the weathercaster for KNBC's early morning and midday newscasts, "Today in LA" and the "Midday Report." She has to wake up at the crack of dawn and look perky on television. Now that's talent, people.

All About Elita

Loresca is a graduate of the Broadcast Journalism Program at Cal State Fullerton and earned the Certificate of Broadcast Meteorology at Mississippi State University.Born in the Philippines, Loresca moved to Southern California when she was ten months old and grew up in both downtown Los Angeles and Chino.

Loresca came to her KNBC post from WSVN (FOX) in Miami, Florida, where she was the weathercaster on the top-rated morning and noon newscasts since August 2004.Loresca covered two of the most devastating hurricane seasons in recent history. Starting on her first day at WSVN, Loresca began forecasting the 2004 hurricane season with Hurricane Frances. In 2005, Loresca contributed reports for her station from the National Hurricane Center during hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma.

From August 2002 to August 2004, Loresca was the morning and noon weathercaster on KGPE-TV in Fresno, California. Before that, she was the Noon weathercaster and assignment editor for KGET-TV in Bakersfield, California from January 2001 to August 2002.

Loresca began her career as a news associate at KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, where she was responsible for the assembly of scripts and teleprompter operation during the newscasts. She also assisted the assignment desk.

Loresca is actively involved as a volunteer for Habitat for Humanity and The National Alliance to Nurture the Aged and the Youth (NANAY), a non-profit Filipino organization.