Amy Wood anchors News Channel 7 at 5, 6 and 11, and is primary anchor for "Carolina's CW News at Ten." She's an Emmy Award winning anchor who's been delivering the news on News Channel 7 since 1990.

Amy first anchored weekends and was quickly promoted to News Channel 7 at 11, where many of you have watched her exclusive interviews and investigative reporting since 1991.

In 2002, Amy added News Channel 7 at 5:30 to her duties and later Carolinas CW News at 10. And in November 2006 Amy was promoted to lead our On Your Side team with Tom Crabtree, anchoring News Channel 7 at 5 and 6.

Amy's committed to bringing you ground breaking special reports: on inflammatory breast cancer, domestic violence, gambling addiction, and the static electricity fire danger at gas stations.

Her reports are having an impact. The SC Education Lottery re-designed its tickets to include the toll free hotline number for gambling addicts, a suggestion Amy took directly to the top.

And when Amy found out about a device that could protect many of you from the dangers of static electricity fires when you fill up, she took the idea to Stewart Spinx, who has placed them on gas station pumps across the region. Spinx was the first group of stations in the nation to offer the protection.

Amy's heart wrenching special report on domestic violence: South Carolina's Shame, was honored with a first place Associated Press Award in series reporting. The Safe Homes Rape Crisis Coalition presented Amy with their prestigious Purple Heart award. It's the award Amy treasures most, given by the domestic violence community.

During the initial war with Iraq, Amy brought you exclusive On The Frontline coverage, using the internet to connect with a commander from Chesnee who led the ground war with Third Infantry Division. For 6 weeks before the war started and all the way through the first phase, Amy's offered insight and perspective, you couldn't find anywhere else.

Putting on chemical protective gear, traveling to Army Posts, landing an exclusive interview with a local soldier who'd seen action On The Frontline, Amy was able to take you closer to the story.

She guided many of you through the morning of September 11th 2001, as we watched the towers crumble and presented local wall to wall coverage and a help line on WASV.

Amy anchored News Channel 7's Emmy Award winning coverage on Susan Smith. Smith rolled her car into a Union county lake with her two young sons inside. Amy also anchored the boy’s funeral, she says, the most difficult time on television of her career.

Amy's Kids is a heartfelt project launched in November 2004, to find adoptive homes for South Carolina's waiting foster children. Amy's an adoptee herself and finds it miraculous when the perfect family and child come together.

First on the agenda after her maternity leave in 2004 and the black jacket saga, was the "jacket burn." Amy torched her black maternity jacket to raise money for the March of Dimes. And she donated the rest of her maternity clothes to a local domestic violence shelter to help women escape the violence in their lives, that often escalates during pregnancy.

Over the years she's produced and reported parenting segments: Connecting with Kids, Family Matters and Teenagers and Tough Decisions. Her extensive experience with parenting reporting has been honored by the South Carolina Media Women.

Amy grew up in the New York metropolitan area, and started her career covering blizzards and breaking news in Western Minnesota at KSAX, TV.

Amy's volunteer work in the community led the South Carolina Jaycees to name her the state Distinguished Community Service Award winner in 1999. She continues her work in the community, volunteering to help organizations like: Safe Homes Rape Crisis, The Spartanburg Children's Shelter, The March of Dimes, The United Negro College Fund, Spartanburg Technical College Foundation, The Spartanburg Regional Foundation, The South Carolina Economic Development Association, and The Greenville Zoo.

Frequently she speaks to local groups on parenting and the broadcast industry and she shares her faith with many local church groups. Her documentary on a mission trip to Russia was honored with a first place award from the Associated Press in 1993.

Encouraging reading is another passion of Amy's. She spends a lot of time reading to children at area schools and libraries.

Amy is married with three daughters Brianna, Gracie and Jami. She loves raising a family in the Upstate with her husband Mike