Nightly News   |  May 25, 2011

CNBC anchor Mark Haines dies at 65

Mark Haines, the founding anchor of Squawk Box on CNBC and a fixture at NBC's sister network for two decades, died Wednesday. He was 65. NBC's Brian Williams reports.

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>>> there was a stunned silence on the floor of the new york stock exchange this morning. not because of market news but in reaction to the news that marc haynes has died. he was the founder anchor of " squawk box " on cnbc. people used words like gruff and rumpled and erascible. but what they were trying to say is mark haines was real. he didn't suffer fools gradually, and in covering wall street , he encountered his share of them. he was an iefrby league veteran and a reporter, and he could report on the 9/11 attacks and the financial problems. he had a novel approach to his job. he tried to talk about only what was true. our friend mark was 65, and our condolences go out to his family