Axelrod was one of CBS News' embedded correspondents in Iraq and was the first TV reporter to broadcast live from Saddam International Airport, now Baghdad International Airport, after its takeover by American forces during the Iraq War.

[2] Axelrod was born on January 25, 1963, to a Jewish family[3] in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

In 1989, Axelrod began his career in journalism at WVII-TV in Bangor, Maine.

He subsequently was a general assignment and political reporter at WRAL-TV in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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