Photos: Kim Baldonado Through the Years

Soaring high above Southern California, Kim Baldonado prepares a report aboard the Goodyear Blimp.

NBC4 staff celebrate winning an Emmy Award for a one-hour special on the 50th Anniversary of the Watts Riots.

One of Kim Baldonado's favorite places in Southern California: sunny Palm Springs.

In 2016, Kim Baldonado reported the 80th anniversary of the Queen Mary. Sir Winston Churchill's great grandson was in attendance.

Kim Baldonado hugs a cow during a live report. It is not the first time she has held a live animal on live TV.

NBC's Tom Bravo, Kim Baldonado and Jon Sonnheim. Together they worked to bring Pope Francis' trip to the U.S. to NBC LA viewers.

Kim Baldonado speaking with crew aboard the Goodyear Blimp.

At the Emmy Awards in 2012.

NBC4 photographer Tommy Bravo and reporter Kim Baldonado at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.

The dynamic duo, Kim Baldonado and photographer Tommy Bravo, posing for a photo.

The Baldonado family.

Kim Baldonado interviews a koala in Australia. It's unclear what the koala had to say.