you, please welcome diane sawyer, robin roberts, lara spencer, elizabeth vargas, amy robach, deborah roberts, connie chungr abc news anchor and correspondent connie chung. good morning to you, connie. thank you. thank you for being with us. >> it's so good to see all of you, really, i'm delighted to be here. thank you. >> bless your heart. tell us about the first time you met barbara. >> it was gulp, 50 years ago, more than 50 years ago, oh, my god, she was already at the top of the heap, she was doing the "today" show, and i was scared, you know, i i should have been and i was, i was in local news, i will tell you we developed a special bond, something that was unique. it wasn't just personal, it was personal. it was really personal. she, you know, her father was a night club owner, he created the latin quarter in boston, new york and miami, but the time for nightclubs was over, so he ran into bad times, she supported her family financially and morally and emotionally along with her mentally disabled sister, her older sister, and i did the same, i supported my parents, so we both needed our jobs. we were