it was either going to be called new new york in my or chutzpa. >> i didn't have the goal of being on camera. i went to nyy and studied economics. and my mother said why don't you take journalism? you'll be good at it. you're a student, but econ came easy to me so i kept going with it. but when my mom said that, decided to try out journalism. i loved it. decided to switch my major, take more journalism, writing and tv classes and got an internship at cnn. so i was a little down about it. i didn't want to work for cnn. i wanted to work, in 1987, for the big guys, cbs, abc, or nbc, but i was accepted to cnn after taking tests and writing essays. so it ended up being, again, an amazingly lucky break, because i got to cnn, and the first gulf war is just about to begin, and of course, there was such momentum, and cnn was breaking new ground, and i was able to do everything. anything they needed, they just needed a lot of help in all areas. so rather than going to one of the union shops at the major networks where i just would have been a job, teleprompt, i was able to get my hand on a lot