i started to write with abandon under the name diana blakely and diana blakely's career is taking off. people want to read about wall street in 1987. i get home from work one day and there is a phone call, chevy chase, his dad, editor at simon & schuster, very distinguished book editor, it is him. i found out you are diane bleeker and he said i think you should write a book. from that moment in september 1987 i was out the door. i knew that was what i wanted to be and the money didn't matter. you don't have to ask anyone. i am the potted plant. the carrot in the school play. >> what happened next was i waited until they gave me my bonus at the end of the year because i didn't want to lose a bad, a huge pile of money and then said i am leaving to write a book. going to write about wall street but i wasn't sure, they took me into a room -- it wasn't what concerned me. they thought i was out of my mind. you do understand we made 250 this year unless it is 500 and after that a different thing, you can stay here another decade and in ten years we need to write books basically and don't do

blake, kron four news. (vicki) contra costa county has named a new "interim" district attorney tonight. the board of supervisors selected dianacton ... becton is a retired judge... and she beat out four other finalists for the job. becton will start later this month.. an exact date has not been set. she is the first african- american and the first woman to hold the position. (grant) seattle mayor ed murray announced his resignation today... it comes just hours after new sexual abuse allegations surfaced against him. the mayor's cousin is the fifth person to accuse murray of child sexual abuse... after an interview with the seattle times. murray denied the allegations, as he has in the past. in a statement, murray said he was resigning effective 5 p-m wednesday... so the scandal would no longer overshadow his office. (vicki) new at nine... prosecution against engineer brandon bostian, who derailed an amtrak train two years ago in philadelphia, ended in stunning fashion today when a judge ruled there was not enough evidence to warrant a criminal trial.(grant) eight people were killed and over 2-hundred injured. reporter joe hol