People from small towns have to have their edges roughed up to get along in the world. But as a street reporter, you learn quickly.

Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over.

That's the reason I left the networks. I wanted to write and report and coanchor.

The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer.

I've been producing documentaries on global warming for 20 years and have seen the early warnings of extreme weather events come true.

The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.

First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it.