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THAT WERE INVOLVED IN THE DELIVERY. AND WE’RE PROUD TO SAY THAT WE GOT THE EXCLUSIVE FIRST INTERVIEW WITH BOBBY AND KENNY. WE WERE IN THEIR HOSPITAL ROOM JUST MOMENTS AGO, AND IT WAS ALSO JUST AFTER BOBBY GOT TO HOLD KENNY. HERCULES FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME. CONGRATULATIONS TO BOTH OF YOU, BOBBY. HOW ARE YOU FEELING? BASICALLY PRETTY GOOD. TIREDNESS IS PROBABLY THE BIGGEST THING, BUT. WOW. WELL, YOU JUST SAW PART OF THE GLOBAL EXCLUSIVE MOLLIE COONEY GOT HOURS AFTER BOBBY AND KENNY MCACY SEVEN BABIES WERE BORN IN 1997. THEY WERE THE FIRST SEPTUPLETS TO EVER SURVIVE. AND MOLLY IS JOINING US NOW TO TALK ABOUT YOUR INCREDIBLE CAREER. WE’RE SO GLAD YOU JOINED US TODAY. THANK YOU. I JUST IT’S LIKE I HAVEN’T LEFT. I LOVE IT. FEEL RIGHT AT HOME. YOU COME BACK ANY TIME. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. YEAH, YEAH. SO, OKAY. WE’VE GOT TO KNOW ABOUT THIS SEPTUPLETS STORY BEFORE YOU TELL US HOW YOU GOT THE EXCLUSIVE. OKAY. HOW DID YOU EVEN CONFIRM THAT THEY WERE PREGNANT WITH SEVEN BABIES? BECAUSE THEY WERE TRYING TO KEEP IT REALLY QUIET. WELL, OKAY. I, I GOT A TIP FROM OUR FORMER NEWS DIRECTOR WHO HAD HEARD SOMEBODY IN CARLISLE. A WOMAN WAS EXPECTING, AND HE SAID THAT THE MINISTER OF THEIR CHURCH WAS THE CONTACT PERSON. SO I CALLED THAT PERSON AND THEY CONFIRMED THAT, YES, SHE WAS EXPECTING SEVEN. BUT THIS WAS EARLY ON IN HER PREGNANCY AND THEY WERE STILL AT HOME IN A SMALL HOUSE IN CARLISLE. AND SO WE TALKED. I DIDN’T CALL THE MCCOYS, BUT I JUST WENT THROUGH THE MINISTER AND KEPT IN CONTACT. AND THEN ONCE, BECAUSE WHO THOUGHT THAT SHE WOULD MAKE IT, YOU KNOW, AND I DIDN’T WANT TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY KIND OF MISCARRIAGE OR PROBLEMS. ONCE SHE GOT INTO THE HOSPITAL, IT WAS LIKE, OKAY, GREAT GUNS, LET’S GET GOING ON THIS. AND BECAUSE I DIDN’T. REPORT THE NEWS WHEN I FIRST LEARNED, THEY GRANTED ME THE FIRST EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW. AND SO I WENT OVER THERE, DID THE INTERVIEW. AND I MEAN, BOBBY’S STANDING UP, THAT’S WHAT. WOW. YEAH. IN MY MIND, BUT. AND DAN RATHER RAN WITH IT THAT NIGHT ON THE AIR, AND IT WAS WE HADN’T SEEN THE BABIES YET, BUT THEY WERE SO GRACIOUS. AND IT WAS JUST ONE OF THOSE THAT IT JUST WORKED OUT. I DON’T KNOW, IN THIS DAY AND AGE, IF YOU COULD HOLD ANY KIND OF NEWS, AND I GOT CRITICIZED FOR IT, WHY DID YOU SIT ON IT? WELL, WHO, LIKE I SAID, WHO WOULD HAVE EXPECTED THIS TO ACTUALLY END UP SO WELL THAT IT DID. AND YOU WANTED TO PROTECT HER HEALTH? YEAH, EXACTLY. I YEAH. SO ANYWAY. AND BOBBY HAD SAID WE DIDN’T ASK ANYBODY NOT TO SAY ANYTHING, BUT IN THE, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY WAS LOOKING OUT FOR THEM. YOU’VE ALWAYS HAD SO MUCH INTEGRITY. WE KNOW THAT YOU HAVE FOLLOWED THIS FAMILY. I MEAN, YOU SAW EVERYTHING LIKE BIRTHDAYS WHEN THEY TURNED 16 AND THEY WERE DRIVING, AND YOU EVEN FOLLOWED THEM TO THE OPRAH SHOW. DO ANY OF THOSE STORIES OR VISITS STAND OUT OR WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE? WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER? WELL, IT WAS FUN. WITH THE OPRAH SHOW. THEY WERE ONE YEAR OLD AND THEN THEY BROUGHT THEM ALL OUT. OPRAH HAD THEM ALL. I DIDN’T GET TO MEET OPRAH, BUT THAT’S OKAY. I WAS IN THE AUDIENCE, BUT THEY BROUGHT THEM ALL OUT IN IN HIGH CHAIRS. AND THEN MICHAELA, THEIR SISTER, YOU KNOW, WE FOLLOWED THEM EVERY YEAR. WE WENT DOWN AND WE JUST SPENT A COUPLE HOURS WITH THEM AND TALKED TO THEM. I SAID, I FELT LIKE THE GREAT AUNT WHO SHOWED UP ONCE A YEAR AND THEN KIND OF DISAPPEARED UNTIL THE NEXT YEAR. SO WE LET YOU KNOW, WE FOLLOWED THEM UNTIL THEY WERE TEN, AND THEN WE JUST KIND OF LET THEM LIVE THEIR LIVES. AND BY THAT TIME THEY HAD A BEAUTIFUL HOME THAT EVERYBODY, YOU KNOW, THE WHOLE COMMUNITY PULLED TOGETHER FOR THIS. AND LORD CLARKE GAVE THEM A VAN. I MEAN, IT WAS JUST IT WAS AMAZING. EVERYBODY JUST CAME AND THEY HOW THEY PULLED IT OFF, IT WAS JUST AMAZING. BUT THEY GRANTED US AN INTERVIEW EVERY YEAR. SO WE GOT TO SEE THEM. AND THEN WE DID LEAVE THEM ALONE UNTIL THEY WERE 13, WHEN THEY TURNED TEENAGERS AND BOUNCING OFF THE WALLS AGAIN. AND THEN YES, WHEN THEY WERE 16, WE WENT FOR RIDES WITH THEM AS THEY WERE GETTING THEIR DRIVER’S LICENSE, AND THEY’RE GOING TO BE 28. THEY’RE ALMOST 30 YEARS OLD. THIS WAS 1997. I MEAN, IT WAS LIKE TWO YEARS AGO. YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES IT FEELS LIKE IT. SO, YOU KNOW, IT IT WAS A COMMUNITY EFFORT. IT WAS A WORLDWIDE EXCLUSIVE. AND WE JUST LUCKED INTO IT AND JUST PROUD THAT THEY LET US COME BACK EVERY YEAR. AND AND THEN THE COMMUNITY, YOU KNOW, THEY JUST MELDED INTO THE COMMUNITY AND WE LET THEM WE LET THEM BE. YEAH. THAT WAS GOOD. I MEAN, YOU EVEN BEAT OUT THE TODAY SHOWS AND AND. EXCLUSIVE I KNOW SHE WAS GOING IN THEM WITH FRUIT BASKETS. AND SO SOMETIMES IT DOES PAY, YOU KNOW. YEAH. A GAMBLE I GUESS. THAT’S GOOD. ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS YOU’VE DONE THAT REALLY SETS YOURSELF APART IN, IN YOUR CAREER IS YOU TOOK PEOPLE INTO THE ARTIST STUDIO AND IT WAS SUCH A NEAT FEATURE. TELL US ABOUT THAT. AND AND HOW YOU CAME UP WITH THIS IDEA. WELL, IT WAS I MEAN, I HAD DONE COVERED EVERYTHING FROM EDUCATION AND HEALTH AND JUST SO MANY DIFFERENT FIELDS, THE COURTS. BUT IT WAS DURING THE RECESSION IN 2008 WHEN A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE LOSING THEIR JOBS, AND THEN THEY JUST KIND OF STARTED REINVENTING THEMSELVES IN THEIR HOMES, AND THEY WERE DOING ARTWORK IN THEIR BASEMENT OR IN THEIR GARAGE. THEY WERE MAKING BEAUTIFUL JEWELRY. AND I JUST THOUGHT THEY NEEDED TO BE HIGHLIGHTED. AND OUR EARLY MORNING NEWS ON SUNDAYS WAS RIGHT BEFORE THE CBS SUNDAY MORNING NEWS OR SUNDAY MORNING, WHICH IS ALL ARTS AND MUSIC AND ALL THAT. AND I THOUGHT, WOULD THIS BE A NICE WAY TO FLOW INTO CBS SUNDAY MORNINGS? AND SO FROM THAT ON, I MET SO MANY WONDERFUL OVER 200 ARTISTS FROM EVERYTHING THEY DID, MUSIC THEY DID MOSAICS, JUST EVERYTHING. AND THEY WOULD, YOU KNOW, RECOMMEND SOMEBODY ELSE THAT THEY KNEW SOMEBODY. AND IT WAS JUST THE ART SCENE WAS REALLY BOOMING AND WE DIDN’T HAVE MAINFRAME OR ANYTHING YET, BUT IT WAS REALLY BOOMING IN EAST VILLAGE AND DES MOINES, AND IT JUST SEEMED THE RIGHT TIME. SO FOR SEVERAL YEARS I WOULD JUST GO MEET THE ARTISTS. I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ART. I’M TERRIBLE AT ART, SO I JUST I’M AMAZED THAT ANYBODY CAN, YOU KNOW, LOOK AT WHAT THEY CAN CREATE AND HOW THEY DID IT. AND, YOU KNOW, SOME ARE STILL, I HOPE, STILL, YOU KNOW, VERY SUCCESSFUL. BUT IT WAS JUST IT WAS I LEARNED RIGHT ALONG WITH EVERYBODY ELSE. IT WAS FUN. IT WAS WONDERFUL. AND I KNOW WE’RE OUT OF TIME, BUT WE’VE GOT TO POINT OUT IT’S NOT LOST ON US, THAT THERE ARE THREE WOMEN SITTING AT THIS DESK. AND WHEN YOU WERE HIRED TO ����vlog, YOU WERE THE FIRST WOMAN HIRED AS A REPORTER INTO THE NEWSROOM. INTO THE NEWSROOM. THERE WERE NOT THREE WOMEN SITTING ON A NEWS DESK. NO, IT WAS ALL MEN, ALL MEN. AND WE HAD CONNIE MCBIRNEY. WE HAD MARY BRUBAKER. BUT I WAS THE FIRST IN THE NEWSROOM. DIDN’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT. I JUST WANTED TO DO NEWS. I LOVED NEWS, GRADUATED FROM IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY AND JUST HIT THE GROUND RUNNING. AND AGAIN, IT’S FAMILY. IT’S WONDERFUL TO BE BACK. AND WHEN THEY ALWAYS ASK ME TO DO THE 5:00, I’M LIKE, SURE, NO, THEY MEANT 5:00 IN THE MORNING. YEAH. I’M LIKE, OH, OKAY. SO IT’S NICE TO BE ON THE 5:00 THIS TIME OF THE DAY. BUT ANYWAY, THANKS AND CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYBODY ON 70 YEARS. AND IT’S SO MUCH FUN, THE WORK THAT YOU HAVE DONE ALLOWS US TO DO OUR WORK. SO THANK YOU MOLLY. WELL, WE LOVE YOU. YOU ARE A HUGE INSPIRATION TO ME PERSONALLY. I KNOW TO BOTH OF US. AND IT’S JUST LIKE HAVING A FRIEND BACK ON THE SET. WE’RE SO GLAD YOU’RE HERE. WELL, YOU’RE NICE AND I APPRECIATE BEING HERE. IT’S WONDERFUL. IT’S JUST IT’S HOME. IT REALLY IS LIKE HOME. IT’S LIKE I NEVER LEFT. BUT I WILL LEAVE NOW.