of the slave and soul. there i go. >> reporter: michelle miller, cbs news, new york. >> o'donnell: my "cbs this morning" colleague gayle king was a personal friend of maya angelou. i know you knew her for nearly three decades. what will you miss most? >> yes, i do, i do, i do. we have been thinking about it a lot today, those of us who know her and love her. and i will miss most her voice and her conversation. norah, there wasn't one time that you spent with maya that you didn't feel better, you didn't want to be better when you left her house. oprah and i were there last month, she was working on what now turns out to be her last book about encounters and she read part of the book to us and her voice was so deep and so resonant. i was talking-- i talked to family numbers morning. she went to bed last night. she was laughing and joke yesterday. she was making plans for a 4th of july party. and, you know, she was fine at 5:00 in the morning, and by 7:00