Meredith Vieira joined ABC News in October 1993 as chief correspondent for ABC News "Turning Point," which premiered March 1994. In 1995, she garnered her sixth Emmy Award for her report, "Inside the Hate Conspiracy: America's Terrorists" -- an in-depth look at a white supremacists' group who became the most wanted criminals in America.

Ms. Vieira is co-host of "The View," the highest -rated show for ABC in the 11:00 a.m.-12:00 noon, ET time period since the 1993-1994 season. "The View" features a team of five dynamic women of different ages, experiences, and backgrounds discussing the most exciting events of the day. The program consists of hot topics in the news, the best experts in their field, celebrity interviews, and general entertainment - all leading to lively and colorful conversations.

Ms. Vieira has reported the story of an adoption scam in Oklahoma, which promised hope for childless couples but delivered heartbreak; the heroic story of children successfully battling leukemia; a cautionary tale for the '90s about the rise of heroin use among young people and the middle class; and a feature on the city of Baltimore's first year of mainstreaming disabled students in public school, which won a 1995 Robert F. Kennedy journalism award. In addition, Ms.Vieira interviewed the "Framingham Eight" -- eight women fighting for a second chance after killing partners they say abused them -- which won an award from the Foundation of American Women in Radio and Television.

Previously, she had spent more than a decade at CBS News as a correspondent for broadcasts ranging from "60 Minutes" to "West 57th." She also spent a year as co-anchor of the "CBS Morning New." In addition to her morning assignment, Ms.Vieira also contributed to the "Eye on America" series on the "CBS Evening News With Dan Rather." In June, 1991, she was a contributing correspondent for the CBS New primetime series, "Verdict," a broadcast reporting on actual courtroom trials.

From 1989 to 1991, Ms.Vieira was a co-editor of the CBS News magazine, "60 Minutes," reporting such stories as the award-winning "Ward 5A," which focused on the first AIDS ward in San Francisco. In addition, she won an Emmy for the "60Minutes," Ms. Vieira had been a principal correspondent for CBS News' "West 57th" since its premiere in August 1985. In 1989, she received four Emmy Awards for stories she reported on "West 57th" during its 1987-88 season.

Ms.Vieira joined CBS News as a reporter in its Chicago bureau in January 1982. She was named a correspondent in 1984 and covered Senator Alan Cranston's presidential bid, the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco and, as a correspondent, election night, 1984.

Prior to joining CBS News, she was a reporter for WCBS-TV, the CBS owned television station in New York City, for three years. Her assignments included the 1980 Republican National Convention in Detroit, the trial of Jean Harris in 1981, and a series on child molestation that earned her a Front Page Award from the Newswoman's Club of New York. She also served as a substitute anchor on the station's news broadcasts. Previously, she was a reporter and anchor at WJAR-TV in Providence, Rode Island. She began her career as a news announcer for WORC-Radio in Worcester, Mass., in 1975.

A native of Providence, Rhode Island, Ms.Vieira received a bachelor of arts degree from Tufts University in Medford, Mass. She and her husband, television producer Richard Cohen, and their three children live