Katie Couric (L) of the NBC Today show chats with her co-host Matt Lauer outside NBC's New York City studios during the broadcast of the April 5, 2006 program. Couric, earlier in the show, told her audience that she will be leaving NBC to join the CBS Evening News where she will become the first woman to solo anchor a network evening newscast. The 49-year-old Couric has been on Today for the past 15 years. REUTERS/Mike Segar - GM1DSHYTTRAB