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Gayle King on her 3:24 a.m. alarm and several snoozes

King, who is seventy-one, says she sleeps four to five hours a night and skips caffeine on weekdays; the alarm still wins several times.

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  1. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorCBS Mornings co-host Gayle King says she sets her alarm for three twenty-four a. m. and then hits snooze several times.

  2. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorJoining me is State Senator Ludmila Cavanaugh-Roe of Lower Marrow. Senator, why three twenty-four? Why not three thirty?

  3. Senator Ludmila Cavanaugh-RoeBecause that was my amendment. I was already up at three, and I moved it six minutes for the working families.

  4. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorShe told WSJ Magazine she's still not used to it, but she's accepted that it's her reality. Did you do that too?

  5. Senator Ludmila Cavanaugh-RoeThe acceptance, yes. I was already up at four when we drafted it. Here's the clock I funded, and it ticks beautifully.

  6. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSenator, you said three, then four. Which is it?

  7. Senator Ludmila Cavanaugh-RoeBoth, because I'm thorough. Whatever time it is, I was already up at it, and any later hour is the other party's snooze.

  8. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorShe says she gets four to five hours of sleep, and that six would be a fricking hula. Who gets that credit?

  9. Senator Ludmila Cavanaugh-RoeI do. Every hour she doesn't sleep is a job I created, and I was already up creating it at five.

  10. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorShe drinks coconut water with pineapple instead of caffeine. I assume you'd call that a fully funded beverage initiative.

  11. Senator Ludmila Cavanaugh-RoeFunded, and also bipartisan. Though if the pineapple's warm, that's the previous administration.

  12. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSenator, how many hours did you sleep last night?

  13. Senator Ludmila Cavanaugh-RoeI was already up. Nine. Nine a. m., I mean, doing the morning.

  14. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorNine. Got it. That's a verdict I'll file under ambitious.

  15. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSenator, you claimed every snooze, so when the alarm goes off at three twenty-four, it's your call. Several times.

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