Wynnewood's Karen Hepp, the NBC10 alumna now reporting and anchoring for Fox in New York, was relaxing pregnantly in her Big Apple pied-a-terre Monday after work when her water broke. She did what any right-thinking person would do: She hightailed it to Penn Station to get a train to Philadelphia.

"I looked a little haggard . . . no makeup, crazy shoes," she says.

Of course that would be when she would run into someone she knew: Sen. Chris Dodd (D., Conn.), whom she covered while working in Hartford. Dodd and his wife, Jackie, were on their way to D.C. "They carried my bags and brought me into business class and helped me through contractions," says Hepp, 36, whose husband, Brian Sullivan, picked her up at 30th Street and sped off to a birthing center in Bryn Mawr. Their first child, Quinn Joseph, was born Tuesday morning.