CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: We go to Secretary of State Colin Powell, who decided to take the microphone after all. Let's see what he has to say to his new staff there.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Good morning. On behalf of the dedicated career professionals of the United States Department of State, Foreign Service, Civil Service and Foreign Service National, I welcome and present to you the 65th secretary of state, Colin L. Powell.</s>COLIN POWELL, SECRETARY OF STATE-DESIGNEE: Thank you. Thank you and good morning. Thank you. Thank you very much. Well, thank you so very, very much, my colleagues. I'm sorry I'm late.</s>LIN: Secretary of State-designee Colin Powell, yet to be sworn in, so technically he is not officially the secretary of state yet, but certainly arriving on his first day of work to a rousing welcome of applause as employees line the banisters and two floors.</s>POWELL: Now go to work.</s>LIN: The boss there telling everybody to go to work. Colin Powell exhibiting some of his infamous charisma and charm that he demonstrated for a long time on the lecture circuit, but promising -- and admitting that he was late to work, and promising that as secretary of state that he feels that he is inheriting a distinguished group of professionals, that he is not there to wholesale get rid of many of the people who worked under the Clinton-Gore administration for eight years, but, in fact, try to take advantage of some of their expertise. And, as usual, any time a new CEO takes over, there will be reviews as to how people will be moved and placed. But in the meantime, he said that he is going to be meeting with his new friends at the White House, looking for additional funding for the mission of the State Department. We shall see.
Colin Powell Addresses State Department Employees on First Day at Work