"Good Morning America" co-anchor Robin Roberts was in Atlanta Thursday morning. Photo: ABC News

“He’s ours now. So back off!”

– “Good Morning America” co-anchor Robin Roberts joking to Dr. Richard Besser’s former co-workers at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta where Roberts and Besser broadcast live from Thursday. Besser, now the senior  health and medical editor for ABC News, was greeted with hugs from his former CDC employees where he was acting director.