Meet Marla:

Marla Tellez is happy to be "home."  She joined NBC Bay Area in November 2010 as a reporter for "Today In The Bay."  She also fills in on the anchor desk.   

Born in San Francisco, Marla is actually a small town girl, raised in Sebastopol.  She's a proud graduate of Analy High School and Sonoma State University, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in Political Science and a minor in Communications.  Her journalism career began behind the scenes, where she intended to stay, as a writer and producer at KFTY in Sonoma County.  In 2000, her producing talents took her to CBS 5 in San Francisco where she blossomed as a producer for "Evening Magazine," a weeknight show highlighting the Bay Area's diverse people and places.  There she got the itch to give the "other side" of the camera a shot.  So, in 2002, Marla left CBS 5 for her first on-air job: a news reporter at KION News 46 in Salinas.  Before long, she returned to CBS 5 as a producer/correspondent for "Evening Magazine-turned-Eye on the Bay," as well as a reporter in the news department.  

Marla is a two-time Emmy award winner for her work on Eye on the Bay.  Her first came in 2006 for "Outstanding Achievement, Education Program" for a 30-minute show she produced on alternative fuels.  She earned her second Emmy for "Outstanding Achievement, Arts/Entertainment Program" for "Six Degrees of Love," a true, Bay Area love story.  In 2008, she made the tough decision to leave the Golden State for a chance to anchor in the Land of Enchantment.  Marla was the morning and midday news anchor for KOB in Albuquerque, New Mexico until her return to the Bay Area.  Albuquerque is also where "Breaking Bad," a hit show on AMC, is filmed so when the producers asked her to "play" an anchor, she couldn't say no.  Marla's acting debut can be seen on the Season 3 premiere of Breaking Bad, "No Mas."   

When Marla's not working, she's either running, cooking, or visiting her mom in Sonoma County, a trip she loves to use as an excuse to go wine tasting.