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My name is Jenna, and this is Smarter News.

Hello, everyone, from the Path of Totality.

Here we are, just a few hours away from the eclipse. I wanted to jump on today to

give you a mini scoop. This is a mini serving. It's like we're on a diet. Typically, we give

everyone a scoop for the week ahead, a full serving of the news to know, and a little bit

behind the scenes look at how the news is actually created, developed,

reported, and how that impacts us as well as active participants in the news process.

We're not just consumers, remember, we're actually active participants in the stories that

we're reporting. So I like taking a look at how the stories are reported, how they're being

delivered, and that I think that also helps us understand some of the

headlines that we're seeing. So this is usually a really fun time. Usually it takes about 30 to 45

minutes. We usually do it live. But today I had to call an audible and say, we're not doing it live.

We got to get past this total eclipse thing because there's too much chaos. And let me just explain

this a little bit. I am right outside Austin,

Texas. So I literally am in the path of totality. It's right above my head, except there's clouds

everywhere. And I'm not exactly sure what we're going to see. My kids are home from school.

Most of the school districts in our area have been closed.

Many of the businesses are closed. My friend, who is six months pregnant, cannot reach her doctor

today because the doctor's office is closed. You're noticing a pattern here. The main county in

Austin declared a disaster many, many weeks

ago for this particular event expecting so many people in crowds. And I would have totally

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