Hi, everyone. Welcome to your Mini Scoop. And we find ourselves at the end of another week where a storm remains our big story. We really want Mini Scoop to be a place where we talk a little bit about what we found interesting this week in news or perhaps like a story that you don't normally see. But in this moment in time when we've seen two quick successions of storms that have

been really devastating, it just seems appropriate to focus here for a moment.

And I find myself inspired by a sheriff that I tripped over in my reporting on a social

media post where he was talking about how challenging moments can produce some

interesting revelations. And in the spirit of that, I thought to myself, how can we use

this particular moment in news as an opportunity to learn, where we take a challenging time

and remain curious about it with respect and acknowledgement that so many are impacted by

Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton. By the way, as I'm reporting this morning, we're still

getting our arms around the damage and devastation from Hurricane Milton. Luckily, the storm has

passed through Florida, but this is a story we're going to be following for some time. So I acknowledge that today as we start off our conversation. And I wanted to explain how I

arrived at these three questions I thought we should tackle today. These are questions that come

up periodically with any storm system, but there's also some questions that are more specific

to the political environment that we're in that many of you have asked about. So I thought it

would be important to tackle that before we got have asked about. So I thought it would be

important to tackle that before we got into the weekend. So the three questions I arrived at included,

why do we name storms and how do we name them? How do we arrive at Milton? How do we get there?

How do we measure storms? Where did that really come from? And who's in charge? Who's actually

in charge of disaster relief? And what about how our money is being used?

So let's get to some of these three questions. Let's start off with why do we name storms? Naming storms

actually started in the 1950s and it was simply as a way to organize these storm systems. Sometimes

there would be multiple storm systems that forecasters are watching at the same

time. So the thinking was, let's name them, and that will be easier to identify them until they're

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