The U.S. and Israel attack Iran. Hello, everybody. I'm Jenna. This is smarter news, and I'm so glad to join you yet again on another historic moment that we get to share together. It is Saturday, February 28th, just before 10 o'clock central time. We're less than 24 hours into this new story. And I felt compelled to join you just

for a brief moment this evening to really timestamp more of what we don't know over what we

actually do know. And that seems to be really the story at this moment. We're in a period of time

where there is a high volume of information coming at us on a regular basis.

But there's also that question about the quality of information, whether or not that volume

is actually leading to more clarity. We see this in a lot of our different news stories.

And as I was watching the news covers throughout the day, both on television and on social media

and all the alerts coming to our phones, it really reminded

me of a phrase we used to use when I was a national news anchor many years ago called Rolling

Thunder. So Rolling Thunder would happen when you had a sudden breaking news story. So let's say

you had an entire show prepared. You had a bunch of interviews. You had worked hard for.

You had an entire two-hour broadcast in front of you. And then something happens. And you threw everything out.

And suddenly you just roll. You just roll with the breaking news. And that means there's no commercial

breaks. You don't know exactly who your next guest is going to be. You don't really know what's going to happen because you're in such a developing story. You are just following every bit of

information that you're getting in that moment and expressing it to your audience. In many ways,

it can be meditative in that first hour or so because you really have to stay close to what's

happening and go back to the basics,

who, where, when, how, and why. Maybe you find some interesting voices to weave in.

But then as you get further into the breaking news story, you often reach a place where you pull

back from Rolling Thunder because you need to take a break and you need to take a breath

and really decide where do you go from here now that you have some idea of the story we're in a little bit of a rolling thunder news cycle right now even though the mode for delivering news is so much different than broadcast television which i was doing so many years ago it's that we're in this infinite news cycle. It's not just a

24-hour news cycle. It's just constantly all the time. And so I find more and more that some of the

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