SCOOP: A Mystery Rocks The Pentagon – Plus: Why Air Travelers Should Buckle Their Babies
SmartHERNews
Jenna Lee
4.9 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Just one of the many interesting facts we learned today prepping for SCOOP and covering an accident impacting Alaska Airlines (and beyond). We catch-up on:
- The flu (rising respiratory infections nationwide)!
- The potential government shutdown (and a potential deal in the works on two fronts).
- The presidential election (and the first major votes cast next week).
- The Pentagon and the mysterious state of the SecDef's health.
- The Department of Justice's priority this year.
- And a question: If you could prioritize any topic in the news, what would it be?
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Show Notes:
Flu Surveillance: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm
Border Encounters: https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/nationwide-encounters
NTSB presser on Alaska Airlines flight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jeO5fwRXLo
Pentagon Press Release: https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3633580/statement-from-pentagon-press-secretary-maj-gen-pat-ryder-on-secretary-austins/
Dept. of Justice: https://www.justice.gov/opa/video/attorney-general-merrick-b-garland-meets-law-enforcement-components-address-violent-crime
Good Political Calendar: https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/calendar
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. Welcome to Scoop where you get the scoop on this week's news. My name is Jenna, |
| 0:07.0 | and this is Smarter News and a very happy new year for our first live broadcast of 24. I hope |
| 0:13.7 | your new year has started off on a great foot, whatever foot that is, left or right. We're nonpartisan. |
| 0:23.4 | So whatever foot it is, I hope it's we're nonpartisan. So whatever foot it is, |
| 0:27.3 | I hope it's a good one for you. And I'm really glad to see you today. Always glad to see you, but particularly glad to see you because, well, our holidays did not go exactly as expected. |
| 0:32.8 | And I found myself in the middle of a developing news story with a very unique perspective. So I'm going to talk to you |
| 0:40.2 | a little bit about that. We have some housekeeping items to sort of get caught up on as we launch |
| 0:45.2 | into a historic election year. We have some deadlines right in front of us when it comes to Congress |
| 0:50.8 | that we need to discuss. And we have a couple big stories that are sort of percolating that I want to take a little time and dig through. |
| 0:56.6 | That could really impact our lives. |
| 0:59.0 | When I'm thinking about what is the news coverage that we need to get to this week, I'm always thinking about what will impact your family the most. |
| 1:05.8 | Not what do I want to talk about the most, what politically is the most intense story to talk about, what will go |
| 1:12.4 | the most viral. It is what will actually impact you regularly in your life. And how can we |
| 1:19.3 | cover that in a good way? That is beneficial to you, that adds some information. That's really |
| 1:25.8 | instantly applicable. Of course, we're going to reserve |
| 1:28.1 | some time for some of the more intense political stories or some of the really big foreign policy |
| 1:32.2 | stories that we always always want to work through. But that's what I'm always thinking about. |
| 1:36.2 | So this week, we do have some, you know, when we're thinking about what's really important |
| 1:40.5 | on the home front that could really impact you, I'm thinking about the immediate items, |
| 1:43.9 | which include your health and also your safety. And so one of the big news items of the |
| 1:49.0 | week, and this is just developing as of today, is that we have what's described as a really |
| 1:53.1 | powerful storm systems that could impact as really coast from coast in a variety of different |
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