Hi, everybody. Welcome to Scoop the Scoop on this week's news. I'm so glad you're here. Hope you're off to a great start to your week. I don't know what it is about our timing, but just as soon as I started to record, we had a huge clap of thunder outside here outside of Austin, Texas. And so it's sort of like a Garthbrook song. That's what we're in right now. We're just hoping for the best. We're trying to get through to the end, hoping that there's a happy ending. But the weather has definitely been a factor here. And my sister-in-law, who recently relocated to Texas, happily with my brother and their two young children, there was a big thunderstorm this weekend. And we were talking about the storms here in Texas. And she said, is this really how it is here? And I said, yes, it is something to get used

to. For those of you who are born and raised in the South, you may be used to it, but for any of us,

some of us from California, I don't want to say that too loud, depending on the crowd that I'm

speaking to. We confronted a whole host of other

issues like earthquakes and wildfires, but not necessarily the thunderstorms here in Texas. And it is

a force to be reckoned with for sure. So hopefully we have smooth recording and hopefully the storms

are not so severe that they start affecting travel and flash flood warnings that we saw this weekend.

You know, weather really will become a factor this summer. We always look towards that date of June through November. You know, we don't have a tornado season, but we do have a hurricane season and we're kind of getting closer to that window of time. So that will soon shortly be in the news cycle. Today we have a lot of big stories that deal with very big topics really around

the world. So I'm going to give you a little bit of something on all of these stories. We're in a

wait and see period with a lot of them. So I just want to give you some information and remind each

other why these stories matter. And we'll get to that in just a moment. But we're going to start first

with news in the category of news you can use. For any family out there that is confronting a severe allergy, this would be interesting

news for you, but also for the rest of us, some of us who are blessed not to have severe

allergies in our households, but who have loved ones, friends and families that may have

them that we have to navigate.

I thought this was really interesting news.

So just last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, there was a new study that was

published. And it was about a peanut patch. This is like a little patch, a little sticky

that goes between your shoulder blades. This was tried with toddlers, one to three years old.

They wore the patch basically for the whole day.

And they did this for about a year.

And the goal of this was to have an immune response because the patch had a little bit of peanut

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