Hi, everybody. Welcome to the scoop. Hope you're off to a great start to your week. It is the week that so many have been waiting for. The week of the midterm elections, you know, I don't like to just have tunnel vision on anyone's story. But this week, we are going to focus on the midterms, which is an

all-encompassing event. Yes, we'll have election day on Tuesday, but we will be covering this

story, I'm sure of it all week. And so we have a great little guide for you, just talking about

what to know with the midterm elections, a couple races to watch that I hope give you a little

bit of like a contrarian perspective on some of the races you're probably hearing a lot about. And I want to talk to you a little bit about what's happening behind the scenes at so many different networks. This is an exciting time to be in news. You know, rarely do you know when a big news story hits. And we know when the midterms are going to happen. So there's a lot of

excitement. There's a lot of technology involved in doing these broadcasts to deliver election

news to the American public and really all over the world. And so I want to give you a little bit

of behind the scenes about what that's like a little bit later on in our program. But before I

get started into the midterms, I actually got a good dose of reality. And, you know, it's really important, I think, to step outside of the journalism

world and the media world is one of the things I appreciate about smarter news.

When you're not in a studio every single day tied to the 24-hour news cycle in a big corporation, it does allow you to experience life in a little bit of a different way that adds perspective to how we're doing our reporting. And so I got a big dose of that last night. Everyone was fine in our household. We had a bunch of respiratory infections over the last several weeks. You might hear it in my voice. I'm feeling a little bit under the weather. It doesn't count, though, when it happens to moms. It's one individual in the house. It doesn't count for it.

But everybody at the house has had a respiratory infection of some sort, but everyone's feeling

great. My littlest one goes to bed, totally fine, and then wakes up about an hour and

half into sleep, screaming, and clearly has an ear infection and is up like

every hour. He's had infections before, but usually I'm able to get him back to sleep with a

little bit of Motrin or something. This was not the case this time. And sure enough,

we brought him to the pediatrician, 8 o'clock this morning, two raging ear infections,

and probably just a leftover from this respiratory viruses that have been kind of being passed around.

Luckily, he hasn't been too sick, but this is one of the things that came of it.

So we went to get the prescription for the antibiotic that he's going to take for his ear infection,

and our pharmacies all out of amoxicillin. And I remember last week,

one of the stories that our team was talking about is an amoxicillin shortage, a concern about it.

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