It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC.

Good morning everyone.

With the reporting from the Middle East

being so complicated right now,

we'd like to start today by taking you behind the scenes

a little bit for how NPR reporters are kept safe in the field while still trying

to be effectively reporting stories that show us both the big picture and people's

individual lives.

Let me play two very short clips.

Then we'll talk to Caroline Dries,

NPR Senior Director for Field Safety and Security.

NPR's Ari Shapiro usually in all things considered host and Leilofado usually a

morning edition host were both deployed to the region after the October 7th

attack in addition to others who report from there anyway here's just a few

seconds of Ari with Rabbi Amachai Lau Labvie who has been counseling survivors of the

October 7th Hamas attack.

When you as a rabbi show up and people are wounded or people have lost their families or people have survived atrocities,

what do they ask for from you?

I think the first think they want is to be heard,

to know that they're not alone in this horror that others care

and have their back.

The second thing is they just want to tell their story again and again.

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