Plans vanished the moment the phones blew up. We set out to walk you through how a daily show gets made—music cues, topic lists, the dance between light and heavy—and then a Medevac helicopter crashed on Highway 50. What followed was a live pivot: verified details, road closures, the improbable luck of a construction zone, and the kind of bystander courage that makes you stop and breathe. You’ll hear how we balance urgency with empathy while keeping the lines open for a city that needed clari...