Ten people sit around a long table. Five of them are producers. Two other producers are present via speakerphone. They're at home, tired after an unusually late shift, ready to go to bed. Paulus is thirty-seven.
Election day is only three weeks away.
Hillary Clinton is coming to town to stump for Mayor David Dinkins, who's being pushed hard by challenger Rudy Giuliani. Barbara Wood, New York 1's Brooklyn reporter, plans to shoot footage of a dangerous intersection near a school where residents are pushing for better traffic regulation. Consumer reporter Lynda La Vergne will get the local angle on a lawsuit filed by major drugstore chains against leading pharmaceutical companies, accusing them of price-fixing. The meeting breaks up. The producers go back to the newsroom and their computers.