part of my year, the best parts, is being on and sharing stories with you every morning. i appreciate that a lot, corey. happy new year to you. thank you so much. and now, finally this morning, to an early start tradition of sorts, a thank you to all of the folks working so hard behind the camera that you do not see every day, but are doing so much. i ve got a lot of names to read, so settle in here. ryan miller, tim curran, mark freedman, chloe stretching, bruce williams, joanne na preston, meredith richards, sam fernando, lizzy yang, andrew seger, dominic torres, flojerem hochman, claudia pedala, laura