report from behind the scenes of this address. with key staff prepping in the west wing during the pandemic, as others work remotely. there is a huge amount of energy around tonight, around the building, because of the pandemic, of course, we don t have the full staff on site that we would normally have, and in a normal year but we ve grown accustomed to everybody in the country who is doing office jobs. we ve grown accustomed to working by zoom. communications director kate bedingfield and general psaki anticipate a speech historic for many reasons, including a nearly empty house chamber. the empty room is about responsibility. interacting with people is, for him, i think a huge part of how he draws energy. so it is a channel. challenge. how do you convey energy to a room that is mostly empty because of safety protocol? we ve never experienced anything like this before. none of us have. he s going to do the walk down the aisle.