And now the weather, with meteorologist Kristi Gordon and the shortest member of the Global News Hour team, Marcus Herbert.
Herbert is 9 years old and the winner of Global's community contest to locate an elementary-aged talent for their broadcast here tonight.
"He sounds like quite a smart little dude," said Gordon. "We had a number of entries from Prince George, they were actually all great, but Marcus was really passionate about the weather. He's studied different weather systems, and the cutest part about Marcus is, he has a passion for maps. He's actually memorized a lot of the streets in Prince George. Geography and maps are actually a really important part of delivering the weather."
"I like knowing what the temperature is, and I like knowing where stuff is," said Herbert, a student at Ecole College Heights elementary in teacher Linda Castley's class. "I like looking at roads, knowing were cities are and forests and stuff like that. I look at the roads around Prince George, usually."
The university now has a circle around it, on his maps at home. That is where Global will be broadcasting from tonight. The live audience is urged to be there by 5:30 p.m. He already knows the way, since his mom Brenda and dad Pat work there, went to school there and even got married there in the Wintergarden on the same spot where the News Hour team will deliver the day's current affairs.
UNBC is also a place that accepted a young Kristi Gordon into its atmospheric sciences program in 2000. The young student from White Rock had already gotten a degree in physical geography from UBC. She opted to stay in the Lower Mainland to pursue further studies or Prince George might have been the launch pad for her television career - not that she aspired to be a TV weather personality at the time.
"My last year [of geography studies] I got a paid internship and it was with the Weather Network," she said. "It was not on-air. I was interested in working with Environment Canada and this was related, but it opened my eyes to a new potential career."
Serendipity might have played a hand as well. As she worked on her second degree, she got a call from a Vancouver television network asking her to tutor a new weather personality in the best ways to "speak climate" for the audience. It was not a quick transition, but eventually it was Gordon herself doing that oration for the camera.
Public speaking is not Herbert's favourite thing to do, yet, but he is nonetheless looking forward excitedly to the News Hour experience.
"I was telling mom today that it is really hot and sunny which means it is actually going to rain a lot soon, because the warm air rises and mixes up with the cold air high up and that forms clouds and then they get really big and heavy and when it falls, that's the rain," said Herbert.