Not sure how you are going to find out the tornado weather in Chicago by looking out your window in New York, prior to flying out. Or how you are going to find

Not sure how you are going to find out the tornado weather in Chicago by looking out your window in New York, prior to flying out. Or how you are going to find out about a major traffic blockage on your commute route by looking at the traffic in your street. Or even more extreme, how your are going to ask your nurse daughter to take extra precautions because there is a serial rapist of nurses in your city, without listening to any news. Almost by definition, news is something out of the ordinary. I would suspect that news plays a far bigger role in your life than you seem to want to admit.