One of the questions that's come up from viewers this week is how we were able to provide live video from inside a moving car during KIRO 7 Eyewitness News coverage of the snow storm and its aftermath.

The video came into the station from a new tool that went along with reporter Jeff Dubois and photojournalist Roland Bailie as they trekked across the Puget Sound region during Stormwatch coverage.

In the newsroom, it's commonly referred to as the "Magic Backpack" -- a computer in a box that encodes video and sends it over the Internet back to the station for use on the air and on the Web.

The device uses any available Internet connection -- cellular phone networks or Wi-Fi -- and transmits digital video over all the bandwidth that's available to it.

Normally, a van or a truck sends signals back to the station via a hilltop microwave receiver or a satellite, limiting a reporter's movement to the distance of the cable between the camera and the truck.

Dubois and Bailie used the "Magic Backpack" as Dubois drove snowy streets on Monday and Tuesday morning, feeding live video for hours from inside a car and other remote locations.

See some examples of the video they sent back -- all from their on-air reports.

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