WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:05.879 You're listening to KFI AM six forty Wake Up Call with me Amy King on 2 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:10.800 demand on the iHeartRadio app. Had a dry ride in today with kind of 3 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:13.400 a nice little switch. Although we only had like three days of rain, 4 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:16.320 but it appears that most of it has moved out, although I was talking 5 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:20.839 to editor Carla and she said this morning she had a downpour, so not 6 00:00:21.039 --> 00:00:25.519 quite done yet. But the weather is improving and it looks like we're gonna 7 00:00:25.519 --> 00:00:28.600 have sunny skies for the weekend, so I'm excited for that. Snow still 8 00:00:28.600 --> 00:00:32.320 on the way for the mountains. There's winter storm warnings and advisories up, 9 00:00:32.679 --> 00:00:36.840 and of course the mountains is where Big Bear's bald eagles, Jackie and Shadow 10 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:42.119 are protecting their newly laid eggs. I'm obsessed with this they have. If 11 00:00:42.159 --> 00:00:46.359 you don't know about this, they have a camera that is trained on the 12 00:00:46.439 --> 00:00:52.159 nest twenty four to seven and you can watch it anytime. And we're gonna 13 00:00:52.159 --> 00:00:56.039 be talking more with the executive director of Friends of Big Bear Valley about the 14 00:00:56.079 --> 00:01:00.679 eagles. They're so beautiful and so majestic and they're about to have babies, 15 00:01:00.679 --> 00:01:03.679 so we're going to be talking with her at about five point fifty this morning, 16 00:01:03.679 --> 00:01:04.920 so we do hope you'll hang around. Of course, we want you 17 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:08.519 to hang around all of wakeup call because there's so much coming up. Here's 18 00:01:08.519 --> 00:01:12.120 what's ahead on wake up call this morning. The city of la has seen 19 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:17.680 four hundred and seventy five mud slides and has received three hundred ninety reports of 20 00:01:17.719 --> 00:01:23.319 fallen trees since the storm started Sunday, and the potholes four hundred and forty 21 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:26.599 of them have been reported, and those are only the ones reported. DWP 22 00:01:26.760 --> 00:01:33.000 says firefighters have also put out a dozen fires and made several swift water rescues 23 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:38.359 because of the storm. The House failed to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorcis, 24 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:42.920 but with the last second vote switch yesterday, they have left the door 25 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:48.680 open for another vote, perhaps when Representative Steve Scalise is back at work following 26 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:55.840 his absence for cancer treatment. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena is laying off 27 00:01:56.120 --> 00:01:59.920 eight percent of its workforce. That's about four hundred people. The layoffs announced 28 00:01:59.920 --> 00:02:05.560 you yesterday will affect technical and support staff and about forty contractors. JPL blames 29 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:09.439 the decision on uncertainty about federal funding. At six oh five, it's handle 30 00:02:09.520 --> 00:02:13.840 on the news. The mother of a school shooter in Michigan has been convicted 31 00:02:13.879 --> 00:02:17.680 of involuntary manslaughter, the first time a parent has been held responsible for murders 32 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:22.400 carried out by a child. Let's get started with some of the stories coming 33 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:25.240 out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Of course, the storm Southern 34 00:02:25.240 --> 00:02:30.199 California is getting a break from the rain, but more could be coming. 35 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:34.479 Plus, as I mentioned, snow for the mountains. Gusty winds are expected 36 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:38.680 to develop today and continue into tomorrow. Forecasters say more rain is expected later 37 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:43.759 tonight with about a three hour period of a steady rain and mountain snow. 38 00:02:44.319 --> 00:02:49.120 It's already been snowing at elevations above four thousand feet. The National Weather Service 39 00:02:49.159 --> 00:02:53.680 has advised heavy snow above six thousand feet, with the heaviest accumulations up to 40 00:02:53.719 --> 00:02:59.520 two feet above seven thousand feet. Kfi's house whisperer Dean Sharp says, when 41 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:02.840 it comes to repairing a home after a natural disaster, homeowners have rights. 42 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:08.639 Sharp says, don't be intimidated or bullied by an insurance company's recommendation for contractors 43 00:03:08.719 --> 00:03:13.199 or repair companies. If you bring in an independent contractor, which you have 44 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:15.879 the right to do, you will find that they will be more on your 45 00:03:16.039 --> 00:03:23.759 side and fighting for all of the replacement value of everything. Sharp says homeowners 46 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:30.000 should get more than one bid for repairs and vet the contractors before agreeing to 47 00:03:30.039 --> 00:03:32.879 do anything. Public health officials in La County now say eight million gallons of 48 00:03:32.919 --> 00:03:37.680 sewage got into the Domingus Channel, which leads to the ocean. The spill 49 00:03:37.719 --> 00:03:42.120 was first announced Monday. The amount of sludge that spilled was released yesterday. 50 00:03:42.599 --> 00:03:46.560 All beaches in Long Beach and Cabrio Beach and San Pedro are off limits until 51 00:03:46.599 --> 00:03:53.560 bacteria levels return to acceptable levels. Scientists say the atmospheric river that has bombarded 52 00:03:53.599 --> 00:03:59.240 southern California is not what social media has been hyping up as an ARC storm. 53 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:02.199 What it is is weeks like this that keep ongoing. Scientist doctor Lucy 54 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:06.159 Jones says, imagine if the storm that drenched SoCal continued for more than a 55 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:10.560 month straight, that's an ARC storm. This is a bad storm. It's 56 00:04:10.599 --> 00:04:14.560 doing a lot of damage, but it's not the worst and it's not the 57 00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:17.720 extreme level that was talked about in the arcstorm models. Jones says, the 58 00:04:17.839 --> 00:04:21.959 arcstorm model is meant to prepare flood control channels for the eventuality of a storm 59 00:04:23.079 --> 00:04:27.160 like one from eighteen sixty two, which dumped fifty inches of rain in SoCal 60 00:04:27.240 --> 00:04:30.560 and killed one percent of the state's population. Corbin Carson k if I News, 61 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:34.120 Yikes, I've never even heard of that one. Let's say good morning 62 00:04:34.120 --> 00:04:40.839 now to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. So, Stephen, the bipartisan border bill, 63 00:04:41.399 --> 00:04:46.560 which was put together by senators and appeared like it would pass the Senate, 64 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:49.279 is now in trouble in the Senate. Yeah, it's likely to be filibustered 65 00:04:49.279 --> 00:04:53.519 today when it comes up for a vote on the motion to proceed. And 66 00:04:53.560 --> 00:04:56.800 this is an esoteric way of saying, will the Senate take it up? 67 00:04:56.959 --> 00:04:59.759 And the answer is probably gonna be no. It's a sixty vote threshold, 68 00:04:59.759 --> 00:05:02.920 and yesterday members of both parties acknowledge the fact that it's going to die today. 69 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:09.480 So this bill that took months to craft, Republicans insisted that Ukraine aid 70 00:05:09.519 --> 00:05:14.160 be paired with some sort of border reform. You had Senator Langford of Oklahoma, 71 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:17.800 staunch Republican, working with Senator Murphy of Connecticut and the Biden administration to 72 00:05:17.879 --> 00:05:21.720 try to cobble together something that everybody could accept. It finally was released on 73 00:05:21.839 --> 00:05:26.560 Sunday, and it didn't live for seventy two hours. It's going to die 74 00:05:26.600 --> 00:05:31.040 today. And what a banner day it was for Congressional Republicans yesterday. First 75 00:05:31.079 --> 00:05:36.879 they backed away from an agreement that they had fought for, fought to strike 76 00:05:38.079 --> 00:05:44.439 number one and number two. House Republicans yesterday embarrassingly failed to impeach Alejandro Majorkis 77 00:05:44.519 --> 00:05:46.199 as Secretary of Homeland Security, is something they've been aiming to do for months. 78 00:05:46.279 --> 00:05:48.439 Yeah, why did they put that up to a vote if they didn't 79 00:05:48.519 --> 00:05:51.319 have the votes? You know, Nancy Pelosi used to have an ethic that 80 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:54.759 she would never put a measure on the floor of the House that she wasn't 81 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:59.199 certain would pass, because she knew that it would be an embarrassing humiliation. 82 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:02.079 And yesterday was an embarrassing humiliation for the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. 83 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:06.720 He was counting on the absence of Al Green, not the singer, 84 00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:13.240 the Texas congressman who had Democrat who yesterday was in the er for surgery. 85 00:06:13.959 --> 00:06:16.560 And what a surprise it was when Congressman Green was wheeled into the House chamber 86 00:06:16.600 --> 00:06:21.639 wearing hospital scrubs, no yes to cast a vote against impeaching Majorcis, And 87 00:06:21.639 --> 00:06:25.560 all of a sudden it was tied, and a tie vote can't pass in 88 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:28.879 the Senate. Oh sorry, a tie vote can't pass in the House. 89 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:34.319 And you know, Republicans had their own absence of majority of their Steve Scaliseo's 90 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:38.720 being treated for cancers, you know, And they had three defectors. There 91 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:43.000 were three Republican congressmen who said that they didn't believe that a hundred Majorcis had 92 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:46.519 committed a high crime or misdemeanor didn't warrant impeachment. He simply had a different 93 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:51.680 interpretation of the immigration law. And you shouldn't start a new standard of impeaching 94 00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:56.399 people because you disagree with them on how they implement the law or the policy. 95 00:06:56.920 --> 00:07:00.920 And so the effort went down to defeat today. But it's not over 96 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:05.120 yet. It's not over yet because because Steve's fun happened, well, look, 97 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:09.759 Steve's scalise will be back. Then they'll use a procedural motion to raise 98 00:07:09.800 --> 00:07:12.959 it resurrected on a motion to reconsider, and they'll try again. They'll try 99 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:15.279 to take a mulligan. But if it does succeed, it'll do so probably 100 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:18.240 on a single vote, or they'll try to take advantage of another moment where 101 00:07:18.279 --> 00:07:25.439 Democrats have one or two votes short because of absences. The bottom line is 102 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:29.360 if it passes, it'll be by a single vote and at best, and 103 00:07:29.439 --> 00:07:32.519 it'll start a trial in the Senate where Democrats control, and will seek to 104 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:36.120 figure out a way if they can, to dismiss the charges before holding a 105 00:07:36.120 --> 00:07:40.839 full blown trial, which would simply take everybody's time. It's a fata complete. 106 00:07:40.839 --> 00:07:45.560 The Senate that's controlled by Democrats is not about to never having convicted Donald 107 00:07:45.560 --> 00:07:49.079 Trump of all the things that he was accused of in two separate impeachments. 108 00:07:49.199 --> 00:07:55.160 They're not going to vote to oust Alejandro Majorcis simply for a policy disagreement with 109 00:07:55.199 --> 00:07:58.720 House Republicans. Yeah, okay. So the other thing that happened yesterday tied 110 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:03.560 back to the Order bill, was that the House voted on whether to put 111 00:08:03.639 --> 00:08:09.360 up just a clean bill that would only fund Israel, like to separate them 112 00:08:09.399 --> 00:08:11.480 out, like you and I have talked about. That you said wouldn't pass, 113 00:08:11.519 --> 00:08:13.920 and it didn't, right, It didn't because of the procedure that the 114 00:08:13.959 --> 00:08:18.439 House employed. It had a majority vote, but because the Speaker wanted to 115 00:08:18.480 --> 00:08:22.240 do it swiftly, he put it on the floor, and really what he 116 00:08:22.279 --> 00:08:24.120 wanted to do was embarrassed Democrats. But it didn't work out like he planned. 117 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:28.199 He wanted to put it on the floor with the suspension of the rules, 118 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:31.319 which would require a vote of two hundred and ninety rather than to eighteen, 119 00:08:31.800 --> 00:08:33.639 and it failed. It only got two fifty. Well that's more than 120 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:37.720 half the House, but it wasn't enough to overcome the procedural motion that he 121 00:08:37.799 --> 00:08:41.320 himself had made. So no, the House has not passed the clean Israel 122 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:46.759 bill that he has put up, and today the Senate, with the expected 123 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:52.000 filibuster of the border foreign Aid bill, will then move to the to simply 124 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:56.120 a foreign aid bill without the border provisions, the ones that Republicans have been 125 00:08:56.120 --> 00:09:00.720 climbering for for months. We'll see if Republicans block that too, Even though 126 00:09:00.799 --> 00:09:03.279 yesterday Mitch McConnell said that's what should happen next. Seems like a lot of 127 00:09:03.320 --> 00:09:07.919 finding and a lot of wasting time. Hopefully they'll get something done. Well, 128 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:11.799 we'll see what happens, all right, ABC, Stephen Portnoy, thank 129 00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:16.399 you so much. Like we keep talking about it's so convoluted and confusing, 130 00:09:16.559 --> 00:09:18.759 and we appreciate you helping us sort it out. Let's get back to some 131 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:22.120 of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. President Biden 132 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:28.840 has one the Democratic presidential primary in Nevada. Minnesota. Democratic Congressman Dean Phillips 133 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:33.519 entered the race too late to get on the ballot. That made Self Help 134 00:09:33.559 --> 00:09:39.080 author Mary Ann Williamson Biden's only challenger yesterday, and on the Republican side, 135 00:09:39.120 --> 00:09:45.600 the majority of voters in Nevada's primary have chosen none of the candidates that was 136 00:09:45.639 --> 00:09:48.879 one of the options on the ballot. Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley was the 137 00:09:48.919 --> 00:09:52.480 only major candidate on the ballot. Trump opted to run in the state's caucuses 138 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:58.240 instead. He's the only one participating on Thursday and is expected to get all 139 00:09:58.279 --> 00:10:03.279 of the delegates for Nevada. A federal appeals court has rejected former Trump's former 140 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:07.759 president Trump's immunity claim in his federal election interference case. The three judge panel 141 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:13.960 ruled yesterday there's no basis for Trump to assert former presidents have blanket immunity from 142 00:10:13.039 --> 00:10:18.559 prosecution for any acts committed as president. Trump is until money to appeal to 143 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:22.320 the Supreme Court. If the High Court declines the appeal, the judge overseeing 144 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:24.519 the case could set a new trial date soon, but if the Supreme Court 145 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:28.120 decides to consider the matter, all bets are off, there could be lengthy 146 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:33.519 delays. ABC's PR Thomas says the panel declared President Trump has become citizen Trump, 147 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:39.159 which means any executive immunity that may have protected him no longer applies. 148 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:46.799 Republican National Committee chair chairwoman Ronal McDaniel plans to step down following the South Carolina 149 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:50.759 primary on February twenty fourth. The New York Times is reporting McDaniel told former 150 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:56.519 President Trump her plans last night, after growing pressure from his camp to do 151 00:10:56.679 --> 00:11:01.039 so. She's faced scrutiny in recent months over fundre Trump is likely to suggest 152 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:05.960 North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Michael Wantley for the position, but a new election 153 00:11:07.159 --> 00:11:11.360 will have to happen. Governor Newsom says voters have a chance to fix California's 154 00:11:11.399 --> 00:11:16.639 mental health system. People want to see people off the streets. People want 155 00:11:16.679 --> 00:11:18.960 to know when their loved one is in crisis that they're going to get the 156 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:22.879 quality care that they deserve. This is solvable. The governor in an ad 157 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:28.759 is urging voters to vote yes on Proposition one, which would authorize more than 158 00:11:28.840 --> 00:11:33.000 six billion dollars in bonds to build mental health treatment facilities and also housing for 159 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:37.519 the homeless. Opponents are you Prop one will create too much bond debt and 160 00:11:37.639 --> 00:11:43.240 siphon funds away from existing programs. Vote by mail ballots have gone out in 161 00:11:43.279 --> 00:11:48.679 the mail for the March fifth primary election. Have you noticed as you're driving 162 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:52.000 by gas stations or maybe pulling into one, that gas prices have jumped up 163 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:54.559 again. Yeah. I just noticed it when I was driving on my way 164 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:56.480 to work, and I was like, wait a second. It was like 165 00:11:56.600 --> 00:12:01.240 four to sixty nine a gallon for premium like last week, and all of 166 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:03.360 a sudden it's back up to four eighty nine. Well, the price of 167 00:12:03.399 --> 00:12:07.840 gas is up for the thirteenth straight day. In La County. It's four 168 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:11.360 to seventy one for regular unleaded. On average, prices are up nearly twenty 169 00:12:11.399 --> 00:12:15.919 cents a gallon in the last couple of weeks. Orange County gas is also 170 00:12:16.039 --> 00:12:20.559 up to four sixty seven a gallon. That's twenty four cents higher than thirteen 171 00:12:20.639 --> 00:12:24.840 days ago. You're listening to wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM. 172 00:12:24.840 --> 00:12:31.480 Six forty nine people have been killed by falling trees and in crashes caused by 173 00:12:31.480 --> 00:12:35.679 the atmospheric river that has dumped more than thirteen inches of rain in some areas 174 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:39.399 of California. Authority say once floodwaters recede, they're concerned the number of dead 175 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:45.919 will go up. NTSB investigators say the four bolts that hold the door plug 176 00:12:45.919 --> 00:12:50.039 in place on the Boeing seven thirty seven Max nine were missing when the cover 177 00:12:50.159 --> 00:12:54.639 for the emergency exit blew out on an Alaska Airline's flight in mid air last 178 00:12:54.679 --> 00:13:00.320 month. Expect to see street vendors outside Dodger Stadium, the Hollywood Bowl, 179 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:03.039 and the Hollywood Walk of Fame now that the La City Council has voted to 180 00:13:03.080 --> 00:13:09.080 rescind a ban on vendors at popular tourist spots. The ban has been in 181 00:13:09.159 --> 00:13:13.039 effects since twenty eighteen. A new ordnance amending current vending laws is expected to 182 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:18.000 take effect next month. At six oh five, it's handled on the news, 183 00:13:18.080 --> 00:13:20.600 Holy buckets, we've had a lot of rain. Bill's going to take 184 00:13:20.600 --> 00:13:24.559 a look at the totals the flooding, the mudslides and power outages as this 185 00:13:24.679 --> 00:13:28.639 massive storm moves out. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's jord 186 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:37.080 Dana Miller. Jordana, we have a new proposal from Hamas, Yes we 187 00:13:37.159 --> 00:13:41.360 do. Unfortunately, it is not a proposal that is going to bring us 188 00:13:41.879 --> 00:13:48.320 a seatfire and a deal to free Israeli hostages. That's the bottom line, 189 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:52.200 and it's a bit depressing, I have to say. But because we waited 190 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:56.320 so long, and the United States worked on this framework for you know, 191 00:13:56.399 --> 00:14:01.919 several weeks, but Hamas has come back and added a lot of demands from 192 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:07.000 phase one to phase three of this deal that really are non starters for israel 193 00:14:07.799 --> 00:14:11.600 I. Mean, I'll give you one example from phase one, where we 194 00:14:11.639 --> 00:14:18.799 would see maybe forty or fifty Israeli hostages free. Hamasis demanding the release of 195 00:14:18.879 --> 00:14:24.279 one thousand, five hundred Palestinian prisoners. But among those five hundred, who 196 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:30.799 right, five hundred who've committed murder and are in for life sentences. So 197 00:14:31.240 --> 00:14:37.720 that's a huge number of you know, of high value quote unquote Palestinian prisoners 198 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:41.879 that are serving you know, again they're in jail for life. That's a 199 00:14:41.960 --> 00:14:46.679 huge number to be released Israel. You know would release likely some of them, 200 00:14:46.679 --> 00:14:50.559 but not five hundred. They're also asking, for example, to change 201 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:56.759 policies about visitation rights for the alak Samosque, that Jews should be limited more 202 00:14:56.759 --> 00:15:01.519 in their ability to visit the site. You know, it's all not going 203 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:05.639 to change policies in Jerusalem. And they all feel about Gaza, Yeah, 204 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:11.320 the Alcsimosque in case people are not familiar with it, that's inside the walled 205 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:15.360 city, right, that's right, that's in the Old City. Uh. 206 00:15:15.720 --> 00:15:20.200 It is the you know, third holy site for Muslims. It's a place 207 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:24.840 where we've seen a lot of violence, and it is a site that's shared. 208 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:30.320 On one side is the Western Wall, what it's considered Judaism's holy a 209 00:15:30.440 --> 00:15:35.679 site, and you know, on that exact compound Jews believe the temple that 210 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:39.039 was the heart of the Temple. So Jews sometimes go to visit It's it's 211 00:15:39.080 --> 00:15:45.480 a bit controversial now because more people are going to visit. Nonetheless, there 212 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:50.240 is a set time during the day when Jewish visitors and tourists can go up 213 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:56.200 there. Hamas is demanding a change on those rules. So, and they're 214 00:15:56.240 --> 00:16:00.440 also demanding, for example, opening all of Gaza's crossing in the first phase. 215 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:03.039 I mean that also is not going to happen. We're in a war. 216 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:07.840 It's almost controlling, you know, it's crossing to the north. So 217 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:14.000 it looks like from this deal that Hamas has put on the table that they 218 00:16:14.840 --> 00:16:18.759 obviously don't feel a huge need to cut a deal right now. It shows 219 00:16:18.840 --> 00:16:22.639 us that Hamas feels confident if your time is on their side. They are 220 00:16:22.759 --> 00:16:29.759 fighting in southern Gaza, their leaders are alive, they're holding you know, 221 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:36.720 over one hundred hostages, and you know they're playing hardball right now, likely 222 00:16:36.840 --> 00:16:44.120 because they're not really interested yet in making concessions. So it's bad news this 223 00:16:44.200 --> 00:16:48.039 morning for the deal. I think we're still weeks away. So Den tre 224 00:16:48.120 --> 00:16:52.559 Dana, does that signal that Israel has not been as successful as it had 225 00:16:52.639 --> 00:17:00.039 hoped in this so far? Well, certainly, you know, Israel would 226 00:17:00.039 --> 00:17:07.000 have liked already to have, for example, found the hostages during its military 227 00:17:07.039 --> 00:17:11.279 operations. They would have liked to have killed some of Hamasa's senior leaders, 228 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:17.319 you know, on the actual battlefield. They've done, you know, relatively 229 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:22.480 well. The depth toll is not huge. It's controlling northern Gaza. They've 230 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:29.559 destroyed hundreds of tunnels, they've confiscated, you know, thousands of weapons, 231 00:17:29.799 --> 00:17:33.200 They've found a lot of intel. For example, last night they revealed new 232 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:40.160 intel documents they found like almost like a log sheet and the counting sheet where 233 00:17:40.599 --> 00:17:45.079 they you know, they've they've noted money that came in from Iran for Hamas 234 00:17:45.079 --> 00:17:49.720 and specifically, you know, millions for YASHKASINOI, the leader. I think 235 00:17:49.720 --> 00:17:55.160 the total was something like one hundred and fifty four million dollars, you know. 236 00:17:55.279 --> 00:17:59.759 But given all of that, they still they're still fighting in southern Gaza, 237 00:18:00.839 --> 00:18:04.559 and Hamas is not you know, they haven't broken yet. So Hamas 238 00:18:04.599 --> 00:18:10.359 obviously feels that they have the upper hand right now, and that the pressure 239 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:14.240 from the families of the hostages, it appears to be their banking that that 240 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:18.640 pressure is going to force Israel to cave and give in to some of these 241 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:22.000 more extreme demands. But I don't think that's going to be the case. 242 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:26.279 It's going to increase the anguish of the families and some of their protests. 243 00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:30.680 But these decisions that are being made not only by Nathaniel, but the War 244 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:33.599 Cabinet and the head of the Mossad, you know, they are going to 245 00:18:33.680 --> 00:18:37.920 keep this tough negotiation. And that's why I think we're we're not going to 246 00:18:37.960 --> 00:18:44.000 see anyone come out of Gaza, the hostages or aid go in or respite 247 00:18:44.440 --> 00:18:48.079 for the hundreds of thousands of gozens that are suffering and not connected to Hamas. 248 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:52.359 You know, it's it's a it's a defeat today for all of those 249 00:18:52.400 --> 00:18:59.400 parties, the hostages, gosins, you know, and you know, the 250 00:18:59.480 --> 00:19:03.799 families, houstages. Yeah, and in the meantime, the fighting goes on. 251 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:08.039 So we'll continue to watch, but not great news. Thank you for 252 00:19:08.079 --> 00:19:12.599 sharing it, Jordiana. Unfortunately. All right, thanks take care. Let's 253 00:19:12.599 --> 00:19:15.039 get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour 254 00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:19.359 newsroom. Evacuation orders in La have slowly lifted as the storm lets up, 255 00:19:19.359 --> 00:19:23.200 but people are still being urged to be prepared in case of mud slides, 256 00:19:23.240 --> 00:19:27.920 flooding in debris flows. The order in the Latuna Canyon area was lifted late 257 00:19:29.000 --> 00:19:33.680 yesterday. Evacuation warnings remain in some places. City officials in La say the 258 00:19:33.680 --> 00:19:37.519 water soaked hill sides still pose a mudslide threat. The fire Chiefs's crews have 259 00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:41.720 responded to four hundred and seventy five mudslides this week, tens of thousands of 260 00:19:41.720 --> 00:19:45.119 people lost power at some point. Most of the power has been restored. 261 00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:49.519 The search for a woman who disappeared near Mount Baldy has been called off because 262 00:19:49.599 --> 00:19:53.559 of the risk of avalanches. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department says the woman 263 00:19:53.599 --> 00:19:59.160 was last seen Sunday when she went hiking by herself in a snowstorm. Officials 264 00:19:59.279 --> 00:20:03.160 have urged people to stay away from the mountain during a storm. JPL says 265 00:20:03.160 --> 00:20:07.920 a budget deficit will force the Space Laboratory in Pasadena to lay off hundreds of 266 00:20:07.960 --> 00:20:11.599 employees, and one of the programs most impacted will be the Mars Sample Return 267 00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:15.400 Project, which was created to return samples gathered by the various Mars rovers. 268 00:20:15.640 --> 00:20:19.279 The announcement yesterday will affect five hundred and thirty people, or roughly eight percent 269 00:20:19.319 --> 00:20:23.880 of JPL's workforce. JPL said had exhausted all other measures to adjust to a 270 00:20:23.920 --> 00:20:27.079 lower budget from NASA, and in the absence of more money from Congress, 271 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:30.680 JPL said it had no choice but to resort to pink slips. At least 272 00:20:30.680 --> 00:20:34.160 forty four members of Congress said they did lobby the White House for more funding 273 00:20:34.440 --> 00:20:40.240 Steve Gregory, King of Fine News. A crew member working on Marvel's wonder 274 00:20:40.319 --> 00:20:45.599 Man TV show has been killed in a fall in studio. City Variety says 275 00:20:45.640 --> 00:20:49.720 the rigor fell off the rafters yesterday on the set. Cruz were not filming 276 00:20:49.720 --> 00:20:53.720 at the time. A Marvel spokesperson says the company supports the investigation into the 277 00:20:53.720 --> 00:20:59.960 circumstances of the accident. Weekends at the La Zoo Are Getting Wild. Official 278 00:21:00.119 --> 00:21:07.440 announced the upcoming Wild Weekend events yesterday, which include entertainment activities and educational opportunities. 279 00:21:07.799 --> 00:21:11.200 The first is a lunar New Year celebration on February seventeenth and eighteenth. 280 00:21:11.319 --> 00:21:17.599 It will feature a martial arts demonstration, dragon dances, calligraphy, and more. 281 00:21:18.119 --> 00:21:22.519 March twenty ninth through thirty first will be the Zoo's Spring Fling, and 282 00:21:22.599 --> 00:21:29.160 April twentieth and twenty first will celebrate Earth Day. I'm really interested to see 283 00:21:29.160 --> 00:21:34.200 the animals doing a martial arts demonstration. Okay, you're listening to Wake Up 284 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:41.599 Call on demand from KFI AM six forty guest stars and will most likely have 285 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:45.200 you smiling and singing along by the end. I think you're gonna like this 286 00:21:45.240 --> 00:21:49.759 one. Southland weather from KFI Finally a break in the rain. Twenty percent 287 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:53.079 chance of showers, otherwise partly cloudy today with hies in the mid fifties to 288 00:21:53.119 --> 00:21:57.400 about sixty forties for the analog valley. Got a chance of showers tonight and 289 00:21:57.440 --> 00:22:00.480 tomorrow. We should be dry on Friday with partly cloudy skies and hies in 290 00:22:00.519 --> 00:22:04.599 the fifties to low sixties. Sunny with highs in the mid sixties. Saturday 291 00:22:04.680 --> 00:22:10.119 and Sunday. It's forty seven in Santa Anna, forty six in Sealed Beach. 292 00:22:10.359 --> 00:22:11.960 Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour news room. The 293 00:22:11.960 --> 00:22:15.680 city of La had seen four hundred and seventy five mod slides and received three 294 00:22:15.799 --> 00:22:21.359 hundred and ninety reports of fallen trees since the big storm rolled in on Sunday, 295 00:22:21.640 --> 00:22:26.319 and potholes four hundred and forty have been reported. Dwps's firefighters have also 296 00:22:26.319 --> 00:22:32.039 put out a dozen fires and have made several swift water rescues. Just getting 297 00:22:32.039 --> 00:22:36.440 word into the KFEI newsroom that a pair of bombings at election offices of a 298 00:22:36.480 --> 00:22:42.279 political party and an independent candidate in southwest Pakistan have killed at least twenty six 299 00:22:42.319 --> 00:22:48.160 people. More than two dozen others are wounded. Officials say the bombing came 300 00:22:48.519 --> 00:22:52.799 the day before parliamentary elections are going to be held. Dodgers star pitcher Clayton 301 00:22:52.880 --> 00:22:56.920 Kershaw will remain a boy in Blue. Kershawn the team have reached a deal 302 00:22:56.960 --> 00:23:00.759 for him to play for the Dodgers for his seventeen Major League season, That 303 00:23:00.920 --> 00:23:04.119 is, once he passes a physical exam. Even though he'll be on the 304 00:23:04.160 --> 00:23:07.920 team, he's not expected to play until summer because of a recent shoulder surgery. 305 00:23:08.440 --> 00:23:11.079 At six oh five, Aid's handle on the news. More bad news 306 00:23:11.160 --> 00:23:15.039 for Boeing. That door plug that blew out during the flight last month. 307 00:23:15.599 --> 00:23:19.519 The bolts holding the plug in place on the fuselage were missing. At five 308 00:23:19.519 --> 00:23:23.079 point fifty, We're going to check in on Big Bear's famous Eagles, Jackie 309 00:23:23.119 --> 00:23:26.720 and Shadow can't wait for this. We'll be talking to the executive director of 310 00:23:26.839 --> 00:23:32.799 Friends of Big Bear Valley, Sandy Steers. That's coming up in about fifteen 311 00:23:32.880 --> 00:23:41.559 minutes. Damie's on it, Damie's on it. Damie's on it, Damie's 312 00:23:41.640 --> 00:23:48.400 on it. What am I on? I'm on all things streaming. There 313 00:23:48.480 --> 00:23:53.400 are so many TV shows and documentaries and movies. How do you know what 314 00:23:53.640 --> 00:23:57.079 to watch? I take recommendations from friends. In this case, it was 315 00:23:57.119 --> 00:24:02.160 from our very own Deborah Mark. I heard her talking to Shannon Farren about 316 00:24:02.599 --> 00:24:04.720 the Best Night in pop and I said, I better check that out. 317 00:24:04.759 --> 00:24:11.200 It's on Netflix. And that best night was January twenty eighth, nineteen eighty 318 00:24:11.240 --> 00:24:17.759 five. It's the night that several dozen of the biggest music artists got together 319 00:24:18.359 --> 00:24:22.960 to make We Are the World. So at the very beginning of this Lionel 320 00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:27.880 Richie says nothing will ever be the same after tonight, and that comment came 321 00:24:29.079 --> 00:24:33.559 while he was hosting the American Music Awards in nineteen eighty five. But what 322 00:24:33.640 --> 00:24:37.640 the audience and most of the world didn't know at that time is he may 323 00:24:37.680 --> 00:24:41.319 not only have been talking about the awards show, but also a secret project 324 00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:47.119 that was about to be executed after the awards show at A and M Studios. 325 00:24:47.799 --> 00:24:51.279 It is the story of the making of We Are the World. Lionel 326 00:24:51.359 --> 00:24:56.519 Richie is one of the main players, working with Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson, 327 00:24:56.920 --> 00:25:02.599 and of course the idea was to raise money for the famine in Africa, 328 00:25:02.880 --> 00:25:07.039 in which thousands of people were dying. The show chronicles whose idea. 329 00:25:07.039 --> 00:25:11.279 It was Harry Bayo Lefante, how it all came together, who showed up 330 00:25:11.319 --> 00:25:15.240 for it, who didn't show up for it, which is kind of fun, 331 00:25:15.480 --> 00:25:19.960 who they wanted to show up, and who walked out during the making 332 00:25:21.000 --> 00:25:23.559 of We Are the World, and how under the cover of darkness, in 333 00:25:23.599 --> 00:25:27.240 the middle of the night, We Are the World came to be. It 334 00:25:27.359 --> 00:25:33.200 was let me just say, it was fascinating to see, first of all, 335 00:25:33.240 --> 00:25:36.759 how they got all these artists together, because they're all out making music, 336 00:25:36.759 --> 00:25:40.039 they're all touring and making albums and all of that stuff, and they're 337 00:25:40.079 --> 00:25:41.759 all over the place. And to get all of them, I can't imagine 338 00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:47.720 a bigger herting Cats scenario. And this is all happening before there were cell 339 00:25:47.759 --> 00:25:51.559 phones, before there was email, and it was a huge undertaking and they 340 00:25:51.599 --> 00:25:53.880 had a very finite period of time to get it together and they had to 341 00:25:53.920 --> 00:26:00.000 do it on this one night. The artists share some really great personal story 342 00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:03.759 worries about their lives and how they all got connected through the years, and 343 00:26:03.799 --> 00:26:08.400 they also walk you through how they chose the artists from all these different genres 344 00:26:08.440 --> 00:26:15.279 of music and then fuse those different voices together. They chronicle the making of 345 00:26:15.319 --> 00:26:19.640 the music and how it changed and continued to evolve even as they were recording 346 00:26:19.680 --> 00:26:27.640 the song that night. Really fascinating is all those artists and all those egos 347 00:26:29.160 --> 00:26:32.200 in one place, and it's fun because you kind of see a little ego 348 00:26:32.279 --> 00:26:36.559 coming out here and there, and then how Quincy Jones kind of tempered that 349 00:26:36.640 --> 00:26:41.079 and got everybody on the same page. And also just I've found it so 350 00:26:41.119 --> 00:26:45.599 amazing that they were able to keep this pretty much secret and get it all 351 00:26:45.640 --> 00:26:49.960 done and then release it. There is so much that I want to tell 352 00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:55.039 you about this documentary, but I'm not going to tell you anymore because I 353 00:26:55.160 --> 00:26:59.960 want you to go watch it. It's really really good. And also why 354 00:27:00.640 --> 00:27:06.039 towards the end, KFI gets a little cameo in the documentary, So even 355 00:27:06.319 --> 00:27:11.720 forty years later or forty years before KFI was a powerhouse, it's a testament 356 00:27:11.759 --> 00:27:14.720 to how people can come together, and they do, and it kind of 357 00:27:14.759 --> 00:27:18.359 harkens back to a time when people came together. More leaves you with a 358 00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:22.599 really positive feeling, I think, And of course I'm a worse I cried, 359 00:27:23.039 --> 00:27:26.920 but I was smiling while I was crying. But it's called the Best 360 00:27:26.000 --> 00:27:30.440 Night and pop highly recommend it. It's on Netflix and I don't know. 361 00:27:30.519 --> 00:27:33.960 It's about two hours long. Totally worth it. Let's get back to some 362 00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:37.160 of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A winter 363 00:27:37.240 --> 00:27:41.920 storm morning is in effect until tomorrow morning in the eastern San Gabriel Mountains. 364 00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:47.119 Forecasters say twenty inches of additional snow could fall above seven thousand feet, as 365 00:27:47.200 --> 00:27:49.839 much as three inches are possible as low as three thousand feet. A winter 366 00:27:49.920 --> 00:27:55.559 weather advisory is also up for the western San Gabriel's and the five and fourteen 367 00:27:55.599 --> 00:28:00.519 freeway corridors until tomorrow at eight am. San Bernardino County Sheriff's deputy are working 368 00:28:00.559 --> 00:28:03.880 to keep homeless people out of flooded areas. Helicopter crews have been patrolling to 369 00:28:03.960 --> 00:28:07.960 let deputies on the ground know where people may be in danger. Sergeant James 370 00:28:07.960 --> 00:28:11.880 Marshall says most rescues of homeless people happen at the beginning of a storm. 371 00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:17.279 Once it's here and it's here, they understand the risk and they'll stay away, 372 00:28:17.559 --> 00:28:19.519 so at the beginning. Generally, we believe we've done a pretty good 373 00:28:19.599 --> 00:28:26.319 job of fording any disasters. Marshall says, county officials and deputies began warning 374 00:28:26.359 --> 00:28:30.160 people about the storm more than a week ago. Up to five hundred homeless 375 00:28:30.160 --> 00:28:33.359 people live in waterways across the county. In sam Manardino County, Blake Trolley 376 00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:38.799 k if I News the Lacity Council's approved recommendations to try to reduce street racing 377 00:28:38.880 --> 00:28:47.200 and takeovers. The recommendation includes installing cameras at fifty intersections. The LAPD says 378 00:28:47.279 --> 00:28:51.599 Compton, Paramount and Oakland have adopted some of the measures to curb racing and 379 00:28:51.640 --> 00:28:55.599 takeovers. The mother of a school shooter in Oxford, Michigan, has been 380 00:28:55.599 --> 00:29:00.359 convicted. We find the defendant guilty of involuntary matt fodder. Jennifer Crumb was 381 00:29:00.359 --> 00:29:03.839 convicted yesterday on all four charges against her, one for each student killed in 382 00:29:03.880 --> 00:29:08.400 twenty twenty one. Prosecutors told the jury she was responsible for the killings because 383 00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:12.680 she gave her son a gun and ignored warning signs about his mental health. 384 00:29:14.039 --> 00:29:18.200 Grumbley is the first parent in the US ever held criminally liable for a school 385 00:29:18.200 --> 00:29:22.039 shooting by their child. She's facing up to sixty years in prison when she's 386 00:29:22.039 --> 00:29:26.759 sentenced in April. The La County Fire Department has commemorated a massive earthquake in 387 00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:30.880 Turkey. February sixth, twenty twenty three, seventy nine members of the department's 388 00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:33.319 elite International Search and Rescue Team were sent on a mission to help search for 389 00:29:33.400 --> 00:29:38.200 survivor. He're gathered to observe the one year anniversary of that tragic and deadly 390 00:29:38.319 --> 00:29:44.440 seven point eight magnitude earthquake. Fire Chief Anthony Moroney says the specialized team is 391 00:29:44.440 --> 00:29:47.160 only one of two in the US that travels around the world to help in 392 00:29:47.240 --> 00:29:51.440 times of disaster. Sinan Kazum is the consul general for Turkey here in la 393 00:29:51.519 --> 00:29:53.880 He says he was blown away by the technology and skill of the Fire Department. 394 00:29:55.160 --> 00:29:57.799 He says the rebuilding and recovery continues, but it's slow going. Itzz 395 00:29:57.880 --> 00:30:03.400 like imagine from here to San Diego. This area was affected. Fifteen million 396 00:30:03.400 --> 00:30:08.079 people were affected and we lost fifty three thousand people during this earthquake. So 397 00:30:08.079 --> 00:30:11.960 it's a big effort. It's happening. It's the first year. We have 398 00:30:12.079 --> 00:30:15.880 still more ways to go. Ka Zoom says he's extremely grateful for the firefighters 399 00:30:15.920 --> 00:30:18.880 courage and willingness to help. We will never forget what you did. For 400 00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:22.799 us. I hope he will never face a tragedy like this, but I 401 00:30:22.880 --> 00:30:26.279 know if you face one day again, you will be there again for us. 402 00:30:26.319 --> 00:30:30.599 Steve Gregory, your fine news. This is the second time the Chiefs 403 00:30:30.640 --> 00:30:34.799 and the forty nine Ers have matched up for the Big Game. They met 404 00:30:36.119 --> 00:30:41.160 previously at the end of the twenty nineteen season. Kansas City won that one, 405 00:30:41.400 --> 00:30:44.759 thirty one to twenty. This Sunday afternoon, you can catch the action 406 00:30:44.839 --> 00:30:48.440 of the Big Game between the Chiefs and the forty nine Ers. Kickoff is 407 00:30:48.480 --> 00:30:52.160 at three point thirty on your radio home of the NFL AM five to seventy 408 00:30:52.240 --> 00:30:55.920 LA Sports, presented in part by Roe Tolo's Chevrolet. See what all the 409 00:30:55.960 --> 00:31:00.799 fun is about at ro Tolo Chevrolet. You're listening to Wake Up Call on 410 00:31:00.880 --> 00:31:06.359 demand from KFI AM six forty. Nikki Haley has lost Nevada's primary election to 411 00:31:06.759 --> 00:31:11.640 none of these candidates. Voters chose the option to reject all candidates rather than 412 00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:15.160 give Haley the win in yesterday's primary. Trump wasn't on the ballot. He's 413 00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:21.359 participating in Nevada's caucuses tomorrow and is expected to take all the state's delegates. 414 00:31:21.799 --> 00:31:26.680 Carl Weathers will still appear in Fandel's Super Bowl commercials. The Rocky actor died 415 00:31:26.720 --> 00:31:32.240 on Thursday. Fandel says Weathers has already been seen in its commercials teasers, 416 00:31:32.599 --> 00:31:36.680 and says his family has been supportive and would like to see Carl on Super 417 00:31:36.680 --> 00:31:40.200 Bowl Sunday. We're just minutes away from Hambel On the news this morning, 418 00:31:40.240 --> 00:31:44.079 a federal appeals court has ruled former President Trump does not have absolute immunity. 419 00:31:44.400 --> 00:31:48.240 Trump says he respectfully disagrees. Right now, let's say good morning to the 420 00:31:48.359 --> 00:31:53.920 executive director of Friends of Big Bear Valley. Good morning, Sandy Steers, 421 00:31:56.079 --> 00:31:59.519 Good morning, Nice to talk to you. I'm so thrilled to talk to 422 00:31:59.559 --> 00:32:01.480 you, because, so what you're going to talk about is my obsession. 423 00:32:01.519 --> 00:32:06.200 Right now, So every year, at this time, thousands of people start 424 00:32:06.240 --> 00:32:09.440 watching the Friends of Big Bear Valley camera that has perched one hundred and forty 425 00:32:09.480 --> 00:32:14.359 feet up in a tree overlooking Big Bear Lake. What is in there? 426 00:32:15.319 --> 00:32:20.559 It is a bald eagle nest. And right now there is the female is 427 00:32:20.599 --> 00:32:24.279 in the nest sitting on her three eggs, and that is Jackie. And 428 00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:27.839 I have to tell you, I told you it's my obsession. Obsession, 429 00:32:27.920 --> 00:32:31.680 Sandy I've got the Big Bear Valley camera on right now, and I just 430 00:32:31.720 --> 00:32:37.799 saw Jackie who is surrounded in snow. It looks like there's I don't know 431 00:32:37.920 --> 00:32:40.599 six eight inches of snow on the nest and she's right in the middle protecting 432 00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:43.920 her eggs. And she just got up, moved around, and then laid 433 00:32:43.960 --> 00:32:47.640 back down. This year, you mentioned that she's got three eggs, and 434 00:32:47.680 --> 00:32:51.440 that's a big deal. This year, that's a big deal. Need to 435 00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:55.599 that's the first time she's had three eggs, and it's actually a rare thing 436 00:32:55.839 --> 00:33:01.960 in eagle world as well. Okay, last year I know that she did. 437 00:33:02.079 --> 00:33:06.559 She laid three eggs, but none of them ended up surviving, and 438 00:33:06.599 --> 00:33:09.799 they weren't all together, right, Yeah, and the third one was actually 439 00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:15.880 broken when it came out, so that was yeah, it didn't count as 440 00:33:15.960 --> 00:33:22.359 three really, there was two only, Yes, So what are we going 441 00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:27.440 to see when we tune in Over the course of the next month, Jackie 442 00:33:27.440 --> 00:33:34.160 in shadow that mail will be switching places on the nest, and as the 443 00:33:34.240 --> 00:33:37.559 snow gets a little lower, you'll be able to see the three eggs and 444 00:33:37.079 --> 00:33:42.359 as they roll them. When they stand up, they roll the eggs to 445 00:33:42.480 --> 00:33:47.960 make sure that they stay healthy and fresh and developing insight of there, and 446 00:33:49.880 --> 00:33:53.160 they will take turns. Often a shadow will bring food for Jackie. He 447 00:33:53.279 --> 00:33:58.920 catches fish and brings it to her on the nest, and we get to 448 00:33:58.960 --> 00:34:02.880 watch and see what happened with those eggs in less than thirty days. Cool 449 00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:07.519 and one of the things that I've seen there's a live chat that it's not 450 00:34:07.559 --> 00:34:10.000 always live, but there's a chat when you go on to the YouTube channel, 451 00:34:10.239 --> 00:34:13.639 and a lot of people say, oh my gosh, she's buried in 452 00:34:13.719 --> 00:34:16.760 snow. Oh my gosh, isn't that bad for the eggs? But they're 453 00:34:16.800 --> 00:34:21.719 kind of built for this, right, they're built for this. She is 454 00:34:21.840 --> 00:34:24.880 keeping the eggs very warm, and that's why she's been on the nest now 455 00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:31.719 for over forty eight hours without leaving, without eating, without anything, And 456 00:34:32.119 --> 00:34:38.800 she has over seven thousand in waterproof feathers on the outside and down feathers underneath, 457 00:34:39.320 --> 00:34:43.599 so she can get completely buried in snow and she just stands up and 458 00:34:43.639 --> 00:34:47.280 shakes it off and she's side okay and has has a shadow come to visit 459 00:34:47.360 --> 00:34:52.960 or is he staying away from the nest right now? He has done a 460 00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:58.840 couple flybys that we've seen and yesterday they turtled back and forth at each other, 461 00:34:59.400 --> 00:35:01.559 you know, just to make sure everything's okay. So he's out there, 462 00:35:01.559 --> 00:35:05.599 he's keeping a close eye on everything. But when there's bad weather, 463 00:35:06.039 --> 00:35:09.480 Jackie won't let him trade or have his turn on the nest. She's the 464 00:35:09.519 --> 00:35:14.039 only one that she trusts to take care of things in bad weather. Okay. 465 00:35:14.440 --> 00:35:20.920 What makes this Sandy so special for people to watch because you get to 466 00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:25.880 see up close and personal the personality of the eagles, how they interact with 467 00:35:25.920 --> 00:35:30.760 each other, what they do, how they take care of everything. It's 468 00:35:30.800 --> 00:35:35.920 not just like watching something far away or something distant, but they have a 469 00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:42.360 real personality. So it's like they're entertaining everybody at the same time as just 470 00:35:42.559 --> 00:35:45.639 being who they are. And it's fascinating to watch all the details of what 471 00:35:45.719 --> 00:35:50.199 they're doing. It really is, like I keep saying, it's my obsession, 472 00:35:50.360 --> 00:35:52.639 and in fact, I had my news director, Chris Little came in 473 00:35:52.639 --> 00:35:55.000 one year. It was about three years ago. He goes, you got 474 00:35:55.039 --> 00:36:00.880 to turn that camera off. But it's so interesting because, like you said, 475 00:36:00.920 --> 00:36:06.440 you see the eagles interact and you see how protective they are and how 476 00:36:06.480 --> 00:36:12.360 they nurture and especially after the eglets hatch, it's so fun to watch them 477 00:36:12.400 --> 00:36:15.079 feeding them and watching the eglets grow. I have to tell you though, 478 00:36:15.119 --> 00:36:20.280 it's also a little bit heartbreaking, and I have shed more than a couple 479 00:36:20.320 --> 00:36:22.960 of tears because a couple of years ago, you know, we had two 480 00:36:23.079 --> 00:36:28.159 eglets and I sat there and one of them doesn't look well and then it 481 00:36:28.239 --> 00:36:34.239 died. And it's heartbreaking. But it's also circle of life stuff. It 482 00:36:34.280 --> 00:36:37.639 is you're watching nature up close, and you have to watch the whole thing 483 00:36:37.719 --> 00:36:43.519 and just see what happens. And sometimes it's sad and sometimes it's you know, 484 00:36:43.639 --> 00:36:47.119 amazing and heartwarming and funny, and so you get the whole gamut. 485 00:36:47.639 --> 00:36:52.159 Yeah, okay, before we let you go, Sandy, and my producer 486 00:36:52.239 --> 00:36:54.159 An says, find out how they got the camera up there, because you 487 00:36:54.199 --> 00:36:59.239 have cameras trained on this nest twenty four to seven and they don't go that. 488 00:36:59.239 --> 00:37:00.480 I mean, they're on all the time, and they're one hundred and 489 00:37:00.519 --> 00:37:07.039 forty feet up in a tree. Yes, it's supported by a whole solar 490 00:37:07.400 --> 00:37:15.159 panel system to keep it running, and we had to hire special climbers biologists 491 00:37:15.239 --> 00:37:21.000 who can also handle all of the equipment and know all the electronics to be 492 00:37:21.039 --> 00:37:23.480 able to climb that tree without harming it. There's a very special way on 493 00:37:23.599 --> 00:37:28.199 ropes to climb the tree, and they had to get up there into that 494 00:37:28.840 --> 00:37:31.880 nest to be able to install all of this, including pulling cables up. 495 00:37:31.960 --> 00:37:37.000 And yes, it was an amazing job that they did. And you got 496 00:37:37.000 --> 00:37:39.079 to do it when the eagles aren't there, right, Yes, we do 497 00:37:39.320 --> 00:37:44.239 always in the summer when the eagles are out and about around the lake and 498 00:37:44.280 --> 00:37:47.239 they're not really paying attention to the nest because it's not nesting season. Yes, 499 00:37:47.480 --> 00:37:50.920 okay, So if people want to tune in, where are they going 500 00:37:50.960 --> 00:37:55.559 to find the eagle cam? They can go to our friends a Big Bear 501 00:37:55.639 --> 00:38:00.920 Valley YouTube channel, or they can go to our website to big Bear Valley 502 00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:06.159 dot org and both of those have have the cam, and we also have 503 00:38:06.199 --> 00:38:08.480 a white angle camera that's down from snow right at the moment, but it 504 00:38:08.519 --> 00:38:12.760 should be back to there tomorrow, okay. And if people want to donate 505 00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:15.960 to help keep this project going as their place to donate to support Friends of 506 00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:20.320 Big Bear Valley, yes on our website again, friends of Big Bear Valley 507 00:38:20.320 --> 00:38:24.599 dot org. And every little bit helps because that's the donations are what's supporting 508 00:38:25.079 --> 00:38:29.840 this camera and everything we do with it. Okay, And these are truly 509 00:38:30.199 --> 00:38:35.119 truly majestic animals. There are a national symbol and so beautiful. So if 510 00:38:35.159 --> 00:38:38.280 you get a chance, give them a look. And Sandy Steers, We're 511 00:38:38.320 --> 00:38:42.239 going to be watching. I'm going to be watching. And when are we 512 00:38:42.280 --> 00:38:49.920 expecting the first eggs to possibly hatch? If starting starting leap day? Is 513 00:38:49.960 --> 00:38:54.320 that when we start pipwatch, which is when the chicks start hatching out by 514 00:38:54.360 --> 00:38:59.519 putting a pip in the egg, and so the last day of February or 515 00:39:00.360 --> 00:39:04.360 between thirty five and thirty eight days from when they were laid. Okay, 516 00:39:04.440 --> 00:39:07.920 great Sandy Steer, executive director of Friends at Big Bear Valley, thank you 517 00:39:07.920 --> 00:39:12.360 so much for coming on this morning. Maybe this will be your obsession too. 518 00:39:12.639 --> 00:39:15.400 Have a great day. Thank you. You've been listening to Wake Up 519 00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:19.920 Call with me, Amy King. 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