You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. So glad you're getting up and about with us
this morning. I got my coffee, I'm already, I'm awake and I'm
on pip Watch. You know the eagles that we tell you about Jackie in
Shadow, They're still sitting on their nest. More than thirty thousand people are
watching on YouTube, and I have to say it kind of cracks me up
because I've got producer Ann Hooked and she just left the newsroom and said,
I love Jackie in Shadow. I know they're amazing and amazing to watch them.
You can watch them on YouTube or at the Friends of Big Bear Valley.
They also have the feed up on their website. Really interesting and like
I said, Pitwatch, we're hoping and hoping and keeping our fingers crossed that
those little eaglets make their appearance sometime soon. Here is what is ahead on
wake Up Call. The rest movie arm rror Hanna Gutieras Reid has been found
guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of cinematographer Helena Hutchins. Hutchins was killed
when the prop gun held by actor Alan Baldwin fired a live round on the
set in twenty twenty one. Baldwin's trial is coming up, and we're going
to be talking with ABC's Mark Remillard more about this. At five point fifty,
voters at Huntington Beach have passed a measure that bans the display of non
governmental flags on government property. The passing of Measure B means buildings like city
Hall will no longer be allowed to fly flags like the Rainbow Pride flag and
other cultural banners. Close to sixty percent of voters approved Measure B. Federal
Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says he expects interest rates to start coming down, he
just can't say exactly when. On Capitol Hill yesterday, he said the rates
probably won't come down until the Fed is more confident that inflation is moving toward
its two percent target goal. Then at six five its handle on the news
by Jove, I think they may have done it. The House is actually
passing bills for a long term funding bill. Maybe they'll stop kicking the can
down the road and just doing those continuing resolutions every month or two. Let's
get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. President Biden's getting ready to deliver his third State of the Union address.
White House Press Secretary Carne Jean Pierre says Biden will talk about his achievements
as president. He wants to talk about protecting and implementing his agenda. If
you think about the infrastructure by parts in Infrastructure Law, if you think about
the the Chips and Science Act. Biden's speech tonight comes as a new poll
finds growing share of adults in the US doubt he has the memory and acuity
to do the job. The survey by the Associated Press NORKS Center for Public
Affairs Research shows sixty three percent of adults say they lack confidence in Biden's mental
capability. A two hundred foot long wall in San Clementi will eventually help stop
landslide debris from shutting down rail service in Orange County. OC Transportation Authority Board
member Katrina Foli says Amtrak passenger service resumed yesterday, but the wall is a
preventative measure. It will help us on the land side, but on the
coastal side, we see lots of coastal erosions still, and we really have
to prioritize getting sand to the beaches to build the buffer. Fully, says
four of seven areas of concern for landslides will be more protected when the wall
is completed at the end of the month. For now, metrolink passengers will
have to continue taking a bus around the construction. Scientists with NASA JPL have
seen satellite photos from the recent flooding around the state, and they say the
images showed areas of the state that hadn't been prone to flooding before. At
one point, official said the storm's forced flood watches for nearly every part of
the state's coastline. Cedric david Is with NASSEN says the Surface Water and Ocean
Topography Mission or SWAT, is designed to keep an eye on fresh water.
Understanding how water moves around the Earth allows us to estimate how much water we
have access to for the growing population around the world. Official said the atmospheric
rivers last month left record amounts of water, and the new satellite will help
track where all that fresh water will go. Steve Gregory k if I knows
it's time to take a look at your early morning commute. Let's check in
now with Nick Paliochini. We've got slowing in Riverside on the ninety one.
I'm gonna be surprising. I mean, it's the usual delays for you to
make it away westbound right now from Tyler and stretches beyond the fifteen, continuing
through Corona toward about Surface Club your life fifty years you make going from the
seventy one to two forty one Tour Road and continuing through yo Berlindan Anheim Hills
toward the fifty five. That's all looking relatively decent for your drive. I
got an update on something otherwise, something that is slowing you down pound to
fifteen yourself on keyword is KFI traving northbound side of the seventy one as you
come off the sixty heading toward about Mission Boulevard due to overnight counter and Scooz
wrapping up shop in the area. Still seeing a pretty slow going drive as
folks are making their way from the sixty toward the ten. So definitely going
to be a busy one for you there. As you make you way out
of the high desert fifteen southbound, a light and patch you for you leaving
the emerge of the three ninety five or Joshua Street leaving Hisperio fifteen southbound,
continuing through the Go Home past past than one thirty eight sward Clayhorn for the
southbound toward ken Win and then beyond that into the Davoria or the fifteen two
fifteens. But actually looking pretty solid, pretty decent for your drive. Not
the major there, kay, I find this guy helps gets to there faster.
I'm Nick Poliochini. Thank you. Nick. Fumes have been detected in
the cabin of an Alaska Airline's flight, which forced the pilots to turn around.
The plane was on its way to Phoenix last night. When it returned
to Portland International Airport. Fire crews investigated but couldn't determine the cause of the
fumes. Seven people asked for medical evaluations. A review of Google Trends has
found LA is the second worst city in the nation four potholes and noalysis by
USA Today looked at online searches for words like potholes and pothole damage in a
given area. Only New York City scored worse by a razor thin margin.
Mark is one of the most challenging months for LA drivers wanting to avoid potholes
and triple a's Doug Shoop says, keep safe by avoiding distraction. Drivers who
are more focused on the road ahead are likely to hit potholes, So don't
be distracted by smart phones or talking with passengers. If you do hit a
pothole, get the checkbook ready. Shoop says. The average repair cost is
more than six hundred bucks. Michael Monks KFI News. Yeah, I've run
into a few of those myself. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Stephen
port NOI. So, Stephen, Nicky is out, Dean Phillips is out
on the Democratic side, and that leaves Trump and Biden. Congratulations America,
We've got the rematch we've all been waiting for. So look, it's two
hundred and forty three days, just under eight months until the general election,
and the race is on the question of course in political circles, what happens
to the two point eight million people who voted for Nicki Haley in the contest
from Iowa through Super Tuesday. It made up about twenty five percent of the
total Republican primary and caucus votes cast. Are these people going to vote for
Donald Trump? Are some of them liberals and moderates who participated in Republican primaries
in the states where that was possible, for example, in Vermont and Virginia
open primaries. New Hampshire had a semi open primary where as long as you
were undeclared, you could cast a ballot. Are these people going to vote
for Joe Biden in November? Are they going to vote for someone else in
November where they just sit at home and not vote at all. We don't
know, and there'll be plenty of time to analyze that possibility between now and
November. Well, and both sides came out after Haley announced that she was
suspending her campaign, right, Biden came out and said, hey, hey,
we might not agree on everything, but come over to us. Well,
that's right, I mean he Joe Biden, who right now is down
to Donald Trump in the national polls, needs to appeal to people who might
be inclined to support someone like Nicki Haley for a policy for policy reasons,
and say, for reasons of temperament and policy, you can't vote for Donald
Trump. That there's too much on the line for America and American institutions,
an American democracy to elect someone such as Donald Trump. And that's the appeal
that Joe Biden will make to people who might disagree with him on things such
as tax policy, maybe even border policy. But we'll see. Look tonight
at the State of the Union address, it's an opportunity for Joe Biden to
speak to the largest audience that he would likely amass on radio and television until
certainly the conventions in the summer and the debates in the fall. So this
is an opportunity early on now the race is set for him to establish a
clear framework and vision for what the country would be under four more years of
Joe Biden's presidency. It's also an opportunity for him to demonstrate his vim and
vigor at age eighty one and a half and to perhaps pat down some of
the concerns about him his age, his decline. Yeah, because a lot
of people don't think he has a lot of vim and vigor left. Well,
that's right, and that's an obvious concern. And we'll see. This
is a bit of a high wire act for the president. I mean,
if he performs well as well as he arguably did last year. We got
into it in real time with House Republicans who were cat calling him, and
he called him out and went off script, and it was a moment the
White House tried to leverage for weeks thereafter. And that was remember on Social
Security and Medicare and the suggestion that the White House made that Republicans were aiming
to cut those programs, and Republicans and fiercely denied it because it wasn't in
their policy posals at that time. And Marjorie Tyler Green called the presidental liar,
and so the President said, okay, fine, you know you won't
do it. All right, we achieved something, and that again was a
moment that was crystallized and leveraged by the White House for weeks thereafter. So
we'll see if he can do it again tonight. That's exactly right, and
listen, but if he can't, if he stumbles, if he you know,
has moments where he loses his way, that will cut against him.
And you're right because you see the press conferences where there is stumbling and moments
where he just kind of loses his train of thought and that kind of stuff.
But so many people don't watch those like we watch them, but most
people don't well, and there are viral clips that go around, but look
with Americans watching and listening to this speech live. He's got a teleprompter,
he's got prepared remarks in front of him. I think, generally speaking,
when the president is sticks to the script, when he doesn't seek to add
labor ad, he performs well. I think, you know, one of
the challenges will be if he decides in the moment to go off that script.
But he's been rehearsing this speech for a while, so you imagine,
and he's been tinkering with it, as all presidents do. This president is
certainly one to do that. We'll see if he can perform as well as
his aides expected and want him to. Okay, and we'll be watching.
Steve Fortnoy, thank you so much for the information. Appreciate it. All
right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four our newsroom. The parents of twins in Garden Grove who tested positive
for fentanel'll get to spend some time behind bars. The mother of the twin
boys took one of the infants to Children's Hospital Orange County because she said something
didn't seem right. Police Sergeant Nick Jensen says doctors found a fracture in the
baby's skull and fentinyl in the baby system, but it's unclear how it got
there. I've seen kids be exposed to drugs from people leaving it around you,
in and around the floor, generally things falling down, so it is
a very dangerous situation. When police took the baby's twin brother from the home
in early January, that baby also tested positive for fentanyl. The parents pleaded
guilty to child abuse Tuesday and were sentenced to four years in prison. Chris
Adler KFI News, A nineteen year old arrested for a fatal stabbing at a
house party in Riverside is being held without bail. He's accused of stabbing two
other teenagers on Sunday. One of them died. A man making a ruckus
at a McDonald's and Fullerton has died after being hit in the chest with a
police beanbag. Fullerton Police Sergeant Ryan O'Neil says they were called out to the
McDonald yesterday morning because the man was wandering around outside didn't have a shirt on.
The manager of the business was calling because she was concerned for the safety
of her employees that were just about to start their shift. O'Neil says the
man was uncooperative and started swinging a belt at officers. They tried tasing him
first, but that didn't stop them, so he was hit with the beanbag.
This guy says he thinks the officer's actions were justified. Do we start
coming after the police They need to protect themselves to even with the belt that
belt, like on my belt, it's got a clip, and start swinging
that and that didn't cause some damage. The man died at the hospital.
A new study from Children's Hospital LA shows kids with sickle cell anemia are vulnerable
to serious infections, but a lot are not getting proper care. Researchers compared
Medicaid data from California and Georgia between twenty ten and nineteen and found that only
about twenty percent of kids received preventative antibiotics in a given year. They say
twice daily doses of antibiotics can protect young children from developing serious infections. CHLA
says kids with private insurance generally meet the standards for care. The DEA has
warned retailers the government's going to go after them if they continue to sell machines
that create pills that look like the real thing. ABC's Andy Field says the
agency has confiscated seventy nine million deadly counterfeit pills made by pill press machines sold
online, DEEA Administrator, and Milgram, saying many of those pills added to
the more than one hundred and ten thousand drug overdoses in twenty twenty two.
Field says the fake pills containing fentanyl are being made to look exactly like real
oxycodone and percocet, among other drugs. He says it's become a major way
for dealers to get illegal drugs into the US. The FDA says lead contamination
found in recalled cinnamon apple sauce pouches last October extends to other products. The
agency has identified six brands of ground cinnamon with elevated levels of lead in them.
It says the levels in the products are far lower than what was in
the apple sauce, but prolonged exposure may be unsafe. When we come back,
Alexei Navalney's widow is following in her husband's footsteps and speaking out against Russia's
president Putin. We're gonna be talking with ab Sees Tom Rivers about what she's
doing and how much danger she could be putting herself in. You're listening to
Wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM six forty. You know, anytime
is good time for some Steely Dan music, but especially now because we got
sad news yesterday and that was that keyboardist Jim Beard has died. He actually
passed away on the second of March, and spokesperson said it was due to
a sudden illness, but we didn't say what. Steely Dan had Beard playing
the keys for them since two thousand and eight. I just saw them at
the Kia Forum along with the Eagles. Fantastic, So he will be missed.
Sixty three. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Irvine Democratic Congresswoman Katie Porter has suggested that billionaires rigged the US Senate race
in favor of her rival, Adam Schiff. Porter, who did not win
a single county in Tuesday's primary, made the accusation yesterday on ex Schiff and
Republicans Steve Garvey were the top two vote getters, and we'll face off in
November. Alabama lawmakers have passed a Republican bill to protect in vitro fertilization the
legislation comes weeks after the state Supreme Court ruled that embryos are considered children.
Governor k Ivy has signed the bill into law. LA Mayor Karen Bass is
hoping to get approval from the La City Council today on a new partnership between
the city and the state that will officials say will help keep areas where homeless
people live near freeways cleaner and safer. The deal would let city crews access
Coltren's properties to remove trash and debris areas like under overpasses. This state would
reimburse the city for the cost of the cleanup. At six oh five,
it's much more than a speech tonight, a lot at stake. As President
Biden gives his third State of the Union address, Let's say good morning now
to ABC's Tom Rivers in London. Tom Alexey Navalney's widow is not backing down
and pretty much following in the footsteps of her husband exactly. We're talking about
a passive protest coming up in just over a week. March seventeenth, election
day in Russia, not only election year in the US in many European countries,
but also in Russia itself and basically at the behest of her late husband,
who kind of outlined this passive protest early February. In essence, he
says, people go out and vote, but vote for somebody other than Putin,
or just spoil your ballot. He says. In essence, that means
that it's it's legal and safe to do so, and there's no way to
counter it. So basically, you know, yes, in fact, if
it's like the past elections, Putin's going to win by phil on the blank
eighty ninety percent of the vote. That's the official numbers. But at least
the number of crunches in the Kremlin will at least see a substantial minority out
there saying we still don't like the way the country is going. So that's
what's going to be happening, as I say us over a week from now.
Okay, and so it's sort of in Russia, it would be like
in Minnesota here when so many of the voters did a no commitment on the
ballot. Yeah, I just kind of you know, Puts puts a marker
out. They're saying, you know, we're not satisfied, we're not happy,
and we're not going to be on the streets where we can picked up
and thrown in in the police station for hours on end, wasting time.
They're saying, look, we can do this. We're not going to be
locked up for it, and it will still stand the signal. Okay,
And she's hoping that a lot of people are going to turn out and do
this. Are they gonna are they just doing it at the at the ballot
box or is she hoping that like a bunch of people will come out in
stage sort of a rally or protest. I think the former. Uh,
basically just saying get in line and and and you know, vote for somebody
else or vote for nobody. And just as as an individual at protests,
saying you're not the only one out there, she says, hopefully millions of
people will be doing the same thing, and collectively you feel your trice at
least doing something. It's not going to be a game changer, But she
says, look, you're not standing alone. You have other people out there
that feel the same way, and doing it this way could be safer for
them rather than staging a large demonstration because Russia doesn't look very safely very much,
so, yeah, very much. I mean, oftentimes you know,
people be rounded up and you know, just hassle put in the in the
police station for many, many hours, and you don't want to do that.
You know, potentially you could show up in court, but no,
it's not it's not a way to spend your your afternoon and evening. So
she's saying, look, just go ahead and do this, and hopefully the
numbers will scare maybe some of the people that take care of the numbers in
the Kremlin and say, look, maybe we not got to change course,
but at least the numbers will reverberate and say, look there's some disquiet.
Let's put it that way out in the country. Yeah. And then is
Uliah I mean, she's putting herself at risk by even speaking out, but
is it is she on the Kremlins radar like Alexei was, well, I
don't, I really don't think so. And again it was pointed out that
you know, you can do this, and then you know people in usay,
Minnesota have done it. People in the UK oftentimes they go in and
they quote unquote spoil or ballot. Why because they don't like the conservative,
they don't like the labor candidate. And if they don't like any of the
independents that are running. They'll just say, well, okay, there you
go. It just shows you that, you know, X number of people
voted for no one because some people would say, you don't give an election
they don't feel anybody's up to the mark and worth voting for. Yeah.
I don't know about you, but when you hear about stories like this and
how they have to like covertly demonstrate, it makes you appreciate living here even
more well exactly, And it's a situation where you know, they've past few
years Putin has cracked down on some aspects of protests, but Western Europe you're
seeing the same thing. We're seeing laws go through parliaments here to try to
curb, certainly in the UK curb some of the actions of protesters out there.
And you know that is your god given right. Yeah, as long
as you don't do anything illegal, you're not doing anybody a favor. You're
doing it because it is your right to get out there and express your views.
All right, Well, we'll be watching the election and it's on March
seventeenth, Right, you got it, all right, Thank you, Tom
Rivers, appreciate it. Take care all right? If you want to follow
Tom Rivers on Instagram, It's at Tom Rivers ABC. Let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A
judge in Orange County has restarted jury selection following a courtroom outburst by a man
charged with stabbing a gay Jewish student in Lake Forest. She did the best
preserved the defendants rights as well as the rights the people to move forward.
Chapman University law professor Mario Minero says the judge also helped prevent later motions for
bias. But if someone is continually disrupted, the judge can continue with the
trial without the defendant there and they'd be upheld on that. Prosecutor say.
Blood from Blaize Bernstein was found in Samuel Woodward's car and on a knife in
his home in twenty eighteen, along with homophobic and white supremacist material. Defense
lawyer say Woodward has Asperger's and struggles with this sexuality in Orange County Corbin Carsink
if I Knews. A woman in Pennsylvania has survived being attacked by a bear.
Leanne Galandi says she was outside her home Tuesday night when amama bear came
out behind her and pushed her down onto the concrete. She says she thought
she was going to get scalped. She did the best preserve the defendants rights
as well as the rights to the people. Turned out, she pulled so
hard that it did pull the skin from the back of my ear, and
I stitches back there and then I have so many staples in the back of
my head. The bear was euthanized because she started getting aggressive. When police
responded, the cubs were tranquilized. Burger King is celebrating daylight Saving Time with
free breakfast starting Sunday. Rewards members can get a different breakfast food each day
for a week. The company says it'll be giving out French toast sticks,
gras sandwiches, hash browns, and more. Customers can get a free Sunday
pie on Thursday, March fourteenth, also to celebrate Pie Day. Okay,
you got us talking about food, so we got to share with you something
that we've tested and we saw this last week that KFC came out with a
new chicken and pizza mashup called the Chiza Chizza the Hizza. I'm gonna have
to say chizza because pizza and I gotta tell you it was good. Nick,
did you try it yet? No, I absolutely don't try it,
and it was yes, No, I tried the chizza. Oh, I
was just no. I tried it. I thought it was delicious. But
I think I agree with you, and I'll let you finish what you're gonna
say. But yeah, no, I went definitely went and sought it out.
And it is all the trappings of a kin to you know, a
chicken parmesan. That's what I was gonna say. I was like, it's
chicken parmesan and then they just put a couple of pepperoni slices on it.
Yes. In fact, I will post to Instagram to show you exactly what
it looks like so you have a better idea. If you want to follow
a Nick Poliochini or Amy K King on Instagram, you'll be able to see
that here shortly. But yeah, that's it, it really was. You
know, you get a chicken boneless chicken breast that has marion air sauce and
mozarella cheese and it's the extra crispy chicken. So that's good. And it
was good. Okay, it was good. I definitely agree. And then
you want to pro tip. Oh sure, okay, if you do get
this, I'm considering myself a pro Isn't that funny? I like that?
No good, Okay, if you get it, it's going to be cold
by the time you get it home anyway, So pop it in the oven
a little bit, because then the pepperoni gets a little cooked and the cheese
gets more melty, and then it's really much better. So I had it
when I got home, and I was like, oh, this is pretty
good. But then when I warmed some up later, I was like,
oh, it's much better that way. Yeah. I was gonna say so
to Piggyback on your pro tip air fryer. Fantastic exactly. And I just
recently got one of those, and that's what I used worked. Oh look
at you sure, moving on up, balla ball Watch out there, Nil
Savage Cook reporters coming for you, coving for you. Thanks Nick. When
we come back, I'm going to go out in about two Orange taking a
peek into California's history. You're listening to Wake Up Call on Demand from KFI
AM six forty. Steely Dan keyboardist Jim Beard has died. He was sixty
three, So I thought we'd play little of their music. Boy, it's
good. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Rust
movie Armor, Hannah Gutierra's reed has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the
death of cinematographer Lena Hutchins. Hutchins was killed when the prop gun held by
e Alec Baldwin fired a live round on set. In twenty twenty one.
Baldwin's trial is coming up. We're going to be talking with ABC's Mark Remillard
more about this in just about fifteen minutes. At least thirty six hundred cows
have been killed in the more than a million acre wildfire burning in the Texas
Panhandle. AGG Commissioner Sid Miller says the number of deaths is growing. Miller
says the flames have burned up grasslands and cattle farms are in desperate need of
hay to feed the cows that have survived. Voters in Huntington Beach have passed
a measure banning the display of non governmental flags on government properties. The passing
of Measure B means buildings like city Hall will no longer be allowed to fly
flags like the rainbow Pride flag and other cultural banners. Close to sixty percent
of voters approved Measure B at six p'h five its handle on the news.
And until now the Huthis had just been hitting ships. But now the attacks
in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden have turned deadly? Could that be
a game changer? Time to go out and about. We're headed to the
Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University this week. I got to catch
up with the founder of the museum, Mark Hilbert. Now, the museum
has been there for about eight years, but it closed down for a big
expansion and just reopened to the public last week. So tell us what the
museum has been and what it is now. Okay, we'll try and do
that. So the museum was about seventy five hundred square feet and because our
collection is pretty good, I mean it's about five thousand paintings, it's spectacular,
we needed and wanted to show more. So we tripled the size of
the museum so that we could show more of our work and also show some
other examples from our collections. Okay, and you're the founder of this museum.
This is your baby and a lot of these pieces belong to you,
yes, and they are got a tour a little bit earlier, and it's
something that I definitely think you should come down and see because it's not only
a museum, it's a museum and it's the story of California, which is
so cool because it's all focused on California and there's so much to see and
there's so many amazing artists here. So we wanted to start actually with Millard
Sheets, and boyd is he have some cool pictures. We're going to take
a walk around and talk to us a little bit about Millard Sheets, who
is one of the artists who is being featured in a rotating exhibit. This
isn't a permanent exhibit here, so tell us about what makes him so special.
Well, Millard was one of the most important artists in California in the
earlier years of the thirties and forties. He grew up in a horse ranch
in Pomona and he became pretty famous local boy, right. His artwork was
sold in New York City and he had a great deal of fame with painting
that he submitted to the French Salon in Paris when he was like twenty five
years old, got the painting accepted. He received numerous gold medal awards all
the way across the country, so he was really famous, and he really
depicted the culture of early California art. Yeah. So if you're looking over
our shoulder right now, this is one of his earliest pictures, and it's
of San dimas a train station. And so they take these little slices of
California and put them on the canvas and you can just see so many different
things. There's this, where's this. It's a tenement. It's tenement.
It's probably Bunker Hill in Los Angeles. I know where that is. And
it's a watercolor, Okay. And so as you walk around the gallery,
you see all these really cool glimpses of California's history, and the paintings tell
such amazing story, Like this one is one of my favorite in all of
Los Angeles, and its shot is Ravine. This is before Dodger Stadium was
there, right, this is nineteen twenty nine, And it's like you're looking
in the backyards of these people. Yeah, and you get a glimpse into
their lives. And I think that that's what's so cool about these paintings.
And then around the corner is one of my other favorite places, and that
is where you can hear some of the best music in all of Sudthern,
California. And that's the Hollywood Bowl, right, And what a stunning picture
of that. It's just so cool. And then not only do you take
a look back at the past, but then Mark, you were telling me
earlier, like this picture of the bowl in the front, there was water
and that's real. Yeah, it's real, that's right. At some point,
well, it reflected the music out. The thing I like about this
painting of the most is a list. It's a feeling of excitement, just
like when you're walking into the hot It really does, it really does.
So there's all kinds of different art, but again, all of it tells
the story of California. Right. And so we're in one building that has
temporary exhibits. Yeah, and then and the other building is a whole different
collection, and that's part of our permanent collection. So the other building is
ninety eight percent from our collection, whereas in the rotating shows here in the
South building, those are pieces that might be from our collection, but a
lot of them are borrowed from other collections, so they're all loan from others,
so more people can share in the really cool part that you have to
to see Mark, how did you get interested in this? Because you have
so many pieces and this has been something you've been collecting for how many years?
Well at least forty years. Yeah, So what sparked this interest?
Well, we bought a little house out in Palm Springs and we went to
a consignment shop and found the watercolor. We took the water color home and
fell in love with it. Went back and I discovered this book called The
California Style Book by McClellan, and I started going through the pages and it
was paintings of everyday life in California. Yeah, and I grew up in
California, and I said to myself, see, I can really relate to
this. So we started buying some of these California had seen paintings for our
home. And then it kind of went kind of crazy, and pretty soon
I went to Chapman University and asked them if they would be interested in having
a collection of our work, and we built the first rendition to the museum.
And then later on, about eight years later, decided I wanted to
expand it. And here we are today, and I can tell you it's
really, really, it's inviting. I think the art itself is inviting.
And I think you've just collected so many beautiful pieces and talked to enough people
that they'd said, yeah, you can display my art. They have his
R. H. Norman Rockwells and there's a really fun story about how we
tried to get a Norman Rockwell but he couldn't because Steven Spielberg wanted to Yes,
sorry, yeah, bija on that one. But when can people come
to the museum? When's it open Thursday through Saturday from ten to five,
okay? And where can people find more information about Hilbert Museum dot org.
Okay, they can reserve a space to come in. Okay, So make
a reservation to go to And it's a really like I said, it is
so fun. If you want to learn about California, come to the Hilbert
Museum. It's just really a fun way to spend an afternoon. Absolutely.
And one of the coolest things is about it that surprised me, because I
am obviously no art afficionado, is how the artwork actually makes you feel something
Like Mark said, it elicits feelings, the different there's there's just one sculpture
there now they're going to expand that, but all the different paintings and the
drawings and that kind of stuff. Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University.
Great way to spend the afternoon. It's open Tuesday through Sunday, and
it's free and there's free parking too. Now let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the twenty four hour newsroom. The La City Council
has taken more steps to secure the graffiti covered towers downtown. City leaders have
said Ocean Side Plaza is a threat to health and even lives and must be
secured. The developers of the unfinished project, abandoned in twenty nineteen, haven't
answered the city's call to secure it and clean it up. Council member Kevin
DeLeon pushed for an expedited ordnance adopted yesterday, allowing the city to secure the
site itself with cleanup plan next. Council already approved funds for security and removing
the graffiti covering the entirety of the towers. Michael Monks KFI News. The
ya's are three hundred and thirty nine. The naves are eighty five. The
House has passed a package of six government funding bills to avert a partial government
shutdown. House Speaker Mike Johnson relied on Democrats to help them avoid a partial
government shutdown this weekend. The Senate is expected to quickly approve the legislation and
send it to President Biden's desk. ABC's m Win says the deadline to avoid
a partial shutdown is tomorrow, just as Congress has until March twenty second to
approof funding for another six federal agencies, which is expected to include spending for
the Defense Department. Self screening lanes are now open at Harry Reid International Airport
in Las Vegas. The TSA checkpoint is only for pre check customers. It
uses an automated bin return that sanitizes trays with germ killing ultraviolent light between users.
Travelers step into a separate, clear glass body scanning booth with a video
display inside. Shoe removal not necessary. The lanes are also being tested in
other cities around the US. When we come back, we're going to get
the latest on the jury's decision in the trial of the Armorer on the set
of Alec Baldwin's movie Rust. We'll be talking with ABC's Mark Remler. You're
listening to a wake up call on demand from KFI Am six forty. Thanks
for starting your day with us today. And of course, we lost the
keyboardist for Steely Dan Jim Beard, on March second. He died at the
age of sixty three. Great music. Here's what we're following in the KF
twenty four hour news room. President Biden's going to deliver his State of the
Union address tonight. He'll be playing up the work his administration has done on
things like infrastructure. A preview of the speech says the president will outline how
he's making the wealthy pay their fair share. Alabama lawmakers have passed a Republican
introduced bill to protect in vitro fertilization. It comes weeks after the state Supreme
Court ruled that embryos are considered children. Governor k Ivy has signed the bill
into law. We're getting a look into the so called swag bags celebrities attending
the Academy Awards. We'll get the marketing company that puts them together, says.
This year, the celebs are going to get skin care and wellness products,
designer throw pillows, always, a bonus gourmet popcorn Yum, and a
three night's day at a private villa in Saint Bart's Nice. The Academy Awards
are happening on Sunday. We're just minutes away from Handle. On the news
this morning, after sitting by and really doing nothing for a couple of years,
New York Governor Kathy Hokel is calling in the National Guard to help patrol
the evermore day angerous subway system. Right now, let's say good morning to
ABC's Mark Remolard. Mark, we have a conviction in the death of Helena
Hutchins on the set of Alec Baldwin's movie Rust. Tell us what happened?
Yeah, Jurors deliberating for less than three hours yesterday on whether or not the
armorer of the set is the person who is in charge of the weapons on
the set. Hannah Gutiera's read was guilty of involuntary manslaughter. There was also
a tampering with evidence charge that was separate from the shooting itself, but in
a way connected, and so jurors, as I said, deliberated less than
three hours before finding Hannah Gutierra's read guilty of the involuntary manslaughter aspect. They
acquitted her of the tampering with evidences had to do with what prosecutor said was
a bag of cocaine that she passed off to someone else on the set after
the shootings. At least their theory wasn't perhaps in an attempt to hide it,
but nevertheless acquitted on that charge. Found guilty of the involuntary manslaughter charge.
She was remanded into custody immediately following that verdict, and a sentencing date
hasn't been set yet, but she faces up to eighteen months in prison as
a result. Okay, and there were other things going on aside from having
live ammal on set. Wasn't their testimony that she wasn't really up to the
job and that maybe drugs and alcohol could have played a part in all of
what happened. Yeah, I think that was certainly part of the theory for
prosecutors, I mean, bringing up and charging with the drug charge there that
again ultimately acquitted of. But there was kind of a there was a theory
that prosecutors were putting forward here basically that there was a very cavalier attitude towards
safety on this set. They showed images to the jury in which they described
as actors pointing guns at other crew members. There was an image apparently of
Gutierra's herself pointing a gun at herself, perhaps in a joking manner, And
so basically what they say was there was this very cavalier attitude and that she
brought live rounds onto the set that should have never been there. He didn't
recognize that she had live rounds on the set for several days, and essentially
that these got mixed up, one of them got put into the gun,
gun goes off and kills a person as a result. So they're saying that
she brought them onto the set. That's interesting because why would they have ever
ever been anywhere near there? Yeah, exactly. Now, the defense tried
to push this off on the supplier of the movie, who was a separate
person who runs a business that supplies the weapons and which should have been dummy
bullets, and they did have dummy bullets on set. But so basically the
defense tried to point the finger at this person and basically said two By the
time investigators got around to searching that person's store and their warehouse. That Yeah,
the live rounds that were found at that guy's house or business didn't match
the live rounds that were found on set. Well, too much time had
elapsed. Nevertheless, it really didn't matter at the end of the day.
Apparently the jurors didn't take too long to convince here that she was responsible certainly
for the weapons on set and the ending result. And prosecutors basically said,
you know, this is just a case of just negligence, and that it
became such a case of negligence that it became willful in a way and foreseeable
that this result could happen, and it did. Okay, And then she's
not the only one charged in this. Alec Baldwin, the actor who is
the one who everybody except him says actually pulled the trigger on the set,
is also facing charges. When does that start. Yeah, So he'll go
into on trial in July on involuntary manslaughter as well. And now he has
the advantage of seeing the road map here, right, this is going to
be the same judge, same prosecutors, a lot of the same evidence you
have to imagine is going to be presented that was presented in this trial is
going to be presented in his trial, but pointing different directions because at the
same time the prosecutors were presenting this case against Hannagutierrez and her defense was trying
to say, hey, it was the management's fault, people like Alec Baldwin,
producers who are responsible for this and the safety of the set, not
Hannah Gutierrez. At the same time, prosecutors are then having to say,
well, no focus on hannahgutierres Alex Baldwin will have his day in court.
Well in July. They're going to have to present a lot of that same
evidence and say, well, now, Alex Baldwin was the person holding the
gun, the gun went off, and he was a producer and therefore responsible.
So it's interesting how a lot of the evidence is going to overlap here.
Alex Baldin of course says he never pulled the trigger. He says he
pulled the hammer back, but the gun went off, it wasn't his fault.
He also is certainly going to argue he's not responsible for checking this.
Hannah Gutierrez is the armorer. She's the one who should have made sure there
were dummy bullets inside the gun. So he does have a roadmap here,
but still facing the charges. Yeah, and Mark, does it appear that
her conviction, that she's been convicted of involuntary man slaughterford neglige, that that
will help his case? You know, it's a good question. I wonder
whether or not they're going to be able to I don't know the answer to
this, whether or not they're going to be able to actually say whether or
not Hannah Gutiers was found guilty or not, because I don't know if that
might prejudice against Alex bald Alex Baldwin, if you think about it, if
the jury already knows that someone has been convicted, maybe that helps him.
If the jury knows someone's already been convicted, maybe that doesn't. Maybe that
will signal that, hey, there's enough here to say that something went wrong.
I don't know the answer to that, whether or not. But you
know, we'll have to see whether or not the court allows. What kind
of information the court allows to come into Alex Baldwin's trial in relation to Hannah
Gutierre's. All Right, Mark Gramallard, thank you so much for the information
and helping us sort things out. Thank you. All right, let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news
from the University of California seeing a surge in applications for fall of twenty twenty
four. Data shows the UC system drew in a quarter million applications for fall
semester. The first years are up nearly one and a half percent from last
year, with increases at eight of nine undergraduate campuses. Transfer applications have grown
by more than ten percent. Data also shows big gains in diversity, with
black applicants having the strongest growth, followed by Latinos and Native Americans. Hawhite
You. Governor Josh Green assigned the tenth Emergency Proclamation for the island of Maui.
The governor says the latest declaration offers continued financial support from state and federal
sources, and it helps expedite semi permanent housing for those who still need it.
We lost one hundred and one of our loved ones in the fire.
The lives of thousands more were changed forever as people were displaced. It was
hurricane force winds that spread this fire across Maui, and it was the worst
natural disaster we've ever had. Green says, nearly four thousand homes and buildings
were destroyed, most of which were rentals. He says. Some amendments to
the proclamation include the removal of price freezes for critical supplies. Steve Gregory,
King of Finans. A jury's been seated in Michigan for the trial of a
man whose teenage son killed four students in a school shooting. Prosecutors say James
Crumbley not the gun his son used to kill classmates in twenty twenty one.
The shooter's mother was found guilty last month of involuntary manslaughter. He's facing the
same charges. The Crumblings are the first parents in the US to be charged
over a mass shooting committed by their child. Duncan Donuts is helping people adjust
to the time change this coming weekend by offering free coffee. The restaurant has
partnered with Grubhub to deliver the coffee to customers with any Duncan order of twenty
dollars or more. The coffee can be up to a seven dollars value.
The deal is good for Saturday and Sunday. The daylight saving time change is
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