You're listening to KFI AM six forty Wake Up Call with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Had a dry ride in today with kind of a nice little switch. Although we only had like three days of rain, but it appears that most of it has moved out, although I was talking to editor Carla and she said this morning she had a downpour, so not quite done yet. But the weather is improving and it looks like we're gonna have sunny skies for the weekend, so I'm excited for that. Snow still
on the way for the mountains. There's winter storm warnings and advisories up, and of course the mountains is where Big Bear's bald eagles, Jackie and Shadow are protecting their newly laid eggs. I'm obsessed with this they have. If you don't know about this, they have a camera that is trained on the nest twenty four to seven and you can watch it anytime. And we're gonna be talking more with the executive director of Friends of Big Bear Valley about the
eagles. They're so beautiful and so majestic and they're about to have babies, so we're going to be talking with her at about five point fifty this morning, so we do hope you'll hang around. Of course, we want you to hang around all of wakeup call because there's so much coming up. Here's
what's ahead on wake up call this morning. The city of la has seen four hundred and seventy five mud slides and has received three hundred ninety reports of fallen trees since the storm started Sunday, and the potholes four hundred and forty of them have been reported, and those are only the ones reported. DWP says firefighters have also put out a dozen fires and made several swift water rescues
because of the storm. The House failed to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorcis, but with the last second vote switch yesterday, they have left the door open for another vote, perhaps when Representative Steve Scalise is back at work following his absence for cancer treatment. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena is laying off eight percent of its workforce. That's about four hundred people. The layoffs announced
you yesterday will affect technical and support staff and about forty contractors. JPL blames the decision on uncertainty about federal funding. At six oh five, it's handle on the news. The mother of a school shooter in Michigan has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter, the first time a parent has been held responsible for murders carried out by a child. Let's get started with some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Of course, the storm Southern California is getting a break from the rain, but more could be coming. Plus, as I mentioned, snow for the mountains. Gusty winds are expected to develop today and continue into tomorrow. Forecasters say more rain is expected later tonight with about a three hour period of a steady rain and mountain snow.
It's already been snowing at elevations above four thousand feet. The National Weather Service has advised heavy snow above six thousand feet, with the heaviest accumulations up to two feet above seven thousand feet. Kfi's house whisperer Dean Sharp says, when it comes to repairing a home after a natural disaster, homeowners have rights. Sharp says, don't be intimidated or bullied by an insurance company's recommendation for contractors
or repair companies. If you bring in an independent contractor, which you have the right to do, you will find that they will be more on your side and fighting for all of the replacement value of everything. Sharp says homeowners should get more than one bid for repairs and vet the contractors before agreeing to do anything. Public health officials in La County now say eight million gallons of sewage got into the Domingus Channel, which leads to the ocean. The spill
was first announced Monday. The amount of sludge that spilled was released yesterday. All beaches in Long Beach and Cabrio Beach and San Pedro are off limits until bacteria levels return to acceptable levels. Scientists say the atmospheric river that has bombarded southern California is not what social media has been hyping up as an ARC storm. What it is is weeks like this that keep ongoing. Scientist doctor Lucy Jones says, imagine if the storm that drenched SoCal continued for more than a
month straight, that's an ARC storm. This is a bad storm. It's doing a lot of damage, but it's not the worst and it's not the extreme level that was talked about in the arcstorm models. Jones says, the arcstorm model is meant to prepare flood control channels for the eventuality of a storm like one from eighteen sixty two, which dumped fifty inches of rain in SoCal and killed one percent of the state's population. Corbin Carson k if I News,
Yikes, I've never even heard of that one. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. So, Stephen, the bipartisan border bill, which was put together by senators and appeared like it would pass the Senate, is now in trouble in the Senate. Yeah, it's likely to be filibustered today when it comes up for a vote on the motion to proceed. And this is an esoteric way of saying, will the Senate take it up?
And the answer is probably gonna be no. It's a sixty vote threshold, and yesterday members of both parties acknowledge the fact that it's going to die today. So this bill that took months to craft, Republicans insisted that Ukraine aid be paired with some sort of border reform. You had Senator Langford of Oklahoma, staunch Republican, working with Senator Murphy of Connecticut and the Biden administration to try to cobble together something that everybody could accept. It finally was released on
Sunday, and it didn't live for seventy two hours. It's going to die today. And what a banner day it was for Congressional Republicans yesterday. First they backed away from an agreement that they had fought for, fought to strike number one and number two. House Republicans yesterday embarrassingly failed to impeach Alejandro Majorkis as Secretary of Homeland Security, is something they've been aiming to do for months. Yeah, why did they put that up to a vote if they didn't
have the votes? You know, Nancy Pelosi used to have an ethic that she would never put a measure on the floor of the House that she wasn't certain would pass, because she knew that it would be an embarrassing humiliation. And yesterday was an embarrassing humiliation for the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. He was counting on the absence of Al Green, not the singer, the Texas congressman who had Democrat who yesterday was in the er for surgery.
And what a surprise it was when Congressman Green was wheeled into the House chamber wearing hospital scrubs, no yes to cast a vote against impeaching Majorcis, And all of a sudden it was tied, and a tie vote can't pass in the Senate. Oh sorry, a tie vote can't pass in the House. And you know, Republicans had their own absence of majority of their Steve Scaliseo's
being treated for cancers, you know, And they had three defectors. There were three Republican congressmen who said that they didn't believe that a hundred Majorcis had committed a high crime or misdemeanor didn't warrant impeachment. He simply had a different interpretation of the immigration law. And you shouldn't start a new standard of impeaching people because you disagree with them on how they implement the law or the policy. And so the effort went down to defeat today. But it's not over
yet. It's not over yet because because Steve's fun happened, well, look, Steve's scalise will be back. Then they'll use a procedural motion to raise it resurrected on a motion to reconsider, and they'll try again. They'll try to take a mulligan. But if it does succeed, it'll do so probably on a single vote, or they'll try to take advantage of another moment where
Democrats have one or two votes short because of absences. The bottom line is if it passes, it'll be by a single vote and at best, and it'll start a trial in the Senate where Democrats control, and will seek to figure out a way if they can, to dismiss the charges before holding a full blown trial, which would simply take everybody's time. It's a fata complete.
The Senate that's controlled by Democrats is not about to never having convicted Donald Trump of all the things that he was accused of in two separate impeachments. They're not going to vote to oust Alejandro Majorcis simply for a policy disagreement with House Republicans. Yeah, okay. So the other thing that happened yesterday tied back to the Order bill, was that the House voted on whether to put up just a clean bill that would only fund Israel, like to separate them
out, like you and I have talked about. That you said wouldn't pass, and it didn't, right, It didn't because of the procedure that the House employed. It had a majority vote, but because the Speaker wanted to do it swiftly, he put it on the floor, and really what he wanted to do was embarrassed Democrats. But it didn't work out like he planned. He wanted to put it on the floor with the suspension of the rules, which would require a vote of two hundred and ninety rather than to eighteen,
and it failed. It only got two fifty. Well that's more than half the House, but it wasn't enough to overcome the procedural motion that he himself had made. So no, the House has not passed the clean Israel bill that he has put up, and today the Senate, with the expected filibuster of the border foreign Aid bill, will then move to the to simply a foreign aid bill without the border provisions, the ones that Republicans have been
climbering for for months. We'll see if Republicans block that too, Even though yesterday Mitch McConnell said that's what should happen next. Seems like a lot of finding and a lot of wasting time. Hopefully they'll get something done. Well, we'll see what happens, all right, ABC, Stephen Portnoy, thank you so much. Like we keep talking about it's so convoluted and confusing, and we appreciate you helping us sort it out. Let's get back to some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. President Biden has one the Democratic presidential primary in Nevada. Minnesota. Democratic Congressman Dean Phillips entered the race too late to get on the ballot. That made Self Help author Mary Ann Williamson Biden's only challenger yesterday, and on the Republican side, the majority of voters in Nevada's primary have chosen none of the candidates that was
one of the options on the ballot. Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley was the only major candidate on the ballot. Trump opted to run in the state's caucuses instead. He's the only one participating on Thursday and is expected to get all of the delegates for Nevada. A federal appeals court has rejected former Trump's former
president Trump's immunity claim in his federal election interference case. The three judge panel ruled yesterday there's no basis for Trump to assert former presidents have blanket immunity from prosecution for any acts committed as president. Trump is until money to appeal to the Supreme Court. If the High Court declines the appeal, the judge overseeing the case could set a new trial date soon, but if the Supreme Court decides to consider the matter, all bets are off, there could be lengthy
delays. ABC's PR Thomas says the panel declared President Trump has become citizen Trump, which means any executive immunity that may have protected him no longer applies. Republican National Committee chair chairwoman Ronal McDaniel plans to step down following the South Carolina primary on February twenty fourth. The New York Times is reporting McDaniel told former President Trump her plans last night, after growing pressure from his camp to do
so. She's faced scrutiny in recent months over fundre Trump is likely to suggest North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Michael Wantley for the position, but a new election will have to happen. Governor Newsom says voters have a chance to fix California's mental health system. People want to see people off the streets. People want to know when their loved one is in crisis that they're going to get the
quality care that they deserve. This is solvable. The governor in an ad is urging voters to vote yes on Proposition one, which would authorize more than six billion dollars in bonds to build mental health treatment facilities and also housing for the homeless. Opponents are you Prop one will create too much bond debt and siphon funds away from existing programs. Vote by mail ballots have gone out in
the mail for the March fifth primary election. Have you noticed as you're driving by gas stations or maybe pulling into one, that gas prices have jumped up again. Yeah. I just noticed it when I was driving on my way to work, and I was like, wait a second. It was like four to sixty nine a gallon for premium like last week, and all of a sudden it's back up to four eighty nine. Well, the price of gas is up for the thirteenth straight day. In La County. It's four
to seventy one for regular unleaded. On average, prices are up nearly twenty cents a gallon in the last couple of weeks. Orange County gas is also up to four sixty seven a gallon. That's twenty four cents higher than thirteen days ago. You're listening to wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM. Six forty nine people have been killed by falling trees and in crashes caused by the atmospheric river that has dumped more than thirteen inches of rain in some areas
of California. Authority say once floodwaters recede, they're concerned the number of dead will go up. NTSB investigators say the four bolts that hold the door plug in place on the Boeing seven thirty seven Max nine were missing when the cover for the emergency exit blew out on an Alaska Airline's flight in mid air last month. Expect to see street vendors outside Dodger Stadium, the Hollywood Bowl, and the Hollywood Walk of Fame now that the La City Council has voted to
rescind a ban on vendors at popular tourist spots. The ban has been in effects since twenty eighteen. A new ordnance amending current vending laws is expected to take effect next month. At six oh five, it's handled on the news, Holy buckets, we've had a lot of rain. Bill's going to take a look at the totals the flooding, the mudslides and power outages as this massive storm moves out. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's jord Dana Miller. Jordana, we have a new proposal from Hamas, Yes we
do. Unfortunately, it is not a proposal that is going to bring us a seatfire and a deal to free Israeli hostages. That's the bottom line, and it's a bit depressing, I have to say. But because we waited so long, and the United States worked on this framework for you know, several weeks, but Hamas has come back and added a lot of demands from phase one to phase three of this deal that really are non starters for israel I. Mean, I'll give you one example from phase one, where we
would see maybe forty or fifty Israeli hostages free. Hamasis demanding the release of one thousand, five hundred Palestinian prisoners. But among those five hundred, who right, five hundred who've committed murder and are in for life sentences. So that's a huge number of you know, of high value quote unquote Palestinian prisoners that are serving you know, again they're in jail for life. That's a huge number to be released Israel. You know would release likely some of them,
but not five hundred. They're also asking, for example, to change policies about visitation rights for the alak Samosque, that Jews should be limited more in their ability to visit the site. You know, it's all not going to change policies in Jerusalem. And they all feel about Gaza, Yeah, the Alcsimosque in case people are not familiar with it, that's inside the walled city, right, that's right, that's in the Old City. Uh.
It is the you know, third holy site for Muslims. It's a place where we've seen a lot of violence, and it is a site that's shared. On one side is the Western Wall, what it's considered Judaism's holy a site, and you know, on that exact compound Jews believe the temple that was the heart of the Temple. So Jews sometimes go to visit It's it's a bit controversial now because more people are going to visit. Nonetheless, there is a set time during the day when Jewish visitors and tourists can go up
there. Hamas is demanding a change on those rules. So, and they're also demanding, for example, opening all of Gaza's crossing in the first phase. I mean that also is not going to happen. We're in a war. It's almost controlling, you know, it's crossing to the north. So it looks like from this deal that Hamas has put on the table that they obviously don't feel a huge need to cut a deal right now. It shows
us that Hamas feels confident if your time is on their side. They are fighting in southern Gaza, their leaders are alive, they're holding you know, over one hundred hostages, and you know they're playing hardball right now, likely because they're not really interested yet in making concessions. So it's bad news this morning for the deal. I think we're still weeks away. So Den tre Dana, does that signal that Israel has not been as successful as it had
hoped in this so far? Well, certainly, you know, Israel would have liked already to have, for example, found the hostages during its military operations. They would have liked to have killed some of Hamasa's senior leaders, you know, on the actual battlefield. They've done, you know, relatively well. The depth toll is not huge. It's controlling northern Gaza. They've destroyed hundreds of tunnels, they've confiscated, you know, thousands of weapons,
They've found a lot of intel. For example, last night they revealed new intel documents they found like almost like a log sheet and the counting sheet where they you know, they've they've noted money that came in from Iran for Hamas and specifically, you know, millions for YASHKASINOI, the leader. I think the total was something like one hundred and fifty four million dollars, you know. But given all of that, they still they're still fighting in southern Gaza,
and Hamas is not you know, they haven't broken yet. So Hamas obviously feels that they have the upper hand right now, and that the pressure from the families of the hostages, it appears to be their banking that that pressure is going to force Israel to cave and give in to some of these more extreme demands. But I don't think that's going to be the case. It's going to increase the anguish of the families and some of their protests.
But these decisions that are being made not only by Nathaniel, but the War Cabinet and the head of the Mossad, you know, they are going to keep this tough negotiation. And that's why I think we're we're not going to see anyone come out of Gaza, the hostages or aid go in or respite for the hundreds of thousands of gozens that are suffering and not connected to Hamas. You know, it's it's a it's a defeat today for all of those parties, the hostages, gosins, you know, and you know, the
families, houstages. Yeah, and in the meantime, the fighting goes on. So we'll continue to watch, but not great news. Thank you for sharing it, Jordiana. Unfortunately. All right, thanks take care. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Evacuation orders in La have slowly lifted as the storm lets up, but people are still being urged to be prepared in case of mud slides, flooding in debris flows. The order in the Latuna Canyon area was lifted late
yesterday. Evacuation warnings remain in some places. City officials in La say the water soaked hill sides still pose a mudslide threat. The fire Chiefs's crews have responded to four hundred and seventy five mudslides this week, tens of thousands of people lost power at some point. Most of the power has been restored. The search for a woman who disappeared near Mount Baldy has been called off because of the risk of avalanches. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department says the woman
was last seen Sunday when she went hiking by herself in a snowstorm. Officials have urged people to stay away from the mountain during a storm. JPL says a budget deficit will force the Space Laboratory in Pasadena to lay off hundreds of employees, and one of the programs most impacted will be the Mars Sample Return Project, which was created to return samples gathered by the various Mars rovers. The announcement yesterday will affect five hundred and thirty people, or roughly eight percent
of JPL's workforce. JPL said had exhausted all other measures to adjust to a lower budget from NASA, and in the absence of more money from Congress, JPL said it had no choice but to resort to pink slips. At least forty four members of Congress said they did lobby the White House for more funding Steve Gregory, King of Fine News. A crew member working on Marvel's wonder Man TV show has been killed in a fall in studio. City Variety says
the rigor fell off the rafters yesterday on the set. Cruz were not filming at the time. A Marvel spokesperson says the company supports the investigation into the circumstances of the accident. Weekends at the La Zoo Are Getting Wild. Official announced the upcoming Wild Weekend events yesterday, which include entertainment activities and educational opportunities. The first is a lunar New Year celebration on February seventeenth and eighteenth.
It will feature a martial arts demonstration, dragon dances, calligraphy, and more. March twenty ninth through thirty first will be the Zoo's Spring Fling, and April twentieth and twenty first will celebrate Earth Day. I'm really interested to see the animals doing a martial arts demonstration. Okay, you're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM six forty guest stars and will most likely have you smiling and singing along by the end. I think you're gonna like this
one. Southland weather from KFI Finally a break in the rain. Twenty percent chance of showers, otherwise partly cloudy today with hies in the mid fifties to about sixty forties for the analog valley. Got a chance of showers tonight and tomorrow. We should be dry on Friday with partly cloudy skies and hies in the fifties to low sixties. Sunny with highs in the mid sixties. Saturday and Sunday. It's forty seven in Santa Anna, forty six in Sealed Beach.
Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour news room. The city of La had seen four hundred and seventy five mod slides and received three hundred and ninety reports of fallen trees since the big storm rolled in on Sunday, and potholes four hundred and forty have been reported. Dwps's firefighters have also
put out a dozen fires and have made several swift water rescues. Just getting word into the KFEI newsroom that a pair of bombings at election offices of a political party and an independent candidate in southwest Pakistan have killed at least twenty six people. More than two dozen others are wounded. Officials say the bombing came the day before parliamentary elections are going to be held. Dodgers star pitcher Clayton
Kershaw will remain a boy in Blue. Kershawn the team have reached a deal for him to play for the Dodgers for his seventeen Major League season, That is, once he passes a physical exam. Even though he'll be on the team, he's not expected to play until summer because of a recent shoulder surgery. At six oh five, Aid's handle on the news. More bad news for Boeing. That door plug that blew out during the flight last month.
The bolts holding the plug in place on the fuselage were missing. At five point fifty, We're going to check in on Big Bear's famous Eagles, Jackie and Shadow can't wait for this. We'll be talking to the executive director of Friends of Big Bear Valley, Sandy Steers. That's coming up in about fifteen minutes. Damie's on it, Damie's on it. Damie's on it, Damie's on it. What am I on? I'm on all things streaming. There are so many TV shows and documentaries and movies. How do you know what
to watch? I take recommendations from friends. In this case, it was from our very own Deborah Mark. I heard her talking to Shannon Farren about the Best Night in pop and I said, I better check that out. It's on Netflix. And that best night was January twenty eighth, nineteen eighty
five. It's the night that several dozen of the biggest music artists got together to make We Are the World. So at the very beginning of this Lionel Richie says nothing will ever be the same after tonight, and that comment came
while he was hosting the American Music Awards in nineteen eighty five. But what the audience and most of the world didn't know at that time is he may not only have been talking about the awards show, but also a secret project that was about to be executed after the awards show at A and M Studios.
It is the story of the making of We Are the World. Lionel Richie is one of the main players, working with Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson, and of course the idea was to raise money for the famine in Africa, in which thousands of people were dying. The show chronicles whose idea.
It was Harry Bayo Lefante, how it all came together, who showed up for it, who didn't show up for it, which is kind of fun, who they wanted to show up, and who walked out during the making of We Are the World, and how under the cover of darkness, in
the middle of the night, We Are the World came to be. It was let me just say, it was fascinating to see, first of all, how they got all these artists together, because they're all out making music, they're all touring and making albums and all of that stuff, and they're all over the place. And to get all of them, I can't imagine
a bigger herting Cats scenario. And this is all happening before there were cell phones, before there was email, and it was a huge undertaking and they had a very finite period of time to get it together and they had to do it on this one night. The artists share some really great personal story worries about their lives and how they all got connected through the years, and they also walk you through how they chose the artists from all these different genres
of music and then fuse those different voices together. They chronicle the making of the music and how it changed and continued to evolve even as they were recording the song that night. Really fascinating is all those artists and all those egos in one place, and it's fun because you kind of see a little ego coming out here and there, and then how Quincy Jones kind of tempered that
and got everybody on the same page. And also just I've found it so amazing that they were able to keep this pretty much secret and get it all done and then release it. There is so much that I want to tell you about this documentary, but I'm not going to tell you anymore because I
want you to go watch it. It's really really good. And also why towards the end, KFI gets a little cameo in the documentary, So even forty years later or forty years before KFI was a powerhouse, it's a testament to how people can come together, and they do, and it kind of harkens back to a time when people came together. More leaves you with a really positive feeling, I think, And of course I'm a worse I cried,
but I was smiling while I was crying. But it's called the Best Night and pop highly recommend it. It's on Netflix and I don't know. It's about two hours long. Totally worth it. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A winter storm morning is in effect until tomorrow morning in the eastern San Gabriel Mountains. Forecasters say twenty inches of additional snow could fall above seven thousand feet, as
much as three inches are possible as low as three thousand feet. A winter weather advisory is also up for the western San Gabriel's and the five and fourteen freeway corridors until tomorrow at eight am. San Bernardino County Sheriff's deputy are working to keep homeless people out of flooded areas. Helicopter crews have been patrolling to
let deputies on the ground know where people may be in danger. Sergeant James Marshall says most rescues of homeless people happen at the beginning of a storm. Once it's here and it's here, they understand the risk and they'll stay away, so at the beginning. Generally, we believe we've done a pretty good job of fording any disasters. Marshall says, county officials and deputies began warning people about the storm more than a week ago. Up to five hundred homeless
people live in waterways across the county. In sam Manardino County, Blake Trolley k if I News the Lacity Council's approved recommendations to try to reduce street racing and takeovers. The recommendation includes installing cameras at fifty intersections. The LAPD says Compton, Paramount and Oakland have adopted some of the measures to curb racing and takeovers. The mother of a school shooter in Oxford, Michigan, has been
convicted. We find the defendant guilty of involuntary matt fodder. Jennifer Crumb was convicted yesterday on all four charges against her, one for each student killed in twenty twenty one. Prosecutors told the jury she was responsible for the killings because she gave her son a gun and ignored warning signs about his mental health. Grumbley is the first parent in the US ever held criminally liable for a school shooting by their child. She's facing up to sixty years in prison when she's
sentenced in April. The La County Fire Department has commemorated a massive earthquake in Turkey. February sixth, twenty twenty three, seventy nine members of the department's elite International Search and Rescue Team were sent on a mission to help search for survivor. He're gathered to observe the one year anniversary of that tragic and deadly
seven point eight magnitude earthquake. Fire Chief Anthony Moroney says the specialized team is only one of two in the US that travels around the world to help in times of disaster. Sinan Kazum is the consul general for Turkey here in la He says he was blown away by the technology and skill of the Fire Department. He says the rebuilding and recovery continues, but it's slow going. Itzz like imagine from here to San Diego. This area was affected. Fifteen million
people were affected and we lost fifty three thousand people during this earthquake. So it's a big effort. It's happening. It's the first year. We have still more ways to go. Ka Zoom says he's extremely grateful for the firefighters courage and willingness to help. We will never forget what you did. For us. I hope he will never face a tragedy like this, but I know if you face one day again, you will be there again for us. Steve Gregory, your fine news. This is the second time the Chiefs
and the forty nine Ers have matched up for the Big Game. They met previously at the end of the twenty nineteen season. Kansas City won that one, thirty one to twenty. This Sunday afternoon, you can catch the action of the Big Game between the Chiefs and the forty nine Ers. Kickoff is at three point thirty on your radio home of the NFL AM five to seventy LA Sports, presented in part by Roe Tolo's Chevrolet. See what all the fun is about at ro Tolo Chevrolet. You're listening to Wake Up Call on
demand from KFI AM six forty. Nikki Haley has lost Nevada's primary election to none of these candidates. Voters chose the option to reject all candidates rather than give Haley the win in yesterday's primary. Trump wasn't on the ballot. He's participating in Nevada's caucuses tomorrow and is expected to take all the state's delegates. Carl Weathers will still appear in Fandel's Super Bowl commercials. The Rocky actor died
on Thursday. Fandel says Weathers has already been seen in its commercials teasers, and says his family has been supportive and would like to see Carl on Super Bowl Sunday. We're just minutes away from Hambel On the news this morning, a federal appeals court has ruled former President Trump does not have absolute immunity. Trump says he respectfully disagrees. Right now, let's say good morning to the executive director of Friends of Big Bear Valley. Good morning, Sandy Steers,
Good morning, Nice to talk to you. I'm so thrilled to talk to you, because, so what you're going to talk about is my obsession. Right now, So every year, at this time, thousands of people start watching the Friends of Big Bear Valley camera that has perched one hundred and forty feet up in a tree overlooking Big Bear Lake. What is in there? It is a bald eagle nest. And right now there is the female is in the nest sitting on her three eggs, and that is Jackie. And
I have to tell you, I told you it's my obsession. Obsession, Sandy I've got the Big Bear Valley camera on right now, and I just saw Jackie who is surrounded in snow. It looks like there's I don't know six eight inches of snow on the nest and she's right in the middle protecting her eggs. And she just got up, moved around, and then laid back down. This year, you mentioned that she's got three eggs, and
that's a big deal. This year, that's a big deal. Need to that's the first time she's had three eggs, and it's actually a rare thing in eagle world as well. Okay, last year I know that she did.
She laid three eggs, but none of them ended up surviving, and they weren't all together, right, Yeah, and the third one was actually broken when it came out, so that was yeah, it didn't count as three really, there was two only, Yes, So what are we going to see when we tune in Over the course of the next month, Jackie in shadow that mail will be switching places on the nest, and as the snow gets a little lower, you'll be able to see the three eggs and
as they roll them. When they stand up, they roll the eggs to make sure that they stay healthy and fresh and developing insight of there, and they will take turns. Often a shadow will bring food for Jackie. He catches fish and brings it to her on the nest, and we get to
watch and see what happened with those eggs in less than thirty days. Cool and one of the things that I've seen there's a live chat that it's not always live, but there's a chat when you go on to the YouTube channel, and a lot of people say, oh my gosh, she's buried in snow. Oh my gosh, isn't that bad for the eggs? But they're
kind of built for this, right, they're built for this. She is keeping the eggs very warm, and that's why she's been on the nest now for over forty eight hours without leaving, without eating, without anything, And she has over seven thousand in waterproof feathers on the outside and down feathers underneath, so she can get completely buried in snow and she just stands up and shakes it off and she's side okay and has has a shadow come to visit
or is he staying away from the nest right now? He has done a couple flybys that we've seen and yesterday they turtled back and forth at each other, you know, just to make sure everything's okay. So he's out there, he's keeping a close eye on everything. But when there's bad weather, Jackie won't let him trade or have his turn on the nest. She's the only one that she trusts to take care of things in bad weather. Okay.
What makes this Sandy so special for people to watch because you get to see up close and personal the personality of the eagles, how they interact with each other, what they do, how they take care of everything. It's not just like watching something far away or something distant, but they have a real personality. So it's like they're entertaining everybody at the same time as just being who they are. And it's fascinating to watch all the details of what
they're doing. It really is, like I keep saying, it's my obsession, and in fact, I had my news director, Chris Little came in one year. It was about three years ago. He goes, you got to turn that camera off. But it's so interesting because, like you said, you see the eagles interact and you see how protective they are and how they nurture and especially after the eglets hatch, it's so fun to watch them
feeding them and watching the eglets grow. I have to tell you though, it's also a little bit heartbreaking, and I have shed more than a couple of tears because a couple of years ago, you know, we had two eglets and I sat there and one of them doesn't look well and then it died. And it's heartbreaking. But it's also circle of life stuff. It is you're watching nature up close, and you have to watch the whole thing
and just see what happens. And sometimes it's sad and sometimes it's you know, amazing and heartwarming and funny, and so you get the whole gamut. Yeah, okay, before we let you go, Sandy, and my producer An says, find out how they got the camera up there, because you have cameras trained on this nest twenty four to seven and they don't go that. I mean, they're on all the time, and they're one hundred and
forty feet up in a tree. Yes, it's supported by a whole solar panel system to keep it running, and we had to hire special climbers biologists who can also handle all of the equipment and know all the electronics to be able to climb that tree without harming it. There's a very special way on ropes to climb the tree, and they had to get up there into that nest to be able to install all of this, including pulling cables up.
And yes, it was an amazing job that they did. And you got to do it when the eagles aren't there, right, Yes, we do always in the summer when the eagles are out and about around the lake and they're not really paying attention to the nest because it's not nesting season. Yes, okay, So if people want to tune in, where are they going
to find the eagle cam? They can go to our friends a Big Bear Valley YouTube channel, or they can go to our website to big Bear Valley dot org and both of those have have the cam, and we also have a white angle camera that's down from snow right at the moment, but it should be back to there tomorrow, okay. And if people want to donate to help keep this project going as their place to donate to support Friends of Big Bear Valley, yes on our website again, friends of Big Bear Valley
dot org. And every little bit helps because that's the donations are what's supporting this camera and everything we do with it. Okay, And these are truly truly majestic animals. There are a national symbol and so beautiful. So if you get a chance, give them a look. And Sandy Steers, We're going to be watching. I'm going to be watching. And when are we
expecting the first eggs to possibly hatch? If starting starting leap day? Is that when we start pipwatch, which is when the chicks start hatching out by putting a pip in the egg, and so the last day of February or between thirty five and thirty eight days from when they were laid. Okay, great Sandy Steer, executive director of Friends at Big Bear Valley, thank you so much for coming on this morning. Maybe this will be your obsession too.
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