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You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app. This is your wake up call for Monday, March fourth. I'm Amy King. Thanks for getting your day and your week started with us. We've got lots of head for you. First off, we've got pitpwatch going. We've got the eagles up in that tree over Big

Bear and they could be hatching any time now. In fact, we're gonna be talking with the executive director of the Friends of Big Bear Valley a little bit later this morning at five point fifty to find out how everybody's doing and if we're expecting any hatchings in the next day or two. Also, I have not seen this in quite a while, but I watched the lift off of that Falcon nine rocket from Kennedy Space Center last night. I just happen to be flipping around and they said, oh, here, we're going to

go with us. It's the launch is going to happen in a minute. I haven't watched a launch in a while. It is. It's pretty spectacular. I mean it's you know, hair stands up on the back of your neck and off they go into space. And gosh, it's cool. Are what we can do if only we would use it all for good but very cool to see. Here's what's ahead on wake up Call. A one hundred mile stretch of the eighty Freeway in the Sierra Nevada remains closed because of a

weekend blizzard. HP says the roadway is pretty much unpassable because of blowing snows piling up in lanes. About three feet of snow has fallen. Forecasters say more snow is on the way. Some people who tried to make the journey ended up stranded in their cars for hours. Six hundred and twenty five early voting centers have opened in La County ahead of tomorrow's primary election. They'll be open from ten to seven today. Polls tomorrow are open from seven am to

eight pm. Voter turnout expected to be less than thirty percent. Crews in Oxnard and Ventura will begin removing sand berms from beaches. The berms were put in in December to protect the cities from high surf during winters, but they need to come down to make room for the federally protected Western snowy plover, which is entering its nesting season. At six oh five. It's handled on

the news. Not long after hearing that Israel had agreed to a framework for a ceasefire, the Israeli delegation has decided not to attend talks in Egypt. I was going to tell you why. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley has won her first primary. She beat former President Trump yesterday in Washington. D C ABC's Chuck Severson says Trump got just fourteen percent of the vote

in the nation's capital. Baley's campaign spokesperson says it was not surprising that Republicans and her words closest to Washington dysfunction, are rejecting Donald Trump and all his chaos. A statement from the Trump campaign says Haley's just been crowned Queen of the Swamp by the lobbyists and DC insiders. Several seats on the La City Council are up for grabs this coming Eletay. Seven people are running to replace

turned out councilmen and council President Paul Krekorian. One of them is a former chief of staff to Krekorian. The seat held by a councilwoman Heather Hut is also being filled. Hutt was appointed caretaker city councilwoman last year when Mark Ridley Thomas was indicted and convicted of corruption. Hutt is now running for the full term. Three other council seats are also up in this election. Two men

have been hurt in a crash off a bridge near Griffith Park. Their car went over the edge of the overpass on Riverside Drive onto the one thirty four late last night. It hit the freeway divider and burst into flames. Two men in their sixties managed to get out of the car and were taken to the hospital. The crash has made a mess of the roadway. We'll get

the very latest from Nick Poliochini in just a couple of minutes. House Intelligence Chair Mike Turner says CIA director William Burns told him a ceasefire is close in the Israel Hamas war. Turner says it's important to get the deal done because there are hostages still being held by Hamas and a major need to get aid into the Gaza Strip. ABC's Aikejachi says the US began dropping aid to Palestinians over the weekend. US military cargo planes dropped food and palates over Gaza Saturday.

It comes after reports of more kids than Gaza dying from a lack of food and more civilians dying in Israeli airstrikes. Israel has reportedly agreed to a framework of a potential temporary cease fire and hostage release agreement. NCAA college basketball has a new all time scoring leader. Iowa's Caitlin Clark broke broke Pete Marevich's fifty four year old career scoring record yesterday with point number three thousand, six

hundred sixty eight. I feel like I'm living in a dream, honestly, Holly, and hopefully I can inspire a lot of young girls to be able to dream, to be on stages like this. Clark broke the record before a sold out crowd. She finished the game with thirty five points, nine assists, six rebounds, and three steals in a ninety three eighty three win over second ranked Ohio State. It's five seven on your wake up call.

Let's say good morning now to ABC's m Win in Washington, so M. The Supreme Court has been busy and some decisions are still months away, but apparently we're going to get at least one today, at least one to day,

and the one we're really watching out for is Trump the Anderson. This is a potentially landmark Supreme Court decision that could come in the next couple of hours in a case over whether Donald Trump could be kicked off the primary ballot due to his efforts to overturn his twenty twenty election defeat to Joe Biden. So this case revolves around Section three of the fourteenth Amendment, which prohibits officers of the United States from holding public office who have taken an oth to the

country and then engage insurrection. So remember Colorado Supreme Court made a ruling weeks ago that Trump was disqualified from their primary ballot because they believe he engaged in an insurrection, and the former president's team appealed, and the Supreme Court heard oral arguments less than a month ago. So this is super expedited if we do see a decision today, which is very likely, okay, and do we have a feeling of which way they're going to go? Yeah, So

of course there's a very unprecedented case. But the court, when I was there during oral arguments, seemed very reluctant to take the story step of actually borring Trump from appearing on the primary ballots this election. Yeer justices from both sides, liberals and conservatives, are very critical of Colorado's decision because of two

main reasons. Number one, they questioned whether the state should be allowed to decide whether someone want engage in insurrection without being convicted and essentially get to decide who gets to be president. So should a state be allowed to affect the

entire nation? Then the other question they asked was essentially when the fourteenth Amendment was written, if the framers during that time in the eighteen sixties intended to give states more power following the Civil War, and so those two distinctions were made by the justices. Of course, the other side argued that it is very clear that Trump tried to overturn the twenty twenty election and therefore should be

banned. There was one of the plaintiffs. Her name is Norma and Anderson, and she's ninety one years old, and she says she's gone through a lot of presidents and this is the first one that's trying to destroy the constitution. Okay, so let's play the what if game just a little bit. If Colorado cannot kick Trump off the ballot. If the Supreme Court says no, you can't do that, does that nullify all the other state's efforts to

kick them off the ballot. Illinois just filed just announced last week that they're not going to put them on the ballot, right right exactly, So this could have implications nationwide if they were to turn this down, which is what the TEA leads are kind of pointing towards. There's other states like Illinois, like you mentioned from last week, but also the Secretary of State of Maine just qualified Trump on the states back and there are more than a dozen other

states with pending situations right now. So those legal challenges essentially will be thrown out if they are trying to base their disqualifications on the fourteenth Amendment, And it essentially just gives a lot more clarity to this one hundred and fifty year old constitutional provision. And then essentially moving forward, those names that have Donald Trump on the ballot, those will stay there. But let's say this goes

the other direction to ask as Colorado. As I mentioned, Colorado still has Donald Trump's name on the ballot, but this decision would then decide whether those votes for Trump that we would be seeing tomorrow and Super Tuesday would actually get counted or would just retrone out. Okay, So if the Supreme Court went

again, we're just playing the life game. If the Supreme Court said, yeah, Colorado can kick them off, would that just open the floodgates for even more states possibly to jump in and say can't be on the ballot?

Oh? Absolutely. I mean, as I mentioned, there are pending decisions in more than a dozen other states, and this, if it were to go in that direction, would then just enforce their thoughts about the fourteenth Amendment not only for those states, but potentially other states could be thinking the same thing as well. Okay, and then, because you know this stuff so well, if that happened and then say Illinois took him off the ballot,

could Trump's team challenge that again? Or because of the Supreme Court ruling, then all bets are off. They wouldn't have any legal ground to stand on because the Supreme Court had already ruled on it. Right. So, normally, when the Supreme Court rules on a case like this, which essentially had already been decided in the state itself of Colorado, then there's no more legal ground on this specific argument. Now they potentially could try to appeal it again

on a different arguments. Maybe they have another thing up their sleeve. But essentially, when they're trying to argue that a few things that the presidency and a US officer which is mentioned in the Fourtune Amendment are separate, you know, so certain arguments there would not be able to come back up again. So essentially they wouldn't have much footing to continue this argument, but they potentially could bring up a different argument, which we've seen in the past multiple times

with the Trump team. Okay, a lot of steak today and when thanks for helping us sort it out. Thanks so much. All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Governor Newsom has visited parts of the California Mexico border that have seen

a lot more illegal immigrant crossings in recent months. He was briefed by California National Guard and US Border Patrol officials late Friday and met with community leaders at a migrant shelter in San Diego. Newsom praised President Biden's executive actions on the Board and criticized Republicans for blocking a bipartisan border security deal. The LAPD has

responded to the City controllers report on the alleged misuse of helicopter. Laped's command staff says the City Controller's implication the helicopters are wasting time, money and resources is based on flawed research. The City Controller said sixty one percent of laped's flight time was for non emergencies, but LAPD Commander Shannon Paulson recently told the Police Commission the Controller's audit was based on a highly inaccurate definition of Part one

crimes as defined by the FBI. The commander says helicopters are also used just stop street takeovers, which are not classified as Part one crimes but are a high priority for the city. The City Controller's office says it stands by its report and told The Times the LAPD's reaction was politically motivated. Steve Gregory kfinows the European Union has fined Apple nearly two billion dollars for breaking the block's competition

laws. The EU says Apple unfairly favored its own music streaming service over rivals. Vice President Harris is set to meet at the White House with Israeli War Cabinet member Benny Getz. Erris called for a ceasefire yesterday during an event in Alabama and said Israel must do more to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, no excuses. They must open new border crossings. They must not impose any unnecessary restrictions on the delivery of aid. She also said Israel has the right to

defend itself and repeated the US's unwavering commitment to Israel's security. CVS Health and Walgreens plan to start dispensing the abortion pill MiFi press Stone in some states within weeks. CVS Health will start filling prescriptions in Rhode Island and neighboring Massachusetts. Walgreens will start in California, New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Illinois. Nott's Berry Farm is now going to let visitors pay a little extra to

skip the lines. People can choose the option that charges seven fifty in up per individual ride. Is part of the park's fast Lane Front of the Line program. Smable lapp shows the available pay per ride attractions after two pm each day. The number of passes sold each day is limited. Prices vary by ride day, time and time of day and also time of year, sounds like maybe it was working for Disneyland, so they thought, let's give it

a shot when we come back. Humanitarian aid is now being air dropped into Gaza since most trucks are still being prevented from entering. We're going to find out more with ABC's and Flaherty. You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI Am six forty. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Nikki Hayley has picked up her first win of the twenty twenty four election season. She got sixty three percent of the vote in Washington,

DC's primary election. Ahead of tomorrow's Super Tuesday, voters in fifteen states, including California, head to the polls with almost nine hundred delegates, that's about a third of them on the line. A man's been arrested for trying to steal a way Mow Robo taxi in downtown LA Police say the guy hopped behind the wheel late Saturday night after the car had dropped someone else off. He

tried to put it in drive but didn't get away. Bus rides are free for election day around La Metro buses and trains are going to be free tomorrow. Officials say it's to encourage people to get out the vote. Metro will also have ballot drop boxes at nine locations, including at Union Station. Polls are open tomorrow from seven am to eight pm. At six oh five, it's handle on the news. A ship in the Red Sea, hit weeks ago by Hoothi rebels has sank and for the Red Sea, that's bad news.

We'll tell you why right now. Let's check in with ABC's senior national reporter and Flaherty. Good morning, and hey, good morning. So the US has joined other countries in air dropping some humanitarian aid into the Gaza strip. Can you tell us all about that? Yeah, so we are told that this is a first, that this has not happened, certainly not since the war began October seventh. But the US strapped about sixty six pallets to parachutes, loaded them up on a one see one thirty planes and flew them

over and dropped them over the coastline of Gaza. And of course we saw this remarkable video over the weekend of people running out to those palettes to try to get to the aid packages. What was inside was about thirty eight thousand MREs. These are the meals that troops set when they're out in the field. You know, of course there are two million people in Gaza. We're getting reports of children dying of starvation, not necessarily bombs or other disease,

it's just simple starvation because the devastation there has grown so acute. So, you know, the US frustrated that a lot of these aid trucks have been held up and prevented from going in through the ground checkpoints, so teaming up with other countries Jordan Israel says they coordinated with this, which is a little bit hard to imagine because they had been blocking those you know, aid checkpoints on the ground, but allowing those aid packages to be dropped from the air

a very inefficient way to deliver aid there, but at least one first initial step. Yeah, And so this was the first time that there had been air drops or other countries had been doing it, and now the US is joining them. Well, the other countries have been doing it over the past week or so, and this was the first air drop that the United States had done, and certainly we heard from the President that there's going to be more that he's going to look at every avenue, land, sea and air

to try to deliver more AID. Okay. And when I initially heard about this, and I don't know if you were the same way, I was like, Oh, that sounds great, let's get some food in there. And I went, how are they going to drop palettes of food and not hit anyone? Yeah, you know, I actually asked that exact question of people at the Pentagon and they said, you know, when you strap it to that giant parachute that I mentioned, it does actually drift very slowly to

the ground. So this is not going you know, the rate of speed down to the ground. So we did see video that you know, landing safely. The concern, though, is the same with the AID truck. So we saw in the past week that there was an incident where reported one hundred people were killed. When there was a chaotic scene of people trying to get around an AID truck, shots were fired. Israeli defense forces say that

people mostly died in the stampede. There are questions about that, but certainly you can imagine that with two million starving people and thirty eight food packages, thirty eight thousand food packages, that there could be quite the scramble there. So you know, that was a concern, and I think that the more aid that they can drop, the less that becomes a concern. But certainly we're nowhere near hitting and being able to meet the need that is in Gaza

right now. Yeah, did anyone ask why this hasn't been done before in the last week. Yeah, you know, we've asked that behind the scenes, and certainly that's a question for the White House, and you know, I've mostly been speaking with Pentagon people. It's not very efficient, that is one, you know, very obvious answer. The most efficient way to get aid to the Gosen people is to roll a truck through there, and there

have been questions about that. Israel has been very hesitant. They've been limiting the amount of aid that comes through because simply they say they don't want any of that aid to end up in the hands of Hamas. But the problem is that when you're dropping it from the air, it's just it's not very efficient, it's very expensive. That was not avenue that the administration was pushing for for several weeks. I think it just became the avenue that was the

only one that they could do this week. Yeah, like something's got to be done. They need they need to get some food in there. Then let's switch gears real quick, because I know we're kind of almost out of time. The ceasefire. Apparently there's some a framework that has been agreed to, but now we're hearing that the Israeli delegation isn't going to go to the talks, So you know, this is a fast moving situation, very fluid.

What we were hearing over the weekend was that Israeli had essentially agreed to a framework for a ceasefire and that it was the onusless quote on Hamas. That's what US officials were telling us. We do know that Hamas negotiators are reportedly showing up in Cairo right now. I do not have you know if the Israelis have since pulled out in the past hour. I'm not aware of

it. But you know, this situation obviously very very fluid, Okay, and we will keep watching it. Anne Flaherty, thank you so much for your information this morning. Appreciate it. Thank you. All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Fifteen states have primary elections on Super Tuesday. That's tomorrow. Former President Trump campaigned in North Carolina over the weekend. Well do you help,

we will win big. On Super Tuesday, Nikki Haley was in Vermont, where a recent poll found more than sixty percent of the voters support Trump. I need you to go Tuesday and vote. Ailey went after Trump and President Biden, calling them more of the same. A teenager has been arrested for allegedly shooting at police in Anna. No officers were hurt in the shooting early yesterday morning, and they did not return fire. They searched the neighborhood for

hours and say detectives saw the teen's mom driving away from the area. The boy was arrested in Mission Viajo on suspicion of attempted murder of a peace officer and other crimes. Researchers that U see Irvine have identified a relationship among drought, invasive plant species and wildfires. The study determined that the reduced fire severity associated with drought encourages several invasive species. Researchers say some non native grasses thrive

in these conditions, which leads to a transformation of the landscape. Then the return of an abundance and diversity of native species. Problem is wildfire management, such as controlled burns in coastal sage scrub systems, can inadvertently promote other invasive species, which can prevent native plants from returning. Researchers suggest addressing climate change

instead. In Orange County, Corbin Carson kf I News. Okay, you know that inflation has hit everyone, right, Well, we're talking and everyone. It's not only prices at the gas pumps and cars and food that's costing more, but inflation has hit the tooth fairy. So there is a report that this one woman in Temecula gave her daughter one hundred dollars and decorated the

bill with glitter and tiny removable rhinestones. And the poll last year by Delta Dentzel said that in twenty twenty two the average for a tooth is six dollars and twenty three cents, up from actually that was for twenty twenty three. In twenty twenty two it was five dollars and thirty six cents. The same pole found twenty percent of kids now get both money and like a gift.

I was lucky if I got a dime. In the UK, this one lady said the tooth Fairy gave her daughter the equivalent of seventy six dollars and fifty cents in US dollars, plus a letter, I guess congratulating her, and a silver fairy necklace along with a Louis Vitan bracelet. Come on, people, So apparently it's like keeping up with the Joneses, but it's keeping up with the tooth Fairy. Like I said, I think the most I got was twenty five cents. When we come back, that fire in Texas

has scorched more than a million acres. We're going to get the latest on the fire and what may have sparked it from ABC's Jim Ryan. That's just around the corner. You're listening to a wake up call on demand from KFI Am six forty. It's National Snack Day. I'm not sure what I'm gonna celebrate it with, but hmmm, I think my favorite favorite favorite snack is Cheetos puffed kinds. Just thinking might be a good day to go get some.

Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A one hundred mile stretch of the eighty Freeway in the Sierra Nevada is still closed because of a weekend blizzard. Dozens of people got stranded for hours in their cars. There were reports of all kinds of spinouts and jackknife trucks, and then they shut it down. The roadway impassable because of blowing snow piling up in lanes, and more snow is expected. Six hundred and twenty five early voting

centers have opened in La County ahead of tomorrow's primary election. They'll be open ten to seven. Polls tomorrow are open from seven am to eight pm. Voter turnout not expected to be great, only about thirty percent. Early voting centers are also open in Orange County, Ventura, San Bernardino riverside. The European Union has fined Apple nearly two billion dollars for unfairly favoring its own music streaming service over that of rivals. At six z five, it's handle on

the news. The Supreme Court's going to hand down rulings today, one of them expected to be whether Donald Trump can be on the ballot in Colorado. At five point fifty, we're going to be checking in on our favorite expectant parent, Bald Eagles, Jackie in Shadow. We're going to be talking with the executive director of Friends of Big Bear Valley. Can't wait for that. Those chips the Chick's got to come anytime now. Right now, though,

let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim, we talked to you last week and wanted to get an update on the more than a million acres burned in Texas. Yeah, well, yeah, it's only expanded from there right now. The smoke House Creek fires, you know, i ME is the biggest, one largest in Texas history and as far as we know, second largest in US history at lasts that the last estimate showed that it had burned one million, seventy six, six hundred and thirty eight acres. That's

larger than the state of Rhode Island. Also a last check it was only fifteen percent contained. Now those numbers will be updated later today. The Texas and m Forest Service is responsible for keeping track of all of that, and yeah, we should get some updates today in terms of containment and the number of acres that this fire has burned. And it's is it still growing or is it sort of stalled out? It's growing every day. It consumes more

acreage. So in that way. Yeah, it's still growing. It also joined up with another fire that was burning out there last week on Friday. That's part of the reason that it exploded into such a massive wildfire, because it joined up with another smaller one. And so, yeah, it's still expanding. It's still consuming grassland, pasture, and buildings. Four hundred buildings at last count. The weather has moderated somewhat. Thursday, it went dropped

out of like twenty three degrees and it was snowing. That helped a little bit. It certainly made a little less uncomfortable to fight the flames. But now temperatures have warmed up again. The real issue, though, the real weather issue is the wind, and that's what's pushing these fires along. Fifteen to twenty mile an hour winds today, but gusts will be higher than that.

I was watching Yellowstone over the weekend. I know I'm a late joiner on the whole yellow Stone thing, but they were talking about heading to Texas. They got to take some cattle down there or something, and they were talking about the winds and the Panhandle, and it reminded me of what's going on right now. And every time I've been up there and I've been up there to the Panhandle any times, and step out of the car, you get out or whatever you're doing, the howling wind it just doesn't let up.

It's on the south plains there, and there's nothing there. The Rockies are way too far to the northwest, and anything else that might stop the wind is just so far away that the wind comes whipping across there and that is driving these flames along. And yeah, as Yellowstone suggest that part of Texas, the Panhandle is cattle country. Countless ranches up there, and so much of the property that's been burned was ranch land. The hay was killed.

They we have no of at least a thousand cattle that have died. The numbers are, yeah, and they because there's nowhere for them to go because they're ranches and it's wide open, but it's all fenced off, right right, there's just no plate. You're right, there's no plate. And certainly the ranchers couldn't act fast enough to truck them up and get them out of there or somehow protect them. And so unfortunately that was a big loss up there. Yeah. Is this an unusually dry winter in Texas? It

it? Well, Yeah, the issue is that last spring and into the summertime it was wet. There are a lot of rain out there, and that helped all the vegetation there to grow. But then when everything dried out in the late summer and into the fall, you had all this fuel out there that was ready to go and was set to burn, and it did. So that's the same thing that happens in California. We go, Yay,

we got all this rain. It's great, and then they go, oh, but that's bad because when it dries out in the summer, that

just makes what you know of us prime for wildfires more fuel. Another potential parallel to the investigators are looking at the possibility that it was a down power line that might have started the Smokehouse Creek fire, and a couple of lawsuits already have been filed suggest that so Excel Energy, which owns those power lines out there, is being questioned and investigation is underway to see if that was the source of this same way that so many of your fires have started that

way. Yeah, they just settled for like I think it was in the hundreds of millions of dollars for one of the fires from a couple of years ago. I mean, it's just it's crazy, because what do you do. I mean, you have to have the power lines. Yeah, and if it's a maintenance issue, you know, it's you know, it's a tough one to figure out. But if the lines were not properly maintained, if the trees had not been cut away from them by the power company,

then you know, there could be claims for responsibility. And certainly that's what these lawsuits are claiming. Okay, so fifteen percent surrounded and will hope for more favorable weather so they can get a handle on this exactly. That's right now, it's still only fifteen percent. Some of the other the big one, the Windy Douce fire, which was to the west of that, it's nowt contained, but it's already burned one hundred and forty four thousand nickers too.

Just crazy and like you said, it's just wide open range. There's nothing to stop it slowed down. So all right, Jim Ryan, thank you so much for the update. Appreciate it. Thanks Abe. All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Families are mourning the deaths of three women killed in a Dui crash in Pomona, and suv ran a red light late Saturday and slammed into a car with five people inside. One of the women killed was in

the process of adopting her eleven year old nephew. I feel like her time is way too short, although I do know that she died peacefully. She died loving me. A twelve year old girl in the car was one of the two people who survived the crash. The driver of the SUV that hit them was arrested for felony DUI. A Massachusetts Air National guardsman, is expected to plead guilty in Boston to leaking classified documents. Jack to Shara is due

in federal court today. He alleged leaked documents online that included information about Ukrainian military positions, assessments of international support for Ukraine, and other sensitive details. He's charged with unauthorized retention and transmission of classified national defense information under the Espionage Act. Officials in Malaysia say they're looking to restart the search for Malaysian Airlines Flight three seventy it disappeared. I can't even believe this. Ten years ago.

ABC's Derek Dennis's the plane is believed to have crashed into the Indian Ocean in twenty fourteen. Texas based company Ocean Infinity claims to have scientific evidence of the plane's final resting place at the bottom of the ocean, and it is proposing an all new, no fine, no fee search. Malaysia's Transportation minister says he's invited ocean Infinity to share its new evidence and has promised to approve a new search if it's credible. Two hundred and thirty nine people were aboard

the flight when it disappeared. A museum in New York to capture memories from the Woodstock festival that attracted more than four hundred and fifty thousand young people in August of nineteen sixty nine. It's a new dog. It was an epic event that now evokes memories about society state of mind nearing the end of a tumultuous decade. Teens or young adults who are there are now in the twilight

of their lives. That ticking clock is why the museum at Bethel Woods has started a five year project recording the oral histories of people from all over the US who were there to catch the Woodstock memories before it's too late you Sandy Wells KFI News and to rise. You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM six forty abe Eglett Hatching. We're talking to the executive director of Friends of Big Bear Valley. In just a second. Here's what we're

following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Vice President Kamala Harris will meet with Israeli War Cabinet member Betty Benny Gantz at the White House today, a day after she called for an immediate ceasefire in the Israel Hamas war in the Gaza Strip. Israel meantime, had agreed to the framework for a six week ceasefire, but Hamas hasn't responded. A ship that was hit by Hoothy rebel missiles in the Red Sea has sank, taking about twenty one thousand metric tons

of fertilizer down with it. Officials say that poses a significant environmental risk to one of the world's busiest waterways and the home of many coral reefs. The ship was hit on February eighteenth. Jet Blue Airways is facing pushback from antitrust regulators in the US, so much so that it has now ended its bid to buy Spirit Airlines that's been in the works for a while. We're just

minutes away from Handle. On the news this morning, a blizzard in northern California has shut down roads and ski resorts, and more snow is on the way. Right now, let's say good morning to the executive director of Friends of Big Bear Valley. It's Sandy Steers. Good morning, Sandy morning. So as as anybody who listens to Wake Up Call knows, I'm obsessed with these eagles. We've got Jackie in shadow and I just saw Jackie get up

and move around a minute ago. And the little camera that's trained on the nest zoomed in to look at the eggs to see if there's any pipping going on. Have we seen any? We have not yet. We haven't seen any yet. Okay, what is pipping again? Just for people who aren't as obsessed as I am with this, it's when you see the first little bump or crack in the egg that shows that the chick is trying to poke its way out. Okay, and right now is that time? So we

hit with the first egg. It was thirty five days on last Thursday, on the twenty ninth, right, yes, okay, so we're now at forty days for the first one, or thirty nine days. Thirty nine days, do my math right, right? So Jackie's eggs haven't usually hatched out until date thirty eight or thirty nine. Okay, so we're not concerned yet, no, okay. And then when were the other eggs laid? Because the first one hit thirty five days on Thursday, and then the other ones

came a few days after that. Yeah. Yeah, each one was three days apart. I have a question for you because we've seen the eggs grow and you can see all this, so you not only hear me talking about it and gushing about how cool this is, but you can see it. Just google the Big Bear Eagle cam and then pop it up on YouTube and you can watch them. You can watch them twenty four hours a day. I was watching this morning, and like I said, I saw Jackie get

up and move around. But we've seen the eggs grow because they come out and they're pretty small, and over the course of them, they don't grow. The eggs don't grow, they don't know the chick grows inside the egg. Well that just answers my question because I was like how do those eggs get bigger? I thought they got bigger. Yeah, they don't it, you know, just it might look like it because of the different angles of the camera and things like that. Okay, And with the bad weather,

I cleared that up. And Anne's gonna laugh at me now because she was like, yeah, I ask the question, how do the eggs get bigger? I'm like, I don't know because they're like solid, right, Okay, So I'm just done that way with all the bad weather. Jackie tense. She's a female, obviously, she tends to stay right on top of those eggs and we'll and but the they switch off. So how how much time does she give up to Shadow? Now when she's kind of in full

on mommy mode, she well, she's still giving up some. As long as there's not bad weather, she will let him sit on the eggs somewhere, usually between four and six or seven hours, depending on the day. When there's bad weather, she won't let him have any time, because she's a good mama. Okay. And then we know that, you know, the chances of all three making it, we're hoping for that, we know that that might not happen. When when do we start to get concerned.

Well, I just watch and see what happens, and hopefully they will hatch and then we'll see, you know, what happens from here. But we don't make predictions. We just watch mother nature and see what happens, and we'll let people know if there's ever anything that you know, it's time to give up. But Jackie and Shadow will show us, you know, what

to do. And they're taking really good care of the eggs and they're hopeful or whatever they are to to you know about the eggs hatching, because they're very dedicated this year, more than ever they always are, but this year they've been only a few seconds without anybody on the eggs, you know, during this whole time. Yeah, And in years past they've had like the ravens have come and come at them. Have we had any of that this year? No, we have not. They've been so dedicated that nothing has

a chance to get anywhere near there. Okay, And when they do switch out, like we know that Shadow goes and he brings fish up to Jackie and that kind of stuff. When she leaves the nest, does she go hunting too or does she just kind of go and sleep or rest. She also goes and hunts because and we can tell because sometimes she comes back with her crop that where they store food at the base of her neck. She comes back with that very full, so we know she's gone off and eaten.

Oh so, and they can hold the food there, so like if she is stuck on the net like earlier when the last time we talked, she'd been on the nest for like two and a half days or something like that, but that's okay because she's got food and it can exactly Yeah, they store it in their crop and they can swallow a little bit at a time that then goes into their digestive system. And we saw her doing that during that two and a half days, you know, so she's had food

in there and she was doing well. Okay, Well, the sun is coming up on the Big Bear Valley area and we can see that Jackie's sitting there all hunkered down, and we're just waiting and waiting, and you have like thousands of people watching this camera at any given time. Now, is it really it's really kind of taken hold, hasn't it. It has Everybody I think is just fascinated with being able to see the eagles so close up and see how they behave and what they do and their personality. And I

love that everybody is getting to watch nature this close up. Yep Oh producer Ann had a question one one last question for you. How do the eggs get nutrition? How do those little babies grow because they don't they're not attached to an umbilical cord or anything. No, they've got that's what the yolk is in sighte of the egg when it first starts, okay, and so they eat off of that yolk the whole time, okay. And how when they come when they come out, there's already a little tiny eglet and it

just gets bigger and bigger. And when it gets too too full for when it gets you know, cramped quarters, that's when it decides to come out, right exactly when it runs out of air really okay, then it then it has to poke the membrane on the inside first and then start poking the shell to get out. Okay. Well, Jackie and Shadow have been doing their job, and we'll be watching. Thank you so much for the update, Sandy Steers. We appreciate it, and uh, I know I will

be watching. And it's a it's on the YouTube channel and it's the uh just look for Big Bear Eagle Cam and you can watch them anytime. Thanks. On our website, oh Friends a Big Bear Valley dot org, you can also watch it. Great. Thank you so much, thank you. Okay, thanks Sandy. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four our newsroom. I know it's ridiculous. I'm obsessed with these things, but they're so so cool, all right. The Supreme

Court is expected to issue one or more opinions today. ABC's Royal Oaks says the court could rule on whether former President Trump can be kicked off the twenty twenty four ballot in Colorado. The expectation is that the High Court will issue its opinion in the Colorado case that found Trump was barred from the ballot as

an insurrectionist. The timing makes sense because as a huge number of citizens go to the polls the next day to vote in several Super Tuesday primaries, He says, the Supreme Court likely wants voters to be aware of its decision. Voters in southern California can get their primary ballots in before Super Tuesday on this last day of early voting centers are open for people to either vote in person or drop ballots off. They can still be mailed in as long as they're

postmarked by election Day, which is tomorrow. Nikki Haley says she no longer feels bound by a pledge to the Republican National Committee to support the party's presidential nominee. So you're no longer bound by that pledge. No, I think I'll make what decision I want to make. Hailey says she is not obligated to endorse former President Trump. She complete that the RNC is now Trump's RNC.

A woman in West Hollywood says she caught a neighbor on her doorbell camera drawing what looks like a swastika on her groceries, which were outside her front door. The man denied it when he was confronted in December. The woman says she's still in shock. She says she believes the alleged anti semitism was because she put up an Israeli flag. Trader Joe's has recalled more than sixty one thousand pounds of chicken soup dumplings because they could contain hard plastic from a

permanent marker of all things. The recall is for six ounce packs of steamed chicken soup dumplings. They're produced by Cjfoods Manufacturing, Beaumont Corporation. NASA and SpaceX are celebrating, and they have every reason to the successful launch of the Crew eight mission to the International Space Station. The SpaceX crew Dragon Endeavor atop a Falcon nine booster, lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center last night.

The three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut on board will do and spend six months on the space station. And as I mentioned earlier, I just happened to be kind of channel surfing right about when it was getting ready to lift off, and the channel that had it on said we're just gonna watch this for a minute. And I love it when they do that. The commentators just are quiet and you watch, you know, real life unfolding. And

I haven't watched a launch in a while. It was pretty spectacular. You could probably go google it and watch it over again, but really cool to see. You've been listening to Wake Up Call with me Amy King. You can always hear Wake Up Call five to six am Monday through Friday on KFI am six forty and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.