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Posted: 3:55 a.m. Friday, Dec. 24, 2010

KRMG Morning News "Stack of Stuff" and Notes 12/24/2010 

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By Joe Kelley, Host of the KRMG Morning News

  1. KOTV - A mural that had become a well recognized symbol of downtown - has been painted over. What was the Mayfest mural at 3rd and Main is now a blank, white wall. Workers painted over the mural on the side of the Crown Plaza Hotel. That happened yesterday. The mural was started in 2007 and elements were added each year since by artist William Franklin. The cover up is part of the hotel changing hands and names. After January 1, it's going to become a Hyatt Regency - and the new logo will go up in that spot.
  2. KOTV - A man who says he had been stabbed showed up at a West Tulsa fire station screaming for help. He was transported by EMSA at 3:15 p.m. from Fire Station No. 26, 2400 W 51st St. Captain Danny Kaiser of the Tulsa Fire Department said the victim was in his mid 30's and told firefighters he had been stabbed with a long knife. Firefighters say he told them he had been stabbed nearby. Kaiser said the victim was put on a backboard and given IV fluids before transport. Other firefighters who helped treat the victim say he had lost a substantial amount of blood, and they believed he was dropped off at the station by someone who then left.
  3. KRMG - Tulsa Police are investigating a shooting that wounded two young boys just before 3 p.m. Thursday. The shooting took place at Bill's Quick Stop, 5266 N. Peoria. Police say someone, possibly in a black Cadillac, drove up and started shooting in broad daylight - hitting a 5-year-old boy and a 2-year-old boy outside the store. One child was shot in the leg, the other received a grazing head wound. Both were taken to a local hospital in serious condition. No one else was injured, and police believe the parents were likely the target. Tulsa Police are looking for a man named Ricky Loron Shannon as a person of interest in the shooting. Ricky Shannon is 24 years old, 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs about 145 pounds.
  4. NEW YORK (AP) -- It's Black Friday, The Sequel. Stores are rolling out deals and expect to be swimming in shoppers on Christmas Eve as stragglers take advantage of a day off work. For retailers, the last-minute rush caps the best year since 2007, and possibly ever. With Christmas falling on a Saturday this year, Friday is a holiday for most U.S. workers. That lets shoppers hit the stores first thing in the morning. "I'm calling it Fantastic Friday, because I really do think it's going to be one of the busiest days of the year," said Marshal Cohen, chief fashion industry analyst with researcher NPD Group. A strong Christmas Eve would round out a surprisingly successful holiday season for retailers. The National Retail Federation predicts that holiday spending will reach $451.5 billion this year, up 3.3 percent over last year. That would be the biggest year-over-year increase since 2006, and the largest total since spending hit a record $452.8 billion in 2007. A strong finish could even give 2010 the crown.
  5. Police and security agents were sent scrambling when a driver crashed onto the front lawn of former President George W. Bush's home near Dallas. Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan says the single-car accident happened Wednesday, and neither Bush nor his wife were injured. He says there was no reported damage to their house. Donovan says the driver was questioned but released after the accident. He says the man had been visiting one of Bush's neighbors.
  6. SACRAMENTO, CA - An airline pilot is being disciplined by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for posting video on YouTube pointing out what he believes are serious flaws in airport security. The 50-year-old pilot, who lives outside Sacramento, asked that neither he nor his airline be identified. He has worked for the airline for more than a decade and was deputized by the TSA to carry a gun in the cockpit. He is also a helicopter test pilot in the Army Reserve and flew missions for the United Nations in Macedonia. Three days after he posted a series of six video clips recorded with a cell phone camera at San Francisco International Airport, four federal air marshals and two sheriff's deputies arrived at his house to confiscate his federally-issued firearm. The pilot recorded that event as well and provided all the video to News10. At the same time as the federal marshals took the pilot's gun, a deputy sheriff asked him to surrender his state-issued permit to carry a concealed weapon. A follow-up letter from the sheriff's department said the CCW permit would be reevaluated following the outcome of the federal investigation. The YouTube videos, posted Nov. 28, show what the pilot calls the irony of flight crews being forced to go through TSA screening while ground crew who service the aircraft are able to access secure areas simply by swiping a card.
  7. BROOKLINE (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - A Brookline (MA) school is now saying permission slips won't be necessary for students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. The Edward Devotion School, which has not recited the Pledge of Allegiance in seven years, will say the Pledge over the school's intercom once a week beginning next month. Gerardo Martinez, the school's principal, initially said the permission slips were sent to encourage parents to have a discussion with their kids about the Pledge. The principal also says he sent this note out to parents just to let them know it was okay if they do not want their kids to participate. Unfortunately for the principal, the thought of a permission slip to recite the Pledge set off a fire storm. Eventually the principal sent out a second note to parents explaining that it was not mandatory to sign the permission slips It is state law for teachers to lead their classes in daily pledges at the start of school. Under Brookline school policy, the recitation may take place weekly, according to Martinez.
  8. FOXNEWS - The first family just can't seem to enjoy a beach vacation near clean, pristine water, and the current presidential vacation is no different. Hawaii has been plagued with heavy rains recently, and the Oahu village of Kailua has been forced to release untreated sewage and agricultural runoff into Kailua Bay and the beaches around the Obamas' rental home. County officials have posted signs telling tourists to stay out of the water but many Hawaiian visitors are going in for a Christmas dip anyway. But the first family's issues with dirty water began last summer. After pressure in August to vacation in Gulf Coast areas affected by the BP oil spill, the first family spent a weekend visiting Florida's panhandle. After swimming at Alligator Point in oil-plagued Panama City with daughter Sasha, the president jetted off to Martha's Vineyard where the family was greeted by more contaminated water. As the Obamas arrived on the posh Massachusetts island, local health officials were closing beaches and the salt-water lagoon near the family's rental compound because of high levels of fecal coli-form bacteria.
  9. AOL NEWS - WASHINGTON -- The Homeland Security Department has alerted air carriers to a potential terror tactic involving insulated beverage containers like thermoses. The alert stressed that there is no intelligence about an active terror plot, but travelers may notice airport screeners taking a closer look at empty insulated containers. The Transportation Security Administration "is carefully monitoring information related to terrorist tactics" in coordination with other nations, TSA spokeswoman Sterling Payne said in a statement Thursday. "The possible tactics terrorists might use include the concealment of explosives inside insulated beverage containers, so in the coming days, passengers flying within and to the U.S. may notice additional security measures related to insulated beverage containers."
  10. AOL NEWS - HUNTLEIGH, Mo -- Authorities were investigating the death of a 27-year-old woman whose body was found earlier this week at the suburban St. Louis home of former Anheuser-Busch CEO August Busch IV. Police and the St. Louis County medical examiner's office on Thursday identified the victim as Adrienne N. Martin of St. Charles. An autopsy has been conducted but results could take four to six weeks. Police were called Sunday afternoon to the home in the St. Louis suburb of Huntleigh and found Martin's body. St. Louis County forensic administrator Suzanne McCune said there were no signs of trauma or illness. Art Margulis, an attorney for Busch, said Martin was a friend of Busch who was visiting the home. He said there was "absolutely nothing suspicious" about Martin's death. "It was a tragic death of a young woman," he said. STLtoday.com, the website for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, quoted unnamed friends as saying Martin and Busch were dating. The newspaper said Martin was the mother of an 8-year-old child.
  11. The OBAMA White House reversed a BUSH-era land management policy yesterday that restricted some types of wilderness designations that fall inside about 245-million acres of land managed by the Federal Bureau of Land Management. The latest move gives BLM field managers the ability to protect areas determined to have "wilderness characteristics." Congress will still have the power to create federal "Wilderness Areas." No surprise that Republicans quickly criticized the move, with many calling it a "backdoor approach" to getting around Congress. But the order repeals a highly-criticized policy adopted in 2003 under then-Interior Secretary GALE NORTON.
  12. Former BUSH White House strategist KARL ROVE is still not convinced that that Secretary of State HILLARY CLINTON won't run for president. He predicted this week that Hillary will be seeking the White House again by 2016. He told Fox News, "I suspect she will be a candidate. I suspect she is going to think about being a candidate in 2016, and we'll know by about 2014 ... If she leaves the administration in 2014 or 2015, in order to give herself a chance to write a book about her experiences and reconnect with the grassroots, then she might entertain it." He added, "She'll be younger in 2016 than JOHN McCAIN was when he ran, and she will --I suspect-- be a big presence on the Democratic scene."
  13. One surefire way to ruin the holidays is to make your entire family sick with food-borne illnesses. Dieticians say it's important when cooking this Christmas to remember the "two hour rule" --that is, food can only sit out for two hours before it needs to go in the refrigerator. A dietician with the Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service admits it's easy to get caught up in other things during family gatherings. But if you leave the leftovers out too long, you're better off throwing them away than risking an illness. When it comes to reheating your leftovers, make sure they get heated to at least 165-degrees to kill harmful bacteria. And be sure to wash your hands before and after handling the food.
  14. This year, NORAD will once again be tracking Santa on Christmas Eve --they've done it for more than 50 years. Background: according to the story, it began in 1955 when a Colorado Springs-based Sears store ad included a Santa hotline. The number was a misprint; calling it would put kids through to the command center at the Continental Air Defense Command, CONAD, which is NORAD's predecessor. Since that time, staffers at NORAD have responded personally to phone calls from children on Christmas Eve --lots of volunteers pitch in, too. This year, the information is provided in six languages. The number? 877-HI-NORAD. It operates from 2 am (Mountain) Dec 24 till 2 am (Mountain) Dec 25. Using it's 47 radar installations across Canada, satellites, Santa Cams and Canadian CF-18 jet fighters, NORAD will provide updates throughout Christmas Eve to let folks know where Santa is along his journey.You can also track him using Google Earth and get glimpses of Saint Nick captured with the NORAD Santa Cams.
  15. Marvel Comics says they're killing off one of the members of the Fantastic Four in the upcoming January issue. Of course, nobody's saying which one of the four it will be --Mr Fantastic, the Invisible Woman, Human Torch or The Thing. Two films have been made from the franchise, in 2005 and 2007. In those movies, IOAN GRUFFUDD plays Mr Fantastic, who can stretch his body into any shape; JESSICA ALBA as the Invisible Woman; MICHAEL CHIKLIS as The Thing, and CHRIS EVANS as the Human Torch.
  16. Typical college prank: Call in a phony order to the pizza place and never pick it up, right? Shortly after a Dylan concert at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, some guy walked into a pizza joint, flashed a Bob Dylan backstage pass and placed an order for 178 pizza pies. He said he'd be back to deliver them to Dylan's crew. He never came back. Workers called police. The guy got caught. His attorney tells the Boston Herald that his client is a "decent enough" guy with no criminal record who now feels bad about the prank and says he'll pay for all the pizzas --a total tab of about four grand.  Workers reportedly worked till 5:30 in the morning making the pies. Some pizzas were given away, but most were thrown out.
  17. Hollywood's 10 biggest bombs of 2010:
    10. "The Wolfman." Cost $110 million to make, but only made $143 million worldwide.
    9. "The Tourist." Cost $100 million to make, but has made just over $50 million in the U-S. Movie company GK Films believes the film will ultimately gross $200 million worldwide and be fine.
    8. "The Sorcerer's Apprentice." Cost $150 million to make, plus a big marketing budget. Brought in $63.2 million in the U-S and another $152 million overseas, but that still wasn't enough to put the movie in the black.
    7. "Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World." Budgeted at $60 million, it grossed a meager $47.4 million worldwide.
    6. "Repo Men." Grossed just $18.4 million, well short of its $32 million budget.
    5. "Marmaduke." Made $83.3 million worldwide. Cost at least $50 million to make.
    4. "MacGruber." 'Nuff said.
    3. "The Losers," cost upwards of $25 million to make (not including marketing costs), but grossed just $29.4 million worldwide.
    2. "Jonah Hex," cost upwards of $40 million to make, but went nowhere. Film grossed just $10.9 million
    1. "How Do You Know." Opened to a dismal $7.5 million to come in No. 8 for this past weekend. The film cost a $100 million to make.
  18. Going Geek-dot-com /Caught in the Web:  IBM has issued its annual "Next Five in Five" list which predicts what the future will bring to technology. On the list:
    1. Advances in transistors and battery technology that "will allow your devices to last about 10 times longer.
    2. 3-D and holographic cameras that fit into cellphones allowing video chat with "3-D holograms of your friends in real time."
    3. "Personalized commutes," where traffic systems will "learn traveler patterns and behavior to provide more dynamic travel safety and route information to travelers than is available today,"
    4. Human beings will collect data via sensors in your phone, car, your wallet and even your tweets which will give scientists a real-time picture of the environment --and ways to "fight global warming, save endangered species or track invasive plants or animals that threaten ecosystems around the world."
    5. Better ways to recycle heat and energy from data centers in buildings.
  19. You would think that a cancer diagnosis might be enough to get a smoker to give up cigarettes, but that's not always the case. But maybe pain will be a good incentive to stop smoking. A new study published in the journal Pain finds cancer patients who keep smoking after their diagnosis may experience greater pain than patients who don't smoke. Researchers found patients who smoke reported higher levels of pain than both nonsmokers and former smokers. And among former smokers, the pain levels varied depending on how long they had been smoke-free.
  20. 2010 Sheraton Hawaii Bowl tonight as TU's Golden Hurricane takes on the Hawaii Warriors at 7pm Tulsa time tonight. Hear the action with Bruce Howard and Rick Couri right here on KRMG. 
 
 

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