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Posted: 5:01 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010

KRMG Morning News "Stack of Stuff" and Notes 11/04/10 

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By Joe Kelley, Host of the KRMG Morning News

  • KOTV - OKLAHOMA CITY -- A day after clinching the state's top job, Governor-Elect Mary Fallin hit the ground running, meeting with Governor Brad Henry. They met for an hour to help make the transition of power a smooth one. After Tuesday night's victory celebration, Fallin was all business Wednesday. She will be the first female governor of Oklahoma, and she acknowledged there are difficult times ahead. Gov. Henry encouraged Oklahomans to rally behind the new governor and support her. He said it's time to put aside partisan labels and work together.
  • KOTV - TULSA, Oklahoma -- The election is over, but the controversy produced by its results is just beginning. Two of the state questions that passed Tuesday night will be challenged in court. And it will likely happen soon. The first questions to be challenged are the one that will require voters to bring a photo ID to polls and another that makes English the state's official language. Both passed easily, but some experts say that doesn't make the results legal. When Oklahomans filled out their ballots Tuesday, they made feelings about state Question 751 clear. The English-only question passed with 76 percent of the vote. The same goes for State Question 746. Seventy-four percent of voters said yes to requiring photo ID's when voting. Despite the overwhelming majority, TU professor James Thomas says both questions are unconstitutional. "The anger of people cannot impose a restriction on the freedom of other people," said James Thomas, University of Tulsa law professor. Thomas plans to file a lawsuit within the next week. He says the ID requirement for voters discriminates against the poor and the elderly, who may not have, or be able to get, government-issued identification. He believes the use of only English for any business done by local and state governments is also blatantly unconstitutional.
  • NEWSOK.COM - An Oklahoma City resident is planning to file a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a measure voters approved that prohibits Oklahoma courts from considering international law or Sharia law when making decisions, a civil rights agency announced Wednesday. Religious and civil rights leaders planned to announce the details of the potential lawsuit during a news conference at 2 p.m. today at the state Capitol. The Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, also known as CAIR-OK, is hosting the event.
  • KTUL - Now that Election Day has come and gone, it's time for candidates and campaigns to clean-up all of those signs. They have 7-days. Then the signs will be picked-up by city inspectors and volunteers. They'll be "impounded" to a site near Mohawk Park. The city is urging people not to pick up the signs. It's too dangerous along our roadways. Instead, call the "Mayor's Action Line" at 596-2100 with your complaints.
  • AP - SINGAPORE - Qantas grounded all six of its Airbus A380 superjumbos after one of them blew out an engine Thursday, shooting flames and debris that forced the plane to make an emergency landing in Singapore with 459 people aboard. The carrier said the double-decker Airbus A380 plane landed safely with no injuries. It was most serious midair incident involving the A380, the world's largest jetliner, since it debuted in October 2007 with Singapore Airlines flying it to Sydney -- the same route that Qantas flight QF34 was flying when it was stricken Thursday. Qantas said there had been no explosion, but witnesses aboard the plane and on the ground reported blasts. After the plane touched down in Singapore, the engine closest to the fuselage on the left wing had visible burn marks and was missing a section of plate that would have been painted with the red kangaroo logo of the airline. The upper part of the left wing also appeared damaged.
  • AOL NEWS - SAN DIEGO (Nov. 3) -- Federal authorities in San Diego have made one of the largest marijuana seizures in the United States, confiscating 20 tons of pot near an underground tunnel connecting warehouses on either side of California's border with Mexico, officials said Wednesday. Mexican authorities seized another four tons of pot from the warehouse on their side of the border. In total, between 25 and 30 tons of marijuana were seized from both sides - worth more than $20 million if sold on the streets of San Diego, said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton. The bricks of pot were packaged for sale.
  • The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed to a two-year high Wednesday, the day after the Republicans regained control of the US House. The Dow rose 26.41 points, or 0.2 percent, to 11,215.13 at 4 p.m. in New York, the highest since the week Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filed for bankruptcy in September 2008.
  • FINANCIAL TIMES - More than 30 years after the famous Star Wars movie scene in which a hologram of Princess Leia appealed for help from Obi-Wan Kenobi, US researchers have unveiled holographic technology to transmit and view moving three-dimensional images. The scientists at the University of Arizona say their prototype "holographic three-dimensional telepresence" is the world's first practical 3D transmission system that works without requiring viewers to wear special glasses or other devices. The research is published in the journal Nature. Potential applications range from telemedicine and teleconferencing to mass entertainment.
  • (Reuters) - The surge that gave Republicans control of the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday also shook up state legislatures, giving Republicans the power to potentially cement their hold in Congress for the next decade. In most states, legislatures will be redrawing electoral districts for the U.S. House -- an adjustment of boundaries every 10 years that tends to favor the party in charge in each state. Republicans took control of at least 18 state chambers from Democrats, according to Tim Storey, an elections analyst at the bipartisan National Conference of State Legislatures. Republicans' heavy presence on the state level could allow the party to preserve, or add, between 15 and 25 U.S. House seats through redistricting, said Ed Gillespie, chairman of the Republican State Leadership Committee.
  • (Reuters) - Representative John Boehner, expected to be named the next speaker of the House of Representatives, vowed on Wednesday to repeal health care reforms pushed into law by the Obama administration. "I believe that the healthcare bill that was enacted by the current Congress will kill jobs in America, ruin the best healthcare system in the world, and bankrupt our country," Boehner, an Ohio Republican, told a news conference. "That means we have to do everything we can to try to repeal this bill and replace it with common sense reforms to bring down the cost of health care.
  • THE HILL - Republicans are likely to urge the Obama administration not to shred documents as they transition to the House majority. Before the election, GOP officials on Capitol Hill privately discussed the issue but refrained from publicly tackling it, not wanting to assume what would happen on Election Day.

 Now that Republicans will control the House, the shredding matter will move front and center. No one is accusing the Obama administration of destroying documents, but Republicans are expected to try to ensure that all records -- on a range of issues -- are kept intact.


  • THE HILL - Fresh from a stinging midterm election defeat, House Democrats must quickly face another embarrassing spectacle: public trials for two of their most prominent members. Reps. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) and Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), two senior House veterans, have opted to fight the separate ethics charges in public ethics trials set to take place later this month and extend into the first week of December. Drawing criticism from Republicans, House ethics chairwoman Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) last month announced the trials would occur after the elections. Rangel's will commence Nov. 15 and the Waters trial will start Nov. 29. To make matters worse for a party still reeling from their losses, Rangel, who is known for his colorful and rambling speeches, could decide to represent himself at the hearing. The Rangel's trial would undoubtedly attract a lot of attention from the cable news shows.
  • NEW YORK -- A Manhattan woman has failed to persuade a U.S. appeals court that Starbucks Corp should be held liable for severe burns she suffered after spilling tea served in a double cup. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Tuesday a lower court's dismissal of a $3 million lawsuit brought by Rachel Moltner against the world's largest coffee chain. Moltner was 76 in February 2008 when she burned herself at a Starbucks coffee shop on Manhattan's Upper East Side. She spilled tea onto her left leg and foot when she tried to remove the lid from a "venti"-sized cup of tea, causing burns that required a skin graft. Her hospital stay later resulted in other injuries, including bed sores as well as herniated discs caused by a fall out of bed.
  • LA - A customer who thought he might make off with some loot dropped by a bank robber was arrested Tuesday in Marina del Rey when the cash exploded in his pocket, sheriff's deputies said. Stephen P. Mullen, 43, was in the Bank of America branch at 4754 Admiralty Way when a man robbed a teller using a demand note about 10:20 a.m., sheriff's Lt. Dan Beringer said. The robber escaped before deputies arrived. When they did, deputies and FBI agents questioned Mullen and other witnesses in the bank. They were then allowed to leave. A few minutes later, someone reported to deputies that a man was acting suspiciously in the parking lot. The man discarded a stack of money that had exploded in his pocket and drove away, Beringer said. The female witness provided deputies with his description and license plate number.
 
 

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