First, a bit of disclosure: I know John King. John King is a friend of mine. Mr. Gingrich, you're no John King.

Political junkies will know I'm mashing together a vintage political debate line (Google Dan Quayle, Lloyd Bentsen and Jack Kennedy) with the two men who were at the center of last night's debate in South Carolina. Why? Because I think the King-Gingrich exchange will become just as famous.

By the way, I do know John King. John actually is a friend of mine. And I believe John King is one of the best political reporters in the nation.That's why when King (@johnkingCNN) asked Gingrich about allegations from Gingrich's second wife that at one time the former House Speaker wanted to be in an "open marriage" with the speaker's mistress, I was not surprised. In fact, I and every working reporter in America would would have accused John of malpractice if he HADN'T asked the question.

Some of you won't believe this but here's the truth: John didn't ask the question out of prurient interest. He asked the question because it was a major topic of discussion in the campaign coverage and because he had a responsibility to raise it. You can hear his explanation in his own words in the video. I hope you'll also listen to David Gergen's comments on the matter following John's explanation. Gergen is a highly respected political observer who has been an adviser to four U.S. presidents--Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton--and he agrees that King had to ask the question.

I personally don't judge people when it comes to matters of the heart. But some people do. Newt Gingrich certainly seemed to when he led the impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton after it was revealed that President Clinton had lied about an affair with intern Monica Lewinsky. We learned later that Mr. Gingrich was having his own extramarital affair even as he was trumpeting the importance of marriage and family values. Mr. Gingrich's opponents say that's an example of hypocrisy. Mr. Gingrich's supporters say it's old news and it's none of our business.

Again, it's not for me to decide. It's for you to decide if that sort of information matters. But how could you even consider the information if it wasn't for journalists like John King who are willing to stand there and get booed for asking a question about a topic that was on every news channel and in every newspaper this week. Some will say it's an example of the "liberal" news media going after a "conservative" republican. Did those people say the same when reporters were going after democrats Gary Hart and Bill Clinton?

For journalists in the Hart, Clinton and Gingrich examples, it was and is about trying to make politicians accountable. In all the years I've worked in both the national news media and in local news, I've never been told to slant the news to favor liberals or conservatives. I have been asked to try to determine if a politician is telling the truth. I have also been charged with trying to determine who these candidates are so that you can decide if they're the right people to lead and govern our nation.

It's easy to beat up on the news media and I agree there's plenty to criticize. But in this case, John King doesn't deserve it. He was just doing his job.

I've been thinking a lot about that line in the Shawshank Redemption: "I guess it comes down to a simple choice really. Get busy living or get busy dying." The past year was one of the best years of my life and one of the worst but throughout it, I've been trying my best to "get busy living." There were many high points. Most of them involved time spent with family and friends or watching my sons grow as students and athletes and human beings. I enjoyed so many moments on the KTLA Morning News and you made us #1 again. I am grateful to a have a wonderful wife and a wonderful life. But it isn't a life without challenges and setbacks and pain.

The low point was losing my dad in April. He was a wonderful father and I'd looked forward to many more good times ahead. He was a true "gentle man" but also as tough as nails. Lung cancer was stronger though and he passed before we could take that golf trip to Ireland or Scotland or to Pebble Beach we'd talked about so many times. It's one of those regrets that I suppose all of us experience. We let time pass and we don't do the things we think about or talk about doing someday. I want to thank you all again for your support, your cards, your emails and your donations to the City of Hope through those most difficult of days.

Losing my dad made me think about my own life and made me ask myself questions about whether I was living my life to the fullest. It made me realize more than ever that our time on this earth is short. We need to make the most of it. We need to tell the people that we love that we do. We need to help our fellow man. We need to follow our dreams. I've always dreamed, for example, of starting my own business. I've had ideas of various kinds but like many people, I didn't do anything about them. I have a great "day job" afterall, and what do I know about business?

But over the past year, there had been one idea that I hadn't been able to get out of my head (no, it's not the Passenger Strap!) and so a few months ago, I went to a friend with some expertise in that world and asked him if he would partner with me. He agreed to join me and so we've spent the past few months developing the business. We'll launch it in the coming year. I can't say much about it now and I'm not sure how active I'll be able to be in the business because of my role as a news anchor, but I can tell you that if it all works out, you'll benefit from our service every time you go to the movies.

We may succeed or we may fail but for me, it's all about "getting busy living." How about you? As you reflect on the past year and look forward to 2012, are you "getting busy living or getting busy dying?" I wish you the very best in the new year.

Last week, a friend called to ask a favor: Would I be willing to speak to a fellow dad whose 13-year-old son was just diagnosed with type 1 diabetes? Of course I was and I immediately reached out because I know what it's like to have your life upended by such a diagnosis. It happened to my family nearly three years ago.

We were lucky. My son Ben didn't have to be hospitalized like many young people are when they're first diagnosed. Their parents often miss the typical symptoms of type 1 diabetes like extreme thirst, frequent urination, or sudden weight loss and they only realize something is terribly wrong when their child becomes terribly ill. They realize their child has type 1 diabetes in the emergency room. Most of them don't recognize the symptoms because they've never had to deal with type 1 diabetes. They don't have a family history. We didn't either.

With my son, the diagnosis came after an annual physical and a check of his blood and urine. Our pediatrician called to tell us the news. At first we didn't believe it. Our son is athletic. He's fit. He has a well-balanced diet. Isn't diabetes a disease that comes from overeating or a lack of exercise? Turns out type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes are very different diseases and type 1 (commonly referred to as juvenile diabetes) has nothing to do with diet or exercise. Researchers believe genetic factors and environmental triggers play roles in causing type 1 but the truth is they're still trying to figure out just why some people get it and others don't. The truth is it could happen to you. Every hour in this country, three people are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.

When we learned that our son had it, fear, panic and a sense of helplessness were among the things we experienced. Every instinct to protect our child from harm kicked in. But if you're someone who has no familiarity with type 1 diabetes (which is the case with most new on-set patients and their families) you're suddenly gripped with panic because you realize you don't have the knowledge you need to keep your child alive. The doctors inform you immediately that that's how serious this disease is. Without insulin and proper management of your child's blood sugar levels, they tell you, your child can die.

There's nothing that compares to hearing something like that. My wife and I couldn't talk about the diagnosis for months without crying. The doctors who told us our baby boy had 10 fingers and 10 toes with everything in the right place when he was born were now telling us something had gone very wrong inside his body. His pancreas was not able to make the insulin we all need to get energy from food. For the rest of Ben's life, we learned, he would have to prick his finger several times a day to check his blood sugar level. And for the rest of his life, he would have to either inject himself with insulin or use an insulin pump before he eats or drinks. 

My wife and I would give anything to trade places with our son. Ben has been such a hero through all of it. When we talk to other parents of type 1 kids, they say the same. We live in awe of our children who manage the complex math, the pain, the complications and the hassles of life with type 1 diabetes as challenges to overcome--not as obstacles that might stop them in their paths. Ben continues to have a rich life full of friends, family, fun, sports and everything else that a 14-year-old enjoys. We couldn't be more proud of him. 

Nearly three years after his diagnosis, my wife and I can even talk about these things without being overcome with emotion. I think the JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes has helped to empower us because we know we're actually doing something about type 1 diabetes. I sincerely believe Ben and the three million Americans with type 1 diabetes will someday live without the pin pricks, the injections and the insulin pump. Technology and science are on our side and we're going to cure this disease and every donation that's going to JDRF is helping us to get there.

I want to thank all of you who've donated to Team KTLA BB (Ben Buckley). It's not too late, by the way, to join our team for Sunday's walk or to send us a donation. Just go to ktla.com/jdrf and you can join us on Walk Day as part of Team KTLA BB!

I want to thank KTLA and my colleagues for supporting this effort. Stephanie Rodriguez, Erin Dunphy, Jeremy Horowitz, Claudine Sarmiento, Leila Shalhoub, Pavlos Rozis, Kerry Brace and Janet Hill and Jason Ball were among the folks who went over and above to make this happen. 

I also want to thank the role models living with type 1 diabetes who've come on the KTLA Morning News to raise awareness and to show our kids that they can achieve their goals whatever they are. They show us everyday that type 1 diabetes will not stand in their way. Thanks to Olympic gold medalist Gary Hall Jr., NFL player Matt Ware, American Idol runner-up and singer Elliott Yamin (on the show today), and Team Type 1 marathoner Eric Tozer who came on the show before beginning his run across America to raise awareness.

That friend of a friend whose son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes knows he has my support and when he walks with us on Sunday and sees the thousands of people walking he'll know he's joined a community of support. If you'd like to be part of that community, join us. Register online with Team KTLA BB at ktla.com/jdrf. Or if you want to register on Walk Day, it begins this Sunday, November 6th at Dodger Stadium at 8AM. The actual walk begins at 11. In between, we're going to have food trucks and entertainment and a climbing wall and inflatables for the kids. We're going to have fun. Walk with me and let's cure type 1 diabetes together.

A few months ago, I had the pleasure of reading a first-draft of a script for Leonardo DiCaprio's production company and for Warner Brothers from a red-hot writer-director named JC Chandor. "Portofino" is an international thriller. It's the kind of film I love watching. I'll especially enjoy watching this one when it's eventually produced because it's based on a story I "pitched" to the studio and later wrote up as a treatment. And given the setting at which I sold this story--"pitching" is the appropriate word as you'll learn in just a moment.

But first, a confession. For years, I've had a secret hobby of sorts--coming up with ideas for films and TV programs. It was a secret because it's just so cliche for non professional screenwriters to tote screenplays and treatments around Hollywood hoping someone will buy them. I did the writing and thinking but didn't do the pitching. I have many friends who do it professionally and/or work in executive positions at studios and I suppose I could have shared my writing and my ideas with them. But it always seemed a bit unseemly to try to capitalize on those friendships and worse--it would have put friends in the awkward position of having to field pitches from an amateur. So I'm glad that it was an absolutely organic moment when I decided to run this particular idea by a big shot studio executive friend who ultimately made it all happen.

Greg Silverman is the friend. Greg's a busy executive and one of the top guys at Warner Bros (credited with being the point man on films like The Hangover, Dark Knight, 300 and others) so even at a Dodgers game, he's having to work. As he was fielding emails and texts between hits and runs at Dodger Stadium, Greg at one point mentioned he was talking to his bosses about a film involving CGI. That's computer generated imagery--the sort of technology that allows filmmakers to put an actor in a make-believe environment when he's really just standing in front of a green screen. "I have an idea for a film involving CGI," I suddenly blurted out. It was the first time I'd ever said a word to Greg about my secret hobby and I immediately wondered if I'd crossed an inappropriate line in our friendship. But Greg--probably quite used to friends doing this sort of thing--invited me to tell him my story. So I did.

The story behind "Portofino" the film begins on the Italian Riviera in the summer of 2003. My wife and I were in Portofino for the afternoon to celebrate her birthday. Portofino is a beautiful seaside village popular with tourists and the super rich. Tourists arrive via ferry. The super rich arrive via super deluxe yachts. Needless to say Elena and I arrived via ferry but as we sat at an outdoor cafe, I spied a group of older men who had apparently arrived aboard one of those yachts. I don't know that they did. I just knew they looked like wealthy men enjoying the good life. But they had an edge about them. I couldn't quite put my finger on it but they looked like they could be aging rockers or...aging bank robbers, I imagined. What if they were bank robbers who'd gotten away with a big heist some 25 years earlier and had been living the good life abroad? What if those men were now beginning to run out of money and were coming together to plan one last big heist? And what if those older fellows were stars like Jack Nicholson, Gene Hackman, Clint Eastwood and Robert DeNiro? Would it be possible, I asked Greg, to CGI footage of those stars as younger men, into a bank robbery sequence that put them all together in a scene as if we really had footage of such a scene from 25 years ago? Is the CGI advanced enough to create that scene? I asked Greg. His answer: "Absolutely." He asked me to continue my story.

The hero, I said, would be a young cop--maybe an Interpol investigator whose father was killed during that bank robbery some 25 years earlier. His job--to get the bad guys. His mission in life--to find and bring to justice the men who killed his dad and got away with it. The film would tell the story through our hero's eyes after he learned the men were in Italy. "I love the story," Greg said. "What should I do with it?" I asked. Greg explained that it might be tough to get it in front of the right people because I don't have a track record as a writer or a producer. But Greg promised to share my story with a couple of people. "I'll get back to you and let you know what they think," he said.

I immediately regretted all of it. Greg was being polite, I thought. I wished I hadn't opened my big mouth. But then, two days later, Greg rang me on the phone. "What's your email address?" he said. "I have something you'll want to see." Boy did I.

Greg had talked about my idea with Leonardo DiCaprio's producing partners. They too liked the pitch and that was that. Warner Bros wanted to buy it. I got a check and I was promised a credit in the film. Hollywood is easy, right? Not exactly. That was a couple of years ago. As those of you in the film business know, only a tiny percentage of films "in development" ever get made and Leonardo DiCaprio is one of the best actors and producers in the film business. He can choose from a slate of great scripts and projects.

But this weekend, the guy who wrote the screenplay for "Portofino" is the toast of the town. "Margin Call" was written and directed by JC Chandor and he's being interviewed everywhere and getting great reviews for his new film. Will that result in a renewed interest in "Portofino?" I sure hope so because what I really want to do is...produce.

These are the prices for items being sold today at an "Increase Diversity Bake Sale" sponsored by the Berkeley College Republicans at the University of California, Berkeley. Racist? "We agree the event is inherently racist, but that is the point," says Shawn Lewis, the president of the Berkeley Republicans. The point of the provocative bake sale? "It is no more racist than giving an individual an advantage in college admissions based soley on their race (or) gender."

The bake sale is an attempt to focus attention on SB 185, a bill that would allow our state universities to consider race, gender, ethnicity and national origin during the admissions process. The Berkeley GOPers decided to hold the bake sale after the UC Berkeley student government group--Associated Students of the University of California--endorsed the legislation and said it would sponsor a phone bank to encourage students to call Governor Jerry Brown to support it.

The bake sale has generated a considerable amount of controversy with some saying it will make some students feel unwelcome or uncomfortable on campus. In response, the student government passed a resolution at an emergency meeting that "condemns the use of discrimination whether it is in satire or in seriousness by an student group."

What are your thoughts? Is this a clever way to make us confront an issue or an insensitive approach that should be condemned or even banned from a campus?

Viewer Thomas Sandoval recently sent a series of angry tweets to my Twitter account @ktlafbuckley complaining that KTLA didn't provide any coverage of the Medal of Honor ceremony last week for Dakota Meyer, a young Marine credited with saving 36 lives during a Taliban ambush in September of 2009. Meyer was a 21-year-old corporal who defied orders and repeatedly drove into the "killing zone" in an attempt to rescue fellow Marines and others who were pinned down. Even though Meyer "knew" he was going to die, as he put it, the then corporal kept going. Last week, he became the third living recipient and the first Marine to receive the medal for actions in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Surely, Mr. Sandoval was wrong, I thought, and I told him he wasn't being fair. But I wanted to make sure we had given this story the attention it deserved so I did some investigating. It turns out, we didn't. While we did provide some coverage on our 10PM broadcast, it was not covered on our other newscasts. I'm told we didn't get the video in time for one broadcast and then breaking news got in the way of another--squeezing the time available to fit all of the stories planned for the broadcast. These are the kinds of decisions producers have to make in real-time every day and they're never easy. But as someone who spent my childhood on military bases and whose late father served with Marines as a hospital corpsman, it pained me to know we hadn't given this story its due.

So while this can't make up for it, here's the entire White House ceremony along with some links to more information.

Here's a link to the official Marine Corps site on Meyer's Medal of Honor: http://www.marines.mil/community/Pages/MedalofHonorSgtDakotaMeyer-citation.aspx.

And last night, 60 Minutes did an incredible job of telling this story of heroism with a critical view of the officers who denied air support that might have saved lives on that fateful day. Here's a link to David Martin's story: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/18/60minutes/main20107640.shtml?tag=contentMain;cbsCarousel

I hope you'll take the time to read the information and watch the video or David Martin's story on 60 Minutes. It's the least we can all do to honor this heroic Marine and those soldiers and Marines who didn't make it home.

A few years ago, I was asked to testify before the Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council Future of Terrorism Task Force as the "subject matter expert" on the news media. The task force was chaired by Lee Hamilton, vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission and members were asked to assess future threats to the U.S. and to recommend ways to better engage and prepare the American public for those threats. Most of those testifying were law enforcement or counterterrorism experts like then LAPD Chief William Bratton and intelligence officers from Department of Homeland Security, from the State Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. I was the only news media representative among the experts so I felt a special responsibility to convey the importance of keeping the public informed in a useful way.

These were the days of color-coded threat levels and I testified that most people didn't know the difference between the various colors. It wasn't working. I said Department of Homeland Security and other government departments and agencies needed to do a better job of telling us in the news media what was happening so that we could then properly inform our readers, listeners and viewers. I asked that policy makers treat us like adults and give us as much information as possible so that we as citizens could make decisions on how to conduct our lives in the manner we saw fit when a threat was deemed credible enough to publicize.

When the task force issued its report on January 11, 2007, I was pleased to see among the 14 recommendations this one:

"The Department should partner with the media and educational institutions to engage the public in prevention and response efforts--developing consistent, accurate, realistic, persuasive and actionable messages as well as evidence-based strategies for communicating the same."

The task force got the message and the DHS finally did away with the color coded system this year. I was obviously just one voice among many who had suggested they come up with something else, but I felt a satisfaction in knowing I at least contributed to the dialogue that moved policy-makers to come up with a better way to inform the public.

When the "Breaking News" stingers started sounding last night on the all-news channels to tell us about the current terror threat, I wondered if government officials would do the right thing and give us details of the threat. Within minutes, they did. We learned this was a "credible but unconfirmed terror threat." CNN has been told that American spy networks intercepted communications from a known al Qaeda operative in Pakistan indicating plans for a potential terrorist strike in New York or Washington D.C. We also know the possible plot involves three individuals including one American and that it may involve a vehicle packed with explosives. Local officials in New York have reported that precautions are being taken including vehicle checkpoints, the deploying of bomb-sniffing dogs, and additional police staffing.

In the past this information and the measures being taken against the potential plot might have been kept from the public or if we were informed, it might have come in the form of a generic or color-coded threat warning. Government officials didn't want the public to "panic" or conversely to become nonchalant when threats didn't pan out. But this time, we're getting "actionable" information. Government officials are balancing our need for information against other factors including how to catch the terrorists (if they are indeed in this country) before they strike.

We're being provided with information that we can use to form our own opinions about whether this is a real threat or not. We can use the information to decide if it's sensible to be in New York or Washington this weekend. We can be on the lookout for anything out of the ordinary.

Is the bomb threat real? My read is that counterterrorism officials don't know for sure but they've determined there's enough information in the intercepts to suggest it could be an active plot. But I'm glad they've decided to share what they know. We're beyond being panicked by such information in this country after what happened on our soil 10 years ago. We know that a decade after 9/11, there are still people out there who would like to attack us again.

"This...is London." So said the great Edward R. Murrow as he began his legendary broadcasts from London during the blitzkrieg of World War II. I'm no Murrow and London isn't exactly under enemy attack. But I arrived here in London on Tuesday to find it is a city on edge after nights of looting and rioting. I thought I'd pass along this dispatch to give you a sense of how it feels on the ground.

We come here as a family every summer to visit. My wife is a Brit who grew up in London and I've been here with her or on my own on assignment at least 20 times. I fell in love with the city on my first visit and I look forward to becoming a part-time resident of London in my retirement. So I feel a personal connection to what's been happening here and I share in the disappointment and anger I believe the vast majority of its citizens are feeling today.

First, London is not on fire and it's not like the 24-hour-a-day rioting and looting we experienced in Los Angeles over several days and nights in 1992. The rioting here has happened in pockets and hasn't stopped the city in its tracks as ours did nearly 20 years ago. If you're coming for a visit, the Tube is running. Central London is open for business. Big Ben awaits its appearance in your tourist photos. But you may see some evidence of the rioting as we did upon our arrival.

My wife is from the west London community of Ealing--known as "Queen of the Suburbs." It's about 12 miles from the city center--sort of like a Studio City of London. It's not the sort of place you would expect rioting or looting. But that's exactly what it experienced a couple of nights ago. As we were leaving LAX, a friend of my wife's emailed to say she'd heard Ealing was being looted. We were stunned and immediately concerned about my wife's family. Fortunately, my in-laws weren't injured and their property wasn't damaged.

But when we arrived, we did find a few shops damaged, a heavy police presence, and roads closed off as investigators worked the scenes and others tried to clean up. A number of vehicles had been damaged, at least a couple of them burned. I walked through the center of town this morning to find the main roads still blocked off. Here are some photos my father-in-law Christopher Pearce took Tuesday.   

To know this had happened in leafy Ealing was as shocking as it would be if looters had set off down Ventura Boulevard and started setting cars on fire and breaking in to stores in Studio City. Ealing was just one of the communities affected by rioting and looting on Monday night. That same evening, Camden, Stratford, East Ham, Bethnal Green, Peckham, Lewisham and Bromley all experienced unrest, according to the BBC. On Sunday night, Chingford Mount, Enfield, Islington, Oxford Circus, Ponders End, and Walthamstow had problems. On Saturday, Tottenham, Tottenham Hale and Wood Green experienced rioting and looting. And last night, "knuckleheads" (as our former police chief Bill Bratton once famously described LA looters) went at it in English cities north of London in Manchester, Salford, Liverpool, Nottingham, and Birmingham. 

The rioting was sparked by the police shooting death on Thursday of Mark Duggan, 29, a father of four, and an alleged gang member. In a country where shooting deaths are rare and most police officers are unarmed, it was a big news story. A peaceful protest on Saturday spiraled out of control and four nights of looting have followed. At least 111 police officers have been injured and close to 800 people have been arrested in London alone. In a nation that rightfully prides itself on rule of law and civility, we've seen behavior that's been uncharacteristically un-British. But is it the behavior of people angry about the police shooting of Mr. Duggan? Is it a result of racial tension? (Mr. Duggan was black). My impression is that that while the initial peaceful protest was confronting those issues, most in the British media are saying the looting and rioting are the work of opportunistic thieves.

What will be done to quell these disturbances and to bring these "knuckleheads" to justice? Prime Minister David Cameron and London Mayor Boris Johnson cut short their summer vacations abroad to deal with those questions. My summer vacation meanwhile, is just beginning--just as soon as I finish writing this blog. I'll see you in a couple of weeks.

Everyone on the KTLA Morning News staff got a "Survive the 405" t-shirt and this morning I decided to give mine away to the viewer who tweeted the most clever "Carmageddon" comment to my twitter account @ktlafbuckley. The response was overwhelming! You once again proved that our viewers are the best viewers--clever, funny, engaged. I've re-tweeted (is that really a word?) a bunch of your comments so go to my twitter page to read all of them, but here the ones I read on the air this morning in Top 10 style.

10. "I'm Carmagettin' out of town!" by Ed Meneses @knetrider

9. "The Buck stops here! Find your ride around the 405!" by Mclicious @msjuicylicious

8. "@ktlafbuckley is the Bruce Willis to this Carmageddon!" by Jon Robaina @jonrobaina

7. "@ktlafbuckley The best news anchor in America! The only one to offer you the shirt off his back! Long live Buckley!" by Anthony Carelli @acarelli

6. "@ktlafbuckley es el mejor reportero en Los Angeles." by Arturo Santiago @artsantiagojr

5. "A sandwich can pass through Frank faster than a car through the 405." by Shaleen McCart @McShaleen

4. "Frank Buckley and Ginger Chan are the Yoda and Obi Wan Kenobi to guide us around the evil 405 closure. May KTLA be with you!" by Jeff Roney @roneyzone

3. "iPhone 4 tweeting/$200, t shirt/$10, getting to see frank shirtless/PRICELESS" by Karen Ratliff @karenratliff20

2. "My parents survived carmageddon...and all I got was an fbuckley t-shirt!" by Steve Rich @50footw

and at #1, the winner of my personal "Survive the 405 t-shirt" is:

1. "Carmageddon is changing its name to Carma WorldPeace!" by Kevin B. Riffle @kevinbriffle.

Congratulations Kevin. I'll direct message you to get your mailing address.

We had so many clever tweets and this was just a sampling. Please don't be offended if you didn't make the Top 10. Some of you tweeted after we put together the graphic and there were some hilarious ones in there, too! Check 'em all out on my twitter page: @ktlafbuckley.

Have a great weekend. Ginger Chan and the entire weekend team will be on duty early in the morning, late in the afternoon and at 10PM on Saturday and Sunday. And we'll begin our Monday morning coverage early at 4AM to make sure you get to where you need to go while the 405 is shutdown. You can always get information 24 hours a day right where you are--at ktla.com.

LAPD Chief Charlie Beck appeared on the KTLA Morning News today and we asked him about the Bryan Stow beating at Dodger Stadium. Giovanni Ramirez was arrested in connection with the case in late May and is in prison right now on a parole violation. Chief Beck said at the time he was "absolutely" confident police had the right man in custody for the beating. But Ramirez has yet to be charged on the Stow beating amid suggestions from his lawyers and others that police have the wrong man in custody--that Ramirez wasn't at the stadium when Stow was attacked. This morning, Chief Beck told KTLA: "This is a case that is very difficult. It's a case based largely on eyewitness identifications which are the most difficult cases to work with. So we are actively pursuing a number of leads in the case. We still have a hundred clues to work and when we are done with those clues, we'll make a decision whether or not he'll be charged." You can see our follow up questions and the chief's answers in their entirety in the video from our website.