From the high desert and the great American Southwest, I do all, good evening, good morning,

good afternoon, wherever you may be in the world's time zones, all of them, covered like

a great warm blanket by this program, Coast to Coast A.M., I'm Mark Bell.

My pleasure and honor, of course, to be escorting you through the weekend.

Many, many, many of you after the declarations of the amount of rain I made that we had last week said,

Hey, Art, why don't you go take a picture of the desert?

So I went to a little BLM land.

That's unattended land, government land, a lot of it here, immediately adjacent to my home and took a photograph.

And that is what you will find now on my webcam.

Or it's a webcam now.

It's a pretty amazing picture.

You've got to understand where I'm located is about 20 miles from the Valley of Death.

Death Valley.

And so there you have it. The picture is worth a thousand words. I told you we had a lot of rain. Take a look at that. It's like a golf course. All right. The boxing saga,

a million-dollar baby,

seems to have won the Academy Awards

Heavyweight Sunday,

claiming Best Picture and three other trophies,

including honors for director Clint Eastwood,

lead actress Hillary Swank,

and supporting actor Morgan Freeman.

Martin Scorsese, the Aviator, came away with most Oscars, its five awards, including the

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