Cardinal Mahoney on the Cathedral ground talking about the Illegal-Immigration issue.

This is a Chilean restaraunt relatively close to my place called Rincon Chileano. I had gone there once for lunch and had Pastelle de Choclo. Liked it so brought back Jackie and my dad. we didn't have such a good experience this time because it seemed like locals only there.

Latino leaders held a press conferance across the street from MacArthur park. They are calling for employers to support those who choose to do the work boycott.


Went to La Raza radio station to interview radio dj "El Raton" who was talking about the phone calls he'd recieved from people about the work boycott.

Childrens Earth day out in Santa Monica. I went to a kids indoor zoo where the zoo keeper let me into the cage with this wild Bobcat.

Cardinal Mahoney at the Cathedral downtown called for people to go to work. The illigal immigrants were planning a day when no illigal would go to work.

Another pro-illigal-immigrant march. This one consisted of mostly students. was not as big but followed same route up Broadway from 9th street to City hall.

Covered the church service at the Cathedral downtown. The Cardinal had a special blessing for the immigrants.

snapshot of me taken at some pizza place while waiting for lunch.

Went and shot Long Beach Grand Prix for local news. Got there and checked in with press room. Got photo vest and immidiately went track side to shoot for a while. Got a few quick shots of Hugh Heffner for his 80th birthday. sang happy birthday to him. Then made it on the grid for pre-race activities

Michelle had a delayed birthday party for me. We are posing with my cake.

Ground breaking ceremony for the Rampart police station. speaches given by Police Chief Bratton and Mayor Villariagosa
Attended a political rally for Democratic Governor candidate Steve Westley

Jackie flew up to Sacramento from L.A. I picked her up and then we drove to San Francisco. Staid in a real nice hotel. The Commodore close to union square.

Left Portland and drove down to my parents house in Sacramento. pic of me standing in front of thier house.

The spruce goose at the Alpine air musuem Newberg, Oregon


Jeremiah posed in front of a mock up of the moon lander for the apollo mission. We went out to the Alpine air museum.

Jeremiah and I went camping. We drove out to the Portland coast to the Lewis And Clark state park. Although it rained overnight our tent staid dry. Later that day we went into Astoria and found the house that was used in the movie, "The Goonies"

Drove up to Seattle today with Jeremiah. We went downtown and visited the Space Needle. after that we ate lunch in Pike St. Public Market and then went north to Everett where we are staying over night with my Uncle Terry and his family.

This is my good buddy Thadius. We were best buddies to back in San Francisco for several years. He acted as the host of my public access TV show for a couple years as well. When I moved to L.A. he ended up moving to Portland a year later. So since I was in the area I decided to stop by and visit. This is a photo of him outside his house.

en route from Sacramento to Portland along I-5. This is a few miles south of the California/Oregon border also known as the state of Jefferson. I took this picture because I used to listen to this band named Hilt. on the cover of one of thier albums they had a photograph of this road sign.

Started vacation today. Went to work in the morning and right after got on the road going up north. I'm going to take 2 weeks off and go up to Portland, OR to spend time with my son Jeremiah. this photo was taken along I-5 on my way to my parents house in Sacramento where I'll stay the first night

Big news day today. Today was a protest againts the anti illigal immigrant law going before congress I believe it's ar 4413 or something like that. anyway there was a huge march on downtown L.A. with over half a million participants. I was assigned to a anchor named Rubin who has a news show on Telemundo called "En Contexto". We walked the route with the people. The people went crazy about Rubin treating him like a celebrity and leader of the people. His show is political but covers many immigrantion issues. As we made it through the crowd people would shout out his name and yell Telemundo or En Contexto and cheered him on. There were so many people there, I've litterally never seen so many in my life.

shot news story at parent meeting at middle school in south central L.A. fight had occured previous day between black and brown.

Took my Element in for it's 10,000 check up and oil change in preparation for my upcoming trip to oregon.

L.A. marathon today. I was stationed at mile 25 with one of the talent. we did a few live hits and for the rest of the time I shot runners.

preparing for L.A. marathon. co-workers tieing down cables and the finnish line.

Went to Orange county to shoot interview for Ruben of "En Contexto". Interviewed man who was janitor in North Tower of World Trade Center. He had master key to stairwell doors and helped the firefighters. is rumored to be last person to leave tower alive. He claims there was an explosion in the basement of the tower moments prior to plane hitting the building. Supports idea of conspiracy by U.S. government to bring down the world trade center in order to pass the patriot act and go to war to make big profits in oil and other business investments.

Driving to the Sessions West casting studios I always pass this cadillac mechanic on Ocean Park blvd. today they had a Ghost Busters car on site.

Home explosion in the Downey/Bellflower area. this guy made his own fireworks and would set them off in his nieghborhood. Basically what happened is he dropped a cigarrette in his gun powder and ran to escape the explosion. It blew half his house into the street. His family was still in the house when it happened. They were not injured.

While in west L.A. covering a story on indiginous people running across the country in order to protest anti-immigration i ran into this guy with a rabbit.

pro-immigration ralley going on out in china town. this was put on by the asian immigrant population.

Out in Pico Rivera covering the Lupillo Rivera concert. They gave away his truck by way of a drawing. But one of the requirements of the drawing was that you had a license and were a legal resident. It was kind of funny because the first 5 names he called didn't have either.

The world cup is on tour and brought to the Telemundo studios. The assignment desk wanted me to film the cup while being shot for another show in the studio. I got the chance to take a picture with it. Nobody got to touch it because only the winning team can touch it with thier hands. So they had security guards with white gloves to handle the cup.

Went to Huntington Park to cover TeleNovela club called the Noveleras. A new Telenovela is starting on Telemundo so some of the stars came to meet thier fans. I actually was very offended by one of the stars when I asked him for an interview he just waived me off.

Telemundo restaraunt segment at seafood restaurtant

Covered a walkathon out at Griffith park for Telemundo. These three kids appear on Disney channel regularly so I took a picture to show Jeremiah.

Telemundo has a new segment on Friday nights. Basically we go out to a crowded restaraunt and the weather girl, Ericka Pino does the weather live from that restaraunt. This is the first place we did it at.

Callback for Nickelodeon spot held at a dance studio out in the valley. Production company brought in a professional Coreographer to instruct the kids. The director actually left the callback before it was finished.

At Loudmouth studios today out in the Valley. Ran a casting session for Nickelodeon. A promo for one of thier upcoming shows required dance instruction. Beth the casting director brought in a young dance instructor to show the kids the moves.

out in East L.A. covering a voter registration for the X bracellos. Decided to take a photo of myself.

In the town of Downey. The mayor had a small parade. Traditional Aztec dancers showed up to join in on the Celebration.

shot early show at some elementary school. Got one of the students to take of picture of me.

Went out to dinner at Cha Cha Cha off of Vermont and Melrose. Waiting for the valet.

visited mexican embassy outside of macarthur park

The Bomb Squad boxing gym where I take Muy Thai kickboxing. One of my fellow students wrapping his hands.