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The quake. aftershocks keep rattling the hardest hit areas in the southeastern part of the nation. corinne winters is live in los angeles wrapping up the oscars she was covering last night. after the dust has settled what are your thoughts? well, we have some amazing highlights but we spoke the last hour about the ratings and the fact that the show, according to critics was a little bit lack luster. well, this may surprise you. the numbers are in, as we like to say. guess what. last night s telecast the highest watched in five years. wow. 41 million viewers. a little surprising compared to the previous year when hugh jackmanhosted. it was 36 million. but oscar wasn t the only one who came out on top. reporter: the lights, the cameras the action. it s why nearly 2,000 ....
Numbers are saying it all if it went up this year. so the show may not have been as great but more people watched it. there was what a lot of people are referring to as a kanye west moment. didn t have anything to do with kanye west. tell us about this. huh-uh. ali, i was watching the show in the room filled with people. let me tell you when this happened, you re about to see it, jaws dropped. we thought was that supposed to happen? the documentary short category. it involves the music by prudence and the director roger ross williams with producer elinor burkett, there was a little bit of bad blood between them. take a look what happened. the band behind this film teaches us that we re wrong against all odds. they did so we can. so the bottom line is, to me, my role models and my heroes ....
Seems as if this year the academy awards the telecast actually did better than last year when host hugh jackman steered the ship. we re waiting for the numbers but there s apparently about a 14% increase. the academy wanted to do something a little different this year to increase viewership and brought in steve martin and alec baldwin to play off each other. you didn t see them much during the show and kind of forgot they were there. there were some memorable moments. ben still ser incredible. got quite arous from the crowd when he did the parody of avatar. he came out in the blue face. look at that, the eyes. it was such a big hit with the audience. also martin and baldwin, remember the hit thriller paranormal activity that did crazy at the box office? they did a little skit on that roing around in bed. martin and baldwin and arous from the crowd. many people saying not as good as last year but hey, the ....
Tell you why it comes down to your community, your vote, maybe even your health. speaking of health, president obama has some things to say about insurance company and you could be in jeopardy if you think you are immune to raised rate or so dropped coverage, think again. plus, pythons are putting the squeeze on florida thanks to people who thought they would make cute pets. now there is only one way to fight back bring on the guns. to make the case for health care reform the white house has pointed out that premiums have risen faster that inflation. competition is weak in the industry and those facts are, in fact, related. the administration is still making the case, but now it is citing wall street itself as proof. i want you to hear what health secretary kathleen intcatkathled this weekend on the show. we got a goldman sachs ....
Programming. guess who pays for it? sure, for now, disney agreed to pay it. i think you can get who s really paying. joining us is jennifer westhoven, my good friend. first of all, welcome. it is the first time we have been on the show together. but we have worked together for years and i know you have been following this. for everybody in the country, what is this about? a lot of people hear this and they think, new york, the oscars i don t care. but if you get paid tv which you probably do, this could affect you. any network can say to any cable company we want more money. ultimately that means you pay more in your bill. we saw it with time warner and fox. here s the issue. they keep they take out ads in the paper. they argue about you should be fair to the consumer, but ultimately one person, one group will end up paying. ....