February 24th, 2010

• Hal Sparks joins Steph in the NYC Bureau at 6:05am Pacific for all three hours of “Humpdays With Hal.”

• Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) calls in at 6:45am Pacific to talk about tomorrow’s health care summit.

• Carlos Alazraqui (Reno 911) joins us in the Los Angeles Studio for the 7am Pacific hour to talk about his upcoming gigs, and to riff on the news of the day.

• Karl Frisch, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, calls in at 7:05am Pacific to co-host Right Wing World.

• Companies that hire the unemployed would claim new tax breaks under a jobs-promoting bill that’s expected to pass the Senate today. It’s the first of several jobs bills promised by Democrats, and passage would give President Barack Obama and Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., a much-sought victory.

• Americans’ fears about health care reform’s effect on them eased in January, according to a poll from the nonpartisan Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. It also found that three-fourths of Americans still think it’s important that Obama include health care reform in addressing the nation’s economic crisis.

• Massive recalls of popular Toyota cars and trucks still may “not totally” solve frightening problems of sudden, unintended acceleration, the company’s American sales chief conceded yesterday. Toyota’s Japanese president is expected to testify on Capitol Hill today.