Disappear from the carpet for the oscars. And be sure to tune in sunday starting at 5 30 p. M for oscar coverage right here on abc9. Well have special guest bruce miller of the Sioux City Journal in studio to go over all of the winners, losers and fashion of hollywoods big night. Make sure to tune in for that. Lukas and the oscar goes to. Those five words keep oscar viewers on the edge of their seats every year. But the process of determining who wins an Academy Award is not an easy task. The votecounting is intense. And surrounded by high security. Abcs brandi hitt shows us. Nats ruiz cullinan on red carpet 1 they are the best secretkeepers in hollywood. Martha ruiz and Brian Cullinan are set to carry those famous briefcases again. from burn 2015 in cocoer the oscar goes to. . Holding t names of this years oscar winners. Martha ruiz, pwc tax paner for 82 years. Pricewaterhouse coopers has counted the oscar ballots. Nats mailing footage sixthousandtwo hundred61 sent out to voting members this year . On paper and online. Brian cullinan, pwc Southern California market managagg rtner inside that secret, uncisclosed location. Security is tight. Theres a specialized alarm system. Biometric locks. And no internet access. Where a small team counts all 24 categories by hand. Martha ruiz, pwc tax partner those 24 winning envelopes and a duplicate set are then loaded into two briefcases like safe. Until oscar sunday when ruiz and cullinan enter their safe code. And take their briefcase. Each then traveling a different route to the oscar red carpet. Esco lapd. Sot Brian Cullinan, pwc Southern California market managing partner brandi hitt, abc news correspondent last year as a spoof they even carried a third briefcase that was used by host neil patrick harris. And bak stage they only hand the envelope to the presenter. Seconds before the announcement. Brian cullinan, pwc Southern California maet managing partner brandi hitt abc news los angeles. Lukas and the lead up to oscars sunday s been a controversial one. As no African American actor was nominated for any of the major awards. And a new study ows a severe lala of diversity in Hollywood Reporter stephahae elam has morere the focus is supposed to be on the best in film. And the oscar goes to. But much of the conversation leading up to the oscars is being dominated by what lack. Diversity. The best actor is. Oh my god, i knew it. Its a fiveway tie. All the white guys for the second year in a row, the Academy Award acting nominees are all white. The immediate backlash dominating social media and led by Jada Pinkett Smith. Jada Pinkett Smith lets let the academy do their thing with all grace and love and lets do us differently. And filmmaker spike lee. spike lee, filmmaker my wife and i, tanya, in all good consousness, we cannot attend the Academy Awards. So in response to the controversy, the academys leadership moved swiftly to institute more changes to increase diversity among oscar voters. The goal . To double the number of women and people of color by 2020. matthew belloni, executive editor, the Hollywood Reporter the academy is overwhelmingly white and overwhelminglyly male. A lot of t t Academy Members believe the new rules are ageist. They believe they are reverse racism. don cheadle, actor, filmmaker i dont think there is a kabal of white people going lets make sure we dont give anybody whose black or latino. i dont think thats whats happening. So its about a multiplicity of the people that this a very early point in this process. Indeed Academy Voters cant cast their ballots for movies that represent a wider range of the human condition if those films are never made in the first place. matthew belloni, executive editor, the Hollywood Reporter the ultimate change needs to come from the top helon of hollywood executive suites. Its getting those kinds of minority driven movies in the oscar coersation. That is the difficult part. spike lee, filmmaker i would like to see more people step up because we are going to be on the right side of history. Stephanie elam, cnn, hollywood. Lukas a new portrait featuring actoto kevin spacey in his role as president Frank Underwood in house of kevin spacey in his role as president Frank Underwood in house of cards will go on display at thesmithsonian tional portrait gallery. House of cards is a popular netflix drama dealing with the dark side of politics in washington dc. It was the first original series produced by the streaming service and season four premiers next month. The image of spaceyas president underwood will hang in the gallery through october. Lukas coming up. Welcontinue our r lebration of black History Month with another preview of our documentary. Americas untold story. Stay with us. Scott well have. Youre watching morning. Lukas voss. And ott larson. This is abc9 news this check of conditions outside on the Port Neal Welding Company skycam hd and the storm lake skycam hd. Temperatures are in the 30s. Wind speeds are near 10 Miles Per Hour from the north. Clouds are sticking in eastern siouxland and starting to disappear from the west. A large storm is moving from the south to the midwest as threats change from Severe Weather to heavy snow to our east. Locally, well have a pretty quiet wednesday with periods of sunshine and some rain snow mix occuring this evening. Tomorrow, well have partly cloudy skies and breezy winds friday High Pressure will build in and that sets us up for a warming trend this weekend heres your extended forecast where well make it to the 60s on saturday before temperatures sink back down toward normal next week. Company skycam hd skycam hd. The 30s. Wind speeds are near 10 miles per north. Clouds are sticking in eastern siouxland and starting to disappear from the south to the midwest as threats change from Severe Weather to heavy snsn to our east. Locally, well have a pretty quiet wednesday withth periods of sunshine and some rain snow mix occuring this evening. Tomorrow, well have partly cloudy skies and breezy winds gusting near 35 Miles Per Hour. Then on friday High Pressure will build in and that sets us up for a warming trend this weekend heres yoururxtended foreca where well mama it to the lukas 1963 was a tumultuous year in our country as the Civil Rights Movement heated up. And no where was it hotter than Saint Augustine florida. A community that was instrumental equality. All month long weve been looking at this Resolute Group of people and their struggle. And this morning. We take you back to 1963. For a piece of americaauntold journey. Narr 24 the year is 1963 and protests have reached a fever pitch on st. Austine. Vo narr there needed tbe a new front opened in the fight against segregation, and there was no better place to do leading this fight would be lincolnville dentist and successful businessman, dr. Robert hayling. Fountains ,, a dentist and ex army officer, hayling became the first negro member of the Florida State dental society. He joined the civil rights struggle after the dental group was denied meeting facilities at white hotels and staurants because of his membership. Last susuer, dr. Hayling and an associate were badlylyeaten by kkk memeers when they ventured too close to a klan rally. Ironically, when the case was tried, hayling was convicted of assault on the klansmen. His appeal is now pending. Vo narr 24 inspired by the words o Martin Luther king, jr. , hayling organized local youths and began sending them into local whitesonly restaurants. On a hot july day in 1963, 14 year old samuel white, 15year old 16 year old Willie Carl Singleton and 16 yearold Joeann Anderson went up to the woolworths lunch counter and tried to order a hamburger ana coke. They were arrested. And later sentenced to one year in reform school. This harsh sentencing of peaceful children drew local and national outrage. Putting a new spot light on st. Augustines racial unrest. Sot mlk st. Augustine, is merely a symbol of an expression. Of the tragedies that engulf our whole nation in the area of race relations. Barbara vickers 00 09 26 the s sriest night was when the klans and the others were down in t t slave market. They had brought in a truckload of rocks and put it in the slave market so they would have to throw at us. Lukas ill introduce you to a 9yearold phenom who packs quite a punch already. Stay tuned to meet her. Lukas plus. Youll see a workout almost anyone can get on board with the wine workout more on the exercise thats going viral online. Guys probably come to mind. Not young girls well 9 year old coach says she than fighters twice her age. She has big plans for herself and but there are a her way. Reporter Michelle Charlesworth has her story. She m m only be 9 years olbut pound for und jesselyn silva arguably has more heart and ambition than boxers twice and even three times her age. I just like the sport. When my dad asks do you want to go to the gym l always say yes. Jesselyn has been boxing since she was 7 years old after her dad took up the sport to lose weight. She begged to put on a pair of gloves. And once she did, her gift was undeniable. I noticed when she started picking surprised. How does that feeee when people tell you that youre phenomenal and youre special and youre so talented . It makes me feel like happy. Andhat im not just doing this for nothing im doing this for everybody. And for myself too so i can become Something Big when i get older. This 74 pound phenom works out for nearly two hours, 4 days a week. But with very few fele boxers her age she usually sparrs with older boys like the 10 year old in this video. Shes only had one sanctioned fight. Her championship belt hangs in the Bergen PoliceAthletic League boxing gym where she trains. When i won my first match felt so good when they put up my hand because it was like my first match and i one and im undefeated but its only one fight. I cant wait for my next flight. Jesselyn is now training for the Golden Gloves in march. Her coach, Don Somerville a former pro boxer with nearly 30 Years Experience says hes never seen a talent with jesselyns anything twice. Shes done shes right on me coach what do i do next . sosohe has that desire to be differert and thats ththuniqueness of nine years old to want to be different who are normally frustrated by exercise. A Northern California woman created the wine workout. And posted it on her fitness facebook page. Reporter Evan Schreiber has more on the woman who is taking the fitness world by storm. nats as a mother to a toddler, 24yearold april storey knows her time is limited. And like many Healthy Living can be a struggle. nats home with her r daughter briellelend her husband levi on monday. The busy life was on display. Y. But what resulted. Hahanow been seen roughly 25million n people worwide. The 15second video posted in january nats now dubbed the wine workout. Storey created wine workout i was getting ready to do a workout, and i saw the wine there and im like, you know, that would be kind of funny to incorporate wine into this workout video. storey tells me this is her life. Simple. Everyday home exercises. Not necessarily was just one of the dozens of non alcohol included workout videos shes posted. april storey created wine workout so thats what facebook is for, right . Just sharing all the things that were doing every day. At sharing spread worldwide. One post from former star trek Actor George Takei saying quit wineing and work out to his nine million followers. nats posting the video with a slightly different music variation. nats Evan Schreiber redding, ca most of the comments have been positive. There have been a few negative reactions about her hurting herself falling on the wine. But most of the people have been doing like what im doing, and sending back their own videos and pictures. april storey creatat wine workout quick they were making their own videos. They were doing dierent things with it. No matter the number of re creations. Or comments both positive and negative storey is hoping they all get the message. april storey created wine workout what i want to show people with my videos is that fitness can do it anywhere, and you can use anything. In this case. Just dont forget the corkscrew. 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And howard is here with a recipe thats beefed up for your pleasure. Take a look you know nothing seems to be more comforting this time of year than a steaming bowl of soup. And when its homemade, all the better. So today i want to share our fromscratch split pea soup that is so good and so easy youre going to want to make this over and over again. We start by sauting about a pound or so of stew meat in a bit of vegetable o o. Once its browned on all sides, we add some cut up potatoes to the same pot along with the trifecta of veggies. You know carrots, celery, and onions. Now we add a good amount of chicken pepper. And in case youre wondering, split peas are simply regular peas that have been removed from their pods,dried and split in ha. Once this comes to a boil, well turn it down so it can simmer til everything is tender. You know, the nice thing about this is we can customize it by using short ribs or flank steak instead of stew meat, or replacing the chicken broth with beef broth. No matter whichchay you go, whenenou well take you to nevada for all the latest from the caucuses. Did donald trump take another state . Find out. Up next. Scott scott siouxland. Lets get a check of conditions neal Welding Company skycam hd skycam hd. The 30s. Wind speeds hour from the north. Clouds are sticking in eastern siouxland and starting to disappear from the west. A large storm is moving from the south to the midwest as threats change from Severe Weather to heavy snow to our east. Locally, well have a pretty quiet wednesday with periods of sunshshe and some rain snow mix occuring this evening. Tomorrow, well have partly cloudy skies and breezy winds gusting near 35 Miles Per Hour. Then on friday High Pressure will build in and that