Recipe for News People Orgasm; The San Rafael Gunman holed up in hotel

Choppers. You gotta have those choppers.

Traffic up the ying-yang. The usual insipid live shot with reporter asking Tiburon housewife in Volvo stuck knee-deep amidst five-mile back-up: "Hey, how ya coping?" Housewife: "This is so bad--it took me a half-hour just to go a few feet!" (They both deserve each other.)

A gunman. With surveillance pictures, no less. Possible hostage. San Quentin background shots (orgasmic).

This is what they live for.

The only thing missing is Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte.