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mm hmm, mm hmm. Good afternoon, it's a Wednesday and what a day were now live at five and coming up this next hour a san Francisco rally for walter Mondale and there was a man with a knife in the crowd will have an update and mother

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nature threw quite a tantrum last night, spectacular and dangerous. Good afternoon again, I'm Evan white in the newsroom and also coming up today live at five the mayor of fremont, he's upset that his town's boys club has been cut off by the united way and you'll

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hear from both sides live and military waste. We have more examples of the growing problem that's not being taken care of here in California as the news starts now private party now from the Emmy award winning news center for northern California from reporters around the bay

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in sacramento and Washington D. C. This is live at five oh again, five o'clock in san Francisco and bob the menace, walter Mondale was in san Francisco today a huge rally with environmentalists. Then this happened, take a look as Mondale approached the podium, SAn Francisco police

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and Secret Service agents stopped a man wearing a white cap claimed he was carrying a knife he was and they arrested him all of this happening within a few feet of the candidate Mondale apparently seeing everything he was not hurt. Secret Service agents said later they

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started watching this man after he began talking loudly yelling obscenities they say as if according to the Secret service again, he was mentally deranged and this man has been identified now as 26 year old paul fuentes of san Francisco, he's being held for questioning and being

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studied for some problems mentally. That's all we know right now. A little later Roland post who covered that rally today will be along with an update. We'll have more the story isn't over yet. Well nature spoke very loudly last night and what a show! A spectacular

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thunderstorm that hurled huge bolts of lightning across the sky everywhere from Monterey County too. Well north of san Francisco Weatherman, steve Newman with me right now And steve as we take a look at some of these incredible pictures shot by our cameraman chris saber. Tell us

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what we're seeing. We're seeing examples of cloud to ground lightning lightning, the most dangerous kind. Those are the ones that hit transformers and and the Golden gate bridge was hit. Isn't that incredible the ones that are pretty to look at but don't do any damage, go

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within clouds or between two clouds but unfortunately had a lot of strikes on the ground that caused numerous for as far as we'll hear more about and power outages, we're looking over to potrero hill right now right, how did I get here? It got here by

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a lot of warm air blowing up from baja California, unusual to get lightning here anyway, but at night at that hour. It's almost unheard of, it would have enough heat blown up from the tropics to develop those big thunderheads produced the lightning. very strange. But it

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did happen to see more tonight. No, we're gonna clear out hogs coming back, it's cooler. Okay, steve Newman with more later on this half hour. By the way, this storm shook the house, woke the baby, scared the dog stopped some clocks for a while and brought

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some rain to parts of the bay area, but the storm was also destructive. The lightning touched off dozens of fires along the northern California coast, all of them in trees or brush. This one happened at Point Reyes peninsula and there are at least two others, we

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still know burning one in humboldt County, the other in San Benito. Now, lightning set fires of this kind present a couple of problems. They are often hard to get to. A lot of problems for firefighters and some fires are hard to see. They are smoldering and

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ready to flame. Well, the problem is that with the rain and underneath the tree campy, it's damp now and these things can smolder in there for quite some time until the area dries up and then they'll start showing up in the afternoon. We had a fire

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in a stump uh two weeks ago in the Alpine Dam area that smolder for a little over a week and popped out of the ground on us. So it's, I would say they can burn for up to a week in there without us being able to

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find them right away. That's the latest on that. By the way, the lightning also knocked out power to at least 120,000 people right here in the bay area. A lot of problems for a time except for about we understand 8300 homes. That's a new new piece

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of information. We're getting Scattered throughout the Santa Cruz Mountains, 8300 homes. Everybody else's back online at this hour. Now the outages began shortly after 3:00 AM. Most lasted less than an hour. Now, what happens to a fire station? For example, when something like this happens when

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the electricity goes out because of storms like this, how can firefighters opened the electric garage doors to get their fire trucks rolling to the fire? Well that's a question we wanted answered today, we sent directly out to firehouse number 36 right here in San Francisco, you've

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got some answers for us tonight. Well Bob normally those huge doors at Firehouse 36 and other firehouses in the city are open electronically in much the same way you would open your own garage door with one of those automatic gadgets. But during an emergency and a

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power failure, they would have to open those doors manually. And that is what the concern is bob, they don't, they don't have a backup generator to handle this. Contrary to what many people think SAN Francisco firehouses have no emergency generators except for those which power their

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radio communications system. And so that's what the concern is that by opening those doors manually, you would of course add precious time to response by firefighters and emergency shows how it works. Okay bob. I'll tell you. We asked those firemen earlier today to open those doors

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both manually and electronically. And we time them both. And we were surprised. Now on the left hand of your screen, you see the 10 seconds that was manual opening. The electronic one is still going on 14 seconds. It took surprise. The manual opening took four seconds

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less. Big surprise. Now we understand that the city is going to order more backup generators to do the door that moves slower than the one you can lift. Well, that's the irony of it all bob. Mayor Feinstein has of course appropriated $50,000 to purchase the emergency

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generators, but I wonder if progress really is the answer. All right. I hope the supervisors are watching that they're gonna spend a lot of money. Thank you vic. A good demonstration. Let's go down to the newsroom right now. Breaking story. Even white word just got to

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sort of San Diego Bob at the mayor of San Diego down there. Roger Hedge cock. Just been indicted a few minutes ago by a federal grand jury. One count of conspiracy, 14 counts of perjury. It has to do with his personal and campaign finances. Also indicted

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is former political consultant Tom Sheppard and to other people. It's the end of a two month investigation, but the mayor still faces a civil suit filed by the D. A. That alleges hedge cock received more than $350,000 in illegal campaign contributions. This was in 1983. We

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have a story today that is involving some complaints by the city's paramedics who will ride the ambulances around san Francisco a complaint sent in the letter form to the chief of the health department, Merv Silverman, the new center force lindy's with me. You have a copy

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of the letter, What's it say? Yeah, we happen to get a copy of that letter is three pages and very serious charges being leveled a lot of complaints. But basically the problem is They're saying that because of the lack of medical help, mission emergency meeting that

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they have one nurse on standby to give them any medical direction. Many times are put on hold. And that could mean the difference between saving a life. When these guys when women are out in the ambulance and an accident site for instance, they have trouble getting

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information from mission emergency because if not every day they're not, they're saying to be fair, let's not say this is happening every day. But there are times when we get a lot of calls going in. We have as much as 200 personnel out there on any

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given day. Um They could get backed up because the only hospital that they can get medical advice from is mission emergency. They're not getting what they want. Well they're saying that that one nurse on duty there is just not adequate mission emergency is in san Francisco

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general, you've been covering for months. The problems they're having. They connected are these the money problems that go along with other problems in general? It is and it isn't and I'll tell you why we we know the problem at SAn Francisco general. It's now under the

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purview of the of city Chief administrative officer roger boas. He took it away from the direct control of Dr Mervyn Silverman last february because of all the problems out there. But Dr Mervyn Silverman is in charge of the paramedics Lois is in charge of the base

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station there. So there you have probably one bottom line, we're gonna do something about it. Dr Silverman we understand now is going to meet with the paramedics tomorrow morning in this office and probably started an investigation into the charges that they've outlined in this letter. Okay,

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thank you. Thank you bob. Thank you. Congresswoman Barbara boxer has been complaining about this for months and we've talked about it for about that long. The pentagon spending more money than it really needs to for military parts so loud with her complaints in recent weeks. The

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Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger burger, the number one man promised that he tried to get this situation under control. But our kevin McCullough was in Washington today hearing that the government waste is apparently still going on Kevin who's complaining about this now? Well the difference this

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time bob is that the complaints come from a couple of whistleblowers inside the Air force and what's more right in our own backyard with firsthand experience out at Travis Air Force Base. Talking about kevin what they're talking about is relatively minor spare parts and we have

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some videotape. We can show you what we mean here. And when we get to the pictures, you'll see these two whistle blowers on the either side of Barbara boxer and then you'll see one of them, A guy showing off an arm rest for an airplane seat

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that it cost the air force. He says $670 and could be made on the base for five he estimated An emergency light cost the Air Force 180 he said didn't work all that well. And some spare parts. The one fellow fished out of the trash bins

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still in their original rappers. That was the tenor of the whole thing. Well let's be fair to the government, they promised to get this situation under control. What as much as a year ago and this and this stuff is still going on right. Yeah Weinberger ever

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said it would be solved 100%. But he did say get it under control. That was a year ago. The Weinberger zone man at the hearing today didn't bother to dispute any of the specifics. He just said the programs are in place and will take a while

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to work. What about the airmen? They're sort of in jeopardy tonight, aren't they? For coming forward? One fellow is still in the service as a year ago. The other guy was discharged a couple of days ago. And Well, there's a famous story of one guy in

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the Air Force who took 14 years to get his job back after he blew the whistle. All right, this is another story we should be watching and Kevin will be there. Thank you. Remember the $60 million investment mistake that cost four san Jose officials. Their jobs?

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Well, tonight, the city of san Jose City council blaming those disasters, investments on the brokers Who apparently handle them now. In fact, the council plans to sue several brokerage houses to recoup some of the $60 million dollars loss last May, they say the brokers encouraged the

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city to invest idle cash in speculative ventures. There is more bad news tonight for about 13,000 investors who just deposited their money in the western community money center. Let's go back to the newsroom and white more than that. They put their money in accounts that they

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presumed and assumed to be at the time guaranteed by the state of California. But since that center went belly up, that was last april, nobody's gotten a dime back and today. New center for his economic specialists that are not found out about something that may keep

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this money tied up for some time to come. Well, start in the beginning today, the legal process began whereby they're gonna get 12% of what they had under $50,000. That was guaranteed folks who had time to get us about two weeks, we'll get 1200 to begin

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with. And the rest of it may take years before they get well, they get 100% of it supposedly. But it may take an awful lot of time. The whole thing is just a mess because these folks really believed and they tell me they were told that

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their money was protected as well protected as it would have been bankrupt. Savings. And we were always told things are either guaranteed or insured is the phrase Youth funds are insured. Doesn't that mean to get your money if they go that they followed by the government.

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This money was supposedly guaranteed not insured. But we're talking about a lot of people who are in dire straits. Look, I talked to, I talked to Bill Sullivan today who pinpoints the kind of people that we're talking about here. People have already gone under financially. People

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are hanging on by their fingertips right now and again, my story and my wife's story is not the worst case scenario. It's the senior citizens out there, 69 year old men, 75 year old men and women have said to me, I'm going to have to go

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look for work, but who's gonna hire a person my age. Sullivan, Sullivan Incidentally had this had $25,000 involved in in the center which was backup money operating money for a small business. He just started, we look and we're gonna put our money someplace do we look

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for the word insured as opposed to guarantee you look for fis like F. S. L. I. C. Which the savings and loan have, which is insurance for up to 100,000 F. D. I. C. Which covers the bank. They didn't have state charted loan and thrifts do

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not have that kind of coverage. Take note. Thank you sir bob. Thanks ann a south based psychic now claiming that she led searchers to the body of a missing woman searches, finding the body of Tanya Zack last monday and now we're exploring the psychic connection ourselves.

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We're working on a full report at six o'clock tonight and tonight's cover story is on the cover stories themselves are gonna take a look at the people who come up with the ideas and the money. They spend large amounts for the big stories that sell papers

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and programs plus a visit with a master of illusion tonight. New center forcing you. Guillermo picks up a few tricks he says from magician Doug Henning, we'll have those stories six o'clock tonight. Following nightly news bob. McCarthy is in a helicopter for right now watching what

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he normally watches traffic. Hello bob. Hello there, robert. We are indeed watching traffic and we're watching some marine air come right through the golden gate, we'll show it to you right now. We are on the Waldo. Great bob. You can hardly see it over there. Traffic

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is moving very good and I can only say be very cautious on the Golden gate bridge because this fog is right down on the deck further 5 80 at Castro all the way to the castro. Why? As a matter of fact from grant is very, very

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heavy. There was a stall, a car and a trailer, their name. It's a damned packed off to a slow stop. That's Tennison to a street and an injury accident 17 at Jarvis back to you Robert. All right, thank you Bob. Report still ahead here live at

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five. The mayor of Fremont says thanks to the United Way. His boys club isn't working. Mm. Mhm Yeah, yeah. Today that walter Mondale was speaking at let's go to the newsroom right now where our political specialist Roland post is getting a report ready on the rally

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itself. Rollin pretty big crowd for Mr Mondale today, this was a good one bob after a series of rallies for both the Ferraro and Mondale campaigns earlier in the campaign, which had really been rather ineptly handled this one by any accounts was a good healthy rally.

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Let's look at some pictures and you'll see what I mean. It was really with Justin Herman Plaza in san Francisco, that was a big crowd. Mondale was warmed up for them and he continued what he started about two weeks ago. It was an attack on Reagan.

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This is apparently his new style. He attacked the president for his environmental policies or lack of them over the last three years and also for his inability to negotiate any sort of uh nuclear Or weapons freeze with the Soviets or even meet with the Soviet environmental

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issues. This is the thing he should be talking about in California, but we understand that less than 50% of the environmentalists are registered to vote. Is he wasting his time? One of these wasting his time. These are Mondale voters, but the environmentalists have all gotten together

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their organizations and almost as we speak, are comparing membership rolls with the voter registration lists. They've gone to everyone who is not a registered voter and they're trying to register them and get them out to vote in november. By the way, did you see the incident

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involving the man with a knife? No, I didn't. It was as he was approaching the big platform, there are camera was far back, you could see a little kind of a scuffle or the cops picking some man up, but you didn't know who it was or

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why he never pulled the knife out. Incidentally model was never attacked. We should point that out and memorabilia of our staff is working on this story and she'll have an update for you at 6:00 until Fremont. Mayor Leon Mazzetti can spit nails tonight. He's not getting

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the $38,000 he's asked for from United Way to fund the city's boys club. Why was he turned down this year? Well, United Way claims they are management problems and the city didn't get its budget report in on time. Now we're going to the newsroom in just

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a moment to speak to a man from United Way. But first, Mayor Mazzetti, who is live tonight at the boys club and mayor, is it true that you call members of United Way? A bunch of drips who can go to hell yes, I did bob. However,

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a pretty strong word. Yes, I think that was a poor choice of words and I deeply apologize to them. Okay, what's the problem? What's the problem here? Why don't you get an album is very simple. They refused to fund a boys club And I agree there's

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some inefficiencies in the management of the boys club. You got them fixed? But I still don't think that's any reason to put 1100 kids out in the street at the present time. The boys club is in the red $2,000. I just checked with the management. Can

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I interrupt you just for a second. I want you to stay right there because we're going down to the newsroom right now where we have a representative from the United Way joe valentine is with Evan White, haven't you? Mr valentine appreciate one taking the time to

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come down and talk to us. You heard the mayor? What do you think about the charge first of all? Well, the clarification would be that we don't fund the city down there at all. We fund this boy's club which is a voluntary agency run by a

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community volunteer board of directors have been funding the Fremont Boys Club, correct? You're not now correct? Why not? We are dissatisfied and have been for several years and we finally reached the end of our rope if you want to call it that that the management of

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the agency, the board role in the agency, the program particularly of the agency is just simply not satisfactory. Well, let's go back to the mayor. They're not satisfied with the way you're handling things Mayor. How can you convince the United Way that they should give you

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the money right now? Well, first of all, as the mayor, I speak for the city of the people So far, I've had over 85 calls supporting my position. I had one call this morning that disagrees with me. However, at this time I do not have nothing

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to do with the boys club other than being the mayor. I was on the board for 15 years, dropped out due to a busy schedule about five years ago. Okay, mayor, but you're in the office where the buck stops. Can you two get together and solve

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this problem? I doubt whether we can do this at the present time with the United Way because the boys club appealed and the appeal was rejected. But I think what should have happened was that they put the boys club on probation for a year And not

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put 1100 kids out on the street. What are we going to do with 1100 kids out on the street? I think this is a complete lack of compassion. Did you give him the part of the boys of the United Crusade? Okay. Hold on. We're gonna hear

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from Mr Valentine's. You notice we've been working, we've been working with the leadership of the club, both volunteers and the staff leadership for three years on this problem. And, uh, I suppose it compares a little bit to the, you know, the old story about getting the

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donkey's attention. We just simply had to get their attention and we're ready to work with the volunteer leadership of that board, The volunteer president and the board members, in a sense, starting tomorrow. If they if they will address their problems, they clean up their act to

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your satisfaction. Do they have to wait a year to get some money. Can you get it to them quickly? I can't answer that because I don't know whether or not, you know, we will in fact find additional funds for them. But I do spend the money.

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They usually get, Yeah, we we have funds that we can allocate. If we if you know, if we should, I don't think it's going to be taken care of that quickly. What are you gonna do about the situation if you don't get the money? This is

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a very negative attitude on Mr valentine's part and I respect his position. Let's go forward. Let's get together, get the management of the Boys club and Mr valentine and let the management of the boys club proved to them that they can do a better job. And

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let's get the money. So we don't have to put the kids out on the street. Let's be positive about it. Not negative. You said you don't think they can do it? I disagree with you. Mr valentine. What's interesting is that we aren't the ones that have

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been negative up to this point. We care about those kids. Absolutely. As much as the mayor people in actual. Of course we'll talk to. Okay, all right, so, we could ask well, leave it with that. At least we opened up some communication between you two gentlemen.

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Thank you very much. Mr valentine. We'll follow the story. See what happens with the boys new abuses in pricing military spare parts? We just brought you the story live from our Washington bureau nightly news will pick it up later this half hour and still ahead here

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live at five mark Thompson is off but Stephen Stephen human knows why the mug eES struck today and we'll find out next it's called Medicis stocks and if you've got a gardener houseplants you've probably used it. It's a common pesticide. But tonight the state is warning

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all women of childbearing age to stay away from medicines stocks now they say it may harm human embryos and part of the evidence they've got came from our series, a plague on your Children involving some farm workers. One of them gave birth to a deformed baby

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after being exposed to menaces stocks. Here's how we spell this chemical. There it is. Check your household products and if it is indeed in the ingredients once again beware. Childbearing women should avoid Medicis stocks. Here is steve Newman who's been literally running around all day. You're

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the most wanted man in the newsroom today because of that huge storm. Only when something happens, the rest of them, they could care less. We had a beautiful day today if you like watching the fireworks early in the morning, the sky is clear and the fog

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has been rolling around with that high clouds. Very interesting sky to look at if you're a weather freak or weather fanatic San Francisco at this hour, 70° Oakland, 74 san Jose, still up there, warm 88 but conquer it is topping it off right now, 93. It's

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as hot as 95 in the Central Valley. Most of the thunderstorm activity are bunched up right now in the sierra Nevada. We see some other showers in the northern part of the Sacramento Valley offshore a little bit. But I think you can see for yourself that

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most of the clouds are gone. General clearing trend taking 4th but there's a lot of fog and low clouds off the coast. We'll see patchy right along the shoreline. My forecast for the bay area tonight clearing with patchy coastal fog or low clouds are lows between

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58 to 64. Tomorrow will be a sunny and mild day highs about 65 of the water to 84 at the warmest inland locations. That's kind of forecast I'd like to give after a heat wave after all that rain too. Thank you. It's gonna get cooler. Thank

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you. Steve steve returns at six o'clock down to the newsroom right now. I haven't quite got talk sports with tom nettles bob and about the AIDS Who what today? They decided for one more year as in Jackie moore. He had taken over for steve Boris a

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couple of months ago at 24 games of the season. He's piled up ever since then. They have rewarded him with one more year contract. It's not a surprise and Frankly it's not really exciting news but they did also win 8-7 today over the Rangers and swept

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that series, highlights of the press conference and the game tonight. 6 45. I understand you have some information sheds at least a little light on what's going on. The Muhammad Ali in the hospital, worry about Parkins disease. Parkinson's disease. What they find. Well, they've done a

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battery test back in new york on the former heavyweight champion and they say he does not have Parkinson's disease, but he has rather Parkinson like symptoms. Does that mean they don't know what it is. That means that it can be a lot of things. And I'll

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explain that in just a minute. But first listen to him talk yesterday when he was at went into the hospital when somebody asked him why he was in the hospital. I will see what happens. I've got 10 days ago, I'd take the New York Hospital quietly

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because people mom and I devil and um physical, they're always going to get checkups once every six months. The impression is that Ali has a Parkinson's like syndrome. Ali never had any brain surgery is not overdose on any drugs or medication. Uh, he has an illness

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not related, not class characterized by a dementia pugilistic. He has no evidence of an irreversible disease and they think they can control it on medication. And of course he was talking about the punch drunk punch drunk syndrome right there and he was, but I do think

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it can be controlled. Does that mean not get any worse? Yes. they think necessarily any better. Exactly. They think they can control their speculation isn't boxing related to the doctors are saying could be probably probably that's the key where you're probably is. And of course it's

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ironic. Here was the guy that nobody could hit. He never suffered any kind of damage at all until when he came back in the 70's and because of the fact that he could take a punch so well and would stand in there and he's actually absorb

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all that punishment. Probably is the reason that he is in the shape that he is today. And he says, I don't regret any of my life as a boxer. He said this today and he believes that was a large degree the cause of this condition today.

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And he's glad that he got to do what he did and give away as much money as he has to people around the world. Thank you. Sad story. It isn't, it's 6 45. Thank you. Has helped. A lot of people Still ahead here live at five

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from the New Center, a name that goes in the record books today. But wait until the baby grows up and tries to say it. Yeah, let's go quickly back to bob. McCarthy's watching traffic for us tonight, bob. Where are you were right over the bay bridge.

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You can see a three car rear ender. I think they got out to say howdy and look what happened. Got things screwed up pretty good. He's found 24 a bunch of cars but they're snaking along on the marina at Doyle drive as you approach a golden

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gate there is a star watch out there frog on the golden gate upper level getting going west is a little slow lower level. Just stagger them along. It's backed up clear to hospital curve back to you robert. All right, thank you bobby. Finally this astounded of

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so today that we had to share it with you take a look below me and try to figure out what you're looking at. Now let me check the monitor because I can't see this. Can we run this now? There it is. Okay, believe it or not.

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This is the name of a mother in Austin has given her newborn daughter. True, it has 1019 letters. This is the baby's first name and the mother Cassandra Williams is trying to break the Guinness Book of Records. Now look closely. Much of this doesn't make much

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sense. But what you're looking at is a combination Of the baby's relatives from several cities and countries. The names of two automobiles are also included in this. Now this is all legit, the name is in the state registry in Austin texas and yes, a Guinness officials.

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The name is a new record. Life goes on and so does this name but we don't have time to show it all to you. Let's go down to the newsroom right now. Find out what's coming up at six o'clock tonight. Here's ross that child will never

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get out of kindergarten. Coming up on news center four at six. The first thing we're gonna talk about is our cover story. It deals with the news media. We're going to take a look at us mike, sorry, is the reporter. He shows us how television stations

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do their investigative reporting, sometimes hiring others to do it. It is called scoops for sale. And that's our cover story. It's coming up at 6 36 rows. Nightly news of course, is next and more in boxing. Great Muhammad ali. A very sad story has undergone a

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battery of tests. Now they determine how doctors should treat his Parkinson's syndrome, a condition that is afflicting him. Now. It's thursday speech saps his strength. Doctors also checking now to see if the 33 time heavyweight champion is also suffering from hypoglycemia, low blood sugar. But the

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top story tonight is on the dollar will return at six o'clock. Here's tom in new york. Yeah.