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Good evening. Thanks for staying up with us on this Sunday night. I'm listening
to K. A Yakima woman is dead tonight and so far, sheriff's deputies are not sure
what happened. A passerby found the body of 32 year old Deborah K Bailey in a
small white car north of Natchez. The car was parked off the side of the road on
the Natchez Wienis grade. Police found Bailey's body sitting in an upright
position in the car. Police are treating it as a homicide at this point, and an
autopsy has been scheduled to determine the exact cause of death. A family in
Spokane is in turmoil tonight. A father says his own son attacked him with a
baseball bat. The young man is in jail tonight charged with assault against
his father and home. Tonya Bendix said has more
neighbors spent the day helping the in rights pick up glass from half a dozen
broken windows. They say 16 year old William went berserk with a baseball
bat. It scares me.
I mean, I feel for her because I know what's going through
because the mother loves her children no matter what. He says this is payback
and use some vulgarities in reference to me. And he said swinging at me. The
boy's father, Dan and right says he and his son got into an argument about the
family computer. The boy's anger boiled over. I was laying on the floor
and he was beating me. I just kept on thinking he'll stop the next one. He'll
stop the next one.
Never happened. And right says his son hit him with the bat at least 20 times.
The blows broke his hand. He has dozens of bruises, arms and legs so swollen at
first rescue workers thought they too were broken. It's just been building
and building and building. He wanted to get his boy help. He kept hoping things
would get better. Now William and right is in jail and his father hopes he'll
get the help he needs. Why just tell him I love him.
Dan and right says all the phones in their house were destroyed in that
attack and that's why he called to the neighbors for help. The teen does face
felony charges. A russian two men and his four year old son died in a car
crash earlier today. It happened on interstate five near Roseburg Oregon.
Police say Matthew Wallman was thrown out of the car thrown out of the van.
Excuse me before it rolled over him. The boy's father Peter Wallman of Redmond
had to be pried from the wreckage and he died later at the hospital. Mother
Denise woman was driving when she apparently fell asleep and lost control.
She and two other Children were treated and released a near miss with the ground
left a hermiston pilot shaken but safe. The airplane pilot is home safe tonight
after he had to land at the Pasco airport today. The pilot did not want to
talk on camera or give us his name but he did say faulty landing gear is the
culprit. He had to fly over the tri cities for an hour and a half before
making the emergency at the Pasco airport flying around used up his fuel
he says to an avoid an explosion when he finally did land. Once the plane
touched down the pilot says everything seemed okay until he got back into the
plane and taxied a couple of more feet. That's when the plane's landing gear
collapsed. The pilot says he had been on his way to Hood River when he realized
his landing gear was having problems. The pilot says he was lucky to walk
away without a scratch and he plans to be back in the air as soon as the plane
is fixed. It's a while police found four pipe bombs in an abandoned car this
afternoon. Police say they went to the car near a busy shopping area after a
phone tip told them of a possible bomb in the car. Sergeant Keith Moon says the
car was left in a parking lot about two weeks ago. Business owners in the area
were suspicious of the abandoned vehicle and called authorities. Moon says
officers found the bombs in a cloth bag in the back seat of the car so then they
called in the Washington State Patrol bomb squad. Moon says the bombs looked
like they were recently made. A 260 mile long natural gas pipeline that exploded
last week is back in full service tonight except for a 15 mile stretch south
of Yelm. Northwest pipeline people say that area has been isolated by the
company because of land movement on Vale Mountain detected during an aerial
survey. Recent heavy rains are the suspected cause of the two
explosions and fires, one near Everson and the other 200 miles south near Calma
along the Columbia River. The questionable section will not be reopened
until crews complete the groundwork and everything is safe. Governor Gary Locke
says he will not return campaign contributions he received from John
Hwang, a Democratic National Committee fundraiser who is at the center of
controversy in the nation's capital. Hwang has been subpoenaed by Congress
and is under investigation by the FBI for his part in soliciting more than one
million dollars in donations that were inappropriate or illegal because they
came from foreign sources. The Mount Hope Baptist Church held its annual tea
gathering in celebration of Black History Month today. Church members joined
together in song and prayer encouraging children to learn about their black
heritage and the achievements of black people. They follow the program each year
by sharing tea in the downstairs fellowship hall. The annual fellowship tea
has been held since 1959 but back then there was only one tea gathering held
for the entire state. In the early 60s each area started having their own
fellowship team to cut down on traveling distances. You won't have to travel far
because coming up at about 11-11 an extremely fattening diet is controlling
some people's epileptic seizures. It is a controversial treatment but we have a
story about an 11 year old who is getting a second chance at life but
first Basque demonstrators are injured, peace talks in Israel and the US
secretary takes her first trip. We'll take you around the world in 60 seconds.
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Basque demonstrators want independence but many are injured tonight after
fighting for it. The bail is our first stop around the world in 60 seconds. In
Spain at least 20 people are injured after a clash with police. Demonstrators
had been calling for Basque independence. Police opened fire with
live ammunition and rubber bullets after being cornered by a crowd of about 10,000
demonstrators.
In Croatia, thousands of ethnic Serbs protested for the 11th consecutive day.
The Serbs are protesting the plan to return the region to Croatia. It is
currently controlled by Serbs. Demonstrators are demanding on other
things, dual Yugoslav Croatian citizenship and an open border with Serbia.
The Israeli Foreign Minister and the Palestinian head negotiator are in a new
round of peace talks tonight. The agenda for the talks include arrangements for
Palestinian sea and airports, a safe passage between the West Bank and Gaza,
and people-to-people cooperation. Madeleine Albright got down to business
as the new US Secretary of State today. She went on her first trip overseas to
meet with Italian leaders in Rome. And US Vice President Al Gore is on tour to
strengthen diplomatic ties between South Africa and the states. Gore met with
President Nelson Mandela today in Cape Town. Gore also visited the former
prison on Robben Island where Mandela spent 18 of his 27 years behind bars
under the apartheid regime. And if you just watched our movie, First Do No Harm,
you understand the emotional impact epilepsy can have on victims and their
families. A North Idaho family is speaking out on the success their
daughter is finding on the diet tonight's movie was based on. Reporter
Bette Bowers has more.
Like I told the person when I was in first grade, so they handle it really
great. The fifth grade classmates know Heather Hafer has epilepsy, but she
believes she's found the right answer. So when that we can use 16. Sure. There's
nothing worse than such a helpless feeling as watching your daughter in
convulsions and you can't do anything. And she's crying out, Daddy, why won't
they stop? And and Jack Hafer say they've tried everything. Oh, as many
as there are pharmaceutical companies. And after struggling over high costs of
prescriptions and an alarming increase in Heather's seizures, the haters have
found an open door in the ketogenic diet. It's equivalent to when you burn a
log, you get ash left over and they're called key. Gens ketones and that when
it's elevated in your blood is somehow controls the seizures. Instead of
drinking milk, Heather gets a cup of whipping cream. In fact, every meal is
weighed precisely to the gram. 42 grams of that. Just so you know, Mom, I feel
okay. Ketogenic is a strict menu of three fats or more for every protein. No
milk, no sugar and in Heather's case butter with every meal. I really didn't
know about it, but I got changed to butter and mayonnaise. I didn't mind it
at all. My daughter has never attained totally seizure free. She's had a real
marked significant reduction in her seizures on this diet. Gave us, you know,
her life back. Basically her life back.
Now normally doctors prescribe the ketogenic diet for about two years. If
the seizures begin to return with more frequency, the patient can go right back
on the diet after they've been off for a while. Well, we had beautiful weather
today, but could it be changing? Let's check in with Elizabeth Gardner to see
what's up.
We'll send it after the spring like weekend. We're getting ready to move back
into a more wet pattern. We're even going to see windy conditions by
tomorrow afternoon and I'll tell you all about the forecast ahead after we check
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the weather was teasing us this weekend. It was so warm and we saw so much
sunshine. It was like a taste of spring and our temperatures will stay fairly
moderate through this week, but we'll be returning now to a more wet pattern.
Take a look at our satellite map and you can see the storm that's out here in
the Pacific right now, but you'll notice as it moves on shore, it begins to
weaken somewhat. And so we're not really expecting to see a lot of moisture with
this, but it is opening the door, I should say, to let in more moisture. And
what we've got happening right now is the jet stream is coming through, actually
I can probably draw it better from this side, coming up and still making somewhat
of a ridge over the northwest. And what that means is it's still allowing some
of that warm air to move up from the south. But anytime we have a dip in the
jet stream, which is what's happening around this low pressure system, we
normally see cooler weather and wetter weather. So that's going to be shifting
our direction. So with a change, again we'll see the showers beginning to crop
up, and so we'll see those moving in tonight and into tomorrow morning. And
then after that we'll see more sunshine. You can see all the breaks out here in
the Pacific. Well that of course means we'll see some more sunshine. But in the
meantime, before we get to that tomorrow afternoon, we're already seeing the
showers making their way inland. And especially along the Cascades here, we
will see some snow tonight, four to five inches is what we're expecting. So if
you're having to travel that way tomorrow morning, do expect to see some