Day night, determined to create trouble here in Central Park.
Several of them have told police they have a nickname for creating trouble,
going wilding.
Because they have a nickname for it, police believe several of them may have been in trouble before,
but before now, police never heard that term, going wilding.
We don't see any drug use here.
It's very difficult to explain.
They just said we're going wilding.
And we just haven't, from what I can gather now, we haven't had any indication of this before,
and we're not familiar with the term, nor what it implies.
But in my mind, at this point, it implies that we're going to go raise hell.
When the 33 hit the park, they assaulted an elderly man.
Then they spotted a police car and split up into factions.
Police say as one faction of 12 raped the jogger, several other factions tore out on a rampage,
assaulting many people, although less seriously than the rape victim.
Tonight, she lies in critical condition, fighting for life.
After an attack so severe, she lost three quarters of the blood in her body.
But doctors say she appears to have a strong will to live, and that is helping her.
We certainly got a fighting chance of making a full recovery.
If you want to say 50-50, you can say it, but numbers don't mean much in the individual case.
Police have already questioned about 20 youths,
most of them ages 14 and 15.
Authorities are optimistic there will be many more arrests.
In Central Park, I'm Colleen Hunt.
When we come back, a worst-case scenario.
What's the plan if there's a huge oil spill at one of our major ports in a big city,
where the endangered species could be your neighbors?
We'll be right back.
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A U.S. spy plane has crashed in the South China Sea, but its two pilots were rescued by helicopter.
The SR-71 Blackbird was based in Japan and was flying what is described as a routine mission when it crashed.
The cause of the crash, the exact time and location of it, where the plane was going, what it was doing.
The Air Force does not release that kind of information about spy planes.
Another Exxon spill, this time in Louisiana near Baton Rouge.
An Exxon chartered barge carrying waste material rupturing as it was being unloaded, spilling 240,000 gallons of wastewater into the Grand River.
State environmental officials say there have been reports of dead catfish already in the area of the spill.
Exxon cleanup crews are on the scene tonight.
The 10 million gallons of oil spilled into Prince William Sound, Alaska, one month ago, started a lethal chain reaction.
The ultimate damage, of course, can't be yet measured, and it is almost impossible to imagine the extent of destruction if such a spill occurred in any of the major ports here in the lower 48.
Barry Cunningham tonight in search of a safe harbor.
More than 10,000 oil spills are reported to New York Harbor each year.
They range from a couple ports of motor oil flushed down the storm drain.
Thousands of gallons of petroleum that slop overboard as tankers unload at hundreds of storage tanks along the coastline.
The Coast Guard says cleanup crews recover about 178,000 gallons of oil each year from New York waterways.
In a worst case scenario, the oil companies say they're prepared to clean up 1,600,000 gallons of oil in New York Harbor.
That's barely a fifth of the crude oil that spilled into Prince William Sound.
But the oil companies say the harbor here is too shallow and too narrow to accommodate giant super tankers like the Exxon Valdez.
So a spill of that magnitude isn't likely here.
There has never been a spill that has approached 40,000 barrels in New York Harbor since day one.
And the largest that I ever heard of was somewhere between five and 10,000 barrels.
Could something larger happen?
Yes.
Edward Kowsky is in charge of Clean Harbors, a $4 million cleanup co-op sponsored by eight of the biggest oil companies.
Fundamentally, we are dependent on booms to contain the oil.
In general, you contain it in slow current areas where you do not lose it under or over the boom, et cetera.
As they pick up, we have six self-propelled skimming vessels, each of which are capable of picking up 400 gallons a minute.
It certainly could happen in the Port of New York.
The Coast Guard says it can't prevent a major oil spill, only minimize the damage.
If you have a major oil spill, it will get to the shoreline.
There is no way that you can contain that much oil that quickly.
And so people will be unhappy.
Will it be a major disaster?
It will certainly have impact.
The Coast Guard says it could call in 10 different cleanup contractors from New Jersey to New England.
In addition, U.S. Navy skimmers in Hampton Bay's Virginia could be brought to the rescue.
Nevertheless, environmentalists say the states of New York and New Jersey are no better prepared than Alaska was to deal with a major oil spill disaster.
Unfortunately, the regulatory authorities don't have the budget, the resources, the staff to keep up.
So as literally hundreds of thousands of gallons are spilled into the metropolitan area every year.
Nevertheless, the oil companies are reviewing their cleanup policies here in the nation's number one oil port.
In New York Harbor, this is Barry Cunningham.
Up next on the Health Beat, little things mean a lot, especially if the little things are in your food.
This evergreen didn't have to die.
Just a few cents worth of mer acid could have saved it.
When evergreens turn sickly yellow, they need more than just fertilizer.
They need mer acid.
You see, ordinary fertilizers just feed, but mer acid feeds, ironizes, acidifies to help restore vigor and beauty.
And with mer acid in your miracle-grow feeder, you can keep all your evergreens beautiful year round.
It's so easy to just drop in and spray on so fast, you'll treat all your plants in minutes.
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This is Jack Jones.
And I want you to know that if you or someone you love is suffering from the pain of osteoarthritis,
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There are food fights going on in this country these days, and they're not all in the school cafeteria either.
Adults are fighting over things they prefer not to find in their edibles, like insect parts or rat hairs.
Tonight, Mark Mooney takes a look at the food you buy.
Are consumers getting more than they're bargaining for?
The recent public panic over Alar drenched apples and cyanide-laced grapes has obscured types of contamination
long known in farm communities and the Food and Drug Administration.
Many of the foods we eat contain bugs and other furry critters.
You wouldn't know a fragment of a rat hair if you saw it.
You might think it was just part of the product.
The FDA has published a guide that actually details the acceptable levels of insect parts,
rat hair, and mammalian excrement in foods ranging from apple butter to tomato sauce.
Marinara sauce, one of my favorites. But up to 120 fly eggs?
Microbiologists say nobody gets sick eating a few fly eggs if they are part of the natural food processing environment
and don't exceed FDA minimum levels.
You're never going to get a pure food. That is a totally sanitized food system.
Cocoa, possibly five milligrams of rat feces.
The federal standards for raw and processed foods are more than 25 years old
and some are based on research from the 19th century.
And though nobody has yet been able to grow crops free of bugs,
some consumer groups think it's high time to review and strengthen the guidelines.
Frozen spinach. Up to 100 aphids, no extra charge.
One of the problems that you run into here is that the Food and Drug Administration
is able to go into a food plant maybe once every four years, five years.
The FDA says its inspections are good enough and the food processing industry more sanitary than ever.
Still, consumer activists say the public wants more regulation,
and they point to recent public concern over Alar and other chemical additives
as proof people want their food free of both man-made and natural contaminants.
Jim Mooney, Washington.
Well, maybe this will cheer you up. At least one medical study indicates that money doesn't always buy happiness.
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A report in the Journal of the American Medical Association says that instead of providing happiness,
money and affluence might even cause depression.
A team of Cornell University researchers finds that depression is striking more often in wealthier countries,
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Here in Chicago tomorrow, temperatures will be in the 50s near the lake.
The 60s inland is blazing record, setting 90s occur out west, much as those record temperatures did today,
with 70s into western and southern Illinois, 80s in Iowa, and 90s out in Nebraska.
Tomorrow, clouding up, high 67.
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This Week in Sports. A vital part of baseball that you probably won't find in the box score.
Ballpark cuisine.
In Cleveland, Ohio, for instance, they've decided that a favorite mustard simply can't cut the mustard any longer.
The renowned Burtman mustard, a staple at Indians games since 1950, is not available there anymore.
The reasons? Well, first a competitor came up with a lower bid.
And then secondly, some taste testers said they couldn't tell the difference between those two bars.
So some angry fans aside, Municipal Stadium in Cleveland decided the heck with tradition.
And taste testers and price considered they should hold the mustard.
Burtmans, that is.
Speaking of which, would you believe, buy me some sushi and cracker jack.
That's the tune they might as well be singing at some west coast ballparks.
How did we know that?
Denver St. George reports from San Diego on a sort of un-American ballpark dining fair that was held in the
And taste testers and price considered they should hold the mustard. Burtmans, that is.
Speaking of which, would you believe, buy me some sushi and cracker jack.
That's the tune they might as well be singing at some west coast ballparks.
How did we know that?
Denver St. George reports from San Diego on a sort of un-American ballpark dining fair that is selling like hotcakes.
You know that you're at a ballpark in Southern California when instead of just enjoying popcorn, hot dogs, and cracker jack at a game, sushi might just as well be the order of the day.
325. The soy sauce inside.
The person in charge of serving food to the fans says sushi began as an experiment.
Well, it seemed to be, I think, a little bit more fun than normal.
We have a lot of good old baseball food here at the stadium, and it was just something a little different, a little upscale for our sports club.
The sushi sold out in less than an hour on opening day. Each game they've ordered more and still can't keep up with the demand.
Well, I think it's great. You know, I think a lot of people would possibly go somewhere else to get a good meal as opposed to coming and having a hot dog at the stadium or something like that.
I think it offers them a little variety.
Sushi is hopefully an alternative to eating all that fat stuff that we typically have in our diets when you come to a thing like this.
I didn't think it would be popular, but this is Southern California, this is San Diego, and the fans are interesting, they're different, and they're a lot of fun.
But some feel when it comes to baseball games, sushi is just too non-traditional. Baseball, after all, is supposed to be as all-American as mom-and-apple pie and hot dogs and beer.
In fact, one Chicago columnist suggests in California they might as well change the words to take me out to the ballpark to include the lyrics,
give me some sushi, and I'll feel fine. I might wash it down with a glass of white wine. But the fans here say they're just open-minded.
I think it goes with baseball, just like Jack Clark hitting a home run.
And Capello says his next experiment could shock the house even more.
If I were to do anything, it might be, and I hope he's listening in Chicago, maybe frozen quiche on a stick.
In San Diego, I'm Deborah St. George reporting.
Nothing like a little raw fish to root the home team on, huh?
Finally tonight, a new twist for you on the erroneous electric bill story, one you've no doubt heard before.
But in Seattle, Washington, it was the top county administrator who prides himself on being energy-conscious, rides his bike to work, who got an electric bill for $3,182.
Well, he didn't panic. He knew there'd been a mistake, and he alerted the electric company, who assured him it would be taken care of.
And sure enough, next month, his bill was $2,300 on top of the $3,182.
So he had to swallow a little bit of his political pride and call his frequent political rival, the mayor of Seattle, and ask for help.
An investigation was launched, and they found a faulty meter was to blame.
That accounted for the first bill of $3,182, said a spokesman for the mayor.
However, that second bill of $2,300, he said, that's what we charge for complaining.
I think he was just joking.
That's USA Tonight. I'm Brad Holbrook. Thanks very much for being with us.
Have yourself a good weekend. We'll see you back here Monday night. Good night.
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