Now, with coverage you can count on, CREM 2 News with the latest at 11.
Residents of this quiet New Spokane neighborhood are intensifying their battle against the
city's proposal to build a maintenance facility on the edge of their community.
We don't need somebody running up and down the roads.
Accidents happen and when they happen, it's too late.
Good evening, everyone.
I'm Nadine Woodward.
I'm Charles Roll.
Hundreds of people in North Spokane are upset tonight about those city plans to build a
huge maintenance facility for garbage trucks.
Residents have been fighting to keep that facility out, but they say the city isn't
listening.
They're not giving up, though.
CREM 2's Rex Rollin joins us now live from the Gary Park neighborhood with more on this,
Rex.
Behind this fence, an old lumber yard could become a 34-acre garbage truck maintenance
facility, a facility right next to homes in the Gary Park neighborhood.
Not only have hundreds of residents fought this proposal, they face a new concern.
The Gary Park neighborhood is full of homes and kids.
It's a good quality of life, but residents say what happens on this city property that
lies on the edge of their community could shatter their quality of life.
If a large maintenance facility is built here, thousands of garbage trucks could become their
new neighbors.
We don't need the pollution, the semis, the trucks.
We don't need the road hazards.
We just don't believe it needs to be in anybody's neighborhood, not just ours, anybody's.
Residents have fought the proposed facility for over a year.
700 people have signed a petition saying they don't want it.
Now there's a new concern.
A city sign storage facility could move into this building on the property.
I've just been stressed, angry at the city for bringing this into our neighborhood or
any neighborhood.
Many administrators say they don't want to compromise the neighborhood.
They say the sign storage facility would not be disruptive.
They explained their position at this meeting, but most residents didn't go for it.
The majority voted to deny the city's request.
The neighborhood is obviously not happy with this, but I think given the number of people
that were here, about 31 or 32, maybe that represents the entire neighborhood.
I don't know.
Farringer says the city will probably ask each resident what their opinion is, but before
anything can happen on this property, the city council would have to approve it.
Live in North Spokane, Rex Rowland, Crim2News.
Also making news tonight, there's still another delay in releasing the cause of that air tanker
crash five months ago in Germany.
Four men were killed when their KC-135 based at Fairchild Air Force Base crashed after
an aborted landing.
The U.S. Air Force determined what led to that crash back in March, but so far it has
not released that information to the victims' families.
The Air Force was supposed to make its findings public today.
The Washington Air National Guard is also being kept in the dark, at least until June
4th.
Crim2, military sources say it appears a mechanical failure triggered that crash.
Well, tomorrow testimony will be heard in the first of two sentencing hearings for Scott
Geiger.
He faces the death penalty for killing Idaho State Trooper Linda Hough.
In an exclusive interview with Crim2News, he recently expressed remorse for that murder.
On June 18th, after I had shot her when I was in the hospital, I woke up and I went,
oh God, I killed somebody.
I knew I killed somebody and that was a real sickening feeling.
Geiger also went on to say he has asked God to forgive him.
We will bring you live reports from Geiger's sentencing hearing tomorrow on Crim2News at
noon, first at 5 and more at 6.
Bogus copies of new $100 bills that were designed specifically by the government not to be copied
are turning up now in Spokane, Seattle and Bellevue.
Secret Service agents say they arrested a Spokane man after passing one of those phony
bills at a supermarket and tonight they're looking for several more people.
Well, you won't be seeing outdoor tobacco ads around Spokane County much longer.
The Spokane Regional Health District today banned those ads.
The ban starts in three months and includes billboards.
The only types of tobacco ads still to be allowed will be in black and white with no
pictures.
Over in Olympia, Washington lawmakers have passed a $4 billion transportation budget
to end that special legislative session.
That budget provides money for several area highways.
$25 million will go to Spokane's proposed North-South freeway.
$3 million will go to improve the Newport Highway.
Another $127,000 will improve Highway 195 to Pullman.
And almost $4.5 million will go to improving Interstate 90 between downtown Spokane and
Pines Road.
Well, forecasters say it's going to be a beautiful weekend, but the warm temperatures have the
Creme 2 storm team concerned about flooding.
Broadcast meteorologist Tom Sherry tells us what fast rising temperatures mean for area
rivers.
Tom?
It means those rivers are going to rise.
As a matter of fact, hydrologists out at the National Weather Service have already identified
four problem areas in our area.
And again, this is the current level of the rivers and this is where the rivers would
start to flood.
And as you can see, most of the rivers are at least four feet below flood stage right
now.
Eneville is about eight feet below flood stage.
But with the warm temperatures expected over the weekend, with temperatures in some areas
maybe getting close to 80 degrees, we could see even the beginning of some minor flooding
out in the St. Mary's area by Monday or Tuesday.
Now, you can monitor the river levels yourself on our website.
That's at creme.com.
Let's use the shortcut news links to see how high your local river is running.
And of course, we're going to have daily updates for you right here on Creme 2 News.
I'll tell you just how warm this weekend is going to get.
Your complete forecast is coming up.
Exactly one month after the school shooting in Littleton, Colorado, another school shooting
takes place.
This time it was in Conyers, Georgia, a small town just outside of Atlanta.
Six students were wounded when a 15-year-old sophomore opened fire at Heritage High School.
Unfortunately, none of those injuries are life-threatening.
Officials say the gunman brought two.22 caliber weapons to school because he was upset about
breaking up with his girlfriend.
Witnesses say an assistant principal wrestled the guns away from the boy, but not before
several students were hurt.
I dropped off by my grandma and then all of a sudden I saw everybody running out and I
thought we had a bomb threat or something and then Drake had his foot all bloody and
he was shot.
Medical psychologists say shootings like the one today in Conyers can be prevented by recognizing
some warning signs.
Here are a few things to look for.
Students who habitually make violent threats when angry.
Anyone who is preoccupied with weapons or explosives.
Mistreating animals or threatening or attempting suicide.
If you need information on where to go for help, call the first call for help line at
838-4428.
It is a 24 hour service from Spokane Mental Health.
President Clinton traveled to Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado today to meet
with the survivors of that school's massacre.
Clinton spoke privately to victims and their families and addressed the community at a
nearby school.
Meanwhile, the US Senate approves new restrictions on gun sales.
If the House approves, safety devices would be required on the sale of handguns and buyers
at gun shows and pawn shops would have to wait three days for a background check before
taking possession of a gun.
Most gun shows take place on weekends when courthouses and record departments are closed.
Law enforcement may well need to pull three days to do the job right.
The NRA tonight says thousands of minors and felons are arrested for illegally possessing
a gun every year, but the Clinton administration is not prosecuting them.
In news out of Kosovo, Serbian President Milošević is being offered a deal that would allow him
to keep some troops in Kosovo.
Once Milošević agrees to NATO terms and begins withdrawing those forces from Kosovo,
NATO would quit bombing.
The bombing would resume if Serb troops continued killing on their way out or stopped the withdrawal.
Once Serb forces are out of Kosovo, a small number would be allowed back in to man border
posts, guard holy sites and clear land mines.
So far no word on Milošević's reaction.
Well we have enough more to tell you about tonight, including the story of one girl and
her bionic heart.
Find out how doctors are trying to make her dream of playing the piano come true.
Ease a real chip off the old block, Robbie Knievel attempts to jump the Grand Canyon.
Coming up.
Retailers move shopping into the next century.
We'll take a shopping trip you won't forget in our Impact 2000 report.
And it's a special night for some Spokane people at the 5th Annual Diversity Award.
Coming up next.
Hi Doug Parker and Poacher here to tell you that 13 really is a lucky number.
After winning our 13th straight Toyota President's Award, our great customers have again voted
Parker Toyota number one in customer service and satisfaction for the 13th year in a row.
In fact there's no better gauge to tell you how your business is doing than when your
customers say you're number one.
How do we do it year after year?
By always putting our customers number one.
That's the only way we do business here at Parker Toyota.
Every day.
Good evening everyone.
63 degrees our high temperature today.
The overnight low was 40.
We have some very warm temperatures to talk about, especially this weekend.
I'll give you the complete details.
Coming up.
If you remember the Honda Accord as anything other than loony and luxurious, a lot has
changed.
It's time to take a closer look.
So who's coming to this barbecue anyway?
Stan and Amy, Cliff.
Cliff's coming?
Yeah.
I better get a ceiling fan for all the hot air.
From ceiling fans to barbecues.
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It's the Jeep Spring event.
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Good evening, everyone.
We take a look at Storm Tracker 2 Plus.
Look at the clear skies now beginning to move across areas of eastern Washington.
This loop goes back about four hours.
We had a few mountain showers up around the Washington and British Columbia border, also
some showers that moved through areas of central Idaho into the mountain regions there.
High pressure building out in the Pacific.
As the trough begins to dig farther south, the ridge begins to build.
As that happens, we're going to see warmer temperatures and clear skies develop across
the areas.
In fact, Cloud Tracker, forecasting where we think the clouds are going to be tomorrow,
we started off at eight o'clock in the morning.
As you can see, clouds really begin to retreat.
Just some high cloudiness now develops across the area, some variable sunshine.
I think that's going to be the rule.
Look, as we get into the evening hours, just clear skies across most of the evergreen state.
Rain tracker shows where the rain will fall starting now through tomorrow.
As you get the idea, again, maybe just a few mountain showers in northern Idaho, western
Montana and northeastern Washington take you up to noon on Friday.
The showers of any of them are going to be scattered up to five o'clock tomorrow.
Again, those would mostly be in the highest elevations of northern Idaho and the mountains
of northeastern Washington.
Some of the current temperatures from the Storm Tracker 2 weather network, as you can
see, were in the low 50s in most locations.
Still 60 though over in Moses Lake.
Look at the cool weather though in Kellogg, St. Mary's and Pullman in the 40s there.
55 down in Lewiston.
Fifty-one degrees at the airport as we speak and it's also 52 in Coeur d'Alene.
High today, 63.
Overnight low 40.
There's your record high of 86 and the record low was 32 degrees back in 1987.
Tree pollen's moderate as is mold spores and grass pollen and weeds pollen we're not worrying
about right now.
Sunny skies in Seattle tomorrow.
We'll look for sunny skies in the Tri-Cities and a high near 75.
Over sunshine across Moses Lake and Walla Walla could see a few mountain thunderstorms
across Kalispell and Missoula.
So overnight we'll drop it down to 44 with partly cloudy skies, so fairly mild.
It's going to be windy tomorrow though.
10 to 20 mile an hour winds as we look at that high of 67 degrees.
Then on Saturday we'll really begin to crank it up.
Mother Nature gets serious about the springtime weather as we get 10 degrees above normal.
74 on your Saturday.
We're 80 on Sunday and Monday.
Tuesday we're back down around 74 but as you can see there we keep temperatures in the
70s through Thursday and I mentioned I think this earlier but some of the computer models
actually have on Sunday and Monday temperatures actually into the 80s.
So it will be interesting to see what happens tomorrow with the latest computer model run
to see if that holds true because that would be almost 20 degrees above normal.
And we'll see a swing from the cold temperatures we've had for the last three weeks.
That's right, going from below normal to above normal very quickly.
Yeah, we'll see more.
Well coming up here on the night shift, why some experts say playing with action figures
could lead to eating disorders in boys.
And baby boomers, do you remember the bionic woman television show?
Well this little girl will soon have a bionic arm.
See how it's working coming up next on Crimed Your News, latest at 11.
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Here's today's Washington and Idaho mortgage index for the 30-year fixed rate.
For up-to-the-minute rates from 124 local lenders, visit our website at grim.com.
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What if you had caller ID?
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Hi, make that two large pepperonis.
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No wonder life's better here.
It's the pre-memorial day Red Tag Sales Event at Downtown Toyota.
Four days of incredible savings under the tent.
Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.
Over 250 new and used vehicles.
$1,000 cash back on Tacoma.
All clearly marked with special Red Tag savings.
Buy a new Toyota Tacoma 4x2 for $10,988.
Or buy a new Camry for $16,988.
Downtown Toyota's Red Tag pre-memorial day tent sale through Monday only.
Downtown Toyota, third in Jefferson.
You're watching Crim 2 News with the latest at 11.
An important recall to tell you about tonight.
Yeah, there's some mascara that could kill you.
Federal officials say wet and wild mega lash mascara may contain a dangerous bacterium,
which can be fatal for people with cystic fibrosis or a weakened immune system.
Well, we've heard people complain that Barbie is an unrealistic model for girls.
Well, now action figures for boys are getting the same rap.
Eating disorder experts worry that the big muscles and tiny waistlines on those action
figures could lead to later problems in boys like steroid abuse.
A new bionic arm holds promise for a girl who was born without a left arm below the
elbow.
Melissa can do a lot with one arm like playing basketball, but she would like to play the
piano.
A doctor has created a bionic hand that just might let her do that.
When I want to move and flex my index finger, I have a tendon that I can feel in my arm
here.
So the socket is instrumented with sensors that detect a motion of a tendon or muscle
that would normally be tied to a specific finger motion.
And I like think of my fingers moving and they move the fingers.
The prosthetic would be molded from an actual hand and then painted to match Melissa's skin
tone.
Well, you know, every day more and more people are buying products over the internet.
Millions and millions, and that has some traditional store owners worried about their future.
Coming up in our Impact 2000 report, how retailers will try to lure you back to their stores.
We'll take a look at the mall of the future.
Impact 2000 reports are sponsored by Avista Utilities.
This race will make your heart thump, your adrenaline rush.
It's the race to clear over 500 cars and trucks off the lot by May 31st.
It's the Memorial Day 500 at your Northwest Ford store.
Get up to 1500 cash back or as low as zero line finance plus 750 cash back on the best
built cars and trucks in America.
Save thousands on Escort, Mustang, Explorer, Ranger, and even F-150.
500 must go.
So make a pit stop at your Northwest Ford store today.
Pet emergency rooms and high tech medical care, a booming business.
But is it all really necessary?
We'll look at the pet owners and clinics willing to spare no expense.
A special report tomorrow at 5 on Crim 2 Emos.
Low interest rates, huge cash back, low monthly payments.
The spring savings sale is going on now at your local GMC dealer.
For a limited time, choose from a tremendous selection of new GMCs with your choice of
tremendous money saving factory incentives.
Cash back up to $1500, financing as low as 0.9% or monthly smart lease payments starting
as low as $149.
The spring savings sale, only at your local GMC dealer today.
The big savings at LeMans this Friday and Saturday just don't stop from night into
day.
Shop LeMans Friday 4 to 11 p.m. and all day Saturday.
Save 30, 40, 50, 60, and 70% on fashion, accessories, and home store wide.
Earn big bucks back.
Get $5 for every $25 you spend.
Plus take an extra $10 off the sale price of every pair of Levi's.
And 60% off original prices and already reduced spring clearance.
For brands you trust, savings you love.
Shop LeMans night into day sale.
Friday 4 to 11 p.m. and all day Saturday.
A missing daughter, desperate parents, at a real life seance with a man who says he
can talk to the dead.
Will he find her on the other side or is their Molly still alive?
Searching for living proof.
Next extra.
Tomorrow night at 6.30 on Prim 2.
With a 300 horsepower V8 and Formula One inspired E-Shift, driving the Lexus GS400 is always
fun and games.
New record.
Good race.
To continue play, see Downtown Lexus of Spokane.
Gotta like the sound of this.
Shopping in the new millennium will have fun written all over it.
Indeed, that's true.
Traditional developers are facing stiff competition from internet retailing and now they're working
hard to bring you excitement in your shopping experience.
In our Impact 2000 report, keeping you from shopping online and getting you back to the
malls.
That's the greatest challenge for retailers as we head into the 21st century.
You're looking at the Mall of America in Minneapolis or the theme parking of retail shopping.
Entertainment is taking over the malls.
The Mills Corporation is only dedicating 30% of its latest concept, the block, to retail
shopping.
Retailers know the key to catching your daughters is giving you something to experience.
It is entertainment.
We do this together.
It's our outing.
Larry Samuel is a trend watcher who with his partners wrote the book, The Future Ain't
What It Used To Be.
They call shopping in the future, theme parking.
Retailers are going to fight the internet by making shopping much more fun, much more
interesting, much more entertaining.
When malls first came on the scene back in the 1950s, shoppers were amazed so many stores
could fit under one roof.
Now the internet is amazing us by letting us shop under our own roof and to get you
out of the house.
More stores are going the route of the Bass Pro Shops.
Here you experience the feel and the touch of the fishing rod or archery set before you
buy it.
The winning retailers in the future will give you personal service and expert advice, entertainment
and they'll let you experience the product.
By the year 2005, Samuel says shopping will fall under three categories.
The internet, the large shopping malls with entertainment and small boutiques with extra
personal attention.
Shopping till I drop.
And the winner will be you.
Friend watchers say the middle sized stores may run into challenges in the future because
they're too small to offer big fun and too big to really get personal.
That could make it tough for them in the new millennium.
Sure looked fun anyway.
Yes indeed.
Well, the jazz looked to make it two wins in a row over Portland.
Mark has the highlights just ahead.
And daredevil Robbie Knievel tries to go boldly where his father couldn't over the Grand Canyon.
What up in tonight's after tonight's scoreboard, I should say.
Do you think it would be okay if I asked you out?
And Rachel.
I just, I feel.
Will never forget.
It's Ross.
How can I watch him get married?
Next Friends.
Tomorrow night at 730 on Crim2.
Look for the sign you're in Les Schwab country, Les Schwab the place with the tires for you.
The name you trust when you're on the road, the tires that get you through.
Look for the sign you're in Les Schwab country, Les Schwab the place with the tires for you.
We all use electricity every day.
We take it for granted.
But never forget, electricity can be dangerous if not used safely.
We all use electricity every day.
We take it for granted.
But never forget, electricity can be dangerous if not used safely.
The event you've been waiting for is here.
The biggest selection of award-winning minivans from the lowest priced to the ultimate.
Now for a limited time during the national Chrysler Plymouth spring sales drive.
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Well you gotta be able to finish to win in the NBA.
Hello everybody, I'm Mark Holio.
Portland learned that the hard way.
Tuesday night scoring just five points in the fourth quarter.
Utah took advantage in one game one.
Tonight it's game two.
We take it to the Delta Center.
Let's get physical.
Arvita Sabonis breaks out of the scrum, the foul and the bucket.
My goodness, Isaiah Ryder, the drive, puts up the running jumper.
Hits it.
Now look at the clock.
The Jazz down four late.
John Stockton, the great pass out to Jeff Hornacek for three.
He hits it.
It's a one point game.
Then Utah with the last gasp.
Down two.
Stockton drives to the bucket.
All alone gets the bump, puts it up and it won't drop in for him.
Portland hangs onto it at 84-81.
The series is tied at a game of picks.
Onto Atlanta, game two between the Hawks and Knicks.
Latrell Spreewell, the foul and gets the role.
He had 31 points for the second game in a row.
Steve Smith driving in for the Hawks, lays it up to Kendi Matumbo.
The big fellow throws it down and talk about throwing it down.
Check out Marcus Kambi.
Over the top of Matumbo and throws it down.
New York wins it by seven.
The Knicks lead the series two games to none.
Orlando guard Darrell Armstrong made a little league history today.
He's the first ever to win both the NBA Most Improved Player and Sixth Man Awards in the
same season.
Head coach Paul Graham now has a full staff at Washington State.
He hires Gary Stewart as an assistant.
Stewart comes to Wazoo from Cal State Hayward with impressive credentials.
Four times he was named the California NCAA Division III Coach of the Year.
What a bad time for the Mariners to have a day off.
Writing a four game winning streak and having belted 13 home runs in their last three games.
Seattle traveled to Kansas City today.
That's where they'll kick off a six game road trip tomorrow.
To the Big Apple and a big day for the Mets.
Robin Ventura top of the first.
Bases loaded.
Ventura unloads them.
Deep down the right field line the Mets win game one of the double header.
11 to 10.
Game two.
Bottom of the fifth.
Bases loaded and what do you know?
Ventura does it again.
The first player to hit grand slams in both games of a twin bill.
New York wins game two.
10 to one.
Three weeks ago tonight Mother Nature snowed out.
Robbie Knievel's attempt to jump his motorcycle 220 feet across the Grand Canyon.
Tonight the son of evil gets his chance but he does so without a parachute on his back.
Why?
Well, Robbie says that would throw off his balance.
Of course it could save his life too.
We take you to the Grand Canyon.
There he is atop the jump.
Waving to his fans.
Among those on hand, his mother.
Here we go.
The canyon floor 2500 feet below.
He is up and over easily but look at the rough landing.
Falls.
Rolls into the bale of hay.
A possible leg injury.
Light headed.
He's helped to his feet and celebrates a world record jump of 228 feet.
Finally, and I mean finally, I've been working on my golf swing although it probably doesn't
show here in the video.
Anyway, I'll make hundreds of swings tomorrow as I try to play 100 holes of golf in one
day.
It's part of the first annual Chazz Golf Marathon Fundraiser.
Chazz being the community health association service.
We have four medical clinics.
Two dental clinics.
And serve a huge population of needy people.
We're running out of money.
Do you expect to treat any of us when the day is over?
Oh, of course we're going to treat you.
We've got a wonderful.
I mean medically.
Oh!
We think that you may need a little Advil for some aching joints.
And I need help for my hands.
And of course most golfers only have one golf glove for their left hand.
So I went to get a match.
You can't find a right handed golf glove in this town that fits.
So I had to get a baseball glove.
Nice match, huh?
Oh well, hey if it works.
Huh?
Good luck.
Yeah, we all need it.
Not going to get much sleep tonight.
No.
That swing doesn't look that bad.
We'll be right back.
It's the pre-memorial day Red Tag Sales event at downtown Toyota.
Four days of incredible savings under the tent.
Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
Over 250 new and used vehicles.
A thousand dollars cash back on Tacoma.
All clearly marked with special Red Tag savings.
Buyers and sellers.
The best of the best.
They've shut down the Stargate.
You're still just gonna throw it in and cap our org?
Jack, if we don't go through, this whole planet could be wiped out.
But stopping Colonel Jack O'Neil and the SG-1 team isn't so easy.
I always get a happy, tingly feeling when I see those guys.
Can they save Earth from a full-scale alien invasion?
No.
We're not on a planet, are we?
It's happening. We're on an attack ship headed to Earth.
On the next Stargate SG-1.
This Saturday at 7 on Crim2.
It's been called everything from a milestone to a day of reckoning.
But whatever you call the turn of the century, it will affect everyone's life.
That's why Crim2 has begun Impact 2000.
Crim2 News reports the defined problems and solutions.
Special programs that inform and engage you.
And special activities to help us all turn the corner.
Look for Impact 2000 on Crim2 because you'll see more than a program, a report, or a solution.
You'll see the future.
Find out if you're a winner.
Watch the Washington State Lottery drawing live every night at 7.
On Northwest Cable News, the official Washington State Lottery Network.
During Dodge Adventure 99, America's best-selling, most innovative minivan now comes with a $1,000 cash allowance.
Or you can choose a vacation package worth up to $1,800 at the new Universal Studios Island
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Or a vacation package at Universal Studios Hollywood.
It's the adventure of a lifetime, and we have the rights to prove it.
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Tonight, Spokane students, educators, and community leaders were recognized for their contributions
to achieve diversity and equity in our fine community.
Tonight's ceremony at Spokane Community College kicked off with a special instrumental performance by some Spokane students.
25 people and groups were honored for programs or events that range from breaking down racial, social, and gender issues
to school students who resolve conflicts by being mediators.
Organizers of the Diversity and Equity Awards say every action helps our community.
But it also gives coverage to those who are doing things.
And that's what I like. It gives that visibility to say, hey, our community is healthy and trying to get healthier, if you will.
And people have done things. Come join us.
And this is the fifth year that the awards ceremony has been held.
Thomas, we got a little time for some weather.
Well, we can talk about that. So, you know, we've had such cool weather that we've had to endure.
And now we really begin to see things warm up.
Now, tomorrow will still be a bit on the windy side, still in the 60s, which is pretty close to normal right there with Friday's temperature.
But by the weekend, we're into the 70s and probably near 80 degrees on Sunday, Monday, maybe even above 80.
Diversity in weather, too.
Yes.
Keep the wind down.
Sorry.