Now, from Television 9, Washington's News Station, this is Eyewitness News Weekend.
Hello, I'm Jane Van Ryan. Eight more Maryland savings and loans have received tentative
approval for federal insurance tonight, raising the number of approved thrifts to nine. Chevy
Chase Savings and Loan was given conditional approval last Thursday. The others include
Laurel Savings and Loan, United Savings Association of Rockville, the Columbian Building Association
of Hartford County, and in Baltimore, St. Casamiers, Madison and Bradford, Madison Square
Permanent Building Association, the Putty Hill Permanent Building Association, and the
Weekly Savings and Loan Association. According to Governor Harry Hughes, the SNLs that receive
federal insurance would be allowed to end the $1,000 a month withdrawal limit, but tonight
there's no word on just when that will occur. The people of Florida are praying for rain
tonight. Authorities say a heavy rainfall is about the only way they'll gain control
over the worst wildfires in that state's history. 110,000 acres of brush land have been burned
and hundreds of homes destroyed, leaving their owners looking for a way to cope with the
loss. We lost everything you can mention right there. The whole of Boston. We have some valuable
pictures and all the rest of the memories we'll carry inside and it's about all we
have. We were able to find a few pieces of grandma's china and things like that. The
worst fires along a hundred mile stretch of coast between St. Augustine and Cape Canaveral.
Wildfires there have forced mass evacuations. A congressional investigation is underway
into last week's siege of a radical movement in Philadelphia. Today, that city held memorial
services for the 11 people killed in the police bombing and the almost 300 people left homeless.
Renee Ferguson reports.
Amazing grace, how she comes on, that saved from the deadly grave.
Today Philadelphia prayed in churches throughout the city, a prayer for a neighborhood and
its people. I want to ask all of us to send up a prayer. Pray for families of those who
lost their lives. To pray for those this morning who lost all that they own. Clifford Bond,
who led the neighborhood effort to evict Move, says he and his family must not only rebuild
their house, but also their spirit. The scars that I have will never be taken away and I
hope it really doesn't affect my children. Laverne Sims and her children did not attend
church today. The former members of Move were guests on a radio talk show where they vented
their anger at Mayor Good. We want you to hit and scream to those children as they were
crying out for help and nobody was there to help them. People are talking about pictures
that they lost of their children, baby shoes that they lost of their children. At least
they had their children right there with them to hold and talk to. All we have is pictures
of our family left. Tomorrow the city is scheduled to begin tearing down the burnt buildings
in this neighborhood, but today the prayers were not only for reconstruction of houses,
but also of lives. Renee Ferguson, CBS News, Philadelphia. Memorial services were also
held this afternoon to honor the District of Columbia's war dead. Beneath the dome of
the memorial, the names of all the women and men who gave their lives in the First World
War rest in an honored place. Today's ceremonies pay tribute not just to those who died, but
also to all D.C. veterans who have served their nation. 24-year-old Scott Brown of
Falls Church was killed in a car accident on Canal Road early this morning. District
police are still searching for the driver of a station wagon whose abandoned car caused
Brown to swerve and hit a nearby utility pole. The driver of the station wagon disappeared
after his car hit the same pole earlier. Starting tomorrow, the U.S. will have its say in Cuba
over the airwaves and United Airlines and its striking pilots meet separately with a
mediator in Chicago. Those stories and more next.
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While some people are crying for work, some Fairfax County employers are crying for workers.
The Virginia Employment Commission reports there are between 3 and 5,000 job openings
in that county. And many shopping centers and construction sites are understaffed
due to a shortage of service and blue collar workers. Some employers are looking for workers
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A federal mediator has been called in to meet with United Airlines and its striking pilots.
Talks begin tomorrow morning in Chicago with the mediator meeting with each side separately.
Meanwhile, United has begun advertising for permanent replacement pilots.
Don Torrance reports. It was a good day for these United Airline passengers.
They were booked on flight A12 to Chicago and flight A12 made it out despite the three day old strike.
It taxied out to the National Airport runway and as it waited for clearance, another United flight landed.
But these were the exceptions. United usually puts 15 flights in and out of National on a Sunday.
Today it managed five. One reason it managed even that many is Captain John Dyer.
He is defying his union, crossing the picket line and flying. He says there has been harassment.
We were followed to the hotel. A couple of cars. It was almost like some of the movies.
One broke off at an intersection. Another followed us. They made some odd-seen gestures.
Dyer, a pilot for United for 16 years, says the main issue of the strike isn't worth it.
The pilots are fighting a two-tier pay system that will allow the airline to hire new crew members at lower wages.
Dyer also says he doesn't believe United would change its standards just to fire the strikers and hire new pilots.
United has always had very stringent hire requirements. They're not going to relax those.
The striking pilots aren't worried about losing their jobs to scab pilots either, but for a very different reason.
Qualified pilots are not available. It will take a long time to train these pilots.
Some of the ground crew members and baggage handlers are worried. The company has given them no guarantee there won't be layoffs should the strike by the pilots linger.
One ground crew member who didn't want to go on camera told me he sympathizes with the striking pilots because they're fighting for those who come after them.
But he said he is honoring the language of his union's contract that forces him to stay on the job.
And he's taking United's word there will be no layoffs for the first two weeks of the pilot's walkout.
Don Torrance, Eyewitness News.
Defense Secretary Weinberger is in Brussels tonight where he will press NATO members to increase their defense spending to 3 percent over the rate of inflation.
Ironically, Weinberger's own budget could be capped.
Congress is considering bills which could limit Pentagon spending in 1986 to the inflation rate.
Radio Marty begins broadcasting to Cuba tomorrow from its Washington studios.
The federally funded project is patterned after Radio Free Europe.
Radio Marty is expected to be on the air 14 hours a day, seven days a week, broadcasting news, information and a less than rosy picture of communism.
The weather in Washington though is expected to be rosy tomorrow, at least for the beginning of the week.
Looks that way.
And Doug Hill is going to have the complete forecast next.
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Are you ready? It's time for the big moment.
It's coming in just a matter of moments. We'll take care of a few statistics, Jane, and then we'll do what's become a tradition here on the Sun Edge the past couple months.
Here are the numbers. Watch them because they're going to go real fast.
75 and 51 are high and low, 77 and 57 the normals, 96 and 43 the records for this May 19th.
Right now, skies are clear at 65 out of National Airport.
Southerly winds at 65 percent humidity, rising barometer, and moderate air quality.
We've had to wait a whole week for it. Now, once again, Sunday night, it's live Sunday night at the Weather Map.
Thank you very much. I appreciate that. For the next couple of minutes, we're going to jam pack this with all kinds of pictures of what's happening.
Let's check the next five days. Here we go. Here's what I'm calling for tomorrow.
85, 83 for high will cool off Wednesday and Thursday, warm back up by Friday.
What about the chances of rain, you ask? Very well. Here we go.
Not much chance tomorrow, but Tuesday and Wednesday as the cold front approaches, a pretty decent shot of showers and thundershowers.
If the cold front lingers, they could last into Thursday and finally will dry out on Friday.
Now, what about tomorrow morning? Getting up bright and early.
Want the wake up weather forecast? Well, at 630 in the morning, look for clear skies and temperatures between 47 and some of the suburbs, 53 degrees downtown.
Tonight, it's clear over Maryland and the District of Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and a few scattering of clouds here and there.
The only precipitation is out in the Midwest, the Upper Lakes, some thunderstorms.
Temperatures cool in the southeast, 63 at Norfolk, 57 in Pittsburgh and Boston.
But look at these numbers in red, warmer air pushing in from the southwest, has it at 66 in Toronto right now, 70 in Nashville, 74 in St. Louis, and 70 in Chicago.
The big picture we call the continental sector shows clouds over Florida with some showers and thunderstorms, a low pressure center just overrunning,
just warm tropical air spilling out of the Gulf of Mexico, putting showers where they need them the worst over the torrid grasslands of eastern Florida where they have those brush fires.
Meanwhile, an upper level disturbance over the Rocky Mountains spreading these bright clouds, producing lots of thundershowers.
Our next weathermaker is this cold front. It's over the Great Lakes now. It'll be here by Tuesday.
Ahead of it, warm air. Behind of it, cool air and showers.
These are the areas of showers and thunderstorms that are really big tonight.
The red dots, look at our legend, red is heavy and heavy thunderstorms from Texas up the eastern slopes, the Rock.