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It may be crunch time for the tobacco industry.
In today's order by a Miami jury that the industry pay millions of dollars to two sick smokers, maybe the least of it.
The jury decided that two of the three smokers be awarded $6.9 million.
A third was awarded a record $5.8 million in compensatory damages.
But the jury says he can't collect because a statute of limitations had expired on his claim.
In any event, the awards opened the door for punitive damages.
And because this is a class action suit covering an estimated 500,000 sick Florida smokers,
the damages could run as high as $300 billion.
That kind of payout could send the cigarette makers into bankruptcy.
Governor Gary Locke is breathing a sigh of relief tonight.
Tons of PCB contaminated materials are headed to Vancouver, British Columbia.
The ship is carrying toxic waste from military bases in Japan and had been docked in Seattle since Wednesday.
Locke had requested the ship leave Seattle within two weeks.
Pentagon officials say the PCB cargo will stay on board in Vancouver until a way can be found to get it to a disposal facility.
In Northwest News tonight, a 41-foot gray whale that washed up on the Oregon coast earlier this week was buried today.
Once the whale was buried, a marine biologist covered it with aluminum foil.
The foil is used to locate the whale again later.
The plan is to wait a year or two and dig up the bones for a science display.
Scientists say more than 26,000 gray whales pass by West Coast beaches as they migrate every year.
This little baby girl entered the world almost four months early and is now believed to be the smallest baby ever to survive in the state of Oregon.
At birth, baby Sophia weighed just 10.5 ounces. Today she's five weeks old.
Doctors say she's gained weight and is doing well.
Here's what's happening around the nation tonight.
Social Security recipients are now free to work as much as they want without the threat of losing their benefits.
President Clinton signed new legislation today repealing the penalty that cut benefits for working retirees.
The law is retroactive to January 1st of this year.
That means thousands of working seniors will be getting refund checks from Uncle Sam, averaging $3,500 per person.
A father's plea has not fallen on deaf ears.
Following a meeting with Ayleon Gonzalez's father today, Attorney General Janet Reno says the law is clear and that he should have custody of the boy.
She says instructions will be sent to Ayleon's Miami relatives on how to turn the boy over.
Filed your taxes yet? You've got 10 days and there is help if you need it.
Maggie Slunkis prepares taxes for H&R Block.
She says more and more people are...