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News hour final with Jennifer Lowe substituting for Lyndon Soles.
Good evening and Merry Christmas and what would this time of year be without a story of a Christmas
miracle. For a young Surrey family Christmas will always hold a special significance for this year
they received the greatest gift of all the gift of life. Rob and Elizabeth Stevens were told their
newborn son Peter probably wouldn't make it to the new year after being born with a collapsed lung
and defective heart. But not only has Peter defied the odds and survived a last chance round of
surgery but it looks like he's on the road to recovery. Andrew, Andrew look this is from Lyndon
Soles and his family. Rob and Elizabeth Stevens and three-year-old Andrew arrived home from Edmonton
last night all the excitement of unwrapping Christmas gifts take second place to the big
news about baby Peter. We thought it was gonna be a real dim Christmas when we went up on Monday
afternoon to talk to all the doctors they sat us down and they were all there when the director
Dr. Finer sat down talked to us and told us that right now we don't think that he was going to live
but we'd like to do this one last surgery to try to help. Yesterday baby Peter went through five
hour surgery he's now on a heart-lung machine the family is euphoric about the sudden change for the
good. As she said the surgery was a success Mr. Stevens he's improving. While I just kind of dropped
the phone I didn't know what else to do I was just so enthused with the fact that he's going to be
alright. So while young Andrew is the center of attention everyone's thoughts and prayers are
with little Peter. When they phoned me yesterday morning I was so tickled. Everybody in this
apartment was concerned about the baby every time I met them they said how was the baby doing. It is
a miracle and it's one of the best presents we could ever wish for. Grandpa Peter is a country
western singer who devotes a lot of time entertaining seniors and sick kids composing songs about dreams
and hope.
Little Andrew met his baby brother for the first time yesterday and he brought home baby Peter's
special gift for grandpa. And we have a quick addition to that story we spoke with Rob Stevens
just a short time ago and he told us that Peter has now been taken off the heart-lung machine and
is only on a ventilator and so far he seems to be doing just fine. Twelve people aboard a vessel
named Ducky's Boy have a lot to be thankful for this Christmas. All were rescued last night by a
passing boat when their craft began taking on water in high winds just south of Prince Rupert.
They were later transferred to a Canadian Coast Guard cutter and taken to shore. Things are
starting to return to normal after two Burlington Northern Freight train derailments in Washington
State this week. Interstate 90 has been reopened near Spokane after three rail cars tumbled off a
trestle over the highway yesterday. One of the derailed cars barely missed a Greyhound bus and a
car. Luckily there were no injuries. And on Monday another Burlington Northern Freight train jumped
the tracks 50 kilometers north of Seattle. One car loaded with butane caught on fire forcing
officials to evacuate about a hundred nearby residents. All were able to return home in time
for Christmas. The telephone lines are unusually busy this time of year with friends and relatives
calling one another with Christmas greetings. But one Lower Mainland man is especially hopeful
he'll be able to reach out and touch the love of his life. Problem is he doesn't know her name.
Seems the two met on a flight from the Okanagan last week and it was love at first sight. Now the
search to find her is on. She was kind of looking at me and I was kind of looking at her and then they called us to go on the airplane.
And that's where the story begins. They flirted with each other during the flight but they didn't
talk. There was a mutual attraction but he froze. He says he came desperately close to falling in
love but he's not giving up. He started an all-out search so he placed an ad in the paper. Just a lot
of eye contact and there was really nothing we said to each other. I think we both wanted to say
something to each other but we just never got around to it. Yes you're with AirBC aren't you?
Listen I don't know if you can help me or not. I came back from a flight on December the 16th
from Kelowna to Vancouver. Flight 1521. There was only six people on that plane and is there any
way I can find out a passenger's name on that plane? You're not. But it's not to be. The airline
can't give him her name and that means he's spending this Christmas hoping and looking for
love and passersby at Kitts Beach are rooting him on. It's kind of be thrilling too I suppose if
someone pursues you that much then they've got a lot of gusto and they've got a lot of probably
have a lot of big capacity for love. Well I'd be flattered but I think he was nuts. He has to go
with his intuition. It's absolutely essential. Why? This is what happened to me. I was on a bus in
Montreal. I couldn't speak French and this woman couldn't speak English and there was something
there and she got off the bus and I walked after her and I said I can't let this person get away
and so I said excusez-moi mademoiselle and my worst French and eventually drew pictures to each
other and six years later we got married. Did you think he was crazy? No in fact I was hoping that
something would happen there so it was... Chemistry of the heart. Yes chemistry. There's something
there that tells me deep down inside I have to find her and I'm not gonna give up. What if you
don't find her? If I don't find her well I guess I've never really thought about that because I
always think I'm gonna find her. I just I think I'm gonna find her. I know it's only been a couple
weeks but I'm not gonna give up. I'm gonna find her. We'll take a short break and be back with
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Haida the killer whale is the proud mother of a two meter calf born on Christmas Eve the 350 pound
baby is reported to be active and healthy well according to our weather forecast you may just
want to keep your umbrella right beside the door let's take a look at the satellite photo and we
can tell you that a southwesterly flow will bring us moisture and higher than normal temperatures
a weak system will send clouds and showers into Whitehorse overnight with similar conditions
forecast to hit the interior tomorrow and the south by Friday also a wind warning remains in
effect for much of the north coast let's go region by region around the province and tell you how
it looks for your area for Whitehorse and the southern lakes expect periods of snow in the
morning although it should clear by the afternoon temperatures holding steady at around minus 12
for the Peace River Fort St. John region mainly cloudy for you with lows near minus three highs
up to five degrees for the caribou interior expect a few showers mixed with some flurries
lows near minus one highs up to four degrees and along the north coast you can expect clouds and
showers with flurries at higher elevations lows dropping only to four degrees highs up to seven
for the Thompson Okanagan clouds and sunny breaks for you with a chance of afternoon showers expect
some wind as well lows dropping to minus one highs up to four and for the Kootenays you can see some
clouds and sunny breaks tomorrow with lows near minus eight highs reaching zero degrees and finally
for the lower mainland Vancouver Island region we can expect rain off and on maybe some drizzle and
some wind as well lows to six highs to nine temperatures relatively mild for this time of
year our extended forecast while the weather office is expecting rain in Vancouver until
early next week with daytime highs of around eight degrees and we'll be back with more news and sports
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everybody at bctv and now it's time for a look at sports and here's bernie thank you jennifer
football will be high on the agenda of most sports fans in the next few weeks the national
football league playoffs open on the weekend along with the usual flurry of u.s college ball
games christmas in hawaii not too hard to take stanford and georgia tech were the opponents in
the aloha bowl today stanford's tommy bardell ran for 104 yards in this game including a pair of
touchdowns this one opened the scoring and georgia tech struck back just under four minutes later to
tie the game quarterback sean jones hits michael smith for the touchdown ranked 17th in the country
stanford got a solid outing from bardell this his second touchdown of the game but it wasn't enough
to beat georgia tech in the hawaiian sunshine today as a touchdown with 14 seconds left by sean
jones and a two-point conversion gave georgia tech the game and the aloha bowl today's other
bowl game was in alabama this is the blue gray classic quarterback will furor of virginia tech
combining with john brown the third for this touchdown it covered 44 yards
the gray team scored a gain on its first possession of the second half the key play
to a one-yard touchdown was this kickoff return by corey harris of vanderbilt he returns it 43 yards
saw the 54th blue gray classic in montgomery alabama scott lockwood scored the lone touchdown
for the blue squad they lose by eight points the coach of the year of the national football league
is detroit lions wane fonts a panel of sports reporters gave fonts 26 votes that's one and a
half more than washington's joe gibbs the lions will be making their first postseason appearance
in eight years and quite a season they had a 12 and four regular campaign including eight straight
wins at home gave detroit the nfc central championship it's great to have people think
of you that way uh especially the road we took to get here but the most important to me is to be
the coach of the year for this team uh have them feel that i that i've done my job because i feel
that these are the players of the year hockey wise now a night off for all nhl teams the canucks
return to practice tomorrow afternoon and prepare for a game friday at the coliseum against the
philadelphia flyers and hockey fans in vancouver have had a lot to cheer about so far this season
as the canucks have provided an entertaining style of play and we queried many of the fans
for their christmas wish the proper christmas spirit is giving this season that's exactly
what the canucks are doing for their fans and the fans in turn for the hockey club
here the bells say
i would grant the vancouver canucks eric glindros and that would take us over the edge that's what
we need into the montreal zone along the blue line passes it off to larriana center if they score
brink adams great goal it's my first hockey game so you know for them to yeah just kick butt i guess
you could grant the canucks a christmas wish or a gift what would it be
to win the stanley cup for the next five years for if every day could be just like christmas
what a wonderful world this would be
people like buray and linden you know they got to get more shots and they got it burry's got to
stuff those uh breakaways he always gets and uh you think so oh yeah definitely oh yeah
kill for shoots mcclean grabbed it another big save by cripp mcclean what do you think the
canucks need for christmas uh win over montreal stanley cup yes
on the cup why can't that feeling go on endlessly
i have to finish ahead of the l.a king so they have money on them finishing ahead of kings this
year i've lost past few years so i got to make it up this year i might say to my wish the canucks
might be to have the same success on the ice as you're having in the tennis world no they want to
have a hell of a lot better success than i'm having that's for sure but hopefully they'll win
the games uh when we're playing the davis cup we can you know maybe they can some come see some of
our tennis and you know we can go see some of the games so the canucks are grateful to their fans
and show it by leading the smithe division standing this christmas day the fans gratitude
well so far they sold out the coliseum nine times
and the canucks at the christmas break have 20 wins 45 points only four teams in the nhl with
more points the jets have a three-point lead on edmonton the kings and the flames tied at 31
and we have more on the canucks and to report on a special charitable project now to linden in deep
it is set at the every time jeff cortnell scores a goal for the vancouver canucks a season bc's
children's hospital benefits goals for kids is a program initiated by cortinal every time jeff
scores he donates 250 six other corporate sponsors also contribute to the program a big part of my
job is to score goals and help the team win and i think uh you know if i can also do something to
help kids on the side it's a big thrill today jeff has scored 16 goals bringing the program total to
just over 16 000 but linden kept it in there linden to the far circle cortinola scores
greg adams was right in front of the net other nhl news the toronto maple leafs have been struggling
all season it's no secret they missed the leadership qualities of wendell clark he's
been on the injury shelf most of this season despite playing in just six games wendell clark
remains one of the most popular members of the maple leafs number 17 crash bang style is one of
the reason for his popularity and also the reason for spending so much time recovering from injuries
after 34 and 37 goals in his first two seasons he saw action in only 81 games over the next three
seasons because of recurring back problem this year he got off to a scorching start only to be
shelved this time because of a knee injury and he has every right to say why me you have your good
days and bad days but it's uh now you just you accept it as part of the game and work hard when
you can and you need your time to rest you have to rest that's just part of the the game and you
have to do it it's it's tough to do sometimes when you watch everybody else out there working hard
and you're just sitting there watching it's you get frustrated because you don't think you're
doing something that you know maybe there's something else you could be doing but uh bottom
line is that you got to be healthy to play while his teammates enjoy the two-day christmas break
wendell will work out alone at the gardens and vows not to return until he's 100 it didn't look
as bad when we first injured it again and uh so they thought it'd come around quickly but
it's something that uh i guess over time we've we found out we heard it worse than we did
so it's it's just taking time it is uh nothing major it's just something that
if you don't give time to heal it won't heal wendell isn't expected back until the new year
the earliest would be december 30th at la colise in quebec city from hockey to basketball now in
the nba two games were played this christmas day in an afternoon matchup it was the battle of los
angeles the clippers against the lakers at the los angeles sports arena ac green had 20 points in
this game and james worthy right here he contributed 14 a great tip the clippers had a 14 point
afternoon from danny manning including points from this shot the lakers went on to win their
17th game of the season and the win was the first in four games for the los angeles lakers their
record 17 and 10 the clippers are at 15 wins and 13 losses the other game was played tonight the
chicago bulls at home had little trouble with the celtics scotty pippen had 27 points in this game
larry bird had only eight points 14 below his season average this is bird in action for the
boston celtics just eight points in this game tonight the bulls winning their 20th in their
last 22 games michael jordan had 14 points and speaking of basketball the simon frazer university
men's team in ontario they leave tomorrow for the ryerson basketball tournament and the women's
team from simon frazer university also have a game in ontario and then they head to the behamas
for a shootout tournament new year's day right through the eighth not a bad trip and we want to
remind you the ubc hockey team will be hosting a tournament this weekend out at the winter sports
center at ubc the first game will be saturday at four manitoba against traurier and saturday night
at 7 30 ubc we'll play york that's our look at sports news our final continues with jennifer in
just a couple of minutes
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while many of us may celebrate christmas with the gifts and traditional turkey dinner for others
this time of year can also be one of stress and depression according to the crisis intervention
and suicide prevention center in vancouver calls go up 20 between november and january
loneliness is a big issue so students and teachers at new westminster secondary school got
together last weekend to bring a little christmas cheer to some 250 people this is what we have to
do with the broccoli too generous donations of cash and food allowed new westminster high
school students and staff to organize a dinner in the school cafeteria over 150 people volunteered
their time to help serve and prepare the traditional turkey dinner complete with all the trimmings
enough gifts and toys were also collected to send out christmas hampers
to needy families also in the new westminster community
um already i've heard comments that that they're really pleased to be able to do this
that it gives us such a good feeling to be able to contribute something positive at christmas time
really this is what christmas is about i think a lot of people losing the christmas spirit and
this is one way to bring it back by helping other people who are in need you know a lot of people
right now are caring by volunteering their time and just helping out well if you're already
planning new year's eve bc transit has a reminder for you it will be operating free service in
several bc centers on new year's eve in vancouver it'll be the 21st year of free transit for those
welcoming in 1992 last year some 70 000 people in the vancouver area alone took advantage of
the free transportation well if you've passed through or by the front of the vancouver art
gallery recently you probably noticed the elaborate christmas display of lights and
decorations set up in front well earlier this month santa claus made a preview
appearance delighting both young and the young at heart one two three now
how are you doing awesome hello how are you are you going to be a hockey player when you grow up
oh boy you're such a big guy i'm sorry what would you like for christmas
for the long time since you sat on my knee
you bet your life is a long time won't you come home bill bailey
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and once again tonight we finish off with the sounds of christmas a holiday song from a children's
chorus good night and merry christmas from all of us here at bc tv
oh
me
In your palace for mighty king.
Do you know what I know?
What I know?
A child, a child, sleeping in the dome.
He will bring us silver and gold.
Send a king to the people everywhere.
Listen to what I say.
Pray for peace people everywhere.
Listen to what I say.
The child, the child, sleeping in the night.
He will bring us goodness and light.
Bring us light.