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This is early today, December 3rd, 1982.
Good morning, I'm Bryant Gumbel, along with Jane Paulie.
These are the headlines on this Friday morning.
The MX missile program has barely survived a crucial House vote.
President Reagan flies to Colombia after three days in Brazil.
61-year-old Barney Clark is reported in critical but stable condition
after receiving an artificial heart, and the San Francisco 49ers beat the Los Angeles Rams in Thursday night football action.
Those are the headlines. Now, with details, here's Jane.
And good morning. The administration's MX program has cleared a key congressional hurdle, but by the slimmest of margins.
Karen Gray has the details.
The MX barely passed the test.
It took some long-distance arm-twisting phone calls to lawmakers from Defense Secretary Weinberger and President Reagan himself.
Even the most ardent supporters of the MX missile admit it has a long, tough road in front of it.
The MX is still in trouble, I think, and we still have a lot of work to do.
It was Joseph Addabbo's amendment to delete the $988 million funding for production of the missile that went down to defeat by a tie vote of 26 to 26.
When you can beat the White House, the State Department, and the Pentagon, and all the other lobbying that you had,
I think I had a good win when I came out with the 26-26 vote.
The deciding tie vote was cast by Alexander of Arkansas, who admitted he's against the MX, but feels it deserves a thorough airing in Congress.
What we saw today was a beginning of a debate on the question of, one, is the MX necessary and is it defensible?
President Reagan's successful lobbying efforts have forced a lame duck session floor fight on the controversial MX missile.
That fight should come early next week.
Karen Gray, NBC News at the Capitol.
President Reagan flies to Bogota, Colombia today after wrapping up his three-day visit to Brazil.
White House correspondent David Roche has more on the president's Latin American trip.
President Reagan wound up his Brazilian visit with a speech before Brazilian and U.S. business leaders in Sao Paulo.
He asserted the United States is pulling out of its recession and expressed confidence Brazil will overcome its financial difficulties.
Mr. Reagan departed from his written text to add a surprise element to the theme of U.S.-Brazilian cooperation.
Well, today I'd like to propose an idea to you, to have a Brazilian astronaut train with ours
so that Brazil and the United States can one day participate in a shuttle launch together as partners in space.
Administration officials describe President Reagan's visit here as very warm, extremely productive, and worthwhile.
But the rest of his trip may provide a study in contrast, for President Reagan travels next to Central America,
where civil war and economic blight threaten U.S.-supported governments.
David Roche, NBC News, with the president in Brazil.
Barney Clark, who received an artificial heart Thursday, continues to show steady improvement,
but doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center say there are still a million things to worry about.
Clark is listed in critical but stable condition.
Doctors say the next milestone will come when he can be taken off the respirator, but they're not ready to predict when that might happen.
Hospital officials say Clark awoke several hours after the operation and was able to move around in bed and not his head in answering questions.
Science correspondent Robert Buzell will be with us later on today with a live update on Clark's condition.
A tornado smashed into a trailer park in St. Charles, Missouri Thursday.
At least 33 people were injured. Hundreds have been left homeless.
Tornadoes also touched down in southern Illinois and central Arkansas. At least five people have been killed.
The government releases the November unemployment figures this morning.
We have a report from economic correspondent Irving R. Levine.
The unemployment rate in November hit 10.8 percent, up from 10.4 percent the previous month.
You could see it coming at the end of November when 4,840,000 Americans collected unemployment benefits, a record number.
About 6 million additional Americans had used up benefits or did not qualify.
Figures like these led the Joint Economic Committee of Congress to forecast that the unemployment rate would rise from 10.4 percent in October to 10.5 percent in November.
It actually hit 10.8 percent, which helps explain why the new five cent a gallon tax on gasoline is moving so quickly through the Congress.
It is supposed to create 320,000 new jobs, perhaps just a drop in the bucket, but it is intended to show that Congress and the administration are trying to do something about unemployment.
Irving R. Levine, NBC News at the Labor Department.
Millions of people in New Jersey have been buying lottery tickets this week, hoping to cash in on a record jackpot.
Noah McQuarrles has a report.
In New Jersey, gambling fever is no longer confined to Atlantic City.
People have been lining up all over the state to buy lottery tickets.
That's because New Jersey's lottery jackpot had risen to an all-time nationwide high of more than $10 million.
The jackpot's been growing because no one has won it for the past five weeks and because more than five million tickets were sold this week.
Everyone knows what he'd do if he became a multimillionaire.
Gonna make Coe and scale our coach.
All my dreams come true, didn't they?
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Millions must have been watching New Jersey's public television station last night as the six winning numbers were drawn.
And there you have it, the night's winning pick six lotto numbers.
18, 25, 05, 17, 12, and 03.
One person or many people may have selected the right numbers.
If there's one winner, that person will get more than a half million dollars a year for the next 20 years.
We should know if there's a winner later today.
Norma Quarrles, NBC News.
And we'll be back in a moment to get the weather report from Dr. Frank Field.
A comment from early today's business reporter, Alan Abelson, on congressional action to limit the authority of the Federal Trade Commission.
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Well, it's Scott has this Friday off and joining us this morning and early today, Dr. Frank Field.
Good morning, Doc.
Thank you, Brian.
And we saw those pictures of the tornado damage just a few minutes ago.
It's all part of a long weather system from the Great Lakes down to the Gulf.
As the cooler air moves to the east, it's setting off rain, severe thunderstorms, flash flooding,
and the possibility again today of some tornadoes.
Quite a variety of weather across the country.
First, let's take a look at some of the commuter weather around the country if you're doing any traveling today.
We have for Boston, 56 degrees and becoming sunny.
New York, 62 and sunshine.
For Washington, 64 degrees and partly sunny.
For Miami, 81 degrees.
Some great weather down there.
Chicago, 66 degrees.
The cold front just pushing through.
Denver, 51, sunny and cool.
Seattle, 53, rain.
For Los Angeles, 67 degrees.
A lovely day.
And much of the Western Plains states will enjoy a clearing trend.
This is a rather cool air system that's heading eastward.
You can see a startling contrast between the east and the center of the nation.
A drop of about 20 degrees across the front.
As the cool air barrels in, it sets off severe weather, and that's what we expect today from rain around the Great Lakes,
severe thunderstorms through the Ohio Valley, some flash flooding down over the lower Mississippi Valley.
In the east, some record-breaking temperatures once again expected today.
We're looking for readings today to get well up into the 60s, 70s over the southeast, along with some scattered thunderstorms.
Now let's take a look at some of the weather in your local areas.
While western Washington, occasional rain.
Heavier times today and tonight.
Decreasing showers and a little cooler Saturday.
The highs today in the upper 40s to mid-50s.
The lows tonight in the upper 30s to mid-40s.
And for most of the folks in the east, another lovely and warm, unusual day.
Brian?
Thanks, Doc. Take a check on business for this Friday morning.
The government says October was a bad month for the nation's factories.
The Commerce Department says new orders dropped almost 4 percent from September to the lowest level in more than two years.
Stock prices were up slightly Thursday in moderate trading.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up more than two points to close out at 1,033.11.
Coffee prices could be headed up this winter.
Over the next few months, U.S. roasters are expected to boost wholesale prices 10 to 15 cents a pound.
Industry observers attribute the increase, at least in part, to the frost that wiped out almost half of Brazil's coffee crop.
In London, dealers have set the price of gold at $443.25 an ounce that is down from yesterday's open.
The Federal Trade Commission looks out for consumer rights and interests.
But the FTC received a setback this week when the House voted to exempt medical and all other state licensed professionals from its jurisdiction.
Early Today's Business reporter Alan Abelson, editor of Barron's, joins us now with some thoughts on this effect.
First of all, why is there dissatisfaction with this relationship?
Well, it's been going on for a long time, actually.
The FTC is a very old agency.
It goes back to 1914, and it was born when there was a lot of concern about trusts and illegal business combinations and the like.
Over the years, you know, it's made a lot of enemies, and it's made some silly decisions.
And the enemies seem to have grown, and the silly decisions never go away.
I mean, one of the things, for instance, it did, it enraged Congress by having a temerity to suggest that used car dealers tell people what was wrong with the car they were going to buy.
Now, can you think of anything worse than that?
I can't imagine anything like that.
So when Congress decided they couldn't do that, what took the next step, decided it would ask undertakers in that case to give you an honest shake on coffins and the like.
And that just about blew it, so Congress decided they'd have a legislative veto over everything the agency proposed.
So was this a result of some heavy lobbying, particularly by the American Medical Association?
I think the fact that they had something like $400,000 or $500,000 contributed to the last campaign may have done some good, actually.
The other thing is I think people mistake doctors. It wasn't in their interest they were campaigning.
The fact is they were worried about the beauticians.
You see, this antitrust exemption that the House voted includes all kinds of professionals and beauticians particularly.
Okay, undertakers, doctors, beauticians, who else?
That's right. Well, shall I say it in the air, lawyers.
Oh, okay. What happens to the consumer now?
The poor consumer. Well, nobody really cares about the consumer very much, and I would think that what will happen to the consumer is he'll probably take it in the pocketbook a little bit.
What else is new, right?
Mm-hmm.
Thank you, Alan. Take a check of the morning line now. Country singer Marty Robbins is listed in critical but stable condition at a Nashville hospital after undergoing heart surgery.
Doctors say Robbins suffered a major heart attack Thursday and underwent a quadruple bypass operation.
Well, in addition to everything else, the people guarding President Reagan during his visit to Brazil have been on the lookout for Brazil's kissing bandit.
The elusive bandit has a reputation for crashing celebrity receptions and kissing VIPs.
Among the bandit's recent victims, Pope Paul and Frank Sinatra.
Surprised he's still alive.
Police in the town of Cedarburg, Wisconsin won't have to leave their loved ones on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
Town fathers have granted permission for family members and loved ones to ride along in the patrol cars while the officers are on duty.
Back in just a moment to update the news of the morning, but first this is early today on NBC.
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Here's a news update for this 3rd of December.
The administration's MX missile program has survived a crucial test vote in the House.
A vote in the House Appropriations Committee to kill the program ended in a tie.
So the program is still alive.
More fireworks are expected next Tuesday when the full House debates the controversial dense-packed basing system.
In a rare display of bipartisan effort, the House Ways and Means Committee has approved a measure
to increase the tax on gasoline by five cents a gallon.
Most of the money would be used to repair the nation's highways and bridges.
The rest would go to improve mass transit.
The highway program alone could create more than 300,000 jobs.
A series of eight tornadoes ripped through central Arkansas Thursday.
Officials say at least three people were killed and 36 others hospitalized.
The twisters damaged or destroyed more than 200 buildings.
Tornadoes also touched down in Missouri and Illinois.
Officials say a tornado just about wiped out New Baden, Illinois, a town of about 2,000.
A Kansas man has become the first to plead guilty to violating draft registration laws.
We have a report from Ron Howard of KNSW-TV, Wichita.
Twenty-one-year-old Kendall Workinthene appeared in federal court
ready to face the consequences for refusing to register for the draft.
The Mennonite College student told the judge he has no choice but to plead guilty
because he is truly opposed to violence or resistance of any kind.
Said Workinthene, that includes resisting in court.
Afterwards, Workinthene met briefly with reporters to explain his decision.
I know that I'm legally guilty of not registering, but morally I feel I am innocent.
When non-registration is based on loyalty to God, I do not believe that it is wrong.
To fight the government's prosecution would only be to cast doubt on my claim to be non-resistant.
Workinthene becomes the first draft resister in the country to enter a plea of guilty.
Because he's 21 years old, he's eligible for the Youth Corrections Act,
which means he could be sentenced to up to six years of supervision.
That leaves the door open for possible alternative service instead of imprisonment.
From Wichita, Kansas, Ron Howard for NBC News.
And negotiations aimed at saving the Boston Herald American have continued through the night.
Publisher Rupert Murdoch has offered to buy that Hearst paper,
but he is demanding a 30 percent reduction in union personnel.
If no agreement is reached, today's edition of the Boston Herald American will be its last.
Now for a look at what's coming up in the week ahead.
The sixth annual conference on Caribbean trade, investment and development convenes Tuesday in Miami.
Delegates will discuss President Reagan's Caribbean Basin Initiative.
Wednesday, a four-man U.S. team will visit Hanoi to talk about Americans still missing after the Vietnam War.
Also on Wednesday, the defense resumes in the trial of Teamsters president Roy Williams.
The case could go to the jury by week's end.
On Saturday, the movie E.T. premieres in London at a Royal Command performance.
And now for a look at the week ahead in Washington, here's David Hyszynski.
Several major issues will involve Congress next week.
First, a bill that includes the much debated MX missile system is expected to be brought up on the House floor.
The president has been pushing for his dense pack MX plan,
but some members of Congress say it won't be effective and it's just too expensive now in a time of huge budget deficits.
Another controversial issue, Social Security, is also on the agenda next week.
The National Commission on Social Security Reform will hold its last meeting on Friday
in the hope of recommending some specific corrective measures to Congress.
President Reagan, back from his Latin America trip, is scheduled to meet with the president of Pakistan here in Washington on Monday
in an effort to warm up relations with that country.
On the same day, Secretary of State George Shultz leaves on a two-week tour of Europe,
during which he'll attend a NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels.
Also on Monday, former presidential candidate John Anderson will take his complaint
that independents are treated differently from major party candidates in Ohio to the United States Supreme Court.
David Hyszynski, NBC News, Washington.
And coming up in just a moment, the latest sports news and a weather update on early today after these messages.
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Joe Montana passed for 305 yards to lead the San Francisco 49ers to a come-from-behind 30-24 victory over the Los Angeles Rams.
Montana passed for two touchdowns and directed a winning touchdown drive that came late in the fourth quarter.
A man out of Notre Dame connected with Bill Ring to set up the winning score.
This one down to the five-yard line.
And then moments later, it was Jeff Moore that got the call, number 25, punched it into the end zone.
This one came, Rats Ray Malavesi, Rams coach on the sidelines.
He's got his problems, his club now down to one and four.
Moments later, Moore punched it in for his third touchdown of the game, the final again.
San Francisco 30, Los Angeles 24, the 49ers are now two and three.
Two WBC Championship fights in the New Orleans Superdome tonight.
Wilfred Benitez defends his super welterweight crown against Thomas Hitman-Herns.
And bantamweight king Lupe Pintor moves up a division to challenge Wilfredo Gomez for his super bantamweight title.
That's at 122 pounds.
College basketball sixth-ranked UCLA beat DePaul 73-70 in overtime to snap the Blue Demons home court winning streak at 27.
And college football this weekend, Arkansas is at Texas, Florida at Florida State, and the Army-Navy game will be played in Philadelphia.
And one baseball item, a New York newspaper is reporting that Ken Moffett, the federal mediator in the 1981 baseball strike,
has been chosen to succeed Marvin Miller as executive director of the Baseball Players Association on his retirement.
That's set for next year.
Now with the weather update for early today, Dr. Frank Field. Doc?
Well, Brian, we're keeping an eye on several spots around the country, and here is our weather update.
We have some severe thundershowers, a possibility of flash flooding from East Texas and the Gulf States northward through the Tennessee and Ohio Valley.
Some morning fog in the Carolinas through the mid-Atlantic into southern New England.
There's some stormy weather over the Pacific Northwest with gale warnings along coastal northern California, Oregon, and Washington.
And there's a traveler's advisory up in the Cascades, about six inches of snow expected there.
Now here's Jane.
And looking ahead at what's coming up later at 7.15, live from Bogota, an interview with the president of Columbia.
We'll get the latest from Utah as well on the condition of Barney Clark plus Pam Darber plus something called nuclear magnetic resonance replacing the CAT scan.
We'll take it obsolete. It's a busy Friday ahead on today, 7 o'clock after station break.
On NBC Nightly News, a look at the new unemployment figures.
Is there new hope for 1983 or more bad news for the nation's jobless?
A full report tonight.
This week on King Five Magazine.
I didn't want to let anyone down.
We'll see artists fighting for survival.
Sugar really is much more of a drug than a food.
We'll give you some food for thought.
It happens, I think, almost every marriage when there's long periods of separation and loneliness.
And through a look at marriage singular, we'll explore some fundamentals of marriage in general.
Saturday night at 7 on King Five Magazine.
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Hey, Mike Letter tells of a classic story with a happy ending.
She is the classic musician.
A child prodigy at six, Emma Endres Counts has filled her life with recitals, lectures, and major concert performances all over the world.
She plays now to the emptiness of a Chicago rehearsal hall.
Yet her music drifts beyond these walls to an unlikely audience.
To 16-year-old Vernon Odom in a Southside neighborhood.
To 17-year-old Donna Matthews in a Northside high school.
And to 158 others who gather each week to answer these notes.
Music, says Emma Counts, soothes sadness and encourages young people to a better life.
And for that better life, Emma Counts offers these weekly lessons for free.
It's the most exhilarating dimension to my career.
Many of these youngsters come from what I call disheveled homes.
And they manage to eke out a certain privacy.
And their music study here enlarges that world and strengthens that privacy so they're never alone.
And I think loneliness and alienation is also one of the causes for violence.
The idea of giving free music lessons to gifted students has become now a full-fledged program called Merit.
Complete with a staff of teachers, the use of a local university's facilities, and a lesson plan as sociological as it is musical.
I've seen kids that have come in with no ambition, who all of a sudden are turned on to something.
And they go on to college. Their grades in school improve.
Their attitude toward themselves changes.
It gets out like problems that I might be going through and I might sit down and practice and just forget about the problems.
I feel a little better afterwards.
And when we get to Tchaikovsky, you'll see how extended his is.
To a young adult, a Saturday afternoon away from school is usually a treasured time.
But for these young people, the treasure is to be discovered by following a musical path led by a woman too spirited to retire.
It's a nice touch. As it was going on, Jane and I were talking a little bit about people we've known who play instruments
and wondering whether or not their personalities generally break down along with some degree of consistency along instrumental lines.
In other words, do people who play reed instruments all tend to be the same kind of people, drummers the same?
I think partially. It depends on what kind of group you're playing with. You're playing with a rock and roll band or a dance band or a symphony orchestra
or a chamber music or whatever. That probably has more to do with what instrument you're holding in your hand.
Yeah, might well be. But maybe there's something also to the amount of discipline it takes and to the amount of commitment it takes
in terms of your personality to play that particular instrument. Not playing an instrument, I wouldn't know.
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From Seattle. From the King Northwest Network. From the nation's capital.
From News Center 5. Don Matson.
Good morning. It's Friday, December 3rd. To hear the top news stories, in Salt Lake City, Barney Clark, the world's first artificial heart recipient
reported doing very well, will get the latest from Aaron Brown in Salt Lake in just a couple of minutes.
The outgoing director of Woops! Bob Ferguson says the next six months will determine whether the supply system goes broke
or moves ahead to finish at least three nuclear power plants. Tornadoes that ripped through Illinois and Arkansas overnight
killed at least six people and injured as many as 25. Details coming up shortly, but first we're going to check the forecast
and quite a forecast we have this morning. Title flood warnings. Water will be a foot and a half above the normal high tide at 7.15,
which will cause some flooding. Rain chance 100 percent. Warm though. Highs in the mid-50s. Windy. Southerlies 15 to 30 miles per hour.
Gusty at times. Tonight, 90 percent chance of rain. Lows in the lower 40s. Tomorrow, decreasing showers. Highs near 50.
Right now, light rain in the area. 56 degrees wind from the south at 22, gusting up to 34. Barometer 29.54 and rising.
The relative humidity is 83 percent. Now let's see how things are going for commuters this morning. Here's Sarah Johnson.
There's lots of standing water on the roadway. Visibility is limited. The rain is falling hard and with temperatures in the 60s,
it's a super tropical day here in Seattle. There was a temporarily blocked roadway at 2nd Avenue South in Rainier.
The northbound lanes of Rainier blocked there for some time during a fire. They have been reopened to traffic.
Sarah Johnson, NewsKings, Sky Twin Traffic.
61-year-old Des Moines dentist Barney Clark is in critical but improving condition this morning, a little more than 24 hours after an artificial heart was implanted in his chest.
Aaron Brownsman in Salt Lake watching Clark's progress and we're going to join him now for an update on his condition.
Good morning, Aaron. What's happening?
Good morning, Don. We just talked to the hospital. Dr. Clark is described this morning as doing well.
He is still listed in critical condition, as I believe you indicated. That is as expected.
Indeed, there is very little that the hospital has to tell us this morning that was not anticipated.
He had a fitful night. They describe it as having slept on and off, tended to wake up when the nursing staff came in to work in the area.
It was sort of like the waking you up to give you a sleeping pill kind of problem that people in the hospital are familiar with.
His complaints are very typical of people who have just undergone major surgery. He continues to be troubled by a sore throat.
There is a tube down his throat, the respirator tube. It's about the size of your finger going around and it's uncomfortable.
He also is very thirsty. Anyone who has had major surgery knows that feeling.
You come out of surgery thirsty and they won't let you have anything to drink. And indeed, Dr. Clark has not had anything to eat or drink.
He is still on an IV. His surgeon, Dr. DeFries, will be in this morning to take a look at him.
The most encouraging news here is that there are no signs of infection, no sign of pneumonia.
He continues to be responsive, though responsive should not be interpreted as overly communicative.
He does respond in hand pressure, that sort of thing, and can indicate a couple of things.
But it's really, he is still not terribly alert, still under sedation quite heavily.
That is his condition this morning and no one expects it to change a great deal today.
They are very encouraged at the Medical Center in Salt Lake and they continue to watch him very closely.
Okay.
Thank you very much, Aaron. And we'll be hearing from you as you get back to Seattle and get a complete report on exactly what's happened down there.
Thank you.
Thank you, John. Good morning.
Okay. So the vigil for Barney Clark goes on in Utah and here on the Puget Sound area.
Julie Blacklow visited with Clark's son, Gary, as he waited for more news about his father.
But waiting for...
Barney Clark's son, Gary, is not a seeker of publicity, nor is his wife, Sue.
Five-year-old David welcomes the lights and the cameras, most of all.
But Barney Clark became famous overnight, something his family here never really expected.
Absolutely no idea in the world that it would cause this much of a commotion.
I think it would be his contribution to mankind that he can leave for them, whether it is successful or not.
And, you know, I mean, there was really no other choice.
You can die the way he was or you can die by taking a chance.
I think he made a very wise decision.
It's just hard to say what we're feeling every time my sister-in-law and I would be talking during the day and stuff and comparing what we'd each of us heard.
And then we'd all get upset and just hope for the best.
What would you say to him tonight if he was listening to this?
I love you, Father.
Please get well.
Just like me.
Yeah, just like you.
In Bothell, I'm Julie Blacklow, King 5 News.
It's likely that Northwest utilities won't end up paying the whole bill for the two terminated whoops nuclear power plants.
Whoops managing director Bob Ferguson says the utilities may default on their debt.
He says other plans to pay for the plants are being considered.
Charlotte Rainer reports.
Whoops plants four and five were terminated a year ago because they were hopelessly behind schedule and over their budgets.
Termination left 88 sponsoring utilities with a $7 billion debt.
They've been in court the past year trying to find a way out of their contracts.
The managing director of Whoops told reporters he thought it was probable the utilities would default on their debt early next year.
Ferguson said he is working on a plan to sell plants four and five.
Talk of default worries Governor Spellman.
Frankly that would be very traumatic to every citizen and every business and in addition to that in my opinion have a devastating effect upon the cities and the counties and each PUD.
They would not be able to get credit.
Their credit would be terribly impaired if they go into default on this.
Spellman said he'll use the power of his office to prevent default but he refused to elaborate.
In Olympia, this is Charlotte Rainer, King 5 News.
The University of Washington programs that fell to the budget cutters acts probably won't make a comeback even if the university has some of its budget restored by the state.
University President William Gerberting made that announcement at a meeting with faculty members.
He says any money the school recovers will be used to support other programs.
Some faculty members protested the university's plan to cut three departments and 24 degree programs.
They said those cuts affect women faculty and students.
We'll be back with more news right after this.
I'm Mel Gingrich, and I'll talk to you soon.
Thank you.
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The People's Store's biggest sale of the year is Saturday, Bellringer Day.
Doors open at 8AM with the lowest prices of the year.
Young Men's Britannia shirts $9.88.
Save up to 30% on Cuisinart food processors.
The DLC-10e, just $88.88.
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Charbroil Gas Grills, $188.88. Ladies Levi Blouses and Slacks, $9.88.
See your local newspaper for all this and more during Bell Ringer Day, Saturday, December 5th only.
Doors open at 8 a.m. at all people stores.
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This morning our young doctor's a bit ill-natured,
because he's wearing one of those saggy diapers that leak.
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20 minutes, about 45 seconds before 7 o'clock.
100% chance of rain today. Fairly warm though high in the mid-50s.
President Reagan's wrapping up his Latin American trip today with a stomp in Costa Rica.
The president's breathing a little easier now that his MX missile plan has passed its first major hurdle.
We have a report from the cable news network.
Congressman Joseph Adabo, chairman of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee,
tried to cut almost a billion dollars from the 1983 defense budget.
Money earmarked to build the first five of 100 MX missiles.
Adabo argues that other weapons systems already underway could do the same job as the MX.
But by a vote of 26 to 26, the House Appropriations Committee failed to pass Adabo's amendment.
Leaving in the money for MX, at least for now.
The 231 billion dollar defense package also includes money for the B-1 bomber and two nuclear aircraft carriers.
Congressman Jack Edwards, a key supporter of the MX,
says the lobbying done by President Reagan made the difference.
The president called members of the committee and told them he needs the MX
as a bargaining chip in arms control talks with the Soviets.
If we drop the MX now, if we don't do the job that we need to do,
then start talks may continue, but I think they'll go forward in a rather lackadaisical way.
But Edwards admits the MX could be in trouble when the defense budget is taken up by the Full House next week.
There's some bad economic news this morning.
The government reports that unemployment in the United States has reached a new post-depression high of 10.8 percent.
Latest Labor Department figures show that at least 12 million Americans are out of work.
Weather's making news this morning.
Tornadoes ripped through the Midwest, killing six people and injuring dozens of others.
The damage was heaviest in Illinois and Arkansas. Ron Bloom reports.
A rampaging storm that spawned a killer tornado ripped into the Little Rock area shortly before 3 p.m.
Three persons were killed, over two dozen injured, over 200 homes heavily damaged or destroyed.
First hit was this trailer park near Alexander, where one man was crushed under his trailer.
Of course, it was just a tremendous gray cloud.
As it was hitting, you could just see stuff look like it's exploding and things flying to the right, left, just all over.
Another fatality minutes later on the interstate when the tornado blew a piece of metal into this car.
For another nearby resident, a near miss.
Wind just picked everything up, threw it around, slipped the cars around.
The National Weather Service called this the work of one tornado, a storm that continued its destructive path into North Arkansas.
For NBC News, Ron Bloom in Little Rock.
Nothing like that around here, but get out your galoshes. Looks like more rains on the way. We'll have the forecast right after this.
The People Store's biggest sale of the year is Saturday, Bell Ringer Day.
Doors open at 8 a.m. with the lowest prices of the year.
A special group of men's Levi jeans, just $9.88.
Save up to 50% on the entire stock of sheets featuring Pierre Cardin sheets, twin size, $4.88.
Cozy room warmers, just $9.88.
Selected platex bras, $5.88.
Save up to 50% on Airway Encore II luggage and ladies Levi slacks and blouses, $9.88.
See your local newspaper for all this and more during Bell Ringer Day, Saturday, December 5th only.
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The same thing's true when my friends are over.
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From the 106 merchants of SeaTac Mall, the wonder of the Peppermint Snow Kingdom.
This is the fantasy and the magic of the holidays at SeaTac Mall.
Enjoy a visit with Santa and see the Peppermint Snow Kingdom at SeaTac Mall.
Open evenings till 9.30 p.m. Monday through Saturday, Sunday till 6.
Merry Christmas from SeaTac Mall. Exit 143 off Interstate 5 in Federal Way.
It's 16 minutes before 7 o'clock in the King Five Morning News.
Time to check the weather and our unsettled weather continues statewide.
One of a series of weather disturbances strung out well into the Pacific has been moving across our state during the night.
The satellite photos are last daytime for you of our area of the world.
We're not getting the overnight infrared photos anymore.
Low pressure is bringing further warming with the moist southwesternly flow.
This unsettled weather regime will continue to affect most of the state through the weekend.
There should be a little bit less rain and wind.
Mountain cross country skiers and climbers should know the warm wet weather is increasing the avalanche hazard.
Danger is greatest above 4,000 to 5,000 feet.
Mountain forecast calls for rain heavy at times, decreasing tomorrow snow level near 8,000 feet,
which doesn't bode well for our ski areas.
Down to 5,000 tonight, though 3,000 tomorrow, and we'll have the ski report shortly before 7 o'clock.
Afternoon past temperatures in the 40s, winds westerly 15 to 30 with higher gusts.
Our road report is different. On Snoqualmie Pass, water is standing over the road in places.
Gusty winds on the west side of the summit.
Snow tires are required on Stevens, Bluett, White, Sherman, and Satus passes.
Also the road to Mount Baker. North Cascade, Chinook, and Cayuse passes closed.
Gale warnings are in effect for the coast and the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Small craft advisories are in effect for the inland waters.
Our Seattle forecast contains a tidal flood warning this morning.
High tide at 715, a foot and a half above the tide tables.
Same warning applies for the coast and the strait.
Rain chance today, 100 percent.
Highs in the mid-50s, southerly winds, 15 to 30 miles per hour, and gusty.
Tonight, 90 percent chance of rain. Lows in the lower 40s.
Tomorrow, decreasing showers. Highs near 50 degrees.
Extended forecast, Sunday through Tuesday. Guess what? Rain.
Mainly Sunday and Monday. Highs in the upper 40s to low 50s.
Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
56 degrees right now. Cloudy. Rain.
Relative humidity is 29.54.
Relative humidity is 83 percent. Barometer is 29.54 and rising.
Wind from the south at 22 gusting up to 34 miles per hour.
And that's our weather. A lot of it this morning.
We'll take a look at last night's football game when we come back.
The People Store's biggest sale of the year is Saturday, Bellringer Day.
Doors open at 8 a.m. with the lowest prices of the year.
The entire stock of ballet bras is sale priced at $9.88.
Famous name men's and ladies watches just $49.88.
Men's period and sweaters save up to 40 percent.
Junior's Normandy Rose jeans, $19.88.
Airway Oshkosh luggage up to 60 percent off.
Ladies Levi blouses and slacks, $9.88.
See your local newspaper for all this and more during Bellringer Day.
Saturday, December 5th only.
Doors open at 8 a.m. at all People Stores.
Is there justice for women who kill to save their own lives?
For the plea of self-defense for women who have been raped or battered
and then killed or assailant will be our subject on Northwest Today this Friday.
Join us, won't you, right here on King Five.
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It's about 12 minutes before seven o'clock sports time.
The San Francisco 49ers made a good showing in their game with Los Angeles last night.
Here's Don Poirier with a look at the play.
Good morning everybody.
Wasn't that bad a ball game last night on TV considering both were one and three going in.
San Francisco the 49ers held on to beat the Rams 30 to 24 and keep some playoff hopes alive anyway.
San Francisco had a 20 to 10 halftime lead when Joe Montana found former Seahawks Jeff Moore when the Rams blitzed.
Jeff then scampered the remaining 24 yards for the score 20 to 10 and a half.
After a 49er field goal LA temporarily took the lead.
When Wendell Tyler ran off left tackle and simply fought his way into the end zone a lovely run making it 24-23 LA fourth quarter.
Then the 49ers went back to work when Moore went inside to score the game winner.
The San Francisco defense then held on to the remainder of the game 30-24 the final of 49ers and now two and three.
Well come up tomorrow there will be a lot of very nervous excited people regarding the King Bowl.
All the high school state championship games and those are just the fans.
As for the players it's crunch time.
One high school going for the state double A football title is undefeated Franklin Pierce the 12-0 and they'll meet Arlington Saturday night.
Coaches talk about takeaways in football.
Franklin Pierce has earned their share intercepting 29 passes recovering 23 fumbles and blocking seven punts.
Defensive back Jeff Skoda says their turnovers haven't been gifts.
I think we're forcing them there's a lot of hard hitting out there.
Our team really hits.
It's the hardest hitting team I've ever been on.
A lot of people get hit and they stay on the ground and just shake their head and get back up do it again.
Let's go left side over let's go to the left side.
Franklin Pierce head coach Mike Roberts has turned the program into a very good one and I asked Mike if three or four years back he could see this team coming on or has it been a surprise.
Well a surprise in the sense that maybe four years ago they were quite a ways away from having a character they have now but talent wise the talent's been there and it's just been growing but the maturity has brought it along I think.
And in Spangl today the Liberty Lancers left for the King Bowl from the east side of the state to play Mossie Rock for the B-11 championship game time 1230 Saturday.
Liberty is nine and two this year and Saturday's game will seem a long way from Spangl.
What a thrill for the kids.
Beginning this morning at nine o'clock the Husky swim team will host the 35th annual Husky Invitational for both men and women.
Thirty teams will compete from colleges and universities around the northwest.
The meet will run through Sunday.
Very briefly this morning UCLA held on to defeat DePaul in college basketball 73 to 70 in overtime and the WBC welterweight super welterweight fight tonight will be a good one.
It'll be Wilfredo Benitez against Thomas Hearn six o'clock tonight at the Paramount closed circuit.
That's the only place you could see it.
I'm Don Poyer.
Some Christmas traditions are part of this weekend's entertainment.
Greg Palmer has details when we come back.
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On KJR you hear the greatest hits from the 60s 70s and of course the 80s.
Sheena Easton has her big hits.
But Chicago gave us two hundred ten to choose from.
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Which is why every week the KJR playlist is two thousand songs.
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About seven minutes before seven o'clock.
Christmas entertainment is starting on Seattle area stages this weekend.
Here's Greg Palmer with a look at what's happening.
Good morning and for a weekend with not a single new movie at least not one I know about it's still pretty busy.
On stage opening tonight at Seattle's Act Theater is their traditional holiday production of A Christmas Carol.
Which will look like this one from a few years ago except different actors will play some parts.
But John Gilbert will be back as Scrooge after his triumphant appearance in the Children of a Lesser God commercial.
Christmas Carol will run through the end of the month.
This is the last year with this set and these costumes I'm told.
Also on stage sort of tonight the Intimon support group sponsors a performance of the theater's annual fundraising holiday sampler.
This year featuring Zouane Leroy star of the Sugar Babies commercial and Michael Morgan Dunn seven thirty or nine tonight four oh five West Highland Drive on Queen Anne Hill.
Near the site of my mother's birth I believe.
Musically the Sony Ventorum no that's not a new Japanese radio the Sony Ventorum Wind Quintet.
Performs at eight in Meany Theater and in galleries works like this by Janet Laurel open at the Greenwood and tomorrow the Stillwater Gallery has ceramics like this by Joan Johnson.
Tomorrow night at eight in the Monroe Center Canadian folk song specialists John Bartlett and Rika Rubzat perform.
Says here their performances are characterized by their ability to get audiences singing lustily.
Okay also musically tomorrow pianist Andra Schiff is in Meany Theater at eight playing Scarlatti and Schubert. Tomorrow night at eight Sunday at two the fine Seattle Mime Theater here performs at the Jewish Community Center on Mercer Island.
As part of the center's performing art series and finally here's what's happening Sunday.
This is Creeps the fine play about five men with cerebral palsy at the ethnic theater.
There's a signed performance for hearing impaired folks Sunday night at seven.
Same day the Seattle Symphony performs Handel's Messiah in the Opera House at three the Paul Winter Consort presents the Misa Gaia at the University Christian Church at seven thirty and Tyke which may be pronounced Tyke.
He may be pronounced Tyke on the road for all I know as a celebration of old country life music of early 16th and 17th century England and Italy at eight in the University Unitarian Church.
That's what's happening this weekend.
I'm Greg Palmer briefly recapping some of the hour's top stories.
World's first artificial heart recipient Barney Clark's doing very nicely following the historic operation.
Our man in Salt Lake City Aaron Brown reports Clark's been conscious at times and has written notes to nurses.
Outgoing director of the Washington Public Power Supply System Robert Ferguson says the next six months will determine whether whoops goes broke or finishes at least three nuclear power plants.
At least six people are dead.
Thirty five injured from tornadoes that tore through parts of Arkansas and Illinois.
Time for a traffic update here's Sarah Johnson with a look at how things are shaping up around the city this morning.
The bridge is temporarily closed this morning because of high winds.
The rain is pouring in Seattle.
It's very heavy traffic on southbound 405 through Cold Creek and the S curve on both the west side bridges on both the floating bridges the backups of incredible in volume this morning and on southbound I-5 between 236th and the homeless county all the way to Northgate.
You're going to find it's bumper to bumper.
Sarah Johnson News King Sky Twin traffic.
Here are some of the stories we're going to be following today.
Of course we'll continue to monitor the progress of the world's first artificial heart transplant patient aircraft carrier constellation arrives in Bremerton state officials meet in Olympia to discuss the state's next lottery and the one after that and the one after that.
We'll have a report on a child abuse workshop and we'll check in on a special goodwill teddy bear sale.
Important stuff all the news tonight at five final check on our weather now tidal flood warning this morning water will be a foot and a half above the normal high tide which occurs in about 20 minutes rain chance through the day 100 percent highs in the mid 50s.
Southerly winds 15 to 30 and gusty 90 percent chance of rain tonight lows in the lower 40s tomorrow decreasing showers highs near 50 degrees.
Right now we've got 56 degrees cloudy rain wind is from the south at 22 gusting at times up to 34 miles per hour relative humidity is 83 percent in the barometer on the rise from twenty nine point five four inches.
If you're planning a trip to the slopes be prepared for some rain this weekend.
It's raining at all the major ski areas right now at Alphantall you'll find a 40 inch base Crystal Mountain has 14 inches with 36 at Green Valley Mission Ridge 26 on Baker has 65 Pacific West 29 inches ski acres.
No Kwami Summit a 40 inch base there at Stevens Pass you'll find 36 inches and it white pass 27 inches and they're skiing at all the ski areas today night skiing at Alphantall Mission Ridge Pacific West ski acres in Kwami Summit and Stevens Pass.
And that's it got a scoot. Thanks for joining us.
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