Number one in Southern California, Channel 7, KABC-TV, Los Angeles.
Now, the Southland's leading news, Eyewitness News at 11.
It is Mother Nature versus the Southland tonight in a real blowout.
Good evening everybody, it's the 11 o'clock hour.
News are blowing in the wind tonight in Southern California as gusts of up to 50 miles an hour
are hammering the areas, especially the foothills.
We have had numerous reports of downed power lines and trees.
The Edison Company says several thousand people are without electricity at this hour.
Even Channel 7 fell victim to the windstorm tonight, which slammed into our Mount Wilson
transmitter, knocked us momentarily off the air.
Dr. George will be along in just a couple of minutes with more information on when it
might end and when things might calm down again.
Tony.
And Paul, one man is dead tonight.
Four other people feared buried beneath a mountain of snow following a massive avalanche near
Denver, Colorado.
It happened at the Breckenridge Ski Resort at about two o'clock this afternoon.
Witnesses say the mountain came down in a roar of thunder, burying all in its path.
Two hundred rescue workers probed the snow looking for the trapped skiers.
Special dogs were brought in to aid in the desperate search.
They say the area where the avalanche occurred is a danger zone, but it is not restricted
to skiers.
We did have an area, a gate, if you will, or a maze that we had a six foot by four foot
sign posted that listed the dangers of going out of bounds and specifically that you are
on your own, that this is an area that is prone to avalanches.
This is an area that has not been controlled.
You can see by this photo that the so-called Peak Seven Zone is quite a distance from the
regular ski area.
Early this evening the search was called off, although some rescue workers did remain, but
freezing temperatures eventually forced them in too.
The search will resume tomorrow.
One man is in serious condition tonight after a light plane made a crash landing into a
busy San Diego street.
It was six o'clock tonight during the evening rush hour.
The pilot was practicing touch and go landings at nearby Montgomery Field when the plane
started sputtering.
There was no choice but to come down on Balboa Avenue in Kearney Mesa.
The plane landed on the roof of a Toyota Corolla, seriously injuring the car's driver.
Firemen rescued him, rushed him to the hospital.
The pilot of the plane unharmed, and several other vehicles were also damaged in that crash.
Tony, there are some people in Highland Park tonight with a real interesting problem.
The Community Redevelopment Agency met with some angry homeowners in Highland Park tonight
over a plan to save their condos.
Larry Carroll reports on a major problem that has left residents there with that sinking
feeling.
It was conceived as a model project of the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency,
the largest residential redevelopment project in the city, as many as 2,000 low and moderate
income condominiums built on a landfill as high in places as 130 feet, and many of these
people stood in line to buy them.
What no one suspected was that the soil beneath these units would subside and cause these
buildings to sink or shift in some places as much as 14 inches.
Now the owners of 328 of these units want to be made whole.
Lawsuits and injunctions are already flying between homeowners associations and the CRA,
but tonight the CRA presented its proposal to solve the problem, an $8 million, 22-month
plan that ranges from building storm drains to jacking up building supports and shooting
concrete into the landfill.
The residents made clear that they were less than sued.
Whatever their problems with their contractors or their insurance agents, I do not intend
to invest 12 years in my life in something that is their screw-up.
In my judgment, the agency's responsibility is to fix the problem.
The prevailing sentiment in the room tonight seemed to be that a fix would not be enough,
that what the homeowners really want is for the CRA to take the $8 million and pay off
their mortgages plus appreciation.
But it appears that negotiations will take place in any case.
Larry Carroll, Channel 7 Eyewitness News in Monterey Hills.
The fear over the spread of AIDS has led to National Condom Awareness Week.
And today pharmacy students at USC were doing their part.
They passed out 1,600 condoms free of charge along with information on preventing the spread
of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
With no cure in sight for AIDS, health officials are promoting condoms as the best protection
against the killer disease.
At Cal State San Bernardino, a similar event took place today.
Later on this broadcast tonight, Dr. Arculine will continue his special series on safe sex
with important information on this vital topic.
Tony?
An anti-abortion group tonight is demanding that the head of the City-County AIDS Task
Force be ousted for recommending that pregnant women with the AIDS virus consider abortions.
Dr. Neal Schramm says pregnancy weakens a woman's immune system.
And in the case of a woman with the AIDS virus, pregnancy might increase the chance that she'll
soon develop a full-blown case of that deadly disease.
It is our feeling that information about the possibility that the mother will develop AIDS
and that the baby will develop AIDS is information that must be given to a pregnant woman who's
infected with the virus.
But anti-abortionists say there's no proof that the woman's life would, in fact, be endangered.
So it's really reinforced the fact that the way to stop the spread of AIDS is to do away
with one of the victims, i.e., the unborn child.
McMillan says the Right to Life League of Southern California will ask city and county
officials to seek Schramm's resignation.
San Francisco police tonight believe a man stabbed to death in a violent quarrel may
have been a suspect in a rash of homosexual killings that date back to 1980.
You're going to look right here at the man that police think may have been responsible
for murdering 16 gay men.
They don't know his name.
The man's body was discovered Monday night, one of two victims of a bloody knife fight.
Authorities surmise the dead suspect went into a gay bar, lured his victim home, then
tried to kill him.
That's when the murder took an unforeseen turn and the attacker was also killed.
Investigators say aspects of the bizarre incident bear similarities to the 16 previous killings.
While police tonight search for the dead man's identity, they continue to warn the gay community
of those continued attacks.
Paul?
Tony, the key figure in the Twilight Zone man's slaughter trial is now telling his side
of the story in Los Angeles Superior Court.
He, of course, is John Landis, who directed the 1982 movie scene, which killed actor Vic
Morrow and two child actors.
Today, Landis admitted he broke the law by hiring the children without work permit, but
he denied ever being told the scene involving a helicopter and explosives was dangerous.
Did anybody ever suggest to you that those scenes as planned were dangerous?
No.
Landis will continue his testimony in the trial tomorrow.
There was a special preview tonight of a new ABC television movie about Betty Ford's courageous
fight to overcome alcoholism.
In hand for the screening at Universal Studios was former First Lady Betty Ford, former President
Gerald Ford, and Gina Rowlands, who plays the part of Betty Ford.
All said they hoped that telling this story would encourage others to win their own battles
against drug or alcohol abuse.
The Betty Ford story will be shown on Monday, March 2nd, on ABC.
Tony?
And Paul, later on in this very newscast, Dr. Argyllene talks about safe sex, but coming
up next, Terrell Green looks at some Soviet immigrants who have found a place right here
in America.
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All this week, Harold Green is reporting on Soviet citizens who have immigrated to the
United States.
And tonight he focuses on some true success stories.
Tony and Paul Wallace, small percentage of those who come here from the Soviet Union
go back, and many have difficulty adjusting to American society.
The vast majority choose to stay, finding life here better than the one they left.
Some believe they can't succeed in finding the American dream.
For others, that dream has already become a reality.
Less than a quarter of one percent have expressed a desire to go back.
The majority of people here have settled very well and have achieved a great deal.
Gennady Fundaminsky and his wife Nina say they have found what they wanted.
Gennady was a dentist in the Soviet Union.
As Soviet Jews, they were allowed to immigrate.
But when they came to the U.S., they didn't speak the language, had only $200 between
them, and Gennady had to return to school in order to practice.
I think this was a very stressful moment in my life.
By information, by speaking a little bit English, I got the impression like I can't get my license
back here.
I can't be in one day American bent.
Today he has two offices and his practice is going strong.
Nina is running her own company these days, importing baby furniture from Italy.
It's an opportunity they would never have had in the Soviet Union.
Not legal.
Not legal business.
Maybe somewhere under the table, like you know, like maybe something to design and something
to sell somewhere.
Only not this way.
Not to run an international company and be recognized in the world.
Sergey Levin was a television producer in the Soviet Union and now has his own Russian
language program here.
But he had to make major adjustments to continue his career.
Commercials cover my product, cover my expenses.
But interesting, I never worked in Russia like salesman.
Now I'm salesman, I'm producer, I'm director, I'm host.
I'm everything.
From one side to the other side is difficult.
Their stories have been repeated over and over again since this country was founded.
They have become the embodiment of the American dream.
I'm happy because I'm keeping my profession in the United States.
This is very important for me.
I love this country so much and this opportunity that this country gave to me, I will never
stop back through Russia.
Never.
Tomorrow, I'll look at what people in the Soviet Union see when they turn on their television
sets.
Oh, thanks, Darryl.
Still ahead tonight, Dr. Arculine's report on safe sex.
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