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Live local and late breaking
next on KTOL My News the issue
of energy dominating presidential
politics on this Friday. Bush
and Gore trading charges about
oil and the environment and
whether to drill in some
pristine land. You'll hear the
debate ahead. Plus government
employees showing their support
for striking MTA workers latest
in the
news.
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Live local late breaking this is
KTOL My News at nine.
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We're now paying a steep price
for seven and a half years
without an energy policy.
For those facing the cold of
winter or facing choices.
How do you get out of the
cold. Or facing choices on how
to keep the nation running this
is a campaign point that hits
home. Energy where to find
it how to get it to the people
cheaper. We should no more
saddle our children and
grandchildren with the cost of
cleaning up our pollution. And
paying for short sighted energy
policies then we should saddle
them with the burden of paying
our budget deficit.
George W. Bush and Al Gore
are heading to stage for next
week's first presidential debate
today they traded barbs on how to
deal with the soaring cost of
energy with winter coming on it's
an issue that's hitting close to
home for millions of Americans
are Sandra Mitchell is here now
with more on the politics of oil
Sandra Sylvia and Jerry a vast
stretch of Alaska comes front and
center in the race for president
and Al Gore and George W. Bush
have vastly different views on
the issue.
The first debate now just four
days away it seems both are fine
tuning their arguments on oil.
Back east it's getting colder and
the election is getting closer
governor George Bush talked about
both in a Michigan campaign stop
today. We're now paying a steep
price for seven and a half years
without an energy policy.
Americans are concerned about the
staying power of our prosperity
and more immediately they're concerned
about paying their bills in the winter
to come. But before the cold of
December comes November and one day
of decision. Bush on the offensive
lashing out at the vice president
calling Gore's policy on alternative
energy sources fuzzy and futuristic.
Bush says the U.S. has the resources
to reduce dependency on foreign oil
and to get it he wants to drill in
Alaskan protected land. Gore argued
such a move would damage the
environment and be ineffective.
I think it's a mistake because it's
an environmental treasure and it
wouldn't produce any oil for many
years to come and then it would only
produce a few months worth. So you
destroy an environmental treasure or
put it very much at risk. Bush aides
admit it would take four to five years
to get the Arctic oil but insist in the
long term it would yield as much oil as
the U.S. currently imports from Iraq.
The vice president says he would rather
protect his refuge than gain the energy
but this is a false choice. We can do
both taking out energy and leaving only
footprints. Al Gore says he just won't
sacrifice the environment for energy
not now not in the future. We should no
more saddle our children and
grandchildren with the cost of cleaning
up our pollution and paying for
short-sighted energy policies than we
should saddle them with the burden of
paying our budget deficits. Bush says
under the Clinton administration the
energy situation is so bad right now we
could be headed for a recession but both
sides did agree on one thing today that
the government should set up a fund to
help low-income families pay for their
heat this winter. Jerry back to you.
Okay Sandra thousands of employees took
to the streets today in support of the
two-week striking MTA bus drivers
paramedics bus drivers teachers gathered
downtown. They urged Mayor Reardon to get
involved in the labor dispute. Reardon
still stands with the MTA but strikers
got support from local state and
national politicians. The drivers think
Governor Gray Davis can end the
negotiating stalemate by signing Senate
bill 1101. But it also protects us MTA
UTU drivers in the years to come. If the
governor vetoes the bill drivers fear
the MTA will hire other drivers at
lower wages. Los Angeles has seen a
janitor strike screen actors guild
members picketing in the MTA walkout.
Now county workers will be the next to
hit the picket lines. Members of the
service employees International Union
will begin rolling walkouts on Monday.
Our Andre Morrill live downtown with
more on that story Andre. That's right
we're outside Union Local 660 this
would be strike central for 47,000
workers if that walkout happens on
Monday. Let me show you where the action
was earlier today was at the Weston
Bonaventure downtown hundreds of workers
together and what at times resembled a
pep rally poised to begin that series of
one day strikes on Monday if no contract
comes and a major fallout October 11th
that means all 47,000 walking out at the
same time if no settlement. What the
workers want they say is simple that's
to get a piece of the current pie of
prosperity. And here we are now in the
year 2000 in the longest sustained
period of economic growth in this
century and what's on the table is 3% a
year which doesn't even keep pace with
the cost of living. Government employees
don't just get wages they have very
good retirement system and they have
very good benefits and it is a package.
Talks continue today and tonight they
continue at the Weston Bonaventure as
they will all weekend long and
all weekend long as they attempt and try
to avert a strike which would begin on
Monday. We are live in downtown Los
Angeles I'm Andre Moro KCAL 9 News.
Andre investigators have arrested the
man they believe shot a sheriff's
deputy in the head. 23 year old Omar
Jimenez is charged with two counts of
attempted murder. He's accused of
shooting deputy Michael Schaub earlier
this month during a traffic stop in
Whittier. Today Ramirez who claims he's
innocent talked exclusively with KCAL.
I just want to clear this up and because
I found out that they're looking for me
and I want to make this better. Jimenez
won't say if he was at the scene the
morning of the shooting but
investigators confirm his vehicle was
nearby. Jimenez has been ordered held on
two million dollars bail. He's due back
in court October 11th. A two-car accident
in Whittier this afternoon left one
woman dead and a teenage girl in
critical condition. The accident occurred
along Citrus Tree Road in Santa
Gertrude's Avenue near two schools as
they let out for the day. Witnesses say
the driver of the Cadillac wrapped
around the tree had become impatient in
traffic and bolted down the street into
another car. She took off going full
bore about 50 miles an hour down the
street. She clipped a few cars here. When
I turned around I saw a red car spinning
which is that red there was a red car
over there and she just hit hit that
tree. The driver of the other car
suffered only minor injuries. New
problems tonight for Firestone. The
troubled tire maker now faces another
investigation into another line of tires.
The details still to come. Movie tough
guy Clint Eastwood in a different kind
of fight. Here how he fared in a
courtroom battle today. Plus this.
Violence smars the celebration of the
Jewish New Year is a deadly round of
street battles. It's Jerusalem. That
story ahead at nine thirty.
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K-CAL 9 News continues with Jerry
Dunphy and Silvia Lopez.
Firestone tires faces a new investigation.
Federal regulators are now checking out
two more tire types that could be
dangerous. The government has received
nearly 170 complaints since August about
the Firestone Steeltex R4S found as
original equipment on all Ford
excursions and AT light tires found on
some Ford pickups, General Motors
Suburbans and GMC vans. There are
reports of two deaths and twelve injuries
in this latest investigation. The
problems are the same as with other
recalled Firestone tires, blowouts and
tread separation. And the Florida
Attorney General is asking a judge to
unseal confidential documents linked to
defective recalled Firestones. Papers
involve a lawsuit by a family injured in
a Ford Explorer that used the tires.
Florida has the second highest number of
deaths linked to the recalled tires.
Attorney General Bob Butterworth says
the documents are needed to determine if
Firestone is guilty of trying to defraud
the public. There are several liability
lawsuits across the country against
Firestone. Tonight actor Clint Eastwood
is savoring a real life courtroom
victory. A jury made his day by deciding
the famous actor and hotel owner does
not have to pay damages to a disabled
woman. She claimed his mission ranch in
was not sufficiently wheelchair
accessible. Our Jane Velez Mitchell has
details.
You apologize like I know you're going
to. On the one side Clint Eastwood, famous
for his tough guy roles like Dirty Harry
that exude a don't mess with me image. On
the other side Diane Zumbrunen who has
muscular dystrophy and sued Eastwood in
1997, a year after she says she had
dinner with her husband at Eastwood's
Mission Ranch Inn in the Carmel area.
The jury toured the inn after hearing
Zumbrunen's complaints, one that the
wheelchair accessible bathroom was in
another building more than 200 feet away.
Two that the only wheelchair accessible
guest room was more than twice as
expensive as some other rooms. Eastwood
says his insurance company had pressured
him to settle but the actor refused. If
you're right you don't settle. If you're
wrong then you settle and I just felt I
was right here I was sandbagged. Today
the eight jurors in the U.S. District
Court case came down with a verdict in
Eastwood's favor saying he does not have
to pay damages to Zumbrunen and finding
him liable for only two minor violations.
Zumbrunen's attorney is considering an
appeal but says the case has already
forced changes. The issues of this case
that were important for us at the outset
and that is improving the conditions at
Mission Ranch those things happened so
to the extent that we had a case that
caused Mission Ranch to do something
positive that is to put the ramp in to
have the accessible rooms to put the
automated things all which happened as a
consequence of it those are very positive
things. Eastwood contends the case was
about someone trying to get money out of
a man who was admittedly rich and famous.
We couldn't talk about the fact that
Mrs. Zumbrunen sued the Heritage House
in Mendocino and got a $20,000 settlement.
I noticed on TV last night she was saying
that she would give any money that she
got to charity well why didn't she give
that money to charity. Mr. Burris likes to
say it was celebrity and I got some
celebrity well being a celebrity doesn't
offset a person who is who is disabled
in a courtroom. Clint Eastwood who was
70 bought the former dairy farm in 1987
for more than four million dollars. He
appeared in court every day since the
trial began September 19th and after the
verdict he shook hands with the jurors
and gave them autographs. Jane Velez
Mitchell KCAL 9 News back to you. The
hotel now reportedly has two wheelchair
accessible rooms instead of one. The new
movie Remember the Titans stars Denzel
Washington as a football coach but the
movie is about more than just football.
Our entertainment reporter Kerry
Bergland gives us the highlights.
Greek mythology the Titans were greater
even than the gods. They ruled their
universe with absolute power. What that
football feel out there tonight that's
our universe. Let's rule it like Titans
in 1971 things were changing. Schools
were beginning the painful process of
integration. Kids were being forced to
learn about each other's differences and
get along in a way no generation of
Americans before them had to. And in
Alexandria Virginia it all started with
the football team. It's a summer before
busing started coach Herman Boone is
hired on as the head football coach a
black man entering what was until then a
very white area and school but Boone saw
the bigger picture of what needed to be
done and started doing it. It's not that
difficult to change them. It took a week
of boot camp basically they came home
different people and then were thrown
back into this world. Black families all
on one side white families on all on the
other side so the kids are willing. I
think that they're willing now. The
overwhelming majority of them are. Some
are still being taught the wrong things
some are under peer pressure to feel the
wrong way.
The kids on the team eventually learn
to get along they are given little
choice Boone assigns them the task of
learning about each other and then
slowly the walls start to come down.
Does the term cruel and unusual
punishment mean anything to you? You want
to be honest? All right honestly I think
you're nothing. Nothing but a pure waste
that God given talent. But don't let the
setting or the star fool you this is not
a football film nor is it a Denzel
Washington vehicle but he does once
again shine. I'm trying to do only do
films that I am passionate about you
know it's too late in the day to do
otherwise. Remember the Titans is an
unforgettable film Denzel Washington
continues to be at the top of his game
but this is not a movie all about the
star it's a team effort where everyone
on the team gives 100 percent. This is
one of the best times I've had watching
a film all year. In Hollywood I'm Kerry
Bergland K cal 9 news. And remember the
Titans is now playing in theaters
everywhere. Mavericks world famous as one
of the most hazardous surfing spots on
the California coast. Today it got a
little more dangerous when a great white
tried to take a bite out of a surfer
that's up next. Nothing that dangerous
in San Pedro tonight just tons and tons
of tasty lobsters. We'll give you a taste
just a bit later.
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A frightening shark attack has surfers
on the defensive. Paul Ewer was surfing
in an area of big waves known as
Mavericks that's north of Santa Cruz.
You were told authorities he was a quarter
mile offshore when a 10-foot long great
white shark hit his board. His body was
launched off the board while the shark
took a bite out of it. You were landed
on top of the shark. He somehow managed
to paddle back to shore and was not
harmed. Well just hoping the weekend
promise of great temps and sunny skies
turns out to be as forecast. Don't you
like it when they get it right? Carlitos
Campana always gets it right. Hey, hey,
once in a while you know you're bound to
get it. You just hope for the best. It's
an easy time of year. Chances are. Talk to
me in January, February. We'll start getting
real weather around here. Anyway, we're
going to head offshore in just a moment
show you some pictures from Florida. In
the meantime, let me show you what's
going on in the conditions as we head
outdoors to a lovely shot of downtown
Barstow. And that's uh, yeah, sky nine
back in the old days when we only had a
single engine airplane. We've graduated
the helicopter since. Here we go right
now. We have a beautiful night. It is
clear. It is 68 degrees and the humidity
right now 73 percent wind variable in
direction, but it is at six miles an hour
and the temperatures steady and are high
for the afternoon below normal. Well,
short of that record set last year of
102 degrees. My oh my. All right. Here's
how things look out across the West.
Low clouds and fog torn up and tattered.
We have a little bit of an offshore flow
tonight, although it's not that strong
to blow him well out to sea. That is
the low clouds and fog, but just strong
enough to warm us up for tomorrow.
Tonight, maybe some patchy low clouds
along the immediate coast. After that,
it's up warmer temperatures in the
valleys. I'd say mid to upper 80s tomorrow
for the valleys, mid to low 80s for the
basin. Beaches beautiful into the 70s
and then tomorrow night a little bit
stronger onshore flow. Sunday's temperatures
about pretty much like Saturdays. We'll
keep it right there, but then next week
we'll get the onshore flow back. Things
will start cooling down and we'll have
some more typical weather for this time
of year. But for the weekend we get a
break with some very nice weather.
Meanwhile, across the country, some showers
across the parts of the central plains,
up into the Great Lakes, and then down
across the southeast, some afternoon
thunderstorms popping up and those
thunderstorms around Fort Lauderdale,
Florida. Take a look at the pictures that
we have for you here. A waterspout,
tornado over water, and it spun around,
spun around, spun around and it made
for some great photo ops. Not much more
than that. Again off the coast of Fort
Lauderdale, Florida.
These people are standing there too,
they're not running, they know.
They're taking off. Far enough out there, yeah, you and I will.
Run. Absolutely. Okay, Carl, thanks.
A White House departure today.
Press Secretary Joe Lockhart
becomes Bill Clinton's former
press secretary.
The truth is,
he told me that I was no longer
in enough trouble to make it interesting for him.
No more briefings for Lockhart.
What's ahead for him? Stay with us,
we'll tell you.
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Well, it was the voice of Bill Clinton during the Term 1 of the impeachment scandal,
but Joe Lockhart silenced himself today, leading office a little earlier than his predecessor.
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This is the last day for Lockhart as White House press secretary.
He says he's leaving to spend more time with his family and join the speaker circuit.
But the president thinks he knows the real reason.
Most people think Joe's leaving for purely selfish monetary reasons.
But the truth is he told me that I was no longer in enough trouble to make it interesting for him.
As a joke, President Clinton presented some protection, a helmet, to Jake Seward, the deputy press secretary, who steps in to take the job.
Good gift. The end came hours ago.
Long Beach Community Medical Center closed. Just ahead, a live report. Plus this.
Bloodshed in Jerusalem. You'll hear who's being blamed for this deadly fighting.
And Prince William planning a trip to Chile. You'll hear what else he said in a rare conversation with the press tour. Coming up.
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Long Beach has one less haven for the sick and the injured.
Tonight, the end is here for Long Beach Community Medical Center.
Tonight, patients and hospital workers are searching for a new facility to call home.
Officials at the Long Beach Community Medical Center say it has financial hardship and it's
forced them to close their doors.
Dave Clark joins us live now from Long Beach with the latest.
Dave, what do you have for us?
Well, Jerry, we're standing in front of the Community Medical Center right now.
The lights are still on.
The building's still standing there, but it's official.
The Long Beach Community Medical Center has officially closed its doors.
Now, the people who depend on that medical center, the people who work there, the neighbors
around here who depended on the medical center for health care, they knew this was coming,
but it still hurt.
There were tears, lots of tears.
It's quite upsetting to myself, the whole team, and the community.
There was a linking of arms outside of the hospital's front doors.
One last time, as Long Beach Memorial Medical Center shut down for good.
Three, two, one, we're here!
Oh my God, I said I can't believe it.
It's awful, you know.
I don't know what to do.
I wish I were a millionaire so I can have it reopened.
And people that have worked here for years are going to go out of business.
They're going to lose their homes, their cars.
Employees and patients were told by the hospital's owner, Catholic Healthcare West, that there
were big financial problems and $2.8 million was needed to keep the 320-bed hospital open.
The money never came.
Dr. Robert Goble ran the high-tech cancer center right across the street until today.
We have $4 million of the most modern, highest-tech radiation therapy equipment in Southern California
just sitting idle.
And you can't use it now.
I can't use it.
Nobody can use it.
All day, the newspaper headlines stared employees and area residents in the face.
Now it's real.
It doesn't make sense, you know.
It's just sad.
That's all.
Money to me is nothing.
I'd rather take care of people's lives.
That's more important.
And right now, the fate of that building, that's still being determined.
Patient services is being shipped around to other neighborhood hospitals and health
centers.
But as for right now, the Long Beach Community Medical Center is closed.
People are coming by.
They're lighting candles out front, leaving cards.
But unfortunately, there are no employees inside to see it.
We're live in Long Beach.
I'm Dave Clark, K-Cal 9 News.
Back to you.
A nurse known for her ability to give children painless injections is out of a job and under
investigation.
She's accused of faking the shots for more than 1,000 patients.
The nurse worked at this family practice in Sullivan, Indiana for 11 years.
She was supposed to vaccinate children for measles, mumps, chicken pox and other diseases,
but officials say she never did.
There was a question of, yes, did they get any of it at all or did they just get an inadequate
amount?
And I don't have an answer for that.
Investigators say right now, there are no reports of deaths or illness from the nurse's
actions, but officials are still trying to figure out why she did it.
The case has been referred to the state's attorney general.
New legislation on the table tonight aimed at reducing the number of hate crimes in California
school campuses.
Officials held a news conference today at Fairfax High.
They urged Governor Gray Davis to sign the landmark bill that would require human relations
classes be included in the curriculum and hate crimes and hate-related incidents be
added to school safety reports.
This is closer to pinpointing the hot spots, tracking patterns, isolating types, targets
and tools of hate crime perpetrators.
Only then can we effectively target our limited resources to begin to break the cycle of intolerance.
Today's press conference was held at Fairfax High School because it's an ethnic melting
pot with students who speak a combined 36 languages.
She was victimized in her home, but Estella Gafaglio survived and is sharing her terrifying
story with us.
They took out one rifle and one gun and one put it to right here and the other one, I'm
so sorry, the other one put it on my stomach and they said that if I cooperate that everything
would be okay.
I even kneeled down on the ground and I begged them not to touch me, please not to hurt me
or do anything to me physically.
So they tied my hands with some duct tape and then they were going to put some tape
over my eyes and my mouth.
I said there's no need for that.
I will definitely cooperate in whatever you need in this house.
So he said okay, you stay quiet and my partner is going to go around the whole house for
just a little bit.
Don't panic.
Well I did.
I, you know, I trembled, I cried, I did what every woman I guess alone would do.
He said I'm so sorry I have to do this but to you because you're a nice lady but my partner
here is a psycho and he's in drugs right now and he's doing a shipment from, he's bringing
in a shipment from Utah and I have to do this to you.
I'm so sorry I had to do this to you but I have to do it.
Two suspects have been arrested in connection with the home invasion.
They were picked up in Mexico.
Investigators say they were driving the vehicle that was stolen during that robbery.
It's now bloodshed in Jerusalem as Israel, Israelis celebrate the Jewish New Year and
the start of the high holidays.
At a mosque compound in the city, Palestinians threw stones at Israeli riot police who fired
back rubber bullets and live rounds.
Four Palestinians were killed, 175 others wounded, 44 police officers including the
Jerusalem chief were hit by stones.
When authority accused Israel of igniting a holy war, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak
says the Palestinians incited the clash.
A disappointing turnout in the latest demonstrations in Yugoslavia calling for President Slobodan
Milosevic to step down.
Two protests in Belgrade's main square, one in the afternoon, the other at night drew
only 50,000 people not the hundreds of thousands that opposition leaders had hoped for.
Milosevic admits he finished second in Sunday's presidential election but he refuses to step
aside.
Instead, he's demanding a runoff claiming no candidate got a majority vote.
A search is underway off the coast of Bahrain tonight for the pilot of a Navy fighter jet
that went down in the Persian Gulf.
The F-A-18 Hornet went down this morning shortly after taking off from the USS Abraham Lincoln
aircraft carrier.
The pilot flying the jet, similar to this one, was performing routine practice landings
on the carrier at the time.
Search teams have recovered some of the wreckage but so far tonight, no sign of the pilot.
Prince William speaks up.
In a rare interview, the young Prince of Wales talked about his past, his future, and life
after his mother's death.
Our Dave Gonzalez has details.
It was the first face-to-face interview for Britain's hottest young royal and a rare opportunity
for reporters.
William had always made very clear his dislike of the press as he was growing up and his
mother Princess Diana did her best to protect him.
But today, Prince William met with reporters to talk about his plans to travel to southern
Chile.
With an expedition team, he will do community and environmental work.
I wanted to do something constructive in my gap year rather than, I mean, I could do quite
a lot of work, but I thought this was a bit more of a way of making, trying to help people
out and meet a whole range of different people from different countries and at the same time
helping people in remote areas of Chile.
William raised the $8,000 for the trip himself.
He will work with 110 other young volunteers.
I'm doing an environmental project, a community project, and I think at the end there's an
adventure project.
The prince was also asked about the recently published book written by his mother's former
private secretary, Patrick Jefferson.
It depicts Diana as manipulative, emotionally disturbed, and occasionally cruel.
Well, of course, Harry and I are both quite upset about it, that our mother's trust has
been betrayed and that even now she's still being exploited.
But I don't really want to say any more on that.
David Gonzalez, KKL9 News.
When he returns from South America, Prince William plans to attend St. Andrew's University
in Scotland.
Well, he was once the most powerful godfather in the underworld.
But now he's fighting an enemy he can't beat.
Up next, John Gotti behind bars and battling cancer again.
Plus, this tow truck operation allegedly ripped off motorists until he became the target of
a KKL News prime assignment.
Today, he was in court facing charges.
For that, stay with us.
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And a luxury car with Leather CD, the works.
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Hey, they signed Melvin.
How'd they ever get him under the cap?
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A report tonight.
Imprisoned mobster John Gotti is once more battling cancer.
Gotti's been transferred to the Federal Prison Hospital in Springfield, Missouri.
Two years ago, doctors removed a cancerous tumor from his neck.
The cancer reportedly is back and spreading aggressively.
Gotti's family won't comment tonight.
Once considered the nation's most powerful mobster, Gotti is serving a life term for
murder and racketeering.
Paintings by two of America's most notorious killers up for sale, John Wayne Gacy and Charles
Manson.
The artwork brought in more than $2,000 and an auction in Philadelphia.
Some people were disgusted with the whole event.
Murder victims don't only just die and they're not here any longer.
They leave wives and husbands and children and grandchildren.
This is such an affront to them.
Gacy was executed for killing 33 young men and boys.
Manson is in a California prison for masterminding the Tate Lobbianca murders.
It was our K-Cal 9 exclusive, a prime assignment report that exposed a tow truck operation
that ripped off stranded motorists.
Today, the man accused of running the alleged scam appeared in a Santa Ana courtroom.
Nasser Saleh and five others denied charges that they advertised low prices, then charged
ripoff rates to unsuspecting drivers.
I also want to enter a plea of not giving an all-counts on the outcome of my plan.
You may recall Nasser Saleh angrily confronted our David Goldstein, whose report included
an undercover video of the price gouging operation.
Prosecutors say our investigation helped lead to his arrest.
Well, tonight at 1030, our money man, Alan Mendelson, shows us his best buys for fall.
Here's a preview.
Because of the strong economy, a lot of companies overproduce, hoping that the extra merchandise
they make will sell.
And when the extra merchandise does not sell, it goes to outlets and liquidators.
These men's dress shirts are $5 each because the shirt industry was loaded with extra fabric.
And suit factory liquidators in Hollywood made a deal with the factory for the shirts.
Buy the piece goods and make the shirts ourselves in the same factory that all the major brand
names are made, stick our own label.
We're able to sell them then only for $5 a shirt.
The Paul Renne label is a made up name.
In fact, a lot of companies now use their own made up labels to cut costs.
Made up names also generate bigger profits for department stores that also sell brand
names.
And that's what they make the money.
They make more money on the private label than really on the so-called, on the other
famous brand name, which is very, very little money there.
Rossini is another made up label on shirts made for suit factory liquidators.
Okay, what's your price on these?
$10 only.
That's it.
Now that's because you're the manufacturer.
We are the direct importer, manufacturer imported straight from whatever we make it from.
Yes.
And the name Rossini?
This is our own brand name.
We have it's beautifully packaged.
Who is Mr. Rossini?
Just an Italian made names.
Just could be anyone, anyone of the phone book in Rome or Milan.
It could be.
You just make it up.
Yeah, of course.
We'll see more ways that prices are cut in my Best Buy special, Mendelsohn's Best Buys
for Fall tonight at 1030.
That's your money.
Alan Mendelsohn, K-Cal 9 News.
In the mood for lobster?
If that's the case, the Southlands, the place to be this weekend.
Coming up, we're going to tell you where you can get your fill and have some fun too.
Plus, before the CIA, there was a counterintelligence corps.
Details on Operation Reunion.
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Well if you're craving seafood, we've got something for ya.
Tons and tons of tasty lobster.
The Port of Los Angeles 3 Day Lobster Festival is underway.
12 tons of lobster arrive for Southern California's largest seafood festival ever.
The family oriented food event is set up in Port Sicale Village on the waterfront in San
Pedro.
Some kids couldn't quite figure out how to eat the shellfish.
We've been told that more than 20,000 lobster meals are going to be served throughout this
weekend.
The festival runs until midnight tonight and tomorrow and until 8 p.m. on Sunday.
Lots there.
We kind of like it when a good forecast turns out to be right.
I think it's going to be a quick forecast.
Carl is singing and dancing about lobsters.
You see the way they were inspecting those things and not knowing what to do.
I had to go down there as a paid instructor.
I'd show them how to wop it right off and get right in there.
Let's take a look at the current conditions and get started on this weekend forecast.
That is just absolutely, I'll just go ahead and tell you right now, fabulous.
Right now we have clear skies.
It is 67 degrees in downtown LA.
Humidity 78 percent.
Wind calm right now.
Not rustling up too much.
The barometers are 29.84 inches and it is rising.
High for the day 77.
Normal is 82.
I thought that jet passed by.
Not sure we were at 102.
That was a record.
But this year, not quite.
Can't even get back to normal.
Anyway, off we go into the open waters of the Atlantic.
Talk about three named storms.
Hurricane season really underway now.
We have Isaac here.
Isaac is still headed away from land.
Good news on Isaac is maybe just some high seas across parts of the northeastern coastline
and up through portions of Canada.
It's not going to affect anybody beyond that.
It's well out to sea.
Down to the south, torn up and tattered as it is, we have Joyce.
It's a tropical storm now.
It could become a hurricane later this weekend.
And for now, no watches or warnings posted as a result of the storm.
But tomorrow or Sunday, Barbados may be the first areas to be under a watch or a warning.
Right now it could either be a tropical storm or a hurricane watch, depending how Joyce
stays or falls apart.
And right here, and it's Keith, and it's pretty much not well organized.
It's kind of meandering.
It's got a little bit of a drift at about three miles per hour toward the north northwest.
And we'll kind of just fade out the clouds here, give you a better idea of what land
masses are involved here.
Just the northern edge here are the clouds around Cuba, Yucatan Peninsula, Central America.
It's kind of drifting out into the open waters of the Gulf.
Could become a hurricane later this weekend.
But for now, it's just kind of getting itself organized down there in the Caribbean Sea.
Five-day forecast here, low 80s for the weekend, which is normal for this time of year.
And then we go below normal for Tuesday, Wednesday, but still quite delightful across Southern
California.
Still, nothing out on the horizon in terms of a strong Santa Ana wind event.
And here we are in fall.
Good news, I suppose.
Back to you guys.
Excellent.
Well, coming up in sports, Coach Knight has a new job.
But we're talking about Pat Knight, son of ousted Indiana coach Bob Knight.
And the galaxy in Kansas City trying to ease on past the whiz on their way to the MLS Cup.
John Armand tells us more about it tonight.
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Who else?
Tonight at 1030, K-Cow's Alan Mendelson has the goods on Best Buys for the Fall.
From fine furniture and cool clothing to spectacular cruises and red hot Hawaiian vacations, we
have big time bargains where you can save a bundle.
Best Buys for the Fall, tonight at 1030 on K-Cow 9.
This is all kind of very bad.
For my class project, what do you think of Prop 39?
Well we need new classrooms to reduce class size and 39 can help.
It allows taxpayers to decide how school bond money is spent.
And requires two independent audits to make sure school bond funds aren't wasted.
39 caps the amount that property taxes can be raised by a school bond.
But do a little homework.
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I'm hitting you off right now.
Yeah, I've been doing this for about 17-18 years and I can't think of another instance
when this has happened.
I don't get it.
Apparently when the playoffs roll around in any sport, we know one thing, it won't be
a tie.
We'll have a winner.
Apparently not anymore.
Let's go to Kansas City for game one of the Galaxy and the Wizards.
First half no score, Wizards almost score.
Trekkie takes a shot, Kevin Hartman kicks it out.
The game went in in a scoreless tie.
Game two is Tuesday at the Rose Bowl in this best two out of three.
They let it end in a tie.
They're hoping it'll settle itself out over the next couple of games.
What is that?
Well now Pat Knight, the son of Exiled Indiana coach Bobby Knight has a new job.
Pat, who was an assistant to his dad at Indiana, will now be an assistant at Akron.
Bobby Knight still hasn't found a job and is considering suing his old school over his
firing.
College football, UCLA will host Arizona State at the Rose Bowl tomorrow night while USC travels
to Corvallis to take on Oregon State.
Trojans coach Paul Hackett says, this is a different Beaver's team than the one that
finishes last in the Pac-10 almost every year.
Well and the difference is their defense.
That's where they're different.
They're leading in all the categories in the conference.
Different in speed, as good a secondary as we're going to play all year long, playing
very confident, playing at a big tempo.
Energetic middle linebacker, redshirt freshman, new guy running around.
I mean, this is a different energy in this football team.
The Angels are involved in a big game tonight down in Anaheim against Seattle.
First inning, Troy Gloss goes deep for his league leading 46th homer.
It's good for three runs.
And the Angels have beat the Mariners.
The final score, 9-3 in that game.
And because of that, Seattle now drops out of first place in the American League West.
Elsewhere on the baseball scoreboard, you will see, or maybe you won't, I can tell you that
Texas is playing Oakland right now.
Oakland's got the lead 6-3 in earlier.
Cleveland was victorious.
The Dodgers are finishing their season in San Diego against the Padres.
That's Chan Ho Park driving the ball deep to right field.
Chan Ho with his second homerun of the season.
Gary Sheffield has hit a lot more than Chan Ho.
That's number 43.
And right now, the Dodgers have a 3-0 lead over the Padres.
And that homerun by Gary Sheffield, guys, ties Duke Snyder's all-time Dodger record.
So if he can get another one over the weekend, he'll set the all-time mark.
Thanks, John.
That's not a normal reunion.
In this one, everyone's undercover, or was.
It's the Convention of Spies coming up.
But first, a look ahead to the top of the hour.
Pat Harvey for that.
Pat?
Thanks, Jerry and Sylvia.
Live local and late breaking tonight on K-Cal 9 News at 10, a driver has a seizure on Laurel
Canyon Boulevard.
A teenager is killed.
And eight years after this young model is found brutally murdered, DNA tests prove who
did it.
Tonight, the search is on for her killer.
I feel like it's costing you a fortune to drive a car in Los Angeles.
Well, it is.
And we'll tell you why.
K-Cal 9 News at 10, just minutes away.
See you then.
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We're all familiar with James Bond and Austin Powers.
Some former real-life spies, though, are gathering in Nashville, Tennessee this weekend.
They arrive from all around the country, secret agents on a not-so-secret mission dubbed Operation
Reunion.
It's the 54th National Counterintelligence Corps Convention.
The CIC is the agency that later evolved into the CIA.
The former agents say even their family members weren't aware of their duties while they were
working, which included sabotage, treason and combating espionage.
Many stories yet untold will no doubt surface this weekend as these spy-catchers reminisce
and maybe even try to stay out of sight.
Shh.
Okay.
Okay.
There's another hour of news ahead.
Cake Online News at 10 starts right now.
Sylvia, Jerry, thank you.
Next at 10, a deadly traffic accident outside a schoolyard.
Twisted metal wrapped around a tree.
It's all that remains.
You may not believe what witnesses say is to blame.
Plus, rescue 911 for the pet set.
Firefighters breathe life back into some puppies trapped inside a burning building.
And does a jury make Clint Eastwood's day a verdict in the case against the actor accused
of discriminating against the disabled?
I'm Kerry Kilbride.
I'll join Pat Harvey.
And the Cake Online News at 10 starts right now.
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