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I'm Dan Miller.
Up next on the Channel 2 News tonight in Anaheim, the Angels give the Southland something to
cheer about.
In Los Angeles, the CHP sets up a surprise on the freeway.
And in the San Fernando Valley, Rose Byrd makes a remarkable shift in her campaign tactics.
And is it art or a slam on the legal professions?
The sculptor from Los Alhamburg comes to Los Angeles.
I'm Paula Zahn.
Those stories and a whole lot more.
Plus, Kevin's weekend forecast coming up next.
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One says clean up toxic waste.
The other voted against tough laws to do it five different times.
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Who do you agree with?
Alan Cranston, who supports Prop 65, or Ed Schowes, who opposes it?
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You write the song, Saturday at 7.
Good evening, the Angels and their fans are in heaven tonight.
The Angels are champions of the American League Western Division.
They clinched it tonight with an 8-3 win over the Texas Rangers.
The victory came before the home fans, and the fans made the most of it.
No one could keep them off the field as the celebration began.
Our Tony Hernandez is standing by live in the Big A and the Angels locker room.
Tony?
Tony Hernandez is permeating this room and my clothing and Brian Downing's uniform.
Of course, we visited with Brian before the game live tonight.
He was calm then.
He still appears calm right now, but boy, that he contributed tonight.
Two home runs.
Brian, describe the feeling.
Well, to have it come in a clinching game like this, it's really one of my biggest
throws along with being in the All-Star game in 79.
I said I wasn't gonna get too excited about us winning the division because we've been
there a couple times and come up losers and I was kind of, I wanted to reserve myself
for getting in the World Series, but it's a little bit tough having a big game and a
clinching game like that, so I'm trying to enjoy it also.
All right, let's go back to that sixth inning.
You were down 2-0.
Gary Pettis led things off with a home run to get things started.
And uh, does this stop you?
Douglas!
Oh my, that feels wonderful.
Thank you, Doug Dissinty.
All right, let's see if we can see.
That's a home run, Brian, no tape.
Well Brian Downing hit two home runs tonight.
One in the sixth, he did it again in the seventh inning, and uh, just a wonderful celebration
here at the Big A.
Want me to take it?
He'll take it, will you?
Well, I figured if Gary Pettis was going deep for the first time in his career from the
right side, maybe I could follow him, but it was just one of those things.
They weren't the kind of pitchers that I would normally look at home runs off of, but fortunately
it was a big thrill for me to come in a clinching game like this, and uh, we've had a lot more
fun than I really expected, and hopefully we'll have a couple more celebrations for
the years out.
Brian, congratulations.
We'll be back in just a few minutes with more locker room celebration here at the Big A.
Right now, Dan and Paula, back to you in the studio.
Do you have any of that stuff for us, Tony?
We'll try to save some, but it's going fast.
Thanks a lot.
Okay.
Well, the CHP is doing it again tonight.
Highway Patrolmen set up a sobriety checkpoint in East Los Angeles.
But despite a court ruling that the checkpoints are unconstitutional, Jose Sanders reports.
Good evening, sir.
This is a CHP sobriety checkpoint.
How you doing tonight?
The scene tonight at Whittier Boulevard between Hoffner and Eastmont.
CHP officers randomly stopping vehicles looking for drunk drivers.
Last week a state appeals court said this is unconstitutional, but that ruling doesn't
go into effect until 30 days after it's issued, 30 days from last Friday.
Until tonight, the barricades are up and the cops are out.
We're going to continue as planned, continue with the checkpoints.
We're going to wait for it.
Obviously, it's going to go to a higher court, and we're going to wait for the decision.
Our job here is just to arrest the drunk drivers and get them off the streets.
The CHP says operations like this one have been responsible for a dramatic reduction
in the number of drunk drivers on the highways.
Opponents and the 4th District Court of Appeals say the checkpoints amount to unlawful search
and seizure, and drivers like these are caught in the middle.
I think it's a good idea because I've had a lot of my friends get hurt by drunk drivers,
and I think when you've had enough, you should just give the keys to your friend.
One person, whoever's driving, should just not drink as much.
That's it.
It's kind of discriminating for everybody.
At random it would be all right, but from car to car, it's kind of unfair to...
We are live now.
The ACLU apparently very much in agreement with that last gentleman.
They are on record as being extremely opposed to what you see happening behind me, and they
are apparently and reportedly trying to determine what they will do next to try to see that
it doesn't happen again.
In the meanwhile, over 370 cars have been stopped tonight.
14 people have been tested, a variety tested.
14, I make that three people.
Out of the 14, three people have been arrested.
They've been taken in for driving under the influence.
The highway patrol says they will continue their scheduled sobriety checkpoints until
the state supreme court says they have to stop.
I'm Jose Sanders reporting live in East Los Angeles.
Dan Paula, back to you.
Thanks a lot, Jose.
The National Transportation Safety Board is expanding its investigation into safety practices
at Starline's tour bus company.
That action is a direct result of a series of exclusive reports on Channel 2 News.
Former Starline drivers tell us they drove vans and buses without the proper licenses
or training.
Now, the safety board wants to know why Starline submitted fraudulent training certificates
to the DMV.
Certificates, they say, the men were properly licensed and trained.
The whole investigation started after the tragic bus accident in Bridgeport last May.
21 people died.
The driver had an invalid license.
An RTD driver is charged tonight with vehicular manslaughter and hit-and-run driving.
The driver is Kathy Stanley Miles.
Two weeks ago, she refused to let a man who was drunk get on her bus in Hollywood.
As she pulled away from the curb, the man allegedly fell under the bus and was crushed.
Miles will be arraigned next Thursday.
And an RTD driver who triggered a crash on the Hollywood freeway last July may soon face
serious charges.
We learned today that one of the passengers injured in that crash died a week and a half
ago.
The driver of the bus was Shirley Riojas.
She's already charged with a vehicular code infraction and prosecutors are considering
additional charges.
LA school district officials are trying to make sure no school bus drivers are on drugs.
A school board committee is recommending mandatory drug tests for drivers as well as other employees,
including mechanics and campus police.
Teachers are not included.
The proposal must be approved by the full board and by employee unions.
The big victory to report tonight in the war against drugs, federal and local officials
are showing off $40 million in cocaine seized in raids at homes in Diamond Bar, Whittier,
and Brea.
They also confiscated $254,000.
Nine Colombian nationals were arrested.
Officials say they've been tracking the drug ring since July.
Chief Justice Rose Byrd changed campaign tactics today in an effort to keep her job on the
state Supreme Court.
For the first time, she took her message directly to the voters, in this case, a senior citizen
group in Studio City.
Byrd's critics claim she is soft on crime.
You know, it hurts all of us to see the grandmother or the mother of some small child weeping
on television about what happened to her child.
If there were any way in which we could do something to bring that child back, we would.
Do you think it's easy for any of us to ensure that the law is given to the person who's
responsible for that?
That's not an easy task.
But Byrd did not talk about her death penalty vote, a subject which she has been criticized
most often on.
In Sacramento, Governor Dukhmejian signed a landmark anti-apartheid bill today.
The governor's signature, that is, makes California the home of the largest forced divestiture
program in the country.
The state will now sell off $11 billion worth of investments in firms doing business with
South Africa.
Today, we're telling the world that we will always stand against hatred and bigotry and
that we'll stand for freedom and opportunity and dignity for all people.
At the signing ceremony, Dukhmejian said he also supports a bill passed in Washington
imposing harsher sanctions on South Africa.
Well, Dukhmejian may like the legislation, but President Reagan definitely does not.
Just tonight, he vetoed the federal sanctions bill, setting up a major foreign policy showdown
with Congress.
At this point, the Senate is expected to override the veto, handing the president his first
major legislative defeat.
In Beirut, there was another kidnapping today, but this time one that ended with a pleasant
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A British journalist was kidnapped in Moslem, West Beirut, when his taxi got a flat tire.
David Hurst says it was about three minutes later when he was forced into a car at gunpoint
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I was lucky enough to be able to open the door to the car, fell onto the ground in a
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They became, I think, embarrassed at the attention that this was causing, and I managed to run
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Hurst is one of only about a hundred Westerners left in Beirut.
Ironically, last night he told a friend if he was ever kidnapped, he would take the chance
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In the state of Utah, they're still digging out from under all the snow that fell there
yesterday.
The entire parts of the state got 12 to 20 inches of snow.
One ski resort is buried under 40 inches.
But don't make ski reservations yet.
This kind of snow, they say, doesn't stick around for very long.
Fortunately, none of that white stuff here in the Southland, but it is starting to get
a little bit colder.
You'd like to get warm?
Sure.
I'll give you two tips.
A, get out and get yourself an electric blanket or move to Baltimore.
Oh, thank you.
97 degrees in Baltimore today.
I'm not kidding.
A lot of heat in the East, but it looks like in the West it's going to be fallish for the
whole weekend.
Highest temperature at our Civic Center today.
We told you we'd pick up probably about four or five degrees warmer today than yesterday,
and that's just what we did.
Seventy-four our high, fifty-five the low.
Clear skies and cool temperatures at the 11 o'clock hour.
Sixty-two degrees.
Barometer is steady.
Seventy-two percent humidity.
And those westerly breezes currently at ten miles an hour.
What is happening over the weekend?
Little truffle low pressure has developed off the Northern California coast.
These clouds here slowly are going to start working their way into the Southland.
Dan, a couple of moments ago, was talking about Utah.
In the upper parts of the Sierra, Donner Summit already a foot of snow, and that was just
today.
So it looks like the weekend is going to be marked by cool temperatures, partly cloudy
conditions.
In the East, another area, the real warm weather and the real cool weather is starting to collide,
touching off thunderstorm activity from Illinois through Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, up into
western New York.
Heavy rain, certainly in that part of the country.
For you and me tomorrow, looks like it's going to be a day much like it was today in the
Temperature Department.
We should only top around 70 in the Valley, 68 at the beach, 72 in Orange County.
Over the deserts, high desert at 68, 10 degrees warmer in the low desert, a pair of 5s in
the mountains, and lots of rain as we put the map in motion.
In the East, the hot weather is going to be touching off a lot of thunderstorm activity
in the Mississippi Valley.
Over the shoulder, the nation's interior looking very dry tomorrow and slowly starting to warm
up, but these troughs of low pressure in the West are going to keep a lot of moisture to
our North.
Pleasant conditions for us, but fall-like.
Be looking for the morning clouds to only give us partly cloudy conditions in the afternoon
and some very cool temperatures as well.
Clear and cool in 56 tonight.
Next five days look this way.
We're going to have those partly cloudy conditions, at least for the next three.
Sunny skies return on Tuesday with a high of 76, maybe going up to 78 degrees and it
looks like our first weekend of fall is going to be just what the season ordered.
Hope you and the family have yourself a good, safe weekend if you're planning any traveling
around.
The only concern I have tonight, I just hope our buddy Tony does not hit one of them CHP
checkpoints because with all the way he smells now, they're not going to even ask him if
he had anything to drink.
Never mind.
Thanks, Kevin.
Tony Hernandez is next with a big night in sports.
The Angels come from behind to clinch the Western Division Championship.
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Tony Hernandez is in the middle of all the celebrating out of the big A in Anaheim.
Now, with all the champagne and that microphone, Tony, be careful.
You could get a nasty electrical shock, you know that.
I'm trying, but we're walking on dangerous and very wet ground here, but for very good
reason.
The Angels are American League Western Division champions for the third time.
And one of the many heroes in tonight's 8-3 victory is center fielder Gary Pettis.
It was 2-0 going into that sixth inning.
And who comes up and knocks one out of the yard but Gary Pettis?
Did you ever imagine that you would start the rally like that?
Not at all.
My job is just to get on base, and at that time I was trying to get on base anywhere
I could, and he hung a breaking ball and I hit it well, and I hit it good enough for
it to be a home run.
This is a lot of fun in here tonight.
Has it really sunk in for you yet?
I don't think so.
I think tomorrow we all realize what we have accomplished, and we're going to try and build
on what we've already done and go into Boston with the head of steam and try and put them
out of their misery.
Gary, how important was it to take the Rangers out in the first game and not have to worry
about it for the other two games in this series against them, or for the rest of the season
for that matter?
Well, I think all the guys would have been a little disappointed had we not won tonight.
We've had that kind of ball club where we know if we get behind by a few runs it's never
over until the last out is made, and we have a great ball club, we have a lot of depth
and a lot of talent, and Gene isn't afraid to go to anyone at any particular time.
Gary, thank you very much.
Congratulations to you, and we look forward to the series for the league championship
against Boston.
Go get dry and change your clothes if you can.
All right, thank you.
All right, let's take a look at the highlights.
There was no score until the third inning.
John Candelaria, who turned out to be the winning pitcher, was on the mound for the
Angels tonight.
And here in the third, a base hit by Toby Herra just down the line past a diving Wally
Joyner makes it 1-0.
Then Scott Fletcher will make it 2-0 going the opposite way himself, just past a diving
Bobby Gritch.
Candelaria had nine strikeouts tonight, and there's one of them finally in that sixth
inning with the score 2-0.
There's Pettis, there's that home run that makes it 2-1.
He got it all, huh?
And now Brian Downing up, hitting the first of his two home runs tonight.
That puts the Angels ahead to stay, 3-2, but they weren't done.
They got three home runs in this sixth inning.
Here's George Hendrick getting in his home run, and that makes the score 4-2.
And then in the very next inning, the seventh, it's Brian Downing again, hitting his 20th
home run of the season, his second of the night.
And that puts the game out of reach.
And here's the final out, Donnie Moore in relief, getting the strikeout to end it.
And the emotion erupted on the field, the fans poured onto the field, the Angels, Western
Division champions, the American League for the third time.
And they will go on to play the Boston Red Sox for the American League Championship.
That'll score 8-3.
And here were some more of the feelings after the game.
All right.
I like it.
We're on.
That's us.
It was about 8.58, and Gene Mark came up to me and said, well, when are we going to get
them?
And I said 9 o'clock.
And at 9.03, Gary Fetters hit the home run.
And from 9 o'clock until 10 o'clock, we scored eight runs.
And came up on top tonight, huh?
And that's the game.
A lot of people say we're lucky.
I think we're just prepared for the opportunities we get.
This is your goal.
You know, you want to get to the World Series, but you can't get to the World Series without
doing this.
And this is the first step.
And it's just great.
I'm proud to be part of this club.
I'll say I'm celebrating for farther on down the road.
I've been to the Division Championship a few times.
And that's great.
But it's not as sad as it's sad to be out there.
And I'm proud to be part of this club.
I'm proud to be part of this club.
And it's satisfying that we're going a little farther.
You know, there's still business to take care of.
When?
Tonight.
Yeah, they're partying tonight, but there is more business to take care of.
And the Angels will start preparing for that tomorrow as they prepare for the American
League Championship Series.
This is Tony Hernandez, reporting live in a very happy Angels locker room at the Big
A. Paula, Dan, back to you.
Thanks a lot, Tony.
And I don't have to worry about magic numbers anymore, do I?
Not until next season.
There's still a lot more ahead.
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Japanese Prime Minister Nakasone today apologized for remarks he made regarding the intelligence
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and tonight it is official. William Rehnquist is the Supreme Court's 16th Chief Justice.
He was sworn in today by retiring Chief Justice Warren Burger. Also sworn in today, Antonin
Scalia, the first Italian ever to sit on the Supreme Court. Both men are staunch conservatives
and praised by President Reagan for their doctrine of judicial restraint. And tonight
there was an historic unveiling at Loyola Law School, the first publicly displayed sculpture
in Southern California by Klaus Oldenburg and his wife, Cusa Van Bruggen, was dedicated.
Toppling ladder with spilling paint leans on one leg as if waiting to fall. Some Loyola
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They say they're honoring this man, Frank Gehry, who is the architect of this building.
He was prevented from placing a falling column near the same spot where the sculpture now
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of Frank Gehry. Thanks, Paula. We'll be back with more after this.
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In case you missed it and I don't think you could have, the Angels win at 8-3. They won
the division championship.
Tony was celebrating right out there with them. Look how he was having a great time.
You don't have to worry anymore about those magic numbers. That's Channel 2 News tonight.
Thanks for watching. Have a good weekend.
Good night.
We'll be right back.
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