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We're celebrating Puffy the Weather Dog's second annual birthday bash and bark-off at
Bassett Center, Saturday, April 26th.
Prizes valued at over $1,000 will be awarded in three separate contests.
Boys and girls 12 and under can make Puffy a birthday hat.
Every age is invited to enter their pet in the Pet Parade Costume Contest and bark-off.
All contestants will enjoy Puffy's birthday party featuring a Cox's birthday cake and
drinks from the Coca-Cola Bottling Company.
It's all at Bassett Center, Saturday, April 26th.
PDBC-TV, Channel 4, El Paso.
This is Big Four Weekend News with John Convoy, Bill Peterson with sports, and Gail Gordon
with AccuWeather.
Well, the question of the day is where were you during the blizzard of 1980?
Most El Pasoans were shocked when they awoke this morning to find the largest amount of
snow on the ground ever in the month of April.
The last time we had any snow in April was in 1909.
So far, two inches have fallen across the city and the temperature last night got down
to 31 degrees.
That also is a record.
The severe weather has caused damage all across the city of El Paso as we hear in this multi-part
report.
The winds over here on the west side have been gusting to almost 70 miles per hour,
making power outages a serious problem.
In fact, I can hardly even see to do this report.
Behind me, the electric company crews are working furiously trying to restore power
to the west side.
Other parts of the city reported momentary power problems throughout the night, but the
west side of the city up to Canyon Tion Anthony suffered major outages after it began snowing
around 4 o'clock this morning.
This is part of the problem here.
You see the ice collects up on here, makes the lines heavier, and makes it a lot easier
for the wind to bring them down.
Look at this.
All the way up.
He followed all the way up there.
See how much thicker it gets up there?
The top half of that pole up there is shredded, just broken off right in half.
All right, you can see the series of poles up here, the 5000 lock of Mesa, have all been
shredded.
You can see in here that these power lines have pulled this wall here.
This pole right here has been split right in half.
All these lines and the associated transformers and equipment have been thrown on the ground
and destroyed.
This morning for about four hours, traffic was stopped coming up Mesa in this area because
there were live power lines stretching across the street.
This is really unexpected.
No one would have perceived just a couple of days ago that this would have been possible.
Phyllis Winter is one of the few women working on the lines, and even she will put in a full
day.
How do you like doing this kind of work, Phyllis?
I love it.
Even on days like today?
Even on days like today.
Oh, that wind is something else.
I'm beginning to regret the 30 pounds that I lost.
The job comes first.
My 17-year-old has the responsibility of taking care of the rest of the kids.
That makes it a little bit easier.
Electric company officials expect to have power restored to the west side by tonight.
Tricia Miller, Big Four News.
Although this morning's snowfall was not cold enough to stick to the roadways, it did cause
a slight delay in most areas of transit.
Traffic around the city for the most part was moving swiftly except for this traffic
tie-up on the Spaghetti Bowl.
Meanwhile, traffic in West El Paso was congested at Mesa and Shadow Mountain streets where
that power outage caused traffic control lines to malfunction.
Bus service to the city was running about five minutes behind schedule.
Likewise, air traffic was delayed somewhat as pilots sought alternate routes trying to
avoid the snow.
Albuquerque and El Paso are forecasting for chance of lightning this afternoon.
At about noontime, truckers and other travelers made their way back to the highways and were
reminded to have a good day.
Carlo Rivas, Big Four News.
Today's freak snowstorms even took farmers by surprise.
So far it's not known if there's any damage to the crops in the upper and lower valleys.
However, farmers are concerned over tonight's predicted temperatures.
The lows tonight for the valley areas are expected to dip way below the freezing mark,
and that means possible crop damage.
Many of the crops such as chili and cotton are at an infant stage.
Cold weather and increased amounts of precipitation prevent the seedlings from growing.
That would mean replanting and huge losses.
I think we're going to run some risk, for example, in wheat.
Some of the wheat and barley is in the boot stage, and if we get a freeze in this boot
stage, though I'm not experienced in this particularly, but I do know that we stand
a good chance of having a reduced yield in both wheat and barley.
If it stays 25 degrees for an hour or so, there may be a lot of them survive.
If it's an extended cold period like 12 o'clock till 6 o'clock in the morning, I wouldn't
look for anything to survive.
For those of you who have gardens in your backyard, horticulturists say to cover your
plants with newspaper or plastic.
These act as a source of insulation.
But fruit on trees and vines such as peaches and grapes will probably be lost.
Bernie Meek, Big Four News.
Across the border in Juarez, the situation was similar.
As we hear in this report from Art Olivas.
Electric and telephone service in Juarez was disrupted when lines were torn down by the
wind.
Intersections in the city snarled because traffic lights weren't working and streets
flooded with water from the melted snow.
However, the persons most affected by the storm were the poor dwellers of the colonias
who have neither gas nor electrical service.
A sudden cold sent them scurrying to distributors of kerosene for heating fuel.
But the majority of those distributors weren't open for business.
So the people heated their tin shacks by burning cardboard and stray pieces of lumber.
By midday, many kerosene outlets had opened their doors and lines of people formed hoping
to get some of the precious fuel before it ran out.
Police in Juarez say they have no reports of fatalities attributed to the weather, but
they also say that the expected freeze tonight could change all that.
Art Olivas, Big Four News.
Because of the severe weather, the following activities have been canceled.
The Sleda FAA fund, Vival Paso auditions, Bowlathon for Retarded Citizens, Washington
Park Senior Citizens Dance, Ladies Oriental Shrine Installation, Sunland Park Racing,
Dioplos Baseball Game, and the Westside Gibson's Department Store and Cashway Building supplies
are both closed.
This list represents those that have called us.
If you are planning on attending a function in the city, check out the website at www.cbs.gov.
Channel 4 advises you to call before leaving the safety of your home.
Here we'll have more about the weather later in the broadcast.
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The Greyhounds tear around the track in 13 races each Wednesday through Sunday night,
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Join in the action with Paramutuel Bedding, Quinella's, Exactus, and two big queues nightly.
Enjoy the fun, the food, and the fast excitement at the most exciting show around, nighttime
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That forest fire in Cox Canyon, eight miles east of Cloudcroft, has been extinguished
by the same storm which dumped five to seven inches of snow here in El Paso.
150 firefighters have been battling the 50-acre fire, which investigators say was probably
started accidentally.
But the storm came in overnight and killed the blaze with an eight to 10-inch snowfall
in that area.
A federal judge in Houston yesterday handed a one-year sentence to a former policeman
convicted in the 1977 beating and drowning of Joe Campos Torres, who had been arrested
for drunkenness.
Lewis Glenn Kenney had gone to trial with three other policemen, but his prosecution
was severed from the others.
He was sentenced after pleading guilty to the misdemeanor civil rights violation by
assaulting Torres.
Torres' body had been found floating in the Buffalo Bayou May 8, 1977.
Investigators said he was arrested at a bar May 5, became violent, was beaten, and either
fell or was pushed into the bayou where he drowned.
The three other policemen were convicted of felony civil rights violations in the incident
and are serving sentences at a minimum security federal prison in Montgomery, Alabama.
It's called the Silent Killer.
For years, doctors thought its only victims were adults.
They now think as many as one out of every ten children may have high blood pressure.
Some of these children are learning to control their hypertension without drugs.
Frances Harden has a report on a blood pressure experiment at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Samantha Chait is getting ready to meditate, something she does twice a day.
But this is not a religious exercise.
Samantha is only 13, but she has high blood pressure, and she's controlling it without drugs.
By placing it on your ear, I can get your heart rate.
It's just going to count the blood as it pulses through the capillaries in your ear.
Dr. Mazek can tell immediately whether Samantha's meditation is lowering her blood pressure.
And in fact, it is.
She's controlled her blood pressure for almost a year by meditating at home and by avoiding salt.
Samantha is one of 55 kids from 10 to 19 who are part of the blood pressure experiment at Hopkins.
No one knows what causes high blood pressure that's not associated with a disease.
It is affected by how much salt you eat and how much you weigh.
Teressa Dredden's been in the program almost two years.
She's avoided all those teen delights such as Big Macs, potato chips, and pretzels.
She's lost 35 pounds, and she's dropped her blood pressure.
But this machine, which measures sound from the heart, shows that the walls of her heart are still abnormally thick,
a condition associated with high blood pressure.
You can't see or feel high blood pressure, and that's one reason the researchers decided against treating these youngsters with drugs.
Only about 60 to 70 percent of these children will go on and stay hypertensive as adults.
So we would be treating a large number who would really not need drug therapy later on, if we're in the study.
The Hopkins experiment is only two years old, too soon to tell if the results will be long-lasting.
The researchers, of course, hope they will be, and they also hope their work will lead to finding the cause of high blood pressure.
Frances Harden for CBS News, Baltimore.
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Hi, I'm Mike Walker, a Cornell High School junior. I've been doing some research on teenage alcoholism, and believe me, it's a problem.
If a kid ever comes up to you and says, I need help, I'm an alcoholic, don't laugh at him and tell him he's not.
He has nothing to lose by going to AA or the Council on Alcoholism to ask for help. If he isn't an alcoholic, he hasn't lost anything.
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Held for us General Manager Edward M. Slale takes a look at the problems of youth unemployment. Here's Viewpoint.
All over our country, the lack of job opportunities for youth is a serious problem, and it continues to grow.
One possible solution might be a subminimum wage for teenagers, which hopefully could help create jobs for young workers.
If this were a solution, perhaps it should be extended to cover other groups, such as women and minorities.
But before we endorse this proposal, let's take a look at who would benefit.
Employers would fill jobs now held by adults earning a fair wage with subminimum wage teenagers when vacancies did occur.
Replacing adults with teenagers may create more jobs for youth, but at whose expense?
The Cabo's beneficiaries, youth from low-income families, are in many cases supplementing their family income.
A subminimum wage would hurt their ability to meet soaring living costs.
A comprehensive report prepared by the Department of Labor and numerous independent studies concluded that there is no relationship
between minimum wages and youth unemployment. Low wages do not create additional jobs, and in the long run,
they lessen the number of jobs by decreasing purchasing power.
For these reasons, we strongly oppose the establishment of a subminimum wage.
No one, male or female, black or white, young or old, should be required to work for less than that adequate minimum wage.
Ideas expressed on Viewpoint are not necessarily those of KWBC-TV employees and sponsors.
Counterviews are invited.
Well, Bill, a big sports day. Any cross-country skiing done in El Paso today?
I wouldn't be surprised, but nobody, you know, powers out for so long, they get to phone calls.
A lot of local stuff counts for the day, but sports elsewhere in the country.
U.S. athletes will not be participating in the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow.
The United States Olympic Committee voted this afternoon to go along with President Carter's wishes
and boycott the Games to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Boycott passed by a vote of 1,604 to 797, better than a 2-1 margin.
The Committee did express hopes that if the international situation changes,
that they could still field a team for the Moscow Games.
And Spaniard Seve Ballesteros fired a 4-under-par today to give him a 3-round total of 13-under-par, 2-0-3,
and a 7-stroke lead in the 1980 Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta.
Ed Fiori is in second place after shooting a 69 today.
Today, Fiori said Ballesteros will be very hard to catch, quote, unless he breaks a leg.
No report yet from the Magnolia Classic in Mississippi or the LPGA American Defender Classic in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Well, the Milwaukee Bucks moved one step closer to unseating the defending champion Seattle SuperSonics last night.
And in hockey, the Blackhawks eliminated the St. Louis Blues from the Stanley Cup competition.
Richard Waldo has this report.
It was a double homecoming for the Bucks, returning to their home arena and their running game.
Dave Myers gets his own rebound for two, and when they didn't run, they moved the ball well.
This one's right off Don Nelson's chalkboard as Quinn Buckner shakes free for the baseline jumper.
And for individual effort, watch Marcus Johnson.
He had 16, and none were nicer than this move under the basket as the Bucks led 60 to 47 at the half.
Seattle was able to close the gap in the fourth.
Dennis Johnson goes behind his back to Johnny Johnson for the jumper, but they couldn't sustain the momentum.
Bob Lanier led Milwaukee with 24-2 on this beautiful roll around Jack Sigma.
No overtime this time. 95-91 Milwaukee. They lead the series two games to one.
In St. Louis, the Chicago Blackhawks eliminated the Blues from the Stanley Cup race 4-1.
Doug Lacouye opened the scoring in the first, converting a pass from Tim Higgins.
And in the second on the power play, Tom Lysiak wheeled down the ice and found Darrell Sutter on the right.
His bullet shot zipped past Mike Lute, 2-0.
Bob Murray iced it for Chicago in the third when he broke in all alone on Lute and put it home.
The teams traded late goals, but the Hawks won their third straight playoff game after 16 losses.
The final, 4-1. Richard Waldo for CBS News in Chicago.
The El Paso Diablos will not play tonight.
The game with Amarillo has been canceled because there's too much water on the field.
The Diablos will play their regular game tomorrow at 1-30 at Dudley Field.
On Monday they will play a doubleheader beginning at 6 p.m. and Monday night will also be 10-set hot dog night.
Well, by the way, WBC title holder Salvador Sanchez successfully defended his position today in Tucson, Arizona against challenger Ruben Castillo.
It was an evenly matched bout with both fighters showing superiority at one time or another.
Castillo took the early rounds, but Sanchez began to come back with counterpunching in round four.
In the sixth round, Sanchez was landing his right, which is one of his better punches.
Castillo began to show signs of tiring in the tenth, but in the eleventh round he had a spark of life with a series of flurries.
In the twelfth and the fifteenth, Sanchez was the clear aggressor, and although both fighters missed a lot, Sanchez still landed the greater number of punches.
The decision was unanimous in favor of Salvador Sanchez. Sanchez is wearing the wide trunks there.
And since the powerful U.S. swimming team cannot compete in Moscow in the Olympics, the next best thing is smashing a world record previously held by the Soviets.
Aubrey Dratey Gaines did just that last night in the U.S. Indoor Swimming Championships in Austin, Texas.
He covered the men's freestyle, the 200 meter, in 149.16 to break a previous mark held by a Russian.
And the Diet Pepsi 10,000 meter foot race was postponed today. The race was to start at the East Valley YMCA this morning.
The run will be rescheduled at a time to be announced later.
I think it's about every sporting event in El Paso was canceled today for obvious reasons.
Yeah, very obvious reasons. Nobody would have gone, can you imagine a 10,000 meter race in this kind of weather?
Rigid.
Yeah. Gaines says that the snow will be ending late tonight, but it's going to be very, very cold. She's next with AccuWeather.
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You know we've been telling you how everything is good and getting better at Corn Auto Bank. Well, it really is.
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The El Paso March of Dimes and Supreme Court present Dave Peck, the world's number two professional racquetball player
and 20 more top professionals in the first annual March of Dimes Supreme Court Racquetball Handball Tournament, April 17th through the 20th.
This tournament is open to all players in all divisions, from beginners to pros in all ages.
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Good evening. Well, it's snow joke. A freak spring storm dumped four to seven inches of snow in the area early this morning
with a foot in the higher elevation surrounding El Paso. AccuWeather tells us it's the most snow ever this late in the spring
and particularly for the month of April. Puff the Magic Weather Dog wearing her Wisconsin t-shirt underneath her ski parka.
That is to make all of our Wisconsin company and grandma and grandpa feel at home.
But Puffy, you didn't have to make them feel so much at home that you brought the snow from Wisconsin down here.
But Puffy, we really can't blame Puffy for the snow. We're going to take a look at the satellite picture
and see exactly why we got some snow in the surrounding areas and what the culprit really was.
Actually a very deep trough of low pressure that kind of met right in the El Paso area.
You see all that cloud cover, the satellite picture taken early this morning.
So that frontal system right now is to the east of us, actually in and around Brownsville.
And this trough deepened, the cold air came down from Canada, formed right over El Paso and dumped us with 4 to 7 inches
unofficial snow in the area, foot of snow in the surrounding mountainous areas.
And that cold air is going to stay around tonight. It's going to get below freezing, a very cold night for the area.
And it's going to take about a day or two before we're going to begin to warm up.
We're going to have some showers, area showers, snow flurries in the area, but that is moving eastward.
You can see a lot of rain in and around the Lone Star State tonight.
The frontal system now sweeping from Brownsville area in southern Texas all the way up into the eastern end of the Great Lakes.
And they're having some heavy rainfall amounts. Flash flood watches in effect from central east Texas on through the golf area
and all the way over into Georgia tonight.
Five inches of rain occurred in Louisiana today, three inches in New Orleans, nine inches of rain in northern Mississippi.
And that's all moving in an eastward direction along with some hail and very severe weather, a couple of tornadoes in Alabama today.
It was warm in the Florida Peninsula and cloudy up in Maine.
And then for the most part of the Great Lakes, partly cloudy skies, 20 to 30 degrees temperatures below normal throughout Kansas and Oklahoma tonight.
And high pressure will be dominating weather up in the Rockies, a very nice sunny warm day in throughout the west and California.
High pressure will be pushing into the familiar Four Corners area, warming us up by about Monday, but at least for tomorrow.
It's going to remain very windy, cold tonight and again tomorrow.
These are some current readings in the two state area, temperatures in the 30s and 40s in New Mexico.
We see some flurries in Lubbock, showers in the Midland area, very windy, cold throughout our area in west Texas tonight.
Rain extending all the way over into the Houston area and the warm spot at four o'clock down in Brownsville where it was 68 degrees
compared to very chilly 32 in Marfa.
And of course tonight going to be cloudy, windy with the rain and snow pushing eastward tomorrow, cloudy, chilly and breezy.
And we're going to see it warming up, actually see the clouds beginning to break up already in northern New Mexico.
Currently in Albuquerque, 44 under partly cloudy skies.
High today in the city of the sun. There wasn't much sun. The high was only 49 degrees.
We had a record low last night, 31, collected 29 one hundredths of an inch of precipitation, bringing our yearly total to one inch, eighty one hundredths.
Currently under cloudy skies at 39. The barometer is rising, winds rather east at 10, humidity 57 percent.
Tomorrow, well, it's going to be cold and cloudy in the morning.
Then we'll see the sun begin to break through. We're calling it partly cloudy and windy, winds about 10 to 20 miles per hour tomorrow.
A high near 60 overnight low tonight, a cold 28. Sunrise will occur at 540 tomorrow, sunset at 633.
In our AccuWeather 5 Day Outlook calling for windy and near 60, we hope tomorrow warming up to 75 on Monday, sunny and back in the 80s by the beginning and middle of the week.
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Dennis Cunningham will take a look at the Oscars tonight at 10 o'clock. Please join us then.
For now that's it for early news, sports and weather. Thank you for joining us. Have a good night.
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