This is KFMB-TV San Diego. News 8 at 5 with Hal Clement, Susan Peters, Lauren
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Good evening, our top story at 5 o'clock, another crash involving an American Eagle
commuter plane. American Eagle flight 3379 went down a short time ago near the
Raleigh-Durham International Airport in North Carolina. The Jetstream airplane
with 20 people on board crashed in a wooded area. Initial reports say there
are at least five survivors. We don't know yet about possible fatalities. The
temperature in the area was 37 degrees and it was raining at the time of the
crash. Now this of course is the second crash involving an American Eagle plane
in the past two months. In October, a crash in a different type of plane in
Indiana killed all 68 people on board. We are of course following the story very
closely and we'll have an update for you at 5 30. Well there's much happier news
here locally. All signs point to San Diego hosting the Republican National
Convention in 1996. And after coming so close back in 1972, San Diego looks to
be the big winner in 96. Let's go right to News 8's Carol Hassen to begin our
team-aid coverage of the GOP San Diego connection. Carol? Hi Hal and we chose to
stand here in front of the view that the city was trying to sell to the
Republican National Committee. The I's are not dotted, the T's are not crossed.
It is by no means a done deal. The city will have to raise 16 million dollars in
private donations. The contract has to be negotiated. The Republican National
Committee has to vote. But so far it looks like a go for San Diego. After
months of nail biting, the mayor of San Diego got the call. All I know is that
the chairman called me and said we want to negotiate a contract to come to San
Diego and that was good news. That was an understatement for San Diego which has
tried hard twice before in 1992 and 1972 and not won. The concern was always
based on how many people can you fit in one room for those for that one or two
important nights. So San Diego put on a show and used computer magic to convince
the site selection committee it could squeeze enough people in. The high-tech
helped persuade the Republican National Convention to come here. 40 million
dollars of direct visitors spending the week of the convention, two weeks prior to
the convention, 5,000 rooms or 50,000 room nights will be utilized by national
media coming in to set up early. For a city that counts on tourism, it is an
economic and public relations bonanza, a week-long commercial to the world. San
Diego happens to be the nation's sixth largest city. San Diego is not sure. The
rest of the country knows. Every time we succeed in San Diego, somebody says well
does this put San Diego on the map? Let me tell you San Diego is on the map, has
been on the map for a long time and we will continue to be on the map.
Republicans are hoping to get on the map that year in California with its 54
electoral votes. If the Republican National Committee gives the final okay,
it will be the first Republican convention in California in 30 years.
And the mayor says that she will meet members of the committee halfway in
Chicago as early as next week to begin those contract negotiations and the full
Republican National Committee will vote in January. Back to you Susan. And Carol,
if this does in fact go through, how many people are we really expecting and
what kind of people are they? This may surprise you. They're talking about 35,000
people. Only 5,000 of those people are delegates. Now some are family members
but most of the rest of those people are members of the news media and they were
very concerned about the amount of media workspace here because as you know, those
if those people are not happy how they can grumble. They sure can, I know. Thanks
Carol. Those media people think a lot of space. At San Diego's Carol mentioned
third chance for a big boost in the economy after having hearts broken in
1972 and 92. If the Republican convention does in fact come to America's
finest city, GOP will mean green in our pockets. News 8's Graham Ledger in the
newsroom with more. That's right Hal, it'll mean millions and millions of
dollars. That's what thousands and thousands of Republicans, media and
others as we said coming here in August of 96 and they'll all be spending a lot
of money here. It's called Republican Red Ale. The beer of choice for Bob Dole.
Serving it all the way through continually through 1996. They're all
smiles here at riptides in the gas lamp. Certainly the gas lamp and business
community has been looking forward to and very supportive of getting that
convention in. It means an enormous amount of activity where the convention
center being a block away. A block away from a midsummer's gold mine. I think
it's gonna be filled up for about a month because all the staging that goes
on in advance and news media from all over the world come here. So it's a month
bang for us. It's big time. Big time for hotels too. We'll occupy about ten
straight days of our hotel being totally sold out where we've committed 95% of
our guest rooms to Republican National Convention. There'll be rooms with a view
of money for hotels citywide. They need like 136,000 total room nights for the
Republican National Convention to be successful. The convention will pump some
40 million dollars into the local economy. We'll get killed. Killed in a
positive way. Killed in a positive way. It's great for us. We'll do a lot of
business, a lot of sales. Anytime there is a convention down here in downtown,
business always always picks up. At Bayside Deli the convention is like
extra lettuce. It'll mean more green. Is there any downside to having thousands
of people around in this area? Not to me. Not as a manager of a deli. Not
only would it be a financial boost for the city but psychological as well. It
would exercise the demons of being passed over for such a convention some
20 years ago, prompting then mayor Pete Wilson to come up with the phrase
America's finest city. Now here's a chance to prove it. The business in that
start time period is fantastic and we certainly need it down here. Are
Republicans pretty good drinkers? I'm a very good drinker, yes. Thank you. So with
all the money windfall it'll be a public relations windfall as well which will in
turn mean even more money from even more visitors. With more on what the
convention will mean for San Diego's image, here's News 8's Chris Saunders.
Chris. And image is everything, Graham. Perception is, they say, it's a chance
for San Diego to shape its image on the world stage for a solid week. San Diego
has been in the national and the world spotlight before. We've hosted the
Super Bowl, the All-Star Game, the America's Cup, but we've never been in the
spotlight like a national political convention. One of the things about a
convention is it goes over a number of days and so the the attention is is not
just one event, one peak event, one peak moment. It's fairly constant. Look at
Houston in 92 and listen to what city fathers said after it was over. Most
people leave here thinking that Houston is an extremely friendly city, very
hospitable city. But look at Chicago in 68. The Democratic Convention that year
will always be remembered for the rioting, the way Chicago police bashed
heads. A convention can give a city a black eye too. The sort of annoyances
that come with conventions, demonstrations, and so forth. We see that
all the time. You would see that in any city. But Marco Walshach says if there
are demonstrations here over say the immigration issue, it's not like it
couldn't happen in the other cities. We'd see something like that if it was in
San Antonio. We would see something like that perhaps if we were in New Orleans,
which was the other possibility. So I don't really see those that sort of
thing really detracting it. What this really is, is a chance for San Diego to
shine, our beautiful beaches and palm trees. But mostly it's a chance to show
that San Diego is finally one of the big boys. That's why I think it's a make or
break event because the exposure that a high visibility, high attention event
like this can bring, not just to the traditional amenities of San Diego, but
to the region. Maybe the GOP convention will get rid of that little brother
complex that San Diego seems to have, you know where we jump up and down and
say look at us, look at us, we're big too. Chris Saunders in the Channel 8
newsroom. Okay, thank you Chris. LJ Simpson's lawyers want to cancel a
pretrial hearing on genetic evidence. They filed a motion today saying an
evidence hearing would deny Simpson his right to a speedy trial. Instead they
want the genetic evidence presented to the jury and they want to start opening
arguments on January 4th. In a San Diego courtroom, a preliminary hearing for a
man accused of beating two elderly women to death. We cannot show you Philip
Jackson's face. One of his alleged victims was 87 year old Rena DeGeorge,
who was found in her home badly beaten. Her nose was broken and it was pushed up
to her eye. She had blood, dried blood in her ears. Jackson is also charged with
severely injuring a third woman. His lawyers say he wasn't in the area when
the attacks happened. The hearing will continue tomorrow. More information is
coming out today about the last hours in the life of a Tijuana woman who came to
San Ysidro to get an abortion. Medical staffers at a South Bay Hospital are
very upset about the condition Magdalena Rodriguez was in as she arrived at their
emergency room. News 8's Jody Hammond's been following the story. She has the
latest for us. And how Rodriguez had gone to the El Norte Clinic the day
before she died to begin the two-part procedure necessary for a late-term
abortion. She told the doctor she was 22 weeks pregnant. There's disturbing
evidence to indicate she was much farther along. The baby was too far along
for an abortion. It was murder. Paula is a nurse at Scripps Hospital Chula Vista
where Magdalena Rodriguez died last Thursday night. Paula isn't her real
name. She agreed to speak to us only if we kept her identity to ourselves. She's
haunted by the death of Rodriguez. Rodriguez who lived in Tijuana had gone
to the El Norte Clinic in a San Ysidro shopping center. The 23 year old mother
of one had a thousand dollars cash to pay for the abortion. Are some women
charged a thousand dollars for the more complicated late-term abortion? Yes
absolutely. And how far into the pregnancy were abortions performed then? It
depended on the doctor. I never asked him you know how big they were like on her
chart. I remember I had written down that her last menstrual period was 22 weeks
ago and I put a question mark beside it okay because that's what she told me. It
wasn't a 22-weeker. It wasn't a 26-weeker. The estimate of most of the people that
saw it was between 30 and 34 weeks. Which would make this an illegal abortion?
Illegal all the way. Abortions are legal up until the 24th week through the
second trimester of pregnancy. After that only if the mother's life is in danger.
But in Mexico abortions are completely illegal so Mexican women often cross
the border in desperation. At Woman Care South a clinic was 40% Mexican
clientele. A woman's story is medically verified before an abortion is
performed. They're willing to lie about their period and about the month of
weeks that she's pregnant so I'm not amazed that there are women out there
that are trying to get abortion this late. Dr. Shuresh Gandotra who performed
the abortion hasn't been at the clinic since last week. His lawyer says he's
devastated by Rodriguez's death. Rodriguez was brought here to the
emergency room at Scripps Hospital Chula Vista. Paramedics were administering CPR
as they arrived and things didn't look good. She was rushed into emergency
surgery, a hysterectomy, and she was pronounced dead five hours after
arriving at the hospital. But according to Paula who was working that night
doctors and nurses were horrified at the condition of both Rodriguez and the
fetus. A very painful death for the baby and the mother. We've done you know
DFCs on women who've come in the emergency room who have had abortions
who have not stopped bleeding but nothing. I've never seen anything like
this. Never. I don't want to again. An investigator from the state attorney
general's office visited the clinic this afternoon and the state medical board is
also looking into the case. But the clinic remains open and tomorrow Dr.
Gandotra has abortions scheduled. Jody do they know exactly what caused the death
again? What was the cause of death? Well according to Gandotra's attorney it was
a perforated uterus but as far as the coroner's concerned those results on the
autopsy won't be available until at least the end of this week possibly next week.
Alright thanks Jody. Still ahead on News 8 tonight a warning about speeding
tickets in Mission Beach and you don't even have to be behind the wheel of a
car. We'll explain next. Also ahead it might be maybe the ultimate gift for the
person who has everything. Find out about a wristwatch that costs as much as a
house. Then later we'll have this. Does an emergency veterinary clinic have an
obligation to treat an injured animal even though the owners don't have the
money to pay? I'm Chris Saunders. We'll have that emotional story coming up later
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Slow down. That's the message of the San Diego City Council ascending to the
hundreds of thousands of people who use the Mission Beach Boardwalk. The council
has approved an eight mile an hour speed limit. It's all to improve safety
especially during the heavy summer crowds. New signs should be installed by
April. Hal. A 14-month-old San Marcos boy is back at home tonight safe and sound
after a frightening accident nearly took his life. Gabriel Austin had been
playing near some vertical blinds. He fell right into a loop formed by the
cord and Gabriel was strangling. I walked into the kitchen, looked across the room
and I saw him hanging with his arms outstretched like this from the the
vertical blind cord and I just ran over picked him up yelled to everybody I
don't know I kind of screamed and yelled I told my daughter call 911 and I
started CPR right away. Well again as you can see Gabriel is just fine and a
news hit at 630 you will hear that dramatic 911 call for help. The fire
department says there is a real lesson to be learned from a fire that gutted a
lakeside daycare center. The six children inside made it out okay but as
Ryan Baker reports the center which is also a home is a total loss. After a
night with almost no sleep Doris Bloomberg began the heart-wrenching task
of looking at the charred remains of her home and daycare center. Many of the
priceless possessions lost belonged to her husband who passed away two years
ago. I have all his memorabilia and my mother died at the same time I have a
lot of her things and that a lot of that has been destroyed there are some a few
things that are are still intact so I'm just grateful for the few things but
they're material things and my main concern is the children. Those being the
six children who escaped the Monday afternoon fire at her daycare center. The
fire was caused by too many Christmas lights strung together. Two of her
grandchildren were there at the time. Brennan Bloomberg was able to save one
of his three cats. He had to have oxygen all over him because he was like this
with the paws on him because smoke was getting in him really happy because he
was the only one that survived. Little Blake Bloomberg was happy about finding
more of his Power Ranger toys. My Power Ranger Nintendo game. The fire was
believed to have been started in this corner. The extension cord from the
Christmas lights was plugged in here and this nearby stack of magazines and
newspapers was ignited by the sparks from the overloaded wires. The insurance
company adjuster says the total amount of loss to the Bloomberg home could
easily be $200,000. The candy cane. Other daycare providers have agreed to take on
Bloomberg's children until she could get back on her feet, which she hopes will be
soon. I do have a garage in the back. Hopefully we can use licensing approves
that. Ryan Baker News 8 Lakeside. The San Diego Armed Services YMCA sorted
special holiday treats today. Volunteers and staff gathered toys and food today
to prepare hundreds of baskets for needy military men and their families. This is
the eighth year they've passed out the baskets. If you want to donate, contact
your nearest Armed Services YMCA. Elementary students from Santa Cedro
sorted through stacks of socks today. It's all part of Saint Vincent de Paul's
holiday program for the homeless. Teachers say students donated their
time instead of food money, and they told the kids to remember one thing.
Sure, there's no mismatched socks. Christmas, which comes true for a
special Santa Cedro family. A grandmother with almost nothing took in her three
grandchildren after their mother died in August. Then the Bravo program and
factory outlet adopted the family, and today they got a special gift. New
furniture, tables, chairs, and a sofa was given to them. They even got a special
treat, as you just saw, their very own Christmas tree. Nice story. Now if you're
the type of person who likes throwing around your hard-earned cash, we may have
a gift item just for you. The Grand Complication wristwatch goes for $175,000.
You heard right. Currently only two watches like this in the country, the
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It's a chronograph recording hours, minutes, and seconds. It also tells you
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To enter your mailbox press pound. Please enter your mailbox number. Ready. I'm
assuming there's going to be a lot of voicemail about the chargers but
mm-hmm that's just an assumption. Well there is time does not permit me to play
at all. Unless you want me to take the rest of the newscast. They can call this the
the 5 p.m. voicemail but they don't they call the 5 p.m. news so I have a very
small segment which is certainly justifiable. I don't tell the producers
that but that's that's the the deal. Yes many of you have been calling and saying
for the first time in my memory give it to those chargers give it to them they
stay. I thought nine and five. If I told you before the year they were gonna be
nine and five going into Christmas you'd say oh take that so chill. I don't want
to hear it. I'll be the one criticizing you don't need to tell me to criticize
him. Please. Voicemail let us begin. A lot of people feel that Stan Humphreys
should be left out of the game. He throws nothing but interceptions for the past
three games. He is playing injured and he sucks. We don't want him in there anymore.
Henriksen I talked about this that forever whoever is the starter the
most listen to Dan Fouts the other the fans are always clamoring for the other
guy. It's always you can move to a different bed in the hospital then you
could get better. It's the same thing. It's the other guy would do better. So
Gilbert comes in who people thought was nothing and throws a touchdown.
No leave him in he's much better. If he was better than Humphreys he'd be a
starter but he's not. He's a traditional and long-term journeyman backup guy.
That's dumb. I know you're frustrated but that's dumb to think put in a guy who's
not as talented as Humphreys. Now if Stan isn't physically able to play then
you're right but if he says he is then you have to think that he is. So there
you have it. Can I adjust the lights here a little bit?
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to make sure that I had it adjusted. This is a little bit too bright up here so I
just yes next. I don't know what's wrong with me but I just love that dance that
Deion Sanders does in the end zone. If you're in a good mood that day tomorrow
something would you show it one more time and you're really looking great
lately. Did you have a facelift or lose weight or something? You look good. I've had
that I've had. Have you had a facelift? Are you dying? Are you sick? No I went on a
diet and started working out and after my surgery in August as an impetus to
start it so I didn't have a facelift but I would if I could extend this career like one
day I would get a facelift. People actually called and liked this
Deion Sanders thing. I mean Junior Sayo maybe he's right he's oh it's
entertainment we're entertainers out there. No you're not you're football
players. I want a dancer I go see somebody dance. Look at this bozo. I wish
somebody would have come up to him just Harry Swain there 72 and just smacked
him and knocked him right on his butt while he was dancing and and many of you
must have been 49er fans thought that was neat. I mean how does that to be how
is that neat to show up the opposition and dance after a touchdown. Where does
dancing come in? I just I must I just missed it. It is so dumb. And the guys got
you know shoe ads and millions of dollars and what do we know you know. Any
any are we done? We done? No? One more?
Is that creepy to have on your show tonight from the Chargers? He's just jealous of Deion.
If Deion feels you want to entertain by dancing so be it okay. You should know that's Deion's style and let it be. They just got beat and accepted.
See that was that was for oh what's his name Hendrickson who said that Neon Deion is a jerk and Steve was totally accurate because he is in fact a jerk.
Don't believe me ask the Falcon players his teammates and who had to put up with him and the man abides by only his rules and leaves his baseball team in the middle of a playoff to go play football.
When he said he wouldn't do it the man has no integrity and based on that people got to be 49er fans defend dancing when you're already winning and beating the other team.
Yo yo. Isn't it against the rules or is it just spiking? You can't you can spike the ball you can't do what do they call it in the rules a technical.
Tontan. Yeah an orchestrated you can't taunt and you can't have an orchestrated group dance. Oh I see. But if they think it's kind of spontaneous and all that then they allow that. Then it's alright.
And I used to complain about spiking now. Yeah really. They're being so creative don't be creative just play football.
Alright thanks dad. She brought him into this world he gave her the gift of life. Straight ahead on News 8CY this is going to be an extra special holiday for a local mom and her son.
Plus we'll have an update on that plane crash in North Carolina along with this coming up.
I'm Hank Bauer I'm at the Charger Blood Drive in Mission Valley I was supposed to have the Charger girls with me but well it's not the first time I've been stood up in my life.
I promise you I'll be right back with Stan Humphries and the story here at the Charger Blood Drive.
Coming up on the CBS Evening News he's so excited about his new job he plans to sleep on the floor of his office.
He's a new congressman. Eye on America later on the CBS Evening News.
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Mickey Rooney's playing Santa this season so let the battle of the Saint Dix begin.
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Rescue crews are now on the scene of an American Eagle commuter plane that's crashed in Raleigh, North Carolina. Let's go to Mitch Duncan in the newsroom with the very latest.
Well Susan, an American Eagle plane, a Jetstream Flight 3379, has gone down on a flight from Greensboro to Raleigh-Durham in a wooded area.
It went down southwest of the Raleigh-Durham Airport with 18 passengers on board and a crew of two. The weather, 37 degrees in fog and rain.
There was one report, at least five people have survived, but another report, at least 10 people have been killed. The FAA confirms those fatalities.
We now have an interview with a fire official from North Carolina.
Right now we're mobilizing a rescue effort to go through everything we've got here, try to find any survivors. Everybody who is here, we're trying to move them out.
We've got a pretty large effort mobilized as far as law enforcement, emergency medical services and fire personnel.
We're continually calling more fire personnel in to go through the area. Hopefully we'll know some real good specifics in just a few minutes.
We've had a couple ambulances leave the area.
Again, Flight 3379, an American Eagle plane with 18 passengers on board, a crew of two went down this afternoon in North Carolina.
At least five people survived, at least 10 people have been killed. We'll have more information as it becomes available.
I'm Mitch Duncan, live in the Channel 8 Newsroom.
Thanks Mitch.
Does an emergency veterinary clinic have an obligation to treat an injured animal if the owners don't have the money to pay?
That's a question one San Diego couple faced through a very emotional evening last night. We get more now from News 8's Chris Saunders.
This is hard time. He's a part Chihuahua, part pit bull who was badly injured last night in a fight with two much larger pit bulls.
He was treated by veterinarian Robert Johnson at Colina Veterinary Hospital.
He's got punctures on both sides, punctures back into the spine here.
But earlier, hard time's owners had taken him to the emergency animal hospital in Mission Valley where they said hard time couldn't be treated because they didn't have $400 up front.
Basically that's what it was. It was all financial. They told us we didn't have any money, that it was nothing they could do.
I feel very heartbroken and like if they didn't care and they were just out for the money and not for the sake of hard time.
Our policy is that all of our users pay fees at the time of services.
But emergency hospital administrator Paul Cervone says they did examine and stabilize hard time before they told his owners how much treatment would cost.
I think they have the sense that they were turned away. They maybe have that sense. They weren't.
We were giving them the options that we had available for them and it was really up to them to make a decision.
The dog fight happened near here at 41st and Hilltop.
County Animal Control tracked down the two owners of the two different pit bulls and cited them both.
Misdemeanor violations for failing to protect the public from dogs.
No movement in any of his feet. No pain sensation.
As for hard time, he suffered spinal cord damage and his back legs are paralyzed.
So Michelle Carter may have a difficult decision to make.
I love him. I'm going to miss him if I have to put him to sleep. I don't want to but I refuse to see him suffer.
Chris Saunders, News 8.
A very joyful homecoming today for a San Diego woman.
65-year-old Valeriana Hurl left the hospital today, less than one week after her kidney transplant.
You'll recall that Hurl got her new kidney from a very special donor, her own son.
Today Hurl was bubbling with excitement.
This is a big miracle. It's the biggest Christmas present I ever had in my life.
Hurl says she can't wait to get better so she and her husband can go fishing again.
Isn't that a great story? Every time you hear about it, it makes you feel good.
If you hurry, you still have time to make it to the 16th annual Chargers Blood Drive.
It is the biggest single-day blood donor event in the country.
Some of the Chargers have been at the Town and Country Convention Center all day and our Hank Bauer is there right now.
16 years, Hurl? I'm feeling older. I'm not feeling much balder. I look like this way back when.
But yeah, this is the 16th year. It all started way back in 1979 when Ralph Banerska got sick.
They put a call out for help and San Diego certainly responded.
The team has always gotten behind this event and it continues to get behind this event.
Joining me now is Stan Humphries, the Chargers quarterback.
Stan, this is your day off, but it's pretty nice you guys have come down, especially these days.
Yeah, with the way things have been going the last three, four, five weeks, it's tough to come out.
Everybody wants to ask questions and wants to find out what's going on.
But for something like this, as special as this is, I've got no problem with it.
I've sat down for a couple hours already signing autographs out there and I'll be in the fashion show tonight.
This thing here is something that's special and I'm proud that the Chargers are really behind it as much as we are.
Well, thanks for joining us and thanks for coming here. I know the fans are enjoying your company.
Are you going to win this game Sunday? Come on, bring it home.
I'm not going to make a Joe Namath prediction, but we feel like we didn't play well Sunday,
but we felt like we got a lot of confidence there in the second half offensively, so we can carry that over this week.
All right, well good luck. Bring it home. Stan Humphries joining us.
Of course, this will be going on until 7 o'clock when the fashion show starts and supposedly the blood drawing stops.
The good news is I've not seen Tom Cruise or Brad Pitts here, so I guess they're drawing blood the conventional way.
It's a party. Town and Country Convention Center, Hank Bauer, Stan Humphries, back to you, Hal.
Only Hank would say something like that, wouldn't he? Just Hank.
Reaching out to the youngest generation, that's what was going on in Golden Hill today.
News 8's John Kalia with the story of five young men learning how to be role models.
When my little sister saw me riding my skateboard, she said, me too.
Robert Rush, a senior from Morse High encouraging youngsters at San Diego School of Success.
His name was Tyrone, Tyrone the horrible. What kind of present could he give Tyrone?
Lonnie Bergeron, also of Morse High's Gentlemen of Quality Club, showing youngsters the importance of reading.
The morning was special and so was the night before.
Rush, number 35, and Bergeron, number 22, making a tackle for Morse High's Championship Tigers.
A pressure game, but nothing like a room full of four-year-olds.
Here you are all by yourself and the kids, you know, you've got to tell them to settle down, sit down.
They'll tear you up, huh? Yeah, they will.
I feel for these teachers, but you know, I also respect them.
Every reading is special, some perhaps more interesting than others, but you quickly learn something.
You guys know this by heart, don't you? Yeah.
Other Morse students taking part, Marcus Brady, Lamar Selman, and Antrel Crockett, who has big plans.
Wake Forest University, that's, you know, North Carolina psychiatry, PhD, MD, you know.
You've got big plans. Yeah, big money plans too, but you know, this is what, you know, this is what it's really all about though.
The game of football for Lonnie Bergeron, number 22, was this nifty tackle.
He's part of a championship team, and the next day he was a star in the game of life.
John Kalieha, News 8, Golden Hill.
Up next, Lauren has our midweek forecast.
Some dramatic video shot off the coast of Southern California.
All-D Weather, just ahead.
Remember the thrill of your first electric train?
For a lot of us, this is the time of year when Dixieland becomes one big toy store with grown-up toys.
Like these professional quality Bosch tools.
Select the detail sander for only $69.
The world-class jigsaw for $149.
Or the 12-volt cordless drill kit for only $169.
So make tracks for your nearest Dixieland home center, where value hits home.
A yellow fable, the Earl and the spark plug.
Earl, a good man in other respects, thought all yellow pages were the same.
And so, picking the one with very few ads and auto parts, he went to the first store listed and got the wrong spark plug for his DeSoto.
As a result, he missed his own wedding.
This enraged his fiance, who said, I'm enraged, Earl!
He gave back his ring but kept the cap, which Earl was rather fond of.
Earl's father, who'd counted on Earl III, disinherited Earl, leaving him only the DeSoto and the 50 Morrow.
For more ads and more choices, Earl, shop only in the Pacific Bell Smart Yellow Pages.
The work week.
It's where we meet the world in full stride, with a week full of jobs and a truck full of opportunities.
And there's one pickup that's perfect for a week like this.
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With the muscle of the most powerful diesel pickup engine ever.
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And a full payload of our legendary toughness.
More reasons why Ford F-Series is the best selling truck 17 years running.
And that's a lot of work weeks.
It's hard to believe it's been over 40 years since my father opened Jerome's Furniture as a discount warehouse.
We've gone through a lot of changes and growth over those 40 years.
And we're not through yet.
At Jerome's, our goal is to provide you with fashionable, quality furniture at an affordable price.
And we're constantly updating our selection to improve it.
And thanks to you, Jerome's is the number one retailer in San Diego.
Our commitment to you is great value selection and customer service.
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I think you'll be surprised.
Was I the only person that was really cold today?
It was very cold.
As a matter of fact, when I was driving to work around Kearney Mace, it was 59 degrees.
So that's...
For here, that's cold.
Yeah, that's not a warm afternoon temperature.
If you told somebody back in New York City that, they'd be pleased to move here.
They don't need to.
We had a little rain in San Diego today.
For the most part, a tenth of an inch or less.
A couple of places have picked up more than a tenth.
That would be Fallbrook, 11 100s.
And up at Mount Laguna, they picked up about a third of an inch.
Everywhere else, less than a tenth of an inch.
But it was nice to see some clouds out there for a change.
We've still got some of them hanging around with us.
56 degrees in San Diego right now.
Relative humidity is 75 percent.
The winds from the northwest, the barometer right there in the fair range.
3.0.12.
Again, temperatures today along the coast very much like they were yesterday.
That is the low to mid 60s.
Inland, it was a bit cooler than yesterday.
Only into the very low 60s.
Some places stayed in the 50s like Alpine and Ramona.
For example, in Mount Laguna, they only made it to 34 degrees.
When you look around the rest of the country, here's what you see.
Temperatures in the 30s through the Great Basin, for the most part,
over into the Rocky Mountains.
Still quite cold up in the Plains states.
Minneapolis only made it to 20 degrees today.
Cool in Chicago as well at 29.
Back on the East Coast, they've warmed up from yesterday.
But it's still colder than we like it here in San Diego, a pleasant 80 degrees in Miami.
See the red dots across Florida?
This is unusual.
This high pressure system is so strong, up around 3.0.80,
so strong that the winds are affecting even southern Florida.
You're getting east winds off the Atlantic.
That doesn't usually happen.
What's going to happen over the next couple of days is they're going to begin to blow across the Gulf of Mexico.
As they do, they'll hit a cold front and boom,
South Texas is going to get a lot of rain.
Moist air meeting up with a cold front.
Watch the rain totals tomorrow.
Our storm has moved to the east as it did, 20, 22 inches in our own mountains.
As it moved over into Utah, same story, about 20, 22 inches of snow.
This is an absolutely phenomenal, perhaps a record-breaking winter by the time it's all said and done.
We had the Southern jet over us when it wasn't doing much.
Now it's got moisture in it again and it's moved back to the south of us.
Sooner or later, this Pineapple Express is going to come up over San Diego
and maybe we'll start to get some winter rain at that point.
It's not going to happen right away.
Take a look at this.
This is Salt Lake City where they got a bunch of snow.
The driving has been bad.
They've had lots of big rig accidents, lots of car accidents as well.
Heavy, heavy snow again outside of Salt Lake City over a foot and a half.
Now here's a sight you don't see every day.
This is up off of Newport Beach.
A water spout stayed out there for 45 minutes.
Absolutely harmless unless it either hits a boat or comes on shore and becomes a tornado.
We also had one about 10 miles off Encinitas today,
but these pictures were so dramatic we wanted to share the one up off of Newport Beach.
Okay, let's fly a little bit.
I wanted to show you the Raleigh, North Carolina area because of the plane crash up there,
but first let's start with California.
Still some residual moisture falling up over the Sierra Nevada.
When you move to the east, you see Texas.
They're already getting some of that rain from the Pineapple Express I showed.
Now let's go even farther to the east because this is where the problems have been.
You can see it's 38 degrees in Raleigh.
They've had light rain and fog.
Now that airplane, we don't know exactly what the conditions were when it was flying,
but up around 9,000 feet is where you get the freezing level.
So if they had icing and that was the problem, that's where it would have occurred,
around 9,000 feet below that, below or above freezing, so not likely to have any icing.
38 degrees in Raleigh right now.
In San Diego tomorrow, here's what you can expect.
62 again along the beaches.
We do hope to warm up by the end of the week some.
Mid-60s inland, 40s in the mountains, 60s in the deserts as well.
Over the next several days, please let it get sunny and warm.
I think it will.
Well, you know, the sun with the big clouds today was very attractive.
I think on the day we found out about the Republican convention coming here,
it's sort of a picture postcard kind of day.
Yeah, let's send it out to all the people coming.
I think we should.
Thanks, Lauren.
Ted's on deck with all the sports.
We'll have the latest on Junior SAO.
Will he play this weekend?
Plus a look back at a pretty manic Monday night football game.
All the highlights right ahead.
Secondary up very late.
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With help from Children's Hospital, Jessica Esquivel won her fight with a rare bacteria.
Now she and other patients at Children's have drawn special holiday cards for you.
Hi, I'm Hal Clements.
And I'm Susan Peters.
At San Diego Area McDonald's, you can purchase these holiday cards while supplies last.
They're sure to brighten your holiday.
A package of 10 beautiful cards is just $4.95.
So drop into McDonald's and purchase a gift that really will make a difference.
This holiday, send a gift of hope another way.
Eight cares about San Diego.
With help from Children's Hospital, Jessica Esquivel won her fight with a rare bacteria.
Now she and other patients at Children's have drawn special holiday cards for you.
Hi, I'm Hal Clements.
And I'm Susan Peters.
At San Diego Area McDonald's, you can purchase these holiday cards while supplies last.
They're sure to brighten your holiday.
A package of 10 beautiful cards is just $4.95.
So drop into McDonald's and purchase a gift that really will make a difference.
This holiday, send a gift of hope another way.
Eight cares about San Diego.
Whitney Houston exposed.
Does she have any affair with Robert DeMuro?
Does she and Eddie Murphy make love?
From her love life to her marriage, a new book reveals the real woman behind the facade.
In Whitney, totally unauthorized.
There are animals that are crippled.
They are sick.
A special report you can't afford to miss is the beef you're eating bad.
Plus the inside story on the biggest weekend in the OJ Simpson trial on the next hard copy.
Tonight at 730 on Channel 8.
We not only have questions about Junior Seau, but Natron.
Who else?
She's dropping names here.
Courtney.
They're all first names.
Natron, Courtney, Fabian, Martina.
Put a sock in it for heaven's sake.
He's an anchor of people trying to act like they know about sports.
He does because he was a sportscaster.
We were competitors, Hal and I, once many moons ago.
And I'll tell you one time about the time when I applied for his job.
You said a different station.
He beat me out.
He beat me out for a job at another station in San Diego back in 19 whatever.
When Truman was in office, I do believe, way back when.
It's something we don't talk about except among ourselves because I hate him.
Anyway, the Junior, another former News 8 colleague of mine, Junior Seau,
who became too rich and famous to come in and talk to me on Fridays and Mondays
because he's a big star now and John Madden and all the others go on and on and on about him.
But he's banged up and he's hurt and he can't play like Junior.
Simple as that.
He's got a nerve in his neck.
He's got a lot of nerve.
And he's got hurt here.
They had the MRI on the neck and the shoulder and everything else.
The MRI is negative, so they just don't know really what's going to happen.
I banged my knee in the ground on a tackle and it wasn't something that,
it's not something I'm going to harp on or we should harp on.
I mean, it may be that we can't make that decision by Wednesday,
but I would say this for sure, that Lewis Bush will get more work this week in preparations.
So they have to win a game.
Win a game!
Just one.
Just one.
And this would be the one to recommend because you don't want to come here
against that Pittsburgh team that just kicks people's you-know-whats
and try to clinch against them.
But if Seattle can beat the Raiders, that would help too.
So we'll see what happens.
It's the playoff possibility thing.
Last night the playoff possibility for Kansas City got real slim.
Boy, have they been a bust.
I mean, look at the AFC West with Denver, Kansas City and the Raiders.
None of them near as good as anybody thought.
Look at this.
Look at the hang time on this pass.
That's the backup to Joe Montana Bono with lovely, lovely, a punt-like pass.
And that's intercepted by Atkins.
And when he gets tied up, he laddles back to Troy Vincent,
knocks down the official, turns the corner.
Look at Kansas City, like a bunch of fat old men.
Whoo, what a terrific run.
Nice fake on Bono there who's now looking for his laundry around the 25-yard line,
at least the part that he wears underneath his little pants.
And then on the ensuing kickoff, John Vaughn goes all the way 90 yards for a touchdown.
This at the time got Kansas City within a touchdown,
but Miami just beat him up like a drum.
No contest whatsoever.
And Bono is still, if not the best, as good as anyone, period.
Spikes goes over the top for the last Miami touchdown.
They win 45-28.
So this means nothing right now for Charger fans.
Miami is in the playoffs.
And if they win one of their last two, that sounds familiar,
and they've got Indianapolis Sunday,
so they're going to be the AFC East champions in that day's care of that.
We showed you the other high school divisional championships yesterday
in the 5 and 6.30 p.m. type news broadcast.
This is the Morse-Patrick Henry game with Jamie Kimbrough scoring.
They missed the extra point after this one.
This is the big one last night at the stadium.
And look at the Morse defense.
I mean, you shut out a good team like Patrick Henry in a championship game,
and you are tough, you know? You are tough.
This is Michael Yancey for the final touchdown.
13-0, Morse wins and wins the championship over Patrick Henry last night
in the other and final championship game.
They, oh, ovations and the hero, the welcoming hero
and the poster child for birth control in America.
Dennis Rodman returned after a month of suspended with pay, without pay,
can't get to practice, can't abide by team rules,
has visited the tattoo parlor quite a bit,
and has made his hair from red to green.
That's a big news story. That's a big sports story, Dennis Rodman.
Welcome with an ovation by the crowd in San Antonio.
Unbelievable. Unbelievable.
And he played pretty well, too.
He did, and San Antonio also won its game.
Speaking of, not NBA, but the other team that moved out of...
I'm good, huh? Out of Minneapolis, the North Stars.
The North Stars, before they moved to Dallas,
before they moved to the Target Center, used to play in the Met Center.
But they had no use for the Met Center, so they decided to basically,
hey, the land's more valuable than the old building. Blow it up.
That's the Met Center.
Going by, someday, if I live long enough in this,
and have this job long enough, we'll go down to the sports arena
and we'll get the new state-of-the-art one built, you know,
with all the neat stuff, and we'll blow up the old one.
Hey, better 10 years too late than ever, right? Right?
But not yet. Not yet.
Maybe you'll be able to do the honors.
Yeah, they'll give me the honors.
See the guy I was wearing, the North Star jersey, sweater.
Maybe by then the Clippers will be back, and they'll ask you to do it.
Clippers will be back. That's what you want.
Get the Clippers back. That and a rash I used to have right down...
I want to get them both back, the Clippers and my rash.
Thanks, Jed. Here's something you can really sink your teeth into.
Next on the News 8 menu, our unknown eater,
taste tests a steak restaurant that stakes a big claim.
Find out if it lives up to its promise next.
My nickname in Walmart is the Singing Cashier.
Singing is something I enjoy doing.
It brings out the Christmas joy in a person.
I sing to my customers.
Each time they come in the store, I'm always singing.
And not only that, when they leave, I'm singing, so...
And they walk away with the biggest smile, and they say,
it's like, wow, not only makes me happy, but it makes them happy also.
Knowing that, hey, she did it for me, you know.
We try to make your day a little brighter.
Holiday time or any time.
This is my definition of the Christmas spirit.
The law and Jones and Jury.
They've got cases. We've got cases.
They've got a jury. We've got a jury.
They've got a judge. We've got Star Jones,
former prosecutor and network legal correspondent.
They can take months to resolve a problem.
We can settle it in 30 minutes.
Jones and Jury. Justice in 30 minutes.
Fair, final, and legally binding.
Tonight on Channel 8, right after David Letterman.
On Gordon Elliot, moms who have deserted their families.
I'm so tired of being a mean old mom.
You want your mom around you?
Well, it doesn't really matter to me. I don't have to have her.
You grew up and you don't even want me at all.
When Mom Leaves Home on the next Gordon Elliot.
Tomorrow morning at 9 on Channel 8.
It was the perfect place to live, but the walls had eyes.
Cops say this family's privacy was stripped away
in a real-life version of the movie Sliver.
Was he a video voyeur?
Watch the next to current affair.
Tomorrow at 4 on Channel 8.
When you watch News 8, watch closely.
You will see the most experienced news people in town
living up to a promise.
It's a promise to make a difference in San Diego.
You'll see it in the stories we cover
and the way we ask the questions.
You'll see News 8 people look for answers.
And together, with you, we'll find the solutions.
Together, we'll make San Diego a better place to live.
It's a promise.
It's a promise.
News 8 cares.
They usually say, I'm looking for sex.
And these gigolo's will give it to them for a price.
From $175 to as much as $500 an hour.
Why would a woman pay for sex?
This is the safest, easiest way I can get what I want.
Learn the secrets of their success.
This is something you actually inject in the way part of your body,
it makes it very rigid.
Please repeat the name of that muscle stiffener.
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Finally tonight, our own No-Neater cooks a great steak.
And that can be a problem because no steak restaurant
ever seems to measure up to his standards.
So when a new steak place opens up with high prices and big promises,
it better deliver big time.
Imagine for a moment of the forbidden joys of an extra thick cut
of marbled steak covered with pure creamery butter.
Excellent. Cut it with a fork.
It's tender, it's flavorful.
A steak cooked to perfection, served on a platter so hot the butter sizzles.
Your cardiologists know that you're here.
Absolutely.
This crowd was obviously in serious red meat denial.
I feel no guilt.
None, none whatsoever.
And I won't even go to the gym tomorrow.
That's just the way customers feel at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse.
I would have to say it's the most tender, delicious, flavored,
absolutely melts in your mouth taste I've ever experienced in a steak.
It's a rare hunk of red meat that gets raves like that,
but the people at Ruth's Chris say theirs is the best.
We serve only fresh-prying beef,
which makes up about 2% of all the beef that's produced in the United States.
And they have a very special way of cooking that beef.
They're like supercharged gas boilers.
Can I take a picture of it?
You cannot take a picture of it.
Because that super hot broiler has a super secret design.
Come on, be honest. You got a microwave oven in there, right?
Absolutely not.
However they do it, the results are spectacular.
I tried the New York Strip, 16 ounces of medium rare flavor-filled delight,
and Mrs. Eater's filet mignon was done to perfection, tender and delicious.
And then my daughter ordered the crab legs at market price.
$39 for a full order.
A breathtaking price, but a fabulous flavor.
Our steaks are more than $20 each, and all the side dishes are extra,
$4 for the cauliflower with cheese, about $5 for the Italian salad.
Our service is very good.
They even have separate runners to speed the food to your table
at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse, where the prices are high.
$20 plus for a steak.
It better be good.
A magnificent steak at a monumental price.
For News 8, I'm the unknown eater.
I'm going to take out a loan and go there next week.
Ted, can I borrow some money?
Oh, me? No.
See you at 6.30.
Good night. I've already given.