Valley teenager will tell you why they haven't arrested the suspect more than a month after the assault.
And Anchorage fire investigators say they might never know the cause of the fire at the Aspen Hotel
after evidence was shifted.
Plus a rundown of the runoff elections for the Anchorage school board and assembly.
All those stories and much more right now on ABC Alaska News at 10.
This is ABC Alaska News live.
Now, April Davis, Kerry Carrigan and Derek Agnew with Alaska's only statewide news at 10.
Good evening everyone.
Two months after a big lake teenager was assaulted and badly injured at Hatcher Pass,
his family says they're losing faith in the law.
Carson Banks says he and his friend were snowboarding in Hatcher Pass last month
when he tried to break up a fight between his friend and another boy.
As Banks turned to walk back up the mountain, he was punched in his right eye so hard it caused his eye socket to explode.
Big lake troopers have named 19-year-old Richard Hoglund as a suspect,
but they are waiting for hospital records before they press charges.
His family says they do not feel safe as long as Hoglund is walking the streets.
It blew open my eye socket and a bunch of nerves and stuff fell in there.
They had to pull all the stuff back out and put a jelly film implant.
It's not fair that a 19-year-old man did this and nobody cares.
I feel like nobody truly cares about this and I want to see justice for my son's sake.
Since the assault, Banks has double vision and damaged nerves and muscles.
He will have a second surgery tomorrow to implant another jelly pocket to hold up his eye.
The trial continues for a Wasilla mother accused of killing one of her sons by setting her own home on fire.
With another expert testifying, the fire was deliberately set.
Independent fire investigator John Glenn testified yesterday
that the September 2000 fire in Wasilla was a case of arson.
Suzette Welton is charged with setting that fire that killed her 14-year-old son Samuel
to collect on insurance policies she took out on her sons.
Her son Jeremiah, who is now 18 years old, escaped the flames.
Glenn was hired by an insurance company to investigate the blaze and he says
the pattern of burns indicates the fire was set with an accelerant,
but he could not say who set the fire.
He says the fire was set by one of the boys.
Investigators still have not pinpointed a cause for the fire at the Aspen Hotel in Anchorage nearly three weeks ago.
The blaze gutted the complex, causing nearly $5 million in damage,
the costliest fire in the city in more than two decades.
Now there are reports Deputy Fire Chief Dennis Hoke has been suspended.
His job was to oversee the firefighting efforts at the April 9 fire.
The scene may have been disturbed when backhoes were brought in so quickly.
Hoke's office will not confirm or deny if he has been suspended,
but says there is an interim Deputy Chief.
There is a push on Capitol Hill tonight to let pilots carry guns in the cockpit.
Alaska's Lone Representative and House Transportation Committee Chairman Don Young
and Aviation Subcommittee Chairman John Micah say it's something pilots have asked for.
They're proposing a voluntary program that would train pilots to use guns.
Young and Micah say pilots are the last line of defense against hijacking
and should be allowed to carry guns so they can protect themselves and passengers.
The Airline Pilots Association says nearly three-quarters of its members want to be able to carry guns in the cockpit.
Top Bush administration officials oppose arming pilots.
Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta says the reinforced cockpit doors are enough
to keep intruders away from pilots.
Alaska's Senate President says he is leaning toward approving a new Whittier prison.
The State House passed the bill yesterday to build a thousand-bed facility in Whittier
to be owned by the city and operated by a private contractor.
The bill would also expand a 92-bed state prison in Bethel to 188 beds.
Now the bill heads to the Senate for final approval.
Today, Halford says he thinks the city of Whittier should have the final say,
but he will probably approve the bill.
They become fairly convoluted proposals in the way that they try to make a profit center
for someone who's pushing them, tie in a municipality, look for low-interest financing,
and all those other pieces.
Ten correctional facilities in Alaska are operating right now at more than emergency capacity.
Governor Tony Knowles has a message for the government of British Columbia.
No new fish farms.
Governor Knowles is asking British Columbia to maintain the moratorium it has on developing new fish farms.
Last Friday, the British Columbia government announced the seven-year moratorium will stay in place,
but only temporarily while it works out the details for new fish farms.
It also wants to make existing salmon farms safer for the environment
and protect wild salmon stocks from escaped farmed fish with diseases.
We are assured that these diseases don't threaten human beings yet,
but I challenge anyone who would like to share a dish of sushi to eat it knowing that it's infected with those pathogens.
Governor Knowles says British Columbia plans on building more new fish farms as soon as they work out some administrative details.
BP Alaska is once again allowing visitors past its oil fields onto the Arctic Ocean.
The seven-mile road from Dead Horse to the ocean was closed, citing security concerns after September 11.
About 5,000 tourists use that road each year.
The state intervened, saying BP's lease does not provide a provision to restrict access to the coast.
Up next on ABC Alaska News at 10, a rundown of the runoff candidates for the Anchorage election.
It's just one week away.
I'm Derek Gagnu, later in 10 o'clock sports, we'll have some prep soccer, some prep track and field, and also some great prep softball.
We'll take a look at the Chugiak Mustangs tonight as they look to have another impressive season.
And quite a mix of weather across the Anchorage Bowl and the rest of the state, as a matter of fact, today.
From fog to sunshine to rainstorms this evening across the Anchorage Bowl.
Here's a nice shot out across Turnigadarm this afternoon.
We'll tell you more about what's going on statewide in weather in a couple of minutes.
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Welcome back. The Anchorage Municipal runoff election is only a week away
and there is one assembly seat and one school board seat up for grabs
after none of the candidates in either of those races got the 50% plus one vote to win in the April 2nd election.
We'll start now with the school board seat.
John Steiner is running for seat D. He got a majority of the votes in the April election with 43%.
He has two children who have already graduated from the Anchorage School District and one still in high school.
He wants to keep state funding available for schools making education a priority, even with the budget gap.
And he says he will bring new energy to the school board.
When you think about the fiscal gap that we've got in Juneau,
we need to do all we can to keep the education funding from dropping.
But it's going to be tight, so we need to watch the budget really carefully.
And Jeff Friedman, sorry, we're going to the Steiner candidate now.
Jeff Friedman is who we're talking about.
He will provide full funding for quality education,
continue to improve communication between school board and community,
and encourage parent participation.
I think it's important to elect a school board member who has the time to spend during the day at meetings,
visiting schools, as I said before, talking to the community, listening to the community.
Not everybody has time for evening meetings.
And the debate over the East Anchorage assembly runoff was decided in court today.
An Anchorage Superior Court judge ruled today Brian Whittle can legally run as a candidate in next Tuesday's election
after a lawsuit was filed to contest his residency.
Robert Hayes, a former candidate for the seat, filed the lawsuit and says he will appeal the decision.
In the meantime, Whittle is going full steam ahead on the campaign trail.
Brian Whittle has lived in Anchorage for almost 30 years and has three children in public schools.
Whittle says as an assemblyman he would work to keep East Anchorage neighborhoods safe,
work to get better schools on the East Side, and make the East Anchorage Town Center a reality.
To help build a great new East Anchorage, the town center, the new middle school,
there's a lot of things that can be done in our neighborhoods, and it's exciting to me,
so I'm ready to get to work.
Paul Bauer Jr. is the other candidate for the East Anchorage assembly seat.
Bauer says he wants to improve the traffic flow and road conditions on the East Side.
He also says he wants to bring new schools to the area and add new Little League fields to Bicentennial Park.
As far as this court stuff is going on, that has not been an issue with this campaign.
And that's why I say we need to get on with this and get it going.
So I'm not taking no sides on it. Never have and never will.
Whittle got the majority of the vote in the April election with nearly 45 percent.
Bauer got 41 percent. Polls open next Tuesday, 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
We'll see you there. We'll have full coverage of the elections then, of course.
Let's check in with the weather with Kerry Carrigan. Hi, Kerry.
Good evening, April. A very, very lovely evening tonight in Anchorage.
Once you got past the rain showers, which kind of dilutes us there for about an hour and a half around 7 o'clock.
Lower 48, though, still seeing a little bit of activity, especially across the Tennessee Valley.
But most of the system is moving its way on out towards the Atlantic seaboard and off the ocean.
Otherwise, though, low pressure really continues to be in control in the northeast and the southeast and out west.
Still a few clouds to deal with there as well.
We'll tell you what's up with Alaska's weather. It's coming up next.
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ABC Alaska Weather with Kerry Kerrigan.
I'm Bo from Volunteers America and Anchorage Community Promise.
Hey Kerry, how's the weather?
Well, it's pretty good. And hi, my name is Emily Elizabeth,
and welcome to the weather segment of our show.
Here's what's going on out across the state of Alaska.
You have to be a Clifford fan to get it.
Still got a lot of jet stream pushing in across the state,
especially from out across the southwest, and as it does so,
large area low pressure, which sits back out off of Bristol Bay,
continues to churn, and we're seeing it really pull a whole lot of moisture in with it also,
as the frontal boundary pushes through some wind tonight across the Anchorage Bowl.
Boy, it got a bit gusty there for a while, around 8 o'clock,
but we're still in pretty good shape right now.
Big issue right now is the fact there's some cold air wrapping around the backside of this,
and that cold air and also that moisture continue to push their way out across some of the higher elevations
across central Yukon Valley and some of the valleys of the interior as you push off
towards the Canadian and Alaska border.
We're going to continue to see some heavy snow watches up tonight,
and we expect some maybe 4 to 8 inches in some spots, even better in some isolated areas,
but for the most part, still going to see some snow.
We're expecting snow to kick up across a good portion of the interior,
but check out Fairbanks at 52 still, 44 in Anchorage, 50 in Juneau, 28 in Nome, 10 in Barrow.
We got a little bit of an anomaly there right in the middle of the screen,
but for the most part, temperature contours continue to be in pretty good shape.
We've got a little bit of a snowfall here in Barrow, 27 in Cottsdupe for tomorrow,
and also in Nome, mostly cloudy skies there back into McGrath and Bethel.
Most of the system should be skidding its way back off towards the east as we push into tomorrow,
but still expect snow in Fairbanks, rain showers in Talkeetna though,
get a little further south away from the Alaska range and start getting into this clearing going on.
We expect some partly cloudy skies once we get past the morning hours in Anchorage.
That should carry on down towards Kenai Peninsula back over by Cordova,
where it was extremely foggy today.
some mostly sunny skies for tomorrow and then down towards Juneau. That front's
gonna kind of trail its way off and as it pushes through tomorrow down in
southeast, we'll see temperatures still fairly warm. But the expectation is we
will also start to see a little bit of precipitation developed down there.
Still fairly clear skies up and down the panhandle. Kodiak actually.
Yakutat, Yakutat, looking at a little bit of fog this evening, but otherwise
not too bad. Fully quiet in southeast Alaska. Dead horse has still got a
little bit of blowing snow. Same story back in towards Barrow. Still with
these temperatures well above the 35 degree mark, we're seeing an awful lot
of rain shower activity and still cloudy skies back in towards Fairbanks
at 52 51 at Northwape and Fairbanks continues to see a little bit of
isolated rain shower activity across the northern end of the Tanana Valley
back after itself. Junction though not too bad. Still some breaks here. But as
we look at the radars tomorrow, we should be seeing, especially during the
day, awful lot of activity back in across the Tanana Valley. Still back
in towards Anchorage and around Kenai. Some isolated rain showers, a little
bit of fog way up towards the north of us around Tallkeetna, but back in the
Valdez and Cordova. They're starting to see some rain develop now on the
backside of Prince William Sound. But that system came right across the top
of us. Take a look at the Doppler and show it to you right here. Here's where
the system came through this evening. There's that big punch right there.
It's just starting to clear off now. Actually, you can look back out down
the inlet as the sun is setting right now and you can see the clearing back
in behind this. But this is the system that kind of came through and developed
and there's all that rain shower activity that we saw just a little while
ago. Quick look now. We'll show you what's going on outside and continues
to be pretty decent weather. Tonight's forecast calls for any rain shower
activity you're seeing now to turn into snow later on. 52 is where we're at
currently. Today's high at 55. It's gonna cool down some guarantee that
especially some of this cold air starts to wrap around the lows, which are
forming up across the interior. It's gonna be a double center a little bit
tomorrow. It's the expectation across the Anchorage Bowl rain showers tonight
were there right now, although it's clear behind that we do expect there'll
be some cooling a chance for a little more rain in the morning and then that
could turn into a little bit of snow. So don't be surprised if you see just a
little bit of snow in the morning. Not gonna stick around. It'll be warm
tomorrow. Warm enough that I'll get rid of it by the afternoon. April. What?
What? Mostly clear skies across Juneau for tonight. But by the time we get
into tomorrow in the afternoon midday, we'll start to see a little bit of
precipitation develop even across Juneau. So it's gonna be kind of just
kind of those little getting into spring kind of thing. And boy, we needed
the rain so bad. But you see how dusty it was across the mountains today. Air
quality would have been a huge issue if we hadn't had the rains. Another rains
beat all that back down. It's gonna be run off. I saw the dust coming. I got
allergies. So I watch out for that. Yeah, that was a big thing today. Springs here,
rains here. They're playing soccer in the rain. We're gonna talk about Stanley
Cup. We've got a lot of prep sports to get through, but game seven Stanley Cup
soccer in Toronto going against New York. We have the highlights coming up. Also
some great NBA playoffs and tonight for the Hornets.
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Welcome back. Hard-nosed, physical and bad blood. Best described the Islanders
and Leafs series. An ideal combination for a game seven of the Stanley Cup
playoffs. Out we go to the Air Canada Center. 1-1 in the second. Darcy Tucker to
Robert Reichel. Alexander Mogilney one times at 2-1 on the delayed penalty goal.
Staying in the second, Travis Green showing off a wicked risk of beating
Chris Osgood. 3-1. Toronto takes game seven, 4-2. Curtis Joseph 31 saves. Toronto
now moves on to play Ottawa on the Eastern semis. The other one will be
Montreal versus Carolina. Well, the Flyers first round exit to Ottawa.
Earned coach Bill Barber his walking papers today. He was fired one day after
several players blamed him for their playoff collapse. Barber, last year's NHL
coach of the year, is the fifth Flyers coach fired since 1997. Well, the Memphis
Grizzlies future is looking bright with Jerry West as president of basketball
operations. The Lakers Hall of Fame guard has agreed to a multi-year deal
worth an estimated five million per. On the court tonight, TMAC and the Magic
trying to avoid elimination against the Hornets. Second quarter Magic down five.
McGrady strong to the rack trying to back up his guaranteed win. Still in the
second. TMAC trying the up-and-under. Tractor trailer blocking him on this one.
Jamal McGlore get it to Baron Davis because he will feed it back to you for
the powerful finish. One of 10 Davis assists. Barron keeps the playmaking going.
Purdy dish again on this one to who else. McGlore for two of his 19 points.
The Hornets eliminate the Magic in four games. Final score 102-85. Baron Davis
back-to-back triple doubles 28-11 and 10. Patrick Ewing most likely walking off
the court for the last time. Hornets waiting on the Nets. Pacers winner. That
is where we're going. Pacers facing elimination against the Nets. Aaron
Williams misses but Kenyon Martin flying in for the follow. Two of his 13 points.
Third quarter now. Pacers making a run led by Austin Crocher. Part of an 11-0
run. He is just heating up. More from him. 58-45. Ron Artest feeling it tonight
also. Buries two of his game-high time 18 points. Back to the story of the game.
Austin Crocher step back all nylon. Then he's going for a little baseline J
action. Rims it in. He had 18 points off the bench after averaging 2.5 points in
the series. Final 97-74. Indy forces a game five against the top
seeded Nets. Gotta make a stop in baseball. Two division leaders. Mariners
and the White Sox going at it. 1-1 top of the second. Carlos Guillen with some
wood into left field. It is a two-bagger. Carlos three for four. Scoring Ruben
Sear on this one. 2-1 Seattle. Now three on the fourth. The big hurt with a big
swing. Frank Thomas has a double. Kenny Lofton will trot on in as will Ray Durham.
It is now 5-3 Chicago. Maglio Ordonez finishes it with a two-run blast. Helping
Chicago to an 8-4 final. Seattle is now 18-8 on the year. Chicago looking
solid at 16-10. Well the state runner-up Lady Mustangs hit the diamond for the
first time last night in the doubleheader. Chugiak slugged their way to a
2-0 start with convincing victories over West and Barlett. Lorraine LeBreton has
more on how the Mustangs plan to keep on winning. After taking second in both
region and state to service Chugiak is determined not to be runners up this
season. The Mustangs corralled West 12 to nothing last night to start their quest
for a state title. Winning the first game in my mind is you know a real boost
because we're like ready to go for the next one you know we're gonna win the
next one and the next one. Chugiak did win the next one polishing off Bartlett
8-2. The Mustangs showed off their strengths on opening night. Three
consistent arms on the mound and rock solid Team D backing them up. Any given
day you can go up against a really good pitcher who could shut you down but if
our defense and our pitching will keep us in the game.
Mustang fans could have a lot to cheer about this season. The team's goal is to
hit well working hard on all areas like bunting and base running. Always focus on
offense because it's the hardest thing to do. Hitting a pitch ball is one of the hardest things in sports to do. Especially as fast as most of these girls pitch.
More than half the Mustangs played on the same travel team this winter adding
to their on and off field chemistry. Chugiak knows they also have the benefit
of numerous seasoned returners on the team. It helps with the nerves of state
because things are people are nervous and things like that and just so much
experience and playing together. The girls have dedicated their season to two
Eagle River softball supporters dealing with health problems and they want to
bring the state trophy home to them. Lorraine LeBreadon for ABC Alaska Sports.
And Chugiak takes on the always tough Juno Douglas Crimson Bears tomorrow
night at the Park Strip. Well on the turf tonight the Chugiak Mustangs and
the West Eagles in our nightly doubleheader. Chugiak trying to get back
in the wind calm after last Friday's loss to service. Eagles just trying to
stay warm in tonight's drizzle. No score deep in the first half. Gabe Shady
Farnsworth making the fancy footwork payoff. He beats goalie Andy Foye
short side. West leads by one. Still one oh Eagles in the second. Mark
Cleedon passes to Gabe Shady Farnsworth who's tipping this in for a second goal
of the game. West wins it two to nothing. You know who the star is in this game.
Field events between Bartlett and Diamond. There's still no field of
Bartlett so we're going inside for the high jump. High jump champion Joe Weber
talking strategy. Weber out in front of everybody. Going for six feet four
inches his first attempt and Joe owns that height. Six four would be his
final height for the day. Six five just a little too much but we now go out to
the parking lot where David Casper stole the discus show. Big boy Casper's
already throwing 129 feet. I'm in the parking lot. It's a fast edit because he
almost hit me. He went away over my head with that thing. 136 feet. I did not get
far enough out for big David Casper. He owns the discus on today's action. They
tried to tell you he was going to throw that thing. Seriously the camera work was a
little shoddy because I was like whoa so David he was a big boy. Big boy
throwing the discus. Did a nice job. Got to say that Tim Duncan if you're a Spurs
fan tomorrow night against the Sonics he will not be playing. His father passed
away so he's gone home to North Carolina to be with him. They're already without
David Robinson so the Sonics may even a sing up at two all tomorrow. We'll see how it goes.
Thanks a lot Derek. Still to come on ABC Alaska News at 10. A sure sign of a
spring in Alaska not the rain but the first cruise ship dock in Juneau. But
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Carey's returned from repairing his flooded gutters. I was in the middle of that rain tonight I got to tell you something.
It was well anyway. Brought the gutters down. You did brought the gutters down at my place. Hey have a look I'm
gonna show you what's going on for the five-day forecast in the interior. Expect
some snow. Now in Fairbanks remember that urban flood advisory and small stream
advisory is still up but also there is a watch on on the Chena and also the
Little Chena Rivers and there's also a warning on the Chantinica River tonight.
So please be aware that there's gonna be some problems. Still continues to rain.
Temperatures in the mid 50s still in Fairbanks at this hour so there's gonna
be some water problems going on there for the next few days and the Chena
River watch is gonna be on for a couple as well. We do expect snow as we get into
tomorrow night as well. Take a look now what's up for Anchorage. Take a breath.
We're gonna be away from the rain for a while. Once we get past tomorrow
morning should be in pretty good shape for the next couple of days and
temperatures still in the 50s so even though I may see a little snow in the
morning as temperatures get down a little bit April go away. It'll go away in
the afternoon. Don't worry a flurry early and it'll be mixed with rain too.
Don't worry. It's okay and then some rain showers possible down towards Juneau as we
get into the day tomorrow once the trough starts to pass across top of them but
they'll be better off by the time to get into the weekend. A little cooler
overnight but mid 40s at least during the days and lots of sunshine. Right a
nice day in Juneau. Yep. For them to have the cruise ships coming in. 2,000 tourists
arrived in Juneau today to officially kick off the summer season. The first
cruise ship of the season docked in Juneau. Many locals showed up to welcome
the Norwegian sky this afternoon. The cruise liner will be in the city for two
days before setting sail again. Shop owners and tour guides say sails are
already looking good and tourists are ready to soak in the Alaska sights. This
is far we got so far but on the way beautiful. Beautiful snows. Pretty. I want to say the
glaciers. They've got that southern accent. I wonder where they're from. The
Norwegian sky was dry docked last year in order to make the ship bigger for
more passengers so they can just load all kinds of people on there. We'll see you
back here tomorrow night at 6 and 10. Stay tuned for Nightline. Good night. Good night.
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