on Cairo TV and Cairo News Radio 71.
Now, Brian Wood
and Monica Hark, Tim Healy Sports
and John Collins Weather.
From the newsroom in Seattle,
this is Cairo Weekend News Update.
Good evening again. Investigators believe no one on board survived the crash of
Northwest Airlines DC-9 in Detroit tonight.
One hundred forty-seven people were on flight 255 from Detroit to Phoenix and
on to California when the plane apparently caught fire and went down
seconds after takeoff in Detroit.
At least five people were reportedly injured when the plane struck cars on a
freeway overpass.
Gary Reeves has our report.
Disaster struck in Detroit tonight as a Northwest Airlines jet crashed on
takeoff
just before nine this evening.
The McDonnell Douglas MD-80 was headed for Phoenix when witnesses say its wing
clipped a freeway overpass near the runway
and the plane slammed in the ground and burst into flames.
The plane carried one hundred forty-one passengers and a crew of five.
Witnesses say there were some survivors but there is no accurate count on how
many.
I look over and I see the plane going down like this.
It looked like it was taking off but it couldn't take off.
It was on fire. The whole back end was on fire.
And before I knew it, like seconds like that, it just all engulfed in flames,
great big flames.
It looked like it just blew up.
Yeah, it was still in the air.
But we could see and there was a little bit of trees and we were still driving down
ninety-four
and we got down to where Middle Belt was right there and it had just gone
past. Just like that. Everything was on fire, the trees, the grass, cars.
You could see parts of everything just laying all over. It was terrible.
At least one car on the ground was reportedly struck by the plane. So far the
only confirmed survivor is a four-year-old girl. An FAA spokesman says a
failure in the plane's left engine may be the cause of the crash. A team of NTSB
investigators, it's on its way from Washington to continue the probe.
Gary Reeves, CBS News, Chicago.
Again the late word out of Detroit, it appears no one on board flight 255
survived and those who were injured were on the ground.
The FBI has been called in because of a report, truthful or not, that there might
have been an explosion prior to the crash.
Now the plane's black box recorder has been recovered from the wreckage
and as the search continues tonight for more victims and hopefully survivors,
local authorities have set up a temporary morgue at the airport.
A tragedy near home too. An antique biplane went down on a Bellevue golf
course this afternoon.
A sixty-two-year-old Baffle man is dead and another Baffle man is in stable
condition. The plane first landed on an open fairway. Everyone was safe,
but then the plane took off again
and moments later crashed.
The Caranous crew saw the plane go down as John Williams reports.
Everything appeared fine as the 1938 biplane took off from the ninth fairway
at Glendale Country Club,
but then the takeoff turned to tragedy.
People on the golf course raced to the crash site to rescue the two men inside.
They pulled an elderly passenger from the front cockpit. He suffered critical
injuries in the crash. A doctor gave him CPR right away, but later he died at
Overlake Hospital.
The pilot, fifty-five-year-old Clifford Davidson of Bothell suffered face and
back injuries and is still being treated.
Davidson is co-owner of Davidson Marina in the Kenmore area.
Another pilot saw the takeoff and knew something was wrong. He didn't seem to
have power as he was taking off. My first thought was he wasn't going to clear the
trees,
and he was able to clear the trees and he still continued to lose power. The plane,
which was returning to the Puget Sound area after an air show in Vancouver,
Washington,
first made a safe landing on the ninth fairway
after experiencing some engine problems.
The two men were confident just before takeoff despite the earlier engine
troubles.
They refueled and were ready for the last leg home. It sounded like the plane's
engines simply quit just before the crash.
But this time, unlike the first landing,
Cliff Davidson didn't have enough speed or altitude to get down safely.
In Bellevue, John Williams, Cairo Eyewitness News.
Well, there was a near tragedy over the skies of West Germany today. An engine
caught fire on American Airlines Boeing 767 bound for Chicago.
The pilot had to make an emergency landing at an airport in Frankfurt.
Four people were hurt during the evacuation, but not seriously.
Though tragic, today's crashes and close calls are but a sample. Many have
complained for some time and others have warned the skies are too crowded,
and now the Federal Aviation Administration is reacting.
In light of recent accidents, the FAA plans to restrict more airspace around
SeaTac and 20 other major airports.
And all planes will have to have devices which automatically tell air traffic
controllers plane altitudes.
Many commercial airline pilots say it's about time,
but some small plane pilots object, saying the new regulations are too
costly.
Military police from Fort Lewis are heading to California tomorrow to pick
up 32-year-old Private Ralph Myers.
He's the Fort Lewis pilot who flew dangerously close to President Reagan's
helicopter last week.
Tonight, Myers is in a military jail in California, waiting to return to Fort
Lewis, where he faces charges of being absent without leave.
Well, when we come back, the latest word on mines and minesweepers from the
Persian Gulf.
And we'll have the obligatory Baws word on the Seahawks' newest player.
We'll be right back.
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There was a time when buying a German luxury car may have made sense.
The value of the dollar was artificially high, the Deutschmark artificially low.
But buy that same German car today and you'll spend over 40% more just for the currency.
On the other hand, buy a 1987 Cadillac Seville or El Dorado and you'll spend every dollar
on luxury and comfort.
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Iran is threatening to sow mines like seeds in the Persian Gulf, but the U.S. says it
can handle the situation.
An American warship, the Guadalcanal, is packed from bow to stern with minesweeping helicopters
and it has slipped through the dangerous Strait of Hormuz into the Persian Gulf and is now
anchored off the coast of Bahrain.
latest reports say the helicopters are already out on practice drills searching for mines.
And in Kuwait, three reflagged tankers are getting ready to return through the Gulf's
troubled waters.
The last of the three finished taking on its oil cargo late yesterday.
No word on when they'll leave port.
Iran's threat to sow mines like seeds was also aimed at Iraq.
That threat came from Iran's parliamentary speaker after Iraqi warplanes bombed two oil
fields in southwest Iran earlier today.
And almost in the same breath and in an unexpected turn of events, Iran says it would welcome
the United Nations Secretary General to Iran.
It's a surprise because Iran has repeatedly criticized the U.N. for failing to condemn
Iraq as the aggressor in the Persian Gulf war.
And back in the states, a seven-day manhunt in Philadelphia ended today.
Police arrested and charged 29-year-old Harrison Graham with murder after seven badly decomposed
bodies were found in his apartment last week.
Graham surrendered at his mother's home after she called the police.
Well, it's good to know there are some happier, lighter things to tell you about.
While many were taking it easy today, some folks were putting their minds to work outside
today.
Fans gathered in spiritually strategic sites around the world today, celebrating the first
harmonic convergence in 23,000 years.
From the pyramids of Egypt to the heights of Mount Shasta to our own Magnuson Park,
they greeted the dawn, thinking and dancing for peace.
One thousand people suffered through the chill of the morning to share with each other a
oneness.
It's mainly coming from our old, old ways of conflict and feeling that we're separate
and alone into a new feeling of oneness and cooperation in the entire world.
Now to balance all this, there are skeptics who call this convergence observance anything
from anti-crise to just playing old summer madness.
Either way, it certainly made for an interesting day.
And Tim Healy is going to join us.
Now Tim, it wasn't an interesting day for the Mariners or Mariner Baseball, unless you
were a twin.
I was going to say if you're a twin.
A fan.
I want to run that by me one more time.
I know what you're saying and you're absolutely right.
And we'll explain that in a minute.
Plus we'll have a new home and a new heading for the Miami Dolphins and the NFL.
Sports is next.
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You talk about a wasted weekend.
The Mariners have spent the last three days fumbling, a golden opportunity to gain ground
in the American League West.
The M's today lost their third straight to the front-running Minnesota Twins.
This one by a five to one score.
Seattle now drops eight games out of first place.
No doubt the M's play this weekend has left manager Dick Williams talking to himself in
the dugout.
Today's game, like last night's, was decided in the first inning with two out.
Mike Moore surrendered this double to Gary Gaietti.
It scored both Steve Lombardozzi and Kent Herbeck putting the Twins up two to nothing.
And then Gene Larkin ripped another double into the corner and right, scoring Herbeck.
The Twins had six doubles in today's game.
That was plenty of support for pitching ace Frank Viola, who picked up his 14th win of
the season as the Twins pad their lead in the West with a 5-1 victory over the Mariners.
The Paul Molitor watch continues.
Today in Baltimore, Molitor lashed this opposite field double against the Orioles to extend
his current hitting streak to 31 games, the longest in the major leagues this decade.
In so doing, Molitor also helped his Milwaukee Brewers beat Baltimore six to two, the count
there.
The Yankees defeated California today nine to six.
The front-running Blue Jays in the American League East beat Chicago six to four.
Detroit also won, so the Tigers are a half game back of Toronto.
The Yankees lose another one, one nothing to Cleveland, and Boston beat Texas 12 to
two.
Well, my best friends from Arizona are up visiting this week.
They are die-hard Chicago Cubs fans.
So Noel and Judy, this word of warning to both of you, the following videotape may be
hazardous to your emotional state of health.
Because today in the friendly confines of Wrigley Field, the Cubs were wasted in not
so friendly fashion by the New York Mets.
Darrell Strawberry belting this three-run homer for the Mets.
Little Lenny Dykstra muscles this one into the bleachers in dead center field.
Howard Johnson later hit his 28th homerun of the year as the Mets pounded out 21 hits
and beat the Cubs, this is no joke, 23 to 10, the 23 runs and all-time Mets record.
Philadelphia dumped the Eastern Division leading Cardinals 4-3.
Montreal moved within four games of St. Louis with their 10-7 win over Pittsburgh.
The Giants and Cincinnati are tied for first in the West.
The Giants beat the Dodgers in 10 innings today.
The Reds beat San Diego 2 to nothing, and it was Houston 6 to 2 winners over Atlanta.
Well, fate and the Chicago Bears combined tonight to put a damper on what should have
been a festive occasion for Miami Dolphins fans.
The Dolphins tonight officially moved into their new home, Joe Robbie Stadium in suburban
Miami.
Kyros Brian Wood even dropped in with the game ball for the preseason opener, but in
the first half, Dolphin quarterback Dan Marino dropped out.
In recovering this fumbled snap, Marino suffered a dislocated thumb.
He will be sidelined about a month and might miss Miami's regular season opener in September.
The only touchdown of tonight's game was produced by Bears rookie quarterback Jim Harbaugh out
of Michigan, connecting on this 65-yard bomb to Ron Morris as the Bears spoiled the Dolphins
debut in Joe Robbie Stadium with a 10-3 victory.
This afternoon, the Super Bowl champion Giants opened preseason play, beating New England
19-17.
Superstars Greg Louganis and Carl Lewis led today's parade of U.S. medal winners at the
Pan American Games in Indianapolis.
Louganis won the gold medal in men's platform diving, receiving three perfect 10 scores
in the process.
As for Carl Lewis, he took the gold medal in the men's long jump.
Then, during a break in that competition, he moseyed on over to help the U.S. win the
400-meter relay, Lewis running the anchor leg in that event.
An excellent day for Carl Lewis.
The American men's basketball team had a good day too, routing Uruguay.
Watch Kentucky's Rex Chapman on the stufferoo here.
Later, it's Chapman's in-state rival Louisville's Purvis Ellison scoring, as the U.S. coasted
to a 105-81 win to advance to the semifinals on Thursday.
Colorado racing's big winners this Sunday were Rick Mears and Bill Elliott.
Mears snapping a two-year-long, windless drought by capturing the Quaker State 500 IndyCar
race in Long Pond, Pennsylvania, while Elliott won the NASCAR Champion Spark Plug 400 in
Michigan, edging Dale Earnhardt by less than one second.
Here's something different.
A marching band on a golf course?
Why not?
The international tournament at Castle Rock, Colorado was different to begin with.
Instead of scoring above and below par, golfers were awarded points for birdies and eagles,
penalized for bogeys or worse.
For John Cook, this eagle putt on the 17th green, worth five points, catapulted him to
his first tournament victory in four years.
Cook finished today with 11 points to win the $180,000 first prize.
There are putters.
Then there's this contraption belonging to Orville Moody.
Looks like he's got Wilt Chamberlain as a buddy.
What the heck?
The putters must work because Orville Moody today won the seniors gold rush tournament
in California.
Don't forget, the seniors will be in the Puget Sound area this coming week for the GTE Northwest
Classic to be played at Englewood Country Club in Kenmore.
And Brian Bosworth isn't wasting any time immersing himself in his new surroundings.
The boss today spending part of his Sunday visiting some of the young patients at Children's
Hospital in Seattle.
The newest Seahawk then spent most of the rest of his off day in meetings with defensive
coordinator Tom Catlin in a crash course to soak up the nuances of the Hawks defensive
scheme.
The Seahawks go back to work tomorrow with two a days out in Kirkland.
And as we said yesterday, I think if there's anyone that's going to catch on fairly quickly
to this scheme, it is one Brian Bosworth.
Very nice of him, I thought, to head over to the hospital to visit those kiddies.
He has a lot to prove.
He's going to start earning his $11 million now.
Of course, there's a lot of running backs in the NFL who are afraid they're going to
end up in the hospital after running head on to this guy in the field.
Thanks, Tim.
And when we return, John Collins gives us a reason to smile tomorrow.
Also, one more look at the man whose music made millions of dollars and millions of fans.
We're coming back.
Stick around.
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You've read countless news stories and seen the rioting and oppression for yourself on
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Cleanup continued today outside a tiny resort in west central Minnesota.
One man died.
Seven others were hurt when a tornado touched down and destroyed five cabins in the resort.
Meteorologist John Collins joins us.
There is, I was taking a look at your map, there's still some heavy weather there in
the Midwest.
East, we'll show you on a satellite picture in a moment what's going on this evening
in the Midwest.
Our weather here, oh a little better than yesterday.
Tomorrow will be a little better than today and I think that's where we're headed gradually
over the next couple of days.
It's just taking a long time to push this marine air out of here.
Now this evening the clouds have cleared.
We have fewer clouds now than we had earlier today.
It's just too bad the timing is a little off.
We couldn't benefit with a little sunshine.
Partly cloudy now at Sea-Tac.
57 the temperature, 80% the humidity.
The winds have died down.
Now west at 3, 30, 24 the barometer is rising a bit, continuing to go up this evening and
a rising barometer generally means better weather.
The problem is pushing the marine air out.
Let's take a look at the Almanac.
68 and 54 the temperature extremes.
The low was normal.
The high was below normal.
Now tomorrow we're going to shoot for at least closer to normal for the high.
Wish us luck.
Let's look at the watering.
With all these clouds that we've had, the watering demand hasn't been there but if you
need to, tomorrow's watering is a square, numbers 33 through 99, the last two digits
in your address if your lawn needs it.
But if you think it can stretch out a few more days, give the reservoirs a rest.
Alright, let's take a look now at the satellite picture in close on the Pacific Northwest,
just Washington and Oregon right now.
We can see a few scattered clouds but we've done an awfully good job of getting a lot
of the low clouds and marine air, at least the cloudy part of the marine air, out of
here this evening.
So we'll say partly cloudy skies around the Puget Sound area this evening and most of
the Pacific Northwest, most of the clouds are off to our Northwest.
Here's what's going on from the satellite picture a little earlier this evening, large
area of high pressure over the Pacific, a normal situation this time of year, a big
low, pool of cool air over Canada.
All the weather's going between these two things at this point.
We'll put the satellite in motion.
By the way, this is Hurricane Jova moving around down here slowly to the west.
You see storms going over this high in a hump like this.
It looks like the ridging will build in and kick these things and keep them up in British
Columbia.
Bad for them, good for us.
At least we hope to get a little more sunshine distributed in our area.
Now let's go to the Far East if you have some travel plans.
Typhoon Kerry is just beginning to move into Luzon.
The Luzon portion of the Philippine Islands should stay north of the Manila area if you're
traveling over in that direction.
84, a summertime reading at noontime in Tokyo, 72 at Beijing, Hong Kong 77 at Ho Chi Minh
City, formerly Saigon, 79.
Wintertime down at Sydney, but warmer than they were yesterday.
It's 62 with cloudy skies there.
Now we'll look at the middle western portion of the United States.
Hot and muggy conditions in the southeast and the leading edge is some cool air, cold
front moving along, some really powerful thunderstorms in here this evening from Wisconsin down into
Illinois and even parts of Missouri.
A couple of small tornadoes caused some minor damage in parts of Wisconsin.
Watches for severe weather out for northern Illinois this evening.
This line will continue to move tomorrow.
If you have some travel plans across the United States, the southeast warm and muggy and scattered
showers and thundershowers ahead of that cool front, some probably pretty strong thunderstorms
developing once again by tomorrow evening in the central part of the nation, Indiana,
Ohio, parts of Kentucky and Tennessee.
The rest of the U.S. looks pretty good.
Temperature wise, kind of warm and steamy from the east coast all the way down in the
south.
Hundreds expected in central Texas, also the desert southwest will be about seasonal for
this time of year.
The marine forecast, because of rough bar conditions, small craft advisories on the
coast, everybody else no flags out.
The strongest winds in the inland waters will be north of the Everett area.
Alright, here's the forecast then.
Partly cloudy overnight tonight.
I've reduced that from variably cloudy to partly cloudy.
I'm optimistic.
Mid-50s to low-50s for overnight lows.
Chiliest conditions, if you can call 50s chilly, will be down in the south sound area.
Becoming mostly sunny tomorrow, there might be a few scattered morning low clouds.
Mid-70s for the high at best.
You may not all get up that warm, but if we get enough sun in the afternoon, that's something
nice to shoot for anyway.
Variable winds 5 to 15.
Getting ahead the rest of the week looks equally as good.
I suspect by the middle of the week we may pick up an extra cloud or two.
Most of that stuff, with any disturbances floating across, will be up in British Columbia
and not down here.
So temperatures about seasonal for this time of year.
Not bad.
We'll take it.
Okay.
Thanks, John.
I'll cross your fingers.
Yeah, that's right.
Thanks, John.
Finally, today was the day Elvis fans remembered their man.
And with so much publicity, it's hard to forget that 10 years ago this king of rock and roll
died.
And so in Memphis early today, his ever faithful fans, thousands of them, walked past the singer's
grave at his home in Graceland.
Some holding flowers, almost all holding candles.
Presley was just 42 when he died a decade ago.
And that's Eyewitness News.
We thank you for joining us.
The locker room show is next and the CBS Sunday night news following that.
And though it has been a rather tragic day, what with all the plane crashes and the plane
fires, we wanted to leave you with music of a happier time by a man who's not been forgotten
even 10 years later.
We'll see you next weekend.
Have a good night.
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