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It looks like water problems may force the eviction of the second largest tenant in Kansas City's river market.
As Bev Chapman tells us, developers are going to court next week in an effort to remove a Chinese grocery store and restaurant
they say is leaking on the Riverboat Museum.
It is the largest Chinese grocery in Kansas City,
and operators say they'll fight efforts to kick them out.
We will stay, no matter what.
This is the problem.
This summer, water rained down from the Chinese grocery to the Steamboat Arabia Museum below.
Museum owners say it's coming from clogged drains, leaking coolers, and fish tanks,
threatening priceless river history artifacts.
They gotta get me more evidence to say it's my fault, but I don't think it's my fault.
Cheng says the blame belongs to the landlords, RiverMark Adventure.
He hired an engineer and a plumber whose reports say the problem is the 100-year-old building whose roof leaks when it rains.
Rainwater generally, of course, doesn't smell like fishy water.
The report also says leaks and accidents are customary in groceries and restaurants.
Within the building itself, there are three other restaurants that are located over the Arabia, none of which has produced a leak.
The museum hired its own lawyers and went to court to stop the leaks.
Museum operators say there have been more water problems in the last six weeks, but not nearly as bad as when the leaks first began.
Visitors won't notice the damage. Displays have been changed.
But many of these items are one of a kind, and when they're damaged, they're history.
We cannot tolerate future leaks. It's too detrimental to the artifacts.
It takes a lot of our time, and it just has to stop.
Bev Chapman, KNBC 9 News.
The Umar, by the way, has 19 years left on a 20-year lease with the RiverMarket.
Operators say they would consider relocating in that area if the developers are willing to pay for the move.
Federal authorities tonight are beginning an investigation into that fatal explosion yesterday of a chemical storage plant.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration says it could be days, maybe weeks, before it issues findings.
The agency says it will not only look for a cause of the explosion at ChemTech Distribution,
but will also be looking for any safety violations. Three people were killed in that explosion.
Did professionals firebomb the Roma Bakery? That's a question police are trying to answer tonight.
The 64-year-old Kansas City landmark was destroyed by fire on Monday.
No one was injured, but damage is estimated at nearly a half million dollars.
Today, investigators continued sifting through rubble for clues.
One man who retired from the bakery after 30 years says the neighborhood fixture will be missed.
They had a beautiful bend, a clean bend.
It hurt. Even if I don't have nothing to do, it hurt to me.
If you have information about the fire that might help, call the TIPS hotline at 474-TIPS.
And a call to the TIPS hotline led to this man's arrest after we showed you his picture last night.
The police tell us they arrested the 25-year-old Kansas City man at 33rd and Warwick.
He allegedly robbed the Citgo gas station at 40 Highway and Chrysler.
Enfield say he may have robbed two other stores in the same area.
Well, it's the most successful opening of school since the beginning of the magnet themes.
At least that's the assessment of Kansas City School Superintendent Dr. Walter Marks.
Marks says after years of terrible starts, this relatively successful one should show people the district is improving.
I would say we are probably close to a B plus. I don't think we're, I'm not totally pleased.
I'm not going to be pleased until we get all the glitches out of transportation and all of the glitches out of the late enrollment center.
Marks says the district needs to work on ways to make the wait at that enrollment center,
which can drag on for hours in some cases, more comfortable for parents.
For parents dealing with problems, these first two days of school have been very traumatic.
Take Arlenda Moffitt, for example. She registered her two sons early and has made calls for three weeks trying to get transportation settled for them.
But as Peggy Bright shows us, it all wasn't settled until this afternoon.
It's really a car, but Arlenda Moffitt feels like she drives a bus.
Despite her best efforts, she hasn't been able to get transportation set up for her boys, so she's been driving them.
And it's driving her crazy.
You have to do your best to work with everybody. And they say keep calling. Well, I've been calling for three weeks.
She's also made plenty of face-to-face visits to the schools.
This is Faxon Montessori, where three-year-old Chasen goes to school.
Well, we can check on my list inside.
You checked on yesterday, you told me to come back today.
But luck was with Chasen today because of something called an add-on slip.
I can ride a slip and he'll be right on the bus and then that's done.
That's one chair, one more to go.
Moments later, Chasen arrived at his daycare.
But Arlenda has another challenge, this one to correct five-year-old Chad's bus problems.
Arlenda tried the principal's office but got no answer.
She found what she needed when she found a transportation supervisor.
Okay, I will walk you into the school and take care of it.
Okay.
So back into the school they went. They got the right paperwork this time.
Bye.
And Chad got on to the right bus.
It was a long day for Arlenda but satisfying.
Oh, I feel relieved.
Okay, bus transportation from L, no longer.
Now Arlenda and the boys hope it's all settled in time for school tomorrow.
Peggy Bright, KMDC 9 News.
By the way, Peggy tells us Chad made it to the daycare center just fine.
Now Arlenda can get back to her classes.
She had to take a couple days off.
Well, first it was Bill Clinton. Now President Bush is coming to town this week.
Mr. Bush will attend a fundraising luncheon in Kansas City on Friday.
Then it's on to Excelsior Springs to inspect a Job Corps center.
Mr. Bush also plans on the same day a stop in Joplin.
Meantime, the Republicans are launching a major offensive against Bill Clinton tonight,
this time against the Democrats' draft record.
Mike Goldfein from our exclusive Washington Bureau has more.
Republicans are convinced that many Americans are still uncomfortable
with Bill Clinton's accounting of his draft record.
In a blatant attempt to turn that into an advantage,
the Bush quail campaign today enlisted some of America's most respected former military officers.
And from the evidence, it certainly involves a very careful web of manipulation, deception, and a subsequent cover-up.
It would appear to me that he worked pretty hard to manipulate the system.
Governor Clinton maintains that while a Rhodes Scholar in England,
he received an induction notice which the draft board agreed to postpone in order to let him finish school.
Returning to Arkansas, he joined an ROTC program again to stay in school,
but then decided to enter the draft lottery.
I was relieved that year when I saw that my number was 311,
not because I didn't want to serve my country,
but because I believed so strongly that our policy in Vietnam was wrong.
The problem became more sticky when new charges were raised
that his uncle tried to shield him from the draft.
I can tell you this, I have told the truth about my draft strategy.
Let's cut through the Rhodes Scholar fluff and call it what it is.
He was trying to cover his butt as best he saw it.
The White House is desperate to move the debate away from the economy,
and they're hoping this issue will catch fire and do to Bill Clinton what Willie Horton did to Michael Dukakis.
Some suggest it may backfire, since Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney also had a draft deferment,
and Vice President Dan Quayle used family influence to get into the National Guard.
And because many Americans think the economy is a bigger problem now than what Bill Clinton did 23 years ago.
Mike Goldfein, KMBC 9 News, Washington.
By the way, the Bush-Quayle campaign is also planning TV ads,
which will call into question Bill Clinton's honesty on this issue.
Looks like this race is getting tighter.
The latest ABC poll gives Bill Clinton a 12-point lead over President Bush among likely voters,
but just last week the governor's lead was 20 percent.
The polls suggest President Bush is picking up support from independents who had been undecided
and from Republicans who had gone over to the Democratic side.
It also looks like Vice President Dan Quayle is becoming a TV pitch man.
You've undoubtedly heard by now about his feud with TV character Murphy Brown.
Well, after appearing on a Los Angeles morning talk show, Mr. Quayle agreed to tape a promotional spot for,
you guessed it, Murphy Brown, which appears on the station.
Here's how it looked.
Everyone loves Murphy Brown.
And what is your favorite television program?
Murphy Brown on Channel 5.
Not.
Quayle has criticized that TV program because its title character had a baby out of wedlock.
One of the only good things about filing a tax return is getting a refund.
Now the new electronic filing has allowed some taxpayers to get their money much quicker.
However, a rule change in 1994 could change that.
Last year 11 million people filed their tax returns electronically.
Some refunds are mailed.
Some are deposited directly into bank accounts, but some people get loans in advance of their refunds.
Those refund anticipation loans, or RALs, are available in days.
However, in 1994, the IRS will no longer tell tax preparers if returns are eligible for direct deposit.
That could affect the speed of refunds.
By doing away with providing repairs without authorization,
they are going to make it much more difficult to obtain quick loans.
And this will have a potential negative impact on some of our RAL business in 1994,
if it goes through as the IRS currently planned.
Those refund anticipation loans are between the taxpayer and the financial institution.
We're not really involved in them at all.
And it may, you know, depends on what the preparers do.
If they raise their fees or, you know, don't offer it,
then, you know, it's really all up in the air.
The IRS says it's making this change because it wants to eliminate fraud.
Some people aren't eligible for direct deposit because they owe money from old tax bills
and overdue student loans, for example.
Last year the IRS authorized more than $27 million worth of refunds it shouldn't have.
Next month the agency will be sitting down and talking with the big tax preparers to discuss all these changes.
Coming up later, would you pay more for a car than your house?
Plus, we'll tell you what to do with those autumn leaves coming soon.
And next, door-to-door doctors on tonight's Health Watch.
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If they don't have access to regular health care, bring health care to them.
That's the idea behind a 50-foot mobile van that pulled into Kansas City this week.
Tonight, Health Watch reporter Kelly Eckerman takes us inside the CARA van
parked near the College of Osteopathic Medicine.
From the outside, it's just a brightly painted van. It's what's on the inside that sets it apart.
A mobile medical clinic offering free health screenings to the public, checking everything from cholesterol to lungs.
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This man is new to Kansas City and hasn't seen a doctor in a while.
Well, I had a cholesterol problem, and I've kind of been trying to watch my diet,
and I thought it might be a good opportunity just to get it checked once again to see if it's improved any.
The osteopathic physician staffing the van say they've seen a wide variety of patients.
Everything from street people to people who are out of work and don't have insurance, to the elderly,
those who have barriers to health care services.
The CARA van is a project of the American Osteopathic Association.
It's been traveling the country for 15 months, serving an average of 100 people a day.
For more than 70 percent of the people taking advantage of these services,
doctors are finding a need for some follow-up care.
But what happens to the patients when the van rolls out of town? Where do they turn for help then?
We not only screen and say, gee, you're fine, or gee, you've got a problem,
but here is the nature of that problem, and you need to see somebody right away,
and here's a telephone number to call at the VA, or here's a doctor who will see you.
While the caravan is in the final leg of its tour, a plan is underway to carry on the spirit of the project.
The College of Osteopathic Medicine here in Kansas City is now recruiting volunteers
to offer free clinic hours one evening a week for those in need.
Kelly Eckerman, KMBC 9, Health Watch.
And should you want to take advantage of the caravan,
it will be parked outside the College of Osteopathic Medicine in Kansas City tomorrow from 9 to 4.
On Saturday, it moves to Park Lane Medical Center, offering the free health screenings there from 10 until 4.
More than two weeks after Hurricane Andrew devastated parts of Florida,
and we have new charges of insurance price gouging.
With tens of thousands of homes destroyed, Florida's insurance commissioner says
many companies saw it as a chance to raise rates.
The commissioner is now freezing the premiums of several companies who do business in the state.
And this may look like just another volleyball game,
but it's really another way to aid the victims of Hurricane Andrew.
This is a fundraising match between the faculties at Piper and Arrowhead Middle Schools over on the Kansas side.
Admission was a buck. The goal was to raise $1,000, all of it going to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.
Good cause. Still ahead, George Brett pursues number 3,000.
Dave has a progress report. And when was the last time you went to the circus?
We will take you to the greatest show on Earth.
Three rings.
Three rings. Mother Nature was putting on quite a show last night.
Lightning in about three different parts of the sky.
It's all down to the south of us, Dave, and we're gonna be able to dry out.
We'll have your forecast after this. Stay with us.
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Just some weird and wacky stuff earlier today, wouldn't you say?
I'm correct, sir.
We had a few showers and thunderstorms mainly kind of brushed through the southern part of the Kansas City metropolitan area
and farther to the south, a few thunderstorm watches and some tornado watches.
And the buzzers are going off in the weather center.
We'll probably have to tell you what that is.
It's probably mainly down to the south of us. It does not affect the immediate Kansas City metro area.
At least the fingers are crossed here.
Remember this? Desert Storm Celebration at Richards-Gabauer Air Force Base in Missouri.
This one taken by Darrell Littler of Belton, Missouri.
Nice photograph. We use it as a backdrop.
And I'll also use this to look over and see what's going on in the weather center, but it does not affect us.
That's good. 62 degrees right now.
Humidity, about 72 percent.
North winds at 9. Pressure 30 inches even and rising. Our high 83.
Lows are present. We're gonna cool down much more than that later on tonight.
Weather watchers are reporting some fairly comfortable readings, especially out in the boonies.
Look at this. Jamie Lavin and Gardner are already down to 57 degrees.
Other side of the metro area, Terry Meisenhalter and Smithville are already down to 58, 69 in Independence.
About 70 degrees coming in from Cindy Nelson in Overland Park.
About 57, as I said, in Gardner. 63 degrees down in Paola.
Now we do have a few thunderstorms popping up and that's what the bells were for.
Looks like they put a new severe thunderstorm watch area down for Oklahoma, parts of Arkansas,
the southern tier of Missouri. That's where the thunderstorms currently are lining up.
Just safe to the northwest of St. Louis through the middle of the state,
then going down toward the Arkansas state line.
And they will continue to press to the south and east. Not much in the way beyond that.
But earlier today, quite a bit of noise, specifically St. Clair County, their Osceola, a little before 6 o'clock.
Golf ball size hails reported they were also under a tornado warning for a little bit of time.
No confirmation on a touchdown with that particular storm.
Here's the big picture though. You can see some thunderstorms dying out here.
Then it looks like the energy kind of moves right down the cold front itself.
So through southern Illinois, most of Missouri, going down toward southeast parts of Kansas,
and even Oklahoma, that's where the new battleground will be to the north and west of that.
Cooler air begins to wedge on in. Big strong area of high pressure currently sits down in Canada.
With clockwise circulation, that means our winds will be out of the north.
Good news for us, we'll be able to dry out and the humidities will be lower.
There is something else just now appearing on our weather map that could give us a chance of rain as we go toward the weekend.
But tonight, emphasis will be on chilly. Look at these lows, 46 in Chillicothe, 54 when you wake up in Sedalia,
at least somewhat about 50 degrees even. And then for sunshine, that's what you can look forward to toward the afternoon on Thursday.
Winds primarily light. Temperatures a lot cooler than they were today.
Instead of the 80s, and the sticky stuff, we'll be in the 70s and that will be awfully comfortable for this time of year.
Forecast for the overnight hours could be near a record, 49 degrees for the low northwest winds up to 15 miles an hour,
dying down before dawn. Sunshine tomorrow, less humid, not very warm either compared to today.
High temperature, 72. Northwest winds at 5 to 10. Looking toward Thursday night, it'll be falling to fall-like,
low 45 degrees on Friday, slightly warmer, back up to near 80 degrees.
This weekend is the MS-150, and they're going to have fairly good weather.
It's going to get warmer, going to get windy, that's what they don't like.
83 on Saturday, chance of stray thunderstorms on Sunday, high of 87, and clouds on Monday with a high of 84 degrees.
You can say we, you're writing in that again, aren't you?
Yes, sir.
Okay, we'll keep track on that and all the weather. Thanks, Brian.
Autumn is coming, which begs the question, what to do with all those falling leaves?
One option is a compost bin for just $3. That is for all of you who use Kansas City's five recycling drop-off centers.
This weekend through October 11th, you can pick up order forms for the bins at the five drop-off sites.
There will also be information on how to compost. The sites, in case you're wondering, are located at 48th and Troost,
83rd and Indiana, 9th and Van Brunt, Antioch Mall, and Metro North Mall.
The centers are open from 8 until 4 Saturday through Sunday.
If you're not going to be composting this week, you can run away and join the circus,
or at least you can watch the greatest show on Earth.
Kemper Arena is being transformed into the big top for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.
Parade of animals circled the three rings tonight, along with the daring young women on the flying trapeze.
That's one of them, anyway. The clowns and much, much more. The merriment continues through Sunday.
Will this be the night Robin Yonk goes into the baseball record books?
Dave's next with that story. And later, you better hurry if you want to get your hands on one of these babies.
Stay with us.
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Dave's in for one tonight and doing a little Robin watching, huh?
Little bird watching?
You had to hope that he was going to get it. They go out of town. Exactly.
They go out of town for the next week. You'd like George and Brad to get it at Royal Stadium.
It was inevitable that it was going to happen, but you wanted to do it at home.
Sure.
It happened.
It was a big crowd.
The burning question for Robin Yatt was not if, but when.
Rockin' Robbins threw to the 9 just a single-hitch high of 3,000.
He could get it in front of the home folk in a final game with Cleveland.
Batting in the bottom of the eighth inning, Robin was 0-3 with a couple of strikeouts.
Jose Mesa still on the mound. He came with a heater and Yatt was ready.
Into right center field, that was career hit number 3,000.
About 40,000 folks were there to enjoy the moment.
Yatt showed up every night at his home stand, brief as it was,
and they finally saw history for Brewer happen tonight.
Not that it matters much. Milwaukee does lead that game 4-3 in the eighth inning.
Yatt is the 17th player ever to get 3,000 hits in a career before Robin Rod Carew was the most recent back in 1985.
With a Yatt count history, Royals fans can now focus on Brett's quest.
George went into the final game with Toronto needing 22 more.
Talk about powerball, bottom of the first inning.
David Cohn on the mound, George breaded bat. How about that?
Chalk went up for Mr. Rockhurst. High school down and away, got it with a bender.
George had to take a seat. Top of two, trouble for Kevin Apier again in a jam early with Maldonado at second.
Alfredo Griffin knocked a single to center field. A good throw from McCray would get him, but check it out.
It was way up the line, 1-0 Toronto. Apier, by the way, reported with inflammation in his right shoulder.
He will not make the trip with the teammates tomorrow.
Coney was on the rock spot of the seventh inning, but Kozlowski hit a rocket right back to Cohn with two out and two on.
Kozlowski also made the final out of the game as the Blue Jays shut out Kansas City for the second consecutive night.
George Brett is now 0 for his last 12. He remains at 2,978 hits.
Toronto began the night two and a half games in front of the O's. Baltimore was home tonight to the Yankees.
Boy talk about the penitentiary really getting to the O's and Coach Rick Dempsey,
they were not singing a happy tune though in the fourth inning of play.
A couple along for the right and Randy Velarde launched one, a three run shot to left field,
and you could just watch it go over 5-2 New York over Baltimore.
Other scores involving contenders, Minnesota beat the Mariners 6-2 out west at Anaheim,
nothing doing in the second. The A's need a one to protect their four game advantage.
National side, the West best invited the challengers to town. It was Cincinnati and Atlanta.
This game was all about the Bravos. First hitting two on for ex-Royal Lonnie Smith,
and do it with me, deep to left field and go on a three run shot.
Atlanta, that ballgame may never end. It's 12-7 in the eighth inning of play.
Updating the contenders in the national East for you, Pittsburgh now leads Montreal by 5-4 games.
You see it there, 13-8 and 10-3.
Baseball has a quasi-commission tonight. Milwaukee owner Bud Selig will fill the void
until the permanent replacement is named for the departed Faye Vincent.
Selig was the main player, enforcing Faye out of the picture entirely.
Talking about high school football, winning Tonka was a long-shotted best coming into the new season.
The Griffins won just a single game in 1991, but our Channel 9 McDonald's Team of the Week
equaled that opening night. Tonka held Blue Springs South to six yards rushing.
The offensive part of the picture was just as dominant. The Wishbone O in its second season there
wrapped up at a 42-12 win. Gee, the players must have been reading coaches' mind.
We didn't say this to the kids, but if we'd started out and not won our first game,
it would have been difficult because a big part of being successful is believing in yourself
and that gave us the confidence that we know we can play football.
We got a new motto this year, it's run, hit and celebrate.
Right off the bat we took them down and we're all happy and we were going on it.
Well it seems in the past year that people went out and they said they wanted to win,
but it seems in their heart they really didn't and this year after two down seasons we really wanted to come out
and have something to talk about for our senior year.
So congratulations to our very first Team of the Week, the Griffins have won at Tonka
with today's presentation. Lisa Essek from McDonald's. Lisa?
Coach, on behalf of the Heart of America McDonald's restaurants and KMBC-TV,
we're proud to present this plaque to you for being named the High School Football Patrol Team of the Week.
Lisa. Thank you.
You know it's funny how athletics kind of goes in cycles.
At one time they were a pretty powerful school, they dipped the last couple of years,
but that entire group was thrilled for us to get there. Maybe they're back.
Maybe they're back. Thanks David. Good start.
If you're shopping for a car, we've got just the one for you next,
but first tonight's winning lottery numbers, good luck.
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Okay, there's this game and they have all these ping-pong balls with numbers, okay?
And they bounce around in this thing and they go up into this deal where you see the first seven numbers in order, okay?
And if you match those numbers, you win $25,000. And if nobody wins, it builds up each week.
They do this on TV every Monday and they have a pick five and six, too.
And you know what it's called? No, it's called Win a Fortune.
And you know how much it costs to play? Nothing.
And you know where to get the cards? Food Barn. Yeah, Food Barn now.
Watch it Monday during Oprah, right here on Channel 9.
Finally tonight there's a new car on the market, but it's probably not something we're all gonna rush out and buy,
at least not unless we've got an extra $138,500 lying around somewhere.
That's the price of this little beauty. Go ahead, laugh.
Laugh away, kids. Somebody has it.
This is the new Rolls-Royce Bentley Brooklands.
The car features the latest in computer technology.
In fact, this computer will make decisions on everything from suspension to air conditioning.
Probably even tell it where you want it to drop you off. That'll be fine.
Rolls says the cars are aimed at the successful businessman.
We should say the extremely successful businessman. Only about $400 will be made a year.
One reserve for each of you already.
Only two are going to be bought.
Each year, one I think can make $400. Somebody will buy them.
$138,500. Clear and cool in the morning.
53 degrees. Sunny and pleasant in the afternoon. I heard that, Dave.
72 will be the high. Ride that all the way, the MS-150? Maybe that.
Yes. Keep peddling, folks. That's our news for tonight.
Thanks for joining us, Cosby's next follow-up by Golden Girls and Mash.
Don't forget first news tomorrow morning at 6. Good night.
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Also, they are fast becoming the hottest trading cards and they're helping battle crime as well.
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