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This is News Center 4, the 11 p.m. edition with John Schubeck, Stu Nahan Sports, Pat
Sajak Weather, and Robin Groth with the Nightside Report.
Now here is John Schubeck.
Thank you very much, Don Stanley.
Good evening, everybody.
The death toll continues to climb tonight from a spectacular head-on collision of two
passenger buses in Mexico last night.
There are now as many as 42 dead, another 40 injured.
That crash happened on Highway 2 about 25 miles east of the border town of San Luis.
Two Mexican passenger buses smashed into one another when they tried, one of them at least
did, to avoid hitting a stalled truck.
Today all that was left was a smoking skeleton of the two buses on the side of the highway.
The heat during the accident was so intense, some of the bodies may have been completely
consumed.
Some of the survivors arrived in San Diego today to tell the grim story of what happened.
The roads were wet.
It just stopped raining.
It was fairly clear.
But they just drove like hell anyway, you know, and it just seemed like it was bound
to happen, all the accidents that we saw on the way down, left and right.
Did you hit a BW just before the...
No we didn't.
No we didn't.
You didn't.
We were just parked on the side of the road.
The bus came out real quick to pass and we hit, you know, both right hand corners, I
mean left hand corners of the buses, yeah.
There was really no way to avoid it then?
No there's no way to avoid it.
It happened too quick.
Like I say, our bus driver should have slowed down when he saw that truck pulled over on
the side of the road for the first place.
But he did not?
No.
No.
It was too fast.
He never even had a chance.
None of the Americans aboard the bus have been reported as dead, but identification is
slow, many have of course been burned beyond recognition.
The Dean of the World's High Wire Artists, 73 year old Carl Wallenda, today lost his
life when he confronted a strong gust of wind on a wire in Puerto Rico.
Wallenda had been cheating death this way for more than half a century.
Today he was promoting a circus ten stories up between two high rise buildings in San
Juan.
The event was being televised in Spanish as a gust of wind proved too much for Wallenda
to handle.
Despite the fact that five members of the Wallenda family have now been killed in falls,
Carl Wallenda's nephew, Stephen Wallenda, walked a wire over the animal cages of the
Oakland Zoo today, just three hours after his uncle was killed.
No plans to change his line of work.
Police in Arcadia tonight are asking the public for help in locating a two and a half year
old boy named Roberto Sanchez.
Little Roberto was with his mother at the Santa Anita race track today in the paddock
area when somehow Roberto was taken away by an older woman.
Roberto was last seen wearing a blue jacket with green shirt and green pants.
The woman described as being between 50 and 60 years of age wearing a white raincoat and
also transparent rain boots.
Anyone with any information on the boy is asked to call the police in Arcadia.
When we come back tonight, a report on the talks between President Carter and Prime Minister
Begum.
They didn't go well and we'll be able to see that in their faces tonight.
There were some embarrassed faces in Los Angeles today on the people behind the so-called reunion
of the Beatles.
First, this time off.
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Do your own income tax again, Harry?
You bet.
I went to H&R Block.
Block?
What?
Block finds ways to save I never would.
Uh, like uh...
Like cutting 300 right off my tax bill because I paid for the babysitter so my wife could
work.
300?
What they know can save you dough.
Bye, Harry.
Oh, uh, could I have that back, please?
We could save you money.
That's my number one reason why we should prepare your taxes.
Pope Paul appears to be recovering from a bout with the flu, though canceling his regular
Wednesday audience.
The pontiff did appear at his studio window today and he is expected now to offer mass
once again on Easter Sunday.
President Carter and the Israeli Prime Minister Begin parted company in Washington today,
apparently as far apart as ever on any Middle East peace formula.
More on the story tonight from Hillary Brown.
From everything the two leaders said today, it was clear that the talks over the past
two days went nowhere.
In his farewell statement, President Carter repeated the U.S. position that Israel must
withdraw from the West Bank of the Jordan River if it wants to make peace.
I emphasize to him the importance of reaffirming that all of the principles of Security Council
Resolution 242 must apply to all fronts if peace negotiations are to succeed.
Begin implied that this would lead to the destruction of Israel by referring to the
charter of the PLO.
Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document
to the effect that it must disappear.
Begin added that Israel had played its part in the peace effort by submitting what he
called a positive peace plan.
He repeated this later in a working lunch with Secretary of State Vance.
Afterward, Vance conceded that the two sides simply had not been able to resolve their
differences.
There are reasons for optimism in southern Lebanon tonight.
The United Nations peacekeeping troops have begun moving into position and except for
a scattered gunfire, all sides appear to be observing the truce.
Prime Minister Begin meantime remains in Washington.
Tomorrow morning he'll be interviewed during a 30-minute NBC News special beginning at
9 a.m. here on Channel 4.
Reports of a Beatles reunion in Los Angeles yesterday went up in a puff of publicity today
at a news conference in Beverly Hills.
Boyd Mattson reports.
A telegram had been sent to the members of the news media saying rock stars George Harrison
and Rod Stewart would be present at the Beverly Hills Hotel today to announce a significant
musical and cultural event.
The rumors had been flying that involved was a Beatles reunion for a benefit concert in
Los Angeles.
Dozens of camera crews, still photographers, scores of reporters were on hand expecting
something very big to happen.
As the speakers took the stand for the news conference, it was apparent things weren't
going to be quite as big as expected.
There was no sign of Harrison or Stewart and it was not much longer before the rumors of
the Beatles getting together again was officially put to an end.
The news conference was to announce a concert to be held in Los Angeles on May 27th and
the 8th featuring top rock and roll performers in a benefit to aid the interspeak organization
in their fight to protect whales, dolphins and porpoises.
What we are trying to do is focus worldwide attention through the universal language of
music on the problems of the oceans, the problems of the Cetacea in general.
Concert organizers talked about a lot of musicians who were supporting their efforts, but the
organizers had to admit they had no one definitely signed to appear.
Project interspeak is not in the business of putting the Beatles back together.
What happened yesterday was like some premature press which didn't come from our office project
interspeak.
The organizers said within a week they will have the major star signed to appear and an
announcement will be made.
They blamed the Beatles rumor as the reason for the delay in the plans being finalized.
Right now they say Ringo Starr will emcee the event.
Fleetwood Mac George Harrison Eric Clapton and numerous others may appear, but you just
have to wait to find out.
From Beverly Hills Boyd Matson, News Center 4.
Most people more than likely have never heard the name Sonora Dodd.
Yet the annual observance she sparked in Spokane, Washington June 5, 1910 is still very much
with us.
Ms. Dodd thought a lot of her dad believed he deserved a good deal of credit when as
a Civil War veteran he raised six children on his own after his wife died.
The idea of honoring her father gained in popularity and in 1924 President Wilson made
it official.
Third Sunday in June would be Father's Day.
Today Sonora Dodd died at a nursing home in Spokane at the age of 96.
Next up tonight, problems created by today's rain.
Pat Sajak has the forecast coming up and bright sign of better days ahead.
Let's hope after this.
Fill her up, fella.
Oh, I mean, Ms. or Ms. put in whatever Murph recommends.
Right, 76 unleaded.
Unleaded?
In my car?
Sure, 76 unleaded is the gasoline with spirit.
Is that so?
It's the cleaner air gasoline for most cars that run on regular.
Everything okay, Mr. Ruggles?
Yeah, about this girl.
I mean, Ms.
So?
Yeah, like her spirit, Murph.
Go with the spirit, the spirit of 76.
Signore, with all those fantastic Italian sports cars, why did you buy a Volkswagen
Scirocco?
La più bella macchina mai vista.
Meravigliosa, fantastica.
We can see it's beautiful, but what makes a Scirocco so great?
La velocità, la manegiabilità.
The speed, the handling, the performance, that's why you bought a Volkswagen Scirocco.
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March, we don't know a thing about the schools there.
Philadelphia's a leading educational center.
There are 197 elementary schools, 15 middle schools, and 22 high schools.
How do you know all that?
I read the Beacon Survival Guide.
It tells you all about the city you're moving to.
Sweet dreams, Erwin.
Marge?
I have a headache, Erwin.
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We're in the Yellow Pages.
The search for a 14-year-old boy who fell into the San Gabriel River in Norwalk at 5
o'clock this evening was called off tonight.
Search for Jimmy Ferravallo will resume tomorrow morning, though.
It's all too painfully familiar to us here in the Los Angeles area, flooded streets,
mudslides, and the rain-caused traffic accidents.
That's what's happening today as our rainy season continued.
In Sun Valley, part of Glen Oaks Boulevard was closed down by a mudslide near Lanark
Street.
There were also numerous minor slides along Foothill Boulevard and Leetooth Canyon Road
in that same general area.
Cleanup crews worked from slide to slide, clearing most of those slides in a few hours.
Los Angeles City engineers kept a close watch on the Verdugo Hill Cemetery in Tohunga today,
place where 30 corpses slid down the hill from that cemetery into a residential neighborhood
during one of the recent heavy rains.
Some of those remains are still missing, but there was no new slippage today.
And in Malibu, some large ground pumps have been set up to suck the water out of the hillsides
where some apartment buildings are in danger of sliding off the hill.
More than $6 million worth of property along a six-mile stretch of the Malibu is in danger
of falling victim to the slides.
Pat Sajak, we had a lot of action tonight in the weather.
You're going to show us a picture of what it really was.
Beautiful rainbow.
Yeah, some good and some bad to talk about.
You know, last night we sat here talking about a gradual end of the showers.
As we were doing that, a low-pressure trough was forming off the coast.
It moved in during the overnight hours and suddenly the light showers weren't quite so
light.
It was just that low as it sat right on our part of the state this morning.
Out in the Pacific there is a lot of low cloudiness up off Oregon and Northern California, but
farther out on the extreme left of your picture is a cold front, the tail end of which will
move through here tomorrow afternoon and evening.
That could mean additional showers.
But before we talk about what we might have, here's what we have.