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arrested for spying, accused of raising money for terrorists. Thanks for choosing us everyone.
I'm Katie Ramel. And I'm John Dupree. Good evening everybody. I'm in for Jonathan Elias.
ABC 15's Christopher Sign live tonight. Christopher, we understand this man was actually a member
of the U.S. Navy. He sure was John. And federal agents say he was sending emails to extremist
groups like the Taliban in Al-Qaeda. The 31-year-old whose name was Paul Hall changed his name
to Hassan Abu Jihad. Allegedly, he also tried to put U.S. citizens in harm's way. The Osama
bin Laden sympathizer, according to the FBI, lived here inside this North Phoenix apartment
near I-17. Those in the home and his neighbors had no comment. But FBI agents had plenty
to say about the man who allegedly provided details to the Taliban in Al-Qaeda about U.S.
Navy battle group movements in the Persian Gulf. Hassan Abu Jihad investigators say sent
emails while aboard the USS Benfold to Jihad extremists about military plans and locations.
He provided material support, intending that that support would be used in preparation
for a conspiracy to kill United States nationals. Investigators say Abu Jihad, formerly known
as Paul Hall, funneled money and information via the Internet to support those engaged
in acts of terrorism. FBI agents say the 31-year-old, while in the Navy, even expressed support
for terrorists involved in the USS Cole bombing. Investigators also say the sailor was busted
with sensitive information he was sending to California and the Taliban in the Middle
East. He also delivered classified information relating to national defense to persons that
were not entitled to such information. Abu Jihad is now on his way to Connecticut to
face a federal judge and it appears as though another man arrested on similar charges tipped
off investigators in London of the situation. Reporting live, Christopher Sign, ABC 15 News,
your Valley News Leader. Alright, thanks Christopher. Meantime, some difficult news out of Iraq
tonight. It is. An Arizona National Guardsman killed by a roadside bomb. Staff Sergeant
Darrell Cassand from Florence was a Guardsman for the past 20 years. He worked at the Department
of Corrections for 18 of those years. His coworkers tell us he always went above and
beyond the call of duty. This is someone who's very near and dear not only to the department
but his community in Arizona and it's a good reminder of just how much these guys and gals
are really giving up. Cassand was 43 years old. He's the 100th Arizona service member
to be killed in Iraq. Meantime, Governor Janet Napolitano is over there in the Middle East
making an unannounced trip to Iraq. A direct invitation from Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
Napolitano talked to us today saying the visit gave her a better perspective as commander
of the State National Guard. See how they're doing. See how their equipment is holding
up. They're training. See how their spirits are. Napolitano returns home Sunday but for
security reasons did not tell us where she'll spend the rest of her trip. 1500 of Arizona's
National Guardsmen are deployed in the Middle East, in Iraq, Kuwait, and Afghanistan. ABC
15's Karen Shaler is spending the past couple of weeks with our guard. You can see her blogs,
pictures, and stories on ABC15.com. The murders of three babies finally solved tonight as
a babysitter is convicted of killing all of them 17 years ago. These murders all happening
in 1989, each one several months apart. Then all three were ruled Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
Years later forensic pathologists have determined all three were probably suffocated. As I was
told that Jordan was dead and I was informed of the first baby's death, I knew that she
was guilty. So for the past almost 18 years I've been pursuing this. So this is a huge
moment in our lives. Amy Lynn Scott will be sentenced May 4th. Her attorney wants a new
trial saying each death should have been tried separately. In another case in the valley
a 13 year old found dead in an alley and we're learning tonight her best friend watched but
says she was not allowed to help. A new police report shows Brenda Wynn died of alcohol poisoning.
Four adults arrested for failing to help her. Wynn's best friend, 14 year old Arlene Cota
says those four would not let her call 911. A valley mother arrested accused of running
over a man while driving her car then putting her own son at risk in the process. Police
say Domenica Dreyer was on drugs when she hit and killed 23 year old Stephen Salazar.
What's more they say her son was in the back seat of the car. Holding her foot down on
the accelerator still acting as if she was driving the car even though the car at that
point was immobilized. Dreyer is charged now with manslaughter and child endangerment.
Her son is just fine. Well the speed cameras on the 101, well we dread getting caught by
them don't we? That's right. If you think you can beat them. If you think you can you're
not alone. The question is does it work? It's all new tonight. ABC 15's Ann Yeager live
on the 101 and Ann I understand a national TV show is asking that very question? That's
right Katie the show is called Mythbusters and it airs on the Discovery Channel and it's
really quite fun actually. The hosts what they try to do is outsmart these speed cameras.
So are they successful? See for yourself. Jamie you are good to do lane change. Adam
and Jamie from the hit show Mythbusters admit they are speed demons so they went out to
try to outsmart these speed cameras like the ones you see on the 101. The first thing they
wanted to find out is if they change lanes really fast will the cameras catch it and
what did they find out? The radar is much too smart and much too precise for that and
we busted that myth. They also wanted to find out if covering your license plate actually
works. So were they successful? They tried five none of them all, none of them worked.
How come? They just don't work. The cameras are too good. And the last thing they tried
to beat the system? They ran cars, Lamborghini right in front of that radar at 140 miles
an hour and we busted that myth. These radars are top of the line. But the hosts of the
show were not going to give up easily before they admitted their defeat. They tried one
last thing. They flew a Peregrine Falcon in front of the radar and we caught that too.
So you can see the show is all in good fun. By the way the company behind this test is
locally based and what they are trying to do now is to put their cameras on the 101.
Whether they will be successful we won't know for about one month. We are live in Scottsdale,
Ann Yager, ABC 15 News, your Valley News later. Well darn it, a lot of people are saying right
now. Hey it may not be the three bucks a gallon they see in California but it still hurts.
Yeah with gas prices that expensive and that's what we are talking about. You may just want
to ride your bike on the 101 instead right? Yeah. In the last month alone prices in the
Valley have soared more than 25 cents to $2.48 a gallon. Compare that to $2.33 about this
time last year and they tell us it's only going to get worse. AAA tells us there's good
reason, good old supply and demand. Oil refineries are shutting down for spring maintenance meaning
less of a fuel supply. Alright if you are looking to sell your home tonight we have
good news and we have bad news. Seems home sales are cooling off around the state but
prices are not. In fact around the state the average home price has dropped just 5%. Two
years ago a much different story. Home prices were jumping up to 50%. Video tonight, we
have a video of a night taken by an Australian photographer who was in this plane when it
exploded. A closer look for you, more than 100 people managed to escape the burning rubble.
At least 20 though were killed. We are told the plane overshot the runway. It appears
to be a mechanical failure. This is the second time in less than three months a commercial
jetliner has crashed in Indonesia. Looking at video from around the world to Ramallah,
the Israeli army raiding a Palestinian military compound claiming that it's used as a terrorist
hideout. Soldiers confiscating weapons and explosives. This is as Palestinian President
Tamoud Abbas tries to revive peace talks here. And take a look at this, a huge sinkhole in
Brazil. That's a sinkhole. It swallowed 10 homes. It's 330 feet wide. It was sparked
by recent rains. Luckily nobody injured when this thing went under. The man who killed
9 year old Jessica Lunsford could soon face the death penalty. A jury in the Lunsfield
murder case convicting John Cooey today and next week will help the judge decide if Cooey
should get the death penalty. Meantime Jessica's father says her death will not be in vain.
Before the next family loses a child to America's failed system, we are going to hold lawmakers
accountable for allowing this open season on our children. Cooey kidnapped Jessica from
her bedroom back in 2005. He raped the child and buried her alive. Looking at video around
the nation, NASA firing astronaut Lisa Nowak, the fallout of a bizarre love triangle. Nowak
is accused of trying to kidnap a woman who was having an affair with a fellow astronaut.
It's the first time an astronaut's been fired amid a criminal investigation. And new video
tonight, this Massachusetts chicken farm destroyed. No word if livestock was killed. Investigators
think this one is arson. And these images in from St. Louis, an overpass literally falling
apart, landing on cars below at least one woman injured in this. Crews right now are
cleaning up and trying to figure out what happened. You may be familiar with this 25,000
square foot home in Paradise Valley. It used to belong to Leona Helmsley, remember her?
That's right, yes. But now the new owners are tearing it down and the Phoenix Fire Department
is helping them do the demolition. It's a test for the fire department actually. Just
months before they take over calls in Paradise Valley, they're developing some new plans
of attack to handle a fire inside a hard to reach home. They'll lay a line and get that
pressure so we're going to have to have pumpers down at the lower level to pump to give us
additional pressure to get the water pressure up here to fight the fire. In case you were
wondering, the new owners are building a 50,000 square foot home in its place. It would be
nice to even work for them because it's complete with a six bedroom maids quarters. Not too
bad. Are you applying for a job Katie? I think so. Okay. Hey are you looking to lose weight?
I'm not talking to Katie now, I'm talking to you. Atkins or the Zone? Well tonight find
out which fad diet works best. You're probably guilty of it and soon if you're doing it,
it could be illegal. We'll explain what it is. Coming up. I'm not going to go there.
High today of 87 degrees, 90 is in our forecast for the weekend. Possible record highs. We'll
get to your forecast in just a few minutes. It's been totally tested and it's safe. Or
is it? Big changes for your breakfast. What you need to know about the new milk. Well
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Stay tuned. These days your cell phone lets you stay in touch no matter where you are.
Where are you? Where am I? I don't know. Hey as ABC 15's Jose Miguel found out, if one
Arizona lawmaker has his way, I was looking for my script. Your phone's functions will
be outlawed while you're behind the wheel. You may have probably witnessed it. You may
even be guilty of it sending or receiving a text message while you're driving your car.
Now one state representative says not only is it distracting but it's dangerous and if
he has his way, he's going to put a stop to it. When it comes to text messaging, these
people say they do it all the time. Every day I text more than I call people. I just
hate talking on the phone. It's just easier to text. But one guy we spoke to knows first
hand how dangerous texting and driving can be. My girlfriend totaled her car as she was
driving and texting at the same time. And he says it's changed his way of thinking.
I've learned my lesson after she wrecked her car. It's not going to happen anymore. If
you're distracted while driving, it's actually almost as dangerous as when you're a drunk
driver. State Representative Steve Farley believes this so strongly, he's introduced
a bill to make it illegal. If they pulled you over for something else and found you
were texting, you'd get a $50 ticket. And if you cause an accident while texting, that
fine is quadrupled. So far attention is positive for the bill, but Farley admits some of his
fellow lawmakers are guilty of the very act they're trying to prevent. Some of my colleagues
actually confess that to me, but I won't name any names. But if passed, would people really
stop driving and texting? Probably, yeah, most likely. But then again, drinking and
driving is against the law and look how many teenagers do that. Now so far, bill 2129 remains
in committee and Representative Farley says if it doesn't pass this year, well he's going
to reintroduce it again next year. In Phoenix, Jose Miguel, ABC 15 News, your Valley News
leader. Hey, if you're already thinking about tomorrow's breakfast, you may want to ditch
the bagel or pancakes or the donut. That's right. A recent study done on four popular
diets found the Atkins diet had the best results for weight loss. Overweight women in their
40s were randomly assigned a diet. The Atkins dieters lost an average of 10 and a half pounds.
Women who followed the US dietary guidelines lost about six pounds. Dieters on the Ornish
diet lost about five pounds and women on the zone lost about three and a half. The Atkins
dieters also had slightly better blood pressure and cholesterol. Well, new video in tonight
from Connecticut. Rescue crews rushing to save two golden retrievers, both of which
fell through the ice. The dogs were in the water about 20 minutes. We're told both of
them are going to be just fine. I've got a golden too. You do, I know. A lot of those
rescues lately on the ice. You know what, it's so cold and everybody's, not all of us,
but a lot of us are starting to go, Oh no, 85 90 degrees. It's only the second week of
March. But these folks back in New England and the Great Lakes, it's about 70 to 90 degrees
colder right now. Look at some of the video from Cleveland, Ohio. What a mess this morning.
They had three to six inches of snow, a little bit of that lake effect stuff coming in off
the lakes and to make matters worse. Yeah. You had temperatures in the mid twenties for
daytime highs and your factor in the wind chill. I don't know about five, six degrees.
At least it was above zero, but boy, it was a really nasty Wednesday morning commute over
three dozen accidents in some of the suburbs going into Cleveland. It's expected to be
a little warmer tomorrow with highs in the thirties. Now, what about our forecast? Ha,
it's amazing how fast things can warm up. Yesterday we were only 80 the day before 76
on Sunday, 74 87 today. If we did not see the cloud cover, we would have easily tied
the record high on this day, 1972, which was 91 overnight low last night in the mid to
upper fifties. And it's a warm night, 76 a little cloud cover helping to keep temperatures
a little on the warm side. Dew point temperature, 28 degrees winds out of the northwest at six
miles an hour. And it's about everybody in the seventies. The exception Cave Creek and
carefree. You guys are locked in at 69. Some of the warm spots take your pick downtown
Tempe's at 75 Gilbert at 73 and everybody out in the west side from Sun City and El
Mirage down to Avondale and Goodyear in the lower and middle seventies. Have a look here.
Desert Doppler 15 get little rainfall out of this system coming through. Not most of
this is what we call verga. It is not reaching the desert areas, not reaching the ground
because the low levels of the atmosphere is way too dry. We may see or drop or two of
rain tonight, but that's the best we're gonna get out of the system as it crosses through
and pretty much the same scenario across the high country. The cloud cover again is gonna
keep temperatures real warm tonight, which is some spotty showers again confined to the
high country. But once that low moves on through later on tonight, skies are going to clear.
Check out the water vapor loop. Not one storm system which is moving through now, not a
secondary one, but there are three third one coming in out of the Gulf of Alaska. See this
little arc right there. That is an upper level ridge of high pressure. That high is gonna
sneak in tomorrow and cut off any storm system that rolls in. So follow the jet stream. That's
your storm track nowhere near us. So we're gonna be high and dry again tomorrow with
the northwest really flow. Any change on friday. I wish to get some rain in here, but it's
not going to happen. Another weak area of low pressure with limited moisture in the
low levels of the atmosphere are going to keep our rain chances out. We may not see
measurable rain the entire month. That's what some of the long range models are forecasting,
not what we want to hear heading into the dry season. Hopefully that changes. Alright,
travel plans tomorrow looks great from New Orleans to Tampa in the seventies. Hey, New
York warms up tomorrow at 31, but look at Detroit up to 32. Rapid City at 60 tomorrow.
They'll take that this time of year. 39 in Jackson Hole, 52 in Portland, and we'll be
right around 83, 84 once again. The forecast numbers tonight, coldest number I can find
up in the south rim of the Grand Canyon down to 27, 39 in Prescott, 45 in Safford. Look
at the highs tomorrow. A lot like today, mid eighties to near possibly 90 out in Yuma,
60 in Flagstaff and 61 up in Window Rock. So here's your forecast that pretty much spells
it out. Nice and comfy tonight. Upper forties in the outline valley areas, middle fifties
in town. There it is 84, 85, 87, 90 to 91. Oh no, it's too early. So guys, a good week
to get the AC units checked out. Might want to start thinking about fertilizing and replanting
anything that didn't make it. It's a naturally occurring hormone in the cow. That's what
farmers are telling us now, but producers are making big changes to your carton of milk
and Boris DL playing for the first time tonight and 10 games for the sons. But would it help
the team get a win in OT? Craig, we is up next with the final score. Milk. It does a
body good or does it? One of the country's largest milk producers responding to customer
concerns about the RBST hormone. Seems many dairy farmers inject cows with it so that
they'll produce more milk. The California Dairy's company will now stop bottling milk
with that hormone. He's an outdoor guy. But of ABC 15 news brought to you by Mitsubishi
Motors. The Phoenix Sun's hosting the Charlotte Bobcats at the U S airways center. The sun's
looking to make it eight wins in their past nine games. Forward Boris DL back in the starting
lineup for the first time in a month. The sun's jump out to a 16 point lead, but then
get lazy and let the Bobcats back in it. Amari Stoudemire gets ejected in the third after
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win in overtime 115 106. The Northern Arizona lumberjacks playing in the big sky championship
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Mason Mountain View hoping this would be a special night. The Toros looking for not one,
but two state titles. The boys five a division one final, a rematch of the 2005 final, the
Toros taking on Jared Bayless in St. Mary's, the Arizona bound Bayless putting on a show
early on. Bayless scores 35 points for Toros guard. Kendall Wallace nearly matching the
St. Mary's star Wallace with 29 and Brendan Lavender adds a pair here that gets Mountain
View fans off their seats. The Toros do it again, winning 78 to 60 Gary Ernst and the
Toros win their third straight state title. Mountain View looking to sweep the five a
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