the president.
Members of the Bush
administration lobby for
support of the president
the latest in our first
seven minutes for a short
time gaskets cheaper in
Kansas and crowd
celebrate this weekend
in honor of a frozen man.
Time is running very short
for Saddam Hussein that
from the Bush
administration today.
Good evening everyone I'm
Jared Clark.
Lisa has the night off
topping our first seven
minutes White House staffers
made the rounds on the
morning talk shows this
morning speaking about
Iraq.
Aline Sargani is in
Washington with the latest
on diplomatic efforts to
win support for the
president.
With anti-American
sentiment growing and only
two or three days before
the U.S. and Great Britain
offer a new resolution to
the U.N. security council
diplomacy is in high gear.
President Bush and his
team want to give Iraq
until March 17th to disarm
or else.
I'm encouraged that we
might get the nine or
ten votes needed for a
passage of the resolution
and we'll see if somebody
wants to veto it.
That somebody is France
and there remains more
uncertainties about China
and Russia.
Those countries still want
to give the U.N.
inspectors more time.
If we start talking about
more months it's going to
be well maybe he's making
a little bit of a
progress because he's a
master at playing this
game.
Just yesterday Saddam
petitioned the U.N.
to lift sanctions on his
country as a reward of
sorts for doing as
inspectors have asked.
Saddam has allowed
inspectors to destroy his
controversial Al-Samr two
missiles.
So far 46 are out of
commission, nearly half of
Iraq's arsenal.
But Saddam continues to
tell his people to expect
the worst.
Iraqis are digging
trenches in their
neighborhoods and schools
are instructing children
on how to get to the
border.
The U.N.
is now in the hands of
the U.S.
government to
train children on how
to survive an attack.
We are preparing
to all probabilities.
We are preparing
ourselves to the war.
And war preparation
is now more than
evident just outside
Iraq.
The U.N.
is withdrawing over
300 not essential
military staff from
the Kuwaiti border.
It's where U.S.
forces would cross
if they invade.
Some 200,000 troops
are already in the
region and should
this week's U.N.
resolution fail they
may act sooner or
later.
But the U.N.
is not ready to
fail.
They may act sooner
than the March
17th deadline.
Aline Sergani, CBS
News, Washington.
It was another day
of anti-war protests
in our nation's
capital.
There was a
parade of coffins
along the mall in
Washington, D.C.
today to protest
American involvement
in a possible war
with Iraq.
The protest was
organized by a
group called
Iraq Pledge of
Resistance.
Marchers held pictures
of Iraqi civilians,
death masks,
banners and
cardboard coffins.
Several arrests
were reported.
With the threat of
war, the role of
military chaplains
are becoming more
important.
Kaplan hubs at
McConnell Air Force
Base in Wichita
says his top
priority is praying
with more soldiers.
Many of those
prayers were for
the leaders who
make the calls about
if and when military
attacks would occur.
So far, over 60
Air Force chaplains
with diverse
religious backgrounds
have been deployed
as part of
Operation Enduring
Freedom.
A Kansas Highway
patrolman was hit
last night while
trying to direct
traffic.
74-year-old Kurt
Schiffelbein was
assisting a car that
hit a deer on
westbound Highway
400 last night.
He was struck by
a car driving by
that didn't yield
and he was taken
to Mount Carmel
where he was
treated and released.
No word if
any charges have
been filed.
Well, today's
weather was pretty
warm and that
spoils us a little
bit, but it
wasn't quite as
warm as yesterday
and Chad
Andrews now joins
us with our
first look at
the forecast for
Saturday.
We'll be
in the 70s
today and the
30s.
Tomorrow, though,
things will begin
to warm up as
the next seven
days get here.
Let's get right to
the forecast tonight.
Clear and cold,
19 tonight in
the teens for
a low.
Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
For tomorrow,
partly sunny and
mild, but warm up
a little bit.
High at 51.
East winds becoming
south winds at
10 to 15 mph.
Look at your
seven-day forecast.
Showers and
thunderstorms
and highs are
in the 70s.
We'll be
in the 70s
with a
few showers and
highs.
We'll be
in the 70s with
a few showers and
highs.
It'll be
a nice change.
I meant to
say it's
colder today.
Thanks, Chad.
With the
rising cost of
gasoline, some
people are
spending $20-30
a week or
even more
filling up
their gas tanks.
One church's
good deed today
is to
raise
$20-30
a week.
The
church
is
helping
people
who
need
gas
to
get
a
good
deal.
The
church
is
helping
people
who
need
gas
to
get
a
good
deal.
We're
helping
people who
need
gas
to
get
a
good
deal.
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helping
people who
need
gas
to
get
a
good
deal.
The
church
is
helping
people
who
need
gas
to
get
a
good
deal.
Parish
ners
at the
church
believe
what
they're
doing
will
show
everyone
there are
people
willing
to lend
a
helping
hand.
Gas prices
are
extremely
high and
we just
want to
show
people
that we're
helping
people.
We're
helping
people
who
need
gas
to
get
a
good
deal.
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helping
people who
need
gas
to
get
a
good
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We're
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will also be looking for a way to reduce prison populations and rising costs. In the past
ten years, prison spending has doubled to nearly four million dollars. The Senate is
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Now, Chad Andrews with your Skywatch 7 Weather featuring Doppler 7000.
Welcome back. Yesterday we saw temperatures in the 70s. Today we only saw a high in the
upper 30s. That's four state weather for you right there. Now tomorrow we're looking at
highs mild. We'll be right around 50 degrees. But as the week goes on for the next seven
days, it looks like it's slowly going to increase. And your next weekend for you is looking pretty
nice. We've got temperatures in the 70s so far right now in the forecast. Tomorrow morning
though, let's start things off partly cloudy at seven a.m. 30 degrees. Still be a little
bit chilly out there by noon time 44. Well, we reach a high somewhere around 50 and by
five o'clock 38 degrees under partly cloudy skies. Here's a look at your numbers today.
We did see a high of 38 degrees, but check this out 35 degrees cooler today than it was
yesterday. The normal high is 55 big difference. Tomorrow we should step it up right around
50 degrees. Here's a look at some temperatures right now across the four state regional temperatures,
Wichita at 26 Joplin 27 Tulsa at 32 Rogers at 28 and Kansas City 20 on to ST john's Skynet
seven. We go to look at some more temperatures closer to home maybe out there. Gerard 23
Parsons at 25 Pittsburgh 26 Columbus 23 and commerce at 26 degrees. Those temperatures
hanging in the mid twenties and should fall off into the upper teens tonight for a low.
Here's a look right now outside at the satellite picture. We do have some clouds northwest
of us, but that's about it. So far things are staying pretty clear here through tonight.
It'll stay clear here tonight and on through tomorrow. Tell her the national radar now
do have some showers still down south that are finally making their way off to the coast.
Those are actually in the coast right now. We did have some snow earlier today up northeast.
Some more rain in a mix of rain and snow in the pacific northwest. But here in the four
states were staying dry at least for tomorrow. We do have a system coming in Tuesday and
Wednesday that has a good chance of bringing us some out isolated showers. Here's what's
going to look like tomorrow morning. It is going to be cool. There we go. It is going
to be cool, partly cloudy skies, but that's going to switch over and then mild. We're
going to see highs tomorrow somewhere around 50 degrees kind of dependent on where you're
at in the four states. Southern tier is going to be a little bit warmer. Here you go. Here's
your highs for tomorrow. Miami 54 pineville 51 Rogers 53 and Pittsburgh 48 Nevada 45.
Here's your sky watch some forecast for tonight. Clear and cold down to 19 for low will be
chilly out there. Northeast winds five to 10 miles per hour for tomorrow. Partly sunny
and mild high 51. East winds becoming south at 10 to 15 miles per hour. Look at your seven
day forecast. Do have a chance of rain on Tuesday and Wednesday, but Tuesday high is
64 and Friday, Saturday and Sunday. That weekend's looking pretty nice. Jared temperatures in
the seventies. And like I said earlier, each day this week looks like the temperatures
are jumping up a tad, but a chance of rain on Tuesday and Wednesday. But I guess the
good thing is, hey, no more of those ice scrapers, anything like that, at least this week. No
snow. Yeah, I'd like to put mine away for a long time. And I like the end of the week's
forecast. That looks great. Great weather to get outside and do something. That's right.
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together, we're the best that we can be. Good evening. Kansas had every reason to expect
a win in today's border war, having beaten Mizzou in four straight meetings. On the other
hand, the Tigers also had good reason to expect a victory, having beaten every challenger
this year at the Hearn Center. And the actual outcome wound up surpassing all expectations.
KU would clinch the big 12 title outright with a win. Second half, Hawks up seven. Ricky
Paulding short on the three, but this is why coaches say to follow the shot. Paulding,
Monster, Duck, Mizzou within five. Mizzou would go up 57-56. Kirk Heinrich drives the
lane, slips it to Nick Collison for the jam. KU back ahead by one. Seesaw finish. Ricky
Clemens, head fake, side steps, hits the three, Tigers now up one. Shot clock running down,
handed out to Aaron Miles. Heaves up the impossible three and hits to tie it at 74. Next time
down, Collison gonna air ball the jumper. Shot clock running low again. Michael Lee
sends it over to Heinrich and he buries the three pointer for a 77-74 lead. 12 seconds
left. Paulding, one last chance, puts up the three pointer. It's no good. And KU wins the
big 12 regular season title for the second straight year, 79-74. Quinn Snyder now two
and six against the Hawks as Missouri coach. Heinrich and Collison lead KU with 20 points
apiece while Paulding and Clemens score 21 each to pace the Tigers. KU will be the top
seed when the big 12 tourney tips off on Thursday. Missouri is the fifth seed. Duke taking on
North Carolina in its Paco Road rivalry. Getting feisty in the second half, that's where we
pick it up. Rashad McCants drops the tray to put North Carolina up 75-72. 30 seconds
left now. Off the inbounds. Dante Jones hits the three pointer to get the Blue Devils within
two. It's a three point lead with three seconds left. Ray Felton misses the free throw. Jones
boards it, runs it across the timeline and he throws up and hits the prayer as time expires.
But watch the replay. The light above the scoreboard. Time expired before the shot left
his hand and the unranked Tar Heels shock number 10 Duke 82-79. MIAA finals in Kansas
City. Washburn won the regular season title and the Lady Blues top Missouri Western 71-60
to take the postseason crown. Crystal Walker scores 21 earning tournament MVP honors in
the process. Men's side Damon Bailey scores 27 to lead Western to a 75-65 upset of top
seed Washburn. With the win the Griffins earn an automatic D2 tourney invite. And those
Ichabod's of course knocked Southern out of the MIAA tournament with an 80-61 win last
night. Southern jumped out to a double digit lead in the first half but then Washburn took
over the boards hauling in a tournament record 58 rebounds including 24 on the offensive
glass to help pull away. The loss dropped Southern to 19-10 but it doesn't necessarily
mean their season is over. Heading into the tournament the Lions ranked 9th in the south
central region one spot out of a D2 tourney berth. But victories over regional foes count
big in the formula for the regional polls and Southern did knock off 7th ranked Emporia
State in the opening round. So it may not be likely but it is possible that Southern
could vault into the top 8 and an invite to the big dance. Either way we'll find out for
sure when the field is announced tomorrow afternoon. Stay here, up next we'll tell you
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bedding, I'd you know do my planting and Walmart makes it very easy. Oh hey let's go look at
the bathroom thing. There's a whole set of everything that goes together and then I can
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she's real good at it. Well thank you. This is my new bedroom stuff. New everything, all
from Walmart and it's a great price. Did you know I got all this? Good thing she had a
truck to bring it home in. We'll give you the news you need to know first thing in the
morning as you head out the door and every 10 minutes Dave will give you the weather
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maybe we're going to put a smile on your face in the morning. Welcome back. For reasons
that go beyond car or crew or ability some NASCAR drivers just click at certain race
tracks. Bobby Labonte is one of those drivers and although he can't explain how or why,
he proved again today that he's the ace of Atlanta. Love those extra long NASCAR race
names. This one's the Bass Pro Shops MNBA 500 lap 222. Jeff Gordon passes Tony Stewart
to take over the lead. 60 laps later, Labonte slips past Gordon to take over his share of
the lead and this this is the best wreck we had today. Steve Park and John Andre collide
on pit row. That's what happens when you fail to yield the right of way. Lap 307. Jeff Burton's
car smokes that forces a caution off the restart on 314. Gordon catches Labonte napping passes
on the outside, but 11 laps left. Labonte muscles by Gordon to take the lead for good
and Bobby Labonte wins the Atlanta 500. It's Labonte's sixth win in the last 14 races at
Atlanta, but his first victory since April of last year. Gordon and Dale Jr. round out
a Chevy Heavy top three. Matt Kenseth and Elliott Sadler are four and five and Joplin's
Jamie McMurray finishes out of the race in 36th. All fans who enjoy a nice frivolous
lawsuit could probably drum up a pretty good false advertising case against the PGA. After
all, today's event is called the Ford Championship, but at the end of the day, there's no champion.
Scott Hoke and Bob Twyett tied for the lead entering the day. 10th hole Jim Furik puts
himself in the mix. His chip shot finds the cup for Eagle to go 17 under and claim a share
of the lead. 18th hole. Hoke in the rough, sits it down within three feet of the pin.
He would tap in for par to force a playoff. On the first playoff hole, both golfers par,
so we go to a second playoff hole and listen. After the first playoff hole, there's Furik
for par. Listen to what Hoke has to say on the second hole. Hoke says it's too dark for
him to read his birdie putt, so they postpone play until tomorrow, much to the fans' displeasure.
Birdie putts await both Furik and Hoke on the second playoff hole when play resumes
at eight o'clock Eastern time Monday morning. Everyone else, they're done. Twyett finishes
third at 15 under, while Tim Petrovic takes fourth at minus 14. By contrast, the Missouri
Southern softball team did finish off a championship this weekend, and they did in heart-stopping
fashion. The Lady Lions pulled off seventh inning comebacks in all three games yesterday
on their way to the Otts Lady Lion Classic Championship. In the title game, Southern
scored three runs with two outs in the final inning, topping 14th-ranked Nebraska-Omaha
4-2. That comes on the heels of the Lady Lions' upset of fifth-ranked North Dakota State on
Friday. The Lions also pulled off a comeback this weekend in a larger sense, raising their
record from three and eight to eight and eight in a span of only two days. They're
back in action Tuesday against Central Arkansas. And finally tonight, I don't know about you
guys, but I about have a heart attack just thinking about running a marathon, so imagine
covering all that distance using only your hands. That's what Bob Weiland did completing
the entire course for the 26.5-mile Los Angeles marathon using only his arms. He started last
Saturday and finally crossed the finish line yesterday. Weiland lost his legs as a soldier
in Vietnam, and he said he wanted to pay tribute to American soldiers who might soon be fighting
in Iraq. I couldn't do that. I don't know about you, but that's way beyond my physical
ability. Yeah, me too, Rich. I think marathon, half-marathon, down the block, any of it wears
me out. Exactly. Walking down the stairs to the studio tonight, I got winded. There's
no way I could do something like that. Yeah, I noticed you were a little out of breath
when you came down here. Well, he's definitely a tough man. Well, a bizarre tradition had
people celebrating in Colorado this weekend. It was the second annual Frozen Dead Guys
Day. It refers to a cryogenically frozen man that's kept in a tough shed in the mountain
community. The crowd celebrated the man known as Grandpa by having a parade, coffin races,
and a look-alike contest. There's even a dead guy, Ayl, named in his honor. It cost more
than $6,500 to keep the man frozen year round, which is paid for by his grandson in Norway.
I got about five jokes I want to make here, but I think talking about dead guy, they might
be in bad days. I'll just keep quiet. I will too. The warmer weather is coming our way,
it looks like, to the four states. Chad's here with a last look at our weather. That's
right, guys. We're going to be outside tonight, though. You want to throw on a cold only down
to 19 for a low tomorrow. 51, it's getting warmer, so guys, it's not exactly flip-flop
weather just yet, but it is getting a little bit warmer outside. Well, Chad, I wish it
was flip-flop weather. We could just be flipping around the studio and it'd be a good time.
Well, that's it for this evening. Thanks for joining us. KOAM News starts again tomorrow
morning with the morning show. Thanks for watching.
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