Tonight on the Late Show, Dave's all new with the one and only Tom Cruise.
A minute of it, now your local news.
Thousands of people, including some we should be especially worried about, are still walking
right across New Mexico's border.
An angry landlord threatens News 13.
You may be angry when you hear this story.
And two firefighters risk their lives to save another.
That is tonight's big local story.
Good evening, they are brave, they are skilled, and tonight their skill and bravery saved
a life.
Two Albuquerque firefighters plunged into rushing waters in a diversion channel to rescue
a man who had been swept away.
News 13's Katie Zacharies live in the News Flex with our big local story.
Katie?
Dick, a homeless man trying to get out of the rain, went into a tunnel in the Northeast
Heights for cover.
Minutes later, his dramatic rescue began.
The rains come, the Arroyos flood, and too often someone is swept away.
There was a report of somebody who had gone into the Arroyo system.
Late this afternoon, an Albuquerque man was swept away in the Arroyo.
An hour later, he was out thanks to two fearless firefighters.
As we were getting out of the truck, we actually saw the individual flow under the bridge underneath
us.
Vic Padilla was the first in the water.
As he came by, I stuck up my arm, my partner had my arm, and we just lashed onto him, and
we knew we were going in.
The three quickly got caught up in the current.
Padilla and his partner, John Fredditt, said they tried to take it in stride.
We trained, we had the flotation, so I wasn't worried at all.
But their victim wasn't so sure.
He was saying that he was tired the entire time, he didn't know how much longer he could
hold on.
While the men were fighting, the current fellow firefighters were lined along the walls of
the water, with ropes and flotation devices trying to reach them.
We had all the confidence in the world and our brothers in the fire department that they
were going to get us out.
The three were eventually pulled from the water near Carlisle and Comanche, aside from
some scrapes.
There was shallow water and cement there.
And an exhausted victim.
I think he'll be fine.
A little shaken up right now.
It was the type of rescue these guys wished for.
Firefighters just released the name of the victim before news time.
He is 44-year-old Robert Stevenson.
He was taken to University Hospital to get checked out, but firefighters tell us he should
be fine.
Dick?
All right, Katie, Albuquerque police also helped out with that rescue.
They had officers out on a royal watch this evening until the storms and the waters calmed
down.
Many lightning bolts had fired up the skies tonight, struck a home in the northeast heights.
Around 8.30, a lightning bolt hit the air conditioning unit.
At this home on Florida Northeast, the impact caused a shower of sparks, but fortunately
did not cause a fire.
Some very strong storm cells moved through the metro area late today, and we may not
be done yet.
Here's chief meteorologist Mike Hernandez with the SkyWarn weather alert.
All right, I think we're in for some major rain here, opportunities at least for the
next day, day and a half, from tonight all the way into Friday.
Now the storms have continued to develop and we had, of course, flood warnings earlier
this afternoon between an inch and two inches reported.
Some spots in the city, and that included around the Four Hills area and up along Tramway.
Storms continue to drive in from north to south.
Now we had some lightning.
A lot of lightning around earlier in the afternoon and into the nighttime hours, and you can
see a lot of strikes there.
It was pretty active.
It's very threatening skies, and that is going to continue tonight and then into tomorrow.
Let's take a little closer look at what's going on around central New Mexico.
Here's what I just showed you close up.
There's bigger storms from Clines Corners to Las Vegas to near Santa Fe, down towards
Mountain Air, and then back to the west as well.
And it's in southeastern New Mexico where we're really getting hammered right now.
Flood warnings in Roosevelt County.
I'll have more on this and what we can expect coming up in just a few minutes.
All right, Mike, an arrest by the Albuquerque Police Repeat Offenders Unit last night led
to the discovery of a murder and then to the capture of the accused killer.
A man grabbed by the Repeat Offender team in a stolen car case offered information on
a murder he said he knew about.
That led officers to an apartment in the 300 block of Western Skies Southeast late last
night.
Neighbors had complained about a very strong odor coming from that particular unit, and
detectives quickly learned why.
Inside, they found the badly decomposed body of a young woman.
Late today, officers arrested 23-year-old Isaac Aragón and booked him on an open charge
of murder in that woman's death.
Her name has not been released, but police say she had been shot nine days ago.
They also believe the victim used to be Aragón's girlfriend.
There's new information tonight about the man who died at Albuquerque's Greyhound Bus
Depot last night.
Police say that man, whose name still has not been released, attempted to bypass a security
checkpoint and get on a bus.
A security guard asked him to go back through the checkpoint.
Police say he refused.
There was a scuffle and the suspect struck the guard in the head.
The security officer handcuffed him for purposes of personal safety, at which time the man
suddenly became unresponsive.
The man, who was very obese, died a few minutes later.
Several investigators are doing an autopsy to determine exactly what killed him.
State police say a domestic dispute caused a fatal car crash near Las Cruces this morning.
A California family was heading west on Interstate 10 when the driver and his wife got into some
sort of an argument.
She reportedly jerked the steering wheel and he yanked it back.
They got into the median and the vehicle rolled.
24-year-old Amanda Carmouche died at the scene.
Her 26-year-old husband Stanley is hospitalized in stable condition in Las Cruces.
Their two young children were not seriously hurt.
Those two teenage girls we told you about last night who were accused of killing the
grandparents of one of them have now been captured.
15-year-old Holly Ann Harvey and 16-year-old Sandra Ketchum are charged with stabbing Harvey's
grandparents to death in Georgia on Monday.
Police arrested them last night after a friend turned them in.
Another New Mexico soldier has died in Iraq, the fourth New Mexican killed there since
the war started.
Sergeant Tommy Gray of Roswell died in an accident yesterday.
The 34-year-old Army tank mechanic was killed when he got caught between two vehicles.
Governor Bill Richardson has ordered all flags flown at half staff through Friday in his
honor.
The University of California may not want to manage Los Alamos National Laboratory any
longer.
Bob Martin reports tonight that university leaders told lab employees today the latest
security and safety crisis there may be the final straw if things don't get better fast.
From the beginning, Los Alamos National Lab has only had one manager, the University of
California.
The Department of Energy depends on UC to hire and fire and keep America's secrets
at Los Alamos safe.
During a visit, university leaders told employees they were proud of Los Alamos work, but the
present crisis in security and safety cannot be tolerated.
UC must now evaluate whether it wants to continue as manager.
It would sadden us greatly not to continue this work.
On the other hand, we need to be sure that the culture has changed and the mistakes of
the past are in the past.
Lab director Pete Nanos says four more employees have been placed on leave during investigation
of the loss of classified disks.
That brings the total put on leave to 23.
As investigations conclude, he says there will be consequences for those who have broken
lab rules.
You can rest assured that the actions, the disciplinary actions that will result from
this will encompass all levels within the laboratory.
Nanos says classified work remains suspended while an inventory is completed and employees
are retrained on security.
However, about 75% of the lab's non-classified office work has now resumed.
Bob Martin, KRQE News 13, Los Alamos.
The lab director says if everything goes well, Los Alamos could be back in full operation
in about two months.
President Bush and Senator Kerry campaigned within blocks of each other at Davenport,
Iowa today.
The president vowed to win the Hawkeye State this year.
He lost it by a hair four years ago.
He told supporters he deserves another term because he has delivered rising prosperity
and increased security.
A short distance away, Kerry was holding a town meeting on the economy.
He charged that the Bush administration has failed to lower health care costs and has
mismanaged the nation's finances.
Troops took advantage of the police focus on those simultaneous candidate visits to
rob three Davenport banks within an hour this morning.
Police arrested a suspect in the first robbery.
They are still investigating the others.
And who is this presidential candidate who is suddenly showing up on New Mexico TV screens?
Libertarian Party nominee Michael Badneric has spent $65,000 on TV ads that are running
only in New Mexico.
The spot is criticized, both Bush and Kerry.
Badneric is a computer software engineer from Austin, Texas.
He is already on the New Mexico ballot, unlike Ralph Nader, whose supporters are just starting
to gather petition signatures.
And Tigger is a free tiger tonight, so to speak.
A Walt Disney World worker who portrayed the character from Winnie the Pooh was acquitted
today of charges that he fondled a 13-year-old girl while posing for a photo with her and
her mother.
Jurors found Michael Chartrand not guilty of misdemeanor battery and lewd and lascivious
molestation.
He could have gone to prison for 15 years if convicted.
Security is supposed to be tighter along New Mexico's border with Mexico.
Is it?
Tim Maestas, who last year exposed how wide open the border was then, has gone back to
see if things are any better.
What he found coming up at 10 13.
Just an hour ago, the grim landfill search for Lori Hacking resumed.
More about that and yet another twist in that sad case.
Coming up at 10 17 and at 10 18, an Albuquerque family moved to a new apartment after a violent
crime where they lived before.
What has happened to them now makes them wonder if they should have stayed.
Welcome to the New Mexico lottery drawing for Wednesday, August 4th, 2004.
We had a top prize winner in last night's Roadrunner cash game.
So tonight's top prize is worth $20,000 and tonight's winning numbers are 26 16 8 5 4.
Here's the bonus ball.
19.
Now it's time for pick three.
Eight.
Two.
Congratulations to Anthony Ponce of Artesia for winning $2,500 playing the cash card
scratcher game.
Good night.
From the campaign trail to the voting booth.
And when you sort out the issues, trust the CBS evening news to report on campaign 2004
from where it happens to where it matters most.
Your home because every story is a local story.
And in New Mexico, count on KRQ news 13 to do the same.
We're focused on balanced political coverage so you can make up your own mind.
I'm the CBS news and KRQ news 13 earning your trust.
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More agents along the border, more cameras, barricades too.
But is all that protecting us from terrorists?
One year ago, Tim Maesta showed how easy it was then for anyone to cross from Mexico into
New Mexico.
Tim went back this week to see if anything has improved.
He's live in the news flex with what he learned.
Tim.
Well, Dick, in some parts the international border is still just a line in the sand.
This is reality.
This was James Johnson a little more than a year ago showing us what things look like
at the international border south of Columbus.
The green field you see here is part of his family farm.
The brown you see beyond that is Mexico.
It's just open barren land with no way of knowing if you're in Mexico or the United
States.
That was then.
This is now.
James Johnson is still concerned.
You have to take your shoes off to get on an airline.
But this is our national border.
This is our international boundary.
Johnson says he still sees people cross into the U.S. here every day.
As we see an increase in the alien traffic, we respond accordingly by bringing more agents
into the area.
The U.S. border patrol says more agents have been assigned to the Mexico-New Mexico border.
They also have more tools than they had a year ago.
More sensors and more cameras are in operation now.
Fourteen cameras keep constant focus of the 52-mile long Deming Sector.
National guardsmen look for anyone trying to cross.
It would be difficult.
Not impossible, but very difficult.
With all the upgrades, the fact is the dividing line between the countries is still hard to
make out.
Miles of newly constructed vehicle barricades just end.
Here, you know, there's really nothing there to stop them.
The U.S. border patrol reports about 25,000 apprehensions in the Deming area so far this
year, but still we're told just as many people may have made their way through.
A problem all along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Federal authorities say in light of recent terror threats, they're trying to focus now
on apprehending what they call OTMs, short for Other Than Mexicans.
The numbers in comparison are very few.
The border patrol has caught about 500 OTMs so far this year in the Deming area.
We have a lot at stake.
James Johnson says he used to worry just about his land and his equipment, but the border
looking the way it is, though, he's worrying more and more for the safety of his country.
I've been asked before if I had seen anything that was not Mexican.
How would I know?
U.S. Attorney General for New Mexico David Iglesias chairs the Attorney General's Border
and Immigration Subcommittee.
He says some immigrants recently caught at the U.S.-Mexico border are from Middle Eastern
countries, but he says those people had no evil intentions.
They were just trying to come here for economic reasons.
Dick?
All right, Tim, Senator Jeff Bingaman has criticized the Bush administration's handling
of border security.
For starters, Bingaman wants more staff at all four New Mexico ports of entry.
A senior Justice Department official says information from an unnamed third person now
corroborates an al-Qaeda plot against the U.S.
The official says the source is not one of the two suspects recently captured in Pakistan,
but says the information is similar.
It was developed before Sunday's warnings were issued for New York, Washington and New
Jersey.
A U.S. counterterrorism official says the surveillance information last week was coupled
with very recent and current activity by al-Qaeda that indicates the group's interest in attacking
the U.S. this year.
About an hour ago, Salt Lake City police resumed their search at a landfill for Lori Hacking's
body.
Her husband Mark was arrested Monday for her murder.
Prosecutors say he told a witness at a psychiatric hospital that he had killed his wife and dumped
her body in a trash bin.
And this is new today.
When Mark Hacking was booked into jail Monday, he offered the alias Jonathan Long when a
jailer asked him if he had ever used another name.
Hacking didn't say why he had an alias or how he had used it.
Jurors in the Scott Peterson trial heard today that he began shopping for boats on his computer
several weeks before his wife Lacey vanished.
A sheriff's investigator testified that Scott's computer files showed the search for the boats
began on December 7, 2002.
That's one day after Peterson was confronted by his mistress's friend who had just discovered
that Peterson was really married.
Prosecutors appear to be trying to show that Scott began hatching a murder plot soon after
that confrontation.
Mary Kay Letourneau's former child lover has gone to court so that he can see her again.
The former Washington State schoolteacher was released today after serving more than
seven years in prison for having sex with him when she was his sixth grade teacher.
The terms of her release bar her from seeing the former student who is now 21 and who is
the father of two of her children.
What has happened to an Albuquerque family recently is hard to imagine.
First, they were victims of a violent crime.
Now they're homeless and they've lost all of their property.
News 13's Shawna Clark is live in the newsplex with that story.
Well, Dick, it started with a home invasion back in March.
Since then, the family says they've had no peace, just heartache.
They were victims of a violent crime.
He had a meat cleaver to my neck and a knife to my side.
Several months ago, a violent fugitive burst into Roberta Candelaria's apartment and held
her, her daughter and her mother hostage.
They escaped but were so traumatized, her fiance said they had to get out.
We moved in together into Sandia Ridge, a gated community.
But there were problems.
It started from the first day.
They gave us the wrong apartment.
We had air conditioning problems that had never been fixed.
When the problems were not fixed, Michael went to a lawyer who said he could withhold
some of the rent.
That led to a court fight which the family lost and last week they were evicted.
Cindy said get off my property.
Roberta's mother said there were things she needed.
I need my medication.
I'm disabled.
I'm sick.
I don't care.
She said get out.
But Michael claims the landlord wouldn't let them get their personal property.
Then last night, a neighbor called.
People were loading up my stuff from my apartment.
Their couch on the sidewalk, their bed by a dumpster.
Everything is missing.
They claimed the manager let the neighbors help them sell.
All the groceries that were in the house is sitting at this tenant's house.
The manager didn't want to talk.
Let's get off the property.
Can you tell us why it's out there?
Why won't you talk to us?
What do you have to hide?
But then Cindy Esch changed her mind.
In this instance, the resident was not willing to work with us.
What the law states is I'm not responsible for his belongings after three days.
His stuff necessarily was not removed to the office.
It was removed to the sidewalk.
Thereafter what happens to it is not my responsibility.
Harold says she's a victim again.
All of this stuff is gone.
You can't replace these things.
The managers took first dibs at the family's property.
The family is now living in a motel.
They say the only things they have left are the clothes they were wearing when they were
kicked out.
Dick?
All right, Sean, the Candelaries have a lawyer, but getting their property back may be difficult.
Now, News 13 meteorologist Mike Hernandez with your forecast first.
All right, the day started about four o'clock.
It started to get a little interesting.
Here's what it looked like on Cloudcam, the buildups, and then all of a sudden it just
went pitch black.
The big storms moved in.
We had some heavy rains across parts of the city, and we also had flood warnings and severe
thunderstorm warnings that were issued, even a little rainbow in there.
You can see all of that has continued through the evening because we have seen these buildups
kind of hanging with us.
Now, as we move through tonight, 64 to 67, a heck of a light show, and we've also seen
some pretty gusty canyon winds.
We're going to keep some chances for some rain so we may see some thunder during the
nighttime hours.
The winds after midnight could run anywhere from 35 to 40 miles an hour on the gust.
How about tomorrow?
Some upper 60s, maybe a few light showers around.
I really don't think the day really gets going with the rain until the afternoon and evening,
about 85 for the high.
And I'm thinking tomorrow afternoon, 5, 6, 7, 8 o'clock, we're going to see some pretty
good showers and thunderstorms.
Let's go ahead and go with the red water drop for those that got the rain today and anticipating
what we're going to get over the next couple of days.
Rows and storms rotating around, wrapping around, a big ridge of high pressure and the
front.
So what's happening is this front is coming on down.
Behind it, we're getting those northeast and east winds pumping more moisture in.
In the upper levels, we have this high here.
It's going to move around and kind of direct more moisture coming in from the Gulf.
That combination for the next two days is going to allow for some pretty good chances
for afternoon thunderstorms statewide.
Heaviest rains right now in southeastern New Mexico, but there's pockets all across the
state that have had some pretty good downpours.
In the metro area, we've had them shooting through all evening.
Some heavy downpours earlier this evening around Cedar Crest, up in San Diego Casino,
back towards Rio Rancho.
And more storms moving in now up from the south, heading towards the canyon.
That's what it's going to do all night.
You can see the bigger picture.
Still more storms coming this way.
More storms around Clines Corners, off towards Grant, Las Vegas, and again towards Vaughan
and on the other side of Mountaineer.
Down in the southeast though, till 11 o'clock, flash flood warnings in effect in Roosevelt
County, which is where Portales is there, and you can see some of those heavy storms
also into Eddy County.
Some pretty good rains falling there around Clayton.
Some big storms to Comcari as well, and back towards Clines Corners.
There's a lightning concentrated.
Look what we have right over us right now.
Precipitation as we move through the next couple of days, especially in the northeast,
is going to get hammered through the day tomorrow, tomorrow evening.
But notice we stay in the green all the way through Friday, and Friday afternoon we'll
see some showers and some thunderstorms around as well.
65 right now in Santa Fe, 73 here, 70s and 80s down south.
Overnight lows tonight in the 40s and 50s in the mountains, 50s and 60s everywhere else.
Tomorrow a little cooler, 60s and 70s for the most part, from the mountains off to the
northeast part of the state.
Down south, 60s for lows, but the highs tomorrow, mid 90s in the southwest, but 80s and 90s in
the southeast.
Now, the east mountains will also see some changes as well.
Gusty Canyon winds coming through tonight, 50s for lows and highs tomorrow, only in the
70s to low 80s and in the metro area.
Gusty Canyon winds through the evening early tomorrow, afternoon highs tomorrow, going
to hover mostly in the middle 80s.
For Santa Fe then, 82 tomorrow, more chances for some heavy storms, upper 80s still hitting
missed showers into Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
For Albuquerque, 85 tomorrow, good chances for some afternoon and evening storms and
around 90 by the weekend.
Alright, keep the waiters handy.
Yeah, keep them.
Stay out of the arroyos.
Up next in sports, the Dallas Cowboys make a stunning switch at quarterback, and Lobo
football has a definitely different look tonight.
Mike Powers explains next in sports.
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Back to school.
My favorite time of year is back to school.
It's just madness.
There's a thousand different things going at once.
We're on a tight schedule and a tighter budget.
There's a huge back to school list.
It's great if you'll be going to Walmart and get everything you need at a good price.
Shoes, clothes, backpacks, lunch supplies.
We're getting everything.
We might even get some hair color for mom and her grays.
As a mom, I'm torn.
I'm ready to get them out of my hair, but I'm sad to see them go.
The Bush administration gave Dick Cheney's old company no-bid contracts for Iraq on a
silver platter.
Then the Pentagon caught Halliburton overcharging $61 million for gasoline.
Worse, they billed over $100 million for meals for our troops that they never delivered.
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You never had the feeling that Quincy Carter was on solid ground as Dallas Cowboys quarterback,
but who saw this coming?
The Cowboys released Carter today, last year's starter, who took the team to the playoffs.
The Cowboys management won't say why, but several reports say Carter failed a number
of drug tests.
That means 40-year-old Vinnie Testaverde takes over under center.
I'm giving an opportunity to go in and take over and I'm going to do my best to do that
and keep this thing going, keep it on track to where it was and hopefully we can get further
than we did last year.
And Tim Brown spent 16 of his 38 years on this planet playing for the Oakland Raiders.
Today Brown was released.
He wanted more playing time.
The Raiders wanted to get younger.
For 11 years now, the big summer highlight for the UNF football program before the start
of practice has been the women's clinic.
And tonight about 400 women took part, getting an inside look at UNF football and getting
some inside information on how the coaches and players operate.
It's just kind of fun to meet the players and interact with the coaches and then you
get to meet a lot of people.
The food's good.
There's free beverages and we get behind the scenes, get to go.
We're going into the weight room now and we just came out of the locker room so it's really
neat.
It's a hit every year.
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There's nothing quite like letting it fly, hearing the buzzer sound and seeing the ball
swish.
That's what happened today in the exhibition game between the United States and Germany.
Dirk Nowitzki tied it up for Germany with three seconds left but then here comes Allen
Iverson off camera to let this one fly.
There it is and that's your game winner.
80-77 U.S. of A. The U.S. players celebrate like it's a big deal and it sort of was after
yesterday's stunning loss to Italy.
Kenny Thomas has another front court mate with the Philadelphia 76ers.
The Sixers sent Derek Coleman to Detroit in a deal that brings Corliss Williamson to Philly.
Isotope's outfielder Chris Aguila is back in the big leagues called up for tonight's
game by the Florida Marlins.
And when the Isotopes open an eight game home stand tomorrow against Sacramento, manager
Tracy Woodson won't be with the team.
Woodson will be with his wife who is about to give birth.
Marlins field coordinator John Pearson will fill in.
And I hate to show the Yankees two nights in a row but this is pretty dramatic.
Down two in the ninth to the A's and Gary Sheffield ties it up with the two run shot
there.
This goes on into the 11th and it's A-Rod.
Alex Rodriguez at the plate and folks it's time to go home.
This one is grooved right down the middle and A-Rod hits a two run shot.
New York rallies to beat Oakland 8-6 in 11 innings.
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