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Lincoln the 6 o'clock news. Good evening I'm Steve Sprester Leslie Mouton has the
night off we're gonna go straight to Steve Brown with what could be a
freezing forecast Steve. Well it's one of those nights Steve that if the wind were
to keep up it's not gonna get as cold as I'm thinking but I think these winds are
gonna drop off very quickly that'll be good for fighting those fires out there
grass fires all over the place but we're still getting wind gusts to 24 miles an
hour temperature wise we're sitting right now in the 50s and I think we're
gonna drop for the coldest night of the season so far and I'll have details on
that coming up in just a few minutes. Yeah thanks Steve we definitely have some
weird weather when you're talking freezing temperatures and grass fires
but we are our very dry and windy conditions igniting flames around the
area today some of the biggest here in the Stone Oak area at last report this
fire is under control as our fires that broke out earlier today also on the
city's southwest side a family tonight outraged after a DWI suspect is out of
jail on bond the man accused of killing two people even so the victim's family
charges his bond was set so low he was released from jail in just a few hours
case that's Bert Lozano has details. A period of mourning has turned a shock for
the family of Yvette Mendiola. I was outraged totally outraged I couldn't
believe it. The mother of two and her fiancee Richard Hernandez killed by a
suspected drunk driver Santos Vega allegedly slammed into their motorcycle
from behind. I think it's ridiculous I don't know why they would set it so low
for killing two people and for a DWI. After a judge magistrated Vega for two
counts of intoxication manslaughter his bond was set at $25,000 for each charge
he made bond in just a few hours. What if he does it again you know that's my
concern out on bond you know he was already had the prior DWI. Vega has been
convicted of at least two separate DWI's. It should begin at a hundred thousand
and then go higher. Betty Burns with mothers against drunk drivers says Vega's
bond amount should fit the crime. Because the bond is low and we're dealing with a
drunk driving offense is another indication of where the judges the
public are not taking this for the serious crime that it is. The family says
it's unfair they will spend Christmas in mourning while the suspect is out on
bond. Yeah he probably will be with his family on the holidays. We all be
together of course but we won't be the same. But Vega is not out of trouble if
convicted of intoxication manslaughter the maximum sentence is 20 years in jail
for each count. He stepped on a landmine and lost his leg but Staff Sergeant Eric
Oliva pulled through with the help of prayers and letters from students at a
local school. Our Bianca Valenzuela there as one Marine paid a special visit just
to say thanks. Coming here today to actually meet them you know person you
know is really wonderful really wonderful. A round of applause welcoming
Staff Sergeant Eric Oliva to Christian Academy of San Antonio. Thank you very
very very much I appreciate it all. With gratitude the Marine thanks an audience
of third fourth and fifth graders for the prayers and poignant letters he
received. Some of the letters are just so extraordinary I mean the way they write
kids are kids are so awesome these days. Oliva is still recovering from
injuries he suffered during the first day of war when he stepped on a landmine.
I kind of stepped like on a small bomb it exploded and of course you know it
took my leg. But Oliva doesn't feel sorry for himself and he hopes his story
will inspire others to be their very best. With a lot of like strong will and
determination you know you can do anything you set your mind to. Despite
his injury Oliva says he feels blessed and he wants students to know that he
wouldn't be here without the grace of God. I was very happy that he said that
God was with him because I knew God was with him. It wasn't time for him to go up to
heaven yet. Oliva says he'll always be grateful to the students for their
kindness and will always remember this December day. It was just really
something special it was great. Bianca Valenzuela case at 12 news. Two other
news now and prosecutors this afternoon trying to shoot down an accused killer's
explanation for the murder of his mother's lover. Paul Benamate in court as
the trials testimony ends. Paul joined us live. Raymond Rodriguez blamed his
behavior on drugs. He said that he was tripping on LSD when he allegedly killed
77 year old Daniel San Miguel his mother's lover. A toxicology expert
raised some doubts about that this afternoon. He noted that Rodriguez could
remember where he was and who was in the room and so forth.
Those are the sort of incidental details that are generally not remembered or consistent with someone who's
experiencing this altered perception of reality. Rodriguez testified that he saw
a little green man that taunted him and he was after him when he stabbed San
Miguel. Prosecutors say he killed San Miguel, stole his truck, then dumped his
body alongside a rural road and that they say is capital murder. The state's
not seeking the death penalty in this case however. Closing arguments and jury
deliberations set for in the morning. We're live at the Cadena Reeves Justice
Center. Paul Venom a case at 12 news. Thank you Paul. The San Antonio School
District getting a half million dollars to prevent dropouts. The money comes from
the new Texas High School project. It's a public-private initiative designed to
increase high school graduation and college graduation rates statewide.
SAISD will use the money to start or enhance early intervention programs,
reduce student to counselor ratios and create flexible scheduling and work
study programs. The money will also be used for after school, evening and summer
programs.
Live look outside with instant traffic. This is the traffic cam camera at I-10
in Hildebrand. You can see a bit of a mess there. Some cars on the westbound
lane involved in an accident. EMS was on the scene a little bit earlier. Traffic
still moving through this area though it is only down to it seems two or three
lanes. That's I-10 near Hildebrand. A two-vehicle injury accident there. We
also have a mess to tell you about just east of downtown. It slowed traffic down
earlier today. A truck hauling a large concrete column lost its load on I-10
and I-37. The giant pillar shifted as the truck exited from I-37 south onto I-10
east causing that rig to overturn on the ramp. The column spilled onto the medium.
That ramp shut down for a while while it was cleaned up. The driver had slight
injuries but no one else was hurt. The end of December and the beginning of the
new year always means an increase in traffic and now a stern warning to
drivers follows this holiday season. Don't drink and drive. It's Santa Claus
checking that list closely. Holiday slogans he knows when you've been
drinking. He knows when you're 0.08. That's the state's legal limit for
intoxication and jingle all the way. There you see the slogan. They're being
used to deliver a serious message this holiday season. If we feel that someone's
intoxicated it should not be out on the streets. We check with them to make sure
that they have appropriate transportation home either a designated
driver or we'll assist them in locating a taxi cab to take them home. But we do
not want people out on the streets after they've been drinking. This concentrated
effort to crack down on drunk drivers runs from December 19th through January
4th. Well if you need a flu shot you've got another shot to get one tomorrow
morning. Maxim Healthcare Services will give out shots tomorrow to anyone ages
9 and older. The vaccination costs $30. The clinic will help file Medicare Part B
forms and secure Horizons private insurance forms. The clinic is at the
Maxim Healthcare Service office. It's located at 5430 Fredericksburg Road. It
begins at 8 a.m. The first 400 people there will be vaccinated. A jury in
Edinburgh gives the death penalty to a man who gunned down four women in the
valley in September 2002. Robert Garza was actually released from custody by a
judge just two months before the killings. State District Judge Aida
Salinas Flores ordered Robert Garza released over the protests of Garza's
probation officer. That same judge now presided over Garza's capital murder
trial. The judge has not commented on why Garza was released. A truckload of
Christmas cheer rolling into town today. A fantastic fringe benefit of the single
largest cash donation to the San Antonio Blue Santa program to date. The remainder
of toys bought with a $38,000 donation from Eagle Valley Homes and
partners like Toys R Us were dropped off at the Alamo Dome warehouse today for
distribution. A massive donation has allowed Blue Santa to serve an
additional 2,000 families and 5,000 children it all. That's great. An effort
that hits close to home for some of the men and women at Blue. I don't come from
a family had a lot of money so I know what it is to be without it. So when I do
this it just brings a lot of joy to me and it really fulfills my entire
Christmas holiday season for me. Does the same for a lot of families as well.
The Blue Santa program has already identified families and children in need.
Officers from the SAP substations will start delivering the toys between now
and Christmas Day.
Coming up next to it six this woman says it's a case of the government invading
her bedroom. She's on trial for selling sex toys from her home. Plus are happy
people healthier. Studies show that your attitude and outlook can greatly benefit
your overall health. I'm David Sears in a few minutes of Big Board Sports News
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Question for you. What makes you happy? Money, love, family, friends. No matter
how they define it, 30% of people said they were very happy in a recent survey.
60% said they were pretty happy and only 1% said they were unhappy.
Nancy Gonzalez explains why a positive attitude can go a long way when it comes
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you more energy. For tonight's health check, I'm Nancy Gonzalez. A North Texas
woman on trial for selling sex toys out of her home. A judge in Claiborne south
of Fort Worth ordering a pretrial hearing for 43 year old Joanne Webb. She's
accused of selling obscene devices during parties at her home. She says she's
selling the devices to spice up marriages and earn extra cash. The
misdemeanor charge is based on a state law prohibiting the sale of devices
used for sexual gratification.
CityCam had a tough time for most of the day battling the winds out there. Are
they winds of change to lower our temperatures? Let's check in with Steve
Brown. My son's sit there and we're getting to the shortest days of the year
by the way and eventually here over the next month we're gonna watch the sunset
go down a little bit later. Tonight's gonna be a cold one gonna be the coldest
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Coming up tonight at 7, Diane Sawyer has an exclusive interview with President
Bush. She talks about the moment he first heard news of Saddam Hussein's capture.
The guy at the house came in and said there's a secure phone call from Secretary
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I'm Brian Mylar. KSAT 12 investigates a highway danger coming up. All that tonight
at 10 right here on KSAT 12. Well our weather's kind of, I've been calling it
the teeter-totter of weather. Nice during the day, very cold at night. Yeah and
that's the pattern we're stuck with here for the next five days. The only
problem is it's too nice, too much, too nice. Pretty brain. Yeah. Too much, too nice is
the definition of drought. We're getting into that situation. It's the kind of a
pattern I really despise. Right now outside our temperature is 53. The dew
point is down there at 17. The air is super powder dry. In fact, last night the
air was filled with powder at about midnight last night. It was just thick
dust that came in from West Texas. Wind right now still strong out of the north
at 13 gusts to 23 but it's going to drop off very rapidly.
Barometer is very high and it's going up. High today made it 61. 42 the low. No rain
today. Ocfalevel going down. We still have a little reserve there but it will
not last long although at this time of the year
Ocfalevel doesn't tend to drop as quickly as it does of course during the
growing season or early summer. Pollen count today we had light counts on
molds. Also kind of surprising I thought we might see more of mountain cedar. The
count today was reported as light. Big storm system going through the Great
Lakes area right now and you can see a string of showers. This is the actual
cool front that went through here last night. Of course it went by us dry and
that's happened time and time again. What's happening this year is we get
these north air flows that bring down this dry air, fills up the western Gulf
of Mexico, then the airflow returns to the southeast for a very short time
before it switches back and the dry air comes back in. So we don't have enough
time to get the moisture off the Gulf of Mexico and we're stuck in a dry pattern.
And you can see that across our area there's hardly a cloud out there. Winds
are still strong now. They're still huffing and puffing and gusting to 23
miles an hour here in San Antonio but this is one of those nights that the air
will become quiet very quickly as soon as the Sun goes down as it is right now.
The winds will just start dying down. Good news for the firefighters but it's
going to make for a cold one. We do points down the teens right now. I'm
expecting the coldest night of the year so far, the season so far, and so far the
lowest we've hit is 28. I'm thinking right around 27 tomorrow morning within
a couple of degrees but it looks like we are going to get a freeze.
Temperatures out there right now range from 8 above at Fargo, North Dakota,
70s comfortable down there in Florida. And the national weather map is simple
because we have this one front, one big area of high pressure. Watch this area of
low pressure just gets intense as it moves into the northeastern part of the
country. Really explodes up here and that basically just keeps the airflow coming
in from the northwest with high pressure overhead. There's a little reinforcing
trough there. That's not an actual front so temperatures won't change a whole lot
you're just going to get these mild days or cool days and we're gonna get the
cold nights but tonight will be the coldest of the next several. We'll have
a freeze pretty widespread across the area. Temperatures out in the hill
country will drop into the upper teens to around 20. Winds will drop off
quickly north at 5 to 10 miles an hour. That's pretty significant freeze we make
it to 27 here in town. Then it'll warm up, lots of sunshine, not much wind
tomorrow. It'll be light variable at 5 to 10 miles an hour and the five day
forecast you can see each of the next several mornings below freezing or near
the freezing mark but daytime temperatures should be up in the 60s
gradually moderating closer to 70 by late in the weekend. So yeah you can call
it nice just too much too nice too dry we need rain. Yeah terribly. And I'm not
delivering. Well we won't blame you for it. The great Popovich I guess a wind
streak what get you a new contract? Speaking of delivering a wind streak and
a couple of championships I guess works and the fact that you got Tim Duncan to
stay in. Yeah that helps. He's a franchise player but Greg Popovich is gonna be in
San Antonio for a few more years. We'll talk about that when we come back. He's
got his team on a seven game winning streak right now the hottest in the NBA
and Jesse James Lea another chance to take a step towards a title shot.
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Absolutely they're coming to San Antonio for the MasterCard Alamo Bowl. They'll be
here in force. Their fans will be here in force. Talk of a Nebraska Cornhusker
boycott at the Alamo Bowl is just that but it's interesting. More in a minute but
first Tony Parker getting warned up last night for the Spurs and Grizzlies. Can he
shoot with his feet? Tim Duncan can steal dribble and run. Tim all the way in for
the layup and the foul. Then Tim against Bo Allard down low the spin the foul and
just throw it up there for a three-point play why not. Bonzi Wells now in Memphis
giving the young team a spark with a layup and the foul and the Grizzlies got
the lead but didn't last. Tony Parker got a hot from the outside. Tony with the
three. Oh making a four. Tony got fouled. He had 18. Spurs up three and a half. Third
quarter more from Tim with a jam and it wouldn't be highlights without Manu off
the rebound. Manu bringing it all the way coast to coast. Look at the move. He had seven
but they're all exciting. Then this Tim down low the baseline called for the foul
and he is gone. Tim fouled out with 21. What are you gonna be kidding me? So they have
to crank up the defense. Manu slips. Bonzi Wells picks up a loose ball.
Bruce Bowen chasing him down from behind. He knocks the ball away. The Spurs go on
to win 78-67. We're doing better defensively. You know we're still in some
situations we're lucky in other situations. Roshua or Timmy has saved us.
I think we we stepped up and we would play the difference that we we won. We
have we have a lot more than we were doing. All right Spurs go after eight to
in a row tomorrow night when they host the Toronto Raptors tipoff 730 SBC
Center. Spurs announced today that head coach Greg Popovich has received a
contract extension that will keep him the Spurs head coach for the 2007-2008
season. San Antonio is on a list of future homes for Major League Baseball
teams specifically the league-owned Montreal Expos. That revealed over the
weekend in a New Jersey paper today County Judge Nelson Wolfe said he has
talked with the league about San Antonio but informed them the city
wouldn't be ready for a team for another 10 to 15 years. However there is a chance
Nelson Wolfe Stadium could be a part-time home of the Expos sharing time
with Monterey Mexico. Not something unheard of since the Expos play in both
Montreal and Puerto Rico. Maybe on a long shot if we were to share a team say with
Monterey which is only 300 miles away play half the games here half somewhere
else size up the stadium that we have today to a reasonable configuration of
maybe 20,000 seats or so that could work in the interim. Yeah the Expos only draw
10,000 fans in Montreal so Wolfe Stadium could be expanded to hold 20 to 25,000.
Nebraska Cornish players are getting a little antsy they want both leading to
be named their next head coach and talk from Lincoln is boycotting the Alamo
ball it won't happen but the talk does spotlight the players frustration. You
got 17 to 22 year old kids who obviously have had a coaching change and three
weeks later they don't have a decision as to you know that we're moving forward
as far as what's going on this program who our coach is going to be they know
who the interim coach is going to be so there's looking for answers internally.
Husker is missing in state December 30th and finally Jesse James Leja's quest
for another world title shot takes another step in January. Leja will take
on Francisco Bajado next month January 24th in Atlantic City. Of course he's
coming off that big impressive win over Fernando Mania last month so Leja
getting older and fighting better. Yeah he looks like he's on a mission. Gotta
like that. Yeah thanks David we'll be right back. Brought to you in part by
GMC Trucks. It's a no-holds-barred interview. KSAT 12 Steve Spreaster goes
one-on-one with Governor Rick Perry. The battle of redistricting. Texas in the
presidential election. Questions you need answered. Steve Spreaster and the
governor tonight at 10 on the nightbeat. Wait till you see what's about to happen
to the homes on this block. With the owners away they're getting instantly
decorated for Christmas and watch the neighbors react when we switch it all on.
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Right now we want to check in with TransGuide. This is I-35 at Martin
near downtown. There's a major accident here. You can see traffic pretty much at
a standstill. Again that's I-35 and Martin near Durango. That's a major
accident to tell you about. Things definitely slowing down through there.
Stay away from this area if you can. We'll see you at 10.