They are losers who only know how to trash our city. They're vandals. Emotions
ran high during last night's Laker victory celebration. But the cost of
cleaning up is even higher. Good evening I'm Dave Carlin. And I'm Brooke Wagner.
Jeff Powers is on assignment tonight. Dozens of cars were vandalized as hundreds
of police officers battled rowdy fans. The live pictures we brought you last
night are just a slice of the mayhem in LA. Today the cleanup began. WB News at
10's Eric Spillman takes a closer look. At the Kaiser Brothers Honda dealership
on Figueroa they've got a lot of broken glass to clean up. Unruly Laker fans
broke in here last night and started smashing 15 new cars in the showroom.
They just went nuts. Yeah about five minutes worth and they kept going down
the street and damaging everything else. It's a big mess now. It is just some of the
damage from the so-called celebration when some Laker fans got way too wild.
The rioting started about an hour or so after the game. A crowd of 10,000 people
had gathered outside the Staples Center. At first they lit bonfires and danced
around the flames but then they really got rowdy and started destroying things.
A mob started vandalizing news media vans and police cars. They picked up
anything they could find and began throwing it. After they destroyed the
cars they lit them on fire. The fire department just stood by and watched
till it was safe to put out the flames. Later on police and riot gear went in
and persuaded people to go home but it took them hours to break up the crowds.
This morning businesses along Figueroa Street are counting up all the damage.
Some were looted. At downtown LA Motors brand-new Mercedes were vandalized.
Windows shattered with heavy objects. Employees here are having a hard time
understanding why. Our society, I mean how can you do things like this? I mean
sure have your fun, celebrate but don't be you know tearing up other people's
property like this. Unbelievable. Tomorrow's victory parade ending at the
Staples Center will go on despite the trouble and by the way last night's
violence brings up questions about the Democratic National Convention to be
held there in August. LA Mayor Richard Reardon says his streets will be safe.
If you've ever been behind the wheel for a long car trip you know the road can
lull you to sleep. Now imagine driving for 12 straight hours. A new proposal may
have truckers doing just that. Brian Black is live off highway 163 with a
look at a controversial plan. Well Dave there is no doubt right now there is
some very tired drivers on our roads. However some fear there could be even
more tired truckers if a new plan is passed by Congress.
After 22 years of driving a big rig Marvin Pinner has seen a lot of road. His
toughest trip? I don't think I should say. I drove from Hartford Connecticut to
Anaheim in 72 hours and slept for five hours. For years others on the road have
complained truckers spent too much time behind the wheel. Now there's a bill in
Congress that would increase the time truckers can drive from 10 straight
hours to 12. Dave Gordon thinks that's crazy. Bad idea, bad idea. Yeah I feel
nervous enough the way that the truck drivers drive now and I'd like things to
be safer and not less safe. The Department of Transportation says the new
plan would upgrade safety. Currently truckers can be on the road for 10
straight hours, take an eight-hour break and then go back on the road for another
six hours. That's a total of 16 hours a day. The new rule would allow 12 straight
hours of driving and then require 12 hours of rest. There is a lot of idiot
truck drivers out there you know. Kenny Dozier fears that the law is passed.
Trucking companies may force drivers to push past their limits. We get tired
sometimes and they really don't care. They want the product there no matter
how tired you are they want it there. Marvin says new rules aren't the key to
making our roads safe. He feels there must be better enforcement. Marvin
believes until that happens truckers will take chances and drive drowsy.
They're going to do it anyway they'll be breaking the law and that's the way
they have to make money. Now if this bill does pass it would also apply to bus
drivers they could drive 12 straight hours. This is just a proposal. Congress
will be hearing a whole lot of more hearings over the next few few years
probably. Oh boy just imagine all the no-dos and caffeine. That's for sure.
Thank you Brian. San Diego police are looking for a murderer tonight. A teenager
called 911 this afternoon after hearing gunshots near a Golden Hill apartment
complex on B Street. Officers found a man dead in the passenger seat of a car.
He'd been shot several times. A man was seen running away from the complex but
police have not made any arrests. Updating a story we've been following
since last week. A man involved in an alleged game of Russian roulette appears
in court. Now this is Jeff Luis Elias. Police say he shot to death 18 year old
Bianca Guzman last Thursday one day before her high school graduation. Elias
pleaded not guilty to those charges and says Guzman died playing Russian roulette.
Elias is being held on two million dollars bond. The DA's office has an
officer involved shooting last February was justified. 42 year old Ronald Fields
was caught stabbing his mother in their Mission Valley condo. Officers told
Fields to put the knife down and when he didn't one shot was fired. Fields died
at the scene. His mother survived the stabbing. Some good news about underage
drinking at the border. Today the County Board of Supervisors announced young
adults 21 and under are crossing the border less often to drink. The numbers
are down as much as a third. There are also fewer people younger than 18
crossing with fake IDs, fewer DUIs and accidents. County officials say it's
because of a stepped-up police presence. And what could be Mexico's most
significant presidential election ever is less than two weeks away. WB News at
10 got a one-on-one interview with the candidate for the ruling party.
Pries Francisco La Batista says a driving issue in the campaign is
immigration and he wants the US to treat illegal immigrants with more respect.
The impulse for them to cross comes from the need, the legitimate
desire to fight for the survival of their families and for themselves. We
have to exercise our diplomatic capacity as well as our political capacity to
defend these Mexican rights. Recent polls indicate the race between La Batista
and Vincente Fox is too close to call. The election is July 2nd. Here in the US
we're getting ready for November's presidential elections. Right now
Californians are favoring Vice President Al Gore. Although both Gore and
Republican rival George W. Bush are targeting the Hispanic vote, Gore still
wins by a two-to-one margin. Bush does hold a slight lead in the nine southern
California counties including San Diego. Today is the first day of summer and
that also marks a start of swim season. But there's a problem at area pools. The
low unemployment rate and the lure of higher-paying high-tech jobs are making
it harder to find swim instructors. WB News at Tanzanian Jimenez has more.
22 year old college student David Bird is spending his summer teaching swim
lessons. Even though David knows he could have found a job which pays him
more. It's not the highest. It's not in you know computers or anything like that.
It's not the highest but it's a lot more fun something that's more relaxing
during the summer. There's not as much stress to it. I mean you do have to
worry about you know lives and stuff like that but I mean it's not you're
not you know crashing you know computer systems. But there aren't enough
students like David and right now many area swim programs are finding it a
challenge to staff swim instructors. Being near the ocean we want lots of
kids learning how to swim and so trying to bring in instructors, qualified
instructors and lifeguards there's just such a shortage around. Here at the
Encinitas YMCA there are 35 swim instructors. Ideally the number is 45.
Even Y parents have been recruited to take the required courses in order to
teach and the Y staff is working plenty of overtime to cover some 50 classes a
week. Just trying to pull from anywhere we can think of and including myself and
my coordinator and so the supervisors have been going in and teaching a lot
more. Despite the crunch five and a half year old Dana's mom believes her
daughter is still getting a quality education in swimming. I can see her
confidence in the water. I can see an improvement in her confidence every time
she learns new things when she's in her swimming classes. It's a lot more rewarding of a job also.
I mean you're teaching kids how to swim it's something that it's gonna last
their entire life. Perhaps a reward far beyond the dollar signs.
Nina Jimenez San Diego's WB News at 10. YMCA swim instructors make between seven
and nine dollars an hour. City pools pay more. Now all instructors must complete a
40-hour course and be certified in CPR. You have probably noticed the good news
at the gas pump. These are the prices we saw just a few months ago. A dollar 79
for regular unleaded but now the average price in San Diego is a dollar 62. Other
areas of the country aren't so lucky. Prices are as high as ever on the
Midwest. The Federal Trade Commission today opened a formal investigation into
possible price gouging. We've been telling you for a couple of weeks to
avoid emergency rooms unless absolutely necessary. Well today the County Board
of Supervisors made that plea official. The board is launching a public
education program asking people to use urgent care clinics rather than
emergency rooms. The crackdown comes two weeks after Scripps East closed its
doors. Nearly 80% of the 24,000 people who went to the ER at Scripps East last
year were there for non-emergencies. I wonder where the future of music is
going. If you guessed the internet you're probably right. Local internet
company mp3.com held its annual summit at UCSD today. The conference focused on
developments in digital technology and the CD-less music revolution. mp3 wants
to make it easier for you to store music on your personal computer. The companies
come under fire for copyright infringement but recently settled the
case. Have you ever wanted to drive Mach 5? We're talking about the speed racer
car. Well you can for the right price. The car made popular by the 1960s cartoon
is on the auction block. The child safety network here in San Diego is auctioning
off the car on the eBay website. The Mach 5 is fully functional and tops 185
miles an hour. Before you get your checks book out here's the price. It could
go as high as $350,000.
It is finally summer but can Hurricane Carlotta put a cramp in your style? Your
forecast is coming up. And in sports Brian Tolbert makes his major league
debut for the Padres. Proves to be a one-hit wonder. We've got the highlights
coming up. There's a new virus that could make your computer sick. We'll tell you
what to look for. Also Arnold made a promise and it's one he plans to keep.
And later it's a good day for a quartet of pups. We'll take you along.
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Sometimes feelings change. Growing up does not have to equal going apart. Things
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can't get rid of them. The journey to discovery. All that matters right now is
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And John Hartung Sports. From throughout San Diego. This is WB News at 10.
Well you've heard of the Melissa virus and the love bug virus. Well now there's
a new one to look for. Unfortunately you'll know the stages virus because the
email contains the words funny life stages or jokes in the subject line. It
spreads through Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express email programs and in
some cases it infects through chat rooms or America Online instant messaging
software.
A Kennedy is in court to find out whether or not he'll be tried as an adult for
murder. Michael Skakel was 15 when his next-door neighbor Martha Moxley was
beaten to death. That was 25 years ago. Today two school acquaintances testified
Skakel confessed to the murder when they were young. Today the US Senate passed a
bill strengthening hate crime legislation. The bill gives broader
protection to homosexuals and the disabled. Last year's dragging death of
African-American James Byrd and the beating death of gay college student
Matthew Shepard prompted this bill. The Microsoft court case is on the fast
track to a final decision. A federal judge is sending the case directly to
the Supreme Court. One possible snag though the high court is near the end of
its term so whether or not it'll get the case right away still remains to be
seen. Microsoft is appealing the antitrust violation which would split
the company in two.
Arnold's Bach just like he promised Schwarzenegger says he's ready to repeat
his role as a Terminator. The first two installments in 1984 1991 made
Schwarzenegger a star. Now he says it's just a matter of approving a script and a
director and he hopes James Cameron will come back for Terminator 3. Turns out it
may not have been alcohol contributing to actor Patrick Swayze's emergency
landing a few days ago but smoke. Federal investigators say a broken clamp
on a hose could have caused a drop in cabin pressure that along with Swayze's
three-pack a day smoking habit could have caused him to act intoxicated.
Three construction workers claim they helped Swayze get rid of alcohol in his
plane.
What should be relaxing could turn into a trip to the doctor. We've got some
advice you should take before taking a dip in a hot tub. And look at this this
face says it all. How could you not stay around for more of this?
Brooke Wagner and Jeff Powers weeknights on San Diego's WB News at 10. Wagner and
Jeff Powers weeknights on San Diego's WB News at 10.
About 649 tonight summer officially arrived here in San Diego. Are you ready?
Well here's a quick little checklist to make sure you are. Do you have a bathing
suit you will wear in public? You need some cheap flip-flops so you can lose
them at the beach along with cheap sunglasses. You need a towel and you need
a cooler for all your goodies you put in a disposable camera in case you see
somebody on the beach you might like to take a picture of. And the latest trashy
novel just in case you get bored and there's nobody to take any pictures of.
Okay the high today this first day of summer kind of the first day of summer
since it started at 649 we're going to officially call it the first half day of
summer we saw a high of about 73 degrees 66 the low normal would be about 72 and
the Sun comes up at 539 tomorrow morning the official first full day of summer.
Now what's going on on the satellite radar we've got monsoon season what does
that mean for us? Well at the moment not a whole lot but it means a lot to
Arizona they've got heavy thunderstorms throughout Arizona and Mexico as that
monsoonal moisture pulls itself up. We have got on the west coast to deal with
Hurricane Carlotta and you can't really get a good look at her right there she's
still about 220 miles to the southwest of Acapulco we're gonna take a closer
look at Hurricane Carlotta let you know where she's going and what her status is
she's a category two hurricane right now and located just about southwest of
Acapulco 220 miles now she's sustaining winds of about a hundred miles per hour
but she's pushing herself back out to the west which means she's pushing
yourself back out to sea. We've got a look at some video though let's go ahead
and take a look at it from Mexico that was taken today unfortunately Hurricane
Carlotta has taken two people's lives as a road collapsed and three cars went
falling into this river and the two people that that died actually drowned
in the river here it's left thousands of people over a thousand people and looks
like the numbers are going up homeless now although the hurricane did not
actually touch ground the winds and just the rain itself have just been brutal to
the people up and down the Acapulco coastline and hopefully this is going to
be the worst of Carlotta so far this will be the worst that we see because
she's again moving out to sea. 68 degrees right now in San Diego winds are
west at 9 humidity about 76% temperatures around San Diego tonight
are pretty normal 62 in Carlsbad 62 in Tula Vista and we are pretty much in the
lower 60s inland as well the big picture shows what what's going on well we've
got a low pressure this is the one that's bringing the monsoonal moisture
and we've got Carlotta Carlotta could affect our weather later in the week but
the fly-through map shows we've got plenty of activity rainfall throughout
the central Plains states and moving up northward towards the upper Plains
states we've got some really rough weather throughout Oklahoma back
through Missouri and heading up towards Chicago in Indianapolis tonight Indiana
seeing thunderstorms and some tornadoes in the central plains as well here's
look at the big picture what we've got going on around the rest of the country
and again that central Plains states is where things are the roughest now the
high today again with 73 degrees and take a look at what else is going on
water temperature warm 69 degrees your forecast a high of 85 inland and along
the coast a high of 72 you're heading to the mountains or the desert look for a
high of 104 in the sands and 88 degrees up in the mountains we'll take a look
at your five-day outlook let you know if Carlotta is going to have an effect on
our weather forecast a little bit later in the week yeah yay it's summer yay
it's summer do you have your bathing suit you're wearing pot I have all of
them right down to the trashy novel I got one of those two there's something
so relaxing even glamorous about soaking in a hot tub but it's what's in there
with you that'll make your skin crawl the water can be teeming with germs skin
rashes urinary tract infections hepatitis and lesionnaires disease are
just a few of the things you can get from a dirty tub there are ways to keep
the water clean but if you're not sure if it's disinfected change out of your
suit as soon as you get out of the tub it was the team's MVP now he's VIP where
the police department's concerned here why and a Padres pitcher makes his major
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today now WB news at 10 sports not to say the Padres are cursed or anything
but now the pitchers who were called up for the other hurt pitchers are getting
hurt themselves Stan Spencer the latest victim an MRI today shows an elbow
strain and tendonitis he is likely headed for the DL now in Arizona Brian
Tolberg just up from triple a Las Vegas making his major league debut Boach
likes the early results Tolberg just blowing away the Diamondbacks striking
out seven in seven innings bringing the gas drop in the hammer gives up just one
hit and no earned runs J Bell gets rung up the second time also gets tossed for
arguing the call scoreless in the fourth until Ryan Klesko look out poolside
waitress one nothing Padres on the solo bomb and it's two zip in the fifth Brett
Boone gold glove second baseman not on this play first the boots then the
runners coming home Boone's throw Wow horrendous Arizona cuts the lead in half
but Klesko gets it right back second home run of the game 13th of the year
three to one Padres and Tolberg just sits back hands the game over to Trevor
Hoffman and Hoffy rings up former Aztec Travis Lee to end it good night Brian
Tolberg a 27 year old rookie a winner in his big league debut
up a little bit in the bullpen and I just said to myself just go out there and do
what you've been doing and you know move the ball around and let the defense
work for me so it worked all right Dodgers in Houston up five four in the
ninth until their designated gas can fuels the fire Jeff Shaw serves up a
game tying Homer to Jeff Bagwell so yeah we're going to extra innings but in the
tenth former pod Gary Sheffield lights up a fatty of his own three run rocket LA
prevails in 10 nine to six now some unbelievable defense in the bigs tonight
you got to see it first rocky center fielder Tom Goodwin climbed that wall
oh yes takes the dinger away from Barry Larkin same game another center fielder
this guy named is Ken Griffey jr. or something belly flop saves the game with
the catch the Reds go on to take at the final three to two but wait there's more
defensive eye candy and center new Cardinals outfielder Jim Edmonds winning
over friends and teammates check out another sick play robbing the home run
probably not in his top five though all time Edmonds also swinging the big stick
his 21st bomb cards beat the Giants 7-2 final stop Tigers Blue Jays how about a
defensive Homer Toronto's Homer Bush flat out for the sweet catch but now
some offensive homers the Tigers set a team record with eight home runs in the
game that's right they hammer the Jays the final 18 to 6 now it's not often a
team is looking for new coach a day after they play in the NBA finals but
the Pacers are thanks to Larry Bird's departure so expect another Indiana guy
to step in former Hoosier in recent Hall of Fame inductee Isaiah Thomas
appears to be the man for the job but he'll likely have to sell the CBA which
he currently owns so boy made while the Lakers gave their players and fans a
chance to nurse their hangovers today after a night of celebrating the team's
seventh championship in LA tomorrow the Lakers will take part in the obligatory
ticker tape parade through the streets of downtown the same streets where
rioting took place last night by the way MVP Shaquille O'Neal has offered to pay
to replace one of the torched police cars so Shaq doing all kinds of good on
the basketball court off the court he's always done a lot of good off the court
just hardly gets noticed but a nice gesture certainly is alright thanks
Don yeah
these pups made a splash at SeaWorld now these little cuties headed for a new
home we'll share more after the break he tried to get away from her he promised
me that he was gonna come back and get me and he never did on the next session
of divorce court weekday afternoons at 2 on KSWB well who says the news is
depressing we've got another great seal success story to tell you about SeaWorld
set for elephant seal pups free up the coast of Mission Bay today now they're
back where they belong
right you'll see a smile on this face these four rescued buddies are going
home for the past few months they've been packing on the pounds recuperating
at their own seal health spa SeaWorld just five to six months old the pups
were dehydrated and malnutritioned some had infections now they've gained more
than 50 pounds each and they're ready to fend for themselves when these animals
first come in they're extremely weak and they're on death's doorstep and it's a
really good feeling to work hard to bring them back to health and give them
a second chance that chance starts today time to go all these people have been
really nice but Mission Bay awaits look guys it's the neighbors make room for
the new guys on the block about 12 miles out is the perfect spot to say a fun
farewell the sea air calls to the first seal and he's out of here but the next
pup takes a moment to stop and smell the kelp the water's fine so he finally
takes the plunge but the other two can't wait to be homeward bound one at a time
please now that's a day well spent there are the cutie-patooties I just love them
I want to pinch your little cheeks I can't stand it and we did find out also today the good news out of all this there are
fewer beached animals this year so that's great news they suppose it's
because there's more food for them and that's good news and these guys have
been eating well they've packed on 50 pounds each they are do pretty hearty
out there it's going to take a look at your five-day outlook for those of you
heading outdoors over the next couple of days boy it's gonna be great the first
week of summer temperatures are looking good inland and along the coast warm and
sunny at this point hopefully Carlotta not going to bring us any rain we are
banking on sunshine here in San Diego and if any place will get sunshine this
will be the spot that's our newscast tonight thanks for joining us and join
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