Coming up on Eyewitness News tonight, millions of Americans watched ABC's the day after tonight. We will get some local reaction to the telecast and the nuclear freeze movement. We'll take a look at some of the protests generated by tonight's movie. Meanwhile, Houston Vice Squad officers have arrested more than 30 male prostitutes in a major raid this weekend in the Montrose area. I'm Van Hacker and I'll have these stories and others next on Eyewitness News tonight. Monday on the 3 o'clock million dollar movie. Take him up. He ain't gonna find nothing on him worth the trouble. He thinks he's gonna roll the stick. Lean on that shovel, Grandpa. Nobody's touching this grave. That's my brother. I don't think he'd care for it too much being wrestled in and out of that box. Give him a hand. Leave it alone. I love it. He's only got one bullet. What are you gonna do? Shoot me? BJ? Maybe Homer. Then what? Why don't you ask your friends? You're not gonna be around to find out. The first time on this showcase, James Garner in The New Maverick. Monday's 3 o'clock million dollar movie on 13. It's early morning and the beat of Houston begins as Texans prepare to face a promising new day. And the friendly 7 a.m. Eyewitness News team makes it all just a little easier. You don't miss a thing because Sylvan Rodriguez has the overnight happenings while you slept. Whether it's work, school or pleasure, you can plan your day with Doug Brown's forecast. And getting you there on time is traffic reporter Don Nelson's job. The WAM 13 Eyewitness News team. The early morning heartbeat of Houston. Number one in Texas. 13 Eyewitness News with Van Hacket. Tim Melton has sports. And the 7 day weather forecast with Ed Brendan. Now 13 Eyewitness News tonight. Good evening everyone. Millions of Americans gathered in homes, schools and churches tonight to watch ABC's The Day After. The dramatization of nuclear war and the new focus of an escalated national debate on nuclear arms. We have two reports on local reaction to tonight's telecast. The first from Melanie Lawson who spoke with a nuclear research expert and two politicians on opposite sides of the issue. U.S. Congressman Jack Fields and his family watched portions of the show in Channel 13 studios. Fields said he thought the film was constructive. Although other conservatives on the Hill have criticized it as inflammatory and pro-nuclear freeze. But Fields said he thought it would now cause both sides to see that the real issue is finding ways to protect the American people in the event there ever is a nuclear strike. We have the ability to insulate our American population from a nuclear strike coming from the Soviet Union or any other third world country or terrorist group for that matter. Fields says the U.S. must never fall behind in the nuclear arms race. But presidential candidate Jesse Jackson in town tonight for his campaign says he thinks the U.S. should be working to slow down the race. We as a nation must choose the human race over the nuclear race. The nuclear buildup is too dangerous, it's too costly, it's too likely and we are not negotiated in good faith enough. The head of the American Nuclear Society which represents professionals in nuclear power research says he thinks the movie won't change any opinions. But he hopes it may make some impressions. Hopefully it will help raise consciousness about how horrible war is. The actual war of any kind is really much more horrible than the movie. The votes aren't all in yet on tonight's show. But regardless of where they stood on the nuclear question, everyone we spoke to tonight agreed the show would accomplish one purpose. To stimulate public debate on what could happen and how we can best avoid such an eventuality. I'm Melanie Lawson, Eyewitness News. This is Tom Cook. After a week of classroom discussions on nuclear war, two dozen St. Thomas high school seniors relaxed in an auditorium as the movie began. Many believe the movie was excessively hyped by the media and they prepared for graphic violence and gore. There's been a lot of hype about it and how it's so graphic and all and I just want to see if a movie can really be so graphic where the only thing you hear all week is don't watch it alone. But curious looks turned into tense and anxious expressions as the screen lit up with a nuclear holocaust. When the bomb dropped on Kansas City, so did a lot of jaws. There were gasps, groans and uneasy laughter throughout and sounds of disbelief when the movie ended. Seeing what it's actually like, what it's going to possibly be like, you know, you might, you know, you might be lying in bed for a while. What can I do to stop it? Most people now, you're going to have free time yourself. You're just going to be thinking about what you just saw. Like you just lay down in bed and all of a sudden this picture will just show up. If you think about it that this could happen today like in Houston or something, well then you would lose a lot of sleep. I know I would. Many of the students say while the movie is not as violent as they expected, it is disturbing and they're glad they came to watch it with friends. As the saying goes, it's only a movie, but the emotional fallout is real. At St. Thomas High School, Tom Cook, Eyewitness News. There are those who think the movie never should have been aired. Outside our Channel 13 studios tonight, half a dozen protesters carried placards reading, Beam the Bomb. The group was representing the National Democratic Policy Committee, an organization which favors particle beam weaponry as a defense mechanism to combat nuclear weapons. It is not associated with the Democratic Party. Meanwhile, one Houstonian already has made plans just in case a nuclear attack is carried out against our area. Melanie Lawson reports he's building a bomb shelter in his backyard. Haley Dilbert is a man with security on his mind. His house is protected by a guard dog, a burglar alarm system he designed, and steel posts to keep cars from driving into his yard. So when he dug up dirt in his backyard to use in his front yard, he had few problems deciding what to do with the hole. This turned out to be a bomb shelter. That's an emergency shelter. Well, could be useful bomb or hurricane or any kind of storm, really. It took Dilbert over a year and around $1,000 to build his shelter. He says it's a 9 by 7 foot room, 8 feet deep, lined with steel bars and 9 inches of concrete. And when the door is completed, he plans to build a pump to circulate air and equip it with food, power, and a shortwave radio. His neighbors have watched the project with both interest and envy. At first I was kind of baffled at what it was, but after a period of time I more or less figured out that it was probably a bomb shelter. Well, it's a pretty smart idea. Listen, lady, this world is in a hell of a shape. Dilbert says he's not afraid of nuclear war, just careful. Suppose you are watching a TV, right, and you see a warning and you don't know what to do. Well, even I die, I die here. I don't die on freeways. Dilbert plans to sell this house within the next three to four years. The shelter will remain for the next owners. But he says wherever he goes, he plans to build another one, only this time bigger and better. I'm Melanie Lawson, Eyewitness News. Houston Vice Officers conducted a major prostitution raid overnight. We'll have that story and more when Eyewitness News continues. Here, where some saw only raw earth, others saw opportunity, and while many labored, a few dreamed. It took more than muscle and steel to make it happen. It took an attitude, a spirit that said yes, to change a wilderness landscape into the fastest growing major city in the country. This is the spirit of the Southwest, and we're the bank of the Southwest, and this is the spirit we bring to business. Yes. Perfect. Perfect. Seems like most fast food is made as fast as it's served, but not at Grandies. Grandies, oh, Grandies, serving up good food, make a scratch. Grandies, oh, Grandies, fast food that doesn't taste fast. Chain your Chippendale chair to the wall. Nail your Steinway to the floor. Hatlock your Rolls Royce. Sleep with your main coat on. That lovable, adorable, kissable Fitzwillie strikes again. He's a crook. An embezzler. Dick Van Dyke and Barbara Feldman star in Fitzwillie, Sunday night at 11 on 13. Lebanese government radio reports tonight that Palestinian rebels were just 500 yards from the Tripoli headquarters of PLO leader Yasser Arafat today. The rebels reportedly closed in and engaged in front line combat with Arafat's rebels. Beirut radio reports the intensity of that fighting makes it difficult to confirm details, but the whereabouts of PLO Chief Arafat are unknown tonight. Meanwhile, Syrian-backed Palestinian rebels continue to relentlessly hammer rocket and artillery fire on the Badawi refugee camp and Tripoli's port area. Waves of Israeli planes bombed the guerrilla strongholds with Lebanon radio reporting 18 people killed, 25 wounded in the attacks. At least one Israeli plane was shot down, but the pilot reportedly ejected safely. Israeli Prime Minister Yatsik Shamir says that more raids are going to follow, and he warns Syria not to start another Mideast war. And the people of Nicaragua tonight are preparing for what the government says is an imminent invasion by the United States. However, the White House says that fear is completely unfounded. These people are Cubans leaving Managua this morning because they fear Nicaragua will be invaded by the United States. The Cuban embassy here has no comment, but thousands of Cubans have reportedly left this week on special Cubana Airlines flights. Cubans are not the only ones leaving Nicaragua. Representatives of Salvadoran guerrilla groups based in this country also say they are leaving because they fear their presence here will be used as a reason for a U.S. invasion. You cannot overreact when you feel threatened by a big power like the United States. Nicaragua's Sandinista government believes an invasion is coming. Political rhetoric here is reaching record levels, with junta leaders saying that this week's exercises in Honduras are only the first step in a Grenada-style invasion of Nicaragua. The local press is in full cry. Citizens have been instructed to dig trenches and to prepare for a war in the streets. And in a move out of the 1960s, Americans living in Nicaragua marched on the U.S. embassy, carrying the message that they do not want to be rescued. We have made it clear that we fear for our safety, not as a result of any actions of the Nicaraguan government, but rather as a result of U.S. policy toward that government. A spokesman for the U.S. embassy says the invasion rumors are baseless, but there is no convincing the Sandinistas and their supporters here. Demonstrations against the United States have been stepped up. So if the president is looking only to send a message to this country and its government without an invasion, then Mr. Reagan appears to have already succeeded. Josh Mankiewicz, ABC News, Managua. National Transportation Safety Board investigators tonight believe a possible violation of safety rules may have caused that fatal train wreck this weekend in Baytown. Alma Barrera reports that work crews began the task of cleaning up the wreckage this morning. The cleanup crews were at the site early to begin the monumental task of removing 50-foot-long tank cars and other heavy-box cars. This morning, it was easier to see the extent of the damage. Although the initial shock of having lost four men was over, it wasn't forgotten by Southern Pacific Railroad employees. There were a few signs left, a few personal belongings scattered through the debris, a hard hat, boots, magazines. But the task at hand today was to find the cause of the crash. Who was at fault, and could it have been prevented? Thurman Tove, a safety investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board, says it is standard procedure for cars to be left standing, that signal lights are not standard procedure at this point of the tracks, and that the moving train did have a headlight. Tove would not speculate on how fast he thought the train was traveling or whether the men knew the train was supposed to be there. He says he has yet to talk to the only survivor who is still hospitalized at Herman Hospital. Tove said the investigation will continue for some time to come, and he said that if violations did take place, about the only thing the board can do is make safety recommendations so that this kind of accident doesn't happen again. From Baytown, this is Elma Barrera, Eyewitness News. All last week here on Eyewitness News, we heard Action 13's Marvin Zindler and reporter Don Cobos tell about the tremendous problems facing Houston vice officers as they tried to combat prostitution in our city. Well, just this weekend, vice officers conducted a major raid in the Montrose neighborhood, and they arrested more than 30 male prostitutes and their customers. Police say what are quiet, fashionable residential streets in this neighborhood during the daytime at night become rendezvous points for male prostitutes and their customers. Police say they have recently received numerous complaints regarding the proliferation of both male and female prostitution in certain areas of the Montrose neighborhood. However, prostitution in this area of town isn't new, as has been documented, photographed, and reported on by Channel 13 on numerous occasions, most recently this past week in a series of reports by Marvin Zindler and Don Cobos. In response to the most recent complaints, Houston police vice squad detectives heading a task force of 36 uniformed and undercover police officers conducted a sweep Saturday night of the problem area. As a result, a total of 35 arrests, many of the suspects dressed in drag or female clothing and makeup. Vice squad lieutenant J.E. Williams says the suspects came from a wide variety of professions. I believe we got a professor, a teacher, a probation officer, and just various professions. Police say they encourage citizens who suspect similar type activity to be taking place in their neighborhood to contact the Houston police vice squad. Williams said this was the first police operation to target male prostitutes in a long time, but indicated it won't be the last. Is this type of operation going to take place again? Yes sir, I think you can count on it. Tom Dickerson, Eyewitness News. And the Oilers went after a two-game winning streak up in Cincinnati today, but they came a little short, didn't they? Yes, the series with the Bengals is over. Totals, Bengals 93, Houston 24. Aren't we glad it's over? Is there hope in the future? Well, Tampa Bay is next week. We'll take a look at what happened today in just a bit. Music Sounds good, doesn't it? Actually, it's a faulty and dangerous exhaust system. To be on the safe side, you should have your checked regularly. I'm your local man from Minikee, and we'll inspect your exhaust system free of charge. And if there's anything wrong, we'll give you a muffler gram, a free written estimate. We'll never sell you more than you need, and we won't start without your approval. At Minikee, you'll love the price. Installed from 1893, visit your local independently owned Minikee shop today. We look like a pretty ordinary family, but for more than 50 years, we've been hiding a mighty special secret. It's the secret blend of spices in Owens Country Sausage, an old family recipe that gives Owens the just right season taste. So if anybody would like to know the secret to the taste of our sausage, sorry. Some things are best kept in the family, right guys? Owens has the just right season taste. Always has, always will. When the Oilers beat Detroit last week, they proved they can beat an average NFL team when they eliminate mistakes. But they do not yet have the talent to beat the better or the best, and that's why today, for the second time in three weeks, they lost to Cincinnati. This time it was 38 to 10. It will sound rather ridiculous, but the Oilers may have lost on Cincinnati's first play from scrimmage. Steve Brown called for pass interference on Chris Collinsworth, and the Bengals were in business at the Oilers 18. The long interference penalty really set a tone. I think it was a very discouraging thing. Three plays later from the 16, Ken Anderson found a wide open Dan Ross, and has steadily said the downfall had begun. It appears that what happens to our team early in the game is almost instrumental in how we play the rest of the ballgame. Oliver Luck was hurried most of the day and often times forced his passes, but one beauty was his 37 yarder to Walt Arnold that set up a Florian Kemp field goal and proved to be the Oilers' only score of the first half. We couldn't really get a running game going. We never got that started, and that's a big cog in our offense. We got a girl back there, and we couldn't get that going, and we were forced to start throwing the ball out and play catch up, and we're not that kind of team. And the Oilers would need a lot of offense because they could not stop the Bengals on this day. Collins-Worth left Willie Tellis with only air to grab on this 45 yard scoring play that put the Oilers in a 14-3 hole and woke everybody up to the fact that they were not playing Detroit. There's a difference in who you play. Cincinnati is a better team than Detroit. After a fumble to kickoff set up a Cincinnati field goal, Pete Johnson went to work, scoring on TD runs of 10 and 12 yards with Luck tossing an ill-advised pass that got kicked off in between. They know we're going to throw the ball. I think they're the top right of defense in the NFL, and it's very rare the team can get some quick, easy scores on them. They're just too good of a defense for that. I'm not at all discouraged with Oliver Luck here again. The ball game was out of hand rather quickly, and therefore it's difficult to evaluate his performance based on that. It was 38-3 at the half and ended 38-10 because of a late TD toss from Luck to Arnold, but the story was the same. Twice in three weeks, completely outclassed, completely outplayed, completely humiliated in both cases. Now for those of you who are wondering if Oliver played the game in a fog, that was not the case simply the matter that the weather conditions played havoc with the lens of the camera. Elsewhere, the Cowboys coasted past Kansas City today with St. Louis humiliating San Diego. Minnesota defeated the Steelers, but Billy White shoes Johnson made the play of the day. His Falcons trailing San Francisco 24-21, seven seconds to go. Bartkowski tosses it up. Billy White shoes falls down, but the ball is tipped. He gets up, he grabs it. Can he make it to the end zone? Time is gone. Yes, Billy made it. Atlanta won 28-24. Cowboys got TD runs of 28-32 from Dorsett. Led Kansas City 20-0 into the break. Walts to a 41-21 romp over the Chiefs. Steve Dills threw a couple of TD passes. Vikings out defense Pittsburgh 17-14. Steelers have lost three. All three have come at home. Miami blank Baltimore 37-0. The backbreakers 85-yard TD pass here. Marino to Mark Super Duper and Mark Clayton with a 60-yard punt return for a score that offense take the lead in AFC East. Cleveland shut out New England 30-0. The pass did not play well. Grogan overthrew a certain TD. Morgan drops a certain completion. The Redskins blasted the Rams 42-20. Thiesman to Riggins. Two wide receiver Art Monk to Charlie Brown. 45-yard gain set up a score. And RAM quarterback Vince Ferragamo was sacked for a safety. Skims dominated. Raiders beat Buffalo 27-24. Chris Barbe with a 36-yarder. His time ran out to win it. Giants shut out Philadelphia 23-0. Butch Wolfoak carried for an NFL record 43 times, 159 yards. And Len Dickey threw a couple of TD passes to John Jefferson and Paul Kaufman. But he set out the second half of the mild concussion. The Packers lost to Detroit 23-20 in overtime. Elsewhere St. Louis with a big win over San Diego. Chicago shut out Tampa Bay and yes the Bucks get the Oilers next week in Tampa. And Denver with Gary Kubiak defeated Seattle. And the good old boys in Atlanta for the final race of the NASCAR season. Winston Point Cup Series title on the line. Bobby Allison needed to finish 13th or better to win it. And the National Point title was on his line right now. But Darrell Waltrip had a chance to get the title if he could win the race. This is eight laps from the finish. And you're going to see Tim Richmond in the red car as they go into the turn. Just barely bumped Waltrip. And his car will spin out. He is out of the race. Allison did in fact finish high enough to win. And Bill Elliott won the race. But the National Point title goes to Bobby Allison for the first time. That is it. Looks kind of like the Southwest Freeway doesn't it? Yes, except they're doing repairs now. We can't go that fast. On the Southwest Freeway or on the race track on the Southwest Freeway? Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Speaking of driving, I wonder if I should put the top up on my car tonight. I would if I had a convertible, but I don't have a convertible. We'll have a seven day forecast then. Carl Sagan, Ted Koppel and William F. Buckley will discuss the inevitability of a cold front. That's next on Channel 13. MUSIC Monday on the 3 o'clock million dollar movie. He's only got one bullet. What are you gonna do? Shoot me? BJ? Maybe Homer? Then what? Why don't you ask your friends? You're not gonna be around to find out. The first time on this showcase, James Garner in The New Maverick. Monday's 3 o'clock million dollar movie on 13. MUSIC There are over 600,000 kids under the age of 16 with the prostitutes in the United States today. Why would a teenage girl do this? Pimps you know, psych them out into like they love them. Pimps reach out and talk to kids that have no one else to talk to. Where are these girls' parents? Is there any way of escaping? Where do you really go? Do you go to the police and say I don't want a prostitute anymore? These kids need love. And we hope you'll join us. Monday morning at 10 here on 13. MUSIC Well that has the forecast for tonight, the forecast for the next three days and the forecast for seven days. It really will not be followed by analysis. Isn't that important? Let's talk about the seven day forecast presented by Texas Commerce Banks. The low temperature in Houston this morning dropped to 44 degrees, the high this afternoon 71. We've had no rainfall in the past 24 hours. At 11 o'clock at Intercontinental Airport it's 53, downtown it's 59, at Hobbie it's 50. Our barometer is rising, winds are south at seven miles per hour, calm at times, and our relative humidity is 62 percent. This satellite view of Texas taken about an hour ago indicates fair skies over most of the state. A low pressure area in the extreme northwestern corner of the Panhandle bringing southerly winds into that part of the state. We're getting southeasterly winds in the backside of a high. Temperatures still in the 50s and 60s all over Texas tonight. National radar indicates that the last frontal system to move through our area is now causing thunderstorm activity in some parts of the eastern United States. Quite heavy thunderstorms have just moved off of South Florida. They've had some pretty hellacious weather down there with reports of tornadoes and severe thunderstorms. Back in the west, another system is causing snowfall, especially at higher elevations, but the elevation at which snow is falling gets lower every hour. Here's a satellite view from the GOES Western satellite. That storm covers much of the western and central United States, drifting in an easterly direction. Warnings for heavy snow as far to the south as northwestern corner of New Mexico, all the way back into southeastern Oregon and up into Montana. This will eventually cause a frontal system to move through our area. It's a Pacific system. We don't expect bitterly cold air and we don't expect snow, but we expect it could cause us some shower activity. With that as a basis, let's start the seven-day forecast with a look at tomorrow's map. By tomorrow, there will be a main low-pressure center in the southern part of Kansas. Widespread snowfall in the Rockies beginning to spread into the Black Hills of the Dakotas. Shower activity on the southern edge of that precipitation line will have southeasterly winds causing partly sunny skies in the Houston area. On Tuesday, that front will be closer to us, northwesterly winds bringing shower activity to the extreme western part of the state, widespread snow up here. Again, partly cloudy and probably unseasonably warm in the Houston area. By Wednesday, that front will be moving through the Houston area. That will bring us cool winds on the backside of it or cool air. Widespread shower activity as the front meets up with that moisture from the Gulf. And we'll see a notice, a definite shift in winds when that front moves through probably around midday on Wednesday. Thursday, things will begin to get better. The front should be out in the Gulf. There'll be residual cloudiness, so we'll call for partly sunny skies here. A secondary front will be moving through the southern part of Oklahoma. And still another system will be entering the Pacific Northwest causing rain and snow. On Friday, looks pretty good here. High pressure centered very close to us. Southerly winds warming up the western part of the state. Probably sunny skies for us that might last through Saturday. On Saturday, we expect to see the high moving to the east. We'll get a shift in winds back to the east and southeast so there'll be a little bit of clouds obscuring the sun. Otherwise, it should be a nice day. The next system, which might be close enough to us on Sunday, will bring us again partly cloudy skies with a chance by evening of maybe some shower activity. None of the fronts that look like they're going to move through this week are polar fronts. They are Pacific fronts, so that means they generally cause rain and not bitterly cold temperatures. Sunrise tomorrow morning, 6.51 central standard time. Set tomorrow afternoon at 5.24. Next Sunday, the sun will rise at 6.56 and set at 5.22. The forecast for the next three days looks like this. Partly sunny skies on Monday and Tuesday. Lows in the 40s, highs in the 70s. On Wednesday, more clouds and about a 30 percent chance of rain. That's the seven day forecast. And Van Hacket will have more news after this. Texas Commerce Bank Houston is a bank for all Houston business. With Texas Commerce Bankers, I'm Ron Ehring. Stewart and Stevenson is the world's largest diesel engine distributor. And they've been with Texas Commerce for over 40 years. I've been with the company all my life. And I can say that without Texas Commerce's help, we wouldn't be what we are today. Backed by the nation's fastest growing major banking organization, Texas Commerce Bank Houston is working for your success. Preparations that have been underway since last June are nearing an end for the 34th annual Thanksgiving Day Parade downtown. But the theme of Foley's annual parade is going to be the world of Disney, featuring a variety of Disney's most popular characters. Mickey Mouse will serve as this year's Grand Marshal. The floats for the parade have been under construction since early summer. And they'll be moved to the site of the parade Wednesday night. Early Thursday morning, the final preparations will be made. This year's Foley's Thanksgiving Day Parade is going to be featuring balloons and floats of all shapes and sizes riding through the downtown streets of Houston. And this marks the 200th anniversary of manned hot air ballooning. And they observed it today in Paris where it all got started. They made a recreation of the original hot air balloon, dressed it up in the same clothes of 1783, and did it upright. Actually, as a matter of fact, they did it better. The replica performed better than the original, which started to smoke. An exhilarating discovery to make when you're several hundred feet off the ground. And finally tonight, they could have used a few good cowboys in Perrysville, Pennsylvania. Seem some vandals let three valuable saddle horses out of their stalls. The animals rambled through Perrysville for about two hours, startling drivers and residents and eluding police. One witness who looked out his bathroom window to see three of the horses come clippity-clopping down one of the main drags as they were trotting along very stately and nobody tried to pass. Maybe we could lend Perrysville some of the cowboys and they could lend us the horses. At any rate, that is the news for right now for Ed Brand and Tim Melton on Van Hacket. You all have a very pleasant week. In the meantime, good night. I'm Jan Glenn and Monday a look at the movie the day after will be joined live by students and a panel of experts to discuss nuclear war and the Holocaust on Good Morning Houston. While you're out shopping, there's a whole lot of people out shopping for you. There are scam artists whose devious plans set her around stealing your packages. Can I help you with those bags? Oh, thank you. My car's just right here. Thank you. There are shoplifters who cause consumers to eventually pay the price of their crime. Join Bob Bujold for a very special and timely series. It's the season to be ripped off. Starting Wednesday on Eyewitness News at 6, here on 13.