Thousands of people turned out for a candlelight march in San Francisco, a final farewell to
Herb Cain.
Earlier, hundreds more shared tears and laughter in memory of the man who touched them with
his words.
We'll have complete coverage.
Can United Airlines in San Francisco come to terms on the city's domestic partners law?
We'll tell you what the 10 o'clock news has found out.
Plus, strangers a year ago, best friends today.
Segment two looks at what happened to two baby chimps abandoned by their mothers and
raised together in the Bay Area.
Those stories and all the news on this Friday night, February 7th, 1997.
Live from KTVU, this is the award-winning 10 o'clock news on Channel 2, the number one
primetime newscast in the country.
Good evening.
I'm Elaine Corral.
And I'm Dennis Richmond.
Thousands of people turned out in San Francisco tonight to pay tribute to a man like none
other.
They lined the waterfront walkway named in his honor and paid tribute to legendary columnist
Herb Cain.
After almost six decades of writing a column that some say mirrored San Francisco, tonight's
candlelight walk along Herb Cain Way was a fitting end to a final day in his honor.
We begin our coverage with Greg Liggins in San Francisco with a live report.
Greg?
Well, Dennis, no official number just yet.
In this reporter's opinion, at least a couple thousand people turned out to take the candlelight
memorial walk down Herb Cain Way, also known as the Embarcadero.
People say Herb Cain gave a lot to this city, so they came here to give him a little something
in return.
The glide memorial choir helped get the crowd warmed up before the walk down the Embarcadero.
Some came just for the party, but others came to honor the man who helped make San Francisco
something special when he was around.
You know, we're a city now.
Back then we were a city with someone who was kind of like dad, you know?
And now we're just a city.
I mean, it's still San Francisco and we're still the most original place on the planet.
But there's a voice missing.
And I guess that's why everybody's here tonight.
So is her.
All across San Francisco, glasses were being raised to honor Cain and his column.
Well, I've been reading it since I was five.
He even put me in it once.
And you know, I don't read the Chronicle as much now that he's not there.
What can I say?
The drink served in these sophisticated looking glasses was Cain's favorite.
And today it was the beverage of choice in the city by the bay.
It seems to be martinis, stolly martinis.
A lot of people are asking for it.
Many people saying goodbye to Cain were loyal fans of his work.
People were also asking for a plate of this, a hearty hunk of all-American meatloaf, another
favorite of Cain's.
It was a specialty today on many menus.
Almost at least 500 meatloafs today, at least so far.
Actually, I haven't had meatloaf in probably 10 years.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
But it sounded like fun.
So kind of in Herb's honor?
Yeah, yeah.
I just couldn't do the vodka martini with ice.
I like it straight up.
And what better way to end a good meal than with a brisk walk?
That's what thousands of people came to do along the honorary Herb Cain way.
It was a shining moment in San Francisco as thousands of candles flickered to honor San
Francisco's superscribe.
He was kind of the glue that held us all together.
The candlelight walk came to rest at Aquatic Park where people gathered around a huge blowup
of one of Cain's favorite columns.
People were leaving little mementos, tokens of their appreciation and their affection
for all those years that Cain toiled over his royal typewriter just so we'd have a little
something interesting to read at the morning breakfast table.
And then of course the evening ended with a bang.
What a way to end an evening, a very memorable moment in San Francisco history.
Back to you, Dennis Elaine.
Greg Liggins in San Francisco.
Thank you, Greg.
The celebration of Herb Cain's life began this morning.
Thousands of people made their way to Grace Cathedral to say goodbye to the man known
as Mr. San Francisco.
As Bob McKenzie reports, they included family and friends, civic leaders and celebrities,
all loyal readers of Herb Cain and all paid tribute to him in their own way.
They came from every part of the city and from cities far away to honor the man who
held up a magic mirror to San Francisco for almost 60 years.
Their number included the humble and obscure as well as the wealthy and powerful.
Herb Cain left good memories for everyone.
Not only did he convey the image of the city, I think he created the image of the city.
In great part, I think we owe what we see San Francisco to be, I think we see what Herb
saw San Francisco to be.
And I miss the fact that he, more than perhaps anyone else, gave us our identity.
We had a lot of fun together.
We could play pool every day.
And one day he told me, we gotta quit smoking, Enrico.
We just have to quit smoking.
I said, no.
He says, yeah, we're gonna quit.
So we quit together 25 years ago.
Herb at heart was a soft, soft person.
Just a kindly person.
We'd walk down the street, he'd hand 50 cents to some poor, desolate old man or lady.
Every time we tend to devere a little off track, he gently nudged us back.
So we're gonna miss him.
We're gonna miss him a lot.
He wrote with panache, he wrote with wit.
And we're gonna miss that too.
The service in Grace Cathedral was tailored to Herb's tastes, beginning with the music.
Subtle jazz woven around a lovely old tune.
San Francisco's mayor introduced himself as Willie Brown, a friend of Herb Cain's.
Herb was absolutely amazing.
He literally lived every day of his life.
And he lived it currently, not in the past.
Started that column in the 30s.
That column was just as relevant in the 70s, in the 80s, and in the 90s.
Herb's writings could make the powerful more powerful.
Herb's writings could render the powerful harmless.
And as Herb was usually would say, it's amazing how quickly you can read my column when you
looking only for your name.
Hello, my name is Charlton Heston.
Actor Robin Williams contributed one of his freestyle riffs.
Angels have wings because they take themselves lightly and he probably is getting some pretty
good hang time right now.
Because he had an amazing sense of humor.
It's a kind of a matter of perspective.
And I hope that right now you're up there maybe at some very, very special.
They must have a club up there too.
Maybe a film or north.
Before we come up here for a very special Herb communion which will consist of dry martinis
and sourdough bread.
And if you don't see God then you never will.
Herb Cain's son read from one of his father's columns.
San Francisco between the great holidays.
The 49ers were seldom worse.
And the giants may be disappearing.
But the trans-America pyramid is balancing the moon on its nose like a trained seal.
And the mood is high.
The devs and the stars are out.
A new year and a new administration around the corner.
And all could yet be well with the world.
May the Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon us and give us peace this day and forever
more.
Amen.
And as everyone knows Herb Cain was also a passionate fan of the opera.
In
San Francisco Bob McKenzie for the Ten O'Clock News.
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The jurors in the O.J. Simpson civil trial have gone home for the weekend after beginning
deliberations in the penalty phase of his trial.
O.J. Simpson did not accompany his attorney to court today.
Defense attorney Robert Baker asked the jury not to substitute huge punitive damages for
prison.
He also said that Simpson is broke, in debt in fact.
But the plaintiff's lead attorney Daniel Petruccelli said you must let Simpson know that you cannot
kill two people and get away with it.
After those final arguments the jury deliberated for about two and a half hours.
This is one of those things where it's literally a credibility question.
Do the jurors believe that O.J. Simpson has got some potential to make some real big money
like the plaintiff's claim or is he simply not marketable like the defense claims?
Petruccelli also told the jurors you must send a message loud enough so that Simpson can
hear it on whatever golf course he is hiding out on.
And as it turned out Simpson was at a golf course this evening when a twin engine plane
crashed at about 5.30.
The two people on board were injured.
The golf course manager said O.J. Simpson was not anywhere near where the plane went
down.
Governor Pete Wilson today withdrew the state of California's offer of a reward for information
about the person who killed Bill Cosby's son Innis.
Bill Cosby had requested that no public money be used as a reward for information.
The offer was made by Lieutenant Governor Gray Davis last month while Wilson was out
of the country and Davis was acting governor.
Innis Cosby was shot and killed as he was changing a flat tire on a freeway off ramp
in Los Angeles last month.
So far there have been no arrests.
The two powerful groups that have been fighting, San Francisco's new domestic partners law
appear to be ready to end their resistance tonight.
One is the Catholic Church which threatened to sue, claiming the law violates the church's
first amendment rights.
But as parishioners arrived for afternoon mass today at St. Mary's Cathedral where Archbishop
William LaVeda conducts services, there was word that LaVeda has reached a compromise
with City Hall.
The church holds contracts with the city and the new law says any city contractor that
provides benefits for employees' spouses must provide equal benefits for so-called domestic
partners.
Under the compromise, church employees could designate a spouse or child or any legal household
member to receive the benefits.
So today the 10 o'clock news has learned that the city is about to resolve a similar dispute
with United Airlines.
Rita Williams has that report.
The friendly skies of United Airlines may be getting a lot friendlier, at least for
United's employees.
After weeks of delays and negotiations with the city, it now appears the world's largest
airline may in fact comply with San Francisco's new law and begin providing benefits to the
domestic partners of its workers.
For me, being that I have a domestic partner 14 years, I would be able to utilize my benefits
and my domestic partner would be able to as other married spouses of our employees are
utilizing those benefits today.
Joe Oshinsky, a United engineering supervisor the past five years, says he's excited that
his same-sex partner finally could use flight discounts now given to spouses and accompany
him on trips.
Oshinsky says since his partner is an accountant, he probably wouldn't switch to United's medical
coverage, but...
The big thing is he's given the right to choose, like the married spouses of our other employees.
The city still hasn't announced the deal with United, but members of the board of supervisors
negotiating with United confirmed it to me this afternoon.
We just received a statement from United, language from United, and it's very satisfactory.
They have agreed to be in compliance with our domestic partners ordinance.
Supervisor Tom Amiano says United would provide the benefits to same-sex or different-sex
partners of its employees, not just here at San Francisco Airport, but nationwide.
Actually, supervisors say it's not a done deal yet.
They say the city's giving United a contract for land at the airport for a new flight kitchen
and equipment repair facility for almost two years, with an automatic extension of 23 more
years if United starts providing domestic partner benefits within the next two years.
I think it's wonderful news.
But Liz Loeffler, the president of the union local for United's flight attendants, questions
the need for the delay in providing the benefits.
She says United already provides them to workers in New Zealand, Australia, and the Netherlands.
If they're currently providing it elsewhere because the laws of those countries mandate
or require them to do so, then I believe that they should have done this and made it available
to all United Airlines employees.
One reason United employees here told us they're excited about the breakthrough is that it'll
probably have a domino effect.
If the world's largest airline, they say, provides domestic partner benefits, the other
airlines will soon follow.
At San Francisco Airport, Rita Williams for the 10 o'clock news.
The tips came in by the carload today, but South San Francisco police say the robbers
who hijacked a van containing $820,000 in cash remain at large tonight.
Police say the robbery that began when the van stopped for gas has prompted loads and
loads of calls.
They say they're checking out every lead.
The van turned up some 10 miles away in Foster City.
The cash and the robbers were gone.
The money reportedly was all in $20 bills headed for automatic teller machines in the
Central Valley.
The van's two armed guards were left tied up inside the van.
They eventually freed themselves.
Police are looking for two robbers.
One is described as a white male in his 40s, thin with a slight build.
Police have released just this one sketch, but the second robber is described as a white
or Hispanic male in his 30s with a medium build.
A small farming community in southern Santa Cruz County is fighting back tonight over
a persistent problem of violence involving juveniles.
The city is Watsonville and a crackdown involves a curfew program that goes into effect tonight.
A program modeled after a similar one in San Jose.
Diane Gorazzi is in Watsonville with a live report.
Diane?
Elaine, the curfew will start here at 11 o'clock tonight and run through five in the morning.
Police will be patrolling seven days a week during those hours, looking for anyone under
the age of 18 who's out on the street.
They're doing this to try and curb gang violence.
It's a major problem in this farming community of just 35,000 people.
There were five homicides in Watsonville last year, four of them attributed to gang members.
Just last night, another two people were stabbed in what police say may be yet another gang
attack.
You have an increase for a while and then it'll quiet down for a while.
And then it increases again.
Here we go.
Police Corporal Steve Nakamoto says these are the type of teens the curfew targets.
Youngsters in groups milling around after dark with no apparent place to go.
Youngsters will concentrate their patrols outside liquor stores, parks, and public gathering
spots.
They'll pick teens up if they detect trouble brewing.
If they're coming home from a community event or if they're in the presence of adults or
someone who's taking care of them, then that's fine.
But if they're generally up to no good, we're going to detain them, bring them here to the
police department, and then to the youth center.
They'll take the curfew violators to this youth center, not to participate in any sports,
but to be kept in a separate room waiting for their parents to arrive.
Once the parents are there, they'll receive counseling from a professional counselor right
there on the spot, parent and child together looking for potential problems.
Any drug abuse, any alcohol abuse, maybe they're involved in gangs.
And to find out if there's any other issues involved there and what those issues are and
if we can help them out in any way.
The program is modeled after a similar one in San Jose, one that has cut youth crime
by 13% and saw a 42% drop in the number of reported stab or gunshot wounds.
But will it work in Watsonville, a city that has an overgrown gang problem, a city of a
few very rich and many, many poor farm laborers?
So from time to time, there has been times when I've been a little concerned about the
safety of not just my child, but other kids as well.
You think keeping them off the streets late at night is going to help?
Oh yeah, without a doubt.
I think it's a good idea because people around here, it's not that safe.
Cubs are bad.
Cubs are bad for the children.
These children outside the youth center tonight were delighted to receive police trading cards.
It's just one way that officers here in Watsonville are trying to soften their approach.
The curfew is another way.
Rather than prosecute violators, the system gives them counseling.
By contrast, a curfew that emphasized punishment was on the books here for years, but with
little success.
Police now say given the history of violence in this town, it's definitely worth a try.
Elaine Dennis.
Diane Garazzi, live in Watsonville.
Thank you, Diane.
There is still more news ahead tonight.
Coming up, tens of thousands of Bay Area residents celebrate their biggest holiday of the year
when they have a live report.
Also ahead, the federal government promises to pitch in and help pay for California's
floods, the question tonight is how much?
A bit later tonight, details concerning a bizarre hostage incident involving dozens
of people in a big city back east.
And we got some rain in the Bay Area today, but it was almost nothing.
We'll tell you about that and a good forecast for your weekend.
All the details coming up.
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to help recover from this winter's floods.
The Deputy Interior Secretary John Garamendi said he doesn't know exactly how much money
California will get because not all the damage estimates are in.
Garamendi made the comments today in Sacramento.
He said the administration will decide within the next two weeks how much money to request
from Congress to help California.
President is already proposing more than $143 million in his new budget to repair and restore
levees in the Sacramento San Joaquin Bay Delta area.
The Delta cannot survive as it is today.
It will be it will not be the Delta.
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The Seminary National Park is one area that will need significant help.
It has suffered at least $170 million in damage and is closed to the public.
Garamendi says if there are no further problems, the Seminary could reopen by late spring.
Today is New Year's Day for thousands of people here in the Bay Area and around the world.
It is the beginning of the Year of the Ox, time when families get together for a holiday
feast and the most important holiday of the year for the Chinese American community.
Faith Fancher is in San Francisco tonight with a live report.
Faith?
Elaine, according to the Chinese calendar, this is the first night of the Lunar New Year.
On the streets of Chinatown in San Francisco and in homes throughout the Bay Area, this
is a night for celebration.
Last night in the Chinese tradition, families paid off their debts, made peace and wiped
the slate clean for the New Year.
Tonight they celebrate this New Year, new life and a new beginning.
Tonight at the Empress of China restaurant in the heart of San Francisco's Chinatown,
40 members and friends of the Ho family welcomed the New Year in grand style.
In this banquet room are four generations, from the youngest celebrating his second New
Year to the oldest who's seen decades of new beginnings.
The Ho family, like thousands of other Chinese families, are feasting tonight together, enjoying
the company of each other and remembering the Chinese traditions.
When I was younger, the favorite is to get the little red money bags.
But now that I'm older, I have to give it.
In the lobby of the restaurant, there are more New Year's traditions.
Cherry blossoms symbolize new birth and there are offerings of fruit and sweets for good
luck.
And what appears to be the most favored tradition for everyone, red envelopes stuffed with crisp
new money.
One celebrant told us tonight he goes all the way to Taiwan when he can to be with his
grandparents on this special day.
You say, 恭喜福祉, 幸福拿來, which means, Happy New Year, give me my money.
It's pretty greedy, but it works.
That's what you say to your elderly.
And it's, you get a money pouch that's red and you get it from elderly people and it's
a happy experience for me.
This is our little dragon, it scares away the spirits.
Melissa Lee and her family usually celebrate with a traditional dinner at home in Los Angeles.
Tonight they decided to come all the way to San Francisco and eat out.
But she couldn't resist giving us her usual menu for good luck and happiness in the New
Year.
I make my noodles and there's a Buddhist vegetable dish that I make too.
It's called jai and I've made all kinds of things, pastries and things like that, noodles,
beef, chicken, fish.
And usually I invite, actually invite all my friends over and we have a big dinner.
As just about any shop window in Chinatown can tell you, this is the year of the ox.
If you're born under the sign of the ox, you're patient, quiet and trustworthy, a good, strong,
tireless worker, but beware the ox aroused, he is stubborn and quick to anger.
Of course all this celebrating ends with the big Chinese New Year parade in San Francisco,
which Channel 2 covers live February 22nd.
And I've got my first money pouch, Dennis and Elaine Gung-Hei Fat Choi.
Thank you Faith.
There is more news still ahead on tonight's Ten O'Clock News.
Coming up, the Air Force grounds a number of its fighter jets after some close encounters
with commercial jets.
Also ahead, a report on today's memorial service for another Bay Area journalist, a man who
was a heroic figure to many in the African American community.
We'll be right back.
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When he's not playing football, Steve Young likes to get away from it all.
And the Toyota Tacoma, built right here in Northern California, makes it pretty easy.
So easy, he just might take up some other sports.
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Man, this sport is violent.
In Philadelphia today, it took police hours to unravel what looked like a hostage situation
at a check cashing store.
SWAT teams surrounded the store after reports that gunmen were inside holding about a hundred
people hostage.
Finally, officers let the people leave one by one, searching them as they came out.
The drama actually began the night before, when four gunmen kidnapped the assistant manager
and held her at her home.
They brought her back to the store this morning, apparently planning to rob an armored car
when it came to the check cashing business.
The police say the armored car came and went too quickly for the would-be robbers.
They left, and as it turned out, were not in the store during the time police thought
people were being held hostage.
Police did arrest two suspects and are looking for as many as six others.
The Air Force today suspended all of its flights in military training areas along the East
Coast.
That move came after four National Guard fighter jets had a close encounter with a civilian
airliner off the coast of Maryland today.
The pilot of an American Eagle turboprop said he plans to file a quote, near mid-air collision
report.
It's the second incident in three days involving military planes and a civilian airliner.
The first incident already had the FAA and the military reviewing procedures.
Fox News reporter Don Daler has the story.
The Boeing 727 was 70 miles south of Kennedy Airport, en route from Puerto Rico, when it
entered a restricted airspace known as Warning Area 107.
It's at this point that accounts differ.
Nations Air and the Navy say the commercial airline asked for and received permission
to enter the military training zone.
But the New Jersey Air National Guard says the pilots of its two F-16s, like those pictured
here, had not yet been informed of that when they set out to inspect an unidentified aircraft.
Nations Air says one of the fighter jets came close enough to set off their automatic collision
warning three times.
Following the emergency computer's instructions, the pilot of the 727 dove, then climbed,
causing two flight attendants and a passenger to be thrown to the floor.
This radar image of the incident obtained by Fox News shows two planes apparently very
close, but the image could be misleading.
The Pentagon denies it was a near collision.
And it's unclear to us at this time whether he was told there was traffic in the area
or whether he did his normal radar sweep, but he did a radar sweep of the area and detected
traffic in the area.
He instructed his wingman to hold clear while he investigated the traffic in the area.
He made radar contact with the aircraft.
He later got visual contact with the aircraft.
And the information we have is that he closed in to positively identify that aircraft and
then broke off at a later time and resumed his mission.
But at least one aviation expert says even that should never have happened.
They just don't see a target, unknown to the military but known to air traffic control,
and dispatch airplanes to go practice intercepts on them.
There's absolutely no reason for it.
Their position is absolutely indefensible.
I think they would be a lot more credible if they just said, I think we made a little
bit of a mistake here.
The Air Force and the National Transportation Safety Board are now investigating this incident.
They're looking at the actions of the jet fighter pilots, but they're also looking at
whether the 727 was on the correct course and flying at the correct altitude.
Don Daler, Fox News.
A bitter family battle over the custody of a doctor with Alzheimer's disease took yet
another turn today in a Hayward courtroom.
A judge ruled Dr. Gerald Kluster can once again live with his wife.
Last September, Dr. Kluster was hospitalized for an overdose of pills and alcohol.
A judge then ruled he should be in the care of his daughter.
Amidst widespread publicity, Kluster had come home from Michigan in April.
His son Chip had taken him there and gone to court.
His son claimed his mother attempted to contact Dr. Jack Kovorkin to help with an assisted
suicide.
She denied it.
While most of the city was toasting Herb Cain today, a smaller group of people paused to
remember another journalist.
To African Americans in the Bay Area, Dr. Carlton Goodlett was a giant.
Goodlett was 82.
He died 12 days ago, but was memorialized today at almost the same time as Herb Cain.
Randy Shandebill reports.
Hundreds of people crowded into San Francisco's Third Baptist Church today, some telling us
they came to honor dozens of heroes.
All of those heroes, one man, Dr. Carlton Goodlett.
He's an icon in this community.
So he was a scholar, he's a journalist, he's a doctor, he's an entrepreneur, he's an incredible
man.
Life is like a mountain of rainbows.
Goodlett is perhaps most known for his almost 50 years as publisher of the Sun Reporter
newspaper, the most powerful African American paper in Northern California.
But he's also known as a pioneer, the first African American to earn a PhD in psychology
from UC Berkeley.
One of the area's first black medical doctors.
He was very unique in his perspective on what the role of a physician was.
He felt that a physician should take his stethoscope outside of the examining room.
Goodlett used his stethoscope to listen to the soul of his community, becoming a prominent
civil rights advocate.
And as one of the first newspaper publishers to come out against the war in Vietnam, in
1966, he even ran a long shot campaign for California governor.
For me as a young kid growing up in Laleh, he was the shining light.
He was the biggest star in the galaxy.
I miss that guy.
Goodlett's longtime friend and editor, Thomas Fleming, said it hurt to watch Goodlett in
his last year, deteriorating from Parkinson's disease, barely able to talk.
I knew how frustrated he was.
You know, as articulate as he was on everything.
And there, he couldn't make other people understand what he was saying.
He was a great man, a great fighter for progress.
I think it is wonderful that he lived to see his boy, as he called them, Willie Brown,
become the mayor of Carlton City.
He had an extraordinary life.
He was raised during the time when everything was allegedly separate but equal.
He was raised when there were no affirmative action programs, no set asides.
The Lord had given this man such extraordinary talent.
Even the coloring of his skin could not deny the recognition of his genius.
He achieved everything he wanted to achieve.
One speaker said one of the few things Carlton Goodlett had trouble doing was closing his
eyes.
He wanted to accomplish so much, he refused to let his days end.
Randy Shandebill for the Ten O'Clock News.
Coming up next tonight on the Ten O'Clock News, meteorologist Bill Martin will be here
to tell us all we need to know about the weekend weather forecast.
And a bit later, South Bay Bureau Chief Lloyd LaQuesta reports on a grass roots effort to
save a San Jose landmark.
On segment two tonight, we'll go back and see how two orphan chimps are faring one year
later.
We'll be right back.
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If you're planning an outdoors weekend, our meteorologist Bill Martin says don't let this
little weather, don't let the little sprinkles frighten you out of it.
Yeah, things are shaping up in the Bay Area.
Even as we speak, showers moving out of the Bay Area and we're looking for a very nice
weekend.
Here's how it looked today.
You can see a container ship going behind Quayt Tower there.
We had a lot of clouds out there.
Even some sprinkles.
A fast forward look at the last hour of the day will show you a lot of clouds.
And in Oakland in the East Bay, that's when we had the most rain, really.
We had 6 one hundredths of an inch of rain falling toward sunset at Fairfield.
The current radar shows you showers moving off into the west slope of the Sierra.
A few scattered lingers showers around San Francisco Bay, but gradually clearing out.
We did have mild temperatures today, mostly in the 50s and low 60s, and the rainfall was
very light.
The thing to note again, it's percents of normal.
All Bay Area cities, just a few samplings here, but well above normal.
San Jose, one hundred sixty two percent of normal.
Your temperatures today, as I mentioned, were not too bad.
You know, despite all the cloud cover, we had temperatures a little bit above normal,
just right at the normal range.
Vallejo was 60, 62 in San Jose.
Stenson Beach was 61.
We also saw some mid and low 60s.
Livermore made it to 64 degrees in Morgan Hill, 63.
Tomorrow's temperatures warmer.
Lots of low 60s tomorrow.
We may even see a 67 degree reading in a place like Santa Cruz.
The reason is here's the last 24 hours infrared satellite.
Here we are.
Watch this weather system.
The clouds just kind of move through.
And what you're seeing here is the last bit of showers and then this ridge building in.
And so that will be with us throughout the weekend.
There is another weather system out here that could affect us on Monday and Tuesday, but
the weekend looks great.
Now, they're getting a bunch of snow in the Plains states, in Ohio and the Mississippi
Valley.
These pictures from Kansas City.
They had snow today.
They got an inch of snow, as you can see.
Very wet.
Now, that weather system is a pretty strong one.
It could affect some of your travel.
The current radar image shows you that system.
Now it's moving out of the southern Mississippi Valley into the Ohio Valley.
Snow falling as far south as Memphis, Tennessee.
They could see four to eight inches in the Virginia areas, in the mountainous side of
Virginia.
We are looking for this to continue through the night.
So if you're traveling into this region, you're going to have some possible travel delays.
New York, 38 degrees, scattered showers all the way down through the Carolinas.
Atlanta could see a scattered shower with 55.
Cold in the northern Plains, 45 in Seattle and Los Angeles.
Tomorrow, 65 degrees.
And for us, partly sunny.
A much nicer day than we had today.
55 to 65.
And I was looking at the dew points earlier and we got a real good chance for some valley
fog to reform tomorrow morning because it's clearing so quickly.
So watch out for that.
55 to 65.
We've got a real nice weekend planned.
If you're heading to the mountains, they are getting some snow flurries up there.
And we are expecting those to end late tonight, early tomorrow.
So a real nice weekend ahead.
Sounds great.
Thanks, Bill.
And coming up in our next segment tonight, remember those two young chimps who couldn't
live with their mothers?
We'll show you the progress they're making one year later.
Plus, will a piece of vaudeville history go the way of the wrecking ball for the sake
of a modern San Jose?
We'll be right back.
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The concepts of preservation and progress appear to be running headlong into each other
in a downtown San Jose area, at the site of an old theater.
It's an emotional dispute over the future of a building with a historic past.
South Bay Bureau Chief Lloyd LaQuesta reports.
San Jose has built a modern downtown, but some want the past also preserved.
That song, the Ballad of Jose Theater, documents the history of the 93-year-old building on
Second Street, one of the first theaters in the country built specifically for vaudeville.
The old and the young remember childhoods spent in this theater.
I and some of my friends used to come here very often.
You can get in for a nickel, and you saw a cartoon, newsreel, a movie, and you also got
some vaudeville.
You can watch movies over here for like 50 cents, watch Bruce Lee movies when Bruce Lee
was out back in the early 70s.
But the city has plans to demolish the Jose Theater and put in its place apartments and
retail stores.
Today, opponents gather to make a last-ditch effort to save the Jose.
We want to bring to the attention to the public the importance of this building, that it is
a city, a history, historical city landmark.
A spokesman for San Jose's redevelopment agency says hearings will begin soon to lift the
building's landmark designation.
The theater closed six years ago, and now developers proposing a $20 million project
that will leave the theater's facade in place, but tear down the rest of the building for
apartments and stores.
The redevelopment agency says no one else has come forward with proposals or funds for
the Jose Theater property, and as it stands now, the site is a hazard.
The preservation action council says for historical value alone, the building should remain.
It gives you a better feeling, I think, when you come into a city where you can see that
it just wasn't built yesterday.
Friends of Jose Theater, for our future let's save the past.
For our future generation, time is running out fast.
The San Jose City Council is expected to act on the future of the Jose Theater in May or
June.
In San Jose, Lloyd Laquesta for the Ten O'Clock News.
On segment two tonight, we revisit two friends who are growing older and stronger and learning
from each other how to be chimpanzees.
That's because they are chimpanzees.
They are the subjects of an intriguing experiment that began at the Oakland Zoo a year ago.
Tonight, Health and Science editor John Fowler fills us in on their progress.
At the Oakland Zoo, the adult chimpanzees are out here, Fran and Abby and the others,
while toddlers Amy and Caramiah have their own room.
And they let visitors know who's boss.
That's Caramiah, 17 months old.
She and 16-month-old Amy can't yet be in with the adult chimps who might injure or even
kill them.
This adult, Abby, is Amy's own mother, but Abby is what researchers call an incompetent
mother.
This is Abby moments after giving birth to Amy.
Abby just didn't know what to do with the newborn.
Abby, you see, was herself hand raised.
So she had not been with other chimps.
She'd only been with people.
She only knew how to respond to people.
Primate keepers took Amy and cared for her.
But to prevent the cycle repeating with this chimp, they decided to raise Amy in the companionship
of another infant chimpanzee.
Luckily, the Yerkes Primate Center in Atlanta had a solution, Caramiah, born to another
incompetent mother who actually blinded her in one eye.
Caramiah came to Oakland to become Amy's link to her own species, and today, a year later,
her best buddy.
Keeping them in captivity, the best thing we can do for them is make their life as chimp-like
as possible and to give them all they have is each other.
We're just trying to teach them to be chimpanzees as early as possible so they actually learn
how to do it, so that perhaps someday they will become good mothers.
Volunteers ran with and jostled the youngsters, teaching them the chimp way of hanging on.
Margaret Griffin showed them the chimp way of grinning, no upper teeth.
And now, after months of sleepless nights, primate keepers have two rambunctious, chimp-like
chimps, already too strong for roughhousing with humans.
We can't play with them like they can play with each other.
They already play too rough for us to be able to do that comfortably.
Little by little now, Amy and Caramiah are getting to know Abby, still separated from
her by heavy wire caging.
They groom and play through the caging with Abby, and they're comfortable with her and
she is comfortable with them, hopefully, but perhaps this summer we'll be able to put them
in with her.
And that's the goal right now, putting them in with her.
She's the one adult now that we think we can probably do that with.
We want them to be good chimps.
We want them to know how to be good chimps and know how to behave in the chimp society
here.
Hopefully, then, by the time they're four or five years old, we'll be able to put them
in with everybody else and they will know how to behave.
They will know how to be chimps.
There's no room for more babies here now, but zoo officials say by the time Amy and
Caramiah are of childbearing age, in six or seven years, that may change, and the next
part of this experiment may begin, to see if Amy and Caramiah have helped each other
learn what humans cannot teach them, how to be good chimp mothers.
I'm health and science editor John Fowler for the 10 o'clock news.
So cute.
Don't you think so?
Oh, wonderful.
Gorgeous.
Our sports director, Marco Bonnius, joins us now with an emotional moment tonight at
a boxing match.
Yeah, a little bit strange.
We'll talk about it.
Otherwise, kind of a veritable potpourri of sports happenings.
Don Nelson's returning to the NBA.
Some college hoops, soccer news, and as Elaine says, a very strange turn of events that has
even baffled boxing fans, who, as you know, are used to the weirdest.
You'll see it next on Sports.
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Not that anyone is shocked when something weird happens inside a boxing ring these days
after all the bizarre, tragic and downright embarrassing events that have gone down through
the years.
But this may go down as an all-timer.
It all starts routinely enough, Lennox Lewis, Oliver McCall in Vegas.
But in the fourth and fifth rounds, McCall just flat out refused to fight.
In fact, he did not even go to his corner between rounds, frustrating his corner men
there, who don't know what's going on.
Adding to the confusion, McCall started crying after the fourth round.
And incredibly enough, he was actually allowed to go out and fight the fifth, 55 seconds
into that fifth round.
Fight was called.
Lewis regained his WC heavyweight title.
Wrestling officials investigating this turn of events and Oliver McCall's $3 million purse
is being held up until further notice.
And we'll keep you posted on that story.
In basketball on this All-Star weekend, all I gotta say is evidently the Dallas Mavericks
weren't paying attention to what Don Nelson did to the Golden State Warriors franchise.
It's all but ruined.
Or what he's done in the process of doing at the New York Knicks.
Two teams who fired him.
But Dallas has made him their general manager.
He must interview well, I guess.
Whatever the case, the Mavs have given him life.
Things happened pretty fast and all of a sudden I got pretty excited about doing this job.
Life!
Do you hear me?
I've always thought, just my opinion, nobody else, but I always thought I was a better
general manager than a coach throughout my career.
It was a part of the job that I really enjoyed.
Building teams and watching them grow and come together and becoming contenders.
Five years, seven more million dollars for Don Nelson.
Meanwhile, three-way ties at the top of the conference are the order of the week, apparently,
in College Hoop.
Last night, Cal moves in with UCLA and USC for first place in the packed end.
Tonight, Santa Clara crowds in with USF and Gonzaga in the WCC.
Fast forward second half.
Here come the Broncos mounting a charge with Marlon Garnett.
He's all in one piece.
Story of the game, Lloyd Pierce, bombing from the perimeter, 16 of his 19, coming the second
half.
And Santa Clara going to work.
Pierce off the break.
That's going to work.
The Broncos, as a matter of fact, win it, going away after trailing by one.
At halftime, you see the final.
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