Investigators probing the background of the Stockton Elementary School Gummons are making
bizarre discoveries.
And while most didn't, some Stockton parents brought their young kids back to school one
day after the deadly shooting that left five youngsters dead.
For others, today was a time to remember those children who will never return to school.
And in Miami, there may finally be an end to the violence inside, although tonight was
by no means quiet.
We have those stories all the news on this Wednesday night, January 18, 1989.
Live from Channel 2 and first in the Bay Area, this is the award-winning Teleglot News, the
number one primetime newscast in the country.
Good evening.
I'm Elaine Corral.
And I'm Dennis Richmond.
Eleven of the injured students from yesterday's deadly shooting rampage at Stockton Elementary
School are still in hospitals tonight, but already the focus has shifted somewhat to
their attacker.
Some children filed back to their classrooms today at the urging of psychologists and teachers.
As they did, investigators were revealing what their probe discovered into the background
of Patrick Purdy.
Purdy is a 27-year-old loner who took his own life after turning the school's playground
into something resembling a battlefield.
Five children died when investigators found in a search of Purdy's rented room shed little
light on why he attacked the children.
In fact, what they discovered may have even deepened the mystery.
Randy Shandevich has our report.
The more we learn about Patrick Edward Purdy, the more grotesque it gets.
Police say for the past three weeks, Purdy stayed in this Stockton motel off Highway
99.
Inside this room, police say they found ammunition and something very strange.
There had to be a hundred little plastic army men, a couple of jeeps and a tank, that were
spread out through the entire room, up on top of the drapes in the shower, one in the
freezer.
Journalists from around the nation crowded near a Stockton police captain today as he
revealed new details about yesterday's unexplainable massacre.
It turns out this killing field was once Purdy's own playground.
He attended Cleveland Elementary School from kindergarten through third grade and once lived
on American Avenue nearby.
The police know of no reason Purdy might hold a grudge against the school.
And though most of his victims were Asian, police have found no evidence of anti-Asian
bias.
Why he did this, we may never know.
See, obviously he developed a military hangup.
I understand in some conversations he spoke about Vietnam, but he's obviously too young
to have went to Vietnam.
The killing machine was this AK-47 with bayonet.
Carved into the barrel was the word Hezbollah, the name of an Iranian terrorist group.
There were also the words freedom and victory.
On ammo clips were other slogans including evil and humanoids.
There were PLO slogans on Purdy's camouflage clothing and police found this in his motel
room.
And it has drawn on it some pictures and written in black ink at the top, V for victory
and at the bottom F for freedom.
People often assume mass killers just snap or something.
Patrick Purdy did not just snap yesterday, he planned it.
Wearing a flak jacket to protect himself, carrying hundreds of rounds of extra ammunition,
specifically going to his old school and apparently trying to divert police with a Molotov cocktail
to his own car.
Made up of a Budweiser beer bottle filled with gasoline with a fuse type material stuck
in it.
Let's say Purdy had trouble keeping jobs, working for a couple months last year at this
machine shop, working for just one month at another machine shop.
His former foreman says he just walked out one day.
But he did a lot of clean up and he wasn't satisfied with the work that he was doing.
So in this shop he kind of had what the equivalent of the grunt work?
Yeah.
And he didn't like it?
No, he didn't like it.
Whenever he was told to do something he had a sour look on his face.
He talked pretty much about when he was young growing up and stuff that he didn't have too
much of a family life.
He kind of lived all over the nation, lived in Hawaii, lived everywhere and he never had
it really easy.
Did he complain about his parents?
He said his mom was an alcoholic, he didn't even know where she lived.
Another co-worker said Purdy complained he had no friends, no social life.
He told them he would just work, go back to a small motel room, sleep and come back to
work.
But a man who lived next door to Purdy in one of those motel rooms paints a different
picture.
He was in and out all night long, all day long, real skittish, not too friendly.
Doing drugs?
Yeah, I'm sure he was.
He could stay up all night and all day and not be doing drugs.
An autopsy is being done on Patrick Purdy to see if he indeed was under the influence
of drugs yesterday.
Other than that, police consider this case essentially closed.
They say they're almost certain that Purdy acted alone, that no one helped him in any
way.
In Stockton, Randy Shandebill for the Ten O'Clock News.
A broken home, a history of childhood drinking and a long criminal record may have been warnings
but they still don't explain why Patrick Purdy took aim at so many innocent children.
Purdy, 63 year old grandmother who lives 15 miles south of Stockton in Lodi, figures her
grandson's motive died with him.
Julia Chumbly told a reporter through her screen door she could not believe it when
she heard the news yesterday.
She said the whole thing is like a nightmare.
I was in shock all day yesterday.
I didn't feel like talking.
I still don't like, I still don't feel like talking.
It was a sad thing.
Mrs. Chumbly said her grandson came to visit about twice a year using her address to collect
his mail and she said there were never any problems.
He always acted fairly decent when he was here.
Mrs. Chumbly said when Patrick was a child he only had a normal childlike interest in
guns and as far as she knew was not prejudiced against Asians.
She also said sadly I know there are a lot of victims but we are victims too.
Patrick Purdy's stepmother also talked to reporters today in Lockerford, north of Stockton.
Carol Masterson said her stepson looked like his father and acted like his father.
Both she said were loners, both quiet, reserved and standoffish.
The father, who was killed in a car accident in 1981, had been in the service but according
to his wife had been released because of a psychological disability.
Masterson said she believes her stepson had a definite reason for going to that school
and committing yesterday's massacre.
I think something happened at that school or in that area and he went back.
He couldn't handle it any longer.
He kept it inside and hadn't talked to anyone.
I honestly believe it.
And I don't know what makes my conviction that.
But there was a reason he got into alcohol and or drugs and it could have stemmed back
to when he was going to that school.
Masterson said she thinks her stepson kept things inside him for as long as he could
and then just exploded.
The man who wrote the book Mass Murder, America's Growing Menace said today that mass murderers
are angry at the world for a lifetime of frustrations and blame everyone else for their problems.
James Allen Fox said before they die they want revenge and what better way than to take
children with them, the most vulnerable and the most dear to us.
Another expert said mass murderers who prey on children actually think like children.
They live the way most eight-year-olds do in a world of zooming planes and my soldiers
can get your soldiers.
But most of us who don't live our lives in Rambo movies and who do believe maybe a kinder
and gentler America may come someday, give that up to some degree or we get it out through
watching the 49ers on TV and yell kill the ref.
We don't go kill kids.
The chief psychologist for the San Diego Police Department called Purdy's rampage yesterday
a grandstand suicide where the gunman says to the world I am important.
Look at me.
When the gunman opened fire on the children yesterday Janet Gang, a teacher at Cleveland
Elementary was on playground duty with one other teacher.
Tonight she's in a hospital bed.
She was the only adult hit by the withering gunfire.
She first thought she was hearing firecrackers until the students began screaming and falling.
She then turned, looked across the playground and saw a chilling sight.
I looked around and I saw a guy standing out by the sixth grade portables.
I didn't see his face, it seems like he had sunglasses on, but he was in a stance like
you see soldiers, I mean the type of military stance with a gun, policeman stance with a
gun right in front of him.
And it was just total popping.
I mean I could see rocks flying.
King at first told the kids to get down as the gunman continued to pepper the playground
with shots.
But realizing he was still shooting at them she told them to run for the building.
She too ran but a bullet stopped her.
I felt the shot in my leg and then I went down.
And I could see partly around me I could see kids laying and the other kids had run into
the building.
But I was laying there with my back to him and I could still hear him going off and I
thought he's going to shoot me anytime dad.
I just you know you're laying with your back to this guy shooting.
You thought you were going to die?
Yeah.
I thought he was.
Well, I'm going to say the gunman took his own life.
Jing was spared.
She suffered a bullet wound in the hip.
She will need an operation.
Asked if she could go back into the classroom.
She answered yes but that's when I'll break down.
Other teachers were back in the classroom today at Cleveland Elementary School doing
what they could to comfort their students.
School was open although most of the children weren't there.
La Cuesta has our reports.
Some children did return to Cleveland Elementary School today but not many.
Only about 200 out of an enrollment of almost 1,000.
Counselors, teachers and administrators personally greeted as many children as they could.
Officials wanted the healing process to begin.
We're going to try to make this as normal as we possibly can.
But it is not normal for traumatized children to have to run the gauntlet of the waiting
media drawn here to chronicle a story that can't be ignored.
I'm upset that there's a lot of reporters here and it's difficult for the kids to get
through.
I'm upset that this trauma is taking a toll.
Some parents who brought their children to school today talked about how their children
acted last night even once back in the safety of their homes.
They were scared.
They didn't want to go outside.
They didn't want to stray too far from us.
They were just shaken.
Some parents said because their children had been so violently pulled from their childhood
world yesterday, they had to bring them back to Cleveland Elementary School today.
I didn't want him to be afraid.
He was terrified as it was and hopefully getting them back in the routine, he'll look just
better.
But it's not just the children that need to readjust their lives.
Teachers, parents, this whole community is suffering.
And for those trying to help, coping is made more difficult because some of the victims
and survivors are Southeast Asian refugees.
Immigrants already burdened by the past they fled and the new land and language they are
trying to adapt to.
She didn't understand English and I was looking for a translator.
But finally the only two words that she could muster from her vocabulary was, she die?
It almost sounded like something from her language, the way she put it so quickly.
She died?
Question mark.
And I said yes, she did.
School officials say they will continue this special counseling until every child is helped.
We will work with our children to come to accept and handle what has happened at Cleveland
School.
And by midday there were children back in the same playground that was a scene of such
horror just 24 hours earlier.
There were still scars for the children to look at, bullet holes in walls, but holes
that are now being patched up.
The playground was once again for the children, a playground where gunman Patrick Purdy had
himself played as a child 20 years ago.
He was a student here from kindergarten to the third grade.
This man is no longer alive.
This man will no longer harm us or our children or your children or anyone's children anywhere.
Tomorrow will be another day of school at Cleveland Elementary.
In Stockton, Lloyd LaQuesta for the 10 o'clock news.
In Stockton tonight, people directly touched by the tragedy and those who are simply reaching
out to comfort others gathered for a memorial service.
It was one of many steps towards recovering from an explosion of violence that no one
could possibly have been prepared for.
John Fowler was at tonight's memorial and is standing by now in Stockton with a live
report.
John.
I would say the shock, the grief, the loss has yet really to settle in.
It is only a few yards from the school where yesterday the gunman's bullets felled those
children to the Lutheran church where tonight those children were mourned.
It was a service of remembrance and healing.
There were songs of hope.
There were tears in an emotional service tonight.
While struggling to cope with a tragic disorder of life, we are simply not prepared to be
grieving for our children.
They were parents and students and staff from the school and friends and strangers from
the community.
I grieved with the women who were standing next to me.
I didn't know them, but I know that we all, any mother shares that tragedy.
Any mother who has ever had a five-year-old child can imagine that child and experience
that tragedy and feel for those families.
Those little kids will come into school to learn.
They came to this country to learn something, to learn how to be free, learn what it's
all about, learn respect for one another and they never had a chance.
Stockton is culturally diverse, but this tragedy hit hardest the Asian community, especially
Cambodian immigrants.
Tonight they mourned for their dead children, six-year-old Sok Him An, six-year-old Ram
Chun, eight-year-old Oyen Lim, eight-year-old Rathanan Or, and six-year-old Thuy Tran.
We are part of the family.
You share their grief with them.
That's right.
All day long, people placed flowers on the Cleveland Elementary School sign.
It became a shrine to those murdered children, to those innocents, senselessly cut down in
the early blossom of their lives.
Stockton police have removed the flowers now and inside the school is literally a room
full of bouquets and balloons and sprigs brought here right up until just a short while ago.
We should reiterate, of the 30 wounded, 10, I'm sorry, 11 remain in the hospital.
Four of them, including teacher Janet Geng, are in fair condition.
The rest listed as stable.
Also, the principal and her staff continue to meet here at the school, presumably on
how best to deal with the children when they return to class tomorrow.
Dennis, Elaine.
All right.
Thanks very much, John.
That was John Fowler reporting live from Stockton.
Now, a trust fund has been established to help pay medical costs for the shooting victims.
If you would like to help, you can send contributions to the Cleveland School Trust Fund Bank of
Stockton, 301 Minor Street, Stockton, California.
Zip code is 95202.
Now, we'll be showing this address again a little later in the newscast during one of
our commercial breaks.
And later on, we'll have a report on the city of Stockton and on the controversy over the
weapon used in yesterday's massacre.
And when we come back, we'll have the latest on the third night of violence in Miami and
we'll have a report on the seeds of that violence, which has been growing in black neighborhoods
for years.
We'll be right back.
In Miami tonight, there are more reports of gunfire and rock throwing in the two black
neighborhoods where riots have broken out over the past two days.
But police say the incidents are isolated and things are much calmer this evening compared
to the previous two nights of violence and looting.
Two hundred and fifty police, including specially equipped riot squads, are patrolling the streets
in Miami neighborhoods known as Overtown and Liberty City.
The increased police presence seems to be working.
Officials say no one has been hurt in tonight's incidents.
But while Miami is quieter tonight, residents say tension is still high.
Monday and Tuesday's riots were touched off when two black men were killed by police who
were trying to stop them for a traffic violation.
Last night, another man was killed.
Eight people were injured by bullets in Miami streets.
Officials say they've arrested three hundred seventy people as a result of the riots so
far.
And as Gary Kauf reports from Miami, residents of the city's black neighborhoods say the
violence may not be over yet.
Driving through the Liberty City and Overtown areas of Miami, the poverty and devastation
and dilapidation are overwhelming.
And it's not just the still smoking buildings burned out by three days of riots.
It's the street upon street of blocky tenements, boarded up buildings and shanty type aluminum
frame storage sheds that many people here call home.
It's a pretty desperate existence and a long, long way from Super Bowl.
Residents here will tell you the tensions between blacks and the powers that be have
been rising for months, for years.
Unemployment here is one and a half times what it is in the rest of Miami.
The average income here is one third of the rest of Dade County.
But community leaders say those problems were not what started these latest riots.
They rioted because another unarmed black male was gunned down in the streets by a Hispanic
police officer.
No justice.
That's what they think.
And that is at the root of this latest conflict.
The people here believe that in the last few years, for whatever reason, Hispanic officers
have declared open season on them.
It seemed like it's always the Spanish cops that are always shooting these black guys.
I wonder why, you know?
Some say Hispanic officers get nervous dealing with blacks and patrolling black areas.
Maybe they should work other parts of town.
But until this week, they haven't been able to get the mayor, the chief of police, or
the media to listen.
National media, everything is focusing here.
And all we can talk about is the icky shuffle.
Right now, I don't think a football game nor a basketball game is more important than the
lives of human beings and the life of our city.
The city of Miami invested $2 million in two years to prepare for the Super Bowl.
Obviously, this is not the kind of publicity that city officials had in mind.
But some black leaders say it's the best thing that could have happened, because now it will
force the city to deal with the root of the problem.
This riot here is not like the others.
Now, that's the word.
This is not like the other riots.
This thing can explode.
Leaders say the only thing that can stop it is major change in the city's police department
and swift and severe punishment for the officer responsible for Monday's shooting.
In Miami, Gary Kauf for the 10 o'clock news.
South Bay police raid today ended in the shooting death of a drug suspect.
Police looking for contraband served search warrants on four East San Jose homes.
And one, they say they were confronted by a man with a shotgun.
Police report the officer involved shot at a warning and then fired at the armed suspect.
That is 34 year old Roosevelt Williams of East San Jose.
The officer involved was Jerry Smith, an eight year veteran of the force.
Police are not saying if any drugs were found in that home.
Police today arrested and charged a 20 year old man with the killing of a San Francisco
community bus driver.
He was stabbed to death a month ago.
And police say that with the arrest, they've concluded that the killing was not a random
one as first believed.
Rita Williams reports.
A month ago, the lone passenger on a bus in San Francisco savagely stabbed and killed
the driver of that muni bus, Donald Mills, 51 years old.
Mills collapsed just outside his bus here in a quiet residential area at 48th Avenue
and Pacheco, a block from the ocean.
The next day, a postal worker found the murder weapon, a knife, inside this mailbox.
While police searched for the killer, muni drivers and their union officials call for
better radios and more security on all buses.
The killing was seen as a random act of violence.
That is until today when police arrested a suspect in the case.
This was not a random violent act in a muni bus.
This was an act by someone who was known to Mr. Mills.
Lieutenant McCarthy says that someone who was known to driver Donald Mills was his stepson.
That stepson, 20 year old Amin Ghazali, now has been charged with murder.
Police say Ghazali closely resembles this composite sketch of the man witnesses say
they saw running from the bus the night of the murder.
Police say Donald Mills turned in his stepson several years ago for molesting two other
children in the family.
When Ghazali was released from custody, Mills sent his stepson to New York to live with
relatives.
Police say Ghazali at first told them this story.
He called his mother on the day of the murder, the next day after the murder and found out
about his father and took the first plane out from New York.
But that was not the case.
He was in San Francisco.
How much sooner had he come in?
We know he was here at least two days prior to the homicide.
He came into the office this morning and he was confronted with some evidence and he did
admit to taking part in the murder of his son.
Some muni drivers today were relieved to learn the killing might not be a random act.
Others say it's still dangerous on the buses.
They just arrested somebody for Donald Mills' murder.
Oh they did?
Yeah.
That's good.
Do they know who was it?
Turned out it was his stepson.
His stepson?
Oh well that's a big relief.
I guess I can put my pistol away now then, huh?
I got the talk twice already.
Right.
When I was driving the bus, I got pushed right in the eye.
Bus drivers don't plan to let down their guard.
They say they just never know what to expect every time they get behind the wheel of a
muni bus.
In San Francisco, Rita Williams for the 10 o'clock news.
Straight ahead on 10 o'clock news, Bob McKenzie went to Stockton today to learn about the
farming town that's been pushed into the national spotlight.
And George Watson reports on the battle over the deadly weapon used in yesterday's shooting.
We'll be right back.
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Yesterday's schoolyard massacre in Stockton focused national attention on a quiet Central
Valley community that until now has mostly steered clear of the limelight.
It was best known as an agricultural center.
The port of Stockton loaded fresh California produce onto ships from around the world.
But in the past few years there have been quiet and dramatic changes in Stockton and
the people who live there.
Bob McKenzie has the report.
Stockton is the hub of the mostly rural economy of the San Joaquin Valley.
In the past ten years it has also become the hub of Southeast Asian immigration into the
United States.
30,000 refugees have come to stay, turning battered public housing into Southeast Asian
villages.
Their presence in such numbers puts a strain on local welfare services, on the school system
and on the nerves of some of their neighbors.
There are frequent instances of harassment.
If they walk on the street, the people will roll their cars window and yelling at them.
These are the boat people of Vietnam, refugees from the killing fields of Cambodia and Laos.
The first refugees came here because they thought they could farm here.
They didn't realize that you can't farm here unless you own land.
Later arrivals came to be near their relatives.
Their sense of family is very strong.
Many of the adults remember seeing friends or family members slaughtered before their
eyes.
Though they are often bewildered in this strange new land, at least they have felt sure that
here they and their children were safe.
Today, almost all the parents in the park village settlement kept their children at
home.
Few adults speak English and few have more than a vague understanding of the culture
they now reside in.
To some, yesterday's massacre sounded like the kind of atrocity they fled from years ago.
They feel like the war is going on again, you know, because we escaped from our country.
We saw that it's safe here.
And right now, we've seen that we don't have anything happen like this.
So it's right now, it just happened.
So we feel like it's not safe for us.
They feel like they escaped from the fire and hopefully come to the cooler place.
And then they find that and reminds them what they've been through.
In a Cambodian village, one's extended family includes cousins, uncles and aunts, neighbors.
These people have gathered to mourn little Ram Chun, one of the children killed in the
playground.
Her brother says she was a bright student who spent her afternoon studying.
I just feel upset for her, cry out for her, keep thinking about her.
I wish she were back, but I know she won't be back, you know.
Just wish she's okay, you know.
Outside another apartment, mourners stare at the picture of So Kim Ahn, mowed down along
with the others.
Her mother, Corning, apparently tried to kill herself last night, running into the street
in front of approaching cars.
She was taken to a hospital.
For some refugees who expected their children to realize the American dream, yesterday's
massacre seems aimed at all of them.
They feel like they hate us.
There is no evidence that Patrick Purdy set out to kill Southeast Asian children.
And since he is dead, we may never know what was on his mind.
But for the people here, the facts speak for themselves.
Five Southeast Asian children dead, many others wounded.
It's the kind of nightmare they thought they had left behind forever.
In Stockton, Bob McKenzie for the 10 o'clock news.
What happened in Stockton yesterday is reopening the long simmering debate about the relative
ease with which semi-automatic weapons can be bought.
Critics say the regulations are so lax that just about anyone can walk into a store and
within minutes legally buy a rifle better suited for combat than anything else.
George Watson reports.
An AK-47 assault rifle is designed to do exactly what the name implies, assault.
There are two versions.
The legal semi-automatic version can be fired at 250 to 300 rounds a minute.
The illegal fully automatic rifle fires 600 rounds a minute.
And it is illegal in California to convert a rifle from semi to fully automatic.
The conversion kits are readily available and the conversion process is quick and simple.
Every single round packs an incredibly powerful punch.
We have cases here in Oakland where they've passed through in apartment buildings where
they pass through three separate apartments being fired from outside the building.
So they enter the outside wall, go through three or four interior walls and exit the
apartment building.
You can buy one of these weapons a lot easier than you can buy a car.
And it would be only slightly more time consuming than buying a loaf of bread at the corner
market.
All you need is a driver's license, money and about five minutes of your time to fill
out this federal form.
Also, no one is going to see this federal form.
It stays on file at the place of purchase.
You can purchase this gun along with three 30 round clips of ammunition and of course
the bayonet on the front for about $300, $350 on the open market.
Today's tragedy in Stockton is providing impetus to people who want to do something about
the sale of assault rifles.
Don Perata, president of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors called today for a new
state law banning the sale of assault rifles.
Supervisors have been working since October on a plan to impose a 15 day waiting period
on the purchase of semi-automatic rifles so that potential buyers like Patrick Purdy could
be checked out.
But Perata now believes that is not enough.
He wants those guns out of the marketplace.
It was simply recognized in the law that an AK-47 such as the gun that was used yesterday
in Stockton has no place and no purpose in our society other than killing people.
And in a civilized society, those are unnecessary weapons for the average citizen to have.
I'm sympathetic with the NRA as far as the ban goes.
As far as the waiting period goes, I know they won't like me saying that I support it
if it's a step that we might try.
And like I said, maybe we would have stopped Purdy from this tragedy out here in Stockton.
The National Rifle Association is against both a ban on sales and a 15 day waiting period.
I'm George Watson for the 10 o'clock news.
And coming up during our next commercial break, once again we'll be showing you the address
for the trust fund that's been set up for those Stockton shooting victims.
And coming up in our next segment, Pat will join us to tell us all about the Dennis Weather.
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You're going to love tomorrow too.
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Wait until I tell you about it.
Actually, tonight's not so bad either.
It's clear out there.
The barometer is fairly strong, 30 and 1400 inches of mercury is holding steady and it's
still 51 degrees here at our Jacqueline Square studio.
Boy, it was warm today.
Last night Napa went down to 28 degrees but San Francisco only went down to 46 degrees.
It was almost warm by comparison.
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Redwood City actually hit 70 degrees.
All the Bay Area temperatures today were anywhere from 3, 4 up to 9 degrees above the normal
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9 degrees above normal for San Francisco at 65.
And tomorrow it's looking even better.
Around the state today, Sacramento 59, they're looking closer to 62 tomorrow with sunshine.
Los Angeles at 81, they'll cool off to about 78 tomorrow with some sunshine.
Well here's what it looks like on the satellite.
Jetstream way up there looking for Yukon mule deer or whatever in the devil it's doing up
there.
These two meteorological bullies blocking all rain from coming in.
But it is great weather though.
Might as well enjoy it through Friday, maybe into Saturday.
Then with a little luck, this frontal system will slip in with some showers Saturday night
or Sunday.
The Great West travel forecast looks dry in the northwest tomorrow, both Seattle and Portland
expecting some rain to come in on Friday.
On the national weather scene, boy it was a great day over most of the nation.
Cuppa, 4 inches of rain in Houston did a little street flooding.
4 inches of snow up in Michigan.
Other than that, that was about it.
Once again it was Gunnison, Colorado, the icebox last night.
The icebox meaning the coldest overnight temperature nationally, 24 degrees below zero.
And down in Miami today they had a high of 78 degrees.
Tomorrow they're looking for a high of 83 degrees with sunshine.
And Washington DC is looking good on Friday for the inauguration.
These cities in the central part of the country, except for some rain coming into Dallas and
New Orleans, that's looking pretty good too.
Well, here in the Bay Area we'll wake up to some of that dreaded dense fog.
It'll be out in Contra Costa around Concord and float northward, northwestward up into
Santa Rosa.
Otherwise it'll be fair.
Lows 30s and 40s and then later on sunny by noon in those areas that will have the fog.
And on the 5 day, which slipped up there pretty fast, we're looking for rain on Sunday.
That's it.
That's okay.
It can rain Sunday.
Thank you.
You too.
Okay.
Thank you, Patrick.
You're welcome.
In South Africa today, President P.W. Bota reportedly suffered a mild stroke.
An aide reported Bota is in stable condition at a military hospital near his Cape Town
home.
The aide said Bota was conscious and lucid.
He's expected to name an acting president tomorrow.
The Polish leader who outlawed the Solidarity Trade Union now wants it back on legal ground.
In Warsaw, during a meeting of the Communist Party that ended this morning, Polish leader
Wojciech Jaruzelski successfully led the passage of a resolution that would re-legalize the
outlawed Solidarity organization.
The stormy meeting ran until 3 a.m.
The measure overcame stiff party opposition and finally passed by a 3 to 1 margin.
Early feedback from labor leaders indicates that the union will reject the offer because
it's loaded with what they call unacceptable conditions.
Those conditions include that Solidarity declare itself in support of socialism, forfeit financial
assistance from the West and promise no strikes for two years.
And when we come back we'll have tonight's business reports.
And we'll have tonight's winning lotto numbers.
We'll be right back.
The jackpot's up to 22 million.
Tonight our business reporter Brian Bannmiller is on assignment.
He can't be with us.
In the news, however, is the Commerce Department's announcement that the U.S. trade deficit rose
sharply last November.
Commerce Department said U.S. imports topped exports by $12.5 billion, a 22 percent increase
from October.
Administration officials called the figures disappointing, but the trade imbalance did
not hurt the dollar in international currency trading today.
The dollar surged against both the Japanese yen and the West German mark.
Finally IBM said its profits rose more than 12 percent in the fourth quarter last year,
giving the giant computer company its best year since 1985.
For the year, IBM posted profits of $5.8 billion.
And the stock market reversed a two-day decline with a healthy gain today.
The Dow Jones industrials closed at their highest level since the 1987 market collapse,
advancing issues outnumbered losers by a 5 to 2 margin.
Volume was heavy.
Brian would be proud of us, right?
We got through that.
And now it's time to check your lotto tickets to find out if you can quit your job tomorrow.
Tonight's winning numbers are 4, 8, 11, 18, 24, 47, and the bonus number is 23.
Tonight's jackpot is up to $22.3 million.
Is that enough for you, Dennis?
Yeah, that's in the Sprindlin area there.
Check those numbers when I get home.
Still ahead.
We'll show you the emotional scene at the White House as the first family said farewell
to administration staff workers.
And the sky over Washington lit up with fireworks tonight as the inaugural celebration begins.
We'll be right back.
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There wasn't a dry eye in the room as White House staff members bid farewell to President
and Nancy Reagan today.
There were cheers and prolonged applause for the first family who received personalized
gifts from the workers who in some cases have spent the past eight years working at the
White House.
They gave the president a bridle and harness for his horses.
And Mrs. Reagan's press secretary Elaine Crispin could barely speak through her tears as she
presented the first lady with an enameled Fabergé art box.
They're there for you.
Even Rex the Reagan's dog got a gift.
A dog house replica of the White House.
The man who will move into the White House Friday spent the night shuttling between three
black tie inaugural dinners.
Earlier, George Bush kicked off the five days of inauguration festivities with a colorful
musical extravaganza at the Lincoln Memorial featuring country and western singers, the
Gatlin brothers.
Mr. Bush then lit a torch, symbolic of his campaign theme of a thousand points of light.
And the rhetoric became visual as spectators switched on 40,000 miniature flashlights that
had been passed out earlier.
The show ended with a spectacular fireworks display.
Mr. Bush will take the oath of office at noon on Friday or whenever the fireworks end.
That's right.
We're the warriors tonight.
Yes, indeed.
And I know Dennis, he got the Cover Brothers t-shirt last night, so Tony Bonilla, the assignment
chief, he dug this open in the back.
And I know you were so disappointed you didn't get a Cover Brothers t-shirt.
So we got you a scarf that Tony actually wore to a 49ers game and he insists that Joe Montana
actually, no he saw it though.
He thinks he saw it.
Right after Joe threw a touchdown pass he saw that scarf.
Alright.
When we come back we'll talk with Mark from Miami next.
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KitchenAid dishwashers are so well made,
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So you'll be glad that KitchenAid also
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Airport, please.
I've got a 9 AM flight.
No problem.
Good.
What airline?
Alaska.
First time Alaska?
Yes, it is.
But airlines never take off on time.
First time Alaska.
When Alaska Airlines has a flight leave at 9 AM,
we do our best to make sure it does.
That's why they never leave on time.
So usually, the only time you'll have
to wait for a plane is when you miss one.
What's the world come to?
I'm Eric Green.
Coming up tomorrow on 2 at noon, the inauguration.
It's almost here.
We'll take a look at the lighter side of the hoopla
that you're not going to see on the networks.
We'll see you at noon.
Another 30 seconds of common sense.
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We sell cars that make sense.
Dinner with Jar-Matt.
You want me to get you?
No, I got it.
OK, here's the play.
Raider, out of the pocket.
Interception.
First down, Dossel, got it as a bum bum.
Hey, this is the most fun you can have with plastic.
You can get the Citibank NFL Visa card with your favorite team
on it, and then you can earn, I know, John, free NFL Proline
gear like this.
Hey, guys, it's not whether you win or lose.
It's how you pay the game.
Call 1-800-NFL-VISA.
It's midweek in Miami.
And you would think the principals of Super Bowl 23
would hit a media brick wall about this time of the week.
But as Mark Ibanez tells us, these guys are just getting
warmed up to give us something to talk about.
The only way to cover the Super Bowl.
And it will be Randy Cross's final Super Bowl as a player,
making the decision he'd been mulling over for months
official this morning.
I started thinking about it in July, you know, London,
that type of time frame.
But I probably came to grips and really decided to do it
around October.
After 13 years in the NFL, Cross wanted to do it his way
and not fall victim to Bill Walsh's here today,
gone tomorrow routine.
I could probably have played and struggled through and played
an inferior game and stolen a couple more years of salary.
But, you know, that's not the way you want to end it,
and that's not the way you want to be remembered.
Meanwhile, Randy Cross bid his official farewell to the
national media on one side of the 49er headquarters.
On the other side of the room, well, Jerry Rice was also
holding court, everyone wanting to know, of course,
is he or isn't he?
And believe me, there are plenty who think he is not injured at all.
I know he's got a legitimate injury.
We've got some too.
I've got this, Mike North says, not feeling good,
and my nose has been running, and I think Carl Zander's got a
little bit of a hangnail problem, so we're going to play through
our injuries too.
You know, it wouldn't be the first time that Coach Walsh
pulled this sort of rouge.
Back in Super Bowl XVI, Freddie Solomon faked an ankle injury
at Walsh's order, reportedly.
Mike Schumann, a receiver on that team, remembers.
Well, Mike, you played under Bill Walsh.
He's not above pulling something like this, is he?
Well, I hate to say it, but no, he's not, and especially with
his former protege, Sam Weitz, on the other side of the ball,
I think anything could happen, and this could very well be
another ploy by Bill Walsh to maybe offset their thinking
towards their offense.
Well, Schumann is a pretty astute observer of the game
and also ran better patterns than probably anybody else
that ever played the game, but I don't know.
He's out there close to it.
If that's true, that's a nice little tip for us.
We'll just have to go.
We weren't going to cover him when we heard he was hurt,
so I guess we'll go back now and put that back in the game plan.
Now, as for the leading man in this so-called charade,
well, he's either an Oscar candidate or he is really hurt.
My ankle is really sore.
I don't feel like I can just go out and have that lateral movement.
To me, I have to practice.
I'm not just going to take one or two days off and kid around.
This game is too important.
Now, as to whether or not Jerry Rice is really hurt or not,
we're going to have to wait until Sunday to find out,
but in the meantime, players are starting to get serious,
hitting the playbooks and the practice field,
and for us announcers, well, it's time to really bone up
on all our statistics.
And in the meantime, from Miami, I'm Mark Ibanez for the 10 o'clock news.
Is that good?
All right, they ought to buy that, huh?
All right.
Hey.
Mark loves those statistics.
All right, NBA, the Warriors tonight with their seventh sellout of the year
entertaining the New York Knicks, and the Hardhats were entertaining tonight.
Larry Smith Hardhat, giveaway at the Coliseum,
and Golden State with some great defense in the game.
Chris Mullen comes up with the steal in the fourth quarter
and scores its 108-101 Warriors.
So we go to three minutes to go.
Watch the series.
Mullen scores the layup for a 10-point lead.
New York tries to call timeout.
The ref doesn't see it, so Mark Jackson lays it in
with the Warriors walking off the court,
and Don Nelson goes crazy, but to no avail.
So Winston Garland comes down to the other one.
What does he do?
He sticks the three-pointer, and Winston had 31.
Mitch Richmond had 31.
Chris Mullen had 30.
These guys are playing unbelievably well.
Warriors win their sixth in a row, 133-119.
In the rest of the NBA, Lakers 16-0 at home with an easy win over the Clippers.
Mark Aguirre scores 26 as Dallas beats Denver.
Milwaukee takes Charlotte by 12.
Ron Anderson with a career-high 36.
Philadelphia by 11 over Boston, and Detroit stops New Jersey 103-90.
College basketball, trouble at San Jose State, real bad trouble.
Ten members of the Spartans basketball team have refused to play the rest of the year
unless Coach Bill Barry is fired.
Those players claim mental stress.
We are tired of being treated like children.
We proposed a letter to the athletic director this morning,
and both sides did not agree.
We will not board the flight to Fullerton or any other flight anywhere else.
We as a team decided that we will not come back unless Coach Barry gives it up.
Unless he gives up coaching, that's the only way you guys can have fun.
That's the only way we'll come back.
Well, athletic director Randy Hoffman says he will make no decision
until the end of the year, so San Jose State will play Cal State Fullerton tomorrow night
with only four members of the team and anyone else they can find from the student body.
Now on the court tonight, number one Duke is upset at home.
Number 12, North Carolina with the steal and J.R. Reid with the jam
for a five-point second-half lead, and then it's time for Scott Williams.
Beautiful move through the lane, and really this play was it.
And NC was dancing at Duke.
The Tar Heels shot top-rated Duke, 91-71.
Also wanted to say that Bob Renley, another good friend of yours,
was signed by the Toronto Blue Jays.
And that's sports.
I don't know if he did Montana.
He saw that.
He never touched it, but he saw it.
That's a rumor.
Thank you, Steve.
And that is our report for tonight.
Thank you very much for joining us.
For everyone here at KTVU, I'm Elaine Corral.
And I'm Dennis Richmond.
Next newscast, two at noon, Pat, Steve, and all of us will be back here tomorrow.
Good night.
Don't touch that remote.
We've got lots of comedy in store for you, starting with cheers
and checking to the Stratford Inn with new heart.
Stay with us. It's all coming your way next.