Sunday, November 13th.
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Live, this is News 42's 11 o'clock report.
Good evening, thanks for joining me. I'm Shelley Swanky. Mike Pierce is under the weather tonight.
A Washington public power supply system official says that when the nuclear project bonds were being sold a decade ago,
planners feared the impact of proposed federal legislation and reduced demand for electricity.
The official, Harold Hank Cosmata, also testified that those concerns were reflected in bond disclosure documents.
Today was his third day on the stand in a U.S. District Court in Tucson, Arizona.
Lawyers for the more than 24,000 bondholders say the concerns cited by Cosmata were downplayed in the bond disclosure documents.
Bondholders are suing 15 whoops member utilities and three other parties over the largest default in municipal bond history.
Washington U.S. Senator Brock Adams says he is completely outraged by allegations that he sexually assaulted the 26-year-old daughter of family friends.
Adams says he has been harassed for a year by the woman who accused him of molesting her and sought a $400,000 settlement. Adams denies the allegations.
These charges are absolutely false. My family and I have been harassed by this woman for over a year.
More than a year ago, I was called to the police department and was told that a woman claimed that I had drugged and raped her.
I told them that these charges were false. Apparently she then changed her story and said it was an assault. These charges are also false.
The senator went on to say that during his 36 years of marriage, there have been some trials and tribulations and that he is not a perfect human being.
I did make an error in judgment that put me in a position where I could be falsely accused.
For that, I apologize to my family, to my friends, and to the people of the state of Washington.
I never had a desire or have a desire to hurt this woman or her family. And I don't know why they're trying to hurt me and my family.
The woman has not been identified but is reported to be married and living in Seattle.
West Richland has decided it does not want a hazardous waste incinerator in its backyard and has cut off talks with the ECOS Corporation.
In a unanimous decision, the West Richland City Council voted to take the city off the list of potential sites.
Mayor Rebecca Barr says a newly discovered state law is the main reason the city is closing the door on ECOS.
KV's Tom Butler has more.
Negotiations between West Richland and ECOS Corporation were going seemingly well.
ECOS was considering West Richland as one of six potential sites in the state to build the state's first hazardous waste incinerator.
ECOS laid all its cards out to the public with an informal presentation and meeting a few months ago.
Most were impressed with the corporation, and a petition to bring the incinerator to the area was circulated throughout the business community.
Things were on an upbeat, that is, until a concerned citizen informed city officials about a 1985 state law,
a law that could force West Richland into taking the incinerator regardless of local opinion or approval.
Unfortunately, we didn't become aware of it until a citizen had told us about it.
We're very thankful, but we feel they should have, if they're being so open and honest, we feel they should have told us about that as well.
They meaning ECOS.
Right.
The general manager of ECOS Corporation, Maria Zang, told KVU News today that even though the law exists,
ECOS would not go into an area that did not want it. She says ECOS is disappointed, but realizes the city is within its right.
Farr says while the state law was the main objection, other concerns strengthened the city's decision to back out.
With the safety issue, I had some concerns. We have one state highway in and out of the city, a very narrow bridge,
and if an accident did happen, we were kind of stuck with that one road basically, and we had some concerns.
The ECOS hazardous waste incinerator could have created 50 permanent jobs and up to 200 construction jobs over two years,
but Farr says that economic gain is a dice throw that carries too many unknown variables, one the city can't afford to gamble with.
In West Richland, Tom Butler, KVU News.
The consideration of an anti-loitering law in Pasco has raised questions of constitutional legality.
Last night, the Pasco City Council looked over the pros and cons of a law designed to help fight drug dealing and drug use on the streets of Pasco.
The law is already in existence in Tacoma and Yakima and has come under constitutional fire from the American Civil Liberties Union.
Threats of possible legal action have been made by one suspect in Tacoma, but in Pasco,
City Attorney Greg Repstello says the law stands on firm constitutional ground. He says if a suspect looks like he or she is involved with drugs,
then that person can be arrested with probable cause.
What will make or break the ordinance being an effective tool of law enforcement is being able to get enough facts to show or convince a judge
that this person was hanging around in this place because he's going to be dealing with drugs.
With the possibility of more felony drug arrests comes the task of prosecuting the suspects.
Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney Dennis DeFelice says his office is already handling more than double the caseload since 1984,
but he does think the law will work. He says the law isn't a case of the city going for the little fish for the sake of missing the big one.
And given the problems that people in Pasco have had in their parks and in their neighborhoods with people loitering to sell drugs,
I don't think you can say that this isn't an ordinance that's going to have no effect.
Repstello says he doesn't see a heavy load of cases bogging down the Franklin County court system,
but he does see the City Council unanimously passing the proposal into law next Monday.
A Kennewick man accused of first degree murder for the death of a Burbank man is pleading innocent.
23-year-old Mark McClure appeared before Walla Walla County Superior Court Judge James Mitchell yesterday.
Police allege that McClure attacked James Stevens and David Graves in this Burbank mobile home last month.
James later died and Graves was critically wounded. Graves has come out of the coma and is responding to treatment.
Bail for McClure is set at $250,000 and a trial for the first degree murder and first degree assault charges have been set for November 8th.
When KB News continues, we're going to take a look at some election issues in Washington and Oregon,
and look at the computerized machine that tallies votes. Some say it's not accurate.
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Two different psychologists said, you must get that child out of your home. You're in danger. She threatened to kill the boys.
On the next Sally Jessy Raphael, adoption brought horror into their homes.
He had become homicidal as well as suicidal. Bizarre sexual behavior was the norm.
What went wrong? We think that the workers and the agency itself, intentionally without information.
Adoption nightmare is on the next Sally.
Ken Eikenberry's campaign manager says the attorney general has canceled three or four debates with his Democratic rival this week.
Susan Brady says Eikenberry has just been busy doing his job, but rival Bill Erksleben sees it differently.
The Seattle lawyer said today that Eikenberry's withdrawal after he agreed to appear was discurious and seems to indicate that he's afraid to be challenged on his performance in office.
In the past week, Eikenberry has canceled appearances before several groups.
And in the race for lieutenant governor, state Senator George Fleming is gaining some more ground towards receiving the Democratic nomination.
The latest count of absentee ballots are giving him some more breathing room over fellow Democrat opponents, Nita Reinhart and Brad Owen.
The new numbers put him ahead by over four thousand votes to his nearest competitor. Reinhart conceded victory to Fleming yesterday and vowed to support his campaign.
The easy winner of the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor was former U.S. Representative Joel Pritchard.
Of the two candidates for District 3 Benton County Commissioner's race, one says no to consolidation and the other says it should not be an issue.
Democrat Tom Moak says it's important for the public to know where elected officials stand on issues of importance like consolidation.
I believe that consolidation is an issue that's very important for folks, but at the same time I believe that at this time our community needs to be pulling together.
And I find that the consolidation issue seems to be dividing people more than pulling them together, and that concerns me.
Moak says he doesn't expect his opinion on consolidation to change anyone's mind, nor should his opposition on the issue affect his campaign.
I believe that the consolidation issue does not directly affect my race as Benton County Commissioner,
but I do believe that our elected officials and our people who wish to be elected officials should take positions on the issues that are important.
And I think the consolidation issue, whether it's pro or whether it's con, is one of the important issues of our day.
Republican Sandy Strawn says while the issue would have an economic impact on the two cities, she doesn't think it should be used as a campaign issue.
The county commissioner's position cannot and should not have any impact upon the decision of consolidation, whether it's for or against,
because the county commissioner's position has absolutely no involvement in consolidation.
Strawn believes voters should look at the facts and draw their own conclusions on the issue.
The voters of Kennewick and Pascoe have to make up their mind, and having the influence of a political candidate is totally out of the realm of what's right.
I don't think it's right.
What I feel personally is my concern, and I don't think that energy is into it.
And it shouldn't.
And it should not. Definitely should not.
Current Benton County Commissioners will preside over two informational meetings on the consolidation topic.
The first one is scheduled for this Thursday, starting at 7 at Kamiakin's Lecture Hall, and the next one will be the following Thursday at the Federal Building in Richland.
That one also gets underway at 7 in the evening.
One of the issues facing Oregon voters is to smoke or not to smoke, in public places, that is.
The ballot measure would ban smoking for just about everywhere in public.
Some bars, tobacco shops, and hotel rooms would be available to smokers.
It would initiate the most comprehensive state law anywhere.
Opponents say there are already enough laws, and supporters say it really won't matter.
Yes, we are saying there's no cause for them to be concerned.
I think there's a likelihood that some nonsmokers will lead out more often if they're guaranteed smoke-free air.
There's certainly, according to the polls that we've seen and the surveys that we've done, there's no evidence, otherwise there's no evidence to indicate that they'll lose business.
We simply think it goes too far. It's a radical approach.
It would totally ban smoking in all public areas in the state of Oregon, with a few exceptions.
Things like taverns, smoke shops, and some hotel rooms.
And that's really not necessary. We think that the current Clean Air Act is doing a good job.
Most vote counting for the November election will be done on computers.
The machines can tally about a thousand ballots per minute, but in Oregon, a group of computer experts are questioning the accuracy of the devices.
Local elections offices throughout the country will be busy on the night of November 8.
Collectively and eventually, their vote counting computers will determine who is president of the United States.
But they could be wrong. At least, that's the opinion offered by some computer engineers.
No existing computer vote counting system is adequate. They're all bad.
In fact, most of these systems were built using obsolete techniques.
A study conducted by a group called Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility also concludes that computerized counting systems provide little protection against fraud.
We like the same kind of controls which are applied to banking software, applied to vote counting software.
And that's not something that's difficult to do.
The director of Oregon's largest county elections department says the software and safeguards used in Portland are adequate.
Indeed, the Computer Professionals group complements it.
And while they cite questionable elections elsewhere, they do not allege fraud in Oregon,
which is just as well since the engineers say it's not possible to prove or disprove it.
The Baltimore County elections director says that one of the most important safeguards that she and her staff have is that someone is always watching.
How tests of the computerized vote counting process are a public event.
This year, they'll be held on a Thursday afternoon before the Tuesday, November 8 general election.
This is Jim Hyde reporting.
Coming up next, meteorologist Mark Lee computerizes the weather forecast.
Stay with us.
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Next on Superior Court.
You're telling me a man worth $4 million lets his wife dress like that?
What can I say?
That's museo.
Judge Thomas presides when a truck stop waitress seeks divorce from her secretly rich husband.
Sure you have a fortune one day, but if you keep spending money by the next day you have a tin cup in one hand and a bunch of pencils
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Judge Clayton Thomas rules on the next Superior Court.
Mark Lee's weather forecast are certified by the National Weather Association.
Warmer weather will be heading our way over the weekend.
We'll see a few clouds tomorrow, but by the afternoon hour sunshine, and if you like warm weather you're going to like the forecast
because it looks like things will be warming up over the next few days.
A beautiful moon out there right now.
We're mostly clear outside and the temperature at 50 degrees, 54 percent relative humidity.
Winds are barely moving and the pressure is slowly rising.
Now it's high pressure beginning to rebuild and still zero in the cave you rain gauge.
High today, 70 degrees.
Overnight low last night, 48 and there's normal 73 and 47 where we should be for this time of the year.
Let's check out some of the other temperatures and it is beginning to cool down for this time of the night.
52, walla walla, 50.
That's the current reading in Pendleton.
50 in the Tri-Cities as well.
45 to the west of us at Yakima under mostly clear skies.
There are a few high clouds around, but generally mostly clear.
Spokane this hour, 47 degrees.
And on the west side temperatures are generally in the 50s and some clouds beginning to head to the coast section right now.
It's a weak warm front begins to push their way.
Right now you see east of the Cascades the skies have totally cleared except for around Ohmac.
There's still a few clouds around.
But other than that mostly clear skies.
That's going to mean for some cool temperatures tonight.
Probably lows running in the upper 30s to middle 40s.
I think 44 of the Tri-Cities and then get further out west, Benton City.
You'll see low temperatures probably running a bit cooler than that.
You can see the storm beginning to approach.
Now most of this storm will head off into British Columbia, but some of the high clouds will filter across the state tomorrow.
So we'll see a few high clouds.
We won't see anything in the way of rain.
Snow level in the Cascades has come up to 60,000 feet.
Now over the weekend we'll see the freezing level come up to about 10,000 feet over the weekend over the next two days.
I should say up to around 10,000 feet and we'll see that means some the air is going to really be in a warm up over our state.
So we'll look for some warmer weather.
Had our way.
Here's a look in the Pacific pretty ominous storm system.
This storm has just been flying onto the east over the past two days.
Last night.
Remember it was a way out here in the Pacific Ocean just south of the Aleutian Islands.
But it is moving very rapidly onto the northeast.
Now the clouds will begin to spread out of direction.
We'll see a few high clouds.
But again, high pressure building right in here is kind of forcing that storm track off to the north of us.
And all indications are that high pressure will continue to build northward.
And that should push the brunt of that storm off into British Columbia.
So a few high clouds for us.
And that is about it.
Rest of the nation.
This is the cold front that went through here yesterday.
It continues to push on into the Dakotas showers along the front and along the warm front sector out into the Dakotas and also into the Great Lakes of showers there.
But most of the nation kind of quiet.
There are a few rain showers in the southeast but kind of quiet and pretty warm for this time of year.
Highs 90s down in Texas 80s down in much of the south.
And you have to get really far out to the north to run into that cool weather.
The highs are in the 50s for us.
We'll be warming up warm air continue to bubble up high highs into the 70s for tomorrow.
Right partly cloudy about 44 on the overnight low and those winds will be subsiding later on tonight.
Tomorrow partly sunny a nice day.
High near 74 Walla Walla as well partly sunny and high near 75.
And you folks in Pendleton what else partly sunny.
Yeah.
And high near 70.
Let's look at the extended and sunshine will wrap that up and you see those temperatures also wrapping up toward the 80 degree mark perhaps by the weekend.
Wow.
Yeah.
Shelly high temperatures will be into the middle 80s.
And I know you like that kind of weather.
And again sunshine will be abundant right on through the weekend.
Back to you.
Well it almost sounds like summer all over again.
Coming up next a big American disappointment in the summer Olympics and the pennant races heat up and the American League Matt Samsel will join us in just a moment.
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Disappointment something that the Americans always expected to excel in.
Yeah that's right we invented the sport but we lost today.
It was a good game.
Yeah it was a good game.
But it was sloppy.
And that's what cost them the game.
For the second time in 16 years the Soviets have bested America's best college basketball players in the Summer Olympics.
The Soviets led by Remus Koutanatis.
His 28 points beat the U.S. 82 to 76.
The U.S. led only twice at 2 to 1 and 4 to 3.
They had their chances in the second half especially late but failed to capitalize with costly turnovers and sloppy play.
David Robinson had 19 for the U.S. while Danny Manning was shut out.
The U.S. will play for the gold against the winner of tomorrow's Yugoslavia-Australia game.
The U.S. play for the bronze.
That's tomorrow against the loser out in that game.
Good news for the U.S. though a clean sweep in the 400 meter dash.
But there was an upset in that race.
Favorite Butch Reynolds finished second to fellow countryman Steve Lewis.
Danny Everett took the bronze for the U.S.
Lewis ran a 43.87 second race.
And three U.S. boxers advanced today assuring no less than a bronze finish in that category.
And the 200 meter U.S. A's Joe Deloach won the gold and Carl Lewis got the silver.
And last we heard the baseball team was leading over Japan in the gold medal game.
Highlights tomorrow as many highlights tomorrow at 5.30.
While the amount of disgrace placed upon deposed Olympian Ben Johnson continues to pile up.
Not only has he been banned from his national team but now endorsements are being pulled out from under him.
Three international companies are dropping the Canadian as their products pitch man.
Including a Japanese oil company that wants a three month refund from a contract Johnson signed.
Johnson came home to Canada today and here's what happened.
Great Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was mobbed by photographers and question shouting reporters when he landed at New York's JFK airport.
But the questions about whether he took anabolic steroids prior to winning his Olympic gold medal remained unanswered.
Johnson was rushed out of the terminal to a waiting limousine which took him to a connecting flight to Toronto.
Johnson was stripped of the gold medal he won Saturday by the International Olympic Committee.
The IOC announced Monday night that Johnson had tested positive for performance enhancing drugs.
Johnson's personal physician Mario Astafan meanwhile denied allegations of Johnson's use of steroids.
My knowledge of Ben is that he has never taken any steroids but I don't have any information from the IOC.
I don't know what they are.
No, absolutely not.
Ben is not the type of person who would take steroids.
Because of the IOC action Johnson has been cut off from Canadian government support programs for its athletes.
And Canadian sports officials say Johnson will be banned from Canada's national team for life.
Reaction from the Canadian fans was one of disappointment.
I was devastated. I couldn't believe that they took his gold medal away.
It's pretty dumb because he let everybody down. Everybody was hoping for him and that.
In school everywhere he turned they were saying don't turn to drugs.
And then the biggest hero, the guy everybody looks up to goes and turns to drugs.
And I'm just really shocked.
He let all of Canada down. I don't know how he can ever face his family or the public again.
Ron DePaulus, ABC News.
From Olympics to baseball after taking 2 or 3 from the Yankees the Boston Red Sox figured to breeze into Beantown and dominate the 5th place Blue Jays.
But lo and behold the ghosts of Red Sox past failures refused to go away so easily.
They're on to Beantown where a bad moon is arising in Boston maybe and the Blue Jays Ernie Witt thinks so as he belts this one deep into the Boston sky just inside the foul pole.
Dwight Evans can't get to it and the Jays are up early and often.
Witt will go at it again as manager Joe Morgan says I have a heck with you guys.
Witt clobbers another one. This time Evans can't get to it but the Jays bullpen can.
Joe Morgan is calling for help. The Boston Red Sox have now lost 10 of the last 12 meetings with the Blue Jays.
And the East leaders lead is shrinking on to New York where some strange things are happening as well.
The Yankees are chasing the Red Sox. If we can go to New York right now.
I'll tell you the Yankees won easily over the Baltimore Orioles.
There we go. Don Mattingly hits his first of two homers off the Baltimore pitcher and the Yankees are up.
The first one was nice but this next one is sweet for Mattingly as the Yanks launch a last second effort to catch the Boston Red Sox.
Ricky Henderson doubled in two runs as well. Ron Gidry with the victory.
The team that led the ALE most of the season, the Detroit Tigers, are fading faster in the sunset and we go on to Cleveland where the Detroit Tigers are playing the Cleveland Indians.
And this is a strange play. Cleveland Reggie Williams hits it and Fred Lynn has it.
But his glove goes over the fence with the ball and it's ruled a home run. Reggie Williams the first homer of the year.
Carmen Castillo blasts a two run homer in the same inning and the Indians go up early 4-0.
Indians Tom Candiotti pitches a four hitter as the Indians severely damage the Tigers hopes of repeating in the AL East.
On to the American League scores. Seattle wins 10-3 over Kansas City despite rumors that Jim Pressley and Ray Cunona might be traded.
Darnell Coase was 4-4 with three RBIs. Cleveland over Detroit. Doc Edwards signs a contract for the Cleveland Indians for the 89 season.
And Minnesota over Oakland 5-0. New York inches closer 5-1 over Baltimore. There's that Toronto Boston score 15-9.
Chicago White Sox over Texas 3-2. Mike Diaz homers in the win. Milwaukee over California 6-5. Watch out for the Brewers.
They are only three and a half games out with only four games left for them on the schedule.
In the National League Pittsburgh over St. Louis as Andy Van Slyke throws out a runner at home in the ninth.
The Pirage clinched second place their highest finish since 1983. Philadelphia over New York 5-4. Chicago over Montreal 5-3.
Houston over Atlanta in ten innings 3-2. San Diego beats Los Angeles 8-4. And Cincinnati loses to San Francisco 6-3.
While the Tri-City Americans get ready for their first game in Spokane Saturday, the big boys in the NHL got in some preseason hits this evening.
In Dallas, that's right, the Big D welcomes the Edmonton Oilers and the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Some sloppy play by the Penguins turns into an early Edmonton goal. And Glenn Anderson scores its 2-1 Edmonton.
And we couldn't get a final score on this one, but we tried while the Edmonton Oilers were having fun in the Big D.
The great one, Wayne Gretzky was in an L.A. Kings uniform and gets the easy assist or the easy goal here from the assist.
And the Edmonton Oilers are the L.A. Kings. I'm going to get confused all year.
The young lumpy deal.
L.A. Kings in the new black uniforms because it makes them look tougher.
We should mention, Eric Thompson is off with an illness in the family. Thanks for sitting in.
When we come back, we're going to tell you about the newest venture into space. It's off to Venus. Stay with us.
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The newest space explorer has a name, Magellan. Developed by Martin Marietta,
it's built to do the most extensive radar mapping of Venus ever attempted.
Neil Brown reports scientists hope that finding out more about Venus will eventually help them understand more about Earth.
Venus is thought of as the paternal twin of Earth. It's about the same size and closest to us.
But it's also mysterious and shrouded in thick poisonous clouds.
Its surface is hot enough to melt lead, about 900 degrees.
This will be Venus' next visitor, the Magellan space probe unveiled today at Martin Marietta.
There's a lot that isn't known about Venus. And Magellan is aimed at answering some of those unknowns.
It will do that by mapping up to 90% of the surface of Venus in such detail that you'd be able to see things as small as Mile High Stadium.
The first time around we look off to one side. The second time around we look off to the other side.
And that gives us a data set which is very exciting in developing a three-dimensional rendition, a stereoscopic rendition of the planet.
Magellan is expected to provide more information about Venus than has ever been gathered in all the other missions combined.
And that, scientists hope, will give them clues about the Earth.
It's an experiment in trying to determine what the factors are that form these planetary bodies and how they evolve.
And of course this is incredibly important to understand why we are where we are on the Earth today.
Martin Marietta technicians today were wearing special clothing so they don't contaminate anything.
They were busy making all the final checks.
The Magellan will leave next Monday for its four-day trip to the Cape and will be launched from the space shuttle next April.
Neil Brown reporting.
The interesting thing about that is they said that it's not going to arrive at its location to go into orbit at Venus until the year 1990.
It's going to take it that long to get there.
It sounds like one of the airline trips I had last year.
Uh oh, we don't want to hear about it.
We'll be back tomorrow. We hope everybody's feeling better. See you then.
See you.
Governor Booth Gardner comes to town accentuating gains made on the drug traffic trying to improve on a weak showing in the primary elections here in Ventland, Franklin, Kansas.