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It means we might not be able to count on the same level of, same amount of Colorado River water.
And that's bad news for the CAP Water Project and the future of Tucson's water supply.
Also, another breezy day today, but are they winds of change?
Michael has the answer.
It's all next on Eyewitness News at 10.
It's 10 o'clock.
Do you know where your children are?
Live from KVOA TV for Tucson, this is Eyewitness News at 10.
Clearly, procedures were not followed.
Procedural error has a bunch of Tucson police officers in the hot seat.
Good evening. Thanks for joining us. I'm Patty Weiss. Tom McNamara has the night off.
Tonight, we know more about the internal investigation of a Tucson police captain and his alleged drunk driving crash.
Captain Kevin Danner, his blood alcohol level, was reportedly twice the legal limit the night he wrecked his car.
The police chief says there are gaping holes in reports of what happened in the hours following the wreck.
Sally Chamerell tells us investigators are trying to fill in those holes and figure out who dug them.
So there's going to be a spread out effect of a series of balls that were dropped, if you will, along the way.
Balls were dropped at the scene and at the hospital, according to an initial report into Captain Kevin Danner's crash.
Danner is on paid sick leave recovering from that crash.
Tucson's police chief says Danner's level of sobriety should have been checked that night.
Tucson's fire chief says that's not the job of his workers.
Tucson Fire Department paramedics only draw blood under one circumstance, and that is by order of a doctor.
Doctors can also draw blood, and they did for medical purposes.
Now Chief Smith is wondering why his staff didn't ask for a blood draw.
In fact, the initial report says the captain was never even asked whether he had been drinking.
It goes on to say Danner could have been asked to voluntarily consent to a blood draw,
and it says witnesses should have been identified and interviewed.
Now Chief Smith says none of the officers who responded that night are rookies,
but that doesn't necessarily mean any of them have ever been in a situation where they respond to a scene
and find a superior officer has committed a criminal act.
The recognition of the horror and the dilemma that street level officers are placed in by Captain Danner's actions cannot be overstated.
Even so, the police chief says if any of his workers intentionally altered this case,
they will face charges of hindering a criminal investigation.
Sally Chamrelle, TV4 Eyewitness News.
Chief Smith says five to ten officers are the focus of the internal investigation,
ranging from patrol officer to assistant chief.
He says they all have at least ten years in the field.
The chief hopes to have the complete internal report by next Tuesday.
Another Tucson police officer is recovering tonight after a shooting incident this morning at a south side gas station.
Officer Esteban Marquez was responding to a robbery call.
Tonight he has cuts on his face. He was injured when two men started firing at him.
He dove for cover. The bullets hit the ground by his face, spraying him with debris.
The two men were both arrested.
Investigators know the name now of the man killed yesterday at this apartment complex near the U of A.
Thirty-four-year-old Michael Bauer, a university student, was found in the parking lot.
After a SWAT standoff, police took this man in for questioning.
He has now been released and is not a suspect in the case.
The case against Rodolfo Morales is wrapping up.
He's the man accused of kidnapping and molesting several young girls on Tucson's south side.
Closing arguments were given today and the case should go to the jury tomorrow.
Morales is also a suspect in the disappearance of Karen Grajeda and the murder of Esther Galaz.
However, he has not been charged in either of those cases.
The death toll is up to ten tonight from tornadoes in the Midwest and South.
Three people were killed when a tornado struck tonight in southern Kentucky.
Two young children were killed last night in Arkansas.
Another twister lifted 60 trains off the tracks in Illinois and in Nashville, Tennessee today, a tornado tore through downtown.
The city is in a state of emergency tonight.
NBC's Mark Strassman has more.
I took the video camera and I started taping the sky.
This is home video of the tornado's approach.
It's late afternoon just before rush hour.
Suddenly, downtown Nashville stared at the specter of real calamity, as ominous to watch as it was to hear.
Trees began to quiver, debris to dance frantically.
The tornado was upon them.
I pulled over behind another car and it was sitting there and it was blowing and blowing and all of a sudden it just picked me up between the two cars.
It was just airborne and it flipped me over.
I bounced on my driver's side and then on my roof and then I ended up right side up.
Downtown workers ran for cover, now frightened by the winds, the noise and a shower of shattering windows.
And then everything started falling, five of us climbed in the car and sat there until we passed.
I mean the whole building is about to fall right there.
Dozens of buildings in Nashville show scars.
Downtown buildings are pocked with broken windows.
In Centennial Park, a falling tree pinned this student until emergency workers arrived with chainsaws.
But no one was killed.
Roughly a hundred people were hurt, but most not seriously.
It's a miracle more people weren't killed.
Given the severity of the storm, if it had been a rush hour it would have been really even worse.
The governor's declared a state of emergency in Nashville.
On Friday, all state buildings will be closed, including the Capitol, where the flag still flies and Nashville still stands.
A city that can take a punch.
Mark Strassman, NBC News.
In Dallas, Paula Jones is vowing to forge ahead with her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Clinton.
Therefore I've decided to appeal, to appeal the court's decision.
A federal judge dismissed Jones' case last month, saying she didn't have enough evidence to take the president to court.
In today's news conference, Jones says she's come too far to see people dodge their responsibility.
Special counsel Kenneth Starr isn't giving up anytime soon either.
Starr announced today he won't take the dean's position offered to him at Malibu's Pepperdine University.
Because he says he has a lot more work to do in his investigation of President Clinton.
Back here in Tucson, the city is suing the company that made the ballots used in last November's election.
You probably remember the mess from that election.
About 80,000 ballots had to be recounted by hand because many of the votes cast didn't get counted by computers.
That's because the ballots had a defect.
And when people punched in their votes, the perforated holes didn't go through.
The whole mess cost the city $57,000.
Bad news tonight for the booming southwest desert.
The Colorado River might not always provide enough water to quench the needs of cities here.
Scientists at the University of Arizona say it hasn't always flowed so high.
Frank Field met today with a scientist studying the river's flow.
And how does he know that the river hasn't always flowed this high?
Well, he's been digging up clams.
Really?
Well, that's right, not because clams talk, but because their shells speak volumes about how much water has been in the Colorado River in the past.
Each clam stores oxygen isotopes in its shell.
And there are different isotopes in river water than in seawater.
So when you study clams that are picked up where the river enters the sea and you find out how old they are, you can tell whether the river was high or low.
Now, Professor Carl Flesa is studying clams from one to a thousand years old.
What we're finding is that there's been more flow in the past century than there probably was over the past 1,000 years.
If our preliminary results hold up, it suggests that the long-term flow of the river has been about 10 to 15 percent less than what we've seen in the past century of measured flow.
Flesa says it's not time to panic, but he says it's also not clear when the river might return to its lower norm.
But he says it's a good idea to start planning now.
Allocations of that water are a political hot potato already as cities in Arizona, California, and Nevada fight over their share.
Don't forget Mexico, too.
Now, Flesa says his findings mean that we might have to renegotiate all those water deals about who gets how much of that water.
And with less of that water, that's going to be very hard.
Thank you, Frank.
Federal environmental and safety regulations are causing one local company's business to soar.
Leoni Cable Assemblies makes parts for anti-lock brake systems.
It also assembles cables for engines on farm and construction equipment.
The business operates in Tucson and Mexico.
Since last summer, its workforce has doubled, and it's expected to double again in the next year or so.
About 100 jobs could be added in Tucson because of new federal regulations that require trucks and trailers to have anti-lock brakes.
There is great news for skiers tonight.
A bit later, what last night's snowstorm means for Mount Lemmon.
But up next, a film buff's paradise right here in Tucson.
We'll take you to the Arizona International Film Festival when we come back.
Tom McNamara.
Patty Weiss.
Michael Goodrich.
Dan Roy.
I with this news at 10 will be right back.
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Hollywood may be the movie capital of the world, but this weekend, Tucson is giving Tinseltown a run for its money.
The Arizona International Film Festival is in town.
Moviegoers can choose from more than 100 films from 20 countries.
Grab a pen and paper because it's an event you won't want to miss.
Tonight, photojournalist Jim Randall shows us why.
There's nothing like coming into the theater, sitting down, waiting for the crowd to settle down.
The lights go out. Those first frames flicker on the screen and you think, you know, they're going to see my vision.
The first festival was in 1990 and it was a small festival, three days, with maybe 25 films.
This year we have over 132 titles from 20 different countries.
Independent filmmakers. Our filmmakers were very committed to their subject, go in depth making their films.
And we feel it's important that we supply them or offer them a place to show their work to audiences.
I think it takes a particular passion. I like it because of the tactile sense of actually, you know, being able to, you know, pick up a piece of audio track or touch or hold a piece of film.
And to be able to cut it and to view it and see it as opposed to the electronic medium where you can't look at it or touch it until you get it back into the studio.
And you're able to put it on an editing machine and run it through and look at it on a monitor.
I just want people to see stuff other than what they see at their local cinema.
I mean, there's a lot more out there with independents and things being done that people don't really know about.
So I think people need to open their minds and look at stuff that they normally don't see.
Best case scenario for me is that, you know, Scorsese is in town and he sees it at the grill and calls me up and wants me to work for him.
Hopefully, I would say in five, six years, some of these filmmakers will have more name recognition.
We've had filmmakers here who have come in with their first films.
And for example, the producer, director who did Usual Suspects was here before he had produced it with his earlier film, Public Access.
And we remember him talking about the film he was going to produce. And that became a big hit.
The screening room has provided a venue for independent filmmakers locally, regionally, nationally and now internationally.
I think it's an integral part of our culture to have other voices being heard and not just corporate voices.
We're not saying that everybody should go to independent films, but we say listen to what they have to say, because there might be something there for you.
The Film Festival runs through next Sunday, April 26.
For more information, here's the number to call, 628-1737.
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Looks like a great festival. Hey, some warm weekend weather ahead. Michael has our Friday forecast when we come back.
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NASA's latest space mission is on the ground tonight.
A Columbia delay due to mechanical problems.
The shuttle was supposed to blast off this morning.
Now launch has been rescheduled for tomorrow,
taking off with a number of experiments on board, including some little rats from Tucson.
The U of A is sending the rats up to study how the brain works in space.
Michael, we've just got another day or two on our funny little temporary set,
but at least we're talking about some beautiful weather.
Well, we're having some funny little temporary weather too.
Are we?
Unusually cool.
We've been running just about 15 degrees cooler than normal for this time of the year,
but that's about to change.
Yesterday's high temperature in Tucson was 64 degrees,
and that's what we had this afternoon as well.
The low this morning was 41.
We have cooled down to 54 now.
25 percent humidity.
Not much of a wind at this hour.
But because of the gusty winds we've had off and on over the past few days,
very large amounts of dust, plus plant parts, which are plant pieces,
that can get dislodged by the gusty winds.
Also, the pollen count quite high.
Ragweed, grasses, and a newcomer olive showing up, and it's going to be around for a while too.
Notice those bright and sharply defined clouds over the Tennessee Valley.
Those are the clouds associated with the thunderstorms and tornadoes earlier tonight
when they were back east a little farther, only traveling about 200 miles toward the east now.
Still getting some very strong thunderstorms with that cluster of clouds too.
Few areas of heavy downpours remain.
That will continue throughout the night.
Meanwhile, back in the west, scattered showers, mostly in the form of rain,
but some snow up in the higher elevations as you would expect this time of the year.
That's kind of a cold wintery system helping keep our temperatures low.
The hottest temperature in the nation today was Presidio, Texas, getting up to 97,
and the coldest reading in the 48 states, Truckee, California,
where their temperature was a crisp 11 this morning.
Here in Tucson, our normal high for today's date is 81.
So we were, look at that, almost 30 degrees below what we expect to be this time of the year.
Twenty degrees. Okay, thank you very much.
One year ago today, Tucson's high temperature was 89.
We are right on the edge of the storm track. You'll see a little rotating action
with a storm heading across the Great Basin,
moving through the Four Corners area, heading into the west.
See the little strip of dark there over southern Arizona? That's dry air.
It was a very weak weather disturbance west of San Diego.
It's already falling apart, poor thing, as warm high pressure starts to move in
and will begin to warm us up through the weekend.
Even the showers that we had up in northern Arizona have skipped out,
so things are getting pretty quiet pretty quickly.
There might be just a few more brief sprinkles and snow flurries up in northern Arizona,
with clearing conditions here in the southern part of the state
and quite cold, just the teens in northern Arizona tonight.
Tomorrow, a few clouds, the northern half of the state,
mostly sunny conditions here in the south, and again, the warming trend will start.
For us in southeast Arizona and the Santa Cruz Valley,
20s and 30s for minimum temperatures tonight.
Tomorrow, a little bit warmer. We'll be looking at 60s for highs and plenty of sunshine.
Here comes the warm-up Saturday and Sunday, picking up several more degrees,
and by Tuesday, possibly 90.
Tucson tonight, low temperature, 38 at the airport,
perhaps close to freezing in some of the chilly or Tucson Valley locations.
Tomorrow, getting up to 67 and lots of sunshine and less windy.
People are getting a little tired of those gusty winds.
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In California, they're using an airplane outfitted with special laser equipment
to survey just how much beach erosion has happened this winter.
So far, the news isn't good.
Experts say there hasn't been this much damage since the El Nino of 1982.
Well, El Nino has made for some great skiing this winter.
It's time for our final Eyewitness News ski report of the season.
It's not that there isn't enough snow around our state,
it's just that our resorts are committed to closing.
With one exciting exception, just today,
Flagstaff, Arizona, Snow Bowl decided to extend its season again,
but there are some restrictions.
Snow Bowl is open through this Sunday.
They're going to close on Monday,
and then they are going to reopen for intermediate and end of the season.
Experts skiing only the next weekend, April 24th through the 26th.
They've got eight inches of fresh powder.
Tucson's Mount Lemmon Ski Valley is open this weekend, too,
and believe it or not, they got almost half a foot overnight
and report a 60-inch base.
If you go, you can expect a solid snowpack.
Check out these snow totals.
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Hey, the wind made quite a showing today in Tucson.
But some local school kids made a great lesson out of it.
They are high-flying creativity a bit later.
But next in sports, the best high school basketball players
in southern Arizona stepped into the limelight this afternoon.
Dan Ryan is here when we come back.
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They are the cream of the crop in high school basketball.
And today, they had their moment in the spotlight.
The downtown Sertoma Club brought the best of the best to the Viscount Sweets
Hotel this afternoon to announce the boys and girls high school
basketball players of the year.
Jason Dickens landed the award on the boys' side.
A good call in light of the impact this young man had on the South Point
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You saw how important he was to this team after his car accident
when he was out of the lineup for that little while.
For the third straight year, the girls' award
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Brazi grew up around basketball because, as you've heard so many times
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When I was a little kid, probably, you know, third grade or something,
you know, I always wanted to play for my grandpa, though, with the guys' team.
So I don't know.
Didn't do that, but I'll be out there playing on the mackayle.
Athletically, it's a great award.
You know, you work as hard as you can.
And then you get this award and something to feel good about.
But you got to realize it's an MVP award, an individual award.
But you take teammates to get it.
Congratulations to both Julie and Jason.
Brazi, of course, is a senior.
He's already signed a letter of intent to play for Arizona next year.
Dickens is just a junior, and he will return for his senior year
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When you find yourself in a slump, there's one way to end it.
You slug your way out of it or you go to your best pitcher.
The Arizona Diamondbacks did both.
Against St. Louis today, a double hitter out at Bush Stadium.
Let's go to the highlights.
Diamondbacks put up a five spot in the sixth.
J. Bell goes deep to left.
The fans thought this was a foul ball.
The umpires would get together in a huddle and they'd rule it.
A home run.
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The next batter would bring up Matt Williams and he would step to the plate
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His fourth of the year.
Arizona snaps a seven game losing streak by beating St. Louis in the second game
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They did lose the front game five to four.
In the PCO ranks, the Tucson Sidewinders are now seven and two on the regular
season after beating Calgary this afternoon five to two.
They're looking ahead to next year hoping that maybe they can return to the final
four.
That'll take some doing for the Wildcat basketball team because after all,
they've just lost four starters.
In fact, you take a look at the media guide and you've got the kind of guys in
there that, well, pretty much made the team.
Now you've got two guys returning.
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We're not quite sure of the theme.
I don't know.
I heard about the Baywatch theme.
I'm not too hot on that one.
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But I don't know.
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Pro hockey will remain in Tucson despite all the rumors you've heard to the opposite
after a rough opening year in the WCHL.
The Gila Monsters called the news conference this morning and let everyone know they'll
be back next fall.
Things are going to be a lot different.
The struggle and the subsequent tough lessons that ensued pretty much made their impression.
The Monsters know that once the fans come out to watch them, they'll be back again.
You said our goal is to get them in once.
Our goal is to, whatever we have to do to beg, borrow and steal to ask people to come
and get into the arena because I think once they do and they start developing some rapport
with the players, I think that there's an opportunity for this to be very successful
here.
I think just going out and getting involved in the community, meeting as many people as
we can and like you said, I think most of the people that you talked to this year that
are new to hockey, the first time they came, they said they had a good time.
They loved the game.
NHL tonight, Coyotes Dallas and living up to the thug image he so carefully cultivated.
Rick Tauket came out of a two game suspension, blew an O-ring, got into a fight.
As for the game itself, Gerald Diddick wore the Superman's cape tonight trailing 2-1 to
the third.
He scores there to tie things up at 2-2.
Does the honors again a few minutes later.
That's all they needed.
The Coyotes beat Dallas by a final score of 3-2.
Quickly updating you in pro golf stops at the senior PGA.
It's Jack Nicklaus and Hale Irwin sharing the lead at the PGA's MCI, three way tie atop
the leaderboard and at the LPGA's Myrtle Classic, Meg Mallon with a 10 under par, 62.
Has a three stroke lead.
Isn't that great?
There you have it Patty.
Thank you.
Well our windy weather this afternoon made for a perfect day for an outdoor classroom.
These students at Kelland Elementary spent the day flying kites.
You can tell they really enjoyed it.
The kids have been studying Asian culture.
Kites play an important part in Asian culture as you may know.
So the teacher helped her students make their own kites, paying close attention to what
it would look like high up in the air.
That a hundred kids got a chance to go fly a kite today.
What a fabulous lesson for them.
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