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Coming up on the news tonight from Camp David to New York a flurry of meetings on how to deal with the defiance Saddam Hussein.
A Philadelphia community calls for justice in the wake of racial tensions.
And in sports, let the games begin opening ceremonies kick off the start of the 92 Summer Olympics.
Those stories plus first weather coming up on the news tonight.
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This is the News Tonight with Jennifer Ward and Bruce Hamilton, David Rogers-Weather and Yuki Washington on sports.
And now, the News Tonight.
Good evening, I'm Bruce Hamilton.
And I'm Jennifer Ward.
Our top story tonight, could the U.S. be moving closer to flexing its military muscle in Iraq?
President Bush met with his aides in the U.S.
today at Camp David to discuss that possibility.
Among those present, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell, who says there is a chance of military intervention in Iraq.
This is all due to Iraq's ongoing refusal to let U.N. inspectors into a building in Baghdad.
Other top U.S. officials also have fighting words.
This is just another example of Iraq's cheat and retreat approach to United Nations security.
To United Nations Security Council resolutions.
If he doesn't get the message in the next few days, it's going to be bombs away.
Meantime, talks will continue for another day in New York between Iraq's ambassador and the head of the U.N. commission.
Talks aimed at finding a peaceful solution to this crisis.
We have not arrived at any solution now.
But we expect a final answer.
A final answer.
No continued discussion.
But the final answer tomorrow morning.
We are seeing eye to eye on so many things.
And a few things remain to be finalized.
Some negotiators think Iraq's Saddam Hussein is stalling in order to destroy or hide incriminating documents at the building where the inspectors have been denied entrance.
In the nation tonight, Bill Clinton's riding high.
Hearing the results of the latest poll, more about that in a minute.
First, Clinton gets a hearty welcome from voters in Washington state.
In Spokane, Clinton asked residents to have the courage to change and vote against the Republican ticket.
As he left the rally, reporters pressed him for reaction to that standoff between Iraq and the United Nations.
I think we have to give them an ultimatum.
We're going to see how they respond.
They've been given a pretty clear ultimatum.
Let's see how they respond.
And after Iraq responds, then I'll give you another response.
But I think so far the United Nations and the allies are handling it properly.
Back to that poll, a new Times CNN survey shows that voters favor the Clinton gore ticket by a margin of 2 to 1.
53 percent for Clinton, 26 percent for Bush.
Ross Perot may be gone from the political scene, but his supporters say they're in it for the long haul.
Virginians who backed Perot named themselves Americans for liberty and independence.
The group of about 200 have their own political platform and a list of the nation's top five problems.
They presented that list to the closest thing to Perot's heart today, the Texas city of Dallas.
Four people are dead, 12 others injured after flash floods tore through Kentucky.
Overnight, heavy rain swept through the southeastern Kentucky neighborhood, killing a family and wiping out everything in its path.
One survivor, an eight-year-old boy, clung to a tree for over an hour before he was rescued.
Tonight, the waters have receded and cleanup is underway.
A gruesome discovery at the Belmont Avenue water pumping station.
A worker found a body.
Details are very sketchy.
We do know the worker was making a routine check, pulled the grate off the pump, and there in front of him floating lifelessly a body.
It's a 34-year-old African-American woman.
We don't know how she died.
It is likely, however, the body floated in from the Schuylkill River.
An investigation continues.
And a young Orland boy escapes death after climbing a tree and nearly being electrocuted by wires overhead.
Building buzz saws, Philadelphia electric crews cut that tree down, and tonight, young James Cantafallo remains hospitalized in stable condition.
Welfare activists gathered in Kensington today to protest cutbacks by the Casey administration.
Are we going to give up?
No.
Are we here to fight?
Yes.
He says cutback, we say fight back.
Members of the Kensington Welfare Reform Union have been fighting to get control of an abandoned welfare office nearby.
They've set up Caseyville, a tent city at Cumberland in Kensington, to house the homeless.
Organizers say this is one issue that unites Kensington's diverse population.
Neighbors are calling for justice in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia.
Recent racial unrest prompts Mayor Randell to step in to help devise a plan to stop harassment before it starts.
KW3's Carol Erickson reports.
And certainly, it should be step back.
With a snap of his fingers at the Jones family kitchen table, Mayor Ed Randell promised to beef up the city's response to racial incidents starting tomorrow.
That came as good, but late, news for the Joneses of Port Richmond.
In three months in their Port Richmond row house, there were four racially inspired incidents, capped by a July 4th melee between them and their white neighbors.
It left people on both sides injured, arrested, and angry at one another and the city.
I really thought very hard of you for not being here, not coming down to see about it.
Any sort of racial or ethnic intimidation.
Randell told family members, the NAACP, and the police that from now on, when a racial complaint is lodged, it'll go immediately to the Human Relations Commission for intervention.
He also promised to reinvestigate the July 4th fight, but even with that and around the clock police protection, the Joneses are leaving.
We be moving soon, and I want to point out that we not moving because we giving up. We moving because of our children.
In his role as peacemaker, Mayor Randell walked down the block to visit a white family injured in the July 4th fight.
They say the media portrayed the neighbors as racist when they aren't.
What is my side? They started with us? We have never given them a problem?
It's the neighborhood around here that's doing this. You know, that's total baloney.
Though obviously no one in a neighborhood is of one mind on any issue, including race, the message the mayor sent to these residents is clear.
The city will back, to the hilt, any family of any color that wants to move into this Port Richmond neighborhood or any other neighborhood in the city.
Carol Erickson, the news tonight.
Residents in Philadelphia's Winfield section are up in arms over a plan to sell one of the city's oldest golf clubs.
Today, several dozen people protested outside the Bala Golf Club. They're angry that a developer wants to build a $75 million mall near the course of Contra-Hawken and Belmont Avenues.
Homeowners say the mall would disrupt the quiet of their neighborhood.
People have worked very hard to keep this a residential area, and now there's a threat of a change into a commercial area, which everyone is definitely against.
Club members will vote Thursday on whether to sell the private course. Each member could make over $60,000 on the sale.
In the world tonight, violence and unrest in France.
The police station looted a supermarket. They apparently believe the police caused the death of a 22-year-old motorcyclist.
He was trying to escape a police check and in the process skidded to miss a car and hit a lamppost. The youth was not wearing a helmet.
While the world watches the Olympics in Barcelona, a 17-year-old cancer patient will be there with the athletes for the experience of a lifetime.
Michael discovered his bone cancer two years ago, snuffing out his dreams of Olympic greatness.
Well today, with the help of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Michael's flying to Spain to watch the games firsthand.
And that's your news up to the minute, Jen.
That's great. Thank you, Bruce. Right now, it's time for First Weather. Here is David Rogers. And what kind of weather can the athletes in Barcelona expect to walk?
Ooh, it's going to be warm when they're there tomorrow. Yeah, the summer heat is going to continue all across Barcelona.
We won't get as warm as they're expected to get tomorrow. Let's check in with their weather conditions for the day in Barcelona.
Hazy, hot and humid weather conditions there. Temperatures should get up to about 92 degrees with a pleasant breeze out of the southwest at about 10 to 20 miles per hour.
Meanwhile, for us back here in the Delaware Valley, more are the same.
Partly to mostly cloudy skies, 64 to 68 degrees by the afternoon time, where the same temperatures getting up into the 70s. Then by tomorrow evening, we have about a 40 percent chance of a scattered thundershower, 78 to 82 degrees.
I'll have the extended forecast and all the weather information coming up later on in the weather tonight. Bruce?
All right. From First Weather to First Sports, Anuki. And for the Phils, well, streak came to an end.
Yep. Hit a roadblock tonight. The streak is over for the Phillies and the sports tonight. Stepped on by the Giants in extra innings.
Your final 6-2 San Francisco. Mitch Williams took the loss. Willie McGee and Lenny Daxter went 3-4-5 tonight, but McGee's team won. The streak ending highlights coming up.
Another signing for the Eagles today. The final draft pick has inked a deal. Quarterback Casey Weldon gets a three-year pact.
Randall Cunningham will watch from the sidelines during the team's first preseason game next week. His story, U.S. women's open golf and more later in the sports tonight. You guys save me a seat?
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When the news tonight continues, Damon Wayans is hitting the big screen in living color. The comedian says it's time to make more money.
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It's an issue of crime. In the summer, the crime rate is at a high. It's an issue of manpower. In the summer, vacations cut the police force to an all-time low. It's an issue of neglect. In the summer, up to half of the city's patrol cars sit idle, out of commission. It's an issue of safety. In the summer, who's protecting you? The summertime blues. We're making an issue.
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It means if you've got Mo Money, then you got a lot of it. Mo Money is also the name of a new movie starring America's favorite homeboy in living colors. Damon Wayans, Phil Northrup reports.
You know, when white people start talking about you're special, you're so different. You're not like the others. You start believing in that.
That's the humor that pushed comic Damon Wayans to the forefront of comedy three years ago. And this is the humor that catapulted Wayans and his alter egos to superstardom on the hit TV show in living color.
OK, you have a ball. I think I have one right here. However, Wayne shocked his fans last May when he resigned from the Emmy award winning series created by his older brother, Keenan, which also featured another brother, Sean and his sister, Kim.
You know, we kind of pushed it as far as it can go. I did anyway. And I don't I don't see how I can hit somebody in the head with a sock and be funnier than I was, you know, two seasons ago.
Instead, Wayans would rather make movies, a career move which started and fizzled last year with a debut role in the film The Last Boy Scout.
I got kind of arrogant, you know, when I started becoming an actor, you know, it's like you can't be an actor and a comedian. You have to do either or. You know, all these pressures and demands by people and then being a father and a husband and, you know, just too much pressure, no release.
After reevaluating his personal and professional situation, Wayans has now come to grips with his ambitions. He seems to balance both and then some in the new comedy, Mow Money.
I'm Bill Northup reporting.
Still to come on the news tonight, David Rogers says if you like today's weather, stand by. We're in for Mow of the same.
And Mow in Sports, too. The amazing Atlanta Braves go for the 13th win in a row.
You can get all the scores and more coming up in sports tonight.
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Yeah, that's important stuff for people planning vacationers, planning on heading down to the Caribbean.
We'll take a look at that satellite vantage point.
How about our weather today, folks?
Not very exciting and looks like more of the same for tomorrow.
Take a look at the current picture.
Outside right now, lots of clouds continuing to hang across the Delaware Valley.
But Allentown, they have a little pocket of clear sky there.
They're currently at 64 degrees.
Here at Fifth and Market, 71.
Atlantic City, 67 with a surf temperature of 70.
Wilmington, cloudy and 70 degrees.
And Redding, 67 and mostly cloudy sky.
Out down at the airport, mostly cloudy, 70 degrees.
Humidity at 78 percent.
Light wind out of the north at about 6 miles per hour.
And the barometric pressure, 30.09 inches of mercury.
Currently on the way down.
Here's that tropical depression we're talking about.
Right now, about 240 miles southeast of the island of Bermuda.
Numerous advisories out for Bermuda.
And we're going to keep monitoring this system as it continues to churn across some of the warmer waters of the Atlantic.
Again, this is hurricane season.
And the next couple of months could be kind of active.
Definitely check the forecast before making any kind of vacation plans.
Meanwhile, back here on the mainland.
Well, not a very eventful day today.
We did have a few peaks of sunshine.
But notice a little cloud formation now starting to swirl across the midsection of the country.
That is good news.
Although there are some thunderstorms associated with it.
This particular system will be the mechanism to move things off the coast.
And it looks like our weather pattern will finally start to change.
We'll get a lot of the moisture out in the Atlantic.
And we'll start to see some cooler and drier air moving in.
Before that does happen, we are going to see some scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Things are kind of quiet right now.
But as we take a look across portions of the Great Lakes, across the Chicagoland area.
Notice some pretty impressive thunderstorm activity rapidly moving east.
And it looks like the beginning of this stuff should probably move into the Delaware Valley by sometime tomorrow evening.
Partly to mostly cloudy sky tonight.
About a 63 to 67 degree overnight temperature.
Then for tomorrow, partly cloudy.
About a 40 percent chance of a shower late in the day.
78 to 82 degrees.
A look into the future.
This is how it fares up.
Again, thunderstorms developing by late Sunday night into Monday morning.
We should start to see some clearing on Monday.
About 75 degrees.
Tuesday looks like a great one.
Mostly sunny sky and 84.
Wednesday not too bad, 84.
And Thursday looks like some thunderstorms in the afternoon.
And afternoon highs getting up to 84 degrees.
That's a look at your weather tonight.
Jen, Bruce.
Thanks, Dave.
Thanks, David.
Stay with us.
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Time out for the complete sports picture.
Here again is Yuki Washington.
I shouldn't tell them this, but you were on vacation.
She asks, is Yorkie doing sports?
Yorkie?
Wasn't that long.
I wasn't that long.
Yuki.
Thank you.
Yorkie?
Okay.
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Coverage begins at noon.
Opening ceremonies, quite a sight tonight.
This is the Parade of Nations.
We saw many of our locals in the group, like wrestler Chris Campbell.
Willingburles' Carl Lewis participated in his third parade.
Charles Barkley led the basketball team.
Michael Jordan, a no-show.
He said he's done it before, didn't want to do it again, left his uniform at home.
How many did Lewis do?
Three?
Come on.
Well, the arch was right on.
When it came time to light the flame, the games are officially underway.
During the games, we'll be keeping a special eye on our Delaware Valley contingent,
as they hope for dreams of glory in Barcelona.
My partner, Lou Tilly, is in the newsroom with a tribute to the local athletes
participating in the 25th Olympiad.
Lewis, good to see you.
I like those hats, Yuki.
Let's give Charles a call, try and get a couple.
Good idea.
I count 18 natives in the game, 25 when you include those who train here
and now call the Delaware Valley home.
Tough to keep track of because they'll run, jump, shoot, stroke, arch, wrestle,
and pull in the reins.
And they'll try to join the rest of Team USA in reigning in the world.
You know, it's been six years now since the United States has won a basketball
tournament in any international competition.
So the locals tonight raised their voice in unison to say...
Why is it such a big deal when we use pros and those other teams have been using
pros for all those other years?
Why is it such a big deal now?
Why don't they just take their ass whipping like people and go home?
We all work for the same goal and we all want the same thing, and Barcelona,
that's a gold medal.
I set my goals, I made a lot of improvements, and I'm the type of gymnast who needs to
do these moves over and over again, and it took me three or four years to perfect them.
I can't help how anybody else is going to swim, but I'm going to swim my best out there.
You know, if I step back from a little bit and look at it, it's something.
It's an accomplishment, but it's not enough.
I want to win the gold medal.
Those were all locals.
Charles Barkley, of course, Tom Boer, who rose on the Schuylkill,
Dominic Mininucci from Temple, Frank Leskos from La Salle, who swims for Albania,
and Chris Campbell, the last fellow from Team Foxcatcher in Newtown Square.
Now, we'll try to be your viewing guide for the locals all along.
Tomorrow, here on KY3 and NBC, about noon, Erica Hanson from King of Prussia
into the pool on her first event, the 400-meter medley.
In the evening, Mary Ellen Clark, born in Abingdon,
takes her first plunge in the platform diving competition,
and then Michael Kostigian, the veteran from Newtown Square,
begins his quest in the modern pentathlon.
Back here against Warrenite at 6 and midnight, and we're underway.
It's going to be a fun couple of weeks. You?
It certainly will, Lou. Thanks very much. Appreciate it.
All right, baseball now. The Phillies went to extra innings tonight against the Giants,
but they couldn't come up with the extra effort. The win streak stops at 2.
The Phillies' big gun tonight was Lenny Dijkstra.
Dijkstra nails went 3 for 5 on the night.
This shot into right field scores Joe Mallette.
He gets under the tag on the throw to put the Phillies up 2-1.
Willie E.T. McGee did a lot of work for the Giants on offense.
McGee in the 6 went to right center field.
Robbie Thompson was on first, but after Dijkstra missed the cutoff man by a few feet,
Thompson scored to tie it at 2 runs apiece.
In the 10th, Willie McGee was back again.
3 for 5 also tonight. McGee turns on the speed.
Mitch Williams falls off the mound hard. He didn't get there in time.
McGee beat it out. While that was going on, a run scores for the Giants.
The winning run. Mitch Williams gets the loss.
Final score, 6-2, Giants in 10 innings.
Montreal got by L.A. 4-1. San Diego 2-0 over the Mets.
In 11 innings, Houston 3-2 over Chicago. Cincinnati by 8 over St. Louis 9-1.
And Atlanta shuts out Pittsburgh. Lucky 13 for the Braves.
Yes, it was. They tied a franchise record.
13 straight wins today after beating the Pirates.
The Braves only had one hit. One hit for the entire game.
And there it goes. Dave Justice with a solo homer in the second inning.
Charlie Lebrant threw a 4-hit ball over 8 innings.
So let's take it to the 9th. That's when Otis Nixon, watch this, would scale the wall to Rob.
Andy Van Slyke, the Braves get number 13 in a row.
1-0 over the Pirates.
A 2-hitter for Ron Darling. Oakland got by Toronto 6-0.
Minnesota 3-2 over Boston. Texas 10. Baltimore 8.
California 9-0 over Detroit. And Cleveland by 1 over KC.
6-5, your final score.
And that's about all the time we have tonight in the Sports Tonight.
Oh, okay. Thanks, E.P.
You caught me by surprise.
And our last word tonight is River Blues.
The river is the Delaware, and these are the Blues.
Performers like John Lee Hooker, seen here, are all part of the River Blues Festival in full swing this weekend at Penn's Landing.
Blues fans turned out for the fifth year in a row.
It's billed as the biggest and best Blues Fest on the East Coast.
And it all continues through Sunday night.
That's the news tonight. I'm Jennifer Ward.
We're going to take you back to Barcelona for more Olympic coverage.
Jen, David, Yuki and I will be back tomorrow night at 6.
For now, we're out of time. You're up to date. Have a good night tonight, and have a better day tomorrow.
Bye-bye.
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