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Good morning, this is NBC Nights Out, I'm Kim Hintroom. I'm Tom Donovan, topping our
news this half hour. Trouble continues for President Clinton with members of his
own party. Some powerful Democrats who represent oil and gas states are
fighting the president's proposed energy tax. Now at first the opposition was just
coming from Democrats in the House, now Senate Democrats are speaking out.
NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports from the White House.
You might ask why is this man smiling, since the latest defector is a key Democrat on the
Finance Committee that must act on the president's tax plan. David Bourne
proposed fewer taxes, more spending cuts. This plan represents a third option in
addition to the acceptable, unacceptable choices of either doing nothing about
reducing the budget deficit or reducing it mainly through tax increases. Not
surprisingly oil staters like Oklahoma's Bourne want to eliminate the president's
energy tax. It is a regressive tax. It is filled with exemptions, exceptions, would
be a boon for lawyers and bureaucrats and delays. Instead Bourne's group
proposes reducing annual social security cost of living increases for 22 million
Americans, delaying tax increases on the rich, capping government benefits
programs. Basically a 40 billion dollar shift away from wealthy Americans right
on the people just above the poverty line, the elderly and the working poor. I don't think that's, I don't support that.
Bourne doesn't have the votes to pass his plan, but without his vote the
president won't be able to get his own plan out of the Finance Committee. We
don't have the vote right now. Not having the votes right now is irrelevant
because the committee is not going to vote right now. But if Clinton starts
making concessions to pick up Bourne's support in the Senate, the fragile
coalition he's put together in the House could fall apart. House leaders are very
nervous and Republicans know it. I wonder if the Majority Leader might have any
thoughts and whether something like the Bourne-Danforth elimination of the energy
tax, which might occur in the other body, creates the opportunity for us to
eliminate it here first rather than allowing them to get all the credit.
Right now the momentum is going against the president in the Senate. To save his
energy tax he's going to have to figure out how to satisfy Senate conservatives
without losing House liberals. Andrea Mitchell, NBC News at the White House.
The Clinton administration stands by its decision to fire its travel office staff.
Spokesperson George Stephanopoulos said Wednesday's firings followed complaints
passed on by Hollywood producer Harry Thomason, a Clinton family friend.
Thomason told the president that the travel office failed to go through a
bidding process when chartering aircraft used by the news media covering
presidential trips. But the fired head of the travel office said the dismissals
are unfair. I have not stolen anybody's money. The guys in my office have not
stolen anybody's money. And some Republicans are unhappy as well. Missouri
Senator Kit Bond sent Mr. Clinton a letter saying he is concerned that the
accused were not allowed to defend themselves before being fired. Military
officials on Thursday grounded all VH-60N Black Hawk helicopters in the
presidential fleets. Military officials say the grounding is a precautionary
measure. The order follows the crash of a Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday
which killed four crew members. Straight ahead on NBC Nightside, a battle over a
baby in California. And later we'll talk to tonight's show host Jay Leno about
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President Clinton will be meeting with Russia's foreign minister later this
morning to talk about Bosnia. The meeting comes amidst reports that America's
allies are near agreement on what to do about the continuing civil war. Secretary
of State Warren Christopher began the talks with Kossarov Thursday. Today's New
York Times reports the US and Russia agreed to forge a common strategy with
other European nations. The strategy accepts territorial gains made by
Serbs rather than asking them to give back the land they took in fighting.
Sniper fire was at a minimum yesterday in Mostar after Bosnian, Croat and
Muslim leaders signed a ceasefire Tuesday. This amateur video shot the
daily agreement was signed it shows some of the damage caused by recent fighting.
Keeping with the agreement the Croat troops have released 1,800 Muslims
captured last week. The peace did not prevail in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo.
One woman was killed and seven injured in an hour-long mortar attack on the
city. Michigan's ban on assisted suicide was struck down on technical grounds by
a circuit judge on Thursday. This is a further setback to the state's effort to
stop Jack Kevorkian, the so-called suicide doctor. Kevorkian was present at
a 16th suicide Sunday, the first since the law took effect. The judge ruled the
state lawmakers unconstitutionally added the measure to a bill dealing with a
narrower issue. A landmark decision out of California Thursday, the state Supreme
Court there ruled a woman who was paid by a couple to bear a child has no
parental rights over the baby. The court said she is a genetic stranger to the
child. Linda Alvarez explains. This is the baby in question Christopher Calvert
seen here when he was about a year old and these are his genetic or test tube
parents Mark and Crispina Calvert. Three years ago they paid this woman Anna
Johnson $10,000 to give birth to their son but a few months before he was born
Johnson claimed a bond with the child and threatened to keep the baby. I will fight
until there is nothing left in me to fight with to save my baby. The case has
been in the court ever since Christopher was born September 1990 but California's
highest court ruled in favor of the genetic parents not the surrogate
mother. With this judgment Anna Johnson is not the mother of his child and
therefore does not have any claim towards visitation or custody. Here's what
the state Supreme Court ruled the party's aim was to bring Mark and
Crispina's child into the world not for Mark and Crispina to donate a
fertilized egg to Anna and that Anna Johnson is a genetic stranger to
Christopher Calvert. Johnson made no public statement but her attorney did
hold a press conference and read a rambling letter to President Clinton
about the breakdown of due process. The state and local bar associations
unethically inspired to obstruct justice and interfere in the precious due
process rights for which this country stands. Shame on them. The Calvert's
didn't show up to make a public statement they're very protective of
their sons and their family's privacy but their lawyer very vividly described
their joy. Mark was ecstatic this he expressed to me that this has been a
tremendously stressful three years for him he suddenly felt a great burden
taken off his shoulders I heard Crispina in the background yelp with joy and Mark
told me that he was gonna leave me so he could just hug and kiss his child. Linda
Alvarez NBC News. President Clinton is stepping up his search for a replacement
for retiring Supreme Court Justice Byron White the eight other justices are all
Republican appointed with the chance for Democrats to put a mark on the court the
president is getting a lot of advice NBC's Pete Williams has more. Dozens of
names are on the Washington rumor circuit but White House sources tell NBC
News that President Clinton is concentrating on five finalists three
are federal judges Jose Cabrana's chief judge of the district of Connecticut
Stephen Breyer chief judge of the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston and
John Newman of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Hartford Connecticut and
to our state Supreme Court justices Shirley Abrahamson of Wisconsin and
Christine Durham of Utah Bill Clinton is the first Democratic president in 26
years to nominate a justice and he's getting plenty of advice for some court
scholars the choice is clear a liberal court is so heavily stacked toward the
very conservative side on such issues as abortion church state federal and state
power that I think it does need balance Hispanic groups want Judge Cabrana's a
native of Puerto Rico who grew up in the South Bronx we think that a Hispanic
American can bring to the court many advantages a unique perspective and
sensitivity that has been absent for the court in entire history the Senate
Judiciary Committee will hold hearings for the nominee and the committee's
ranking Republican pledges fair treatment I do not want President
Clinton's nominees to go through the horrendously slanderous and libelous and
dirty approaches that were used against the nominees of presidents Reagan and
Bush that was Pete Williams reporting from the Supreme Court building an
amazing discovery in Egypt a tomb that's more than 3,000 years old has been
discovered in the Giza desert it belonged to the chief of military
chariots during the rule of Ramesses II it was found by accident during
excavations near the pyramids the tomb had been well hidden to keep robbers out
Britain's Queen Mother has been taken to a hospital in Scotland the 92 year old
mother of Queen Elizabeth the second was on vacation when a fishbone got stuck in
her throat the hospital is keeping the Queen mum overnight for observation and
is expected to release her later today still to come on night side the battle
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well the late-night lineup is heating up it's been almost a year since Jay Leno
took over the hot seat replacing the beloved Johnny Carson on the Tonight
Show on NBC Jay is in Boston this morning where he hosted a Tonight Show
tribute to Cheers good morning Jay hey how are you it's okay we're doing great
it's about quarter to one here is that what is about quarter one and people are
still going nuts about 25,000 what we call Cheers
Davidians these are Cheers psychotics this is the first time the Tonight Show
has gone on the road how was it it was fun I mean it was live television I you
know people were drunk acting silly anything could happen and I did kind of
did we had we had certain things planned but when you see somebody kind of fall
face down on the peanuts and you go to plan B Jay your good friend David
Letterman will become your competitor how do you feel about that I think it'd
be great fun you know the more the more people that get in the game I think the
more exciting it is I think it makes late-night television more interesting to
watch I mean you'll go back to you know 20 years when Johnny was the king and he
had no competitors you know people watch Johnny watch nothing now now there's a
more more people involved in it you're bringing more people to late night you
know I think it'll be great I think it'll just bring more people into the
mix and will somebody win will somebody lose I don't know but it'll be
interesting to see what happens Jay it's been about a year since you took over
the helm of the Tonight Show tell us what it's been like very exciting
actually it's been a lot of fun it's the best job in the world I mean I love it
it's great I mean we're we were in LA last night we did a show we got on a
plane we landed here at 6 in the morning we did a show here tonight we
landed 7 in the morning we do a show tomorrow night in LA and then I open in
Vegas Friday tomorrow night so it's a it's hectic but it's fun I like it do you
miss the places like the Carolines and the punchline and all those being on the
road it's is it what do you miss being on the road the punchline and Carolines
and places like that yeah now I'm on the road except I'm dragging 75 people in 10
trailer trucks with me so it's the same thing it's a little easy we just have
your carry bag you know at the Motel 6 you know but yeah I'm on the road it's a
little more technical we'd love to do this more bring the Tonight Show more on
the road I go out in the road on weekends and do gigs so I don't miss it
that much at this point you have been on for a year tell us about your favorite
interview at this point my favorite yes I don't know it's hard to say you know
there are show business people who you know are gonna be good and then there
are other people who surprise you Jimmy Carter was one of my favorites because
he was funny and interesting and he told me some things I didn't know politics is
kind of a hobby of mine Schwarzkopf was real good I don't know there a lot of
them have been real interesting it's it's a lot of fun you know I there's
nothing sillier than flunking social studies and then 15 years later have
someone say the president United States is waiting to talk to you oh well I wish
mr. Duncan my social studies teacher was here to hear a very good Jay and we wish
you continued good luck with the show continued success oh thanks you guys
it's obviously a slow news day so not at all not at all thank you time now for a
check of the weather here's nightsides Jerry Brown with the Friday forecast
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right on the money well good morning here's the same picture I've been showing
you for the last week big storm system out in the Pacific whirling around
producing pretty big thunderstorms this afternoon over parts of Western Wyoming
down into Colorado and we're talking about more action this afternoon moving
off into the east right along this frontal system good chance of shower and
thunderstorm activity over the Western Plains and also parts of the big sky of
Montana yet more showers moving in off the Pacific into Seattle and Portland
but as you move south pretty nice from Reno over into the Bay Area and down to
LA some morning clouds afternoon Sun lots of rays over the desert southwest
and it will be hot over parts of Arizona and New Mexico trailing frontal system
from this low could produce a thunderstorm over Utah's Wasatch Front
meanwhile back east no problems over the Midwest or the southeast little
trough could produce some showers over the Appalachians this afternoon
generally pretty nice weather back there with temperatures ranging from the 50s in
the northern lakes to the 80s across Florida cool air off the Pacific in
Oregon and heating up in a big way over Arizona and New Mexico the southern
desert parts have yourself a great day I'm Jerry Brown for NBC Nightside and
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hour on the hour this is the 24-hour news beat good morning it's 255 and Wayne
County Circuit Judge has struck down Michigan's law that bans assisted
suicide the ruling came while Detroit police armed with a search warrant took
several items from dr. Jack Kevorkian's Royal Oak apartment yesterday they're
investigating his role in a suicide Sunday of Ronald Ronald Mansour judge
Cynthia Stevens ruled that the state legislature unconstitutionally tacked
the assisted suicide measure onto another bill a tanker ship carrying
flammable liquid has been freed from a sandbar in the St. Clair River by two
tugboats a tanker was stuck for more than five hours yesterday near
Marysville US Coast Guard says there was leakage from that vessel and in sports
the Tigers moved to Cleveland for a weekend series with the Indians that's
after sweeping in Milwaukee I'm Jim Lawler and your 24-hour news station on
the next Jane Whitney show what did you strip down to to my birthday suit
actually executives by day strippers by night until their bosses found out and
fired them I did this on my time away from work everybody has a right to
privacy they were stripped of their jobs but now they're getting even it's not
right you can sue them for that fired for my beautiful body on the next Jane
Whitney show see for yourself tomorrow morning at 11 only on 4 when we're out
there live the reporter and photographer are really it's a it's like being twins
you're you're working in tandem I think we're all lucky here at the newsbeat
that our camera people are journalists they have very good judgment and when
you're in those situations in which you don't have much time two heads are
better than one I came here and I understood what teamwork is really all
about I happen to work with a photographer partner Paul Brinkerhoff
who is is a part of me and we think alike we work alike we're out in the
field you see things and you can play off each other I think the photographers
are the unsung heroes of the news business as frequently you are out on a
story and your first reaction might not be the best choice you could have made
when you talk about it with your partner then I think you come to a
decision and a choice that's much better so if you're working as a team they're
gonna come up with a much better story those choices that you have to make
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on June 2nd IBM the Detroit Tigers and WDIB will honor 700 hard-working kids in
the IBM Detroit Tigers student penned race as chairman of the IBM student
penned race I want to congratulate these kids and all students who work hard to
do their personal best Jennifer means business on the newsbeat
only on for
an eight-year-old New York boys like most children he spends a lot of time on
his bicycle keep in mind this young man is not old enough to drive anything more
than his two-wheeler but city officials say he owes them a lot of parking fines
as Gabe Pressman reports there is obviously a mix-up he's a very careful
driver on his bicycle yes eight-year-old Stephen Shore has been branded a scuff
law by New York City's parking violations bureau a court order has
frozen his bank account for allegedly failing to pay a hundred and twenty six
dollars and seventy six cents in parking fines but the only vehicle Stephen owns
is a bicycle he rides daily in Carl Schur's Park just outside the mayor's
house Gracie mansion Stephen's bank account contains about a thousand
dollars the proceeds of his allowance gifts from grandparents and the dollar
he gets each time he walks the dog his mother says she's tried to tell the PVB
that their computer coughed up the wrong scuff law that her bike riding son is
innocent but she's been frustrated she says again and again they admit they
made a mistake they laughed they thought it was funny you told them that there
was a court order they put a restraining order on his bank account they did not
react as for Stephen how do you feel about that are you angry well I can't
drive a car I only could drive a two-wheeler all pretty simple in his eyes
there's an element of humor to that but on the other hand it's not really that
funny yeah I think I see exactly what you mean thanks for watching NBC night
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the bench so to speak so we're pinch hitting on the sports beat tonight Kim's
up as one NBA series is tied and the other decided yes the Houston Rockets
rallied to tie their series with the Seattle Super Sonics at three games a
piece Kenny Smith had 30 points as the Rockets defeated the Sonics 103 to 90
but Phoenix won its series with San Antonio it was definitely Charles
Barkley's night as Sir Charles helped the Sun's wrap up their Western
Conference semifinal he scored with 1.8 seconds remaining to put the game and
the Spurs away 102 100 Barkley led the Sun's with 28 points and 21 rebounds in
hockey it was overtime in Thursday night Stanley Cup semifinal the New York
Islanders had shut out Montreal for three periods but the Canadians tied the
game late in the third forcing the overtime for a while it appeared even
one extra period might not be enough but Guy Carboneau's goal at 1234 of
overtime gave Montreal the win and a three zip lead in that best of seven
series in baseball the streaking fills increase their National League East
lead over the Expos to six and a half games beating Montreal nine to three
Detroit remains on top in the American League East with a 6-2 victory over
Milwaukee and Toronto defeated Boston 4-3 leaving the Red Sox and Blue Jays tied
for third the Atlanta Braves have reached an agreement with two sports
star Deon Sanders and will have him on the roster through the end of each
baseball season Sanders who also plays for the NFL Falcons had been placed on
the team's disqualified list since April 29th when he did not return from his
father's funeral Sanders will rejoin his team later today for a game with the
Mets and finally Larry Brown basketball's ultimate traveling man is on
the road again Brown suddenly quit Thursday as coach of the Los Angeles
Clippers with two years left on his contract and that leaves the Clippers
looking for a coach and Hoops fans wondering where Brown will land he has
coached five professional teams in two college teams including 1988 NCAA
champion Kansas all right now let's take a look at the scoreboard
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