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Refugees of war have found a new home tonight in Utah.
A family of three who lost everything in the devastation of Kosovo arrived just a short
while ago at the Salt Lake Airport.
Utah's newest refugee family is a father and his two young daughters.
Michael Rossen joins us live from the airport.
Michael, what was the reaction?
Shauna, the refugees are tired, as you might expect, and a bit overwhelmed.
They say they are both sad and thankful.
He's just happy.
He has this chance.
Their only possessions are what they are wearing and what they are carrying.
Saheed Basloo and his two teenage daughters came to their fourth home in six weeks tonight,
served forces, drove the family from their Kosovo home in March.
They spent a month in a Macedonia refugee camp and the past two weeks in Fort Dix, New
Jersey.
But Basloo's wife, the girl's mother, and their four brothers are missing since the first
day the family was driven from home.
The soldiers told the man to go one direction and the women to go the other direction.
He took his two daughters with him.
And he hasn't seen his wife and son since?
Skinny Park, Guan, Osedient, Chengai, Oko.
They haven't seen anybody since then.
What do they look forward to most?
They just want to be comfortable.
They want to be free and he wants to find some work.
The Basloos are settling into their new home, Salt Lake apartment, tonight.
On Tuesday or Wednesday, more of Basloo's family members will begin arriving, aunts
and uncles, cousins, that sort of thing.
A total of 19 extended family members, Shauna, in the next couple of weeks should be making
new homes in Salt Lake City.
Michael, their heads must be spinning.
What about their missing family members?
Any hope that they may be found?
Catholic Community Services is vowing to do everything it can in Macedonia, Albania, and
Kosovo to reunite the family.
They believe there is a good chance that there will be a big family reunion later on this
summer with mother and the missing brothers and sons.
Let's hope so.
Thank you very much, Michael.
The family is off to their new apartment tonight.
Catholic Community Services still needs donated household goods.
If you would like to help, you can call them at 977-9119.
After weeks of sorrow and tears, smiles and cheers at Columbine High School today, more
than 400 seniors graduated from Columbine.
The ceremony was bittersweet today, filled with reminders of the brutal shootings that
happened just one month ago.
Programs Isaiah Scholls and Lauren Townsend would have been among the graduates.
Scholl's parents chose not to attend, but Lauren's family accepted her valedictorian
plaque along with her cap and gown.
Many of the Columbine students say this graduation day is a time to look to the future.
It's been a tough year.
It feels good to get it all behind us and now we can move on and do well with our lives
and we just got to remember to keep our friends' memories with us all the time and go from
there.
Two seniors wounded in their shootings were also given special recognition today.
With tragedies like the Columbine shooting fresh in our minds, we wonder how a school
in a city can heal themselves over time.
Folks in Butte, Montana know the grief of a school shooting.
Five years before the Columbine massacre, a similar killing happened there.
A 10-year-old came to school one morning to shoot another boy who had teased him about
his parents who both had AIDS.
The boy fired five shots, missing the intended victim and killing another boy, 11-year-old
Jeremy Bullock.
Today, there are signs the community is healing.
Residents built a memorial soccer field in Jeremy's name and hold annual anti-violence
marches, but for Jeremy's parents, the tragedy is still an open wound.
It's a day that goes by that we don't miss Jeremy, talk about Jeremy and still grieve
for Jeremy.
Jeremy's killer was placed in a foster home in another town under court supervision.
He remains the youngest schoolyard shooter in American history.
The gun show went on today at State Fair Park in Salt Lake City.
The show follows the U.S. Senate's vote to force background checks on people buying guns
at these shows.
Today's event drew a big crowd.
I see people coming with families.
There'll be grandfathers bringing their kids, grandkids to get them first 22.
Dad will bring a couple of boys in.
Many gun owners we talked to don't have a problem with what the Senate did this week
but say it won't stop violence.
One buyer, however, said it's already hard to get a gun.
Bill Huffner called it ridiculous he was turned down today because he didn't have two forms
of ID with his address.
When 2News was at the show, there was just one protester who objected to the Fair Park
being used for the gun show.
Hardly a showdown in Portland today.
Wow, the Blazers shot down the Jazz on home court.
And now the Jazz trail the Blazers two games to one in the best of seven series and David
is here with a look.
I'm sorry.
It's painful.
The truth of the matter is the Jazz have looked better.
Jerry Sloan tried every lineup.
He tried every set play and it just kept getting worse and worse.
Jerry a little worked up.
If you only watched six minutes, I hope you saw the first six minutes.
Carl Malone, 25 points, 14 rebounds.
Jazz up 14 to 9 and that's when it all goes wrong.
Brian Grant with the bucket on the offensive rebound.
Blazers up 22-16 after one quarter.
Brian Russell tried eight shots and missed them all.
A 19-zip run for the Blazers.
19 unanswered points.
Walt Williams for three at the end of this break.
47-30 Portland by 17 at the half.
Jazz rallied a little bit in the second half.
Rashid Wallace throwing down the dunk and the foul.
Blazers cruise 97 to 87.
They lead the series two games to one, game four tomorrow night.
Now the Jazz loss was tough on everyone watching on TV, but you can imagine going all the way
to Oregon and seeing this nightmare.
Dave Fox is there and Dave there were a few Jazz fans in the Rose Garden today.
Yes there were and some very familiar ones.
You know of course the most familiar faces of the Delta Center night in and night out
David are the players, but aside from that the Jazz dancers, those that entertain the
crowd during the timeouts.
Well the entire dance group paid their own way to come all the way up here and watch
this team play.
Yeah, they weren't thrilled with what they saw, especially considering that they did
make such a long trek and they did pay their own way.
Jazz got us into the game, but we got ourselves here to Portland.
If we could get to Portland they'd get us in the game, that was the deal.
We thought it would be such a neat opportunity to come up here and be able to support the
team.
We didn't get to travel and all of us wanted to come up here.
The Jazz has the battle of the Blazers on the court, that's one war.
But how would you guys measure up against the Blazer Girls?
We are number one all around, the Jazz team, the Jazz dancers, the Jazz Bear, all of us.
It's tough to sit up here and not, I mean during those timeouts, see the Blazer Girls
going.
Yeah, we miss it, but we're having fun just up here cheering.
The Jazz dancers are having a great time on their visit to Portland, but they're the first
ones to admit there's no place like home.
There's only one Blazer fan that's even being nice to us and he thinks the Jazz are going
to go on a run.
How could they possibly be mean to you guys?
They want the Blazers to win as much as we want the Jazz to win.
So when we're over there cheering and screaming they're going, ehh, boo.
Jazz dancers actually had seats scattered throughout the arena so there was a little
bit of Jazz representation here and there and they're hoping that tomorrow night will
be a better outcome for them.
Join us a little bit later on for the sports den, Coach Majeris will be here, Jeff Hornacek
will be here, we'll look back and look ahead.
Dave Fox reporting live from Portland.
Brian?
The Portland dancers are good, but the Jazz dancers, come on, they're better.
Oh absolutely, well we asked them that and they said yeah we are, but I will tell you,
honestly, the Jazz dancers are among the best at any arena I've seen.
It kind of had to have been tough to sit there and not be out there dancing.
Yeah, well you know we asked them about that as well and you know how the players have
their own game going on and yeah they kind of judge the other girls, but every time out
they had their eyes glued on the performance but then they would get up and start dancing
a little bit themselves as well, just in the stands.
The fans loved that Portland.
Putting him in different spots is a good strategy.
Yeah it was.
Alright thanks Dave.
Better luck next time for the team.
There's much more ahead on 2 News at 10.
Coming up after this break.
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U.S. bombing won't bring peace to Serbia.
Dozens of demonstrators take to the U.S. Capitol today to rally for peace in Kosovo and Serbia.
Also today U.S. officials speak out about the plan to put 50,000 troops on the Kosovo
border.
They say NATO intends to use the soldiers in peacekeeping operations, not a ground invasion.
The Pentagon insists there has been no change in the United States position regarding ground
troops in the Balkans.
While NATO says the air war is working, it admits that even if victory comes soon, it
will be impossible to return all one million refugees before winter.
A hero's welcome for one U.S. soldier who knows the pain in Kosovo all too well.
About 1500 people greeted Army Specialist Stephen Gonzalez during a homecoming parade
today.
He's one of the former POWs held captive in Kosovo.
Gonzalez and his parents hit the parade route in a 1963 Rolls Royce.
Along the way, the family stopped at the town square where Gonzalez cut down a yellow ribbon.
It had been tied around a tree by his parents when Gonzalez was first captured by Serb forces.
One of three British hikers rescued on Mount McKinley yesterday is sharing his terrifying
story.
The hikers were just 300 feet from the summit when a fierce blizzard forced them to turn
around.
On the way back down the mountain, one of the climbers stumbled, sending all three men
into a free fall.
While one of the men managed to hike down McKinley, two others had to be plucked from
the mountain by helicopter.
Today one of those men, Anthony Holland said, talked about conditions on the mountain.
If not harder technically.
It's the coldest weather I've come across on a mountain and strongest winds as well.
So it's a very beautiful place but it's very ferocious as well.
Two Utah climbers helped with the rescue attempts by carrying gear to the search area.
I know, I read about that in the paper this morning and the courage of that helicopter
pilot who was able to fly in and get them out in that terrible weather.
Something.
Well don't go away, there's much more ahead on 2News at 10.
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A special tribute to some of Utah's most excellent youth.
600 kids from schools all over the state were nominated during the school year for Kid of
the Year.
Kids were nominated by teachers and mentors for the good things they do at school, at
home and in their community.
The judging process was tough, but the panel of judges, including the event's MC, Mark
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The Park City Silver Mine would like to congratulate this year's Utah Kid Hero winner, Andy Lamb,
fifth grader from St. Louis Elementary School.
Andy was nominated because of the tremendous strength he shows despite being born with
multiple physical handicaps, including cerebral palsy and incomplete digestive and respiratory
systems.
So what did you do that made you a hero?
I guess I always try my best and stuff, like that's what I think I did to be a hero.
He is a hero.
Andy won a trip for his family to San Diego and while they're there, they're planning
on going to SeaWorld.
That was also one of the prizes.
Andy says he is extra excited because he's never been to California before.
What a charming young man.
A story about other kids putting themselves to the test.
Thousands of junior and senior high students rode it out at Lagoon and exercised with ups
and downs and over the top fun.
The pull of gravity drew in two-news photographer Brian Morris to show kids working on roller
coaster physics.
Please keep your arms and legs in federal times.
Don't stand up.
Hold on tight and enjoy your ride.
Today we came down here to measure the G-forces.
It's called an accelerometer.
It measures how many G's.
The G-force is how much gravity is pulling on you.
It's kind of hard to look at your accelerometer when you're doing all the turns because your
head starts jerking around.
That's about four times your body weight.
It makes me feel fat.
You will see them screaming and yelling and having fun.
They're learning physics and they're experiencing it and by that they don't forget it.
It's not an equation that you forget tomorrow.
They experience acceleration and they know what acceleration is.
That's the beauty of it.
Hands on.
Thank you for riding and have a great day in here again.
I could have even passed physics if that was the test.
Laura was telling us about one of her great goals.
Goals.
On a ride a roller coaster all day long one time.
24 hours.
How fun would that be?
We could make that happen.
Especially if the sun was out and was as bright as it was today.
Let's go ahead and take a look at the maps.
Putting time lapse into motion.
We didn't see clouds for a long time.
In fact it wasn't until late in the evening just around this area that we started to get
clouds but over the mountains you got them by afternoon.
Those dark ones that loom and bring heavy showers and storms move in quickly and move
out just as fast.
The high today made it up to 78.
A little above normal for this time of the year.
It's been a while since we've seen that and the low is 51.
For the next couple of days you can look for the same type of pattern.
Sunshine with a chance for storms in the afternoon.
Again they're the kind that move in pretty quickly and leave pretty quickly as well.
Partly cloudy tonight.
Right now it is 69 degrees.
Not much wind out there.
It'd be nice if it'd blow just a little bit because then it would cool it off maybe a
little quicker.
As we take a look at the Adonis it's going to show us futurecasts that some clouds are
beginning to linger over the Colorado area.
Left my mind there for just a second.
And leaving us with partly cloudy skies tonight and into tomorrow.
Now when you make your plans for a Sunday afternoon you might want to include an umbrella
if you're headed toward the mountains because indeed you probably will have an afternoon
shower or storm.
But in the valley more than likely you'll have sunny to partly cloudy skies and again
another warm afternoon in store with temperatures climbing closer to 80 degrees.
Certainly not that warm tonight.
Our overnight lows dipping into the 40s and a few 50s here and there.
It looks like Wendover will be 50.
St. George 57 and Canab not far behind 48.
In the metro area we'll be lower to mid 50s with partly cloudy skies.
Tomorrow sunshine, a chance for afternoon storms and a high close to 80 degrees.
Provo you may get past it at 81.
And the rest of the state seeing very warm temperatures.
70s and 80s and again probably plus 90 in St. George where today you got up to 97.
Here's the extended forecast.
The Dixie area shows temperatures mostly in the 90s but slipping into the 80s here and
there with a few scattered storms.
Here at home along the Wasatch Front we see temperatures 70s and 80s with a chance for
afternoon storms or a better chance for just rain on Thursday.
I was looking at Colorado thinking what was that called?
I'll do it in one of these days.
Oh yeah.
Think it on your feet.
That's good.
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Well when an entire community says so.
Plus a traveling tooth drawing hundreds to Hong Kong.
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Hundreds of Buddhists gathered to welcome the arrival of a sacred tooth believed to
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The holy relic is usually kept in a special temple but is on loan to Hong Kong for one
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Buddhists believe the tooth brings peace wherever it goes.
Not a parade but a march through downtown Salt Lake today.
This is the annual March for Jesus.
Children taking part, waved ribbons and people carried flags of countries from all over the
world.
The march started as an evangelical effort and has spread to more than 500 cities in
the U.S. alone.
It coincides with Pentecost celebrated in many Christian churches tomorrow.
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This is a fundraiser called Bick It and Kick It.
16 year old Michael Hadley had to go through chemotherapy but his friend said he would
not be the only one with a bald head.
Today members of the Utah Storm Minor League football team had their head shaved and so
did Michael's dad.
We are delighted to report that Michael's chemotherapy is finishing up and he has a
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