JILL ANDES
A BLIZZARD WARNING IS IN
EFFECT IN DENVER, COLORADO
TONIGHT. THE SNOW IS FALLING AT
3 INCHES AN HOUR. AT THIS TIME,
DENVER HAS 18 INCHES OF SNOW.
HIGHWAY OFFICIALS CLOSED
80 MILES OF INTERSTATE 70.
THE AIRPORT’S BUSIEST
CARRIER, UNITED AIRLINES,
CANCELED ABOUT 80 FLIGHTS THIS
EVENING. UNITED, FRONTIER, AND
SOUTHWEST AIRLINES ARE ALL
EXPERIENCING DELAYS.
10 AVALANCHES WERE
REPORTED ON THE EAST SIDE OF
SUMMIT COUNTY IN THE PAST WEEK.
EXPERTS BELIEVE THE SNOW IS
CREATING RIPE CONDITIONS FOR
MORE AVALANCHES.
AN ARSONIST STARTED A
WIND-WHIPPED FIRE LEAVING 4
FIREFIGHTERS DEAD AND MORE
THAN 4-HUNDRED PEOPLE
STRANDED IN CABAZON,
CALIFORNIA YESTERDAY.
3 FIREFIGHTERS DIED ON THE
SCENE AND ONE DIED HOURS LATER.
2 MORE FIREFIGHTERS ARE IN THE
HOSPITAL IN CRITICAL CONDITION.
FIRE OFFICIALS BELIEVE THE
FIRE WAS SET AROUND 1 AM. WINDS
OF 25 MILES PER HOUR BLEW THE
FLAMES IN A NORTHWEST
DIRECTION CAUSING THE FIRE TO
GROW OUT OF CONTROL.
2-HUNDRED PEOPLE HAD TO
LEAVE THEIR HOMES WHEN
EVACUATIONS WERE ORDERED.
THERE IS A ONE HUNDREDTHOUSAND DOLLAR REWARD FOR
ANYONE WITH INFORMATION
ABOUT THE FIRE.
THE ARSONIST WILL FACE
MURDER CHARGES.
A GOVERNMENT RELEASED
REPORT FOUND THAT 23 THOUSAND
DOLLARS A YEAR WAS THE
DIFFERENCE OF INCOME BETWEEN
COLLEGE AND HIGH SCHOOL
GRADUATES.
5 YEARS AGO, COLLEGE
GRADUATES WERE MORE
SUCCESSFUL IN THE WORK PLACE
BY NEARLY DOUBLING THE INCOME
OF WHAT PEOPLE WHO HAD ONLY A
HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA EARNED.
IN A CENSUS BUREAU’S 2005
POPULATION SURVEY, AT LEAST 85
PERCENT OF PEOPLE WHO WERE THE
AGE OF 25 AND OLDER HAD AT
LEAST A HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA.
THE SURVEY ALSO REPORTED THAT
28 PERCENT OF THE POPULATION
HAD AT LEAST A BACHELOR’S
DEGREE.
PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS
AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS AT PRINCETON
UNIVERSITY, CECILIA ROUSE,
BELIEVES THAT THE UNIVERSITY
DID A BETTER JOB OF GETTING
INDIVIDUALS INTO COLLEGE THAN
THEY DID AT HAVING THEM
GRADUATE.
STATE AND FEDERAL
INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE THAT THE
E. COLI OUTBREAK THAT SPREAD
ACROSS THE NATION CAN BE
LINKED BACK TO WILD PIGS.
WILD PIGS, STREAM WATER,
AND CATTLE ALL TESTED POSITIVE
FOR THE SAME STRAIN OF THE E.
COLI OUTBREAK. INVESTIGATORS
BELIEVE THAT THE BACTERIA WAS
SPREAD ONTO RANCHES IN
CALIFORNIA THROUGH THE
ANIMALS’ DROPPINGS.
INVESTIGATORS CONTINUE TO
RESEARCH THE E. COLI OUTBREAK
THAT SICKENED 2 HUNDRED AND 4
PEOPLE IN 26 STATES AND ONE
CANADIAN PROVINCE.
LAST WEEK, QUEEN
ELIZABETH II CANCELED HER PLANS
TO ATTEND THE OPENING OF A
STADIUM DUE TO A STRAINED BACK
MUSCLE.
THE QUEEN WAS PLANNING
ON ATTENDING THE FORMAL
OPENING OF EMIRATES STADIUM
BUT DOCTORS ADVISED HER TO
REDUCE HER WORKLOAD.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II WAS
INJURED DURING HER STAY AT THE
BALMORAL CASTLE IN SCOTLAND.
DOCTORS SAY HER PROGRESS
WILL BE REVIEWED ON A DAILY
BASIS.
THE NATION’S ONLY LIBERAL
ARTS UNIVERSITY FOR THE DEAF,
GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY, IS
PLANNING ON REVOKING FORMER
PROVOST’S, JANE FERNANDES’
CONTRACT AS PRESIDENT.
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
ALONG WITH STUDENTS AND
FACULTY MEMBERS ARE AGAINST
FERNANDES AS PRESIDENT.
PROTESTS ARE OCCURING TO
STOP FERNANDES FROM TAKING
OFFICE, CLAIMING SHE WILL NOT BE
AN EFFECTIVE LEADER BECAUSE
SHE HAS NOT ALWAYS USED SIGN
LANGUAGE. FERNANDES ADMITTED
TO RELYING ON LIP READING
INSTEAD OF SIGN LANGUAGE UNTIL
HER LATE 20’S.
GALLAUDET COLLEGE IS
AGAINST A PRESIDENT WHO IS
UNABLE TO ADDRESS A LACK OF
DIVERSITY, DECLINING
ENROLLMENTS, AND LOW
GRADUATION RATES.
FERNANDES REFUSES TO
BACK DOWN. SHE SAYS SHE HAS
DEEP REGRET ABOUT THE DECISION
AGAINST HER TAKING OFFICE.
PAKASTANI TROOPS KILLED 80
MILITANTS WHO WERE TRAINING AT
A RELIGIOUS SCHOOL NEAR THE
AFGHAN BORDER. PAKASTANI
TROOPS USED HELICOPTERS TO FIRE
MISSELS AT THE UNSUSPECTING
CIVILIANS.
THE ATTACK CAME ON THE
DAY A PEACE DEAL WAS EXPECTED
TO BE SIGNED BETWEEN BAJUR
TRIBAL LEADERS AND THE
MILITARY.
TWO DAYS PRIOR TO THE
ATTACK, TALIBAN MEMBERS HELD
AN ANTI-AMERICAN RALLY WITH
MORE THAN 5 THOUSAND TALIBAN
TRIBESMEN.
AMERICA’S ALLY SINCE 2001,
PAKISTAN, USED ABOUT
80 THOUSAND SOLDIERS TO STOP
THE TALIBAN AND AL-QUAIDA
MEMBERS.
OSAMA BIN LADEN AND HIS
DEPUTY, AYMAN AL-ZAWAHRI, ARE
THOUGHT TO BE HIDING NEAR THE
PAKISTAN-AFGHAN BORDER.
STRONGER THAN NORMAL
WINDS PASSING THROUGH THE
STATES OF PENNSYLVANIA AND
NEW YORK TO SOUTHEASTERN
CANADA CAUSED THOUSANDS OF
PEOPLE TO LOSE POWER IN THEIR
HOMES.
IN NANTUCK, 911 SERVICE
WAS TEMPORARILY LOST FOR MORE
THAN 10 THOUSAND RESIDENTS.
THE HIGH WINDS CAUSED
DAMAGE TO MANY HOMES.
NUMEROUS PEOPLE WERE ALSO
INJURED DURING THE WIND STORM.
THE WEATHER OBSERVATORY
IN MOUNT WASHINGTON, NEW
HAMPSHIRE, REPORTED ONEHUNDRED MILES PER HOUR WINDS
AND GUSTS OF UP TO ONE HUNDRED
AND 14 MILES PER HOUR.
MORGAN QUITNO PRESS
FOUND ST. LOUIS TO BE THE
NUMBER ONE MOST DANGEROUS
AND UNSAFE CITY IN THE NATION.
ST. LUIS HAS BEEN AMONG THE 10
MOST DANGEROUS AMERICAN
CITIES FOR YEARS.
THE FBI FIGURES RELEASED
LAST JUNE FOUND A 20 PERCENT
INCREASE IN ST. LOUIS CRIME RATES
FROM 2004-2006. IT WAS ALSO
NOTED THAT SOME CRIMES ARE
RISING FASTER IN THE MIDWEST
THAN IN ANY OTHER PART OF THE
COUNTRY.
FBI DIRECTOR, ROBERT
MUELLER, IS WORKING ON FORMING
PARTNERSHIPS WITH POLICE
DEPARTMENTS TO LAUNCH
PROGRAMS TO FOCUS THEIR
EFFORTS ON PROBLEMATIC
NEIGHBORHOODS.
THE RIVERSIDE COUNTY
SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT ARRESTED
RAYMOND LEE OYLER FOR A
CONNECTION WITH A WILDFIRE
THAT OCCURRED LAST WEEK IN
BEAUMONT, CALIFORNIA.
AUTHORITIES BELIEVE HE CAN ALSO
BE LINKED TO TWO OTHER ARSON
WILDFIRES THAT WERE SET LAST
JUNE.
A TOTAL OF FIVE
FIREFIGHTERS DIED IN THE LATEST
WILDFIRE WHILE STRUGGLING TO
BATTLE THE FLAMES THAT
STRETCHED ACROSS MORE THAN 60
SQUARE MILES.
INVESTIGATORS SEARCHED
OYLER’S HOME AND INTERVIEWED
HIM ON FRIDAY BEFORE THE
ARREST.
OYLER WAS ARRESTED ON
TWO COUNTS OF ARSON AND IS
NAMED AS A PERSON OF INTEREST.
HIS COURT HEARING WILL BE
HELD THIS THRUSDAY. OYLER’S
BAIL IS SET AT 25 THOUSAND
DOLLARS.
HALLOWEEN IN SAN
FRANCISCO BROUGHT MORE GORE
THAN INTENDED. 7 PEOPLE WERE
SHOT DURING A HALLOWEEN PARTY
IN CASTRO DISTRICT LAST NIGHT.
SHOTS WERE FIRED AROUND
10:40 PM AT A MASSIVE HALLOWEEN
STREET PARTY.
TWO PEOPLE WERE TAKEN TO
THE HOSPITAL WITH
LIFE -THREATENING INJURIES,
INCLUDING ONE GUNSHOT WOUND
TO THE HEAD.
5 MORE VICTIMS SUSTAIN
NON-LIFE- THREATENING INJURIES.
SOON AFTER THE SHOOTING,
THE POLICE UPPED THEIR FORCE TO
25 PERCENT AND SHUT DOWN THE
PARTY FOR FEAR OF MORE
VIOLENCE.
THE NEW YORK POLICE
DEPARTMENT IS ACCUSING
THE BIOTECH COMPANY, BREONICS,
OF IMPROPERLY CARING FOR THEIR
MOUNTED UNIT HORSES USED IN
THE POLICE FORCE.
THE CITY SUED BREONICS
AFTER NEIGHBORS NEAR THE
RANCH TOLD THE POLICE OFFICERS
THAT THE HORSES ARE EXTREMELY
THIN AND THEIR RIBS ARE SHOWING.
BREONICS PRESIDENT, ERNEST
GREEN, CLAIMS THAT HORSES ARE
TREATED WELL. HIS RANCH HAS
FRESH HAY AND CLEAN STALLS FOR
THE 30 HORSES.
THIS SUMMER, A JUDGE
RULED THAT THE CITY’S
OBLIGATION HAS CREATED A
FINANCIAL BURDEN FOR BREONICS,
WHILE A SUPREME COURT JUSTICE,
ELAINE SLOBOD, SAID THE
COMPANY LEFT THEIR OBLIGATIONS
TO 2 OTHER PARTIES.
THE BILL AND MELINDA
GATES FOUNDATION DONATED 46
MILLION DOLLARS TO THE
INSTITUTE FOR ONEWORLD HEALTH
PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY FOR
RESEARCH ON CHILDHOOD
DIARRHEA.
CHILDHOOD DIARRHEA KILLS
MORE THAN 2 MILLION CHILDREN
NATIONWIDE EVERY YEAR. THE
TREATMENT FOR THE DISEASE KILLS
ABOUT 4 MILLION CHILDREN EACH
YEAR.
THE BILL AND MELINDA
GATES FOUNDATION GAVE
ONEWORLD A CONTRIBUTION TO
WORK ON NEW DRUGS FOR SEVERE
DEHYDRATION, WHICH CAUSES
DEATH. THE DRUGS WILL TARGET
THE PROBLEM OF FLUID LOSS IN THE
INTESTINE, CAUSED BY DIARRHEA.
THESE NEW DRUGS WILL
COMPLIMENT THE TRADITIONAL
TREATMENTS FOR SEVERE
DEHYDRATION.
ONEWORLD WILL WORK WITH
THE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR
DIARRHEAL DISEASE RESEARCH TO
HELP SAVE THE LIVES OF INFANTS
AND CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM
DIARRHEAL DISEASE.
POLICE ARRESTED A MAN ON
THURSDAY WHO SET FIRES IN JUNE,
JULY, SEPTEMBER, AND OCTOBER
THAT LEFT 5 FIREFIGHTERS AND 14
CIVILIANS DEAD.
RAYMOND LEE OYLER WAS
CHARGED WITH 5 COUNTS OF
MURDER, 11 COUNTS OF ARSON, AND
10 COUNTS OF USE OF AN
INCENDIARY DEVICE.
THE 36 YEAR OLD OYLER IS
PLEADING NOT GUILTY TO THE 26
COUNTS AGAINST HIM.
HIS CHARGES INCLUDE LIFE
IN PRISON WITHOUT PAROLE OR THE
DEATH PENALTY.
PROSECUTORS WILL DECIDE
ON OYLER’S CASE WITHIN THE NEXT
60 DAYS.
THE U.S. NATIONAL
INTELLIGENCE DIRECTOR, JOHN
NEGROPONTE, MADE AN
UNANNOUNCED VISIT TO THE IRAQI
PRIME MINISTER, NOURI AL-MALIKI,
IN BAGHADAD LAST FRIDAY.
THIS MEETING IS ONE OF A
SERIES OF MEETINGS TO BE HELD
BETWEEN THE U.S. ADMINISTRATION
AND THE IRAQI GOVERNMENT.
THE NATIONAL SECURITY
ADVISER, STEPHEN HADLEY, ALSO
MADE AN UNANNOUNCED VISIT TO
AL-MALIKI TO DISCUSS SECURITY
ISSUES, CONCERNS OVER THE
TRAINING AND EQUIPPING OF IRAQI
SECURITY FORCES, AND SPEEDING
THE TRANSITION TO IRAQI CONTROL
OVER THE COUNTRY.
THE U.S. EMBASSY WAS NOT
AVAILABLE TO COMMENT OVER
THESE ISSUES.
SUDANESE PRESIDENT, OMAR
AL-BASHIR, IS DECLINING THE
PROPOSAL OF U.N. PEACEKEEPING
TROOPS FOR DARFUR.
AL-BSHIR COMPARED THE
SITUTATION TO IRAQ AND BELIEVES
THAT ALLOWING THE U.N.
PEACEKEEPING TROOPS TO ENTER
WOULD ONLY CAUSE MORE DEATHS
TO OCCUR.
KING’S COLLEGE HELD A
LATIN AMERICAN FAIR ON
SEPTEMBER, 6TH TO INFORM THE
STUDENTS ABOUT THE DIFFERENT
STUDY PROGRAMS THE COLLEGE
HAS TO OFFER.
V/O______________________________________________________________
#KING’S COLLEGE
#WILKES-BARRE
THE FAIR WAS GEARED
TOWARDS EDUCATING THE
STUDENTS ABOUT THE STUDY
ABROAD PROGRAMS IN DIFFERENT
COUNTRIES THAT KING’S COLLEGE
IS AFFILIATED WITH.
THE FAIR ATTRACTED
STUDENTS AND FACULTY TO THE
LATIN CULTURE WITH A MARIACHI
BAND, A PINATA, AND A VARIETY OF
LATIN FOODS.
A SPANISH PROFESSOR AT
THE COLLEGE, DR. ANNE MASSEY,
WHO HELPED RUN THE FAIR, SAID
SHE WAS PLEASED WITH THE
OUTCOME.
SOT______________________________________________________________
#DR. ANNE MASSEY
#PROFESSOR
We accomplished our goal. We
promoted and informed people about the
Latin American programs.
STUDENTS AND FACULTY OF
KING’S COLLEGE CAN EXPECT
FURTHER ACTIVITIES RELATED TO
LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES TO BE
HELD DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR.
THE WILKES-BARRE POLICE
DEPARTMENT HAS 82 POLICE
OFFICERS ON THE POLICE FORCE.
THEY SPEND AN AVERAGE OF
10-MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR TO
PROTECT THE CITIZENS AND KEEP
THE STREETS SAFE.
V/O____________________________________________________________________
#WILKES-BARRE, PA
JUST LAST YEAR ALONE, OVER
2-THOUSAND CRIMES WERE
REPORTED IN WILKES-BARRE.
LARCENY AND THEFT WERE
AT THE TOP OF THE LIST, WITH OVER
ONE THOUSAND ARRESTS.
45 CITIZENS WERE REPORTED
VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE, MOST
COMMONLY BEING AGGRAVATED
ASSAULT.
THE PENNSLYVANIA
COMMISSION ON CRIME AND
DELINQUENCY GAVE WILKES-BARRE
A 250 THOUSAND DOLLAR GRANT
THIS YEAR TO ADD 5 MORE POLICE
OFFICERS TO THE FORCE IN AN
ATTEMPT TO ASSURE SAFETY TO
THE CITIZENS.
SOT____________________________________________________________________
#AMANDA HART
#KING’S COLLEGE STUDENT
AND LOCAL RESIDENT
I don’t think that adding only five
officers would really make a difference in
prime prevention. I’m not sure that having
the officers will make me feel safer. The
crime in the city is at a high rate and will
probably continue to be.
DEMOCRATS CONTROL THE
HOUSE AGAIN AFTER WINNING THE
ELECTIONS. DEMOCRATS WON 228
SEATS LEAVING THE REPUBLICANS
TO HOLD ONLY 203 SEATS.
REPUBLICANS FELL FROM
POWER IN EVERY REGION OF THE
COUNTRY.
MOST MIDDLE CLASS VOTERS
APPEARED TO SUPPORT THE
DEMOCRATS. THE NATIONAL
SURVEY SHOWS DEMOCRATS ARE
FAVORED OVER REPUBLICANS BY
LARGE MARGINS.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
VOTED FOR THE DEMOCRATS TO
TAKE THE COUNTRY IN A NEW
DIRECTION.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SHOWS THAT MOST VOTERS LEANED
TOWARDS DEMOCRATS BECAUSE OF
THEIR ANGER TOWARDS BUSH AND
THE WAR IN IRAQ.
BEJING POLICE ANNOUNCED A
NEW LAW THAT LIMITS ONE PET
DOG PER HOUSEHOLD AND BANS
THE OWENERSHIP OF LARGE AND
DANGEROUS DOGS.
THE LAW WILL BE ENFORCED
IN 9 AREAS OF CHINA.
THE LAW IS ENFORCED TO
STOP THE SPREAD OF RABIES, WHICH
IS ON THE RISE IN CHINA. OVER
2- THOUSAND PEOPLE DIED IN 2004
FROM THE DISEASE. ONLY
3 PERCENT OF DOGS ARE
VACCINATED AGAINST RABIES.
AUTHORITIES KILLED
50 THOUSAND DOGS IN A
SOUTHWESTERN PROVINCE OF
YUNNAN AFTER 3 PEOPLE DIED AS A
RESULT OF RABIES. MANY OF THOSE
DOGS WERE BEATEN TO DEATH
INFRONT OF THEIR OWNERS.
THE LAW WAS ESTABLISHED
TO CREATE A HARMONIOUS SOCIETY
AND HAVE MORE CIVILIZED DOGRAISERS.