WAPT 5pm Newscast 7/26/94

from WAPT-Channel 16 in Jackson, MS. Cal Adams, Cynthia Bowers, David Hartman & Mike Rowe anchor. Stephanie Bell Flynt does look-ahead to 6:00. Includes story (w/standup) from Angela Rae (then Angela Clack), who eventually became the station's 5pm co-anchor.

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for witness new 16 at five in tonight
the Jackson City Council here's an
explanation about
train derailment which caused the
evacuation near downtown Jackson
and audit critical of the Department of
Human Services
sets of a series of responses and
criticism an animal rights group is
forced to face the fact that having
tell little to lay David Hartman has our
midweek weather forecast my crowd visits
the New Orleans Saints training camp
join us for these stories next on
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the Jackson City Council questions
officials about reaction time an
emergency plans
after to train derailment near downtown
Jackson within a week
good evening everyone thank you for
joining us i'm Cal Adam
and Cynthia Bowers after an emergency
evacuation last week when a train
carrying dangerous chemicals derailed
the council members wanted to hear an
explanation from railroad officials as
well as city rescue workers
I witness new 16th Angela clack reports
everybody got a passing grade
also Quiet on the Western Front today
last
30 was a different story these three
cars had derailed
underneath the fortification Street
Bridge insist resident had to be
evacuated
as in the dangerous chemicals
you don't have been idea organic
chemicals does our
on those trains do not think you should
are doing cost saving human lives
by said and done today officials here
still were unable to get council members
a direct cause but that derailment
state auditor state Patterson dropped a
bombshell on the Department of Human
Services today
Kingdom a hearings on the whitewater
affair have opened before a
congressional committee on a partisan
vote
a vote along party lines prohibits the
committee from investigating the death
up former white house aide vincent
foster bill greenwood has a background
report on what the hearings are all
about
whitewater is a 230 acre real estate
development along the white river in
arkansas
are on the subject of arkansas the state
of arkansas has been ordered to comply
with new federal abortion laws
a federal courts at Arkansas must offer
medicaid funded abortions
it's a bad weather heading our way try
we've been lucky so far the storms have
stayed to the north but now
up the 40 and Western Hinds County
storms intensify I we have some forty to
fifty mile an hour winds
may be moving into the Jackson metro
area over the next one to two hours
outside at the airport reporting sunny
skies it's got cloudy here on the west
side of town
eighty-five degrees a steamy sixty-three
percent humidity
brother is rising was I'll southwell
until the front goes through late in the
day and then skies will begin to break
up
85 let me show you these low
temperatures in the extended period
72-71 low seventies not bad actually
I think in Upper sixties is gonna be no
behind that front with a less human
that's going to be the key starting
Thursday I love it
ass thanks David about 200 people have
been moved from a popular tourist resort
in Oregon I having a red cross shelters
your watching I'd witness news 16
with Cal Adams
Cynthia Bowers sports director Mike
Brown
and meteorologist David Hartman
now to step in to help with the newsroom
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city is running out of landfill space
find out why what officials plan to do
about it
also a local minister needs help line
and we'll have a preview of life
absolutely outstanding all right thank
you
well with some new low airline prices
are on the horizon we'll cover that
story when I would issue 16 continues
and there's a new poll concerning the
popularity of the clinton health care
reform plan
also coming up by a blow for animal care
and the metro area
and again black money is the problem and
in sports in New Orleans Saints have a
test to see
the toughest really is continues
and a report on another anti-semitic
attack in London
will look at the results when we come
back to say that baseball is all he is
thinking about
being a baseball the Jackson generals
pull out an extra-inning victory last
night to Jen's maybe a dozen innings to
subdue the San Antonio missions Tony
gilmore sac fly plated the winning run
is Jackson 175 against the generals
four wins in a row and boosted their
lead in the texas leads Eastern Division
to six and a half games
meantime it's the early stages of
training camp for the New Orleans Saints
this time of the year the toughest
competition can be found between offense
and defensive lineman their trust not
all that the little thanks like
Cal have commentary when we come back
hard look at the special legislative
session scheduled for next month and
tell us what's really going on
someone needs to explain just why the
session is needed
why do we need to deal with so many
items and why these things were handled
in the regular session
if I remember correctly the regular
session of the legislature cost us
taxpayers
something more than seven million
dollars for the three months they were
in session
now we're being asked to fork up another
thirty thousand dollars a day for a
special session
that could last for who knows how long
I'm position at the state Capitol
that sure would be working for a living
now some would like to see the
legislature in session year round with a
couple months of vacation maybe
I've always thought that a special
session was for emergency items
for matters of life and death for the
safety of the state not for matters
which should have been and could have
been addressed during the regular
session
there is no problem paid to be discussed
in the special session
that could not wait until January
besides it would give the legislator
something to do during those first weeks
of the regular session
which are normally spent sitting around
waiting watching I'm Cal Adam
better tomorrow