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Twin Cities homeowners should brace
themselves for a price hike in fuel.
Minneapolis fire has claimed the life
and an airline strike is on the horizon.
These stories and more,
along with weather and sports,
coming up on NEWS CENTER
11. WTCNTV Channel 11.
This is NEWS CENTER 11.
With Jim Dyer, Bob Kurtz
Sports and Glen Burns Weather.
Now here's Jim Dyer.
Good evening. Minnesotans who use fuel
oil for heating will get what they need,
but it's going to cost more.
Jeanette Harrison has that story.
Because of the international situation, oil
companies have been buying on the
spot market. That's from any country
that will sell without a contract.
That's driven up the price of fuel oil.
But here in Minnesota,
officials say they're glad that it looks
like we'll have enough to go around.
The situation seems to have bottomed out.
That is that all those inventories
are extremely low right now.
A number of the, the major supply
areas are down to about one day supply.
It looks like new supply coming in
should be in excess of what demand is
expected to be such that we'll be able
to start building inventories again.
But Armstrong says if there's a coal
snap and the need for fuel increases,
A shortage could develop.
And he adds,
oil companies will continue to allocate
fuel until shipments from Iran begin
again or a substitute sources found.
And that's bad news for consumers.
I think given the kinds of price
increases in crude that we're seeing
from some of the foreign suppliers
that we can expect prices to continue
to rise in both gasoline and fuel oil.
Homeowners will be sharing
their price hike with drivers.
Officials say they expect the
price pressure to shift to
gasoline when warmer weather
reduces the demand for fuel oil.
And that'll mean higher prices at the pump.
For WTCN Television News,
I'm Jeanette Harrison.
One man is dead and five others are suffering
from severe effects of smoke inhalation.
Following a morning fire that swept
through a threestory apartment
building near downtown Minneapolis,
fire gutted an entire section of the Layton
Apartments in the 1400 block of 1st Ave.
South. Dead man has been identified
as 43 year old Dennis Leno, 40.
Others, many elderly, were taken to
the Hennepin County Medical Center.
Most of the other since have been
put up at a hotel by the Red Cross.
The fire broke out in the basement and
quickly spread throughout the building.
The cause of the blaze still
has not been determined.
Northwest Orient flight attendants have
rejected their airlines latest contract
offer and voted to strike if necessary.
Jane Mitchell has the story. A
lot of Northwest Orient flight
attendants is gaining momentum
and could soon take off in the
form of a stewardess strike.
The main issue is better pay,
union officials say. In 1970,
eight 99% of all Northwest flight
attendants grossed $10,000 or less.
They're asking for a 33% pay hike
and say a strike is a strong
possibility if they don't get it. We
are so below industry standards for
our wages and our regulations that I
think we really are ready to, you know,
tell Northwest that, you know,
we're not happy with what we're what we
have right now and we'd like to change.
Meanwhile, there's debate over
whether Northwest pilots will
honor an attendance strike.
If they do, it could cripple air
travel to and come the Twin Cities.
Half of it is on Northwest right now.
Everything is still up in the air.
But stewardesses say that could soon change.
If something isn't worked out
with Northwest Orient, they say,
airline officials just might
have to return to their seats
and prepare for landing.
Jane Mitchell, WTCN News
beginning tomorrow,
Minnesota begins No fault Divorce.
We'll have that story and more
when you Center 11 continues.
It was learned today that Dr.
Bezos Klan is no longer licensed to practice
medicine here in the state of Minnesota.
The 56 year old sclan was placed on
probation last year for molesting female
patients at Willmar State Hospital.
Sclan surrendered his license last
week to the state medical board,
acknowledging that he had been convicted
of criminal sexual misconduct, but
continued to maintain that he is innocent.
Sclan is currently practicing
medicine at the Chester Mental
Health Center in southern Illinois,
where he is still licensed.
However, the state of Illinois
says they weren't aware of Sclans
conviction until last week.
Now an investigation is being conducted
that could mean his license to practice
in that state will also be revoked.
Almost everybody is afraid of something,
but some fears are a little
more unusual than others.
Dr.
Michael Breen has this report.
A phobia is an unreasonable fear.
We've all heard of people who are
afraid of heights or flying or
enclosed spaces such as elevators.
Some phobias, though, are more unusual.
Young woman that I dealt with that
had a fear of stuffed deer heads and.
You may not think that that
would get in their way,
but it certainly did. It limited her.
From going into restaurants in the sporting
goods stores up north with her fiance.
We taught her some relaxation and then
while she was in the relaxation lab,
we would have her imagine that.
For instance, she was walking into a
restaurant here in the cities where there
were stuffed deer heads present on the walls.
Other uncommon phobias are the dogs,
tornadoes, and rodents.
In all, the clinic has treated
more than 5000 patients,
many with phobias.
Here of open spaces, a therapist
wouldn't lie me down in a couch.
He'd treat me right here.
This is Doctor Michael Breen, WTCN News
and to the top national news. Today.
Vietnam turned the tables on China.
Vietnamese troops broke through Chinese
lines in two places and are now inside China.
In Peking, U.S.
Treasury Secretary Blumenthal again
asked Chinese leaders to pull out of Vietnam.
Tanzania's invasion of Uganda
is gaining ground.
Ugandan resistance in the four month
old war is said to be falling apart.
Ugandan President Idi Amin has asked
neighboring countries to help make a peace,
but has moved his family
in Libya just in case.
In Washington, DC,
striking farmers get one last hurrah.
They've worked out a deal to have at
least one more tractor K tomorrow and
will be out of the capital by Sunday.
The largest jump in 11 months was reported
in the nation's balance of trade.
The deficit in January was $3.1 billion.
Chances of a big cut in federal
income taxes were dimmed.
The Senate Finance Committee voted against
any such across the board reduction.
Jane Burn upset Chicago's
Democratic machine last night.
Miss Byrne,
a former daily protege,
was fired by incumbent
Mayor Michael Belandic,
who lost the primary by a narrow margin.
And in Cleveland,
voters gave Mayor Dennis Kucinich a
vote of confidence by approving an
increase in their city income taxes and
keeping the city owned electric power plant.
Well,
if you're a fisherman and have been
putting off until the last minute
getting your dark house off the ice,
well,
you have only a few hours left to do so.
Bernie Grace reports.
Fishermen were doing chiseling today,
and it wasn't to dig more holes.
It was the dig out their fish houses.
State law has it By midnight,
all of the houses have
to be off the ice. If
they're not, the owners
could be fined up to $500.
Department of Natural Resources
officials say getting the houses
off the ice hasn't been easy. This
year has been a very bad year for ice
fishermen because of a lot of snow.
And when we get a lot of snow
before the ice gets too thick,
we get a lot of slush.
And with all the slush on the ice,
made difficult to travel with the
snow machines or even snowshoes.
And many of the people didn't get
out on the lake as often as they
wanted to because of the conditions.
And when they finally got to the
lake and they saw their fish
houses were frozen in ice over
the floors and what have you.
While some worked
away, others without houses who
may have froze all winter today
could sit oddly by doing what they
rather do fish. But others found
the chore more than they could
handle. In fact, all hands,
even reporters, were put to work.
If it wasn't the house falling off the sled,
it was a case of going nowhere.
Others were a little more prepared,
had an easier time of
it. However, it seemed
like the lucky fishermen
today weren't those who caught
something, but the ones who could go
home without having to worry about
moving a house on Lake Minnetonka.
Bernie Grace, WTCN News. And
tonight we can talk about the lucky
meteorologist who is here to tell us that
there may be warm weather on the horizon.
Absolutely. Walked out the house.
They saw something very strange.
It's called the law and I believe
haven't seen it for a few months.
It was green grass.
And I guess spring is on the way.
And I'll be back to tell you all about
when it's arriving right after this.
Well, despite the overcast conditions today,
it was a relatively warm day
right here in the Twin Cities.
Let's check our current weather conditions
and find out how warm it actually was.
Our high today was 38,
right now it's 35 degrees.
We had an overnight low of 27.
The humidity is at 52%,
but the barometer falling from
29.94 inches of Mercury and
Windsor southeasterly at six mph.
And the reason the barometer falling?
We have a winter storm approaching.
It's not a relatively strong will,
but nevertheless it's moving to the
east across the Pacific Northwest.
Right now it's present location over Idaho
and it's continuing to move toward the east,
spreading some snow showers,
freezing rain and drizzle in front
of it should be in our neck of
the woods sometime by Saturday,
but Saturday is going to be a really
nice day because it should be about
40 degrees now as we check the Let me.
Show you what's happening with A5
state area at the present time.
Very strong winds up in North Dakota
that's causing blowing and drifting snow.
So we have a big problem out that way.
If you're headed up that way,
please drive with caution.
Cloudy skies over most of
Wisconsin's May down in Iowa.
Freezing drizzle and icy
conditions on the highway.
So very dangerous driving
conditions down in Iowa.
Cloudy skies in South Dakota today
and some of the temperatures.
International Falls last night with
13 degrees ranging down to 34 degrees
over in Rochester and over in Saint
Cloud they had a low last night of 36.
As we check the Minnesota map,
we'll find out.
Lows tonight will range between
10 and 15 degrees.
Up north, cloudy skies,
occasional snow.
Down South we had the freezing rain and
drizzle and lows tonight in the southern
areas are between 20 and 25 degrees.
A look at the radar picture.
Now I've been dying to show you this.
Here's the radar as it's actually
happening at the present time.
We can see the shower, a very light one,
but nevertheless it is still there,
right over the areas near Saint Cloud.
The showers been stationary for the
past several hours and is weakening.
But nevertheless,
we do have a light area of snow flurries
that continues to move rather slowly,
very slowly, through the Northeast.
Now, what we have here in our National
Weather map is called an occlusion.
It happens when a cold front
starts to overtake a warm front,
and that's what's happening
down over Louisiana.
Consequently,
today they had some very heavy
thundershowers and some hail and a
funnel cloud was sighted around the
areas down in southern New Orleans.
But they did not cause any damage.
Up north,
we have a very strong wind flow
coming in off the Gulf of Mexico.
That's what's giving us the cloudy skies,
but that's also what's giving
us the warmer temperatures.
And Speaking of warm temperatures,
here now is a look at some
of the afternoon
sky reading sky conditions and temperatures
around the Nation Today over in Atlanta,
56 degrees and fair skies.
Cleveland 43 and they had some
partly cloudy skies over there today.
New York City 51 and fair for a change.
Denver 37 degrees this morning and they
had partly cloudy skies out in Los
Angeles 55 on the coast and fair skies.
And in Canada, Montreal 30 in snow
and Toronto 39 degrees and fair skies.
As Bernie Grace told you before,
get the ice houses off before
midnight tonight,
otherwise you're subject to a $500 fine.
And All in all,
the ice house could sink itself.
So don't even just take it off
tonight and you'll be in good shape.
Here's a look at the forecast
for the Twin Cities.
We're calling for overcast skies tonight,
a slight chance of some snow flurries.
Lows arrange between 22 and 2525 degrees now
for tomorrow will have the same conditions,
a slight chance of flurries mixed
in with some freezing rain,
so driving should be rather hazardous.
Daytime highs 33 to 38 degrees.
The extended outlook calling for
mostly cloudy skies on Friday
and a slight chance of flurries.
Saturday continued cloudy a good chance
of snow mixing with some freezing drizzle.
But Sunday,
variable cloudiness.
Warmer Temperatures are high,
expected to be near 40 degrees.
Some
changes in Minnesota's divorce
law go into effect tomorrow.
Legal experts say the changes will
take some of the hostility out of
divorce proceedings in this state.
Sally Fitz has the report.
The new law removes what may be
called the finger pointing from
Minnesota's current divorce law.
As it is now, a divorce can be granted
on the basis of an irretrievable
breakdown in the marriage.
And the court uses several guidelines
in determining that breakdown,
conduct detrimental to the marriage,
habitual chemical dependency,
imprisonment, mental illness,
continual separation and serious
marital discord will beginning tomorrow,
all that is thrown out and divorces
will be granted on the basis of
only two things serious marital
discord or separation for 180 days.
No accusations, no blame.
What else do you consider
positive about the law?
Well, I think the fact that we.
Defuse the party's attitudes to
some degree and make the whole
process less painful to them,
and particularly less
painful to the children.
It's very, very hard on kids
to have their parents fighting
in a bitter divorce case.
One aspect of the new law that many
people will find convenient is that
now they don't have to wait six
months before they get remarried.
Under the new law,
they can get remarried
immediately after the divorce.
I'm Sally Fitz,
reporting for WTCN News.
And the superstar of Star Trek,
or at least one of them, opened
last night at the Guthrie Theatre,
and Nancy Nelson was there.
You recognize those ears,
don't you? They belong to Mr.
Spock from Star Trek,
a character whose fame was so
great that often fans couldn't
separate actor Leonard Nimoy
from his character. Certainly
they had no idea who I was.
They were affected first by the character
and then discovered me afterward,
and I was able to see a very real transition
take place in terms of public recognition.
Most of the time, people who saw me
on the street would say this Mr.
Spy at first. Now I get quite the opposite.
I get that's Leonard Nimoy.
He played Mr. Spy.
Now Nimoy has launched into
his own one man show, Vincent,
a drama about Vincent van Gogh.
He finds him fascinating,
unique, unique man,
a extremely passionate, volatile.
Bright, very bright, intelligent man.
Spoke 5 languages fluently.
His career has been varied.
Star Trek, Mission Impossible,
Equus on Broadway and major films like
The Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Vincent represents a special challenge.
As Nimoy puts it,
it's an opportunity to do a beautiful piece
of material about an extraordinary man.
You won't find the Starship Enterprise
or the man with the pointed ears,
and no one will beam in.
But here at the Guthrie,
you'll meet Vincent van Gogh
through Leonard Nimoy for WTCNTV.
This is Nancy Nelson reporting, and
that's the news to this hour.
Join us again tonight at 10 for a late
look at the day's top developments.
For Glen Burns and Bob Kurtz.
I'm Jim Dyer. We'll see you at 10.
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