NJN News; Tuesday April 28, 1998 [Master, Original]

to pass by the federal government says jobs like this are among the most dangerous now new guidelines will protect employees and worker safety is behind a union rally at the statehouse the assembly speaker steers toward the latest version of auto insurance reform the new york yankees berra won the big apple incumbent the side of the river climb read you know and all of its story about the possibilities and are more people lending a hand a year after president clinton's summit on violent terrorism and jay any use for tuesday april twentieth committed to serving customers are including

the unions are dedicated to providing energy emmy award winning name a new jersey's first major auto insurance reform initiative in a quarter of a century appears to be ready for enactment if ok it could lower those eleven hundred tyler average premiums for new jersey drivers now assembly speaker

jack collins strongly hits he steering in the direction of a compromise measure already agreed to by governor whitman and a bipartisan senate majority that measure was approved by the state senate late last night followed by the speakers general approval today state house correspondent jim parker explains what happened new jersey's good driver should all see a minimum fifteen percent reduction in auto insurance rates by january next year that's a plan approved last night in the senate gets the assembly's not now we stand on the brink for the first time in history this day at reform comprehensive reform that takes costs out of the system and mandates and guarantees a fifteen percent roll back after months of debate and public hearings where was finally able to say the latest bill promises real reform this crisis caused a lot of anxiety and a lot of people to pull out their hair is long and torturous but it resulted in a better bill just last night the

assembly speaker and others were shuttling between offices trying to arrive at a deal with these changes that seems to have changed today in a statement today collins said quote the senate's vote late last night places new jersey on the brink of enacting a comprehensive automobile insurance reform plan that will provide real and meaningful relief for drivers while restoring fairness to the rate setting system collins considered on they're a system that allows mostly urban residents to have their auto insurance premiums kept at no more than thirty five percent of the statewide average elimination of those taps was the major roadblock i don't believe that captured there and therefore i don't see any way that i could vote for a bill that would continue to discriminate against people based on where they live the latest bill does away with the capps after insurers territories are redrawn the compromise measure gives the insurance commissioner the power to strike down any insurance rate considered quote significantly disproportionate but that's not defined citizens what was not going to get the government has become more

people would remember a lot of things added start to assess political blank a political insider called golden says collins was given a face saving way out in the tough negotiations there were no heroes of the animal because there was no back door i think that what happened here was this piece of legislation that can actually go to the back door of the alamo for the speaker of the assembly could vote on the bill as early as monday jim harper energy and what's the most dangerous kind of job you can have policemen firemen the federal government says convenience store employees and gas station attendants have some of the most dangerous jobs now there's a new effort to make those jobs safer richer reports the occupational safety and health administration recommends business is beef up security not to protect their assets but their workers three weeks ago a morris county gas station attendant was shot and killed during a robbery the incident was caught on videotape all according to the federal government incidents like these are all too common and

businesses need to do more to keep their employees say they're rich so many owns two gas stations with a convenience store and mercer county his shots which are open twenty four hours already have security cameras and drop says what osha things he can do more of the government wants businesses like his to install silent alarms bulletproof windows and hire more staffing during high risk variants bush avoids those who deal with significant amounts of cash for at risk according to osha the reasons behind today's announcement are compelling nationally every year about five hundred people were killed during robberies a convenience stores or gas stations but some say your new jersey not all of the recommendations makes sense because the state does not have self serve why have bulletproof glass of employers are forced to come out to my own customers get a million outside another human side and they're pumping gas mainly that's all we do here in this contest so a man is willing to

consider additional measures but he thinks there's danger in every job he's attended ginger body already takes precautions to have as little money as possible yeah pretty much keep your eye open sailor stay awake it's important to note osha's recommendations are just that recommendations the government is not ordering any new measures but osha things with hundreds dying on the job each year businesses will take the extra step to protect their workers rich young nj and news trenton and workers' safety and health concerns brought labor union members out to protest in front of the state house today the group came out in force on this ninth annual workers' memorial day to pay tribute to those who have died in work related accidents for workers also expressed concern about the business and industry association supported legislation union claims will result in osha budget cuts that will compromise worker safety more people in the region near the

political parties between the political reforms been made people understand the kind of people now business and industry association claims worker safety has always been a priority and that accidents on the job have decreased in the last decade secrets and rumors surrounding yankees future this week first press reports of confidential negotiations between new jersey and new jersey any owner george steinbrenner to lure the team here to the garden state than fighting words from new york mayor rudy giuliani threatening to snatch up some new jersey teams tonight our original either steps up to the plate to examine the possibilities the yankees are moving across the river in your dreams new jersey says new york and what's more mayor giuliani reportedly says he'll go after new jersey's stevens i think we could make a better do with the yankees to new jersey well what the man with the mayor

you know what's behind is this common so i can tell you is the support of the reasons i'm keeping our teams in new jersey that others are speculating perhaps the intensity of mayor giuliani's reaction is a measure of just how close new jersey maybe this time to score you deal with the yanks i think his response suggests that this time he thinks it's a real possibility that he may have to turn up the heat low to keep using your garden state were to plant its own field of dreams where we now today we are sad interesting theories less intrusive means the place of the sports complex is the place a favorite suggestion among north jersey planners and politicians is to convert of brownfield site an abandoned industrial park into a stadium asphalt parking lots make great environmentally acceptable caps were contaminated properties like this track in weehawken or perhaps the stadium with a stunning deal this wonderful story on the corner of

grand and jersey and new jersey city reeling last canals views of liberty state park and what about they own bombers i think there's a really stellar places that one might look as possibilities but one is unveiled and hudson county and while it's all speculation so far are suing the yankees and baseball is becoming something of a stick tradition eleven years ago when it all hinged on a statewide referendum the stadium would've been building with hirst but it struck out at the polls then governor tom kean was visibly disappointed but not defeated socialist decisions will see campaign stay tuned to redeploy an ingenuous the fbi rounded up alleged northern new jersey members of the genovese crime family today a dozen members of the bergen county faction are in custody a racketeering indictment accuses the group of upgrading gambling and loan sharking rackets in bergen county arrests are the latest in a series of crackdowns involving

nearly all new york based families that state and federal prosecutors believe have made inroads into traditional mafia operations in new jersey still to come tonight and nj is the president's volunteerism summit was one year ago today there are more people giving up their time to help gene therapy it's a breakthrough approach to fighting cancer and teachers the drug companies are leading the charge on sarah lee kessler that story in health wise fb rates for most kinds of cancer declined among new jersey residents from nineteen ninety two to ninety six state statistics show the overall

cancer rate was down by about three percent annually for males and black females for white females the drop was only about one percent each year however cancer rates were higher among the us average for all types of cancer among nature's emails are also higher for breast cancer among new jersey females the experts say the statistics indicate healthier lifestyles and diets may be limiting some types of cancer meantime there may be no weapons in the war on cancer drugs that target gene mutations in tonight's health watch the billion dollar race being run right here in new jersey to bring such drugs to market health and medical correspondent sarah lee kessler has the story once the ringing nonstop at the cancer institute in new jersey following newspaper headlines like these over the past two days patients are talking about it and i still warner says the numbers are going to see only trials and the results are side effects before i really believe that that's good

because the new drugs which gun down mutant genes that cause a third of all cancers including breast lung the prostate and pancreatic cancer are in the early stages of development the drugs are called foreigners seal transfer ace inhibitor is going out commonly being referred to as f t ice do they really stop cancer dead in its tracks that's because according to dr heit only one drug company has even finished initial safety testing on people jansen pharmaceutical division of james j has completed a phase one trial of fti but rival pharmaceutical companies at least three others based here in new jersey schering plough bristol myers squibb and mark have empty eyes and the pipeline to the drugs are actually targeted to the to the cancer cell which has its intonation and what's the goal of the new wave of anti cancer drugs drugs that target mutant genes is greater

selectivity and fewer side effects and i we use chemotherapy hormonal therapy radiation therapy and surgery but these approaches of these to chemotherapy radiation are not specifically the cancer so they target all cells or they kill healthy cells to answer i would love to have drugs that were very selective because this year one point two million americans will be diagnosed with cancer five hundred sixty five thousand will die this is a major new area that offers new forms of hope for cancer patients or revolutionary approach to treating cancer that could hit the market in the next three to five years certainly kessler and shan news new brunswick students from across new jersey marched in the name of communication to day walking from the statehouse to waterfront park in trenton the march launched a new initiative talk now new jersey coordinated by the governor's council on alcoholism and drug abuse is part of a multi agency effort to address the importance of

parents talking to the youngsters about substance abuse bridging the gap between the haves and the have nots that was the call last year as president clinton asked americans to volunteer their time to help those in need but on this one year anniversary of the president's summit on violent terrorism we raise the question are new jersians responding can say john was out today looking for answers americans making a difference is what the president's volunteerism summit was about last year many new jersey has attended the event in philadelphia and shortly after in december there were no weapon convey new jersey's own volunteers summit in atlantic city those two events apparently prompted a new spirit of giving and the garden state here at the united way of atlantic county they raised two point eight million dollars that used to support that the program sobbing over one hundred thousand area residents all we really been the past year our own volunteers and has increased by about twenty percent i'd meeting more oversight within

the areas that re caption eighties we were actually seeing increase why you won't call it have a cia reagan expressed and doing something with myself you know it's kind of unstated on enjoying every minute of it the governor's office and volunteerism slightest are allegedly altered poll which indicates forty five percent of new jersey residents volunteer and all summer at yale others take their place and the baby boomers to be the retirees when they move into any incident retired segment in unison despite the numbers go up a little bit to volunteers like those here at the community for very different reasons for serving is like standing and now i can get back to those images out many new jersey has come from families were both the mother and the father worked in when they get on this day they're just too tired to volunteer for anything meanwhile others say where there's a will there is a way i have to give to him i have a satiric and yeah john set the injury for a

couple hours again that's an idea i think anybody can do it actually and also poured a volunteer effort say they are accomplishing goals of the nationals was the state volunteers summit but there's always wrong for more we can always look for other ways non avenues channel ourselves but for right now we can say jonathan adler to give up the good folks helping a fix as this report is coming up shortly before for a ten first image for states to close the books on the merger cycle and looking to the future in bridgewater pharmaceutical giant steps up its efforts to find new drugs herself seeks sikhs fb so it's in the book's success selling paper it signed sealed delivered you know a musical term

called a measly and its official one of the most controversial merger stories of recent times as a coda today first union bankers acquisition of course dates financial took effect with the absorption of course dates first union is now the nation's sixth largest bank with two hundred twenty billion dollars in assets and twenty six hundred branches from new jersey to floor in new jersey virginia now has four hundred sixty five branches of more than sixty five hundred employees the merger was far from pain for a new jersey lost three hundred jobs to first unions do philadelphia headquarters and a number of overlapping branches of the state will be shot on the positive side former course thinks customers will be able to soon users unions at as beginning may fifteenth without occurring courier service charge however the integration of other banking services will not happen until later his sheer weight issue in fact in the midst of intensive competition for competitive pressure to develop new marketable jobs perks for himself very open a new forty five billion dollar research center in somerset county headquarter or as an emphasis

on automation where in the past a list of chemists like synthesize only thirty to fifty compounds a year they'll be able to synthesize five thousand a week now using this technology kirk says it hopes to turn out to new product discoveries year beginning and i did it by the new labs are part of the sixty five billion dollar expansion that hurts new jersey headquarters focusing on bringing new drugs to market more quickly meantime cost cutting continues anomaly based hoffman laroche history part of its previously announced move on some research activities out of new jersey roche's let go more than one hundred technicians and more pink slips are expected later this year last wild rose said it would move most of his cancer research to germany i cross data rival water lever first quarter profits rose thirty seven percent even though sales of its year old cholesterol reducing drug lipitor or have slowed sales of the company's other get prescription medication rizzo and they're used for treatment of diabetes also are often the first quarter of last year we have reservoir domestic sales in wonderland worst consumer products division wrote eight percent over the first

quarter in star performers was to read that a drill how the products shipped razors and so the fed called the sinus medication and at bourse dodger based alliedsignal chairman lawrence bossidy told shareholders that if the company's automotive parts business doesn't shift into high gear sue its history the division today's it's well known brands is fram oil filters impressed own products its profits long by half in the first quarter of this year and slow sales of its bendix brake pads an auto lite spark plugs relatives of a rebound in yesterday's stock market sell off for the most part fizzled today the dow lost an additional eighteen and two thirds of the eighty eight ninety eight level the imax composite bounce back for the nasdaq composite regained eleven and a half but the s and p five hundred slid nearly one and a half inches rates continue to rise the raid on the benchmark thirty year itch open up a couple more notches to six point all seven percent of its price off another quarter of a point so still lots of fear about interest rates are dick thank you still to come tonight a check of our forecast is just ahead for a third have a point when he asked where the tiger was a sister smyth

speaks with the power to fix it the polls but the polls but soundbite of ragtime a quiet transition to a princeton university baseball is on the verge of a division title banks important former major leaguer who has traded his pinstripes for tiger stripes

princeton tigers have won ten of the last thirteen games and a poised to win their division of the ivy league not bad for first year coach scott bradlee who spent nine years in the majors with the ap's white sox mariners and reds this coming out party for you this is your first season you're constantly that we think about for you personally he has been a lot of the credit goes to co star mccollough met just like pete correll left coach carmody some horses in the barn same way right here we have some great players arcade we have some great senior leadership role players that protocol recruited by just sort of inherited this route this job was just everything i could have ever asked for to be associated with princeton university and the type of athletes that we have here is just something that i've always dreamed of and now that i have almost a year under my bell that everything that i expected more how is a transition going from play the majors now approaching put in it's really been quite easy and baseball's baseball and i think that this style that i kind of brain is that the fundamentals a

baseball to me are pitching throwing hitting catching either not reading intricate point defenses and all these elaborate things that people try to dream up so our practices we spent a lot of time fighting throwing catching it not going to get any argument from the players some of whom are having their best season i feel panic of guys giving myself and not allow employers the freedom to look at the potentials i keep his laugh at us therefore the more faith in the show's better being a major lift a major leaguer to soapy little like calvin smith says doesn't a question somebody who played nine years and schermerhorn says big deal particularly since him you're that person needs to win to lose four games this weekend against cornell team clinched the division that bradley was a major league catcher eleven to capture the cochlea disaster this was the mariners the white sox and the other arabs are over thank you jerry welcome place certainly about today's weather glorious sunny skies across new jersey highs in the mid fifties sixties rather today the sun

shone brightly on this statue of civil war general philip carney this afternoon and military park a new werke that alec hardy bears his name as far as our pollution watch those for tomorrow expect modern bubbles throughout the state and he has a look at the new jersey forecast in the northern part of the state tonight clear skies with lows in the low or forties overnight tomorrow a sunny day with highs in the mid seventies in south jersey tonight clear skies of the low thirties five and tomorrow lots and lots of sunshine on tap with highs in the mid seventies as i would like and the news with good news on the weather and that's our nose for tonight and cared about a hand for dicky and sharing all of us here in indiana's thank you for being with us everyone to see you back here again tomorrow night's debate is still need these

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