NJN News; Friday May 3, 2002

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future first union serve in the financial needs of individuals and businesses from connecticut to florida writes i'm a communications solutions designed for the people and businesses of new jersey horizon blue cross blue shield of new jersey making a health care worker in new jersey's businesses and individuals the new jersey education association people who care about your experience and geraldine archives in atlantic county judge rules it's too late for two brothers to supervisors of camden over sexual abuse by priests but legal battle is brewing between the state's chief justice and probation officers the city of new york get some help from the military in the war on terrorism and actor ed new jersey native christopher reeve helps open a new center to support the disabled and their families and gm use for friday may third yes a legal development today in the sexual abuse scandal that has rocked the catholic church in atlantic county judges ruled the two brothers cannot join a class

action sexual abuse suit against the diocese of camden can say john has the story in a way from africa really have weeks of testimony olson robert young listen to a supreme court judge john holdren repeated his reason why the two former altar boys cannot sue the camp and diocese the brothers' claim that monsignor philip ridley a close family friend molested them for several years in the nineteen eighties and horror as the victims of childhood sexual abuse have until two years and pervade a possible lawsuit robert young is now thirty seven his brother bill is thirty six europeans attorney argued that the statute of limitations should not apply in this case because of religious moderates or those plaintiffs allege a cover up by the individual clergy defend dance and the diocese that cover up did not prevent them from knowing you and who abuse them or that they were alarmed by so there's no legal or aca more reason to excuse planners from the operation of the statute limitations in

rendering its decision and judgment harsh words for the camp a diocese seeing from where he's settling legal hardball wasn't quite right and the allegations of sexual abuse were true what was done to these young men and the emotional scars left upon them was her rhetoric beyond words even though i've concluded that their cases and an end and even though the church was that within its legal rights to vigorously defend itself it seems to me that the church's position in this litigation is at odds with its stance as a moral force in society the plaintiffs' attorney said he was disappointed with the decision but a lot of the judge's comments in the decision the clear implication is that the diocese of camden has lost its moral compass on how these cases are defended them legal hardball based on the facts of this case was wrong even though he suffered a defeat today philip young said he'll

continue his legal challenge and i'm disappointed that division and might have a role in their spokesman for the law firm representing the diocese said that officials offer counseling to abuse victims responded to the court's harsh comments easily eyes he had a right to defend yourself the church hat like anyone has its right to defend itself and that in this environment that being said as i said you know we continue to offer this compassion through counseling and whatever else we can do there are seventeen or sexual abuse cases that have to be her before judge john hill border beginning later this month the question is how will today's ruling affect the outcome of those cases no at them one of the time we're going to be back here in may with another group of brothers and will just crank it up again it's a giant indian news atlantic city new jersey's court system is going to court to try to overturn a law that gives certain probation officers the right to carry a firearm probation officers are employees of the court system their union and other law

enforcement unions are outraged that the judiciary would try to challenge a law designed to protect its own public safety workers michael aaron reports joseph weekend robert murray are probation officers and they monitor may have committed a robbery or sexual assault they say they're concerned about their safety last fall the legislature passed the bill creating a special force of two hundred probation officers authorized for firearms training and possession they're eighteen hundred division officers overall right now in a dangerous situation they have to call in the police or would give special force the right to make arrests but she just has that reports and judge richard williams the head of the administrative office of the courts say that law violates the separation of powers you cannot have law enforcement officers within the judiciary accountable to the supervision of the executive branch and the attorney general william says we're here today actually disappointing period how long relationship with the state judiciary the probation association says its men are told to run away from

dangerous confrontations with they can't make arrests and are not trained or armed to defend themselves i find it ironic as judges sit in corridors protected by armchair sauces deprivation losses are being sent to enforce court orders but no weapons no self defense training and no support from elsewhere some other states and the federal government on their probation officers argued several law enforcement union leaders tiny hands of qualified city officials did not seem to be an appropriate policy for judiciary the judiciary has filed suit in state court mercer county to block the new law which is not going to affect republican assembly leader paul the guitar will take strong exception to that and i said the other day this is the height of hypocrisy that the courts should actually file a lawsuit which ultimately they might have to hear that could you imagine that they would lose why not why not

just tell us what that decision is now and save a lot of time and money what she'd just a sports tracks the filing of the suit the other six justices have not participated in the decision if the case were to reach the supreme court for its would recuse yourself sing court officials division officers league mr you work in the mercer county courthouse the same building with dignitaries lawsuit has been assigned a superior court judge linda fiber michael aaron examines trends the newark police forces formed a new unit to improve homeland security the team has some military capabilities adrian city now has the story right there are new life in the skies over new york city police now patrol responded by one helicopters from the national guard we're not letting the market as a joint effort will betray their pilots to perform the mission we perform the choppers are to be used by a new emergency response team twenty never strong and trained several new units

marine unit was but our police haven't had its own emergency response team since nineteen seventy eight it was courtesy of kos this time around the focus will be finding jobs and homeland security weapons of mass destruction would be a new component of the concept of emergency services the national guard have been helping police in newark as well as the planks in the enchanted since the mid nineteen nineties but now work is the first to get shoppers several phillies already have emergency contraceptive jersey city but a federal prosecutor directly to the city marshals allowing new work to reinstate there oh geez mr nye operations is fighting drug trafficking or emergency response

there are only three trained pilots are many reports of business says many more patients to this guy adrian city now nj news knew him a national paralysis resource center opened in short hills essex county today dedicated to the needs of people with spinal cord injuries the christopher and dana reeve paralysis resource center will help people living with their disabilities to observe more control over their lives in a new jersey native and his wife along with the governor were on hand for the dedication the center will focus on helping those with mobility related disabilities to become more independent new jersey's blessed every strong pharmaceutical biotechnology industry strong action at academic research base at rutgers stalls and a fee and princeton university and a strong system of community based hospitals some of them do is okay here's a man here's our third rehab center says the wheelchair all had to work still be able to travel though the work opportunities and

suddenly when his goals and opportunities that whole concept the center is funded through a two million dollar grant from the centers for disease control and prevention the new jersey man who admitted creating the melissa computer virus three years ago was back in court today as state judge sentenced david smith to ten years in prison for spreading the email virus which affected computers worldwide and cause more than eighty million dollars in damages but under a plea agreement the thirty four year old aberdeen man will only help to serve the twenty month sentence which a federal court judge imposed on him earlier this week the judge also finds that twenty five hundred dollars the three candidates vying in the republican us senate primary race will face off against each other on monday night here in orange and studios i talked to engineers to political insiders republican roger barton and democrat rick think than about the race as the candidates head into their first televised debate roger ridley handicap the race

look at rio three relatively unknown candidates but clearly the divers out in front of my opinion is doug forrester who has picked up a number of county organization launched since <unk> dr roger dropout me clearly has a checkbook with a rather substantial ballads recount here says that the candidates believe they're not i re with roger for so deftly as he did it because he's got a lot of money getting cancer from south jersey said take them a lot of money to get known in north jersey with a vote tsar and they just don't have autonomous have a lot of mines and right now they need a lot of money but does that they also need to be able to make the best case if they would in fact be the strongest candidate against incumbent senator robert you're selling writer absolutely and then they don't eat any one of them would be a strong candidate can't the fact is is that of course only certainties at is probably our last number of years of ethics will be the issue and in this campaign to a large degree and that any one of these candidates could do that the real questions you can come out of the primary and in and make him so for herself know who among the field as dr selig at least one to run against

losses acknowledged any cheap shots against bob torso with a c they're all going to do i think they're all right have a hard time making the case unless they have the money to have themselves known by the voters i think we are doug forrester be the candidate and maybe the most eighties because he doesn't have a record he's got a lot of money with a federal criminal investigation into fundraising activity behind senator torricelli still lots of talk about is torricelli down the republicans' up in your opinion writer well you know it's hard to say i mean obviously there's still some kind of ethics investigation going on as i understand it with the ethics commission down there in washington can't know but having said all that though these candidates or to have to make their case and in particular after the primary about what they will do for the state of new jersey go above and beyond talk about priscilla's problem us senate evenly divided lots of interest in this new jersey races very briefly rick last word is no question that in a very important race to be about a cheap shots kids bart torricelli be tried in the press it's not fair because i'm a drop the case it's going to hurt him because people now one make ethics the issue but the real issue is the united states senate where the direction this country is going to go

nothing but brosseau is going to make a very good case that ethan there'd be a good part of the leadership of this country into the future writer and rick as always thanks so much for being with us and nj and will present the republican us senate primary debate next monday night at nine pm the program will be rebroadcast on saturday may eleventh avenue a central new jersey post office will soon be named after one of the heroes of september eleventh ceremonies will be held tomorrow to rename the cranberry post office the time being or post office workers were getting a new name in place this afternoon it was being hers famous let's roll words that led him and his fellow passengers aboard flight ninety three it's believed the mayor and his fellow passengers while hijackers from flying the jet that they were in into another target the us capitol president bush signed legislation in january authorizing the name change coming up and nj and news what it's like to live in space will take a look at an exhibit of the state museum that's out of this

world it's b a look into the way astronauts live a traveling exhibit on an orbiting laboratory pulled into trenton this way to science and technology correspondent patrick regan joined a group of youngsters on a visit to the state museum our lyrics

baby you're the one launching young minds was on the program this week that the new jersey state museum behind the planetarium kids can chew or trailers that about like molecules of the international space station and the science theater astronomer peter richard perry recently concepts it's been a very unusual status visitors are being asked to put themselves in the shoes or at least in the sleeping bags of astronauts aboard the international space station in teaching kids about space and

then helping them imagine being the museum staff and volunteers appreciate a helping hand from the last well let's add a tremendous addition to a programmer volatile stars station one which is a nationwide program about international space day what it's like to live and work in the exhibit replicates the modules were astronauts conduct scientific experiments and the module where they live at a space toilet sinks and showers bring life in orbit down to earth and demonstrations helped kids think through other problems such as how to protect astronaut's working outside the station from meteorites and sense for how to regulate an astronaut's body temperature and cyberspace the exam it is open to the public weekday

afternoons three mainline with a festival of special programs scheduled for this weekend renee for the fifth we have trailers or content before we have a special by various shows we have led to demonstrations about the space station going on all day long after twenty years of fishing regulators in new jersey have voted for six weeks may six week and on the harvesting of female horseshoe crabs from the delaware bay about two hundred sixty two thousand horseshoe crabs were harvested in new jersey last year state wildlife officials say there has been a large drop in the number of babies the crab eggs and that because by the decrease in the number of craft the tables still have to consider yesterday's vote before taking action which is here now with a preview what's coming up in his business reporter rich coming up the nation's unemployment rate makes a surprisingly high or move in april what does it mean then turning way into power green energy gets excited he'll that was so called clean power fails or in business

the the pope business news a big jump in the nation's unemployment rate last month that set it at your high at a time when the recession was supposed to be ending the rate rose to six percent up three tenths of a percent to the highest level since

august nineteen ninety four it's also a half points higher than new jersey jobless rate however there was some positive news in the report the labor department says there were forty three thousand new jobs nationwide last month marking the first increase in nine months with the unemployment rate higher many analysts now say the fed is all but certain to hold the line on interest rates when it meets next tuesday the state of new jersey placed a white upstate buildings the statehouse facilities even colleges with green energy green energy has certified energy generated from renewable resources such as wind water in the sun as part of his teal green mountain power with a sole supplier of green energy for the state for the next fifteen months they say it's all about helping the environment with a ceremonial click of a switch health and energy in the state what should two hundred foot tall wind turbine come to life four hundred miles away and garrett pennsylvania this wind farm will be used to generate electricity without burning natural gas and fossils fuels enter and have cleaner power and cleaner citizens campbell join the state treasurer the president of the deep

feeling a half million dollar deal to buy one hundred thirteen million kilowatt hours of electricity or twelve percent of the state's needs from green mountain energy the company will supply electricity from wind farms like this as well as water bio mass and solar generation official say reduce air balloons why twenty nine thousand tons going to save almost one hundred million gallons of water using fossil fuel generation weekend edition again and so it helps it also co green power generally more expensive than traditional sources proponents say there are other benefits i think it's cost effective to date if you consider the total cost of providing such power when you factor in the normal cost factor in the health impact of electricity is produced from coal resources and actually on balance would be more expensive than noble energy oil from the mideast war

long term is very interesting or green mountain was the only company to bid on this contract that's because it's now the only company presently offering green power in the state the contract was les gelb i connected with officials say they're getting out of the green energy business residents can also buy green energy through the state energy choice program so far only a few thousand households have decided to do so in atlantic city the sands casino hotel plans to cut two hundred twenty six jobs nine percent of its workforce as it eliminates more than half of its table games the casino says it's removing forty three of its seventy one blackjack that brought another table games to make the world for more profitable slot machines more than one hundred fifty of those being let go are dealers the change will also result in pay cuts for many of the workers being transferred into positions for casino is urging the affected employees to apply for other jobs within the hotel for us or holding a job fair on tuesday with other casinos or the nation's rising unemployment rate was felt on wall street today the report gave investors yet another reason to question the strength of the

economy and they took out those concerns on stocks at the close the beyond us trust effect at five points but managed to say just above the ten thousand mark for the week the girls up ninety six points among the broader market's the annex added nine nasdaq lost thirty one points today and it's all fifty one points for the week has a p five hundred lost eleven today's down three points for the week in the credit market the benchmark tenure noticeable quarter it sealed a five point oh six percent get the business make you rich still to come an effort to keep people in downtown trenton after the day the power downtown trenton is staying open late tonight on the first friday of every month artists and restaurant owners are

hosting open houses unhappy hours to entice people to stick around as angela caprio reports it's all about reviving the city's nightlife every monday through friday between four and five pm trends and figures out in a hurry and everybody seems to be headed to the same place going to go home thousands of state workers commute home for the evening new jersey's capital becomes practically deserted and most downtown businesses close shop china's first fridays are all about reversing the flow of all this traffic encouraging people to visit trenton at night and giving businesses a reason to stay open late like cafe au lait which hosted three like jazz last month for my own this is just hilarious been a lot of coffee has made a majority of the money a month at night and on weekends so while you know we're looking for the businesses don't generally are you know more business local businesses are enthusiastic with the recent opening of a downtown area hotel which is offering us special discount rate on first friday event as a grassroots effort in which

local businesses and artists participate in his savior good i think it's going to help a little bit about the reputation of the city's police force is president of an invisible field the people coming in they feel safe corridors about mail and there's free shuttle bus service to take people from warren street broad street where the vermin were a cafe and a conduit music love offer special events adjacent to the country where over twenty five artists studios all open to the public the first friday and i really believe in their city's renaissance because a lot of my work is trying to basic things arose around the new night life may be catching on many of the patrons say they're seeing an increase in visitors on friday nights and philadelphia and janos and that's nj and news i'm catie manahan for rich and all of us here thanks so

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