NJN News; Friday June 7, 2002

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association people who care about your experience and geraldine archives at despite the partisan bickering governor mcgreevey says he's confident the legislature will have a balanced budget by july first hudson county the election is over but if you're among democrats continues former basketball star jayson williams' pleas not guilty to aggravated manslaughter charges in south jersey gets a new top federal law enforcement and when many children as if the delicate balancing act will hear some expert advice about protecting new jersey's pine barrens dj in use for friday june seventh governor mcgreevey tells npr news he's confident the senate committees stalemate over his budget proposal will be resolved in time to meet the constitutional deadline of july first but he's challenging republicans to come up with alternatives if they're not willing to back the spending plan he's offering state house correspondent jim parker has the story attending a

bridge construction announcement the governor was all smiles as he walked into the warm embrace a hillside county democrats and others he's known since his years as woodbridge mayor the troublemakers this morning there were successful but some say the real troublemakers from a previous budget at least take their seats in trenton where republican lawmakers and the equally divided senate throughout what's considered a temporary roadblock yesterday to a cigarette tax increase than the greedy administration needs its two hundred million dollars to help others five billion dollar hole in the new state budget to get confirmed and he discusses he may have the votes in the end the republicans abstained as a law tying up the measuring committee they said they wanted to be sure the money was needed since they said a separate measure they voted four could bring enough to offset the need for a cigarette tax increase actually the democratic senators

reidy says that actually isn't complicated and should have been passed <unk> about gamesmanship it was a five point three billion dollar deficit that we inherited were we walked in we were to solve this on a bipartisan basis we need to get this done and this is a time for a responsible statesmanship and an not an six democrats have also suggested that if republicans don't support the administration's budget plant the most contentious element being an overhaul of the corporate business tax worth eight hundred million dollars that government could close as a result republicans say that will be they're doing i don't approve of scare tactics that we somehow will not have a balanced budget by june thirtieth well if there's a shutdown it'll be there are from their fault not ours we intend to have a balanced budget by june thirtieth and get it passed with their cooperation mcgreevy says republicans have to begin offering viable alternative proposals that they will support his little the respective aside never produced a single idea i mean they don't have a plan so they don't like

my plan where is your plan but nothing is in an answer sarah lueck tell tells me republicans are crafting their own alternatives he says those proposals will be finished in about a week as to the time crunch would tell says the administration was late to the table with details so democrats will have to be patient and receiving a response and can it's expected to be a long night later this month if the package does get to a vote center were talisman telling reporters another lawmaker is to bring their toothbrushes thank you jim the political feud in hudson county executive is over but the political feud between jersey city mayor glenn cunningham in congressman robert menendez is not sacra think reports it was a decisive victory in san diego county executive tom think he's the jersey city mayor glenn cunningham's candidate for an apartment for nearly three to one more open to peace won more votes in jersey city where cunningham actively campaigned for hartnett i don't quite understand the murders as

congressman menendez has been feuding with cunningham a battle that came to a head during the county executives race when the two men supported opposing candidates mayor cunningham had overtures from a from the day that i supported him he forgot those overtures he had overtures from eleven mayors of hudson county who sat in a room with him prior to this whole primary and try to reason with them as to why a time the juice would be the best candidate cunningham has opposed it says since the two thousand one jersey city mayor's race cunningham the duties but accused him of using racist campaign tactics after his last primary night cunningham was asked if he's ready to bury the hatchet with menendez is once again the city mayor cunningham was unavailable for comment today but it's press spokesperson took an even more conciliatory tone saying the man is always wanted peace with the name is right now the ball is in the congressman's court that's a

departure from a press conference earlier this spring when cunningham called menendez quote a political terrorists as an olive branch out there and our branches that he can join the democratic team that seventy five percent of hudson county democratic voters chose on election day and if he wishes to be supportive of that team no one's pushing him away that's about as much as an olive branch that i think next week and then this will step down as democratic county chairman and a new candidate will be selected one name being floated as a replacement senator bernard plenty sanders wouldn't confirm that and said kennedy an excellent candidate sat rethink nj and new jersey city the national republican party says it will step up efforts to defeat senator robert torricelli in the fall they say torricelli is a top target because of campaign finance problems and his lukewarm standings in the polls a turn towards selling was back on the campaign trail today this time with massachusetts senator john kerry

torricelli told seniors in union city he would fight to lower the cost of prescription drugs and he continued to blame republican doug forrester for contributing to the high costs of using the west windsor this instead of taking rebates for foreign pharmaceutical companies instead of lowering premiums forester spokesperson denied the accusations and claimed to resell it has accepted at five thousand dollars in contributions from pharmaceutical companies former nba star jason williams was back in court today to plead not guilty to new charges the former new jersey nets arrived at the hundred in county courthouse for his arraignment on aggravated manslaughter and other charges he's charged in connection with the valentine's day shooting death and his alexandria town ship owner of the limo driver cost is chris duffy williams had been charged with reckless manslaughter but a grand jury raised the charges last month he could face nearly forty five years in prison if convicted new jersey will get twenty seven million dollars in federal funds to increase preparedness for biological and chemical attacks the funds will be used to educate and

train emergency personnel and health workers to increase the capacity and capability of health department laboratories and develop plans for distributing medicine or quarantining people in the event of a biological or chemical attack nearly eleven million dollars of the money will go to local government agencies us attorney chris christie chris christie fulfilled a promise to southern new jersey today former camden county prosecutor least solomon was named the first deputy us attorney general ever to serve in the southern part of the state a giant city now has the story police solomon is synonymous with prosecuting crime in camden leading the case against such high profile figures as accused murderer rabbi fred nuland their desire is to bring the research and the resources for years people in southern new jersey have complained that the us attorney's office headquartered in your work has ignored the region a federal

court ruled separate district it wasn't necessary to say is that there's a much more to meet some people articulating here in south jersey and that's why he's here and he's the only person here reason doubt examine the office for the resources he needs his experience in his background under the current structure in new jersey is the fifth largest federal district in the nation to solomon hopes his work will end the question about the need for an independent south jersey bureau in new york i've been able to answer that question why do my job and do it the way it was estimated there were initially selman will run the camden and trenton bureaus and reporter christie christie will move several assistant attorney general's from newark to work with solomon including to terrorism experts at dreams at the now and jan use against a goddess farrow drenching last night according to the

national weather service most of new jersey got more than an inch of rain that's good news for the state's water supply the dept says reservoirs in the north east now stand at eighty six percent of capacity man is gone and mama county levels are almost at one hundred percent capacity putting county though is that only sixty one percent of officials say the drought emergency remains in effect for all areas so two inches of rain fell on the power lines helping to bring the fire that burned more than thirteen hundred acres there under control as firefighters continued to pour water on hotspots investigators are looking for a cause can say john visited a man who makes his living teaching people to respect the pristine forest last weekend when we're wired not only destroyed over a thousand acres of the pine barrens and also destroyed and damaged homes over the past two decades or more and more people are listening to a lot of the problems with the fourth literally in their backyard some experts like tom brown's things that potentially dangerous for more than twenty years thousands of tons of brown's

wilderness survival school to learn to live in harmony with the barns brown says some visit the woods in a commonsense at home when people come into words to have to realize that when you're in a moderate fire danger just a single single cigarette butt thrown out window or what they think is crushed up and start a massive fire that could jeopardize lives and homes and everything else and when you start moving into this kind of forest which is a tinder bumble at certain times of the year you have to treat it as such a statement made under a drought emergency and during the drive time martin says the greatest threat to the one million acres of pine barrens are people who visit there even on protected lands like this we have a lot of people coming in they have no idea how to how to treat the wilderness they bulldoze down trees with their vehicles they start fires to see bottles of booze all over the place it's like they have to bring this city into this beautiful

wilderness we're looking at there has been really badly destroyed by the success of the recreational vehicle use muscle trucks or four wheelers come back here this very used to look just like the us and now i have this basic what does or brown like others a fire can actually be beneficial to a forest like the void there because it helps me to regenerate but he says when people perilously include drone wilderness there are bound to be problems he i'm worried about overbuilding in people that build into the woods don't realize are building into their tinder bumble and unfortunately they have to have some kind of burma buffer between the fire and themselves lot of those houses don't have appointments will survive it doesn't follow the rules of the wilderness and respect my country like a temple i absolutely do you know you wouldn't throw garbage around in your living room you wouldn't start fires in her living on why do it here concert jon najarian news where tillman should tell them come in atlanta ga in news will introduce you to an award winning

scientists are coming up next month it's been a tenth grader from south jersey has begun making a mark in international scientific circles science and technology correspondent patrick reagan has the story this morristown high school sophomore feels right at home in a biomedical labs literally and it's not hard to

see ellen do a bald as a future research scientist in a very real way she already is well it's called nasty virus causes breast cancer twice judges at the intel international science and engineering fair ranked balance work is this year's best microbiology science fair project in the world tap into a rich harvest of prizes and scholarships had started last summer with a hypothesis about the role played in cancer causing infections by a sugar called pepper's found on the surface and mammary gland cells so the viruses positively charged and happened here is negatively charged so i thought that it pulls the virus in towards the south and to the opposite charges and kind of harbor sits on the edge of the south the award winning research which ellen carried out in a university lab bore out her hunch that by

disabling the virus from buying into the sugar happen it's infection was the coolest thing a fault the first stop on the always have to be in sell competition to put a science fair at the korean institute for medical research here in tampa probably one of the judges with the institute's president the work that she did is actually quite innovative and and actually i think will ultimately end up in some publications will happen domingue which is the exact kind of the virus that are mutated which customers the decrease in infection that could be a target for anti viral factories in the future you know it's easy to look back on my life and say well you know here's a famous scientist and you're all the things you did but it's very rare that you can actually say here's a scientist we can look forward and follow this person in a trajectory into the future and that's what you're seeing is a lot of i think it's

very rewarding when things go right a jury has awarded damages to three parton likes residents who claimed that they were sick and by an old dupont munitions platt the defendants had claimed that lead arsenic and mercury leaked from the plant and cause serious health problems including cancer and miscarriages the jury awarded one hundred forty thousand dollars each to two residents and a hundred thousand to the third a superior court judge declared a mistrial for seven other plaintiffs which is here now with a preview of what's coming up and his business record rich at the nation's unemployment rate took a surprising turn last month i'll tell you in what direction and the post office unveiled a new stamp to help the victims of september eleventh details when we come back with it is bizarre

eight nine ten businesses the nation jobless rate fell for the first time in three months in a client was a surprise to bulldoze it is a negative for work here two tenths of one percent to five point five as both in business news the nation's jobless rate fell for the first time in three months and made the decline was a surprise to economists the labor department says the unemployment rate fell two tenths of one percent to five point eight percent companies nationwide added forty one thousand jobs that follows an increase of six thousand new jobs in april commerce bank economist joel naroff believes that may report was an exception saying the job market continues to lag others expect the rate to continue climbing for several more months or thousands of new jersey residents are still

feeling the impact of the september attacks especially when it comes to finding a job a new federally funded job training facility recently opened elizabeth its goal to assist new jersians let go after the attacks as a retailer reports deleting task searching for a new job but with bills to pay and a family to feed evelyn johnson says it's a necessity of works was still completing the aircraft participation and i'm i was laid off on september thirteen times but still determines evelyn isn't alone in her job search thousands were laid off after the september eleventh attacks but a new job training center elizabeth called the star opportunities center is getting some unemployed residents be resources and homes barbara provides psychological support it provides career counseling financial counseling which is so important when in the vigils for themselves without a job or an income patients at the city opens its doors to all job seekers but there is an emphasis here to help those in the

airline travel related industries because they were directly impacted by september eleventh and as a result suffered massive layoffs by work and then i have a few years and was laid off september october twenty seven total sales and i have been unemployed since the actual above grant was specifically geared to specifically to airline whalen related for example the hotels in the area really laid off thousands of individuals we're taking some of those indicators and retrain of the new jersey department of labor says between twenty five hundred and seventy five hundred airline travel and hospitality workers lost their jobs after the attacks but there are some positive signs the economy is bouncing back new jersey's own employment rate dropped for the first time in fourteen months to five and a half percent down some industries continue to struggle so many here are considering changing right now and this happens in the hospitality warren's light

is nowhere near that were as the ones that help us you know and that is the program that is open the doors in ages made me see that there isn't the board at tyco international has started an internal investigation to determine whether former ceo dennis kozlowski and others spent michael finds an appropriately the probe will look into whether company officials use those funds to buy art work and homes meantime the company now says it's considering delaying the sale or spin off of its livingston they see it financing arm the company is having trouble finding a buyer had spent nearly ten billion dollars for see it last year has now having trouble getting half that much because battered stock lost another four dollars today down to about ten bucks a share it was trading at sixty dollars a share just a few months ago also in north jersey federal authorities have reopened their investigation of the multimillion dollar collapse of the sendak corporation us attorney chris christie says they're now taking a fresh look at the entire case federal officials were reportedly look at the role of all voters in the

company's collapse months after send it was created in a merger and it ninety seven the company lost half its market value after disclosed it overstated operating income long time auditor ernst and young says it's aware are of that investigation more losses on wall street today but in the end the averages came back from a significant decline in the tech market lead to drop after a profit warning from intel analysts say bargain hunters stepped in this afternoon at the close the dow industrials lost about thirty five point nine thousand five eighty nine for the week the dow dropped three hundred thirty five points among a broad markets the amateurs for nasdaq dropped nineteen points today and is down eighty points for the wake the us and p five hundred they back point elaine is down thirty nine for the week in the credit market ten year note is off twenty six thirty seconds it sealed rising to five point away percent finally the postal service has a new way to help some of the victims of the september terrorist attacks the service unveiled the new stamps today called the heroes of two thousand won that features a photo that first appeared in a record of hackensack of those

tree farmer holding the american flag at ground zero proceeds from the forty five cent stamp will assist families of the emergency relief personnel killed or injured in the attacks should be a collector stamps and when we come back the family pops orchestra gets ready for the truck war memorial right and you know it's so interesting mr dees be two time grammy winner peter nero and the philly pops are coming to the trojan war memorial for the first

time ever and it's for a good cause as angela copier reports the upcoming benefit concert may be the start of something new grammy winner peter nero is considered a philadelphia music legend and as the name suggests filling crops is about reaching popular audiences actually resided philadelphia's brand new law center here in iran is really possible i'm a benefit concert to be the first of many tension war memorial to the upcoming concert by lawrenceville based organization that provides charity health care for those in need and so this is a case of music bringing health insurance to people who don't have it be actually absent a huge advantage for granted to help or medicine and their patients to cancer will also benefit trenton public schools through music education

programs mayor palmer enthusiastically welcome the idea of the lead pastor and this is an opportunity for people all over this region not just the city but all those regions become the trojan women to have this fantastic isn't happening until november second so there's plenty of time to buy tickets in addition to being the first time that peter nero in the philly can't perform here at the war memorial the proceeds will help bring health insurance to the uninsured financial attack the help and dan is changing that's indiana news manahan for rich and all of us here thanks so much for being with us great weekend and will soon get on monday six states states states states

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