NJN News; Monday, July 3, 2000

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to new jersey wine television news a warning tonight for those peddling ecstasy starting today the state is cracking down on users and sellers of the designer drug governor women signed a bill today creating penalties as severe as those for heroin and cocaine that means prison for anyone caught with a substantial number of pills like a lion has the story but fuel cell for twenty to thirty dollars apiece and are set to make a person feel sensitive to touch or sensual especially prevalent at brave stance is that teenagers advertised as alcohol free governor wouldn't sign the bill the day that moves ecstasy from crimes of the third degree the first second and third like heroin and cocaine possession of one half ounce or less approximately fifty pills would be a third degree crime and could result in a jail sentence but not necessarily one half to five ounces or five hundred bills would be a secondary crime it could be as much as ten years in prison more than five ounces or sale of

the drug would be a first degree crime with senses possibly as high as twenty years this is not a new law lets ecstasy on notice we will not tolerate the sale or distribution and use this drug in the state of new jersey we want to make it very very clear state officials say the drug is dangerous and proliferating they say it overheat the body and will only one known death last summer was attributed ecstasy overdoses are common talk of the first case was around from the club's notion monmouth county over the weekend's talk an emergency room personnel deal with these like the situations of young teenagers coming in those high temperatures as part of the crackdown undercover agent for being spent in the clubs the state is putting up posters warning kids that marks can dance to state and local officials closed this market club ten days ago police chief says was set up for the purpose of selling ecstasy cycling

city royals teenagers say it's become the gateway drug you know marijuana use to be the more recreational drug leads into the harder drugs and his class got a service that caesar plays at it's a boy's school never done it myself to cut hours that is state officials say most of the poles come from overseas can have long lasting effects we want kids to know the crackdown has begun for days after we announced the introduction of this legislation fifty officers in middlesex county rated a rave party nebraska thirty two individuals one week later a trend man was arrested with two thousand pills in his possession i can tell you this legislation and then place the only you'd been facing with a much more significant just three weeks for this ecstasy crackdown the go from a proposal by the governor

was signed law that's highly unusual some say it's a sign of the politicians responding to how seriously law enforcement views this newest drug problem by firing gm news when a journey is getting ready for a nautical extravaganza op sale two thousand it's being called the largest gathering of foreign and domestic tall ships a naval vessels in the nation's history would warrant has been previewing the ship she's standing by liberty state park the official view inside new jersey by belinda my rich place in tomorrow promises to truly be a majestic full day to remember a parade of more than one hundred tall ships and sailing vessels some two dozen warships and tens of thousands of pleasure boats along the hudson the eighteen year war the seventy one year old one hundred twelve foot oyster schooner is new jersey's of the issue of torture and will have the honor of taking part in tomorrow's floating away along the hudson

be torture paint an engine for his double parade but one clare say what caused the ship so were escorting at the europa mission to make its lots more by comparison megan cummings a spring like it's one of the ocean's eleven crew members i'm really excited about maryland i'm excited about the fireworks and i'm really excited just something i've never been involved in the forest service first time the scooter was rescued from a maryland creek in nineteen eighty five and restored some four years later it's been back on the water for five years and now serves as an educational facility for elementary school children we get too far aviation entities the estuary about that day and that any waterway that we're ever going to trial and then came a while many are anxious about tomorrow the millennium celebration most of the people we caught up with today liberty state park which just looking forward to visiting the statue of liberty my

family they come from the uk and the other side is going to have a great time to get an idea i have passed through you know and i was on the highway or illness that you had never been actually he has said that their movements to the suits at liberty state park officials are expecting about two hundred fifty thousand people for tomorrow's celebration marking at the official viewing sites will be off limits to the public and have to make arrangements to go to the park and ride locations in various locations are located within some party service aereo often turn right at the military ocean terminal in day out is probably the better choices for shuttle buses will ironically in and out as well as a caring about the park at the end of the evening so really telling people that said come to the park have a wonderful day enjoy yourself but be prepared to have at least a four hour time frame within which to get out of the park at the conclusion of the scheduled events in many of the historical

shifts enough sale two thousand at the new york harbor and five among those historical shifts in the parades tomorrow a replica of a nineteenth century slave ship the army start at thirty nine a group of slaves that didn't admit the mutiny and did survive did and they were freed because of that mutiny thomas dodd is now uses just as a way to treat human race relations in america right back to you a table and i think you should be great on independence day tomorrow to independence marches will be held in morristown each however sticking two very different types of freedom the nationalist movement or white supremacist group will be marching against affirmative action programs and a counter demonstrations being planned by the people's organization for progress this horrible march for freedom from inequality hatred and injustice their protest is also intended to challenge a white supremacist groups message we believe that is necessary for opponents of racism to demonstrate against a white supremacist

failure to take a visible and strong public stance against these groups emboldens them and helped to create an atmosphere in which they can forage their motorcade of morristown will leave york's lincoln park at ten am the ocean county authorities arrested at a fatal plane crash in lakewood the single engine plane was towing an advertising banner when it crashed onto a taxiway lakewood airport this afternoon the faa says the pilot of the plane was killed the cause of the crash is still under investigation this holiday weekend her deadly along new jersey's waterways one person is missing another died trying to rescue a pair of young swimmers authorities say a place for a man died saturday in the waters off island beach state park he was trying to save two girls swept away by retired police believe the forty seven year old suffered a heart attack during a rescue attempt officials recommend swimmers use caution when swimming into unfamiliar waters he was a whistle will get in is trying to keep you out of trouble and janet leigh gets a lot of people realize that the threat of marion nestle in the bill in trouble a second

person disappeared last minute the door water gap the twenty two year old new york there was trying to swim across the river authorities are still looking for his body the new jersey state police say there's been at least one highway fatalities so for this weekend one person was killed friday night in a single car accident on the southern portion of the new jersey turnpike between exits to iterate and an unusual accident in north jersey police and rock starry morris county say a twenty year old motorcyclist suffered a neck and back injuries last night after colliding with a black bear cub one ritual sex police editor was killed and the collision the state's human services department has joined forces with quick chek food stores in an effort to keep kids safe during the hot summer time once calling a potentially deadly situation commissioner michel michel ghoul with a thermometer in court today to show how quickly the temperature could rise in so called not even for a minute campaign is intended to remind parents to never leave their children and supervised in a cordial not even for a minute in a few moments it takes to grab a carton of milk from a convenience store dehydration can set in and just sat

quietly seriously harmed the child each year dozens of children were killed or injured around the nation after being left in a car quick chek will offer information on the campaign each of its one hundred three stores far works are typically a great way to celebrate the fourth of july but we have a play tonight to let the experts handle the explosives state and federal officials are warning the improper and illegal use of fireworks can cause serious injuries can say john has that story mccain or that you live be without a spectacular display of fireworks many communities throughout the state will have their own these boys were huge crowds will gather to celebrate independence day but it's the illegal use of fireworks the bother state and local officials is why warnings many people choose to live their own this place would be worn setting off fireworks is a disorderly britain's events in new jersey punishable by a fine of up to one thousand dollars and up to thirty days in jail and the state of new jersey

fireworks are other good public displays are prohibited on state law require requires that a no fireworks in its partners are those types of devices be sold or were used in the state of new jersey but by words find their way to the garden state from other states where they are legal or we know from statistics from consumer products safety council an over seven thousand people are injured seriously that they have little hospital are due to illegal fireworks and in many cases there are children between five and fourteen with serious injuries while supplies last ones markets will say if you want to see the fireworks go to a public event in your local community of good news is that the public events the injury rates are very low compared to the overall are fireworks problem russians are the way for fireworks displays at the atlantic city's baseball game tonight and tomorrow night and in other municipalities around the state and artificial say they realize that the top job keeping fireworks out of the hands of children and no matter how are they try

many of them will end up here at emergency rooms throughout the state that love and you can do it far more far track of the like that they show the software patents and shouldn't really really careful too much into this in st john indiana news atlantic city coming up one enjoy news hot sticky weather creates healthier conditions and had no way of looking at the part of nixon health watch hell of our eyes of avoiding doctors have a new version that and more weekly so far we've had a sunny

and hot fourth of july weekend but the weather has contributed to one problem small state environmental officials issued an ozone or today for most of the state because of high levels of ground ozone unhealthy ozone levels can aggravate asthma because other respiratory problems those with breathing problems should try to stay in an air conditioned room it's a nice health watch magnetic resonance imaging or mri it's now being used for early detection and treatment of heart disease as health and medical correspondent surly kessler tells us mr eyes are getting doctors and unusual window into the heart he's magnetic resonance imaging provides a detailed accurate pictures of what's going on inside the body this mri at robert wood johnson university hospital is the first in new jersey dedicated solely to examining the heart we can obtain from the income just plain anatomy almost textbook like pictures of the heart and go to be able to evaluate their comical soldiers dr mayer

shin are who directs the cardiac mri program here is using this equipment to get a better fix on the size of an aneurysm clocking this patient's aorta we can do a major reconstruction over the country are variations voices we can also fully evaluate the function of the hole is how would this camping and they can obtain that in some ways fall more accurately can be done and other techniques the drawbacks to cardiac mri for one thing the constant something as technicians take measurements the patient is wearing headphones during this forty minute procedure to drown out the noise claustrophobia could be a problem for some but not for members on before we they have both houses compared to having a cat scan this at live close to them online life

research is also underway here to determine just how helpful cardiac mri may be in determining which patients may have early heart disease that so far has produced no symptoms we have made quite a bit of tantalizing bait and their perspective the hope is that one day cardiac mri will provide one stop shopping for diagnosis and development of a treatment plan sara lee kessler nj and used new brunswick coming up business news more signs of a slowing economy and the country hope for lower gas prices all explains what we can do here's today's businesses more indications today that the federal

reserve's effort to slow the economy may be working the government reports construction spending rose just one tenth of one percent in a stronger than analysts were expecting a much slower rate in recent months spending by the private sector all commercial buildings was offset by reductions in spending on government and residential projects also today a survey by purchasing executives shows manufacturing slowed in june by its lowest measure since january of last year record store show's expansion what a slower rate a glimmer of hope in the ongoing effort to reduce gasoline prices in a surprise move saudi arabia today announced it will pump an additional half million barrels of oil daily to try and rein in soaring gas prices with prices here two dollars a gallon in some places the saudi move could provide some relief the government is trying to bring oil prices back down to about twenty five dollars a barrel we'll futures are now running about thirty two dollars a barrel reports say the saudis are acting because they're the only major producer with reserves to make such a big move in business prius news of the casino industry park place at the chain announced today that the impending sale of its flamingo reno to sapphire gaming has been canceled

the twenty million dollar deal was to close at the end of june park plays songs twenty casinos around the world including bally's atlantic city the company is now evaluating what to do with the flamingo roseland based hamilton scientific his ball integrated physician services health and scientific as a medical intern application developer i p s provides bowl winning collection services for the health care industry terms were not disclosed gp you the state's second largest utilities said it has completed the sale of its power division in australia singapore powers paying one point two six billion dollars for the electric transmission company at american home products says it has completed assailants were seventy based siam and agricultural products to germany's basf american was getting three point eight billion dollars in cash for the deal basf is also assuming an undisclosed amount of debt on wall street stocks are mostly higher in an abbreviated session the markets were boosted by reports that the us economy may be moderating trading was alight the markets close to three hours early at one o'clock this afternoon

at the close the donnas drills paid one hundred twelve points and in this session of the ten thousand five sixty level among the broad markets the amex added seven and a half the nasdaq rose twenty five closing near the four thousand level this at five hundred and forty and among the treasury's the ten year note is up ten thirty seconds of seal that five point nine eight percent the markets will be closed tomorrow for independence day coming up we have clear skies for independence they all of the forecast for the first years of the sports look at the shark right by superman opens in special of the golfer's decision schwartz now a first time winner of the shop right

classic this week in a galway township shop right isn't hers has only stopped for the old pga to work at scotland's jazz movie native her favorite stops on it by shooting a sixteen on the final round the twenty seven year old is bound to for three years i've been in contention it in some thirteen events but never won the movie's only the second scottish golfer to win on the opie ga two or she took on a hundred sixty five thousand dollars per share over one point one million dollar purse they're not on the pro tour but two new jersey special olympians are all smiles these days and you may be able to see them in your local grocery store in the cereal section two golfers are featured on a special issue of a team cheerios box special olympic athletes that is haiti owes and robert l for the golfing partners that whoever's in new jersey and the us the nighty nite special olympic world games to one goal and silver medals and nine whole plane and special skills competition for their effort general mills is distributing forty five thousand of these boxes of cereal throughout new

jersey and shot rice dollars raised their picture is i think even more so it's going to golfers on the box i think you look beyond the fact that they have a disability i think you see that there are two legitimate golfers and i think that's one of the reasons that their animals looked at us and said that they were interested in and supporting our efforts to have the achievements of the show that's the nice thing about his disability golfers a non golfers and the golfers and what happens is when the true golfers they're accepted by the community that's about the golf community they're accepted by a local club and that's very successful because the transition to get into the community is a much faster dennis and robert were introduced to the game in their early twenties feel they've competed in other special olympic sports like i can feel they both point to garth as their favorite and their favorite golfers are shock of tiger woods hole that watch at the lot or watching

tiger woods though they do well if anyone had told they are going to be his partner particular tiger was far easier for the uk apple fund guys about putting troops from rodents wing tips from the dead as the famous becomes an all it's a rule that's not a picture that's what all the hot humid day across the state would take another look out some of the ships in your carver scene from liberty state park in jersey city this area will provide a great spot to see the tall ships and naval flotilla years whenever the silver chips tomorrow will be dozens in the area as far as our pollution watch for tomorrow we expect conditions to improve after today's unhealthy conditions water air quality is forecast across most of the state as for the forecast in north jersey tonight thunderstorms are likely with clothes in the high sixties there's a chance the morning shower tomorrow and partly sunny skies with highs in the mid eighties in south jersey it's an eye thunderstorms are possible with temperatures in the low seventies there's also the chance of the morning shower and partly sunny later eyes in the upper eighties

finally tonight was a great day for paddling the old fashioned way in burlington county eleven riders on high will and cheap bicycles roddick sniffle party be stamped intelligent this morning for writers called the real mentor a group dedicated to preserving into rights groups stopped at smithville part because the site is named after industrialist easy key a smith produced a famous star bicycle eugenides that will matter making a cross country trip on their bikes the summer from toronto salisbury maryland and that looks like a lot of work well twenty ones for lots of friends at history jared everyone here i'm jon thanks for joining us on a good night a safe and happy fourth of july it's been the peaks boy fb

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