NJN News; Friday, January 4, 1991

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man hold the straps long distance phone service in the north jersey new york area experts survey three camden county schools a search for potentially dangerous radiation bribery charges are filed against the director of the north bergen housing authority and we'll take a look at efforts to control pollution and look for the new jersey new york one year after major oil spill all coming up next major funding for new jersey network news is provided by the job in our dogs foundation and first fidelity bank fb reach out and touch someone across the hudson to day was sobered at and t phone cable into workable long distance

service in the new york metropolitan area for long distance service was finally restored just before six this evening as melinda morton reports at and t's own workers might've been responsible for the outage this manhole on raining boulevard in new york with the site of eighteen eighteen to decide on another cable here damaged an adjacent five offline going the company's entire long distances to ottawa this morning we became aware of her cable cut off cable running between new work in new york city versus a live and thirty am at the moment they're going to cable botswana where the cut is as a result this is what most callers heard while trying to dial up a new york number from new jersey or retired colleague air at and t officials estimate sixty percent of all long distance calls in the area were affected because of the

recalls later re routed to other allies to cut cable also caused a major frenzy area airports which included arrival and departure delays of up to ninety minutes at newark international coalition against russia people tell us that the communication between the facilities for example between the control tower at this airport a new silk will trickle in the turret from a rebel controlled facility and communication between the facility air traffic control center is no longer will conversational telephone a computer is on the longer communicating with each other all air traffic at newark had to be controlled and there was consensus even traffic delays like really good whether the housing authority in

hudson county today has been charged with bribery and tax evasion ronald jeffery of north bergen is the latest north jersey housing official targeted by federal prosecutors regional airports wow well jeffrey executive director of the north bergen housing authority is facing federal charges for allegedly taking more than twenty seven thousand dollars in bribes from three construction companies doing business with the authority and then filing false tax returns to cover the money after his indictment today marks another on a long list of new jersey housing authority officials targeted by federal authorities according to officials from the us attorney's office the same ongoing investigative effort has already netted convictions of housing authority heads saying woodbridge perth amboy and conrad but jeffries attorney howard rudolph says here a federal government's case is weak candidate and he says today's proceeding in which jeffrey was taken into court in shackles was nearly a shower we had today to see if i can put that word is the obligatory bring that the

fundamentals of the year and then after that was done it was released the charges listeners are very very difficult to determine really what's been the response every dive been handed down is played in the terms that this indictment splendor and so i think that you draw any conclusions about the technical pleading rules really are not wanted were prepared to your shoulder on the record jeffrey was released on the twenty five thousand dollars personal recognizance bond this morning and his attorney says he has no intention of resigning his position that the housing authority has been convicted every case of the valley years in prison to pay over a million dollars in fines or even oil new jersey that revenues be worse a day after disclosing the presence of possible radioactive hotspots into camden county communities the dept day began conducting tests to track down the radioactivity as marty smith reports the inspectors first targets were local schools this stems from preschool and camping don't

have to ask them what they learned in class today the state department of environmental protection or sending hundreds of children home with letters going other skills are being tested for radiation states has now defunct a lantern factories like this one in southampton very radioactive korea back in the nineteen thirties contaminating the ground into communities in camden and three in gloucester city sacred heart school in south hampton and mark chapman st john marks their first of over a hundred buildings and deeply will test the radiation some parents say it's not soon enough to sustain just like this versus list air for seven years now i you know i knew there was a year ago there was this bed and i'm really upset and i you know i don't know what's going to come out of it like it's a more about their health we were allowed inside the buildings to videotape the dp testing some school officials said they were afraid of creating a panic there were it was a parliamentary innovation doesn't win or tribe has undergone says

it allows volunteers to worry about i think i'm worried more about perception and underdeveloped or reality mr michael doyle says sacred heart school it's already dealing with problems much more like threatening story on television and on the streets but what happened to the men on those trump callers an award for a generation of asian states if it is safe for the children to be in school officials say there is no immediate test results from the schools we'll be back in a couple of weeks the dp will begin testing individual homes later this month marty smith new jersey network news candidate one of the largest and most controversial land transactions in the history of new jersey is now a done deal before they accept a five million dollar check touring with the construction of the uss north american headquarters located in the first place and we're working on right now is to relocate our existing officers from different parts of the state of fear that involves about two thousand people remain should be

completed by the end of ninety three the major part of the agreement involves the state giving up fifty eight acres of alamo just a forest in north county in exchange for sixty eight acres of nearby wetlands and steve it's bound to be a fight to the finish in essex county over an old civil war now the elder says he offered the one hundred twenty seven year old collectible to the navy years ago for free in western mass now the us government wants the ballots once told on the confederate warship alabama back and uncle sam wants it for free even though it's worth about forty thousand dollars today in a federal courtroom in your judge dickinson that the lawyers listen to both sides and conducted a history lesson channel on the alabama's record as a warship had sunk more than twenty ships before her own destruction among the spectators included group of fifth and sixth graders for maplewood each of them got a chance to wave of bronze bell as for who owns it will that will be decided next month to new jersey's most powerful

lobbying firms will announce this weekend that they are merging the firm's of harold koh this and roger biden will acquire the firm of joseph cats creating the most powerful lobbying and public relations firm trenton has ever seen michael aaron has that story how voters and roger bodman were at rutgers this afternoon preparing to teach a class the students can learn a lot from these two about how to succeed in college is the government this was governor brendan prawns cheapest that bought minute the government on keynes two years ago they affiliated their lobbying companies public strategies an impact on sunday they're two arms will acquire the firm of job katz dean of the trenton lobbyist secretary governor richard hughes katz operates the state's third largest lobbying firm with thirty one clients such as jacqueline two years before those dealers builders and biden are already number one with seventy eight clients such as the casino association the meadowlands sports complex and for fidelity bank perception that one monologue democratic source and the other

republican has fueled their success well known democrat jim sweeney runs their other oil company in bergen county lobbyists help clients with legislation and deal with government agencies on west main street where many lobbyists have their offices it's news that joe has been gobbled up the merger of his firm with the firm has represented by harold koh this roger bodman chip stapleton and sharon harrington represents a new level of size and lobbying firms here in china some competitors say they welcome the new when you run a story that is the story of that out big and have technically efficient effective the firm is it sends a message that hey maybe we need somebody and then they shot her in the finances of their support for their needs so it's good for everybody it's good for the youngsters aggressive cancers declined comment until sunday when the mergers formally announced otis considered by

some the state's premier lobbyist because of his closeness to governor florio says merging with the most respected of them all is natural it just makes sense to do that and the business of warsaw are that those on copper roof anybody else several lobbyists we spoke to today warned that with so many clients under one roof their interests will conflict and some will leave but that may just be wishful thinking on the part of both lobbyist as they eye the nice return of the nineties michael aaron new jersey network news on west eighth street coming up on the tour is a network news jim but encircled a look at the very end this senate tonight special segment the slow recovery from the flurry of oil spills in the arctic yell if you see news happening or shoot it with your home video camera others know about it by dialing new jersey network news tip line one eight hundred years you've won nineteen it may well go

down as the year of the oil spill the port of new jersey and new york was assaulted by once bill after another last year but the sheer prevention and response are looking better answer my special segment tricia guest chris takes a look at our troubled waters after a turbulent year eighteen billion gallons of oil came through this harbor last year but it was the one point three million gallons winding up in the water that caused a measurable environmental impact and public and political outcry it was a lesson learned the hard way we've learned that we sorely need to pay a lot of attention to how we'll moves another has materials move in and out of new york harbor the numerous bills during nineteen ninety a kurd for a variety of reasons the largest of course was the half million gallons that leaked from an exxon pipeline on new year's day suddenly we didn't have to look to doubt these alaskan sea creatures in distress they were here to pay money

besides the pipelines spill there was an oil barge explosion a tanker that ran aground and an oil spill during the transfer from the facility to the tanker they were just the major incidents stanek here really was in the size issue because a result of that and some concerns by both the state you're in and jersey that were brought together and won't call by state commission to look at that standard of care seems so improvements in that area over this period of time coast guard captain richard larabee is in charge of the port here this week we took a boat ride with him on the arthur kill the captain told us that although last year's bills have a variety of causes they seem to have one factor in common the human factor the majority of things that involve some sort of personal i think and these have been an accident so

we were focused on the human part of this bill in direct response to the scales there are new measures from lawmakers and those in the industry to try and prevent them from happening and he will there is an environmentalist with the american littoral society and has been a vocal watchdog concerning these waters but i think we've made some progress with probably the wrong thing happened the big spill to make public more aware the problems is needed but as a result of that and public awareness several things have happened like new federal and state laws regulating the industry new jersey in particular has some tough new measures any facility lay waste facility that all the store is over twenty thousand gallons has a switcher was having a comprehensive still management plan the coast guard will re institute it's a vessel traffic service it was eliminated several years ago due to budget cuts but the ts tracks

all ships in the water the coast guard just received the funds to implement it the total cost thirteen million dollars there is also the development of the marines spill response corporation funded by the oil industry the corporation will provide personnel boats and equipment to facilitate cleanup of snails meanwhile it was a world of difference from last year the reasons for that environmental impact really it will take years and years and years twersky gaspar is new jersey network news on the

arthur t l next on the jurors a network news of unemployment on the rise in the garden state and one of america's top sopranos brings her vocal talents to him you're merciful joins us now with a nice business report on employment data for the prison unemployed but not necessarily the market expected worse considering how bad everything is supposed to be the unemployment figures out today at a six point one percent there were certainly we've seen in the past two

years and they spell the loss of over half a million jobs that the last three months of last year had two tenths percent rise in unemployment in december over november and in a tense rises do most rapid rise in eight years' time not good but not as bad either as people in the markets had expected one irony of the situation employers the same the economy suffering and accordingly did not hire as intensively for the christmas period as i usually do and that was an element new jersey higher now riskier also up for tears percent to five point nine ios level since nineteen eighty six and the assembly rise as twenty thousand new jersians to the ranks of the unemployed those numbers may get worse and what evidence of that is the word from a well known employer sears roebuck by some measure the country's biggest margin in serious analysis of massive layoffs twenty one thousand jobs to be terminated and it's eight hundred and sixty three stores across the country the firings to affect both management and hourly person out of the twenty one thousand affected

some seventeen thousand will be part time workers series knows that it will compensate those being laid off hourly workers receive a week's pay for each year worked up to twenty six weeks another company familiar to new jersey's best products analysis three hundred and fifty events people will be laid off at thirty million dollar economy as best product goes chapter eleven for protection from its creditors what could be more encouraging that thrift institution taking pains to guard against an unwelcome takeover bancorp new jersey part about a nineteen year old new jersey savings bank does it announces a nice dark color of record december thirty first will get rights to in effect receive preferred stock an event i don't want a soldier appears a promising well as i said the news wasn't bad enough today those unemployment figures not as disastrous as expected the upshot falling bond prices which of course means rising yield things have to be worse before the fed can be expected at ease and make things better so and still inspired by and we

see that our every power for sixty three points for the week but at worst a mixed picture for this day don't get complacent though the commerce department says factory orders to their biggest dive on record during november they fell five point nine percent of that of course that was november was a long blond healer to eight point one nine percent coming up perhaps some rain or snow began building the forecasts that in sports during rituals about a dismal like rutgers excellent example of itself january graders mother nature is dressed for the weekend but

there was another full day of sunshine seasonally called the lies only in the thirties productive frozen this canal a newly acquired state wetlands property mr scott it seems like that might be a little more inviting but invited a radical light years ahead of image of precipitation this weekend they look at current conditions clear skies a newer trend in an atlantic city temperatures around freezing forecasts clearly goldeneye willows in the teens and twenties saturday clouds will build any rain or snow is not expected to arrive until like no major accumulation of snow is expected saturday night prize mostly in the thirties on saturday sunday cotton rainer drizzle in the morning a chance of snow sunday night and monday hires about five degrees warmer than saturday a cloudy called in occasionally what we get ahead maybe some slippery spots on the roads at well make that ghana has a night of jerry henry sitting in with the sports report looks like baucus has some regrouping lot of regroup a good it could be a long weekend for the rutgers women's basketball team they faced delaware tomorrow that after an embarrassing sixteen point loss to the table kaine

last night workers all that wasn't what workers only five of its twenty three field goal attempts in the first half he queues had fifteen points of a microcosm of the group gathered at the victims were determined to snap a six game losing streak and the awful sunday night and where to trap of the contestants jess parker led became a twenty two point lead at seeing workers from twenty three turnovers into a seventy eight sixty two laws as they fall to succeed elsewhere in the northeast comfort empty you've got by monmouth fifty two fifty nine to improve its record to seven and three among its big man alex blackwell was to form he had the job was going as well as its inside game blackwell faced with nineteen points and ten rebounds fairleigh dickinson at that story from jazzy waltz and twenty five point to live along with eleven about fifty women tend to support with the game tied at forty eight

meanwhile mama calls to elsewhere the rutgers lady nitrate number ten in the country had an easy night with umass when eighty one to thirty one and could be moving up in the national rankings because number one virginia was upset by penn state last night in college football rutgers has gotten verbal commitment from former teammate high school standout and the content is a six three two of a twenty five pound linebacker poppins transfer in from rich riverside community college in california the nfl playoffs get underway this weekend and the beatles' take on the washington redskins at bretton stadium when they met in november this was the scene throughout the game redskin players fourteen of the few in numbers as result of a self bill's defense know what of china washington backfield philadelphia was twenty eight of witty or knocking out all the skins backup quarterbacks mark mckinney is back for tomorrow's game as the beatles going to have as few with faith's a hoax most folks who want a political say to be the toughest team in the playoffs right now it's at the eagles

over the scans to mock now of course what happens in that in chicago with the saints and the bears return to work whether or not the oval the judge a sense a skill set when they go out to work be up to play the giant to be out at the bears win the musicals let's take a long trip out west to play before the miners right area jerry henry and finally tonight one of america's leading young sopranos will perform this sunday at the mccarter theater stand in the arts correspondent annie cement media profiles classical local as dawn upshaw in an american folk songs that music by aaron copeland seems to say a lot about dark souls like their life the new cd music whether it's vocally or whether it's instrumental about life

and my experiences and certainly we aren't always happy happy i'd always hearing or seeing beautiful things a telltale series and sorry i'm feeling beautiful singing is there to reputation as rising helped by winning a grammy for best classical vocalists of nineteen eighty nine when her album marks the summer of nineteen fifty eight a recent concert at alice tully hall at the chamber music society of lincoln center with the salon in a whirlwind of resigned monday at the mccarter accompanied by doing fine this is the garden state the dawn upshaw or with the new jersey symphony or i know it's an interesting especially in new york

i never i didn't i hadn't been in new jersey before that and i didn't really know what to expect but i found it to be very nice to him at a new jersey network recapping tonight's top stories at and t is a happier to receiving it has repaired and accidentally cut phone cable in the words the breakout about nine thirty this morning affecting service in the north jersey new york metropolitan area the problem however the financial markets and other businesses and cause delays of the region's three major airports including newark international again it into social services but the story regarding housing authority director ron jeffries has been charged today with taking bribes from contractors and evading taxes jeffries arrest as the latest in the ongoing federal investigation has led to jail terms for several other housing directors in north jersey that's our news for tonight and steve jobs and i'm kent man i had from all of us

here three years in africa is thank you for being with us and generally get everyone in a presentation of the jews no no no the pittsburgh