NJN News; Thursday February 5, 1998 [Master, Original]

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reporting parts of the jersey shore become a moral world as the second or his door and as many weeks the judges coastal communities they may get manahan is on assignment so that describes the jersey shore tonight the bar for coastal storm is causing major flooding problems in some areas while southern jersey this morning with when gossip about the seventy five miles an hour as states of emergency remain in effect for cape may and a lot of guilt is the hardest hit and some areas waves reach more than twenty feet access roads the barrier island towns like brigantine and see our city are inundated with up the fourth what are the national guard deployed more than one hundred troops and dozens of vehicles to help communities most of the power is restored to life for some nine thousand people visit their funding for schools to shut down an ocean city sea isle city and athletics at it there is the latest from the national weather service tonight a goal to flood warning

remains in effect from sandy hook to cape may whether officials have also posted a high wind warnings both are in effect all night we have team coverage of today's flooding beginning in ocean city where rich young is standing by reds book had good news and bad news for cape may county tonight the good news the winds have died down somewhat over the past couple of hours it's still windy but not nearly as bad as it was the bad news part of medicaid make any towns are still covered with water the second day of his fierce nor'easter was not hi too many areas we found floating we felt when damage and we found one that's the atlantic ocean a prom angry very unbelievable or words roche's want to get up until the coast of cape may county beaches were you know i was up all night watching on the right there is an unbelievable in sea isle city was one of the hardest hit towns here citing was ripped from buildings streets and cars were fully submerged a storm last week cause more than three million dollars in the

church this week were told that's at least double that amount we've had flooding throughout the entire city to make matters worse off for about six hours all of our roads in and out were close to three roads were closed because of the flooding i'm sure these homes have been flooded normally the smothers about one hundred fifty feet of beach today it's completely gone artificial sand dunes that are normally were are now fully exposed and did some slots beachfront property is now waterfront there's a lightness body not as bad as it would present prevent storms know when i read the top has been a longtime cyprus in nineteen sixty two right thing is very eclectic arrived at his hardware store this morning with nearly a foot of water inside he says there's occasionally flooding his door but nothing like this for ten years and this is the first time that this is the worst painted ocean city west avenue could easily be renamed the west river poe's writing and walking should have been swimming some advice for

all parties are also telling people to stay inside are still significant that they flooding roads are covered with water the roads are impassable in fact it's downright miserable out here supports atlantic and ocean counties the effects of this storm as well by college aid worker was surveying the damage there today for the second day in a row while the trial and took a beating a strong winds and ocean swells to the way of what little beach remains in many areas from last week's nor'easter in some places oceanfront homes appear threatened by the angry sees despite efforts to hold them back long beach township spent four hundred thousand dollars just eighteen months ago fixing up a half mile stretch of beach hear another twenty five thousand dollars just last week after the nor'easter then that's since been washed out to say but the mayor says it's well worth the effort this one grow houses days four million seven hundred thousand dollars which russia power of the pickup that we lost it we would be able to watch it the storm drew small numbers of the

curious out of their homes like thirty five year low of ladies resident body brady had ever seen serve like this before how would you rate this is boy did they started flooding midafternoon is higher than normal tides began rolling in over the sea wall in atlantic county you'd need a kayak to use this payphone outside a shuttered at seguin motel police close roadways made impassable by flooding and others were likely to be closed later the storm has subsided somewhat our we are still one experience the kind of flooding power it should not be as grace what it was last night the ocean surf founded atlantic city and its peers as high seas swept away beaches there are the usual boardwalk parade of taurus was put on hold a storm attracted the curious here as well i just got back from nebraska i was out there for two weeks and they were given some nice weather out here and we do it wash storm from

by the hotel edison gamble william brundage was an atlantic city's bungalow sections about three years ago was strong like this and i will not lose this one's around the movie that was john rocha recorded at the storm still the dispersant reaches farther north the water was still running high under they can leverage in belmont officials among the county say the high tides and rain cause substantial beach erosion in towns all along the forty seven miles of coastline there are strong winds blew sand and debris in the streets and roadways of flooding in most areas was minor senate national park was close emergency management says they won't be able to get a specific damage estimate until the storm moves out in other news tonight there's good news for mass transit riders and the state new jersey transit announced that it will not be raised this is the eighth year and roll there's a remain stable trevor has had an

increase in ridership a fifteen percent in the last four years at what attributes that to the stable prayers and efficiency about was one of new jersey's movers and shakers climbed aboard the annual chamber of commerce train to washington today but those onboard had more than good times on their mind this year they're fighting to get the state's federal transportation dollars in fact was gunned down and reports the party atmosphere prevails on this train you're kept the mornings you can get off the train going seventy miles an hour so if you want to see someone it's a good place that they really enjoy this is incredible they come from corporations and small businesses professional groups state county and municipal governments lobbying firms community organizations and the media they come to see and be seen and to report on the goings on they come to exchange ideas and to mingle with some of new jersey's most influential people for a lot of the

time these messages that the state of new jersey it's an opportunity for people to talk about the direction the state law to be going for people in the public and the private sector to compare notes to talk about what new jersey will look like ten twenty years down the road and that is important to do rallying under the slogan don't watered down our iced tea a contingent of business people on board this train is seeking support for their effort to press congress for transportation dollars if they want to maintain new jersey's fair share of the intermodal surface transportation efficiency act that's the nation's twenty six billion dollar year federal funding program is set to expire in march for the nation's highways and mass transit systems to read yeah an allegation is looking at a straight percentage allocation jersey's going to lose if the pie doesn't get bigger than what's going to happen is our transportation dollars are going to shrink and clearly what there was talk about transportation and on an amtrak train going on the northeast corridor all of these folks will attend a reception and

dinner tonight where they'll be addressed by governor whitman and senior members of the state's congressional delegation for nj and news i'm tess monaghan aboard the chamber train to washington lester spence and bond sale may not have been enough to plug a shortfall in the state pension fund according to the star ledger lawmakers in trenton are expressing surprise that the state was paying for the thirty three million dollars this year into the pension fund that could take a large bite out of the expected billion dollars surplus in the state budget and just a few days before the governor's annual budget message next tuesday what does a state commission do when you can't find the solution it goes out of business for nine years the condition has been searching for a town in the state that would host a low level radioactive waste disposal facility but today the commission suspected insurgents and government a letter saying it will be scaling back there's more sportier

models now a clinton cabinet member joined the popular campaign coming up in tonight's health got eight hundred years to come it's because both the

pope yeah i ate maybe you should start a charter school that was the theme of the conference up an organization today as just a gas rose reports many in the field of education came together to discuss this alternative to traditional public schools the north star academy is a charter school in newark in its first year it has seventy two fifth and sixth graders all of whom went to traditional public schools last year how is this different than the school he went to last year is different because we have a longer day and a longer year and then me that we have long had some of narnia the north star academy will even using local resources in fact it has a partnership with the newark museum just up the street students come here three days a week the museum was also the backdrop today for this conference on charter schools topics for discussion how to start

one and why you might want to start one of the most interesting hands on experiences and projects are schools better in places like these museums and so when you only spoke together we hope will spark some interest in creating a school kathy martin says the head of the children's museum in washington dc she's also the founder of a charter school there we're producing amazing results will take the hundred most of the students in the district of columbia now all of our children are in minimum of two grade levels behind in reading and in math and we are first that the kids go to college last year when eighty five percent graduation rates from high school and the dropout rate and the district of columbia's fifty two percent while the concept of charter schools in the controversial film immersed in them a day work trip begins presenting a news new york calcium it's so we're not getting enough of that in our diets and i it's just not for problem for women but we'll have that story coming up we've turned out what's right now more than

five hundred doctors in atlanta decade major lazer taking their fight to unionize to washington they say that doctors want the national labor relations board to allow them to organize and bargain with helpmate news organizations the doctors argue that america out of philadelphia trees that like employees dictating many aspects of their practice now calcium we're not getting enough of it in our diet it's not just a problem for women were prone to brittle bones following then applause of the problem pretty in tonight's health watch how the medical correspondent surly kessler tells us what's being done to get the word out you've seen the magazine ads supermodels and media stars wearing the milk mustache to encourage all of us to drink up a crash course of calcium will help teens understand that they lower their wrists for osteoporosis every time they raised the wrath of bell that's why president clinton's health secretary now has a drip above her lap donna shalala as ads appear for the first time this week but it'll take more than a

magic act to reach kids show that eight out of ten teenage girls dead in attic else in the diet and six out of ten boys teenage boys don't have bank accounts and i teaneck rheumatologist ralph markus as kids don't understand how critical it is to get the milk they need now at age thirty thirty five you richard matheson there's one song that will end the strength of bones at that age that there'd been into things only how much gasoline consumed up until that time and genetics von start losing density after that if they lose enough osteoporosis or brittle bone disease can develop leading to fractures or a dour just come teens need twelve hundred milligrams of calcium a day if they refuse to get it from the us there are alternatives it has three hundred milligrams of calcium pre container one else of john hughes has two hundred

and eleven milligrams of thousands of churches and dr marcus says kids and grownups should avoid so that which can actually pan out the bones sara lee kessler and sandy's it now coming up a lot of it is this is who doesn't know it's not always a nation taken to the place with the cheapest gas in ten minutes and tower it's been

therefore he is on assignment in washington here's tonight's businesses gasoline prices throughout the state are at a record low in many areas prices are as low as ninety five cents per gallon and the law were keith devlin affordable fuel stations he pays ninety one cents a gallon for regular pro business together the various voices increasing volume or take the shot boyd and eighty nine hopefully start some excitement and you know not making money at it it's an investment i think they're going back up to worship and partly his plan is working today the volume has more than doubled usually they

average just under a thousand gallons per day one bmg is merely in a way over a guest that come in sochi have guessed rush hour drivers but we also felt like we already each day this company presents to be a huge night stands right now it's about six hundred thousand gallons of gas here in our cars so realistically every penny the gas prices upward and needs six thousand dollars so there is a lot of reason why the support does that the gas prices stay down according to the new jersey gasoline retailers association prices usually go down at this time of year because people simply don't drive as of this new jersey is among twelve

states that will soon sell cleaner cars starting this fall several automakers have agreed to make cars minivans and trucks that he made nearly seventy percent last month causing pollution chrysler general motors ford and toyotas nineteen ninety nine models will be sold in the north east first or will be available nationwide within three years the salad nobody beats the weight is has been approved by a us bankruptcy judge cablevision of long island will pay ninety five million dollars for the quarter if based electronics retailer assad electronics cablevision says it will use the stores to sell cable and internet services and tickets to events at madison square garden which it owns the sale is expected to take place on monday on wall street stocks finished narrowly mixed in have a trading the dow jones industrial average fell twelve and i have to close out the ad won seventeen level bmx ended the day

up to math the nasdaq fell three and a half and the s and p five hundred dropped three and a third among treasury is a long one fell nearly a full point you a new building that is five point nine three percent mr warrick yeah yes but were going now back down to the jersey shore in atlantic city where our correspondent in logar

of the monitoring the situation all day he gave us about a giant camp were behind a wall here on the atlantic city boardwalk so it may not look when he would often if i step over there i'd be afraid that we might just take me away it's still wendy it's so rainy although the tide has some savings subsided somewhat and i think that's due the natural forces it's not a high tide right now that passed about three or four hours ago now the emergency our services director here told us earlier that he thought the storm would subside some tonight but that residents i should be cautious and try to stay in their homes are any resonance in our flight out in atlantic city can go to the rich cross shelter at the martin luther king complex in the city about twenty residents that the light that night their last night there are other shelters operating in other towns along the shore residents cannot contact contact their local authorities about that but for now i like city is calm quiet folks have i heeded the warning it seems and are staying inside but the winds are and the rains are still here are some local roads are flooded and in

fact down that this to go on through the night so that's it from the atlantic city can back to the city of ok jim thank you know here is the latest states of emergency in cape may in atlantic county has remained in effect the national weather service says those coastal flood and high wind warnings will also continued through the night that there's light at the end of the tunnel after this week's battering by mother nature in north jersey tonight cloudy and breezy with a chance of rain or a snow shower <unk> tomorrow's summit with ohio forty five and spend and sell visit tonight expects a light rain with a lot of ink and tomorrow mostly sunny with highs in the mid forties when a recovery is finally an art opening at rider university tonight friends and friends of the late sculptor james cultivate and will be there to remember him through his art the writer darryl is one of entrepreneurial location celebrating quality of his work and the cement had a report from mercer county community college or college leader headed up a ceramic sculptor <unk> play it's as old as the soil that comes from and

expressive as the artist molds it and you can see through this work that james cole of the jess are both the bright side and the dark side of life this is a major artist has been many distinguished that made the most of it because of the emotional intensity of this works by the emergence of pauses extraordinary quality dad passed away in nineteen ninety six friends say he was warm generous and energetic and somewhat secretive team would not fertilizer that his work ends soon but the most mock you if you asked what it was about some of his pieces are narrative without telling the story his portraits interpret a person rather than facial features the retrospective is in five locations in and around trenton that's because james kolar leader created a massive amount of work in his forty six years here mercer county college does he mostly portraits that you really need

to go to all five and use in order to get the emotional and haunting range of his sculpture so his word is extremely search us jails their lives were extremely painful for sure the year before he died called metered built alter is now on exhibit at the state museum his life was cut short but not before the promise of his talent was fulfilled i think having lived he would have done really more extraordinary work but i think this is the body of work is filled with hiv has auditioned for annie so maddie nj news west windsor it's been the parents better

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