KTRK Eyewitness News at 7:00 AM and Good Morning America (Partial), 5/13/1983

water with a little bit of oil in them and most of those are fairly ineffective they rub in well they smell good they look good they're sexy they're glamorous they have all those things but they leave very little oil on the skin and as a result they tend to be not so very effective so now you know what not to look for next time we'll hear what Dr cigman research tells him about various things like vitamin placenta and aloe vera in face hand and body creams you can save a lot of money just by watching that report and listening carefully that's our report this morning I'm David glott Eyewitness News time right now is 7:23 and sports the Astros went into Extra Innings with the Braves last night and came out on top again and Doug takes another look at the weekend weather outlook when Eyewitness News continues [Applause] [Music] May 3rd 1937 the zeppin Hindenberg leaves Germany for the United States why was special security assigned to this flight military standpoint she's a flying dinosaur 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Home [Music] Centers us home has the power buying power to purchase land and materials better to offer more selection to build more value into every home us home offers more locations get the power working for you the power of America's largest home builder us home Lou phol was the hero in the Astros Extra Inning victory over the Atlanta Braves overnight pool's 10th inning single drove in the winning run for Houston in a 4 to3 game it is the sixth consecutive Extra Inning win for the Astros who are now nine games out of first place in the West Houston is only four games away from 500 Baseball scoring the winning run last night was Jose Cruz who had reached second with a single and Denny Walling sacrificed play Houston plays Atlanta again tonight final score again Houston 4 Atlanta 3 the Clyde Drexler AE alaan news conference was a noow on Thursday apparently the midnight NBA filing deadline is a heavy burden on both players minds and according to Clyde Drexler there was some extra pressure Tim Melton talked with Drexler about that news conference and the big decision in his life well it sounded like a good idea at the time I mean we apologize for it and it wasn't our intent to do that Clyde had intended to show up for the press conference and announced that he had not yet made up his mind but there was a snag when Clyde and AEM arrived at gu Lewis's office AEM told Clyde he would do whatever Clyde decided to do does that make your decision difficult very difficult cuz I don't want to blame have you talked to him that he's got to he's got to make up his own mind right I've told him we're individuals and we have to do what's best for each other did that delay everything today uh pretty much but come Saturday at midnight Clyde and AE will have the decision behind them the only thing I think that's going to really make us decide is the deadline if you could be guaranteed you'd be picked by La would there be any question uh that's pretty good this is not something you can decide in in a week or a couple of weeks cuz this decision is one of the most important I'll have to make in my lifetime Tim Melton eyewitness Sports well Doug Brown has decided when the best times to go fishing will be you're right those guys should just relax fish and then make up their mind they've got another day or so 6:30 until 9:30 is very very good you can see however the greatest hours are in the early afternoon well what about Saturday the action again starts very early as a matter of fact 8:00 a.m. lasts until 10:30 and a very big special time again in the afternoon 1:00 and lasts all the way up until 7:30 p.m. well if you're a Sunday fisherman again it's early 8:30 lasting till 11:30 the noon hour is dull but then look at 2:00 it picks up stays up there for quite some time our forecast calls for an 80% chance of beautiful weather sunny skies a little bit later in the weekend you see cloudy today 82 with a 20% chance and uh it looks good for the weekend sounds good okay thank you it is now about 28 minutes after the hour a recap after this Friday on the 3:00 million doll movie what else they saw huh they see me turn into some kind of computer or some kind of machine or maybe you just better tell me how it all ended was there a nice big round of applause for you Dr Hazard was there David Jansen Joseph bottoms and Trish vaner starring The Dramatic stock the wildchild Friday's 3:00 million dooll movie here on [Music] 13 introducing Big Top the biggest 747 of all the upstairs deck is almost twice the size of normal 747s the first class cabin is one of the most spacious in the world there are more restrooms more movie areas and more gracious hostesses to give you the kind of service other airlines talk about fly Singapore Airlines big top and sit on top of the [Music] world you found it a luxury Waterfront Paradise just minutes from downtown Woods on the Bay Town Homes your own special island is here Woods on the bay here's a quick look at a couple of the headlines a 19-year-old woman died this morning after her car was hit by a 19-year-old motorist fleeing from police now that the sun is up Rescuers will start the search for two persons still missing in the per andalis River flood that's the news we thank you for being with us hope you have a really good day today this portion of Good Morning America is brought to you by shed spread in sticks bowls and the three-b country Croc shed spread 7:30 David Hartman Joan London how fast is fast all right we've seen Olympics on television Bob sleders uh downhill skiers zipping along at all those unbelievable speeds they go maybe 80 80 M an hour they are slow pokes compared watch this their slow pokes compared to some skiers we're going to see in just a few minutes now here is downhilling but these skiers move at up to30 miles an hour speed skars and we're going to see more of that in just a little while scary just thinking about it nuts crazy also Joel Seagle he's going to review the new movie Blue Thunder and John stel reminds us why buyer beware is a pretty good motto right now though it's 7:30 and Steve Bell has the news for us Steve good morning Good morning Joe and good morning everyone Syria's foreign minister is quoted today as saying that his country is rejecting in its present form the US negotiated withdrawal agreement between Israel and Lebanon in Israel meanwhile us Israeli and Lebanese negotiators are putting the final touches on that withdrawal agreement which is expected to be signed next week however the agreement cannot be implemented until Syria also agrees to withdraw its troops from Lebanon a capital Airways jet hijacked to Cuba is safe on the ground in Miami this morning the plane with 250 passengers on board was on route from San Juan to Miami when it was hijacked passengers arriving back in Miami described the hijacker as a woman wearing a turban and armed with a flare pistol she was taken off the plane in Havana it's the second time that same flight's been hijacked in two weeks the president has scored another victory for the MX missile issue the Senate Appropriations Committee has approved a half billion dollars to fund the missile the vote came after the president agreed in writing to the build Down plan of destroying old nuclear war heads when new ones are deployed in Moscow an editorial in Pravda is charging that President Reagan is not going far enough in negotiating reduction of missiles in Europe more on that from Bob zelnick the prda editorial here in Moscow appears to rule out a European formula based on us Soviet Warhead equality so long as the British and French nuclear arsenals are ignored provda claims that merging Yuri andropov recent Warhead Proposal with President Reagan's zero option or interim plan is impossible the editorial says these are mutually exclusive things and accuses Washington of appealing to the naive and gullible by suggesting otherwise provda also demands reductions of medium-range US aircraft based in Europe and the editorial argues that Soviet missiles in Asia cannot be part of the ongoing talks Western diplomats here took particular note of the provda warning that deployment of the plan NATO purging two missiles would require a response by the USSR and the other warsa treaty countries since the visit of East German leader Eric Hanukah early this month there have been a number of hints that one Soviet response to the NATO missiles would be to install both cruise and Shor ranged ballistic missiles on warsa pack territory outside the Soviet Union Bob zelnick ABC News Moscow also this morning the Republican dominated Senate has handed President Reagan a major setback by refusing to pass a budget compromise when a majority of senators couldn't settle on whether to raise taxes or the deficit they sent the issue back to committee a new Senate budget plan is expected out of committee on Wednesday however the president has vowed to veto any budget that repeals the third year of his tax cut Eastern Airlines says it will suspend for 30 days without pay those two mechanics who failed to replace oil seals on a jetliner that nearly plunged into the ocean last week after it lost power officials say the mechanics will be retrained and reassigned when they return and in Sicily today a rescue attempt of Earth moving prop ions workers are planning an explosion they hope will divert a worsening lava flow into a man-made trench they hope to keep the lava away from Villages at the base of the volcano and finally this morning a tight rope Walker trying to set a record for the longest walk across water got into some hot water yesterday in New Orleans Skywalker Jay Cochran had to abandon his aerial Escapade 170 ft above the Mississippi uh when the steel cable he was walking on began to roll he flung to the cable while the being lower to awaiting Coast Guard rescue boat that's news for now David thank you Steve 2648 John Coleman weather after these words from Sears 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kept clouds over Northern New England and this morning rain has backed into hyas Nantucket Brunswick and caribou and it's cloudy at Boston again another band of showers this morning from Spartansburg Greenville South Carolina northward through London and Louisville and Fort Knox Kentucky the main Thunders shower pattern extends northward from tuls to Fort Riley Kansas over toward Quincy Illinois through Missouri and up to lonai Iowa CA Rapids lighter showers at Wasau Wisconson snowing at Williston Min not this morning Mile City in Sheridan that snow as you can see in the forecast weather maps for the next 24 hours will be winding down as that storm departs rapidly into Canada but the storms and riness through the nation's midsection will continue an extensive severe alert from Texas into Illinois today and flash flood watch from Oklahoma into Missouri some pretty big storms too in parts of Ohio and Kentucky I'm predicting temperatures to climb into the 70s as far to the North as New York City today but it'll be a quite cool day out in the pl states with a 45 at Rapid City and a 44 at bismar lots of snow on the ground out in that country over the weekend we're predicting that big stormy pattern to continue in the Mississippi Valley edging Eastward the wet and chilly weather to continue behind it the West Coast looks mostly dry the East Coast warming up like summer that's the national weather now today's local forecast the forecast for the Houston area also including galvaston Island cloudy today with a high of 82 and a 20% chance of rain a slight chance of rain through the weekend currently 74 at the airport 72 downtown the detailed weekend weather maps next hour now stay with us on Good Morning America coming up next Joel seagull reviews the new movie Blue [Music] Thunder fresh ground cinnamon it makes a delicious difference in my cinnamon rolls I'm Mrs hson you know the right ingredients are so important in good cooking that's why fers is good cooking it has that just right delicious ingredient Mountain grown coffee the richest kind M delicious now that's Mountain grown coffee FES is good cooking and it is 7:39 and Joel seagull is here now to review Roy sher's new movie and good morning Joel good morning Joan it's called Blue Thunder it's the first Summer movie of 1983 it opens today at the proverbial theater near you and wow this is a great summer movie True the first hour of Blue Thunder plays more like pink humidity it's about as exciting as watching mildew but that's in the Summer movie tradition these are kids films kids on summer vacation they don't want you to miss much while you're finding your seat unwrapping your Milk Duds trying to find out if you really can taste any difference between a red Juju be and green Juju be they give you time to get all the monkey business with your date over with then they cut to the Chase and I'll tell you they ought to make Lois put in seat belts this Chase does not stop yep we are talking helicopters Blue Thunder is Roy sher's Chopper an experimental $5 million job that can see through walls here through buildings and fire machine gun bullets at a zillion rounds a second shs an LAPD pilot testing Blue Thunder allegedly for crowd control for the 1984 Olympics but he discovers he's Aon in in a Watergate type plot that will use Blue Thunder for 1984 as in Big Brother that kind of crowd control shider Bells Malcolm McDow an old Vietnam Nemesis tries to gut him down all this over downtown LA and under and in between called it duel in the smog so what if there's no story what there is interesting is good acting Roy shider is so impressive always believable always holding whatever structure this film has together with gaffer's tape and talent also in the scene you'll see Daniel thern remember him from breaking away and Diner and Warren Oats Warren Oats plays a police captain sher's boss he looks like he's lived as last 20 years on Mayock and Jim Beam not necessarily together he's one of those actors you've seen a hundred times never remember because he's such a good character actor you remember the character not the actor this was his last film he died a year ago a heart attack it' be nice if the academy thought about a supporting actor nomination for him you'll see why when I'm talking you lme and good I'll be looking at you well I just wanted to say Sir that that was my fault I talk Murphy into taking us there you're supposed to be stupid son don't abuse the privilege you think I haven't heard about that silly twit out there in Casino I had 20 years in this outfit when your idea of a big time was sitting in front of the TV tube watching bugs money and knowing on your fical blue thunder summer is off to a roaring start another thing summer movies need a great line that gets repeated and blue thunder the line is woring outs if you're walking on eggs he tells Roy shider don't hop Joan and thank you Joel right now is 19 minutes before 8 John stel and why the government can't always prevent ripoffs right after this [Music] I know this heart's two in one plus reflecting flee and tick collar really saved my cat's life cuz I was driving the car that almost hit her I was about a half a block from home I don't know how she got out but all of a sudden I saw a bright glow up the street her heart's collar was reflecting my headlight thank goodness I had time to stop cats really need nighttime safety plus they get 5 months of flee and tick protection all from the Hearts 2 in one plus reflecting collar now the famous hearts fle and tick killer can be a lifesaver too it is 7:42 in his series on baldness and its alleged cures this week our consumer reporter John stasel has concentrated on a product called biogenesis we saw it tested on men who found that it did not grow hair and we saw how a man named Glenn brazwell made millions of dollars selling biogenesis this morning John stasel tells us how brazwell and others take advantage of unwary C consumers I've been trying to get brazwell to go on TV to talk to you about all this in fact I've been asking him now for a year but he won't after watching Good morning America this week his assistant called me and claimed the double blind study was done incorrectly because the doctor told the bald men to massage their heads too vigorously at any rate none of the bald men grew hair and when we called people who brazwell said were satisfied customers they told us they didn't grow hair and last year the government took brazwell to court saying none of his 15 hair products including biogenesis could cure baldness and the government won what puzzles me is how did brazwell get away with it for so long we asked the Federal Trade Commission they said they never realized how big brazwell would get we asked the postal inspectors they said the law simply Works slowly postal attorney Tom zebar says it can take a year just to file the briefs the judge has to make his decision after he gets the briefs and then the appeal process starts and that can go on for several years and even when the post office succeeded brazwell kept selling for example the post office said right places bust enlarger was just a food supplement it makes your breast bigger simply by making you fatter so the post office got him to stop making the claims for right places brazwell just came out with new improved right places the post office took action against it so he came out with be Z P39 breast en larger and the postal inspectors had to start all over again and when the postal inspectors became a nuisance brazwell simply started selling by telephone using 800 numbers the phone company says it's not their job to police the phone lines doesn't that frustrate you well certainly I get frustrated certainly but I guess as a lawyer I I know that this is the way the system works so as long as he comes up with a new breast enlarger or baldness remedy he's back we have to approach it on a Case by casee basis that's true after 8 years of that the post office finally got a judge to close down all of braswell's Georgia Post Office boxes even that didn't stop him he just moved the business down here to Florida this is his current headquarters in Fort Lauderdale he wouldn't let our cameras inside the sea but he is still in business I would think people watching us on TV now would say I'm going to go into a mail order fraud you don't get caught you can get rich and you can get away with it well uh I would suggest they drop a line to Glenn Braswell though before they do it he has a point two days after my visit to brazwell last week brazwell was arrested in charge with male fraud and perjury but this happened 9 years after the government first sued him and he quit a few years ago he might have gotten away with it and his arrest doesn't mean it's over stores still sell his product s like the baldness remedy biogenesis and braswell's old friends and employees have gone into the body Improvement business running the same type of ads and selling the same type of products brazwell was selling and brazwell well today he's been released on his own recognizance and he's awaiting trial he says he's broke but he's paid all his millions to his lawyers I doubt that you consumers will ever get any of your money back Good Morning America we'll be right [Music] back hair hair hair it's really changed conditioner conditioner conditioner it's really changed Revlon introduces new improved Flex conditioner great conditioning in a new formula that leaves no heaviness behind new flex helps repair adds body and shine then rinses away hairs Springs free and fabulous today's hairstyles require new improved Flex conditioner by Revlon use it with flex shampoo too a barbecue come on fantastic chicken incredible ribs well he puts lean parents wherer in his barbecue sauce lean parents is the real one the original wer sauce and look new lean parents English pop mustard it's coarse ground it's hearty oh wow it's positively 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Steve Fox I went to the beautiful Snowy Peaks of Colorado to witness an incredible Sports competition it is an awesome region both beautiful and hostile where the air is thin the sun blinding and the weather unpredictable and unforgiving changing from Blue Sky to Blizzard within moments the Hall of the Mountain Kings inhospitable remote impossible but it is is here only where human beings seem so out of place that men and women can experience something as Extreme as this environment a sport that pushes skiers to the limits of their abilities as they seek to set records for Speed by plunging headlong down a 13,000 ft Mountain speed skiers are a rare breed they have to be to have the urge to ski faster than any other human being ever on steep slopes at high altitudes now there are only about 200 speed skiers in the world and only three slopes that they consider high enough and steep enough to allow them to reach speeds of close to 130 mph this is one of those slopes it's called velocity Peak located near the town of Silverton Colorado for a week in April this B elevation 11,000 ft becomes a base camp for skiers Spectators and support crew some of whom have been at work since November blowing down potential avalanches and shaping and packing the racetrack to make world record speeds possible the skiers come from Europe Canada and the United States the nature of their Quest is ancient to be the best while confronting and conquering danger but their equipment is modern even Space Age tested in Wind tunnels final rubber suits minimize wind resistance and increase speed the skis are some of the flattest longest and stiffest made rubber or plastic fins are worn behind the calves to reduce turbulence buffeting a skier's legs at speeds over 100 m hour and the helmets dramatic and Artful in look but designed like everything else to enhance both safety and speed the helmet is aerodynamically designed it's very narrow and profile and it has the two fins on top for steering once we leave the snow and are actually flying these fins allow us to steer as racetime approaches helicopters Ferry the skiers 2,000 ft up from the base camp to the top of the mountain first down the mountain are the forerunners newcomers to the sport who nonetheless hit speeds between 80 and 90 M an hour as they test the safety of the course and the accuracy of the speed trap a 100 m stretch of track between two of electric eyes the fastest skiers pass through it in less than 2 seconds at the top the skiers pause before their runs to prepare for the challenge ahead it takes the total concentration and you have to jump around and attack right off the bat and you have to have all that in your mind exactly what you're going to do how many skating steps you want to make where you want to go on the track you know you got to let the make sure the winds going over your shoulders that's the main thing if the wind gets underneath your shoulders you get broken out of your position it's like a big can opener you're just out of your out of your tuck just like that you have to know what's in front of you you have to know your equipment's good you have to know you're ready you know physically and then it's easy for you to have that that mental psych all of those things give you the confidence without confidence you don't belong on the mountain the racers know that because one doubt one moment of lost concentration and this can happen falling at over 100 miles an hour can be frightening and dangerous it doesn't happen that often but a few people have died and the Very thought of it is something that all race