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or else I gotta get the marshal in.

- I'll get the rest of it tomorrow.

- Tomorrow's today. Pay up or out.

How much?

- What are you doing here?

- I'm on my way to San Francisco...

to buy Dan some happy weather.

How much?

She's five fifty short.

The extra goes on account. Let's go.

Did you interview you any

celebrities, Sallyanne?

Come on.

- You get a rush out of humiliating me!

- I didn't come here for a rush.

- The what did you come here for?

- I had a hunch.

You had a hunch you'd walk in here and

get the story on me and my sister.

I have no interest in your sister.

I just met her a few minutes ago.

Why don't you get her in depth?

Washing her underwear in the sink?

Look, you asked for cash,

I provided it. Over and out.

You provided it?

What exactly do you take me for?

- Wait a minute.

- You come here and spreads bills...

around like you picked me up in some

bar, in front of that a**hole!

- You have no business here!

- Hold on. You work for me.

You announce you're taking off, forget

about the part, if it's okay for me...

shoot off a fax demanding cash.

And you figured you'd do me this

big favor and Id owe you.

- Well, that was my mistake.

- Every girl I grew up with...

- ended up thinking she owed some guy.

- This doesn't interest me.

I was gonna get us out of here.

I told Luanne, "We'll get an apartment

on the Upper West Side"...

because I read some magazine that said

Diane Sawyer lived there.

I didn't know the upper side west side

of what. I just knew...

I had to get us there.

That's what happens. Some guy comes

along and no more Upper West Side.

- Does that interest you?

- That interests me.

I need another couple of days...

to make sure she's all right.

If that's okay with you.

It's perfectly okay with me.

This is the final boarding call for

flight 804 to San Francisco.

All remaining passengers

should board now.

- So, take as long as you need.

- I didn't want you to see any of this.

So what?

He completely ignored the fact that

this is a society divided by fear...

...hatred and violence.

- Not true.

We haven't discussed...

"Promises and pie crust are made to

be broken, "Jonathan Swift once said.

And the President's environmental

package resembles cherry pie crust.

South Vietnamese planes struck

the wrong target here today.

Their own village. Napalm burned

civilians running for their lives.

Here's what we don't know, on this day

where over 200 US Marines were killed.

With the death toll still rising.

There was no perimeter defense set

up that might've stopped the bomber.

We don't know what roll these

Marines were supposed to play here...

why they were even here. And so,

at the end of this terrible day...

what we do know is that over 200

Marines died without knowing why.

This is Warren Justice, I.B.S. News,

Beirut, Lebanon.

Warren Justice stepped down today as

Chief White House Correspondent.

An award-winning journalist, Justice

has been a prominent figure at IBS...

So, what's is it like

working at the network?

You think you'll get to the network and

look back at everybody that made...

you eat it and say, "Up yours."

But it's not like that.

- What is it like?

- It's hard.

It's fun.

- Then why did you leave?

- It stopped being fun.

Tell me about these dumb contests

you used to enter with Tawney Buchner.

- Why don't you tell me why...

- How about the contests?

The contests.

Miss Stateline, Miss Truckee,

Miss Tahoe, Miss Sierra Logger.

- I'll tell you a secret.

- Id keep Sierra Logger a secret.

No. The secret is, in not one of

them did I finish in the top five.

So, what's you do for talent? Did

you by chance sing, "Feelings"?

No. For your information, I did not

by any chance sing "Feelings."

To dream the impossible dream

To fight the unbeatable foe

To bear the unbearable sorrow

To run where the brave dare not go

To right the unrightable wrong

To love pure and chaste from afar

To try when your arms are too weary

To reach

The unreachable star

This is my quest

To follow that star

- Phone sex is on the rise.

- Yeah? Warren won't touch that.

- Alaskan wolves.

- As in the slaughter of?

We have tape of a wolf

caught in a trap.

You got tape on that?

Run it at six.

Metro-Dade reports tourist robbery

complaints are up eight percent.

It's a story this town's

talking about.

Correction. It's not a story

his town wants to talk about.

I don't think Tally's her pulse on the

finger of the community the way I do.

I think you mean finger on the

pulse of the community, Rob.

Anyway let's get people talking about

it. Harvey, you get into that.

It's your first step towards the Peabody

Award. Somebody makes me happy.

Wait! Here's a cross-dresser

from Tallahassee who gets all the...

to the finals in Miss Florida contest.

- Boring.

- Tally, maybe you wanna handle that.

- You'd do a real in depth piece on it.

- I think I'll pass.

Think, "Cross-dresser from Tallahassee

who dreams the impossible dream.

You cannot be trusted.

Okay, anything else?

- So, this is where I live.

- It's...

- What?

- 502, vehicle registered to...

Skylight Limo.

- You keep this on all the time?

- I find it soothing.

The sound of human iniquity.

You know what a 502 is?

D.W.I., driving while intoxicated.

Skylight Limo's the one the rockers

use. Probably a drug bust.

Controlled substances.

Tally Atwater reporting live.

You better get going.

The night we did the Diaz story,

in the editing room...

I didn't know you then.

I'm not gonna be the guy that goes,

"No more Upper West Side." So?

First on the scene? One-on-one with the

lead guitar? Isn't that what you want?

What do you want?

I knew you'd go.

This is Tally Atwater saying Happy

New Year form W.M.I.A. Channel Nine...

News Heartbeat of

the American Riviera.

You give us thirty minutes,

and we give you Miami. Yel mundo.

- We're back in Times Square...

- Have you ever met Bucky Terranova?

Agents are for babes,

Tal, not for grunts.

He's coming Miami next week

for a panel.

So is Joanna Kennelly.

Tally, you and Warren...

you guys aren't having a...

you know... thing, are you?

That's what I thought.

The usual deal is

somebody ends up crying.

Nobody is going to end up crying.

And it's usually not Warren.

Happy New Year to all of you!

Okay, you got the baby?

Oye... you got me, okay?

Fernando, you were convicted in

July of armed robbery...

- your third felony conviction.

- No... fourth.

So you get free baby clothes, toys,

diaper service for a year, all for...

- what are you calling the baby?

- Fernandito.

And so, Fernando Buttanda heads

north for Holmesburg Prison...

leaving behind wife, Augustina,

and their five children in Cuba.

- Here's something from the booth.

- And Rosario Mota...

who at 12:
02 this morning,

gave birth to Fernando, Junior...

Miami's first baby of the new year.

- Sad story, Tally.

- It is, Rob.

One with a New Year's twist. I was

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