Wildfire danger at record high for 8 counties

2009-07-04

Wildfire danger at record high for 8 counties

Counting down to the 4th of July celebrations

2009-07-03

KREM 2's Grace Pena reports.

Fire danger high for Spokane and Kootenai County

2009-07-03

Fire danger high for Spokane and Kootenai County

Fire rips through home leaving renter in critical condition

2009-07-03

Fire rips through home leaving renter in critical condition

Fire destroys East Spokane Home

2009-07-03

KREM 2's Grace Pena reports.

Sorting out sunscreen confusion

2009-07-03

KREM 2's Grace Pena reports.

Jason Kadah's Friday morning forecast

2009-07-03

Jason Kadah's Friday morning forecast

Struggle far from over for little 'miracle' dog

2009-07-03

KREM 2's Abbey Gibb reports.

Grant County coroners can't get along

2009-07-02

KREM 2's William Pitts reports.

Supporters rally to keep Spokane Shriners open

2009-07-02

KREM 2'S William Pitts reports.

Fire forces brides to scramble for their big day

2009-07-02

KREM 2's Abbey Gibb reports.

Students, colleagues remember slain teacher

2009-07-02

KREM 2's Lee Stoll reports.

Hare family skyping from Boise!

2009-07-02

KREM 2's Sten Walstrom talks with the Hare family, Vern, Derek and Luke, while stopped in Boise during their cross-country biking trip.

Naked passenger forces US Airways plane to divert

2009-07-02

Naked passenger forces US Airways plane to divert

Raw video from scene of auto-ped crash on 1st and Post

2009-07-02

Raw video from an auto-ped crash in Downtown Spokane that sent a woman to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Climbing ranger rescue on Mount Rainier

2009-07-02

Climbing ranger rescue on Mount Rainier.

Jason Kadah's Thursday morning forecast

2009-07-02

Jason Kadah's Thursday morning forecast.

Affordable summer camp for kids

2009-07-02

KREM 2's Grace Pena reports.

Business destroyed, owner devestated by loss

2009-07-02

Business destroyed, owner devestated by loss

Downtown construction becomes a headache for businesses

2009-07-01

KREM 2's William Pitts looks into why 4th Street work in Coeur d'Alene is causing such a mess.

Tour Of Neverland Ranch

2009-07-03

Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch is shown with the interiors completely empty and a few shots of a fountain on the exterior.

Rare White Humpback Whale

2009-07-02

-Australia-

Migaloo, the rare all-white humpback whale, was spotted swimming off the Queensland state on Wednesday as it migrated up the Australian coast.

Swimming with a small group of whales, Migaloo wowed watchers who set sail from the Gold Coast to get a glimpse of the endangered whale.

Migaloo is the only documented white humpback whale in the world, according to the Pacific Whale Foundation website.

Now in his mid-twenties, Migaloo has become a regular visitor off the country's east coast.

Humpback whales are heading north to warmer waters, and Migaloo is expected to reach Cape Moreton by Thursday.

Whale watchers must keep their distance by law by 0.3 miles and anyone getting closer can draw a 16-thousand Australian dollar fine.

-CBS

Enhanced video of dog attack

2009-06-30

Enhanced surveillance video of the attack on a small dog outside of Spokane City Hall.

Dog swung by leash into Spokane City Hall

2009-06-30

KREM 2's Marissa Bagg reports on a dog attack caught on surveillance tape outside of Spokane City Hall.

High Speed Chase in Dallas

2009-06-30

A high speed chase through the freeways of Dallas ended in a crash as a narcotics suspect blew through red lights and failed to stop at oncoming traffic.

Authorities were in pursuit of a vehicle traveling high speeds along Interstate 635. Nearly seven constable cars were involved in the chase.

According to media reports, authorities deployed spike strips but the driver managed to get around them.

At an intersection the vehicle was hit by a pick-up truck while trying to flee authorities. The drive of the pick up sustained minor injuries.

The condition of the driver is unknown at this time.

-CBS

Michigan Court Brawl

2009-06-29

A smiling murder suspect sparked a wild court room brawl in Flint Friday.

Juanell Darrough had a big grin on his face as he looked at the family of 22-year-old Alex Pace, the man Darrough was charged with shooting to death.

The smile prompted Pace?s father to jump a railing and punch the suspect in the face as the court room erupted into mayhem.

Pace?s father was arrested, along with another family member. At least one other person was Tasered.

At one point during the melee, a defense attorney took cover under a table and a prosecutor in the courtroom started pulling people into a hallway to protect them.

Only one officer was in the court room at the time, but the district?s sheriff said he would appoint more in the future.

-CBS

Belgian Climate Museum

2009-06-26

A trip around the world through all climate zones, following one meridian in a few hours is an experience visitors can make in Bremerhaven's latest museum, the "Climate house Bremerhaven, 8 degrees East" (Klimahaus Bremerhaven, 8 Grad Ost).

Whether the desert heat of 35 degrees Celsius, the Arctic cold of minus 10 degrees or melting glaciers in the Alps, people can't only see different life size display but actually feel the different climate situations such as humidity and dryness.

The trip through the 11,500 square meters of exhibitions space is following the 8th meridian, where also Bremerhaven is located, with all its different landscapes and climate situations.

On the itinerary are Switzerland, Sardinia, Niger and Cameroon in Africa, Antarctica or Samoa and Alaska. 600,000 people are expected each year to come and get their own impressions of climate change.

When planning for the 100 million Euro nest-shaped glass and steel construction began nine years ago, little did the average citizen know about climate change and how urgent that problem would soon become. Only experts were aware of the urgency of the problem.

Jakob Uexkuell, founder of the alternative Nobel price, praised the project as "pioneering and unparalleled".

"The Western world has an above average share in the development of climate change. That's why each visitor has an above average chance to make a change", he added.

Needless to say that the museum itself is setting an example of ideal climate behaviors. The toilets are run with rain water, the restaurants only serve organic food and the building's energy concept is a state of the art sustainable concept, that combines various methods of energy saving in a unique way.

Especially the tangible climate zones with many different temperatures, created on a comparatively small area, proved to be a big challenge for the engineers.

The museum will open to the public on Saturday.

-CBS

100 Million Year Old Dinosaur Teeth

2009-06-25

Japanese researchers have discovered fossils in western Japan of what are believed to be the teeth of a large dinosaur species dating back more than 100 million years.

They believe the finding suggests that the species started becoming larger much earlier than is now widely believed.

Researchers at the Museum of Nature and Human Activities in Hyogo Prefecture excavated the fossils of two teeth of the meat-eating dinosaur species Tyrannosaurus Rex in Tamba City in the prefecture.

One of the teeth is .7 inches in length and 0.2 inches in width, while the other one, which is chipped, is 0.3 inches long.

Researchers say that judging from the size of the teeth, the dinosaur is presumed to have measured 16 feet from head to tail.

Tyrannosaurus Rex is widely believed to have evolved into a larger dinosaur about 85 million years ago. But the newly found fossils were unearthed from a stratum dating back 120 to 140 million years.

The museum says another set of fossils of the same species found in Gansu Province in China, from a stratum of more than 100 million years, is also evidence the species evolved into a larger dinosaur earlier than is thought.

Senior researcher Haruo Saegusa at the museum says the finding is significant because it shows the evolution of the species began much earlier than is widely believed.

-CBS

Car Crashes Through Yakima Duplex

2009-06-24

Police say a speeding car hit the side of a duplex in Yakima, crashing through living areas and garage of one unit before stopping in the second garage.

An elderly woman was sitting in the living room just three feet off to the right when the Mitsubishi plowed through.

Witnesses say the driver barreled through the intersection, drove across the sidewalk and lawns, then hit one side of the duplex.

Police say the driver, a 31-year-old Bothell woman, was taken to a hospital and is expected to survive her injuries. Amazingly no one in the duplex got hurt. Police are not sure at this time if alcohol was involved. The accident is still under investigation.

-CBS

Robot Shows Human Expression

2009-06-24

A walking humanoid robot that is able to use its whole face and body to express emotion was unveiled on Tuesday in Japan.

The robot was created by scientists at Tokyo's Waseda University and is thought to be the first of its kind according to its makers.

It is able to express a range of different emotions, including happiness, fear, surprise, sadness, anger and disgust, by opening and closing its eyes, moving its lips and eyebrows, and using its arms and legs.

The robot is installed with 48 "actuators" which allow its face and body to move in a variety of ways.

It shows happiness by opening its eyes and mouth wide and raising its arms, and sorrow by drooping its head and covering its eyes.

The robot's hands are covered with a soft material which is supposed to replicate the feeling of a human hand.

Professor Atsuo Takanishi and his team at Waseda University's Faculty of Science and Engineering, spent the last two and a half years creating the robot, which they called "KOBIAN".

Takanishi believes KOBIAN is the first robot able to express emotion with its entire body.

He said the ability to express feeling was an "important factor" in achieving "natural communication" between robots and humans.

The professor hopes robots such as KOBIAN could be used in the future to help elderly people with housework and in nursing homes.

But he said the robot was still at the prototype stage and was not yet able to interact with humans emotionally apart from through its set of pre-programmed responses.

Takanishi said it could be several decades before robots such as KOBIAN can be used to help people in their homes.

Waseda University set up the Humanoid Robotics Institute in April 2000 to carry out research on creating new relationships between humans and machines.

According to its website, the institute hopes to create a robot which will eventually experience the same patterns of thought and behavior as a human being.

-CBS

Zero-Gravity Wedding

2009-06-23

Noah Fulmore and Erin Finnegan Saturday became the first people on the planet to tie the knot while weightless.

The bride and groom, from Brooklyn, New York, 'floated' down the aisle in a special plane whose mid-air maneuvers allow it to reach conditions of no gravity or weight.

The couple took off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral with a small group of friends and photographers.

The couple paid a whopping sixty thousand dollars for the ceremony.

-CBS

Rubber Ducky Race

2009-06-22

Apple co-founder Steve, Wozniak helped launch 15-thousand rubber ducks for the 2nd annual Silicon Valley Duck Race.

The race is sponsored by local charities to raise money for services for families and the community.

The sponsors of the top-placing ducks won thousands of dollars worth of prizes, and a chance to win a million dollars.

-CBS

Tornado Caught On Tape

2009-06-19

Storm-chasers caught dramatic footage of these wild storms throughout the Midwest.

Toothpick Sculpture of San Francisco

2009-06-18

Of all the billions of toothpicks ever made, Scott Weaver's are the lucky ones. They have found their way, not between teeth, but into the fingers of Weaver, who makes them part of bigger things.

One million of his toothpicks became a rendition of San Francisco, California. It took him 34 years to build it.

It started as a school project.

One cannot really appreciate how big the sculpture is until you stand next to it. Seven feet wide, nine feet high, and it has entrances for ping pong balls. Put them in, they go all the way to the bottom.

Weaver's version of San Francisco has its own scenic drive; 50 feet of ping pong trails wind down Lombard Street, across the Golden Gate Bridge, and pass through many other attractions, in between.

It is folk art, pure and simple. No wonder that when Ripley's Museum offered 40-thousand dollars for the piece, Weaver turned them down.

-CBS

Oldest Female Macaque Monkey

2009-06-17

The Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines is now part of monkey history.

A Japanese macaque called Baldy celebrated her 35th birthday on Tuesday. That makes her the oldest-ever female macaque with a confirmed birth date.

Japanese macaques are also known as snow monkeys. Zoo officials say snow monkeys usually live between 20 and 25 years. They?re hoping she makes it to several more birthdays.

Baldy has been at the Blank Park Zoo since 1985. If she were a human she?d be more than 100 years old.

-CBS

Caretta Turtles Brought to Sea

2009-06-16

TURKEY-

The Caretta Turtle is a species that lives in the Mediterranean. They can have considerable dimensions - the largest weighs over 300 pounds... in spite of this, they are very fast.

The Caretta spawns always in the same beach-Dalyan (near the tourist resort Bodrum) where they are born, and for this reason it is important to care for the nests' well-being in order to avoid extinction. The nesting period is from June to August, the months in which the females reach the beach to spawn.

In Dalyan, Carettas are under protection. They are kept in special pools. 6 Carettas were brought to sea last night.

-CBS

Ham-Cutting Record?

2009-06-15

People in Spain try to break the Guinness record of ham cutting.

-CBS

84-Year-Old Granny Skydives

2009-06-12

If you?re 84-year-old and retired, what kind of challenges do you want to take on? For a woman in Arizona, her challenge was sky-high and Thursday she made a dream come true.

84-year-old Jean Pettit suited up, loaded up into a plane and headed for 13-thousand feet with one purpose in mind, jumping out of a perfectly good airplane.

Pettit, who lives in Peoria, Arizona, headed to Eloy, Arizona with a huge group of family, friends and fans who wanted to watch her accomplish her goal.

Once at altitude, it was time to jump and out she went! Pettit did a tandem jump with an experienced skydiver.

Pettit says if former President George H.W. Bush can jump out of an airplane, she could too. Pettit entered a writing contest and won, so Thursday?s jump was free of charge.

Friends from the retirement community where Pettit lives loaded up into a bus and headed to the jump site, about an hour south of Phoenix.

Pettit was able to free-fall about 8-thousand feet before the chute was pulled and she drifted to the ground with all of her fans cheering her on. Once on the ground, Pettit was all smiles and said she hopes Bush would be proud.

-CBS

Corpse Flower to Bloom in CA

2009-06-11

Something is rotten in San Marino and it's going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better.

A rare corpse flower is about to bloom at the Huntington Library.

The bud shot up inside The Conservatory.

When it does bloom, the odor will knock people over.

It smells like rotting flesh.

You can smell these flowers blocks away when they are outside, but inside?

It's going to be very ugly.

The flowers can grow up to 12-feet tall.

They think this one will be just under 6-feet when it opens and that is expected to happen sometime in the next few days.

-CBS

Bird Dive Bombs People in San Francisco

2009-06-10

A very determined and aggressive blackbird has some people wondering if it's safe to walk in San Francisco's financial district Tuesday.

The tiny bird has spent the last several weeks dive bombing people as they walk near the intersection of California and Front Street.

A few bird experts say the determined dive bomber is just defending his nearby nest using a tactic behavior experts call mobbing.

Nobody's been hurt, but quite a few people have been startled.

The bird has also developed a following. Several people now gather to watch the daily dive bombing activities.

-CBS

Moses Lake gets first win of season vs. RiverHawks

2009-07-04

The Moses Lake Pirates got their first win of the season in 20 games with a 3-1 victory over the Spokane RiverHawks in a West Coast Collegiate Baseball League game Friday.

Indians make it two straight wins over Yakima

2009-07-03

Spokane continues its dominance over Yakima with a 6-3 win Thursday night. The Indians improve to 4-1 versus the Bears this season.

Indians finally win; beat Bears 7-4

2009-07-02

The Spokane Indians won their first road game of the season Wednesday night in Yakima, with a 7-4 victory over the Bears.

Uncut: A loss doesn't bother Nick Davila, unless it's in the playoffs

2009-07-01

Always looking at the task at hand, Shock quarterback Nick Davila is focusing on Iowa and says an undefeated season means nothing to him. All he wants to win in the playoffs.

Uncut: Adam Shacklford talks new baby, Iowa and more

2009-07-01

Shock head coach Adam Shackleford expects a hostile crowd in Iowa and discusses the birth of his new baby boy.

Tri-City hands Spokane its sixth straight loss

2009-07-01

The Spokane Indians lost their sixth straight game on Tuesday night despite some late game heroics.

Watch Kevin McCullough make the af2 Catch of the Week!

2009-06-30

Spokane's Kevin McCullough was honored with the af2 Catch of the Week for this interception he made against Oklahoma City.

Tri-City pounds past the Indians, 11-6

2009-06-30

The Tri-City Dust Devils sent the Spokane Indians to their fifth straight loss on Monday night at Avista Stadium.

Tom Mendonca: The newest Spokane Indian

2009-06-30

KREM 2's Tim Lewis tells you about Tom Mendonca, the newest Spokane Indian. He's expected to report to Spokane on Tuesday.

Sunday's elite championship highlights

2009-06-29

Team Tonicx vs. Seattle's Finest; Associated Messenger vs. Pterodactyls; TBA vs. EXLGS.

Floodgates open on Indians in 12-7 loss to Tri-City

2009-06-29

The Spokane Indians rallied to tie the game at 7-7 and force extra innings before Tri-City rattled off five runs in the tenth to win 12-7 Sunday night at Avista Stadium.

Hoopfest Elite's draws big names and big competition

2009-06-27

Team Tonicx vs. Damage; Team Fresno vs. Gold's Gym; Associated Messenger vs. Bodaggots; Tomato Street vs. Crazy Ladies.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar hosts Hoopfest Slam Dunk Contest

2009-06-27

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar hosts Hoopfest Slam Dunk Contest

Shock skunk OKC in second half with 61-28 win

2009-06-27

The Spokane Shock set a franchise record with 12 straight wins in beating Oklahoma City 61-28 Friday night at Veterans Memorial Arena.

Kareem tells KREM 2 about knowing Michael Jackson as the superstar grew up

2009-06-26

Imagine seeing this group: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Cosby and the Jackson 5 headed out for some pick-up hoops. Ahead of his Hoopfest appearances in Spokane, Abdul-Jabbar told KREM 2's Tim Lewis about knowing Michael Jackson as the superstar tried to deal with fame growing up.

Uncut: Tim Lewis interviews Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

2009-06-26

KREM 2 Sports Director Tim Lewis interviews basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about Hoopfest, the NBA Draft, Adam Morrison, Michael Jackson, and more.

Raw interview: Ex-NBA star A.C. Green at Hoopfest

2009-06-26

KREM 2 Sports Director Tim Lewis interviews former NBA star A.C. Green. Green is here to spread the word about 3BA, a professional 3-on-3 basketball league.

Uncut: Will Foster talks Davidson and Austin Daye

2009-06-25

Gonzaga center Will Foster talks about playing Davidson in this year's Battle in Seattle, Austin Daye's decision to go pro and more.

Uncut: Kevin McCullough doesn't care about going undefeated

2009-06-24

Shock linebacker Kevin McCullough doesn't care about the Spokane's undefeated record. He just wants to take it one game at a time, even if it's a cliche.

Uncut: Adam Shackleford says OKC will provide test

2009-06-24

Shock head coach Adam Shackleford says his team can't take Oklahoma City (7-5) lightly and knows he's bound to run into a challenge at home this season.