WDBJ 7 news at 6 for 02/21/00

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As the sun sets over Nelson County, the search for a missing eight-year old becomes critical.

A LIVE report tops NEWS 7 tonight.
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And relatives of a New River Valley murder suspect say if he had something to do with the death of Tara Munsey, he's not the Jeff Thomas THEY know.
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Tonight on News 7 sports, Hampden-Sydney are just a hour away from tonight's ODAC men's championship game. George Welsh plays musical chairs with his coaches.
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And not everyone was as happy as the Quality Care Ford crew to see Dale Jarrett win as much as he did at Daytona last week.
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Looking for a mild week weatherwise. Conditions are improving slowly at Carvins Cove and WeatherSchool is in outer space. All that just ahead.
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The search is on in Nelson County - for an 8-year-old girl last seen yesterday morning.
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[ANCHOR=Keith]
Good evening, I'm Keith Humphry.

[Missing-Girl]

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With nightfall approaching, authorities say it's crucial they find a little girl who apparently wandered away from her Nelson County home yesterday morning.
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Kate Weidaw is at the search command center tonight with the latest.
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(VO OUT-Q=family dogs wandered away with her)
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[Thomas]

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The murder of Tara Rose Munsey has devastated two families ... hers -- and the family of the man arrested last week in her murder.
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Marya Jones spoke to Jeffrey Thomas' family today and now brings us their reaction to the charges from the New River newsroom.
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Keith, family members of Jeff Thomas are still stunned.
They're heartbroken that one of their own could be charged with this crime.... and for Tara Munsey's family.
But even as they contend Thomas is not capable of a crime like this, they're preparing for whatever outcome his trial brings.
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(( Lisa Davis was heartbroken when she heard that Tara Munsey -- a friend of the family -- was missing.
And she was crushed, weeks later, when her brother Jeff Thomas, was arrested in the murder.
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((LISA DAVIS: MY HEART BREAKS FOR THE MUNSEY FAMILY AND I CAN'T IMAGINE WHAT THEY MAY FEEL, BUT I DO LOVE MY BROTHER AND IN THE END I PRAY THAT THIS IS NOT THE TRUTH.)) [runs:13]
Davis and her husband, Gary, acknowledge Thomas' past brushes with the law... including a 1993 conviction for beating a man with a baseball bat.
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((A LOT OF IT WAS HE DRANK AND WHEN HE DRANK, IT SEEMED TO... THAT'S WHEN HE GOT IN TROUBLE. )) [runs:09]
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((GARY DAVIS: I TRIED HELPING HIM. BUT HE WAS DOING GOOD, JEFF WAS DOING GOOD.)) [runs:03]
They describe the man in the mugshot as an adopted foster child... a brother who talked to them on the phone every day... and the doting dad of a 5-year-old girl.
And that's what makes the crime he's charged with so hard to understand. Thomas was arrested last Thursday for the capital murder of Tara Munsey, whose body was found shot in a ditch. Authorities charge that the killing happened during an attempted sexual assault.
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((I KNOW THAT IF HE'S THE PERSON, THEN JUSTICE WILL HAVE TO BE SERVED, BUT HE'S NOT A HORRIBLE PERSON. )) [runs:10]))
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[Henry-Jobs]

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Henry County expects to announce close to 400 new jobs tomorrow.
Government sources says a major clothing manufacturer will open a distribution center in the county with the highest unemployment rate in Virginia.
The plans call for about a 40 million dollar investment and eventually construction of a new state of the art facility.
The announcement comes after more than 35-hundred textile jobs have been lost in the Henry County area.

[Apartment-Fire]

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Blacksburg firefighters say an overloaded electrical outlet was the culprit in a morning blaze that claimed twelve apartments.
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The fire erupted around ten-thirty in the kitchen of a third-floor apartment in the 29-hundred building of Foxridge Apartments.
Firefighters say the woman who lived there had plugged too many appliances into one electrical outlet.
Firefighters battled the fire for one hour, as it gutted all four apartments on the top floor.
Apartments on the two lower floors suffered water damage.
Damage is estimated at 300-thousand dollars.
Residents are being put up in a motel until they find other lodging.
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[Roanoke-Fire]

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In Roanoke - a basement fire damaged a house on East Gate this afternoon.
Authorities say a man was working on his motorcycle downstairs, when some fuel got near the furnace and caught fire.
Smoke filled the house and some fire got into the walls.
No serious injuries reported.
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[Lewis-Gale]

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Another twist in the tale of doctors departing the Lewis-Gale Clinic.
This time ... a doctor who replaced a departing doctor ... may need a replacement of her own after only a week on the job.
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Scott Goldberg has more tonight from our newsroom.
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Keith, Doctor Kaye Allen didn't show up for work today and the Lewis-Gale Clinic says it doesn't know if she's coming back.
This happens a week -- to the day -- after she was hired to take over for one of the original departing doctors.
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Last week we told you about occupational medicine doctor Darrell Powledge.
He was one of nearly 40 doctors who have resigned from the Lewis-Gale Clinic in recent months ... in a dispute with the parent company.
He gave a 90-day notice and was waiting it out -- but Lewis-Gale terminated him before the 90-days were up.
The official reason was:
The clinic found a new doctor who could take his place ... AND take his patients ... so the clinic said it was in everyone's best interest not to keep Powledge around.
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But now it looks like that new doctor won't be hanging around, either.
The clinic says Doctor Allen has not formally resigned ... but doesn't know if she'll return.
Lewis-Gale also says:
Patient care has not been interrupted through all of this.
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Keith?

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The cards appear to be stacked in their favor.
But some gun-rights advocates aren't happy with what's going on in the State Capitol.
We'll explain.
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Plus... Independent Virgil Goode says he wants a Republican to be the next President of the United States.
We'll tell you which Republican.
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[COMMERCIAL][Wilkins-Guns]

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One in every seven dollars the National Rifle Association spent in Virginia General Assembly races in the last four years went to one man.
Virginia's new Speaker of the House is finally in a position to return the favor.
But something's going on in Richmond.
Ellen Qualls takes a look.
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(( Just a week before the election that made Vance Wilkins arguably the second most powerful man in Richmond, the NRA dumped 20-thousand dollars into his campaign coffers-- even though he had NO opponent.
Three days after he was sworn in as Speaker-- another thousand dollars went into his campaign and five thousand into his political action committee.
It looked like a good day for gun owners in Virginia.
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((DEL. VANCE WILKINS/R-AMHERST CO.: THERE'S NO WAY THEY COULD INFLUENCE ME. I PROBABLY INFLUENCE THEM.))
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Indeed.
The day after the swearing-in, a group called Gun Owners of America put a warning on its website:
The new Speaker and Republican leadership "will bury all pro gun bills in committee," and are "leaning on pro-gun legislators to stop them from introducing good gun bills."
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((DEL. VANCE WILKINS/R-AMHERST CO.: I DON'T KNOW THAT I TALKED TO THE LEGISLATORS BEFORE THE SESSION. I MIGHT HAVE TALKED TO SOME OF THE LOBBYISTS BEFORE THE SESSION. TOLD 'EM WHAT I WAS PROBABLY GONNA DO. THAT MAY BE WHERE THIS CAME FROM.))
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((DENNIS FUSARO/GUN OWNERS OF AMERICA: MR. EVANS SAID -- WHO REPRESENTS THE VIRGINIA FIREARMS DEALERS ASSOCIATION AND THE VIRGINIA SHOOTING SPORTS ASSOCIATION -- WAS THAT WE WILL DO NOTHING UNLESS SPEAKER WILKINS GIVES THE OKAY.))
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The order he gave, and Majority Leader Morgan Griffith appears to have carried out, was that this was NOT the year for ANY major gun legislation.
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((DEL. MORGAN GRIFFITH/R-SALEM: I CERTAINLY APPRECIATE THE COMPLIMENT. IF I WAS DOING THAT, I MUST HAVE DONE A NICE JOB.))
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((HE DID. FIVE MODEST OR TECHNICAL GUN MEASURES HAVE GOTTEN THROUGH THE HOUSE. BUT FOUR PRO-GUN BILLS WERE PUT ON HOLD, AND 17 GUN RESTRICTIONS WERE PASSED BY, CONTINUED FOR A YEAR, STRICKEN FROM THE DOCKET, OR NO ACTION WAS TAKEN AT ALL.))
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((DENNIS FUSARO/GUN OWNERS OF AMERICA: WHAT THEY WANT IS THEY WANT THE GRASS ROOTS TO SHUT UP, SIT DOWN, AND STAY ON THE BACK OF THE BUS WHILE THEY PROTECT THEIR MAJORITY.))
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Wilkins' hold on the Speakership he's coveted for years depends partly on a big batch of urban Republicans-- many of whom who are less than excited about gun rights.
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((DEL. MORGAN GRIFFITH/R-SALEM: BECAUSE THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE AND I ARE BOTH PEOPLE THAT ARE SEEN AS PRO-GUN MOST OF THE TIME, THERE WAS A CONCERN THAT WE DIDN'T WANT FOLKS TO THINK THAT WE WERE GONNA COME IN AND BE RADICAL ON THAT ISSUE.))
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The NRA's NOT firing off any complaints.
The only complaints are from the more aggressive Gun Owners of America.
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((DENNIS FUSARO/GUN OWNERS OF AMERICA: QUITE FRANKLY, YOU HAVE TO MEET FORCE WITH FORCE. IT'S PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH.))
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((DEL. VANCE WILKINS/R-AMHERST CO.: THEY'RE A BUNCH OF NUTS.))
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((DENNIS FUSARO/GUN OWNERS OF AMERICA: SEE, THEY CAN CALL US ALL THE NAMES THEY WANT. STICKS AND STONES MAY BREAK MY BONES. BUT NAMES WILL NEVER HURT ME.))
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If or when Wilkins is ready to go on gun rights, the firepower is there.
18 of the 23 he appointed to the Militia and Police committee get an A rating from the NRA.
Ellen Qualls, News 7, Richmond.))

[Goode-GOP]

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U-S Congressman Virgil Goode has endorsed Republican presidential candidate George W- Bush.
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This afternoon in Danville, the Independent spoke with workers in the tobacco industry, and announced his full support for Bush. Goode says he's supporting the presidential hopeful because of Bush's backing on tobacco.
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((VIRGIL GOODE/ I-5TH DISTRICT: HE OFFERS THE BEST IN UNITY. WE WANT OUR CONCERNS TO BE HEARD.))
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Congressman Goode, who is up for re-election, adds that his own campaign is going smoothly. The Virginia GOP primary is in eight days.
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[Smith]

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Republican Ralph Smith formally entered the race for Roanoke Mayor today, promising a businesslike approach to the problems of city government.
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Smith kicked off his campaign from the steps of his boyhood home in northeast Roanoke.
Smith says the city can benefit from his experience as a successful businessman.
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((I THINK IT'S PREVENTING THE ISSUES THAT HAVE BEEN SO PROMINENT IN THE LAST YEAR. I'M TALKING ABOUT THE WATER. I'M TALKING ABOUT THE HALLOWEEN PROBLEM. ANY BUSINESS CAN MAKE THAT DECISION BETTER THAN IT WAS MADE.))
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The mayor's race now includes three candidates... Smith, incumbent Democrat David Bowers and Independent Mac McCadden.

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Plenty of Cox Cable subscribers are about to see a rate hike.
Details ahead.
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[VO-NAT]

And things are looking up at Carvins Cove.
Robin Reed explains, a little later.
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[Bomb-Scare]

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A second bomb scare in as many school days delayed classes at a Lynchburg high school this morning.
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The anonymous threat was called in to Heritage High School around 7:30.
The students already in the building were evacuated to nearby Heritage Elementary.
Others were told to stay home until the school had been searched.
"No" bomb was found, and students returned to class around 10:15.
A similar threat was phoned in to E.C. Glass High School last Friday.
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[COX-Rates]

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The cost of cable is on the way up. Again.
Cox Communications says it's raising the standard-service rate by a dollar-59.
That's if you live in the Roanoke Valley.
It means your bill for the popular basic-and-standard package goes up to 33-dollars a month.
Cox says it'll add two new channels: the Discovery Health Network and the Cartoon Network.
The rate hike starts next month.

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Coming up tonight on News 7 sports, NASCAR's heads to the wind tunnel to try and avoid another follow the leader show.
George Welsh reassigns some of his coaches.
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And Roanoke College is set to hook up with unbeaten Hampden-Sydney tonight at the Salem Civic Center in the ODAC championship.
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[S-ODAC]

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The Old Dominion Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament Championship tips off tonight at the Salem Civic Center. The game pits the nation's number one team in Hampden-Sydney against Roanoke College. This is the two rivals first meeting in the title game since 1995 and Steve Mason tells us it should be exciting.
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((STEVE MASON:MIKE, 15 OF THE 23 ODAC MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONSHIPS HAVE BEEN WON BY EITHER HAMPDEN-SYDNEY OR ROANOKE AND ONE OF THE TWO HAS PLAYED IN THE FINALS EACH OF THE LAST 7 YEARS. THE TIGERS ARE 24 AND OH AND THE ONLY UNDEFEATED MEN'S COLLEGE TEAM IN THE COUNTRY. TONIGHT, TONY SHAVER, YOU ARE GUNNING FOR A FOURTH STRAIGHT ODAC TOURNAMENT CROWN. WHAT ARE THE KEYS TONIGHT? ((TONY SHAVER/ODAC COACH OF THE YEAR:))
ROANOKE COMES IN AFTER BEATING WASHINGTON & LEE LAST NIGHT 66-60, PAGE MOIR JOINS US, COACH, THE TIGERS HAVE BEATEN YOU BY ___ ON AVERAGE IN YOUR TWO MEETINGS THIS SEASON, WHAT WILL YOU HAVE TO DO DIFFERENTLY TONIGHT, I KNOW JASON STRICKLAND, ONE OF YOUR TOP PLAYERS IS BACK FROM A KNEE INJURY, HE MISSED BOTH GAMES WITH THE TIGERS. ((PAGE MOIR/ROANOKE COLLEGE HEAD COACH:))
THE MAROONS ARE 22 AND 4 AND SOME SAY MUST WIN TONIGHT TO SECURE A BID TO THE NCAA FIELD OF 48. THE TIGERS SHOULD BE IN NO PROBLEM. THE SELECTION SHOW IS THIS SUNDAY. BUTT FIRST TONIGHT'S GAME. WE WILL HAVE THE HIGHLIGHTS AT 11, MIKE.))

[S-Daytona]

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Yesterday's Daytona 500 was considered somewhat of a boring race by many, including a good portion of the teams and competitors. Ford's swept the top five spots and as a result, NASCAR impounded three cars and is taking them to the wind tunnel in Marietta, Georgia.
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The Fords are believed to have an aerodynamic advantage over the Chevys and Pontiacs, but most of the drivers think the biggest problem is the new shock rule that went into effect last week. NASCAR now provides uniform shock absorbers for each team at a cost of $8000 an event, but only at Daytona and Talladega. No one won more during Speedweeks than Jarrett, but even he thinks the racing results would be less "shocking" with a few adjustments.
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The Cup cars roll into the Rock this week, and no changes are expected to be made to the cars for that race.

[S-President]

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In a President's Day NBA matinee New York beat the Los Angeles Clippers 87-76.
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[SUPER=03-Charlottesville/1999;]

UVA football coach George Welsh has made some changes. Art Markos is now the wide receivers coach after 9 seasons working with the defensive backs.
Bob Price has spent the last three seasons with the running backs. He moves into Markos' old job.
And Andre Powell will be the running backs coach, after spending the last three season as the wide receivers coach.

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[S-Reds]

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And finally, the Cincinnati Reds have decided to drop their ban on players wearing earrings. Previous owner Marge Schott prohibited the players from wearing any kind of piercings and in fact, got in all kinds of trouble in 1994 when she said quote, "only fruits wear earrings."

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[STRAIGHT FROM CARVINS COVE GRAPHIC]
Let's take a look at the cove today..
Carvins Cove is now under 11 feet below the spillway.
It's more 13 feet above the point at which the city ordered people to save water last summer.
The cove still has a way to go before it's full.
It last hit this current level in May of 1998.
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