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Today on News 7, the country remembers Bedford's loss as part of the National D-Day Monument is dedicated.
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and lightning sparks wildfire in Florida.
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Is this any way to start the traditional summer season? We think not. Forecast details ahead.
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Today in Sports, Denise Allen will have the results of today's Festival Cup Bike Race in Downtown Roanoke,
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and on Health check, we'll see how some people are using the internet to replace their personal trainers. It's a move that has some fitness authorities concerned.
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The spotlight is on Bedford as the portions of the D-Day Memorial are dedicated to the men who fought and died on the beaches of Normandy.
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Visitors traveled to Bedford from as far as France today for a salute to World War Two veterans.
The Memorial is a lasting tribute to the men who died on the beaches on Normandy during the D-day invasion June 6, 1944.
Tonya Flory has more on this honor 56 years in the making.
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[SUPER=01-Frank Mays/WWII Vet; :18]
[SUPER=01-Leonard Lomell/WWII Vet; :41]
[SUPER=01-Richard Burrow/Memorial Foundation Pres.; :58 ]
[SUPER=01-Jack Hoffler/WWII Vet; 1:12]
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Bedford's Memorial Day ceremony was full of all the formality fit for a National Monument.
But when the music and cheering died down, a crowd of about four thousand listened to stories from the beaches of Normandy told by WWII veterans who lived it.
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((FRANK MAYS/WWII VET: IMAGINE THIS YOUNG BOY FROM THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS...ABOUT TO BECOME A MAN.))
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Many speakers cut their remarks short once the cool rain started to fall.
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((LEONARD LOMELL/WWII VET: YES THERE WAS A LOT OF...IT WAS AN IMPORTANT MISSION.))
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The weather did put a damper on some of the activities planned.
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((RICHARD BURROW/PRES. D-DAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: THE CLOUDS WERE JUST TOO FOR A SCHEDULED MISSING MAN...WE HAD IN THE PROGRAM.))
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[OUT Q=in the program.]
But that didn't bother Jack Hoffler who came to the D-day ceremony from North Carolina.
He was barely a teenager when he fought in WWII.
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((JACK HOFFLER/WWII VET: I WAS THE YOUNGEST VETERAN...SENT BACK TO THE STATES.))
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Hoffler says he's been coming to the site since construction began and he'll return to Bedford as often as possible to honor the memory of the men who died fighting along side him.
The completed memorial is scheduled to open June 6, 2001 -- the 57th annivsary of D-Day.
Tonya Flory, News 7.
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Bedford lost 19 of its young men during the first minutes of the World War Two Normandy invasion.
Four more died in the following days. It's population at the time was just 32-hundred people.
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On this Memorial Day President Clinton says the nation will keep searching for Americans missing servicemen.
The President says talks will resume between the U-S and North Korea for missing soldiers.
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At Arlington National Cemetery the President laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns-
He paid tribute to the heroes who helped keep America free.
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((FAR FROM FADING INTO THE PAST THEIR SACRIFICE IS PAVING THE WAY TO OUR FUTURE. 30, 40, 50 YEARS AFTER OUR FALLEN VETS HAVE GONE WE CAN SAY GLORY HALLELUAH YOUR TRUSH IS MARCHING ON. GOLD BLESS YOU ALL. GOD BLESS AMERICA.))
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In New York City- a flag 100 feet long was unfurled- and a 21 gun salute to honor the America's war dead.
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The honored war dead were also remembered by the Roanoke Valley Veterans Council.
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Congressman Bob Goodlatte reminded those in attendence that they must never forget the sacrifices made by the soldiers of the past, present and future.
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The weather forced the council to move its ceremonies inside, but about 50 people came out to pay their respects.
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Funeral services are scheduled tomorrow for the English teacher shot and killed Friday in a Florida school. Police are starting to get a clearer picture of the student accused of the murder. Bobbi Harley reports.
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((
THE MOMENTS FOLLOWING THE SHOOTING OF A FLORIDA TEACHER WERE FILLED WITH
PANIC - SEEN FROM THE IMAGES OUTSIDE LAKE WORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HEARD
FROM THE JUST RELEASED 9-1-1 TAPES.
NAT SOT - 911 TAPE 23:33:15 - Oh god, oh my god. Hello? Yes this is Lake
Worth Middle School we have a teacher who's been shot. She's been shot?
Yes, shot in the three hundred building.
TEACHER BARRY GRUNOW - SHOT AND KILLED - AND THE UGLY TRUTH OF JUST WHO
WAS SUSPECTED VERY PLAIN IN THOSE EMERGENCY TAPES.
NAT SOT - 911 TAPE 23:38:05 - Nathaniel Brazill - oh my god - Nathaniel
Brazill - he is a student. He's the suspect? Yes.
NOW THE STATE ATTORNEY WANTS TO FAST TRACK THE MURDER CASE AGAINST
13-YEAR-OLD NATHANIEL BRAZILL - TO TRY HIM AS AN ADULT. THAT AS POLICE
ARE LEARNING MORE ABOUT THIS BOY - BUT COMING UP WITH FEW ANSWERS.
SOT - 12:07:24 - William Smith/Lake Worth Police Chief - We have what
appears to be a good student, a socially adjusted young man - who for
some reason did a terrible thing last Friday.
AUTHORITIES HAVE LEARNED THAT BRAZILL FLASHED A SMALL HANDGUN TO FRIENDS
DAYS BEFORE THE SHOOTING - BUT NO ONE SAID A WORD - AND IT'S THAT GUN,
ALONG WITH SCHOOL SECURITY, THE FAMILY OF THE SLAIN TEACHER PLANS TO
PURSUE - POSSIBLY IN COURT.))
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Still to come on the newscast, firefighters in central Florida spend their holiday battling wildfires
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and after that we'll see how the hottest thing on British television is a game show about gardening.
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Rising temperatures, lightning and weeks of drought are being blamed for a series of fires across Florida.
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For the most part the firefighters have been able to control the blazes before they got too big, but some evacuations have been ordered.
Some residents were forced from their homes by the rekindling of one fire in Sarasota County that officials though
t was out weeks ago.
Dozens of residents in Central Florida fled Sunday as the brush fires consumed at least six structures in Volusia County.
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Bland County's medium-security state prison is putting farming back on the state farm.
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The 600-inmate prison sits on a 22-hundred-acre farm.
About 100 low-security inmates get to work as farmhands.
They operate a dairy that supplies milk to 12 area prisons...
And a meat processing and packing plant that feeds inmates at ALL state prisons.
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((GREGORY WORRELL/INMATE: THEY PUT ME IN THE DAIRY DEPARTMENT. I NEVER HAD ANY EXPERIENCE WITH CATTLE. MOST OF THE FOREMAN HAVE FARMS ON THE STREET. THEY TRAINED ME AND I ROSE TO PASTEURIZER. I'M IN LOVE WITH THE WORK. IT'S FUN.))
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((LARRY JARVIS/WARDEN: THE SYSTEM AND THE CITIZENS OF THE COMMONWEALTH GET A MORE COST-EFFICIENT OPERATION AND AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THESE INDIVIDUALS TO OBTAIN SKILLS AS WELL AS GOOD WORK HABITS AND WORK ETHICS BEFORE THEY RETURN TO SOCIETY.))
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Inmates earn from 20 to 45 cents an hour for their work on the farm.
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The hottest thing on American television these days is a game show. But not many people know "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," started in Great Britain.
Now another game show is stirring things up there. It combines the national love of agriculture with the sex appeal of a woman who is now known as the Goddess of Gardening.
Richard Roth has more.
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[SUPER=04-"Ground Force" - BBC; :11]
[SUPER=01-Charlie Dimmock/T.V. Gardener; :56]
[SUPER=01-Paul Callan/T.V. Critic; 1:24]
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NARR: CALL IT THE NATIONAL OBSESSION TO GROW SOMETHING: GARDENING IS THE
HARDY PERENNIAL OF ENGLISH PASTIMES - AND A FIXTURE HERE ON TV PRIMETIME.
NAT SOT: ground force
NARR: BUT WHEN THE BBC DEVISED A GARDEN GAMESHOW - GIVING THREE EXPERTS
48 HOURS TO TRANSFORM A DRAB BACKYARD (natsot) INTO A LITTLE FIELD OF
DREAMS - A HIT WAS LAUNCHED. AND A STAR WAS BORN.
NAT SOT: put the pots here?
don't you love it when she's masterful!
NARR: DISCOVERED AT A GARDEN CENTER, 33-YEAR OLD CHARLIE DIMMOCK HAS
BECOME BRITAIN'S MOST TALKED ABOUT GREEN THUMB; A WOMAN WHO PULLS MORE
THAN HER WEIGHT, WHETHER DIGGING A DITCH OR PUTTING A PUMP IN A
FISHPOND.
NARR: CRITICS HERE SAY SHE'S TRANSFORMED THE GENTLE ART OF ENGLISH
GARDENING INTO SOMETHING ELSE.
SOT ROTH Q: you've been called the garden goddess, the braless redhead
who's put sex back into gardening. A: I think that's ridiculous how can
gardening be sexy? I mean..(laughs)
Q: it's not a reputation you sought? A: no i just find that one silly,
you don't find it sexy when you're spreading manure over your roses.
(show or wheelbarrow w/snappers?)
NARR: WITH GARDENING AS THE VEHICLE, CHARLIE DIMMOCK AND HER T-V SHOW
HAVE TOUCHED THE NATIONAL PSYCHE, ACCORDING TO COLUMNIST PAUL CALLAN. OR
AT LEAST HALF OF IT.
SOT CALLAN: she is really a fantasy figure //the rumpled red hair the
slightly grubby jeans troweling away in the earth with little
implements, mother earth - a very sexual symbol, very potent and she's
very popular for that. there's a lot of lust in an englishman's heart
when she comes on the screen.
NAT SOT: shooting garden army
NARR: NOW SHE'S WORKING ON A SECOND TV SERIES, WITH PLANS FOR A THIRD,
STARRING ANIMALS AS WELL AS PLANTS.
SOT Q& A w/Charlie: i would assume that your target audience was men,
middle aged men.
A: they hide. and the wives come up and say my husband who is around the
corner there would like your autograph and loves watching the program
but the men don't come up they are too frightened.
they're embarressed?
they're embarressed.
why?
i don't know.
NAT SOT: at booksigning
BUT THE FACT IS HER SEX APPEAL SEEMS TO BE TO BOTH SEXES.
I get lots of older ladies coming up to me in the street and giving me a
cuddle and then they tell me off for not bending my knees and not tying
my hair back.
NARR: WITH A GARDENING GUIDE THAT'S BECOME A BESTSELLER, A FIGURE THAT
MAGAZINES WANT TO PUT ON THE COVER AND A CALENDAR THAT SOLD OUT AS SOON
AS IT WAS PRINTED, DIMMOCK WORRIES THAT SHE HARDLY HAS TIME NOW TO KEEP
HER FINGERNAILS DIRTY.
SOT DIMMOCK: i go to some of these celebrity things and sit down and
think what am i doing here, I'm a gardener, this is ridiculous.
NARR: AND HER PROFESSIONAL AMBITION, SHE SAYS, IS SIMPLY TO NURTURE THE
NATIONAL PASTIME.
SOT DIMMOCK the main idea is to get people out there and actually doing
it and enjoying it. //there's something very fulfilling about getting
out there and putting a few plants in and watching them grow.
Richard Roth, CBS News, London.
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Coming up after this break, Robin Reed will let us know if the good weather will return once everyone goes back to work,
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and the astronauts of the Space Shuttle Atlantis are back on earth after restoring life to the international space station.
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Coming up a little later today, people are told they have No Authority for a concert tonight, but there's nothing to worry about,
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and on Health Check, we will see if you need a real person to have a personal trainer.
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People wanting a person trainer that's not so personal have a new option.
Several new sites on the internet are offering the push of a trainer with the push of a button. But can a computer trainer get you motivated? Jaine Andrews takes a look.
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Welcome to your holiday ticker, we start on the streets of downtown Roanoke for this one.
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Cyclists from all over traveled to the Star City, but it wasn't a vacation day. They put in a day's work, peddling for prizes and dollars.
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The men's senior category three race turned out to be a runaway for the eventual winner, 17 year old Mike Collins.
The Winston Salem native pulled out and never looked back.
Matt Mega came in second and Chris Vigna was third.
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The men's pro one and two riders were the next ones to take control of the streets.
72 participants tried to master the difficult course.
When all was said and done, Brian Walton of the Saturn Cycling team beat the pack.
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In the Senior Women's category three and four Louise Laganiere, Kimbery Meyers and Janette Williams were the top three.
Emily wilson, Tracey Spruill and Susan Helm were the top three finishers in the Women's pro.
Local cyclist Brandon Tate won the Junior 10 to 14 race.
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Oakland Athletics second baseman Randy Velarde has turned in the tenth regular-season unassisted triple play in
major league history.
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It happened in the bottom of the sixth of this afternoon's game with the Yankees.
Velarde had made an error that set up the triple.
New York had Tino Martinez at second and Jorge Posada at first.
Shane Spencer hit a line drive to Velarde for the first out, he tagged Posada who was coming to second for the next out, then stepped on second base to triple-up Martinez who had broken for third.
The Yankees won four to one.
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Boston's John Valentin was the last person to turn a triple. He did it against Seattle July eighth, 1994.
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Coming up tonight at six Tiger Woods wins the Memorial golf tournament and Steve Mason tells us how a local woman is going to make her mark on the major league baseball scene.
Jean will be back with more News 7 at Five.[5-Space-Shuttle]
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The Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down early this morning-
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at Cape Canaveral Florida.
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((MAIN GEAR TOUCHDOWN...SILENCE.... AND NOSE GEAR TOUCHDOWN.))
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Atlantis glided onto the runway at 2:20 this morning- It was only the 14th time a space shuttle has landed in the dark.
The crew were successful at replacing four batteries inside the international space station.
The 7-member crew also furnished the space station with a new antenna, smoke detectors and boosted the complex into higher orbit.
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The clouds are not stopping the music tonight at Victory Stadium.
The group No Authority is back in Roanoke- ready to perform tonight.
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((NO AUTHORITY: NO IT FEELS GREAT TO BE BACK HERE. WE HAD FUN... COOL TO BE BACK HERE.))
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No Authority has played in Lynchburg and Roanoke before- Tonight they're playing at the Star Party in the Park sponsored by W-J-J-S.
The group's members spoke to News 7 earlier today.
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((WHAT'S UP..... oUT FOR YOU.))
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[OUT Q=out for you.]
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Other groups performing tonight are Youngstown and Mr. Big- The concert begins at six.
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