[Headlines]

[ANCHOR=Kimberly]

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[VO-NAT]


Fighting for his life and maintaining his innocence until the end, condemned killer Gary Graham was executed last night in Texas.
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[ANCHOR=Kimberly]


And parents and students in Roanoke county found out from the school board last night who will get to attend the new South county high school.
[ANCHOR=Patrick]
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[ANCHOR=Kimberly]


Wake up with us-- News 7 Mornin is next.[County-Schools]


[ANCHOR=Kimberely]
[NEWSCAST=morning]
[WRITER=jsu]
[TAPE#=00-26]
[GRAPHIC=Roanoke Co. Schools]


The Roanoke County School Board has finally decided which students will attended the new high school.
As Joy Sutton reports the board decisions will mean that the current attendance zones will not change.
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[SOT]
[IN Q=nat sound]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke Co.; :00]
[SUPER=01-Tim Thornhill/Parent; :11]
[SUPER=01-Melissa Ivanco/Student; :24]
[SUPER=01-Jerry Canada/School Board Chairman; :56]
[SUPER=@Joy1; 1:06]
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[OUT Q=Std]

(([nat sound of applause] [runs03]
Parents and students are calling the Roanoke County School Board's decision to keep the current attendance zones intact -- a victory.
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[SOT15:19:14]
[IN Q=The board did a good job]

((TIM THORNHILL/PARENT: THE BOARD DID A GOOD JOB OF COMPROMISING HERE. ITS PLEASED ALL THE PARENTS THAT THE KIDS WILL GO TO THE SCHOOL THAT THEY WANTED TO GO TO THAT'S CLOSEST TO THEIR GEOGRAPHICAL AREA)) [RUNS10]
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[SOT 15:20:59]
[IN Q=I'm really glad]

((MELISSA IVANCO:I'M REALLY GLAD THAT ME AND MY BROTHER WILL BE GOING TO CAVE SPRING BECAUSE THE OLDER KIDS THAT I ADMIRE AND LOOKED UP TO AT BACK CREEK. THEY WENT TO CAVE SPRING SO I WANT TO FOLLOW IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS)) [RUNS10]
[OUT Q=their footsteps]


Students at Back Creek, Bent Mountain, Clearbrook, and Penn Forest Elementaries will go to Cave Spring Middle School which will filter into Cave Spring High School.
Cave Spring, Green Valley, and Oak Grove Elementaries will filter into Hidden Valley Middle School which will feed South County High School.
The school board says the only downside of this option is the potential for overcrowding at the new high school.
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[SOT15:25:25]
[IN Q=We are going to]

((JERRY CANADA/SCHOOL BOARD CHAIRMAN: WE ARE GOING TO BE TALKING TO OUR ARCHITECT TO TAKE A LOOK AT MAYBE DO IT AS A BID ALTERNATIVE TO MAYBE ADDING UP FOUR ADDITIONAL CLASSROOMS TO THE SCHOOL.)) [RUNS08]
[OUT Q=to the school]
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[SOT]
[IN Q=]

(( The school board says it will also try to lure students to Cave Spring High school with special programs like an international baccalaureate program.
A ground breaking ceremony will be held for new high school this Sunday -- the school is expected to open in 2002.

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[OUT Q=in 2002]))






[Moment-Silence]


[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=Morn]
[WRITER=equ]
[TAPE#=None]
[GRAPHIC=Lawsuit]


Virginia's new "Moment of Silence" law will be challenged in court.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit yesterday in Alexandria, saying the new law requiring a moment of silence in Virginia schools violates the constitutional mandate for the separation of church and state.


[2Graham-Execution]


[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=Mornin]
[WRITER=kmc]
[TAPE#=Net]
[GRAPHIC=None]


Convicted murderer Gary Graham died by lethal injection in Texas last night.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Huntsville, TX;]


Up until his final moments, 36- year- old Graham said he did NOT commit the 19-81 hold-up killing that put him on death row.
Those who witnessed the execution say Graham put up a struggle.
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[SOT 3:05:16]
[IN Q=When we walked]

((SELATHEIA BRYANT/HOUSTON CHRONICLE: WHEN WE WALKED INTO THE WITNESS CHAMBER, MR. GRAHAM TURNED HIS EYES TO OUR SIDE AND THAT'S WHEN HE SAID, "I'D LIKE TO SAY TO THE VICTIMS' FAMLIES THAT I DIDN'T KILL BOBBY LAMBERT.))
[SUPER=01-Selatheia Bryant/"Houston Chronicle";]
[RUNS=:13]
[OUT Q=kill Bobby Lambert.]
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[VO-NAT]


Graham pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery, but never admitted to killing Lambert.
Before the execution, death penalty opponents broke through barricades, burned flags, and were eventually dragged away.
The U-S Supreme Court refused to grant a stay for Graham by a five to four vote.
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[E-Massengill]


[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=Morn]
[WRITER=equ]
[TAPE#=]
[GRAPHIC=None]


Gerald Massengill has reached the top.
He worked his way up the ranks in the Virginia State Police for 32 years.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Richmond/March 14;]


Yesterday, Dinwiddie County native Massengill was named the new superintendent.
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[SOT 10:30:33]
[IN Q=He's served]

((GOV. JIM GILMORE: HE'S SERVED AS FIRST SERGEANT, LIEUTENANT, HE'S SERVED ALL THE WAY UP THE LINE. I JUST THINK THE EXPERIENCE OF THE PERSON WHO'S BEEN ON THE SCENE IS THE CORRECT APPROACH AND THE RIGHT THING TO DO.))
[SUPER=@Gilmore;]
[RUNS=:12]
[OUT Q=thing to do.]
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[VO-NAT]


Gilmore says he's watched Massengill closely since he took over as acting superintendent for the retiring Wayne Huggins in January.
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[TALENT=Jean]
[SS=]


The Governor says Richmond police chief Jerry Oliver and the chief from Durham, North Carolina were also finalists.
Oliver is black and the Durham chief is a white woman.

[E-Mod-U-Kraf]


[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=Morn]
[WRITER=jmi]
[TAPE#=00-12 TC1:22:49]
[GRAPHIC=Mod-U-Kraf]


A manufacturer of modular homes is merging, and with that comes the suggestion of more jobs.
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[TAPE: HOMES]
[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Rocky Mount]


Mod-U-Kraf Homes of Rocky Mount merged with Coachmen Housing Group.
Mod-U-Kraf has been building modular homes for the past 28 years.
Coachmen officials say it's time for them to tap into Mod-U-Kraf's success.
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[TC: 00:41:11]
[SOT]
[IN Q=We're delighted to]

((WE'RE DELIGHTED THAT WE WERE ABLE TO GET TOGETHER WITH MOD-U-KRAF. STRATEGICALLY, IT FITS EXACTLY INTO WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO FROM A GROWTH STANDPOINT.))
[SUPER=01-Jack Trant/Coachmen Housing President]
[RUNS=08]
[OUT Q=growth standpoint.]
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[VO-NAT]


Business is so good that the new company is ready to branch out further.
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[TC: 00:46:00]
[SOT]
[IN Q=The plans are]

((THE PLANS ARE TO EXPAND THE OPERATION, WHEN THAT HAPPENS, YOU HAVE TO HIRE MORE PEOPLE, THAT'S SOMETHING GOOD FOR THE COMMUNITY AND THE AREA.))
[SUPER=01-Joe Campbell/Mod-U-Kraf Vice President]
[RUNS=08]
[OUT Q=and the area.]
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[VO-NAT]


The company expects to build 3-thousand new homes and take in over 200-million dollars this year.
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[1-Sports]


[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=Mornin]
[WRITER=chr]
[TAPE#=sports cut in]
[GRAPHIC=None]


In sports,GW Danville prepares to pay their final respects to Coach Ed Martin today....
Mike Stevens has the details.
Good Morning Mike.
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[SOT]
[IN Q=Good Morning]
[RUNS=1:45]
[OUT Q=I'll see you then.]



[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
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[E-Hager]


[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=Morn]
[WRITER=equ]
[TAPE#=]
[GRAPHIC=John Hager]


John Henry Hager wants to move up and become your next governor.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-File Tape;]


The Republican lieutenant governor surprised NO one, but made it official last night -- kicking off what will be the longest official campaign for governor in Virginia history.
His challenge: to try to follow two Republicans he thinks have done a good job.
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[SOT]
[IN Q=And so]
[sot 13:46:51 ]

((HAGER: AND SO, WHILE WE WILL CONTINUE THE DIRECTION, I THINK THERE WILL BE LOTS OF SPECIFICS, JUST LIKE THERE WERE JIM GILMORE WHEN HE TOOK OVER FROM GEORGE ALLEN.))
[SUPER=01-Lt. Gov. John Hager/(R) Candidate for Governor;]
[RUNS=:11]
[OUT Q=George Allen.]
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[VO-NAT]


He's calling his campaign Operation Triple Play, to keep the focus on George Allen and George Bush this year... and get to John Hager next year.
Hager will face Republican Attorney General Mark Earley in a 2001 spring convention.
The winner of that contest will face Democrat Mark Warner next fall.
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[E-Biotech-Conference]


[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=Morn]
[WRITER=mjo]
[TAPE#=00-18 57:53]
[GRAPHIC=None]


The latest in genetic research could be coming soon to a classroom near you.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Blacksburg;]


More than 130 science teachers and college professors from around the country are getting a crash course in biotechnology at Virginia Tech this week.
They're getting hands-on experience in D-N-A analysis at the school's Fralin Biotechnology Center.
It's part of a three-day workshop to help teachers take the latest techniques from the lab to their classrooms.
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[SOT 13:41 - :53]
[IN Q=A lot of the technology]

((JOHN MCLAUGHLIN/LORD BOTETOURT H.S. BIOLOGY TEACHER: A LOT OF THE TECHNOLOGY HAS CHANGED IN THE PAST 10-15 YEARS. WE'VE HAD AN EXPLOSION OF TECHNOLOGY, SO IT'S GOOD TO GET OUR STUDENTS READY FOR THE WORKPLACE AND FOR THE COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SETTING AS WELL.))
[SUPER=01-John McLaughlin/Lord Botetourt H. S. Bio. Teacher;]
[RUNS=:12]
[OUT Q=university setting as well.]
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[VO-NAT]


Biotechnology is a science that uses biological processes to solve health and environmental problems.
This is Virginia Tech's fifth year hosting the conference.
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[E-Music-Lab]


[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=Morn]
[WRITER=tte]
[TAPE#=]
[GRAPHIC=None]


It comes with the promise of no dirty lyrics. Teenagers in Roanoke have released their own C-D.
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[SOT]
((NAT SOT RAPPING))
[SUPER=03-Roanoke;]
[RUNS=:03]
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[VO-NAT]

At Roanoke's Downtown Music Lab, high school students can play musical instruments in real recording studios, as long as they use no foul language, drugs or violence.
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[SOT 15:06:01]
[IN Q=At first I used]

((AT FIRST I USED ... FROM YOUR HEART.))
[SUPER=01-Jamie Robinson/Band Member;]
[RUNS=:15]
[OUT Q=from your heart]
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[VO-NAT]

Two hundred kids belong to this non-profit studio -- but what do their classmates think?
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[SOT 15:02:37]
[IN Q=They just]

((THEY JUST ... OUR TIME.))
[SUPER=01-Theo Boardley/Band Member;]
[RUNS=:09]
[OUT Q=our time]
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[VO-NAT]


The C-D is available at the lab which is open weekday afternoons.
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[Health-Check]


[ANCHOR=Melanie]
[NEWSCAST=Morn]
[WRITER=chr]
[TAPE#=NET]
[GRAPHIC=Mornin Health Check]


In medical news, a study suggests day care centers frequently make medical decisions that don't make sense.
Doctor Dave Hnida has that story and more in this morning's Health check.
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[SOT]
[IN Q=]
[SUPER=01-Dr. Dave Hnida/Reporting; :00 ]
[RUNS=1:15]
[OUT Q=CBS News, New York.]

((WOMEN WHO TAKE DRUGS TO LOWER CHOLESTEROL MAY ALSO BE DOING MORE THAN PROTECTING THEIR HEARTS- THEY MAY ALSO BE GETTING THICKER BONES.

VT=VO

AND THATS GREAT NEWS CONSIDERING MILLIONS OF AMERICAN WOMEN TAKE DRUGS TO LOWER THEIR CHOLESTEROL. A STUDY IN THE JOURNAL THE LANCET SHOWS WOMEN OVER AGE 60 WHO USE THE SO CALLED STATIN CLASS OF DRUGS TO LOWER CHOLESTEROL NOT ONLY KEEP BONE FROM BEWING LOST- THEY MAY ACTUALLY WIND UP BUILDING NEW BONE.- TAKES ABOUT A YEAR. EXAMPLES OF STATIN DRUGS INCLUDE MEVACOR, ZOCOR LIPITOR LESCOL, AND PRAVACHOL

VT=VO

ALSO TODAY- IF YOU USE DAY CARE - YOU KNOW HOW FRUSTRATING IT CAN BE TO BE TOLD YOUR CHILD IS TOO SICK TO BE IN DAY CARE BUT A NEW STUDY SAYS MOST DAY CARE CENTERS DONT KNOW MEDICINE- THEY SEND KIDS HOME OR TO THE DOCTORS WHEN THEY REALLY DONT NEED TO GO. THE STUDY FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FINDS MOST CENTERS MAKE UP THEIR OWN GUIDELINES- AND MOST ARE OFF THE MARK IN TERMS OF MAKING SENSE MEDICALLY- FOR EXAMPLE MANY CENTERS CONSIDERED 100 DEGREE TO BE A FEVER- HOWEVER- FOR MANY KIDS- THIS IS A NORMAL TEMPERATURE ESPECIALLY IF THEYVE BEEN RUNNING AROUND,
ON CAM THATS A LOOK AT SOME OF THE DAYS TOP HEALTH STORIES. IM DR DAVE HNIDA FOR CBS NEWS.))

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[One-Steve]


[ANCHOR=Patrick]
[NEWSCAST=Morn]
[WRITER=ejo]
[TAPE#]
[GRAPHIC=NONE]

[On Record]
[SUPER=15-Patrick/Evans;]
[SUPER=01-Janet Grubbs/SE United Dairy Ind. Assoc.;]



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[SUPER=04-SE United Dairy Ind. Assoc.;]

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[STOCKS] [COMM] ((Archive:))

[Chicken-Run]


[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=Morn]
[WRITER=ejo]
[TAPE#=Net]
[GRAPHIC=None]


The latest animated movie opens today, but this one doesn't depend on computers ... it's one-frame-at-a-time animation that takes plenty of time and patience to create.
As Manuel Gallegus reports, "Chicken Run" is a combination of fowl and funny.
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[SOT Thurs 15:23:15]
[IN Q=Tweedy's chicken farm]
[SUPER=03-Chicken Run/Dreamworks; :00]
[SUPER=07-Mel Gibson; :38]
[SUPER=01-Manuel Gallegus/Reporting; 1:13]
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[OUT Q=CBS News, Hollywood]

((Super: Chicken Run/Dreamworks

(Track)

Tweedys chicken farm is just like any other at first glance. But if you look closer you can see the differences.
Nat Squawking
Natsot I know our last escape attempt was a bit of a fiasco.
Natsot No chicken escapes from Tweedys farm.



(Track)

These chicks want to do more than cross the road, they really want to fly the coop. The answer to their prayers seems to fall from the sky.

Natsot--Thank you ladies and gentlemen you have been a wonderful

audience.

(Track)

Rocky the Rooster discovers that he must teach all of the chickens on Tweedys farm to fly so they can escape. Its a role Mel Gibson found challenging.
211208 THE CHALLENGE IS THAT YOU REALLY DONT HAVE AN IMAGE TO WORK WITH EXCEPT FOR JUST A STILL ONE. YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO LOOK LIKE BUT THAT IS IT, AND YOUR IMAGINATION HAS TO COME INTO PLAY.
(Track)

Gibson plays a Yankee-A Rhode Island Red over there..

Natsot

What brings you to England Mr Rhodes Way all you beautiful British chicks!

(Track)

The movie is a lot of fun and actually pays homage to those prisoner of war films-a sort of great escape from the frying pan.

SOT MEL GIBSON

211345--SOME OF MY FAVORITE FILMS GROWING UP WERE LIKE THE GREAT ESCAPE AND STALAG 17 AND EVEN VON RYANS EXPRE//IT SPOOKS THOSE MOVIES REALLY WELL.

(Track)

Do they escape? We cant tell you that or answer the question of which came first the chicken or the egg. Manuel Gallegus, CBS News, Hollywood.))
[2-HEADLINES]
[2-shot=Mel/Kmc]
[SUPER=#4049; Morning Headlines]
[ANCHOR=Kim]


Here's a look at today's top stories.
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[VO-NAT]
[ANCHOR=Kim]


A final decision concerning who will attend the new South County High School--
The Roanoke County School Board has decided to keep the attendance zones the same, despite the potential for overcrowding at the new school.
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[VO-NAT]
[ANCHOR=Kim]


Forest officials hope hiker learn from example after a fatal accident last weekend at Crabtree Falls in Nelson County.
Authorities say the Lynchburg man who fell 200 feet down the falls ignored signs that warn hikers NOT to venture off the trail.
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[VO-NAT]
[ANCHOR=Kim]


And could there be water on Mars?
NASA scientists are showing off pictures from the Red Planet.
Thin channels on the interior walls of craters could be evidence of WATER bubbling to the surface -- not from billions of years ago, but maybe from TODAY.
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[ANCHOR=Kimberly]


And that's what's making news on this Friday, June 23rd .
[ANCHOR=Patrick]


News 7 Mornin' will be right back.

[School-Board]


[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=morning]
[WRITER=jsu]
[TAPE#=Net]
[GRAPHIC=Roanoke Co. Schools]


The Roanoke County School Board has decided to keep the attendance zones the same despite the potential for overcrowding at the new high school.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke Co.]


The board came to that decision last night after nearly two months of reviewing various redistricting option.
The board said after listening to parents it realized that this option would create less complications.
Many parents say they are relieved that their children will still be able to attend the same schools.
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[SOT15:22:23]
[IN Q=I was in a situation]

((PARENT: I WAS IN A SITUATION WHERE I HAD MY KIDS SPLIT AND IT REALLY MADE ME VERY UNHAPPY AND JUST BELIEVE THEY LISTENED TO US))
[RUNS=06]
[OUT Q=listened]
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[VO-NAT]

Students at Back Creek, Bent Mountain, Clearbrook, and Penn Forest Elementaries will go to Cave Spring Middle School which will filter into Cave Spring High School.
Cave Spring, Green Valley, and Oak Grove Elementaries will filter into Hidden Valley Middle School which will feed South County High School.
As far as the overcrowding issue at the new high school, the board says one option it might consider is adding additional classrooms.

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[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=Morn ]
[WRITER=equ]
[TAPE#=None]
[GRAPHIC=Lawsuit]


The parents of seven Virginia schoolchildren are challenging a new state law that mandates a moment of silence in state classrooms.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed the federal lawsuit yesterday, saying the law violates the constitutional mandate for the separation of church and state.



[E-Crabtree-Falls]


[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=Morn]
[WRITER=ssm]
[TAPE#=00-11 TC1:44:16]
[GRAPHIC=None]


Last weekend's fatal accident at Crabtree Falls in Nelson County has forest officials hoping other hikers will learn a lesson.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Nelson Co.]


A Lynchburg man died Saturday after he ventured out onto the rocks and lost his footing.. falling about 200 feet down the falls.
Authorities say the man ignored signs that warn hikers not to venture off the trail.
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[SOT 00:03:16]
[IN Q=We hope that]

((KATHY HALL/U.S. FOREST SERVICE: WE HOPE THAT PEOPLE WILL TAKE THIS AND USE IT AS A LEARNING EXPERIENCE THAT THEY NEED TO STAY ON THE TRAIL.. THAT'S WHAT WE WANT TO EMPHASIZE TO PEOPLE IS TO STAY ON THE TRAIL, THE TRAIL IS SAFE AND WE WOULD LOVE FOR VISITORS TO COME ENJOY CRABTREE, BUT JUST DO IT FROM THE TRAIL, BEHIND THE RAILINGS AND THE LANDINGS.))
[SUPER=01-Kathy Hall/U. S. Forest Service]
[RUNS=19]
[OUT Q=and the landings.]
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[VO-NAT]


23 people have been killed at Crabtree Falls over the years.
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[Graham-Execution]


[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=Mornin]
[WRITER=kmc]
[TAPE#=Net]
[GRAPHIC=None]


After last- minute pleas for his life, convicted killer Gary Graham was executed last night in Texas.
Before he was given the lethal injection, Graham maintained his innocence and said the truth will come out.
Terisa Estacio has the story.
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[SOT]
[IN Q=]
[SUPER=03-Huntsville, TX; :22]
[SUPER=07-Jesse Jackson; :52]
[SUPER=01-George W. Bush/(R) Presidential Candidate; 1:22]
[SUPER=01-Terisa Estacio/Reporting; 1:27]
[RUNS=1:44]
[OUT Q=Terisa Estacio, CBS News, Huntsville, TX.]

((
LOCATOR: HUNTSVILLE, TX
Even last minute court appeals couldn't save Gary Graham.

(SOT)

"He's dead."

(NATS)


But while the battle to save Graham's life played out in the courts, it was the supporters of the convicted murderer who made their feelings known first.

(NATS)


Protestors broke through barricades, burned flags, and were dragged away as the countdown to the execution rolled on.
It was a tense scene outside the Huntsville Texas Prison after the US Supreme Court, in a five to four vote, refused to grant a stay in the case. Then, just moments away from the end of the death row inmate's life, lawyers filed yet another court appeal. This one a civil lawsuit against the Texas Parole Board.

SOT: JESSE JACKSON


Graham pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery back in the 1980's, but never admitted to killing Bobby Lambert. He claimed all along that the single eyewitness who identified him as the killer was mistaken. The case has drawn national attention. In the end, being the most contentious death penalty case to confront Gov. George W. Bush since he announced his run for the White House

(SOT)

Super: George W Bush R-Presidential Candidate

(STANDUP)


))[Toddler-Handgun]


[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=Mornin]
[WRITER=kmc]
[TAPE#=None]
[GRAPHIC=None]


Authorities in Spokane, Washington are trying to figure out how a toddler got his hands on a loaded handgun.
The two- year- old boy was found carrying the weapon in the parking lot of an apartment complex Wednesday.
Hs mother told police she doesn't know where the boy got the gun.
Police say protective services officials had checked on the boy just a day before the incident.
He's now in foster care.

[Three-Steve]


[ANCHOR=Patrick]
[NEWSCAST=Morn]
[WRITER=ejo]
[TAPE#NONE]
[GRAPHIC=NONE]

[Patrick On Record]
Can milk help you burn fat? Some new research suggests that's the case.
Joe Mortier of the Milk Moustache Tour is here.
[SUPER=15-Patrick/Evans; :00]
[SUPER=01-Joe Mortier/Milk Mustache Tour;]
[SUPER=04-Saturday 10:00-4:00]
[SUPER=04-Valley View Mall]
[SUPER=04-www.whymilk.com;]

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[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[SS=None]
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[BUMP-Chyron]
[COMM #6]

((Archive:))

[Mars]


[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=Mornin]
[WRITER=kmc]
[TAPE#=Net]
[GRAPHIC=None]


NASA scientists have displayed more pictures from space that give evidence that WATER might exist on Mars.
Lee Cowan reports.
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[SOT]
[IN Q=]
[SUPER=01-Bruce Jakosky/University of Colorado; :11]
[SUPER=01-Edward Weiler/NASA; :23]
[SUPER=01-Mike Carr/U.S. Geological Survey; :44]
[SUPER=01-Ken Edgett/Geologist; 1:04]
[SUPER=01-Lee Cowan/Reporting; 1:08]
[RUNS=1:36]
[OUT Q=Cowan, CBS news, Washington.]

(( For more than two years now, the Mars Global Surveyor has been watching the surface of the Red Planet -- and what it's found may be the astronomer's holy grail.

(SOT/DR. BRUCE JAKOSKY, Phd. UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO 11:32:44)

"We didn't expect to see anything like this."

(NARR:)


These thin channels on the steep inside walls of craters could be evidence of liquid WATER bubbling to the surface -- not billions of years ago, but perhaps even TODAY.

(SOT/EDWARD WEILER, NASA 11:05:29)

"If these results prove true that there is water on Mars, near the surface. It has profound implications for the possibility of life on Mars."

(NARR:)


The discovery is as baffling as it is exciting. The channels are found only in the coldest regions of the planet. Water should freeze instantly and evaporate into space. Leading some to wonder if it's water at all.

(SOT/MIKE CARR, U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 11:28:26)

"I'm skeptical just because of the conditions that we know prevail on Mars."

(NARR:)


Water HAS BEEN detected there before -- frozen in ice trapped at the poles. But the thought of FLOWING water underground could change everything. A dead planet could now be alive -- it's pulse measured by lines in the sand.

(SOT/KEN EDGETT, GEOLOGIST 11:27:18)

"If you see one that changes, WOW, we'll be back!"

(COWAN ON CAM: 14:35:33)

"The news couldn't come at a better time for NASA -- a series of its Mars probes were lost last year - and while two more missions are set for 2003 -- this tantilizing bit if information may be just the boost the program needs.

(SOT/EDWARD WEILER, NASA 11:06:08)

"If the very first place we look in the universe, in depth, we find life, either past or present, that has profound implications for the ulitmate question, are we alone."
NARR:
The only way to know for sure they say, is to go and find out. Lee Cowan, CBS News, Washington. ))

[E-Campbell]


[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=Morn]
[WRITER=jmc]
[TAPE#=00-19 TC29:49]
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If you have never heard of Raleigh Campbell, you're hardly alone.
But his work has touched hundreds of lives.
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Campbell is retiring as the executive director of the Council of Community Services, a job he's held for 32 years.

The nonprofit agency coordinates the work of dozens of social service organizations.
Raleigh Campbell helped develop Total Action Against Poverty, the AIDS Council, the League of Older Americans and other groups.
Campbell's friends and co-workers gave him a big sendoff yesterday at the Patrick Henry Hotel.
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Tanks and armored cars are rolling into Pittsylvania County. The first have just arrived, and more are on the way.

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Nearly one hundred of them will travel from New York to the Tank Museum on highway 29 just four miles north of downtown Danville.
The collection by the American Armored Foundation will be one of the largest of its kind outside of the U.S. Army.


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((WILLIAM GASSER/TANK MUSEUM DIRECTOR: WE WANT TO HAVE ALL THE TANKS UNDER ONE ROOF. IN THIS BUSINESS THAT'S ALMOST UNHEARD OF. PLUS PEOPLE WILL COME ON RAINY OR SNOWY DAYS.))
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((DAVID KALBACKER/MUSEUM SPOKESPERSON; MY FATHER, MY STEPFATHER AND FATHER IN LAW WE ARE ALL VETERANS. IT'S A UNIQUE STEP BACK IN TIME THEY CAN SHOW THEIR CHILDREN AND SHOW WHAT THEY FOUGHT WITH.))
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The foundation is a non-profit corporation.
The museum will not be open to the public for at least a year.
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In sports, The Avalanche opened the 2nd half of the Carolina League Season with a win last night....

Mike Stevens has the highlights.
Good Morning Mike.
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Now here's another look at today's top local stories:
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The Roanoke County School Board has decided to keep the attendance zones the same despite the potential for overcrowding at the new high school.
The board came to that decision last night after nearly two months of reviewing various redistricting option.
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Last weekend's fatal accident at Crabtree Falls in Nelson County has forest officials hoping other hikers will learn a lesson.
A Lynchburg man died Saturday after he ventured out onto the rocks and lost his footing.. falling about 200 feet down the falls.
Authorities say the man ignored signs that warn hikers not to venture off the trail.
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Tanks and armored cars are rolling into Pittsylvania County. The first have just arrived, and more are on the way.
Nearly one hundred of them will travel from New York to the Tank Museum on highway 29 just four miles north of downtown Danville.

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Now here's Mike Stevens with a preview of News 7 at Six.
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