WDBJ 7 news at 5 for 09/14/00

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Today on News 7 at 5, the governor says he will not halt the scheduled execution of Derrick Barnabei.
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In health news, authorities believe they have idenitified another case of Legionnaires disease in Alleghany County,

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and celebrities head to Washington today to plead for more funding for a controversial type of medical research.
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Boeing agrees to a major overhaul of the rudder systems on its 737's.

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Boeing 737's have been under microscope since two fatal crashes- both blamed on the jet's rudder systems.
While Boeing says it's fixed the most probable cause in those accidents- it is agreeing to do more.
Lee Cowan reports.
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With more than three thousand Boeing 737's in operation around the world -- the design change ordered by the FAA is sweeping, and expensive.

The agency concluded that despite three recent upgrades to the jets rudder control system, and no additional problems reported -- safety improvements were still needed. JANE GARVEY, FAA ADMINISTRATOR We think combination of changes and calling for redesign can bring that airplane up to the ultimate level of safety."
The rudder is what pilots use to turn a plane's nose right or left.
A rudder malfunction was blamed for this crash of a USAIR 737 in Pittsburgh and this United 737 in Colorado Springs. 157 people died.
Although very rare, NTSB investigators concluded a hidden design flaw may have caused the rudder to swing to the opposite side from what the pilot intended -- a fatal scenario at low altitudes.

Boeing insists it's already addressed the problem. ALLEN BAILEY, : "The safety issue for the airplane that was the most probable cause for the accident has been fixed, it's been done it's been complete it's in the fleet.
But is complying with the FAA's request to build in a back-up system.
ALLEN BAILEY, BOEING: "We want to move very cautiously to ensure that we actually INCREASE that level of safety if it is posible to do."
Aviation experts applaud the FAA's move. DARRYL JENKINS, THE AVIATION INSTITUTE: "They don't always handle things this well, but on this one I think the FAA did exactely what needed to be done in the corect sequence." "The changes probably won't BEGIN until 2003. In the meantime, Boeing and the FAA caution, the 737 remains one of the safest planes in the air. Lee Cowan, CBS News Washington."))

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State Health Officials believe they have a second case of Legionnaires' Disease in Alleghany County.
While they are looking for a connection to the case, they say its premature to call this an outbreak.
Officials do say it's very unusual to have two cases at the same time in the same community.
The second case is a middle aged man from Covington who's currently being treated at Roanoke Memorial Hospital.
A woman from Covington is still being treated at the U-V-A Medical Center.
She works at Westvaco's Covington Mill- but the man does not.
Legionnaires' disease is spread through the air in water vapors from such devices as Humidifiers and air conditioners.
The potentially fatal illness begins with flu-like symptoms and can lead to pneumonia.

[5-Pulaski-Drugs]

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Pulaski officers are wrapping up their largest undercover drug sting operation in several years.
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More than 50 people are targeted for arrest as a result of the nine-month investigation, called "Operation Sticman."
In it, undercover police officers made four-thousand dollars in drug buys.
About 20 suspects were arrested today.
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((ERIC MONTGOMERY/ACTING PULASKI CHIEF: I KNOW WE WON'T SHUT IT DOWN COMPLETELY. BUT THIS WILL SLOW THEM DOWN AND ALSO GET THEM TO THINK THAT THE TOWN OF PULASKI'S NOT THE PLACE TO BE DEALING DRUGS.))
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The undercover officers bought crack, cocaine and marijuana, but say the area's BIGGEST problem is Oxycontin.
It's a pharmaceutical painkiller that's very addictive and expensive.
High dosage pills can go for 80 to more than 100 dollars apiece.
Find out more about Pulaski's oxycontin epidemic on News-7 at 6.
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Derek Barnabei has less than four hours before his scheduled execution and Governor Gilmore says he has no intention of stopping it.
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Barnabei is scheduled to die by lethal injection at nine tonight for the rape and murder of 17-year-old Sarah Wisnosky.
Last week, tests ordered by the governor showed genetic material on Wisnosky's fingernail clippings matched Barnabei's D-N-A.
Still, Barnabei and his family maintain his innocence.
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((JANE BARNABEI/MOTHER: MY SON COULD HAVE TAKEN A PLEA BARGAIN, HE COULD HAVE BEEN OUT OF THERE BY NOW. BUT HE DIDN'T DO IT BECAUSE HE THOUGHT, THIS IS THE UNITED STATES. THAT'S WHAT HE SAID TO ME. THIS IS THE UNITED STATES AND I'M INNOCENT. I WILL BE FOUND INNOCENT. THAT'S WHAT HE TRULY BELIEVED.))
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The U-S Supreme Court this morning denied a stay of execution for the 33 year old man.
Barnabei still has another appeal pending.
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The Virginia Military Institute remembers those fought the forgotten war. We'll have the details after this break,

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and we'll tell you why the just released confessions of man dead 27 years is raising questions about one of the most notorious criminals in American history.
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Albert Desalvo is better known in the history books as a brutal mass murderer.
Now for the first time, his confession tapes from the 1960's have been released and they are raising doubts about his guilt.
Was DeSalvo in fact the killer known as the Boston strangler?
We caution you, some of what you will hear in this story is very graphic.
Peg Rusconi has the details.
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((Narr: Was the Boston Strangler ever caught ?.. that is the question being asked today by the family of one victim and by the relatives of Albert De Salvo.
De Salvo was killed in prison before he could be charged with any of the strangulation murders that haunted Boston in the early 1960s.
But he became know as the Boston strangler when he confessed to the murders of 11 women and two others.
Now DeSalvos confession tape is being heard publicly for the first time.

Graphic/sot: I penetrated her...she let me do it.

Track: De Salvo was talking about Mary Sullivan.... believed to be the stranglers last victim . Casey Sherman is Sullivan's nephew.

sot: Casey Sherman/Victim's nephew.
(De'Salvo says he committed a sex crime on my aunt....the autopsy
doesn't add up)
Track. IN fact the autopsy report says that no semen and no sperm was found inside Sullivans body.

sot: Casey Sherman/Victims's nephew
( our law suit is to prove the boston strangler was never caught...never
solved.)

sot: Peter DeSalvo/family spokesperson.
(people never forget who you are .....we want to clear our name )

Track: That's why the De Salvo's family has joined Sullivans family in a law suit against the Boston Police Department and the Massachusetts Attorney General. They want any evidence from the old investigation so they can launch their own.

(Standup:Peg Rusconi) (COVER UP....RESPONSE FROM POLICE AND ATTORNEY
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President Clinton says he's troubled by the way Federal Prosecutors acted in the case of Wen Ho Lee-
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The nuclear weapons scientist was freed yesterday after a plea agreement was reached.
Lee had been in jail for months- but was freed after pleading guilty to only one of 59 counts.
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The President says we should not be keeping people in jail without bail unless there is some real profound reason.

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Transportation officials are building two diferent list for highway improvement. There will now be a wish list, and a list of projects that are actually being built.
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And the budget for road projects will now account for inflation.
Simple changes, according the Governor, but a new way of thinking after decades of poor planning at the Virginia Department of Transportation.
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((GOV. JIM GILMORE: AND PEOPLE BEGAN TO SEE THE CONSEQUENCES OF THAT TYPE OF PLANNING AND PROCESS. AND THEY BEGAN TO COMPLAIN. AND I THINK THAT'S RIGHT. IT FALLS ON THIS ADMINISTRATION TO SET US DOWN THE PATH OF REFORM. AND I WISH I COULD TELL YOU THAT THERE WILL COME A MAGIC MOMENT WHERE I COULD TELL YOU IT'S ALL COOKED. BUT IN FACT, I THINK IT WILL TAKE AN ONGOING PROCESS OF CHANGE AND REFORM OVER THE NEXT YEAR AND A HALF.))
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The chairman of the Democratic Party says it's too little, too late.
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((DEL. KEN PLUM/D-RESTON: THE PROPOSAL TODAY DOES NOT COME CLOSE TO GET ANY ARMS AROUND WHAT THE PROBLEM IS. IT'S AGAIN A BAND-AID APPROACH. IT'S A BABY STEP AT BEST. IT'S GOING TO AFFECT BUREAUCRATICALLY HOW WE DO BUSINESS. BUT IT'S GOING TO OFFER COMMUTERS ON THE STREET NO RELIEF.))
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Next week, the Commonwealth Transportation Board unveils its new six year plan -- based on the 3-point-2 BILLION dollars in new transportation funds the General Assembly approved this year.
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[5-VMI-Korea]

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The "forgotten war" was remembered at Virginia Military Institute today.
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A dress parade provided the backdrop for what may be the nation's most ambitious symposium on the Korean War.
The Institute recognized 26 former cadets who were among the 35-thousand casualties of the conflict.
Former V-M-I Superintendent Sam Walker survived his service in Korea with a Silver Star.
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((THE ARMY WAS POORLY EQUIPPED AND HADN'T HAD THE TIME TO TRAIN FROM AN OCCUPATION MISSION TO A COMBAT-READY MISSION. THE EQUIPMENT WAS POOR, LEFT OVER FROM WORLD WAR II.))
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The symposium is designed to commemorate not just the Korean War itself- -on the 50th anniversary- -but to examine the impact of the war on Southeast Asia... on international relations and foreign diplomacy.
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Coming next on the newscast, Jacey Birch will tell us about a moving experience in Downtown Roanoke.
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As we near the end of summer... the summer camps and classes have long-ended but now it's time for fall classes to begin.
If you're interested in getting your body in gear and your feet in rhythm... you might want to check out taking dance lessons.
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Jacey Birch is live at the Jefferson Center in downtown Roanoke with some dancers from the Roanoke Ballet Theatre.
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Coming up today on Health Check, a group of Hollywood celebrities says some controversial medical research could solve their health problems. We'll have the details...
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and a woman turns her experience with her children's head lice into a successful business.
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Should human embryos be used in medical research?
Actor Michael J. Fox and Actress Mary Tyler Moore were on Capitol Hill today- urging lawmakers to fund this type of research.
It's called stem cell research.
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Early stage human embryos could be used as a source for possible cell replacement to treat diseases such as Alzheimers and Parkinsons.
Fox is suffering from Parkinsons. Tyler suffers from diabetes.
Fox told lawmakers to not let politics delay this critical research.
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((MICHAEL J. FOX: I AM NOT HERE SOLEY TO REPRSENT THE BENEFITS OF STEM CELL RESEARCH TO PARKINSON'S PATIENTS. THERE ARE MANY OTHER PROMISING APPLICATIONS FROM HEART DISEASE TO BLINDNESS TO ALZHEIMERS, TO BURN VICTIMS TO CANCER TO HIV TO AIDS TO STROKE TO AUTISM TO DEAFNESS TO SCHZOPHRENIA TO M.S. AND A.L.S.))
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[GRAPHIC=Hold] Earlier this year a presidential advisory commission recommended that scientists be allowed to use d
onated human embryos in biolmedical research.
Some members of Congress oppose this type of research saying they believe embryos at any stage are human beings.
Fox says he does not believe harm would be done to another person in this type of research.

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With the beggining of school comes the prime head lice season and parents have found the little critters are hard to get rid of.
But the problem lead one woman to come up with her own natural head lice product and it's becoming popular around the country.
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(( THIS IS WHAT
KALYN GIBBONS CAME UP CG: Southwest Eugene WITH OUT OF
DESPERATION NEARLY
4-YEARS AGO.
CG: Kalyn Gibbons/ It was like a
Lice-Off Creator war zone in here, the
kids would come home
and it was like OK,
drop your clothes, bag
'em, put 'em in the
freezer, I mean it was
just awful.

HER SON HAD HEAD
LICE. CG: REP. Pat McGillivray WHEN OVER THE
COUNTER PRODUCTS
DIDN'T HELP... KALYN
RESORTED TO RESEARCH
... AND DEVELOPED HER
OWN CONCOCTION.

Eucalyptus,
rosemary, lavendar,
lemon grass...

IT'S MADE UP OF
ALL-NATURAL
INGREDIENTS THAT'RE
BELIEVED TO REPEL HEAD
LICE... NOT KILL THEM.

(shaking sprayer)

SHE CALLS IT LICE
OFF... AND NOW SPRAYS
A DILUTED SOLUTION ON
HER SON'S HEAD ON A
REGULAR BASIS TO KEEP
THE LICE AWAY.
HER PRODUCT HAS
FOUND A RECEPTIVE
MARKET.

All over the country

OVER THE
INTERNET, IN STORES
AND THROUGH WORD OF
MOUTH... SHE'S SOLD
MORE THAN 12-THOUSAND
LITTLE BOTTLES OF LICE
OFF.
KALYN'S NOW
MAKING A LIVING OFF
THE BUG THAT WAS ONCE
THE BANE OF HER
EXISTENCE.

If the
studies continue the
way the preliminary
studies have gone, we
do have a gold mine. ))

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Good afternoon everyone, welcome to your Thursday ticker.
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New Hampshire will be one of the last tracks Chad Little races on in the number 97-John Deere Ford this Winston Cup season.
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In a letter posted on his web site, Little says he is being replaced as the team's driver. He will be at the wheel for two more races ... at Loudon and Talledega.
There is no confirmation yet from the car owner, Roush Racing, but it has pulled Little off its Internet web site. Kurt Busch is expected to become the new driver of number-97.
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Virginia and Duke are just two days away from their ACC meeting in Durham.
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The Cavaliers finished the regular season last year 7 and 4 and IF the Wahoos had not lost to Duke in overtime, UVa would have finished with a much more appealing 8 and 3 record.
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One major reason the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are fourth in the NFL in defense has been the play of former Cave Spring and UVa star Ronde Barber.
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The cornerback has been terrorizing quarterbacks so far this season and leads the NFC in sacks with 3.5 after two games. The cornerback also has a forced fumble, a fumble recovery and a touchdown. Barber and his defensive teammates have been rallying around a" no respect" theme he feels the Bucs have been fighting since last season.
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Coming up at six, more from Ronde Barber and we will preview week number four of Friday Football Extra. Those storie

s at six, but don't go away, more news 7 at five headed your way.[5-Web-Day]

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The Olympic games begin tomorrow in Australia. Hundreds of thousands of visitors are already packing Sydney.
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While the city has been preparing for years, officials are dealing with some Olympic sized problems.
Bus drivers have walked off the job , complaining of bad living conditions.
Relief drivers from out of town have been hired, but they are unfamilar with the roads.
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((ROGER BLOMQUIST, SWEDISH VISITOR YESTERDAY I WAITED FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS DOWN HERE AND NONE TURNED UPYEAH ONE BUS ACTUALLY, AND HE SAID SORRY MATE, IM LOST!))
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In additon to the transportation problems, people are also upset over the lack of tickets. Native Australians are waiting in long lines for seats, but after sponsors, V-I-Ps and the media, there aren't many left.
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((CHRISTINE BLACKMORE, OLYMPIC VISITOR I WAS FRUSTRATED THAT I DIDNT GET TICKETS TO THE OPENING CEREMONY, THAT I REALLY WANTED TO GET.))
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Olympic viewers in America will find another problem. The 14 hour difference means much of the coverage will be tape delayed. But if you would like to keep up with the latest from the Olympics, you may want to check out our website of the day.
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