[1-News-Head]
[ANCHOR=Keith]
The judge makes a decision on whether developers will have to lop the top off the Cherry Hill condo building.
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[VO-NAT]
And a show of concern from 150- salaried workers at the Volvo truck plant.
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[Sports-Head]
[ANCHOR=mike]
[NEWSCAST=6pm]
[WRITER=mst]
[TAPE#=]
[GRAPHIC=]
Tonight on News 7 sports, it's day one of the Barbers' football camp.
Hingis exits Wimbledon.
The Hawks are soaring in Florida.
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[VO-NAT]
And a two million dollar gift has saved the baseball program at UVa.
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[WX-Head]
[ANCHOR=Robin]
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Looking pretty good weatherwise with only isolated showers in the forecast. Details ahead.
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[ANCHOR=Keith 3-Shot]
News 7 is next.
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[SOT 16:28:22]
[IN Q=Granted]
((BILL SMITH/UAW CHAIRMAN; GRANTED THE MARKET'S BAD, BUT THE DECISIONS BEING MADE ARE NOT JUSTIFIED BY THE BAD MARKET.))
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[OUT Q=BY THE BAD MARKET]
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[VO-NAT]
Do decisions mean trouble for workers at Volvo's New River Valley truck plant.
Union leaders say layoffs are on the horizon, but no confirmation comes from the company.
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[ANCHOR=Keith]
[GRAPHIC=News7at6]
Good evening, I'm Keith Humphry.
Shannon Young is off tonight.
[Volvo]
[ANCHOR=Keith]
[NEWSCAST=6]
[WRITER=rca]
[TAPE#=01-38 TC11:50]
[GRAPHIC=Volvo]
Morale is low and unfortunately so are truck orders at Volvo's New River Valley plant.
Today employees used their lunch break to display concern and unity to management about talk of pending layoffs.
[DOUBLE BOXES=Rachel and Keith /Microwave;]
New River Valley Bureau Chief Rachel Cannon has more. Rachel?
[LIVE=Rachel /FULL Microwave]
[SUPER=@Rachel1;]
[SUPER=05-Blacksburg;]
Keith, future job cuts at the Dublin facility are not being confirmed by Volvo, a spokesman says he is not aware of any.
But the United Auto Workers Union says layoffs are real and workers are worried.
A feeling demonstrated by the 150-employees who gathered outside of management's offices today.
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[SOT]
[IN Q=NATS "GUY TALKING"]
[SUPER=03-Dublin; :00]
[SUPER=01-Bill Smith/Local UAW Chairman; :15]
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[OUT Q=WILL BE DEEP CUTS AGAIN.]
(([Nats Smith talking]
Union chairman Bill Smith says salaried workers are unhappy with how the plant is being managed.
Most recently with the decision to move some engineering jobs to Volvo's North Carolina location.
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[SOT 16:25:24]
[IN Q=BY CONTRACT]
((BILL SMITH/UAW CHAIRMAN; BY CONTRACT THEIR NOT SUPPOSED TO DO THAT AND BY NLR LAW THEIR NOT SUPPOSED TO DO THAT, WE TRIED TO TALK TO THEM AND GO NOWHERE.))
[OUT Q=NOWHERE]
So instead of talking...salaried workers are rallying.
The union says 90-percent of nearly 2-hundred salaried workers, who are non-production, spent their lunch hour in front of the administrative building.
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[SOT 16:25:38]
[IN Q=let them]
((LET THEM SHOW THE COMPANY THAT AS A GROUP WE DISAGREE AND THAT WE ARE STANDING TOGETHER.))
[OUT Q=TOGETHER]
[Nats inside plant]
Volvo is not commenting today.
But cuts the company made earlier this year were blamed on a slowing industry.
The union believes this latest round will hit even those workers with seniority.
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[SOT 16:28:43]
[IN Q=AS TO THE]
((AS TO THE EXACT FIGURES I DON'T KNOW BUT IF WHAT WE HERE IS TRUE IT WILL BE DEEP CUTS AGAIN.))
[OUT Q=AGAIN]))
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[LIVE=Rachel /FULL Microwave]
[SUPER=05-Blacksburg;]
The Union says already 33 of the 2-hundred salaried workers are out of a job.
But they also say the possible job cuts may not just target the salaried, support staff.
[DOUBLE BOXES=Rachel and Keith/Microwave;]
Hourly paid, production employees are also expected to take a hit.
Exact details of the cuts are expected this week. Keith?
[Gibson]
[ANCHOR=Keith]
[NEWSCAST=6]
[WRITER=jmi]
[TAPE#=01-23 TC46:52]
[GRAPHIC=Murder Invest.]
Franklin County Authorities are still trying to figure out why a teenager allegedly stabbed and killed his mother and cousin.
19-year-old James Edward Gibson told 9-1-1 dispatchers Sunday morning he quote "just snapped."
As News 7's Jennifer Miele reports, the warning signs weren't apparent to everyone.
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[SOT]
[IN Q=The sleepy community.]
[SUPER=03-Franklin Co.;:00]
[SUPER=01-Elsworth Johnson/Deacon of Gibson's Church;:16]
[SUPER=@jennifer1;:23]
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[OUT Q=JM News 7, Franklin Co.]
(( It's something most people in Waidsboro never thought they'd have to worry about.
19-year-old James Edward Gibson allegedly stabs and kills his mother and cousin.
Today, the community is trying to figure out why.
Elsworth Johnson is the deacon of Gibson's church.
[SOT]
((I NEVER HAD NO TROUBLE WITH HIM. HE USED TO COME DOWN AND MOW MY COUSIN'S LAWN.))
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[STAND UP]
((JENNIFER MIELE/REPORTING: DEACON JOHNSON SAYS JAMES, OR SLICK AS FRIENDS AND FAMILY WOULD CALL HIM, ATTENDED SUNDAY SCHOOL IN FRANKLIN COUNTY AS A CHILD, HERE AT ANTIOCH UNITED BAPTIST CHURCH.))
[RUNS09]
A high school drop-out, authorities say Gibson lived a troubled life... often truant and abusive of drugs, they describe his a back talker, mean, and obstinate.
His mother often defended him to school officials.. which is why authorities are puzzled by the act of violence against her.
The high school has a Violence Prevention program in place... it's a ten week anger management program in which students may enroll themselves, or be enrolled by school officials.
They have no recollection of Gibson being enrolled in the program.
While a motive hasn't been determined, Gibson told authorities he quote, "just snapped."
The murder weapon was a bayonet Gibson allegedly found in the basement of his mother's home.
For Deacon Johnson, it's something he thought he'd never see in Waidsboro.
[SOT]
((ELSWORTH JOHNSON: THIS IS A QUIET NEIGHBORHOOD. EVERYBODY MINDS THEIR OWN BUSINESS AROUND HERE. THEY GO AND VISIT BUT OTHERWISE THERE IS NO RACKET.))
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Gibson will face capital murder charges at an arraignment tomorrow.
Jennifer Miele, News 7, Franklin County.))
[Halifax-Shooting]
[ANCHOR=Keith]
[NEWSCAST=6 PM]
[WRITER=jus]
[TAPE#=01-25 TC1:04:12]
[GRAPHIC=HOLD]
Authorities in Halifax County continue to investigate a drive- by shooting that killed one person and injured another.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Halifax Co.]
The sheriff's office says someone fired as many as fifty rounds into a home on Beulah Road in the Meadeville comunity around one o'clock this morning.
22 year Douglas Edward Witcher was killed instantly.
20-year old Luther Powell was hit four times but was treated and released from the hospital.
This is the third drive-by shooting in the area in the past two weeks.
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[SOT 17:08:25]
[IN Q=We believe they are connected]
((MAJ. RICHARD PULLIAM/HALIFAX CO. SHERIFF'S DEPT.: WE BELIEVE THEY ARE CONNECTED. WE THINK THIS IS RETALIATION GOING ON BUT WE REALLY NEED HELP OF THE COMMUNITY AND WE'RE ASKING IF THEY HAVE ANY INFORMATION TO PLEASE CALL CRIMESTOPPERS.))
[SUPER=01-Maj. Richard Pulliam/Halifax Co. Sheriff's Department;]
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[OUT Q=please call crimestoppers]
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[VO-NAT]
Investigators say they have some leads but would not elaborate.
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[Fatals-Halifax]
[ANCHOR=Keith]
[NEWSCAST=6 PM]
[WRITER=jus]
[TAPE#=01-29 TC27:43]
[GRAPHIC=Fatal Accident]
Also in Halifax County, an auto accident killed two pedestrians this morning .
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Halifax Co.]
It happened just before 11:30 on route 607 just off of U-S 360.
State Police say 18 year old Christopher Jason Green of Clover was heading north when he ran off the left side of the road.
State Police say he hit and killed 76 year old Louis Buldin and 62 year old Henry Albert Welch, both of Clover.
Christopher Green was treated and released from Halifax Regional Hospital.
No charges have been filed.
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[Cherry-Hill]
[ANCHOR=Keith]
[NEWSCAST=6]
[WRITER=khu]
[TAPE#=01-34 TC06:24]
[GRAPHIC=None]
The Cherry Hill condominium complex in South Roanoke stands- -72 feet high- -and that's the way it'll stay.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke]
A Circuit Judge okayed it today.
Though the condo is more than twice as tall as city code allows, the Board of Zoning Appeals made an exception for a number of reasons... which Judge Clifford Weckstein today adopted.
The judge conceded the "nature of the community" will be changed by the project, but he noted there are other tall buildings in the vicinity- -including a medical building and parking garage.
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[ANCHOR=Keith]
[SS=None]
Developer Jim Body says several couples have sold their homes and are ready to move in next month.
Stuart Revercomb had not heard about the judge's decision, but said there is "certainly the likelihood" of an appeal.
[Tease#1]
[ANCHOR=Keith]
[SS=NONE]
He faced the monumental task of of getting the National D-Day Memorial done on time... and succeeded.
But now Richard Burrow is stepping down.
Find out why next on News 7 at Six.
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[SUPER=@Kate1;]
[SUPER=05-Roanoke]
(Kate adlibs Live Tease)
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[Burrow]
[ANCHOR=Keith]
[NEWSCAST=6pm]
[WRITER=ssm]
[TAPE#=01-37 TC10:02]
[GRAPHIC=D-day Memorial]
Three weeks after its grand opening in Bedford, the National D-Day Memorial is losing its executive director.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Bedford]
Richard Burrow says the months of 12- and 15- hour days he spent preparing for the opening have left him burned out and needing a rest.
So Burrow is stepping down after five and a half years on the job.
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[IN Q=One of my]
((RICHARD BURROW/D-DAY MEMORIAL DIRECTOR: ONE OF MY BIGGEST CONCERNS WAS THAT PEOPLE WOULD THINK SOMETHING IS WRONG.. ...MORE THAN I COULD TAKE.))
[SUPER=01-Richard Burrow/D-Day Memorial Director]
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[OUT Q=I could take.]
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[VO-NAT]
Foundation chairman Bob Slaughter tells News7 he's disappointed by Burrow's decision and asked him to reconsider.
Burrow's final day is July 15th.. a nationwide search will be conducted for his successor.
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[Mark-Warner]
[ANCHOR=Keith]
[NEWSCAST=6pm]
[WRITER=equ]
[TAPE#=01-32 TC09:54]
[GRAPHIC=Campaign 2001]
Both Mark Earley and Mark Warner pledge they will raise teacher pay in Virginia to at least the national average, if elected governor.
Both also pledge to finish phasing out the car tax.
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[VO-NAT :12]
[SUPER=403-Richmond;]
But getting straight answers on how both would happen is tricky.
We asked what happens if the "no car tax" law revenue triggers are NOT met this year -- meaning the law dictates the tax cut be frozen at the 70 percent phase-out?
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[IN Q=Mark Earley's committed to ]
[sot tape 13:53:00 ]
((DAVID BOTKINS: MARK EARLEY'S COMMITTED TO A ONE HUNDRED PERCENT PHASEOUT NEXT YEAR ON TIME AND ON TARGET.))
[SUPER=401-David Botkins/Earley Spokesman; ]
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[OUT Q=on time and on target.]
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[VO-NAT :18]
We asked if that meant ignoring the triggers in the car tax law.
The Earley campaign says "absolutely."
Mark Warner says he'll finish phasing out the car tax "by the end of his four year term."
But would he observe the law Earley promises to break if necessary to phase it out next year?
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[SOT]
[IN Q=Let's -- let's go -- let's look]
[SOT 13:50:15]
((MARK WARNER: LET'S -- LET'S GO -- LET'S LOOK AT THE REAL NUMBERS FIRST. Do you not believe what you read in the paper then? I'VE HEARD THAT SOMETIMES WHAT HAPPENS IN THE PAPER ISN'T ALWAYS ACCURATE.))
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[OUT Q=the paper isn't accurate.]
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[VO-NAT :11]
On the cost of the teacher pay raise: Warner says it will be about 500 million dollars a year by the end of his term.
Earley thinks it will only cost about 207 million dollars a year.
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[Education-Ce]
[ANCHOR=Keith]
[NEWSCAST=6]
[WRITER=bmo]
[TAPE#=01-28 TC34:43]
[GRAPHIC=None]
Roanoke's higher-ed center could become a model for similar centers around the country.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke]
Congressman Bob Goodlatte and other members of the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness were in town today to learn about the Center's curriculum and services.
It has lots of programs for a variety of educational interests.
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[SOT]
[IN Q=The importance]
((REP. BOB GOODLATTE/(R) 6TH DISTRICT; THE IMPORTANCE OF THE INTEGRATION OF WORKFORCE TRAINING WITH EDUCATION PROGRAMS AND THAT'S REALLY WHAT IS UNIQUE ABOUT THIS FACILITY. YOU CAN GET EVERYTHING HERE FROM YOUR HIGH SCHOOL GED, DIPLOMA OR WORKPLACE TRAINING RIGHT UP TO MASTER DEGREES AND POTENTIALLY EVEN PHD'S.))
[SUPER=@Goodlatte;]
[RUNS=:19]
[OUT Q=potentially even PHD's.]
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[VO-NAT]
Local civic leaders asked the Representatives for more money and greater flexibility.
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[Stocks]
[ANCHOR=Keith]
[NEWSCAST=6]
[WRITER=dse]
[TAPE#=None]
[GRAPHIC=None]
A mixed start to the week on Wall Street.
[TAKE DOW & NASDAQ PAGE]
[RUNS=:30]
[SUPER=x5000;]
[SUPER=440-y/100.37/10504.22/x/16.03/2050.87;]
The DOW plunged 100 points.
NASDAQ gained 16.
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[Movie-Auditions]
[ANCHOR=Keith]
[NEWSCAST=6]
[WRITER=kwe]
[TAPE#01-36 TC09:15]
[GRAPHIC=None]
Are you looking to be a movie star?
There's an open casting call tonight in Roanoke for a new film.
[Double Boxes=Keith and Kate/Microwave]
Kate Weidaw is at the Carilion Cancer Center where the auditions are underway.
[Live=Kate Full/Microwave]
[SUPER=@Kate1;]
[SUPER=05-Roanoke;]
( ad lib)
(Rollcue:a world-famous author.)
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[SOT]
[IN Q=He ends up]
[SUPER=01-Shaw Mason/Movie Producer]
[RUNS=:13]
[OUT Q=destroying his life]
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[VO-NAT]
[***KATE'S MIC HOT***]
[RUNS=:20]
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[Live=Kate Full/Microwave]
[SUPER=05-Roanoke;]
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[Double Boxes=Keith and Kate/Microwave]
[Miss-Martinsville]
[ANCHOR=Keith]
[NEWSCAST=6]
[WRITER=kle]
[TAPE#=01-15 TC1:31:12]
[GRAPHIC=Miss VA]
Miss Virginia contestants arrived in Roanoke today.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke]
Miss Martinsville- Henry County made a unique entrance this morning at Hotel Roanoke.
She arrived in a Martinsville speedway pace car and was escorted by NASCAR driver Jimmy Hensley.
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[SOT 9:30:20]
[IN Q=I was so excited about]
((LAUREN TROLLINGER/MISS MARTINSVILLE HENRY CO. : I WAS SO EXCITED ABOUT RIDING IN THE PACE CAR BECAUSE I'VE ONLY SEEN IT ON THE RACETRACK. IT WAS VERY NICE AND A COMFORTABLE RIDE. WE HAD TONS TO TALK ABOUT, SO IT WAS A LOT OF FUN.))
[SUPER=01-Lauren Trollinger/Miss Martinsville - Henry Co.]
[RUNS=:09]
[OUT Q=A lot of fun]
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[VO-NAT]
Trollinger said they received a lot of attention riding in the painted car.
The contestants arrived today to begin their week of preparation.
The Miss Virginia Pageant will be held Saturday night at 9.
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[Sports Tease]
[ANCHOR=Mike]
[NEWSCAST=6pm]
[WRITER=mst]
[TAPE#=]
[GRAPHIC=]
Coming up tonight on the Big 7 - the UVa baseball program that was out of cash a month ago - gets a two million dollar donation.
Martina Hingis is kicked out of Wimbledon.
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[VO-NAT]
And we'll check in on day number of Tiki and Ronde Barber's football camp at the River's Edge.
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[S-UVA]
[ANCHOR=Mike]
[NEWSCAST=Six]
[WRITER=dal]
[TAPE#=Sp-92 tc 1:43:35]
[GRAPHIC=UVA]
Coach Dennis Womack says this is the most important day in UVA baseball history.
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[VO-NAT]
[super=03-Fort Mill, SC/May 17;]
You may remember, at the end of April UVA officials announced they were thinking of cutting baseball scholarships.
An outpouring of support from the alumni and parents helped save the program.
[SUPER=03-Charlottesville/Today;]
Virginia has receive two million dollars in gifts to launch a four million dollar construction project which will update the school's baseball facility.
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[SOT]
[IN Q=we want]
[SUPER=01-Dennis Womack/UVA Baseball Coach; :04]
[SUPER=01-Craig Littlepage/Interim Athletic Director; :20]
[RUNS=31]
[OUT Q=quality baseball]
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[S-Twins]
[ANCHOR=Mike]
[NEWSCAST=6pm]
[WRITER=mst]
[TAPE#=SP-104 TC]
[GRAPHIC=TIKI RONDE]
UVa alums Tiki and Ronde Barber are back in the Star City this week for their annual NFL Twins football camp.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke; :00]
This is the fourth year for the week long football school.
The camp is back at the River's Edge, and the Barbers say after some fine tuning the camp is exactly how they envisioned it would be four summers ago.
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[SOT]
[IN Q=right about now...]
[SUPER=01-Ronde Barber/Tampa Bay Bucs Cornerback;]
[SUPER=01-Tiki Barber/New York Giants Tailback; :23]
[RUNS=:46]
[OUT Q=...FROM THIS]
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[VO-NAT CON'T]
The Barbers are at the Roanoke Valley Sports club tonight - tomorrow night they'll be hanging out with the Salem Avalanche.
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[S-Hawks]
[ANCHOR=mike]
[NEWSCAST=6pm]
[WRITER=sma]
[TAPE#=SP-94 44:55]
[GRAPHIC=Basketball]
The Roanoke Hawks boys basketball team leaves for Orlando, Florida tomorrow for the 14 and under national AAU tournament.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke; :00]
The team enters the tourney with an impressive 32 and 6 record. The event runs from June 27th through the fourth of July and is a double elimination tournament.
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[SOT]
[IN Q=first audio]
[SUPER=01-Joe Gaither/AAU Hawks Head Coach; :00]
[SUPER=01-Brandon Dillard/Hawks Forward; :22(QUICK)]
[SUPER=01-Bosco Williams/Hawks Forward; :26]
[RUNS=:33]
[OUT Q=.....games we play"]
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[anchor=mike]
[graphic=hold aau logo]
The Hawks open play this Thursday morning against Baltimore.
[S-Tennis]
[ANCHOR=Mike]
[NEWSCAST=6pm]
[WRITER=mst]
[TAPE#=sp-91 20349TC]
[GRAPHIC=WIMBLEDON]
The Wimbledon tennis championships opened and closed in the same breath for Martina Hingis today.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Wimbledon, England/TNT; :00]
Today, the number one seed in the tournament was knocked out in the opening round by Virginia Ruano Pascual.
She lost the match 6-4 and 6-2 to the 83rd ranked player in the world.
This is the second time in three years that Hingis has been ousted in the opening round.
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