WDBJ 7 news at 5 for 06/29/01

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Today on News 7, more heart problems send the vice president back to the hospital. Now he may face surgery. We'll have a live report.
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Also police in Roanoke are searching for a missing postal worker.
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Also today, we'll meet the winner of one of the nation's largest lottery jackpots,
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and on Health Check, we'll see a new procedure that could spare some women from complete hysterectomies.
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But doctors say the episodes of abnormally fast heartbeats... warrant more testing so the Vice President is going back to the hospital.

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Vice President Dick Cheney will check into the hospital tomorrow where doctors will test his heart.
It is possible doctors may have to implant a small pacemaker in Cheney's chest.
With more about the procedure and what it means... we go live now to Teri Okita in Washington- who is following the story.
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((CALLING IT AN INSURANCE POLICY AGAINST HIS HEART DISEASE, VICE-PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY SAYS DOCTORS MAY IMPLANT A SMALL, BATTERY-POWERED PACEMAKER IN HIS CHEST. CHENEY PLAYED DOWN HIS SATURDAY MORNING HOSPITAL VISIT AS "ROUTINE AND PRECAUTIONARY". Vice President Dick Cheney: I have no long-term doubts. The doctors have assured me theres no reason why either the procedure or the device thats being implanted should, in any way, inhibt my capacity to function as the vice-president. THE 60-YEAR-OLD WILL UNDERGO A BATTERY OF TESTS, INCLUDING ONE THAT WILL THREAD WIRES WITH ELECTRICAL SENSORS THROUGH THE VEINS TO HIS HEART. Sen. Bill Frist/R-Tennessee: The purpose of it is to determine the relative risk of having an irregular heartbeat, so it will simulate irregular heartbeats and see how it responds. THE VICE-PRESIDENT HAS SUFFERED FOUR HEART ATTACKS SINCE 1978 INCLUDING A MILD ONE BACK IN NOVEMBER. 13-YEARS AGO, HE HAD QUADRUPLE BYPASS SURGERY AND LAST MARCH, HE UNDERWENT ANGIOPLASTY TO UNCLOG AN ARTERY. BUT SOME EXPERTS SAY SATURDAYS PROCEDURE MAY JUST BE A SAFETY MEASURE. Dr. Bernadine Healy/CBS News Medical Consultant: Its a protection, its a prevention, its not because of anything the president has already experienced. CHENEY DISCUSSED HIS CONDITION WITH PRESIDENT BUSH ON TUESDAY AND SAYS THE PRESIDENT PUSHED HIM TO GO FORWARD. Teri Okita/Reporting: The Vice-President says hell be out of the hospital by Saturday night and back to work on Monday.
He tried to counter any doubts about his abilities to stay in office by saying hed be the first to step down if he didnt think he could do the job. Teri Okita, CBS News.))

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A Massachusetts doctor is convicted of first degree murder..... in the death of his wife.
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The jury says Dick (GRY'-nedur) Greineder slit his wife's throat after he beat her with a hammer- while the two were on a walk near their suburban Boston home.
According to prosecutors, Greineder killed his wife for fear she would reveal his secrets of sleeping with prostitutes and surfing internet porn sites.
During formal sentencing the victim's sister spoke.
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(GRY'-ned-ur) was sentenced to life without parole.
He maintains that an unknown attacker is responsible for his wife's death.
His three adult children stood by him at trial.
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Roanoke Police are looking for a postal worker who suddenly disappeared yesterday morning.
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Jennifer Barker arrived for work at her usual time at the main post office.
She parked her Honda Accord on Fifth Street near the mail truck she drives.
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((APPARENTLY SOMETHING HAPPENED, AND BOTH THE VEHICLES REMAIN THERE, THE ONE SHE GOT IN AND THE ONE SHE GOT OUT OF REMAIN THERE.))
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Barker apparently left her coffee cup on the mail truck.
Police are concerned about her- They say she was a dependable worker and her disappearance in out of character.
Barker is 44-year years old, 5-feet 5-inches tall, 140 pounds with blue eyes and blond hair.
You can call crime line if you've seen her.
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Parents at one Botetourt County elementary school say their children are unfairly falling victim to budget cuts.
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Parents of Breckenridge Elementary School children confronted the school board at a meeting to finalize the budget this morning.
They say their kids' school is bearing the brunt of cutbacks in the budget.
The school is losing five teachers ... which is increasing class sizes in grades FOUR and FIVE to the state maximum of 35.
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((KATHY SULLIVAN/SCHOOL BOARD CHAIR: WE HAD HOPED THAT WE WOULDN'T HAVE TO AND WE WERE REALLY HOPING FOR SOME MORE FUNDING FROM THE COUNTY...CRITICALLY DECIDE WHAT WE WANTED TO CUT.))
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Parents say they want the board to distribute the budget cuts more EVENLY throughout the school system.
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Still to come on the newscast, a Lynchburg woman loses her lawsuit against a local television station,
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[VO] and we'll show you the sole winner of one of the largest lottery jackpots in American history.
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Charlene Rappleyea (ROP-ee--yay) says she was devastated by broadcast news reports in the summer of 1999.
But in the first of two lawsuits she filed against local television stations, the jury found for the defendant, WSET-TV.
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Rappleyea sued both WSET and WDBJ 7 after the stations aired stories about an assault warrant that was sworn out against her.
The parents of a seven-year-old girl claimed the Toys R Us employee had placed her hand in the child's pants to see if she was concealing shoplifted merchandise. The charge was later dismissed.
Today, a Lynchburg jury considered the evidence for an hour and a half before returning a verdict.
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((DAVID BRANSON/WSET'S ATTORNEY: WE'RE GRATIFIED THE JURY FOUND IN FAVOR OF WSET. I'VE ALWAYS BELIEVED IN THE JURY SYSTEM, AND IT WORKED HERE TODAY IN LYNCHBURG.)) ((HAYDEN FISHER/RAPPLEYEA'S ATTORNEY: AGAIN WE LOST THE CASE, BUT THE POINT WASN'T NECESSARILY TO WIN THE CASE SO MUCH AS IT WAS TO GIVE MRS. RAPPLEYEA A VOICE. AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD.))
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Rappleyea's attorney says he intends to proceed with the lawsuit against WDBJ7. No trial date has been set for that case.

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In Health Check tonight,
A new procedure offers women with fibroid tumors an alternative to surgery.
It's called uterine fibroid (EMBEL-ization) embolization.
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As Health Check Reporter Joy Sutton tells us it can relieve the symptoms while cutting down on the recovery time.
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Jean,
For years a hysterectomy-- a total removal of the uterus -- has been the most common treatment for fibroids.
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But now women have a choice. They can have surgery or try a new procedure ---which only requires an incision smaller t
han a quarter of an inch.
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Doctor Robert O'Brien -the Director of Interventional Radiology at Lewis Gale Medical Center-- says this new procedure could save thousands of women every year from undergoing major surgery.
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((THERE ARE 600-THOUSAND HYSTERECTOMIES DONE YEARLY --ONE THIRD ARE FOR UTERINE FIBROIDS --SO THAT'S THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE --WE'RE LOOKING AT 200-THOUSAND PEOPLE PER YEAR IN THE U-S WHO COULD BENEFIT FROM UTERINE FIBROID EMBOLIZATION)) [RUNS16]
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About 25 percent of women of child bearing age have fibroids. They are non-cancerous tumors on the uterus.
For most women they don't cause problems --but for some they can cause a variety of symptoms.
Symptoms can include heavy, prolonged periods, an increase in menstrual cramps, pelvic or back pain, painful intercourse, and an abnormally enlarged abdomen.
Doctor O'Brien says those are the women who could benefit from uterine fibroid embolization.
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The procedure works by putting a catheter into the artery that feeds the uterus --then tiny particles are injected.

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Studies have shown that overtime the fibroids will continue to get smaller --but doctors are not sure at this point about the long term impact. As far as complication with the procedure, Doctor O'Brien says they are fairly low. He says the biggest concern would be premature menopause.
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Jean,

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Remember all of those long lines in California for that huge lottery jackpot there?
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Now a winner's come forward.
Alcario Castellano... a 66 year old Mexican- American has won California's largest lottery prize ever.
Castellano alerted the media prior to entering the lottery office in San Francisco...
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Castelleno's chosen the one time cash options...that whittles away his winnings to a measly
42 point three million dollars after taxes.
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Comin up a little later in the newscast, Mike Stevens will tell us what Roanoke is doing to gather steam for the Arena Football League's playoffs,
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Also we'll meet the real boy behind Steven Spielberg's high tech retelling of Pinnochio.
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Steven Spielberg is hoping the young star of his new movie "A-I" has a "Sixth Sense" when it comes to picking hits.
As Manuel Gallegus tells us Haley Joel Osment may be young, but his experience makes up for it.
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HE LOOKS LIKE THE OTHER BOYS BUT HES NOT REAL. DAVID IS A ROBOT, AN ARTIFICIAL BEING BROUGHT INTO A COUPLES LIVES TO HELP THEIR MARRIAGE.

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You are neither flesh nor blood..you are not a dog or a cat or canary. You were designed and built specific like the rest of us.
DIRECTOR STEVEN SPIELBERG SAYS THEY TOYED WITH THE IDEA OF USING A MECHANICAL, DIGITAL ACTOR TO PLAY DAVID -

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a digital boy in amongst the cast of human beings photgraphed on 35 millimeter --we're years away from that technologically. so it was really time to cast an actor to play a machine, so Haley Joel Osment was really my first and last choice.

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"mommy will love a real boy. The blue fairy will make me into one"
AT 13, OSMENT ALREADY HAS A LONG LIST OF FILMS IN HIS CREDITS. DESPITE BEING FAMOUS AND IN DEMAND THE OSCAR NOMINEE IS STILL A KID.CHOMPING GUMMY BEARS BEFORE OUR INTERVIEW

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How old are you now? 13. things are good? Yeah, things are good. You like the way your life is going so far? Yeah, Im in school, just finished 7th grade. Pretty happy with the films Ive been on. Yeah everything is really cool.

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THIS MOVIE MIGHT SCARE YOUNGER KIDS. EVEN FOR HALEY IT WAS FUN BUT A LITTLE CREEPY.

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the sets were so bizarre and cool ..

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SO WHATS NEXT FOR HALEY, ENJOYING THE SUMMER. MANUEL GALLEGUS CBS NEWS HOLLYWOOD.))
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Stay with us, there's still more News 7 to come. After Sports, we'll see one museum's efforts to keep a disappearing art form "on the record."
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The stock markets struggled for much of the day. The NASDAQ had to extend trading until five after computer problems interrupted trading earlier in the day. Alexis Christoforous has the details in Marketwatch.
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[GRAPHIC-TICKER] Good evening folks and welcome to the end of the work week ticker for many of you out there.
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The Roanoke Steam has been talking playoffs for a couple of weeks, but now it's time to quit talking the talk and start walking the walk.
And that means win out the rest of the season.
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Roanoke is six and six, and has steadily improved under the direction of Coach Steven Jerry.
Tonight, the Steam faces Augusta, the American Southeast Division leader.
Coach Jerry says his team needs to play with more consistency. Inconsistency cost Roanoke in a 33-27 loss to Tennessee Valley last week.
He says his team needs to step it up on offense and play defense like it did against the Vipers.
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((STEVEN JERRY/STEAM HEAD COACH: ANYTIME YOU CAN BE PLUS FOUR IN A TURNOVER MARGIN RATIO LIKE WE WERE LAST WEEK YOU GIVE YOURSELF A CHANCE TO WIN.))
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The Steam must beat the nine and three Stallions to have a CHANCE at the playoffs.
Kick off is at 7:30 tonight at the Roanoke Civic Center. Arrive early because Miss Virginia preliminary action will be in the Auditorium next door.
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Also, if you're in central Virginia tonight the Hillcats host the Avalanche at 7 at Merrit Hutchison Stadium.

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The Virginia International Raceway just outside of Danville in Alton is jammed packed with two wheeled excitement this weekend as the Formula USA motorcycle circuit makes it way to the southside road course.
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The riders spent yesterday and today practicing and qualifying. They'll do the same tomorrow and then race all day Sunday beginning at 10:45am. For many of the riders VIR is the perfect venue to separate the men from the boys.
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Tonight on News 7 at Six we'll get an up close feel of speed at the track. Plus, check in with the women's pro bowling tour.
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Jean will wrap up this half hour of news in just a moment. Have a safe weekend folks. [GO TO BREAK]

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As formats such as cassettes, C-D's and M-P-3's get smaller and smaller, so does the artwork on their covers. Now as Rebecca Rankin tells us at least one Rock and Roll Museum says it misses the good old days when you could judge a record by its cover.
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(( (REBECCA ON CAMERA TOSS) THE LP SHOW IS AN ART EXHIBIT OF MEMORABLE VINYL ALBUM COVERS...CURRENTLY ON DISPLAY IN NEW YORK CITY... ..WHEN THE CD REPLACED VYNIL....MANY ROCK AND ART FANS WORRIED ABOUT LOSING THE CREATIVITY AND BEAUTY OF ALBUM COVERS.... ....THIS SHOW CELEBRATES THE MOST THOUGHT PROVOKING AND CONTROVERSIAL ALBUM ART.
"LP SHOW PKG" RR: What made you put together this exhibition? CM: I guess I was one of those people who was always foolish enough to not only judge a record by it's cover but to buy a records by it's cover and I always thought there was a really great connection between the art on the records and the music inside uh, even if it wasn't explicit.
(VO) THE EXHIBIT...which is broken up by theme and musical genre... FEATURES OVER 2,500 LP dating back to the 1940'S.

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we went to about 60 different collectors.//and we asked them to kind of go throught their collections//and just to try to look at their records on purely visual terms and give us the wildest eyecandy that they can possibly imagine.
RR: what sort of is the future of album art do you think? CM: It's pretty grim I mean uh, I think artist will always find a way to get their work out there, but as a medium of expression to actually work with with the music and with the musicians I think that artist won't be part of that process so much anymore.
(REBECCA TAG) ...SO WE WON'T BE SEEING FAMOUS ALBUM COVERS LIKE THE ORIGINAL COVER FOR THE BLACK CROWES "AMORICA"...WHICH IS TOO RACY TO SHOW...CAUSE IT FEATURES A BIKINI CLAD WOMAN WITH A LITTLE EXTRA SOMETHING HANGING OUT.. ....OR BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN'S "BORN IN THE USA"...FEATURING THE BOSS IN THE TIGHT JEANS WITH THE AMERICAN FLAG. "THE LP SHOW" RUNS THROUGH AUGUST 17 AT EXIT ART IN THE BIG APPLE. IN NEW YORK I'M VH1'S REBECCA RANKIN.. )) [Close-ID] [5pm] SUPER=x4035; fax/copyright [SUPER=x4034;email/copyright]