WDBJ 7 news at 5 for 08/22/01

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Today on News 7 at 5, a truck accident closes a major highway in our region. We'll have the details.
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and authorities say anyone who helps a suspected killer could end up his next victim.[Weather-Head]
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After a beautiful Wednesday... temperatures are heating up and showers may be moving into the region... starting tomorrow.

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Also today, workers at a local office are evacuated due to an apparent fungus problem.
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and we'll tell you why children at a local hospital are finding things a little more enjoyable.
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((BRAD BOWLES/ACCIDENT WITNESS; IT JUST EXPLODED AND I GUESS THAT'S WHERE ALL THE FUEL AND EVERYTHING COME FROM...IT WAS JUST SCATTERED EVERYWHERE.))
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Thousands of gallons of diesel fuel spill on a busy New River Valley highway today. At this hour crews are cleaning up the mess.... in an effort to reopen the road.
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They are making progress, but officials say it will be dark before part of Route 460 in Giles County gets back to normal. The four lane highway in the Town of Pembroke has been closed in both directions since nine this morning.
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New River Valley Bureau Chief Rachel Cannon has more on the fuel spill- It's obviously been a major headached not only for motorists... but for the people cleaning up.. .Rachel? Jean, State Police are estimating that the Eastbound lanes on 460 may be open to traffic by 9 o'clock tonight.
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Westbound lanes could be blocked until the morning. A detour is still in effect. [PINNACLE WITH DETOUR] Drivers should expect to be re-routed to Route 100 and Interstate-81. A hassle, but one that officials say could have been a lot worse.
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(TC SOT 8:23:07 IT WAS A BOOM -- 8:16:03 THERE WAS DIESEL EVERYWHERE)
5-thousand gallons of the fuel according to officials. A tanker traveling from Roanoke to Beckley, West Virginia lost control.
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((BRAD BOWLES/ACCIDENT WITNESS; I WAS GOING TO RUN OUT THERE AND CHECK ON THE DRIVER BUT I SEEN A A LOT OF FUEL AND I DIDN'T KNOW IF IT WAS GAS OR DIESEL SO I STAYED AWAY- IN FACT I AS GONNA RUN UP THAT BANK, LAUGH. ))
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The driver, 44-year-old John Blankenship would be treated for non life threatening injuries. What he left behind was much more serious. [Nats - cleaning] The fuel spread quickly.
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((BRAD BOWLES/ACCIDENT WITNESS; IT WAS STILL POURING OUT OF IT WHEN I WENT OUT TO CHECK ON IT, I GUESS ITS LUCKY IT WASN'T EXPLOSIVE. ))
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Officials say Diesel isn't highly volatile but can be an environmental hazard. Quick response time, dry weather and storm drains helped control the damage.
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((STEVE DAVIS/GILES CO HAZMAT TEAM; WE WERE ABLE TO CONTAIN THE DIESEL FUEL THAT DID RUN DOWN AND WE WERE ABLE TO STOP IT IN A DRY CVREEK BED PRIOR TO REACHING THE NEW RIVER - SO WE HAVE NO WATER CONTAMINATION.))
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[Nats - cleaning] An all day, into the night cleanup effort is keeping them busy.
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State Police say there are charges pending against the driver of the tanker. The crash actually caused about 75-thousand dollars in damage for a used car company.
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Jean, officials say nine-cars were actually hit and nine more were doused with diesel fuel.

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A small plane was supposed to land at the airport... but instead it ended up on a highway.
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This was the scene in Hudson Oaks, Texas... the plane crashed on Interstate 20- at the end of the runway.... striking the trailer of an 18 wheeler-
The piliot was killed in the accident-
It also backed up traffic on the interstate.
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A truck driver in Florida is lucky to be alive after he crashed on a bridge today.
Witnesses say that the truck hit another car and then smashed through a guard rail.
The accident left the cab of the truck hanging off the road and over the Indian River.
Authorities say that two people were hurt in the accident. The truck driver suffered minor injuries and was taken to the hospital.
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A nationwide alert is on for a Sacramento man accused of killing six members of his family.
As Manuel Gallegus reports, police now have a few more clues- they hope will help them find Nickolai Soltys.
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A day body was found, slashed and stabbed, in a cardboard box, the nationwide seach for his father intensified. Police are looking for Nikolay Soltys, the man they suspect killed his three year old son as well as his pregnant wife and four other family members.
Ron Garverick, Sacramento County Sheriff Dept. Little Sergey was found in the box head down..his wounds are consistent with all the other victims so far. :13 The child's body was found in a television box under a light tower east of Sacramento after a scribbled note on a family photo led investigators to the scene. A note police say listed the murder victims. Garverick: Not a hit list per se but there was some planning involved in this.
The Ukranian immigrant allegedly stabbed and killed his pregnant wife in their home Monday morning. From there, investigators say, he drove about 20 miles to a relative's house, slashing the throats of his aunt and uncle, then killing his nine and ten year old cousins. 75,000 thousand Ukrainian and Russian immigrants live in the Sacramento areto them for help.))'

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Officials in Henry County see education as the key element to economic recovery.
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That after yesterday's layoff announcement from Bassett furniture.
300 employees will be cut at Bassett's Chair Division by early fall.
Henry Country Spokesman Tim Hall is encouraging those workers to seize the moment.
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((TIM HALL/HENRY CO SPOKESMAN: GO BACK TO SCHOOL. GET THAT TWO YEAR DEGREE YOU'VE ALWAYS THOUGHT ABOUT GETTING. GET THAT FOUR YEAR DEGREE. GET A CERTIFICATE. TAKE A CHANCE. WHERE ONE DOOR CLOSES, ANOTHER ONE OPENS.))
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Officials are also concerned the area's lack of large employers will drive workers away from the community.
We'll here what both the democrat and republican candidates for governor have to say about Bassett's situation tonight at six. [(toss to R)]
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[SS=NONE]ROBIN IN WX-CENTER

[WXPRO/FULL] WEATHER TODAY TOMORROW FORECAST WEATHERSCHOOL QUESTION

What a gorgeous summer day! Light breezes combined wih reasonable temperatures in the eighties and plenty of sunshine made our Wednesday great.
Right now temperatures are sitting in the upper eighties throughout Roanoke and Southside. Cooler in the mountains with lower seventies, from Lewisburg to Beckley and Bluefield... and low eighties in the New River Valley.
Tomorrow things are changing all around with temperatures rising into the lower nineties... and a cold front moving in tonight may bring showers or even storms to the area by Thursday.
Today's weather school question asks, Can weather affect the distance sound travels, true or false, what do you think? We've got the anser in just a few minutes.

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Workers in a local office have to find new space to work in. We'll tell you why after the break.
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[VO] and we'll see why motor scooters are sending thousands of people to the hospital.
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Three astronauts who spent nearly six months on the international space station are back on earth.
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They landed safely aboard the space shuttle Discovery this afternoon.
The landing was postponed by a couple of hours, because of clouds and rain near the landing site.
But the weather improved just in time for the second try.
Discovery left the space station on Monday.
It dropped off a three-man crew, and brought back a Russian commander and two American crewmates.
Those three spent 167 days in space.
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The popularity of motorized scooters is keeping doctors busy.
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The Consumer Product Safety Commission says more than 22 hundred people have been treated in emergency rooms this year for injuries related to the scooters.
More than a third of those hurt are under 15.
The warning comes a week after a six-year-old California boy died from head injuries he suffered when he fell from a scooter. There have been three deaths in all from scooter accidents -- and none of those killed was wearing a helmet.
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Young people at one local hospital will have something to distract them from their problems.
Nintendo Game systems are now available at the Lewis Gale Medical center thanks to the efforts of local picture framers.
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Thirteen area dealers joined forces to raise 10-thousand dollars for the purchase of two Nintendo Fun Centers.
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((JOHN EWALD/EWALD ART & FRAMES:I HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEE THIS MACHINES USED BY A HOSPITALIZED CHILD WHO WAS UNDER TREATMENT FOR CANCER --AND THEY WAY SHE LIT WAS MAGIC --IT MAKES ME FEEL GOOD TO BE PART OF SOMETHING LIKE THAT TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR THEM ))
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The portable games are available to the hospitals pediatric patients.
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((MARK RADER :ANYTHING THAT CAN HELP FOCUS A CHILD'S ATTENTION ON SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE FUN AND PLEASURABLE IS THE TREND IN HEALTHCARE TO GET THEIR ATTENTION OF WHY THERE IN THE HOSPITAL --MAKING THINGS A LITTLE BIT MORE FUN FOR THEM WHILE THEY'RE HERE))
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The money that dealers raised went to the Starlight Children's foundation. In return, Nintendo donated the machines to the hospital of their choice.
It was all part of a national fundraiser by the Art and Framing Council.
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50 workers at a building in Roanoke were forced out of their office yesterday by a fungus.
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The top floor of the Fountain Square building on second street used by Carilion has a fungus similar to that found in a typical basement.
While not hazardous, it was causing unpleasant smells and induces "allergy like" symptoms.
Carilion tested the building after employees complained about its smell.
Carilion is currently looking for office space to house the 50 employees affected by the evacuation.
Carilion did NOT test the other floors of the building.
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A hundred million dollar National Slavery Museum still has NO home in Virginia.
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But former Governor Doug Wilder broke a few weeks of silence on his legacy project today to put the pressure on.
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((DOUG WILDER: IT WAS MY DREAM TO BE ABLE TO HAVE A MUSEUM IN VIRGINIA. WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE LOGICAL THAN TO HAVE IT IN VIRGINIA WHERE THE FIRST SLAVES WERE BOUGHT?))
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The Jamestown site fell through earlier this year.
The slave trading docks in Richmond, and sites in Hampton and Fredericksburg are all currently in the running.
Wilder says expect a decision in a few weeks.
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Central Virginia's efforts to attract more tourists got a boost from the state today.
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The Virginia Tourism Corporation presented the Lynchburg Chamber of Commerce with two checks totalling more than 33- thousand dollars.
The money will help market the area's black heritage sites and attract more group tours and meetings.
Officials say the money helps central Virginia compete in a tough tourism market.
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((BRIAN KNOPP/LYNCHBURG REGIONAL CHAMBER: WE HAVE TO COMPETE WITH WILLIAMSBURG AND JAMESTOWN AND RICHMOND, BUT WE'RE STANDING ON OUR OWN AND WE'RE REALLY PROMOTING OUR HERITAGE, OUR CULTURAL ATTRACTIONS WHICH REALLY SETS US APART FROM OTHER REGIONS AROUND THE STATE.))
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Lynchburg and the counties of Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, Campbell and Nelson banded together to secure the grant money.
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Still to come on our newscast, Jacey Birch will have our detailed look at the weather,
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Then we'll tell you why lottery players across the country are looking to beat the odds.
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The Powerball Lottery has reached another big jackpot. With tonight's drawing, someone may become 200 million dollars richer. Drew Levinson has more on the last minute scramble for tickets.
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((It wouldn't be fair to call it Powerball fever anymore. It's more like an epidemic. Hundreds of thousands of people across the country are snatching up lottery tickets in hopes of winning 200 million dollars.
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(Denese Benn/Powerball Player)
"If you win, what are you going to do with 200 million dollars? OH, I will probably pay off my debts."
They're playing the game in 21 states as well as in Washington, DCTERMS.
Standup: "This gas station sits in Covington, Kentucky, but take a look at most of the license plates...Ohio. THey don't play powerball in Ohio, but we're right in the shadow of Cincinnati and a lot of those folks over there are coming over here to play."
Soundbite (no super) "Straight down 75 and for 200 million it is worth the trip."
And it's worth the trip for New Yorkers as well. They're flocking to Connecticut to play. Though 200 million is not too shabby, the record powerball jackpot was hit back in 1998...almost 296 million dollars. If no one wins this time, Saturday's total could top that."

(Nat Sound: "25 dollars, good luck")

Good luck is right. He'll need it. He, like everyone else has a 1-in-80 million shot at winning. Still, you can dream.
Soundbite: (no super) "I'm gonna win."
Hey, she's got as good a chance as anyone else. DL, CBS News, Covington, Kentucky))
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Coming up on News 7 at 5 - a N-B-A veteran is traded to a new team. Roy Stanley will have more.
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[VO] and talk about delivering This couple was really having it their way at a Burger King. We'll have details after the break
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On Wall Street today, investors spent much of the day considering yesterday's interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve.
But after a slow start, a late rally pushed stock prices higher.
Alexis Christoforous has more.
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A "whopper" of a story from a Burger King in Florida.
Or you could say a "whopper Junior" of a story.
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Instead of serving up fries and burgers, the manager there was helping delivery a baby.
The woman gave birth in the restaurants bathroom..... Manager Heidi Shalaby helped out-
She and the father cupped their hands and caught little Jorge Velasquez- the second.
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((HEIDI SHALABY/BURGER KING MANAGER: HER HUSBAND WAS ON THE OTHER SIDE HOLDING HIS HAND CATCHING THE BABY. IT CAME SO QUICK! THIS IS THE FASTEST DELIVERY I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE.))
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Paramedics arrived just in time to clear the baby's airway and cut the umbilical cord.
The baby, mom and dad are all doing just fine.
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Thanks Jean and good afternoon everybody and welcome to the two minute ticker.
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The Buffalo Bills have released linebacker Corey Moore.
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The former Virginia Tech Defensive end was shot while home in Brownsville Tennesse during the sumer. Bills coach Gregg Williams critized Moore for not keeping the team aware of his condition and for not showing up for the team mini camp.
Moore was a promising third round draft pick out of Virginia Tech last year.
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More was arrested on assault charges for allegedly hitting a man with a beer bottle in May. The charges were dropped.

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The college football season gets underway for Virginia this weekend as the Cavaliers battle 22nd ranked Wisconsin.

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The Badgers are coming off a 9 and 4 season and must replace 12 starters. Wisconsin has won three Rose Bowls in the 90's and the coaching staff knows the new Virginia coaching staff will do a thorough job scouting the Badgers.
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and don't forget to join Steve Mason This Saturday night at 7:30 for a half hour special, Cavalier Football--A season to Groh.

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35-year old Tim Hardaway is leading the Miami Heat and joining the Dallas Mavericks.
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Hardaway, a five time all star, signs a 3 year contract worth about 10-million dollars then he is sent to Dallas. In return, The Mavericks get Dallas's 3 point 2 million dollar trade exception and a second round draft pick within three years.
In Dallas, Hardaway will back up starting point guard Steve Nash and at times play with him.
Hardaway reunites with Dallas coach and General manager Don Nelson, who was with Golden State when the Warriors picked him in the first round of the 1989 draft.
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Coming up at Six we'll check in with the members of the Virginia Tech offense and Jean will back in a moment.

[5-SVC]

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A remarkable turnaround is happening in Buena Vista for Southern Virginia University.
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The school was bought 6 years ago by a group of Mormon investors looking to provide students with a school with religious ties. Just a few years ago, the school had closed its doors, but it's a different story now.
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((CURTIS FAWSON/SOUTHERN VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT; WE WOULDN'T HAVE DREAMED THEN THAT WE'D HAVE THIS SORT OF GROWTH. WE STARTED WITH 74 STUDENTS IN THE FALL OF 1996, AND HERE WE ARE PUSHING 500. WHAT A CHALLENGE THAT HAS BEEN.))
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Southern Virginia University students say the friendly atmosphere attracted them to the school. Now with a record enrollment, the school says it is looking to expand.
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[5-Greeting-Cards]

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Finally today, one of the best things about email and the internet is that it allows you to keep in touch with your family and friends.
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A good way to do that is with an electronic greeting card.
Our website of the day features hundreds of the best free cards on the Net.
In addition to the traditional birthday, get well and sympathy cards, Blue Mountain offers things a little more off the beaten path.
According to the site, Monday is officially Kiss and Make up day...and don't forget National Pickle Week when May rolls around again. To send an e-greeting card to some one you love,
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