WDBJ 7 news at 11 for 08/24/01

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Coming up on News 7-
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A motorcyle and car crash on a busy Roanoke street tonight. We'll have details.
Decades after a Roanoke man died in Vietnam his dog tags are found and handed over to family....
And a jet with hundreds aboard loses both ENGINES... in the air.
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News 7 is next.

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A horrible scene on a busy Roanoke street tonight.. as a motorcycle and car collide.
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Good evening...

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It happened just before eight tonight.... on Orange Avenue at the intersection of Gus Nicks Boulevard.
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The impact was so strong witnesses say the car spun around from the force.... trapping people inside.
Rescue crews had to use the jaws of life to pry open the car door.
Police say 54 year old Kathleen Paige was driving the Oldsmobile.. pulling out of parking lot to head south on Gus Nicks Boulevard.
That's when the motorcycle hit the car's passenger side.
The motorcycle driver... 46 year old Michael Flowers is at Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Critical condition.
Paige and two passengers in her car all suffered minor injuries.
Police are investigating the crash.
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[Bowman]

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A Roanoke man went off to Vietnam, never to return home alive.
His heroism earned him the Purple Heart, the Distinguished Service Cross, and the Medal of Valor.
Tonight another piece of metal was returned to his family. [***BOWMAN MB GRAPHIC***]
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Justin McLeod is here with that part of the story. Justin?
Jean, some closure tonight for the family of Joseph Bruce Bowman who was killed in the line of duty three decades ago.
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Recently, two businessman traveled to Vietnam and found Bowman's dog tags.
They then contacted Congressman Goodlatte's Roanoke office who then located his family.
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Tonight, Bowman's heroism was honored at a ceremony before the Salem Avalanche game.
Congressman Goodlatte presented the family with his dog tags, something family members never thought possible.
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((POLLY FARMER/AUNT: IT WAS HARD TO BELIEVE BUT SHE KEPT CALLING ME AND I KNEW IT WAS RIGHT, IT WAS TRUE. ITS JUST, ITS HARD TO EXPLAIN. ITS BEEN SO LONG.))
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Bowman died in February 1968 after coming under heavy fire in combat.
As a platoon leader, fellow soldiers described him as a hero to his men, in life and death.
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Friends remember Bruce to be a reserved young man, always willing to help others.
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As for the dog tags, his aunt plans to turn them over to his brother who will then decide what to do with them.

[GI-Joe]

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Another Vietnam Vet is being honored... this one by a toy company.
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For the first time ever, Hasbro has created a G-I Joe doll with a hispanic name.
It's modeled after Army Sergeant Roy (Ben-a-VEE-dez) Benavidez, a Congressional "Medal of Honor winner" from Texas. He was wounded 27 times but still carried eight wounded soldiers to safety.
The toy company was exacting in its design, from the uniform to the face.
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((BENITO GUERRERO/BENAVIDEZ' BEST FRIEND; WE FOUND A PICTURE OF HIM AND I TRAVELING IN 74. IT WAS THE CLOSEST PICTURE WE COULD GET THE FAMILY HADN'T EVEN SEEN IT.))
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(Bena-VEE0dez) Benavidez joins a prestigious list of others with G-I Joes created in their honor-- George Washington, John F. Kennedy and Colin Powell.
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((BENITO GUERRERO/BENAVIDEZ' BEST FRIEND; I THINK HIS LEGACY IS GONNA CARRY ON, PAYING BACK FOR SOME OF THE HARDSHIPS THAT HE PUT UP WITH.))
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The Benavidez doll will be in stores nationwide at the end of the month.
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[Spy-CAse]

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A retired Air Force Sergeant is charged with spying...
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38-year old Brian (REE-gun) Regan was arrested last night at Dulles International Airport as he tried to leave for Switzerland.
He used to work at the National Reconnaissance Office... The N-R-O builds and operates U-S spy satellites.
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((THE AFFIDAVIT AND THE COMPLAINT FILED IN THIS MATTER ALLEGE THAT MR. REGAN CONSPIRED TO TRANSIT CLASSIFIED U.S. NATIONAL DEFENSE INFORMATION TO A PERSON OR PERSONS HE KNEW WAS WORKING FOR A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT WITH THE INTENT TO AID THAT FOREIGN GOVERNMENT AND TO INJURE THE UNITED STATES.))
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Regan is now being held without bond.
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[Floyd-Pot]

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Routine drug surveillance turns up more than a half million dollars worth of pot on the border between Patrick and Floyd Counties.
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A helicopter today located several marijuana fields on the side of Tuggles Gap Mountain.
It was part of the counties' annual drug eradication sweep.
Deputies have already located more than 15-hundred marijuana plants with a street value of at least a thousand dollars a plant.
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((DAVID HUBBARD/PATRICK CO. SHERIFF: ITS DEFINITELY GOING TO HAVE AN IMPACT AS FAR AS THE AMOUNT OF DRUGS TAKING OFF. THE PICKUP TRUCK THAT WAS FOUND IN PATRICK WAS HEAPED UP PRETTY GOOD. I UNDERSTAND YOU GOT SOME FOOTAGE OF THAT AND ITS QUITE A BIT THERE. ANYTIME, YOU TAKE THAT MUCH OFF THE STREETS ITS GOING TO HAVE AN IMPACT ON SOMEBODY.))
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Authorities say they have several suspects but would not elaborate.
Several years ago, deputies found more than seven thousand plants in the same area.
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[Longwood]

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The Longwood fire is now on the internet.
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It's been captured in digitalized video, and is available from Farmville-DOT-net, on a CD-ROM.
The April blaze destroyed the Rotunda and the adjoining historic buildings.
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But when the freshman class showed up today for the fall semester, it was less a personal tragedy than a construction site to navigate.
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((DENNIS SERCOMBE/LONGWOOD PR DIRECTOR: WE'VE RECEIVED THE BLUEPRINTS... IN A BETTER WAY WITH NEWER INFRASTRUCTURE.))

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Three out of four damaged student dorms were the first renovation priority.
One dorm has "three to a room" this fall instead of two.
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[Va-Tech]

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Thousands of new Hokies are moving into their on-campus homes this week.
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Virginia Tech has 49-hundred freshman settling into its 44-residence halls. It's the largest group in University history. Acceptance rates were so high this year, officials offered a buyout program to reduce the number of students living on-campus. 400-extras were narrowed down to just under 2-hundred.
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((EDWARD SPENCER/ASST VP OF STUDENT AFFAIRS; FOR THE 14TH LARGEST HOUSING PROGRAM IN THE COUNTRY TO JUST HAVE 170- EXTRA PEOPLE IS A FAIRLY GOOD NUMBER. ))
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Officials expected 55-percent of residents to move in today, but officials expect the traffic and moving activity to continue throughout the weekend.
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While students were busy moving in, crews at Lane Stadium were cleaning out.
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A group of four from Streamline Pressure Washing is cleaning the stands in preparation for the football season. The job is expected to take 10-days to complete, with officials expecting some work days lasting into the night. The process is longer than usual because of all the construction within the stadium. Hoses with high pressure air deliver water to clear off debris and dirt. The cleaning is done on an annual basis.
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They were suing Bridgestone-Firestone for a Billion dollars.
But today the company and a family involved in a serious rollover accident cut a deal.
We'll have details next on News 7.
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And a terrifying flight when a jet losses both engines over the Atlantic.
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[Sports-Preview]

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((O-K sports fans here's what's happening tonight, The Salem Avalanche took on the Lynchburg Hillcats at Memorial Stadium, The Virginia Cavaliers open the season tomorrow against Wisconsin The Washington Redskins hosted the Cleveland Browns at Fed Ex Field and Jeff Green captures the pole position at Bristol.
All that and more coming up in sports.))
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[Firestone]

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A South Texas Family settles its case against Bridgestone-Firestone....
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Marisa Rodriguez and her family wanted one billion dollars... Today's settlement is reportedly worth 7 and half million.
Rodriguez may never be able to walk or talk again- but after today's decision she'll be able to afford care for the rest of her life.
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((DR. JOEL RODRIGUEZ/HUSBAND: MARISA IS OUR MAIN CONCERN RIGHT NOW AND WE'RE GOING TO GET OUR LIVES BACK AT LEAST NOT AS IT WAS BEFORE, BUT NOW BEGIN TO WORK OVER THAT.))
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The family sued after the Ford Explorer Marisa was riding in rolled last year.
While Bridgestone Firestone settled.. it maintains the problem is a vehicle issue not a tire issue.
The family settled with the vehicle maker. Ford.. for six million dollars, one month before this latest case began.
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[Polygamist]

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A Utah man with five wives and 30 children learned his fate today.
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Tom Green was convicted in the state's biggest polygamy trial in nearly 50 years.
Green was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to repay 78-thousand dollars in fraudulently collected welfare payments.
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((TOM GREEN/POLYGAMIST; WE'RE ALL JUST VERY SAD THAT OUR SOCIETY HAS A SITUATION WHERE A MAN CAN BE SENT TO PRISON FOR BEING A FATHER. THAT'S VERY SAD.)) ((REPORTER: WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITHOUT TOM? HANNAH GREEN; WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO STAY HERE AND KEEP THE FAMILY GOING AS BEST WE COULD AS IF HE WAS HERE AND WE'LL ALL WAIT FOR HIM.))
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Lawyers for Green and his five wives are planning to appeal the decision.
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[Plane-Emergency]

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A Canadian Jetliner with 291 passengers aboard runs into trouble over the ocean.
As Bob Orr reports... not one... but both engines went out .... while the plane was in the air.
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((The Canadian Air Transat jetliner sits on a runway in the Azores Islands... with blown tires and deployed evacuation slides... as the only evidence that anything at all had gone wrong. But, earlier today this plane and 306 people on board came perilously close to disaster. The Airbus A-330 took off from Toronto on an overnight trip to Lisbon, Portugal. And everything was normal as flight 236 cruised six miles above the North Atlantic. But, two-thirds of the way into the trip...trouble. Pilots reported an oil leak had forced them to shut down the RIGHT engine...and they began planning an emergency landing in the Azores. Then...almost unbelievably...an even more threatening problem surfaced.
Sources say pilots warned controllers the jet was suffering ..."a heavy fuel loss"...and may have..."to put down in the sea..." At 30-thousand feet and still 20 minutes from land...investigators say... the lone remaining engine, the LEFT, ran out of fuel.
The jetliner...now a GLIDER...headed for a desperation landing. Passengers including Joe Fernandez...donned life jackets as flight attendants tried not to panic. voice of: Joe Fernandez, Passenger "We asked if we were going to hit the water and she was telling us they didn't know if we were going to make it or not....if we were going to be able to make it to the landing strip, but probably not, that we were going to hit the water."

Somehow the pilots managed to glide the jet to safety... coming down hard on the runway. Fernandez: "There was like a big crash, a big landing, we saw sparks everywhere, I guess it was the wheels burst, and it was the rims going along the runway. And then we stopped." ORR: Crash experts are at a loss to explain how a TWIN engine jet could lose BOTH in a matter of minutes. And the incident may reignite the debate over the safety of flying over the ocean with only two engines. For its part, the airline will only say...it was obviously some kind of mechanical problem...and quote..."we would never leave without enough fuel." ))
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Nine passengers were hurt during the emergency landing.
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Forget all that stuff you learned about WIndows 95 and Windows 98.
Next on News 7, we'll check out Microsoft's new Windows X-P system.
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And it flows through much of the area, but have you ever thought about the needs of the Roanoke River?
One group wants you to... we'll explain why in a moment.
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[Microsoft-XP]

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It's a party in Washington State as Microsoft celebrates the release of Windows X-P.
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It is the company's new operating system.
The company handed over the master disks to the big personal computer companies.. who admit they could use a boost.

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((ROB WAIT/HEWLETT PACKARD: WE ARE RECLAIMING THE PC INDUSTRY'S MOJO.))
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With hair colored to match the new product ... and fanfare not seen since the big release of Windows 95... Microsoft employees celebrated.
No word on the anti trust lawsuit today at this function, although a judge was named today to decide punishment for Microsoft.
Some argue with XP.. Microsoft is just extending its monopoly.
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[Roanoke-River]

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Friends of the Roanoke River invite you to get involved in the waterway's future.
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The third annual Upper Roanoke River Roundtable Watershed Conference got underway at Virginia's Explore Park this morning. Speakers and workshops are focusing on the river's needs, problems and health.
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The goal is to educate local residents about the role the river plays in their lives.
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((BILL MODICA/BLUE RIDGE ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: WE'LL, WE WANT 'EM TO KNOW HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO THE VALLEY, TO TOURISM, TO THE QUALITY OF LIFE AND THE WHOLE AREA AND WE WANT PEOPLE TO TREAT IT WELL.))
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Modica (moe-DEE-kah) says water QUANTITY is now just as important an issue as water QUALITY. The two day conference will continue tomorrow.
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For more information or to get involved in planning for the river's future you can contact the Roanoke Watershed Office at area code-4-3-4 372-2191.
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The Avalanche was at home tonight Jeff Green captures the pole position at Bristol and Virginia opens its football season tomorrow afternoon.
But first out Extra point.
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NASCAR is preparing to honor Orioles infielder Cal Ripken. The York Daily Record in Pennsylvania says NASCAR wants to rename the September 23rd race in Dover, Delaware after the retiring Orioles star.
The race would be called the M-B-N-A Ripken 400 and here are tonight's scores.
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[S-AVS]

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Salem beat Lynchburg 5 to nothing in a game suspended from Thursday night.
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In the second game, Salem's John Lindsey hits this single to centerfield scoring Garrett Atkins and the Avalanche took a 1 to nothing lead in the first.
But the Hillcats came back in the top of the second Josh Bonafay hits this homer over the left field wall but the Hillcats trailed 2 to 1.
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Lynchburg led 3 to 2 until the bottom of the third that's when Salem's Seth Taylor hits a single down the first base line scoring a run and Salem wins it 5 to 4.
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[S-UVA]

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The Virginia Cavaliers battle Wisconsin today in the Eddie Robinson Classic at 2pm. Steve Mason has some famous last words.
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((It is no secret, the Badgers focus as far as the Uva offense goes is number one, Antwoine Womack. ((:))
Womack also respects Wisconsin, especially the Badgers defense, which is known for being quite stingy when it comes to allowing touchdowns. ((:)) ((:)) ((:)) Virginia's defense takes on a quarterback in Brooks Bollinger who passed for 1, 479 yards last season. Add junior receiver Lee Evans, who averaged a wopping 19.2 yards a catch a season ago, and the wahoos have some work to do.)) ((:)) ((:)) ((:))

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Last year at this time, Cave Spring graduate John Michael Deeds was getting ready for his first season of high school football, now the JMU freshman is preparing for his first major surgery.
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Deeds injured his right knee back on August 16th, and doctors have finally determined that he has some loose cartilage in the knee and will need arthroscopic surgery this coming Tuesday. He'll be back in four weeks, but likely will use this year as a redshirt season to learn as much as possible.
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[S-Skins]

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Jeff George played a quarter in the Washington Redskins exhibition game against Cleveland but Tony Banks passed for 176 yards and 2 touchdowns.
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The Browns scored 14 in the first half. The second T-D of the game came when Tim Couch hands off to Quincy Morgan on the end around he scores from the 2 to make it 14 to nothing.
Washington's Tony Banks entered the second quarter. After a sack on his first series he hooks up with Michael Westbrook who takes it to the Brown 2 yard line.
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Banks goes 6 for 8 capping the 63 yard drive with the swing pass to John L. Bennett for the 3 yard touchdown and Washington goes on to win it 27 to 25.
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[S-Qualify]

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Richard Childress Racing has the top 2 spots in the lineup for today's Sharpie 500 at the Bristol Motor Speedway.

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Jeff Green, A favorite on the Busch Circuit, captured the first Bud Pole of his career yesterday at Bristol. He turned in a speed of 123 point 674 miles per hour on the fast half mile oval.
Mike Skinner will start second but Stacy Compton from Grit was the last car out and he failed to make the field.
Here's a look at the starting grid.
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[SUPER=0107-6. Jeff Gordon//7. Dale Jarrett//8. Kevin Harvick//9. Rusty Wallace//10. Todd Bodine//;]
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[SUPER=0107-11. Ken Schrader//12. Jerry Nadeau//13. Geoffrey Bodine//14. Ward Burton//15. Bobby Hamilton//;]
[SUPER=X5009;]
[SUPER=0107-16. Bobby Labonte//17. Sterling Marlin//18. Tony Stewart//19. Robert Pressley//20. Brett Bodine//;]
[SUPER=X5009;]
[SUPER=0107-21. Terry Labonte//22. Jeff Burton//23. Jimmy Spencer//24. Dale Earnhardt, Jr.//25. Kevin Lepage//;]
[SUPER=X5009;]
[SUPER=0107-26. Kurt Busch//27. Mike Wallace//28. Dave Blaney//29. Johnny Benson//30. Jeremy Mayfield//;]
[SUPER=X5009;]
[SUPER=0107-31. Mark Martin//32. Rick Mast//33. Andy Houston//34. Casey Atwood//35. Bill Elliott//;]
[SUPER=X5009;]
[SUPER=0107-36. Buckshot Jones//37. Steve Park/Prov/38. Matt Kenseth/Prov/39. Ricky Craven/Prov/40. Michael Waltrip/Pro
v/;]
[SUPER=X5009;]
[SUPER=0107-41. Joe Nemechek/Prov/42. John Andretti/Prov/43. Jason Leffler/Prov/;]
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[OUT Q=...last driver."]
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Plenty of sports this weekend here on Your Hometown Station. Tonight at seven, Mike Stevens will have a half hour special on the Virginia Tech Hokies with "Tech 2001 - A Football Odyssey." Then right after that
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[go to pinnacle 1025] at 7:30 - Steve Mason and the Virginia Cavaliers step into the spotlight with "Cavaliers Football - A season to Groh on.
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The Redskins host Cleveland at Fed Ex Field. More later this Morning.