WDBJ 7 news at 5 for 10/02/01

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The terrorist attacks force a slowdown in jet service and Lynchburg's airport loses some daily flights...
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and one person is dead, and police hunt for suspects and clues in a murder in Roanoke this morning.
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Get ready for some very warm temperatures tomorrow. We will explain in just a moment.

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In today's Health Check, we'll talk with two local health care students...
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who got a first hand look at the destruction of the terrorist attacks three weeks ago.
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News 7 is Next.

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More than three weeks after the terrorist attack on America... Reagan National airport will reopen.
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((PRESIDENT BUSH: THIS THURSDAY THE TICKET CONTERS AND THE AIRPLENS WILL FLY OUT OF RONALD REAGAN AIRPORT.. CHEERS!))
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President BUsh says it's a sign the nation is back in business.
Travelers from the nation's capital will no doubt.. see it as an easier way to get out of town.
While the airport will reopen, it'll be on a limited basis.
At first there will be just shuttle flights to New York and Boston- and all flights will have armed marshals on board.
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Aleen Sirgany is in Washington.
She joins us live with the latest.
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(( FROM REAGAN NATIONAL AIRPORT, PRESIDENT BUSH MADE THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THE AIRPORT WILL REOPEN THURSDAY. BUSH: We will start a schedule of airplane flights that will reflect the new and tight security concerns that all Americans share. ONE CONCERN: JUST LOOK HOW CLOSE THE WHITE HOUSE IS TO THE AIRPORT: YOU CAN SEE THE CONTROL TOWER FROM THE SOUTH LAWN. SO FOR NOW, AIRPLANES WONT BE ABLE TO FLY THE NORMAL ROUTE OVER THE WHITE HOUSE, THE PENTAGON, OR MONUMENTS. AS THE PRESIDENT FIGHTS THE WAR ON TERRORISM FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, DEFENSE SECRETARY DONALD RUMSFELD WILL HEAD TO THE MIDDLE EAST TONIGHT FOR TALKS WITH POLITICAL AND MILITARY LEADERS.
VICTORIA CLARKE/ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS: It's a very strong sign of the importance we place on the region and the importance we place on the coalitions. IN AFGHANISTAN, THE RULING TALIBAN PARTY STILL SAYS IT WONT HAND OVER OSAMA BIN LADEN WITHOUT PROOF HE WAS INVOLVED IN THE ATTACKS. TALIBAN PRESSER: THE TALIBAN AMBASSADOR TO PAKISTAN SAYS THAT THE ONLY WAY TO END THE CRISIS IS FOR THE U-S TO BEGIN NEGOTIATIONS. BUT THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION HAS MADE IT CLEAR THAT THERES NOTHING TO NEGOTIATE. Secretary of State/Colin Powell. STAND-UP: the fed decision and economy))

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Meanwhile a couple of other related notes. Today at Ground Zero.. progress is being made.
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Crews are finding clumps of bodies.. including those of 15 firefighters- as they remove heavy rubble from the World Trade Center site.
Now that heavy equipment is in place, crews are able to move giant steel beams and large pieces of debris.
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The Associated Press is reporting that the head of security at Boston's Logan Airport will be fired. That's where two of the hijacked planes orginated.
At Newark's airport, some airlines have resumed curbside check in- and Los Angeles International may allow private

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And the local effects of the attack are growing.
Starting November 1st, you will no longer be able to fly from Lynchburg non stop to the Washington D.C. area.
United Express announced it's discontinuing its commuter service between the two cities.
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The move affects ten daily flights between Lynchburg and Washington Dulles airport.. a total of 190 passenger seats.
That represents about 42 percent of the total passenger capacity at the airport.
Airport officials had expected some cutbacks but nothing this drastic.
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((MARK COURTNEY/LYNCHBURG AIRPORT MANAGER: WE DON'T HAVE ANY CONTROL OVER THE VERY PRODUCT THAT WE ARE PROVIDING AND THAT IS AIRLINE SERVICE. AND IT'S BECOMING INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT TO GET THE AIRLINES TO BECOME RESPONSIVE TO THE NEEDS OF THE SMALLER COMMUNITIES AND THIS HAS JUST MADE IT EVEN MORE DIFFICULT.))
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Lynchburg continues to be served by US-Air and Delta commuter flights.
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The head of a Roanoke County company is claiming six major brokerage firms are trying to take over his company.
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Bob Kopstein of Optical Cable Corporation says Salomon Smith Barney, Merrill Lynch, U-B-S Paine Webber, The Bear Stearns Companies, A.G. Edwards and Scott and Stringfellow are selling huge blocks of his company's stock in order to devalue it.
A spokesman for Paine Webber says the notion that the firms are conspiring is totally false.
Kopstein obtained a temporary injunction that will block the firms from selling any more stock until next Wednesday.
Optical Cable Corporation is traded on the NASDAQ, and has lost 90 percent of its value in the last year.
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Police are searching for a suspect, following a fatal shooting this morning outside of a northwest roanoke market.
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18-year old Maurice Grogan was shot and killed in the parking lot beside the Foodway Market on Liberty Road.
Before the shooting, witnesses said Grogan was in the store with friends. He walked outside for a moment and was shot.
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Witnesses saw a man run from the area, jump into a car and drive away. Police have not yet made an arrest.
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A man was killed this afternoon at a Franklin County road construction site when a dump truck backed over him.
It happened on (Boo-ey) Bowie Road -- just off of Route 220.
State police say a crew from Rodney Cundiff Hauling and Excavating was paving the private road.
54-year-old Henry Rodney Cundiff told police he backed his dump truck up and accidentally struck 67-year-old John William Meeks.
Meeks was working for Cundiff.
Apparently, no one witnessed the accident.

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Roanoke Harley riders are missing one of their own.
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Harley Davidson motorcycles lined the parking lot at Oakey's Funeral Home in Vinton this morning as friends of Carol Elizabeth Minton turned out to pay their last respects.
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The 37-year old was riding her motorcycle on Route 460 in Bedford County Friday evening when she was struck head-on by a car going the wrong way. Minton died the following morning. Her fellow Harley riders say she'll be missed.
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((BARTON REYNOLDS/ROANOKE VALLEY HARLEY OWNERS GROUP: CAROL WAS, SHE WAS JUST A SWEET PERSON. SHE STEPPED TO THE PLATE FOR US WHEN WE NEEDED SOMEBODY TO TAKE OVER AS TREASURER. SHE STEPPED UP AND DID A GREAT JOB. SHE WAS JUST A BUBBLY PERSON, A NICE PERSON TO BE AROUND.))
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After the service the Harley Owners Group planned to escort Minton's body as far as Radford.
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39-year old Viki Lynn Arrington of Goode is charged with second degree murder in Minton's death. Police say she'd been driving under the influence. Her record already lists two convictions for drunk driving.

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While most of us watched the terrorist attacks unfold on T-V...
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[VO] two local college students actually searched for survivors at ground zero. Health Check reporter Joy Sutton will have their stories when we return.
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The nation's senior senator, Strom Thurmond, collapsed this morning on the Senate floor.
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The 98-year-old Senator is currently being treated for chest pains. He was seen standing and talking before he collapsed.. Thrumond was taken to Walter Reed Army Medical Center by ambulance. Thurmond is the nation's oldest and longest- serving senator.
Majority Leader Tom Daschle ordered the Senate chamber cleared after Thurmond's collapse.
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48 hours after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center -- 5 students from the College of Health Sciences in Roanoke -- arrived at ground zero.
They became part of the rescue effort.
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Health Check Reporter Joy Sutton joins us with two of those students.
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Jean, Kirby Saunders and Jared Campbell say its an experience they'll never forget. [3-shot]
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News 7 ---we'll be right back.

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Another interest rate cut by the Fed, but would stocks respond? We'll have more in just a minute...
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Stocks ended the day higher after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates for the ninth time this year. At first, activity was slow, but late in the day, buyers went after blue chip stocks. Alexis Christoforous has more in today's Marketwatch.
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Virginia Tech looks to move to 5-and-oh Saturday, but Mike Stevens says the madhouse in Morgantown stands in the way.
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The VMI football team travels to Wofford this weekend for 1:30 kickoff. Keydet return man and slot back Titus Green has been named the Southern Conference freshman of the week for his performance this past Saturday against Georgia Southern. He had four kickoff returns for 126 yards.

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The Roanoke Express is working hard this week in preparation for the exhibition season which begins Thursday night in Greensboro.
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The goalie situation looks solid with Daniel Berthiaume in net, but this is the first season in several years Roanoke will play without Dave Gagnon.
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That's all of the ticker, coming up at six, more Tech news, see ya then everybody.

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Singer-songwriter Tori Amos has been known for her bizzare style and thought provoking lyrics. VH1'S Rebecca Rankin has a look at her new project.
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((TORI AMOS' NEW ALBUM, STRANGE LITTLE GIRLS." IS MADE UP ENTIRELY OF COVERS OF SONGS WRITTEN BY MEN . ONE OF THE SONGS CHOSEN WAS "RAINING BLOOD," BY THRASH METAL GIANTS SLAYER. THE SONG WAS INSPIRED BY AMOS' CONCERN ABOUT THE TREATMENT OF WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN. IRONICALLY SHE RECORDED THE SONG MONTHS BEFORE THE TERRORIST ATTACKS ON SEPTEMBER 11TH.
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TORI AMOS I had been reading about Afghanistan and the changes that had been put into place. where woman that had been Doctors, Teachers. Um they weren't treated as woman any more.
VO THE PLIGHT OF WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN MAY HAVE BEEN THE INSPIRATION BEHIND TORI COVERING THE SONG BUT IN HER OPINION THE STIFLING OF PERSONAL LIBERTIES IS A UNIVERSAL PROBLEM.
TORI AMOS it's any place in the world where you are not given freedoms because of your sex or your sexuality.
Music: Tori Amos "Strange Little Girl"
THIS IS AN UNUSUAL PROJECT FOR AMOS...THE CONSUMMATE SINGER/SONGWRITER WHO FOUND A CHALLANGE IN THE SONGS SHE COVERED.
TORI AMOS Seeing the songs through the men's eyes and what it meant to them made me hear them differently. That's sort of another little layer that I discovered while I was in the thick of it.
Tag TORI ALSO COVERS THE BEATLES "HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN", NEIL YOUNG'S "HEART OF GOLD" AND EVEN RAPPER EMINEM'S "97 BONNIE & CLYDE." SHE'S ALSO JUST KICKED OFF A NORTH AMERICAN TOUR - SHE'LL BE ON THE ROAD IN THE U.S. THROUGH NOVEMBER. IN NEW YORK I'M REBECCA RANKIN.))