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Straight ahead on News 7--
Happy, Texas isn't exactly living up to its name as residents begin cleaning up debris left over from a deadly tornado.
Two people were killed.
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And the body of a SECOND drowning victim is discovered in Buchanan County, in the wake of last week's flooding.
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A mix of sun and clouds this afternoon...but we do have a chance for a shower or thunderstorm late tonight....I'll have your forecast....
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[ANCHOR=Kimberly 2-Shot]
News 7 at Noon starts right now...
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[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
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Searchers have found the body of a second man drowned in Thursday's flooding in Buchanan County.
The body of 85 year old Burl Blankenship of Hurley was found last night.
He is the second person confirmed killed in the flood.
Meanwhile today, Gorvernor Mark Warner and Senator George Allen are touring the flooded region.
They began their day in Tazewell, before heading to Buchanan County.
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Both counties are eligible for federal disaster assistance.
Hardest hit was Hurley-- a mining town of about five- thousand people in Buchanan County.
[SUPER=03-McDowell Co., WV; :15]
Meanwhile in West Virginia-- McDowell, Mercer, Mingo and Wyoming counties are now eligible for federal disaster assistance programs.
There, at least five people have been killed and more than 500 homes and businesses have been damaged.
Six people are also still missing.
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Recovery efforts are underway in West Texas.. where a vicious tornado left two people dead in the small town of "Happy" Texas.. about 30-miles south of Amarillo.
The twister hit late yesterday.. one of six reported in the state.
Bob McNamara reports.
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[SUPER=03-Happy, TX; ;00]
[SUPER=01-Dave Oliver/KFDA Weathercaster; :08]
[SUPER=01-Bob McNamara/CBS News; 1:02]
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((SCRIPT TRACK: The funnel was fat and in front of it was KFDA weatherman Dave Oliver. SOT/OLIVER '..THIS THING IS HUGE
AND ITS ONLY ABOUT THREE-FOURTHS OF A MILE FROM OUR LOCATION" TRACK The twister was one of a series.. that roamed the
Texas panhandle.. and it zeroed in on the little town of Happy. SOT/OLIVER "..HAPPY IS JUST OFF THE SCREEN RIGHT HERE A
ND YOU SEE THE TORNADO FUNNEL RIGHT THERE.. I'VE GOT DEBRIS 300 YARDS TO MY NORTH RIGHT THERE AND VERY STRONG WINDS RIG
HT NOW. THIS IS TOO DANGEROUS AND I'M GETTING IN THE VAN.." TRACK Minutes later.. the twister hit town. SOT "OH IT JUST
TOOK A ROOF OFF..OH MY GOD.." TRACK: At least 50 buildings including this church were damaged. And about 20 homes were leveled. The killer tornado struck during the dinner hour.. And mobile homes.. took the hardest hit.. The trivia and the treasures of small town life were suddenly nothing more than debris..scattered for blocks. A 37 year old man and his 35 year old wife.. died when their mobile home was devastated At least four other were taken to hospitals with injuries.. While there were no reports of injuries from the regions other tornados storms have always meant sleepless nights in tornado but in Happy Texas.. they had never been as deadly. Bob McNamara CBS News Dallas. ))
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Residents in Campbell County are recovering from the tornado that ripped through their community last week.
Yesterday, members of a church gathered together to worship in a new place.
As Justin McLeod reports, their old building was destroyed, but their faith has remained on solid ground.
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[SUPER=03-Campbell Co.; :00]
[SUPER=01-Cara Scott/Church Member; :30]
[SUPER=@justin1; :45]
[SUPER=01-Rev. Larry Davies/Timberlake United Methodist Church; 1:09]
[SUPER=01-Rev. Carlton Johnson/Lawyers Missionary Baptist Church; 1:31]
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((((NAT SOUND OF SINGING))
You are looking at a church congregation that is down but not out.
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[IN Q=We as a church]
((ERNESTINE SCOTT/CHURCH MEMBER: WE AS A CHURCH, WE'VE BEEN HANGING TOGETHER, TRYING TO TAKE CARE OF ONE ANOTHER.))
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This is what remains of Lawyers Missionary Baptist Church.
A tornado swept through just before five last Sunday afternoon, collapsing the walls and blowing off the roof.
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[IN Q=I could believe it]
((CARA SCOTT/CHURCH MEMBER: I COULD BELIEVE IT BECAUSE IT WAS GOD THAT HAD DONE IT, BUT JUST TO SEE IT, IT WAS INCREDIBLE.))
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[OUT Q=it was incredible]
Incredible and pretty devestating.
All that remains of the church are a few pews, walls, and hymnals.
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[IN Q=Inronically, the church]
((JUSTIN McLEOD/REPORTING: IRONICALLY, THE CHURCH ALREADY HAD PLANS TO CONSTRUCT A NEW BUILDING WHEN THE TORANDO STRUCK. CHURCH MEMBERS SAY IT COULD COST MORE THAN A MILLION DOLLARS TO BUILD THAT NEW FACILITY. A LOT OF MONEY BUT THE CHURCH SAYS IT'S UP FOR THE CHALLENGE.))
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((NAT SOUND OF CHURCH SERVICE))
It is a challenge made easier thanks to a nearby church.
Timberlake United Methodist is now sharing its facilities with Lawyers Missionary Baptist.
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[IN Q=We made it real]
((REV. LARRY DAVIES/TIMBERLAKE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: WE MADE IT REAL CLEAR THIS IS THEIR CHURCH, WE'LL WORK OUT ANYTHING WE CAN AND WE'RE GOING TO SHARE SOME PROGRAMS TOGETHER AND WORK OUT SOME WAYS WHERE WE CAN HELP EACH OTHER.))
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((NAT SOUND OF SERVICE))
And because of that generosity, a church without a permanent home is counting its blessings.
It could take months, even years to build a new facility but church members have faith it will happen one day.
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[IN Q=God will provide]
((REV. CARLTON JOHNSON/LAWYERS MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH: GOD WILL PROVIDE. I KNOW THAT. I DON'T THINK IT OR BELIEVE IT, BUT I KNOW IT.))
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It is a knowlege that has brought two congregations together proving some good can come out of something so bad.
Justin McLeod, News 7, Campbell County.))
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[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
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Authorities are investigating a body discovered along the Blue Ridge Parkway in Roanoke County last night.
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A group of friends stopped to take in the view at the Poages Mill overlook and called authorities when they noticed a stranded dog.
While waiting for the park service to stop by-- the group was playing Frisbee.
When the frisbee went down an embankment-- they discovered the body under some debris.
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((TIM BROWN: IT WAS JUST A COMPLETE SURPRISE....SOMETHING I'LL NEVER FORGET. DANIELLE EVELETH: I THOUGHT THEY WERE TRICKING ME... I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS HAPPENING.))
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The dog is thought to belong to the victim-- who's identity and cause of death have NOT been released.
The F-B-I has been called in to investigate because the body was discovered on federal land.
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[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
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Meanwhile Roanoke County Animal Control is taking care of the dog. He is said to be in good condition.
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[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
Coming up next on the newscast, descendants of Thomas Jefferson will not welcome an extended family.
We'll have the latest on a 200- year- old argument.
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Also mail carriers in the Midwest are warned to be extra cautious as they return to work following mail pipe bombings in three states last week.
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One Nebraska mail carrier says he'll be cautious when he returns to his route today.
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Two of the more than a dozen pipe bombs found across the Midwest in recent days were in mailboxes on Lyle Bartels' route.
Bartels says he'll look boxes over before he opens them from now on.
Mail carriers plan to return to their routes today.
But the Postal Service is asking customers in Nebraska, Iowa and northwest Illinois who have roadside delivery to keep their mailbox doors open -- or remove the doors.
A postal official says the agency is telling carriers in the region not to deliver to closed mailboxes.
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Authorities in Charlottesville have arrested a University of Virginia student for allegedly making a bomb that damaged a mailbox there.
Police have arrested an engineering student from Baltimore.
They do NOT believe there is a connection to the mailbox bombing in the Midwest.
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Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon is in Washington, preparing for a couple of high- level meetings this week with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and President Bush.
Aleen Sirgany has details.
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((
(PKG)MIDDLE EAST/NOON IT APPEARS IT S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THE STANDOFF AT THE CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY COMES TO
AN END. SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN POWELL CONFIRMED TODAY A DEAL IS NEAR BUT WOULDN'T SAY HOW CLOSE..POINTING OUT QUOTE "
ONE OR TWO LITTLE PROBLEMS STILL NEED TO BE RESOLVED". ISRAELI SOLDIERS OUTSIDE THE COMPOUND SAY IT WON T BE LONG. (SOT
) it s close, soon, soon AS ARMED PALESTINIANS REMAIN HOLED UP INSIDE THE CHURCH, BELIEVED BY CHRISTIANS TO BE THE BIRTH PLACE OF CHRIST, IT IS UNCERTAIN JUST HOW MANY OF THEM WILL BE DEPORTED AS PART OF THE DEAL TO END THE 35 DAY STANDOFF. THE PALESTINIANS DON T WANT MORE THAN EIGHT SENT TO ITALY. BUT ISRAEL REPORTEDLY INSISTS AT LEAST A DOZEN OF THE PALESTINIANS INSIDE THE CHURCH BE DEPORTED. ANOTHER THREE DOZEN PALESTINIANS WILL REPORTEDLY BE SENT TO THE GAZA STRIP. WITH YASSAR ARAFAT HEADING THE NEGOTIATIONS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST, ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON IS IN WASHINGTON WITH WHAT HE SAYS IS PROOF THAT ARAFAT US D U.S DOLLARS TO FINANCE ATTACKS ON ISRAEL AND SHOULDN'T BE PART OF THE PEACE PROCESS. (STANDUP) SHARON BEGINS HIS ROUND OF TALKS IN WASHINGTON TODAY. HE LL MEET WITH DEFENSE SECRETARY DONALD RUMSFELD AT THE PENTAGON AND LATER WILL SPEAK WITH SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN OWELL. SHARON WILL MEET WITH THE PRESIDENT TOMORROW. AS, CBS, WASH. ))
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Descendants of Thomas Jefferson have decided not to welcome the family members of one of his slaves.
Sally Hemings was the slave at Monticello with whom Jefferson has long been rumored to have a had a sexual relationship. Several of her desecendants say the former President fathered some of her children.
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In May of 1999- the Hemings family was invited to a Jefferson family reunion and many were hoping to be accepted by the Monticello Association.
But yesterday the group, in a closed meeting, decided not to extend membership to them.
The Monticello Association will keep its membership roll restricted to Jefferson's descendants through his daughters Martha and Maria.
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[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
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That restriction excludes descendants of Sally Hemings.
D-N-A testing revealed that a member of the Jefferson family was the likely the father of at least one and possibly all six of her children.
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Senator George Allen is pushing a measure he hopes could help laid- off textile workers in Southside.
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[SUPER=03-Henry Co./File Tape]
The U.S. Senate is currently debating several trade measures, including extending the Trade Adjustment Assistance fund.
That helps provide financial assistance to workers who lose their job because of international competition like NAFTA.
Senator Allen wants to go a step further, and help those laid off workers from losing their homes.
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[IN Q=That money, that loan]
((SEN. GEORGE ALLEN: THAT MONEY, THAT LOAN COULD ONLY BE USED FOR MORTGAGE PAYMENTS AND THEN THEY WOULD HAVE TO PAY IT BACK OVER FIVE YEARS PERIOD BUT NOT MAKE THEM START UNTIL SIX MONTHS AFTER THEY GET BACK ON THEIR FEET WITH THE JOB.))
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Allen says Congressman Virgil Goode has agreed to sponsor a similar measure in the House of Representatives.
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[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
Coming up next, we will see what is being done to help return Pandas to their natural environment,
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and we will see if Spider-Man was able to snare a new box office record in his web.
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Pandas born and raised in captivity in China are receiving special training aimed at helping them return to life in their natural habitat.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Fuzhou, China;]
These giant pandas rolling around in the Panda Research Center are being encouraged to get in touch with their WILD sides.
Born and raised in captivity, the pandas are learning survival skills for living in the wild.
The hope is that someday, they can be re-introduced into their natural habitat.
There are only about a thousand wild panda bears left in the forests of South Central China.
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[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
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"Spider Man" is a box office marvel--
The big- screen version of the comic book super hero has shattered opening weekend records.
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[VO-NAT]
The film raked in 114- MILLION dollars, becoming the first movie ever to reach the 100- million- dollar milestone in its debut weekend.
It took both "Harry Potter" and "Star Wars: Episode One" FIVE days each to reach that goal.
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The film revolves around a high-school geek, played by Tobey Maguire, who is bitten by a spider and is soon able to scale walls and shoot webs from his wrist.
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[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
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"The Scorpion King" was the closest competition. It came in second place, but it's nine million dollar take was still more than 100 MILLION dollars behind "Spider-Man."
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On Wall Street at Noon, the DOW was DOWN 18 points. The NASDAQ was UP SEVEN.
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[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
Coming up next on the newscast, Shaquille O'Neal proves he is a cut above the competition,
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Also, it seemed more like they were driving bumper cars as the Winston Cup Drivers finish the race at Richmond.
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The Avalanche and Hillcats square off tonight in Lynchburg. The Avalanche will enter the game with a double-dose of momentum ... after sweeping a double-header from Myrtle Beach.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Salem/Pelicans vs. Avalanche; :00]
Game one of the double header began at one o'clock and both games would be a shortened seven inning format.
The Avs were strong in game one, allowing just two runs in a 7-2 victory thanks to double plays this one in the top of the seventh.
[SUPER-04-Game Two;]
In game two, Salem's Miguel Vilorio lines this shot into right field and that plates Jeff Winchester to make the count 1-zip in the bottom of the second. The Avs win game two 3-1.
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Tony Stewart is moving up in the Winston Cup points race.
Yesterday's win at Richmond takes him from 10th to 8th place.
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The race was stopped after 66 laps Saturday night, and it picked up there yesterday where Dale Jarrett was the leader.
But 103 out of 400 laps were run under caution .. including the fourth yellow flag, brought out by Dale Earnhradt Junior on lap 148.
He finished 36th.
The race had a record- tying 14 cautions, and drivers blamed the new sealer on the track.
Whatever the cause, Jarrett helped bring out a caution when he hit the wall and then collected John Andretti and Bobby Labonte on lap 170.
On lap 308, Ricky Rudd, who was the race leader at the time, was the victim of a Rusty Wallace cut tire.
Rudd hits the outside wall and finished 39th.
Stewart jumped out to a three- car- length lead with 18 laps to go on a restart.
He never looked back, winning the Pontiac Excitement 400, his third win in seven career starts at Richmond.
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Former Virginia Tech fullback Jarrett Ferguson is preparing for his second Buffalo Bills Camp in mid May, and he's planning to beef it up.
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Ferguson pushed his body weight up to 222 pounds when he played at Tech.
But the Bills have asked Jarrett to go even farther, and add another 11 pounds to his frame.
That's OK with Ferguson, who already has his plan mapped out for his first season in the National Football League.
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In the N-B-A, the Lakers are off to a good start in Western conference semi-finals .. but the opening victory came with a few injury scares.
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[SUPER=03-Los Angeles, CA/NBC;]
Shaquille O'Neal had 23 points and 17 rebounds, despite missing nearly ten minutes in the second half with a cut on his right index finger that required stitches.
Kobe Bryant had 20 points, despite leaving with a bruised knee in the fourth quarter. [SUPER=32-Los Angeles/86/San
Antonio/80;]
Bryant hit a key jumper with 24-point-six seconds left, that clinched it.
Tim Duncan shot just nine-of-30 and missed his first ten shots.
L.A. wins 86 to 80.
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[SUPER=03-East Rutherford, NJ/NBC; :00]
In the Eastern Conference semi-finals, Charlotte hopes to get back on track tomorrow, after falling in game one to the Nets.
Baron Davis paced Charlotte with 23 points, but failed to generate much offense down the stretch.
Elden Campbell had 22 points.
Jason Kidd led New Jersey to the 99-to-93 win with seven assists, one going to Richard Jefferson on an ally- oop.
Kidd also scored a team- high 21 points.
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[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
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And finally today--
The world's second space tourist is back home on earth after a 10- day vacation.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Near Arkalyk, Kazakhstan;]
South African Internet millionaire Mark Shuttleworth landed safely yesterday in Kazakhstan.
Shuttleworth says his trip to the International Space Station was the best thing he's ever done.
All the fun didn't come cheap, though--
He paid 20- million dollasrs for the journey-- plus a few extra bucks for souvenirs like his Soyuz capsule and a space suit.
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