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Today on News 7 at 5, Baghdad is dark as American forces try to take over the city. We'll have the latest in a live report.
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Plus an accident has traffic backed up on Interstate 5-81.
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Still rolling along warm weatherwise. Look for readings in the 70s tomorrow and a change for the weekend.
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Also today, authorities identify the body found last night in the New River.
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We will see why his owner says a special diet is keeping a 24 year old dog alive.
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And in Sports, the Hokies introduce their new head basketball Coach.
News 7 at 5 is next.
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The lights go out on Baghdad tonight - the first major power outage in the city since the war began.
Also tonight, American forces are attacking Saddam International Airport-
and a message goes out to Iraq's military officers from the Secretary of Defense.
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((DONALD RUMSFELD/DEFENSE SECRETARY: THEY MUST NOW DECIDE WHETHER THEY WANT TO SHARE THE FATE OF SADDAM HUSSEIN OR WILL THEY SAVE THEMSLVES, TURN ON THAT CONDEMNED DICTATOR AND HELP THE FORCES OF IRAQ'S LIBERATION.))
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[SUPER=219-Jean Jadhon/jjadhon*wdbj7.com;]
Good Evening. I'm Jean Jadhon.
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American forces are on the Southern edge of Baghdad doing battle with Iraqi forces.
U-S officials are warning of some tough resistance ahead and that's exactly what troops are seeing in parts of Iraq.
U-S troops are attacking the main airport outside Baghdad as the coalition forces move in on Baghdad.
Chris Lawrence joins us live from Kuwait with the latest on Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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((BAGHDAD GOES BLACK AND THE BOMBS CONTINUE TO FALL.
AT LEAST THREE EXLOSIONS LIT UP THE NIGHT THURSDAY ...BUT U-S COMMANDERS
SAY THEY DONT KNOW WHY IT SUDDENLY WENT DARK.
GEN. RICHARD MYERS/CHAIRMAN, JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF: CENTRAL COMMAND HAS NOT TARGETED THE POWER GRID IN BAGHDAD."
AMERICAN SOLDIERS HAVE NOW SEIZED BAGHDADS AIRPORT WITH
LITTLE RESISTANCE SO FAR. AND OTHER TROOPS HAVE ALSO MOVED INTO THE AREA
DONALD RUMSFELD/SECRETARY OF DEFENSE:
"AND ARE CLOSER TO THE CENTER OF THE IRAQI CAPITAL THAN MANY AMERICAN
COMMUTERS ARE FROM THEIR DOWNTOWN OFFICES."
AS FOR THE FINAL PUSH ON BAGHDAD THE ASSAULT COULD BE IMMINENT OR
WAITING FOR RE-ENFORCEMENTS TO ARRIVE.
BRIG. GEN. VINCENT BROOKS/CENTRAL COMMAND SPOKESPERSON:
"WE STILL BELIEVE THERE'S FIGHTING AHEAD."
WITH MORE CASUALTIES EXPECTED. AN IRAQI HOSPITAL SAYS A MISSILE HIT A
VEGETABLE MARKET IN BAGHDAD KILLING EIGHT WOUNDING FIVE MORE. ON THE
COALITION SIDE ONE U-S MARINE WAS KILLED IN AL KUT. AND TROOPS ARE
SEARCHING FOR THE PILOT OF THIS NAVY JET POSSIBLY BROUGHT DOWN BY
FRIENDLY FIRE.
AND AS FOR OTHER COUNTRIES PROPOSING A DEAL THAT WOULD END THE WAR BUT
ALLOW SADDAM TO LEAVE IRAQ THE U-S SAID NO CHANCE. ))
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President Bush says the mission will not stop until Iraq is free.
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He brought those words to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina where the commander in chief rallied the marines.
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((PRESIDENT BUSH: THERE IS NO FINER SIGHT, NO FINER SIGHT THAN TO SEE 12 THOUSAND UNITED STATES MARINES AND CORPSMEN. UNLESS YOU HAPPEN TO BE A MEMBER OF THE IRAQI REPLUBICAN NATIONAL GUARD. CHEERS!!))
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Camp Lejeune has been hit hard by fighting in Iraq. Thirteen of the Americans killed are from Camp Lejeune and six others from the base are missing.
The President was also scheduled to meet with the families of those who were killed.
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An overturned tractor trailer is tying up traffic on Interstate 581.
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This is a live picture.
The accident is in the northbound lanes of the highway at the Orange Avenue interchange.
The truck is blocking two lanes.
State police say it appears the driver was going too fast as he was merging onto 581 and his load shifted.
Traffic is able to get around it, but it is beginning to back up.
Authorities say motorists should expect significant delays for several hours.
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Authorities have confirmed the body found yesterday in the New River is that of a Roanoke man who's been missing since early last month.
A medical examiner identified the body as 50-year-old John Wagner.
Wagner and his friend 36-year-old Ty Hodges disappeared after the boat they were fishing in capsized.
Authorities found Wagner's body last night near the Celanese Plant in Giles County, the same general area where a railway engineer discovered Hodges' body last week.
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A small fire broke out at a Roanoke motel this morning.
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Smoke started spewing out of a third floor storage room at the Days Inn on Orange Avenue shortly after nine o'clock.
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((JIM GRIGSBY/ROANOKE FIRE CHIEF; THE FIRE SEEMS TO BE CONFINED TO ONE ROOM, WE FOUND OUT THAT ROOM IS USED AS A STORAGE ROOM FOR CARPETING. THEY ARE APPARENTLY DOING A LOT OF REMODELING IN THIS FACILITY AND HAD HIGH-PILE CARPETING IN THERE.))
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Nobody was injured in the fire, but one firefighter was treated for exhaustion.
Five rooms were damaged by smoke. The estimated cost of the damage is 50 thousand dollars.
The motel has closed all of the units on the side of the building where the fire happened to make sure no customers end up with a smoky room.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
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Governor Warner says the state's tobacco farmers may suffer if the tobacco industry fails to make its next scheduled settlement payment. We'll have that after the break.
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And a Blacksburg artist calls in the police to help him with his latest work.
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Blacksburg artist Lawrence Bechtel (beck-TEL) is beginning work on a Roanoke police memorial.
Today, he found a frame of reference in the faces of the department.
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Members of the Roanoke police force posed for Bechtel and photographer Diane Goff.
They were positioned to reflect the model, the artist has already completed.
Bechtel says the session will help him capture the sense of kinship between the two officers.
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((I DON'T WANT TO GET TOO CARRIED AWAY WITH THE DETAIL. I NEED THE BASIC ARRANGEMENT OF THE OFFICERS AT THIS POINT, AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO ONE ANOTHER.))
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The memorial to fallen police officers will stand outside the new Roanoke Police Building on Campbell Avenue.
The department hopes to unveil the lifesize bronze during National Police Memorial Week in May of 2004.
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An Illinois lawsuit may mean less money for tobacco farmers in Virginia.
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A judge in Illinois has ordered Philip Morris to post a 12-billion-dollar bond if it wants to appeal a recent court ruling.
Philip Morris officials say paying the bond could prevent the company from making a scheduled payment of 52 million dollars to Virginia.
Half of that money goes to compensate tobacco farmers for lost income.
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((GOVERNOR MARK WARNER: LIKE MOST STATES WE'RE HOPING THAT PHILIP MORRIS AND THE OTHER TOBACCO COMPANIES WILL CONTINUE TO HONOR THE MASTER SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT. I KNOW THEY'VE GOT CHALLENGES FACED FROM THAT RECENT DECISION IN ILLINOIS. WE'RE HOPEFUL THAT THOSE COMMITMENTS WILL BE HONORED.))
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Senator Charles Hawkins says he is concerned about the situation.
But he says the state has enough money on hand to honor the obligation to the farmers for the upcoming year.
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It seems as if just about every day we hear how the latest diet can keep us healthy longer.
There is also no shortage of people who say a vegetarian diet can make you live longer.
If you try to tell one Michigan family that, you wouldn't be barking up the wrong tree.
Dan Farkas has more.
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The Red Cross is preparing to make up gift boxes for the troops in Iraq, but if you want to contribute, you will have to hurry.
After the break Brent Watts will tell us why.
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Over the past week Your Hometown Station, the Duncan Automotive Network and the American Red Cross have been collecting "quality of life items" to send to our troops overseas. The response has been so huge that there will only be one more day of collection.
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Brent Watts joins us at Duncan Mitsubishi in Salem where truckloads of goods have been brought in.
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Coming up next on the newscast, we will hear from Virginia Tech's new basketball coach.
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Plus if you like calimari, you 'll love our final story.
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Investors on Wall Street put an end to a two day rally today.
As Alexis Christoforous tells us stocks slumped as investors remain focused on the war in Iraq.
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Good afternoon folks and welcome to the Thursday ticker.
The search for a head basketball coach at Virginia Tech ended today with the hiring for Seth Greenberg.
Travis Wells checks in from Blacksburg from the hiring was made official this afternoon at a news conference.
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The Express opens the best of five playoff series with Greensboro in just over an hour and a half in Greensboro.
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The Express has a winning record against the Generals this season but has lost the last two to Greensboro. Goaltending will once again be huge and former Express star Daniel Berthiaume will be hard to beat.
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The Express will start Evan Lindsay in net. He has started eight of the last nine games and, in the absence of Sebastien Laplante who is with AHL Norfolk, has played solid.
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We will have highlights of tonight's game in Greensboro for you on News 7 at 11.
Also, the Carolina League champion Hillcats arrived in town today. We'll hear from some of the players tonight on News 7 at Six.
Take care everybody.
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It has eyes the size of dinner plates and razor sharp hooks to snag its prey.
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It is a rare colossal squid caught off Antarctica, New Zealand.
This female squid is only the second intact example of the animal known.
It weighs 330 pounds and has tenticles that are 16 feet long.
Its eight arms and two tentacles have 25 teeth like hooks that roate 360 degrees.
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((IF I GOT MY HAND IN THERE WHAT WOULD IT DO TO IT? IT WOULD TAKE IF OFF. YOU'D BE DEVOURED WITHIN SECONDS. WHEN WE GET DOWN TO THE ARMS AND THE TENTACLES. YOU WOULD NOT GET AWAY. YOU'D BE FINISHED.))
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Scientists say this squid could have grown twice as big.
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