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Anarchy in the streets of Mosul (MOE- sool) after the surrender of the Iraqi army there.
While President Bush isn't yet declaring the war over, his spokesman says the regime is gone.
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And, an accident in Roanoke county claims the life of a 17-year- old girl.
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A slight chance of a few more showers today, but otherwise cloudy. But, the weekend forecast is looking great. We'll check out the 7-day planner and take a look at the river conditions coming up.
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News 7 at Noon starts right now...
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[IN Q=They're either dead, or running like hell]
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[OUT Q=regime inside Iraq.]
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But U-S military leaders say the war isn't over yet.
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[SUPER=219-Kimberly McBroom/kmcbroom*wdbj7.com;]
Good Afternoon, I'm Kimberly McBroom.
The commander of U-S forces in Iraq declares that Saddam Hussein's regime is over.
But General Tommy Franks says American troops will stay in Iraq until a free government is in place.
The troops are also receiving a deck of cards-- but they're not for a game.
The deck contains pictures of the most- wanted figures in the Iraqi regime.
The ace of spaces is Saddam himself.
Teri Okita joins us now with more on that, plus the latest on the fighting.
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[SUPER=201-Teri Okita/CBS News;]
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[SUPER=203-Mosul, Northern Iraq;]
[SUPER=201-Vincent Brooks/U. S. Central Command;]
[SUPER=201-Tommy Franks/U. S. Commander;]
[SUPER=203-Baghdad, Iraq;]
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[OUT Q=back to you.]
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(SUPER: MOSUL, NORTHERN IRAQ)
(NATZ)
ANOTHER IRAQI CITY HAS FALLEN ... WITHOUT A FIGHT.
(NATZ CELEBRATIONS)
THIS IS MOSUL IN THE NORTH ... WHERE PEOPLE ARE CELEBRATING (NATZ) AND
ALSO RANSACKING GOVERNMENT OFFICES. LOOTING IS RAMPANT ALL OVER IRAQ AND
MANY ARE CALLING ON COALITION FORCES TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
SOT: BRIG. GEN. VINCENT BROOKS/U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND
"AT NO POINT DO, WE SEE OURSELVES BECOMING A POLICE FORCE, WHAT WE SEE
INSTEAD IS TAKING ACTIONS THAT CREATE A SITUATION OF STABILITY."
A NEW ORDER FORBIDS TROOPS TO USE DEADLY FORCE TO PREVENT LOOTING. AT
THIS MORNING'S BRIEFING, U-S CENTRAL COMMAND ALSO DISPLAYED 55-CARDS
LISTING THE "MOST WANTED" IRAQI LEADERS ... INCLUDING, OF COURSE, SADDAM
HUSSEIN. THEY SAY THESE MOST WANTED MEN MAY BE PURSUED, CAPTURED, OR
KILLED ... SOMETHING THE COMMANDER OF THIS WAR SAID WON'T BE EASY.
(Super: Gen. Tommy Franks/U.S. Commander)
SOT: WE ARE GOING TO KEEP GOING AND GOING TO KEEP LOOKING. THERE'S A
LONG WAY TO GO.
GENERAL FRANKS TOLD HIS TROOPS TODAY THAT SADDAM'S REGIME IS OVER, BUT
THE U-S WILL STAY IN IRAQ UNTIL A FREE GOVERNMENT IS IN PLACE. AND HE'S
ORDERED IRAQI HOSPITALS, BUSINESSES, SCHOOLS, AND MOSQUES TO REMAIN OPEN
... AND WARNS CIVILIANS AGAINST LOOTING OR TERRORIST ATTACKS.
(NATZ)
IN BAGHDAD, RELATIVES OF MISSING IRAQIS ARE SEARCHING THE NATIONAL
HEADQUARTERS OF MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. WITH THE REGIME GONE, MANY FEAR
THEIR LOVED ONES ARE STILL TRAPPED IN UNDERGROUND JAILS.
(NATZ)
AND EVEN THOUGH MOST OF THE FIGHTING IS OVER IN THE CAPITAL ... INJURED
AND DEAD CIVILIANS ARE STILL ARRIVING AT HOSPITALS. AFTER THREE WEEKS OF
FIGHTING, THE EXACT NUMBER OF CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IS UNKNOWN.
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A manhunt is under way in Yemen, after 10 main suspects in the U-S-S Cole bombing escaped from prison.
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The suspects had been jailed in the port city where the bombing happened in October, 2000 since shortly after the attack.
17- American sailors were killed.
Yemeni officials aren't saying how the men escaped, but they say security officers are out in force in a major search operation.
The attack has been blamed on the al-Qaida terror network.
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A senior at Cave Spring High School was killed last night after an automobile accident in Roanoke County.
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Police say 17- year- old Amber Nicole Reynolds was traveling north on Bent Mountain Road when she lost control of her Nissan.
Her vehicle crossed into the southbound lane where it was struck by a Chevrolet Suburban.
Reynolds was transported to Roanoke Memorial Hospital where she later died.
The driver of the Suburban was hospitalized with non- life threatening injuries.
Both drivers were wearing their seatbelts.
No charges have been filed at this time.
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Prosecutors in Franklin County say footprints link a man accused of murder to the scene of the crime.
However, Christopher Picard says he just stumbled onto the scene.
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Picard is charged with the capital murder of 38-year-old Lori Metts Hodges Boyd, a school bus driver and teacher's aide.
She was found strangled in the back of her burned- out car last September.
Five days later, deputies arrested the 22-year-old saw mill worker.
There were scratches on Picard's chest... and a forensic expert says his fingerprint and footprint were on items linked to Boyd.
Picard's attorney says his client came across the items while walking near his house.
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((WILLIAM STANLEY/PICARD'S ATTORNEY: HE HAD ABSOLUTELY NO KNOWLEDGE OF MS. BOYD, HAS NEVER MET MS. BOYD AND CERTAINLY HE HAD NO RELATIONSHIP TO MS. BOYD. AND CERTAINLY I CAN TELL YOU THAT HE SENDS OUT ALL HIS SYMPATHY TO THE BOYD FAMILY. ))
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The case was certified to a grand jury for next month.
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Pulaski Correctional Center's Superintendent has been let go from his position at Camp One in Dublin.
The Department of Corrections says David L. Smith "ended service" with the department.
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[SUPER=03-Roanoke Co./August 17, 1994]
In 1994, his wife disappeared and local law enforcement officials dug up his back yard, searching for her.
[SUPER=03-Pulaski Co./August 21, 1997]
Three years later state police searched the grounds of the prison Camp.
Carol Smith never turned up. David Smith filed for divorce and sought custody of the children almost immediately after she first disappeared.
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He'd worked in the prison system 25 years.
D-O-C won't give a reason for Smith's sudden departure, saying it's a "personnel matter."
Smith did not return a phone call to his home in Radford.
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Some attempted bank robbers are holdling hostages aboard a bus. We'll have more after the break.
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Plus police are talking to a popular music star after someone opens fire on one of his cars.
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A hostage situation continues aboard a double- decker bus in Germany.
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Officials say armed bank robbers have hijacked a bus that was carrying more than 20 people.
Police surrounded the bus when it came to a halt in Berlin's western district.
Officials say the gunman is holding a police woman and a man hostage after robbing a bank in the German capital.
Earlier, he'd allowed most of the other passengers to get off the bus.
Police are still making efforts to negotiate with the suspects.
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It's been an especially stressful semester for one college student at Penn State.
That's because her family's in Kuwait, and she's watching the events of her homeland from a great distance.
Chris Lawrence reports.
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( Locator: State College, Pennsylvania)
MONA AL-BAKER IS PRETTY TYPICAL WITH A DORM ROOM LIKE ANY OTHER PENN
STATE STUDENT.
(pointing to picture, camera zooms) "These are the famous Kuwait Towers
at night."
EXCEPT HER HOME IS KUWAIT HALF A WORLD AWAY.
(Locator: Kuwait City, Kuwait)
(This is Mona when she was 1 year old)
SERAJ AL-BAKER WOULD LOVE TO SEE HIS DAUGHTER BUT HES HAPPY SHES
NOT HERE.
SERAJ SOT - (We are in a war zone.)
shots in the souk, walking
KUWAIT IS QUIETER NOW BUT THE FAMILY KNOWS THAT CAN CHANGE QUICKLY IN
THE MIDDLE EAST AS FAST AS IRAQIS TOOK OVER THE STREETS JUST A FEW
HUNDRED MILES TO THE NORTH.
MONA SOT- (Just what if something did happen? Id rather be with my
family.)
MONA HAS BEEN WATCHING THE WAR FROM AMERICA
(quick natz air raid sirens, gas masks at Hilton)
HEARD THE AIR RAID SIRENS
(quick natz missile at mall)
AND SEEN MISSILES HITTING A MALL.
Chris: (Can you understand how she would be very worried, being so far
away?)
Seraj: (I dont want to feel that shes worried and I hope when I talk
to her - I dont want her to feel as worried.)
MONA IS SPLIT BETWEEN HER CONCERN FOR FAMILY AND THE IRAQIS TRYING TO
NOW LIVE NEW LIVES.
(The poor people have just suffered enough.)
SERAJ SAYS HIS DAUGHTERS HEART IS HUGE BECAUSE SHE REMEMBERS IRAQS
INVASION 12 YEARS AGO.
Seraj: (She said she will never forget it was her birthday, the first
sorties took off)
BUT WITH ANOTHER WAR POSSIBLY COMING TO AN END MONA HAS ONE WISH: FOR
KUWAIT, IRAQ AND THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST.
(I really do want peace.) voice only - cover with b-roll or pix
of her and Seraj
CHRIS LAWRENCE, CBS NEWS, KUWAIT.
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Rap artist Snoop Dogg has some new subject matter for his controversial music.
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The L-A-P-D is questioning Snoop Dogg following a shooting last night.
The rapper was riding along in a convoy of cars that was fired upon in West Los Angeles.
He wasn't injured, but an off- duty officer acting as his bodyguard, was grazed by a bullet.
The police department has detained three suspects in the shooting.
Snoop Dogg, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, was acquitted of the 19-93 shooting death of a gang member.
No charges are expected against him in this latest incident.
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First an American Oscar, now a favorable ruling from a British court.
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"Chicago" star Catherine Zeta-Jones and her husband Michael Douglas have won their lawsuit against a celebrity magazine that published unauthorized photos of their wedding.
The suit claimed that "Hello!" Magazine printed "cheap and tacky" pictures of the Hollywood power couple, after trashing their wedding two and a half years ago.
Another hearing is planned to determine the amount of damages.
Meanwhile, the magazine says it will appeal.
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Coming up next on the newscast, if you haven't liked the weather
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lately, you're not alone.
Up next Brent Watts will tell us why the spring has taken its toll on local trees.
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Yesterday's high winds and wet ground took its toll on a number of trees in southwest and southside Virginia.
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A driver in Bedford County found out the hard way.
He was traveling on route 626 near Smith Mountain Lake State Park.
The driver was distracted by another car pulling out of a driveway, and he ran into a large tree that had fallen across the road.
He suffered minor injuries. A V-DOT crew with chainsaws took care of the tree.
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Meanwhile the Spring snowstorm a few weeks ago easily knocked down many blooming Bradford Pear trees.
As a result many gardener are rethinking their plans to plant them in the future.
In this week's Growin' It master gardener Tony Payne takes a look at this brittle, yet beautiful tree.
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On Wall Street at Noon, both the DOW and NASDAQ are down seven points.
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As Nascar drivers are getting ready for this weekend's race at Martinsville...
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Ricky Rudd and Jon Wood are in Roanoke meeting fans and signing autographs.
We'll have details on the race and some of the half- mile track strategies, after the break.
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The Virginia 500 is this weekend at Martinsville.
Wood Brothers Motorcraft Quality Parts Ford driver Ricky Rudd was in Roanoke last night.
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Rudd joined his team to sign autographs at the winners circle cafe' inside Grand Furnishings at Valley View.
If he ever decides to retir,e he might find a second job is sales.
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Rudd has four career wins at Martinsville, and he will bring the same car that he came in fourth in at Bristol.
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Jon Wood knows Martinsville all too well, and he is coming off a second- place finish at Mesa Marin.
He seems to have his strategy for the half- mile track ready to go.
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[OUT Q=.....be up front at the end"]
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While signing autographs at Grand with Rudd last night, Wood had to be thinking, with all of this rain, he might have to go with plan B.
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Injuries have plagued Virginia Tech defensive coordinator Bud Foster this spring.
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But one player who has been making noise back on the field is defensive back Eric Green.
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The redshirt junior missed all of last season after injuring his knee before fall practice even started.
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Green played in 23 of 24 games at cornerback his first two years at Tech.
He feels like the knee is more solid than ever, and that he's once again ready to challenge for a starting position.
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[SUPER=01-Mike Goforth/Virginia Tech Director of Athletic Training; :34]
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[OUT Q=A NEW MAN."]
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The Masters Golf Tournament is finally underway at Augusta National.
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[SUPER=03-Augusta, GA/Yesterday; :00]
Persistent rain postponed round one of the Masters yesterday. Golfers will get in 36 holes today.
Right now David Toms is atop the leader board. He is three under on the seventh hole.
Tiger Woods is three OVER on the fifth.
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Catch all of your Masters news and updates right after News 7 at 11 right here on your Hometown Station tonight and Saturday night.
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