WDBJ 7 morning news for 04/19/03

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Coming up on News 7 Saturday Morning....... Scott Peterson is under arrest in the deaths of his wife and unborn son.
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And his pilot is reported dead ... but there's still no word on a South Boston Air Force officer missing in Iraq. We will have more on those stories in just a few minutes.

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A Hillsville teen was killed in a vehicle accident overnight.
Officials say 15-year old Justin Goad was the passenger in a pickup traveling on route 757 in Carroll County just after 11.
Police say the driver - who has not been identified- ran off the road, hit a fence and the pickup overturned several times.
Goad was pronounced dead at the scene.
No charges have been filed.

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[ANCHOR=Marya]
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Prosecutors say Scott Peterson will face capital murder charges in the deaths of his pregnant wife and unborn son.

The Modesto man was arrested yesterday after D-N-A confirmed two bodies found in the San Francisco Bay last week were theirs.
Elizabeth Sanchez has the latest.
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[SUPER=01-Bill Lockye/State Attorney General; :35]
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[11Hunter-Death]

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The reward for information in a Rockbridge County shooting is growing.
An anonymous donor is pledging more than ten-thousand dollars.
Investigators are trying to find out who shot and killed a turkey hunter last weekend.
44- year- old David Stack of Maryland was hunting between South Buffalo Road and Bluegrass Trail last Saturday when he was shot in the back.
The Virginia Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation is also chipping in a-thousand dollars in reward money.
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Anyone with information should call the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries' Wildlife Crime Line at 1-800-237-5712.
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[Iraq]

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A new videotape of Saddam Hussein is being broadcast on Arab television ... but it fails to answer the question: Is he alive or dead?
U-S forces say if he's not, it's just a matter of time.
Meanwhile, Iraqi police have arrested Saddam's former finance minister -- one of the 55 people on a most-wanted list.
Drew Levinson has the latest.
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[SUPER=203-Kuwait City, Kuwait; :15]
[SUPER=201-Drew Levinson/CBS News; 1:42]
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[OUT Q=now back to you.]

[11Watkins]

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An Air Force officer from South Boston is still unaccounted for in Iraq, though the pilot of his F-15 fighter has been declared killed in action.
The Department of Defense announced yesterday that Captain Eric Das of Amarillo, Texas was killed April 7th.
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He was the pilot of an F-15-E Strike Eagle that went down during a combat mission in Iraq.
The whereabouts of the other crewman-- Major William Watkins of South Boston-- are still unknown.
[SUPER=203-Goldsboro, NC]

The two men were assigned to the Fourth Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina.
About 70 other airmen assigned to the Fourth Fighter Wing returned from the Middle East yesterday.
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[11Goodyear]

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[GRAPHIC=Goodyear Contract Neg.]
Contract negotiators at Danville's Goodyear plant are progressing one day at a time.
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The company and the United Steelworkers of America Local 831 are agreeing to "open ended" contract negotiations. That avoids a work stoppage at the Danville plant, which employs almost 2-thousand people. The union says Goodyear wants concessions from workers, while workers want to maintain wage and health care packages along with job security.
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[IN Q=we really]
((DANA DIXON/USWA LOCAL 831; WE REALLY DON'T WANT TO SEE A STRIKE WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE GOODYEAR PROSPER WE'D LIKE TO CONTINUE OUR JOBS BUT AT THE SAME TIME OF THE STRIKE HAS TO BE WE'RE PREPARED FOR IT.))
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[OUT Q=PREPARED FOR IT.]
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Union members approved a strike authorization vote last month. Dana Dixon says the day-to-day negotiation agreement is a positive sign -- but that it doesn't mean an agreement will be reached quicker or that they're more likely to go on strike.
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In today's "Focus on Health", Doctor Sean Kenniff takes a look at a treatment being used to combat one of the side-effects of chemotherapy.

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[SUPER=01-Dr. Stewart Fleishman/Beth Israel Medical Center; :46]
[SUPER=01-Dr. Sean Kenniff/Reporting; 1:26]
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[Film-Festival]

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[TAKE VISION FILM FEST FS IN BAM] The Roanoke Valley is getting ready to usher in its first film festival. Next weekend, the Valley View Grande Theatres in Roanoke will showcase films that feature Virginia in one way or another. Here to tell us more about it is Sandra Eubank, a co-chair for the festival.
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- Do you think the Roanoke Valley is ready to support its own film festival?
- How did you select films for the festival?
- Will our festival attract any big stars to the area?
- What types of films can we expect to see?
- Will this be the start of a tradition?
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[take info board] The festival runs next weekend, April 24th through the 26th. Ticket prices start at $7.50 per screening - with one and two-day tickets available for the 25th and 26th. Those include admission to all workshops and films. Call (540) 562-1713.
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[take second info board] Tickets to the Opening Gala and film at the Clarion Hotel are 35 dollars, and available in advance only.
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[11Beast-Makeup]

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[****ANCHOR TAG****] It's a hairy situation. The actor who plays in the Broadway show Beauty and the Beast must first go through a lengthy transformation.
It's going on this weekend at the Roanoke Civic Center.
Justin McLeod shows us how it's done.
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On stage it all happens in a matter of seconds, the prince transforms into a hideous Beast.
Getting to this point however takes a lot of work backstage.
Just ask the actor who plays the beast.
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((ROGER BEFELER/ACTOR: IT TAKES JUST ABOUT A HOUR TO DO MAKEUP, HAIR, AND COSTUME.)) [Runs06]
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It begins with the makeup. (SHOT OF MAKEUP)
An artist glues on foam rubber prosthetics, a chin, teeth, cheeks, a nose and eyebrows. (SHOT AT 23:53:39 AS WELL AS SHOT AT 1:05 AND 3:31)
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((ROGER BEFELER/ACTOR: BY THE TIME EVERYTHING IS ON I'M ABOUT 6'2 AND WITH ALL THE HAIR AND EVERYTHING IT MAKES ME ABOUT SIX FOOT EIGHT.)) [Runs07]
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The hair helps to make that transformation
Workers first put in more than one hundred pins to help keep the wigs in place.
They then glue up his face and add hair to his chin and even on his nose. (GLUE SHOT AT 17:24 then shot of putting on beard at 18:02 and nose shot at 19:08)
When it's all done you can barely recognize the actor who plays the beast. (SHOT at 19:19)
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((DAWN DIVINE/COSTUME ARTIST: THIS IS HIS FORMAL JACKET. IT ALONE WEIGHS FORTY POUNDS)) [Runs03]
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From there, it's time to dress up the beast.
He first puts on his body costume which as you might imagine raises the body temperature just a bit. (SHOT OF FAN HERE AT 27:19)
It gets even hotter after workers put on the beast's cap and then the pants. (SHOT at 29:44)
Walking is made easier by the fact his boots are made out of reebox sneakers.
He'll need it especially after he puts on his chest armor which even includes a hump on his back (SHOT AT 33:48)
It may all look scary but remember this show is a love story. (SHOT OF SHOW)
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((ROGER BEFELER: WHAT'S SO GREAT ABOUT THE STORY IS THAT BELLE NOT ONLY SEES THROUGH WHAT HE IS BUT TEACHES HIM HOW TO LOVE IN RETURN WHICH IS REALLY COOL.)) [Runs06]
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((QUICK NAT SOUND OF SHOW))
As the show begins on stage, backstage the beast is ready to go nearly an hour after the whole makup process began.

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((ROGER BEFELER: I AM THE MASTER OF THIS CASTLE, AND GROWL)) [Runs04]
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Justin McLeod, News 7, Roanoke.))
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This weekend is your last chance to see Beauty and the Beast at the Roanoke Civic Center.
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Coming up on News 7 Saturday Morning...... Virginia Democrats are losing the race to recruit candidates for election day.
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And Scott Peterson has been charged with the murders of his wife and unborn child.
We will have more on those stories in just a few minutes.
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[ANCHOR=Marya]
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A Hillsville teen was killed in a vehicle accident overnight.
Officials say 15-year old Justin Goad was the passenger in a pickup traveling on route 757 in Carroll County just after 11.
Police say the driver - who has not been identified- ran off the road, hit a fence and the overturned the pickup several times.
Goad was pronounced dead at the scene.
No charges have been filed.

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Seven Americans held as prisoners of war in Iraq are on their way home today.
Together, they'll fly from Germany to Texas.
Meanwhile, a new tape has surfaced showing Saddam Hussein addressing throngs of supporters.
But does it offer proof that he's alive?
Drew Levinson has the latest.
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Election day is not until November but the race to recruit candidates is already underway.
And some say in that contest, Democrats are losing.
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So far, only a handful of House and Senate Republicans have Democratic challengers.
And while a half dozen Republicans are campaigning for the seat of retiring Senator Bo Trumbo, Democrats have yet to field a single candidate.
Some blame Governor Warner.
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[IN Q=I THINK DICKIE CRANWELL AS WELL]
((AARON LEIBOWITZ/REPUBLICAN PARTY OF VA: I THINK DICKIE CRANWELL AS WELL AS MANY DEMOCRATS ARE WAITING FOR THE GOVERNOR TO REALLY ANNOUNCE THAT HE IS GOING TO MAKE A SERIOUS EFFORT AND STICK BY HIS GUNS AND ACTUALLY COME UP WITH A LEGITIMATE CAMPAIGN THAT THEY CAN GET BEHIND BEFORE THEY'RE WILLING TO PUT THEIR NECK ON THE LINE.)) ((LARRY FRAMME/DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF VA CHAIRMAN: I WOULD PUT NO CREDENCE IN ANYONE SAYING THE GOVERNOR HAS HELD BACK IN TRYING TO RECRUIT GOOD CANDIDATES. THAT'S NOT FAIR.))
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[SUPER=01-Larry Framme/Virginia Democrat Party Chairman; :14]
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Both parties do agree that the estate tax repeal will be a central theme of this year's legislative races.
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Roanoke's City manager is expecting to deliver a tight budget proposal to the city council next week. Details are due Monday -

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As in recent years, the city must deal with declining state aid, and growing demands on local government.
The city manager will not propose a major tax rate increase, but the budget will include a number of smaller hikes in taxes and fees.
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[ANCHOR=Marya]
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Most of the increases are said to be minimal. The city manager will reportedly find significant savings by not filling more than two dozen positions.

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Scott Peterson is in a California jail this morning.
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[SUPER=03-Modesto, CA;]

Prosecutors say they plan to charge him with capital murder in the deaths of his pregnant wife and unborn son.
He was arrested yesterday on a San Diego golf course, after D-N-A identified two bodies that washed ashore this week as Laci Peterson and the baby boy.
The bodies were found about three miles from where Scott Peterson said he was fishing when Laci disappeared Christmas Eve.
The Modesto community where the Petersons lived is meeting the news with a mixture of relief and anger.
Ethan Harp takes a look.
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[11Crime-Prevention]

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Crooks and bad guys beware.. you are now on official notice that Lynchburg is a certified crime prevention community.
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Local and state leaders unveiled a sign this week proclaiming just that at the entrance to the city on the John Lynch bridge.
Lynchburg is one of just eight Virginia localities to be certified by the Department of Criminal Justice Services.

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((CHARLES BENNETT/LYNCHBURG POLICE CHIEF: I THINK WHEN BUSINESSES LOOK FOR PLACES TO RELOCATE, WHEN PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT WHERE TO VISIT PERHAPS FOR TOURISM OR WHEN PEOPLE WANT TO MOVE SOMEWHERE, IT SPEAKS VERY WELL WHEN THEY CAN MOVE TO A COMMUNITY THAT HAS BEEN CERTIFIED AS HAVING STATE OF THE ART LEADING EDGE PROGRAMS IN PLACE DEALING WITH CRIME PREVENTION.))
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To become certified, a locality must have in place a certain number of programs such as neighborhood watches, community policing and victim-witness assistance.
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[BOTH MICS HOT] Coming up - We'll take you behind the movies that will be featured at next weekend's Vision Film Festival -
[ANCHOR=Brent 2-shot]
And
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some families have all the luck - even when its bad! See the latest kids book series on the big screen in this weeks movie review.
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Earlier we told you about a film festival coming to Roanoke this weekend, hightlighting films that feature Virginia. Sandra Eubank is here to tell us a little more about the movies that will be shown.

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NEWS 7 Saturday Morning will be right back.
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[Profile-Preview]

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He defended a klansman in the cross-burning case in Carroll County.
A Virginia law professor has made a name for himself defending speech he doesn't necessarily like.
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[SUPER=03-Richmond; :00]

Rod Smolla is a nationally recognized First Amendment scholar.
The University of Richmond law professor recently argued before the U-S Supreme Court against Virginia's cross-burning ban.
He has been defending free speech for twenty years.
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((ROD SMOLLA/FREE SPEECH LAWYER: I GOT INVOLVED IN IT BECAUSE I LOVE THE CONSTITUTION. I LOVE AS A LAWYER TO BE INVOLVED IN DEBATES OVER CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES. I LIKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO TRY TO INFLUENCE OUR DECISIONS IN THAT AREA.))
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Smolla is the author of eleven books about free speech.
One of his books has been made into a movie starring Timothy Hutton.
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[TAKE 9156ESS FS- PROFILE PROMO BOARD] We'll meet the man who is drawing the lines for what is constitutionally-protected free speech in this week's Virginia Profile.
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[2BIRTHDAYS!] 4/20/03
Easter Sunday:
Anniversary:
[SUPER=130-1st/Donald & Elease Kidd/Chatham]

[SUPER=130-13/Scarlett Turman/Floyd]

[SUPER=130-80/Ed Basham/Hollins]

[SUPER=130-35/Randy May/Madison Heights]

[SUPER=130-/Ricky Chaney/Dry Fork] Ricky shown in Military uniform Mother states he is serving in Iraq.

Anniversary:
[SUPER=130-46th/Larry & Cassie Martin/Martinsville]

Wow!
[SUPER=130-100/Sudie Epperly/Christiansburg]

No Pictures:

[SUPER=131-/Joan Dorcey/Salem]

[SUPER=131-/Darlene Brightwell/Moneta]

Anniversary:
[SUPER=131-13th/Joe & Sherri Brightwell/Moneta]

[SUPER=131-/Dee Wheeler/Buena Vista]

[SUPER=131-/Patsy Whitlow/Collinsville]

[SUPER=131-/Joe Oakes/Figsboro]

Anniversary:
[SUPER=131-25th/William & Charlotte Harvey/Roanoke]

[SUPER=131-16/Christi Dunbar/Buchanan]