WDBJ 7 news at 5 for 05/07/03

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Just ahead on News 7 at 5, videotaped student hazing creates an uproar, and may put some students in criminal trouble.
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And two Valley Banks are robbed within 20 minutes of each other. Police think have a good photo for one of them.
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A mix of clouds and sun into the weekend. Showers on the way tonight and again on Friday. Details ahead.

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U-S officials think they've found the best evidence yet of chemical weapons production in Iraq.
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And a new T-V commercial takes dead aim at S-U-V's .. and their owners.
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Plus T-V animal expert Jack Hanna at the Mill Mountain Zoo. News 7 at 5 is next.
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A high school hazing incident gets out of hand- several high school girls are sent to the hospital.
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((this is FROM A PAINT CAN BEING THROWN AT ME TOBASCO SAUCE AND VINEGAR AND STUFF IN MY EYE.)) [BUTT TO 57] ((SOME OF THE SENIOR GIRLS REALLY HAD A PROBLEM AND STARTING THROWING PUNCHES, THROWING BUCKETS.))
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A rite of passage for some Chicago high school girls got out of control.
Now some taking part in the yearly hazing are injured- others may face criminal charges.
Jennifer Donelan has more on this hazing incident gone terribly wrong.
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(( THEY HUDDLED TOGETHER, DRENCHED IN MUD, PAINT AND THEY SAY, HUMAN FECES. FOR THESE HIGH SCHOOL JUNIOR GIRLS, THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A FRIENDLY RITE OF PASSAGE. THE GIRLS SIGNED UP FOR AND EVEN PAID FOR AN INITIATION INTO POWDER PUFF FOOTBALL BY OUTGOING SENIOR GIRLS. BUT THEY SAY THEY NEVER EXPECTED THIS. HAZING VICTIM: "I have a bruises on my face, I have a cracked tailbone, several bruised ribs." 5 JUNIORS FROM A CHICAGO SUBURBAN HIGH SCHOOL ENDED UP IN THE HOSPITAL. ONE POINTS TO THE 10 STITCHES IN HER HEAD...ANOTHER SHOWS BRUISES ON HER BACK. OFFICIALS SAY ONE GIRL'S ANKLE WAS BROKEN DURING THE SUNDAY EVENT THAT WAS WITNESSED BY A CROWD OF HIGH SCHOOL BOYS. ZACK BLUM CAUGHT IT ALL ON VIDEO TAPE.
ZACK BLUM/SHOT VIDEO OF HAZING: "It's not as funny anymore. I didn't know they were getting hurt, I wish I could have done something to stop them from getting hurt."
Track: AN ESTIMATED 100 PEOPLE ATTENDED THE OFF-CAMPUS GATHERING THAT BEGAN WITH A TOUCH FOOTBALL GAME. BUT THEN IT ERUPTED INTO THIS ONE-SIDED BRAWL DURING WHICH THIS JUNIOR SAYS SHE WAS WRAPPED IN PIG INTESTINES.

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"When people are going into the hospital, it's not hazing anymore, it's inhumane."
STANDUP - JENNIFER DONELAN REPORTS. "Here at Glenbrook North high school, those involved may or may not face disclipline...because this all happened outside of their jurisdiction. that might not mean much because the video tape shot by onlookers is now at the center of a police investigation."
SCHOOL PRINCIPAL, MIKE RIGGLE Mike Riggle/Principal, Glenbrook North HIgh School (08) "We're hoping that the court system will take action that is appropriate because I think we need to be working together on this type of behavior that happens within a community." A COMMUNITY MARRED BY A TRADITION GONE OUT OF CONTROL. JENNIFER DONELAN CBS NEWS CHICAGO.))

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The F-B-I is investigating two bank robberies that happened 20 minutes apart this morning.
Both were at Valley Bank branches.
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The first happened at 9 this morning on Crystal Spring Avenue.
A security camera outside the bank captured this man going inside.
Police say he entered the bank with a stocking over his head, showed a gun and demanded money from the teller.
A witness saw him driving away in a burgundy Dodge or Chrysler.
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About 20 minutes later, a man wearing a black ski mask and gloves robbed the Valley Bank branch on Starkey Road.
He slipped the teller a note demanding money and ran away.
He's described as a white man, about 5-feet-11, 225 pounds, wearing a red jacket.
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The F-B-I says the two suspects APPEAR to be different people.
If you have information about either robbery, you're urged to call police.

[5-Pleasants]

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Radford police say they may be closer to solving a three-year-old murder.
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Lori Pleasants was found strangled in her apartment in June of 2000. The 23-year-old Danville native was a student at Radford University.
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No suspects have been charged with her death. But investigators say they recently got a break in the case, after sending out a massive email to students at the university.
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((1935 I CAUGHT A BREAK WHEN THE EMAIL MANAGED TO GET TO A GIRL IN DANVILLE WHO ODDLY ENOUGH DIDN'T KNOW LORI PLEASANTS ALTHOUGH LORI WAS FROM DANVILLE, SHE DIDN'T KNOW HER BUT SHE EMAILED ME BACK AND HAD WHAT I CALL SOME SIGNIFICANT INFORMATION 1948))
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Fields says he hopes more people will come forward. If you have information into Pleasants' death you are asked to call police.
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For the first time, the Pentagon is saying it might have found evidence in Iraq of a prohibited weapons program. Defense officials say U-S forces in Iraq are doing tests on a trailer.
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The trailer matches the description given by Iraqi defectors of a mobile biological weapons lab.
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((US AND UK TECHNICAL EZPERTS HAVE CONCLUDED HAVE IS NOT DEFECTOR SAID IT WAS FOR WHICH WAS THE PRODUCTION OF BIOLOGICAL AGENTS.))
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A new audio tape of Saddam Hussein has surfaced and the White House says it's not clear yet if it's the real thing.
An Australian newspaper obatined the tape.
The voice on the 14 minute tape encourages Iraqis to rise up against U-S forces.
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A one two punch from Mother Nature this week... the violent weather hits again in parts of the U-S.
A tornado damaged homes in Northern Louisiana.
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It was heavy rain doing the damage in Desoto- south of Saint Louis.

A junior high school was leveled and tractor trailers flipped over.
Two people died in Southern Illinois when severe weather swept through a mostly rural area.
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More thunderstorms are forecast in areas of Missouri that were devasted by Sunday's tornadoes.
The death toll has risen yet again after a man was found dead in a field near Jackson Tennessee.
The storms are blamed for at least 44 deaths in three states.
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New hope for fighting deadly bone cancers. The details are still ahead on Healthcheck.
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And meet a woman who threw away the old photos. Now she's hoping to help others fight eating disorders.
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Some people will go to any length just to be thin. And for one Roanoke woman it led to an eating disorder.
Now she's on a mission to help others battling this potentially life threatening condition.
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Health Check Reporter Joy Sutton joins us with details.
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Jean, Robin Hubert says at one point she was so thin you could see her ribs.
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She suffered from an eating disorder known as bulimarexia.
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(( It's time in her life that Robin Hubert wants to forget. In fact, most pictures of her when she was 50 pounds underweight have been removed from photo albums. But Robin can still recall starving and purging herself just to stay thin.
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((I RESTRICTED MY FOOD SO MUCH. THAT I WOULD ALLOW MYSELF 40 OR 50 CALORIES A DAY. I WOULD DO A HUNDRED SIT-UPS THREE TIMES A DAY AND I ABUSED LAXATIVES BY THE BOX)) [RUNS14]
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In fact at one point it got so bad Robin had to be hospitalized.
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((I HAD ABUSED DIURETICS AND LAXATIVES SO BAD THAT MY BOWELS AND BLADDER SHUT DOWN COMPLETELY FOR TWO WEEKS THEY HAD TO DO INTERVENE MEASURE TO GET THOSE BACK WORKING)) [RUNS14]
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But Robin is not alone in her battle with an eating disorder.
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((THEY'RE VERY COMMON AND THEY'RE BECOMING INCREASINGLY MORE COMMON ESPECIALLY IN THE YOUNGER AGES. I'M SEEING MORE AND MORE MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRLS, GIRLS JUST APPROACHING PUBERTY WITH EATING DISORDERS)) [RUNS13]
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Chiglinsky says the earlier you intervene the better the chances are for recovery and resolving the eating disorder.
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((A TREATMENT WOULD INVOLVE HELPING SOMEONE TO GAIN WEIGHT AND LEARNING HOW TO EAT AGAIN. AND HELPING THE FAMILY TO SUPPORT THAT PERSON IN ADDITION TO WORKING WITH THEM ON THE BELIEFS ABOUT THEIR BODY AND EATING)) [RUNS11]
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Robin sought help and now she's been in recovery close to 11 years.
She hopes her life will be an inspiration for others.
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((NAT SOT OF SINGING: AND I'D SAY DON'T GIVE UP, DON'T STOP TRYING, PLEASE DON'T GIVE UP))
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Robin has started a support group for people with eating disorders.
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For more information you can call 540-397-6980. [Take Vigil FS]
In addition, the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders is holding a vigil tomorrow at Lee Plaza in downtown Roanoke at 7pm.
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Jean,

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In other health news, a British study released today says a stem cell transplant, plus high-dose chemotherapy, work far better than standard chemo alone against myeloma, a deadly bone cancer. Patients in the eight-year study who got the more intensive treatment generally survived a year longer -- and were five times more likely to have all traces of cancer eliminated from their blood.

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Coming up on News-7 at Five, he's taken viewers around the world with his animal adventures, but this afternoon he's in Roanoke.
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He's wowed audiences with his animal adventures for years, and today he's visiting the Star City. Jack Hanna spent the afternoon at Mill Mountain Zoo and this evening he'll be speaking at a fundraiser for the zoo. Brent Watts caught up with Hanna and a few of his furry friends.
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The recent rally on Wall Street ran out of legs today. Alexis Christoforous has the details in today's Marketwatch report.
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Good afternoon folks and welcome to the midweek ticker. Michael Jordan will not be back with the Wizards in any capacity next year.
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Jordan met with owner Abe Pollin today and quickly left the meeting without making any statement. However, Pollin - who honored Jordan in his final game as a Wizard - confirmed that Jordan would not be back as president of basketball operations.
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The Radford University softball team might have a 15 and 34 overall record but the Highlanders are near the top of the Big South Conference standings.
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RU is 6 and 4 in conference play and in second place heading into tomorrow's Big South tournament at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina. The Highlanders are led by first year head coach Amy Kvilhaug (Kvil-hog).
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The Roanoke Dazzle is in the middle of the offseason, but things are still pretty busy right now for the NBDL club. Next Monday, the Dazzle will team up with Governor Mark Warner for the inaugural Commerce Cup at Hidden Valley High School. Then later this summer, Camp Dazzle returns to Virginia Western. Sandwiched in between will be the HoopWorld 3 0n 3 tourney during Festival in the Park.
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The team just completed its second season in the Valley, and several former team members are hoping to catch on with NBA clubs, including Mikki Moore and Cory Alexander.
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Coming up at the top of the hour - the Big East softball tournament opens up tomorrow evening at the Moyer Complex in Salem. We'll tell you how they are getting ready and generating excitement without the Hokies in the field this year. Have a safe night everybody. [go to break]

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A new TV ad unveiled today is revving up the debate about S-U-Vs.
It argues technology is already available to produce cars and S-U-V's that can get at least 40 miles per gallon. Julie Vallese has more.
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((National security - that's what two advocacy groups say automakers and government are compromising for not building more fuel efficient cars. you must think this is public policy born in an insane asylum. It is not it has been bought and paid for by Detroit. In a 300,000 dollar ad campaign the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Detroit Project are targeting and challenging automakers to build vehicles that get at least 40 miles per gallon.
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But automakers say they are producing vehicles with the future in mind. we've improved the efficiency of our vehicles model by model engine by engine year by year. Honda and Toyota have already put two hybrid vehicles on the road and two US makers Ford and Saturn will both introduce hybrid SUV's in the next model year. --STANDUP-- The EPA estimates in 2002 the US fuel economy hit a 22 year low. The combined average for all classes of vehicles was 20.4 miles to the gallon. While owners of SUV's do want more efficient vehicles they say there's a more important issue advocacy groups should spend their time and money. If they really want to help this country get on a campaign use your celebrity status to get people to buckle their safety belts. Ultimately its up to the consumer to decide - what they are willing to drive, and at what cost. In Washington I'm Julie Vallese ))

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