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Coming up on News 7-
A man from this area is killed in Iraq.
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[VO-NAT]
Police wrestle a man to the ground in the nation's capitol tonight- he may have been carrying a grenade.
Plus a new study says movies can be dangerous to your children's health. The study authors say they're not blowing smoke.
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[Talent=Jean]
News 7 at Eleven is next.
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[ANCHOR=Jean]
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[WRITER=jja]
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[SOT 22:09]
[IN Q=I will tell you]
((DICK CRANWELL/FORMER DELEGATE: I WILL TELL YOU IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST GUT WRENCHING EXPERIENCES OF THAT I'VE BEEN THROUGH.))
[RUNS=:06]
[OUT Q=I've been through]
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[VO-NAT]
After months of speculation, Dickie Cranwell finally makes up his mind.
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[ANCHOR=Jean]
[GRAPHIC=News 7 at 11]
[Cranwell]
[ANCHOR=Jean]
[NEWSCAST=11 PM]
[WRITER=jus]
[TAPE#=03-25 TC34:41]
[GRAPHIC=Campaign 2003]
The decision was made this weekend.
And tonight, Dick Cranwell officially announced he will not run for the state Senate in the 22nd district.
[***NEWS 7 @ 11 IN MONITOR***]
[DOUBLE BOXES=Jean & Justin /BAM;]
Justin McLeod is here to tell us who will. Justin?
Jean, 61 year old Roanoke Valley native Stephen Emick will be the candidate this fall.
[LIVE= Justin /FULL BAM]
[SUPER=@justin1]
Emick says he's wanted to run for months but agreed to wait until Dick Cranwell made his decision.
Tonight at a mass meeting, he and everyone else finally heard what Cranwell plans to do and why.
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[SOT]
[IN Q=]
[SUPER=03-Botetourt Co.; :00]
[SUPER=01-Dick Cranwell/Former Delegate; :12]
[SUPER=01-Stephen Emick/(D) Candidate for Senate; :45]
[SUPER=01-David Layman/Botetourt Co. Democratic Chrm.; 1:09]
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[OUT Q=TO BE AN EXCITING RACE]
((((NAT SOUND OF PEOPLE CLAPPING FOR DICK CRANWELL AT 15:37))
Dick Cranwell arrived to enthusiastic applause.
Within minutes, the Vinton Democrat would take the stage to tell his supporters it wasn't meant to be.
[SOT 22:00]
[IN Q=I will tell you]
((DICK CRANWELL/FORMER DELEGATE: I WILL TELL YOU THAT I OBVIOUSLY NOT GOING TO BE THE CANDIDATE FOR ELECTED OFFICE THIS FALL.))
[Runs08]
[OUT Q=office this fall]
Cranwell says his family must come first.
However, he did admit after the meeting he was disappointing many.
[SOT 34:51]
[IN Q=I understand that]
((DICK CRANWELL/FORMER DELEGATE: I UNDERSTAND THAT. I ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT EVERY NOW AND THEN YOU HAVE TO DO WHAT YOU THINK IS BEST FOR YOUR FAMILY AND FOR YOU.))
[Runs08]
[OUT Q=family and for you]
Cranwell plans to actively campaign for Stephen Emick who will be the Democratic candidate.
Emick brushes off any criticism that Cranwell took too long to make his decision.
[SOT 40:13]
[IN Q=Campaigns don't start]
((STEVE EMICK/(D) CANDIDATE FOR SENATE: CAMPAIGNS DON'T START IN EARNEST ANY EVENT UNTIL MID-AUGUST ON INTO LABOR DAY AND I WILL HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO PUT TOGETHER AN EFFECTIVE CAMPAIGN.))
[Runs10]
[OUT Q=effective campaign]
In that campaign, Emick plans to run on a fiscal conservative platform.
He will make education and those he feels have been left behind the focus of his campaign.
Local Democrats expect a tough campaign.
[SOT 37:09]
[IN Q=Obviously with the]
((DAVID LAYMAN/BOTETOURT CO. DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMAN: OBVIOUSLY WITH THE RESTRUCTURE THE WAY IT'S BEEN IT IS GOING TO BE AN EXCITING RACE.))
[Runs06]
[OUT Q=exciting race]))
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[LIVE= Justin /FULL BAM]
The Emick name may be familiar to many.
Buzz Emick is a former state Senator, and Stephen's brother Mark is currently running for the House of Delegates against Salem Republican Morgan Griffith.
[DOUBLE BOXES=Jean & Justin /BAM;]
Jean, Stephen Emick will run against former Republican state Senator Brandon Bell in the November 5th election.
[Dooley]
[ANCHOR=Jean]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=myr]
[TAPE#=]
[SS=Soldier Killed]
Another soldier from our area has been killed in Iraq, even though the major fighting is over.
Sergeant Michael Dooley of Pulaski was shot and killed when gunmen opened fire at a roadblock last night.
The U-S military says the attackers pulled up to a checkpoint near the Syrian border and asked for medical help for a person in
the car. Then they pulled pistols and shot Dooley.
Other U-S troops shot back, killing one person and arresting another. At least one other assailant fled in a vehicle.
Dooley was deployed with the Army in March.
He was stationed in Fort Carson, Colorado.
Dooley was 23-years-old.
He and his wife were expecting their first child in October.
[IRaq]
[ANCHOR=Jean]
[NEWSCAST=11]
[WRITER=dse]
[TAPE#=]
[GRAPHIC=Iraq Generic]
The center of resistance against U-S-led occupation of Iraq seems to be in Fallujah.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Fallujah, Iraq]
Almost every night in the troubled town, there's another ambush of U-S soldiers patrolling the streets.
In the last two weeks, three American soldiers have been killed in Fallujah.
More than a dozen have been wounded.
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[SOT at 1:02]
[IN Q=They can be]
((SPC BRIAN WILEY/3RD INFANTRY DIVISION; THEY CAN BE WAVING AT YOU ONE MINUTE THE NEXT MINUTE THEY'RE SHOOTING AT YOU.
PFC LUCAS TATE/3RD INFANTRY DIVISION; FOR EVERY AMERICAN THEY KILL IT'S LIKE A BIG THING FOR THEM. WE'VE HAD SEVERAL CLOSE CALLS. TOO MANY CLOSE CALLS, REALLY.))
[SUPER=01-SPC Brian Wiley/3rd Infantry Division; :00 QUICK!!!]
[SUPER=01-PFC Lucas Tate/3rd Infantry Division; :04]
[RUNS=:12]
[OUT Q=close calls, really.]
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[VO-NAT]
The army has sent about 1500 reinforcements to Fallujah, but more troops means there are more targets.
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[Grenade]
[ANCHOR=Jean]
[NEWSCAST=11]
[WRITER=jja]
[TAPE#=]
[GRAPHIC=None]
A man possibly carrying explosives is stopped tonight in Washington D-C.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Washington, DC]
Capitol police say they apprehended a man who was apparently carrying what looked like a grenade.
Police are not sure if the device was a real explosive, but they did not take any chances.
Amtrak police from nearby Union station wrestled the man to the ground as the PIN was removed from the grenade.
One officer also reportedly held the trigger closed just in case the grenade was in fact a real bomb.
The incident is over and the man is in custody.
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[Radford-Park]
[ANCHOR=Jean]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=tco]
[TAPE#=03-14 TC3:41:10]
[GRAPHIC=None]
The city of Radford has passed an ordinance that would allow the sale of alcohol at city parks.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Radford]
City council approved the ordinance tonight with a vote of 3-2.
It would allow vendors to sell beer and alcohol in restricted areas of Bissett Park, Riverside Park and the city's new Recreation Center during non-city events.
Officials say vendors would be required to pay a five-hundred dollar rental fee and would have to meet several other guidelines before the event is approved.
The ordinance must still undergo another reading later this month before it is enacted.
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[L'burg-Murder]
[ANCHOR=Jean]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=ssm]
[TAPE#=03-18 TC1:16:06]
[GRAPHIC=Murder Invest.]
A Lynchburg man is in custody, charged with the city's second homicide of the year.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Lynchburg]
On Saturday, police investigating a missing person report found the body of 42-year-old Letitia Farmer Giles inside the Virginian Apartments on Rivermont Avenue.
She had been dead about five days and police say positive identification was difficult.
Today, Giles' boyfriend, 45-year-old Clarence Edward Elder Junior was charged with her murder.
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[SOT 15:25:18]
[IN Q=We can't go]
((LT. TOM LAWTON/LYNCHBURG POLICE: WE CAN'T GO INTO ANY MORE DETAIL THAN THAT AT THIS TIME. THE CASE IS REALLY BRAND NEW AND WE'RE STILL GETTING INTO THE INVESTIGATION AT THIS POINT AND WE CERTAINLY DON'T WANT TO JEOPARDIZE THE CASE BY GIVING OUT ANY INFORMATION.))
[SUPER=01-Lt. Tom Lawton/Lynchburg Police Department]
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[OUT Q=giving out any information.]
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[VO-NAT]
Lawton says Giles was identified through her fingerprints.
A medical examiner has confirmed she was murdered but the exact cause of death has not been released.
Elder is being held without bond.
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[Kidnap-girl]
[ANCHOR=Jean]
[NEWSCAST=11]
[WRITER=jja]
[TAPE#=]
[GRAPHIC=None]
Police in California say the suspected kidnapper of a young girl may have gotten scared by all the attention the case got.
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[VO-NAT 13.5]
[SUPER=03-E. Palo Alto, CA]
They believe that's why the man dropped off nine year old Jennette Tamayo at a convenience store last night- two days after taking her from her home.
Today police took the suspect into custody at a friend's house.
Police say 23 year old Avid Montiel Cruz will likely be charged with sexual assault.
Authorities say the girl remembered that a pizza had been delivered to the house where she was being held. That helped authorities track down the suspect.
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[SOT 46]
[IN Q=]
((WILLIAM LANSDOWNE/SAN JOSE POLICE CHIEF; THIS YOUNG LITTLE NINE YEAR OLD GIRL I NEVER SEEN SUCH A COURAGE LITTLE GIRL WHO KEPT HER WITS ABOUT HERE IS ABSOLUTELY INSTRUMENTAL REASON WE ARE HERE TO SAY WE DO IN FACT HAVE A SUSPECT IN CUSTODY AT THIS TIME.))
[SUPER=01-William Lansdowne/San Jose Police Chief; ]
[RUNS=11]
[OUT Q=at this time.]
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[VO-NAT 07 plus pad]
Police say Cruz waited for the little girl to come home from school.
A neighbor's surveillance camera captured it from a distance.
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[Smoking-Study]
[ANCHOR=Jean]
[NEWSCAST=11]
[WRITER=jja]
[TAPE#=]
[GRAPHIC=None]
The strongest evidence ever that "smoking on screen" is far from harmless.
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[VO-NAT 08.5]
A new study says movies were the leading influence on teenagers tempted to start smoking, more influential than parents or even peers.
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[SOT 24]
[IN Q=]
((MADELINE DALTON/DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL: THE EFFECT WAS HUGE HALF OF THE CHILDREN WHO STARTED SMOKIGN DID SO BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY WATCHED ON THE MOVIES.))
[SUPER=01-Madeline Dalton/Dartmouth Medical School;]
[RUNS=08]
[OUT Q=THEY WATCHED ON THE MOVIES.]
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[VO-NAT 12.5]
The study started in 1999 surveyed children ten to 14.
At the time 35-hundred had never tried a cigarette.
Two years later, ten percent had started smoking.
something they all had in common-
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[SOT 56]
[IN Q=]
((DALTON: WE FIND CHILDREN WITH THE HIGHEST EXPOSURE TO SMOKING IN MOVIES WERE ALMOST THREE TIMES MORE LIKELY TO TRY SMOKING.))
[RUNS=06]
[OUT Q=LIKELY TO TRY SMOKING.]
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[VO-NAT 09 plus pad]
Film historians say limiting smoking in movies may limit artistic freedom.
So far representatives from the film industry were not talking about the study.
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[Tease1]
[ANCHOR=Jean]
[WRITER=dse]
[NEWSCAST=11p]
[SS=None]
A new airport control system is taking off, and could help you get to your destination on time.
Details on that are still ahead.
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[VO-NAT]
Plus the Anthrax investigation leads to a Maryland pond, but it could be weeks before the FBI knows what's at the bottom.
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[Sports-preview]
[ANCHOR=Mike]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=mst]
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[SOT]
[IN Q=]
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[OUT Q=...THE BIG 7."]
(( Hey folks, Mike Stevens back in the News 7 sports office as the ACC expansion hits a big snag right on US route 15 on Tobacco Road.
The Hornets get a new coach tonight - as do the Rockets.
Jack and Tiger get their own cereal box.
The Avs open up a three game set with Kinston.
And the Devils and Ducks battle for the Cup tonight on the Big 7.))
[Anthrax]
[ANCHOR=Jean]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=tco]
[TAPE#=]
[GRAPHIC=None]
It's expected to take three or four weeks to drain a Maryland pond that's become part of the anthrax investigation.
The F-B-I suspects that the person who sent the anthrax spores handled them under water.
Teri Okita has more.
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[SOT]
[IN Q=" A tip led FBI investigators..."]
[SUPER=03-Frederick, MD; :00]
[SUPER=@Okita1, :17]
[SUPER=01-Pat Clawson/Hatfill Spokesman; 1:02]
[RUNS=1:33]
[OUT Q=...CBS News, Frederick, Maryland."]
(( TRACK: A TIP LED FBI INVESTIGATORS TO THIS POND DEEP IN THE WOODS OF FREDERICK, MARYLAND. THEY'RE DRAINING IT FOR EVIDENCE POSSIBLY RELATED TO THE ANTHRAX ATTACKS FROM THE FALL OF 2001 THAT KILLED FIVE PEOPLE AND SICKENED MORE THAN A DOZEN OTHERS.
(Super: Teri Okita/Reporting)
STANDUP BRIDGE: THE FBI FIRST ZEROED IN ON THE POND BACK IN DECEMBER.
ACCORDING TO THE WASHINGTON POST, DIVERS FOUND AN AIRTIGHT PLASTIC BOX, ROPE, GLASS VIALS, AND GLOVES SUBMERGED IN THE WATER. SOME BELIEVE THE ITEMS COULD HAVE BEEN USED IN THE ATTACKS, BUT TESTS ARE STILL ON-GOING
TRACK: AFTER CONSULTATIONS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ASSURANCES, THE FBI IS ONLY NOW ABLE TO DRAIN THE POND. NO ONE IS SURE WHAT THEY'LL FIND, IF ANYTHING, BUT SO FAR, THEY HAVE FEW LEADS AND NO ARRESTS IN THE CASE.
TRACK: WHAT THEY DO HAVE, ACCORDING TO ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHN ASHCROFT, IS A PERSON OF INTEREST STEVEN HATFILL A PHYSICIAN AND BIOTERRORISM EXPERT WHO LIVED AND WORKED JUST A FEW MILES FROM THE POND. A TIP ALLEGEDLY FROM ONE OF HATFILL'S BUSINESS ACQUAINTANCES LED THEM HERE.
SOT: PAT CLAWSON/HATFILL SPOKESMAN
The FBI can drain this pond, they can drain every pond in md and they can drain the pacific ocean, but they're never going to find any evidence, because he wasn't involved in that in any way.
TRACK: HATFILL HAS REPEATEDLY DENIED ANY INVOLVEMENT, AND INVESTIGATORS HAVE NO PHYSICAL EVIDENCE LINKING HIM TO THE CRIME.
BUT THEY STILL KEEP HIM UNDER 24-HOUR SURVEILLANCE. HE'S ONE OF ONLY 30 OR 40 U-S SCIENTISTS THE FBI BELIEVES HAD ACCESS TO ANTHRAX. TERI OKITA, CBS NEWS, FREDERICK, MARYLAND.))
[Blood-West]
[ANCHOR=Jean]
[NEWSCAST=11]
[WRITER=jja]
[TAPE#=]
[GRAPHIC=West Nile Virus]
Two blood screening tests should be available in a few months to help protect the nation's blood supply from West Nile Virus.
Health officials started developing the test after they discovered last year that people could become infected through transfusions.
[West-Nile]
[ANCHOR=Jean]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=jsu]
[TAPE#=03-17 TC51:21]
[GRAPHIC=HOLD]
Meanwhile, health officials say it's only a matter of time before West Nile shows up again in our area.
While they will be testing dead birds...
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=04-File Tape;]
their main concern is mosquitos because infected mosquitos transfer the virus to humans.
The constant rain has made it difficult for them to breed. But once it stops for a week or more they will have more places to reproduce.
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[SOT20:53:59]
[IN Q=As little as a teaspoon of water]
((AS LITTLE AS TEASPOON OF WATER CAN BE A PLACE WHERE MOSQUITOS CAN BREED. SO CITIZENS CAN GREATLY REDUCE THE NUMBER OF MOSQUITOS. BY CONTROLLING WHAT THEY CAN CONTROL AND ELIMINATING THAT MOSQUITO HABITAT))
[SUPER=01-Dick Tabb/Environmental Health Manager]
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[OUT Q=mosquito habitat]
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[VO-NAT]
The health department does plan to do mosquito surveillance. They will be setting up traps in the Roanoke Valley starting next week.
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[SOT21:01:05]
[IN Q=We expect to see more presence]
((WE EXPECT TO SEE MORE PRESENCE OF THE VIRUS THIS YEAR. THAT'S ONE REASON WHY WE DO MONITORING))
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[OUT Q=we do monitoring]
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[ANCHOR=Jean]
[GRAPHIC=HOLD]
Last year, there were 29 human cases of West Nile virus in Virginia --including one person from Roanoke County.
Health officials are asking people to report mosquito problems and suspicious dead birds to their local health departments.
[STARS]
[ANCHOR=Jean]
[NEWSCAST=11]
[WRITER=jja]
[TAPE#=]
[GRAPHIC=None]
It is the wave of the future in airport traffic control.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Philadelphia, PA]
It's now in place in Philadelphia.
It is called STARS.. which stands for Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System.
STARS took off with flying colors in Philly today.
The FAA says they want it installed quickly at 167 other airports.
Officials say STARS will improve both safety and on time performance.
It is the same system used by the Defense Department.
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[Tease2]
[ANCHOR=Jean]
[WRITER=dse]
[NEWSCAST=11]
[SS=None]
A Virginia Tech professor is hoping road rage will be gone in a flash.
We'll explain
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[VO-NAT]
Plus, police bring a car chase to a screeching halt.
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[Commercial]
[Car-Chase]
[ANCHOR=Jean]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=tco]
[TAPE#=]
[GRAPHIC=None]
Two car thieves are in jail after leading police on a hair-raising chase in Texas.
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[VO-NAT :17]
[SUPER=03-Houston, TX]
The chase began shortly before 9 this morning, and lasted nearly a half hour.
It came to a halt when a police car rammed the vehicle as the men attempted to make a U-turn.
Police than approached the car with guns drawn and forcibly removed the suspects.
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[SOT]
[IN Q= 1:07, "We look out and..."]
(( RICHARD FRANK/EYEWITNESS: WE LOOK OUT AND WE SEE ALL THE POLICE COME OUT AND POLICE DREW THEIR GUNS AND WENT UP TO THE VEHICLE. ONE GUY HE GOT PEACEABLY AND THE OTHER GUY HE WOULDN'T GET OUT OF THE VEHICLE SO THEY SMASHED THE WINDOW AND PULLED HIM OUT.))
[SUPER=01-Richard Frank/Eyewitness]
[RUNS=:13]
[OUT Q="...window and pulled him out."]
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[VO-NAT]
Both men are accused of aggravated robbery of a vehicle.
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[Road-Rage]
[ANCHOR=Jean]
[NEWSCAST=11]
[WRITER=rca]
[TAPE#=03-12 TC1:32:42]
[GRAPHIC=None]
A local professor is giving the green light to curbing road rage.
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[VO-NAT :19]
[SUPER=03-Blacksburg; ]
Scott Geller says the "polite light" allows drivers to communicate with each other rather than get frustrated.
It's a small green light that attaches to a car's back window and is controlled with a button.
Drivers would follow a code ... hitting it once for please, twice for thank you and three times for I am sorry.
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[SOT 18:59:33]
[IN Q=people enjoy]
((CHRIS DULA/CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST; PEOPLE ENJOY HAVING THE FLASH THEY ENJOY BEING ABLE TO COMMUNICATE WITH OTHER DRIVERS THEY REPORT POSITIVE EXPERIENCE DOING SO.))
[SUPER=01-Chris Dula/Clinical Psychologist;]
[RUNS=:07]
[OUT Q=EXPERIENCE DOING SO.]
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[VO-NAT]
Those reports come from Christiansburg drivers who participated in a research study with the polite light.
Geller says before the product can be widely used it has to undergo more development and research.
Laws also have to be changed. In most states, it's illegal to have a light in or on your car.
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[Rumble-strip]
[ANCHOR=Jean]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=mmu]
[TAPE#=03-15 TC3:28:14]
[GRAPHIC=None]
A safety feature on many Virginia roads if getting national attention.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Richmond]
Every state has those jarring indentations on highway shoulders to awake drowsy motorists.
But it is a V-DOT engineer who developed the most effective rumble strips.
Chung Chen found that "milled" rumble strips, which are carved into the highway, are the noisiest and the bumpiest.
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[SOT 1::]
[IN Q=WHAT WE FOUND TO BE SIGNIFICANT]
((LARRY CALDWELL/VDOT MOBILITY MANAGEMENT ENGINEER: WHAT WE FOUND TO BE SIGNIFICANT WAS THE VIBRATION AS YOU ROLL OVER THE RUMBLE STRIP IS MORE LIKELY TO ALERT OR WAKE UP THE DRIVER THAN THE NOISE. AND RESEARCH ON THE VIBRATION LEVEL HAD NOT BEEN DONE BEFORE CHUNG'S.))
((CHUNG CHEN/VDOT TRAFFIC ENGINEER: SAFETY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL BECAUSE THE LIFE OF A HUMAN BEING IS JUST ONCE. IT'S PRICELESS.))
[SUPER=01-Larry Caldwell/VDOT Mobility Management Engineer; :00]
[SUPER=01-Chung Chen/VDOT Traffic Engineer; :14]
[RUNS=:21]
[OUT Q=IT'S PRICELESS.]
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[VO-NAT]
Chen's research is estimated to have prevented as many as 16-hundred fatalities nationwide.
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[S-Extra]
[ANCHOR=Mike]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=mst]
[TAPE#=SP-144 12056tc]
[GRAPHIC=NONE]
The ACC expansion has hit another snag tonight.
The Bobcats are coming to Charlotte.
The Devils go for the Cup.
And we have plenty of golf news.
But first tonight's Extra Point -
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[VO NAT ENG#]
[SUPER=04-NBA; :00]
The Houston Rockets and Jeff Van Gundy have decided to join forces.
Van Gundy toured the Rockets facilities last week, and told Houston management he would take the job this morning.
The Rockets will have to give the Knicks some form of compensation for hiring Van Gundy, who is still under contract with New York through July 31.
Van Gundy also had been courted by the Wiazrds.
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[OUTCUE=last score."]
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[S-ACC]
[ANCHOR=Mike]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=mst]
[TAPE#=]
[GRAPHIC=ACC/BIG EAST]
The ACC's scheduled conference call tomorrow amongst its presidents should be interesting - to say the least.
The league needs 7 of its nine member schools to vote in favor of the expansion for its to pass - and tonight there are real reasons to believe that the 7 vote may not exist.
[GRAPHIC=DUKE/UNC]
The leadership at both Duke and the University of North Carolina is wavering tonight.
And if the Heels and Blue Devils would vote no along with Virginia - the expansion is dead.
The reason for the turnaround is not so much the recent lawsuit, but finally common sense.
Both UNC Chancellor James Moeser (MOSER) and Duke President Nan Keohane (KOE-HANN) say travel costs, divisional alignment and the welfare of the students are not being properly addressed.
President Keohane said in an e-mail obtained by the Associated Press that the move to vote for expansion was moving to rapidly.
She doesn't believe Duke has enough information and she is quoted as saying "Duke is not willing to buy a pig in a poke."
[GRAPHIC=TECH/ACC/LAWSUIT]
It is unlikely that the conference call tomorrow will result in any kind hog call - only more delays until the conference can formally respond to the lawsuit.
[S-Charlotte]
[ANCHOR=Mike]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=mst]
[TAPE#=sp-140 15345TC]
[GRAPHIC=nba]
The new Charlotte NBA team got a nickname today.
The team will be known as the Bobcats and the predominant color will be orange. Bobcats was picked over Flight and Dragons.
Meanwhile Tim Floyd replaces Paul Silas as the coach of the old Charlotte team - the Hornets - who are now in New Orleans.
Floyd will make $4 point 8 million over the next three years, even though he has never won anything in the NBA.
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[SOT]
[IN Q=BITE]
[SUPER=01-Tim Floyd/New Hornets Head Coach; :00]
[RUNS=:18]
[OUT Q=...AT ALL."]
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[ANCHOR=mike]
[GRAPHIC=NBA]
He may be right, but the numbers don't lie. He won 49 games and lost 190 with Chicago in just over three seasons
[S-NHL]
[ANCHOR=Mike]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=mst]
[TAPE#=SP-149]
[GRAPHIC=NHL]
The Lord Stanley Cup was awarded tonight to New Jersey Devils as they put on a dominating performance in game seven of the Cup finals against the Anaheim Mighty Ducks.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-E. Rutherford, NJ; :00]
This one was scoreless after the first period, but in the second the Devils would find the net twice.
Mike Rupp scores off the Scott Niedermayer and Colin White assist at the 2:22 mark.
Then at the 12:18 mark Jeff Friesen beats Jean Sebastian Giguere.(JUH-GARE)
Friesen would get another one in the third as the Devils win their third Stanley Cup title 3-to-0.
[SUPER=31-Anaheim/0/New Jersey/3;]
Goalie Martin Brodeur (MARTAN BRO-DOUR) would stop each and every shot tonight turning back 24 shots.
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The MVP of the playoffs which is based on the entire postseason was awarded to the losing goalie Giguere.
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The Salem Avalanche opened up a three game series with Kinston tonight at Salem Memorial.
The Indians came in a spot behind the Avs in the southern division.
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It was honor roll night at the park - so we honor the nearby institute of higher learning, Roanoke College.
In the top of the first Kinston takes Salem to school as Luke Scott homers to right field. The two run homer will also plate Rodney Choy Foo and it's 2-to-0 Kinston.
Salem will try to get a little offense generated on the basepaths.
In the third, Ryan Stegall steals second, but he would be stranded
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there.
Kinston wins game one of the series 5 to 2 in 10.
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The Capital Open at the TPC at Avenel had to be delayed until today due to the rain on Saturday.
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[VO-NAT]
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Duffy Waldorf got busy on the back nine today and made one heck of charge to get within contention as he shot a 69 today despite having a two stroke penatly for patting down a spot in the rough.
But Rory Sabbatini was the man all week long and today he would punctuate his second career win with 100 foot chip shto for eagle on this par 5.
He shot in the 60s all week long to win by 4 strokes.
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[talent=mike]
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Ashley Plantation pro Chip Sullivan finished tied for 59th.
Chip picked up $9,990 bucks.
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The PGA's finest now get ready for the US Open later this week. Today - two men who know how to win that tournament received quite and honor - by getting their faces on the front of a Wheaties Box.
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[VO-NAT]
Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods are gracing the cover of the box of cereal.
It is a way of honoring both the old and the new Master of the Game.
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The Junior Achievement "Par for the Kids" golf tournament was all business today at the Roanoke Country club.
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Around 120 golfers made up over 30 teams to play in the 10th annual event. The one day 18 hole event was played in a modified best ball format. Each team paid 800 dollars to play and all of the proceeds go to junior achievement's mission to buy school materials for students in the Roanoke Valley, New River Valley and in surrounding counties. Last year, Junior achievement touched the lives of 12 thousand kids. The goal this year is to raise 20 thousand dollars.
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[VO-NAT]
The event also held a live auction that included a valuable collectible statue and football autographed by the Barbers.
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by SS