WDBJ 7 morning news for 06/08/04

[Reagan]

[ANCHOR=Kimberly]

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So far, more than 16- thousand people have paid their respects to the late President Reagan in the rotunda of his presidential library in California.
Some 60-thousand mourners are expected by this evening.
Reagan's body will be flown to Washington, D-C tomorrow night for a state funeral on Friday-- the first state funeral since President Lyndon Johnson.
Jennifer Miller is in Simi Valley, California this morning and joins us now with an update.
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(( TEARS OF SADNESS FROM SOME....SILENT GLANCES FROM OTHERS....ALL PAYING HOMAGE TO A BELOVED LEADER.

(NATZ)

TODAY WILL BE JUST LIKE YESTERDAY AT THE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY HERE IN SIMI VALLEY AS THOUSANDS OF MOURNERS FILE PAST THE BODY OF THE 40TH PRESIDENT AND FORMER CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR.

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"I FELT SO GRATEFUL THAT WE HAS SUCH A WONDERFUL MAN TO LEAD OUR NATION."
THIS IS THE FINAL DAY OF PUBLIC VIEWING IN CALIFORNIA BEFORE MISTER REAGAN'S BODY IS MOVED TO WASHINGTON, D.C. FOR SEVERAL DAYS OF CEREMONIES INCLUDING THE FIRST STATE FUNERAL SINCE THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT LYNDON JOHNSON.

(MILLER STANDUP BRIDGE)
PRESIDENT REAGAN'S BODY WILL LIE IN STATE IN THE CAPITAL ROTUNDA FOR TWO DAYS...AND ON FRIDAY BOTH PRESIDENT BUSH AND HIS FATHER WILL BE AMONG THE EULOGISTS DURING THE FUNERAL AT WASHINGTON'S NATION CATHEDRAL.

(NATZ FROM CEREMONY)

EARLIER ON MONDAY, THE WEEK-LONG TRIBUTE TO THE FORMER PRESIDENT BEGAN WITH AT A PRIVATE CEREMONY AT THE REAGAN LIBRARY. THE SERVICE ENDED WHEN NANCY REAGAN GENTLY TOUCHED HER CHEEK TO THE FLAG DRAPED COFFIN.
MISTER REAGAN'S FINAL JOURNEY ENDS HERE ON FRIDAY WHEN HE'S BURIED IN A CRYPT BENEATH THE LIBRARY...A SITE MILLIONS OF AMERICANS WILL LIKELY VISIT IN THE YEARS TO COME. ))

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[ANCHOR=Kim]
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Today, State Police will reconstruct the accident between a state police cruiser and a car.
The accident happened just after 5 o-clock last night in Henry County.
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State police say trooper A-J Hairston was responding to a call-- headed west on Route 57-- when a car pulled out from Mount Olivet Road.
The two vehicles collided nearly head on.
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((SGT. TOM FOSTER/STATE POLICE; THE STATE POLICE CAR CAUGHT FIRE. THE TROOPER WAS TRAPPED INSIDE AND WAS PULLED OUT BY ANOTHER MOTORIST THAT STOPPED.))
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The driver of the other car-- 35 year old Lisa Cobbler Johnson of Martinsville-- was cut out of her Dodge Intrepid by rescue crews and flown to Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem North Carolina.
She's in serious condition today.
Trooper Hairston was eventually flown to Roanoke Memorial Hospital where he's listed in good condition.
Authorities say Hairston's emergency equipment was activated at the time of the accident and that he's a veteran of many years.
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[11Doltz]

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A roadside bomb in Iraq has taken the life of a Virginia Military Institute graduate.
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Ryan Doltz was one of four soldiers in a New Jersey National Guard unit killed on Saturday.
He was assigned to the 112th Field Artillery.
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While a cadet at V-M-I, Doltz starred in a television commercial for Norelco. Executive Assistant to the Superintendent Mike Strickler says Doltz and three others who played principal parts in the T-V spot each reaped about 30-thousand dollars in residuals.
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His hometown was devastated by news of Ryan's death.
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[SUPER=01-Edna Deacon/Doltz's Neighbor]
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Doltz served as an E-M-T in Mine Hill right up until his Guard unit was mobilized in April. He first become certified as an Emergency Medical Technician while still a cadet at V-M-I. Ryan Doltz was 26.
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[Iraq]

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Two car bombs in northern Iraq have killed at least 14 Iraqis and one U- S soldier.
At least 126 people have been wounded, including ten American soldiers.
The first blast occurred near a U-S outpost at the former Iraqi air force base 30 miles north of Baghdad.
The military says a car bomb also exploded in Mosul-- setting nine vehicles on fire.

Witnesses report seeing three suicide bombers in a taxi.[PKGFestival-Alcohol]

[ANCHOR=Kim]
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A local church group warned alcohol would be a problem at Roanoke's Festival in the Park.
Organizers and police say there were no major incidents but we wanted to check it out for ourselves.
Justin McLeod shows us what we found.

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[SUPER=03-Roanoke/Sunday Night; :00]
[SUPER=01-Stu Israel/Festival in the Park Director; :36]
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((((NAT SOUND OF THE BAND PLAYING))
When we arrived we found plenty of people having a good time, young and old.
Some were drinking but were they drunk?
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((MARY PRYOR/ROANOKE RESIDENT: NOT REALLY I THINK THEY ARE HANDLING IT PRETTY GOOD.)) ((CASEY MORGAN/ROANOKE RESIDENT: NO, NOT AT ALL. EVERYTHING LOOKS VERY IN CONTROL.)) [Runs05]
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Control is the key word.
When a festival event takes place at Elmwood Park, you can only drink alcohol in an enclosed beer garden.
You have to first show an ID and then get a bracelet.
Workers mark off each time you buy a beer and you're limited to six.
Paid security staff then keeps an eye on the drinking crowd.
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((STU ISRAEL/FESTIVAL IN THE PARK DIRECTOR: THESE PEOPLE ARE TRAINED TO RECOGNIZE AND LOOK FOR PROBLEMS AND ANY PROBLEMS THAT OCCURRED WERE TAKEN CARE OF.)) [Runs04]
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We saw that first hand. (SHOTS OF POLICE OFFICERS)
During a two hour period, our cameras were rolling inside the beer garden, as well as outside, front and back.
We filmed two out of three incidents.
Police say one was a vagrant who was drunk.
The other involved a man inside the beer garden passing his drink to someone outside the beer garden.
They were asked to leave the park and were not arrested.
Since we only shot one night we contacted Roanoke Police and found there were five drunk arrests for the entire two week festival, all but one were vagrants.
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((STU ISRAEL/FESTIVAL IN THE PARK DIRECTOR: I THINK OUR RECORD SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.)) [Runs02]
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A record that's been questioned by the Concerned Christians of the Roanoke Valley.
The group unsuccessfully requested the ABC board deny the festival's license.
When they lost, members promised to keep eye on drinkers and servers at this year's festival.
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((STU ISRAEL/FESTIVAL IN THE PARK DIRECTOR: I WOULD BE INTERESTED TO HEAR ANY PROBLEMS THEY SAY THAT WE HAD.)) [Runs03]
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((JUSTIN McLEOD/REPORTING: WE WANTED TO HEAR AS WELL. WE CONTACTED THE GROUP ON FRIDAY AND A MEMBER AGREED TO DO AN INTERVIEW WITH US MONDAY BUT HE DID NOT RETURN ANY OF OUR REPEATED PHONE CALLS WHEN WE TRIED TO SET IT UP. JUSTIN McLEOD, NEWS 7.))))

[11VT-Visitors]

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Virginia Tech has announced that higher education is going to come at a higher price.
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The new budget includes a nearly 15-percent tuition increase for next Fall. It's the fourth time the university has raised student costs in the two years since lawmakers lifted a tuition freeze.
Officials say the money will help pay for 80 new professors. The University lost more than 150 positions in budget cuts two years ago and was already short 200 when the cuts happened.
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((MARK MCNAMEE: OUR GOAL IS OVER THE NEXT FOUR YEARS TO REBUILD FACULTY CAPACITY 30 SOME OF THESE RECRUITS ARE ALREADY UNDER WAY, THEY'LL START IN THE FALL AND OUR GOAL IS TO CONTINUE TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION.))
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Faculty and staff will also see fatter wallets this year. The university approved a 3-percent pay increase.
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[Marketwatch]

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In business news, Wall Street surged after a surprisingly positive jobs report.
Alexis Christoforous has that story and more in this morning's Marketwatch.
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((WALL STREET IS DOING ITS PART TO HONOR FORMER PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN. BOTH THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE AND THE NASDAQ WILL CLOSE FRIDAY FOR REAGAN'S FUNERAL... IT'S A TRADITION THE MARKETS HAVE UPHELD. THE LAST TIME THE MARKETS CLOSED FOR A FORMER PRESIDENT WAS IN APRIL OF 1994 FOR THE FUNERAL OF RICHARD NIXON.
ON WALL STREET.. STOCKS RALLIED TO A SIX WEEK HIGH ON THE HEELS OF LAST WEEK'S STRONGER THAN EXPECTED JOBS REPORT.
THE DOW RACED AHEAD 148 POINTS. THE NASDAQ CLIMBED 48.
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS IS A STOCK TO WATCH TODAY.. THE COMPANY NARROWED ITS SECOND QUARTER SALES FORECAST AS CELL PHONE MAKERS BUY MORE OF ITS CHIPS FOR NEW TYPES OF HANDSETS. TEXAS INSTRUMENTS PREDICTS SALES WILL RISE TO 3.17 BILLION TO 3.29 BILLION DOLLARS IN THE QUARTER. TEXAS UNSTRUMENTS SEMICONDUCTORS RUN MORE THAN HALF THE MOBILE PHONES SOLD LAST YEAR.
THE BIOTECH COMPANY IMCLONE SYSTEMS WAS A BIG WINNER.. ITS ERBITUX DRUG HELPED PATIENTS WITH HEAD AND NECK CANCERS LIVE TWICE AS LONG AS THOSE GETTING STANDARD TREATMENT.
MARTHA STEWART'S SENTENCING HAS BEEN DELAYED. A FEDERAL JUDGE ORDERED THE THREE WEEK DELAY WHILE HER LAWYERS PREPARE A BID FOR A NEW TRIAL. SENTENCING IS NOW SCHEDULED FOR JULY 8TH.. IT HAD BEEN SET FOR JUNE 17TH.
FIND OUT MORE AT CBS.MW.COM IN NY I'M AC.))

(tape tosses to stocks)
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[Nichols]

[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
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Testimony is expected to wrap up today in the penalty phase of Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols.
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Jurors will begin deciding tomorrow whether Nichols will be sentenced to life in prison or sent to death row.
They have already convicted Nichols on 161 state murder charges.
He's currently serving a life sentence on federal convictions for his role in the 19-95 explosion.
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[11Rice]

[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
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[WRITER=dse]
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The man once charged in the 1996 slayings of a lesbian couple in the Shenandoah National Park is in trouble with the law again.
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[SUPER=03-Charlottesville/April 25, 2002]

Darrell David Rice was indicted for the 1996 abduction of a 38 year old woman in Prince William County.
He is already serving time for an attempted abduction of a bicyclist in Shenandoah National Park in 1997.
In February, a federal judge dropped the Shenandoah Park murder charges after DNA evidence cast doubt on the case.

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[11Wythe-Murder]

[ANCHOR=Kim]
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Wythe County investigators searched the high school lockers of two ninth graders accused of murder. 14 year old Nakisha Waddell is charged
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with first- degree murder in the stabbing death of her mother, 42 year old Vaughne Thomas.
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15 year old Anastasia Belcher also faces a first-degree murder charge for the crime. Thomas was found buried in the backyard of her home in Max Meadows. According to a search warrant returned, investigators took two pieces of notebook paper with some writing on them and two type-written pages of song lyrics from Anastasia Belcher's locker at Fort Chiswell High School. The warrant indicates police were searching for evidence that the teenagers planned the murder.
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[VOBFestival-Alcohol]

[ANCHOR=Kim]
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Roanoke's Festival in the Park is now over and many want to know, was alcohol a problem?
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You may remember a local church group tried unsuccessfully to have the A-B-C board deny the festival's liquor license.
They claimed there were numerous violations committed by the festival over the years.
We contacted the Roanoke Police and found there were five drunk arrests for the entire two week period-- all but one were vagrants.
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((STU ISRAEL/FESTIVAL IN THE PARK DIRECTOR: VERY RESPONSIBLE DRINKERS. THE CROWD WAS GREAT OVERALL AND REALLY THERE WERE NO SERIOUS PROBLEMS OR PEOPLE OVER INDULGING.))
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Concerned Christians of the Roanoke Valley promised to keep an eye on drinkers and servers during the festival.
We contacted the group to see what they found, but they did not return our repeated phone calls.
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[Biz-Brief]

[ANCHOR=Kim]
[NEWSCAST=morn]
[WRITER=kor]
[TAPE#=net]
[GRAPHIC=Business News]
[ENG#=1]
Welcome back to news 7 Mornin'.
In business news, General Motors released its plan to dominate the Chinese auto industry. John Lisk has more in today's business brief.
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[OUT Q=I'm John Lisk.]

((U.S. STOCK MARKETS ZOOMED MONDAY.

THE DOW INDUSTRIALS ADDED 148-POINTS....
AND THE NASDAQ GAINED 42.

TRADING BEGAN TWO MINUTES LATER THAN NORMAL AFTER A MOMENT OF SILENCE IN HONOR OF THE LATE PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN.
ALL U-S FINANCIAL MARKETS AND MOST OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL BE CLOSED FRIDAY FOR A NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING... AS REAGAN IS LAID TO REST.

GENERAL MOTORS SAID IT WILL INVEST MORE THAN THREE-BILLION DOLLARS IN CHINA OVER THE NEXT THREE YEARS.
IT'S A MOVE TO OVERTAKE VOLKSWAGEN AS THE DOMINANT BRAND IN CHINA, THE WORLD'S FASTEST-GROWING AUTOMOBILE MARKET.
G-M SAYS IT WILL MORE THAN DOUBLE ITS MANUFACTURING CAPACITY, INTRODUCE NEW VEHICLES AND SET UP AN AUTO FINANCING VENTURE WITH ITS PARTNER IN CHINA.

MCDONALD'S SAID WORLDWIDE SALES AT ITS RESTAURANTS OPEN AT LEAST A YEAR ROSE SEVEN-POINT-FOUR PERCENT IN MAY.
IN THE U-S MARKET, SAME-STORE SALES GREW SEVEN-POINT-NINE PERCENT.
ALTHOUGH IT WAS THE 14TH MONTHLY GAIN IN A ROW IN THE U-S, THE PACE OF GROWTH SLOWED FROM RECENT MONTHS.

WITH THE BUSINESS BRIEF, I'M JOHN LISK.))
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[11Big-heads]

[ANCHOR=Kim]
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[WRITER=mmu]
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Visitors to a Virginia Park are creating a monumental tribute to America's 40th president.
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At President's Park in Williamsburg, mourners are leaving flowers, flags and jelly beans at the 18 foot bust of Ronald Reagan.
Visitors can also watch videos of his life and Presidency- and write their condolences in a book that will eventually be sent to former First Lady Nancy Reagan.
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[IN Q=I LIVED DURING THE TIME]
((KEN LAWSON: I LIVED DURING THE TIME WHEN HE WAS A GREAT LEADER AND I REALIZED THAT HIS LEGACY NEEDS TO BE REMEMBERED SO WE WERE REMEMBERING IT TODAY. FLORENCE ARENA: I LOVED HIM. I THOUGHT HE WAS GREAT. ANN HAAS-WUEST: I THINK THIS IS GOOD. I'M NOT A REAL POLITICAL PERSON BUT I THINK WE HAVE TO ADMIRE THE MAN TO TAKE A STAND TO BECOME THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.))
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[OUT Q=TO BECOME THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.]
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President's Park is offering free admission to anyone wishing to lay flowers at President Reagan's monument.
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