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A Senate panel releases a scathing report on U-S intelligence failures prior to the start of the war in Iraq.
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And, it's a real Cinderella story for the winner of the largest Mega Millions jackpot in history.
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Staying cool today is the key with highs in the 80's and 90's. Will the heat continue into the weekend? We'll detail the forecast coming up.
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Stay with us. News 7 at noon, starts right now.
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If lawmakers knew then, what they know now, Congress would NOT have supported the war in Iraq.
A Senate panel unveils a critical report on pre- war intelligence.
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Good Afternoon, I'm Kimberly McBroom.
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The report says overstated and incorrect intelligence conclusions were given to the Bush administration before the invasion of Iraq.
It also blasts C-I-A Director George Tenet.
Aleen Sirgany reports.
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[SUPER=03-Washington, DC;]
[SUPER=01-Sen. Pat Roberts/(R) Intelligence Committee Chairman;]
[SUPER=01-Sen. Jay Rockefeller/(D) West Virginia;]
[SUPER=01-Aleen Sirgany/CBS News;]
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AFTER A YEAR-LONG REVIEW, SENATORS HAVE RELEASED THEIR FINDINGS
CONCERNING INTELLIGENCE LEADING UP TO THE WAR IN IRAQ. THE KEY
QUESTION? WERE INTELLIGENCE ANALYSTS PRESSURED BY THE WHITE HOUSE TO
PRESENT INFORMATION THAT SUPPORTED THE WAR. THE ANSWER? THEY WERE
OBJECTIVE, BUT CARELESS.
(SOT Sen. Pat Roberts/R-Kansas - Chairman, Intelligence Committee
What the pres and congress used to send the country to war was intel
that was flawed)
SOME DEMOCRATS ON THE REPUBLICAN-LED INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE SAY THEY'RE
NOT COMPLETELY COMFORTABLE WITH THE REPORT. THEY'RE ADDING AN
"ALTERNATE" VIEW, SAYING SOME ANALYSTS "DID" IN FACT FEEL PRESSURE TO
EMPHASIZE CERTAIN BITS OF INFORMATION OVER OTHERS.
(SOT)JAY ROCKERFELLER/D-WV, Intelligence Committee
"IF WE KNEW THEN WHAT WE NOW WE WOULD HAVE NOT AUTHORIZED GOING TO WAR."
THE 500-PLUS PAGE REPORT BLASTS THE CIA, AND ACCUSES THE AGENCY OF NOT
CONNECTING THE DOTS AND OVERSTATING EVIDENCE....GIVING PRESIDENT BUSH
MISLEADING INFORMATION ABOUT WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION....THE REASON
PRESIDENT BUSH TOLD THE COUNTRY AND THE WORLD WHY THE U.S WAS GOING TO
WAR.
(SOT) Roberts
"this was a global intel failure"
THE REPORT COMES OUT JUST TWO DAYS BEFORE C-I-A DIRECTOR GEORGE TENET
OFFICIALLY STEPS DOWN. WHEN ASKED PRE-WAR IF IRAQ HAD WEAPONS OF MASS
DESTRUCTION, HE REPORTEDLY TOLD THE PRESIDENT: "IT'S A SLAM DUNK". BUT
HE DEFENDED HIS AGENCY YESTERDAY IN A GOODBYE SPEECH TO EMPLOYEES.
(SOT) George Tenet/CIA Director/Yesterday:
"These have been eventful years, filled with exhilaration and triumph,
pain and sorrow, and yes with questions about our performance, such is
the nature of a tough, essential business."
(STANDUP) (not verbatim)
Especially chilling the reports says the U.S. intelligence committee
didn't have any human intelligence sources since 1998...the year the
weapons insepctors were kicked out. Aleen Sirgany, CBS News, Washington.
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The U-S Marine who was missing in Iraq is now on his way to an American base in Germany.
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After leaving Lebanon, Corporal Wassef Ali Hassoun will stay at a German hospital for several days for ``debriefing and evaluation.''
Hassoun turned up in his native Lebanon more than two weeks
after he went missing from his base in Iraq.
There was speculation he might have deserted, and was heading to
Lebanon when he was purportedly kidnapped by insurgents.
Military officials are investigating whether the entire kidnapping might have been part of a hoax.
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A report in The Washington Post says there's a connection between Honda S-U-V fires and oil changes.
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The paper reports more than two dozen cases of late-model Honda C-R-V sport utility vehicles bursting into flames, shortly after their first oil changes.
No injuries have been reported, but many of the vehicles -- from the 2003 and 2004 model years -- were destroyed.
A federal highway agency says the problem stems from improperly installed oil filters that most likely leaked oil onto the vehicles' hot exhaust systems.
Honda, meanwhile, says it's not planning a recall.
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The winner of the largest Mega Millions jackpot in history is apparently someone who can really use the money.
Massachusetts lottery officials say she's a 68- year- old cleaning woman named Geraldine Williams.
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Williams is expected to pick up a ceremonial check today for her 294- million dollar prize.
The winning ticket was purchased at a liquor store in Lowell, Massachusetts.
In addition to being the largest payout in Massachusetts history, it's also the second largest single- winning ticket in U- S lottery history.
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One side note, lottery officials say Williams had intended to keep an appointment to clean a client's home, even after she won the huge jackpot.
But she changed her mind when she was told she should meet with financial advisers instead.
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A Roanoke landlord who is buying property in a city neighborhood is also attracting attention for an extreme website that has included racist and anti-semitic remarks.
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Bill White has acquired nine homes with eighteen rental units since April, and he plans to purchase and renovate many more in the Chapman Avenue area.
Flyers placed on windshields identify him as a neo- nazi and a racist.
And a former tenant says she believes she was evicted, at least in part, because of racial discrimination.
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[IN Q=I have three mixed children]
((ANGIE LAYMAN: I HAVE THREE MIXED CHILDREN, SO MY BOYFRIEND WAS AFRICAN AMERICAN, AND YOU COULD JUST FEEL THE ANIMOSITY WHEN HE WOULD COME IN MY HOUSE.))
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[OUT Q=when he would come in my house.]
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White says the flyers were the work of an ex-girlfriend, and he says Angie Layman is a disgruntled tenant who was evicted for not paying her rent.
He says he does not discriminate against his tenants.
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[SOT]
[IN Q=The fact that i have a belief]
((BILL WHITE: THE FACT THAT I HAVE A BELIEF THAT WHITE PEOPLE HAVE SOME SPECIAL TALENTS TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE BETTERMENT OF EVERYBODY, DOES NOT IMPLY THAT I HATE OR WANT TO HURT OTHER PEOPLE.))
[SUPER=01-Bill White/Roanoke Landlord;]
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[OUT Q=want to hurt other people.]
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The website, overthrow-dot-com, lists White as editor. He says the site is owned by a company in which he has a financial interest.
He describes the site is "an entertainment product aimed at people who have extreme political views."
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One additional note, a home address listed in the flyer is actually not one of White's properties.
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Still to come on the newscast, another attempt to keep a domestic diva out of prison has failed.
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Plus a southside company has reportedly locked out its striking workers.
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A Danville company has locked out its union workers who have been on strike for six months.
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The United Food and Commercial Workers Local 400 says DanChem Technologies locked out workers on June 28th. That means the 55 workers still on strike may not rejoin the Danville company until the negotiations are resolved.
The lockout does not affect workers who crossed picket lines to return to work.
The company had no comment about the lockout, but the workers say they offered to return to work under their old contract and work until a new agreement is reached.
Talks broke off June 30 when the workers rejected a contract proposal.
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The path is clear for domestic diva Martha Stewart to be sentenced a week from today.
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That after a federal judge yesterday denied Stewart's request for a new trial, following allegations that a government expert lied on the witness stand.
That decision paves the way for the celebrity homemaker to be sentenced next week for lying about a 2001 stock sale.
Stewart and her former stockbroker are each expected to get 10 to 16 months in prison.
Her attorney is expected to take the case to a federal appeals court, but not before sentencing.
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Lawmakers are again taking up the issue of gay marriage.
Today the Senate will determine how to define marriage in the Constitution.
The legislators are considering a constitutional amendment that would define marriage as between ``a man and a woman.''
The amendment would then prevent courts from ruling gay marriage as legal.
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Girls in the six through eighth grades could soon have another educational opportunity in the Valley.
The founders of a proposed private school believe they will offer the girls a unique opportunity.
Connie Stevens has the story.
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[IN Q=Right now, the Mill Mountain School]
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[SUPER=01-Meredith Winn/Mill Mountain School Planning Director; :12]
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[SUPER=01-Jen Brothers/Mill Mountain School Board Member; 1:04]
[SUPER=01-Connie Stevens/Reporting; 1:54]
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[OUT Q=CS, News 7.]
((Right now, the Mill Mountain School is little more than this sign-- an idea still on paper to bring a new method of learning and growing to young girls around the Roanoke Valley,
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[IN Q=There's just]
((MEREDITH WINN/MILL MOUNTAIN SCHOOL PLANNING DIRECTOR: THERE'S JUST BEEN A LOT OF RESEARCH ON ADOLESCENTS AND THE CHANGES THEY'RE GOING THROUGH. ESPECIALLY FOR GIRLS THESE DAYS, THEY'RE TARGETED SO MUCH BY THE MEDIA AND THEY'RE GOING THROUGH SO MANY PHYSICAL CHANGES AND THEY'RE GOING THROUGH THEM A LOT EARLIER THESE DAYS.))
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[OUT Q=earlier these days.]
Winn points to research suggesting that single-sex middle school education for girls better meets their academic,
social and developmental needs--- especially when math and science is taught in a more collaborative environment, with
hands on, real-life activities-- without the distractions of the opposite sex.
Many scholars support this thinking. Dr. Mary Pipher, author of the book "Reviving Ophelia" says ours is a look-obsessed, media-saturated, girl-poisoning culture.
Board member and mother Jen Brothers says the evidence is everywhere-- start with the magazine stands.
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[SOT 00:36:37]
[IN Q=The covers]
((JEN BROTHERS/MILL MOUNTAIN SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER: THE COVERS SAY IT ALL. THEY SAY HOW TO LOOK GOOD IN A BIKINI, HOW TO GET A BOY TO LIKE YOU, LEARN 10 TIPS ON HOW TO KISS. THERE'S NOTHING THAT SAYS "SO YOU LIKE BUGS, THAT'S PRETTY COOL"--- OR "HERE, FOLLOW YOUR HOBBIES, PURSUE THEM."))
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Brothers says the Mill Mountain School would be a counter-cultural attack against the dangers facing adolescent girls.
She says it's not about taking girls away from boys-- but rather, giving girls what they need to thrive.
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[IN Q=We would be able]
((WE WOULD BE ABLE TO TAKE GIRLS AT THE CRITICAL JUNCTURE OF EARLY ADOLESCENCE WHEN SO MANY THINGS ARE DIFFICULT EMOTIONALLY FOR THEM AND REALLY STRENGTHEN THEM, AND ALLOW THEM TO BE TRUE TO THEIR INNER SELVES SO THEY WOULD BE EQUIPPED TO GO INTO HIGH SCHOOL AND REALLY PURSUE THEIR HOPES AND DREAMS.))
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[OUT Q=hopes and dreams.]
******CONNIE STANDUP******
The Mill Mountain School-- a private, non-profit endeavor-- is scheduled to open in the fall of 2005. Before then, the board hopes to raise some 300-thousand dollars in donations and in-kind gifts.
Class size is expected to cap at 20 students per grade, tuition should cost about 65-hundred dollars a year.
The school would be located here in downtown Roanoke, where the city's cultural and educational opportunities would serve as an extended classroom.
Connie Stevens, News 7. ))
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Up next on the newscast, truck drivers are given a way to legally pass the scales without the wait.
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Also we'll head to Las Vegas, where chefs are trying our their recipes in a competition that is anything but half baked.
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Motorists traveling Interstate 81 may have noticed more and more truckers are bypassing the scales near Troutville.
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You'll probably be surprised to hear this is actually allowed.
It's all part of a new program called the prepass system.
This allows trucks to be weighed on the interstate while in motion. A device inside the truck then tells the driver whether they've passed or not.
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((MIKE TICE/MOTOR CARRIER UNIT: IT'S A TWO WAY PURPOSE. IT HELPS REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF TRUCK TRAFFIC COMING THROUGH THE SCALES. IT REDUCES ANY TYPE OF BACKUP THAT WOULD OCCUR IF THE TRUCKS BACKUP ON THE INTERSTATE AND ALSO ALLOWING THE DRIVER TO CONTINUE ON WITH HIS JOURNEY BECAUSE THERE REALLY IS NOTHING WRONG WITH HIS TRUCK.))
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The trucking company pays for the device.
If a truck fails the weight test, the driver must then travel into the scales to be weighed again.
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Sin City was the destination for an event considered to be the Olympics of the culinary world--
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Top pastry chefs from around the globe whipped together their sugary creations at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, hoping to be crowned BEST pastry chef in the world.
As the chefs worked on their confections, announcers did play-by-play for the crowds of people who come out to watch the event.
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((MICHAEL SCHNEIDER/COMPETITION ORGANIZER: IT IS AS TENSION BUILDING AND AS EXCITING AS ANY SPORTING EVENT, I'VE SEEN AND I'M A SPORTS NUT.))
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Team U-S-A emerged the winner of the 2004 World Pastry Championship, while Team Belgium came in second, and Team France, third.
You can catch the challenge in its entirety next March on the Food Network.
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Coming up next on the newscast,
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we'll see if Lance Armstrong can recover from a crash near the start of today's Tour DuFrance.
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Thomas Boonen (BOW-nen) of Belgium won today's sixth stage of the Tour de France.
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There was a massive crash in the last mile, but American, Lance Armstrong and other favorites did not appear to be injured, or lose time.
Armstrong also fell off his bike shortly after the start of the stage, but then quickly got back in the race.
The five-time defending champ is in sixth place overall, more than nine minutes off the lead.
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Six Virginia Tech and UVA football players have had serious brushes with the law this year.
At one point - quarterbacks from both schools were under arrest.
Steve Mason begins a two-part look at why many college athletes believe they are "Above the Game", and whether coaches and administrators are doing enough to keep them "out of the game" when their behavior takes them out of bounds.
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((Marcus Vick has a cannon of an arm, lethal speed and blood lines that put him on track for the NFL. But a January incident in which Vick, Tech running back Mike Imoh and receiver Brenden Hill gave alcohol to minors at a private party have temporarily sacked his career. All three were suspended for the first three games of the 2004 season. Then came Vick's traffic stop, and he's now off the team till further notice. Tech coach Frank Beamer will not comment, but associate head coach Billy Hite did.
((BILLY HITE/VIRGINIA TECH ASSOCIATE HEAD FOOTBALL COACH:))
UVa's Hagans and teammates Brandon Lee and Kenneth Tynes are off the hook. But that's not the first incident involving a Virginia player in the last two years. Star linebacker Amad Brooks was charged with marijuana possession in May of 2003, but the charges were dropped after Brooks met probation requirements.
((AL GROH/UVA HEAD FOOTBALL COACH:))
Over the last two seasons UVa men's basketball coach Pete Gillen suspended guards Keith Jennifer and Jermaine Harper for discipline problems. Both have left the program.
((PETE GILLEN/UVA))
At Tech, coach Seth Greenberg says its not so much that athletes are different but the super information highway that invades their lives is.
((SETH GREENBERG/VIRGINIA TECH MEN'S BASKETBALL COACH:))
UVa women's basketball coach Debbie Ryan says internet overload and talk radio at times negatively affect how her girls see themselves and that can lead to disciplinary problems.
((DEBBIE RYAN/UVA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL COACH:))
UVa athletic Director Craig Littlepage, who coached in the late 80s, has noticed that more and more athletes enter UVa's basketball programs parentless.))
((CRAIG LITTLEPAGE/UVA ATHLETIC DIRECTOR:))
((STEVE MASON:))
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Tech and UVa aren't the only ones fighting these problems.
Clemson has its own dilemma.
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Tigers' defensive lineman Chris McDuffie, a former star at both G.W. Danville and Hargrave Military was arrested on drug charges.
He's been suspended from the team.
McDuffie faces two charges of possession of marijuana, with intent to distribute.
Both charges are felonies, according to the university.
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Clemson coach Tommy Bowden says McDuffie could return to the team, depending on the outcome of his trial.
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