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Today on News 7 at 5, a Roanoke man is sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his ex-girlfriend.
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[VO-NAT]
and members of some Bedford Churches say they will pray for the people who vandalized their places of worship.
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[Weather-Head]
[ANCHOR=Robin]
[SS=None]
Tropical moisture moves away from southwest Virginia but pounds the state capitol with storms. We could see a quick shower to two. Details ahead.
[Medical-Head]
[ANCHOR=Jean]
[NEWSCAST=5]
[WRITER=tbr]
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[ENG#=2]
Six people are injured this morning after an S-U-V reportedly pulls out in front of a dump truck in Rocky Mount.
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[VO-NAT]
In Sports, Rusty Wallace calls last call for racing.
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[ANCHOR=Jean]
News 7 at 5 is next.
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[SOT@2:33:33.02]
[IN Q=Neesha is now...]
((NEESHA IS NOW ONLY A PART OF OUR LIFE THROUGH PICTURES AND MEMORIES... ))
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[OUT Q=... pictures and memories...]
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[VO-NAT]
A judge gives the maximum sentence to man charged in a December murder and shooting.
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[5-Mateen]
[ANCHOR=Jean]
[NEWSCAST=5pm]
[WRITER=sba]
[TAPE#=504-02 1:48:42]
[GRAPHIC=News 7 at 5]
[ENG#=4]
A jury found him guilty at the end of June and sentenced him to life plus 28-years for the murder of Neesha Edwards.
Today, Judge Clifford Weckstein upheld the sentence and added five-years for another charge.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke]
27-year-old Kalif Freed Abdul-Mateen was relatively unmoved as the prosecution called three-witnesses in the sentencing phase of his case.
A woman from the probation and parole board told the court Mateen had a violent past which included rape and assault when he was a young teenager.
Members of Neesha's family told the judge how her murder has affected them.
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[SOT@2:33:06.07]
[IN Q=This senseless tragedy..]
((LARHONDA EDWARDS/VICTIM'S MOTHER: THIS SENSELSS TRAGEDY HAS LEFT A PERMANENT SCAR ON MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS. WE'RE STILL MOURNING 'CAUSE WE HAVE LOST OUR ANGEL, OUR SHINING LIGHT. WE NO LONGER SEE HER SMILE THAT LIGHTS UP OUR WORLD.))
[SUPER=01-LaRhonda Edwards/Victim's Mother]
[RUNS=:15]
[OUT Q=.. UP OUR WORLD.]
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[VO-NAT]
Mateen's lawyer, David Walker, notified the judge Mateen would be appealing his case.
Coming up tonight on News 7 at six, Mateen speaks out for the first time.
We'll tell you what he had to say.
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[5-Church-Vandals]
[ANCHOR=Jean]
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[TAPE#=504-00 1;44:12]
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[ENG#=1]
Bedford County authorities need your help catching whoever's responsible for breaking into and vandalizing two churches near Goode over the weekend.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Bedford Co.]
Sometime between Friday and Sunday night, someone forced their way into First Baptist Church and Mt. Zion United Methodist Church.
They spraypainted racist slogans on doors and sinks, smashed windows and tried to set fire to the Baptist Church.
Church members hope whoever did it gets some spiritual help.
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[SOT 15:44:13]
[IN Q=We don't pray]
((REV. DENNIS MOODY/MT. ZION UMC: WE DON'T PRAY ANY ILL WILL FOR THE MISINFORMED INDIVIDUALS THAT DID THIS. WE ACTUALLY ASK GOD TO FORGIVE THEM AND IN HIS OWN WAY TO TOUCH THEIR HEARTS.))
[SUPER=01-Rev. Dennis Moody/Mt. Zion UMC]
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[OUT Q=touch their hearts.]
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Authorities say whoever did it will be charged with a hate crime once they're caught.
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[5-Cemetery-Vandalism]
[ANCHOR=Jean]
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[ENG#=2]
Vandals hit one of Radford's oldest cemeteries over the weekend.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Radford;]
Family members of people buried at Central Cemetery found at least 14 overturned grave stones.
The headstones were toppled over or even taken out of the ground.
The cemetery holds 800 graves including those of Civil War veterans.
The oldest grave dates back to 1805.
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[SOT: 4:30:00 ]
[IN Q=iT MADE ME]
[SUPER=01-Melissa Baker/Family Buried in Cemetery;]
((MELISSA BAKER: IT MADE ME SICK TO MY STOMACH REALLY THAT SOMEBODY WOULD COME OUT HERE AND DECIMATE GRAVES LIKE THIS. ESPECIALLY AS OLD AS SOME OF THEM ARE. THIS IS THE OLDEST CEMETERY IN RADFORD.))
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[OUT Q=IN RADFORD.]
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[VO-NAT]
Radford police will have more officers watch over the cemetery to try and catch the vandals
Coming up tonight at 6:00, we'll tell you why folks in the area think more should be done to clean up and protect the grave sites.
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[5-220-Ax]
[ANCHOR=Jean]
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[TAPE#=504-06 15:27]
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One person is in intensive care, and another remains in the hospital following an accident this morning on US-220 in Boones Mill.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Boones Mill;]
State Police say an S-U-V was attempting to enter the northbound lanes when it pulled out in front of a dump truck heading south.
Six people in the S-U-V were injured. The most serious was airlifted to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, where she remains in intensive care.
Authorities have not released her name because they believe she is a under 18.
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[ANCHOR=Jean]
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State Police have charged the driver of the van, 18- year- old Zachary Turman, of Boones Mill, with reckless driving.
[5-Republican-Convention]
[ANCHOR=Jean]
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[WRITER=jja]
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Thousands of police officers, federal agents and national guard troops are watching over the Republican National convention- with an unprecendented show of security.
Jennifer Donelan reports from New York City where the convention is underway.
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[IN Q=]
[SUPER=03-New York, NY]
[SUPER=01-Demesia Padilla/Republican Delegate;]
[SUPER=01-Sherolyn Smith-Tis/Republican Delegate;]
[SUPER=01-Tom DeFilippe/Resident;]
[Super=01-Jennifer Donelan/CBS News;]
[Super=01-Robin Rosser/Protestor;]
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[OUT Q=Republican Convention in New York.]
((((NEW YORK POLICE GET INTO POSITION...AS REPUBLICAN DELEGATES HEAD TO
THEIR CONVENTION.
IT APPEARS AS IF OFFICERS HAVE EVERY SINGLE CORNER IN THE CITY COVERED.
"Walk to the corner and make a right turn."
AND IT WAS THE SAME SCENE OUTSIDE HOTELS. THE DOGS...BIG GUNS...AND
BRASS ARE A MUST IN A CITY THAT HAS FALLEN VICTIM TO TERRORISM AND
CONTINUES TO BE A TARGET. WITH THE REPUBLICANS IN TOWN...THE COPS CAME
OUT 10,000 STRONG. THE DELEGATES SEEM PLEASED.
Demesia Padilla/Republican Delegate
I was actually very nervous coming here. Reporter: And now? Woman: I feel completely safe now.
Sherolyn Smith-Tis/Republican Delegate
"I think the security is incredible and New Yorkers are doing a
wonderful job."
EVEN NEW YORKERS SEEM UN-BOTHERED
Tom DeFilippe/Resident
"I think it's great to see the coverage in the streets on the subways,
LIRR, and the terminals."
OUTSIDE THE CONVENTION...STREETS ARE SHUT DOWN AND EVERYTHING FROM
ARRICADES TO SAND TRUCKS ARE USED TO KEEP AWAY TROUBLE.
Jennifer Donelan/CBS News: With all of the security, eveywhere you look it's a sea of blue, but
for protestors who are angry with the Bush administration, they're
seeing red."
Nat Sot
"George Bush, watch your back, Anti-Asian, latino and black."
Brian Jones/Protestor
"His No Child Left Behind, it should be called Every Child Left Behind"
Robin Rosser/Protestor:
We want people to hear our voices. We do not want George Bush in office.
BUT THE REPUBLICANS DO...AND JUST A FEW BLOCKED STREETS AWAY THE DELEGATES ARE SET TO NOMINATE TO GEORGE BUSH FOR ANOTHER FOUR. JENNIFER
DONELAN, CBS NEWS, AT THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION IN NEW YORK.))
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[Take 7-Too FS Event 523]
You can see the Republican party convention gavel-to-gavel, without interruption or anchor commentary on our digital channel "7-Too.".
Cox digital cable customers can see it on channel 107.
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[ANCHOR=Jean]
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[WRITER=tbr]
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A witness says a Army reservist enjoyed abusing Iraqi prisoners. We'll have the latest on Lynndie England after the break,
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and a local couple shares their story how a fertility clinic helped them have the baby they've always wanted.
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[5-Prisoner-Abuse]
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[ENG#=1]
Testimony in North Carolina about alleged prisoner abuse in Iraq.
Private Jeremy Sivits is a soldier already convicted in the Abu Ghraib (Gray-be) prison abuse.
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[SUPER=03-Fort Bragg, NC]
He says he saw fellow reservist Lyndie England and another soldier stepping on the fingers and toes of a detainee.
He says at one point, a sargeant ordered a soldier to stop.
Sivits says after the sargeant left, he watched other soldiers stack the detainees in a human pyramid and take pictures- including the photo of England smiling and pointing at a hooded detainee.
Today hearing will determine if England faces court martial.
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[5-Kobe]
[ANCHOR=Jean]
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[ENG#=2]
Jury selection is underway in the rape trial of Kobe Bryant.
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[SUPER=03-Eagle, CO]
Attorneys are questioning about 25 urors a day.. until they fill the 12 seat panel with 2 alternates.
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[SOT]
((DAVID LUGERT/FORMER PROSECUTOR: RATHER THAN DEVELOPING AN IDEAL PROFILE OF A JUROR YOU WOULD LIKE TO HEAR YOUR CASE, YOU DEVELOP A PROFILE OF THE IDEAL WORST JUROR THAT YOU
WANT TO GET OFF.))
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[SUPER=01-David Lugert/Former Prosecutor;]
[RUNS=10]
[OUT Q=want to get off.]
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[VO-NAT]
Jury selection is usually a public process in Colorado, but this is closed. The judge says he wants to protect the identity of jurors who may have to talk about highly private details of their lives.
Attorneys are asking jurors whether they've ever been raped or know someone who has. They are also being asked about money, sports and inter-racial relationships.
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[5-Fertility-Clinic]
[ANCHOR=Jean]
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[WRITER=jsu]
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[ENG=3]
In health check tonight,
The new Southwest Virginia Fertility Center has helped bring four new babies into the world.
One couple just had their daughter two weeks ago.
[ANCHOR=JEAN 2 shot]
Health Check Reporter Joy Sutton met the family today and joins us with the details.
[ANCHOR=Joy 2 shot]
Jean,
The center just opened last year -- and it's expecting 10 more babies within the next 6 months.
[ANCHOR=JOY FULL]
[SUPER=@JOY1;]
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The Center is a place where couples can turn when they've tried everything else to get pregnant. And it's the only one of it's kind in Southwest Virginia.
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[IN Q=Sophie McCulley]
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[SUPER=01-Debbie McCulley/Fertility Patient;09]
[SUPER=01-Dr. Marwan Shaykh/Southwest VA Fertility Center Dir.;28]
[SUPER=01-Mark McCulley/Sophie's Father;1:23]
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[OUT Q=every penny of it]
((
Sophie McCulley was conceived through in vitro fertilization -- a final attempt by her parents to have a child.
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[SOT15:10:22]
[IN Q=We had tried fo 12 years to get pregnant]
((WE HAD TRIED FOR 12 YEARS TO GET PREGNANT AND NOTHING HAD HAPPENED.AND I WAS 40 YEARS OLD AT THAT TIME AND ASKED MY REGULAR DR. TO ADVISE ME OF SOMEONE ELSE TO GO TO))
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[OUT Q=somelse to go two]
The McCulley's heard about the Southwest Virginia Fertlity Center coming to Salem --and became one of the first clients.
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[SOT15:03:43]
[IN Q=This is a service that is needed.]
((THIS IS A SERVICE THAT IS NEEDED. IF YOU THINK DEPENDING ON THE AGE OF THE COUPLE. IF THE COUPLE IS IN THEIR MID 30'S ALMOST ONE OUT SIX COUPLES DO NOT FATHER OR HAVE CHILDREN))
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[OUT Q=or have children]
But technology has helped many couples conceive.
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[SOT15:03:11]
[IN Q=In the early 80's with ivf]
((IN THE EARLY 80'S WITH IN VITRO FERTILIZATION WE WERE ABLE TO HELP A LOT OF FEMALE PATIENT WHO CAN'T GET PREGNANCY BECAUSE OF TUBAL DISEASE. AND IN THE EARLY 90'S WE HAD... WHICH HELPS ALMOST 80 TO 90- PERCENT OF MALE PATIENT WITH INFERTILITY))
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[OUT Q=with infertility]
The process can cost thousands of dollars. The McCulley were willing to try anything --even refinancing their home to afford the treatment. Luckily for them they got pregnant on the first attempt.
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[SOT15:15:29]
[IN Q=Probably say between]
((PROBABLY SAY BETWEEN 10 AND 12 THOUSANDS DOLLARS. WHEN YOU LOOK AT HER IT COULD'VE BEEN 100-THOUSAND DOLLARS. IT'S DEFINITELY WORTH EVERY PENNY OF IT))
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[OUT Q=every penny of it]))
[ANCHOR=Joy Full]
The Southwest Virginia Fertility Center is part of Lewis-Gale Medical Center. But it's housed at separate location.
[ANCHOR=Jean/Joy 2 shot]
Jean,
One day doctors hope they will have another advancement that will make it possible for women to freeze their eggs for future use.
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[WRITER=tbr]
[TAPE#=Net]
[GRAPHIC=Hold Healthcheck]
[ENG#=4]
If not treated immediately a ruptured aortic aneurysm usually kills.
Even if it is caught, open surgery will mean at least a week in the hospital.
But a new study says a less invasive procedure is something doctors should consider.
Dr. Mallika Marshall has more.
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[SOT]
[IN Q=]
[SUPER=03-New York, NY; ]
[SUPER=01-Joseph Worthman/Aneurysm Patient;]
[SUPER=01-Dr. Richard Green/Surgeon;]
[SUPER=01-Dr. Mallika Marshall/CBS News;]
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[OUT Q=]
((JOSEPH WORTHMAN IS IN THE HOSPTAL GETTING THE SAME KIND OF TEST PREGNANT
WOMEN RECEIVE.
BUT INSTEAD OF LOOKING AT A BABY THIS ULTRA-SOUND IS LOOKING AT AN
ANEURYSM IN HIS ABDOMEN.
TODAY, EVERYTHING IS FINE BUT JUST A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO IT NEARLY
KILLED HIM.
(SOT-Joseph Worthman/Aneurysm victim)
"I woke up about 2:30, 3 o'clock in the morning with tremendous pain in
my abdomen."
JOE WAS RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE DOCTORS FEARED THE AORTIC ANEURYSM
COULD BURST.
DOCTOR RICHARD GREEN HAD TO PERFORM EMERGENCY SURGERY BUT THERE WERE TWO
OPTIONS.
IN THE TRADITIONAL PROCEDURE THE PATIENT IS OPENED UP... WHICH MEANS A
WEEK OF RECOVERY TIME.
DOCTOR GREEN DECIDED TO GO WITH THE NEWER ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY.
SMALL INCISIONS WERE MADE IN JOE'S GROIN.
A WIRE WAS THEN LED UP THROUGH AN ARTERY AND TO THE ANEURYSM WHERE AN
ENDOGRAFT WAS IMPLANTED ALLOWING BLOOD TO FLOW FREELY.
(SOT-Dr. Richard Green/Chairman of Surgery, Lenox Hill Hospital)
"the procedure itself is much less severe in terms of the stress on the
patient, it is often a one to two day hospitalization."
(STANDUP: Dr. Mallika Marshall/CBS NEWS)
AND ACCORDING TO A NEW STUDY IN THE LANCET MEDICAL JOURNAL THIS NEW
APPROACH IS SAFER.
RESEARCHERS FOUND IN THE FIRST 30 DAYS AFTER SURGERY PATIENTS WHO
UNDERWENT THE TRADITIONAL OPERATION HAD AN ALMOST FIVE PERCENT CHANCE OF
DYING.
BUT FOR PATIENTS WHO RECEIVED THE ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURE THAT NUMBER
DROPPED TO UNDER 2 PERCENT.
(SOT-Dr. Richard Green/Chairman of Surgery, Lenox Hill Hospital)
"in my own practice there has to be a reason for me not to put an
endograft in."
THE DOWNSIDE OF THIS NEW PROCEDURE IS IT CAN LEAD TO LEAKAGE THAT
REQUIRES MORE MINOR OPERATIONS.
BUT ALMOST 3 MONTHS AFTER HIS SURGERY DOCTORS CAN'T FIND ANYTHING WRONG
WITH JOE.
(SOT-Joseph Worthman/Aneurysm victim)
"everything is fine"
AND IN THIS CASE NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS.
DOCTOR MALLIKA MARSHALL, CBS NEWS.
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[ANCHOR=Jean]
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[WRITER=tbr]
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[ENG#=Aprisa]
Coming up later today, a famous Survivor makes an appearance in the Valley.
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[VO]
Plus in Sports, Rusty Wallace says it's almost Miller Time. He's retiring from Nascar racing.
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[Tease#3]
[ANCHOR=Jean]
[NEWSCAST=5]
[WRITER=tbr]
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[ENG#=Aprisa]
Coming up today following Sports,
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we'll tell you see who is probably the most popular millionaire to ever visit Hollins University.
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[S5-UVa]
[ANCHOR=Mike]
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[TAPE#=SP-180 ]
[GRAPHIC=bam]
[ENG#=1]
Good afternoon everybody -
16th ranked Virginia opens the season on Saturday at Noon at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia against Temple.
Steve Mason says the sights and sounds of UVa's first weekly media gathering of the season - were all about preparation.
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[SOT]
[IN Q=FIRST AUDIO]
[SUPER=@STEVE1; :00]
[SUPER=01-Al Groh/22-and-17 as UVa Head Coach; :28]
[SUPER=03-Charlottesville; :50]
[SUPER=01-Jermaine Hardy/Virginia Senior Safety; 1:09 ]
[SUPER=01-Heath Miller/Virginia Tight End; 1:17]
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[OUT Q=...NEWS 7 SPORTS."]
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[ANCHOR=Mike]
[NEWSCAST=5pm]
[WRITER=mst]
[TAPE#=SP-173]
[GRAPHIC=BAM]
[ENG#=2]
Rusty Wallace is retiring from racing.
He made the announcement today. He will run the rest of this season and all of next year - calling his farewell tour - "Rusty's Last Call."
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[SOT]
[IN Q=THERE WAS A LOT...]
[SUPER=01-Rusty Wallace/Will Retire after 2005 Season; :00]
[RUNS=:46]
[OUT Q=...A GREAT TOUR."]
[talent=mike]
[graphic=bam]
Jean will be back to wrap up News 7 at Five for you in just a moment.
[5Marketwatch]
[ANCHOR=Jean]
[NEWSCAST=5pm]
[WRITER=tbr]
[TAPE#=net]
[GRAPHIC=Marketwatch]
[ENG#=1]
On Wall Street today, investors were apparently cashing in on some of last week's gains.
As Marcella Palmer tells us, that pushed stock prices lower.
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[SOT]
[IN Q=]
[SUPER=01-Marcella Palmer/CBS Marketwatch;]
[RUNS=:00]
[OUT Q=News 7 at 5.]
[Stock Roll]
[5-Ethan]
[ANCHOR=Jean]
[NEWSCAST=5]
[WRITER=khu]
[TAPE#=504-03 1:33:20]
[GRAPHIC=Ethan Zohn]
[ENG#=2]
The winner of "Survivor Africa" brought his message to Hollins University today.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke Co.;]
Ethan Zohn told Keith Humphry this afternoon that he realizes the fame associated with Survivor- -even the million dollars that went with it- -aren't going to last forever.
He keeps a full calendar, making public appearances around the county. His message: you don't have to be a millionaire to change the world.
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[SOT 13:34:40]
[IN Q=You don't have]
((YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE BILL GATES, DONALD TRUMP TO DO SOMETHING, TO GIVE BACK. YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE TONS OF MONEY. YOU REALLY CAN JUST GO TO AN OLD AGE HOME, TALK TO SOME SENIOR CITIZENS, DONATE BLOOD, READ TO CHILDREN AT THE LIBRARY. FIND SOMETHING THAT BREAKS YOUR HEART, THEN JOIN AN ORGANIZATION THAT DOES SOMETHING TO DEAL WITH THAT.))
[SUPER=01-Ethan Zohn/Survivor]
[RUNS=:20]
[OUT Q=deal with that.]
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