WDBJ 7 morning news for 09/25/04

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Coming up on News 7 Saturday Morning -
A Henry County woman is dead after her ex-boyfriend forced his way into her home
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And Florida residents are bracing for hurricane number four. We will have more on those stories in just a few minutes.
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A Henry County woman is dead. Her ex-boyfriend is in custody after allegedly terrorizing her neighbors and then forcing his way into her house.
It all started about 11:40 yesterday morning on Rivermont Heights, near the Martinsville-Henry County line.
Jean Jadhon has more.
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(( Deputies say a man showed up at a home asking to use the phone and then sexually assaulted the woman. He then allegedly took the woman's 24 year old daughter to the house next door.
When 38 year old Glenda Delphine Magee opened the door, the suspect hit her in the face and rushed inside.
The 24 year old neighbor escaped and called authorities who surrounded Magee's home and began to negotiate the suspect's surrender.
A sheriff's deputy trying to negotiate over the phone heard Glenda Magee screaming in the background and a SWAT team was ordered to move into the house.
Officers found Magee on a bed with stab wounds to her chest and shoulder. She later died at Martinsville Memorial hospital.
The suspect was taken into custody. He also had minor injuries.
Charges of first-degree murder, rape, robbery and abduction were filed Friday night against John Gregory Draper of Martinsville. JJ, News 7.))
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A group linked to al-Qaida claims to have killed another hostage.
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A posting on an Islamic Internet site says Kenneth Bigley of Britian is the latest hostage to be executed. The site also claims that seven British troops had been captured but a British military spokesman says everyone is accounted for.
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Meantime, Hospital officials and witnesses say at least eight people are dead and 15 wounded in a U-S bombing of Fallujah. The U-S military says the strikes targeted a meeting point for fighters loyal to terror suspect Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
(AH'-boo MOO'-sahb ahl-zahr-KOW'-ee).
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And Iraqi police say six people are dead after gunmen opened fire on a vehicle carrying Iraqi National Guard applicants in Baghdad. The group had just left a recruiting center in a west Baghdad neighborhood.
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A shell-shocked Florida is awaiting the landfall of another powerful hurricane. Right now, Jeanne is a category 2 storm, but forecasters say she could strengthen before hitting the Atlantic coast tomorrow morning. Teri Okita reports.
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(((LOCATOR: FORT PIERCE, FL)
THIS IS A DRILL FLORIDIANS KNOW ALL TOO WELL.

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JEANNE IS THE 4TH MAJOR HURRICANE OF THE SEASON TO TAKE AIM AT FLORIDA AND STORM WEARY RESIDENTS ON THE STATE'S ATLANTIC COAST ARE CRINGING AT THE THOUGHT OF GETTING SLAMMED AGAIN.

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"I DON'T KNOW HOW IT CAN GET MUCH WORSE. IT'S BAD NEWS."
BUT EVEN WITH DEBRIS FROM HURRICANE FRANCES STILL LITTERING THE STREETS OF FORT PIERCE..SOME REMAIN DEFIANT.

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"WE'RE GOING TO FACE HER, SO HERE WE ARE."
PEOPLE WHO STICK AROUND WILL FACE A POWERFUL STORM...ONE THAT HAS ALREADY RAVAGED HAITI WITH 100 MILE PER HOUR WINDS AND DEADLY FLOOD WATERS.

(OKITA STANDUP BRIDGE)
FORECASTERS EXPECT JEANNE TO COME ASHORE SOMEWHERE NEAR PALM BEACH COUNTY IN CENTRAL FLORIDA...BUT SHE COULD TURN NORTH BEFORE HITTING THE COAST.
AND BECAUSE OF THAT UNCERTAINTY...RESIDENTS OF MORE THAN A DOZEN COUNTIES ARE BEING URGED TO SEEK HIGHER GROUND.

SOT: BRYAN NORCROSS/WFOR METEOROLOGIST
"PEOPLE JUST DON'T WANT TO DEAL WITH ANOTHER HURRICANE AND WE ARE VERY FEARFUL THAT WE WILL HAVE PEOPLE NOT READY FOR THIS ONE."
READY OR NOT...JEANNE IS EXPECTED TO ARRIVE SUNDAY MORNING. AND WHEN SHE DOES...FLORIDA WILL BECOME THE FIRST STATE SINCE 18-86 TO GET POUNDED BY 4 HURRICANES IN THE SAME SEASON.
TERI OKITA, CBS NEWS, FORT PIERCE, FLORIDA.))

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Expect more delays today on Route 116 in Roanoke County.
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V-DOT is repairing damage from Thursday's tanker truck accident near the top of Windy Gap Mountain.
Traffic will be reduced to one lane until 4 p-m.
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Communities from Bedford to the New River Valley have signed deals to buy power for millions more than they're spending now.
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Danville, Martinsville, Bedford, Radford, Salem and the Botetourt-Craig Cooperative all distribute their own power and have contracts with the Cinergy Corporation that expire next year. Most of the localities have already signed deals with American Electric Power, which had the lowest bid. The City of Salem, however, is still negotiating with Cinergy. Officials say they've been able to pass along *below average* rates in the past and hope to minimize any increases in the future.
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((MELINDA PAYNE: WE'RE GOING TO CONDUCT A RATES STUDY... TO SEE WHAT WE CAN BEAR, WHAT THE MARKET CAN BARE AND WHERE WE NEED TO BE.))
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All localities plan to conduct a rate study, but Danville officials already estimate increases up to 60-percent for its largest customers. Officials cite rising fuel costs and the federal deregulation of the electricity business for the drastic jump in prices.
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Norfolk Southern wants to bring truck traffic not just through the Roanoke Valley but *to* the Valley.
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At a regional leadership summit of local governments yesterday, the Assistant Vice President of Norfolk Southern's marketing and sales division presented the possibility of building an intermodal (inter-MOE-duhl) facility in the Roanoke Valley. The terminal would be an intersection for rail and truck traffic to swap freight. To those concerned about increasing the number of trucks on local roads, Roanoke's city manager says:
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((DARLENE BURCHAM/ROANOKE CITY MANAGER: THERE WILL PROBABLY BE SOME NET, SOME GAIN. THIS WOULD BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE TRUCKS THAT DRIVE THROUGH HERE TODAY TO BE CONNECTED TO THESE BUSINESSES THAT ARE HERE.))
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The project is on hold pending the federal government's approval of a transportation bill. The bill would provide funding for what the company calls The Heartland Corrider", a rail line from Norfolk through Roanoke to Columbus, Ohio. The company says it has some idea of the site it would like to occupy but that it's too soon to discuss it.

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In sports, Atlanta clinched its 13th straight division title by beating Florida eight to seven last night.
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Marcus Giles drove in the go ahead run.
John Smoltz, the only Braves player on all 13 of the division winning teams, got his 41st save.
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Coming up a little later, Mike Stevens has a look at which area high schools clinched wins of their own last night, but first here's a look at the Friday Football scoreboard. [WIPE TO MOTION]

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[SUPER=65-Covington/14/Glenvar/8/Rockbridge Co./28/Harrisonburg/22/William Byrd/7/Liberty/34;]
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HIV and AIDS may not be making headlines these days, but the threat is still strong. We'll talk with one expert about how it's affecting the Roanoke Valley in today's Focus on Health
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Our etiquette series continues in today's Decor and More - helping you make sure you don't leave with egg on your face after your next formal dinner.
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What is the state of the HIV-AIDS epidemic in the Roanoke Valley? How about in Roanoke's sister city in Kenya?
Those are two of the questions that will be addressed at a forum next weekend at Virginia Western Community College. [SHANNON/GUEST TWO SHOT]
[SUPER=01-Diane D' Orazio/Kisumu Committee Chairman]

Here to tell us more is Diane D' Orazio, the committee chairman for Roanoke's sister city of Kisumu (Kuh-SOO-moo).
1-Why are you holding this forum
2-What kind of topics will be discussed
3-Why do you feel people have become complacent about HIV-AIDS
4-What is the answer, what's needed to halt the epidemic?

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The forum will be held next Saturday at Virginia Western Community College in the Whitman Auditorium from 1pm until 6pm.
The event is free and open to the public. If you'd like more information you can contact Diane at 540-725-9886.\
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News 7 Saturday Morning will be right back.
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Dining etiquette is essential in both social and personal affairs.
We're continuing our series
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In sports, The Spartans stay unbeaten as Salem shuts-out Northside, Hidden Valley downs Tunstall and the Gretna Hawks fly by Brookville. Mike Stevens has hightlights from those games plus a look at this week's "Super Seven" and "Pollbuster".
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Convicted sniper Lee Boyd Malvo may admit his guilt.
That according to his lawyer, who says the teenager plans to drop all appeals.
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Last December, Malvo was convicted of one of ten Washington-area sniper killings and sentenced to life in prison.

Malvo's lawyer says his client will drop his appeals of that conviction and plead guilty to a second slaying to avoid a possible death sentence.
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Two witnesses testified in the federal fraud trial of Richard Burrow in Charlottesville yesterday.
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The former president of the D-Day Memorial is accused of misleading banks and donors into giving the project money as he rushed to complete it before June of 2001.
Current D-Day president William McIntosh was back on the stand yesterday, telling the jury he spent months trying to figure out which pledges were valid and how much money the memorial owed its creditors.
Prosecutors are trying to show Burrow used questionable donations as collateral for bank loans to keep the project afloat.
A bookkeeper for the granite company that supplied the stone for the monument says she had trouble contacting Burrow about unpaid bills.
The trial will resume Monday morning.
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Friends are remembering a Virginia Tech student this weekend who apparently died of alcohol poisoning.
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22 year old Thomas Ryan Hauser was found dead early Sunday morning after a night of drinking. Friends say they drank some beer at an apartment and then went to ONE bar until closing.
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They say it was a normal night of fun and Hauser never seemed TOO drunk while at the bar. They hope everyone takes something away from Hauser's death.
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((SUSAN STEFANTZ: DON'T OVER DO IT. WATCH YOURSELF, AND TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF, THAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THAT WE ALL NEED TO GET OUT OF THIS.))
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Hauser will be buried today. Friends are planning to hold a memorial service for Hauser on campus next week.
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The investigation will stay open until toxicology reports come back sometime in the next few weeks.

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Forecasters expect Hurricane Jeanne to strengthen to a Category Three storm over the next-24 hours. Its top winds have increased to 105 miles-per-hour.
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A hurricane warning is in effect for Florida's east coast and the northwestern Bahamas. A tropical storm warning is up along the west coast of Florida. Some 800-thousand Floridians have been urged to evacuate, but some say they won't go unless they're forced to. If Jeanne does come ashore in the Sunshine State, Florida will be the first state since 1886 to be hit by four hurricanes in the same season.
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Jeanne may be on our minds now, but this time last year Isabel was stirring things up.
The hurricane hammered parts of Rockbridge County, prompting a call to prevent future problems along the South River.
But as Justin McLeod found the plan is moving much more slowly than the flood waters.
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((((NAT SOUND OF BETTY ON TAPE 1 SAYING AT 9:31:14 "THE WATER GOT UNDER IT AND RUINED THE FOUNDATION"))
Betty Higgins is still trying to recover from Hurricane Isabel.
A year ago, her home had 14 inches of water.
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The flood happened here along the South River on Route 608.
Isabel destroyed 16 homes, and damaged 71 others along a 15 mile stretch.
In all, the storm caused more than six million dollars of damage.
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((JUSTIN McLEOD/REPORTING: SEVERAL MONTHS AFTER THE STORM THE COUNTY APPLIED FOR A FEDERAL AND STATE GRANT THAT IF APPROVED WOULD ALLOW THE GOVERNMENT TO BUY SOME OF THE HOMES HERE ALONG THE FLOOD PLAIN. NEARLY 30 RESIDENTS ARE ELIGIBLE FOR THAT GRANT.)) [Runs12]
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Since the South River is prone to flooding, many say it only makes sense to fix the problem permanently.
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As it was explained to residents at a meeting last October, the program is voluntary.
But nearly a year after the storm, the federal government has yet to approve the grant.
If and when it does happen, eligible residents would probably be able to relocate within a year.
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((RAY FAUBER/CITIZEN'S STEERING COMMITTEE: THEY GET AN APPRAISER AND IF THE PROPERTY OWNER ACCEPTS THE DEAL, THEY BUY THE HOME, THEY TEAR IT DOWN, AND THEN THE COUNTY WOULD OWN THE LAND AND IT WOULD BE RESTRICTED TO ANY FURTHER DEVELOPMENT.)) [Runs11]
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So the next time there's a major flood here, the hope is fewer people will be washed out.
Justin McLeod, News 7, Rockbridge County.))

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[Centerfest]

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Centerfest has been a Bedford tradition for more than twenty years.
And with the weather cooperating and the lineup on tap, organizers expect this year's event to be one of the best.

Brent Watts spoke with the director of Bedford Main Street to get all the details.
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