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Jeanne arrives on our doorstep this morning with flooding rains-- closing roads and schools around the region.
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We'll have the latest on travel conditions, plus information about emergency shelters now set up for flooding evacuees.
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Heavy rainfall from Jeanne will continue to decrease as we head through the afternoon. I'll have the latest.
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Stay with us. News 7 at noon, starts right now.
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The remnants of Hurricane Jeanne bring heavy downpours to the region. The worst of the rain is coming to an end, but the flood waters remain.
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The flood waters have led to one death in Patrick County.
Emergency crews say they responded to a call of flooding in the 13-hundred block of Elastic Plant Road, and found a mobile home washed off its foundation.
A ground search turned up the body of a woman about 75-yards from the home.
Her identity is being withheld pending notification of the next of kin.
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Flooding continues across the region.
This morning's rain caused water to pool on roadways, shutting down many areas around the city of Salem.
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Susan Bahorich has surveyed the area.
She joins us from West Main Street in Salem.
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Susan adlibs over :20 of V/O
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Susan
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Heavy rains and flooding also caused several problems in Roanoke city and county.
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Those were the areas Myranda Stephens covered all this morning and afternoon.
She is back inside the newsroom with a wrap up.
Kimberly, the problems started as early as two this morning -- when a taxi-cab got stuck in high water near Patterson and Boulevard in Roanoke.
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After that, it was just one report after another.
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And one other note -- in the Garst Mills Park area in Roanoke County, a creek overflowed its banks,
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but Kim, luckily it never spilled onto the road.
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For the latest road information,
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go to our website at WDBJ 7 dot com.
Also Officials have set up two emergency shelters for victims of today's flooding.
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Those shelters are located at Eastern Montgomery High School and at the Salem Civic Center.
The opening follows evacuation orders to residents of Alleghany Springs Mobile Home Park, Flick Drive, and Mountain Creek Mobile Home Park in Montogmery County, and Willow River Apartments in Salem.
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Jeanne is wreaking havoc all along the east coast.
Barely recovered from the heavy flooding caused by Hurricane Ivan, the Carolinas are now also dealing with the after effects of Jeanne.
Thalia Assuras has more.
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((
LOCATOR: SAUDI ARABIA
TRACK: THE WORLD'S LARGEST OIL EXPORTER-- SAUDI ARABIA-- ANNOUNCED FIRST
THING TUESDAY IT'S RAISING OIL PRODUCTION - A DIRECT REACTION TO
TRADING ON WALL STREET WHICH SENT PRICES PAST THE $50 DOLLAR A BARREL
MARK FOR THE FIRST TIME.
SUPER: IRA EPSTEIN/AREA INTERNATIONAL TRADING CORPORATION
fifty dollars a barrel is a psychological number. but we really have to
settle above there for anything really to happen.
SAUDI ARABIA HOPES--- BY INCREASING CAPACITY--- IT CAN HELP CALM RISING
PRICES BUT SOME EXPERTS FEEL IT'S NOT GOING TO HELP THAT MUCH.
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Most traders are very sceptical that the Saudis have the ability to
raise production of the type of oil that the world is short of.
TRACK:
RISING OIL PRICES, NOW COUPLED WITH THE LARGEST SPIKE IN HISTORY, COULD
TRIGGER A RECESSION. BUT MOST ANALYSTS SAY THAT'S UNLIKELY BECAUSE OIL
PRICES DON'T SINGLE HANDEDLY INFLUENCE THE U-S ECONOMY THE WAY THEY ONCE
DID.
SUPER: IRA EPSTEIN/AREA INTERNATIONAL TRADING CORPORATION
i don't really think it's that big.
TRACK: BUT IT WILL SEEM BIG TO CONSUMERS WHO'LL MAY HAVE TO DIG A LITTLE
DEEPER TO PAY FOR GAS AND HOME HEATING OIL THIS WINTER.
SOT: Delita Pinnell/Consumer
I have to gas up and it like fifty dollars a tank right now.
NAT: hurricane vid
TRACK: ANALYSTS BLAME THE HURRICANES WHICH HAVE DAMAGED U-S
PRODUCTION....ALONG THE GULF COAST.
ADD TO THAT INSTABILITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND POLITICAL UNREST IN
NIGERIA---AFRICA'S TOP OIL EXPORTER--- AND IT'S EASY TO SEE WHY TRADERS
ARE ON EDGE ABOUT WORLD SUPPLIES.
STAND UP CLOSE; STACY CASE/REPORTING
ACCORDING TO THE U-S GOVERNMENT, AMERICA IS MORE THAN 11 MILLION BARRELS
BEHIND IN PRODUCTION IN THE PAST TWO WEEKS---- AIRLINES AND OTHER BIG
CONSUMERS ARE ALREADY FEELING THE PINCH. STACY CASE CBS NEWS WASHINGTON))
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That was Thalia Assuras reporting from Asheville, North Carolina.
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Still to come on the newscast, the price of oil is breaking new records. That have some economist worried about another recession.
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Also two years after a fatal shooting in his home, record producer Phil Spector is charged with murder.
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U- S warplanes have bombed a site in Fallujah that the military says militants were using to plan suicide attacks.
So far, there are no reports of any casualties,
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Meanwhile, U-S warplanes pounded targets overnight in the Sadr City section of Baghdad.
Officials say one civilian was injured in a roadside bombing.
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And two British soldiers were killed in an ambush.
Army officials say insurgents ambushed a British convoy in the southern city of Basra.
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Oil prices have made history after passing the 50- dollar- a barrel mark for the first time.
Analysts say hurricanes and unrest in the middle east and Africa are to blame.
So, is this just a temporary spike, or should consumers be worried?
Stacy Case reports from Washington.
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TRACK: THE WORLD'S LARGEST OIL EXPORTER-- SAUDI ARABIA-- ANNOUNCED FIRST
THING TUESDAY IT'S RAISING OIL PRODUCTION - A DIRECT REACTION TO
TRADING ON WALL STREET WHICH SENT PRICES PAST THE $50 DOLLAR A BARREL
MARK FOR THE FIRST TIME.
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fifty dollars a barrel is a psychological number. but we really have to
settle above there for anything really to happen.
SAUDI ARABIA HOPES--- BY INCREASING CAPACITY--- IT CAN HELP CALM RISING
PRICES BUT SOME EXPERTS FEEL IT'S NOT GOING TO HELP THAT MUCH.
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TRACK:
RISING OIL PRICES, NOW COUPLED WITH THE LARGEST SPIKE IN HISTORY, COULD
TRIGGER A RECESSION. BUT MOST ANALYSTS SAY THAT'S UNLIKELY BECAUSE OIL
PRICES DON'T SINGLE HANDEDLY INFLUENCE THE U-S ECONOMY THE WAY THEY ONCE
DID.
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i don't really think it's that big.
TRACK: BUT IT WILL SEEM BIG TO CONSUMERS WHO'LL MAY HAVE TO DIG A LITTLE
DEEPER TO PAY FOR GAS AND HOME HEATING OIL THIS WINTER.
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NAT: hurricane vid
TRACK: ANALYSTS BLAME THE HURRICANES WHICH HAVE DAMAGED U-S
PRODUCTION....ALONG THE GULF COAST.
ADD TO THAT INSTABILITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND POLITICAL UNREST IN
NIGERIA---AFRICA'S TOP OIL EXPORTER--- AND IT'S EASY TO SEE WHY TRADERS
ARE ON EDGE ABOUT WORLD SUPPLIES.
STAND UP CLOSE; STACY CASE/REPORTING
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Legendary music producer Phil Spector is charged with murder -- nearly two years after a woman was found dead inside his sprawling California mansion.
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The case has drawn national headlines and tabloid speculation.. but few words from Spector.
But because the charges came in a SECRET grand jury indictment, rather than a public hearing, Specter is raising his voice.
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((PHIL SPECTOR/CHARGED WITH MURDER-THE ACTIONS OF THE HITLER LIKE DISTRICT ATTORNEY STEVE COOLEY AND HIS STORM TROOPING HENCHMEN TO SEEK AN INDICTMENT AGAINST ME AND TO CENSOR ALL MEANS OF MY GETTING THE TRUTH OUT ARE REPREHENSABLE, UNCONSCIONABLE AND DESPICABLE))
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Specter is charged with first degree murder...
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in the death of Lana Clarkson, a B-movie actress most famous for her role in "The Barbarian Queen."
She was found dead of a gunshot wound in Spector's home last year.
Spector alleged in a magazine article last year that Clarkson committed suicide.
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There's more News 7 to come. Stay with us for more flooding coverage.
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We have new information and new video now on the extent of today's flooding in Roanoke.
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These are pictures from the Reserve Avenue area. That's along the Roanoke River, near Victory Stadium.
Among the flood effects there, Roanoke City firemen were called in with a rescue boat to evacuate people from buildings along Reserve Avenue.
We saw a National Guard vehicle that was high enough to get out before the waters rose any more.
But some people who had no ride chose to walk it out in waters that were almost waist-deep.
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Let's check back now with Susan Bahorich on West Main Street in Salem. Susan, how are things there now?
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Susan
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Coming up next on the newscast, there's good news and bad news for some former Hokies.
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Plus, The Dallas Cowboys continue their long winning streak over the Redskins.
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The Cowboys were in Washington last night for Monday night football -- at it was the same old story for both teams.
It was the first meeting between Dallas coach Bill Parcells and Washington's Joe Gibbs since 1990.
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Washington trailed 21-to-10 until Mark Brunell (broo-NEHL') fired his second touchdown pass of the night to Rod Gardner with four-30 remaining.
Then it came down to the wire.
With 13 seconds left, Brunell completed a pass to James Thrash to the Dallas 21, but the Redskins couldn't stop the clock.
The Cowboys won it 21-to-18.
It's their 13th win over the Redskins in 14 meetings.
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Two former Hokies are headed in opposite directions in the Cleveland Browns training room.
Ben Taylor has torn the tendon in his pectoral muscle.
He'll have surgery tomorrow to re- attach it and he is out for the season.
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On the up- side, Lee Suggs was cleared by doctors to return to practice at full speed.
Suggs hasn't played since the team's third pre-season game because of a neck stinger.
Suggs said that doctors have held him out because he hasn't had enough strength in his arm to protect himself.
The Browns host the Redskins this coming Sunday.
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