WDBJ 7 news at Noon for 10/05/04

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Former D- Day Memorial president Richard Burrow's fate now rests in the hands of a federal jury.
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Tonight's Vice- Presidential debate is hardly playing second fiddle in the campaign.
And, Dale Earnhardt, Junior loses the points lead. [WX-Head]
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Stay with us. News 7 at noon, starts right now.

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A federal jury is now deliberating the fate of former D-Day Memorial director Richard Burrow.
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Burrow is charged with eight counts of fraud related to his fund raising for the monument in Bedford. His first trial in Lynchburg ended in a hung jury.
Prosecutors hope this group in Charlottesville can reach a verdict.
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Steve Smallshaw joins us now from outside the courthouse.
Steve, any sense if jurors will get a verdict in this case?
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The chairman of the House Finance Committee in Virginia is in the hospital this afternoon. Delegate Harry Parrish collapsed this morning during a meeting of the Virginia Municipal League and was rushed to a northern Virginia hospital in serious condition.
The 82 year old has represented Manassas for more than two decades in the House of Delegates.

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They're some controversial remarks from the former top U-S official in Iraq, and it turns out he didn't intend them to be made public.
An aide to Paul Bremer tells the Washington Post he was speaking to a private audience when he said the U-S didn't put enough troops in Iraq after ousting Saddam Hussein.
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Meanwhile, the violence continued today when insurgents bombed a U-S convoy in the northern city of Mosul.
Four Americans were injured.
A shooting after the attack left at least three Iraqi civilians dead.
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Tonight's Vice- Presidential debate may have a major impact this election year.
With John Kerry gaining momentum after last week's face-off with President Bush, the bar is now higher for the number two contenders.
Stacy Case has more from Washington.
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Governor Mark Warner wants President Bush to declare 20 Virginia cities and counties disaster areas.
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Initial reports show 570 homes and nearly 50 businesses were damaged or destroyed in last week's flooding.
If aid is approved, victims would be eligible for low interest loans and grants, and unemployment and housing assistance.
Governor Warner says the cumulative effects of recent disasters in Virginia are beyond the Commonwealth's ability to address without federal help.
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Two city leaders are at odds over a flood reduction plan.
One says a flood wall could have prevented flood damage at Victory Stadium last week.
The other says that's not the case.
Justin McLeod has the story.
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The flood waters may be gone, but the debate over Victory Stadium lingers.
At issue now is whether the Roanoke River flood reduction project would have prevented last week's flooding.
City Councilman and Victory Stadium supporter Brian Wishneff says yes.
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But the city engineer says differently.
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That's not what he said last week when flood waters began to rise.
That prompted Brian Wishneff to send a letter to the city manager accusing Schirmer of lying.
The city engineer now admits he made a mistake but says it was an honest one.
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Forecasters originally predicted the Roanoke River would crest at 19 feet.
It ended up peaking at 17.9.
But councilman Wishneff isn't buying that excuse.
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Regardless of who is right and who is wrong, the reality is the flood reduction project is now on hold.
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((PHIL SCHIRMER/CITY ENGINEER: THERE ARE NO FUNDS IN THE FEDERAL FYO5 BUDGET FOR THE PROJECT THIS YEAR. WE'RE HOPEFUL OF GETTING SOME MONEY NEXT YEAR SO WE CAN BEGIN WORK ON THE PROJECT.)) [Runs08]
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Coming up next on the newscast, Mt. Saint Helens still has geologists sitting on the edge of their seats.
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Also authorities in Las Vegas say entertainers Siegfried and Roy are the victims of a hate crime.
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At Mount Saint Helens, they're waiting for the big bang. [TAKE LIVE PICTURE]
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You are looking at a live picture of the volcano. Steam and ash have begun pouring into the sky.
Minor earthquakes continue bringing down rock avalanches.
The U-S Geological Survey also says air samples show the magma within the volcano is rising.
John Blackstone has the latest.
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With a billowing burst of steam Monday Mount St. Helens gave another demonstration of her volcanic power. For forty minutes steam and some ash rolled into the clear blue sky, rising to 12,000 feet It's not the big eruption geologists are expectingbut the scientists are pleased by every rumble the mountain makes. SUPER: CARL THORNBER, GEOLOGIST USGS THERE'S A LOT TO BE LEARNED AND EVERY TIME THIS THING SHAKES AND SPITS, WE LEARN A LITTLE MORE." So what is happening beneath this restless mountain? DISSOLVE TO GRAPHIC Geologists say magma, molten rock, under tremendous pressure, is breaking layers of SOLID rock creating earthquakes as it pushes from below. When enough rock is broken the magma flows up causing vibrations that geologists call "harmonic tremors". The hot magma heats groundwater generating explosions of steam and ash END GRAPHIC (MAYBE COVER PART OF LAST LINE WITH ERUPTION VIDEO) SUPER: JAKE LOWENSTERN, USGS WE'RE STILL IN THE APPETIZER PHASE THE SOUP AND SALAD WILL BE WHEN THE MAGMA STARTS TO RISE THEN WE'LL BE READY FOR THE MAIN COURSE. When the magma breaks the surface there could be a large eruption of ash and steam (FONT UP: KILAUEA) but there won't be flowing lava of the kind seen in Hawaiian volcanoes, Mount St;.Helens lava is thick and sticky. (END FONT) SUPER: CARL THORNBER, GEOLOGIST USGS IT'LL BE OOZE OUTS OF LAVA//THAT'S A WAYS IN THE FUTURE. WE DON'T KNOW IF WE'LL GET THERE. ))
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That was John Blackstone reporting.

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Police in Las Vegas are just now reporting a shooting at the home of entertainers Siegfried and Roy that occurred last month.
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Yesterday they announced that a gunman opened fire on the house September 21st-- shouting that the pair should get out of the country.
Nobody was injured in the drive-by shooting, which police labeled as a hate crime.
Police announced the shooting a day after Roy Horn celebrated his 60th birthday.
Sunday also was the one- year anniversary of the tiger mauling that left Horn partially paralyzed.
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The methamphetamine problem in Southwest Virginia is growing so fast, police agencies can't keep up with it.
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Attorney General Jerry Kilgore and Delegate Bill Carrico called a meeting with law and drug enforcement officials to find out what can be done. Police have found 61 meth labs in the state this year and more than 90-percent of them in the New River Valley and far southwest Virginia.
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The solutions mentioned yesterday include stiffer penalties for the first meth offense and the need for more money to help fight the problem.
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Coming up next on the newscast, Ann Rule will join us live to tell us about her latest book.
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Then a little later in Sports, a slip of the tongue could cost Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
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She's been called a "master of the true crime genre."
Bestselling author Ann Rule's new book, [TAKE APRISA PAGE of BOOK] "Green River, Running Red" profiles the Green River killer Gary Ridgway, who confessed to murdering 48 women during the 19-80s.
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She joins us now to offer more insight about her book.
Good Afternoon, Ann.

(This is an amazing story...the fact that it took 20 years for police to actually bring Gary Ridgway to justice. How t
edious was it to write about such a long and involved investigation?)

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(I can imagine that it was difficult hearing the stories of the victims Many of these were women that Ridgway apparent
ly felt were disposable..Was it your main goal to humanize these victims?)

(Do you think this case would have been resolved without the breakthroughs in D-N-A evidence?)

(Have you seen many parallels among the people you've written about-- how would Ridgway compare with Ted Bundy, for in
stance?)

(Do you ever get spooked writing about real crimes?)

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Thanks so much for talking with us today, Ann.

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On Wall Street at Noon, the DOW was DOWN 21 points. The NASDAQ was UP three points.

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NASCAR strips the points lead from Dale Junior. Coming up after the break we'll find out why.
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Plus Houdini Hound escapes from his kennel and frees his friends for a late night snack.
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A slip of the tongue could ultimately cost Dale Earnhardt, Junior the Nextel Cup championship.
He's already lost the points lead.
NASCAR today docked Earnhardt 25 points and fined him ten thousand dollars for cursing during a televised interview following his win Sunday at Talladega.
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Earnhardt now falls 12 points behind Kurt Busch in the standings.
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He is in second place with seven races left in the season.
His race team is appealing the decision, saying such a penalty is too severe.

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The Kansas City Chiefs are winless no more.
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They got their first win since December 28 in Baltimore last night.
The Chiefs' Priest Holmes ran for 133 yards. He scored on a four-yard run in the second quarter. And later, he added a one- yard touchdown that put the 1-and-3 Chiefs ahead 27-to-17, three seconds into the final period.
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Kansas City went on to beat the Baltimore Ravens, 27 to 24.
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It's a story hard to believe until you see it for yourself.
Security cameras in London have captured an escape that would have made Harry Houdini proud.
But this one involves a wily canine.
Mark Phillips reports.
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((The world may be at war but the great affairs of state have taken a back seat this morning to a new British Hero. Hairy Houdini... the Grrrreat Escape scream the headlines.... because... London's Battersea Dogs Home finally has the answer to the musical question, 'Who Let the Dogs Out?' (Red in his cage) Keep your eye on Red -- a former stray, mostly Greyhound, mixed breed, who's who's learned a thing or two in the time he's been waiting for a new home. He's learned how to flip the latch on his cage -- from the inside. And Red -- being an equal opportunity doggy escape artist -- then methodically went about freeing all his friends. The kennel keepers had set up closed circuit TV to discover why they kept finding all the dogs loose when they arrived in the morning. chyron: Liz Emeny, Battersea Dog's Home he's such a sociable dog, and he goes along and picks his particular friends and i just love the fact that he could have gone in the kitchen himself and ate all the food, but he didn't, he made sure everyone had their share. Now they know it was an inside job, they'll put an extra lock on Red's cage. But how long can it be until he figures that one out. MP CBS News London. ))
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