WDBJ 7 morning news for 10/25/04

[Plane-Crash]

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Susan Bahoric is at the foot of Bull Mountain this morning with the latest from the scene.
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We'll have reaction from Martinsville race fans later in this half hour.

[World-Series]

[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
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[WRITER=ejo]
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In sports, the Boston Red Sox have grabbed a 2-to-0 lead in the World Series.
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[VO-NAT]
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Jason Varitek opens the scoring for Boston in the first with a two-run triple off St. Louis starter and loser Matt Morris. St. Louis gets on the board in the fourth.
Boston third baseman Bill Mueller (MIHL'-er) boots a grounder by Reggie Sanders, scoring Albert Pujols (POO-holss).
Mueller (MIHL'-er) had three of Boston's four errors in the game. But the Red Sox bats make up for it.
Bottom of the fourth, Mark Bellhorn's two- run double makes it 4-1. Two innings later, Orlando Cabrera drives a long single off the green monster.
That makes it 6-1. The final is 6-2.
Curt Shilling gets the win, again battling a sore ankle. Game three is tomorrow night in Saint Louis.
Now let's check the scoreboards.
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[Marketwatch]

[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=Morn]
[WRITER=ejo]
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In business news, investors hope the new week will be better for stocks than the last one.
Marcella Palmer has that story and more in this morning's Marketwatch.
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((THE BLUE CHIPS OPEN THE WEEK AT YEAR LOW LEVELS... ON FRIDAY THE DOW TAPPED ITS NEW LOW ON CONCERN THAT RECORD HIGH CRUDE-OIL PRICES WILL BECOME A DRAG ON THE ECONOMY AND POSE AN INCREASING RISK TO FUTURE GROWTH. THE DOW CLOSED DOWN 107 POINTS.... THE NASDAQ CLOSED DOWN 38. THE 6 LARGEST CIGARETTE MAKERS SPENT A RECORD 12.5 BILLION DOLLARS ON ADVERTISING AND PROMOTIONS IN 2002... BUT, SAYS THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, U-S SALES STILL FELL ABOUT 5.5 PERCENT TO 376 BILLION CIGARETTES. NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL ELIOT SPITZER IS HONING IN ON THE MUSIC INDUSTRY... HIS OFFICE HAS REPORTEDLY SERVED SUBPOENAS ON THE 4 MAJOR MUSIC LABELS... SONY BMG, WARNER MUSIC GROUP AND VIVENDI... VIVENDI OWNS UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP AND BRITAIN'S E-M-I .. SPITZER IS LOOKING INTO COMPANIES' INFLUENCE OVER WHAT SONGS ARE HEARD ON PUBLIC AIRWAVES.. AND...POPULAR HOOTERS RESTAURANT OPENS ITS FIRST RESTAURANT IN CHINA... COMPLETE WITH COLD BEER, CHICKEN WINGS AND SCANTILY CLAD WAITRESSES. HOOTERS' INVESTORS ARE BANKING ON CHINAS NEWER MORE RELAXED CHANGE IN ATTITUDE ON SEXUALITY. FOR MORE ON THE MARKET LOG ON TO OUR SITE AT CBS DOT MARKETWATCH DOT COM... IN NEW YORK I'M MARCELLA PALMER. ))

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[1Victims]

[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
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[WRITER=ejo]
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Returning to the morning's top story. Rescue crews have a busy day ahead in Patrick County, where a plane crash took ten lives yesterday.
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The plane went down on Bull Mountain near the town of Stuart, about seven miles from the Blue Ridge Airport in Spencer. Authorities said it was owned by Hendrick Motorsports, one of the biggest names in NASCAR. Reports indicate team owner Rick Hendrick was NOT on the plane,
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[Take Victims List FS] but his brother, team president John Hendrick, Rick's son Ricky Hendrick and engine builder Randy Dorton were among the 10 people killed.
John 's twin daughters, Kimberly and Jennifer Hendrick, Scott Latham, Joe Jackson, Jeff Turner and pilots Dick Tracey and Liz Morrison, are also listed as victims.
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[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
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Travis Wells will have much more on the Hendricks family, and its prominent role in NASCAR, in our next half hour.

[2Campaign-2004]

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(FOLLOWS PAGE 21)

It's down to the final full week of campaigning, and the presidential candidates are pulling out all the stops.
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For John Kerry, it means bringing in former President Bill Clinton, who will appear at a Kerry rally today in Philadelphia-- his first public appearance since quadruple bypass surgery.
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In Florida, Kerry ridiculed President Bush for sending mixed signals after an interview, where he said it's up in the air whether the nation can ever be fully safe from another terror attack.
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((SEN. JOHN KERRY/D- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: YOU MAKE ME PRESIDENT WE ARE GOING TO WIN THE WAR ON TERROR, IT IS NOT GOING TO BE UP IN THE AIR WHETHER OR NOT WE MAKE AMERICA SAFE. ))
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In New Mexico, Bush argued on- going attacks by terrorist Abu Musab al- Zarqawi in Iraq show the war there is not a diversion from the war on terror.
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((MY OPPONENT ALSO MISUNDERSTANDS OUR BATTLE AGAINST INSURGENTS AND TERRORISTS IN IRAQ.))
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In this final week before the election, both candidates will spend about 40 million dollars on T-V and radio ads.
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[2Crash-Latest]

[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=Morn]
[WRITER=ejo]
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The search will resume this morning in the woods of Patrick County, where a plane crash killed 10 people.

Authorities say NASCAR's Hendrick Motorsports owned the plane.
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The plane went down on Bull Mountain near the town of Stuart, about seven miles from the Blue Ridge Airport in Spencer. [TAKE PICTURES FULL]
Reports say team owner Rick Hendrick was NOT on the plane.
But his brother, team president John Hendrick, Rick's son Ricky Hendrick and engine builder Randy Dorton were among the 10 people killed.
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[Iraq]

[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
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[WRITER=kmc]
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A car bomb targeting an Australian military convoy in Baghdad has killed at least two people today.
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Police officials and Iraqi Interior Ministry say the bomb exploded near the Australian Embassy.
Two Iraqi bystanders died, and three Australian troops were slightly injured.
Initial reports were that the target was a U-S convoy.
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[Japan]

[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
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[WRITER=kmc]
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Japan's deadliest typhoon in more than a decade has now claimed 83 lives.
Four more victims were found over the weekend.
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While the nation recovers from Typhoon Tokage (toh- kah- gay), aftershocks from a deadly earthquake continued to rattle the area.
The magnitude six-point-eight quake killed at least 23 people.
Meanwhile, tens of thousands were forced to spend a second night in evacuation centers, or in their cars.
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[2World-Series]

[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=Morn]
[WRITER=ejo]
[TAPE#=None]
[GRAPHIC=World Series]

In sports, the Boston Red Sox have grabbed a 2-to-0 lead in the World Series with a 6 to 2 victory over Saint Louis. Curt Schilling gets the win, sore ankle and all.
Jason Varitek, Mark Bellhorn, and Orlando Cabrera each drove in two runs. We'll have highlights in our next half-hour.

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[Winner]

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[VOBFan-Reaction]

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Many race fans had no idea what was happening as the race unfolded, but once word of the crash got out, it remined some fans of other tragedies.
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((Gus Bellamy))
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[OUT Q=it's just tragic.]
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For many fans, the first idea that something was wrong came when Jimmie Johnson was quickly taken away without a celebration in Victory Lane.
Later as they returned to the campgrounds, the extent of the situation became clear.
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[IN Q=The old saying]
((THE OLD SAYING IS THERE'S MORE IMPORTANT THINGS IN LIFE THAN RACING. A FAMILY WAS TORN APART TODAY, AND THAT'S THE SAD PART ABOUT IT.))
[SUPER=01-Scotty Carr/South Carolina Race Fan;]
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[OUT Q=and that's the sad part about it.]
As fans relived the day on videotape, and beside their campfires, many said the racing is no longer what they will remember from this Sunday.
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[3Crash-Latest]

[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=Morn]
[WRITER=ejo]
[TAPE#=None]
[GRAPHIC=Plane Crash]

Investigators and recovery crews will return to a steep, wooded area of Patrick County this morning, where a plane crash took ten lives yesterday afternoon.
Authorities say the plane was owned by Hendrick Motorsports, one of the biggest names in NASCAR racing.
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[TAKE MAP E542 Full]
The plane went down on Bull Mountain near the town of Stuart, about seven miles from the Blue Ridge Airport in Spencer. [TAKE PICTURES FULL]
Reports say team owner Rick Hendrick was NOT on the plane. But his brother team president John Hendrick, Rick's son Ricky Hendrick and engine builder Randy Dorton were among the 10 people killed.
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[Campaign-2004]

[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=Mornin]
[WRITER=kmc]
[TAPE#=Net]
[GRAPHIC=Campaign 2004]
[ENG#=2]

The presidential candidates are pulling out all the stops during this final full week of campaigning.
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[VO-NAT]

For John Kerry, it means bringing in former President Bill Clinton, who will appear at a Kerry rally today in Philadelphia-- his first public appearance since quadruple bypass surgery.
[SUPER=03-Boca Raton, FL;]

In Florida, Kerry ridiculed President Bush for sending mixed signals after an interview, where he said it's up in the air whether the nation can ever be fully safe from another terror attack.
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[SOT]
[IN Q=You make me President]
((SEN. JOHN KERRY/D- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: YOU MAKE ME PRESIDENT WE ARE GOING TO WIN THE WAR ON TERROR, IT IS NOT GOING TO BE UP IN THE AIR WHETHER OR NOT WE MAKE AMERICA SAFE. ))
[SUPER=01-Sen. John Kerry/(D) Presidential Candidate;]
[RUNS=:10] (estimated bite runs time)
[OUT Q=we make America safe.]
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Alamogordo, NM;]

In New Mexico, Bush argued on- going attacks by terrorist Abu Musab al- Zarqawi in Iraq show the war there is not a diversion from the war on terror.
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[SOT]
[IN Q=My opponent]
((MY OPPONENT ALSO MISUNDERSTANDS OUR BATTLE AGAINST INSURGENTS AND TERRORISTS IN IRAQ.))
[RUNS=:06] (estimated bite runs time)
[OUT Q=terrorists in Iraq.]
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[VO-NAT]

In this final week before the election, both candidates will spend about 40 million dollars on T-V and radio ads.
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[3World-Series]

[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=Morn]
[WRITER=ejo]
[TAPE#=Net]
[GRAPHIC=World Series]
[ENG#=3]

In sports, the Boston Red Sox have grabbed a 2-to-0 lead in the World Series.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Boston, MA/FOX;]
Jason Varitek opens the scoring for Boston in the first with a two-run triple off St. Louis starter and loser Matt Morris. St. Louis gets on the board in the fourth.
Boston third baseman Bill Mueller (MIHL'-er) boots a grounder by Reggie Sanders, scoring Albert Pujols (POO-holss).
Mueller (MIHL'-er) had three of Boston's four errors in the game. But the Red Sox bats make up for it.
Bottom of the fourth, Mark Bellhorn's two run double makes it 4-1. Two innings later, Orlando Cabrera drives a long single off the green monster.
That makes it 6-1. The final is 6-2.
Curt Shilling gets the win, again battling a sore ankle. Game three is tomorrow night in Saint Louis.
Now let's check the scoreboards.
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[2Marketwatch]

[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=Morn]
[WRITER=kor]
[TAPE#=NET]
[GRAPHIC=Business News]
[ENG#=3]

In business news, many investors are hoping for a rebound in stocks this week.
Marcella Palmer has that story and more in this morning's Marketwatch.
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[SUPER=01-Marcella Palmer/Reporting; :00]
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[OUT Q=In New York, I'm Marcella Palmer.]
((THE BLUE CHIPS OPEN THE WEEK AT YEAR LOW LEVELS... ON FRIDAY THE DOW TAPPED ITS NEW LOW ON CONCERN THAT RECORD HIGH CRUDE-OIL PRICES WILL BECOME A DRAG ON THE ECONOMY AND POSE AN INCREASING RISK TO FUTURE GROWTH. THE DOW CLOSED DOWN 107 POINTS.... THE NASDAQ CLOSED DOWN 38. THE 6 LARGEST CIGARETTE MAKERS SPENT A RECORD 12.5 BILLION DOLLARS ON ADVERTISING AND PROMOTIONS IN 2002... BUT, SAYS THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, U-S SALES STILL FELL ABOUT 5.5 PERCENT TO 376 BILLION CIGARETTES. NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL ELIOT SPITZER IS HONING IN ON THE MUSIC INDUSTRY... HIS OFFICE HAS REPORTEDLY SERVED SUBPOENAS ON THE 4 MAJOR MUSIC LABELS... SONY BMG, WARNER MUSIC GROUP AND VIVENDI... VIVENDI OWNS UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP AND BRITAIN'S E-M-I .. SPITZER IS LOOKING INTO COMPANIES' INFLUENCE OVER WHAT SONGS ARE HEARD ON PUBLIC AIRWAVES.. AND...POPULAR HOOTERS RESTAURANT OPENS ITS FIRST RESTAURANT IN CHINA... COMPLETE WITH COLD BEER, CHICKEN WINGS AND SCANTILY CLAD WAITRESSES. HOOTERS' INVESTORS ARE BANKING ON CHINAS NEWER MORE RELAXED CHANGE IN ATTITUDE ON SEXUALITY. FOR MORE ON THE MARKET LOG ON TO OUR SITE AT CBS DOT MARKETWATCH DOT COM... IN NEW YORK I'M MARCELLA PALMER. ))

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[3-HEADLINES] [Kim at Desk]
[ANCHOR=Kimberly]

Here's what's making news-- Today investigators and recovery teams will return to a wooded area in Patrick County, where a Hendrick Motorsports plane went down yesterday.
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[VO-NAT]
[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[SUPER=03-Patrick Co.;]

10 people were killed in the crash on Bull Mountain, about seven miles from the Blue Ridge Airport in Spencer.
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[ENG#=1]
[VO-NAT]
[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[SUPER=03-Baghdad, Iraq;]

In Iraq, a car bombing has killed at least two people near the Australian Embassy.
Officials say it was targeting an Australian military convoy in Baghdad.
Three Australian troops were injured.
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[ENG#=2]
[VO-NAT]
[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[SUPER=03-Ojiya, Japan;]

As Japan attempts to recover from a deadly typhoon, there are more aftershocks from a weekend earthquake there.
The magnitude six-point-eight quake killed at least 23 people.
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[3Victims]

[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=Morn]
[WRITER=ejo]
[TAPE#=None]
[GRAPHIC=Plane Crash]
More now on the victims of that plane crash in Patrick County. Authorities said it was owned by Hendrick Motorsports, one of the biggest names in NASCAR. Reports indicate team owner Rick Hendrick was NOT on the plane,
(+++++++)
[Take Victims List FS] but his brother, team president John Hendrick, Rick's son Ricky Hendrick and engine builder Randy Dorton were among the 10 people killed.
John 's twin daughters, Kimberly and Jennifer Hendrick, Scott Latham, Joe Jackson, Jeff Turner and pilots Dick Tracey and Liz Morrison, are also listed as victims.
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[2Fan-Reaction]

[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=Morn]
[WRITER=jda]
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Fans from across the country travelled to Martinsville, but a weekend of racing and revelry had a sobering end.
For many NASCAR fans, Joe Dashiell reports, the news of Sunday's plane crash was a sad reminder of other tragedies.
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((GUS BELLAMY: ))
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[OUT Q=it's just tragic.]

For many fans, the first inkling that something was wrong came when Jimmie Johnson was whicked away without a celebration in Victory Lane.
Later as they returned to the campgrounds, the extent of the tragedy became clear.
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[IN Q=I'm a racer]
((STEVE ARPIN: I'M A RACER MYSELF AND I KNOW HOW CLOSE-KNIT EVERYONE CAN BE, AND I JUST FEEL FOR ALL OF THEM. IT'S JUST A BAD DEAL.))
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[OUT Q=it's just a bad deal.]

As fans relived the day on videotape, and beside their campfires, many said the racing is not what they will remember.
[SOT 22:13:48]
[IN Q=The old saying]
((THE OLD SAYING IS THERE'S MORE IMPORTANT THINGS IN LIFE THAN RACING. A FAMILY WAS TORN APART TODAY, AND THAT'S THE SAD PART ABOUT IT.))
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[OUT Q=and that's the sad part about it.]

NASCAR is a sport with committed fans and deep rivalries, but now the entire racing community is in mourning. Joe Dashiell News 7 Martinsville))