WDBJ 7 news at Noon for 02/19/07

02/19/07

News 7 at Noon

HEADLINE #1 HEADLINE #1 (:01 of head pad)

CAPTION: Cold Mountain

Rescuers battle extreme weather
conditions to reach three stranded
climbers on Oregon's Mount Hood.

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HEADLINE #2 HEADLINE #2

CAPTION: Warming Up

Warmer weather heads our way with a
chance for a few showers tomorrow. I'll
show you using Titan.
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HEADLINE #3 HEADLINE #3

CAPTION: Comic Book

Plus we'll see how some local educators
are using a comic situation to teach a
lesson.
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GRAPHIC=News 7 at Noon Good afternoon, I'm Kimberly McBroom.

<< *CG standup Kimberly McBroom
kmcbroom@wdbj7.com

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GRAPHIC=News 7 at Noon Mount Hood is the scene of another

intense rescue mission .

Three climbers are trapped on a ledge
about eight- thousand feet up.

As Teri Okita tells us, crews are
facing intense conditions as they try
to locate the group.

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INQ=Battling high winds

*CG locator Mt. Hood, OR

*CG 2line Sara Brown
Mountain Wave Emergency Comm.
*CG 2line Sean Collinson
Clackamas County Sheriff's Department
*CG standup Teri Okita
Reporting

RUNS= (END SOT)

OQ=Okita, News 7. << (natz) Locator:Mt Hood, Oregon
(END SOT) Battling high winds and WHIPPING snow..

crews have resumed their search this
morning on Oregon's Mount Hood for
three missing climbers. Rescuers
believe they reached the same general
area as the missing man and two women
last night, but had to suspend their
search until daylight. Sot: Sara
Brown/Mountain Wave Emergency
Communication "We are pretty certain
they are within about a quarter mile

circle, but that is still not entirely
precise when you consider the
conditions that we are in right now."
the three climbers have an electronic
locator with them... which is helping
pinpoint the search. They were
travelling with five others yesterday
.. when they fell about 100 feet from a
ledge and were forced to call for help.
Sot: Sgt. Sean Collinson/Clackamas
County Sheriff's Office "I do know they
are cold, I do know they are still able
to communicate, they are still in good
spirits and they are just hoping
rescuers find them soon." officials say
they landed on a plateau and there
isn't enough snow for them to make a
cave, but they have sleeping bags and
are huddling to stay warm. They also
have a Labrador retreiever with them.
This is the same popular mountain where
three climbers died in December after
getting caught in a brutal storm. This
time, rescuers are hopeful.. they'll
get the missing climbers down safely.
Teri Okita, News 7.

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GRAPHIC= The new security crackdown in

Baghdad has gotten off to a bumpy start
with more incidents of violence over
the weekend and today.

That includes a bold and deadly

attack on a U- S military post.

Pauline Chiou is in Washington with
more.

ENG#=2 (SOT FULL)

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INQ=This is the destruction

*CG locator Baghdad, Iraq

*CG standup Pauline Chiou
Reporting

RUNS= (END SOT)

OQ=Chiou, News 7. <<

(END SOT) locator:Baghdad THIS IS THE DESTRUCTION
LEFT BEHIND... (NATSOT - aftermath)

AFTER A SUICIDE BOMBER BOARDED A BUS IN
BAGHDAD... THEN SET-OFF THE EXPLOSIVES
STRAPPED TO HIS BELT. (NATSOT -

aftermath) AT LEAST 30-PEOPLE ARE DEAD
AFTER THIS ATTACK, AND OTHER BOMBINGS
ACROSS IRAQ. (MAP IN) A MILITARY BASE
NORTH OF BAGHDAD WAS ALSO TARGETTED IN
A SUICIDE BOMBING. TWO U-S SOLDIERS
WERE KILLED.. 17-OTHERS WOUNDED.
WITNESSES SAY, U-S FORCES FOUGHT WITH
INSURGENTS AFTER THE BOMBER TRIED TO
BREAK THROUGH BARRIERS AROUND THE
MILITARY POST. (MAP OUT) ALL THIS COMES
JUST ONE DAY AFTER CAR BOMBS KILLED AT

LEAST 62 IN A CROWDED BAGHDAD MARKET..
THE FIRST MAJOR ATTACK SINCE THE NEW
SECURITY PLAN WENT INTO EFFECT.
(STANDUP BRIDGE: Pauline Chiou / CBS
NEWS / CAPITOL HILL) - " AND OVER THE
WEEKEND -- REPUBLICANS BLOCKED AN
EFFORT BY DEMOCRATS IN THE SENATE TO
PASS A BILL OPPOSING THE TROOP SURGE --
A KEY PART OF THE NEW STRATEGY TO CURB
THE DAILY BLOODSHED IN BAGHDAD."
(NATSOT - checkpoint) THE SECURITY PLAN

INCLUDES DOZENS OF NEW CHECKPOINTS IN
AND AROUND BAGHDAD... MANNED BY U-S AND
IRAQI FORCES. DESPITE ONGOING VIOLENCE
-- THE NEW STRATEGY IS WINNING PRAISE
FROM SOME IRAQIS. (NATSOT - arabic) WE

ARE ALL HAPPY, THIS MAN SAYS. EACH
IRAQI CITIZEN IS PLEASED WITH THE PLAN.
(NATSOT - more security) THE MISSION,

DUBBED 'OPERATION LAW AND ORDER' -- IS
THE LATEST EFFORT TO RECLAIM BAGHDAD'S
STREETS FROM POWERFUL MILITIAS AND
ROAMING DEATH SQUADS... AND INVOLVES
MOST OF THE ADDITIONAL 21-THOUSAND
5-HUNDRED TROOPS ORDERED INTO IRAQ.
PAULINE CHIOU, News 7.

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GRAPHIC=Shooting For the second time in nearly two

days Roanoke police are at the center
of a shooting.

The latest incident unfolded
about two Sunday morning.

Aleesha Chaney has more.

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INQ=

*CG locator Roanoke
:00

*CG 2line Velva Brown
Neighbor
:15

*CG standup Aleesha Chaney
achaney@wdbj7.com
:23

*CG 2line E-van Graves
Neighbor
:45

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OQ=STD. <<---nat sound

(END SOT) Several hours after a double

shooting at this home, Roanoke Police
continue to block access to Carroll
Avenue while they gather evidence.

Neighbors were awakened Sunday
morning when gunfire erupted between
law enforcement and an armed man.

SOT FULL SOT FULL

INQ= 16:32:41-49

I SAID LETS GET UP AND SEE WHAT'S GOING
ON AND WE WENT TO THE DOOR AND THAT'S
WHAT WE SAW. TWO CARS FROM THE ALLEY
FIRST.

RUN=12 (END SOT)

OQ=

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INQ= STANDUP

THOSE WERE ROANOKE POLICE
OFFICERS ARRIVING AT THE HOME AFTER A
911 CALL REPORTING A MAN WITH A GUN.

ONCE INSIDE, POLICE SAY THEY
ENCOUNTERED A GUNMAN WHO SHOT AT ONE OF
THEM.

THAT OFFICER THEN RETURNED
GUNFIRE, HITTING THE MAN.

ALL THREE OFFICERS THEN RETREATED
DOWN THE HALLWAY WHEN THEY HEARD

ANOTHER SHOT.

AT WHICH POINT, SOMEONE ADVISED
THEM THAT THERE WAS STILL A 7 YEAR-OLD
CHILD IN THE HOME.

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OQ=

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INQ= 16:36:45-52

SHE COME RUNNING OUT SAYING, "HER SON,
HER SON." AND SHE WAS SCREAMING AND
SCREAMING AND THERE WAS SO MUCH
COMMOTION GOING ON.

RUN=07 (END SOT)

OQ= E-van Graves lives across the

street and came outside when the
shootout began.

He motioned his neighbor to bring
the other two children inside where he
provided them shelter.

SOT FULL SOT FULL

INQ= 16:38:42-:49

HE WAS HYSTERICAL. HE WAS GOING OFF.
HE WANTED TO GO BACK AND PROTECT HIS
MOM AND I WAS TALKING TO HIM AND
CALMING HIM DOWN.

RUN=07 (END SOT)

OQ= Emergency crews took the

7year-old and the gunman to the

hospital.

Police have not released their
names or condition.

As for the officers, none of them
were injured during the exchange,
Aleesha Chaney, News 7, Roanoke.

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GRAPHIC=HOLD Sunday's shooting was the second

incident over the weekend involving a
police officer.

Yesterday morning, Roanoke's
Police Chief addressed the media
following the gunfire on Carroll
Avenue.

ENG#=4 VO-NAT
VO-NAT

*CG locator Roanoke

The first officer- involved
shooting happened Friday night on King
Street, when police arrived at a home
to serve papers.

They say 30-year-old Geoffrey
Aaron Stephenson came out with a gun
and another weapon, and refused to

listen to commands to stop.

Officer Andrew Pulley Jr fired
his weapon, killing Stephenson.

Police Chief Joe Gaskins says
back-to-back officer-related shootings
are not common for the Roanoke P-D.

ENG#=1 SOT FULL
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INQ=Absolutely not.

*CG 2line Chief Joe Gaskins
Roanoke Police Department 5:19:45-:51

ABSOLUTELY NOT. I MEAN IT'S THE FIRST
AS FIRST AS FAR AS I KNOW AND IT'S
ABSOLUTELY UNFORTUNATE.

RUNS=6 (END SOT)

OQ= It's absolutely unforntunate.

VO-NAT VO-NAT

The three officers who reponded
to the call yesterday morning have not
been named.

They are however on
administrative leave, along with
Officer Pulley who was involved in the
Friday night shooting.

Separate investigations into both
of these incidents are underway.

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GRAPHIC=Crime, Generic More than 50 years after a

Carroll County driver hit and killed
another man - then fled the
scene....he's stepping forward to admit
his guilt.

Carroll County authorities say
Veryln Brady of Hillsville claims he
was driving the car that hit George
Dalton in 19-53.

Brady was 24 at the time of the
accident.

Now all these years later, the
Carroll County prosecutor says the
77-year-old confessed to the
hit-and-run shortly before undergoing
heart surgery last summer.

He's scheduled to appear in court
later this week.

If convicted of involuntarily
manslaughter, Brady could be sentenced
to 10 years in prison.

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HARD MUSIC UNDER Up next, some town halls in New
Jersey opened at midnight last night
just as same- sex civil unions became
legal.

ENG#=2 VO-NAT
VO-NAT

*CG tease Close Shave

Plus after this weekend's head shaving
episode, there are reports Britney
Spears wants to make another change in
her life.

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GRAPHIC=None cleared...the Childcare Network is up

and running

ENG#=4 VO-NAT
VO-NAT

*CG locator Roanoke Co.

A fire damaged the Roanoke County
daycare center more than a week ago.

No one was hurt, but more than
one-hundred children were re-located
until the facility was safe for their
return.

Kidd's Restoration has been
working day and night for the past nine
days to re-open on schedule.

Crews are still working to
replace heating units like the one that
caused the fire. That work may take a
few more weeks.

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GRAPHIC=Fatal Fire taken to the hospital following a fire

yesterday in Roanoke.

ENG#=1 VO-NAT
VO-NAT

*CG locator Roanoke

The fire broke out just before 3:00 A-M
in the 600 block of Centre Avenue,
Northwest.

Fire Marshall Daniel Rakes says the
fire began in an outbuilding connected
to the house.

ENG#=2 SOT FULL
SOT FULL

INQ=It's like

*CG 2line Daniel Rakes
Roanoke City Fire Marshal DANIEL RAKES, ROANOKE CITY FIRE
MARSHAL: IT'S LIKE AN OUTDOOR STORAGE
BUILDING IT'S ABOUT 8 FT. SQUARE. IT
APPEARS THERE MIGHT HAVE BEEN SOME SORT
OF MATTRESS IN THAT ROOM OR BUILDING.
THEN THERE'S OTHER TYPE OF STORAGE.

RUNS=16 (END SOT)

OQ=other type of storage.

VO-NAT VO NAT

Investigators are working to
identify the victims.

They'll only say that a man and woman
were involved.

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GRAPHIC=None Two people are dead after a pair of

shuttle buses crashed head-on at the
Fort Lauderdale airport.

ENG#=3 (VO-NAT)
VO-NAT

*CG locator Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Authorities say the driver of one
bus and a passenger in the other were
killed.

Eight people were injured.

The collision happened late last
night on a road that circles the
airport.

Investigators think the driver who
was killed was heading east, when a bus

crossed into his lane.

An airport spokesman says some of
those on the buses were believed to be
airport employees.

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GRAPHIC=Gay Marriage Hundreds of same sex couples waited

for the stroke of midnight at city
halls throughout New Jersey.

ENG#=4 (VO-NAT)
VO-NAT

*CG locator Teaneck, NJ

That's when the state's civil union
law took effect-- giving hundreds of
gay couples the same legal protections
as married couples.

New Jersey is the third state to
have civil unions-- behind Vermont and
Connecticut.

Those in civil unions or marriages
from other states or nations allowing
them are automatically considered to be
in civil unions in New Jersey.

ENG#=1 SOT FULL

SOT FULL What we can't celebrate is their
INQ=What we can't celebrate marriage. For New Jersey still wrongly

and unnecessarily withholds from this
loving couple and too many others like
them the freedom to marry, that is our
birthright.

RUNS=13 (END SOT)

OQ=that is our birthright

VO-NAT VO-NAT

Massachusetts is the ONLY state to
allow same- sex marriages.

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GRAPHIC=None Hollywood is all abuzz about

Britney Spears' EXTREME makeover.

ENG#=2 (VO-NAT)
VO-NAT

*CG 2linel Photos From:
x17online.com Here's Britney as you've never seen

her before-- bald.

Friday night she went to a Los
Angeles area hair salon, where
witnesses say she shaved her own head.

*CG locator Sherman Oaks, CA Afterword, she went to a tattoo parlor
and got inked-- one on her hip and one
on her wrist.

The new look comes after she
reportedly checked into a rehab center
in the Caribbean, then checked out the
next day.

ENG#=3 (SOT FULL)
SOT FULL

INQ=I think a lot of people

*CG 2line Katrina Szish
US Magazine KATRINA SZISH/US MAGAZINE: I think a
lot of people are saying 'No, she's
just asserting herself. She's being a
rebel. She's really showing that she
doesn't want to be under the media
scrutiny anymore. She's doing her own
thing. Forget it, I don't think so. I
think she's having a very hard time.
We're seeing somebody who doesn't know
who she is or where she's going. And I
think it is a cry for help.

RUNS=17 (END SOT)

OQ=cry for help.

VO-NAT VO-NAT

Britney might also be thinking of
another major change--

There are unconfirmed reports that
she put her L-A homes up for sale.

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SOFT MUSIC UNDER Coming up next on the newscast,

ENG#=1 VO-NAT
VO-NAT

*CG tease Scorpy the Bug

we'll see how Lynchburg's Amazement
Square is using a bug to teach children
a lesson.
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GRAPHIC=none Amazement Square in Lynchburg is

a hit with school-age children because
of its hands-on learning approach.

But the learning doesn't stop at
the door.

As Bob Grebe tells us, its latest
project is drawing it some attention.

ENG#=1 SOT FULL

SOT FULL

INQ=The first reaction

*CG locator Lynchburg
:10
*CG 2line Shawne Farmer
Amazement Square - Dir. of Education
1:16

*CG 2line Geoff Krantz
Assistant Director of Education
1:44

RUNS=2:53 (END SOT)

OQ=SO WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT.

<<

SOT FULL SOT FULL - SHAWNE

INQ= 02.20 "THE FIRST REACTION WAS THIS IS

REALLY AN EVERYDAY, IN THE NEWSPAPER,
SORT OF THING. 35 WEEKS, FIVE DAYS A
WEEK." 02.30 (:10)

RUNS= (END SOT)

OQ=

Each day during the school year,
Amazement Square has an educational
comic that runs in the Lynchburg News
and Advance.

The strip's main character is the
center's mascot, Scorpy Bug... inspired
by the background of the Square's
historical structure.

The building dates back to
pre-Civil Way days and among other
things in recent times, served as a
wholesale grocery that sold pesticides.

SOT FULL SOT FULL - SHAWNE

INQ= 00.52 "ON THE SIDE OF THE BUILDING THAT

THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM IS HOUSED IN WERE
THE WORDS DEATH TO ALL INSECTS...
RESPECT THE INSECTS INSTEAD AND MAKE
THEM OUR MASCOT." 01.02 (:10)

RUNS= (END SOT)

OQ=

In addition to Scorpy Bug, the

phrase "Death to bugs" lead to the
birth of bug-buddies Ante Bug,
Lightning Bug and Dragon Fly.

Together, Amazement Square's
Education Directors, Shawne Farmer and
Geoff Krantz, use the four characters
to educate children with "The Amazing
Adventures of Scorpy Bug."

The comic strip is in its second
year of circulation and has been a big
success.

SOT FULL SOT FULL - SHAWNE

INQ= 02.02 "SCORPY'S BEEN VERY, VERY

POPULAR... REALLY FOLLOWING HIS
ADVENTURES." 02.12 (:10)

RUNS= (END SOT)

OQ=

The subject material is based on
Virginia's standards of learning.

Those are guidelines the state
sets for what children should be
learning in elementary school.

After researching the SOLs, Geoff
prepares a first-draft.

The comic needs to be contained
to just 125 words, which can be a
challenge.

SOT FULL SOT FULL - GEOFF

INQ= 07.58 "AFTER I'M DONE WITH IT, IT GOES

TO SHAWNE AND SHE HAS THE REALLY HARD
JOB OF TRIMMING DOWN MY RATHER VERBOSE
STYLE OF WRITING TO MAKE IT FIT WHAT
THE NEWSPAPER REQUIRES." 08.08 (:10)

---BUTT TO---

08.09 "I WRITE EXACTLY HOW I TALK...
TOO MUCH." 08.12 (:03)

RUNS= (END SOT)

OQ=

Once the wording is complete,
Shawne and Geoff decide what they want
the images in each frame to look like.

SOT FULL SOT FULL - SHAWNE

INQ= 03.35 "WE ARE VERY, VERY SPECIFIC.

SCORPY'S GOING TO BE IN SWIMMING TRUNKS
WITH SUNGLASSES... WHAT WE WANT THE
ARTIST TO DRAW." 03.48 (:13)

RUNS= (END SOT)

OQ=

The draft is emailed to the
artist, Bently Boyd who draws a proof
that is later revised and finalized.

It's then sent to the News and

Advance for printing. The finished
product is what children read each day.

The comic strips that were
published last year are currently being
repackaged into comic books of the
various educational subjects covered.

SOT FULL SOT FULL - SHAWNE

INQ= 06.08 "OUR FIRST COMIC BOOK WILL COME

OUT FEBRUARY 24TH TO COINCIDE... SO
WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT." 06.22
(:14)

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You can learn more about Lynchburg's
Amazement Square on the internet. You

can find a link to its page at our
website at WDBJ7-dot-com. Just click
on websties in the news.

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SPORTS MUSIC UNDER Mark it up as another racing
victory for Kevin Harvick.

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*CG tease GIVE ME 500

Coming up, we'll check out
highlights and hear from the winner of
yesterday's Daytona 500.
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GRAPHIC=Daytona 500 In what has to be one of the most

memorable finishes in recent history,
Kevin Harvick kicked off the 2007
NASCAR season with a victory in the
Daytona 500.

But to claim victory, he had to beat

a sentimental favorite.

Roy D'Alessio (DUH-LISS-OH) has more.

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*CG locator Daytona Beach, FL
NASCAR/FOX Sports
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*CG 2line Kevin Harvick
First Daytona 500 Win
:15

*CG 2line Mark Martin
Finished Second
:25

*CG standup Ray D'Alessio
CNN
:55

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GRAPHIC=None The Chinese Lunar New Year is off

to a spectacular start in Hong Kong.

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*CG locator Hong Kong, China

Fireworks lit up the sky over
Victoria Harbour, on the second day of
the Chinese New Year.

The light show lasted over 20
minutes, ushering in the Year of the
Golden Pig.

There are 12 animals in the Chinese
zodiac, which runs in a 12- year cycle.

According to Chinese astrology,
people born in pig years are supposed
to be lucky, polite, honest,
hardworking and loyal.

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