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1-News-Head
ANCHOR=Keith
Coming up on NEWS 7 at SIX:
We'll hear the house debate on over-riding the Governor's veto of funds for
the Roanoke Valley.
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VO-NAT
And they've got bigger fish to fry this political season... Joe Dashiell
will be with us in Wakefield for the Shad Planking.
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Sports-Head
ANCHOR=Mike
Tonight in sports, Jordan talks about hitting the Bullseye with win number
70.
N.C. State has a new head basketball coach,
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VO-NAT eng#
and the Roanoke Rush picks former Hokies assistant Duke Strager to be the
team's new head coach.
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WX-Head
TALENT=Robin
SS=None
The sun returned today, the warmth will follow tomorrow. Your hometown
forecast is just around the corner.
XGR-Veto
ANCHOR=Keith
NEWSCAST=6
WRITER=equ
TAPE#96-16
GRAPHIC=Session 96
Close but NO cigar.
Roanoke Democrats twice came within two votes of a rare override of the
Governor's veto.
They failed both times.
With lawsuits threatened all around, the 1996 General Assembly convened
today to wrap up its business.
Double Boxes=Keith and Ellen/State Microwave
Ellen Qualls is in our Richmond newsroom with the highlights.
Live=Ellen Full/State Microwave
SUPER=@Ellen1;
SUPER=05-Richmond;
Roanoke Democrats got an A for effort today -- but the Governor's vetoes
still stand.
That means no new state funding for the College of Health Sciences and
Virginia CARES prisoner rehab program.
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SOT
IN Q=They needed 67
SUPER=03-Richmond; :00
SUPER=@Cranwell; :29
SUPER=01-Del. Kirk Cox/(R) Colonial Heights; 1:19
RUNS=1:29
OUT Q=Clinton Administration.
(( They needed 67 votes to override Governor Allen's veto.
SOT 13:24:45 vote on va. cares 65-34
((CLOSE ... THE ... ROLL. CLERK WILL CLOSE THE ROLL.))
RUNS=:11
But despite emotional, bi- partisan expressions of support, Virginia CARES
will now have to somehow bid for money, when it's funding runs out by July.
Then there was the College of Health Sciences funding -- for students all
over southwest Virginia.
SOT 13;28:21
((DEL. DICK CRANWELL: 600 AND SOME PLUS STUDENTS... BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, LET
ME SHOW YOU THE FACES OF THE PEOPLE THAT IF YOU VOTE TO SUSTAIN THIS VETO,
YOU'LL BE TAKING THEIR JOBS.))
RUNS=:21
Fine.
That veto stood too.
And so did Allen's veto of the langauge that would have forced him to ask
for federal Goals 2000 money -- if two thirds of local school boards said to.
They did.
SOT 12:56:48
((DEL. DICK CRANWELL/D-VINTON: I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU ALL, BUT I DON'T WANT TO
SUGGEST TO THE SCHOOL BOARDS IN THIS COMMONWEALTH THAT WE DON'T HAVE FAITH IN
THEIR JUDGMENT. THAT WE SAY TO THEM WE'LL LEAVE IT UP TO YOU TO DECIDE. AND
THEN WHEN THEY MEET THE MANDATES THAT THEY'VE SET OUT, WE SAY "OH. SORRY."))
RUNS=:17
SOT 12:50:50
((DEL. KIRK COX: IT'S ABSOLUTELY INCUMBENT UPON US NOT TO PUT THE ONE THING
THAT'S VALUED IN THE CLASSROOM AT RISK, AND THAT IS WHAT WE TEACH THE KIDS. I
AM ABSOLUTELY NOT WILLING TO GIVE THAT OVER TO THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION.))
RUNS=:11))
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Live=Ellen Full/State Microwave
SUPER=05-Richmond;
So then there are the lawsuits.
House Democrats promise to take the Governor to court over what they see as
the misuse of his line item veto powers -- like, can he veto language about
Goals 2000 or just money items?
The Governor promises to take the legislature to court over the budget that
runs through June 30th.
Double Boxes=Keith and Ellen/State Microwave
He says they should give him the whole budget to review.
They say he only needs the changes.
Constitutional principles will be tested under this Governor.
Mason-Dixon
ANCHOR=Keith
NEWSCAST=6p
WRITER=jmc
TAPE#96-26
GRAPHIC=John Warner
If John Warner can get his party's nomination for the U.S. Senate again,
he'll probably win re-election.
SS=News 7 Poll
That's what a News-7/Roanoke Times poll shows... Warner leading among likely
Republican voters in the June primary...but not by much.
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VO-NAT
If the vote were held today, the survey says Warner would poll less than 50
percent of the vote, but still beat challenger Jim Miller.
Seventeen percent of the voters surveyed said they hadn't made up their
minds yet.
But among GOP voters, just 39 percent have a favorable opinion of Virginia's
senior senator; and 25 percent have an UNfavorable view.
John Warner is maintaining a comfortable lead over his likely Democratic
opponent, Mark Warner, 56 percent to 24 percent.
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Shad-Planking
ANCHOR=Keith
NEWSCAST=6
WRITER=jda
TAPE#96-19
GRAPHIC=Campaign 96
Senator Jhn Warner and Lieutenant Governor Don Beyer were no shows today at
the shad planking, but the politicking went on without them.
Double Boxes=Keith and Joe/StarLink
Tonight Joe Dashiell reports from Wakefield where the candidates were putting
their spin on the latest poll results.
Live=Joe Full/StarLink
SUPER=@Joe1;
SUPER=06-Wakefield;
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(Rollcue: supporters tried a more personal pitch.)
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SUPER=03-Wakefield; :00
SUPER=01-Eric Peterson/John Warner's Spokesman; :25
SUPER=01-Jim Miller/(R) U.S. Senate Candidate;:40
SUPER=@markwarner;:57 QUICK
RUNS=1:00
OUT Q=let go at it. **DOUBLE OUT**
Live=Joe Full/StarLink
SUPER=06-Wakefield;
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Double Boxes=Keith and Joe/StarLink
Tease#1
HARD MUSIC UNDER
ANCHOR=Keith
SS=NONE
Still to come on News 7 at Six--
There's a merger in the works in Danville, and it effects some five thousand
workers. We'll have the details.
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VO-NAT
and federal investigators comb through the wreckage of a small plane that
crashed last night in Franklin County. They're looking for clues as to what
went wrong.
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Plane-Crash
ANCHOR=Keith
NEWSCAST=6
WRITER=KHu
TAPE#96-17
GRAPHIC=Plane Crash Investigation
The small plane that crashed in Franklin County last night dropped out of
the sky like a rock.
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VO-NAT
SUPER=03-Franklin Co./Yesterday
Charles and Estelle Diseker were on their way to visit their son, an air
traffic controller in Leesburg.
The Austin, Texas couple apparently died on impact.
Federal Aviation Administration investigators spent several hours this
morning digging the propeller out of the ground.
Though there's an open field within a few yards of the crash site, it was
almost a vertical descent.
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SOT 13:23:15
IN Q=Pretty close to
((PRETTY CLOSE TO STRAIGHT DOWN. YOU CAN TELL BY LOOKING AT SOME OF THE LIMBS
THE WAY THEY WERE BROKEN. BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY IT'S IN A GROVE OF TREES. IF IT HAD
COME IN AT AN ANGLE THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A LOT MORE DAMAGE TO THE TREES RIGHT
HERE. SO YES IT WAS AT A RATHER STEEP ANGLE IT CAME IN.))
SUPER=01-Tom Jones/Federal Aviation Administration
RUNS=:12
OUT Q=it came in.
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***Keith on ENG***
Though it's a small plane, Jones says it's a "good, strong aircraft,"
pointing to how much of it remains intact following the crash.
The two-seater "home- built" aircraft went down around four o'clock
yesterday afternoon in the midst of a sudden shower.
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SOT Holt 10:00:25
IN Q=It come up
((IT COME UP A STORM HERE. AND THE WIND WAS AWFUL BAD. WE HEARD THIS PLANE. BUT
WE DIDN'T PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE NOISE WE THOUGHT THE WIND BLEW A TREE OVER.))
SUPER=10-Bill Holt/Franklin Co. Resident/Last Night; :00
RUNS=:15
OUT Q=tree over.
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VO-NAT
While investigators are looking into weather conditions at the time of the
accident, they also want to know if the engine was still turning at the point
of impact, and whether the controls were still intact.
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Textile-Workers
ANCHOR=Keith
NEWSCAST=6pm
WRITER=THa
TAPE#96-22
GRAPHIC=None
Virginia's largest Union is preparing to roll out the welcome mat for some
five- thousand workers in the Danville area.
Teresa Hamilton reports, the United Food and Commercial Workers' Union
already represents some 18- thousand workers in Virginia.
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SOT
IN Q=The workers
SUPER=03-Danville; :00
SUPER=01-George Frazier/Local UTWA President; :13
SUPER=01-Michael Fallen/Hickson DanChem Employee; :40
SUPER=@Teresa1; :52
SUPER=01-Tom McNutt/Local UFCW President; 1:01
RUNS=1:19
OUT Q=Hamilton, News 7.
(( The workers preparing to join the U-F-C-W are current members of the
United Textile Workers Union.
George Frazier represents the 4- thousand Dan River employees making the
switch.
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SOT
IN Q=You can't
((GEORGE FRAZIER/LOCAL UTWA PRESIDENT:YOU CAN'T ARGUE WITH POWER AND NUMBERS,
THEY SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES AND DOWN THROUGH THE YEARS WE'VE LOST MEMBERS DUE TO
FOREIGN IMPORTS AND AUTOMATION AND THE UFCW IS GOING TO BRING THAT BACK. ))
RUNS=:16
OUT Q=bring that back.
Three other Danville area unions are also planning to merge with the
U-F-C-W.
Those unions represent workers from Hickson Dan-Chem, Commodore Mobile Homes
and Ennis Business Forms.
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15:30:45
SOT
IN Q=For my
((MICHAEL FALLEN:FOR MY UNION, WE'RE RELATIVELY SMALL, WE HAVE ABOUT 67 MEMBERS
OUT OF A POSSIBLE 75. ECONOMICS, THAT'S WHAT IT WAS BASED ON PURELY ECONOMICS.
))
RUNS=:12
OUT Q=
stand up:
The local merger has actually been in the works for some time. It stems from
an agreement reached last fall between both international unions.
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SOT
IN Q=We think
((TOM MCNUTT/LOCAL UFCW PRESIDENT:BY CONSOLIDATING THERE'S OBVIOUSLY STRENGTH
IN NUMBER AND AN INCREASE IN RESOURCES THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO ORGANIZE AND
SERVICE THE EXISTING MEMBERSHIP.))
RUNS=:10
OUT Q=existing membership.
Three of the four local unions have already agreed to the merger. The fourth
is expected to vote Thursday night. Teresa Hamilton, News 7.))
Comair
ANCHOR=Keith
NEWSCAST=6pm
WRITER=lbe
TAPE#96-20
GRAPHIC=Roanoke Airport
One of the biggest beefs about the Roanoke Regional Airport is that most of
the flights are on prop planes.
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VO-NAT
SUPER=03-Roanoke;
Airport administrators hope today's announcement will help answer some of
those complaints.
SUPER=04-Comair Video;
Comair, Roanoke's Delta Connection says starting this summer it will bring
jet service here.
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SOT 10:16:34 FROM NEWSER
IN Q=We're now
((JOE KAUFMAN/COMAIR: WE'RE NOW IN A POSITION WHERE WE'RE BEGINNING TO UPGRADE
SERVICE IN A LOT OF OUR EXISTING CITIES, WHICH ARE SOMEWHAT SHORTER HAUL
MARKETS, BUT THERE CERTAINLY IS ENOUGH TRAFFIC TO WARRANT THE JET SERVICE.))
((MARK COURTNEY/AIRPORT ASST. DIRECTOR: WELL IT'S A BIG DEAL BECAUSE COMAIR
WILL REALLY REPRESENT OUR SECOND JET CARRIER AT ROANOKE. USAIR IS CURRENTLY
THE ONLY JET CARRIER.))
SUPER=01-Joe Kaufman/Comair; :00
SUPER=01-Mark Courtney/Airport Asst. Director; :14 (quick)
RUNS=:20
OUT Q=jet carrier.
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VO-NAT
Comair's jet service will begin with one roundtrip flight daily to its
Cincinnati hub.
The flights will be on Comair's new fleet of 50 seat Canadair (can-uh-DARE)
jets.
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Revco
ANCHOR=Keith
NEWSCAST=6pm
WRITER=lbe
TAPE#96-27
GRAPHIC=None
Federal regulators fear the merger of two drug store chains is a
prescription for higher prices.
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VO-NAT
SUPER=03-Roanoke/File Tape;
Today the Federal Trade Commission voted to file a lawsuit to block the deal
between Revco and Rite Aid.
Attorneys in Ohio, New York and other states are expected to file companion
suits.
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ANCHOR=Keith
SS=None
The deal involves about 48 hundred stores in 22 states, including Virginia.
Stocks
ANCHOR=Keith
NEWSCAST=six
WRITER=sly
TAPE#=Stocks
GRAPHIC=NONE
Stocks finished sharply lower today. The Dow lost 70 points and closed at 56
hundred 20.
NASDAQ dropped four points.
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SUPER=#D-69;
Aliff
ANCHOR=Keith
NEWSCAST=6 p.m.
WRITER=kmc
TAPE#96-25
GRAPHIC=Lisa Aliff
A judge has ordered former beauty queen Lisa Aliff to stop harassing her
ex- husband.
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VO-NAT
SUPER=03-Salem/Last Week
Bedford County Judge William Sweeney ruled the former Miss Virginia can
contact Rick Hawkins only once a week-- except for emergencies.
Judge Sweeney also ruled on the issue of Aliff's visitation rights for the
couple's five- year- old son, who lives with Hawkins.
Aliff can see the boy every other weekend-- and must also pay child
support.
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ANCHOR=Keith
SS=Aliff
Aliff recently moved back to the Roanoke Valley from California. She's
now selling time for K-92.
She was charged with parental kidnapping after she failed to return her
son to Virginia in time to start school.
But those charges were dropped.
PLAYGROUND
ANCHOR=KEITH
NEWSCAST=SIX
WRITER=PEV
TAPE#96-24
GRAPHIC=NONE
Kids will be climbing, swinging and playing on a brand new playground come
Sunday afternoon, thanks to a massive volunteer effort in Pembroke.
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VO-NAT
SUPER=03-Pembroke;
With the help of Leathers and Associates Architects out of New York, the
Giles County community is building Treasure Island Playground in the span of
just four days.
More than 1200 volunteers will have contributed to the effort by Sunday
evening, and children will be able to enjoy the new $70,000 facility.
It took more than a year to raise all the funds.
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SOT
IN Q=It's taken
(( ))
SUPER=01-Scott Keaton/Playground Volunteer;
RUNS=:11
OUT Q=fund raising.
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VO-NAT
Leathers & Associates has built hundreds of playgrounds across the country,
and asked for advice on the design of Treasure Island from students at Eastern
Elementary in Giles county.
Sports Tease
ANCHOR=Mike
NEWSCAST=6pm
WRITER=Mike
TAPE#SPORTS TEASE
GRAPHIC=NONE
Coming up tonight in sports, The Roanoke Rush has a new head coach, as does
N.C. State.
Some area linksters swing for charity today.
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VO-NAT eng#
and Steve Mason talks with Jeff Gordon about keeping his personal life on
track and out of the fast lane.
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S-Bulls
ANCHOR=Mike
NEWSCAST=6pm
WRITER=Mike
TAPE#bb96-3
GRAPHIC=BULLS
The Chicago Bulls hit the 70 win mark last night in Milwaukee as they shot
down the BUcks and shot themselves into the record books.
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VO-NAT eng#
SUPER=03-Milwaukee, WI/Last Night; :00
The 86-to-80 win makes the Bulls the first team in NBA history to win 70
games in a regular season.
It's an accomplishment that will likely take a while to sink in.
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SOT
IN Q="We JUST NEVER REALLY..
((MICHAEL JORDAN/22 POINTS LAST NIGHT:))
SUPER=01-Michael Jordan/22 Points Last Night; :00
RUNS=:22
OUT Q=...a championship."
S-State
ANCHOR=Mike
NEWSCAST=6pm
WRITER=mve
TAPE#BB-96-4
GRAPHIC=College Hoops
North Carolina State has a new head basketball coach.
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VO-NAT
SUPER=Raleigh, NC/This Morning;
Herb Sendek, who was the coach at Miami of Ohio, will replace Les Robinson
who resigned last month.
Wolfpack athletic director Todd Turner said he signed Sendek to a five year
contract because the school was looking for someone with a flawless character
and he fit the bill.
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S-Rush
ANCHOR=Mike
NEWSCAST=6pm
WRITER=Roy
TAPE#S6-2
GRAPHIC=Roanoke Rush
When the Roanoke Rush opens its second season of National Minor League
Football it will have a new head coach.
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VO-NAT ENG#
SUPER=03-Roanoke; :
The Rush has chosen defensive coordinator Duke Strager to replace Denie
Marie as head coach.
Strager was a defensive coordinator at Virginia Tech from 1987 to 1991.
He coached the defense at Concord College in 1992.
The Rush was 9 and 5 and lost in the first round of the playoffs last year.
Strager plans to build on what the team had last year plus make a bigger
effort to attract players from the area.
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SOT
IN Q="We've always felt
((DUKE STRAGER/RUSH HEAD COACH: ))
SUPER=01-Duke Strager/Rush Head Coach; :
RUNS=:17
OUT Q=......looking for."
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S-Golf
ANCHOR=Mike
NEWSCAST=6pm
WRITER=Mike
TAPE#S5-27
GRAPHIC=news 7 sports
It was a little windy today, but the sun was out and so were the golfers over
at Countryside.
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VO-NAT eng#
SUPER=03-Roanoke/This Afternoon; :00
For the past five years workers at the Cave Spring Corners Kroger store have
pooled their talents and energy to serve up a golf tournament to raise money
for the March of Dimes.
And this year the tournament expanded to two flights, and included 176
golfers including our own Roy Stanley.
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SOT
IN Q="We raise...
((JIM HENINGER/KROGER EMPLOYEE & GOLF VOLUNTEER:))
SUPER=01-Jim Heninger/Kroger Employee & Golf Volunteer; :00
RUNS=:19
OUT Q=...HELPED US."
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VO-NAT CON'T
Not surprisingly, Heninger and his Kroger comrades also managed to serve up
some serious grub for lunch.
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S-Gordon
ANCHOR=Mike
NEWSCAST=6pm
WRITER=sma
TAPE#=R-32
GRAPHIC=Jeff Gordon
Jeff Gordon has learned first hand that success does have a price, namely a
lack of free time and big time pressure.
But Steve Mason says, the Wonder Boy wouldn't change a thing.
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SOT
IN Q=first audio
SUPER=03-Danville; :08
SUPER=01-Jeff Gordon/1995 Winston Cup Champion; :16
SUPER=@Steve1; :46
SUPER=04-NBA; 1:07
SUPER=01-Timothy Peters/Legend Series Driver; 1:20
SUPER=01-Tom Nichols/Danville Coca-Cola Branch Manager; 1:26(QUICK)
SUPER=03-Martinsville; 1:30
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OUT Q=..news 7 sports"
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((The swarm of fans, the pressures to win for team and sponsor. It's enough
to go crazy. But not this 24 year old. His humbleness and appreciation make it
easy to understand how "wonder Boy" can apply to more than just driving
ability.
((JEFF GORDON:))
It seems the only thing Jeff has lost in the past few years is free time.
Especially with his new wife Brooke.
((GORDON:))
((STEVE MASON:))
((GORDON:))
In a time where some role models are receiving and giving bumps and
bruises, Gordon is quickly becoming dependable. At Danville's Coca-Cola branch
Gordon met 14 year old rising legends star Timothy Peters.
((TIMOTHY PETERS/IDOLIZES JEFF GORDON:))
((TOM NICHOLS/DANVILLE COCA-COLA MANAGER:))
Gordon has 10 Winston Cup wins in 3 years. His focus now turns to
Martinsville, where victory lane continues to elude him. In Danville, Steve
Mason News 7 sports.))
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Promo
ANCHOR=Keith
(toss to Jean)
NEWSCAST=6
WRITER=ssm
TAPE#Promo
From Waco to Montana, cult groups and militias have dominated the news in
recent years.
Double Boxes=Keith and Jean/Newsroom
And law enforcement officials have called in some outside help for expert
advice in how to deal with them.
Jean Jadhon joins us in the newsroom with more on that.
Live=Jean Full/Newsroom
SUPER=@Jean1;
Keith, Rick Ross is one of those cult group and militia experts whose
insight has been valuable to authorities in recent years.
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VO-NAT
Ross was consulted during the Branch Davidian siege in Waco in 1993.
He is currently assisting A-T-F agents with the Freemen standoff in Montana.
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Double Boxes=Keith and Jean/Newsroom
Ross is speaking at Lynchburg College tonight.
on News 7 at 11.
Join us for that story plus all the latest news, weather, and sports tonight
by SS