WDBJ 7 news at 11 for 11/09/96

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Coming up next on News 7 at 11...
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Yesterday's storm in Henry County could have a million dollar price tag.
We'll check with residents who are cleaning up.
Who's in, who's out, and what's Colin Powell up to?
The latest on the Clinton cabinet scorecard.
And California says yes to medical marijuana.
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News 7 at 11 is next.

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SOT 12:45:19
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((MIKE CRAIG/KELLY RENTALS: WATCHED THE MOVIE AND LIKE YOU SAID, THE MOVIE TWISTER IT MAKES YOU REALLY APPRECIATE WHAT YOU'VE GOT WHEN SOMETHING REALLY DOES COME THROUGH AND TAKE IT AWAY. ))
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Henry County residents continue to cleanup following yesterday's storms.
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ANCHOR=Eric
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Good Evening.
I'm Eric Earnhart.

Storm-Follow

ANCHOR=Eric
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It WASN'T a tornado that ripped through Martinsville and Axton yesterday, but straight- line winds still destroyed homes and damaged businesses... losses could total close to one million dollars.
Yet residents say things could have been much worse.
Steve Smallshaw reports.
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Twenty- four hours after a severe storm hopscotched through Henry County, the physical and mental scars were all that remained.
Mike Craig and another employee at Kelly Rentals near Martinsville were watching the storm approach when the front window of their business exploded.
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((MIKE CRAIG/KELLY RENTALS: WHILE WE WAS RUNNING, YOU COULD FEEL GLASS HITTING YOU IN THE BACK. ABOUT THE TIME YOU LOOKED UP AND YOU COULD HEAR SOMETHING ABOVE YOU AND THE WHOLE ROOF WAS COMING UP WITH IT.))
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Damage to the building was extensive...and thousands of dollars worth of merchandise inside was ruined by rain and falling debris.
Next door at Koger, losses ran into the HUNDREDS of thousands.
Collapsed walls, broken windows and this unwanted addition of a mobile home were just part of the problem.
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((STEVE EANES/HENRY CO. PUBLIC SAFETY DIRECTOR: TODAY WE'VE JUST BEEN GOING AROUND TOUCHING BASE WITH EVERYBODY THAT HAD DAMAGE, MAKE SURE THAT WE GOT NOTIFIED OF EVERYBODY THAT SUFFERED DAMAGE FROM THE STORM.))
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((So today was a day for totalling up losses and counting some blessings. Even in the midst of the wreckage of their homes, residents here consider themselves lucky. The storm may have destroyed these houses, but it did not claim any lives.))
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((WAVERLY COUSIN/TRAILER PARK OWNER: AND FOR THE MOST PART WHAT WE HAVE, THE DAMAGE IS REPLACEABLE. AND IT'S ALSO THINGS THAT SINCE THEY HAVE THEIR LIFE AND GOOD HEALTH AND NO SERIOUS INJURIES, THEY JUST FEEL SO GOOD ABOUT THAT, THAT THEY SORT OF ACCEPT THE REST OF IT.))
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Replacing homes and repairing businesses will take several weeks.
It will be much longer, though, before the memory of this storm begins to fade.
Steve Smallshaw, News7, Henry County.))

Sex-Scandal

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More suspensions in the growing Army sex scandal.
Another fifteen drill sergeants and instructors at the Aberdeen Proving
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Grounds in Maryland have been suspended with pay during the investigation.
Those 15 haven't been charged with any criminal acts at this point.
Earlier this week, four drill sergeants and a captain were charged with offenses ranging from rape to sending love letters to women trainees.
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Hill

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Her allegations of sexual harassment rocked the Supreme Court nomination of Clarence Thomas.
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Now Anita Hill has been offered a new job at the University of California at Berkeley where she'd research gender relations in the workplace.
Hill, who taught law at Oklahoma University for ten years, left her post last week saying she wanted to work in a setting which provided better support for diversity of ideas.
In 1991, Hill accused Thomas of harassing her while they worked together some years earlier.
Thomas was finally confirmed by the Senate.
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Clinton-Cabinet

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Colin Powell says he'd consider joining President Clinton's new Cabinet.
But the retired general says nobody's contacted him about a job.
SS=Clinton, Bill

Clinton is faced with filling some six Cabinet vacancies in the coming weeks.
Russ Mitchell reports.
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(( President Clinton unwound last night with Vice President Gore and long time pal Vernon Jordan.
This weekend the president is focussing on who to name to fill several key cabinet positions...and hinted that he is looking at Republicans to fill some of the open seats.
CLINTON: I THINK WE OUGHT TO TRY TO HAVE A GOVERNMENT THAT CAN UNIFY THE COUNTRY. I'VE CAST A VERY WIDE NET IN LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO SERVE IN THIS ADMINISTRATION. I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF WE HAD REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATION, I CERTAINLY HOPE WE WILL!
After Secretary of State Warren Christopher resigned...Republican senator Dick Lugar was rumored to be under consideration for the post...but yesterday he said he was not interested.
Former General Colin Powell last night told an Orlando newspaper that he WOULD consider such an offer...though he stressed that no one has contacted him.
The cabinet is quickly emptying out.
Leaving are Defense Sgcretary Wimliam Perry...Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor...Labor Secretary Robert Reich...Transportation Secretary Federico Pena...and Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary.
Staying are the secretaries of Treasury...Agriculture...Health and Human Services..Education...Interior...as well as the Attorney General.
Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros is expected to leave...as is White House advisor George Stephanopoulos.
President Clinton is expected to propose new cabinet members quickly.
He has indicated he wants to keep up the momentum during this transition time between election and inaugural.
Next week he leaves on vacation and then to Australia for a summit...it's expected decisions will be reached before then.
Meanwhile Bob Dole was doing some unwinding of his OWN last night....appearing on CBS's David Letterman show...
LETTERMAN: YOU LOOK GREAT! YOU LOOK LIKE YOU'RE NOT TIRED, LIKE YOU'RE ALL
READY TO BOUNCE BACK AND BE READY TO GO! SOT: DOLE I'M READY, BUT NO PLACE TO
GO. (LAUGHS NICELY)
In fact Dole joked he is going down to Florida for awhile to work on his tan.
Anything BEYOND that, he won't say.
Russ Mitchell, CBS News, Washington.))

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HARD MUSIC UNDER
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Still to come on the broadcast,
Are the nation's drug laws getting to loose?
Residents in two states have already voted to decriminalize marijuana.
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And closer to home...a state lawmaker is fighting to keep hard liquor ads off the Commonwealth's airwaves.
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Kim in WX CENTER
It looks like Old Man Winter is giving us a bit of a preview--
Scattered snow showers made up the big weather story today.
The higher elevations received as much as a couple of inches of snow-- but most of the viewing area had little or no accumulation.
Let's check out the numbers... Roll Lake Levels MUSIC UP FULL
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Liquor

ANCHOR=Eric
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WRITER=jmo
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A state lawmaker wants A-B-C stores to take hard liquor off the shelves if liquor companies advertise on Virginia T-V or radio stations.
This comes after liquor companies nationwide announced Thursday to end its ban to put liquor ads on the air.
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Delegate George Grayson asked the Alcoholic Beverage Control board yesterday to keep the ads off Virginia's airwaves.
A-B-C officials say the board's unlikely to begin banning liquor sales based on advertising decisions.
State regulations prohibit such advertising.
In his weekly radio address, President Clinton says liquor makers have made it tougher to raise children with this week's decision.
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((PRESIDENT CLINTON: I COMMEND THE FOUR MAJOR BROADCAST FOR SAYING THEY'LL CONTINUE TO HONOR THE BAN AND KEEP LIQUOR ADS OFF THE AIR. I URGE ALL OTHER BROADCASTERS TO FOLLOW THAT EXAMPLE. ))
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Grayson says he's worried the ads will find their way into the state via cable channels.
A-B-C officials say there's nothing to suggest that hard liquor ads promote drinking.
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Race-Relations

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Lieutenant Governor Don Beyer is organizing a conference to promote race relations.
At an appearance at Norfolk State University today, Beyer said he's working with the Legislative Black Caucus and community and religious leaders to organize the event.
The presumptive Democratic nominee for governor next year says the meeting will be held next month to provide time to develop proposals for the General Assembly session that starts in January.

Beyer

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With control of the State Senate hanging in the balance, the race to replace Virgil Goode promises to be a hard- fought and closely- watched contest.
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It now appears that Republican Delegate Allen Dudley and Democratic Delegate Roscoe Reynolds are the most likely candidates to contend for the job.
Beyer says both political parties have plenty at stake.
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((LT. GOV. DON BEYER: IF I LOOK AT THIS SELFISHLY AS THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE. IT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A 20 - 20 SENATE AND A 21 - 19. THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT MARGIN, BECAUSE YOU WORK YOUR WILL ON EVERYTHING FROM PROCEDURE TO SENATE RULES TO HOW BILLS ARE REFERRED. AND I THINK WE'VE THRIVED THE LAST YEAR WITH A 20 TO 20 SENATE. WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO PRESERVE IT.))
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The special election to choose Goode's successor in the State Senate is likely to happen sometime next month.

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Sports Tease

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And coming up, The Roanoke Rush comes up short Floyd County wins the Three Rivers title.
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And Pulaski County and Northside will high school football games this afternoon.
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S-Rush

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The Roanoke Rush season ended this afternoon in the Semi finals of the Minor League Football Playoffs.
Hammond beats the Rush 10 to 9.
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The Rush entered the game with a 12 and 1 record.
But the Blue thunder made it a close game in the fourth quarter Doug Colestran goes to the air and hits John Westbrook on the touchdown pass and Hammond took the 10 to 9 lead.
Hammond turned it over with 2 SUPER=36-Hammond/10/Roanoke/9/;minutes
left but the Rush missed this field goal that would have won the game instead Hammond advances with the 10 to 9 win.
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S-FFE

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A number of Friday Football Extra's big games from last night were moved to today because of the inclimate yesterday.
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SUPER=03-Roanoke Co./Lord Botetourt vs. Northside; :00

But as you can see the weather wasn't a whole lot better today as Northside hosted Lord Botetourt.
This one was scoreless in the second when Botetourt Defensive End Derrick Stanley tipped this Xavier Lee pass into the hands of linebacker allen Brown, who returns it for a touchdown to make it 7-to-nothing Cavaliers.
But Northside would come back in the snow with the X-Men, as Xavier Lee hands off to fullback Xavier Cargile, and the 225 pound back coasts in for the TD.
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Northside wins it 20-to-14 to make the playoffs, while Botetourt now has to get ready for the postseason with a banged up Wesley Cox who injured his left shoulder.
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On the other end of Roanoke County it was senior day at Cave Spring, as the Pulaski County Cougars came in looking to wrap up the RVD title.
The Cougar defense would set the tone early with two quick interceptions. Corey Paxton's pass is picked off by J.R. Brown, who makes a nice return.
The Cougar offense would then get busy with Ronald Branch dropping this pass into the hands of Craig Hodge who breaks tackles and gets inside the five.
SUPER=36-Pulaski Co./38/Cave Spring/0;

Ryan Brockmeyer would then roll in for the score as the Cougars win the Roanoke Valley district title 38-to-nothing.
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Also today, Parry McCluer beat Bath County, Radford topped Auburn. And Staunton River beat Appomattox.

S-Hoops

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Floyd County looked to defend their Three Rivers Championship in christiansburg this afternoon.
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For the fourth time this year the Lady Buffs of Floyd County would lock horns with Dennis Layman and his Lady Highlanders of Glenvar.
After leading by six at the half, Floyd would get a big third quarter from Lisa Smith as she gets the stickback for two of her game high 15 points.
Glenvar would attempt to comeback as Amanda Kennedy gets the assist to Amy Layman for a three pointer.
But Floyd would hold down the SUPER=33-Floyd Co./46/Glenvar/35/;stretch
as Karen Pursifull drives down the lane and hits the jumper Floyd county wins the district title 46 to 35.
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Politics

ANCHOR=Eric
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The election season has ended, but odds are we'll be talking about the races for some time.
Len Besthoff has the story.
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For starters, who would have thought Mark Warner would have run so close to John Warner in Virginia's U-S Senate race?
Syndicated Columnist Ray Garland expected this would happen.
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((RAY GARLAND/SYNDICATED COLUMNIST: CERTAINLY HE WOULD HAVE BEEN BOOSTED A LITTLE BIT BY WHAT SEEMED TO BE A DEMOCRATIC TIDE FLOWING OFF THE NATIONAL ELECTIONS. THE BIG QUESTION MARK IS TO WHAT EXTENT DID JOHN WARNER'S REFUSAL TO DEFEND HIS OWN VOTING RECORD OR DEFEND THE VOTING RECORD OF THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESS HELP HIM OR HURT HIM? ))
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And what kind of an impact will Virgil Goode have on Washington, knowing the Congressman- elect is an independent minded legislator?
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((BUD OAKEY/ROANOKE REGIONAL CHAMBER: I THINK THAT PUTS HIM INTO A VERY POWERFUL NEGOTIATING POSITION WHEN HE GOES TO WASHINGTON BECAUSE HE IS OF THE MINDSET WHERE HE COULD BE A SWING VOTE EITHER WAY DEPENDING ON THE ISSUE.))
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For more of this Election day post- mortem, watch On Record, Sunday morning Len Besthoff, News-7.)) at 11, on WDBJ.

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Liquor

Race-Relations

Beyer

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Sinatra

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