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HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL SEE TONIGHT ON NEWS-7 PRIMETIME...
AN EXECUTIVE AT A FORD PLANT IN MICHIGAN IS DEAD--AFTER A GUNMAN FIRED SEVERAL SHOTS AT THE PLANT AND A NEARBY FREEWAY.
THE DAILY BATTLE BETWEEN CSX AND NORFOLK SOUTHERN CONTINUES AS THE TWO RAILROADS TRY TO MERGE WITH CONRAIL. ))
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ANCHOR=Connie
NEWSCAST=10
WRITER=amo
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TOP STORY GRAPHIC 11004
It's Thursday, November 14th- tonight's Top Story
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Medical investigators now believe they've identified-- and eliminated-- the source of the New River Valley's Legionnaires's Disease outbreak.
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P-Legionnaires'


ANCHOR=Connie
NEWSCAST=10pm
WRITER=cst
TAPE#596-42
GRAPHIC=news-7 primetime


Good Evening, You're watching News 7 PRIMETIME on WEFC.
I'm Connie Stevens.
SS=LEgionnaires


The outbreak sickened 16 people, one of whom died-- from the acute form of pneumonia spread by the legionnella bacteria.
The Health Department, along with the Centers for Disease Control, identified a hot-tub on display at the Lowe's in Christiansburg as the likely source of the outbreak.
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((DAVID OLIVER/LOWE'S COMMUNITY RELATIONS DIRECTOR: WE HAVE IN FACT WORKED VERY CLOSELY IN COOPERATION WITH THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. WE'RE GLAD TO SAY THAT WE DO HAVE A CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH. ))
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The hot tub in question was dismantled by October ninth, before it was considered a possible source.
Health officials say the threat is over-- as a precaution, Lowe's also drained another tub, and will no longer use water in tubs at any of its stores.
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((DR. JODY HERSHEY/NEW RIVER HEALTH DIST. DIR.: SINCE THE INCUBATION PERIOD IS TWO TO 10 DAYS, ANYONE WHO VISITED THE STORE WHILE THE HOT TUB WAS IN USE AND WHO DID NOT DEVELOP FLU-LIKE SYMPTOMS OR PNEUMONIA BY NOW SHOULD BE REASSURED THAT HE OR SHE DID NOT CONTRACT THE DISEASE. ))
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Meantime, a local spa dealer says hot tub owners have nothing to worry about if they regularly maintain their spas.
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((BILL MAAS/WATERWORKS OF ROANOKE: REGULAR ROUTINE SHOULD BE CHECKING YOUR SPA TWICE A WEEK FOR PH, CHLORINE, OR BROMINE, SHOCKING YOUR SPA ONCE EVERY SEVEN TO 10 WORKING DAYS ))
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ANCHOR=Connie
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Two people are still hospitalized as a result of the outbreak, the first in Virginia.
Dr. Jody Hershey says he wouldn't be surprised if the C-D-C and spa manufacturers develop guidelines for display and home hot-tub use.

P-Ford


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((DANIEL BATEMEN/MICHIGAN STATE POLICE: WE MET AS A UNIT IN THE COMMAND CENTER AND CAME UP WITH A TACTICAL PLAN, IN ESSENCE TO GIVE THE SUSPECT A CHANCE TO SURRENDER-- WHICH HE DID-- WITHOUT INCIDENT. ))
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SUPER=03-Wixom, MI; :


The number-two official at a Ford plant outside Detroit is dead and a suspect is in custody following a shooting incident.
Three other people are reported injured -- one of them an Oakland County sheriff's deputy.
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ANCHOR=Connie
SS=shooting


The gunman also shot at cars on the nearby freeway, which was closed for five hours.
The gunman was not a Ford employee-- but apparently went to the plant to see his girlfriend who worked there.

p-Obremski


ANCHOR=Connie
NEWSCAST=10
WRITER=spr
TAPE#596-32
GRAPHIC=obremski


Prison time continues to mount for Michael Obremski... the man who made threatening phone calls to young girls in the Roanoke Valley.
This afternoon,
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SUPER=04-File Tape;

Obremski was sentenced in Botetourt County Circuit Court... where he received 16 years behind bars.
That's in addition to the 15- and- a half- years he received in Roanoke County.
Just last month, Obremski pleaded guilty to similar charges in Roanoke City... and admitted to being the Raleigh Court stalker.
He faces 45 more years in prison for those charges.
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P-Credit-fraud


ANCHOR=Connie
NEWSCAST=10
WRITER=KHu
TAPE#None
GRAPHIC=Legal Scales


A couple of Canadians have been charged with running up some big bills on phony credit cards at local Department stores.
Today's indictments say 26-year old Ryan Christopher Lee and 23-year old Quoui Long Lam tried to buy 25-hundred dollars worth of cosmetics at Leggett at Valley View Mall October 10th.
The same day they allegedly charged 900 dollars worth of merchandise at Leggett in Lynchburg... and another two-thousand at Hecht's.
Lynchburg police caught the pair carrying five counterfeit cards.
They'd already been suspected of charging 16-THOUSAND dollars at a Leggett in Virginia Beach in ONE day.
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ANCHOR=Connie
SS=NONE


The mission in Bosnia is winding down, as a new one begins in Africa.
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And you can have almost anything on your license plate these days-- when we come back we'll unveil the latest artwork for new tags...
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P-BOSNIA


ANCHOR=Connie
NEWSCAST=10pm
WRITER=cst
TAPE#NET
GRAPHIC=NONE


With nowhere to flee, food and water running out, and disease on the rise, the clock is ticking for more than one million refugees cut off from the rest of the world in Eastern Zaire.
It's a hot spot the U-S is being asked to aid, as another U-S mission is set to come to an end.
Lee Cowan has the story.
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Under international pressure to respond to scenes like this, the U-S is testing the waters.
An advance team is on the ground in rwanda to assess just how and where american troops could help. And administration officials are making the rounds at the U-N.
All of this being done without a clear sign from the President that U-S troops are going anywhere. GLEN DAVIES/STATE DEPARTMENT: WE'RE NOT GOING TO GO UNLESS WE HAVE THE DEGREE OF CONFIDENCE THAT I'VE OUTLINED. THAT WE CAN DO THIS AS EFFECTIVELY AND SAFELY AS POSSIBLE.
Under the proposal, about a thousand U-S troops would be sent to Goma where they would secure the airport and make safe a 2 mile corridor to coax more than a million starving refugees back to their homeland...a mission hauntingly familiar to another mission three years ago...
Somalia, 1993. 30 us soldiers died after being drawn into rebel fighting there...a humanitarian mission gone bad...a lesson for the future. (( WILLIAM PERRY/SECRETARY OF DEFENSE:OUR TROOPS THAT GO IN WILL GO IN ARMED AND WITH RULES OF ENGAGEMENT THAT WILL PROVIDE FOR THEIR OWN PROTECTION.))
Also on the president's increasingly full plate of foreign policy issues is the question of what to do with U-S troops in Bosnia. Despite a pledge to end that mission by the end of the year, it's beginning to look like that won't happen. MIKE MCCURY/WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN:ENDING THAT MISSION A7/8D REMOVING ALL PRESENCE DOES RUN THE RISK OF SEEING THAT THERE WOULD BE A RETURN TO HOSTILITIES.
Between the two missions, nearly 20-thousand American troops could be spending this christmas in a peace-keeping, or humanitarian capacity...that's if the President agrees both are necessary...an agreement which may be announced tomorrow.
Lee Cowan, CBS News, the White House.))

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ANCHOR=Connie
NEWSCAST=10
WRITER=lbe
TAPE#596-46
GRAPHIC=rail merger


The bidding war for Conrail has become a war of words.
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VO-NAT
SUPER=@File;


In a release today, Norfolk Southern accuses the merger agreement between C-S-X and Conrail of being anti- competitive.
N-S claims if the deal goes through, 64 cities served by two railroads would only have one.
N-S adds if IT were to merge with Conrail, competitive rail service would be preserved.
C-S-X could not be reached for comment.
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P-License-Plates


ANCHOR=Connie
NEWSCAST=10pm
WRITER=jmo
TAPE#596-43
GRAPHIC=Virginia Seal


It's been nearly five years since the Commonwealth has produced a newly designed license plate.
Tonight, the Department of Motor Vehicles moved one step closer.
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VO-NAT
SUPER=03-Roanoke;


After going through more than 35- hundred entries statewide, the D-M-V has narrowed down the count to six in our area.
Middle and high school students submitted the entries.
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(( BETH WILLIAMS/MARTINSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL: OH GOD. IT'S LIKE I'M SO HONORED. I NEVER EXPECTED TO BE A SEMIFINALISTS. I'M JUST SO EXCITED AND HAPPY AND JUST REALLY PROUD.
AIMEE BROWN/LIBERTY HIGH SCHOOL: IT GOT DOWN TO THE LAST MINUTE. I COULDN'T THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE. I JUST WENT AHEAD AND DREW SOME FLOWERS LAUGH OUT.))
SUPER=01-Beth Williams/Martinsville High School; :00
SUPER=01-Aimee Brown/Liberty High School; :12
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VO-NAT


Each of the finalists receives a 500 dollar U-S Savings Bond.
These entries will go up against winners from other districts in the state.
The Grand prize winner will be announced in December.
The new plates will go on sale in May.
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ANCHOR=Connie
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Stick around--
And a few changes in the process for organ transplantation.
There may be a few better ways to help share the gift of life.
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Plus the King of Pop-- takes a queen, again.
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ANCHOR=Connie
NEWSCAST=10
WRITER=amo
TAPE#net
GRAPHIC=jackson, Michael


The gloved one is now the wedded one....again.
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VO-NAT
SUPER=03-Sydney, Australia


The king of Pop, Michael Jackson was reportedly married this morning in Sydney Australia--where he is on tour.
A spokeswoman confirms he married Debbie Rowe, the woman carrying his baby.
Jackson has known Rowe for 15 years.
She works for the doctor who treated him for his skin condition.
A statement from Jackson says, "Please respect our privacy and let us enjoy this wonderful and exciting time."
Rowe reportedly is due to give birth to Jackson's baby in February.
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ANCHOR=Connie
SS=HOLD


It's the second marriage for both... Last year, Jackson divorced Lisa Marie Presley.
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Stay tuned-- News-7 Primetime on WEFC, will be right back. cc sponsor go to break

P-Organ-Donors


ANCHOR=Connie
NEWSCAST=10pm
WRITER=JoeD
TAPE#596-34
GRAPHIC=organ donors


In Virginia, more than 13- hundred people are waiting for organ transplants...
And last year more than one hundred died before an organ became available.
Today, a state panel brought its search for more donors to Roanoke.
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((WARD TEEL/HEART TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT: IF ALL THE ORGANS THAT COULD BE TRANSPLANTED WERE, THERE WOULD NOT BE A SHORTAGE AS MUCH AS WE EXPERIENCE TODAY.))
SUPER=01-Ward Teel/Heart Transplant Recipient;
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SUPER=03-Roanoke;


Former Delegate Ward Teel received a heart transplant two years ago today.
He was one of the speakers who asked for changes in state law that will encourage more people to donate their organs.
One proposal would require hospitals to call in organ procurement counselors whenever they identify a potential donor.
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((ANTONIO BENEDI/LIVER TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT: WHEN A HOSPITAL NURSE OR DOCTOR ASKS NEXT OF KIN ABOUT DONATION, THEY GET ABOUT AN EIGHT PERCENT CONSENT RATIO. WHEN THE O- P- O, THE PROFESSIONAL TRANSPLANT CENTERS ASK, THEY GET A 64 PERCENT CONSENT RATE. IT'S AN INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF DIFFERENCE AND THAT SAVES LIVES.))
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ANCHOR=Connie
SS=HOLD


Another proposal would make the drivers license consent form a binding commitment, even when family members disagree.
The subcommittee will make recommendations to the 1997 session of the General Assembly.

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ANCHOR=Connie
NEWSCAST=10pm
WRITER=cst
TAPE#596-45
GRAPHIC=organ transplants


Meantime, today, The United Network for Organ Sharing has changed it's policy on liver transplants.
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VO-NAT


People with chronic liver failure were the first in line-- that's changed, though.
Now, experts want people with the best chance of survival to get the first shot at liver transplants.
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cool-video


ANCHOR=Connie
NEWSCAST=10
WRITER=amo
TAPE#cool video
GRAPHIC=News-7 primetime


Slim pickins for our video of the day, but not for Patricia Hammond--
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VO-NAT
SUPER=75-Roanoke


You see she has quite a variety of dinners now-- after being selected the winner of the Great Swanson Freezer Raid-- at the Town Square Kroger in Roanoke.
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((3...2....1..GO!...THERE SHE GOES! ))
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Hammond was given just 30-seconds to nab the frozen dinners from the case--in a promotion sponsored by radio station Q-99.
She dumped the dinners in the cart, and then made a second trip.
After the food was tallied and bagged--the grand total--a whopping 34-dollars and 51 cents...
Hammond says she wasn't surprised her name was picked.
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You'd think Hammond would go home and pop one of the dinners in the microwave to treat herself--think again, she says she's giving the frozen foods to her son as a birthday present.
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SP-Score


ANCHOR=Mike
NEWSCAST=10pm
WRITER=Mike
TAPE#s6-21
GRAPHIC=NONE


Tonight on Primetime sports here on WEFC, Botetourt and Byrd look to earn spots in the state tournament, Roy Stanley checks in from the ODAC women's hoop day.
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SUPER=04-MLB; :00


But first a couple of baseball items as the Rangers Juan Gonzalez is named the American League MVP.
Former Salem Buccaneer, Orlando Merced is part of a nine player trade today between the Pirates and his new team Toronto.
SUPER=03-Frostburg, MD/July 1995;


And Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke is in the intensive care unit at Georgetown University Hospital.
He reportedly became ill over the weekend and has been in the hospital since Monday.
Now your numbers.
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SP-Botetourt


ANCHOR=mike
NEWSCAST=10pm
WRITER=twe
TAPE#-Girl-96
GRAPHIC=Girls' Hoops


Regional semifinal action took center stage in tonight's version of Thursday night at the hoop with state tournament berths on the line down in Rustburg.
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VO-NAT #eng
SUPER=03-Rustburg/Lady Hawks vs. Lady Cavaliers;


David Wheat watched his defending state champs jump out to a 16 point lead before Gretna even scored.
But the Lady Hawks caught fire from the outside. Tara Barbour finds the range on the long 3, and Gretna had made a game of it, trailing by only 7 at the break.
Botetourt opened things up in the second half. Katrina Elliot with the feed to Takisha Basham who scores off the window for 2 of her 12 on the night.
Then watch Sara Moore take it to the rack in transition for the deuce. She
had a game high 22. Sara Hicks SUPER=33-Lord Botetourt/=70/Gretna/=50;

added 16 and Botetourt returns to the double A tourney with a 70 to 50 win.
In the nightcap, William Byrd was SUPER=04-Lady Terriers vs. Lady Cavs;

looking for the Blue Ridge sweep.
And it looked as though the Terriers would get it early on. Somebody call the cops...Andrea Gay gets the pick and scores to get things started.
Dawn Chewning gets into the act stroking the long range jumper to put Byrd up by 4 halfway through the opening quarter.
Forest hung tough. Kimmie Reeves misses the 15 footer, but Kristen Lowe
picks up the loose change and scores in SUPER=34-William Byrd/=51/Jefferson
Forest/=45;

the paint for the Lady Cavs, but Byrd wins it 51 to 45, and sets up yet another showdown with Botetourt on Saturday at Salem High School.
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SP-ODAC


ANCHOR=Mike
NEWSCAST=10pm
WRITER=Roy
TAPE#BB97-1
GRAPHIC=ODAC Logo


It's called the Old Dominion athletic conference, but this year a team from South of the state line is picked to win the league.
Roy Stanley has more on that from the ODAC's preseason media day in Salem.
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SUPER=01-Susan Dunagan/Roanoke College Head Coach; :19
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SUPER=01-Barb Bausch/Guilford Head Coach; :43
SUPER=01-Karen Harvey/Hollins Head Coach; 1:09
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((Last year Randolph Macon ended Roanoke's string of ODAC titles beating the Maroons in the Championship games.
Both teams advanced to the N-C-Double-A Playoffs that season.
In the preseason poll picked by the coaches the Randolph Macon was picked third and the Lady Maroons of Roanoke College second.)) ((SUSAN DUNAGAN/ROANOKE COLLEGE HEAD COACH: )) ((CARROLL LAHAYE/RANDOLPH-MACON HEAD COACH: )) ((With five starters returning, Guilford College from Greensboro was picked number one in the preseason.)) ((BARB BAUSCH/GUILFORD COLLEGE HEAD COACH: )) ((rounding out the top 10 are Bridgewater, Emory & henry, Eastern Mennonite, Virginia Wesleyan, Lynchburg, Washington and lee, Randolph-Macon Woman's College and Hollins.
But Karen Harvey, in her second year as head coach at Hollins, is expecting more from this years team.)) ((KAREN HARVEY/HOLLINS HEAD COACH: )) ((The ladies tournament will be held at the salem Civic Center February 27-th through March the first.))
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SP-College


ANCHOR=Mike
NEWSCAST=10pm
WRITER=Mike
TAPE#none
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PINNACLE FULL SCREEN (18075)
And don't forget Saturday at 3:30 over on WDBJ you can catch the Big East game of the week as the Hokies travel to MIami to battle the Hurricanes in the Orange Bowl.
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preview-boards


ANCHOR=Connie
NEWSCAST=10
WRITER=amo
TAPE#bds
GRAPHIC=none


Here's what we're working on in the newsroom for NEWS-7 at 11.
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SUPER=76-Prisons Under Pressure


Ellen Qualls wraps up her series, Prisons Under Pressure--
SUPER=77-Solutions?


Tonight-- a look at some solutions to ease tensions and possible violence behind the razor wire.
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ANCHOR=Connie
SS=NONE

watching NEWS-7 Primetime, see you tomorrow, goodnight. Prisons Under Pressure in 30-minutes on NEWS-7 at 11 on WDBJ-7. Thanks for
by SS