06:00-01
Wx-Head
ANCHOR=Kimberly
A wintry mix as you start the work week--
We could see some sleet or freezing rain beginning by this afternoon.
The complete forecast is straight ahead.
Live-Head
Anchor=Larry
(Larry ad libs live headline)
Talent=Melanie
News 7 Mornin' is next.
Cosby
ANCHOR=Melanie
NEWSCAST=Morn
WRITER=mel
TAPE#Net
GRAPHIC=Murder Investigation
A grieving Bill Cosby has broke his silence in an exclusive interview with
C-B-S News.
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VO-NAT
SUPER=03-New York, NY;
Cosby talked about his need to get back to a normal life and says he's
confident the Los Angeles Police
SUPER=04-January 16
are doing everything they can to find Ennis Cosby's killer.
But with the picture of his son over his shoulder Cosby confesses that his
wife doesn't quite share that feeling.
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SOT
IN Q=
(("There's a difference in this house. Mrs. Cosby wants this man. I mean she
verbalizes she wants him. She refuses to accept the fact that this thing is
still out there. She doesn't accept the fact that nobody comes forward to
help -- with the truth."
))
SUPER=07-Bill Cosby
RUNS=:43
OUT Q=with the truth.
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VO-NAT
Cosby was interviewed yesterday afternoon on the set of the "Cosby Show" in
New York City.
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ANCHOR=Melanie
ss=None
You can hear more of Dan Rather's exclusive interview with Cosby today on
the CBS News broadcast "This Morning" and the "CBS Evening News".
Roanoke-Fire
ANCHOR=Melanie
NEWSCAST=Morn
WRITER=sly
TAPE#96-105
GRAPHIC=Fire
A Roanoke home was heavily damaged by fire overnight.
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VO-NAT
SUPER=03-Roanoke
It happened shortly after two a-m in the 22-hundred block of Hanover Avenue
on the city's Northwest side.
The home was unoccupied and is in the process of being remodeled.
It's the second fire at the house in recent months.
Firefighters say the upper portion of the two story home sustained several
thousand dollars worth of damage.
No word on what caused the blaze.
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olympic-bomb
ANCHOR=Melanie
NEWSCAST=Morn
WRITER=mel
TAPE#Net
GRAPHIC=Olympics Explosion
A Spokane newspaper reports there may be a connection between a series of
bank robberies and bombings in Spokane last fall and the Olympic Park bombing
in Atlanta.
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VO-NAT
SUPER=03-Spokane, WA/October 1996;
Yesterday the "Spokesman Review" reported that the military surplus
dealer who helped lead the F-B-I to the three Spokane suspects, now says he
sold a military backpack to the same three men, and spoke to them about a
time-delayed detonator.
SUPER=03-Atlanta/July 27, 1996;
Those were the devices used in the Olympic Park bombing.
Still, sources tell C-B-S news that while the F-B-I has interviewed the men
about the bombing, they are not prime suspects.
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Stranded
ANCHOR=Melanie
NEWSCAST=Morn
WRITER=mel
TAPE#Net
GRAPHIC=None
Dozens of fisherman remain on an unstable chunk of ice in a Canadian lake
this morning, refusing to leave.
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VO-NAT
SUPER=03-Jackson Pt., Ontario;
Hundreds have already been rescued since the ice cracked and separated them
from shore this weekend.
They were participating in an ice-fishing contest.
In some places the gap is more than one hundred yards wide.
Some 200 people are still on the ice.
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Stocks
SUPER=x5007;
Southern-Heritage
ANCHOR=Melanie
NEWSCAST=Morn
WRITER=Dal
TAPE# 97-1
GRAPHIC=None
The Confederate Flag means different things to different people, and that was
evident again yesterday in Danville, at the Fourth Annual Lee-Jackson Southern
Heritage Parade.
Denise Allen reports.
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SOT
IN Q=What this flag
SUPER=03-Danville; :00
SUPER=01-Wayne Byrd/Heritage Preservation Association; :14
SUPER=01-Rev. William Avon Keen/Danville SCLC; :25
SUPER=@Denise2; 1:20
RUNS=1:28
OUT Q=7 Danville
(( What this flag symbolizes is still up for debate.
To some it represents racism.
To members of the Heritage Preservation Association it's the symbol of the
Civil War.
A war they say that was not about slavery.
((WAYNE BYRD/HERITAGE PRESERVATION ASSN: THAT WAS THE ISSUE OF THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT BEING SERVANTS OF THE STATES, NOT BEING A MANDATING, DICTATING,
CENTRALIZED GOVERNMENT.))
((REV. WILLIAM AVON KEEN/DANVILLE S.C.L.C.: IT CAN BE USED AS A TOOL TO
EDUCATE ABOUT WHAT DIVISION CAN CAUSE. IT CAUSED BROTHER TO FIGHT BROTHER,
COUSIN TO FIGHT COUSIN AND IT DIVIDED THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.))
Should the Confederate Flag fly over state buildings?
In South Carolina, voters will decide.
But Rev. Keen says that issue was decided with bloodshed and political
action in the 18-hundreds.
((KEEN: THIS IS A CLEAR PICTURE TO US THERE ARE POCKETS OF CONFEDERATE
SYMPATHIZERS IN THE UNITED STATES AND ABROAD THAT STILL DON'T BELIEVE THAT ALL
MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL.))
((BYRD: THAT'S WHY WE'RE HERE. WE'RE RECLAIMING OUR HERITAGE. WE'RE NOT
GOING TO LET THE HATE GROUPS SUBVERT THE REAL MEANING OF OUR COUNTRY'S FLAG
WHICH IS THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA. THIS FLAG WASN'T GIVEN UP
WILLINGLY. IT WAS TAKEN FROM US BY ARMED INVASION.))
Both Rev. Keen and Wayne Byrd say if everyone was educated on what the war
was REALLY about, the debate would be over.
Denise Allen News 7 Danville.))
Shell-Building
ANCHOR=Melanie
NEWSCAST=Morn
WRITER=lbe
TAPE# 97-2
GRAPHIC=None
One obstacle faced by the Roanoke Valley as it tries to attract new
businesses to the area is a lack of developed sites.
But that could change in a few months.
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VO-NAT
A new building should be on the market in Botetourt County by mid- year.
Plans were unveiled recently for a shell building that will go in the Vista
Corporate Park.
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SOT 11:48:18
IN Q=It's the
((ANN PIEDMONT/ECON. DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP: IT'S THE SAME PARK WHERE A-O
SMITH IS AND AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THE PHOTO, IT'S GOING TO MAKE QUITE A HANDSOME
ADDITION TO THE PARK, AND A GREAT ADDITION TO OUR BUILDING INVENTORY THAT WE'LL
BE ABLE TO MARKET FAR AND WIDE.))
SUPER=01-Ann Piedmont/Economic Dev. Partnership;
RUNS=:12
OUT Q=far and wide.
ANCHOR=Melanie
SS=None
The region has a good track record when it comes to shell buildings.
Another one that was constructed recently is now occupied by York
International, which eventually expects to have 160 employees.
Before York bought it, the shell building was visited by 16 different
companies.
One of those firms ended up locating its business right next door to York.
Belk
ANCHOR=Melanie
NEWSCAST=Morn
WRITER=eea
TAPE# none
GRAPHIC=None
The president of the Belk department store chain is dead.
71 year old Thomas Milburn Belk died Saturday at a Charlotte hospital.
Belk was the son of William Henry Belk, the company founder.
Last year Belk bought out the Virginia-based Leggett store chain.
Two weeks ago it was announced that existing Leggett stores will soon begin
using the Belk name.
Common-Sense
ANCHOR=Melanie
NEWSCAST=Mornin'
WRITER=lbe
TAPE#Common Sense
GRAPHIC=Common Sense
There are changes you need to be aware of for the 19-97 tax season.
Len Besthoff has more in this week's edition of Common Sense.
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SOT
IN Q=From year
SUPER=@Len1; :00
SUPER=01-Bill Williams/H&R Block; :09
RUNS=:46
OUT Q=the newsdesk.
((
(/////SOT/////)
SOT tape one 6:20:55
IN Q=From
((From year to year the tax code changes. And you need to keep up with these
differences. Bill Williams with H&R Block explains.))
RUNS=:08
OUT Q=explains.
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SOT TAPE ONE 05:56:46
IN Q=For 1996
((BILL WILLIAMS/H&R BLOCK: FOR 1996 RETURNS THE PERSONAL EXEMPTION HAS
INCREASED TO 2,550 DOLLARS THE STANDARD DEDUCTION HAS INCREASED FOR ALL OF
THOSE TAXPAYERS WHO DO NOT ITEMIZE. AND ABOUT 70 PERCENT OF ALL TAXPAYERS DO
CLAIM THE STANDARD DEDUCTION. IT'S 6700 FOR MARRIED COUPLES FILING JOINTLY.
THAT'S UP FROM 6550 DOLLARS. FOR A SINGLE TAXPAYER, THE DEDUCTION IS FOUR-
THOUSAND, THAT'S AN INCREASE FROM THREE- THOUSAND- NINE- HUNDRED- DOLLARS. A
lot of this has to do with inflation. WILLIAMS: YES, THESE ARE INFLATIONARY
ADJUSTMENTS THAT ARE BUILT INTO THE REVENUE SYSTEM, THE REVENUE CODE.))
RUNS=:33
OUT Q=revenue code.
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SOT TAPE TWO 06:30:21
IN Q=I'm Len Besthoff
((I'm Len Besthoff with this week's edition of Common Sense, let's send it back
to the newsdesk.))
RUNS=:04
OUT Q=newsdesk.))
2-Cosby
ANCHOR=Melanie
NEWSCAST=Morn
WRITER=mel
TAPE#Net
GRAPHIC=Murder Investigation
Actor Bill Cosby says the murder of his son Ennis will not change who he
is.
Cosby spoke publicly yesterday for the first time since the murder, in an
exclusive interview with C-B-S News.
(----------------)
VO-NAT
SUPER=03-New York, NY;
Cosby talked about his need to get back to normal life and says he's
confident the Los Angeles Police are
SUPER=04-January 16
doing everything they can to find Ennis Cosby's killer.
But with the picture of his son over his shoulder Cosby confesses that his
wife doesn't quite share that feeling.
(/////SOT/////)
SOT
IN Q=
(("There's a difference in this house. Mrs. Cosby wants this man. I mean she
verbalizes she wants him. She refuses to accept the fact that this thing is
still out there. She doesn't accept the fact that nobody comes forward to
help -- with the truth."
))
SUPER=07-Bill Cosby
RUNS=:43
OUT Q=with the truth.
(----------------)
VO-NAT
Cosby was interviewed yesterday afternoon on the set of the "Cosby Show" in
New York City.
He goes back to work on the show today.
(----------------)
ANCHOR=Melanie
ss=None
You can see more of Dan Rather's exclusive interview with Cosby today on
the CBS News broadcast "This Morning" and the "CBS Evening News".
2-Roanoke-Fire
ANCHOR=Melanie
NEWSCAST=Morn
WRITER=sly
TAPE#97-
GRAPHIC=Fire
For the second time in recent months Roanoke firefighters have been called
to a home on the city's Northwest side.
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VO-NAT
SUPER=03-Roanoke
Fire broke out shortly after two a-m at the home in the 22-hundred block of
Hanover Avenue.
The house was unoccupied and is in the process of being remodeled.
Firefighters say the upper portion of the two story home sustained several
thousand dollars worth of damage.
No word on what caused the blaze.
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2-olympic-bomb
ANCHOR=Melanie
NEWSCAST=Morn
WRITER=mel
TAPE#Net
GRAPHIC=Olympics Explosion
Three men are reportedly being looked into as possible leads in the Olympic
Park bombing.
(----------------)
VO-NAT
SUPER=03-Spokane, WA/October 1996;
The Spokesman-Review newspaper of Spokane, Washington says the three men
are already charged in Washington state with a series of bank robberies and
bombings.
The paper reports the military surplus dealer who helped lead the F-B-I to
the suspects, also sold them a SUPER=03-Atlanta/July 27, 1996;
back pack and spoke to them about a time-delayed detonators.
Those were the tools used in the Olumpic bombing.
The July bombing killed a woman and injured more than 100.
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2-stranded
ANCHOR=Melanie
NEWSCAST=Morn
WRITER=mel
TAPE#Net
GRAPHIC=None
Canadian police and military crews mounted a huge rescue effort this
weekend to get hundreds of stranded fishermen off dangerous ice in
Ontario.
But the rescue was made more complicated because many didn't want to be
rescued.
Satinder Bindra (sa-tin'-a bin-dra) has more in this report.
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SOT
IN Q=
SUPER=03-Jackson Pt., Ontario; :04
SUPER=01-John Sheldon/York Regional Police; :35
SUPER=04-Saturday; :40
SUPER=01-Satinder Bindra/Reporting; 1:33
RUNS=1:45
OUT Q=Jackson's Point, Ontario.
5-RSV
ANCHOR=Melanie
NEWSCAST=Mornin
WRITER=cst
TAPE# 597-04
GRAPHIC=Childrens Health
R.S.V is a virus that affects almost 100-percent of children under age two.
Most will just get a bad chest cold.
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SOT 10:37:02
IN Q=Most children will
((DR. JESSIE GROOTHUIS/THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: MOST KIDS WILL HAVE HAD RSV BY
THEIR SECOND BIRTHDAY. IF YOU'RE
A HEALTHY CHILD TO BEGIN WITH, ONLY ABOUT ONE IN 200 END UP HOSPITALIZED.
THAT'S WHY PEOPLE DON'T THINK MUCH ABOUT IT. THESE ARE BABIES WHO GET A BAD
COLD - MAYBE A LITTLE WHEEZING BUT THEY CAME THROUGH IT AFTER A FEW DAYS. ))
SUPER=01-Dr. Jessie Groothuis/The Children's Hospital
RUNS=:16
OUT Q=a few days.
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VO-NAT
But others, especially those born prematurely, risk hospitalization and
death from R.S.V.
Now, there's a new therapy, using (RESPEE-GAM) respigam, a product recently
approved by the F-D-A to prevent R-S-V.
A Respigam I-V can provide antibodies against R-S-V that premature babies
didn't get, because they were born too early.
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SOT 10:37:35
IN Q=Pre-term
((PRETERM INFANTS ARE BORN WITHOUT MATERNAL ANTI-BODIES. THEY HAVE NO
PASSIVE PROTECTION. YOU GET MORE MATERNAL ANTI-BODIES IN THE LAST 3 MONTHS OF
PREGNANCY AND SINCE MOST OF THESE KIDS ARE BORN THREE MONTHS PREMATURELY AND
HAVE NOTHING TO PROTECT THEM.))
RUNS=:15
OUT Q=to protect them.
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VO-NAT
Respigam is given every month, through the winter season-- when R-S-V is
most common.
The product is not cheap.
A single I-V can cost as much as two-thousand dollars-- though insurance
usually covers the cost, since the typical hospital stay is usually 75-thousand
dollars.
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Flooding
ANCHOR=Melanie
NEWSCAST=Morn
WRITER=mel
TAPE#Net
GRAPHIC=Flooding
Northern California, still cleaning up from widespread weekend flooding,
may be hit by yet another storm late today.
(----------------)
VO-NAT
SUPER=03-Near Sacramento, CA;
4:11:30
Swollen rivers have caused major flooding in some areas.
Yesterday, some folks had to wade through water that covered the streets of
their neighborhood.
In some cases, cars were completely submerged and laying down sandbags seemed
to be a waste of time.
But workers have even been able to make headway shoring up damaged levees.
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2-Southern-Heritage
ANCHOR=Melanie
NEWSCAST=Morn
WRITER=Dal
TAPE# 97-1
GRAPHIC=None
Symbol of a proud heritage or a reminder of oppression and racism?
There are very different views over what the Confederate flag represents.
The debate continued in Danville yesterday, at the Fourth Annual
Lee-Jackson Southern Heritage Parade.
Denise Allen has more.
(/////SOT/////)
SOT
IN Q=What this flag
SUPER=03-Danville; :00
SUPER=01-Wayne Byrd/Heritage Preservation Association; :14
SUPER=01-Rev. William Avon Keen/Danville SCLC; :25
SUPER=@Denise2; 1:20
RUNS=1:28
OUT Q=7 Danville
(( What this flag symbolizes is still up for debate.
To some it represents racism.
To members of the Heritage Preservation Association it's the symbol of the
Civil War.
A war they say that was not about slavery.
((WAYNE BYRD/HERITAGE PRESERVATION ASSN: THAT WAS THE ISSUE OF THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT BEING SERVANTS OF THE STATES, NOT BEING A MANDATING, DICTATING,
CENTRALIZED GOVERNMENT.))
((REV. WILLIAM AVON KEEN/DANVILLE S.C.L.C.: IT CAN BE USED AS A TOOL TO
EDUCATE ABOUT WHAT DIVISION CAN CAUSE. IT CAUSED BROTHER TO FIGHT BROTHER,
COUSIN TO FIGHT COUSIN AND IT DIVIDED THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.))
Should the Confederate Flag fly over state buildings?
In South Carolina, voters will decide.
But Rev. Keen says that issue was decided with bloodshed and political
action in the 18-hundreds.
((KEEN: THIS IS A CLEAR PICTURE TO US THERE ARE POCKETS OF CONFEDERATE
SYMPATHIZERS IN THE UNITED STATES AND ABROAD THAT STILL DON'T BELIEVE THAT ALL
MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL.))
((BYRD: THAT'S WHY WE'RE HERE. WE'RE RECLAIMING OUR HERITAGE. WE'RE NOT
GOING TO LET THE HATE GROUPS SUBVERT THE REAL MEANING OF OUR COUNTRY'S FLAG
WHICH IS THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA. THIS FLAG WASN'T GIVEN UP
WILLINGLY. IT WAS TAKEN FROM US BY ARMED INVASION.))
Both Rev. Keen and Wayne Byrd say if everyone was educated on what the war
was REALLY about, the debate would be over.
Denise Allen News 7 Danville.))
Shelters
ANCHOR=Melanie
NEWSCAST=Morn
WRITER=JoeD
TAPE# 97-3
GRAPHIC=Session 97
Many of the state's homeless shelters are facing budget cutbacks and looking
to the General Assembly for help.
SS=Thomas, Vic
Roanoke Delegate Vic Thomas has introduced a three and a half million dollar
budget amendment that would double available funding for those programs.
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VO-NAT
SUPER=03-Roanoke;
In Roanoke, the Transitional Living Center is wrestling with a 60- thousand
dollar deficit.
The shortfall has already caused one lay- off and may force the facility to
accept fewer residents.
State money accounts for just three percent of the program's budget, but TAP
officials are hopeful an increase from the General Assembly will help them deal
with cuts in other funding.
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SOT
IN Q=It has not increased
((ELLEN BROWN/TOTAL ACTION AGAINST POVERTY: IT HAS NOT INCREASED IN THE LAST
FOUR YEARS ALTHOUGH THE NEED IS MUCH GREATER. WE HAVE 12 FAMILIES ON OUR
WAITING LIST AT ANY TIME WAITING TO COME FROM EMERGENCY SHELTER TO HERE AND A
LOT OF PROGRAMS LIKE OURS ARE SUFFERING NOW FROM FEDERAL BUDGET CUTS. FEDERAL
FUNDS FOR PROGRAMS LIKE THIS HAVE DECREASED 28 PERCENT DUE TO CONGRESSIONAL
CUTS.))
SUPER=01-Ellen Brown/Total Action Against Poverty;
RUNS=:23
OUT Q=due to congressional cuts.
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VO-NAT
The Transitional Living Center has a capacity of 65 residents.
Most are families, and one- third of the center's residents are children.
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by SS