[HEADLINES]

[TALENT=Melanie]

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[VO-NAT]

Two tractor trailors are involved in a wreck on Interstate 81.
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[ANCHOR=Melanie]

And Monica Lewinsky's questioning begins at the President's impeachment trial.
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[TALENT=Patrick]
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[ANCHOR=Melanie]
[SS=None]

News 7 at noon is next.

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[ANCHOR=Melanie]
[NEWSCAST=Noon]
[WRITER=dse]
[TAPE#=None]
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Montgomery Co.]

Mother Nature strikes Southwest Virginia, causing a serious accident on Interstate 81 in Montgomery County.
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[Truck-Wreck]

[ANCHOR=Melanie]
[NEWSCAST=Noon]
[WRITER=jda]
[TAPE#98-79 TC1:23:44]
[GRAPHIC=News-7 at Noon]

Good afternoon, I'm Melanie Moon.
[SS=Accident]

It won't be with us for long but the latest winter storm is causing trouble on the region's highways.
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[TAKE FULL SCREEN MAP]
Joe Dashiell is in Montgomery County this afternoon where crews are cleaning up one of the most serious accidents.

[Live=JoeD Full/Microwave]
[SUPER=@Joe1;]
[SUPER=05-Montgomery Co.;]
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(Rollcue:plenty of trouble spots.)
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[IN Q=Western Virginia]
[SUPER=01-Sgt. Frank Duffy/State Police; :23]
[RUNS=:34]
[OUT Q=Bridges will have ice on them.]



[Live=Joe Full/Microwave]
[SUPER=05-Montgomery Co.;]
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[Double Boxes=Melanie and JoeD/Microwave]
(Question: Is traffic moving again?)

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[WX-One]

[ANCHOR=Melanie]
[NEWSCAST=Noon]
[WRITER=dse]
[TAPE#=None]
[GRAPHIC=Winter Weather]

For more on the nasty weather, let's check in with Patrick Evans. [Patrick in Chroma Key] [WX-Pro maps]
(Toss back to Melanie)

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[Impeachment]

[ANCHOR=mel]
[NEWSCAST=noon]
[WRITER=mel]
[TAPE#=]
[GRAPHIC=Monica Lewinsky]

Monica Lewinsky is being questioned under oath at this hour by White House lawyers and a House prosecutor.
The deposition is being videotaped for showing to the rest of the Senate as it considers the impeachment charges against President Clinton.
Lee Cowan reports.
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[IN Q=]
[SUPER=03-Washington DC;]
[SUPER=01-Ken Starr/Independent Counsel;]
[SUPER=01-David Kendall/White House Counsel;]
[SUPER=01-Lee Cowan/CBS News;]
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[OUT Q= CBS NEWS WASHINGTON.]
(( Date: 2/1/99 Story Slug: Clinton-Impeachment Title: 11:30am ET Package Dateline: Washington, DC Format: pkg Length: 1:56 Source: NEWSPATH Reporter: Lee Cowan
Information: SUGGESTED LEDE: MONICA LEWINSKY IS ONCE AGAIN ANSWERING QUESTIONS AB0UT HER RELATIONSHIP WITH PRESIDENT CLINTON, AS THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL DEPOSITIONS BEGIN BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. LEE COWAN REPORTS FROM WASHINGTON.
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(LOCATOR: WASHINGTON, DC)

(( NAT LEWINSKY ARRIVAL ))
FOR THE 23RD TIME - MONICA LEWINSKY IS UNDERGOING FORMAL QUESTIONING ABOUT HER RELATIONSHIP WITH PRESIDENT CLINTON.
(( NAT MANAGER ARRIVAL ))
FIRST UP -- HOUSE MANAGER, ED BRYANT - WALKING LEWINSKY THROUGH A MAZE OF QUESTIONS, DEESIGNED TO FOCUS IN ON THE PRESIDENT'S ALLEGED OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE.
THEN, THE WHITE HOUSE TEAM GETS ITS FIRST EVER OPPORTUNITY TO QUESTION LEWINSKY -
BOTH SESSIONS -- EXPECTED TO LAST ABOUT 8 HOURS --WILL TAKE PLACE IN THIS DOWNTOWN WASHINGTON HOTEL - UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF TWO SENATORS ONE FROM EACH PARTY . ALL OF IT ON WILL BE ON CAMERA -- RECORDING NOT ONLY LEWINSKY'S ANSWERS, BUT NON VERBAL COMMUNICATION AS WELL - SOMETHING PROSECUTORS SAY COULD SPEAK LOUDER THAN ANYTHING ELSE.
(( NAT CLINTON ARRIVAL ))
IT ALL TAKES PLACE ON ANOTHER PIVITOL DAY FOR THE WHITE HOUSE - A DAY WHEN THE PRESIDENT RELEASELS HIS NEARLY TWO TRILLION DOLLAR SPENDING PLAN FOR THE YEAR 2000.

(( CLINTON SOT ))

ALTHOUGH IT'S BUSINESS AS USUAL HERE, IT IS ANYTHING BUT FOR THE INDEPENDENT COUNSEL'S OFFICE. KEN STARR STRUGGLING TO DEAL WITH ANOTHER LEAK FROM HIS OFFICE - OUTLINING A PLAN TO INDICT MR.CLINTON --EVEN BEFORE HE LEAVES OFFICE.

(( SUPER: KEN STARR//INDEPENDENT COUNSEL )) (( SOT AT 8:52:45 ))
"It is premature - process should go forward."
THE TIMING OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT HAS THE PRESIDENT'S ATTORNIES FURIOUS - AND BUSY WORKING ON YET ANOTHER LEGAL FRONT - FILING A MOTION TO CHARGE HIM WITH CONTEMPT.

(( SUPER: DAVID KENDALL//WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL )) (( SOT ))
"We're filing toda6y - grand jury secrecy."
(( LEE COWAN//CBS NEWS ))

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))[kosovo]

[ANCHOR=melanie]
[NEWSCAST=noon]
[WRITER=mel]
[TAPE#=net]
[GRAPHIC=None]

Amid peace efforts and international demands to halt the fighting, there's been more violence in Kosovo.
Two small bombs exploded last night in ethnic Albanian-run cafes killing one person and injuring two seriously.
U-S and European officials meet today with ethnic Albanian rebels in the troubled province.
There's still no word yet whether both sides in the conflict will be attending international peace talks this weekend in France.
NATO has threatened air strikes if the two sides don't agree to sit down and work out a political settlement.
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[VO-NAT]

Meantime, troops in neighboring Macedonia are preparing for the worst.
NATO'S Kosovo extraction Force has been training to rescue members of the international peace mission in case they are in danger.
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[ANCHOR=Melanie]

The Commonwealth prepares to say goodbye to a governor.
That story is still ahead on News-7 at Noon
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[VO-NAT ]

And Denver is preparing to welcome the Broncos home, but not before some fans get out of control.
Stay with us.
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[music up full] [comm1]

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[australia-fires;]

[ANCHOR=melanie]
[NEWSCAST=noon]
[WRITER=mel]
[TAPE#=net]
[GRAPHIC=Brush Fires]

It's a race against time for firefighters in Australia.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Lamaroo, Australia]

They're trying to build a line of defense against a wildfire that has already destroyed close to 250-thousand acres of bush along the border between the states of Victoria and South Australia.
Firefighters have been battling the blaze since it was sparked by lightning last Wednesday.
Crews are working to build fire walls to keep the fire from spreading to nearby towns.
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[DENVER-VIOLENCE]

[ANCHOR=MEL]
[NEWSCAST=NOON]
[WRITER=mel]
[TAPE#=net]
[GRAPHIC=None]

Denver is calm today and getting ready for this afternoon's victory parade for the Super Bowl champion Broncos.
But it was a different story last night.
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[SOT]
[IN Q=Ordering you]
[SUPER=03-Denver, CO;]
[RUNS=:07]
[OUT Q=will deploy gas]
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[VO-NAT]

Drunken fans poured out of bars and began setting bonfires and overturning vehicles.
Police in riot gear wound up firing tear gas to disperse them
The officers also formed a line and walked shoulder to shoulder to push the crowd back.
There were several arrests and injuries.
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[E-Crouch]

[ANCHOR=Melanie]
[NEWSCAST=Noon]
[WRITER=sta]
[TAPE#=98-83; 34:24]
[GRAPHIC=none]

A convicted child molester has returned to Southwest Virginia in police custody this morning.
Now he faces more criminal charges.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke;]

46-year old Roger Lee Crouch fled the area with his wife and 20-month old son Travis in December.
He was due to be sentenced on child molestation charges.
His case was featured on the T-V show, "America's Most Wanted."
Shortly afterward, authorities arrested the pair in Texas.
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[SOT 11.22.26 - 11.23.36]
[IN Q=There was a whole]
((INV. MICHAEL MEHAFFERY/BEDFORD CO. SHERIFF'S OFFICE: THERE WAS A WHOLE LOT OF EFFORT THAT WENT INTO THIS CASE, NOT THAT IT HADN'T GONE INTO ANY OTHER CASES BUT TO MY KNOWEDGE I WORKED ON THIS CASE AND EVERYBODY WORKED SO HARD.))
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[OUT Q=worked so hard.]
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[VO-NAT]

The couple is behind bars in Bedford and will appear in court later today.
Meanwhile, officials with the Texas Department of Social Services are trying to find a new home for their son Travis.
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[S-Godwin]

[ANCHOR=Melanie]
[NEWSCAST=Noon]
[WRITER=sta]
[TAPE#=98-78; 52:34]
[GRAPHIC=State Capitol]

Funeral services for a former Virginia governor will be held tomorrow in Suffolk.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=04-File Tape;]
[use file tape S-1, "Mills Godwin 2nd Term; A-204 Mills Godwin Governor Address]
Mills Godwin died Saturday night of pneumonia.
He served two four-year terms as governor--one as a Democrat in 1966 and the other as a Republican in 1974.
Governor Jim Gilmore said Godwin was a "truly historic and transitional figure in state government".
Gilmore has ordered all flags to be flown at half-staff for the next 30 days.
Godwin was 84 years old.
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[Tease2] [SOFT MUSIC UNDER]
[ANCHOR=Melanie]

All the Superbowl highlights are still ahead on News-7 at Noon.
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[VO-NAT ]

And did you ever wonder what happens at the water department when the Superbowl halftime rolls around?
We'll find out when NEws-7 at Noon continues.
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[COMM BREAK #2]

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[WebWatch]

[ANCHOR=Melanie]
[NEWSCAST=Noon]
[WRITER=eea]
[TAPE#=WebWatch]
[GRAPHIC=Web Watch]

Prodigy falls victim to the Y2K bug.
And, prosecutors in the JonBenet Ramsey case are going on-line in search of some help.
Eric Earnhart has more in this week's WebWatch.
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[SOT]
[IN Q=Intel's latest pentium]
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[OUT Q=EE, News-7]
(( [intro] [RUNS05]

Intel's latest pentium chip comes with a feature not everbody wants... a serial number, that can be identified while you're on the web, letting other people know who you are and where you've been.
Intel has agreed to post free software allowing users to disable the serial number if they want to.

Prodigy was one of the first online services, operating since 1988, but it won't survive into the next Millenium. The original Prodigy classic with it's chat rooms and bulletin boards will shut down this October, The company says the old prodigy software isn't Y2k compliant.
Prodigy's new internet service will continue.


The prosecutor in the JonBenet Ramsey case is asking for help online. He's posting a picture of a stuffed santa clause bear on the Boulder Colorado DA's website, asking people if they know where it was made or purchased. The bear is missing from the Ramsey House, police won't say why it's important.
The site has logged more than 10-thousand hits.

To investigate the other clues in the Ramsey case, APB on-line has an interactive floor plan of the murder scene and items related to the case.


For links to these sites, Click on webwatch on the WDBJ website, at WDBJ7-dot=-com ))

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[Bowl-Survey]

[ANCHOR=Melanie]
[NEWSCAST=Noon]
[WRITER=mel]
[TAPE#=net]
[GRAPHIC=None]

On Superbowl Sunday, the folks at the Los Angeles Water Department had another bowl on their minds... the toilet bowl.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Los Angeles, CA;]

This year the Los Angeles Water Department invited news crews to come and record how water use sky rockets during Superbowl half time.
And sure enough, the computer graphs showed an increase in water use.
You can see the yellow line on the graph slowly rising.
Officials say that toilet flushing during the half caused overall water use to increase by more than ten percent.
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[Stocks]

[ANCHOR=Melanie]
[NEWSCAST=noon]
[WRITER=chr]
[TAPE# none]
[GRAPHIC=stocks]

On Wall Street at Noon, the Dow was UP ten points.
[tease3] [SPORTS MUSIC UNDER]
[ANCHOR=Melanie]

Still ahead in sports, it took six championships for Michael Jordan to step away from basketball.
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[VO-NAT ]

But what will it take for John Elway to follow suit?
In what could have been his final game, the Super Bowl M-V-P alomst single-handedly crushed the Falcon's championship dreams.
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[COMM BREAK #3]

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[Super-Bowl]

[ANCHOR=Patrick]
[NEWSCAST=noon]
[WRITER=ssa]
[TAPE#=net]
[GRAPHIC=Super Bowl 33]

The Denver Broncos are again on top of the world... repeating as Super Bowl champions.
The Broncos beat the Atlanta Falcons 34 to 19. John Elway was the most valuable player, passing for 336 yards and running for a touchdown.
Jim Henderson reports from Miami.
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[IN Q=]
[SUPER=03-Miami, FL/NFL-Fox Sports; :00]
[SUPER=01-John Elway/Super Bowl MVP; :24]
[SUPER=01-Rod Smith/Denver Receiver; 1:05]
[SUPER=01-Howard Griffith/Denver Fullback; 1:20]
[SUPER=01-Jim Henderson/Reporting; 1:32]
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[Daytona]

[ANCHOR=Patrick]
[NEWSCAST=noon]
[WRITER=dal]
[TAPE#=SP-35 tc 09:27]
[GRAPHIC=Dayton Int'l Speedway]

NASCAR's 24- hour endurance race at Daytona is over, and for the second time in three years, Rob Dyson's team has emerged the winner.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Daytona, FL;]

The race began under sunny skies Saturday, but rain developed overnight and continued as the winning car crossed the finish line.
The winners covered seven-hundred-eight laps at an average speed of 104-point-nine miles per hour.
Four drivers shared time at the wheel of the winning car.
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[Tech]

[ANCHOR=Patrick]
[NEWSCAST=noon]
[WRITER=dal]
[TAPE#=SP-38 tc 49:11]
[GRAPHIC=Tech Hoops]

Fans at yesterday's Virginia Tech- LaSalle men's basketball game may have thought they were at the wrong venue.
The Hokie football team took center stage at halftime, to accept the trophy from the inaugural Music City Bowl.
Tech beat Alabama in that game 38 to 7.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Blacksburg/LaSalle vs Virginia Tech;]

But the real action was on the court, as the Explorers looked to conquer the Cassell. Victor Thomas gets open and hits a long three for the early lead.
But Tech would storm back. Brendon Dunlop spots up and gets his own shot to drop for three.
K'Zell Wesson works hard down low to try and keep LaSalle close. His shot wobbles for a minute and finally falls for the Explorers.
[SUPER=33-LaSalle/69/Virginia Tech/87;]

But the Hokies pulled away. Dunlop gets the pass down low to Roland Roberts-- who finishes with the dunk.
Tech wins it 87- 69.
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[ANCHOR=Patrick]
[ss=hold!!]

The 11th ranked Lady Hokies also picked up a conference win yesterday-- improving to nineteen and one.
Tech beat A-10 rival Dayton 68-to-60.
Tere Williams scored 18 and Amy Wetzel added 16 for the Hokies. Point guard Lisa Witherspoon had 8 points and eleven assists.

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[UVA]

[ANCHOR=Patrick]
[NEWSCAST=noon]
[WRITER=dal]
[TAPE#=none]
[GRAPHIC=UVA Hoops]

The 19th ranked Lady Cavaliers also got a win on the court, upsetting number 15 Clemson 75 to 55.
Monick Foote and (Dah-MIE-uh) Demya Walker both scored 14 for Virginia, while Lesley Brown added 12 points.
The Lady Cavs are fourteen and five on the season.

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[Wake]

[ANCHOR=Patrick]
[NEWSCAST=noon]
[WRITER=dal]
[TAPE#=SP-34 tc 05:02]
[GRAPHIC=ACC]

A surprising finish to yesterday's game for fourth- ranked Maryland.
This match up with Wake Forest would be nothing like their first meeting of the season.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Winston-Salem, NC/CBS Sports;]

Maryland trailed at halftime, but came back in the second half to cut the lead to five on Terence Morris' basket.
The Terps hit the boards, and get the defensive rebound. The alley-oop gets to LaRon Profit for the three- point lead.
But Wake Forest wouldn't fold. Dawson follows his three- point attempt with the putback for two.
[SUPER=33-Maryland/72/Wake Forest/85;]

The Demon Decons then get out on the break. They pull away from Maryland for good and get the 85-72 upset win.
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[Carolina]

[ANCHOR=Patrick]
[NEWSCAST=noon]
[WRITER=dal]
[TAPE#=SP-28 tc 01:24:59]
[GRAPHIC=ACC]

The absence of injured point gaurd Ed Cota didn't stop tenth- ranked North Carolina from stealing an overtime win from the Yellow Jackets.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Chapel Hill, NC ;]

Carolina's Brendan Haywood gets things started for the Heels with the big slam dunk.
Here, the alley- oop pass finds Kris Lang, who gets two of his 17 points.
Max Owens sinks the three and added a career high 16 points for the Tar Heels.
[SUPER=33-North Carolina/75/Georgia Tech/66;]

And Carolina moves into third place in the A-C-C with the 75-66 win over Georgia Tech.
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[NHL]

[ANCHOR=Patrick]
[NEWSCAST=noon]
[WRITER=dal]
[TAPE#=SP-31 tc 33:08]
[GRAPHIC=Hurricanes]

There may not have been any points on the board, but that doesn't mean the Hurricanes and the Bruins weren't involved in a nailbiter.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Boston, MA/NHL-NESN]

The Southeast division leading Carolina Hurricanes skated up north to take on Boston.
But neither team could get on the board. Carolina and Boston went into overtime tied at zero. (------------) The Hurricanes took 24 shots and the Bruins 36, but this one ends in the scoreless tie.