WDBJ 7 news at 6 for 02/25/99

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Ex-Officer Russell Metcalf goes before a grievance panel- -to tell his side of the pepper spray incident that cost him his job as a Roanoke County patrolman.
News-7 starts tonight with a LIVE report on that.
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And the seat-belt bill is dead... though it came VERY close to passage.

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Tonight on New 7 sports, Archie Manning is in the valley, college basketball tournament play is all over the place today
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including Greensboro, where VMI lost its southern conference opened this afternoon.
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The forecast looks better but some school systems are still off schedule. Those details and WeatherSchool just ahead. [open]
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He was a cop, fired for using pepper spray on a 77 year old woman. Today, Russell Metcalf tries to get his job back.
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Good evening, I'm Keith Humphry.

[Pepper-Spray]

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[TAPE#99-1 46:05]
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Former Roanoke County police officer Russell Metcalf is fighting his termination. But so far, a day-long hearing and two-dozen witnesses have not produced a decision.
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Joe Dashiell reports from the Brambleton Center, where the hearing broke up just minutes ago.
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(Rollcue: ...confrontation with 77 year old Goldie Akers. )
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[OUT Q=...use of pepper spray was warranted."]

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[Double Boxes=Keith & Joe/Microwave][Roanoke-fire]

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A two-alarm fire this morning all-but-destroyed a home in southeast Roanoke.
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Smoke was so thick, firefighters were unable to get inside at first.
This had been home to Regina McGuire, her husband and four children.
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((SMOKE JUST STARTED COMING UP FROM UNDER THE FLOORS. SMOKE STARTED COMING UP BETWEEN THE CRACKS IN THE FLOOR BENEATH THE CARPET.))
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[OUT Q=...beneath the carpet.]
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[VO-NAT]

There's a woodstove, but Regina says that couldn't have been the problem. Because the fire started in the basement, and the stove is upstairs.
She says they just had the electrical system upgraded, so she doubts it was an electrical fire.
The McGuire's have lived here for more than 10 years.
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[School-closings]

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Today's inclement weather is already causing a few school systems to change their schedules for tomorrow. Here's the list so far ..
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Schools in Patrick County will open ONE hour late.
Smyth County Schools are CLOSED tomorrow.
and schools in Tazewell County will be opening TWO hours late.
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[First-Weather]

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With those announcements already coming in, let's get the latest weather word from Robin Reed. [Robin in WX CTR]
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[SUPER=83-Down 0.77 foot/Down 0.89 foot;Lake levels][81-Accident]

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State Police say those winds caused a tractor-trailer driver to lose control on Interstate 81 in Wythe County.
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It happened near mile marker 57 in Rural Retreat around 1-45.
The driver that lost control was pulling two trailers filled with packages.
Witnesses told state police a gust of wind appeared to cause the driver to lose control and swerve into the median.

Before flipping, over the rear trailer struck another rig traveling in the Northbound lane.
No one was seriously injured and no charges will be filed.
State Police say motorists should expect delays in that area for several more hours.
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[Hit-and-Run]

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Police in Danville have arrested the man they say is responsible for a hit-and-run accident that injured seven people.
Police say Sylvester Waverly Hood fled the scene of this accident last week on Claiborne Street.
Officers say Hood was speeding when he slammed into one car, ramming it into another.
Seven people were hurt.
Hood was arrested Saturday at his home and charged with three counts of felony hit-and-run and one count as a habitual offender.
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[XGR-Seatbelts]

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A surprise outcome today at the State Capitol: primary seatbelt enforcement is dead.
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A bill to allow police to pull over cars when the front seat passengers are NOT wearing seatbelts was one vote away from going to the Governor.
Supporters say it would force another 15-percent of Virginians to buckle up.
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((DEL. BRIAN MORAN/D-ALEXANDRIA: IN FACT, 79 FATALITIES WILL IN FACT BE PREVENTED. 900 SERIOUS INJURIES. THE COSTS ARE EXORBITANT TO TREAT THE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE NOT USING THEIR SEATBELTS. THERE'S NO REASON WHY THOSE 63-PERCENT THAT ARE CURRENTLY USING THEIR SEATBELTS SHOULD BE SUBSIDIZNG THE MEDICAL COSTS OF THOSE THAT ARE BEING IRRESPONSIBLE.))
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((DEL. JACK REID/R-HENRICO: WHAT THIS LEGISLATION IS ASKING YOU TO DO IS INTRUDE ON 100-PERCENT OF THE DRIVERS IN THIS STATE TO GET AT THE 27-PERCENT WHO ARE TOO STUPID TO BUCKLE UP.))
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With that privacy concern, and others related to police stopping black drivers more frequently, the measure finally died on a voice vote.
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A local attorney is slapped with a 10-thousand dollar fine. Still ahead on News 7, we'll explain judge's reasoning.

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Next, with so many apparel jobs going to Mexico, Virginia workers learn new skills, and tell us what they think of the jobs they lost.
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If your job were sent to Mexico, the government would pay to teach you new skills.
That might help you get a different job.
But would it make you feel any better about what happened?
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Scott Goldberg is here, with more on the struggling apparel industry and the workers whose lives have changed.
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Keith, just this morning Martinsville's Tultex Corporation announced profits were way down in 19-98.
That's the second straight losing year for a company that had a 60-year winning streak.
Which is more evidence, Tultex will tell you, it needs to cut its losses.
And one way it's done that is cut Americans out of its workforce.
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But has it become too easy to send jobs to Mexico?
And what happens after the layoffs?
Tonight, the Virginia workers who watched their jobs go south.
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((DISSOLVES BETWEEN WORKERS SEWING, WORKERS GETTING LAID OFF, SEWING FACTORIES))
One by one, they're going out of business.
Garment factories are leaving thousands out of work.
And time after time, workers say they hear that giant sucking sound.
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((MAE MITCHELL/LAID-OFF SEWER: I JUST THINK THAT NAFTA AND MEXICO HAS WON AGAIN.)) [RUNS04]
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Apparel companies say without the North American Free Trade Agreement, they'd go out of business.
But unions call NAFTA an invitation to send jobs out of the country.
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((RICHARD MINTER: THAT HUGE SUCKING SOUND THAT YOU HEAR, THAT'S JOBS GOING AWAY, LIKE ROSS PEROT SAID. BUT IT'S A FACT.)) [RUNS07]
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When Betty Shelton lost her sewing job, the government paid to send her back to school.
Now she's studying for her high school equivalency diploma...
And wondering why she's sitting in a classroom instead of behind a sewing machine.
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((BETTY SHELTON: NOW WHY WOULD THE TAKE MY JOB AND, SAY, SEND IT TO MEXICO WHEN I NEED A JOB HERE?)) [RUNS05]
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((SCOTT GOLDBERG: AMERICAN WORKERS ARE NOT ALONE. MEXICANS ALSO WORRY ABOUT NAFTA. AND WHEN THEY GET LAID OFF, SOME MEXICANS BLAME NAFTA FOR SENDING THEIR JOBS NORTH OF THE BORDER.)) [RUNS11]
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((JORGE GUERRA: IT'S A TWO-WAY AVENUE HERE.)) [RUNS02]
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Jorge Guerra is the director of economic development in Matamoros, Mexico.
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((JORGE GUERRA: MAYBE YOU LOSE SOME SEWERS WHEN THE COMPANIES COME HERE, BUT YOU GAIN A LOT OF JOBS IN TEXTILE FABRICATION.)) [RUNS10]
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[old TULTEX video? or Tultex truck again]
And that's the argument apparel companies make:
That Mexican sewers use American raw materials, so NAFTA must be creating jobs for people making fabric.
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((CAROL SHEARER/UNITE UNION: NO WAY. NOT UNLESS YOU CALL THE FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS THE JOBS THEY'RE ADDING. BECAUSE THAT'S ALL THEY SEEM TO BE ADDING IS MORE FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS (laughs) )) [RUNS10]
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Back in the classroom, Betty Shelton is learning there are no easy answers.
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((BETTY: I'M QUALIFIED FOR A SEWING MACHINE. NOW WHY WOULD I WANT TO GO TO ANOTHER SEWING FACTORY WHEN THEY ARE JUST BEING SNATCHED AWAY EACH DAY?)) [RUNS09]
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For Betty and the thousands like her, the challenge is learning skills that will get them jobs in a high-tech economy...
While they try to understand that economy, that made the apparel industry go south. [NATSOUND CONTINUES, MUSIC ON MARKET] [RUNS02]))
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There are some sewing companies that need American workers.
Maid Bess in Salem, for example, is hiring, but said nobody's applying.
If companies can't find workers here, they have to go somewhere else.
Which would be one more reason so many companies have gone south, sending American jobs to Mexico.
Keith.

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A Lynchburg attorney has been fined ten thousand dollars for pursuing what the judge says was a "frivolous" lawsuit against Governor Jim Gilmore and Attorney General Mark Earley.
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Lawyer James B. Feinman (FINE-man) had sought to prevent both men from negotiating Virginia's role in the national tobacco settlement.
But Judge Randall Johnson said Feinman's lawsuit had "no" merit, and he wants Feinman to reimburse the state for the time its lawyers spent responding to the suit.
Feinman says the settlement only favors tobacco growers, not victims of tobacco like his clients.
He plans to appeal the fine.
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[Hanna]

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A Vinton woman is in the Roanoke County Jail tonight on murder-for-hire charges.
35-year-old Peggy Irene Hanna allegedly offered an undercover officer five thousand dollars to kill her husband.
Investigators say Hanna was having an affair and wanted control of her husband's assests. She was arrested Monday, arraigned yesterday, and is being held without bond.

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On Wall Street, the Dow was down by as much as 165 points during the day.... [TAKE DOW & NASDAQ PAGE ]
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but closed down just 33, at 93-66. NASDAQ lost 13.

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The state Department of Social Services plans to decide in about two weeks whether to shut down an assisted living facility in Franklin County.
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The state Department of Social Services says at the Franklin Manor Rest Home on Route 220 -- one resident sexually assaulted another.
Investigators also say staff members don't always give residents their medicine.
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((I HEARD WE WERE CLOSING UP. NO WE'RE NOT CLOSING UP, WE'RE NOT CLOSING UP. I TOLD YOU NOT TO WORRY ABOUT THAT, OKAY?))
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Two directors have been fired since new management took over in June.
The staff has increased by about a third and they say they watch residents more closely now.
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((ELLEN MURPHY/FRANKLIN MANOR REST HOME: THEY ARE WATCHED. RESIDENTS OUT IN THE HALLWAY, WE CANNOT TELL THEM THEY CAN'T SIT WITH EACH OTHER AS FAR AS MAN AND WOMAN. BUT THEY ARE TOLD THEY MUST KEEP THEIR HANDS TO THEMSELVES AT ALL TIMES.))
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The rest home has appealed to the state to keep its license.
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[Switched-Babies]

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The agreement between the families of two girls switched at birth may be starting to unravel.
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[SUPER=04-1998]

A Charlottesville newspaper reports Callie Conley's Aunt says she's been told she can no longer see the girl.
Callie is being raised by Paula Johnson.
Johnson's biological daughter, Rebecca, is in the care of two families in Buena Vista.
Paula Johnson reportedly told the woman the decision was based on advice from her attorney.
Her lawyer could not be reached for an explanation.
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[Craig-drugs]

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The first full-scale drug round-up- -ever- -in Craig County today.
The Grand jury returned 15 indictments. Craig County sheriff's deputies have arrested 11 people so far, with the help of STATE police. The charges are mostly misdemeanors involving marijuana sales.
Sheriff B-B McPherson says it has taken a YEAR to put these cases together.

[Bone-Marrow]

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A major fundraising campaign is underway at Virginia Tech---

But this one isn't on behalf of the university.
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Faculty, staff, alumni and students are raising money for Charles Johnson of Lynchburg who's fighting bone marrow cancer.
Johnson graduated from Tech in 1997.
He was diagnosed with cancer last spring while working toward his teaching certificate.
Because Johnson doesn't have adequate insurance, the Agricultural Education Society is trying to raise 30-thousand dollars for a bone marrow transplant.
An auction on campus next Tuesday will help raise funds.
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[Sports Tease]

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Coming your way tonight on the Big 7, highlights and postgame comments from VMI first round southern conferecne game in Greensboro.
Plus, Archie Manning was in the star City this afternoon.
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And we'll check out some of the opening round highlights from the women's ODAC tournament.
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[S-Southern]

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The VMI Keydets season came to a close this afternoon as they lost in the opening round of the Southern Conference tournament in Greensboro.
Roy Stanley has more on Furman's 57-to-49 victory.
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[S-Macon]

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The quarterfinals of the ODAC women's basketball tournament took over the Salem Civic Center today.
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[SUPER=03-Salem/Wildcats vs. Yellow Jackets; :00]
In the opener, Randolph-Macon began it's run at another title against Randolph-Macon Woman's College.
Watch Allison Beightol makes the nice dish to Beth Richard. She gets nothing but net for the deuce.
Sister Aimee then registers the assist, connecting with Bren Elliot underneath for [SUPER=33-Randolph-Macon/90/R.M.
W.C./61;]two of her 11 points. 74-41 Lady Yellow Jackets with about 9 minutes to play.
The Lady Wildcats Tara Carleton lead all scores though, she knocked down 25, put the Lady Yellow Jackets advance 90-61.
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[WIPE TO #ENG!!!!][S-Generals]

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[VO-NAT wipe to #eng!!]
[SUPER=04-Generals vs. Marlins; :00]

In the second game, Washington & Lee battled Virginia Wesleyan. Megan Babst gets things going for the Lady Generals with this fake and buckets inside.
Then, the lady Marlins show some good ball movement. Erin Duckett finishes with the short jumper, but it would not be enough.
[SUPER=33-Washington & Lee/61/Virginia Wesleyan/49;]Lady General Carter Thomas is gonna hit this shot and Washingto
n & lee wins it's first women's ODAC tournament game in the programs five year history, winning today 61-49 over Virginia Wesleyan.
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Roanoke battles Emory & Henry at 6 and then Bridgewater takes on Guilford at 8.
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At the Big South women's tournament in Asheville, Radford beat UNC Asheville 66-to-61.[S-Manning]

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The most popular Saint of all-time is in Roanoke tonight delivering a motivational speech.
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[SUPER=03-Roanoke; :00]

Former New Orleans Saints quarterback Archie Manning is talking to a contruction Expo at the Hotel Roanoke tonight.
He took time to talk to us about his famous son, Peyton.
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[S-ACC]

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And don't forget folks that tonight at nine o'cloc the Virignia Cavaliers travel to Atlanta to battle Ga. Tech.
We'll have the game LIVE for you tonight starting at nine right here on Your Hometown Station.
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The new Speaker of the House is making an appearance in the star city tonight to help a local congressman raise money.
[Double Boxes=Keith/Jean Newsroom]

Jean Jadhon is in the newsroom with more on that.
Dennis Hastert took over the top job in the House about two
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months ago... after Republican Bob Livingston stepped down.
Now comes word that the new Speaker will be at a fundraiser tonight in Roanoke.
The event is being held to raise money for Congressman Bob Goodlatte.
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[Live=Jean Full/Newsroom]

We'll talk to the new speaker about what's on tap for Republicans now that the impeachment trial is over.
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That's coming up tonight on News 7 at 11.
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