WDBJ 7 news at 5 for 04/07/99

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Next on News 7 at Five, negotations may be underway to free the three American servicemen captured in Yugoslavia.
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and one person is dead and two others injured as an argument turns violent in a Thaxton convenience store.
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Fair weather will last through tomorrow, but clouds and some needed rainfall is likely by week's end. I'll have the story.

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Better vision without glasses is now a possibility for cataract patient with astigmatism.
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Plus -- One doctor has come up with a new dress code for patient's privacy.
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A Vinton woman accused of trying to hire someone to kill her husband took the stand today.
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Tina Tenret is at the Botetourt County Courthouse where Dorothea Martin said she never knew her lover was trying to murder her husband.
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Gunfire erupts at a Henry County convenience store.
One person is dead- two others injured.
It happened at a store on Route 58.
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Stacey Martin joins us with more.
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A cease fire offer from Serb leaders today and reports of negotiations to free three U-S servicemen.
But Lee Cowan reports- NATO seems unmoved and is continuing its attack.
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((IN ADDITION TO BOMBING BUILDINGS, THE U-S AND ITS ALLIES ARE SUCCESSFULLY ENGAGING SERB FORCES ON THE GROUND - HITTING TARGETS AND HURTING MORALE. FROM THE AIR - NATO SAYS CLEAR WEATHER ALLOWED AMERICAN A-10'S AND BRITISH HARRIER JETS TO STRIKE A COLUMN OF MILITARY VEHICLES - DESTROYING AS MANY AS A DOZEN - ONE OF THE FIRST CONFIRMATIONS OF SERB GROUND TROOPS BEING HIT. WILLIAM COHEN/SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: It's clear NATO forces are beginning to inflict increasing damage on Yugoslav forces. BUT THE SERB PARAMILITARY AND SPECIAL POLICE FORCES ARE ALSO UNDER ATTACK DIPLOMATICALLY. THE STATE DEPARTMENT NOW SAYING IT HAS THE NAMES OF NINE TOP MILITARY COMMANDERS WHO IT WARNED WOULD BE CHARGED WITH WAR CRIMES FOR FOLLOWING THE GRIM ORDERS OF SLOBODON MILOSEVIC.. JAMES RUBIN//STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN: The fact that someone is ordered to commit crimes does not relieve that person of an individual criminal liability. IT COMES IN THE WAKE OF A STILL UNCONFIRMED EASTER CEASE FIRE PROMISED BY MILOSEVIC - AND A NEW OFFER TO DISCUSS RELEASING THE THREE U-S HOSTAGES HELD SINCE LAST THURSDAY. A DEAL IS IN THE WORKS WITH THE ACTING PRESIDENT OF CYPRUS, BUT U-S OFFICIALS REMAIN ARE ONLY CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC - AND WARN A GOOD WILL GESTURE IS NOT ENOUGH TO STOP THE BOMBING. CAPT. MIKE DOUBLEDAY/PENTAGON SPOKESMAN: The track record is not great - the operation is going to continue.
A POINT DRIVEN HOME AGAIN BY THE PRESIDENT - THE MESSAGE HASN'T CHANGED. CLINTON: We are determined to stay united and to persist until we prevail. LEE COWAN/CBS NEWS: But news that thousands of refugees were turned back at the border and forced to return to Kosovo is being greeted here at the White House an ominous new turn. Allowing the Kosovars to return has always been a key element of any peace deal, but the question remains what will happen to those who return now before any peace deal is signed. Lee Cowan, CBS News, the White House.))
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Most lottery players are in for a big disappointment. One ticket matched all the numbers in last night's Big Game.
We'll tell you where the winning ticket was sold in a moment.
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And then we'll meet a three year old daredevil who rode on the back of her father's car at speeds approaching 85 miles an hour.
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It's a rare moment when Virginia's General Assembly can muster the votes to override a Governor's veto.
But it happened today for a Virginia Tech project.
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Ellen Qualls is at the State Capitol with some highlights of today's one day veto session.
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Jean, Governor Jim Gilmore vetoed 12 bills outright.
They all stayed dead today.
But in the budget, he can line item veto specific items.
He surprised Virginia Tech officials two weeks ago by pulling the plug on the 4-point-9 million dollar dairy barn renovation.
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Virginia Tech's dairy science center is nationally renowned... but more than four decades old.
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So Republicans led the charge to override the Governor's veto-- chiding Gilmore for saying Tech had never requested the money.
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But Gilmore wants to use the almost five million dollars for schoolteachers... and another Republican defended him.

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So with two votes to spare, the veto was the only overridden in the House.
The Dairy Barn veto must still be overridden in the senate.
We haven't gotten to that yet today.
In the House, also, there was a passionate plea to save the latest funding for the D-Day Memorial in Bedford -- we'll have more on that on NEWS 7 at SIX, Jean.

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Someone won the Big Game Lottery, but the ticket wasn't sold in Virginia.
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It was at this store in Boston-
Someone bought the 197 million dollar ticket at the Star Market in Boston's Fenway neighborhood.
One winner did show up the store today- a man who won 100- dollars.
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((PAUL TURNER/$100 DOLLAR WINNER: 100 BUCKS. REPORTER: ON THE BIG GAME? WINNER: YEP ON THE BIG GAME. I FEEL PRETTY GOOD. IT'S NOT 190 MILLION BUT IT'S DINNER AND A MOVIE.))
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This is the first time in 13 years the store has sold a big winning ticket. Now they wait for the big winner to come forward.
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A Roanoke woman also brought home a nice piece of change from the Big Game.

Tonight on News 7 at 6, we'll hear from the local winner of 150-thousand dollars.[5-Hanger-On]

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A three year old girl got the ride of her life last week and her father got the scare of his life.
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When her father wasn't looking, Chelsea Tafoya climbed on the back bumper of his sport utility vehicle and held on to the windshield wiper as he pulled out onto the road.
Chelsea kept her grip for 12 miles at speeds approaching 85 miles per hour.
A woman in another car spotted the child and was able to get her father to pull over.
Lincoln Tafoya said he was shocked and amazed that she was able to hold on. Chelsea says she wasn't afraid.
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Chelsea was fine after he trip, though she admits she was cold.
She says angels helped her keep her grip on the car.
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Patrick Evans will join us in a moment with our forecast, but earlier today he was continuing his quest for a healthy lunch. He makes vegetarian lasagna a little later on our newscast.
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In Sports, the offer to buy the Washington Redskins is taken OFF the table. Mike Stevens will have that and a preview of tonight's Express playoff game.
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Today on health check -- Dressing for surgery could be less embarrassing in the future.
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And local cataract patients have a new option that will let get rid of their glasses or contacts.
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And now there is a new lens one Lewis-Gale Clinic ophthalmologist is using in cataract surgery to correct astigmatism.
It eliminates the need for glasses and further surgery giving patients more freedom.
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The new intraocular lens reduces astigmatism much like glasses. Doctor Till injects the foldable lens after the cataract is removed. And in just 15 minutes, everything comes into focus.
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And that's the best part for some patients -- after 30 years behind coke bottles.
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[VO NAT] The new lenses do not cost the patient extra. Doctor Till says so far he has performed about a dozen operations using the new lens in the last month and all have been successful.
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A Texas surgeon has developed something he hopes will help his patients preserve their dignity during surgery.
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For years patients on the way to surgery had to strip completely, even if it was just an operation on a foot or hand.
It was a matter of infection control.
Also in years past, anesthesiologists used explosive gas and the fear was clothing could create friction and spark a fire.
But that's no longer a concern.
So Dr. Hilario Trevino invented a disposable surgical undergarment that cloaks the patient without getting in the way.
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The garments are made of a waterproof treated paper which is the same material as surgeon's gowns.
They're provided to patients at no cost, but some say the added privacy is priceless.
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Dr. Trevino has patented the garments and hopes to market them across the country soon.

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The Express gets ready for the playoffs
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and the first family of racing talks about the future. Here's Mike Stevens.[S5-Express]

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Welcome everybody to the midweek ticker that begin on the ECHL hardwater.
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The Roanoke Express begins its march to the Kelly Cup tonight at the Roundhouse as the team opens up a best of five series with the Dayton Bombers.
The Express lost all four of its regular season matchups with Dayton this season and that in itself is a bit of a concern.
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Florio thinks things will be different in this series because of the recent additions to the team. Neither Chad Spurr nor Mike Oliveiro were around were any of the previous four meetings.
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Game One of the series gets started tonight at seven. If you can't make it we will have the highlights for you tonight on News 7 at eleven.

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The Washington Redskins are still in the hands of the Cooke Family. This afternoon the Milstein Group which had been approved to buy the team by the turstees handling the estate of the late Jack Kent Cooke withdrew their $800 million dollar
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offer to buy the franchise. Howard Milstein withdrew his offer to buy the team and Jack Kent Cooke Stadium after the NFL's finance committee which was meeting in Atlanta this morning rejected the purchase offer.
As of now, Norv Turner remains the team's coach and Charley Casserly the team's General Manager.
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And finally, when NASCAR turned 50 years old in 1998, racing fans knew that Petty Enterprises golden anniverary couldn't be far behind.
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This afternoon in Level Cross, North Carolina four generations of Pettys got together to relive the past, but mainly to talk about the future.
Patriarch Lee Petty raced out of a small shed on the home property with a dirt floor back in 1949. Now the floors are so clean inside the 17 buildings that make up the complex you could eat off of them.
But despite the Petty name and the 50 years of racing success at Level Cross - time is not standing still - in fact some think it is passing the Pettys by.
Tonight at six, we'll hear from the King and his court about how Petty Enterprises plans to get back in the game of winning races.
Have a safe night everybody.
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Despite filling in for Robin Reed this week, Patrick Evans has not neglected his responsibilities to the Newsroom's dietary plan.
Today Patrick visited the nutrition folks at Carilion to see what was cooking in their kitchen.
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