WDBJ 7 news at 5 for 04/14/99

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The tears of war.

Bombings today kill at least 60 Albanian refugees.[5-Kosovo]

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The Serbs claim it is the most deadly attack on civilians so far-
A convoy of Ethnic Albanians was hit in Kosovo- and dozens of refugees become the latest war victims.
Tonight both NATO and the Yugoslav Government are blaming each other for the attack.
Lee Cowan is in Washington with the latest.
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(( IT IS WHAT THE SERBS CLAIM TO BE THE MOST DEADLY ATTACK ON CIVILIANS SO FAR. IF TRUE - IT'S WHAT NATO HAD FEARED THE MOST. AS TALK OF PEACE SWIRLED AROUND THE DIPLOMATS IN BRUSSELS, PICTURES OF MORE THAN 60 BURNED AND DISMEMBERED BODIES WERE BEING BROADCAST ON SERB TELEVISION. MOST WERE WOMEN AND CHILDREN-WHAT THE SERBS CLAIM IS ALL THAT IS LEFT OF A CONVOY OF ETHIC ALBANIAN REFUGEES - INNOCENT VICTIMS, THE YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT SAYS, OF A NATO AIR STRIKE GONE BAD. NATO CONFIRMED IT DID HIT MILITARY TARGETS ALONG A ROAD IN SOUTHERN KOSOVO TODAY, BUT SAID NOTHING ABOUT REFUGEES. LEADING THE PENTAGON TO SUGGEST THE ATTACK MAY BE THE WORK OF SERB AIRCRAFT - AND NOT NATO AT ALL.
KEN BACON/PENTAGON SPOKESMAN: We are hearing that there have been attacks by Yugoslav aircraft. AN INDICATION THE YUGOSLAV AIR FORCE MAY NOT BE AS CRIPPLED AS THE ALLIES HAD THOUGHT. IT CAME AT A TIME OF TOUCHY NEGOTIATIONS OVER A NEW PEACE DEAL OFFERED BY GERMANY - A DEAL THAT WOULD ALLOW A PAUSE IN THE AIR STRIKES LONG ENOUGH TO ALLOW SERB FORCES TO RETREAT SAFELY OUT OF KOSOVO.
THE WHITE HOUSE CALLED THE PLAN 'INTERESTING' BUT DID NOT APPEAR PARTICULARLY OPTIMISTIC -- MAKING IT CLEAR SLOBODON MILOSEVIC MUST STILL MEET EACH AND EVERY NATO DEMAND FIRST.
JOE LOCKHART//WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN: If that's capitulation, then he needs to capitulate. BUT THAT SEEMED UNLIKELY -- PART OF THE GERMAN PROPOSAL CALLS FOR A NATO-LED INTERNATIONAL SECURITY FORCE TO ENSURE THE SAFE RETURN OF THE KOSOVAR REFUGEES -- SOMETHING SLOBODON MILOSEVIC HAS RESISTED FROM THE BEGINNING.
JAMES RUBIN//STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN : The question is whether - people of Kosovo. LEE COWAN//CBS NEWS ))

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A firefighter in Rockbridge County is suspected of setting a series of brush fires.
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Officials with the Rockbridge County Sheriff's Department say 24 year old Joseph Daren Wood of Natural Bridge Station started four brush fires beginning March 28th.
Most of the fires were set alongside Plank Road.
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Wood is a firefighter with the Buchanan and Natural Bridge Fire Departments.
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If convicted he could receive a maximum 20 years behind bars.

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Some major changes are in the works for postal customers in Lynchburg if a plan to consolidate several local post offices is approved.
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Officials last night outlined a plan that would close two local offices and move a third to a different location.

Postmaster Bill Huston (Houston) says each of the local branches have outgrown their current buildings, and mail carriers need to be shifted around so they can be closer to their routes.
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((BILL HUSTON/LYNCHBURG POSTMASTER: THIS WILL ALLOW OUR CARRIERS TO SERVE THE PUBLIC NEARER TO THE AREAS THEY'RE IN RIGHT NOW. RIGHT NOW, I HAVE MY RIVERMONT CARRIERS LOCATED ON FORT AVENUE, FORT HILL STATION, THEIR TRAVEL TIME IS 30 TO 40 MINUTES JUST TO GET TO THEIR ROUTES.))
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The plan would close the post offices on Rivermont Avenue and at Miller Park.
A new branch office would be built in the Langhorne Road area.
And the Fort Avenue post office would move across the street into the Fort Hill Village shopping center.
Officials say public input on the plan is welcome.
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One of the area's largest families gets some national exposure. We'll have that story next,
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and then we'll finally get to meet the person who held the winning ticket in last week's BIG Game.
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On Health Check, young people are encouraged to kick butts as they try to help one another stay away from cigarettes.
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and Scott Goldberg will tell us what Roanoke's Local Colors celebration will have in store this year. [sponsor]
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Police say a prisoner who trapped a fellow inmate last week may have put his family in danger.
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Mike Fulcher was in jail with Thomas Gray -- when he told Gray to call a hitman, knowing the sheriff was really on the other end.
Fulcher's also going to testify Jay Clements started the fatal Church Avenue fire.
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Fulcher is serving 36 years for stealing three lawnmowers.
But for years he was an undercover informant for the Drug Enforcement Agency.
In fact, when Earl Bramblett murdered Mike Fulcher's sister, Teresa Hodges, and her family -- attorneys implied Fulcher's ENEMIES had killed them in revenge.
Authorities say every time Fulcher testifies, he jeopardizes his family's safety.
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Turns out Mike Fulcher will trade in his role as star witness to be lead defendant --
He's charged with running a drug ring with several guards inside Bland Prison.
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Many people have been wondering just who won that Big Game lottery last week?
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Here she is.
54-year old Maria Grasso is a Chilean immigrant- who became an American citizen in 1984.
She has two college age children and works as a live in babysitter.
Grasso takes home 70 point two million dollars after taxes.
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((MARIA GRASSO/BIG GAME WINNER: I WENT TO CAN'T BE ME. IN SO MANY MILLION CHANCES YOU JSUT CAN'T REALLY TINK CLEAR.))
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Grasso says she will use the money to help mentally handicapped children.
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At one time the Hairston family of North Carolina and Southside Virginia was known as the Rockefellers of the Old South.
The family not only owned dozens of plantations, but thousands of slaves as well.
The descendants of those slaves still have a strong connection to each other and the Hairstons.
Vicki Mabry reports.
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You can see more of Vicki Mabry's report tonight at nine on Sixty Minutes Two.

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The Roanoke City Market is gearing up for a colorful celebration this Sunday. After this break Scott Goldberg will tell us about local Colors.
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Don't get out of town much?
You won't have to go far this weekend to feel like you've traveled the globe.
This Sunday is Roanoke's annual celebration of culture, called Local Colors.
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Scott Goldberg in our studio tonight with a preview.
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Coming up in Sports, one of the nation's best college basketball players is leaving school. Roy Stanley will have the details.
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On health check -- A company in the business of helping patients figure out medical bills says Lewis-Gale Clinic's new collection's policy is a pain.
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Lewis-Gale's director says the clinic is simply trying to keep up with the industry.
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((STEVEN KELLEY/LGC EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: IT'S BASCIALLY JUST A POLICY THAT WE FEEL IS NECESSARY FOR US TO BE GOOD FINANCIAL STEWARDS OF THIS BUSINESS.))
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A new way to treat advanced cervical cancer is getting strong support from the National Cancer Institute.
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Traditionally doctors have treated cervical cancer with either chemotherapy OR radiation.
But a study underway has found that radiation when used with the drug Platinol has dramatically improved survival rates for the most severe cases of the disease.
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((DR. ALBERT PISANI: IT IS LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF PATIENTS IN THIS COUNTRY DIAGNOSED WITH THAT PARTICULAR STAGE OF CERVICAL CANCER WHO WILL BE ALIVE IN FIVE YEARS WHO WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ALIVE HAD CHEMOTHERAPY NOT BEEN ADDED TO RADIATION.))
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The results have been so promising the National Cancer Institute has taken the rare step of issuing an advisory to thousands of doctors to urge them to use this approach.
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About 14 thousand women are diagnosed with cervical cancer every year. Twenty five percent have advanced forms of the disease.
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A Salem company that helps patients check medical bills for problems and overcharges says a new payment policy by Lewis-Gale Clinic is not fair. Patients of the clinic who have not paid their bills in full within 6 months are now turned over to a collections agency.
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Pat Palmer who runs medical recovery services says in many cases it's not the patients who are late with payments.

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The clinic's executive director says the new policy is designed to avoid making that mistake.
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[VO NAT] Kelley says the hospital will work with patients through the finance department to help them with payment plans.
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Local school children were learning how to "kick-butts" today.
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Students at the Cave Spring Junior high school took part in the national anti-smoking program. And with more than one out of every three high school seniors smoking cigarettes, it's an important day for the younger children.
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Smoking isn't just a problem among high schools seniors. In fact six-thousand children try cigarettes for the first time each day. Students blame this on the ease of getting cigarettes and the example of their older peers who smoke.
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In Sports, a former Duke player wants to leave his BRAND on the N-B-A
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with that and more...here's Roy Stanley[S5-Brand]

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Thank you ladies and good afternoon everybody welcome to the two minute ticker.
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With the backing of head coach Mike Krzyzewski, Duke Center Elton Brand announced today he was leaving school after two years and enter the N-B-A draft.
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The six foot eight Brand says its a dream of his to play in the N-B-A. He said Krzyzewski supports his decision 100 per cent.
Brand says he will eventually finish his work toward a college degree and he said he hopes to be picked among the top 10 players in the draft
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Brand is the first undergraduate to leave Duke early for the Pros. Still at issue is whether two more Duke players will leave for the N-B-A.
William Avery and Corey Maggette have been rumored to be following Brand out the door, but there's been no comment on those reports.

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Moving up to the next level hasn't phased Salem right fielder, Jody Gerut.
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The Stanford University alum is batting 450 in his first six games with Avalanche.
He's hit three doubles and has a slugging percentage of 900.
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Jody says he's working on being a more aggressive base runner and getting use to swinging the wood bat as opposed to the aluminum one he used in college.
And he says he has help back home.
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The First Family is still in residence.
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But the work is well underway at Virginia's Executive Mansion.
The renovations are expected to take until the end of the year.
Today, "Bob Vila's Home Again" began taping a 13-part series on the mansion renovation.
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((BOB VILA/"HOME AGAIN" HOST: THIS IS ALWAYS THE EXCITING PART OF A RENOVATION PROCESS, WHEN YOU'RE KIND OF CLEARING AWAY THE LAYERS OF STUFF THAT HAVE BEEN THERE FOR A LONG TIME, AND GETTING DOWN TO SEE WHERE THE PROBLEM AREAS ARE, WHERE THE 10 LAYERS, 20 LAYERS OF PAINT HAVE HIDDEN THE DETAILING ON THE WOODWORK. THAT SORT OF THING.))
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((JOHN PAUL HANBURY/MANSION ARCHITECT: ONE OF THE REALLY EXCITING THINGS IS TO HAVE A CLIENT WHO'S AS INTERESTED IN WHAT WE'RE DOING AS MS. GILMORE IS. AND SHE'S BEEN A TROUPER. SHE'S BEEN IN THE TRENCHES WITH US. SHE'S PARTICIPATED IN EVERY DISCOVERY AND EVERY DECISION THAT WE'RE MAKING.))
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The mansion renovations will replace ancient heating and air systems, wiring, and structural weaknesses... and finally make the mansion accessible to the disabled.
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