WDBJ 7 news at 11 for 09/19/99

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Up next on News 7...
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U.N. peacekeeping troops are on the ground in Indonesia, and their commander says they mean business.
A Texas Church meets in the place where seven people died last week.
And Roanoke gays and lesbians push for fair treatment in the Commonwealth.
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News 7 is next.

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((DAVID PERRY/VIRGINIANS FOR JUSTICE LOBBYIST: WE DON'T ASK FOR ANY SPECIAL RIGHTS. JUST THE BASIC EQUAL RIGHTS THAT THIS COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED UPON))
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A call for justice and equality, as gay people in the Roanoke Valley celebrate.
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[Pride-Park]

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It's called Pride in Park. And for several people in Roanoke - it's a time to celebrate being gay.
Today marked the 10th annual celebration.
As Joy Sutton reports this is not just a time of unity - it's also a time to deal with issues affecting the gay community.
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(( Pride in the Park is a once a year event -- when members of the gay community can get together and be free and open about who they are.
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((ROBERT MORROW/PRIDE IN THE PARK COORDINATOR: A LOT OF FOLKS MAY NOT REALIZE THAT IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO BE ABLE TO DO THINGS LIKE HOLD YOUR SIGNIFICANT OTHER'S HAND AS YOU'RE WALKING DOWN THE STREET. WHICH IN COMMON SOCIETY WE OFTEN TIMES ARE FEARFUL OF WHAT THE RESULTS MIGHT BE))
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Although some say hate crimes are not common - they definitely happen.
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((REV. CATHERINE HOUCHINS/METROPOLITIAN COMMUNITY CHURCH: THERE ARE HATE CRIMES IN VIRGINIA AND THERE HAVE BEEN THREATS. ONE OF THE MEN IN MY CHURCH GOT A HATE E-MAIL THIS MORNING))
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David Perry with Virginians for Justices says incidents such as the arrests of gay men in Wasena Park -- for allegedly asking for oral sex -- have only made matters worse for homosexuals.
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((DAVID PERRY/VIRGINIANS FOR JUSTICE: BASICALLY THE VIRGINIA STATE SODOMY LAW WE FEEL IS THE ROOT OF MOST DISCRIMINATION AGAINST LESBIANS AND GAYS IN THIS STATE))
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Perry says the gay community is being targeted, and he hopes that Virginians for Justice can get more laws protecting the rights of gays.
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((DAVID PERRY: CERTAINLY PROTECTION FROM JOB DISCRIMINATION IS A BIG ISSUE. HATE CRIMES PROTECTION IS A VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE))
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Through events like Pride in the Park - the gay community hopes that one day the rest of the world will see them like they see each other --as equals.
Joy Sutton, News 7, Roanoke. ))

[Rockbridge-Fatal]

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A Lexington man is dead after a car accident today.
State police say 49-year-old Larry Wayne Gordon was traveling Northbound on Route 11 in Rockbridge County when his car veered off the side of the road and struck several trees.
The accident occurred shortly after 8 a-m. Gordon died about an hour and a half later.

[Water-Main]

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A water main break slowed traffic in Roanoke today.
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It happened around seven this morning when the water main on Brandon Avenue burst, causing the road to sink.
Brandon was closed for nearly twelve hours, but was opened back up to traffic a little before seven o'clock tonight.
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[Toss-2-Robin] Jean tosses to Robin in Weather Center

[WX1] [11:00pm] [09/19/1999] [MCU]WEATHER OFFICE
It's an early sign of things to come. Mother Nature brought out the snowmaker in Colorado.
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Snow, several inches deep, fell in the upperelevations outside of Denver. At least two hikers were stranded due to the sudden storm.
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[WXPRO/FULL]WEATHER MAP WAKE UP FORECAST

[Toss back to anchor][Floyd]

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Police in Norfolk say a woman's body was pulled from a car in five feet of water today.
The cause of death has "not" been determined... so police say it would be premature to attribute her death to Hurricane Floyd.
But Floyd is definitely the reason tens of thousands of Virginians are still without power.
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And in North Carolina, thousands are still spending the night in shelters, hundreds of roads remain closed, and supermarkets are running out of food, but the military has set up 30 mobile kitchens.
Poultry and hog farmers in the state stand to lose nearly a billion dollars... because Floyd killed so many birds and hogs.
45 people died because of Floyd - 20 of them in North Carolina.
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[Hurricane-Reel]

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Hurricane Floyd didn't impact Western Virginia as it could have...
But as many local folks have seen the pictures of this week's flooding in Eastern Virginia, North Carolina, and New Jersey - they remember the devastation left by here by hurricanes past.
Keith Humphry takes a look back, in this week's Virginia Newsreel.
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((When people think about hurricanes, high winds are generally the first thing to come to mind. But in Southwest Virginia water causes the most problems. 30 years ago remnants of Hurricane Camille dumped 30 inches of rain on Nelson County in eight hours . The mountains liquefied into walls of water and mud.
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((TOM HUFFMAN/LOST 22 FAMILY MEMBERS/WE BEGAN TO REALIZE MORE THAT SOMETHING WAS WRONG BECAUSE OF THE SMELL OF THE FRESH EARTH, AND THE BOULDERS. YOU COULD HEAR THE BOULDERS HITTING TOGETHER, AND WE REALIZED THEN THAT THE EARTH HAD BEGUN TO MOVE.)) [RUNS14]
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Whole families were washed away. 153 people lost their lives. In 1985, leftovers of Hurricane Juan drenched Roanoke. 6.63 inches of rain fell in a 24 hour period across the Roanoke Valley.
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The flood waters caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. Ten people were killed and 26-hundred homes were damaged or destroyed.
Ten years ago high winds caused problems when what had been Hurricane Hugo blew through the area. Winds is excess of 50 miles an hour snapped trees and knocked down power lines. Highway workers stayed busy cleaning up; as soon as one tree was cleared another would fall. Homes were damaged. A mother and her three children had to leave their apartment when a tree fell on the roof of Brandon West Apartments. For other people, rising water was on their minds. Thomas Porter watched the Roanoke River come over its banks.
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At the height of the storm 90-thousand Appalachian Power Customers were left in the dark.
Though we were spared the brunt of Hurricane Floyd, Southwest Virginia has plenty of reminders of Mother Natures wrath. That's Virginia Newsreel, I'm Keith Humphry.))

[Church-shooting]

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Residents of Fort Worth, Texas comforted each other in the wake of last week's church shooting.
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Thousands gathered for a city-wide memorial service honoring the seven people who died when a gunman started shooting during a youth service.
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((KENNETH BARR/FORT WORTH MAYOR; WE WILL NOT LET ONE SENSELESS ACT OF VIOLENCE DEFINE WHO WE ARE AS A CITY.))
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At the church where it all happened, the congregation watched as pastor Al Meridith tried to explain the shooting to children, comparing it to the fairy-tale character, Humpty-Dumpty.
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((AL MEREDITH/PASTOR; SO WE HAD A GREAT FALL. BUT YOU KNOW UNLIKE ALL THE KING'S HORSES AND ALL THE KING'S MEN, THERE IS SOMEONE WHO CAN PUT THE PIECES TOGETHER AGAIN. YOU KNOW WHO THAT IS? SAY IT AGAIN. GOD))
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The mourning and healing will continue tomorrow, three more funerals are scheduled.
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[Burlington-Elementary]

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Thousands of students have attended Burlington Elementary over the years...
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And today some former students as well as current students came out to celebrate the school's 60th anniversary and building dedication.
Three generations of the Huffman family have attended Burlington -- and Raymon Huffman was one of the first students go to the school in 1939.
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((RAYMON HUFFMAN/FORMER BURLINGTON ELEMENTARY STUDENT: IT MEANS A WHOLE LOT THAT THE SCHOOL IS STILL HERE, STILL GOES BY THE NAME OF BURLINGTON. WE'RE JUST REALLY PROUD OF THE SCHOOL. IT'S JUST PART OF OUR FAMILY REALLY))
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The building has grown over the years with the most recent additions of a new gym, library, and six new classrooms.

The school houses kindergarten through the fifth grades.
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International peacekeepers land in East Timor.
Details coming up.
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And American Airlines cancels some New Year's Eve flights.
Details coming up, in Webwatch.
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[Indonesia]

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Heavily armed peace keeping forces began arriving in East Timor tonight..
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The first wave of U.N. troops left from Australia earlier today, and included soldiers from Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain.
Their commander said the troops are working under "Robust" rules of engagement, and will be able to protect themselves under all circumstances.
About 200 U.S. marines are providing communications and intelligence support from Australia.
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[WebWatch]

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Al Gore says it's time to get tough with cyber stalkers.
And the web is the place to learn how stuff works.
More on tonight's WebWatch.
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Gore released a new Justice Department report saying state and federal laws aren't strong enough to deal with online stalking, which is on the rise....
He's pushing tougher penalties that specifically deal with chat room or e-mail harassment.

American Air Lines is canceling 20 percent of it's New Year's Eve flights... it says it has nothing to with Y2K concerns, they're almost done updating computers... They're cutting flights because of slow ticket sales... which may indicate consumers are still uncertain.

Governor Gilmore's commission looking at internet taxes says the big question is not IF online sales should be taxed, but HOW, is it practical... the commission met in New York last week.

Practical or not, internet taxes may not play well for politicians.
A recent Gallup Poll found more than a third of voters surveyed would NOT vote for a candidate who favors taxing internet sales.
Two thirds think internet taxes will slow the growth of online commerce.

Ever wonder "how stuff works"?
Like... how televisions actually receive a color picture... or why CD's do that "rainbow thing".
It's all on a website, appropriately named... howstuffworks-dot-com.
Site creator Marshall Brain (yes its his real name) even tackles that age old "which came first, chicken and egg question."
Links to this and other sites are on the WebWatch page, on the WDBJ website, at WDBJ7-dot-com.))

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Still ahead - big courage on the little league baseball diamond.
We'll have the story.
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And - area folks dealing with the water shortage take matters into their own hands.
They're praying for rain - and that's not all.
Stick around.
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[Johnson's-Orchard]

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It's a family event that raises money for several local organizations.
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Johnson's Orchards Farm Festival in Bedford County today included arts and crafts for sale, a tractor pull, and plenty of food to eat.
Raffle tickets for prizes were sold to raise money, along with the proceeds of food sold by the Bedford Moose Lodge.

The money raised will go towards D-Day Memorial and other Community Service Organizations.
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[Drought-Prayer]

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Some folks in the Roanoke Valley are taking their water concerns to a higher power...
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Lee Plaza in downtown Roanoke was filled with the sounds of prayer today as several people, including officials and community leaders, attended a service in hopes of turning the ongoing water shortage around.
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((RUSS ALDEN/ORGANIZER: THERE'S MORE TO IT THAN JUST RAIN. THERE NEEDS TO BE A COOPERATIVE EFFORT... TAKING CARE OF THE WATER RESOURCE.))
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Roanoke city, Roanoke County, Salem, and Vinton were represented at today's prayer service.
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Brad Johnson passed for 230 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Redskins to a 50 to 21 win over the New York Giants.
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New York's Jason Seahorn still nursing a pre season injury.
But Washington's Stephen Davis was the man. On this play he breaks tackles at the line bounces outside and scores on the 19 yard run for his third T-D of the game the Skins led 21 to nothing.
The Giants would answer that score in the second quarter former U-V-A fullback Charles Way scores on the 7 yard run to make it 21 to 7 Washington.
The Washington defense would come up with a big play. Shawn Barber intercepts this pass and he returns it 69 yards for the score, his first T-D as a pro and the Skins went on top 27 to 7.
The Giants didn't fold the tent. Leshown Johnson takes the handoff and scores from 11 yards out and New York trailed the Redskins 27 to 14 at the half.
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The Redskins would open the third quarter with a drive that ended up with the Brad Johnson one yard T-D pass to Stephen Alexander and Washington wins it 50 to 21.
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The Jacksonville Jaguars used a strong second half to come from behind and beat Carolina 22 to 20.
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The Jags fell behind early in the game.
Steve Beuerlein goes to the air and hits Mushin Muhammad on this 60 yard pass play, Muhammad dragging the defender into the end zone to make it 14 to 6 Carolina.
But Jacksonville came back James Stewart takes the handoff and he would score the touchdown giving the Jags the 22 to 14 lead in the fourth quarter.
Carolina would come back when Beuerlein throws his second T-D pass to Wesley Walls to make the score 22 to 20 Jacksonville.
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The Panthers went for two but Lonnie Marts breaks up the pass and Jacksonville wins it 22 to 20.
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((JOE NEMECHEK WINS HIS FIRST WINSTON CUP RACE. MORE LATER ON MORNIN'.))

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The Dolphins, Raiders, Niners and Steelers also won today lets check the scores.
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[S-Cavs]

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Virginia Improved to 2 and 1 with an impressive 35-7 win over a quality wake Forest team last night in a win that had a price. Steve Mason explains.
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[Sports Tease]

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And coming up, Sosa and McGwire heat up the home run race today.
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[VO-NAT]

And Joe Nemechek gets his first win on the Winston Cup Circuit.
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[S-Race]

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Joe Nemechek took the lead with 69 laps to go he survived 2 late cautions to win the Dura Lube/Kmart 300 for his first Winston Cup win.
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Rusty Wallace would lead early but last week's winner Tony Stewart takes the lead passing Rusty on lap 53.
Then moments later a caution would hit the track as Kevin Lepage gets lose and hits the wall.
Bobby Labonte works his way to the front he passes Dale Jarrett for fourth place with 194 laps to go in the race.

Dale Earnhardt's car was good for about 10 laps he drops back in the pack after running as high as third.
Bobby Labonte would make a run at the lead and he was running in second place trying to catch Jarrett.
Jarrett then ran into some problems he was penalized a lap for pitting out of the box and that put him in the back of the pack.
Nemechek had the race under control and then Terry Labonte crashes bringing out the caution with about 2 laps to go.
All Nemechek had to do was follow the pace car to the finish line to win the Dura Lube/Kmart 300, for his first win in Winston Cup.
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Tony Stewart was second, Bobby Labonte third, Jeff Burton fourth, and Jeff Gordon fifth.
Ward Burton was 8-th and Rick Mast ninth.

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Kevin Millwood picked up his 18-th win as Atlanta beat Montreal 5 to 1.
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Freddy Garcia playing his first game in the outfield.
And check this out, Garcia takes this Ted Lilly pitch over the left field wall in his first at bat for the Braves to make it 1 to nothing.
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The Braves would add to the lead in the fourth Jose Hernandez hits this shot to the wall in left centerfield scoring a run and Atlanta wins it 5 to 1.
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((THAT'S IT FOR SPORTS. HAVE A GREAT DAY EVERYBODY.))

[S-Scores]

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The Home run race heated up today.
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In Chicago, Sammy Sosa hit his 61-st homer this afternoon. It came in the first inning he also scored the winning run in the Cubs win over the Brewers.
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In St. Louis, Mark McGwire hit two homers giving him 58, and that's three behind Sosa. The Card lost and here are the rest of the scores.
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[one-armed-player]

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Kevin Costner's new movie "For the Love of the Game" just hit theaters across the nation this weekend.
But in Rockport, Indiana, this story has been around for close to five years.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Rockport, IN]

That's about when Jake Payne started playing the game.
He was born with only half of his right arm, but he doesn't let that slow him down.
In his Spring season, the youngster made his little league all-star team and is playing with an older age group during the fall.
Jake bats right handed and fields lefty. Some may consider his body limited, but his goals and dreams are endless.

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[SUPER=07-Jake Payne]
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[ANCHOR=Eric]
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