WDBJ 7 news at 11 for 11/15/99

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Coming up on News 7-
A big brush fire is burning in Roanoke County.
A news 7 crew is on the way.
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Part of a roof collapses in Vinton at a county building- closing roads there.
The Egypt Air investigation may be a criminal one.
And a decision on changing the name of Orange Avenue.
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News 7 is next.
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[Wildwood-Fires]

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A huge fire is burning at this hour in Roanoke County- and people are evacuating tonight.
The blaze began in the Wildwood Road area around nine thirty - ten to fifteen acres are ablaze.
Witnesses report being able to see the fire from Interstate 81.
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Many crews are working fiercely at this hour to try and contain the blaze.
State police say wind is blowing the blaze away from I-81.
One viewer who called from Twelve o'clock Knob said he has a clear view of the fire- he said it was quite an amazing site.
People in the Richland Hills area are evacuating - but the evacuation is NOT mandatory.
Authorities say no houses are in danger right now.
Wind is not helping-
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[Brush-Fire]

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[SUPER=03-Franklin Co.]

More than two acres of woods caught fire near the Lake Shore Terrace subdivision in Franklin County.
Firefighters lit a backfire to bring the flames under control.
Officials aren't sure what sparked the blaze.
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[Monty-Fire]

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A brush fire in Montgomery County is expected to smolder over the next few days.
Forestry officials say the blaze at the base of Christiansburg Mountain is contained.
A helicopter was brought in to drop water over the site and a fire line was also established.
Both helped keep the flames from spreading.
Authorities say a passing train may have sparked the flames that burned about four acres.
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[Toss-2-Robin] Jean tosses to Robin in Weather Center

[WX1] [11:00pm] [11/15/1999] WEATHER OFFICE [WXPRO/FULL]WEATHER MAP WAKE UP FORECAST

[Toss back to anchor][Vinton-Collapse]

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The roof of the Roanoke County Health Department in Vinton collapsed this evening.
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Apparently the roof was being redone and the weight from the new material caused the roof to give way.
A clinic was being held at the time. But there were no serious injuries.
One man suffered a head injury when part of the roof caved in.
His son described what happened.
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The area around the building has been blocked off because engineers are unsure of how stable the building is.
Officials will look into the structural damage tomorrow.
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[City-Council]

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Will Orange Avenue's name change?
It was July that Roanoke City planning commission proposed changing the name to Orange Avenue slash Martin Luther King Junior.
Tonight City council said no- voting down the proposal.
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Council decided that something other than Orange Avenue should be named after Martin Luther King Junior.
During a public hearing the council heard from residents, business owners, and the southern Christian Leadership conference.
The President of the S-C-L-C says the group wasn't shocked by the decision.
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One Opponent of the plan said he didn't like the way supporters tried to change the street name.
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No word yet on what will be named after Martin Luther King. One person suggested naming the Higher Education after King.

[King-Trial]

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It was 1968 that Martin Luther King Junior was killed.
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[SUPER=03-Memphis, TN]

Today trial began for a man facing CIVIL charges in connection with the murder.
Lloyd Jowers implicated himself when he went on national TV in 1993 saying he had hired someone to kill King- and it wasn't James Earl Ray.
Ray was convicted but claimed his innocence until his death.
King's family filed a CIVIL suit claiming Jowers was involved in a conspiracy that led to the Reverend's death.
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[Danville-Baby]

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A Danville man who was a suspect in the beating death of his infant son has apparently hanged himself.
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The body of 19-year-old Jonathan Lakensay Chavious (Sha-VOSS) was found this morning inside the apartment he shared with the baby and its mother.
The baby's mother, LaShanda Terrell Stamps, is being held in the Danville jail ... charged with felony child neglect.
Police say the baby was already dead when Stamps brought it to the hospital more than a week ago.
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[EgyptAir]

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[There is an anchor tag!]
Federal investigators are not yet calling the crash of Egypt Air Flight 990 a crime- but that may be where this mystery is heading.
Bob Orr has the latest-
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((The voice recorder, pulled from the depths of the Atlantic over the weekend is raising serious questions about the actions of the pilots in the cockpit of Egypt Air flight 990. Sources say the recorder has captured the voice of one of the pilots...believed to be the co-pilot...making some type of religious statement -- that could be a prayer -- just BEFORE the jet went into its fatal dive. But there's no agreement on what the prayer means...whether it was routine...or something more ominous. In any case, there is no proof...to this point...that the prayer had any connection to the crash that followed.
CBS News has also been told that after the jet began to dive...the voice tape recorded what sounds like the cockpit door opening...and a voice asking something to the effect of "what's going on?"
And it's not clear that both pilots were working to save the plane. Sources say, a voice...believed to be that of the captain...can be heard urging his partner to... quote "pull with me"..."pull with me" -- a command you'd expect to hear from a pilot trying to pull out of steep dive. Apparently there is no response, before the captain then says "cut the engines".
The flight data recorder tells us both engines were shut down just seconds before the jet lost electrical power...briefly climbed and then crashed.
With no signs of an airplane problem, the investigation could be headed to the FBI.))
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Part of the challenge is that most of the cockpit conversation is in Arabic.
The decision to transfer the case could come in 48 hours.

[Murder-Hire]

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A grand jury in Pulaski County today indicted a woman for allegedly trying to hire someone to commit murder.
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34- year old Julia Alderman was charged with three counts of murder for hire.
She allegedly talked to three women about the plot, several months ago.
Pulaski police say Alderman was having an affair with a married man and wanted his wife killed.
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[Bedford-Shooting]

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Authorities have released the names
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of two people killed in a murder-suicide near Montvale.
Officials believe Allen Ray Brinn shot and killed his estranged wife, Cynthia, at the woman's home yesterday afternoon.
Brinn then killed himself as dozens of police officers surrounded the house.
A Bedford County deputy pulled Cynthia Brinn's body from the building while other officers tried without success to negotiate with her husband.
Autopsies are scheduled tomorrow morning.
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[Griffith]

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The man who will be the majority leader of Virginia's House of Delegates doubts we'll see any big changes, at first.
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Salem delegate Morgan Griffith says key legislative staff jobs are probably safe for now.
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((DEL. MORGAN GRIFFITH/R- SALEM: WELL I DON'T THINK EITHER VANCE WILKINS OR I WANT THE PERSONNEL TO CHANGE DRASTICALLY. THERE MAY BE SOME CHANGES BUT THAT'S FAIRLY TYPICAL WITH A CHANGE IN GOVERNMENT. BUT YOU WON'T SEE A WHOLESALE REPLACEMENT OF THE LEGISLATIVE STAFF.))
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Republicans pick Griffith as the new majority leader at a caucus yesterday in Richmond.
Democrats are expected to name Vinton delegate Dick Cranwell as minority leader, giving western Virginia legislators key roles in the Republican-controlled General Assembly.

[Earley-Governor]

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Attorney General Mark Earley is considering a run for the Governor's Mansion.
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[99-33 1:23:53]
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Earley formed a committee today to explore a possible run in 2000.
Former Attorney General Richard Cullen is chairman of Earley's exploratory committee.
He's sending letters to nearly 5-thousand Republicans asking them to support Earley. [99-6 1:03:11]
[super=03-Dublin/April]

Lieutenant Governor John Hager is expected to oppose Earley for the Republican nomination.
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A firefighter is convicted of embezzling thousands of dollars from a local fire department.
The story coming up.
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And a nurse convicted of killing several patients learns his sentence.
Details ahead.
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[Sports-Preview]

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((HELLO JEAN, EVERYBODY. TONIGHT THE LADY HOKIES AND LIBERTY OPEN A NEW SEASON. STEVE MASON CHECKS IN WITH UVA AS THE CAVALIERS WORK TOWARD THEIR SEVENTH VICTORY. TECH EYES THE SUGAR BOWL. RANDY JOHNSON PICKS UP ANOTHER CY YOUNG AND LOCAL RUNNERS SHINE ON THE COLLEGE SCENE. ALL THAT COMING UP LATER IN SPORTS.))

[Hospital-Deaths]

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He was supposed to care for patients- but a former nurse was convicted of killing them instead-
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Today Orville Lynn Majors was sentenced to 360 years for murdering six of his patients by giving them lethal injections.
Relatives of the victims had pleaded with the judge to give Majors the longest possible sentence.
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[Sot 14:51:14] ((I FEEL RELIEVED. MY WHOLE FAMILY FEELS RELIEVED BUT THAT STILL WON'T BRING MY HUSBAND BACK.)) [Butt to 14:50:19] ((I FEEL BAD FOR HIS MOTHER. I HURT FOR HIS MOTHER. SHE'S A MOTHER SHE HAS A LOT TO COPE WITH RIGHT NOW, BUT AS FAR AS THE SENTENCE, JUSTICE WAS SERVED TODAY.))
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The six victims were killed in the mid 90's- Investigators say Majors may have killed many more.
Majors claims he's innocent.
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[Beville]

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Former Cave Spring firefighter Jack Beville still believes he didn't steal any money from the fire department.
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But the 24 year veteran paid three thousand dollars in restitution and was ordered to serve 30 days in jail.
In court today Beville explained he started using fire department funds when he ran his own catering business and found he could get things cheaper wholesale than the county could buy them.
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With no accounting of the funds, however, Beville was indicted for embezzlement.
He pled "no contest" to the charges, and was found guilty of a felony. He'll be allowed to serve his time on weekends.
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[Burcham]

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Darlene Burcham won't be on the job until the end of the year, but her work has already started.
Today, Roanoke's new city manager received a formal introduction, and some advice.
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Mayor David Bowers introduced Burcham at the afternoon session of city council.
Earlier at a lunch meeting, he suggested that economic development and education should be two of her top priorities.
Burcham said she will work to keep citizens informed and involved in the city's business.
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((DARLENE BURCHAM/CITY MANAGER DESIGNATE: GOVERNMENT IS HERE REALLY AS A CATALYST, AS A CONVENER OFTEN TIMES OF PEOPLE SO THAT PROBLEMS CAN BE SOLVED, BUT THE SOLUTIONS TO MANY OF THE PROBLEMS THAT WE HAVE TODAY IN OUR SOCIETY, DON'T REST WITH GOVERNMENT THEY REST WITH THE PEOPLE THEMSELVES.))
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Burcham will return for a few days in early December, and she will be here full-time December 28th.

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An uncertain close of the Southside tobacco market.
The story ahead.
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And why polar bears may be in danger of starving.
We'll have details.
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[lotto]
[SUPER=135-3 0 5/8 5 2 7/5 9 16 19 30]

NIGHT DRAWING=
Pick 3:
3-0-5

(three, zero, five)

Pick 4:
8-5-2-7

(eight, five, two, seven)

Cash 5:
5-9-16-19-30

(five, nine, sixteen, nineteen, thirty)

[Tobacco-Market]

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The Danville tobacco market closed on an uncertain note for many farmers today.
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Danville warehouses sold about 18 million dollars less tobacco than last year.
But worries about the COMING year were on the farmers' minds.
Warehouse owners and farmers say they're bracing for another cut in what the government allows them to grow. In the last two years, they've had to cut back 35 percent.
That's because demand for tobacco is down.
And, farmers say, so is their morale.
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((MERRILL DOSS/TOBACCO FARMER: YOU GET YOUR THROAT CUT A LITTLE BIT EVERY YEAR. AFTER THAT, YOU'RE GOING TO BLEED TO DEATH.))
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((CHARLIE COLES, JR./TOBACCO GROWER: I CAN'T AFFORD TO QUIT AND I CAN'T AFFORD TO KEEP ON... SO, I GUESS I'LL JUST HANG IN THERE.))
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Farmers say they're hoping for some relief next month.
That's when they're scheduled to get the first of several checks from a side agreement to the settlement with tobacco companies.
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[Polar-Bears]

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They are the kings of the cold- Polar Bears.
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But they may be in danger.
A study says polar bears could starve to death because of climate changes from melting sea ice.
The Bears main food source is ringed seals which live on the ice of Hudson Bay.
They're becoming less accessible because of a shorter ice season. That means polar bears have less time to hunt and are returning to land in poorer condition.
Weight for both male and female polar bears is declining and female bears are having fewer cubs.
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Coming up, the Lady Hokies and Liberty meet on the court, and UVA is working towards its seventh win of this football season.
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First our extra point
This week's Cosby Show titled "Superstar" will feature many high profile ball players in a role of being under-paid. That's right under-paid.
In this show a teacher gets the big salary, and the endorsements.
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[S-Women]

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The Lady Hokies and Liberty began this season the way they started the last basketball season...by playing each other.
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[SUPER=03-Blacksburg/Liberty vs. Va. Tech;]

Virginia Tech is coming off its best season ever, with many new cast members trying to repeat last year's Sweet 16 appearance in the NC-Double-A Tournament.
Football coach Frank Beamer was on hand to lend some support and probably inspiration.
Tech took an early lead as Amy Wetzel tries the three pointer, former Lord Botetourt star Sarah Hicks is there for the putback and two of her game high 21 points.
The Lady Flames try to heat it up, Elena Kisseleva drives to the hoop for two of her 12 on the night.
Sarah Farley led Liberty with 13 points as she downs this "J" from the foul line.
[super=33-Liberty/45/Va Tech/60;]

The Hokies knock this one down at the buzzer ending the first half and Tech advances in the Preseason NIT by beating Liberty 60-to-45. Tech will host Georgia Wednesday night.
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[S-UVA]

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Maryland and UVA hook up on the gridiron this weekend.
The Cavaliers are trying for their 13th straight seven win season. The Terps will be chasing a milestone as well.

Steve Mason filed this report.
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[S-BCS]

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Arkansas helped Virginia Tech's cause Saturday by beating Tennessee.
After Hokies' win over Miami,
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[SUPER=03-Blacksburg/Last Saturday; :00]

The new BCS rankings have Tech in second place behind the Florida State and nearly 2 and half points in front of the new number 3 team Nebraska.
Sugar Bowl officials say Tech is definitely one of the top two teams, if not the top team in the nation.
What they would really like is a Hokies-Seminoles matchup.
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[wipe to pinnacle page] And you will want to keep your eye on Your Hometown Station this Saturday afternoon. At three o'clock the Florida Gators host the unbeaten Seminoles right here on WDBJ-7.
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Tech's strength of schedule improved only 6 spots this week to 54th.
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And Tennessee only dropped three spots to fifth in the new BCS poll.

[S-NHL]

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In the NHL, Detroit was looking to extend its unbeaten streak to four games, when the Mighty Ducks came to town.
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[SUPER=03-Detroit, MI/NHL-Fox;]

The Red Wings get on board first as Brendan Shanahan gets his seventh goal of the season.
But the Ducks quickly tied it then Paul Kariya puts Anaheim ahead two to one at the beginning of the second period.

[super=31-Anaheim/3/Detroit/6;]

Detroit's Vyacheslav (SLAV-ick) Kozlov ends an eight game scoreless streak scoring the Red Wings third and fourth goal of the night and Detroit wins it 6-to-3.
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((BYE BYE))

[Sports Tease]

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Up next some local runners are making a name for themselves in college and
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[VO-NAT]
this year's National League Cy Young winner pitches his way into an elite group of two.
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[S-Cy]

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Randy Johnson is one of only two pitchers to win Cy Young awards in both leagues.
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[SUPER=04-MLB;]

The baseball Writers voted the Arizona pitcher the National League's best pitcher yesterday.
Johnson led the league in ERA, strikeouts, & complete games. He was 17 & 9 on the season.
Johnson won the A-L Cy Young in 1995. Gaylord Perry is the only other man to win it in both leagues.
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The fleet-footed and former Glenvar standout, Trish Nervo, is now a senior and shining star at North Carolina.
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This past weekend she won the NCAA southeast regional cross country meet at Furman. Nervo posted the best 5K time of her career at 17 minutes and 3 seconds. She beat over 200 other women to get the victory and advance to the NCAA championships on November 22nd in Bloomington, Indiana.
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The James Madison University men's cross country team is headed to the NC-Double-A Championship Cross Country meet.
The team finished third in the Southeast Regionals Saturday.
Ben Cook of Floyd County placed fifth out of 194 runners. He also made the all-region team.
Yesterday the Dukes learned the men's team received an at large bid to nationals in Indiana.

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Just a reminder about our top story tonight:
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A brush fire in the Wildwood Road area of Roanoke County has some people evacuating their homes.
Authorities don't know how many acres are ablaze right now - but 10 to 15 acres were on fire about an hour ago.
Some residents of the Richland Hills community are leaving their homes.
But there are no mandatory evacuations underway and authorities say no homes are in immediate danger.
We have a news 7 crew on the scene and will bring you the latest information as soon as it's available.
Stay tuned.
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