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SCRIPT FOR EYEWITNESS NEWS NEWSCAST
Friday, February 3, 2012.from Eyewitness News Online Note: Because breaking news happens fast, you may find typographic errors within news scripts. Odd punctuation, visual cues, anchor and producer notes may also appear with the scripts since these are the actual files that the news anchors present to you on Eyewitness News.
WELCOME
A TENSE BATTLE. HOW HUNTINGTON FIREFIGHTERS GOT THE UPPER HAND ON THIS MASSIVE APARTMENT FIRE AND WHAT INVESTIGATORS SAY CAUSED IT. THEN.... HOW CHARLESTON POLICE IS SAVING SOME MONEY AND HOW SOME TOUGH DECISIONS COULD AFFECT YOUR SAFETY. PLUS.... CHANGES COMING TO THE NATIONAL GUARD... WHAT UNCLE SAM IS DOING TO WEST VIRGINIA'S AIRLIFT WINGS. JIM AD LIB ON TAPE 
Return to Story Index TEASE VIDEO-MAKE IT BRIEF
Return to Story IndexWELCOME
AND I'M DEBORAH LINZ... THIS IS EYEWITNESS NEWS.
Return to Story IndexHUNTINGTON BEST FIRE VIDS
THE FLAMES WERE SO INTENSE BUILDINGS AROUND IT WERE EVACUATED... FORTUNATELY EVERYONE GOT OUT SAFELY.
Return to Story IndexHUNT APT FIRE FOLO
DEB...THE BIG UPDATE RIGHT NOW IS ARSON....THAT'S WHAT FIRE MARSHAL'S TELL ME...AFTER SOMEONE INTININALLY SET FIRE TO A 9TH STREET WEST HUNTINGTON APARTMENT BUILDING LEAVING 18 PEOPLE HOMELESS.. I'VE BEEN TOLD THE FIRE WAS SET ON THE FIRST FLOOR...THERE WAS TALK THAT IT STARTED FROM A METH LAB, FIRE MARSHAL'S SAY THAT *IS NOT* THE CASE....POLICE ARE QUESTIONING A SUSPECT RIGHT NOW AS WE SPEAK. AS FOR THE PEOPLE LIVING HERE...TODAY OBVIOUSLY A VERY EMOTIONAL DAY FOR THEM...THE SALVATION ARMY HAS STEPPED IN AND IS PROVIDING FOOD...CLOTHING...AND SHELTER FOR ALL THOSE DISPLACED. ON EYEWITNESS NEWS AT 10 AND 11 WELL CONTINUE TO UPDATE YOU ON THE STORY...AND HOW PEOPLE WHO LIVED THERE ARE COPING BUT RIGHT NOW IVE BEEN TOLD POLICE ARE QUESTIONING SOMEONE BELIEVED TO BE IN CONNECTION TO THIS ARSON...IN HUNTINGTON... DAN MATICS... EYEWITNESS NEWS.
Return to Story IndexLOGAN ARSON FIRE
FIREFIGHTERS WERE JUST ABLE TO KNOCK DOWN A MAJOR BLAZE IN THE VACANT OFFICE BUILDING ON STRATTON STREET BEFORE IT SPREAD THRU THE DOWNTOWN. THE NOW GUTTED BUILDING IS OWNED BY GREG GLICK. FIRE MARSHALS SAY IF YOU HAVE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS BLAZE CALL THE ARSON HOTLINE AT 1-800-233-FIRE. THERE IS A REWARD OF UP TO 25-HUNDRED DOLLARS.
Return to Story IndexSPENCER FIRE FOLO
SPENCER POLICE IDENTIFIED THE DEAD WOMAN AS SARAH MCATEE. HER HUSBAND, MICHAEL, WAS INJURED AND IS BEING TREATED AT THE CABELL HUNTINGTON HOSPITAL BURN UNIT. THEIR TEN-YEAR-OLD SON GOT OUT OF THE HOUSE UNHURT. TWO OTHER CHILDREN WERE NOT HOME. THE BLAZE APPEARED TO BE FUELED BY A MATTRESS IN A SECOND FLOOR BEDROOM. STATE FIRE MARSHALS HAVE RULED THE CAUSE OF THAT FIRE AS ACCIDENTAL.
Return to Story IndexHUNTINGTON SHOOTING
POLICE SAY GREG TRUSLOW WALKED INTO THE HOSPITAL AFTER HE WAS SHOT SEVERAL TIMES AT THE 20TH STREET SUNOCO STATION. A LITTLE WHILE LATER, HUNTINGTON POLICE CHARGED STEFON FERGUSON WITH THAT SHOOTING. FERGUSON APPARENTLY HAD HIS YOUNG SON IN THE CAR AT THE TIME. THE CHILD WAS NOT HURT.
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AUTHORITIES ARRESTED TRES DAVIS TODAY AFTER A SIX COUNT INDICTMENT WAS HANDED DOWN. DAVIS ALLEGEDLY SHOT MARK KING IN THE STOMACH OUTSIDE THE MARATHON GAS STATION THEN LEAD POLICE ON A CHASE DOWN I-64 BEFORE BEING CAUGHT NEAR MILTON. DAVIS ALSO HAS A LENGTHY CRIMINAL PAST IN KANAWHA COUNTY... WITH ABOUT TWO DOZEN CHARGES RANGING FROM DOMESTIC BATTERY... TO DRUG POSSESSION... HE WAS ALSO WANTED FOR QUESTIONING IN A CHARLESTON SHOOTING.
Return to Story IndexCHILD NEGLECT DEATH
LESLIE BOGGS FACES UP TO 15 YEARS IN PRISON AFTER PLEADING GUILTY TO CHILD NEGLECT CAUSING A DEATH. BOGGS, UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DRUGS AND ALCOHOL, HAD PASSED OUT AND ROLLED ON TOP OF HER TWO MONTH OLD CHILD.. ACCIDENTLY SUFFOCATING HER. PROSECUTORS SAY THE BABY HAD BEEN DEAD FOUR HOURS BEFORE HELP WAS CALLED. "The fact that I did consume alcohol. I don't know that I rolled over on my daughter. I don't know that, but I feel very negligent! " BOGGS WILL REMAIN ON HOME CONFINEMENT UNTIL HER APRIL SENTENCING.
Return to Story IndexI SHAWN GILMORE
EYEWITNESS NEWS REPORTER KRISTIN KEELING IS LIVE IN OUR NEWSROOM WITH THE LATEST ON THIS STORY, KRISTIN? RICK, TWO ROBBERIES IN ONE WEEK....AND POLICE SAY THE MAN BEHIND IT ALL IS NOW IN JAIL. BUT HE'S INSISTING THAT POLICE NABBED THE WRONG GUY. A WOMAN...AND A 17 YEAR OLD MAN...BOTH VICTIMS. ALLEGEDLY AT THE HANDS OF THIS MAN... "I aint got nothing to say. Can you all back out of my face please?" SHAWN GILMORE OF SOUTH CHARLESTON WAS PICKED UP BY POLICE THIS AFTERNOON. REPORTS SAY HE HIT A WOMAN IN HER HEAD WITH HIS FISTS AND STOLE HER PURSE...EMPTYING OUT HER PRESCRIPTION PILLS. "He attacked a 17-year old male and took some money from him." JUST A FEW NIGHTS LATER, POLICE SAY GILMORE WAS BACK AT IT...ATTACKING A TEEN WITH A HAMMER...AND GETTING AWAY WITH 300 BUCKS. Kristin: "Did someone else do it?" Gilmore: "I guess!" BUT GILMORE SAYS HE'S INNOCENT... HE SAYS IT'S SILLY TO THINK HE WOULD STEAL FROM SOMEONE HE KNOWS QUITE WELL... "How am I going to rob someone I live with?" THESE CRIMES ARE UPSETTING TO NEIGHBORS, WHO CERTAINLY DON'T WANT THIS HAPPENING AT THEIR DOORSTEP. "I'm the kind of person that I like to lock my doors all the time. Keep my doors locked every day." "You never know when someone may break in and try to hurt us!" FOR NOW, AN APARTMENT COMPLEX HOPES THEY CAN REST EASY. AND HOPES THE MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ROBBERIES GOES TO JAIL. BUT GILMORE SAYS POLICE HAVE THE WRONG GUY...AND HE'S STICKING TO IT. "Nothing happened. I didn't rob no one. I know that." GILMORE WAS JUST RECENTLY RELEASED FROM A PRISON IN OHIO. HE'LL BE BACK IN COURT IN WEST VIRGINIA IN TEN DAYS FOR HIS PRELIMINARY HEARING... LIVE IN THE NEWSROOM, KRISTIN KEELING EYEWITNESS NEWS.
Return to Story IndexVANCE COPPER THEFT
OVERNIGHT, TROOPERS PULLED OVER JOHNNY VANCE AND DISCOVERED HE WAS WANTED ON FELONY CHARGES LINKED TO A LARGE COPPER THEFT IN NITRO. COURT DOCUMENTS SAY VANCE CONFESSED TO STEALING WITH TWO OTHER MEN MORE THAN SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH OF COPPER CABLE FROM THE NORFOLK SOUTHERN'S SIGNAL YARD... VANCE DIDN'T SHOW TO ANSWER TO HIS COPPER THEFT INDICTMENT.
Return to Story IndexEYEWITNESS NEWS
EYEWITNESS NEWS REPORTER LESLIE RUBIN IS LIVE AT CITY HALL WHERE COUNCIL IS LEFT TO MAKE SOME BIG DECISIONS. DEBORAH...MAYOR DANNY JONES TOLD EYEWITNESS NEWS YESTERDAY THAT THE LATEST EFFORT TO FUND PENSIONS WILL BE TO LEAVE 10 POLICE OFFICER SPOTS EMPTY AND SAVE THE CITY ALMOST HALF A MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.... THIS COMES AFTER THE DEPARMENT WAS ON A HIRING FREEZE FOR ALMOST A YEAR, BUT RECENTLY ADDED SEVERAL OFFICERS TO THE RANKS. THE DEPARTMENT CURRENTLY STANDS AT 162 OFFICERS, BUT IS BUDGETED FOR 173 POSITIONS. JONES SAYS 10 OF THOSE WILL NOW BE TAKEN OUT OF THE BUDGET, BUT NO ONE WILL BE LAID OFF. CHIEF BRENT WEBSTER SAYS THERE WILL BE CHANGES MADE WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT BUT THEY WILL NOT AFFECT THE CITIZENS OF CHARLESTON'S SAFETY. COUNCIL WILL MAKE THE FINAL DECISION ON THESE CUTS AT THEIR NEXT REGULAR MEETING ON MONDAY. BUT IS THIS JUST THE BEGINNING OF A SNOWBALL OF MORE CUTS, AND COULD THIS ISSUE END UP LIKE THE BATTLE BETWEEN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND THE CITY. WE'LL HAVE MORE TONIGHT AT 10 AND 11. REPORTING LIVE IN CHARLSTON, EYEWITNESS NEWS .
Return to Story IndexGUARD PLANE CUTS
EYEWITNESS NEWS REPORTER KENNIE BASS JOINS US LIVE FROM THE WEST VIRGINIA NATIONAL GUARD'S 1-30TH AIRLIFT WING WITH THE STORY. THERE WILL BE REDUCTIONS IN THE NUMBER OF AIRCRAFT BASED HERE IN THE MOUNTAIN STATE...BUT COMPARED TO THE REST OF THE COUNTRY WEST VIRGINIA DODGED A MAJOR BULLET. THE 167TH AIRLIFT WING BASED IN MARTINSBURG WILL LOSE ALL 11 OF ITS C-5A GALAXY AIRCRAFT...BUT WILL ACQUIRE EIGHT C-17 GLOBEMASTER AIRCRAFT TO TAKE THEIR PLACE. THE GLOBEMASTER IS A NEWER AND MORE DEPENDABLE AIRPLANE THAN THE C-5. BOTH DO THE SAME TYPES OF CARGO AND PERSONNEL TRANSPORT MISSIONS. HERE IN CHARLESTON, THE 130TH AIRLIFT WING IS LOSING ONE OF ITS NINE C-130 HERCULES CARGO PLANES AND AN RC-26 SURVEILLANCE PLANE. BUT WITH THE PENTAGON CUTTING 50 BILLION DOLLARS FROM THE AIR FORCE BUDGET...WEST VIRGINIA IS ESCAPING MAJOR REDUCTIONS. THE CHANGES WILL BE EFFECTIVE FISCAL YEAR 2015. THEY STILL HAVE TO BE APPROVED BY CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT. THE AIR FORCE SAYS IT WILL ANNOUNCE MANPOWER CHANGES AS A RESULT OF THE BUDGET CUTS IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS. REPORTING LIVE AT THE 130TH AIRLIFT WING IN CHARLESTON, KENNIE BASS EYEWITNESS NEWS.
Return to Story IndexWHAT YOU THINK
Return to Story IndexI GO RED HEART
EYEWITNESS NEWS REPORTER DARRAH WILCOX IS IN HUNTINGTON WITH MORE ON WHAT'S GOING ON THERE TODAY. DARRAH? ONE WOMAN EVERY MINUTE DIES FROM HEART DISEASE! BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS YOU CAN BE PROACTIVE AND DECREASE YOUR RISK FACTORS BY ABOUT 80 PERCENT. THERE WERE PLENTY OF EVENTS GOING ON ACROSS THE REGION TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT THE NUMBER ONE KILLER OF WOMEN. IN HUNTINGTON... ABOUT 200 WOMEN AND A FEW MEN CAME OUT FOR A LUNCHEON AT ST. MARY'S EDUCATION CENTER. THEY HEARD STORIES FROM SURVIVORS LIKE SHARON SHAW... DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC RELATIONS AT ST. MARY'S MEDICAL CENTER WHO ACTUALLY HAD A HEART ATTACK JUST BEFORE LAST YEAR'S GO RED LUNCHEON... AND NOW SHARES THE IMPORTANCE OF DOING THINGS LIKE EATING HEALTHIER AND EXERCISING REGULARLY TO CUT RISK FACTORS. "Just getting women together and having them more conscious of what can go on in your life you know. Watch your numbers. Listen to your body. Just take good care of yourself." THERE WAS ALSO A FASHION SHOW SPONSORED BY MACY'S AT TODAY'S LUNCH... SEVERAL LOCAL SURVIVORS PARTICIPATED IN THAT SHOW... AND WE'LL HEAR MORE FROM ONE OF THEM... TONIGHT AT TEN. REPORTING IN THE HUNTINGTON NEWSROOM... DARRAH WILCOX... EYEWITNESS NEWS.
Return to Story IndexHOMELESS MAN HAS JOB
YOU MAY REMEMBER 37-YEAR OLD ELGIN PATTERSON. PATTERSON HAS BEEN LIVING ON THE STREETS FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS. ELGIN STARTED GOING TO SCHOOL AT THE GARNET CAREER CENTER TO BE AN ENGINEER AND EARNED HIS DEGREE. RECENTLY, CHARLESTON AUTO OFFERED HIM A JOB! OWNER, CHRIS REED, GAVE PATTERSON ANOTHER MUCH NEEDED INCENTIVE TO STAY EMPLOYED... A PLACE TO LIVE. PATTERSON IS HEADING BACK TO SCHOOL IN SEPTEMBER TO TAKE SOME AUTOMOTIVE CLASSES. AND, THE CIVIC CENTER IS READY TO JAM THIS WEEKEND. MONSTER TRUCKS WILL BE CRUNCHING CARS AND POPPING WHEELIES. THE TRUCKS ARE 12 FEET TALL, 12 FEET LONG AND SIT ON TOP OF 66 INCH TIRES. GRAVE DIGGER, MONSTER MUTT, TRIPLE X AND MOUNTAINEER WILL BE ENTERTAINING THE CROWDS. MONSTER JAM STARTS TONIGHT AT 7:30.
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EYEWITNESS NEWS REPORTER DARRAH WILCOX SHOWS US HOW TO MAKE A HEALTHIER GAME PLAN IN THIS WEEK'S FOOD REVOLUTION NOW. Most of us know Americans consume more calories on Thanksgiving than any other day of the year... but right behind Turkey Day... is the Superbowl!! "I think a lot of people look at that like, it only comes around once a year, let's take advantage of it." Pizza, hot wings... chips... dips... you name it... we eat it. "Instead of making it a lifestyle choice of having just a little bit of what they want, instead of overindulging, they really haven't learned that." You may not realize how many calorie-bombs are lurking in your favorite pizza box! "It's amazing, I don't want to say the lack of knowledge, but the lack of understanding the calorie content of some of those foods." Just for fun... we check out just how hard you'd have to work out to burn off about three slices of meat-lovers pizza... "You know if we were looking at things we would have to do in our facility, you would have to row on a rower for an hour to burn that." You could also spend more than 20 hours Tebowing. To burn off six bottles of the average beer... try doing the wave 4,280 times... or about as many squats. The good news... you have options!! "You can use the chicken wing as a primary example. There are multiple different ways to have a chicken wing that's actually healthier and not neccessarily laden with all the calories." Unless you want to run the length of a football field 249 times to burn off just a few of your deep-fried faves... take a timeout to make a healthier call. "There's going to be a Superbowl each year. There's going to be a Thanksgiving, you know, family dinner each year. Those are things that are going to happen, and if you want to have long-term success, you're going to have to make that part of your life." FOR MORE WAYS TO CUT BACK... CHECK OUT THE FOOD REVOLUTION NOW SECTION ON W-C-H-S- T V DOT COM.
Return to Story IndexSPORTS
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WEST VIRGINIA WILL SET OUT TO PUT AN END TO A LOSING STREAK THAT HAS REACHED THREE GAMES...LOSS NUMBER THREE TOOK PLACE ON MONDAY NIGHT AGAINST THE PITT PANTHERS...WVU HEADS ON THE ROAD THIS WEEKEND WITH A RECORD OF 15-AND-8 OVERALL AND A .500 MARK IN THE BIG EAST...THE BREAK HAS BEEN MUCH NEEDED AS WVU STRIVES TO REACH ITS GOALS...
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Return to Story IndexMARSHALL BASKETBALL
THE HERD WILL NOW HEAD OFF TO TULSA FOR A SATURDAY EVEING GAME AGAINST THE GOLDEN HURRICANE...WEDNESDAY'S VICTORY AGAINST TULANE LIFTED THE THUNDERING HERD RECORD TO 14-AND-8 OVERALL AND 5-AND-3 IN CONFERENCE USA...NOW THEY MEET A TULSA TEAM THAT IS THID IN THE LEAGUE AT 6-AND-2...13-AND-9 OVERALL...THE WIN WITH TULANE WAS DEFINITELY A LIFT...
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