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HEADLINES.A FEW VIEWERS ARE SPEAKING ABOUT THE ONGOING DISPUTE OVER PROPERTY ASSESSMENTS IN SHENANDOAH COUNTY.A MEETING LAST NIGHT HAD TO BE RESCHEDULED, BECAUSE SO MANY RESIDENTS SHOWED UP... IT CREATED A FIRE HAZARD. RESIDENTS ARE WORRIED THAT THE INCREASED ASSESSMENTS WILL MEAN INCREASED TAXES, AND EVENTUALLY FORCE THEM OUT OF THEIR HOMES. MADGE SAYS OUR TAXES ARE TO HIGH TO BEGIN WITH. HOW SAD WHEN THE PEOPLE ARE ALREADY HURTING FROM THE ECONOMY. MIKE ADDS SHENANDOAH COUNTY DOES NOT HAVE THE POPULATION TO SUPPORT BIG BUSINESSES AND WE SHOULD KEEP IT THAT WAY. AND REMEMBER, WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THESE STORIES OR ANY STORIES Y SEE ON W-H-S-V AND W-H-S-V - DOT- COMJUST SEND US AN E-MAIL TO FEEDBACK-3, THAT'S THE NUMBER 3, AT W-H-S-V DOT COM. TAKING A LOOK AROUND THE NATION, HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO FOR TICKETS TO THE WORLD SERIES? ACCORDING TO BENSALEM POLICE, A PHILADELPHIA WOMAN WAS OFFERING SEX IN EXCHANGE FOR COVETED PHILLIES TICKETS. POLICE SAY 43-YEAR-OLD SUSAN FINKELSTEIN SOLICITED AN UNDERCOVER POLICE OFFICER, OFFERING TO PERFORM SEX ACTS FOR WORLD SERIES TICKETS. THE UNDERCOVER OFFICER CONNECTED WITH FINKELSTEIN AFTER SEEING HER AD ON CRAIGSLIST THAT READ, "DESPERATE BLONDE NEEDS WS TIX." FINKELSTEIN HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH SOLICITING PROSTITUTION AND RELATED OFFENSES. PEOPLE IN SAN FRANCISCO MAY HAVE A HARD TIME COMMUTING FOR WORK. AUTHORITIES SAY THE BAY BRIDGE WILL BE SHUT DOWN INDEFINITELY... AFTER A PIECE OF IT FELL ON THE ROAD TUESDAY EVENING DURING RUSH HOUR. NO ONE WAS HURT WHEN A ROD SNAPPED... BRINGING A PIECE OF STEEL DOWN WITH IT. THE RUBBLE FELL IN THE SAME SECTION OF THE BRIDGE THAT WAS CLOSED OVER LABOR DAY FOR REPAIRS. THAT'S ALL THE TIME WE HAVE FOR THE NEWS AT FIVE-30.I'M MELANIE LOFTON...ON BEHALF OF TRACY TURNER AND BOB CORSO... THANKS FOR WATCHING.HERE'S WHAT'S COMING UP ON YOUR NEWS AT SIX. MEMORIES OF A FIVE-YEAR-OLD TAKEN TOO SOON.TONIGHT, WE HEAR FROM THE FAMILY OF KAYLEE GRACE WHETZEL. GOOD EVENING EVERYONE I'M HALEY HARRISON. AND I'M VAL THOMPSON.THANKS FOR JOINING US TONIGHT. THE ROCKINGHAM COUNTY COUPLE ACCUSED OF SHOOTING A WEST VIRGINIA FAMILY BEFORE SETTING THEIR HOUSE ON FIRE... HAS BEEN EXTRADITED TO WEST VIRGINIA.NAKIA KELLER AND LORIE TAYLOR ARE NOW IN A WEST VIRGINIA JAIL CHARGED WITH ONE COUNT OF ARSON AND THREE COUNTS OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER, EACH.THE FIRE WAS SET ON FRIDAY TO A HOME IN MATHIAS, WEST VIRGINIA.TAYLOR'S EX-HUSBAND, HIS WIFE, AND HER DAUGHTER DIED IN THE FIRE. INVESTIGATORS SAY ALL THREE WERE SHOT, AT LEAST ONCE, BEFORE THE FIRE WAS SET. AS WE MENTIONED, ONE OF THE VICTIMS IN THIS SAD STORY WAS FIVE YEAR OLD KAYLEE GRACE WHETZEL.KAYLEE LIVED IN HARDY COUNTY WITH HER MOTHER. NEWS-THREE'S JOSH KNIGHT SPENT SOME TIME TODAY WITH KAYLEE'S FAMILY.JOSH?HALEY... VAL... FAMILY MEMBERS ARE HAVING A VERY TOUGH TIME COPING WITH THIS TRAGEDY.BUT KAYLEE'S GREAT GRANDMOTHER WAS HAPPY TO SHARE HER MEMORIES WITH US. "She was special to all of us." IT'S HARD FOR NINA WHETZEL TO THINK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO HER GREAT GRAND-DAUGHTER LAST WEEK IN HARDY COUNTY ... BUT INSTEAD OF REMEMBERING HOW HORRIBLY KAYLEE'S LIFE ENDED...SHE'S REMEMBERING EVERY MINUTE OF THE GOOD TIMES THEY SPENT TOGETHER."This summer got to spend some time at her home while I was recuperating from illness and really, really got to know Kaylee." TO GET BETTER...NINA HAD TO GET EXCERCISE...AND THAT'S WHAT MADE KAYLEE SO SPECIAL...SHE WAS ALWAYS RIGHT THERE TO HELP."She would everyday, take me for a walk, down the lane and back, she thought that was really something, and I thought that was special, too, that she wanted to do that."NINA REMEMBERS KAYLEE AS A SWEET LITTLE BLOND HAIRED GIRL WHO LOVED SCHOOL AND SPENDING TIME WITH HER FATHER."took her fishing and hunting but I guess she didn't hunt much, they just walked in the woods." NINA SAYS THIS TRAGEDY IS HARD ON THE ENTIRE FAMILY. BUT SHE FINDS SOME PEACE IN REMEMBERING KAYLEE AND THE JOY SHE WOULD BRING TO EVERYONE AROUND HER."She played T-ball and she loved to ride her tricycle, on her grandpa's big long porch, that was one of the things she liked to do." A MEMORIAL WILL BE HELD FOR KAYLEE AT THE MATHIAS CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN, TOMORROW MORNING AT 11. HALEY...? THANKS JOSH.AND MANY PEOPLE WHO KNEW THE FAMILY ARE COMMENTING ON OUR WEB CHANNEL. ROBERT FROM MATHIAS WRITES... "EVERYONE SHOULD THINK ABOUT THE FATHER OF KAYLEE.HE IS LEFT WITH NO CHILD AND HAS TO FACE A LOT IN THE YEARS COMING." A REPORT RELEASED TODAY RESTORES JUSTIN SLATER'S COMPENTENCY TO STAND TRIAL.THE REPORT, FROM CENTRAL STATE HOSPITAL, IS PART OF A COMPETENCY EVALUATION REQUESTED BY THE JUDGE, ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT SLATER IS MENTALLY COMPETENT TO STAND TRIAL. SLATER IS ACCUSED OF KILLING HIS BROTHER AND EX- GIRLFRIEND IN JUNE OF THIS YEAR.HE'S SCHEDULED TO APPEAR IN FREDERICK COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT TOMORROW MORNING FOR THE FULL COMPETENCY HEARING. Clouds remain in place overnight with lows in the mid to upper 40's and the chance of some after midnight patchy fog. Temperatures hold in the mid and upper 60s through the weekend with another chance of rain Halloween night into Sunday. Next week we will see some clearing and cooler temperatures. Oh, and don't forget to turn your clocks back an hour on Sunday morning. NEW AT SIX...A DECADE AFTER HIS DAUGHTER WAS SHOT AND KILLED AT SCHOOL, A FATHER HONORS HIS DAUGHTER'S LIFE BY SPREADING KINDNESS.RACHEL SCOTT WAS THE FIRST VICTIM OF THE COLUMBINE SHOOTINGS IN APRIL 19-99. TODAY, HER FATHER ISSUED WHAT HE CALLS 'RACHEL'S CHALLENGE' TO STUDENTS AT FORK UNION MILITARY ACADEMY, IN FLUVANNA COUNTY. ONE MONTH BEFORE THE SHOOTINGS, RACHEL WROTE AN ESSAY ASKING PEOPLE TO START A CHAIN REACTION OF KINDNESS. HER FATHER IS SPREADING THAT MESSAGE, HOPING TO START THAT CHAIN. "I learned that chain reactions happen all over the world and how a chain reaction led up to the columbine event at columbine high school through hilter's birthday and how even that the chain event through rachel's diary led up to something else that changed the world even more than what had happened that day and for the greater of everyone around us." SCOTT WILL GIVE THE PRESENTATION AGAIN TONIGHT AT FORK UNION MILITARY ACADEMY AT SEVEN. IT'S FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. POLICE ARE HOPING A TIMELINE OF WHEN AND WHERE A VIRGINIA TECH STUDENT WAS LAST SEEN WILL HELP JOG THE MEMORY OF SOMEONE WHO CAN PROVIDE A CLUE TO HER WHEREABOUTS. VIRGINIA STATE POLICE BELIEVE 20- YEAR-OLD MORGAN HARRINGTON WAS LAST SEEN AT 9-30 P-M ON OCTOBER 17TH ON A BRIDGE IN CHARLOTTESVILLE. HARRINGTON HAD GONE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FOR A METALLICA CONCERT, BUT LEFT THE ARENA AND WASN'T ALLOWED TO GO BACK IN. SHE THEN WAS SEEN WALKING ACROSS TWO PARKING LOTS, ONE OF WHICH IS NEAR THE BRIDGE.FOR THE COMPLETE TIMELINE, LOG ON TO OUR WEB CHANNEL AT W-H-S-V DOT COM. POLICE PLAN TO INCREASE PATROLS AROUND U-V-A ON HALLOWEEN. AND WITH HALLOWEEN ONLY THREE DAYS AWAY, MANY PARENTS ARE TAKING THE *NORMAL PRECAUTIONS. BUT THIS YEAR, THERE IS YET ANOTHER DANGER FOR THEM TO BE AWARE OF... THE H-1-N-1 VIRUS. BY TRYING ON MASKS, SICK CHILDREN CAN SPREAD THEIR GERMS TO OTHERS WHO LATER, ALSO, TRY THE MASKS ON.LOCAL COSTUME SHOPS ARE BEING EXTRA CAREFUL TO HELP PREVENT THE SPREAD OF ILLNESSES IN THEIR STORES. "We take precautions with my rentals, and when the rentals come back they are all sprayed, all of the masks are washed and put out in the air, to air out and dry." AND STORES DO OFFER A NUMBER OF PRODUCTS THAT COME PRE-PACKAGED AND DON'T NEED TO BE TRIED ON. NEW AT SIXDUE TO AN INCREASED NEED, ROCKINGHAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL IS EXPANDING THEIR FLU CLINIC INTO ANOTHER BUILDING.THE HOSPITAL HAS LEASED SPACE IN THE CLOVER LEAF PLAZA ON MARKET STREET IN HARRISONBURG.CREWS ARE CONVERTING OFFICE SPACE INTO A MEDICAL FACILITY.THE CURRENT CLINIC SEES ABOUT 20 FLU PATIENTS A NIGHT.THE NEW LOCATION IS A WAY TO KEEP UP WITH DEMAND. "We've seen reports from other areas that hospitals are using tents in their parking lots, or some areas are having staff to out to patients cars to evaluate them. We think this will be a little bit nicer for our patients." THE NEW CLINIC WILL OPEN THE SECOND OF NOVEMBER, AND WILL STAY OPEN AS LONG AS THERE IS A NEED. STILL TO COME... FIND OUT WHY FORMER PRESIDNTIAL CANDIDATE MITT ROMNEY WAS IN THE COMMONWEALTH TODAY.PLUS, THE RACE FOR ONE POLITICAL OFFICE IN THE VALLEY IS NOW MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER... WE'LL PREVIEW THE RACE FOR WAYNESBORO CITY TREASURER.

• Release Date

  Nov 1, 2009

• Runtime

  12:37