homeless today at a store in christiansburg. wdbj7's noell saunders tells us how the group put smiles on faces. nadia, smiles is exactly right. a clothing vendor called leslie's closet partnered with a local church to help those in need. it was quite a sight today. volunteers warmed hearts and stomachs as several came to pick through tons of clothing. "i see a lot of people that just don't have food. they don't have food to feed their kids. they don't have clothes especially right around school time. i go out and collect. i go different places and set up. whoever wants to come they can get what they want for free" shirts, pants and all kinds of shoes for all ages. cathy east, a first time volunteer, says she knows what it's like to struggle. "my heart is for the homeless because i've been there" east lived on the street for an entire year. "i feel for these people. i know what they are going through. sleeping in the cold, don't know where you are going to eat, and the innocent little kids, they have to sleep where they have to sleep" a group from a local church cooked all of the food. visitors stacked their plates and were even given a to-go bag. "we are here not to judge them, not to look at them like they are less than but to let them kow that they are people. god loves them. we love them and we would do anything that we can to make sure we try to make it a little easier on

today because it really means a lot to me. i could see where they are coming from" leslie's closet is always looking for donations and does a clothing drive regualrly. the church group plans to start serving meals monthly. more information can be found on our website wdbj7.com noell saunders wdbj7. a missing richmond mom and daughter have been found safe. police say c'ere (see-air) lewis and sesha hill were found in pennsylvania. they had been missing since thursday night. it's not clear yet why the two were there. new at six: the woman at the center of a debunked article about a gang rape at u-v-a will have to answer questions as part of a civil lawsuit. the woman, known only as "jackie" has been ordered to submit a deposition on april 5-th. u-v-a administrator nicole eramo is suing rolling stone and the article's author for defamation. she claims she was cast as "chief villain" in the piece, which

raped by seven men. a judge set the trial date for october 11- th, and it's expected to last two weeks. died after an accident in charlotte county. it happened yesterday afternoon on route 40. state police say john covington drove off the highway and down an embankment. he died on the scene but was wearing a seatbelt. police are investigating the crash. goodwhat a beautiful afternoon already getting spring fever with your daytime highs for into the middle and upper sixties across the board right now we are in the low sixties from roanoke to lynchburg sixty two degrees right now in danville were fifty six in blacksburg and fifty three and a lack majority of the clouds and rain to the south of us that will change so come early tomorrow morning clouds gradually move and keep your temperatures mild tonight though their overnight lows

middle forties it will be scalia was laid to rest today. the service was held at the basilica of the national shrine of the immaculate conception in washington, d-c. weijia jiang reports. (nats of bells) church bells tolled for justice antonin scalia...as pallbearers carried his flag-draped casket into the basilica of the national shrine of the immaculate conception. (nats) "let us pray." father paul scalia - the justice's son - presided over the mass and delivered the homily. (sot: father paul scalia/antonin scalia's son)

family." father scalia was on the verge of tears as he talked about his dad's love for his wife of 56 years and the couple's nine children. (sot: father paul scalia/antonin scalia's son) "to have each other for support, that's the greatest wealth parents can bestow. and right now, we are particularly grateful for it." (standup: weijia jiang/cbs news/washington, d.c.) scalia's funeral service was the first for a supreme court justice held here at the nation's largest roman catholic church. religion was an important part of his life. (sot: john garvey/catholic university president) "it was a reminder that there were more important things in his life than the job he did every day. he loved his church and loved his country both." and, he loved his friends...says dick coleman, who went to college and law school with scalia. (sot: dick coleman/scalia's friend) "it gets me when i hear in the media he's a curmudgeon. he was the warmest, funniest guy i know." mourners from both sides of the aisle including vice presidents joe biden and dick cheneyand

together...to say goodbye. weijia jiang, cbs news, washington. two states are up for grabs tonight as democratic and republican presidential candidates square off in the polls. the six remaining g-o-p hopefuls have been courting south carolina voters all week for the primary there. senator ted cruz has been polling in second place and is hoping to knock frontrunner donald trump from the top spot. trump is confident that he will hold on to his lead. donald trump/republican presidential candidate: "they always say the field will shrink and they add up 100 percent of everybody. i'm going to get a lot of those votes." for the democrats, it was all eyes on nevada. hillary clinton and senator bernie sanders started out in a virtual tie ahead of the caucus there. now c-n-n is projecting clinton is the winner. protesters are getting ready to assemble in more than 30 cities next week. this as a reaction to the fbi trying to force apple to make it easier to unlock encrypted iphones. the protests are organized by the internet rights group, fight for the future. they're scheduled to

outside apple stores across the nation. the protests come a week after the fbi apple to weaken the security built into most iphones to help a terrorism investigation in san bernardino, california. the general assembly has approved more coal- related tax credits the measure was voted in by a wide margin yesterday. the vote puts governor mcauliffe in a tight spot: he's vetoed similar measures in the past. but with this week's majority vote, he likely won't be able to stop the credit extensions. tax day is coming up and some people in our region, need a little help with filing. wdbj7's christian heilman has more on an organization working to help them. nadia, there is a group of volunteers that help folks with filing every year. they were in botetourt county today holding a tax fair. they'd like to open up an extra site there, but need some help first. the term "tax fair" makes it sound fun -- but the name doesn't trick yvette gibbs.

"oh i hate it. i really do." she's in the vocal majority who hate the world of w2s, 1099s, and 1040s. yvette gibbs, attended tax fair "but, if it has to be done it has to be done. " carol sheahan, district coordinator tax-wise "we work for the smiles and the handshakes and the thank yous that we get from our clients." yvette came to fincastle saturday to get help filing from someone like carol sheahan. carol sheahan, district coordinator tax-wise "the tax code is so difficult -- so hard for so many people to understand. " she was one of the volunteers who came to help about 20 people file. they're usually in roanoke, but call a church in botetourt county home for two days during tax season. carol sheahan, district coordinator tax-wise is out there because we fill up quickly and have to it's a problem they'd like to fix -- with more volunteers. they're already just about booked for their second tax fair in march. carol sheahan, district coordinator tax-wise "they call and we say i'm sorry we don't have any more appointments." carol says you don't have to be a cpa -- just a willing learner with basic computer skills. there are 30 hours worth of classes to get certified. if they get enough

hope to one day expand to a permanent place in botetourt county. it won't make taxes fun for people like yvette -- but it'll make it a little easier. yvette gibbs, attended tax fair "oh it's very very important. i don't think i'd know what to do without it. " the group is funded by the aarp foundation and irs. if you'd like to volunteer, we've got contact information for the group. you can also find other locations where you can get help filing taxes. it's all on our website, wdbj7.com christian heilman, wdbj7. we are your hometown news leader, wdbj7. folks enjoyed the nice weather with some classic trains in our region today, we'll take you to the fun. and if you've never tried rock climbing, a

all ages how to do it! the crimper's climbing gym in christiansburg. the gym hosted their 3rd annual rock climbing competition.

organizations, colleges and youth clubs were tested on different levels of challenges. at the end of the competition, first second and third place winners recieved trophies and other items. the gym's owner john johnson says it's all about collaboration. "what we are really trying to do is build the community. just get a bunch of different people together, just have a chance to try a bunch of new climbs and really challenge themselves and cheer each other on" if you've never climbed and want to learn, crimpers has classes every week. the roanoke disc golf club kicked off its inaugural ice bowl today! participants met at botetourt county greenfiled park this morning. the disc golf tournament is played like golf, but with frisbees instead of balls. organizers say the ice bowl is a great way to raise awareness and have some fun outside the office. dustin olin/tournament director:"our goal for this was to raise some funds and some food and to bring some folks from the rescue mission out and hopefully get them involved in the disc golf community and provide an outlet for them to do in the park when they're not at the mission."

raise one hundred pounds of canned food and 1-thousand dollars to benefit the roanoke rescue mission. leaders say they aim to grow the tournament and increase the amount each year. today train enthusiasts gathered at the virginia museum of transportation for train lovers day. those who took part got the chance to learn more about the y-6-a steam locomotive from st. louis. the event also featured model train displays, diesel train rides and a yard sale. organizers say this event has brought train lovers from around the world. fran ferguson/ director of development:"we are so pleased and grateful to have what is left of the best of norfolk and western's theme housed here at the virginia museum of transportation. we have guests who come from all over the world we've already got guests who've signed up for 611 excurions from australia and new zealand. the world knows what special locomotives and engines these were." ferguson says they are planning more events in the future including some excursions in the spring. the spring-like temperatures

more day but meteorologist lindsey anderson says that goes along with some rain. slothfultable take it at least temperatures are above freezing now for today temperatures soared into the mill upper sixties clouds clearly metal outer numbers to rise very quickly sixty seven degrees and behind roanoke and sixty six degrees in danville we will be more the way of the

tomorrow i went to the rainphotojournalist brandon who took a trip up to collection for into this afternoon it was a beautiful and glorious day in the highlands and everywhere across southwestern virginia perfect afternoon before high purchase to go outside today was the day to get any of your chores done because tomorrow is going to be a soggy wine and clips afford right now with sixty four degrees along with the light southwesterly breeze viewpoints write-down the middle forties and

three percent elsewhere were still very mild if you're heading out for some dinner. it's comfortable the mountain lake sixty five degrees sixty two in lynchburg fifty six degrees right now in blacksburg and sixty one and whispered check out how much warmer we are today compared to yesterday many of us tend to 15 warmer lot warmer though towards lynchburg seventy degrees and the path to category now for tonight we drop into the lower middle forties and other comfortable way to start sunday and that will set the stage up for lessons into the weekend we are going to track her next disturbance will begin to scream them across the tennessee river valley it's going to move to the east and bring us a lot more reading showers come midmorning sunday injuring more rights writer on the lunchtime hour so here's a

seven a.m. december theheavy rain will fall across west virginia into the highlands and greenbrier valley by 7 am and slowly moved to the east looks like all of the rain won't arrive until after lunch time thinking between 1:59 pm with the heavier rain lingering across the mountain communities. carolyn isolated thunderstorm as well in the afternoon, but the main concern will be the heavy rain and from flooding concerns especially north of interstate 64 as runoff over some snow melting will be a big issue, but look by 11 pm we begin to see some clearing up at the start of the week is much cooler and will be wet as well rainfall totals of range anywhere between a corner manage up to a half minutes with the majority of the rain falling along interstate sixty four quarter and that corresponds with a flood watch that's in effect for four allegheny county bath county greenbrier county pocahontas county until sunday at seven p.m. with the possibility of seeing some localized flooding servers as they mention became lot isolated rumbles of thunder with anywhere between a quarter manage up to half of an inch of rain and flooding will continue watch that issue was for tomorrow afternoon to check your highest we're once again in the middle to upper fifties towards the mountains and lower middle sixties will

southside is going to be beautiful but we cooled down very quickly. monday and tuesday we fall back to worry the below normal forty degrees is high on tuesday and we do have highlighted an impact day on wednesday in fact it looks like temperatures will support all rain event but if the overnight we have to watch out for the rain could change over system wintry mix especially across her higher elevations on wednesday night and thursday morning she would work for you just one more day

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at sports. let's get started with some acc hoops, and virginia tech hosting florida state saturday afternoon. it was a black-out today in cassell coliseum, with the hokies looking to move up the acc standings justing bibbs leading tech to a nice opening possession. throws it down with one hand. but the 2-nothing lead would be the only hokie lead for quite sometime. the hokies down nine quickly, but chris clarke doing his best to get his team back in it. the hoop in the harm. but later in the first. clarke on the drive. has to be carried off. he would not return with a left sprained ankle.

rhythm before the half. zach leday getting it up ahead, and shane henry will finish it off with the dunk. tech again pushing it up the floor. the steal, then slapped ahead by seth allen to leday for a flush of his own. hokies would get within four, but go into the break down eight. tech continuing to claw away in the 2nd half, as they've done all year. jalen hudson hits the three, cutting the lead to three, 64-61. and then the hokies finally break through. allen finishing off the fast-break to give tech the 67-66 lead. their first since the opening minute of the game. the hokies then adding a little cushion. justin robinson with all of his 13 points in the second half. as the hokies complete the comeback in a big way, 83-73. seth allen, game-high 23 points in win: "we just kept throwing punches, and give florida state credit, they threw a lot of punches. at one point in the first half, they had more threes than we did free throw makes. so for us to overcome that just speaks to this team's heart and grit. we keep fighting no matter what

to it. radford and vmi also in action today, where the highlanders are still in action against high point. that one a 4:30 tip-off and at last check, radford held a one-point lead with under 3 minutes to play. cameron jones leading the way right now with 18 points, rashun davis with 10 so far. as for vmi, the keydets lose on the road to samford 73- 67 despite 33 points from qj peterson. they fall to 2 and 14 in the southern conference. in division 3, roanoke college wrapping-up the regular season on the road at randolph-macon. first half action, lamont moore gets his shot blocked, but daniel noe is there as back-up. macon by 2. roanoke has a quick answer though. john

down the 3 to put the maroons out front. fitchett with 14 points, 7 rebounds. later first, michael taylor with a clear view from long- range. he knocks- down one of his 5 threes in the game. then it was more taylor later. he led all scorers with 31 points, lifting randolph-macon to the 89-73 win over roanoke. high school wrestling state championships are wrapping-up right now at the salem civic center for 1 through 4a schools. the third place matches going-on earlier in the day with action on 4 mats for the 4 classifications competing for titles. heading into the afternoon, the 1 and 2a titles were all but locked-up before the finals even started. in 1a rural retreat held more than an 80-point lead over rappahannock was another familiar sitting in first place in the team standings point lead over clarke county. 3a was tight through the third-place matches, with christiansburg

then in 4a, faquier county and eastern view were neck and neck at the top 2 spots. we'll have final team results at 11. the 58th running of the daytona 500 takes place tomorrow afternoon with the green flag just after 1 o'clock. as a driver, if you're fortunate enough to make it to the last lap of the 500, it's a white knuckle experience unlike any other in professional sports. joey logano/ defending daytona 500 champ: you're kind of waiting for that crash to happen normally. if you look at the way the daytona 500 ended last year, we were three wide, six or seven rows deep. that's incredible. it's didn't crash. we're all each other, moving. how are we doing this? i was to thinking how have we not because there were times like, we're about to crash. you just feel it. you know it's coming. ryan newman/2008 daytona 500 champ: a position looking in the position where the guys in front of you crash and you're the one that drives out of the smoke like days of thunder and make it happen. you know it's everybody. but

know that's the ultimate moment, right? you've got a quarter of a mile left, a half mile left. whatever it is to have something happen. the xfinity series getting their season going saturday afternoon in daytona with their 120-lap race. with 19 laps to go. we've got our 4th and final caution coming-out when ray black junior stalls-out on the back straight-away. so we've got a restart with 13 to go, where chase elliott makes his move when it goes green, passing joey logano for the lead. elliott able to hold-off logano, who laps, and it is elliott-- 500 pole-sitter-- flag today in the finishes second, kasey kahne in third. l, unless you have allergies. may see it differently. is approved to relieve both itchy, watery eyes d congestion. ther nasal allergy spray can say that.

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7 at 11. >> axelrod: breaking news from nevada, where cbs news now projects a win for hillary clinton in today's democratic caucuses. republicans are casting votes in south carolina, where polls will close just about 30 minutes from now. the emotional farewell to supreme court justice antonin scalia. the harrowing final words from the doomed ship "el faro." >> the clock is ticking. >> axelrod: and a suburban village deploying big-city surveillance tactics. is this the town that knows too much? captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening. i'm jim axelrod. we begin with a campaign 2016 update from nevada where cbs news projects hillary clinton has defeated bernie sanders in today's democratic caucuses.

the count continues at this point, clinton with 52% to sanders' 48%. on the republican side, polls close in south carolina in half an hour at 7:00 eastern time. we have both contests covered, starting with nancy cordes and the democrats in las vegas. nancy. >> reporter: jim, this is a huge relief for the clinton camp after a brutal loss in new hampshire a week and a half ago. clinton herself took the stage here at caesar's palace in las vegas about 15 minutes ago. take a listen to what she had to say. >> i want to thank each and every one of you. you turned out in every corner of the state with determination and purpose. hotel and casino workers who never wavered. ( cheers and applause ) tens of thousands of men and women with kids to raise, bills to pay, and dreams that won't die.