developments tonight. anytime, anywhere, award-winning coverage you can count on, this is abc 13 news. breaking in just the last few hours, charges have been upgraded of one of the suspects against the nicole lovell murderagainst the nicole lovell murder. natalie keeper is charged with accessory before the fact of death in the 13-year-old blacksburg girl's death. annie andersen is live in blacksburg right now, and andy, a major development in this casea major development in this case. >> reporter: yes, danner. we learned today that a preliminary autopsy indicates that 13-year-old nicole lovell died from a stabbing. commonwealth attorney mary petit, it said while the final autopsy could take months, they have determined how lovell died. the state police and recovery team has been searching the pond near virginia tech's vet far in ye school, we don't know what they found if anything, but today petit, it said along with

body and an accessory after the fact, 19-year-old natalie cooperfact, 19-year-old natalie coopers is charged with accessory before the firstaccessory before the first-degree murder of lovell. if keepers is convicted, she could spend the rest of her life behind bars. petitt cleared up a few details on the murder arrest warrant for david eisenhower, the other suspect in this case. lovell died some time around saturday and that amendment will be to saturday, the same day it lovell was kidnapped. she explained why keepers and eisenhower was arraigned in court. >> all preliminary proceedings of the victim of physical violence is a minor are required by statute newt virginia to begin in juvenile and domestic relations court. after the preliminary hearing, the case also proceed to a grand jury and then to the circuit court for trial. >> reporter: petti, it said

are both results, the trial will be open to the public unless otherwise. >> danner: we heard from lovell's mother and she recountlovell's mother and she recounted her daughter's short life and multd pell medical complications at a young age. priscilla kaiser is there. she is live in blacksburg. >> reporter: a distraught mother recounting her daughter's struggle in life, fighting through tough medical situationsthrough tough medical situations, to then lose her life the way she did. tammy weeks said her daughter had to have a liver transplant at just ten months old after doctors discovered a rare tumor. years later at the young age of 4, weeks said her daughter was then diagnosed with nonhodgkin's lymphoma and fell ill to acute respiratory distress syndrome. she slipped into a coma and developed a mrsa fiction. >> we were advised at this time she only had 1% chance of survival.

after eight months in the hospital, she was released, and she started to thrive. >> reporter: less than an hour ago we learned of lovell's funeral arrangements. the visitation set tomorrow from 5 to 8 p.m. at cory funeral home in blacksburg. the funeral is thursday at 3:00 at the funeral home. tonight at 6:00, lovell's mother talks about her daughter's passions and love for life. danner. >> danner: thank you, priscilla>> danner: thank you, priscilla. they called her coley. she referred to nicole as coley and gave insight into her daughter's life. they created memorials all over the school, drawings for nicole and her family and her friends created a sign that is now on display in the cafeteria. spaces in of two nicole's

remember her and students will be wearing blue all week and all of these will be given to nicoleof these will be given to nicole's family. they had additional counselors on-site today and they say the mood is quiet but could you feel a strength of the students and teachers that came together. in the next half hour, we look at the best way to track your kids on social media, to try keep them safe with the internet crimes against children task force. if you missed the full press conference at 2:00, you can watch the full thing on our web site tonight at wset.com. we have it posted there. you can also get continual updates there and are on our abc 13 facebook page. good evening to you. you will really want your umbrella tomorrow as we are going to see rain moving in, and this view -- right now we are going to look live over lynchburg out over route 460, this view will be completely wet and the morning when we are going to see rain moving in overnight. right now we are dry. the you rain we are tracking for you right now is near nashville. that is the rain that is headed

so generally dry this evening with increasing chances for rain late tonight. temps holding in the mid-40s. coming up a little later, we will let you know how much rain we will receive. the latest information tonight on the shoo shooting last night that injured a danville doctor and his neighbor. dr. randolph neal has been moved to wake forest baptist medical center after being shot while he was walking home from the rnc last night. necessary stable continue. he told place it two men approached him demanding money. police say one of the suspects shot dr. neal several times and then shot a neighbor to see what was going on. there are no suspects so far, and there is now a 10,000 reward for information. at 6:00, hear why police say the location of this shooting is unique. a former employee of the son a former employee of the sonic in bedford is behind bars after police say he confessed to breaking in. police say that cedric noel used

or the door sunday night, monday morning and made off with 300 cash.cash 29-year-old was wanted on several charges that he embezzleseveral charges that he embezzled money from the restaurant. charged with breaking and entercharged with breaking and entering, grand larceny and property damage. riverfront park is torn apart in downtown lynchburg, and it has been that way for years. crews have been working on what is called the james river interceptor project. katie brooke is live in our lynchburg newsroom and people are wondering if this thing will ever finish. >> that's right, danner. seems like there is no end but director of water resources tell me a light at the end of the tunnel. construction workers say the last 40 feet of pipe out of 2800last 40 feet of pipe out of 2800. once complete, the james river intercept project will have cleaner water enter the sprivr. >> will help con vate water to the wastewater treatment plant for treatment. >> reporter: the project started in january of 2014.

march of 2015. then october, and now may of 2016. more than a year for the original completion date.original completion date. so why the delay. >> digging showed style needed to be hauled away and replaced. weather delays and delays from working by the railroad and found historical artifacts too. >> during the process we had to remove archaeological fines and had to be removed carefully hornhad to be removed carefully had to be removed carefully. >> reporter: not just the project that had to be delayed. they had to put off the groundbreaking of their new building construction. >>. >> we wanted to break ground before 2016 was over and in firt talks with the city and further communication, we had to put our project off. >> reporter: the kids love construction and to see an exhibit dedicated, amazement square couldn't last much longer. >> dedicated to use the space. right now unusable.

resources say they are still on schedule this time. >> we don't have any more to deal with. >> reporter: amazement square will break ground in spring. they had a trailing museum exhibit. it will be here in february 2016it will be here in february 20 17 regard physicals they are ready or not. live, katie brooke, abc 13 news. speaking of fun for the kids speaking of fun for the kids, get ready to get your kids dancing. dance lynchburg has a new program director. thedore coates said he took the position to provide more class. ballet, tap, hip-hop, and even salsa from 2 years up to adult. the best way to get your kids interested is to come on in. >> the child can, one, meet the instrishingts and kind of get a feel of the instructors. we have great instructors that are really good at making a child feel welcome, one, and

i think that is ultimately our main goal is getting the children confidence in what they do. >> danner: dance lynchburg having an open house on march 12. the nonprofit partnered with the acad me of fine arts to expand and you can donate to help them out to do it. we have a link on our web site at wset.com. check out all the information on what is offered there as well. start saving cash now. we will show you to you to avoid those annoying fees.

newborns at danvillenchburg, danville, bedford, roanoke and the new river valley. >> danner: if you believe in groundhogs and they can predict the weather, get ready to grab your t-shirts, flip-flops because an early spring. >> there is no shadow to be cast>> there is no shadow to be cast, an early spring is my is my forecast! you should have heard my son cheering when he said that. punxsutawny phil came from a mock tree stump. his handlers told a crowd of thousands early spring-like weather but phil's accuracy is at about 45%. and a lot of my friends who are meteorologists in the business are have taken to facebook and potatoesed their opinion of philpotatoesed their opinion of phil. and groundhog day. not pretty.

what phil has to say about the weather. good to have groundhog day today because if they had it tomorrow, phil would be all wet. >> danner: an early spring? >> george: a 50/50 chance of a yes or no on that. isn't that great for a meteorologist. >> danner: perfect for a meteorologist. >> george: tomorrow a long>> george: tomorrow a long-range outlook for our way out wednesday. we will talk more about that for tomorrow. for this evening, if there is anything outside that you don't want to get wet, don't want to get rained on, i will bring it outside as we will see light rain developing and moving in, especially by tomorrow morning. temperatures are not going to change very much. they are going to remain steady and the heavier rain arrives early wednesday. right now we are at 47 degrees. win watching melissa le ber earlier the temperature was 47 degrees. it barely changed all day. cloudy, gray skies over lynchburg. a northeast wind at 8 miles per hour.

everywhere running 20 degrees comer than we were yesterday for some of us. blacksburg watching us from virginia tech, 43. martinsville at 47. farmville, 42 and mid-50s south boston, danville and clarksville. what it looks like as far as the timing of the rain. at midnight tonight, we will be seeing areas of light rain developing across the heart of virginia. nothing heavy this evening, just some patches of light rain and drizzle. when you do wake up in the morning, a look at wednesday at 7:30. we will have some patches of light rain across the heart of virginia. we are going to see heavier rain arriving after sunrise and through lunchtime. here is tomorrow at noon when you can see the yellows and oranges where heavy rain is going to be falling, and you may see some thunder as well. heavy rain increasing during the late morning. a look at tomorrow afternoon at 2:30. you can see a lot of rain falling across the heart of virginia, so if you did have something planned tomorrow, it will pretty much be a washout, by 5 p.m., you can see most of

richmond. all of this will have drier weather by wednesday night and completely dry weather for thursday. if you have something scheduled outsideoutside that you don't want to get rained on, cal, plans for tomorrow and reschedule them for thursday. otherwise you will get very wet. temperatures will hold where they are now in the mid-40s. lower 50s toward south side. danville at 50. bedford at 45. the hourly weather for tomorrow shows light rain to begin the today with increasing heavier rain throughout the morning. heavy rain in the afternoon and decreasing rain by late afternoon. dry by tomorrow night. and temperatures will be very mild. highs in the low to mid-50s for your wednesday. your seven-day forecast looking good for your outdoor adventuresgood for your outdoor adventures. beginning thursday. colder and drier with temperatures near normal and looking toward the weekend a minimal chance of rain on sunday, and remaining cool into next week. >> danner: thank you, george.

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he barely knows how to walk, but at 14 months, sloan henderson is learning to shred on a snowboard. this baby is younger than my baby. her parents started her off in their back yard, but on friday she hit the slopes in park city. that is adorable. the baby's parents says she loves it. stabbing, the preliminary charge of death for 13-year-old nicole lovell. blacksburg police tell us today they will get justice for her. >> we are not alone as a community in suffering through this horrific event. we will not let the violence define us. >> danner: the latest on the

can do to help keep your kids safe. >> now the predators are in the child's pocket. >> danner: tonight on abc 13 news at 5:30. >>announcer: anytime, anywhere, award-winning coverage you can count on, this is abc 13 news. >> danner: we are following all the new developments tonight in the murder of a 13-year-old blacksburg girl. a second virginia tech student is now facing new charges. mona kosar abdi is breaking it all down for us tonight in the lynchburg newsroom. mona? >> reporter: danner, the montgomery county commonwealth attorney said today the preliminary cause of death is stabbing, and police also announced charges have been upgraded for 19-year-old natalie keepers. she is now facing a new charge, accessory before the fact in the premeditated murder along with improper disposal of a dead body. keepers will be in court on the new charges february 4. the commonwealth attorney also said that the murder happened last wednesday, the same day lovell went missing. they say the date was wrong on

it will now be fixed.