we learned a lot of the details police have been staying tight lipped about throughout this investigation including what happened in the final hours of 13-year-old nicole lovell's life. this is video of the family arriving to court. lovell's mom, tammy weeks, came to court surrounded by family members as did lovell's dad, david. they weren't the only family members in attendance. natalie keepers' mom and dad showed up and took the stand at their daughter's bond hearing. they said they were shocked when they heard of the charges their daughter is facing. keep hers mentioned 18-year-old david eisenhauer before and said when keepers needed an emergency appear pen dick me, it was eisenhauer that took her to the hospital. both the parents said they had no idea what keepers is accused of planning with eisenhauer. they say the first time they heard of it is when they heard that keepers had been arrested. both parents teared up in court when the prosecutor read a summary of what keepers told police when she was arrested. according to that statement,

eisenhauer plotted and planned the best way to kill lovell and slashing her throat would be the best way. we will have more on what happened in court including why keepers requested bail tonight on abc 13 news at 6:00. live in blacksburg, annie andersen, abc 13 news. >> mark: annie, thanks. cyberbullying is on every parents' worry list. nicole lovell's mother said her daughter was a victim. every son and daughter who is a victim, there is another one who is a cyberbully. how moms and dads are supposed to stay alert? turns out there is some highturns out there is some high-tech help. megan hoouls tell us more in her report. >> reporter: in harpers ferry, west virginia, these 3rd graders have storyhave stories of being cyber bullied. >> i was kind of -- kind of sad that he was calling me stupid. said i was -- i was a little depressed after that. >> you know it is not the right thing. >> reporter: high school senior

students resist thatch urge. >> step one and step two. >> don't retaliate. >> reporter: children who have been bullied often become bullies themselves. lexi has been a target. >> people who do>> people who doerbullies especially anonymously are cowards. >> some do it because of power and others do it because they think it is funny. >> reporter: this psychologist say children are practicing impulse control and your parents need to be involved. >> your child that is a bully even if they are doing it for childhood reasons that later in life can be meaningless can have a police record. >> reporter: what if your child is the cyberbully. 80% of people think it is easy80% of people think it is easier to get away online than bullying in person like at school. >> i wanted to create this filter system that would monitor so parents would feel a little relief knowing and trusting that

media platforms and text messagemedia platforms and text messaging. >> reporter: michelle joel shows us one several tech solutions. her software my social sitter uses algorithm to filter and when the teen types in a negative message, it gets blocked. parents are notified. >> you love your kid, you need to keep up with the technology. >> reporter: she haven't gotten supervising software yet, but all parents need to police their children's cyber lives. >> it is real. they will put things on twitter and they can get a lot of trouble for it. >> reporter: megan hughes, abc news, harbor's ferry, virginia. we have more on nicole lovell's murder at wset.com. go there to get updated on this case. and we are constantly posting updates on our abc 13 facebook page. like us and get information

i am will stafford, hung on to the clouds and a lot of rain to the south and east and a look at radar right now. seeing some clouds there and even a few breaks in the clouds out to the west. but there is where all the rain is. saw that along that boundary off toward the south and toward out east. keep the clouds around through midnight with overnight low temperatures bottoming out from the 7 to midnight time frame in the 40s. cooler in the overnight lows and real cool air comes here. more coming up. the appomattox sheriff's office is looking for leads in a drive-by shooting that happened a tuesday night at 8:35 in robinson road. investigators tell us that people were inside a house when witnesses say small gray fourwitnesses say small gray four-door vehicle drove by, firing four to five shots at the home. no one got hurt, but sheriff barry letterman tell us he can't say whether this is a random incident or not. call the appomattox sheriff's office or with any information.

their lives to heroin and prescription overdoses than traffic accidents. attorney general mark herring just discussed his plans to fight these frightening statistics at the general assembly and now the appomattox county sheriff is ramping up his efforts to deal with the problems in their own back yard. suri crowe sat down with barry letterman. suri. >> reporter: increase in drug overdose and death is weighing heavily on sheriff letterman so much so that they are asking for a dedicated drug officer to deal with the influx of drug cases in appomattox county. letterman said his current deputy forces can't keep up with the number of drug cases, so he is now asking the appomattox town council for money to hire an officer who would be solely dedicated to investigating the county drug cases. he says many of those involved in the drug game are also connected to other crimes like larceny and theft and he wants this officer to help stop that. letterman says not his intent to lock up everyone who uses

is more the big-time drug distributors who he blames for the addictions of so many. >> i personally have seen where at least families with productive people just -- they are just making bad choices, and in doing that, you know, they will steal from their family. they are just lost. >> reporter: he asked the town counsel to allow $40,000 today 45,000. he said we likely move one of his trained deputies into this new position and then hire mark? >> mark: suri, thanks. police arrested a man police arrested a man for allegedly doing more than $100allegedly doing more than $100,000 of damage to the vaughn furniture company. captain james cox tell us cory hodges a former employee is charged with breaking and entering and felony destruction

hodges broke into that planted put black sunshine their finishput black sunshine their finishing tubs that means the furniture would have black mixed in the color. the i rs has hit a snag with refunds -- the refunds, what you want. how the software failure will affect you. looking at seasonal conditions this weekend and then a cold snap. details ahead. plus the final stretch.

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emeril, there is only you can count on. >> mark: more gloomy>> mark: more gloominess, but it is going to get better. >> will: it is going to get better. temperatures not too bad dan dap i didn't have to throw on my coat, gloves. >> will: you won't like in particular one. >> danner: i love winter. i would like to put that out there. i love the seasons. >> mark: i like the seasons but i am not sure if i like when it is 20 degrees. will then you might not like the seven-day. >> mark: it's okay, but i like you. >> will: i like tu, mark. >> danner: lay it out. >> will: since mark and danner love winter sore much. wintergreen. but mark said a little bit of clouds. we anticipate we will have more sunshine on the way for tomorrow. we are just now starting to see a little bit of clearing going on out in the distance. current temperature in lynchburg right now at 50. the dew point at 32. 50% visibility is unlimited. winds calm and the pressure is holding steady.

are at 47 right now in the roanoke valley. 36 in hot springs. 51 in danville and also in farmville. route 50 in charlottesville and cooler in blacksburg. an everyone reporting generally a little cooler conditions today versus yesterday. 3 degrees cooler in lynchburg. 10 degrees cooler in blacksburg. checking in at 26 degrees cooler right now than it was 24 hours ago. now we are slowly starting to see a little bit of clearing going on from west to cease. still seeing some clouds out there but nothing on the radar. if you want any rain head well off to the east. this is all the rain we had yesterday, that boundary pretty much stalled out along the coastmuch stalled out along the coast. this continuously dutching rain on parts of the hampton roads vicinity. picked up three and a half inches of rain just in the last 24 hours. picked up two inches. wakefield. even on the eastern shore almost an inch and a half of rain. the boundary and the little area low pressure continue to ride along, that boundary will slowly move out to sea and finally take

gets to sunshine as we get into the afternoon tomorrow. let's time it out here goes the boundary and area of low pressure by tomorrow morning should be off the coast. everyone gets in a little bit of drying pattern. high pressure will build in for friday and also on the way for saturday. one change with saturday is, we will see a little bit more of a southerly flow that may increase the cloud cover a little bit. but generally saturday and sunday will be warmer than what we saw for today. i think you will like that coming up in the seven-day. trying to get a little bit of that wrap-around return flow once the low pressure kicks off the coast that may spark a snow temperature in out to the west and a lot of will stay dry. on the way tomorrow, increasing amounts of sunshine. clear skies on the way for friday night and more sunshine coming upcoming up on the way for saturday. let's talk temperatures. right now not too bad here but a large area cold weather to the canadian prairies and the hudson bay. all this is coming in our drink land take at that time to get here.

monday, tuesday and wednesday, colder temperatures we have seen so far this season. get ready for that. overnight lows in the 30s. a few upper 30s. and see residentially clearing skies later on. the daytime high temperature right around 509-degree mark. we go to the slopes and not exactly a bad weekend to do thatexactly a bad weekend to do that. temperatures in the 30s. 40s at snow plex. seven day on the board that cool spell coming up for next week, and watching monday night and tuesday particularly carefully. >> will, thanks. george takai is coming to roanoke. he accepted the city's invitation to talk about his experience as a japanese-american held in an american internment camp with his family during world war ii. is happening after roanoke mayor ballard requested that the city deny entry to syrian refugees after the terror attacks in paris and compared the refugees to interning japanese-americans during world war ii. the city said the may 4 event is designed to promote acceptance of immigrants and refugees in

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a jury ordered apple to pay 620 million to the company vernex. the ruling is based on a legal fight that started more than three years ago. in 2012, vernax accused apple of violating four of its patents with its apps like i message and facetime. a jury found apple guilty and ordered the company to pay $368 million and appealed and won a technical, and then the case was retried. a california man is suing mcdonald's over what he says is fake cheese in the company's mosquito sticks. chris -- mozzarella sticks. he is asking for his $1727 back and seeking damage for customers they said was misled. they describe the cheese sticks as being made with 100% real mozzarella. but they say the fast food chain uses starch additives. mcdonald's has vowed to fight the allegation. >> i manage in would. and happy birthday facebook.

today, but the co-founder wants attention focussed on users electing to name february 4 friends day. on its investor page, the company says its mission is to give people the power to share and make people more open and connected. >> danner: did do you your friend? >> mark: i didn't do that yet but asaw a lot of people do that.

the irs suffered a hardware failure yesterday which left many of its tax processing systems unavailable. the agency stopped accepting electronically filed tax returns because of it. the outage could affect refunds. the "where's my refund" and other services on that site are not working. repairs are being made and they hope to have it back up soon. the united way of virginia is needing your help to reach their goal. the nonprofit organization helps promote local communities by focusing on improving education, health and income through services and initiatives, especially for kids. currently age range of more than 25% of their goal is to reach it for the 2015 campaign. four of the board members have even agreed to match any donations up to $20,000. >> they offered to put their money where their heart is, and

united way and lead by example. >> danner: we are going to make it really easy for you tonight. go to wset.com if you want to donate. >> mark: the united way does a lot of good in the community. >> danner: and helps those organizations that need the funding more now than ever. you might think of getting a

>> danner: noree most animal lovers will tell you what a plus their pets are in their lives. >> mark: that's right. and researchers are pointing to more and more benefits. noreen turyn has a special report coming up at 6:00. >> noreen: right. looking more specifically at the health benefits health benefits. i found a woman that has to do a lot of dog walking to keep her pups happy. the research that boils the health benefits down to doctor visits and dollar figures. >> we are not talking about a huge differential.

one visit per person we are yearone visit per person we are year, but because health care costs have gotten so expensive, even that -- that marginal change represents a lot of dollars in our health care system. >> noreen: that research may have an impact on public policy

find o anywhere, coverage youan count on. prosecutors say david eisenhauer and natalie keepers discussed the best way to kill 13-year-old nicole lovell before cutting her throat. just one of the new details that came out of a bond hearing for keepers this morning. she will remain in jail after a judge denied her bond. >> mark: annie andersen was at that hearing this morning. annie, what else did prosecutors say? >> reporter: well, prosecutor mary padak gave us details that