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46 in blacksburg. we saw dense fog over night. right now looking all right in lefrn burg and danville. 5 miles visibility in robeanoke. keep an eye out. not an issue. cloud and he cool as we kickoff the work week. temperatures where they are, upper 40s, lower 50s for your high. we have the wedge of high pressure influencing our weather. several disturbances increasing rain chances. we will time it out coming up. back to you. >> mona: victims of state approved sterilization will get more compensation as part of the effort to right wrong done to them. >> patti: from the 1900s to the 1970s. thousands were sterilized against their will. and the local attorney has been fight to get them what they
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>> courtney: two weeks ago rose received a check for 25 thousand dollars. money begin to her by the state for unforgiven debt. >> i went to the doctor and said i have to have it done. >> courtney: the 74 year old was one of thousands that received forced sterilization after the state deemed her unfit to have children. institutionalized was the worse time in her life. >> i was happy to get away. changed. with her family she contacted the executive director of the christian law institute. >> i said, will you help me. heed i will do what i can. >> courtney: he helped rose and 13 others receive restitution. each has a different name but share a similar story. >> we are look for thester ize thesterizization summary.
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hundreds that yet to receive justice. >> why? >> so they don't get it. >> courtney: to right that wrong law makers proposed an amendment to the original 400 thousand dollar a lotment for survivors. they are asking for 800 thousand dollar to compensate an additional 32 victim s ands and 80 thousand dollars. like rose they can find a sense peace. >> i'm glad -- faith went the way tr is. >> courtney: we'll update you and you can check out our coverage on this issue at wset.com. as well as on our abc 13 facebook fan page. >> patti: the supreme court will be back in session following the death of their own. thouz analysised gathered on saturday to say goodbye to scam lia. service at the basilica of the
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justices son paul scalia delivered mass. scalia's friend thomas spoke. he die indeed his sleep during a visit to texas. he was 79. >> mona: today at heritage high school shart lot will throw her hat in the ring for city council. she is set to release the details in a bold fashion today. >> mona: a couple in washington started their marriage on a high note as in 32,000. >> i do during an airline flight on friday. the mid flight wedding was a favor to the bride's mom. >> crist and he jim are on cloud 9 after saying, i do, on friday. >> it is wonder. . we have been together for the better part of 5 years.
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making sparks fly on social media. >> tagging me on facebook, and the you tube videos before we landed. >> reporter: two were wed 32,000 feet in the air on alaska airlines flight from l.a. on friday night. >> love is in the air. kristi is a flight ash tendant for the airline. she and her hubby planned the is that bang to grant 3 wishes to h mom billy joe who is fighting stage 4 cancer. my mother is the world to me. >> reporter: billy joe wanted to see where kristi works. wanted to see where kristi lives. and she is always hope toed see kristi marry the man she loves. >> wanted to see where we were. i was here in seattle and wanted to see seattle and see our house here and have a visual of what our life was like here and that touched me.
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passengers as kristi made her way down a different aisle. wears access reese she designed. a flight of fancy not to be forgotten soon. >> it has been overwhelming but exciting. i'm glad we shared love and joy with people and touch people and make their flight a fun experience. >> mona: the passengers will not forget forget. managing stress levels while pregnant is important for the child and mother. a way to handle the stress in today's health check. >> patti: grab the rain jacket. it is damp. 46 in lynchburg and 50 in danville.
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this is the storm system that will condition to develop. you seat beginning of the low pressure system that begins to electronic to the gulf coast. reaching to the ohio river valley and the great lakes. bite mid part of the week tell bring a soaking tuesday. now as you are ready to head out. we are seeing the cloud cover. light showers moving through. light in nature. not expecting any measurable rainfall for today. temperatures holding steady in the 40's and 50s. 48 in lynchburg. 48 in blacksburg. 50 in danville. 42 in martinsville. temperatures going to stay steady with the wedge of high pressure. 47 degrees by lunchtimeful lower 50s in lynchburg. staying in the upper 40s for western virginia. here is what we are tracking. got a lot going on in the weather department.
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clock wise is where we're getting the northeast flow. cloud and he cool. no pressure system will develop along this cold front that stalls to the south. we get our batch of rain with the first wave of low pressure headed to tuesday. the big cahewna headed to wednesday in the gulf coast am reaches us on wchldz could see thunderstorms later wednesday afternoon. on future cast, clouds hang tough. we begin to notice rain chances increasing over night. soing for the tuesday morning commute. make sure you have rain gear. we will see grak in the action tuesday evening. rain ramps up for wednesday. how much rainfall are we looking at? by tuesday and wednessday morning half an inch and most of us could pick up over an inch to two inches we will watch for flooding over the next couple of days.
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51 in lynchburg. 53 in danville. 47 in the new river valley. 51 in robeanoke. upper 30s near 40 with rain, wind oust east and northeast. unsettled through wednesday. good news is, this is look to fall as rain as we see the temperatures above the freezing mark. we will see skies slowly begin to clear on thursday. temperatures in the mid 40s. friday through sunday dryer temperatures will cool down that is weather. let's look at the weather photo of the day. beautiful view elaine sent in this view from the peeks of otter. gorgeous out there and you may not see the sun until thursday but if you are out and about. send the photos to weather@wset.com. mona and patty? back to you. >> patti: snow was flying at a soft ball competition in wisconsin. >> mona: snowmobile soft ball is
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at the races. >> we're ready to get in firefighters. report are the match up on classic. spot of the finals was on the line. call it snowmobile soft ball. it is played on a snoy mobile >> reporter: there are rules. >> gotta keep their sled turned off and in the circle. can't start them until the ball is hit. >> you have to wear a coat. have you to wear gloves. 16 inch soft ball. >> reporter: action of intense like this hard smash. second base got a ski on it. the lead sledder was out at 2 but the double play was not in time.
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individualors head the early lead. >> as long as you don't smack your sled up. some have thoindz slesd here. >> a bit of a bind. players helped him back after he twisted his ankle. >> foot gets stuck and you are stuck there. so -- good time. >> you are okay? >> we are good. >> reporter: at times the action looked chaotic but that's part of the game. >> same as soft ball you run the base with sleds. it is awesome. you gotta try it once and you will get adicked. it is a good time. you get cabin feast and enjoy winter. >> it is amazing it is fun to watch. >> mona: i will stick with traditional. new this morning android phone
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>> patti: a video game classic is making a come back we have it in tech bytes. >> in today's tech bytes blockbuster phones unveiled at the mobile world congress in spain. samsung galaxy both feature 12 megapixel cameras and the microsd card slot. >> they are water resistant of the lg unveiled a g 5 features removable battery which can be swapped for a range of accessory. camera plus for better selves and the high 5 plus. audio audio amplifier made with of 7. >> an anniversary for the legend of zelda players saving the princess for 30 years. >> legend does not look like tell end with three games due the next adventure on wiiu.
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>> have a great day >> patti: >> patti: >> patti: >> patti: experts say coffee will not balance the negative affects of alcohol. more research is need to confirm. being pregnant can be stressful. how to manage the stress levels in today's health check. >> reporter: stress is normal for prepping nan women. pregnancy itself may be the
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>> it is possible that being pregnant could increase stress. physically your heart is working like jogging just sitting your heart is pumping. heart rate is faster. you are at a heightened state. >> pregnant or not too much stress is not good. jury is out on whether or not a women's stress level affects the fetus. >> we are not sure that stress is harmful. to make your pregnancy tougher there is a data that says that stress can increase rescue for a labor. >> you can manage stress in a variety of ways. >> a couple things that help. relaxation techniques. hot cup of tea or warm bath or breathing tech neeks. >> don't be afraid to ask for help. tell someone how stressed you are feeling. >> patti: a look at the most
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finish ever in the 58 year history of the race! lap 19, pole sitter chase elliott gets loose off turn four. he avoids the inside wall, but the infield does all the damage. elliott would finish 37th. final lap - matt kenseth in the 20 leading, denny hamlin running up on the high side, and then dives down to pass. a little touch, and kenseth wiggles loose. down the stretch to the line, it's a photo finish between denny hamlin and martin truex, jr! who wins? take a look...by one hundredth of a second, denny hamlin wins his first ever daytona 500. so here's how they finish. hamlin brings the title to joe gibbs racing for the first time in 23 years. kyle busch third, followed by harvick, carl edwards, joey logano, and kyle larson. kenseth saves it for 14th, jimmie johnson 18th. 3 dave intv the odac tournament gets underway tomorrow with first round games. lynchburg and roanoke both with first round byes. randolph's first round gamea is at the rad center tuesday at 7. on the women's side, roanoke hosts virginia wesleyan tonight, lynchburg with a bye. randolph hits the road today to face bridgewater in the first round.
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lynchburg boxer cole crumpler moved to 5-0 this weekend, with a first round tko. he defeated jordan simmons in baton rough, louisiana. 4 of jordan's 5 wins have come by technical knockout. 3 dave lynchburg hornets lacrosse opening their home schedule against franklin and marshall. tied at 9 early in the fourth, lynchburg's austin stewart rolls into the slot, and fires the overhand blast! stewart with the sock trick - 6 goals in one game! minutes later, colin mcguire knocked down, but shoots as he's falling down, gets the bouncer to go in! hornets go on to win 13-10.s win it 13-10. that's all for sports. >> melissa: it is 6:26 tell be cloud and he cool. upper 40s and lower 50s. 45 by 8:00. highs around 51 for many of us and we will see the temperatures dropping in the upper 30s near 40. 20% chance for light rain and drizzle. very scattered in nature. our next system is developing there. just as pushing through the
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coast. track toward ohio valley and great lakes. tell bring us some wet weather. good news is it is locking like an all rain event. you remember last week we wondered how much cold air would virginia. now we are on the warm side it will be an all rain event. mix in higher elevations. for the heart of virginia rain and heavy rain. timing future cast out. this is wednesday morning. about 5:30 you see rain moving through. steady rain headed to the afternoon. we could see thunderstorms developing as we warm up in the upper 40s near 50. we will watch for that with the heavy rainfall. and it will push out of here by later wednesday night. we will dry out by your thursday. how much rainfall are we look at. ranging 1-3 inches forecast in
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we are hearing from >> patti: in a few hours closing arguments in the trial for the alleged gang members accused of killing kevin quick. the defense wrapped up on friday. now of the on trial four are charmed with murder. prosecutors believe krelly sister sisters and daniel carjacked quick and drove to atm's with drawing money from his ash count. the other two of danville were the ring leaders who called the shots. >> mona: investigators say a man is behind bars and another on
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saturday a call came in from a man saying he was shot in the leg and in route to the hospital. the man was treated and released. departments say the 38 year old whites charged with attempted malicious wounding. in jail without bail. investigators say they are looking for this man. 38 year old danny henly charged with malicious wounding and other charges as well. if you have any information contact henry county sheriff's office. >> patti: four adid you tells and a child recovering after a wreck sent them to the hospital with serious injuries thank you very much is video of the scene sent by a viewer. it happened on route 29 at 3:40 yesterday afternoon. an acura was slow to make a left turn from a nobody lane when the driver of a hyundai failed to yield forcing to the southbound lane. a honda hit the acura.
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drivers and passengers of the other vehicles were taken to the hospital. the driver of the hyundai. meghan is charged with reckless driving. >> melissa: good morning and happy monday, 6:32 as you head out the door. pretty quiet. take a live view of the danville cam. everyone is out getting ready to start the new work week. we are seeing cloudy skies. 46 now in lynchburg. 50 in danville. 48 in roanoke. 47 in brooknil. 45 in blacksburg. 40 in hot springs. we had dense fol, check in visibility over all for most areas looking all right. only about less than two miles visibility in roanoke. 3 quarters in blacksburg. police, be on the look out for morning fog. cloud and he cool. you will not need glasses and temperatures upper 40s lower 50s throughout the day.
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the coming days? the jacket and layers. the temperatures in the 40s and 50s. you will need the umbrella tuesday and wednesday. full forecast is coming up. pam pat thank you. this morning we are hearing from two lefrn burg teens who found themselves stuck on a ski lift with 100 others during the skiing competition in west virginia. >> mona: happened saturday morning at timber line resort it left nine injured and two hospitalides. courtney spoke with the local teens for the first hand account. >> ask if i wanted a push. i was like. not really. >> courtney: they can laugh about it now. but saturday's close call was nothing to smile about. >> i was like oh , my gosh this is happening. >> courtney: lynchburg teens were two of hundreds of skiers supposed to be competing in the
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that is until something went wrong. >> we had seen the chair lift had fallen to the ground. and the tower that had fallen to the ground and a safety bar that had broken. >> one of the lifts malfunctioned leaving a hundred strand and others were forced to the ground by the impact. >> flung off the lift and him flung off over and over. >> courtney: no one was seriously injured but first responders say it could have been worse had the lift gone further you have the hip. >> people were flying off. they could have fallen and hit a tree or something hoebl. >> courtney: on the facebook page the cause of the malfunction is under investigation. and that this is the first time something like this happened in the resort's 30 year history. the competition was cut short. all say they are glad to be home safe and sound.
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so -- yes. so grateful and so grateful this could have been worse. >> patti: officials say an insurance investigator and engineers are trying to determine the cause of the failure. as for competition everything is postponed to next weekend. a coach says they will not ski this time around. >> mona: firefighter ss back at the dan river plant after a small fire. excavators were there trying to drown the fire out. that blaze sparked inside the building nine days after a fire went through the former plant. building had been smoldering since that fire resulting in several 911 calls from concerned residence denies. officials say that as of saturday that was the first time crews found flames since the initial fire. >> patti: woman at the center of a debunked rolling stone article
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of a civil suit. a federal judge ordered the woman, jackie, could submit to a deposition on april fifth. the judge set a september 11th trial for the case. administrator sued rolling stone in the article's say it put her as chief villain. raped by seven men in a frat raid. it retracted it after jackie's claims proved implausible. buggers and beer and pool. for the 25th cavalier cub. the restaurant holds it november until february. sunday marked the last day of the competition. each year the humane society raced money for the shelter and brings in their animals in hopes of an adoption. it is their favorite fundraiser of the year. >> the pool tournaments in the
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and the whole community loves to take part. and donate. they pass the bucket and they all give money to help the pets and makes us grateful to have a wonderful, supporting community. mobile home mobile home they raised 2600 for the organization. >> patti: community raised money for a boy fighting a tough battle. students at lynchburg silv van hair academy offered $5 haircuts on saturday. seven year old diagnosed with brain cancer last month. he had two surgeries and a long road of chemo ahead. his mother was a graduate of the school and the leaders wanted to help the family. they raised a thousand dollars to help mother and son with their expenses. wonder what john lennon would have said about this a four inch lock of his hair sold over the weekend for 35 thousand dollar.
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said it was the largest lock of john lennon's hair offered at auction. hair dresser clipped the hair in 1967. the person who bought the lock is a collector of entertainment memories from the uk. >> how do you know it is real? >> may be verify that. >> mona: still to come, this morning cammil the wife bill cosby is giving an deposition on deposition. >> outside this morning a guilty drizzle. 48 in roanoke. 50 in danville.
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next day. >> melissa: check out rain chances a 20% for monday. light drizzle and rain. tuesday and wednesday near a hundred percent chance of steady rainfall upon lingering showers on thursday and dry friday through the weekend. here is the reason why we have two systems. first wave of low pressure will move through on today. bring us a little bit of rainfall and then the big weather story. low pressure developing in the gulf coast. tracks up to the ohio valley and great lakes. bring copeius amounts of rainfall. getting ready to head out now. we are seeing over cast skies. may see light rain, no measurable rainfall expected for today. temperatures going to hold in the upper 40s and low 50's through tonight. 46 in lynchburg. 48 in roanoke.
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46 in martinsville. 50 in danville. the highs upper 40s and low 50s. check out your day cast. 45 by 8:00. 47 by lunch. 51 this afternoon. not going to need the sun glasses. the wedge of high pressure where we seat cloudy and cool conditions. clock wise wind where we get the northeast flow. we will seat clouds hanging tough all the way through wednesday. this cold front has sagged to the south. it will stall. wave low pressure along that front. moves through and bring us the first batch of rain and headed toed with strong low pressure system will bring us several inches of rainfall. timing everything out for you on future castment clouds hanging tough. light scattered showers but headed to the afternoon and evening hours. rain chances begin to increase and by the time you wake up tomorrow tell be a soggy commute
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does look like we will see a break not guilty rain tomorrow afternoon. not in the cloud cover. we will see over cast lingering and look ahead to earlied with and the next batch of rain is set to arrive. rainfall totals running this through for you. this is only headed to early wednesday morning. almost an inch. sick 10th in lynchburg. over an inch in danville near an inch in martinville. and add to that headedded with. could see a couple of thunderstorms during the afternoon hours. temperatures upper 40s and low 50's for the day. tonight upper 30s near 40. good news is we have this wet weather head third degree way. with the temperatures in the 40s and 50s it is set to fall as all rain. we'll not dry out until later thursday and friday. mona? >> mona: thank you. bill cosby's wife is scheduled give a deposition in a defamation suit against him this morning.
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eight women sued bill for defamation portrayed them as lay arts after they accused him of sexually assaulting them. among 50 women and leveled sexual misconduct allegations. he denies everything. >> patti: charges babies ryan dalton suspend of killing six in mitch much. uber released a statement sail he passed a background check but the company did not address that he picked up fares in between the shooting. the camazoo public safety chief said they are guilty having the respects. eight were shot in three location in kalamazoo. six killed. dalton was arrested. >> mona: lynchburg's mayor and vice mayor are set to give the state of the city address at 7:00 this evening in the city hall chamber. the mayor will recognize a number of citizens for work in
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this will be the last date of the city address since they announced they would not seek reelection. >> patti: john casic is planning too swing through virginia. casic is holding a town hall in fairfax at 10 team team this morning and head to charlottesville. tell end in richmond with a town hall at virginia commonwealth university. >> mona: this will be the second in our area. this will be in forest next to the first bank and trust across from the bank of the james. the ribbon cutting would be this morning but tell take place on february 29th at 10:15. >> patti: more ahead despite his win in the south carolina primary. trump is unhappy with the
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>> mona: yet group is >> mona: you feel you are logs faith in humanity. new this picture is being shared by thousands of people on social media. there it is. a note that a star bucks employee wrote for a customer. says, i have been learning american sign language so you can have the same experience as everyone. it was shared and he posted his own facebook saying in part, i'm surprised he is learning sign language i attend star bucks 3 times a week. went on to say he was blessed have a cashier like her of the post has been shared two,000 times and received almost 7,000 likes. >> wow! >> that is stepping up and help helping somebody. >> nobody asked her to.
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>> patti: makes it better. >> faith in humanity. >> monday warm and fuzzy. >> >> melissa: weather is not. you need a hot chocolate. >> 60s are long gone. good news is no winter weather. your bus stop weather is cloudy. 46 now. clear in danville. they are at 50. fog in roanoke. 48. we will see the cloud cover throughout day. the high pressure means temperatures don't budge the upper 40s to 50s. medicare it to the upper 40s low 50s this afternoon. a 20% chance for rain. not expect inging measurable rainfall.
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we will be on the warm side. cold air to the north and east am looking at all rain tell be steady to heavy. tubing thunderstorms by wednesday. tell be soing for your tuesday morning. a break in the action tuesday afternoon and evening. rain ramps up headed toed with wednesday morning and then strong are storms moving through. we will watch for flooding concerns. ground has been so saturated with the rain and snow we have been seeing the past month. add one-three inches on top we will have to monitor in the coming days. most rainfall totals 1-three inches. mona and patty. >> mona: we are a day ash way from a battle in the race for the white house. tomorrow the republicans will caucus in nevada. >> trump is hoping for another victory after the big win in south carolina.
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court to crucial african-american vote. >> reporter: this week the early presidential contest a switch. >> we want nevada. the dem the kras turn in the deep south the republicans are out west in nevada for tomorrow's caucus. >> we will keep winning and make america great again! >> reporter: trump is riding high after his weekend win in south carolina. he scored all 50 delegates winning evangelical voters. gi didn't know i was going to win by that much. >> the pact is down to five contenders. bush out. the two cuban-american senators left to battle it out to be the trump alternative. >> trump demonstrated he has a relatively high floor of support but he got a -- nevada winner clinton the favorite in south carolina.
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weekend. >> some may have doubted us we never doubted each other. it was a really for bernie sanders in greenville, south carolina. got celebrity help from danny glofr. sanders is hope to court the black voter an awkward reception as this african-american church. >> tomorrow night sanders and clinton hit the stain for a town hall hall. at the university of south carolina. the residence will spent today rallying in nevada where the pole has trump leading by 26
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hyundai failed to yield force itting to southbound adolescence. honda hit the acura. the acura plus the divers and passengers of the other vehicles were taken to the hospital. driver of the hyundai is charged with reckless driving. >> mona: closing arms set to begin in the trial for the alleged gang members accused of killing reserve officer kevin quick. defense wrapped up their case on friday. the six four are charged with murder. prosecutors believe the 4 carjacked quick and drove to atm's with drawing monfrehis accounts. the other two were the ring leaders who called the shots. >> patti: beer, burgers and approval dozens flock for the 25th annual cavalier cup they hold it every year november-february and sunday marked the last day of the competition.
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lynch bush humane society and humane society brings in animals in hopes of getting them adopted. >> outside it feels like april. >> yea. we have been all over the place in the last week with the under snow at this time. this time last week. snow and then it was rain and 60's and now it is 50s and 40s. everything. >> patti: yea. >> mona: what should we expect? >> melissa: unsettled weather through wednesday and we will dry out for work week. 46 with cloudy skies if you are ready to head out. you will need a jacket. the temperatures hovering in the 40s and 50s. basically all throughout your monday. 51 in afternoon in lynchburg. 53 in danville. 47 in the new river valley. light showers but tuesday and wednesday you will need the rain here the umbrelal be an all rain event. several inches of rainfall and dry are for the second half of
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celebrates big back-to-back wins now all eyes on the nevada, the next vote casts tomorrow. can marco rubio and ted cruz stop his momentum. the uber driver accuseded of killing six people. reportedly picking up fares during the rampage. now those passengers are speaking out. >> we were driving through median sfls and uber is responding to the attack. amazing escape. a megabus evacuated just moments before it goes up in flames. how they all got out alive rocket man out of this world mystery. the newly uncovered tapes revealing the, quote, weird music, astronauts say was playing on the dark side of the moon.
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really heard. i'm a rocket man >> ooh, that was bad. >> but it felt so good. >> great monday morning here on "good morning america." we're getting to the bottom of that space mystery and speaking of stars. >> yes, none other than sam champion, everybody, in the house. >> of course, they have pandora in space. >> 30 years ago, yeah. >> also, it with us new then. welcome back, sam. good to have you here. we'll begin with the race for the white house. it's your "your voice, your vote." donald trump the clear front-runner in the republicans. their next contest in nevada tomorrow and abc's tom llamas is here with the latest. >> reporter: george, good morning. donald trump takes his high-roller campaign to vegas today while his two closest competitors, senator mar cue row owe and ted cruz try to argue the odds are on their side to win the nomination. their argument, trump may be winning today.
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