throughout the city not just to keep an eye on the seven eleven stores but all commercial businesses reporting live in or think i'm jimmy be thirteen years now in canton police are looking for a robber who held up a mcdonald's. police say a man wearing a ski mask walked into the restaurant late last night and was mercury boulevard near king street he pulled on a gun demanded money and ran off with a cash call the anonymous crime line if you know anything about this case to a story you'll see only on thirty news now former church leader arrested on sex crime charges portsmouth police arrested jason ellis on several counts of sexually abusing a teenager. ellis served as a church elder at the deliverance worship center in chesapeake. erik ainge has details on the investigation. a chesapeake church leader accused of committing some serious sins. portsmouth police have arrested forty year old jason ellis charging him with sexually assaulting a teenage boy according to

abuse began in twenty fourteen until his arrest in late november the court paperwork details multiple encounters alice had with the teen in some cases showing him pornography asking for sex and touching the team in appropriately ellis was a church elder at the deliverance worship center in chesapeake but the alleged assaults happened off church property. a pastor there says ellis had been with the place of worship for ten years and the pastor says no one at the church was aware of. ellis is alleged wrongdoing. we stopped by alice's home in portsmouth to try and speak with him but no one answered. he's currently free on bond and we are not revealing the relationship between the teen and the suspect to protect the victim's identity the head pastor at the church did agree to meet with me for an interview but later declined again these alleged crimes happened off church property and the pastor there says ellis was dismissed after he was charged eric came thirteen years now have released new

bodies found in a hampton home were told the people were sixty five year old richard guarantee and fifty five year old barber in case an officer is found and home on charlie ryan yesterday investigators believe get what he physically assaulted canton and she died police aide karen karen's he'd been shot and killed himself. it is not clear what their relationship was but police say they didn't know each other. chesapeake police have a person of interest and hotel shooting but investigators are still putting together what happened. police tell us someone shot him and this morning of the extended stay america on greenbrier circle the shots rang out and a fourth floor room but it is not clear would lead to the shooting. paramedics rushed the victim to some terrible for general hospital and one point police were unsure of who's going to make it on the now say he is recovering. police have not announced any charges support of parents picked up their

reports of fights that i see an orca high school in portsmouth. several people called in to the thirteen is now newsroom about the brawl school leaders tell us a fight started when students went back inside from a fire drill that caused a chain reaction of fights in the school called portsmouth police. some people sent us pictures of what appear to be police detaining students but police tell us they have not confirmed any arrests at the school. the truck driver to win over the chesapeake bay bridge tunnel and into the water could face charges police with the bridge tunnel till mon of watch a pre dawn crash through a guardrail when he reportedly tried to pass another vehicle. he suffered a broken arm cuts on his face and hypothermia thirty news now looked into that driver's record his driving record we found a few tickets but nothing since two thousand and nine. we also reached out to the company kiln works for coastal a g e transport a representative set our hopes prayers and thoughts are with the driver

whatever else happens we'll handle it. after months of modest improvement some disappointing news tonight on the subject of military suicides new numbers out this week showcases of troops taking their own lives. op and the increase covers all branches of the military. my good and has the story it surprise me that it went up because we are working so hard to try to prevent but it also occurred to me we don't know what we don't know is how many lives were saved by the interventions that we've done captain raymond how his lead chaplain for commander navy region mid atlantic. he says the navy has robust focus on suicide prevention and numerous available resources. they routinely hold all hand seminars on suicide prevention to teach the warning signs to look for and have increased the number of programs and behavioral specialists available to the rank and file one of the most important tools is peer intervention urging ship made to see something to say something. despite such

the military are up more than twenty eight percent compared to the same timeframe the year before. new statistics out this week show that for the third quarter of twenty fifty in the number of suicides recorded for the active duty military was seventy two compared to fifty seven in the third quarter of twenty four kenyan and the trend a service wide the nabi saw an increase from seven to eleven. the air force from thirteen to sixty in the marine corps from six to thirteen and the army from thirty one two thirty to redouble their efforts since those are coming back from the war and experiencing stress in different ways are very attuned to that and that's why we want to provide so many networks and so many avenues of support because one life to lose too many. we put together some resources and links that can help you find it on our website thirteen years now dot com mike getting thirteen years now drivers beware part of a newport news road is literally crumbling find out where the de torres and what's causing those problems and an athlete student sister

state university basketball player ends up in a coma for teman her community are rallying around her and am tracking a warm up as we head

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newmarket creek is closed there is a structural problem or cold in that part of the st thomas kate was at the intersection today and found some of that concrete is falling off there was a routine inspection a few days ago on chestnut avenue where it crosses marking the results not good on the northbound side and that portion of the road was closed on the ground i can walk around. engineers found that one of the four large concrete box culverts that supports the road over the creek as the concrete falling off. here's a picture from underneath the road what looks like twigs are the steel reinforcement to give the roof strength to support the road and the traffic going over it sounds like it's time for this section of the row could take about four months to fix that's how long it could take to come up with a design to repair the problem figure out the cost and to take bids on the work i just thought it

spokesperson says they don't know what exactly caused the concrete to start healing but it's not uncommon in could be the result of any number of things. democrats still lives near the crossing and wonders if it has to do with the flooding they sometimes get in their neighborhood. that's what my backyard and pretty much everyone women dry and you know what we get for now every time i'm wondering if this part of the flooding in newport news velma scale thirteen is now. have you caught a lottery fever has taken over hampton roads find out how big that powerball jackpot is tonight i knew

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. i a lot of concern tonight for norfolk state university basketball player was in the hospital. junior forward amber brown is in a medically induced coma she was found unresponsive in her dorm room on new years day brown's family says he's had seizures and brain swelling fence that day. now her team and the community are stepping up to help to know her spoke with the cameras coach and her fam guys and older sister and me brown told me tonight she's still

slowly making progress they say right now the family does not know exactly what she is suffering from the holding of hope and prayers tonight the family of norfolk state university basketball player amber brown is sitting by her bedside to keep from georgia to be with her after teammate found her in a coma in her dorm room on new year's day don't know exactly what happened but we do know is that that abby's related so she does have type one diabetes so we do know that the head a lot to do with the older sister ebony brown said it's a tough time for the family not having a timeline for her recovery but they're staying hopeful in finding strength support that support in critical condition right now so this is why we appreciate all of our supporters are hoping for the best and pray for the bus also standing in her corner tonight for norfolk state family and she released a statement today saying our

her entire family during this difficult time that we will continue to support them in any manner that we can stuff a time you know we missing the team member but times like this i think the team has come closer together they have a little bit more to play for now the head coach deborah clark described her as the mother of this basketball team on and off the court and calls for a mature leader. donations will continue to be accepted at home basketball games for the rest of this much love in your fiction to her thirteen years now. our thoughts and prayers for amber tonight well the hampton police division has a new automated phone system for non emergency calls should get you help quicker. police said the new system will transfer callers to the right compartment with less hassle than on emergency number will remain the same seven two seven six one one one for emergencies of course dial

center in office getting a new home by march. resident artists will relocate to the duke grace building on duke street. that's in the arts district the center is leaving the cell to an arcade in downtown offer repairs are still underway at the arcade after an explosion last year. well after a delay in the us and thus cannot load the plane tomorrow morning the crew was supposedly naval station norfolk yesterday but the latter did not cooperate we're told this is a six month deployment the crew will supply food and fuel and supplies in ab muscles and the mediterranean sea right now people are buying their powerball tickets nobody won last night's drawing so now the jackpot sits at a record breaking seven hundred million dollars the huge number has a lot of people playing virginia lottery officials say they expect to sell almost three million tickets ahead of saturday's drawing was a lot of money will go into the state lottery fund which benefits education they're going to be times on saturday we're going to be selling about fifty

minute in virginia. those are just powerball tickets remember thirteen news now is your official lottery station get the results here first during thirteen news at eleven on saturday night life here fan of the warmer weather it's only gonna get better as we head into the weekend with our anything temperatures right now compared to this time yesterday anywhere from four at about ten degrees warmer than this time yesterday so let's take a look at the numbers ten degrees warmer and down weight fell five degrees warmer in norfolk and seven degrees warmer and south but we will continue to see the temperatures warm as we had not only into friday but even into the weekend we're talking sixteen back in the forecast temperatures right now forty seven in norfolk after a high of fifty one fifty right now in virginia beach were down into the mid forties as well in korea also run a rapid still holding on to some milder air across portions of north

what's gonna happen because as we head into the weekend saturday and into sunday we're going to happen to some warmer air so saturday will be back in the sixties and then some low to mid sixties in the forecasts by sunday so notice the greens on the map there but as we head into monday into tuesday we're going to get a cold or push of air move in and that will drop our temperatures back into the forties as we head into next week. satellite and radar are sleeping mainly dry but we do have the clouds across the area and we've got some showers offshore that's associated with an area of low pressure over the gulfstream actually tweeted this photo out because we've got this area of low pressure does rotating off the southeast coast not in effect as of the to continue to head off to the north and east and then tracking a line of showers off to our south and west of the showers will head our way but they will just fall apart as they do so will bring us a chance for a few stray showers as we head into friday so let's talk about the rest of the evening we're

on to the clouds look i mostly cloudy a stray showers possible in the morning but rain chances picking up as that system pulls off to the north and east and even along the outer banks can't rule out a stray shower with the area of low pressure and then as we had a tea or saturday morning mostly cloudy skies and wilderness in the sunshine much over the next couple of days but rain chances will be picking up so we will remain mainly dry saturday morning and then by saturday afternoon saturday night notice rain showers started to approach the western part of the state that will head our way later on saturday night and last into sunday morning. so forty five degrees tonight that's very mild for this time of the year we should be in the low thirties least kick off the day on friday ending the workweek temperatures and the low to mid fifties we could see some upper fifties in some spots fifty five in newport news and northeastern north carolina you'll climb near sixty degrees tomorrow well above where we said before this time of the year will climb into the sixties this weekend. rain chances will increase the sadder day

in its early sunday. once that system pulls out of here we're going to see a big drop in temperatures back into the forties monday and tuesday i was looking at some extended forecast models the dollar looks like we're going to get a really cool shot of paris we headed to the end of next week so we could once again see highs in the thirties and they will keep an eye on things and i were tracking the weather for you tonight before you head out the door tomorrow morning check in with thirteen is now at day break starting at four thirty i study seems like yesterday you were covering covering training camp could have imagined that you become in the playoffs now i'm a really good imagination. you'll need one but i'd imagine that i know that it's a surprise to me now that you're over the shock of the redskins making the playoffs. mabel surprise you again and us and move on to the second an excellent surprise nothing to beat the packers on sunday the packers are one point favorites though the game for forty the afternoon at fedex

playoff experience advantage of the redskins' kirk cousins to meet along the sunni really jay gruden obviously made the right call back twenty min the star back in camp we have high hopes obviously guys are starting quarterback and we have lot of weapons around with it once or weapons get entirely healthy we feel good about your office in our scheme but the cast probably a little bit of a lot of people thought that in house i think a lot of people around here have a lot of confidence we can do with football the thirty sixth annual virginia dole start tomorrow of course run all the way through saturday at the hampton coliseum three high school divisions two divisions of college is virginia tech has won this two of the last three years they won last year he will be there tech is ranked in top five again this year by the way ten mats going on at one time it's great for the fans but is especially good for the wrestlers we see pretty stiff competition though the coaches know that

to so just be partisan way to train hard but you have to have strength of schedule so if you want to have state champions and you want to build teams to get nationally recognized to have to reach the national competition. our goal basically what judge john is the ncaa tournament in march madison square garden and this and that helps prep you for because you have to wrestle somebody national rate teams and individuals. it's a contact sport. if i if you like the combat sports this is it you know everybody's in the name box and this is the beginning of all that grappling tomorrow at the hampton coliseum. another

. so you'll just hoping to break away from the routine they haven't lost at home. they haven't won on the road the wrong row tonight at louis xena tech bulldogs have won thirty nine straight at their own building marks eight and six in the season they're gonna need to step up their game tonight was a challenge for team has been a long time. we have one road game this year lisa was february of last year that we won our last game of the road so it's an important one for us and hopefully we can be ready to play extremely well made to louisiana tech's