ripple effect that can take place and become quite honest local economist peter shaw says the loss will directly affect any contractors with mii local businesses and it may even affect the real estate market. what concerns me is the millennials they start saying this area is not a place to advance into well they will leave. it's clearly a signal to hampton roads diversified so the question now is how do we diversify and how do we recover from something like this on that answer coming up tonight at six for now reporting live in north and nine jimmy thirteen is now behind bars accused of raping a worker at a motel in elizabeth city. please tell us twenty two year old aaron after it's checked into the air con a la john hughes boulevard last night once in his room were told. etheridge called the front desk clerk to bring him so when the worker walked into the room police say etheridge tied her hands and raped her

than eighteen eventually got away. we're told etheridge was just released from jail in november for unknown charges after it had been staying at the ecology on and off since his release a cold glass is about to hit hampton roads and to get ready for the big drop in temperatures a group of police recruits handed out donated blankets and coats of the homeless in norfolk today was go to jeff to see just how cold it's going to get over the next twenty four hours we're going to talk and lows down into the twenties luckily the cold blast doesn't last very long but actual temperatures in many spots down into the twenties with a wind chills. it's going to feel like the teens to expose skin so hence the need for the extra coats out there in the community as you can see we've been following this area of moisture out the west then talk about it for days i also just to mention how is it comes down the mountains it's going to tend to dry out a bit i think you can see that it was a solid line just even half an hour ago and now we're

so it is slowly falling apart and drying out there will be isolated very light showers out there this evening those will move off and all ready by late evening we're going to be talking about blustery and colder conditions moving into the region along with some clearing skies very very slight chance of a straight couple of snowf late late tonight as the system begins to again with the wind it'll feel like the thirties already and then by morning anywhere from twenty five to about thirty two depending on your but it will feel like the teens to near twenty as i mentioned that doesn't last very long when i come back we'll talk about a pretty quick warmup and a chance for some pretty significant showers moving and eventually as well. jeff a man wanted in connection with two robberies in suffolk is in the hospital after shooting himself police

c'mon hawkins today officers found him hiding out at the super eight motel on north main street. marcella robertson explains what led to the arrest fabric swatch surrounding this super eight motel tuesday we saw a lot of police officers our way around this a break and they had their guns on which highlights police were there looking for this man kevin cornell hawkins. police say he's the suspect in a robbery of a seven eleven earlier this week and a family dollar on january first. when police got to the super eight favored hawkins caulking gun inside his motel room. that's when swat was called for backup around the bed they had to dash with a gun down on this lady was other virus came minutes later detectives heard gunshots coming from the suspects room and hawkins crawled out. he shot himself and was taken to the hospital with serious injuries

increase mint and their primary recently so i really don't know what's going on kind of fight in because he knows a lot going on recently according to police hawkins has a long list of outstanding warrants including attempted malicious wounding several counts of robbery and even kidnapping suffolk police say he is also a suspect in several other business robberies that really goes on in the hotel so it's not really surprising at this hotel but you know just stuff a period of a lot going on. this is kind of scary in suffolk. marcella robertson thirteen years now now this morning we got a viewer tip about the situation at that motel if you see news happening in your neighborhood lettuce no snap a picture and send it to us you can upload right to our website just click on the sharing tab you can also email us at sharon at w v e c dot com. no school again tomorrow for students at hilton elementary school in newport news this after work crews discovered lead paint inside the building most

where workers are cleaning up when they're done for the day but they need an extra day to make sure that the place is clean and the air safe for students and staff debris monday while scraping paint off of door frames in a hallway. the plant services staff discovered lead based paint at hilton elementary school. i mean it doesn't really surprise me too much i mean is that we know it's almost two years old who started the cleanup last night were back at it again today but they're still not finished a school spokesperson told thirteen news now as people walk through the dust from the lead based paint on monday they could have taken it a lot of places in the school so they're closing hilton elementary again on wednesday for another day of cleaning and whether they're doing and i guess they're in the way nick took off from work today to stay home with her second grader in exchange for this unexpected day off she'll be working saturday and it should be excited to have a nasa managers wonder

watch earned while they played and did housework at their home in hilton village a certified industrial hygienist supervise the cleanup and took air samples the whole school was given a wipe down including books. there's no word on how wayne it plans to handle a second day of school being closed because i don't have anybody that i can just call um spontaneously to watch or not an uber news parks and recreation youth program from eight in the morning until five thirty tomorrow at the midtown community center for the current participants there will be childcare available live in newport news film escape thirteen years now. a bomb threat caused the north and middle school to go on lockdown this morning the lockdown at taylor middle school one console row didn't last long sooners went to lake taylor high school while police searched the middle school officers didn't find anything suspicious and classes continued as normal today the uss barry left naval station offered for the last time right now the guided missile destroyers in route to japan which will be

the berry has been planning to go for the last year and a half at today's deployment the ship's commander explained the plan for the families left behind at naval station norfolk the transition for our very i would say as we were and the next year to two years more very families will be in the can and is suffering an arm of the uss perry has about three hundred crew members so far about thirty families have already made the move the guided missile destroyer is taking over for the uss lassen which will now be home ported in florida one point five billion dollars and growing find out which are chances are of winning the record breaking powerball jackpot and tomorrow marks the first day of the virginia general assembly one bill on the agenda could affect how much you pay for gas. plus incredible video of a store robbery the suspect caught on camera swinging a knife that the clerk wait until you see

. in the general assembly begins tomorrow with in the sixty day sprint to lawmakers will consider a wide range of topics including transportation will cain has been looking into this and as for danny to money to pay for some big projects absolutely jammed one of the ways they're going to do is by making some changes to gas taxes which are raking in as much money because of plummeting oil prices gas is

officially desmond and it might get cheaper as the price of crude oil crashed to a record low trading below thirty dollars a barrel today. put the team in mcallen is over have sold in school but the falling prices mean the state's wholesale taxes on gas and diesel are bringing in as much as expected potentially threatening infrastructure projects the general assembly convenes tomorrow and senator frank wagner's office says the lawmaker is looking at legislation that would change the regional gas tax one bill would tack on a flexible tax would rise and fall along with the price at the pump the extra money could help prevent olds that propose projects like the new high rise bridge and hampton roads bridge tunnel expansion while some drivers we talked to supported a tax change others seemed interested in saving money on gas now been on

rather be now than later. and coming up at six one another piece of legislation that could impact the tolls at the downtown and midtown tunnels. erik ainge thirteen years now. one of governor mcauliffe schools for this legislative session is to overhaul high schools in the commonwealth governor says he wants more hands on learning. he also wants the state board of education to change the way credits are earned for graduation another proposal calls for schools to hire more career and technical education teachers. mcauliffe says the changes would help students get jobs in advance field such as cybersecurity and biotechnology thirteen news now reporter eric came will be in richmond tomorrow for the start of the general assembly. look for his reports from the state capitol starting on thirty news now at more options for anyone flying out of richmond the airport announced today that allegiant will start offering direct flights to jacksonville florida the new flights will run twice a week starting in april allegiance as there are tickets available for thirty nine

changing its approach to cracking down on sex trafficking at the super bowl for the first time agents will try to reach out to women and girls selling sex before the big game. fbi officials say the goal is to give the women a way out the effort will rely on the help of nonprofit groups this is an addition to the string operate the sting operations. the agencies used the agency used against traffickers at previous nfl championships super bowl fifty is next month at levi's stadium in california the world's largest lottery jackpot is now one point five billion dollars lottery officials increased their estimate of the powerball jackpot for the second day in a row as interest in the prize increases the record breaking jackpot still as a time to grow before tomorrow's drawing lots of time left the odds of winning the jackpot are more than one in two hundred and ninety two million so be sure to watch tomorrow night's

thirteen news now at eleven for the past hour twenty minutes of them showing a view from our sky view camera here. top the station and as we look nice there were no clouds as we look west we start to see some moving and and boy what a difference even half an hour makes u can really see the clouds beginning to infiltrate the picture is we look out on the radars are still fairly far away though the line of showers right now still out closer to richmond apart the center virginia really eighty five chord or compared anywhere here locally and on the backside of that we even have some flurries or snow showers out the mountains slight slight chance we could see one or two of those later tonight is the really cold air gets here but for the most part we're going to look at some of these showers but they're falling apart as we talked about the past few days especially now that they're running into the dry air is to the mountains they are sinking that's drying

notice already up across areas of the northern acts like and sprinkle the family couple of isolated showers here were some of the darker colors are i doubt most of the light green is making it to the ground but in the dark green areas that probably is but again that too is weakening as it moves to the east right now fifty one west south westerly winds and fourteen it's going to get even more blustery later tonight. my forecast for tomorrow we're going to guarantee thirty eight degrees for the high temperature will see if we keep our streak alive because today we said fifty three and so far fifty four is the high and now are starting on the trend down some less that one up to fifty seven in between the top of the hour we're going to make now nine in a row after twenty one day streak ended. temperatures look at all the fifty fifty ones out here a couple spots a little bit milder down upon the fifty four very similar readings here across areas to the north slightly slightly cooler with forty nine in

most spots right near fifty degrees. another couple degrees cooler than that once you get up across parts of the northern neck. also few areas on the middle peninsula just slightly cooler as well and then let's see if it's any miler run pretty close to the southside temperatures here across parts of northeast north carolina fact almost all of the tar heel state. so as we take a look at this evening's forecast a few of these very very isolated light and fast moving showers move through once they get offshore a slight slight chance of a flurry in a very few spots especially to the north might be able to see up there just on the north side of the band are there parts of maryland little bit of a shower showing up of some mixed variety for the big news really by morning temperatures that will be in the twenties to near thirty but will feel like the teens to near twenty when you factor in the win despite a lot of sunshine tomorrow blustery and chilly cold actually i should call it high temps are struggling to

then tomorrow night more cold air see that little bit of moisture here actually on the turn around here it comes watch this is it comes across the area tends to fall apart like the stuff is out there tonight. that's wanna say a five to ten percent chance of a stray flurry again tomorrow night and then milder air moving in during the day on thursday we go right back up into the fifties here's the moisture coming to this evening again just a few isolated showers or sprinkles shower possible again early portion of tonight. otherwise just windy and cold tomorrow thirty eight mostly sunny breezy and very cold hard normal high temperatures ten degrees warmer than that there has been exactly ten was to be forty eight can see the upper right hand portion your screen. thirty three is the normal low twenty eight to start off thursday but which is below normal but then we go above normal slightly with fifty one by afternoon so big warm up friday even more warmth moves

friday and saturday and then a little bit of rain born a little bit we could have some decent soaking showers move through late friday evening friday overnight. i'm hoping they'll be out here for saturday at least by midday maybe by morning to go out and enjoy the fifty seven the great exactly that's a little cooler next week cannot vent about our next president is just hours away from giving his final state of the union address the speech expected to set it on for president obama as last year in office. coming up a preview of the big issues seas expected to focus on and democratic presidential candidate bernie

they say jen much at stake tonight for president obama presidents eighth and final state of the union addresses tonight my coding spoke with virginia's two u s

the letters read david and janet fellow democrats mark warner and tim kaine do have high hopes tonight they hope that the president and just manages to accentuate the positive and to steer clear of the divisive partisan bickering that has seemed to become the norm in washington local political observer says he thinks the speech has longer term objectives one last time president obama will take center stage. it's expected the president will highlight what he sees as his major accomplishments saving the auto industry enacting health care reform foreign policy working to curb gun violence and overseeing legalization of same sex marriage. virginia's two senators have high hopes for the speech what i hope the president will do tonight is a cut against some of the negativity that i see coming in as part of these presidential elections one of the candidates are saying make america great again suggesting that were not

are great. my hope is that we reflect on the fact that over the last seven years we have seen our economy come back it's not back to where we want and clearly avoiding sci quest ration for the next two years is great news for virginia and hampton roads in particular i think there is a moment to say how do we regain some of that optimism that i think people have had has been missing. obama has been concerned about his legacy for a long time thirty year political science associate professor jesse richmond says obama will do his best to convince historians and voters that his presidency has been a success for the president to speak to a large national audience and try to make his case for the way people ought to interpret the last seven years of his term and he's hoping to influence that by sixteen presidential race and you of course we'll be able to watch the speech live right here on abc thirteen at

cutting thirteen is now senator tim kaine as guests for the state of the union addresses don flattery is from alexandria flattery son a graduate of uva died from a drug overdose and twenty four teams flattery is an advocate in the fight against opioid addiction and is a member of the governor's task force on prescription drug and heroin abuse. there will soon be fewer and fewer options at the chesapeake square mall to store is closing shop another moving and will have a timeline of the changes and

quickly is the more changes are on the way at chesapeake square mall we break down what stores you can expect to see clothes soon. goodbye farm bureau live the virginia beach amphitheatre gets a new name with a new purpose a big problem with the popular cough syrup why your kid could accidentally overdose medicine and that breaking news coming to us from the middle east. several american sailors taken into custody by the iranian sailors were on their way from kuwait to bahrain when

iranian waters. brian carroll is following this story joins us now from the newsroom genevieve macy's government is working to resolve the issue quickly. it is an issue that began with some kind of mechanical trouble for one of two navy vessels a spokesman for the pentagon says the u s lost contact with the vessels while they were near farsi iran that is in the middle of the persian gulf one of the vessels ran aground and the iranians picked up ten sailors from the two vessels washington post is reporting that the vessels are river in boats there's a type of small boats you see on your screen secretary of state john kerry immediately contacted the iranian foreign minister he has worked with him closely over the years as a personal relationship with him. the united states has iran assurance that the sailors will be able to go on their way now the timing of this is interesting is just this past weekend the navy released video it says shows rocket testing by iran in december the rocket fire while navy ships including uss harry s truman were traveling through

conducting rocket tests today