through seven just to the end of rush hour that is it i pick seven o'clock tomorrow because by then we should see most of our area changing over to rain by that point from the snow or the mix it'll still be snowing and adding to these totals tremendously after friday evening up to the north so we're talking one to three for the middle peninsula back to the peninsula traced to two inches here across south side. probably not much at all down across northeast sections north carolina certainly for the outer banks but again that's just through seven and then we add to those titles are those totals as we go through tomorrow night you can see the storm system again and not affecting us in the short term but here it comes again as we get into the later hours so that's what we're talking about for the first half the storm leno but even more snow on the second half when i come back any national guard has up to five hundred people ready to head out to

at a readiness center all across the commonwealth they set these up including richmond and fredericksburg this is part of virginia's state of emergency plan if needed the guard will help move people through heavy snow. remove downed trees and hand out food and water the storm traps have started for people all over hampton roads those living in newport news race to stores this morning and make sure they have all of their necessities wiping some stores clean the ice melt and shovels to her talk to customers and shop owners and shows us what they're doing to make sure in the news are preparing for this storm but some stories that the status of the just and materials sent to managers of shoppers say they're working together to make sure customers get what they need. it's been a race to beat the storm people in newport news. getting hardware stores in preparation always be

you never now morsi martinez spent her morning going from store to store stocking up so she won't have to leave her home when the storm hits are stocked up on my water mitchell got my batteries in case the power goes out stopping at gas attack in power generator but of all those things that the net selling of the fastest customers to do with the rental store to find ice melts take on today we had several pallets of ice snow packed i mean we have snow shovels here and that is what this completely au sol store managers and owners are left pointing customers in any direction they can to find what they need the main thing we want to do is make sure the customer can work out they can get what they mean so that's why we some other places says the news like i smoke and shadows like ace hardware say they should get more in stock tomorrow. other stories that are not out yet

soon as they run out the news to her thirty eight news now lot of people don't like to drive in the snow but if u haf to aaa says to get the car ready now. make sure your tires are full of air you may even want to replace your wiper blades and make sure your window washer fluid is full that's a good thing you should also fill up your tank and it's a good idea to get kitty litter. if we get in any snow banks are in anything in our car a stuffed kitty litter is actually getting this attraction to get us out of there also clear all windows and mirrors of snow and ice you can track the winter storm by downloading the thirteen news now app to your smartphone you can check out live radar it will also alert you to any school closures or delays newport news and hampton schools again will dismiss early tomorrow. virginia has picked up more than one hundred and twenty million dollars to help combat the threat of sea level rise governor mcauliffe announced the results of the u s department of housing and urban development's competition today in norfolk virginia competed with forty

for the money leaders will use the money to create resilience strategies at the local and regional levels can be used to showcase community working together to transform can transform some may perceive is a problem into an incredible opportunity and the director was also their experts say norfolk is among the nation's most vulnerable cities to coastal flooding a big rat is helping some norfolk students go high tech tomorrow every kid at berkeley campus tell elementary childhood center will get a new white pad h teacher will get a macbook air and then i've had many and every classroom will get the apple tv technology is made possible through an apple and eighteen to grant more than a hundred schools across the country received the grant a witness helped to catch a serial robbery suspect in york county in fact deputies say the witness tackled the suspect deputies

charles lord. the third of williamsburg investigators say yesterday lower robbed the walgreens pharmacy on route seventeen and once he got the medicine were told he ran man standing outside the store noticed the suspect running and tackled him deputies have connected lower to eight other robberies in the area terrifying moments for a zoo worker he fell into the gorilla pit what it took to rescue the man and the first wave of winter weather caused a big mess in d c the second way well just hours away. how the east coast is bracing for more and again two different rounds of

the scary moments for a zoo worker when he fell into the gorilla enclosure man was working on the sprinkler system at the los angeles zoo when he dropped twenty feet to the ground the fall hurt him but the guerrillas didn't injure him. others who work or secure the animals while the fire department lowered a bucket into the pit and pull them out and he is expected

coming soon to the us visa program the administration is creating new rules for european travelers who are dual nationals of iran iraq sudan or syria and for people who have visited those places recently as well. the goal is to keep european isis members out of the u s department of homeland security is still working out the exact details on how the rules work and if anyone is exempt. pope francis is changing catholic church law i have an easter tradition during holy thursday the pope washes the feet of twelve people who represent the twelve apostles vatican rules call for the people to be christian man but last year pope francis included women and non christians in the ceremony. now the vatican has issued a decree saying the right can be performed on any one with no regard to gender or religion. lawmakers in washington state won the legal age for smoking to go up to twenty one more on the proposal and the number of people in favor of

emergency declared by virginia north carolina maryland and dc. the warnings com in advance of a major blizzard this weekend and coming up that six police released the name of the man arrested after leaving a suspicious package and one of

more in the governor's statement

consideration in washington state would ban the use of the name redskins at public schools. native americans and civil rights groups have protested the main saying it's offensive if the legislation passes every school in the state bearing the name would have to change except one high school on a spokane reservation uses the name and members of the community are at odds over the issue is not respectful to the native american people need to get over somebody else's opinion offending them. we just have to live in beaverton do we do lawmakers will likely vote on the bill sometime into next month is a new move to raise the legal smoking age in washington state a twenty one lawmakers tried and failed to boost last year but a new poll shows sixty five percent of people surveyed agree with the age increase washington reportedly spends almost three billion dollars a year in health related costs from smoking

raising the age for vapor and supplies as well as tobacco products and taxes the family of a woman who passed away is now suing the funeral home where her remains mysteriously vanished last year the family is seeking a million dollars for what they call gross negligence the suit comes nearly six months after the woman lost her battle to cystic fibrosis her body disappeared days after her service and police believe someone took her body out of the casket the location of her remains is still a mystery is what quickly turned to tragedy a georgia man who won a half million dollars two months ago was shot to death in a home invasion. gregory birch was at a home with his girlfriend when police say robbers came in and shot him they haven't made any arrests and state agents are still collecting evidence birch won the money when he matched all five numbers from georgia state lottery friends say the former forklift operator you some of his winnings to buy christmas presents for people in

still has people talking to men in florida creating a plan to win the billion and a half dollar jackpot by gathering a big pool of players the pool spent a hundred and forty six thousand dollars on tickets and ended up winning around thirteen thousand dollars as about twenty six dollars apiece for the two hundred and seventy people in the pool instead the group decided to spend the thirteen thousand dollars on lottery tickets while males millions of people on the east coast are bracing for a major winter storm with the potential to bring historic amounts of snowfall to certain regions this week about fifteen states are facing winter storm watch is why washington dc and baltimore are under a blizzard watch starting tomorrow. abc's lana zach's more take home washington d c is mega storm of twenty ten snow again the storm could be worse. this is predicted to

state has seen since snow began in two thousand and ten maryland governor larry hogan urged residents to have a week's worth of supplies on hand promising public works will be prepared to statewide as cj has twenty seven hundred pieces of equipment that will be deployed and is ready with three hundred and sixty five thousand tons of salt. the battle the storm with up to two feet of snow predicted residents are preparing for the worst this store in chesapeake virginia forced to limit the amount of snow supplies each customer can purchase the fast moving thing has been the snow shovels were down to like our last few of them which is like three or four. this dc trader joe's supermarket trying to control the crowds only allowing ten shoppers in at a time that the text as an all too much. the director of the nation's weather forecasting agency said preparation can save lives talking about a potentially paralyzing storm and after wednesday's relatively minor

accidents. the stakes now are even higher and it isn't just the snow. now forecasters are predicting the possibility of tropical storm force winds here in the nation's capital during all this traffic to a complete standstill. one is that abc news washington are saying of our precautions put into place ahead of this winter storm but fortunately it doesn't look like we're going to get the brunt of this pleasant let's check in with jeff now to see what we're going to get to jeff it's going to be a lot of everything rain snow a little bit when everything i'll mourn a little bit of wind yeah we've been saying the winds of fifty mph in gusts i still expect that that too is tropical storm force so again we're going to be really windy tides are going to run high but let's start out as you can see nothing on radar right now so look first at the forecast for this evening. this calls for clear skies cold conditions upper twenties for the inland areas near thirty as i said for the rest of us by about seven o'clock and then continuing to fall down by nine o'clock staying near

inland areas falling a little bit more down through the mid twenties and then we really don't go a whole lot below that there might be a few really in what areas that are lower twenties but the big news is it will be cold plenty cold to see snow if we could get the precipitation and hear all the readings were still this lau and i think we will start to see again as we've been talking about for days now days upon days late morning afternoon starting to see that mix of precipitation arriving will start out as snow or a mix on the southside start out as snow for most areas from around norfolk north and west and then gradually the later in the day we go for the evening rush will start to see everything transitioning over to rain for much of our area. that's why i chose to show the one map that was through the end of rush hour at seven o'clock when now again we have this total starting to build notice. overnight rain heavy at times this rain snow line

west but even if it's at west point. we're going to certainly see some of these northern areas lasting wealth through the evening c'mon piling up some snow totals before the rain starts to pack it down or even watched some of it away. certainly i'll get all washed away here across the seven cities area and then saturday afternoon saturday night we get everything rotating back around with the upper level energy and that gives us a period of snow that i think will accumulate very good chance that here the tide levels we go from three to four to four half to five by saturday evening five is up here right in the middle of the minor category would take a whole lot to get up to moderate look at the wind gusts by tomorrow afternoon we go from teens in the morning up into the thirties then thirties forties fifties during the overnight hours and then start to back it off again early saturday before things pick up again saturday night so we're going to be in for some very blustery conditions let's take a look the rest of

radar shows the storm organizing to the south partly cloudy late tonight mid twenties inland and then the rest of the seven day forecast the mix or just plain snow turning to a mix and or rain depending on location tomorrow and then temperatures starting out saturday in the mid forties ball in the thirties around freezing by afternoon or evening and that will change over any leftover precipitation bring another round backing of some snow that continues saturday night and into sunday morning lot more coming up in a minute transportation officials are poised to increase highway speeds all across minnesota after studies their show that would actually be safer it's part of a five year study to evaluate whether vehicles on seven thousand miles of highways can safely speed up state officials looked at factors including crash history hills curves and even what people are actually driving when you lower the speed differential of the cars out there and you

expectations you can have a safety benefit officials have approved about eighty percent of the roads for speed increases the study continues through twenty nineteen there's still more coming up on thirteen is now at six including more on the governor's state of emergency ahead of the impending winter storm what it means for you then add six of eight hours trying to get ed thomas on the storm the mosque and takes a look of the work they're doing to keep the roads safe and we're learning more about the man charged with leaving a suspicious package outside a local military base and a crafter all preparations virginia beach chesapeake and maybe firefighters team up

i don't know what people seeking unemployment benefits is at its highest level since july but by historical standards the number is still low. weekly applications rose last week by ten thousand but remains below three hundred thousand as it has since last march. still the number has increased nearly ten percent in the past month possibly reflecting the time after the holidays when temporary retail workers are laid off the administration's nominee to become the army's top civilian official says he's worried about plans to reduce the army's size to four hundred and fifty thousand active duty troops today eric fanning addressed the senate armed services committee expressing his concerns because of the threat posed by the islamic state militants and other demands the plan is to reduce troop size by the end of fiscal year twenty seventeen candlelight vigil in colorado honored that well marines missing after last week's

was held in the hometown of sergeant jeffrey simpler he's one of the marines who disappeared off the coast it's believed that two marine helicopters crashed last week while on a training mission samplers mother is still holding onto hope that her son may still be alive i don't believe that he's gone yet i still feel that there's a chance perhaps to crews called off the search for that all marines tuesday after they spotted pieces of the helicopter underwater and four empty life rafts there's no sign of the marines the coast guard is now calling the mission recovery and salvage a former u s marine held in iran for nearly four and a half years in prison file a return home today a mere technology is back home in flint michigan less than a week after being released from an iranian incarceration he said his disbelief turned to joy when he and three fellow americans were freed monday was convicted by an iranian court of spying and sentenced to

was later retired and given a ten year sentence on a lesser charge. the navy has launched its first carrier strike group powered partly by biofuel. it's a mix made from beef at calling a milestone toward easing the military's reliance on foreign oil the navy calls it the great green fleet and its part of a navy wide initiative aimed at drawing fifty percent of its power from alternative energy in four years which i america stands ready to pack clean homegrown energy that increases our military's energy independence and puts americans to work the navy secretary says the bio fuel cost taxpayers two dollars and five cents a gallon for now the ship's only run on ten percent biofuels and ninety percent petroleum but the navy says cost will change as competition grows in the alternative fuel industry. more on the approaching winter storm virginia state of emergency

all ahead on thirty news now at six. and here we go again after a dusting in some areas last night were bracing for more snow than system you see there is poised to bring snow and sleet down to roast this can make for a mass heading into the weekend and we just got word that southampton county schools in virginia are closed tomorrow we're also getting word of early dismissals for at least two other school districts both hampton and newport news public schools will dismiss early tomorrow we'll keep you informed ahead of the storm and during the storm the most cases on the peninsula where vinod crews are already hitting the road system goes live in dhaka for governor mcauliffe declared a state of emergency but we begin in the weather lah. jeff is tracking the storm's movements and there's so much to talk about with so many different areas let me give you the bottom line for sort of an overview of crippling storm for central western and

talking about that for days and days. strong winds high tides heavy rain for most of our area and some snow. we will have two periods of snow one at the beginning and once again at the answer let's talk about some of the different computer models there are certain sections why think some of these are right on another flight think they're totally wrong. so let me show in then all sort of give you my version coming up in a little bit. this is by the entire time frame through the entire storm by sunday as you can see seventeen inches in richmond six in newport news to happen or pick one at the beach one in elizabeth city. this is the canadian model. now granted this doesn't go as far but still goes through saturday evening we're going to have more snow saturday night and sunday. so these amounts would go up a little but i don't like these these are too low in my opinion some kind of throw that one out about this one thirteen in richmond that's fairly close to the other one two

is different. still one in or fact. so again there are