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larry's uncles who were obviously very emotional and devastated by this they cannot hear this morning to take a look at the damage one of them told me that he just broke down in tears. i mean can you imagine just coming out here and seeing your family's home just completely obliterated you can see that mobile home on the only thing that's really what are those stairs leading up to that trailer and there is debris scattered everywhere here on the other side the road you can see are broken bed frame a cornflakes box a tennis racket is just absolutely devastating here in the family is heartbroken and it was a good person always smiling always laughing larry turner was full of life enjoying make you smile even though you may be maybe a tick that made for me to put a smiley face that the local man this is what's left of larry's home after a tornado ripped through the town of
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year old stepson year and here's uncle devin string field to a three hundred seat in the new terminator movie good wiping away tears mary's uncle walter says the devastation was just too much to bear with the mou would kill for those close to the skull all this family can do now is hold onto each other for support and cherish the memories of their lost loved ones continues to grow to one another. he knew to one another i very sad story there a tragedy but we have
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you're looking at where you see the tree that's on the house you probably heard the sirens in my intro where the fire department there on the scene misses the house that was on fire up as soon as the storm blew through. he caught this house on fire as well as the dream and now on top of the house and apparently it was still smoldering there was smoke coming out of the window the fire department is here state police they're here as well. someone alerted them to the issue and you can see that the fire department there actually spraying down the house so hopefully they'll be able to get that fire out so there's not even more of an issue there was a family who live there. they lost their home that's one of the ten structures in this town completely uh that that's just on now will win earlier today maybe about two and a half hours ago the governor came out here and not the tour around we
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the devastation he shook some hands with the national guard there about about children via the use of their hands and he said that he is proud of the state's response to the tragedy and he says that this tornado emphasizes the need to be ready when severe weather strikes. you know that or it's very hard you don't know all the sudden when one's going to pop down and you know creates a very difficult to get the warnings out there you just don't know where it will strike the right that was governor mcauliffe will toward this area and told us that this was a state wide event wasn't it was really damaged and so many different areas across the state does not take awhile to clean up all the debris is going to take awhile to recover. there's breaking news situation where this houses caught fire again seems to be under control was going crazy as for jake over to tell us more about
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me tell you it's people helping people here and no one is wasting any time in trying to get we really back to the small charming town that it was before my mission just how quickly. safety crews are working here this road was impassable just about two hours ago when crews quickly came and i chopped down the tree that was laying in the ground that was resold of the storm here and now it's all cleaned up but here is what the residents here are left behind were dealing a backyard full of scattered debris and that is what's going to take so much time you can believe it actually the corner that house there was a polish and that stood once in this our backyard and got completely blown away on last night when the tornado ripped through the town of course i talked to many residents who live in this area may see we're just lucky to be alive tonight i said really concerned about what's going on right here with a
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are lost and the ones that are injured s that's why i heart them so we are blessed that none of that actually had a hit with a baking oven and everyone tells me that it's going to take some time to get this town cleaned up but like i mentioned it's people helping people much much more on the cleanup efforts coming up a little later in the show reporting live in waverly this is week eight of thirteen years now. i thank you kristi burgess a lot of activity going on right now at main street you have the breaking news with the fire department there over here to my left over here to my right is the front that's justified to remove all this tree debris so many tree limbs down when you write so much going on the national weather service actually their field to lead waverly played and battled this tornado also want to go to jeff now i find out more about what they hope to doubt that this is probably the closest tornado we've ever had to the actual weather service office in
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they'd wanted to from wakefield over here to waverly can see it's just a mile or two up the road the storm started just to the south west of waverly as we've already reported was an ef one tornado winds of one hundred one hundred and ten that's the very top end of the ef one range held another five mph it would have been a low ef two tornado which is considered a strong tornadoes so this was right and almost on the border of being a strong tornado just south west of waverly cross literally right over very close to the route forty interchange there with for sixty point nine miles it started to thirty one and a two forty one sows on the ground for ten minutes travel nine miles from mbs they were tracking all these in about fifty five mph that works out almost exactly to that number the past three hundred yards wide and as we just said the winds up to one hundred and ten. it finally lifted just to the east of huntington road a little bit west the cars lead just
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savage that's the latest on the path with more information. let's hear about it a little bit more now from ie sure we've been assessing the damage add the entire morning and into the afternoon hours out here in waverly take a look at this bar in the top of the barn is still intact however the frame completely destroyed more time trying to see exactly what was inside the barn looks i got there were a few books and then we're actually in the backyard of several homes and there's one home here and then we have another home right beside it there's another home on the other side of visitors three homes just right here and we're in the backyard of this home and look at this debris everywhere now. typically whenever there's a storm never produces this type of damage anything to yourself maybe this a straight line wind damage or was this from an actual tornado and usually was straight line wind damage
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the damage going in one direction with the tornadoes typically you get damage everywhere scattered about and that's really what we're saying and it has been confirmed that that was a tornado with winds anywhere from one hundred to one hundred and ten mph. that makes it a category ef one tornado of giza were continuing to add look at the damage here and continue with continuing to bring you live reports and we will continue to do that as we head to the rest of the evening back to eugene r i a so thank you and again a lot going on here way really on main street just wanna show you again the house here with the big tree house clearly is to stroll waiting to see the firefighters you might be able to see them looking through the window trying to knock down these hot spots they are still spraying the house to have that going on and been over
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take a look this is the up trend from the dark and what they're here they're going to try to get some of the debris out of the way you have state police there down the street directing traffic so a lot going on in the sort of a testament to just how much work goes into trying to get back to normal and recovered to win a stay at say out here and be on top of any updates and coming up with the next half hour we're going to meet a woman who lost everything except one prize possession thanks janet. there's a place to hide police officers names in public records tonight a state senator from
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. a newborn is off officer finds herself on the other side of the law thirty year old layla underwood faces domestic assault charges police say a couple of days ago she attacked her husband busted out his car windows. she's been on the force since two thousand eight now she's on administrative leave her husband kevin underwood was also charged he faces counts of assault and use of threatening language over the telephone only of thirteen news now it s a big state senator is responding to criticism of the bill we've been telling you about for weeks senator john cosgrove proposal would prevent citizens from getting the names and training records of law enforcement officers a house committee is supposed to debate this in a meeting scheduled for today investigative reporter laura geller is back from richmond with the story. well senator john koster of us agreed to speak with us after we're told he denied other media requests. he says that he wants people to know he believes this bill is about
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we've also learned this to be the first time there would be a special protection of employee names of any employee at any level of state or local government a huge release of data the morning we had to richmond to interview senator john cause growth. the so called hack to this group anonymous put out the names addresses and other personal information of cincinnati police officers and earlier this month the san antonio tabloid looks into publishing the names and addresses of police there. after a deadly officer involved shooting that's not right. these are just two recent examples the chesapeake senator points to when explaining why he believes his bill is necessary. our society right now is when he just does not particularly like lawn force and many times our police officers and sheriff's deputies and farmers can harvest up to the proposal which has already passed the full senate is now being considered in the house it
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training records of any law enforcement officer exempt from freedom of information act requests and do everything i can take along for the officers the examples coz bro gave us also include releases of home address is not just the officers' names what do you think the issue would be just really saying people's names what's the fear there. well we have a couple of years number one today's work somebody his first year of course the main five or six years ago undercover detective whatever the information doesn't need to be out in public. secondly there is no continuum that information once it's released. criticism has been widespread with the bill getting out of committee by just one vote. meghan ryan is with the virginia coalition for open government. when she started chanting the names of one republican voice in the next group of public employees or say really need that protection to the concern is that i could
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the complaints has been that these people are public employees and their paid with citizen taxpayer dollars and the citizens have the right to know how their money is spent at you respond to that i would have simply reflects information be released for all the fbi agents the cia agents or special forces ryan says she doesn't want anyone to get hurt but counters in most of the instances unfortunate instances where police officers have been targeted it's not because someone has their name because someone saw them on the street to the police officer the debate is supposed to continue tonight in a subcommittee of the house general laws group. remember both the house and senate must pass identical proposals in order for the governor to consider it. laura geller thirteen years now. pretty tranquil picture right now whether it's looking from skyview out the window of
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there's a lot of wind out there to bring in the cold air in me can't really see it again from up high and really nothing on radar to track other fuel literally light light sprinkles that are evaporating before they hit the earth well up north and east of richmond so right now fifty three degrees winds and the west are high today was about sixty three and then it just fell throughout the day sword held steady for awhile in the afternoon then has continued to fall when the us right now still thirty eight mph in newport news thirty twenty eight sees me in hampton twenty nine williamsburg and forty one right now in virginia beach that sighting at the oceanfront that so she enable air station so very windy across the region temperatures down fifteen seventeen eighteen or more degrees compared to yesterday this time course that was the one about ahead of that storm line an hour getting the cooler air behind it very powerful fronts going to continue to drop this from the fifties back in the forties later on this evening i'll feel at times
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the thirties and then by morning we'll see actual air temperatures down into the thirties for most spots some areas right near the coastline probably more like thirty nine forty degrees for the low and then tomorrow despite a lot of sunshine it doesn't heat up much at all especially early in the morning doesn't heat up hardly any. only in the lower forties and then we finally get mid forties by afternoon with inland areas maybe a few mid to upper forties that is way below normal and then more the chill tomorrow evening if you're heading out to a movie maybe to celebrate the end the workweek out to dinner certainly not going to be on any outside at cafes i can tell you that with the readings already down quickly into the thirties and then by morning we're going to have some twenty years in the coldest locations even spots right where the winds coming off the water. we're going to end up in the mid thirties at the highest so it will definitely be quite cold early saturday morning for that early morning run or whatever dish you're getting out maybe going to some yard
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finally by afternoon lot of sunshine again but still reading stay well below normal because this huge storm that brought all the severe weather in the warmth that ahead of it is now pulling all the really cold air in behind it luckily we're not west to the mountains where some snow although i'm sure some of you would love that made up the snow shoe or something tonight thirty nine degrees windy and chilly a little colder for the inland areas mccullough partly cloudy to eventually maybe even mainly clear little bit later tonight are mostly sunny quite breezy quite chilly hand then only forty six tomorrow as we said forty four on saturday sunday though should warm back up a cold start but then we end up late the afternoon not that it all up in that way into the fifty sixty two monday near sixty tuesday that's looking good and then another friend comes and brings us some rain wednesday and then chance of some cold weather thursday night thanks to a local mother accused of killing her son and driving
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. a mother accused of killing her son and driving around with his body appeared before judge this morning. hampton prosecutors charged it on the slate in with killing her son after a state trooper found quincy davis is decomposed body in the trunk of her car last year erica erica kane has more on why prosecutors brought the murder charge. tanya celine kept her head down during her arraignment thursday morning. she's accused of killing her son quincy davis and hiding his body in the trunk of her car celine has been in custody since last june after a state trooper found davis' body during a traffic stop is a long complex case prosecutors say they just recently brought the second degree murder charge following a six month investigation and a
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folks sometimes tend to cut to the one line that says cause of death undetermined that's true it isn't determined however there's also a portion of the report states that the manner of death was quote inconsistent with natural that salinas public defender richard johnson says the commonwealth has more speculation than proof of this label of quincy i have not seen any evidence to include the report which indicates that the slate and murdered her son or even that a homicide occurred. davis and his mom moved away from virginia beach in two thousand for an investigator say the beach middle school or vanished according to court documents he died sometime between july two thousand four and july two thousand five celine served four years in prison for shooting up her boyfriend's apartment in two thousand and seven and still no one knew where quincy was until twenty fifteen when a foul odor led a state trooper to make a
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those are underlying facts were presented at trial inappropriate to comment on salinas trial is scheduled for september reporting in hinton eric cain thirty news now losing everything. some tornado victims we talked to today in waverly have nothing to go home to hear how those folks are coping with those losses and what they're
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. a tornado tears through a small town. this is something of a movie this is just destruction ripping apart houses operating trains cutting three live sort and right now special coverage on the destruction in way for me an ef one tornado hit the town and sussex county yesterday to man and a two year old boy died in the storm. eight other people were hurt and we for the twister left a nine mile path of destruction destroying ten building site on the victims' families are grieving as the town comes
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welch is live in waverly seed leads our team coverage there are jane and david yes a lot of heartbreak here as waverly rallies behind this family that lost three victims when you first come into town on for sixty things look normal you don't know that anything is gonna be in you make that left turn onto main street and then you begin to see the heartbreak heartbreak like this house that's right behind me you can see that it's destroyed three people use to live there. two people were there at the title the storm they scramble to try to hide when obviously when the storm came through and fortunately they survived just two houses down there's another house that is destroyed i know when i last spoke to you all were following the breaking news a house that actually caught on fire a tree fell on top of that and the tree caught on fire is well the fire department they were just out here. they have died now so that situation has come under control. they got is out here
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police they are out here they've been directing traffic so many people here trying to rally behind and rally around waverly to get things back to normal if that can happen a lot of stories out of waverly as you can imagine people say wow i can't believe i survived on her senior who was out here most of the day he shares one of those stories with us right now looks alike to lose everything. all your belongings right there on your front lawn of the houses the main front door. this is the roof over the top of the house just crumbled into a ball here. this is all powerful the wires so be careful. this is where i was standing when the tornado hit i just looked out of that window and i came in here and his girlfriend had moved back into this corner and this she write here just exploded
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