of americans are familiar with the claims were they built some relationships today case with african americans. and the country really will be watching what happens in the virginia primary between republicans and democrats there are hundred and forty four delegates up for grabs. we could know who walks away with the majority of them when the polls close in a little less than an hour or forty live in norfolk area came thirteen years our election coverage will continue through the night will break down how people in both parties voted across hampton roads and right here on abc thirteen you can get analysis from a top national political analyst and will also have local analysis at eleven now puts listeners were also out around hampton roads today for different causes in portsmouth some people had a petition to recall the mayor our partners at the virginian pilot say opponents of american the right spot across the city collecting

the group had about five thousand signatures in january and be close to eight thousand for a recall in virginia beach people collecting signatures to get a new voter referendum on the light rail extension in eight twenty twelve referendum voters supported the expansion but opponents say another is needed before city council commits to tens of millions of dollars for the project that petition needs twenty seven thousand total signatures virginia beach is fatal crash investigation team is working right now trying to find the cause of the crash involving an ems vehicle that emergency vehicle collided with a car in lynn haven parkway at mall drive eighty eight year old doris baxter died another person was her thirteen years now reporter generally broke the story at noon and spoke with people who saw that crash. an employee at a nearby store and didn't want to go on camera told me that she heard a loud boom and then when she looked over at

elderly woman slumped over in the passenger side of the content rapid she said the granddaughter of that elderly woman was driving a them were taken to the hospital but eighty eight year old doris baxter did not make the shoes are pretty bad witnesses say first responders use the jaws of life to cut doris baxter out of a car crushed by an ems vehicle they rushed her to the hospital but couldn't see her look pretty bad all the front in of the passion passenger side was saying did pretty good we say discharging trap it was trying to turn left onto north mall drive ems car smashed into a t bone style the person driving the ems vehicle was not her. it was not operating in humans it past the police spent hours sweeping up the mess is he trying to piece together what happened and who was at fault investigators are now asking

to come forward with information in virginia beach jenny be thirteen years now drivers charge for allegedly causing a newport news analyst a crash please tell us a truck pulled in front of the ambulance on warrick boulevard around one am the emergency driver hit the truck then swerved into the median. no one was hurt police say sixty five year old james davis of chesapeake is the truck driver he is charged with reckless driving and mentally ill north of man saddam killed by police as the officer faces a manslaughter charge the victim's family is suing officer michael and intan shot and killed a bit late and back in twenty fourteen and eighteen says he saw clayton because he would not drop a knife but the multimillion dollar lawsuit paints a different story. marcella robertson look through this and today not a police officer michael addington is awaiting trial for killing david lee from back in twenty fourteen. now he's also in the middle of a

suit the suit filed by lincoln's parents asks for nine million dollars the night of the shooting late m's mother called nine one one when her son who suffered from a mental illness pulled out a knife when officers arrived ending ten shot late them nine times including in the back with fifth offense with killing you know why this bill lackey with murder and relate them david's mother told us that after reading teens indictment at the time of the incident police said lee some threatened responding officers with a knife but his family denies that the lawsuit claims officer addington pulled out his gun as soon as he responded to the leaf them home. it goes on to say the family begged officers not to shoot telling them their son was in danger as just mentally ill the family's attorney says addington unlawfully shot and killed late on by excessive and unreasonable use of deadly force and that his death has brought belief in family tremendous sorrow it's unclear if officer

the civil suit but we did reach out to his criminal attorney he tells us that officer addington was faced with a life threatening situation and had to make a split second decision his attorney also told us this has been a tragedy for both the layton family and officer addington in norfolk marcella robertson thirteen years now a substance abuse center filled with fire and smoke and a firefighter falls through the roof trying to contain the flames now we know what caused the blaze and local gangs using social media to intimidate and to recruit thirty news now has a closer look at how some gangs are going viral. jet streams

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picture of briana young she's only sixteen years old she was last seen february fact that brown has piercings on her nose and navel and attacked two of the word love on her right arm she was also wearing braces when she was last seen. officials say briana might need her medication of you have any information on her call hampton police a death investigation is upgraded to a homicide case of the police found a body overnight in the cemetery off old mill road police now say that body was forty two year old wayne watford investigators have not said how walker died or if they are actively searching for suspects call the crime line if you can help police with this investigation. firefighter falls through the roof of a burning truck and walks away on harm to the fire started at the substance abuse and recovery alliance on thirty fifth st. one firefighter drop through the ceiling while battling the flames but he's okay. the fire marshal also came to the rescue. we

heater started this fire dozens of veterans in hampton roads took advantage of pro bono legal services today thanks to a first of its kind clinic veterans walked away with free estate planning documents such as wills powers of attorney in advance medical directives virginia attorney general mark herring is office organize the program. he estimates that nearly half of all americans have not drafted these documents and for some veterans the cost could keep them from getting it done altogether. we've stepped up our consumer protection efforts to help them and this is just another way they were able to give something back to our veterans for more information on the upcoming clinic said to our website thirteen is now the college gang wars aren't fine just on the streets anymore now the violence has spread to social media. thirteen years now investigates the on line games popping up in hampton

. if your child is on social media this is the story you'll want to see facebook twitter instagram any form of social media could be exposing your child and teen violence gang activity guys are turning to social media to promote and advertise their dangerous tactics marcella robertson has been digging into the issue and has the story of these gangs are turning to the internet where the reach is much greater their threats against other gang members go viral and sparked deadly retaliation and the most disturbing part is that they are bragging on social media putting young kids at rest to be recruited into these vile organizations we call this the front line. this is the front not the right home

mentoring program the original brother it's in newport news. so which one you things will happen when you go into again. i myself used to be the end that's what i can speak to the county's other side for one thing that we determine to do is take this respect the will from the games when the young kids about the dangers of being in the streets for days of old school gangs and graffiti reading the message one block at a time are over now gangs are turning to social media where the reach is much greater. no one who is the requirement that the gang members be face to face to be disrespectful to internet and social media has essentially exploded anew avondale and in this realm where they can promote the gangs and disrespect other g and get respect for themselves hilfiger is the chief gang

general mark herring is off its post videos of themselves disrespecting rival gang members the like these guys are thirty six and bang squad the most notorious gang on the peninsula each wrap the another threat the another shot at their rivals. it's like this respect over the internet can result in a fatal shooting on the street by gang member who felt this respect those internet threats go viral prompting immediate retaliation. the result is that we're seeing bodies piling up in major cities across the commonwealth and that's why we've really stepped up over our efforts on top of the threats gangs are posting their guns drugs and money for young impressionable kids to see on platforms as popular as facebook or instagram what they do they make themselves look very attractive before they know it. guess what they

the thirty six bang squad became reality. three gang members two of them seen in this video gunned down two teams in new port news the second base on three six banks won territory and i thought or for more on monday criticized the vatican on sunday walked up to him pull out a mile twenty three clock in for calvin lu eleven rounds into going on the spot right there from middle school were eventually prosecuted. all three most recent just last month but the attorney general wants to make sure kids never get pulled in that far. it's too late for those people by the time they get to me that's where people like theresa scale step in my job is to keep them from getting to people like phil scale spends her days in schools neighborhoods and community centers talking to kids about gangs to say takes a village to raise a child i strongly believe that our but there

village in our communities meanwhile curtis harris is trying to help mend that breakdown doing his part in the community to put kids on the right path. we're here to let them know we come before the ponies we come before jia we come before dying. we had to give you that shot the chance that we have more information including resources to help protect your kids on our web site at thirteen years now dot com marcella roberts in thirteen years now. all of the cool out this evening compared to yesterday but it's well above normal and temperatures vary bout where we should be looking at norfolk you can see a little bit of sunshine out there this was always a little bit brighter the shot partly because is higher up but as you can see we got some blue skies out there shining through a little bit of that sort of

same thing in virginia beach williamsburg everybody pretty much the same thing right now nothing on radar its western virginia though that already has some showers and storms those in just a second sixty eight partly cloudy right now fifty nine breezy and cool by nine pm and fifty eight breezy and cool degrees is get toward midnight right now with a different wall tile and went off the water fifty three degrees erydybo here in at least the mid sixties and write their upper sixties showing up for norfolk international. we had the onshore wind early kept things a little cooler and then once a shift to south shifted to south easterly that's when everybody started to climb back up a little bit warmer again it was certainly milder in line. notice the temperatures overnight are official high for tomorrow will be during the overnight period just after midnight most likely and then even at four o'clock in the morning we're still going to be way up into the fifties. that's when

centered over the area. in other words get to western spots a little bit earlier than that three o'clock maybe i the morning and by six thirty seven o'clock it's primarily moving offshore at that point with maybe a few leftover areas of light rain down across parts of kern county northeastern sections of north carolina but when you wake up once a week just pick seven o'clock or eight o'clock temperatures will be in the lower fifties and then they're not going to move very much see how they just a right to lunchtime around fifty ish or into the lower fifties so disorder hover and a lil very tight range and then during the evening start to drop again and by thursday morning we're going to be talking about thirties they will feel cooler than that are colder than that because of the wind. inland areas that are close to thirty and there won't be as much wind in one but it'll probably still feel like the mid twenties at least and then once we get into thuraysd we're not going to see much of a rise i think will get a

be mid forties probably maybe in a few spots even some upper forties b l thursday night the system moves and not this one this is the first system that comes through overnight is gone already by tomorrow there's another one out west it's going to move and bring ahaof c some wet weather with love. chance and i wanna say maybe a thirty percent chance of some far in one there is getting a little bit of snow yes they are the odds look litt higher meter logically speaking winner ended yesterday they weighed him at the calendar says it's now coming up another three weeks or so that's the calendar if you look at the hottest quarter the year the coldest corner eric cetera. you get almost to get exactly december first through march first if you ere to shift this december twenty first by march twenty first temperatures have really begun to warm up you would have the coldest ninety one days or ninety two days of the year that's why we are now in spring officially

of what we consider tonight fifty three tomorrow few showers fifty three in the morning than fift one in the afternoon forty two though by evening breezy and chilly. rest your forecast goes like this only forty four on thursday again i don't want to over play that thursday night stuff but some areas could have a little bit of a mix and forty seven with mainly some morning showers on friday still only forty eight onat it's not bad but it's six below where we should be possible shower on sunday it's not till next week we see the warmth return to his s ou dathlete on the week with a parent's dream come true right kind of scholarship plan in our area and with the independent schools state tournament underway in basketball this week our fn me athlete of the week is going to be a

smith tell us just how major the words in that city block with an aunt in suffolk academy girls basketball squad. the senior doesn't go for the saints who recently won the tidewater conference of independent schools tourney by beating cape every fifty three forty seven works on wed the twenty eight points. even when ur facing three years so it was kind of had a ton of action he wanted us with a team to be the special player the sun can see the floor better than those kids that were sent to legislators must decide what is in tng and she played varsity eight that not the lineup since birdsong has over two thousand points in korea and an essay i will now move on to play her college ball in the nation's happening at george washington experience against the competition in the cis has helped her develop into a better ballplayer he used to it with experience li las year i was really is doing

and stuff but this year i'm more comfortable. it's really relevant to the long term on the twenty plus years now the most skill level is what separates her from so many kids and the way that she was entered in the thirty sports north. good luck to harper and the saints and states

. hampton pirates are your regular season me at basketball champions they finish the deal last night of the convicts a convocation center beating delaware state on senior night and graduate student quench amos was awsome twenty nine points fourteen rebounds for the queue. this jump shot is another go and they won seventy nine sixty five norfolk state left up to finishing second in the conference and they can beat hampton on thursday they took care of business lesson against howard. that was jordan butler this is the sean taylor who had twenty one eighty four to sixty six the redskins have put the franchise tag officially on kirk cousins means he's under contract to lease for the next year with

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