contested topic especially in portsmouth where city leaders have taken up the topic several times today in a text message portsmouth mayor kenny wright said he wants the governor to veto this legislation confederate monuments put in the same category as war memorials lawmakers in virginia now taking a stance to protect the highly debated landmarks the legislation that's designed to prevent local governments for moving or taking down civil war monuments pass both the house in the senate but to understand what some people wore remove but don't let your pants in the pairs that they know always single on together when we go out to move in mind that those videos about it just sounds like portsmouth resident milton peoples tell us they agree with the decision while throughout the last six months we've been telling you that dozens have continued to fight to see the memorials come down to . although

debated the topic many times their hands have been tied and if the governor signs the approved bill the conversation about the future of the monuments will be down there for so long i kind of feel like it stays that i mean it's really light and not really a date thing. governor mcauliffe has not said what his intentions what this bill are but it is on his radar christopher j co thirteen years now. you could soon signed ever clear on the shelves of virginia abc stores the battle is playing out right now in the house of delegates. lawmakers rejected governor mccall is request to hold off on a bill that would delay the sale of ever clear and other one hundred and fifty one proof grain alcohol the college one of the year to review how the sale of grain alcohol would affect college campuses both the house and senate already approved legislation that would allow abc stores to sell ever clear is now up to

the bill or veto it the final super tuesday results show the front runners from both parties still on time republican donald trump and democrat hillary clinton are each one step closer to their parties' nominations all of this while some candidates lagging well behind are vowing to stay in the race. abc stephanie ramos picks up our coverage from washington d c a onetime frontrunner now the first casualty of super tuesday doctor ben carson tells supporters he sees no path forward in his campaign and will not participate in tomorrow night's gop debate but donald trump and hillary clinton fortifying their positions as frontrunners in the race for their party's nomination. each one in seven states and now expanding their lead in the delegate count the political analysts say clinton changed her campaign game this time around. hillary clinton discovered in two thousand and eight that barack obama

never catch up the competition bernie sanders back on the trail today. you all off i was super pac the winning four state saying he's not going anywhere regardless of super tuesday results when the candidate has the arouse this kind of excitement. it's very hard for them to think it's over on the gop side ted cruz take some three states while marco rubio won but he's looking ahead to the primary in less than two weeks in his home state of florida. we picked up a lot of delegates we feel great about what the map looks like now moving forward. overall a triumphant night for trump we've done something that almost nobody thought could be done but the race isn't about just yet. he has not crossed that fifty percent threshold in the delegate count. a major statement is expected tomorrow from the last republican presidential nominee mitt romney he's expected to lay out a case as for why republicans should not vote for donald trump. stephanie ramos abc news washington. so

candidates will debate tomorrow night in detroit on saturday both parties have primaries in louisiana and caucuses in kansas democrats also have caucuses in nebraska and republicans will caucus in maine and kentucky and then on sunday there's a democratic debate in flint michigan. in addition to democratic caucuses in maine and the republican primary in puerto rico a familiar face in virginia could throw support behind donald trump former governor jim gilmore talked about his support for the republican front runner and a watch party last night that is if he is the gop nod despite the backlash gilmore says he still plans to support the republican nominee even if it is donald trump but the former governor says there are some differences in their tactics and he didn't hesitate to call trump out i was the first person at the national level to criticize donald trump for the way that he was speaking about certain groups. i was always a very inclusive governor and i would have

i believe this split during the non democratic party people is not good for the united states gilmore was in the race for the white house but suspended his bid last month. surprising results from liberty university more students their support of marco rubio and ted cruz in the gop presidential primary than donald trump in january school president jerry falwell junior endorsed rob came in fourth in the precinct that includes liberty university picking up only eight percent of the vote rubio picked up forty four percent to thirty three percent for cruz six new jersey newspapers are calling on governor chris christie to resign the papers issued a joint editorial in the wake of his failed presidential campaign and his support for donald trump at a news conference this week journalists were furious when christie refused to answer questions about anything other than his nomination of a state supreme court judge. when asked why christie said quote because

are calling on the people of new jersey to recall the governor if he doesn't step down a virginia transgender woman said she was on the job for an hour before being shown the door she says she's being discriminated against but the manager said she was never hired in the first place. we'll explain and back home. astronaut scott kelly returns to earth but doctors hope to learn from his year in space. after a few warm days of last week we're headed for winter like conditions in some spots and some good news all crashes have cleared on i sixty four but the bad news is due to those earlier accident. i'm still tracking about a fake smile back up maybe up to seven or eight starting a time when all we update our bt due to an earlier crash in newport news sixty four eastbound from busch gardens passport uses it when other earlier accident and a four mile backup from greenbrier

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woman twenty seven year old georgia carter said she worked at a richmond kfc for one hour before her boss gave her the boot. carter says the manager let her go because he didn't know which bathroom she should use as a transgender woman invite my feet from ours and i have a problem of new life and that the that you are out of their transgender status a release a statement saying the company has a policy to treat everyone fairly officials say they terminated the manager for violating their anti discrimination policy the abc affiliate in richmond contacted the former manager he says he never offered carter the job he says it was only an interview a heads up if you use the downtown tunnel is elizabeth river tunnels is canceling a handful of upcoming closures vote to be reduced to one lane in each direction tonight and tomorrow night. the rt says that's been called off. also canceled his friday nights

directions. all we can. it's the latest twist in the case of a missing jet. an official says whatever washed up on an african beach is from a boeing seven seventy seven now investigators are trying to figure out if that came from malaysian airlines flight three seven plus minutes in as i open up my front door it was just coming up several people forced from their homes when a norfolk southern train jumped the tracks what investigators say the train carried that spurred the evacuation and

. the idea space as a broken rail caused the csx train derailment in lynchburg that ended in a massive fireball seventeen cars carrying crude oil derailed in downtown lynchburg back in twenty fourteen three of those cars plunged into the james river and exploded twenty thousand gallons of crude oil spilled into the river. the ntsb doesn't assign fault or blame with its investigation last year csx was fined three hundred and sixty thousand dollars for the accident derailed norfolk southern train in western new york is holding up amtrak service the freight train derailed last night in the town of ripley about sixty miles southwest of buffalo fire officials say between fifteen

norfolk southern says two of the derailed cars were carrying ethanol and both are leaking fifty five homes in the area were evacuated as for download at the country was coming through to some loud machine and screeching noise as no word yet on how much ethanol leaked from the train cars. amtrak service between new york city in chicago is stopped while crews clean up the mess the legal fight involving main changes at yosemite national park is causing confusion for visitors the park changed concession providers yesterday but the outgoing provider delaware north to trademark the names of all of its stores lodges and campgrounds without the knowledge of the park service the park service now is fighting to have the delaware north trademarks nullified. it's just heartbreaking to see and i hope and at some point down the road that we can reverse

trademarked the name yosemite national park for merchandise for now the new shirts and hats in stores at the park only say yosemite astronaut scott kelly probably woke up this morning feeling a little out of sorts after spending a whole year in outer space but joey back on mother earth as you can see kelly is safely back on earth giving a huge thumbs up just moments after landing and cousin stan kelly flew to the international space station last march while they are he carried out countless experiments to study the effects of long duration trips in space. he spent a total of three hundred and forty days in orbit. that's the same amount of time it would take to get to mars during his mission kelly flew more than one hundred and forty three million miles and made fifty four hundred orbits around the air been there a long time so i look forward to leaving but at the same time you know it's a magnificent place and i'm going to miss

out by doctors in houston and they will compare the effects of space on his body that l east lead. retired astronaut mark kelly piece of the missing malaysian airlines flight three seventy may have been found according to an unnamed us official who says debris that washed up over the weekend in mozambique belongs to a boeing triple seven and h three seventy is the only known missing seven seventy seven the debris is believed to be part of the horizontal stabilizer and is being sent to malaysia to be examined and ate three seventy disappeared in march of twenty fourteen. there's more trouble tonight for the royal caribbean anthem of the seats last month the ship was damaged after it was caught in a storm up the east coast on the way to florida now the ship is back in port after its current voyage was cut short their concerns about more severe weather and an outbreak of norovirus the anthem of the seas has been sailing for seven days and as many as ten people

caribbean says it wants to beat the bad weather back to port the company said the captain was following a new storm avoidance policy that was instituted returning to the weather cooler temperatures are headed our way jeff is tracking that and the chance of showers later this week kat not just rain showers we get up some snow showers across parts of the air even some light to moderate snow for inland areas so a lot to talk about let's first talk about the clear skies on radar the clear skies from our sky view camera. this is down or dq camera at the boardwalk and as you can see the cloud the sky as we look to the east we've been showing several other views and it's really quite similar cross the region nice and clear it will stay breezy however this evening it will stay quite chilly someone call it cold readings drop down in the lower forties here by about seven o'clock high temperatures today forty s there was going to show this and it would be deceiving that most of these ratings

and in some cases they are but norfolk for example was three o'clock in the morning then went down then we went back up a degree or two to sixty two so bright idea it the night just not right after midnight that we saw our highs today and we've been downhill ever since dropping back then through the forties into the thirties by morning with a lot of far far inland a very rural areas actually in the upper twenties will see a fair amount of sunshine early tomorrow but then clouds will increase a little bit during the afternoon. look at really chilly temperatures this time of year which must be mid fifties. we're talking mid forties during the day tomorrow. little bit of a breeze will make it feel even colder and this is a simpler the future cast i showed earlier but i wore i chose the same temperatures but i like the rain snow line with this one a little bit better or the mixed area let's call it overnight thursday night into friday morning and then continuing with heavy rain across north

rain around here and some of these inland areas on friday looking at least in the mix and maybe even at just some snow but it is going to be in the forties and it's hard to get the snow to stick it in the forties member about a month or so ago we had a situation very similar to this we got a small accumulation on some of the grassy areas. that's not out of the question with this system and i wouldn't completely rule out a couple of inches for far inland areas are going to have to again watch that of the next day or two storm system rolls out his we've gone through the day little light rain this morning constipation since midnight. as you can see back west of us anywhere from five hundred six hundred pts up to almost about a tenth of an inch but definitely not nearly that much here in the metro areas just a few one hundred tonight then thirty two upper twenties for the inland areas mid thirties right at the beaches and coastline and the seven day forecasts some

chance of that mix and or snow for inland areas and the best chance for guests range from hampton roads to the south but then little bit cool for this time of year but better by saturday forty eight fifty three on sunday chance of a stray shower or two and really nice the middle part of next week right after least four people are hurt after reported tornadoes tore through alabama overnight more than a dozen homes were badly damaged by sixty mile an hour winds those high winds knocked the steeple right off the birmingham area church power crews are working to get the lights back on as neighbors clean up the mess that was left behind once mighty quick. we really know how much time to think this is so shocked at what had happened that same storm system is causing snow in the midwest and big problems at chicago's o'hare airport and american airlines jet slid off the runway while taxi in our nation's capital a sign spring is right around

the national cherry blossom festival think they have an idea when the iconic trees will bloom they could take the pain alone for the cherry blossoms will be between march thirty first and april third is one of the biggest springtime tourist events for d c this year's festival runs from march twentieth through april seventy. it's been decades since they return from battle in vietnam and today they got a long overdue sign of gratitude by cutting taxes the suffolk where they saluted vietnam vets and then add six to virginia college students murdered by one man jesse matthew admits to killing morgan harrington an anagram now massey was answering for his crimes of birth control device linked to serious health problems thirteen news now has investigated each other for

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. getting a hero's welcome they were denied decades ago the nation's more than seven million living vietnam era veterans are getting some long overdue recognition by cody was on hand and suffix for a small of the fiftieth anniversary of the vietnam war as a returning vietnam veteran is one of the ones who spit on you know it was a long time ago. those were in store for decades after the war that tore the country apart. today in suffolk. there was some healing at bonnie's family restaurant local vietnam vets were honored by the u s naval surface force atlantic by modern day sailors from three ships named for vietnam heroes the uss boone the uss oscar austin and the uss

time to do the right thing it's about honoring their service in the day we need to recognize their service picking up the tab for breakfast as he's done for years for area vets businessman william blair and his wife sarah. they want solid kept us safe life and i've been in my lappy is the veterans were humbled and grateful for the recognition but i'm glad that they're starting to get the respect that they should get it all just serving serving our nation is pretty tough when we came home we didn't have the whole raw but now it's great it's great to feel really good about him in suffolk my getting thirteen news now that's it for thirty news now at five thirty the news continues at six with new developments in the jessie matthew jr case

the murders of their own daughters it had been a long a very long journey to the point now six and a half years later their killer jesse matthew will pay for his crimes that he will never be able again to him that his depravity on the women to heartbreaking investigations have come to an end. it was two thousand nine when virginia tech student morgan harrington disappeared and in twenty fourteen university of virginia student hannah graham was abducted and killed both cases sent shockwaves of fear and sadness through the commonwealth and a single man is responsible for the gruesome murders. jesse matthew junior pleaded guilty to abducting and killing both young women at today's sentencing the victim's families spoke in court marcella robertson was there for the heartbreaking testimony. this was such an emotional day in court today we heard from morgan harrington spa there and we heard from him to graham's mother she called her

get a predator off of the streets and for the first time today we're learning new details about exactly what may have happened tonight said both women disappeared it serves the interests of justice and to a search for justice for two young students overriding priority was that he will never be depravity of them women tears filled the courtroom as hannah graham's mother and morgan harrington his father spoke about the pain they have endured at the hands of justin matthew were six and a half years. you all were determined and resolute to find the top tier credit for that country in this community that process has been successfully completed today for the first time or learning details about the knights both the women disappeared. a witness saw him by yelling at matthew telling him she wasn't getting in the car with him

not as clear but court documents of the massive picture us in this house is a striking both families say this plea agreement will allow them to heal from our tea and accountability that has been achieved today with this plea agreement will allow or allow our family to re direct energy into healing and recovery. we have the full statement of fact on a web site at thirteen years now dot com in charlottesville by marcella roberson thirteen years now four life sentences for the graham in harrington cases are in addition to three life terms matthew was already serving a jury convicted matthew of sexual assault and attempted murder for attacking a woman in fairfax county in two thousand and five matthew was also accused of sexual assault in newport news christopher newport university released the two thousand three criminal incident report for an alleged assault on campus after matthew was arrested in