but alerts can only help when and up to 3,000 people in appomattox county didn't get the message. and a number of you have let us know on our facebook page. melissa foster assures us that lynchburg is prepared. >> the alert system that we're using uses multiple paths and ways of alerting. so that makes it more reliable during those types of emergencies. >> reporter: staying alert requires a little bit of effort on your part. go to the lynchburg government's website and sign up there. make sure your alerts are turned on. no cell phone? >> no problem. >> if they have a landline, they would still receive a message on that land line through lynchburg alerts. >> reporter: lynchburg residents didn't get an alert because they weren't in the tornado's path. waiting until we're in the middle of some type of significant storm. to make sure that you get that information and stay informed early on. >> reporter: now, a spokesperson from eatton released a statement saying that we were just made aware of this today. we are looking into the situation and the do not have any information at this po

thousands of people did not get an tornado alert in appomattox county. hear from the company. >> george: i'll let you know how long we see the dry weather before we see rain returning to the heart of virginia. >> danner: in 11 hours, the polls will open for virginia's primary. this is the first year since 2008 both republicans and primary in the on the same day since 200. they usually see a low voter turnout compared to the voter election. only 2% of votest cast their ballot in the 2007 primary. >> a lot of people just do not vote in primaries. so i think it will be 30% for both primaries together. >> danner: we'll be watching those returns. polls open at 6:00 a.m. and close at 7:00. record turnout for primary voters for one of the two political. we look at the trend and what may be driving it. >> i'm very angry. >> he is resonating with the people and speaking our minds. >> this is a really angry electorate. equal enthusiasm? but here in 2016, that anger is translating into votes. look at voter turnout in the first few states to vote. it's increased eve

he was at appomattox courthouse. this image isn't quite accurate because it was parker who drafted the surrender agreement. it was parker who actually wrote out the surrender agreement that would be the beginning of the end of the civil war. and there is a story about this moment. i'm not sure -- it certainly gets retold quite frequently but that is grant and his men were at the parlor. there's an interesting story about mclean. that the war started in his backyard and ended in his front parlor. grant is there with his men and their sort of mud splattered and fatigued. lee comes in and grant introduces into his men. they shake hands and then he gets to parker and the story goes -- robert todd lincoln was one of the people who told this story. when lee came to parker, he didn't really take a step back but kind of reacted. some people believe that maybe he thought parker was african-american or potentially mixed race. there was a tense moment. this was a really tense moment. lee composed himself, put his hand out to sh

meanwhile in appomattox ... due to the damage at central baptist church following last weeks tornado .. the voting location for the "chap precinct" will be moved to friendship baptist church. any tornado victim who still needs a photo i-d can get a temporary one at the appomattox county registrar's office. for more information on where what you need to bring ... visit wsls-dot-com. and be sure to tune in to wsls 10 tomorrow for full coverage of super tuesday. roanoke city police chief chris perkins spends his last day on the job. ahead on wsls 10 at 7 ... we look back at some of his biggest accomplishments while serving the star city. today is roanoke city police (donkey sound) (elephant sound) there's a big difference between making noise, (tapping sound) and making sense. (elephant sound) (donkey sound) when it comes to social security, we need more than lip service. our next president needs a real plan to keep social security strong. (elephant noise) hey candidates. enough talk. chris perkins' last day with t

year. 68 in lynchburg. 70 in appomattox. 68 in bedford. 73 for danville. 71 in brooknil. 72 in charlotte courthouse and 70 in smith mountain lake. 64 in the blacksburg area. 67 in roanoke and 65 in thin castle. winds have been light but they will pick up and be out of the south five-15 miles per hour. of course, we said that we would have the chance for rain, returning later on this evening and low pressure system to the west. front will across over night bring us that chance for rain. from 8:00 p.m. tonight to 5:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. a check of rain, you see tuesday morning looking good. over night tonight a 70% chance. showersling other for the first part of wednesday early in the morning. then sun returned with. dry through thursday morning. pat and he whitney? >> patti: thank you. coming up in the next half-hour of good morning virginia. today's super tuesday vote on the heals of a 10th trump rally. what lead to that altercation. reported they did not get the heart of the church, the mission of the church, is to change our world by developing christ followers who love god and lov

that is not to say appomattox did not matter. it is to say that reconstruction did not flow directly from the emancipation proclamation, as you will see some generalizations arguing, or the gettysburg address as we haven't talked to believe. more shermans march. -- or shermans march. it took the shape of the compliments of the political and military and social and economic in the summer and fall of 1864. the injury of reconstruction events around the election of 1864 allowed us to address some old questions in new ways. anyone who is ever spoken about the civil war in public is her the question, what would lincoln have done about reconstruction? behind that question lies others. -- where he doomed to have the painful reconstruction we endorse? where he destined to abandon the enslaved people at the moment of freedom? that thedained confederates would fight back with every weapon at their disposal? with a white south of been more unified and generous? could we have been a stronger and better nation if abraham lincoln had seen us t

some of these men were at appomattox courthouse lower at appomattox courthouse in 1865 in april. to the west, another cherokee confederate general. he had the distinction of officially being the last confederate general to surrender when he did so after the battle in june 1865. the most well-known native units in the union army was company k of the first michigan sharpshooters. this was made up of ottawa, delaware people. they fought with the grant when grant assumes command of the army of the potomac. i realized earlier i referred to lee's army as the potomac but i meant the army of northern virginia. petersburg.in they were well decorated. there was little interest paid to the interest during the civil war, there are a couple flashpoint moments that did garner a lot of public attention and one happened in 1862. it has been called various different things but i prefer to call it the u.s. dakota war in minnesota in 1862. this kind of thrust indian affairs into the public eye. through august and september of 1862, there were starving dakota community members who moved out and atta

meanwhile -- in appomattox.. due to the damage at central baptist church following last weeks tornado.. the voting location for the "chap precinct" will be moved to friendship baptist church. our super tuesday coverage begins tomorrow morning starting at five a-m on virginia today. we will bring you around the clock coverage on air and online throughout the day and evening. and... make sure to tune in governor terry mcaulife vetoes legislation aimed at allowing home-schooled students to participate in public-school sports. the governor says the measure would disrupt the level playing field of public school sports competitions. the so-called tebow bill is named for tim tebow-- the former n-f-l quarterback who was home schooled and allowed to play football for his local high school meanwhile -- governor mcauliffe awards the town of boones mill a 600- thousand dollar redevelopment grant to build a new economy. the money will be used to renovate a factory building on the former north american homes property. the fact

it could be noted that the confederacy had finally, three days after appomattox, achieved its primary foreign policy octobertive, recognition from and offer of assistance by a foreign power. with morale restored by rest, recreation and destruction, shenandoah sailed, leaving an enduring legacy. 120 sailors left behind from the whalers, hawai'ians, other pacific islanders and few new englandersed were caught up in island politics and war. the descendents are still there today. while the war struggled to conclusion and the nation began to mind its wounds send anyone dough would invaded the north. the deep cold of the bering sea. she fired the last gun in the civil war, ten weeks after appomattox, and set the land of the midnight sun aglow with flaming yankee whalers. capturing 24 vessels in one week, unprecedented accomplishment that few months before would have been greet with jubilation in the south and despair in the north in the next four years eight raiders de1 thon thousand tons of join shipping worth $17 million but the major impact was psychological. fear of capture. 800,000 ton

mean the company is case.we will explain next on an update this morning to the tornado damage in appomattox county. officials say all roads have are open to traffic. nearly 250 volunteers have assisted with clean up and recovery efforts. right now, volunteer agencies are still working with local officials to provide on-site support. officials also say they are no longer accepting clothing or water. for details on supply pickup for victims, and what items you can donate, head to our website, virginia first- dot-com. sportscaster erin andrews gave an emotional testimony in court on monday. andrews is suing the stalker who took nude video of her back in 2008. she's also suing the hotel that agreed with his request to stay in the room next to hers. andrews wants 75-million dollars from that stalker and the hotel chain for causing distress and humiliation. a federal judge has ruled investigators in new york cannot force apple to unlock an iphone owned by a convicted drug dealer. the company is currently being pressured by federal investigators to break into 13 iphones across belonging to one of

generally, in lincoln's last only two days after appomattox, devoted to the challenges of reconstructionn louisiana, lewis maser has an interesting new book public and last speech and that's what it's about. you go to the appendix and read the speech and you say that's not classic lincoln. practicale phrase " -- here's what he talks about proper practical relations he mentions six times. that's not exactly better angels of our nature. he's talking about reconstruction louisiana which is the only one that has been hollowing his 10% plan. lincoln is thinking about this in his last speech. in his final sentence that he gave as a doublet speaker was in the present situation, it may be my duty to make some new announcement to the people of the south. that actionring will be proper. you cannot have a more open statement of what reconstruction might be under abraham lincoln. to show you how treacherous things are, it was that same speech where he makes an allusion to the possibility that veteranslligent black might be able to vote. that's when john wilkes booth determined that lincoln must i no

an update to the tornado damage in appomattox county. officials say all roads have been cleared of debris- and are open to traffic. sunday- more than 15 hundred meals were served by mercy chefs and tysons.nearly 250 volunteers assisted with clean up and recovery efforts.volunteer agencies are still working with local officials to provide on-site support. officials also say- they are no longer accepting clothing or water.for details on supply pickup for victims, and what items you can donate- head to our website- virginia first coming up next-all the buzz of beekeeping!tonight as we go out and about- we talk with a beekeeper about why his job is so important. and- sometimes joining future farmers of america- can help your career!coming up in tonight's ag life report- we spoke to a farmer- who explains how the program helped him.john. mild and breezy monday, but a return to wintry weather is around the cornermonday was a rare day in the gregorian calendar as it was a leap day of leap year, the day we catch mild and breezy monday, but a ret

so it was at appomattox. and so it was at soma, -- at selma, alabama.'m so honored that he said that. his words are recognition of know.e all now -- all that wasn't just about black history, it was about american history and any other event in our country. selma was an act of courage that challenged the conscious of the country. lisa's mother was the one who answered the challenge, saw it on tv, the march, the treatment of the marchers, and went down to alabama. she was shocked, as you know, a martyr to the cause of helping out. we were asking her, as children this year family ever asked the question why she went -- does your family ever asked the question why she went? she says no, her family wonders why everyone didn't go. [applause] heroismosi: with your and the voting rights law, you helped realize the somal marchers helped make america more american. thanks to you, for all most 50 years, the voting rights act was part of her them -- part of our democracy. the protection it guarantees has diluted.ete bravery with aur congressional gold medal. the me

conflict a war for national reformation to and they understood that the fighting had hardly ended at appomattox. in some ways it was just beginning. [applause] we have time for questions, discussion, disagreement. please find my book, i'm still paying off a loan for a college daughter. [laughter] >> i want to ask a question about the situation in new orleans we were talking about a proposal you had heard. erecting a monument to james long street in new orleans. if you could comment on the back story about why that was proposed at all, and the prospects for it? douglas egerton: the really big back story, he was talking about the endless question, what might have happened if lincoln would not have gone to ford's theatre the night? when i was researching this book will it was another book that just came out about the same findings. rank-and-file confederates understand they lost in 65. letters from soldiers all across the south are saying they are linked and they know they are licked. anything we impose on the, they are done fighting with their cities are destroyed whether economy is in tatters, t

appomattox was in military construct. i'm glad you brought up bingham. bingham'stakes instruction and bastardize it by the state and government. i am always wondering how to reframe clause to, portion for and the challenges with segregation, how much would have been forestalled, had congress has the power or the desire to deal with the proportionality question and the power given to it? amendmentw, the 14th -- it was a series of compromises. bingham started it. by at was heade hammered out series of 827 votes. votes. it was not as the radicals, it was conservative elements/ there are radical elements in it. it is not give blackman the right to vote. the radicals wanted it, they could not get through it. the second clause about is a giant myth. it has never been enforced, even in the days when black men were denied the vote throughout the south. the south never lost representation. because of that, they should have. but congress never enforced it. so the 14th amendment is difficult to analyze. segregation was not on the minds of congress at that time. era

historians when they write the grand narrative of american history to end the civil war chapter on appomattox, the war comes to conclusion, reconciliation, reunion is beginning and you turn the next page and it's reconstruction. there is no if you will continued stories of those individuals who were in the midst of the war as they tried to transition home. you can imagine if you came home with an injury like these confederate veterans here that you see on the screen. the amount of chronic pain that you are going to have to deal with on a daily basis. southerners weren't supposed to complain. this is part of their sort of southern mantra of what makes them men. they are not supposed to tell all their friends how awful their injuries are, they are not supposed to complain. they are supposed to do it in stoic silence. yet that pain is going to be now a constant part of their life. wounds that go from time to time to leak a little bit of pus. maybe a stump that wasn't perfectly formed and the bone inside decides one day while you're trying to walk down a set of stairs to poke back through the ski

[laughter] cultural wars had arrived, she said, at appomattox. more recently in a 2015 book, intellectual historian andrew hartman wrote that culture wars are history. the logic of the culture wars has been exhausted. the metaphor has run its course. a week ago i was in spain visiting my daughter, and whenever anyone heard that i was from the united states, they asked me about donald trump. [laughter] or, as one man called him, el loco. [laughter] why is a businessman so obsessed with mention cans, muslim -- mexicans, muslims and menstruation? or to put it more broadly, why in the midst of runaway economic inequality and the threat of global warming are americans so obsessed with immigration and islam and abortion and homosexuality? why is the 2016 presidential election shaping up as a culture wars election? this book started a few years ago during the ground zero mosque controversy, this controversy about whether a muslim gentleman who owned a skyscraper near ground zero could retrofit it to become an islamic cultural center. and i was sort of n

in northern virginia are marching through, and aside from getting surrounded on three sides at appomattox, is sailor's creek the biggest disaster, the main recent for the surrender? >> i think so. yes. that was the major defeat on that long retreat. we call them retreats. the army is cut in half. in fact, lee saw them coming in -- the survivors coming up the hill tornado him and he said, my god, has the army been dissolved? and it looked like it would be the end fairly soon after that, and it was just but three days later. so, yeah, that was the key battle and that was phil sheridan with his cavalry trying to cut off the army. what happened was that longstreet, his core, had gotten too far ahead of the rest of the army and created a gap, and it was george custer's cavalry unit that filled that gap, and then other cavalry units came in and then the sixth army corps came up behind them, and they captured a lot of confederates that day. >> yep. bud, we talked about this earlier at breakfast you. included one of my fav mist people, christopher spencer. tell us more about mr. spencer. >> he wa

historians when they write the grand narrative of american history to end the civil war chapter on appomattoxthe war comes to conclusion, reconciliation, reunion is beginning and you turn the next page and it's reconstruction. there is no if you will continued stories of those individuals who were in the midst of the war as they tried to transition home. you can imagine if you came home with an injury like these confederate veterans here that you see on the screen. the amount of chronic pain that you are going to have to deal with on a daily basis. southerners weren't supposed to complain. this is part of their sort of southern mantra of what makes them men. they are not supposed to tell all their friends how awful their injuries are, they are not supposed to complain. they are supposed to do it in stoic silence. yet that pain is going to be now a constant part of their life. wounds that go from time to time to leak a little bit of pus. maybe a stump that wasn't perfectly formed and the bone inside decides one day while you're trying to walk down a set of stairs to poke back through the skin

for any questions.. you can call the appomattox's voter registrar for information. 3 3 highs will climb back into the upper 60s to near 70 this afternoon with breezy south winds. the day will start out with abundant sunshine, but clouds will increase throughout the day. a cold front arrives tonight, bringing rain back to the forecast. our "rain window" will be from around 8pm tonight to 5am tomorrow morning. most rain totals will fall between 0.05" to 0.40". behind the front, cooler and drier weather returns. we'll see increasing sunshine tomorrow, but highs will only reach the upper 40s to near 50. highs stay in the mid to 3 pause for nats 3 of chanting, screamingget em out, get em out. butt to (donald trump (r) presidential candidate) ""alright folks you're going to hear it once...all 3 lives matter." whit that was the scene at donald trump's rally at radford university ahead of super tuesday. trump was interrupted by protesters several times. security had to escort many people out of yesterday's rally. 3 whit tight one person was detained.. but it wasn't a student. security was escor