erik ainge thirteen years now. virginia beach police are still working to extradite a man accused of shooting his mother police in los angeles arrested monty williams last week he had spent days on the run. police say williams shot his mom in the head at a home in ocean lakes we reached out to beach police today they told us they do not know exactly when williams will get back to virginia beach but they say they hope it will happen before next wednesday a federal trial began forty four use a soldier on tom communicating with three underage girls online court documents say he also admitted to communicating with more than a hundred other girls online. he lived in newport news of the time investigators say he tried to get them to sent an explicit images and try to visit at least two of the salad served to do tours of duty in iraq and afghanistan. new information about three homes and two cities are connected to a meth investigation police a suspicious substances found yesterday in hampton are connected to the discover

erik ainge has more on the candidates visit the number of city work crews have spent all day preparing for the storm trying to minimize the damage that an offer where christina's birthday kayla standing by kristina what are officials telling people right now. safety officials are now keeping a very close eye on this second line of storms that's going to make its way through our area of course crews are ready their trucks are loaded in there ready to respond but the real message from city officials tonight is for the public that is why you shouldn't take this severe weather it lightly. what would happen if we were faced with coming our way. it's the question of the city of norfolk officials want to anticipating what could potentially happen. we're leaning toward trying to take actions the protective actions for for what could possibly occur on wednesday morning crews were brief agencies working together to prepare for the potentially severe impact in the store can have if nothing else comes of this is an opportunity to exercise book potentially happen with all eyes on the radar emergenc

say and have a full report coming up on thirteen years now and for reporting in virginia beach erik ainge thirteen years now so much senator ted cruz also zero in on virginia after coming in third place in oven. the only campaign that can be donald trump is this camp or snag just over the vote. now he's trying to bounce back here in hampton roads and both chris and ben carson are coming to virginia beach to participate in that region for a crazy schedule to speak on friday carson is coming next week senator marco rubio was the closest contender in nevada to trump he came in second with just shy of twenty four percent today rubio's campaign is opening an office in hampton roads that's going to be in virginia beach and on the democratic side former president bill clinton is going to campaign for his wife tonight in richmond last night hillary clinton won nevada by a narrow margin should be bernie sanders by nearly six percent. you may remember sanders held a rally in norfolk yesterday morning and the search for clues is underway right now the plane crash a plane slams into the side of the m

was in office just hours ago ahead of the virginia primary which is a week away for ages now for erik ainge was at that rally sanders feeling strong evidence that sound by what was his message to hit the road there. he most certainly was with sally. his message was fake seen a rate economy that's what he calls it. income inequality has been the focus of sanders campaign since he entered the presidential race and supporters cheered him on bernie sanders receiving a rock star welcome in norfolk the tuesday morning thousands of people flooded into the scope downtown eager to hear the democratic presidential hopefuls call for a political revolution we need to radically rethink the way we do politics much of his stump speech centered around fixing a rigged economy we all going to create an economy that works for working families not just the sanders drew thunderous applause railing against special interest and their influence on politics is not acceptable that corporate america wall street or the corporate media control what goes on in our country millennials made up of the supporters who love t

erik ainge thirteen years now. a thunderstorm last day has arrived in newport news again more than seven hundred workers lost their the four hundred and eighty cuts last fall and there could still be more like reading tells us the region's largest private employer has shrunk but hopes to rebound in the years to come. they've known since last december that this day was coming but that knowledge did make things any easier today for the hundreds of workers who lost their jobs here today at newport news shipbuilding in the second round of layoffs newport news management blames the cuts on the mission work load from the navy a situation they hope improves by twenty seventeen in the meantime there still could be one more round of reductions after this one later this year ashley evans was one of the unfortunate seven hundred thirty eight today. she says she isn't sure he can hold out until conditions improve the way out of the plan is to go back to school and try to get into something more i think banks are pitching in to

erik ainge was of the meeting and eric both supporters and critics of beaufort turned out there every g i just put my head in there is a spirited debate going on between the two sides you know some say that the accusations against perfect alone degrade the office that holds but others say you shouldn't be so quick to judge someone who has been convicted of anything. the citizens recall committee meeting thursday to begin the process of pulling indicted norfolk treasurer anthony barr foot from office hit properly do his job in his office if he got all these charges he now oversees the group filed a new petition wednesday. it essentially summarizes key points of the fed's eight count indictment that accuses per foot of using his developer. all in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks embarrassment too soon or ever did accusations even happened. this is not good for city mayor that democracy in the united states you can just tell a man you gotta be good job but some of the meeting say it's premature to recall perfect who hasn't been convicted of anything and we're go

were in custody on murder charges but the commonwealth's attorney released thirteen is now four erik ainge is looking into how this happened four guys essentially prosecutors ran out of time to bring this to trial so in order to restart the clock they had to drop the charges and let them go they re indicted them but the problem is police can find some of them the portsmouth commonwealth's attorney on the defense as three murder suspects remain on the run after running out of time to prosecute stephanie morales is office dropped charges drive by shooting that killed seventeen year old is a b a hill last may after five months in jail the men were let go a couple weeks ago prosecutors re indicted and the police still have not found andre keel jaunt writer and roderick brit reviewing new evidence took longer because of a staffing shortage are prosecutors must make every effort to ensure that such evidence is available for trial in order to secure the best possible results including delaying prosecution when absolutely necessary. even when continuance options are unavailable turning murderers l

us what piece of crucial evidence could determine whether any of the officers behaved improperly erik ainge thirty news now carol the sea hospital esophagus getting dollars project will be paid for through a grant from the virginia department of health said tara says the ten beds they already have are often full. there's a big push in the commonwealth to get more help for people with mental illnesses three shipyard workers are being hailed as heroes for saving a sixteen year old boy today norfolk police thank the good samaritans for rescuing the teen who jumped off the campus tele bridge russell or christian crabtree and brian lindsay say when they heard about the boy in the river yesterday they dropped everything and search for him under the water was cold and when it was co probably forty degrees so we try to get some soon as possible. i wanted to the what happened why the men found the boy underneath the bridge they got him into a tugboat and wrapped in jackets police say the team has a collapsed lung and is being evaluated. happening now nearly one hundred new jobs are headed to south b

erik ainge thirteen years now there's a new police chief in portsmouth. tanya chaplin will take over starting february twenty second she most recently served as the deputy secretary of public safety and homeland security for virginia fort smith's former chief at harkins left in june. well the skies over hampton are clear now that's a big difference from this morning when snow was falling one people had to scrape the snow off their car windows before heading to work and jeff the clear sky should stick around for the weekend but yet we're talking about temperatures a little bit below normal right now you can see we have the clear skies as you mention we had almost everywhere saw snow and were a little bit of wallace island one inch one inch in west point half an inch in matthew's more fact just about a quarter of an of an inch i saw some pictures from chesapeake with just a light little dusting i heard sleep ella to my house in virginia beach but the ground there. meanwhile for this evening and tonight you can see it's going to be cold typically our lows ar

morning i chose the new decals that read in god we trust hundreds of people commented on the post erik ainge talk to the sheriff about why he made the change these four words will be seen on patrol in york county york the coast and sheriff danny diggs deciding to add in god we trust decals to his fleet of fifty squad cars we thought the front burner with an appropriate spot to put it right next our flag dig says he's been planning this for a couple of years the share points out the money we handle every day shows how the words are ingrained in american culture as our national motto and for digs the decision was also personal. it honors god. god certainly blessed me i think bless the sheriff's office and it's my way of honoring god and be unpatriotic all will have two decals bring in the cost of fourteen hundred and eighty dollars money coming from the sheriff's own pockets. people who want to be critical about this and all your spending taxpayers' dollars. well it was certainly been appropriate had i spent taxpayers' dollars is nothing wrong with doing that but i chose to take that little bi

erik ainge is live with more on the fly. gorgeous is that one of the first steps council will take in making this happen and they're going to vote to allow whether or not to allow the city manager to authorize five million dollars to go to the economic development authority five million dollars is what it will take to bring another fortune five hundred company to downtown norfolk tonight in tea party hero along with the rest of norfolk city to transfer money into the economic development authority to have the human resources company adp call norfolk home to be approached and to be able to deal with fortune five hundred company is significant for the city especially as it will bring jobs that could total up to one percent of our entire population. city leaders anticipate the performance based grant paid out over several years would be covered by the revenue eighty p generates for the city thousands of new jobs means thousands of the need to eat and sleep somewhere so it's significant for downtown is just a significant over th

were in custody on murder charges but the commonwealth's attorney released thirteen is now four erik ainge is looking into how this happened four guys essentially prosecutors ran out of time to bring this to trial so in order to restart the clock they had to drop the charges and let them go they re indicted them but the problem is police can find some of them the portsmouth commonwealth's attorney on the defense as three murder suspects remain on the run after running out of time to prosecute stephanie morales is office dropped charges

erik ainge thirty news now new information on a hazmat situation on cynthia drive in hampton we learned that investigators found part of a meth lab police say yesterday's cases connected to the two other meth lab busts that recently happened in newport news on middlesex road newport news police already made three arrests in their case and so far no arrest in hampton. now to end illegal gambling bust in north carolina after getting numerous complaints officers searched the northampton county internet cactus cafe in bingo hall a two month investigation into sugar bugs on north main street ended with twenty nine video gaming machines seized and thirty eight thousand dollars in cash were told criminal charges are pending against them is the zone a bill to bring gambling to portsmouth has died in the senate for years state sen louise lucas has tried to bring casinos to portsmouth her bill would have created a state casino gaming commission under the measure voters would need casino in the city. the bill didn't even make it out of a senate committee high school graduation requirements could d

erik ainge thirteen years now but as the start of virginia's spring fire season that means from now until the end of april you can't burn anything before. for the afternoon if you're caught breaking this law you could face a five hundred dollar fine. police say a cattle trailer ran off the road and flipped over in frederick county this morning that's near northern virginia a veterinarian came to the scene to check out the cals virginia state police say out of the thirty three cattle six animals died in that crash were told the driver had minor injuries and faces reckless driving charges officials had to close the northbound lanes of i eighty one and eat or traffic and police are investigating to see what exactly happened there inmates are finding new ways other contraband behind prison walls more on what lawmakers are doing to fight that next add a couple attacked by a man with a machete how they say they almost didn't make it out the is day three of pope francis is mexico trip people cheered the pontiff on the way to the airport tonight he is in chiapas to celebrate mexico's indigenous p

erik ainge thirteen years now. a madison police custody after norfolk police say he threatened to bomb a banker told the suspect pulled up to the drive thru window at suntrust bank on west little creek road this morning police said the man passed the teller a note saying he left a bomb in the bank and he threatened to detonate it if the teller didn't give him money. the bomb squad didn't find anything. police say they'll file charges against that man soon. right now charges are pending against four teens accused of robbing a woman outside an off the grocery store that happened over the weekend outside of the harris teeter and grand the street the woman told police the teens walked up and pulled a gun or a she sat in a car police said the teens demanded money and the woman's car then drove away the next day officers found the suspects in the stolen car on leo st that is more than three reading a smokehouse in surry county is trying to get back to work after a huge fire last month the fire destroyed every building bu

night at eleven and happen in the apple wood farms neighborhood along jonathan's weight yesterday erik ainge has more on how the boys doing today. a toddler continues to recover at a norfolk children's hospital a day after he accidentally shot himself with his parents the new cop cars came to me stated saw first responders rushing to help our neighbors boy from this house along jonathan's way it's epic wednesday evening the cup had a baby in the hands and it was no response i can see their little foot dangling in eight quickly just got the kids into the car and they went police say the boy was at home with his two year old sibling and his mom when he found the gun his parents use for protection. it went off sending a bullet into the boy's shoulder. i kept raining and you know the one hit a nato partners like ok

people rushed out to get ready for the snow erik ainge talk to folks in kitty hawk today interact how heavy is the snow there i sit still coming down. well the snow has been falling steadily now for the past couple of hours i think we have a little bit more than in each school was let out early and the kids parents went to the store to stock up for will be a snowy weekend as snow began falling in dare county. hello antioch residents flocked to ace hardware carrying him to get stocking up on the tools to beat the blast of winter weather is not a whole lot of panic but people are definitely preparing for it they're buying a lot of ice snow shovels a winter storm to three inches of snow possible. a decent amount of town that doesn't even own a snow plow but no we're not equipped for it if it ends ups now a hard freeze as it's it's gonna be a world of trouble and cdot handles clearing the primary roads but those living off them will wait for the weather to warm up time on the sofa watching movies eating chocolates. remember to get the bmw bread milk and i got some some rock salt just make

official portsmouth has a new top cop for this morning at city hall tanya chapman took the oath chief erik ainge was there for this morning swearing in and eric along with the soaring and came to protest apparently lucy is put on by the family of william chapman the unarmed teen shot and killed by ex be on trial for murder next month but chase and video some supporters walking through downtown it was a peaceful protest that started at the courthouse before they headed over to the swearing in ceremony at city hall the new chief tanya chaplin officers to the highest a reception following chief chapman actually met the chapman family. there's no relation there but it was a civil exchange of words her swearing in today was historic because chief chapman became the first black woman to be appointed chief of police in portsmouth and in a city that's predominately african american the chief says it's crucial the department reflects the community they serve is very significant to me. i mean just you know to be a role model for all the police department police officers on is always been significant to me

also stream this right now on thirty news now dot com if you're listening and if you wanna watch erik ainge tweets as well he'll be tweeting from that area are no calling the facility contrary to our values president obama today said it is time to close the u s military prison at guantanamo bay cuba once and for all the other president has been pushing for the closure since day one on the job and now in the final eleven months of his presidency he wants to make it happen like gooding has reported from get go he joins us now with today's details my laundry list of the president said he is very clear eyed about the challenges he'll face in congress to trying to close guantanamo saying before is it would have happened years as propaganda to recruit and maintaining it harms us national security administration released a plan that examined thirteen potential sites for transferring the suspected terrorist but did not propose a specific locations. it looked at existing facilities in south carolina kansas and colorado as well as new facilities on a military bases across the country are ninety one d

now there is a call for justice in her death thirteen years now reporter erik ainge is live at one of those rallies right now. eric this was the first of several demonstrations that will take place this weekend gina best coming down from maryland to virginia beach where her daughter idiot kicker was shot and killed by police five months ago and a seven eleven parking lot. her daughter was an innocent bystander who got caught in the crossfire that's what police say. but after months of investigation there are still few answers for gina's so she wants police to answer some of them one of them are the names of the officers that were involved she wants to know the names of the officers that are in administrative duty pending the outcome in investigation right now she also wants to see the surveillance video at the seven eleven that captured the deadly shooting there were two officers inside this gathering here and they told her it was somewhat of an awkward exchange that while they express their condolences. it would be unlikely that police released the video because the investigation sti

erik ainge got his hands on the exclusive video and joins us now to walk us released this video after they completed their internal investigation now they won't give us the results of that investigation. but this twenty minute video gives us a look at how it all played out till notice police though blurred much of the video to obscure identifying information at the beginning of that video you see portsmouth councilman danny meek stopped in the street his window rolled down talking to an unidentified man officer nelson seen here in ct is wearing the body camera. the traffic stop happened back in december near the corner of duke street in april after police say audio was not recording as nelson motions for the man to back away before meeks steps out of his car. meeks walks up to the officer stopped the pain the car the councilman returns to his suv and nelson tries to

interstate sixty four n burnett road residents were forced out to the snow and cold this morning are erik ainge has been lived on the scene all morning long joins us now with some new video. yes entertain people displaced because of this pilot spotted a new video from behind the apartment complex you have been a better idea of the damage here that third for falling into the second floor in one of the flames just so intense at three thirty this morning that one man said the attic line down the pole just to get to say to attack even jumped out of a window to get out of the flames course we know that cat was sick in theay should be okay in all twelve people living twelve units in this apartment complex had to be evacuated and that force people out to the cold early this morning my roommate woke me up around three four e same there was a fire so we rushed out that a coat on and just headed out the fire was really lady over there but luckily didn't reach of the day at my apartment itself and the cause of the fire is still under investigation reporting live in virginia years now are all that snow the

erik ainge is here with an explanation of how the toddler got that bond simply say this with a gun the boy's parents used for protection but last night that our got a hold of it and hurt himself the kenya cup cars came. denise david describes the scramble to help a three year old boy when everything started moving so fast with the latter i am the suffolk police racing to the apple wood farms neighborhood around seven thirty wednesday evening after a boy living on jonathan's way had with his parents gun woke up had a baby in hand and it was no response i can see their little foot dangling in a quickly just got the kids into the car and they went where police say the boy was at home with his two year old sibling and his mom when he found the gun to his parents use for protection. it went off sending a bullet into the boy's shoulder. i kept raining then you know the one hit a nato partners like ok that's a good sign. the boy is recovering at a norfolk children's hospital and police say charges are pending. no one came to the family store when we stopped by only thing i can think of is you

erik ainge thirteen is now that kevin quick murder trial begins its third week six people are standing trial at the same time. four defendants face charges directly related to the abduction and murder of waynesboro police department reservists. prosecutors say the six people charged are allegedly part of a gang so far testimony comes from a medical examiner a gun expert other gang members and clicks mother. well not they were counting but two thirty three days until the start of spring and temperatures are warmer today after yesterday's snow has a live look from the norfolk skyview where you can see a mix of clouds and sun but jeff you're tracking a slight dip in the temperatures never want to point out some trouble in the silver lining in things you mention how many days until the start of spring. that's according to the calendar if you just go spring starts in sixteen days so we're only two weeks away from the meteorological start of spring we start see tempers really rising so he could see all the clear skies out there same thing on radar putting it in motion over the past few hours

continues as virginia beach city councilman asks and set aside for light rail in virginia beach are erik ainge has the latest developments. regina one virginia beach city councilman is asking the city manager to stop spending money before the council approved agreements with the state virginia beach councilman john martz calling on the state to withdraw its one hundred and fifty five million dollar offer to help extend light rail from norfolk to town center must tells thirty news now he wrote to transportation secretary opry lane telling him the transportation board cannot be faithful to their fiduciary duty to the taxpayers of the commonwealth by appropriating the money the councilman cites a study which concluded the extension would not reduce traffic grow the economy or healthy environments. it's a tremendous bet everybody will have to pay for the ridership is miserably low city treasurer john atkinson is leading an effort to put light rail on the november ballot. atkinson agrees with the resolution moss will put manager to stop spending money on the project before city council signs off on

bass has post for more details on what happened that night erik ainge ones is live from virginia beach headquarters where tina bassett just arrived a few minutes ago erich jaeger regina gina just went inside she's having a one on one meeting with chiefs of air right now trying to get to the bottom over what happened to her daughter she's frustrated with the lack of transparency the department has had in investigating her daughter's death last september list recent video from when gina best first arrived in virginia beach she came down this morning from maryland speaking and crying into a small gathering at a church bess gave an emotional plea for answers she along with lives matter group called police out that she did send two police officers to attend that mean the officers extended their condolences but best in her supporters demanded that police released this surveillance video at seven eleven that captured the deadly shooting. she says that police had dragged their feet with investigating this and she's had enough. no mother should ever feel ignored and disregarded to the point of