she and others who work downtown say - things like this don't often happen in galax."i've never had any trouble as long as i've been here for about 38 years. i think our police department does a great job in they've always backed us up if if we need any help with anything.""we rarely have anybody have any vandalism or break-ins. i've been down here since 1999, and we haven't had any problems at all."sharon ritchie owns chapters book shop and the wine cellar at chapters. she says she is not worried about vandalism happening at her business - and feels downtown galax - is still a safe neighborhood."i leave at night late. i've never been scared downtown. it's always felt very safe, and just, you know, no problems at all."standup: "officials with vaughan-bassett say they only expect the shipping department and in-office departments to remain open through friday. reporting for good day virginia, i'm kristen eskow, wfxr news." michigan problems in the water the water problems in flint, michigan took center stage on capitol hill on wednesday as people who live there and offic

she and others who work downtown say - things like this don't often happen in galax."i've never had any trouble as long as i've been here for about 38 years. i think our police department does a great job in they've always backed us up if anything.""we rarely have anybody have any vandalism or break-ins. i've been down here since 1999, and we haven't had any problems at all."sharon shop and the wine cellar at chapters. she says she is not worried about vandalism happening at her business - and feels downtown galax - is still a safe neighborhood."i leave at night late. i've never been scared downtown. it's always felt very safe, and just, you know, no problems at all."standup: "officials with vaughan-bassett say they only expect the shipping department and in-office departments to remain open through friday. reporting for good day virginia, i'm kristen eskow, wfxr news." the water problems in flint, michigan took center stage on capitol hill on wednesday as people who live there and officials took on the issue. virginia tech's professor, dr. marc edwards who led the tea

a follow up tonight to the vandalism at a galax furniture plant. we learned today that vaughan- bassett may be able to re-open starting next week. a former employee is accused of dumping black stain into the finishing tanks last week. much of the plant has been closed since, but owners expect all employees will be able to return to work on monday. cory dean hodges is charged with breaking and entering and felony destruction of property. . bedford county is hoping to attract bike new tourism effort. last night county supervisors approved 75-hundred dollars to put up signs for a bike trail at smith mountain lake. the route is 50 miles long and designed to showcase some of the lake's most breathtaking scenery. around 50 signs will be installed at a cost of around 250 dollars each. the project is designed to attract visitors and coincide with the lake's 50th anniversary. there is a change in the air and it's a cold change. meteorologist robin reed is talking about the impact of this cold forecast. here is a look at the highs, lows and precipitation at

in galax, eamon o'meara wdbj7. two people charged with murder in the death of a toddler in grayson county were denied bond. john underwood and terra connell appeared in court tuesday. both are charged with murder and child neglect after law enforcement say 15 month old payton sawyers was attacked by their pit bull. the two were babysitting sawyers when the attack happened. the toddler later died at a hospital because of the injuries. many in danville are looking for answers after a local doctor was shot walking home. dr. randolph neal is currently in stable condition at a hospital in north carolina. neal told police two men approached him while walking home from work and demanded money. he says they shot him and his neighbor. today an anonymous donor increased the reward to 20-thousand dollars for information that leads to an arrest. meanwhile a heavy continues around virginia avenue and nearby streets. dr. neal's office released a statement hoping for a speedy recovery and support for his family at this time of ne

wdbj7's eamon o'meara has the story from galax of all the help he's getting. four year old max brown and his family learned in january he was in for a rough fight. he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and has been at brenners childrens hospital in winsten-salem north carolina since his diagnosis. uncle - chemo treatments :13 but through everything, the town of galax has been there for max. uncle - what's been donated. :13 uncle on shaving head :09 firefighter on giving support :11 max may be too young to understand everything, but just as the firefighters and police hoped, their act brought a smile to his face. uncle on max's in galax eamon o'meara wdbj7. find your pets warm spot indoors this week. extremely cold air is here to stay. complete details of your first alert forecast nextor scattered so showers will continue nice little coating or dusting of snow in wytheville it's a blue sky keep it out that's what wariness see over the next set couple hours as more snow showers begin to move in from that upper-level low nothing widespread main story

area remember wind advisories do continue until seven o'clock 33 mylan our wind us toward the galax area. remember wind advisories do continue until seven o'clock this morning but once that expires we still have gusty winds just not in that thirty 30 to 40 mylan our range more like the 20 to thirty mylan our range and still would that saturated ground tree limbs trees could get toppled that will continue to diminish over the upcoming weekend so this what it feels like across erie the area feels like it's only seven and hot springs the windchill there twenty two in roanoke feels like it's 20 blacksburg 15 galax and thirty one in danville now all the severe weather of course long gone were still finding snow showers on the backside of the low making its way through the west virginia mountains every once in while couple flurries toward far southwest virginia bay here you go these are the confirmed tornadoes from the national weather service to eat got yeah rewrite the air we also had a gf three in appomattox ararat patrick county had adf one mecklenburg county just to the east of our a

dori freeman, galax musician: "it's sort of bizarre. i had no idea that it would get the attention that it's gotten so far. it's kind of surprising and it's really exciting. i'm thrilled with all the press that it's gotten with rolling stone and npr and bluegrass situation. i couldn't be happier, fell really lucky that it's gotten the attention that it's gotten." hear some of her work and learn more about dori by checking out our full story on wdbj7 dot com. for the latest weather anytime, turn to our webpage at wdbj7.com and be sure to follow us on facebook and twitter for weather headlines and more wdbj7weather. thanks for watching your hometown news leader, wdbj7. captioning sponsored by cbs ( band playing

about it very windy do so quite gusty in the mountains will ot some twenty plus mile per our winds galax and the rail starting to calm down little bit as i get that most of the night before you go, this is what it feels like outside still feels like one below in hot springs twenty one roanoke in lexington thirty two in danville so show you these is what we really need will or is the feels like temperatures the thermometer tonight is can a go back down into the teens and even some single digits with those clear skies sixteen in the low roanoke seventy danville eight and hot springs of increasing clouds tonight so that's what morning at the busstop and then only warming up into the thirties in the afternoon skies shall in the off pretty much sum the lighter snow showers to the great lakes watching this system right here this is the one that's can a swing through here tomorrow craps bring us a few light snow showers that is about it forecast model shows those clouds increasing tonight and there's the snow by about midday impact in the mountains some of that kind a spilling over into the new

she and others who work downtown say - happen in galax."i've never had any trouble as long as years. i think our police department does a great job in they've always backed us up if if we need any help with anything.""we rarely have anybody have any vandalism or break-ins. i've been down here since 1999, and we haven't had any problems at all."sharon ritchie owns chapters book shop and the wine cellar at chapters. she says she is not worried about vandalism happening at her business - and feels downtown galax - is still a safe neighborhood."i leave at night late. i've never been scared downtown. it's always felt very safe, and just, you know, no problems at all."standup: "officials with vaughan-bassett say they only expect the shipping department and in-office departments to remain open through friday. reporting for good day virginia, i'm kristen eskow, a bank robbery suspect is in jail this morning.police say the suspect robbed the b-b-and-t bank in downtown just after 3-30 wednesday afternoon.police caught the robber less than a mile away

she and others who work downtown say - things like this don't often happen in galax."i've never had any trouble as long as i've been here for about 38 years. i think our police department does a great job in they've always backed us up if if we need any help with anything.""we rarely have anybody have any vandalism or break-ins. i've been down here since 1999, and we haven't had any problems at all."sharon ritchie owns chapters book shop and the wine cellar at chapters. she says she is not happening at her business - and feels downtown galax - is leave at night late. i've never been scared downtown. and just, you know, no "officials with vaughan-bassett say they only expect the shipping department and in-office departments to remain open through friday. reporting for good day wfxr news." wfxr news is your local election headquarters... the virginia presidential primary elections are less than a month away and time is running out for those who still need to register to vote. wfxr's taylor kanost joins with what voters need to know including some changes for those in the

so morgan a do is look with the model emotion you concede areas in blue we could have some snow galax along the interstate seventy seven and hiding one interchange there a parts of grayson county carroll county watch out it really stays for the most part south of file blacksburg roanoke and even in the lynchburg could see some isolated snow but really a snowfall down along the virginia and north carolina border counties from patrick county west and then martinsville and danville to get some lighter rain to start and in some snow showers may mix in with this i've another the and some snow showers may mix in with this i've close a look police officer who's facing child pornography charges will get a chance to leave jail before his case goes to trial. a judge has agreed to release brian mcalexander on a 20-thousand dollar bond. mcalexander was arrested earlier this month when a grand jury indicted him on six felony counts of possessing child pornography. a hearing in his case is scheduled for friday. planned parenthood in blacksburg will no longer provide medical care or accept new patie

galax police say they expect an update tomorrow on the a break-in and vandalism investigation that did more than 100- thousand dollars worth of damage to a business. the president of vaughan-bassett furniture company says someone broke in last night and poured black stain into their finishing tanks. the cleanup could take days, maybe longer. galax's city manager says this is the first time he's ever seen something this big done to the company. keith barker, galax city manger: "they've had short time before, but to be out of operations for an incident like this, i can't say that i've ever seen it and i don't that they have either. we're trying to work with them to determine the length of time and what the impact may be." tonight police continue to interview and look in to persons of interest. president obama made his first visit to a mosque in the u.s. mosque to hear him speak. obama said muslim americans keep the nation safe, crediting contributions they have made to communities. many muslim groups had called for him to schedule a stop at a mosque in america as a public rejection of is

and the city of galax. each will get an equal share of tax revenue. interest has increased four-fold since the land was deemed ready for building.. a welcome sign of a coming harvest. ken mcfayden, blue ridge crossroads eda - "just the promise of delivering greater economic prosperity to our manufacturing and distribution companies.. among others.. to cater to the area's current workforce. now.. with a new site certification marketing tool in hand.. that dream could soon be realized. in carroll county bethany teague wsls 10. we're following two major backups on interstate 81. thkbridge county. a live look from the v-dot traffic cam shows a tractor trailer that's flipped over on it's side. this is just north of i-64. state police say ...the road will be shutdown for several hours. drivers are being detoured onto route 11 at exit 191. meanwhile .. drivers in wythe county .. also facing slow- drivers in wythe county .. also facing slow- downs on i-81 due to a tractor trailer crash .. this time, at mile marker 86. take a look athtdvieo our crews shot of t

dori freeman, galax musician: "it's sort of bizarre. i had no idea that it would get the attention that it's gotten so far. it's kind of surprising and it's really exciting. i'm thrilled with all the press that it's gotten with rolling stone and npr and bluegrass situation. i couldn't be happier, fell really lucky that it's gotten the attention that it's gotten." hear some of her work and learn more about dori by checking out our full story on wdbj7 dot com. the virginia tech women's basketball team tried to put an end to their losing streak at home last night. we have highlights in sports. and this sunday's super bowl may be on track to being the most expensive nation's history. today with a gusty nw wind and a high around 45. the tech women lost for the fifth straight time last night and nascar driver tony stewart is on the shelf to start good friday morning everybody. the virginia tech women returned to the cassell coliseum court last night to face georgia tech trying to get back on track. early on domonique powell goes to work down

staff there tell me her funeral costs have already been covered and someone from galax paid for flowers. the two accused in her death are due in court march 28th. live in christiansburg, justin ward, wdbj7 with eisenhaur and keepers have already been charged, police are looking for any additional evidence in the case. the virginia state police and virginia tech police were at the vet med pond on virginia tech's campus today diving for any other pieces to the case. officers said they weren't looking for anything in particular, just anything suspicious that could be related. the blacksburg police department could not confirm if anything was found during the search. teachers and classmates at david eisenhauer's high school are also trying to make sense of what has happened. eisenhauer was described as an excellent student at wilde lake high school in columbia, maryland. james lemon/principal; he goal driven.he was very focused on academics but was also very focused on running. he was an outstanding runner. his principal said eisenhauer was recruited by several college running programs. con

the galax community is coming four-year-old boy who is fighting for his max brown was diagnosed with acute leukemia last month. a madison heights dollars on a virginia lottery scratcher ticket. christopher parrish bought the ticket at the triangle market heights. and if you're looking for an unconventional way to spend valentine's, check out these unique fast-food forecastwill looking out live through our mill mountain camera this afternoon we are finding beautiful blue sky across the roanoke valley a few about it still breezy not as windy is will been seeing and the winds will continue to diminish as we head through the day would a still finding teens in the mountains twenties along the i eighty one quarter or and then a little bit warmer down toward the south side were finding some low thirties but with the wind us still out there in that twenty to thirty mylan our range it over toward lynchburg danville even though will have the windchill advisories in effect anymore still awfully cold feels like it's minus seven-7 hot springs 13 roanoke eight blacksburg 70 galax feels like it's e

(dori freeman, galax) i've been singing for as long as i can i decided that it was finally time to pick up an instrument so i decided to learn how to play the guitar so that i could fast forward to now and the 24-year old galax woman is releasing her self- titled debut album on friday. she says she can't wait to see people's reaction. nervous and excited, i'd say it probably equal parts nervous and excited, it's kind of overwhelming. it's a little bit scary to that you put so much time in that people are going to hear so i just hope everyone likes it. but she's already feedback. rolling stone, n-p- r, and other critics are already putting her on their list of the next big thing. it's sort of bizarre. i had no idea that it would get the attention that its gotten so far. it's kind of surprising and it's really exciting. what's even more impressive is that all ten songs on the album are written by dori. she says songwriting is by far her favorite part of music. it's much easier for me to put something into a song than it is for me to sit down with someone and try to explain it or hash some

overnight low temperatures seasonal for the stem of your thirty one in blacksburg thirty four and galax thirty nine invariants about thirty three degrees in lynchburg facility the forecast model for tomorrow starting out first in the morning looking to be fairly quiet little partly cloudy action and in for much of the rest of they were very clear but later on the afternoon and evening what happens mister xxxx clouds coming on and from the west as a here's an exchange of rain showers overnight tuesday unbend and wednesday morning if anything ison the and and wednesday morning. if anything is still lingering around clear out of the area. our high temperature should be fairly comfortable with thinking mid-sixties in the mid-atlantic. it around 70 in atlanta and the cold errors bobbled back up where the snow showers are falling right now mainly in the decoders working down to nebraska's wealth and tomorrow they'll be pretty chilly as well now looking at the highs locally with a sixty seven in lynchburg love that seventy in danville about sixty galax good morning sunshine and is often the co

five and hot springs feels like it's only nine in roanoke nine in with bill feels like it's two in galax that feels like it's a big goose egg zero over his you had outside in bluefield windchill advisories not this morning these going to affect midnight tonight through ten a.m. tomorrow morning that includes the highlands mountains a west interstate 81 toward southwest virginia this wet tomorrow morning wind chills will be in that-5. even -15 degree range so keep that in mind a few flurries through parts of the newer valley some snow showers over in the mountains a west virginia fitness forecast bundle up if you heading out for walker jog temperatures teens and twenties will be warming into the upper 20s to low 30s sunrise 7/15 sunset at five fifty four 554 so the days are getting nice and long we are finding some snow showers in the mountains today through tonight by tomorrow all this falls apart everyone should see mostly sunny skies but will be very cold coastal low stays to our south but the clipper system gets his woodson snow showers later on friday you forecast across the area wou

is you notice in a break-in investigation and more than 100- thousand dollars worth of vandalism in galax. the president of vaughan-bassett furniture company, says someone broke in monday night and poured black stain into their finishing tanks. the cleanup could even longer. the galax city manager says this is the first time he's every seen something this big done to the company. (keith barker, galax city manger) they've had short time before, but to be out of operations for an incident like this, i can't say that i've ever seen it and i don't that they have either. we're trying to work with them to determine the length of time and what the impact may be. police are still looking in to persons of interest. an increased police presence...that's what two danville businesses want out of police all acorss the city. both the six-one-six and the north theatre sit along north main street. both owners say serious issue with crime at their locations yet-- but various shootings worries them. as they invest into their business, the police to invest in their customers safety. steve delgiorno, we thin

heading outside feels like it's only minus sixteen in hot springs to an ronald minus one blacksburg and galax one in with bill -4 bluefield five in lynchburg feels like it's only 10 is you had outside in danville couple flurries snow showers leftover a lot of that will tend to fall part over the next several hours most areas should end up mostly sunny as we head through the day highs upper twenties low thirties but again we at the wind today benefiel more like the teens and twenties so bundle up anytime you had out tonight tomorrow some snow showers but a vapor event on monday one computer model keeps a storm closer to our region that will give us a little bit more the way of mixed precipitation meaning starts off the snow but it will transition to sleet freezing rain maybe even some plain old rain for some the next computer model keeps a little farther to our south more cold air so would have a prolonged period of snow before we see that transition to sleet maybe some freezing rain so right now early estimates look like several inches of snow before we see a transition to wicks mix wintry pr

and rainouts 39 in danville also done thirty four in martinsville and it's twenty nine degrees and galax little boy blowing snow over the last day or two over the southwestern areas the and been fairly quiet and fairly dry lynchburg did not report any additional moisture today thirty nine degrees at the moment just at the artwork feels like thirty three with the winds out of the west at about nine miles an hour at the excellent opportunity to go to yellow branch elementary just down the road from the airport today to talk about whether careers are great time fourth and fifth graders appreciate invitation and cool t-shirt afterwards to look at a partly cloudy and a cold night tonight with thick and twenty four what i discovered from galax to lynchburg look bluefield checking in at about twenty two degrees forecast model starts at cloudy first thing in the morning i got ten or eleven o'clock starting to see things spin out a little bit and in the afternoon those westerly winds will finally clear the clouds out of the region we can start to watch temperatures make decline in the warm climat

the galax city manager says this is the first time he's every seen something this bad done to the company. (keith barker, galax city manger) they've had short time before, but to be out of operations for an incident like this, i can't say that i've don't that they have either. we're trying to work with them to determine the length of time and what the impact may be. police are still looking into persons of interest. two business owners in danville are asking for increased police presence across the city. both the six-one-six and the north theatre sit along north main street. both owners say there hasn't been a serious issue with crime at their locations yet-- but various shootings across the city worries them. as they invest into their business, the owners want the police to invest in their customers safety. steve delgiorno, the 616 "in addition, we think that spawns even more people to come in and want to invest." wayne alan, north theatre"i think that's an important thing when the community can bind together, one looking after the other danville's police chief agrees that community poli

in the this morning look at a latest his abilities down the mile or less across the rolling valley galax down about a third of a mile so that's of the siege traveling up-and-down interstate eighty one in the interstate seventy seven corba or just keep that in mind it's can a be foggy hot springs zero visibility. so stuff to see all of the hits morning lotta looking there it is very thick fog warm-up into the two virginia tech students charged in the death of blacksburg teen nicole lovell made their first appearence in court. david eisenhauer and natalie keepers are both from maryland and are in jail without bond. eisenhauer is charged with first degree murder and abduction of lovell. the court yesterday appointed chris tuck to represent him. according to arrest warrants, eisenhauer did not use a gun in her death. he told law enforcement after he was arrested, "i believe the truth will set me free." keepers requested her own attorney, kris olin. she is charged with disposing of a dead body and being an fact. lovell's youth pastor says she was a teen leader at auburn baptist church in rine

breezy tomorrow and then relatively quiet on sunday twenty mylan our wind us roanoke 23 blacksburg 29 galax twenty eight toward hot springs of the feel like temperature the windchill factor feels like it's only five and hot springs bundle up there twenty one in roanoke feels like it's nineteen 19 blacksburg 12 and bluefield and only 15 in around the galax area still finding some snow showers in around giles county a few flurries through the newer valley same story up toward the mountains watch out for slick spots in those locations but those will begin to quiet down of course the national weather service when out would bear survey teens yesterday appomattox county tornado was recognizes and ef three straight top winds up toward hundred and sixty five hundred yards wide or four football fields wide you travel for about 13 miles passing just south of appomattox and of course taking its way through the evergreen area back toward ararat patrick county that was in he at one tornado top winds of a hundred and five miles an hour that only with about 1.8 miles was about half mile wide it it's bigge

people in the galax community are coming together to send their best wishes to a little boy fighting cancer. plus, having your pet in bed with you may seem cozy, but how does it affect general motors signs the first autoworkers contract on this day in 19-37. in 19-70, japan becomes the world's fourth space power with its first satellite. in 19-90, nelson mandela is released from prison in south africa. also in 19-90, underdog buster douglas knocks out mike tyson in tokyo for the heavyweight title. and on this day in 2012, pop superstar whitney houston dies at age 48. dangerous wind chills this morning. mostly sunny today high 31. in today's hometown health: a community is coming together to help a young boy battling cancer, including emergency crews who are doing something special. 4-year old max brown was diagnosed in january with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. his hometown of galax has been sending him cards and well wishes. and with much of his family working in law enforcement or emergency workers, crew members decided to all shave their heads to support max. andrew burnett, max's

hanks - galax - 6 paige, ethan, and brittany fisher - christiansburg - 18 jabari ross - bassett - 9 roanoke - 41 copper hill - 18 ed & heather reynolds - glasgow - 8th anniversary charles & rebecca spencer - fieldale - 20th anniversary mark & michelle white - hardy - 25th arewe are finding right now most of it on the light to moderate side we get these little pockets a yellow and there that's with the radar picking up some heavier downpours just beware that watch upper some ponding the water out on the roadways this will continue through the morning a later this morning into the afternoon would to get a little bit of a wall when again to we begin this a little dry area right here now still do have a stray shower so that little mist and drizzle but this steady rain will exit for time being and then storm system number two that will start to move in late tonight and during the day wednesday that's it's can a bring rain falling heavily weather service does have a flood watch in effect from seven o'clock this morning until seven p.m. on wednesday from the highlands pocahontas county wes

i learned he has family in the galax and grayson county area not far from where lovell's body was found in surry county, north carolina. it's not clear if he was familiar with that area. live in christiansburg, justin ward, wdbj7 while they may not understand all the legal proceedings to come, nicole's friends and classmates are mourning her loss this week at school. wdbj7's eamon o'meara is also live with how they are remembering the 7th grader. chris... if you walk around blackburg middle school today you won't hear too much, as the students and staff are still shocked over the loss of nicole lovell. but what you'll see are great memories of the 13-year old made by her classmates. students wrote messages, drawings, and notes for nicole and her family. there are even some messages left on the boards in classrooms. one of the memorials done by four of nicole's friends is on display in the cafeteria for the classrooms now have special spaces for students to go to remember nicole. all of these printed signs and messages are going to be shared with nicole's family, along with photos of the

eisenhauer has family in the galax area - close to where nicole's body was found in north carolina her father told cbs news, he urges parents to be vigilant about their children's use of social media. david lovell/nicole's father: "look, if you don't think you did enough, do some more. keep checking. watch your kids because this is.(sighs)" nicole's visitation is set for tomorrow from five until eight at mccoy funeral home in blacksburg. her funeral is thursday at three also at mccoy funeral home. as lovell's family works through their loss, a woman who's been in their position is sending comforting words. gil harrington's daughter morgan was killed in 2009 after going missing, much like 13-year old nicole. gil harrington/daughter killed in 2009: "you can survive. the anguish and the grief will subside somewhat. i tell people you don't get over it, there will always be the loss, but you can get learn such a severing. it's like severing a limb. you never forget that you don't have your arm, but you learn maybe to write with your feet. you accomidate to the loss. it's a long, hard proces

thirty three danville a chilly twenty six hot springs twenty eight bluefield 31 with bill and 32 in galax there's a little remnant moisture from that clipper system that quickly exited to the north and the east now as it see those clouds breaking up leading to partly sunny conditions and a few snow showers in the mountains but don't forget flood warnings do continue along the dan river in danville's paces south boston and also the roanoke river as he head over toward randolph most of it on the minor side maybe a little moderate flooding along the roanoke river in randolph all that should improve over the next 24 to forty eight hours heading out on your bike be careful still finding some slick spots temperatures in the thirties we will be 40s. even some upper 40s low 50s down toward the south side later today one front exits clipper system exits week little disturbance will bring a few snow showers to the mountains here you go ronald fincastle lexington smith mountlake boones mill rocky mount mid upper forties partly sunny lynchburg loving stint appomattox upper forties to near fifty gretn

profile and would concede that were running in the low thirties from bluefield the width with the galax the martinsville this wall moisture has moved in the area in the form of some very very light snow it's a clipper system that spinning around here and action the coverage of snow is a diminished in the last hour hour and a half this is double-click it and to be a big deal probably encoding for some of you and galax and extending upwardly laski but it's bumping into drier air as it travels to the north and that's pretty much can it be the end of that weather system as it moves to the north of it clipper a system so that kind of fades away and were end up with a pretty good day tomorrow maybe a mix of sun and clouds will put it togeth of damage done to their property today. freezing rain took out a huge pine tree which crashed into the carport. a branch pierced the car windshield. smith say tim was sitting in the driver's seat less than a minute before the it was a close call for a henry county on their mobile wanda morgan says her grandson was sleeping on the couch where the tree fell

coming up and how much to fore breaklook who else is out enjoying warm weather red shouldered hawk in galax genes cancel or captured this photo it was absolutely gorgeous out there this afternoon hopefully when outage waited sixty seven degrees behind roanoke milan lynchburg in danville high hyatt sixty six degrees low sixties found towards the new river valley and temperatures are still my old and out there 55 the corona blacksburg regional airport or wanted to point in the upper forties elsewhere were noticing temperatures were near fifty degrees from blacksburg to wytheville fifty two in galax to lewisburg forty five degrees renounce islam lake and forty seven degrees in lynchburg overnight tonight temperature slowly drop the warm up quickly through the afternoon attacking to see daytime highs and the upper fifties and low sixties slightly cooler than what we had today because of cloud cover and also the rain metal kerry lockedto the low 40s and will be very mild start your sunday and warm up quickly through the afternoon and occupancy daytime highs and the upper 50s a low 60s slightly c

we have an update this morning concerning the vaughan-bassett furniture company in galax .police say they charged corey dean hodges from galax with breaking and entering--and felony destruction of property.the plant shut down this week due to the extent of the damange. police say hodges broke into the vaughan-bassett finishing room - and vandalized equipment doing an estimated more than 100 thousand dollars worth of damage. vaughan-bassett officals say only the shipping department and its offices - will be open through today. wfxr news is your local election headquarters.there are three roanoke city council seats up for grabs and the number of candidates wanting fill the seats are growing.amy carter wants to fill one of those seats. she is the owner sarah's place restaurant at the patrick henry hotel.court rosen and sherman lea senior are leaving the council. the other seat up from grabs belongs to incumbent anita price who will seek re- election.amy carter is running as a independent and says her experience as a single mom, a former teacher and p-t-a president, and as a small busine

all of pick up much galax, and the blacksburg, alleghanies. 1-amounts in the highlands with and the new mountains. 2-4" blue ridge impactful snow, but the to region has a good chance to receive at least a coating of snow, but the snowfall will fall west of the new river valley highlands with locally higher amounts in the alleghanies. 1-2" are possible further east around blacksburg, roanoke valley. the piedmont probably won't pick up much more than a dusting. all of next week looks highs will be in the 40s, 30s and even 20s all week long. winds will be strong during the midweek as well and could lead to some dangerous get ready to bundle up! w-f-x-r's sophia borrelli followed these kids on a special journey - before the players took to the court. 0:25 - 0:350:48 - 0:520:53 - 1:06 nat: kid makes a basketthese kids may not be able to dunk, but they sure do love the game.sophia: "do you like to play basketball?" david: "yes, mam." david has down syndrome and has had him from doing the thing he loves best.david: "shooting."david and these other kids...get medical treatments at carilion. but

for details on how that trash pickup works and other resources available for you at galax county, head to virginia first.com and spending time at the baptist church on sunday. a service there to help the community get through the recovery period. >> reporter: this past week evergreen baptist church served as somewhat of a service center allowing volunteers to come in the pastor said throughout all of this he's tried to restore a sense of normalcy back into the community. one of the very reasons he decided to still hold sunday service. >> inside voices and hands lifted in worship. it's one of the few things still standing after the storm surrounding it. >> it could have been so much worse and we want to take some time and say lord, thank you. >> the service is a way to help cope with people in the area. >> it's going to be traumatic so were going to talk through a little bit of that of how not to hold in those emotions but share them.for people like mike floyd whose family lost everything-- this ministry means the world.the people here are unlike people in most communities-- they come t

police say they charged corey dean hodges from galax with breaking and entering--and felony destruction of property. the plant shut down this week due to the extent of the damange. police say hodges broke into the vaughan-bassett finishing room - and vandalized equipment doing an estimated more than 100 thousand dollars worth of damage. vaughan-bassett officals say only the shipping department and its offices - will be open through today. wfxr news is your local election headquarters.there seats up for grabs and the number of candidates wanting fill the seats are growing. amy carter wants to fill one of those seats. she is the owner sarah's place restaurant at the patrick henry hotel. court rosen and sherman lea senior are leaving the council. the other seat up from grabs belongs to incumbent anita price who will seek re-election.amy carter is running as a independent and says her qualitifications stem from her experience as a single mom, a former teacher and p-t-a president, and as a small business owner. "i know how important it is to move forward to bring businesses into the area. no

we have an update this morning concerning the vandalism of the vaughan-bassett furniture company in galax .police say they charged corey dean hodges from galax with breaking and entering--and felony destruction of property.the plant shut down this week due to the extent of the damange. police say hodges broke into the vaughan-bassett finishing room - and vandalized equipment doing an estimated more than 100 thousand dollars worth of damage. vaughan-bassett officals say only the shipping department and its offices - will be open through today. wfxr news is your local election headquarters.there are three roanoke city council seats up for grabs and the number of candidates wanting fill the seats are growing.amy carter wants to fill one of those seats. she is the owner the patrick henry hotel.court rosen and sherman lea senior are leaving the council. the other seat up from grabs belongs to incumbent anita price who will seek re- election.amy carter is running as a independent and says her qualitifications stem from her experience as a single mom, a former teacher and p-t-a president, and as

and galax was hit with the ef-3 tornados so winds reached 150 mph. the designation is no comfort to residents who will continue to salvage anything they can this morning from the destroyed home. >> kyle: the tornado killed one man, keith harris. we spent time there to survey the damage. the governor visited people in the white pine drive area and many people lost their homes in the storm. the governor said he just can't believe the devastation. >> just homes flattened for miles. foundations the only thing left. it's sad to be there to see family and friends walking through the debris and all you have is the cement foundation and they're walking through trying to find a momento. it's hard. >> reporter: after tearing through the governor will head storm killed 2 people including an 8-year-old boy. >> many people are still without power and shelter following the tornado. the american red cross set up two shelters. one in the community center and another in pamplin. they say they're happy for the work the red cross shelt ser doing. >> i'm happy here that

winds out of the northwest between 3 and 13 miles per hour. 49 in lynchburg. 51 danceburg. 31 in galax. are a looking at northern canada. this is where the polar vortex is. it will dip to the south. by tuesday we're looking at some very, very cold arctic air in play and that could combine with a clipper type system, a strong one that could bring us snow, light snow as we head week. for tonight mostly cloudy skies. overnight lows in the 20s and 30s. high temperatures will top out sunshine. temperatures in the low to mid- 50s. 20s by wednesday with that chance for some light snow heading into monday or tuesday. we're watching that. right now it doesn't look like this will be a huge deal. >> our wsls10 cares food drive is bringing in a lot of food. actually, any wife, husband, or human person can use progressive's name your price tool to take control of their budget. and while the men do the hard work of making money, she can get all the car insurance options her little heart desires. or the women might do the hard work of making money. [ chuckling ] women don't have jobs. is this guy for

an update from galax .police have arrested a man for vandalizing the vaughan- bassett furniture company . corey dean hodges from galax is charged with breaking and entering--and felony destruction of property.so much damage was done--- the store has had to shut down. police say hodges broke into the vaughan-bassett furniture company finishing room - and vandalized equipment.they estimate more than 100 thousand dollars worth of damage. vaughan-bassett officals say only the shipping department and its offices - we're continuing our coverage tonight of the big game- and tonight- the quarterbacks from both teams are getting ready. tonight they spoke to the media- giving a little insight into how they're feeling ahead of sunday.john kutch ko is in california tonight with more details - john? one year ago today, demolition began at old candlestick park, former home to the 49ers and san francisco giants baseball club. b a historic stadium that was located just three miles from here. we stopped by there this morning. work crews still leveling the grounds. it opened in 1960z this is where the be

police say they charged corey dean hodges from galax with breaking and entering--and felony plant shut down this week due to the extent of the damange. police say hodges broke into the vaughan-bassett finishing room - and vandalized equipment doing an estimated more than 100 thousand dollars worth of damage. vaughan-bassett officals say only the shipping department and its offices - will be open through today. wfxr news is your local election headquarters.there are three roanoke city council seats up for grabs and the number of candidates wanting fill the seats are growing. amy carter wants to fill one of those seats. she is the owner sarah's place restaurant at the patrick henry hotel. court rosen and sherman lea senior are leaving the council. the other seat up from grabs belongs to incumbent anita price who will seek re-election.amy carter is running as a independent and says her qualitifications stem from her experience as a single mom, a former teacher and p-t-a president, and as a small business owner. "i know how important it is to move forward to bring businesses into the area.

right now were watching winds moving through the new river valley blacksburg, only down with bill galax moving into floyd and there's another one back behind that and even another one in the distance a was is monitor these as they move through giving low heads up that their coming through and that we can plan accordingly temperatures in the twenties and thirties these are the actual air temperatures right now for two factor rain and gusty when that's been the region anywhere from twenty even some thirty mile per our gust it makes it feel a lot thisevening, temperatures a senior blacksburg 14 hot springs in a get down to about 2324 roanoke lynchburg danville keeping some snow showers around. again not a persistent snow bridges some of these occasional snow showers in the forecast model you can see the how this northwest flow does is the snow showers it all the way into wednesday an and finally by thursday afternoon that finally lets up and will eventually have but overall just dry skies for every body will start relaxants winds a little bit the cold air is here to stay though this is pro

and galax. and 51 in bloomfield. and wider look at the temperatures. pick out cold front clearly out there. between green and blues. that's the cold front making the way in our direction. it will bring in slightly cooler air tomorrow. and then we will recycle warm air heading into the day on our wednesday. before we cool off the rest of the week. so couple of spotty showers out there right now. we are having a lot of trouble moving east. you can see low pressure riding along the front. with a bit more in the way of rain showers. we will see them moving in through the morning into the afternoon. and as that front continues to press east. cooler air in the wake of that as winds shift west-northwest. and we drop our temperatures heading into tomorrow. so there is the batch of energy right there. heading toward noon time o future cast. you can see it make the way east. expecting showers heading through later morning. into the afternoon hours. 5:00. most of the action heading east at that point. still few lingering showers out there for the drive. plenty of

police in galax arrested a man they say caused more than 100-thousand dollars in damage. corey dean hodges was arrested and charged tuesday night for breaking and entering and felony destruction of property. police confirmed hodges is a former employee at vaughan-bassett. company president doug bassett says black stain was poured into their finishing tanks, rendering them useless until their cleaned or replaced. the finishing room will be closed again leo, i know a lot of people are going to be inside sunday night for the super bowl, but what is the rest of the weekend looking like? rivers it's the dan river paces latest observation twenty eight three feet that's about three tenths of a foot above flood stage should just minor flooding should crescent shortly will start to recede a continue with that minor flooding through the morning hours. i'll by the one shower upper thirties by the afternoon will be back up into the mid forties gusty winds especially the first part of the day over the we can will see nice conditions but next week some cold air begins to slide down fro

the wind chills right now feels like it's-5 and hot springs 10 in roanoke seven blacksburg one in galax and feels like it's only eight in with bill we'll have windchill advisories this morning we have windchill advisories going into affect midnight tonight through 10 am thursday from the highlands right through the roanoke valley along interstate eighty one toward southwest virginia. the areas shaded in pink this words can a feel like it's minus-5-10-15 tomorrow morning see deftly want to dress accordingly finding some light flurries snow showers new river valley over in the mountains a west virginia right now mopes most of this is very light the we will see the continuation some snow showers in the mountains today your twelve hour forecast hour by hour will be warming into the upper 20s low 30s as we head through the day with a mix of clouds and some sunshine from time to time course more clouds as he had low-pressure exits but have a little bit of a loan the snow shower activity and then come friday another clipper system and coastal low could bring our area you light snow showers as

in danville bit below freezing lynchburg thirty one twenty six hot springs thirty one martinsville galax reporting a temperature at this hour of thirty three still finding a little bit of that clipper system bring maybe a couple sprinkles the south eastern parts ofhalifax county but that is about it during the day today might see a few snow showers in the western facing slopes up toward pocahontas and greenbrier county there've a little moisture heading in their direction from the northwest but the rest of us will end up with a mix of sun and clouds flood warnings continue because of the rain and the snow melt along the dan river in danville paces south boston and in the roanoke river over in randolph all expecting some minor to moderate flooding. hopefully by thursday morning all that should come to an end up partly sunny today high temperature mid forties plus depending on your location one front exits a little system to bring a few snow showers to the mountains other than that a look sick would have relatively quiet conditions over the next several days a very welcome across the area

this is a joint project between carroll and grayson counties and the city of galax ken mcfayden / blue ridge crossroads eda - "we know that by developing this site and attracting the attention of outside investment coming into southwest virginia and into our three localities, that we will deliver greater economic prosperity for our citizens, and that's really what it's all about. so far.. around 25 companies from around the country have shown interest in wildwood commerce park. now a look ahead to a story we're following tonight. "coming up tonight on wsls ten, we are in roanoke city talking to political experts about the process to replace justice scalia after his passing. some on social media say the president should make the nomination others say the republicans should. we'll break it down tonight jeff will have another check of your storm team 10 forecast in just a few minutes. then ... classic toys with a twist ... how toymakers are revamping your favorite childhood items ... coming up in a wsls 10 consumer on thursday, warming us up into the 40s. high pressure will be in control

galax police are searching for more information after someone caused thousands of dollars in damage after breaking into the vaughn-bassett plant overnight. tanks storing stains.. paint.. and lacquers were damaged. the furniture plant is closed today and it could take several days to clean up. police say ... this is an active investigation. a roanoke man is behind bars this evening for trying to break into a church. last night... police were called to "roanoke valley baptist temple"... where they found 27-year-old "angelo fuller" trying to use a cinder block to force his way into the church. fuller faces several charges... including breaking and entering and giving false information to police after he tried to give officers the wrong name. he was also served with three unrelated outstanding warrants. a new firing range in roanoke commonwealth ... and possibly on the east coast. local firearms dealer "safeside tactical" plans to work with businesses and law enforcement agencies for training. wsls 10's ananda rochita has more on how it could help agencies and individuals responding to danger

continue forty nine of rona can lynchburg fifty two in danville forty four blacksburg and also the galax and you only getting up into the mid- thirties and hot springs a front the nice green grass in there because i'm thinking a spring it's can a be almost like it bias sunday about 65 we a drop into the low sixties on monday and see what happens to the temperatures low 50s as we had towards the middle part i we've heard from you talk about the chance for some thunderstorms like is are any severe weather with this because it is a front i does look like there we could have some thunderstorms right right now and still to early this afternoon this will be severe of course will keep you posted on that the nowhere approaching that time a year where you are you get the high the cold of the warm the really cold and that's when you get some of the severe storm so right now those look like anything severe for next week on wednesdaymorrow with north carolina, and college gameday will be back in charlottesville. travis wells has a and the heels. virginia's basketball team has had four days to digest