Wearing their uniform we understand it. But at the same time we do not no way in on form want the jury to be afraid of too many officers being in there. 2 18 now of course, the defense argued that its unnecessary to limit the number of Police Officers in uniform. They said it could infringe upon First Amendment rights. The judge even hinted that if he ruled in favor, then he expects the defense will ask him to limit the number of family members in the court room supporting the victim. He did not make a decision today. Coming up tonight at 4,5,6 well break down all of that more clearly and explain another twist. Why the commonwealth wants to bar rankin from talking on the stand about the suspicion that William Chapman was shoplifiting from the walmart before the shooting took place. Im dl 10 on your side. Also breaking from the white house. The president says the prison at guantanomo bay, for good. He Just Announced the plan shut the prison down about an hour and a half ago. The president says his staff is submitting their plan to congress. He says holding terrorists in a prison outdated. He cited cases like Dzhokar Tsarnaev as to why it is safe to hold terrorists in the united states. For years, the president has said terrorists use guantanomo as a recruiting tool. Of the 800 prisoners that used to be held at guantanomo, more than 85 percent have been transferred to other countries. More than 500 of these transfers happened under president bush. Since i took office, weve transferred 147 more. Each under new, significant restriction to keep them from returning to the battlefield. During his address, president obama cited his predecessor george w. Bush for also wanting to close the prison while he was in office. Closing guantanamo a priority when he took office in 2009. However, political analysts say he had more bipartisan support to get it done at that time than he does now. We have a lot more to get to in the next hour on the air, but now we want to get a check of the forecast. Heres a live look at tower cam 10 at the skies over downtown norfolk its a gloomy day over Hampton Roads, and it is raining in some places. Lets get the latest from meteorologist jeremy doppler 10 weather center. Rest of today hit and possible;otherwise, mainly cloudy. Highs will be in the low 50s. Winds ne 1015mph. Tonight mostly cloudy. With a few showers possible. Lows will be in the mid 40s. Winds var. 510mph. Wednesday mostly cloudy. Scattered showers in the morning. Then late day showers storms that could be tuned. Highs will be near 70. Winds south 1020mph with gusts up to 25mph. Hit and miss showers possible thru tonight. High temps will be in the low 50s. A warm front will lift through the region thru wednesday am, leading to a warmer day tomorrow. Highs will be near 70. Well see a few scattered showers through the day. However, late in the day into the cold front. Well see strong gusty winds out ahead of the front. So some storms could be strong to severe. Stay tuned for updates. We will dry out before sunrise on thursday. It will be cooler, but not cold with highs in the upper 50s. Well be dry and cooler into the weekend. Highs will be in the upper 40s on saturday, but into the decision 2016 has come to norfolk. And supporters of one candidate are hoping to soon feel the burn. Candidate senator Bernie Sanders is at the scope for a rally. Sanders is just the first candidate to make a stop in Hampton Roads this sanders is just the first candidate to make a stop in Hampton Roads this week. Make a stop in Hampton Roads this week. Three republican candidates are planning to speak in Virginia Beach. Theyll take part in regent universitys president ial candidate forums. Front runner donald trump will give his speech tomorrow. Senator ted cruz will talk on friday and ben carson will be in town on monday. Candidates are focusing on the nevada caucus. It is starting in just a couple hours. Donald trump hopes to continue to ride his hot streak with his third win in a row, after taking New Hampshire and south carolina. Ted cruz and marco rubio hope to gain on trump, as they are neck and neck for second place in most polls. Be sure to stay with wavy news 10 and wavy dot com all day as the results come in. Still ahead the parents of one of the victims of a shooting spree in michigan are talking about their daughter. Why they say she is a fighter. Plus controversy over a vanity licence plate. Well show you why citizens in minnesota are outraged. And well get a look at the parents of a 14yearold girl nearly killed in saturdays mass shooting in michigan are breaking their abigail kopf was dead. They were about to harvest her organs when she squeezed her mothers hand. Four others with abigail in a Cracker Barrel parking lot died that night. That includes barbara hawthorne, who despite no blood relation, abigail called grandma barb. They would go see shows together, just like they did saturday night. Abigails mother, vicki kopf, wants people to know her daughter is a fighter. s vicki kopf victims mother 521 00 Everybody Needs to get that straight. My daughter is not dead. She is alive and she is fighting for her life. I want everybody to understand that. s vicki kopf victims mother1 011 10 abigail is strong, and she is a vibrant beautiful young lady and she did not deserve this. And either did her grandmother or those other victims. Meamwhile, accused shooter jason dalton made his first appearance in court yesterday. He is charged with six counts of murder. The judge denied him bail. So far, police havent been able to find a reason dalton went on the rampage. He could spend a judge granted a Virginia BeachPolice Officer bond this morning. Police arrested her over the weekend for allegedly driving drunk. Virginia beach Police AccuseSergeant Margaret hobbs of driving under the influence sunday evening. Police say she had two Young Children in the car with her when they pulled her over. 10 on your sides jason marks was in court this morning for the bond hearing. He joins us now from dam neck. Thats where Sargent Hobbs was pulled over. It happened here along dam neck road in Virginia Beach sunday night just after 7. Court records show that she attempted to get on base twice before base police were called. Base Police Officers arrived and found the off duty Virginia Beach sergeant in her toyota 4runner with her 2. She was turned over to Virginia Beach police and charged with dui. Prosecutors say her blood alcohol level was at. 23. Thats more then double the legal. 08 limit. Hobbs bonded i can tell you she is a highly respected officer. Shes served for 17 years and i spoke with many officers over the last two days who are just shocked that this happened. Hobbs was so thought of when she was decided to become a sergeant, she was number one on the departments list. Tommy shattuck former vb Police Sergeant 18 2 24 in 2010 when she was promoted she a very highly qualified officer she was pio as you know. She was an svu as a detective she was a about margie hobbs in my career 2 35 thousand dollar bond. As part of hobbs bond she isnt allowed to drive a car or have any alcohol until her trial date. Thats scheduled for viriginia beach jason marks 10 on your side. Some people are very upset about a seemingly prejudiced vanity licence plate. We do have to warn you, this may be a little shocking to see. Here it is. You can see it says fmuslims. Someone put a picture of it on social media. Hundreds of people commented and criticized the picture. State Officials Say the plate was issued last june. The picture also caught the attention of governor mark dayton, who ordered the state department of Public Safety to take the plate away. Activists say they are getting pulled. s haji yusuf activist 07 its been overwhelmingly saying, this is wrong. this is what this community is the deaprtment that issued the plate apologized in a statement. It says the plate should never have been issued. Things got a little rough on the shores of hawaii. Yesterday, a historic swell hit oahu. Waves sent lava rocks onto the highway. Some waves hit cars. Locals say the surf is the biggest theyve seen in about a decade. A few daring surfers were brave enough to go in. Lifeguards say the waves were big enough to erode the sand to the road, something that happens rarely. weather anim with track miss showers will be in the low 50s. Winds ne 1015mph. Tonight mostly cloudy. With a few showers possible. Lows will be in the mid 40s. Winds var. 510mph. Wednesday mostly cloudy. Scattered showers in the morning. Then late day showers storms that could be strong to severe. Stay tuned. Highs will be near 70. Winds south 1020mph with gusts up to 25mph. Hit and miss showers possible thru tonight. High temps will be in the low 50s. A warm front will lift through the region thru wednesday am, leading to a warmer day tomorrow. Highs will be near 70. Well see a few scattered showers through the day. However, late in the day into the evening a line of showers and storms will move through the region. This will be ahead of a cold front. Well see strong gusty winds out ahead of the front. So some storms could be strong to severe. Stay tuned for updates. We will dry out before sunrise on thursday. It will be cooler, but not cold with well be dry and cooler into the weekend. Highs will be in the upper 40s on saturday, but into the should be a fun time for kids turns into an all out brawl for between parents. Well show you what a clash at chuck e cheese. Police in connecticut say at least a dozen people were involved in an all out brawl. And someone caught it all on camera. Police think the fight bumped into each other. Witnesses say thats when things quickly escalated, leading to this fight. Police say they havent arrested anyone because the group left before they got there, but investigators are looking for the people involved. No one was seriously hurt, but a child did get knocked down, and suffered minor injuries. Youre looking live at scope where democratic president ial candidate Bernie Sanders is speaking to supporters. Well take only flonase is approved to relieve both your itchy, watery eyes and congestion. No other nasal allergy spray can say that. Complete allergy relief or incomplete. Let your eyes decide. Flonase changes everything. Ive been a turkey farmer my whole life. And i raise turkey for shady brook farms. We dont use growthpromoting antibiotics, thats just the way things should be done. Thats important to me. My name is glenn, and im an independent turkey farmer. female announcer shady brook farms. No growthpromoting antibiotics, breaking news about the murder trial of former portsmouth Police Officer stephen rankin. A judge granted a continueance in the case. Commonwealths attorney Stephanie Morales asked for more time to get her case against rankin ready. The trial is pushed back to august 16th. Morales says there are three witnesses that cant make the original march 21st court date. Also discussed at todays hearing, the presence of uniformed Police Officers. Six officers were in the courtroom today. However at his first bond hearing, there were 20. Morales argued today that groups that large would create jury she says it would unfairly bolster the credibility of the defendant. And their presence would be quote stifling. Heres what William Chapmans cousin said about that motion. Earl Lewis Chapman family spokesman 1 19 56 if theyre not working and theyre in that courtroom just to see whats going on, no we dont wnat them there. If theyre working and wearing their uniform we understand it. But at the same time we do not no way in on form want the jury to be afraid of too many officers being in there. 2 18 10 on your sides Deanna Leblanc was in the courtroom today. Shell have much more on todays hearing tonight starting on wavy news 10 at 4. Also breaking from the white house. The president says the prison at guantanomo bay, cuba is going to close for good. He Just Announced the plan shut the prison down about an hour and a half ago. The president says his staff is submitting their plan to congress. He says holding terrorists in a prison not on us soil is he cited cases like Dzhokar Tsarnaev as to why it is safe to hold terrorists in the united states. For years, the president has said terrorists use guantanomo as a recruiting tool. Of the 800 prisoners that used to be held at guantanomo, more than 85 percent have been transferred to other countries. More than 500 of these transfers happened under president bush. Since i took office, weve transferred 147 more. Each under new, significant restriction to keep them from returning to the battlefield. During his address, president obama cited his predecessor george w. Bush for also wanting to close the prison while he was in office. The president made closing guantanamo a priority when he took office in 2009. However, political analysts say he had more bipartisan support to get it done at that time than he does now. We have a lot more to get but now its time to get a look at the weather. And its rainy forecast. Heres a live look at tower cam 10 at the skies over downtown norfolk. Lets get the latest from meteorologist Jeremy Wheeler in the super doppler 10 weather center. Rest of today hit and miss showers possible;otherwise, mainly cloudy. Highs will be in the low 50s. Winds ne 1015mph. Tonight mostly cloudy. With a few showers possible. Lows will be in the mid 40s. Winds var. 510mph. Wednesday mostly cloudy. Scattered showers in the morning. Then late day showers storms that could be strong to severe. Stay tuned. Highs will be near 70. Winds south 1020mph with gusts up to 25mph. Hit and miss showers possible thru tonight. High temps will be in the low 50s. A warm front will lift through the region thru wednesday am, leading to a warmer day tomorrow. Highs will be near 70. Well see a few scattered showers late in the day into the evening a line of showers and storms will move through the region. This will be ahead of a cold front. Well see strong gusty winds out ahead of the front. So some storms could be strong to severe. Stay tuned for updates. We will dry out before sunrise on thursday. It will be cooler, but not cold with highs in the upper 50s. Well be dry and cooler into the weekend. Highs will be in the upper 40s on saturday, but into the decision 2016 has come to norfolk. Democratic president ial candidate senator Bernie Sanders is at scope for a rally. Hes on stage now, lets take sanders is just the first candidate to make a stop in Hampton Roads this week. Sanders is just the first candidate to make a stop in Hampton Roads this week. Three republican front runner donald trump will give his speech tomorrow. Senator ted cruz will talk on friday and ben monday. Today, the republican candidates are focusing on the nevada caucus. It is starting in just a couple hours. Donald trump hopes to continue to ride his hot streak with his third win in a row, after taking New Hampshire and south carolina. Ted cruz and on trump, as they are neck and neck for second place in most polls. Be sure to stay with wavy news 10 and wavy dot com all day as the results come in. Today is the deadline to apply for absentee voting through the mail for virginias primary. The commonwealths president ial primary is march first. You can still vote abentee in person through saturday. To get an absentee ballot, you can apply in person at your local Voter Registration office or online. We put the link with this story on wavy. Com. Where a school bus was involved in an accident on jefferson avenue and oyster point road. A 10 on your side viewer sent pictures. Dispatcher was hurt. You can see traffic is being diverteed in the area. Were working to find out more. Stay with us for update throughout the newscast. This morning, a judge in Virginia Beach granted bond at 5,000 dollars for a veteran city officer, accused of driving drunk. Virginia beach Police Say Officers arrested sgt. Margaret hobbs sunday for driving under the influence. Court records show her blood alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit, and that she had two children in the car with her, ages 2 and 5. Hobbs is a familiar face because she served as a Public Information officer for the department. Police have released few details on the arrest. Sources within the department say hobbs got into an accident sunday evening near the oceana nas, dam neck still ahead on midday incredible video out of australia of a crane collapse in australia. More on what caused this to happen. Plus the wife of mexican drug lord el chapo is talking about his life in prison. Why she says she fears for his life. Plus were on your side with another look at the super doppler 10 forecast we are following shooting in arizona. Police say a man shot relatives in a house in phoenix. Investigators say the shooter is dead. A child survived the shooting, but has life threatening injuries. Police responded to the 911 call overnight. When they got there, the gunman started shooting at them. None of the officers were hit. The house was on fire, and officers put on safety gear to get to the victims inside. The gunman is described as a son and brother to the victims. New at midday we can now show you who police say robbed a gas station in williamsburg. This is 18yearold William Hayes of hampton. Police in williamsburg say he used a gun to rob the valero gas station on york street near quarterpath road yesterday morning. The yorkpoqousons Sheriffs Office arrested hayes, after they pulled him over near the scene. The Sheriffs Office says he also robbed at least five businesses in york county. Hayes is facing several charges, incuding robbery and abduction. People in damascus are reacting to the news the us and russia agreed on a new ceasfire for syria. The news comes a day after a wave of isis bombings killed 130 people around the capital. Some people in damascus are skeptical the ceasefire will be properly enforced by all parties involved in the conflict. S Tarek Al Nawat damascus resident 22 it will not work because the terrorists dont have any decisionmakers. They are getting all the decisions from outside politics. And our government they have the decision to stop the fire but the problem is that they will not accept this decision from our government. The ceasfire starts saturday. Take a look at this incredible video of a crane collapsing in australia part of the crane caught on fire and as it started to spread, it caused the arm of the crane to give out and come down. As you can see, the arm did stay attached hit anyone on the ground. Nobody was hurt. Investigators believe an electrical problem started the fire in the cranes motor. One person died after a commuter train crashed into a crane crossing the tracks in the nethelands. The happened 80 miles east of amsterdam. The train driver died and seven passengers were hurt. Police say the detained the driver of the crane for questioning. You can see the crash split apart the cars. The mayor of the town where it happened says the train was going full speed when the crash happened. Investgators are still working to figure out what exactly caused the crash. The wife of notorius cartel boss el chapo is talking about her husbands time in jail. She says she fears for his life. Emma Coronel Aispuro claims the Mexican Government is using harsh conditions inside the prison to get even with Joaquin Guzman because his escapes look bad. Coronel is a former beauty queen who holds both us and mexican citizenship. She made the comments during an interview with telemundo over the weekend. She refused to criticize actress kate del castillo. Text messages between el chapo and del castillo led to his recapture last month. The mayor of the Nations Capital is in cuba as Muriel Bowser traveled with officials from maryland and virginia. She met with cuban officials and talked about a range of topics including the economy and education. During a news conference, bowser called for continued change and talked about president obamas Upcoming Trip to the island. S Muriel Bowser washington dc mayor 22 and we know that the discussions that a fierce urgency now. And i know that the president wants to leave his mark president obama will meet with cuban leaders, including raul castro, next month, it will be the first visit to the island by a us president in 88 years. weather anim with track rest of today hit and miss showers possible;otherwise, mainly cloudy. Highs will be in the low 50s. Winds ne 1015mph. Tonight mostly cloudy. With a few showers possible. Lows will be in the mid 40s. Winds var. 510mph. Wednesday mostly cloudy. Scattered showers in the morning. Then late day showers storms that could be strong to severe. Stay tuned. Highs will be near 70. Winds south 1020mph with gusts up to 25mph. Hit and miss showers possible thru tonight. High temps will be in the low 50s. A warm front will lift through the region thru wednesday am, leading to a warmer day tomorrow. Highs will be near 70. Well see a few scattered showers through the day. However, evening a line of showers and storms will move through the region. This will be ahead of a cold front. Well see strong gusty winds out ahead of the front. So some storms could be strong to severe. Stay tuned for updates. We will dry out before sunrise on thursday. It will be cooler, but not cold with highs in the upper 50s. Well be dry and cooler into the weekend. Highs will be in the upper 40s on saturday, but into the up next on midday fun on the iss. More on x at humana, we know when you have your health. Great things are ahead of you or making new ones, learning some moves or showing off your skills and being free to keep on exploring. Choose a humana medicare plan for the care you need. To help you have Better Health for everything thats ahead. Humana. Start with healthy. Pet moments are beautiful, unless you have allergies. Then your eyes may see it differently. Only flonase is approved to relieve both itchy, watery eyes no other nasal allergy spray can say that. 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But apparantly, space travel can become boring for astronauts from time to time. So they do things like this. Astronaut mark kelly tweeted this video from the International Space station yesterday. You see someone in a gorilla suit burst out of a bag and start terrorizing a crew member. In the tweet, kelly stated i thought you thank you for watching log on wavydotcom for [phone rings] rafe hernandez. Right. Yewell, just keep the site secure. Ill have someone there in five minutes. Shawn what have you got . Rafe well, they found a body, just like andre said they would. In the foundation of that building off route 47. I need you to go down there and run the forensics team. Shawn you really think its stefanos . Rafe well, thats what i need confirmed so i can finally put this case to bed. For good. Hope hey, hey, honey. Are you okay . Ciara yeah, im fine. Hope baby, you look pale. Ciara were you up there talking to chase . Hope no, i was going to, but before i could, i got a call. Ciara i thought you had guards following him. Hope yeah, i was, but i dont know. He justhe seems to have disappeared. How many times do we have to tell him hes in danger . My god, how many times . [dramatic music] chase what is this place . Andre i told you. Its a place of safety. And even if ciara tells her mother what happened, theyll never be able to find you here. Chase maybe they should. Make me pay for what i did. Andre ah, stop it, chase. I know you think youre some kind of monster. You think i would have brought you here do you think i would try to protect you if i believed that . Chase why are you