Stabbed to death. Her mother, tammy weeks, held a panda bear and told us at the News Conference how lovell beat the odds and overcame Health Challenges as a small child. The family called her coley. Weeks told us how she thrived, despite battling health issues. Tammy weeks mother her favorite color was blue. Nicole was a very lovable person. Nicole touched many people throughout her short life. Weeks was very shaken and emotional during the News Conference. She walked out before she could finish her prepared statement. Lovells youth pastor read the rest of what her mother wanted to say. David eisenhauer is also charged with first degree murder in lovells death. The commonwealths attorney now says the crime happened wednesday, the day she was reported missing. Well have more details from blacksburgs police chief and the commonwealths attorney tonight at 6. Live in christiansburg, about the funeral arrangements for nicole lovell. Family and friends are invited to her visitation tomorrow evening from five until eight at mccoy funeral home in blacksburg. Her funeral is thursday at three also at mccoy funeral home. Wdbj7 has learned David Eisenhauer has family in the galax and Grayson County area. Some of that family owns land only a few miles from where lovells body was found. Her ramins were discovered near low gap in surry county, north carolina. Thats across the state line from Grayson County. It hasnt been confirmed whether eisenhauer was familar with that area where her body was found. As the community continues asking for answers, Law Enforcement is trying to prevent anything like this from happening again including with a new unique partnership. Wdbj7s eamon omeara is live in christiansburg with the details. The organization help save the next girl works to stop victim outreach, and legislation following the 2009 murder of morgan harrington. Now for the first time, the group is joined by Law Enforcement. Montgomery county sheriff hank partin says his county is geographically a target for predatory violence. hank partin, Montgomery County sheriff with our 2 universities, all of our high schools, all of our middle schools, were going to do everything we can to fight evil on the front lines. Now, the department is partnered with help save the next girl to spread awareness and prevent future dangers. gil harrington, founder and president , help save the next girl you have to consider the problem enough and find the answers that are tailored to your community. Sheriff partin says its most important to focus on educating students, like the ones at tuesdays announcement. inessa cooper, junior Christiansburg High School i think its important because it really just gets the message out there that bad things happen. If you can just help in the slightest, its still helping. cody hardwick, junior, Christiansburg High School were the Biggest Group in the high school, as a matter of fact, so we have a whole lot more people in the school pitching in and helping out and town better and safer for everybody. He says the first step will be launching chapters at eastern montgomery and auburn high schools, the only two high schools in the county not already involved. hank partin, Montgomery County sheriff hopefully were going to utilize the young ladies from the high schools that already have the chapters to help the young ladies at the other schools that dont have chapters yet. While this partnership and announcement have been planned for some time, the sheriff acknowledged how significant this is given the events in blacksburg just last week. hank partin, Montgomery County sheriff we have got to take care of each other, we have got to educate our parents, we have got to get the message out. jesse burleson, junior, Christiansburg High School were a family. Our community, we come very close together when something happens like this. gil harrington, founder and president , help save the next girl i know that officers are all very excited about the prospect of bringing this message of safety and doing everything within their power to stop predatory violence in the montgomery area. Gil harrington says she hopes this is just the First Department and that sheriffs vehicle you saw with special decals will hit the streets as soon as the stickers are applied live in Christiansburg Eamon omeara wdbj7. Tonightthis is the day where amounts of played huge role in what you felt outside and basically the story was easterly winds bumping in the mountains it just trapped cold air right into this area right here that included us that kept little bit of fog and are forecasting like drizzled in as well you can see how the numbers are in the lower to mid forties across most of our viewing area but on either side temperatures running closer to the fifties and it speaks to the weather change or entity having tomorrow warmer temperatures and certainly wetter conditions visible on the map and in fact sell those storms that are moving through tomorrow afternoon might be thunderstorms localized heavy downpours is an issue nice to away a little but still a couple pockets out there and we notice that on or what about network we checked in on and woodlawn between County Airport forty three forty two thats a ninety percent relative humidity but just a little bit of wind up starting to help things out just a bit in terms of the temperature trend only one warm day for the rest of week. Thats tomorrow pictures will be the mid sixties and the other tranter wanting his chances for precipitation increasing dramatically right around lunch time to run for clock pretty good chance wouldve it wet here at heavier rains as well what that means to fast melting snow coming up in your determine whether three south Boston Police officers should be released from a lawsuit over the death of a man in their custody. Linwood lambert died in Police Custody in may of 2013. Family and friends of lambert showed their support with a strong turnout in Danville Federal Court this morning. Lamberts sister tells wdbj7 it is very disappointing that removing the officers from the case is even being considered after watching what happen on the video. Gwendolyn smalls , think thats an arguement on their part. That they have to argue the case. Thats what i believe. In my opinion i dont believe that they know that it was not necessary for that amount of tazering. Lawyers representing the officers argued every tazer applied to lambert was necessary to get him back under control. Lamberts family is suing for 25 Million Dollars. The federal judge is currently reviewing the arguments and will soon decide whether the officers will remain as defendants in the case. Investigators are still trying to figure out why an appalachian power truck entered a Railroad Crossing yesterday as a train was about to go through it. Appalachian power says its line technicians were driving to a substation near Spring Hollow resovoir when they crossed the private crossing with no gate or lights. William lineberry died in the crash, he was a 30 year employee of the Johnny Collins was on the job for less than a year and is center at wake forest. Norfolk southern followed all regulations. We learned new details today about a deadly crash in police say Gregory Davis died in the wreck last night on garden city boulevard, near Craig Robertson road. Investigator say davis car went off the road and crashed into a trailer holding metal pipes. A passenger in the car wasnt hurt. Police say speed and alcohol may have been factors in the crash. An update now about a Traffic Alert we told you about last night. It could be several days until i77 south completely reopens in carroll county. An incident involving several vehicles damaged a bridge yesterday near exit 14, which is for hillsville. Crews were able to open one lane there earlier this morning. The right lane will not open until workers can finish fixing the bridge. New at five the candidates hit the ground running today trying to use their success in iowa to appeal to voters in the next contest stateNew Hampshire. Danielle nottingham reports. Nats Ted Cruz greeted an enthusiastic crowd in New Hampshire. W here hes ted cruz r candidate for president its gonna be decided by the grassroots by the men and women here in this room. Cruzs camp wants to rally as much Ground Support in New Hampshire as they pulled off in iowa. Are you surprised he won last night . No im not surprised but im ecstatic ted cruz is the guy weve been praying for since ronald reagan. nats rubio event marco rubio is using his third place finish to position himself as the mainstream republican candidate. And the one best able to clinch the general election. rubio we need to unify the conservative movement and the Republican Party and i can do that better than anybody thats running. standup bridge Danielle Nottingham cbs news, windham New Hampshire while cruz is riding high off his win, the democrats will have to duke it out in New Hampshire. nats hillary event Hillary Clinton narrowly defeated Bernie Sanders. In the closest Iowa Democratic caucus in history. Hillary Clinton d candidate for president we are in a fight to the finish about whether or not well build on that progress or watch it get ripped away. nats were this together narr5 Bernie Sanders Political Revolution and says he plans to astound the world again in the granite state. Danielle nottingham, cbs news, windham, New Hampshire. Youre watching your Hometown News leader, wdbj7. A judge in pennsylvania is deciding if the Sexual Assault case against bill cosby can move forward. And southwest virginia hasnt been hit hard by the flu so far this season. Not get vaccinated court today. Attorneys for the comedian asked a judge to throw out the only charges filed against him for sexually assaulting a woman despite dozens of accusations over the decades. Kenneth craig reports from norristown, pennsylvania. Bill cosbys appearance in Montgomery County was his first since his december arrest for aggravated indecent. Cosby and his attorneys came to ask the judge to throw out the charge because of a deal made with a former District Attorney. In the criminal complaint, cosby is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting former Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his home in 2004. His attorneys say constand was a willing participant. She settled a civil cast against cosby in 2006 for an undisclosed sum. Cosbys attorneys say his deposition in that case was made after an agreement with thenDistrict Attorney bruce castor, that the former tv star not be prosecuted. Castor testified he found inconsistencies with constands statements and chose not to prosecute. He said he thought cortlands best chance for justice would be in a civil case. standup bridge cosby said nothing to the media here at the courthouse, but appeared calm and collected during todays hearing. Cosbys attorney accused the new District Attorney of political gain. sot Monique Pressley bill cosbys attorney a former district Attorney Says there wasnt enough there, it was a civil matter, but instead over a decade later, one hot campaign later, were here. Bill cosby has been free on one Million Dollars bail. He could get up to 10 years in prison, if convicted. Kenneth craig, cbs news. Us and italian leaders are warning that isis is expanding it reach and threatening to launch attacks in western countries secretary of state john kerry joined Foreign Ministers from the Usled Coalition against isis at a conference in rome today. Kerry said Islamic State militants have lost 40 percent of their territory in iraq and 20 percent in syria. He warned that extremists are redirecting efforts to libya where they have captured more land and could soon get their hands on more oil. John kerry secretary of state the last thing in the world you want is a false caliphate with access to billions of dollars in oil kerry said the us and its allies should do more to train and prepare Libyan Security forces to defend the country. Flu activity is increasing in virginia. Thats according to the virgnia Health Department thats reporting regional flu activity. Influenza a is the most frequently identified strain but the Health Department reports influence b has also been confirmed in virginians. At Doctors Express in roanoke, phyisicans say they really havent seen influenza yet this season. Dr. Steve osborn we are currently not seeing influenza at our clinic and we havent this winter but that doesnt mean it couldnt still come along ive seen it go as late as april i still think we have to be vigilant the Health Department is recommending everyone 6 months of age and older get a flu shot. Its still not too late in the season to do so. The flu is an upper respiratory illness. Symptoms include a fever, cough or sore tired and a runny or stuffy nose. It looks like wednesday will be a soaker. Also what did the groundhog say today about the rest of winter. Complete details of your first alert forecast nextits always a spectacle and you know the drill outcomes the groundhog to determine whether he sees his shadow or not and in this particular case it can diminish out of because of cloudy skies despite all the tv cameras so according to the groundhog were never be done with winter shortly in punxsutawney you can see why sounds were thick and heavy there were no additional rain showers and a real Winter Weather is back up here to the north in the Northern Plains and the parts of the michigan desoto werent dealing with whole budgets no driving to this area here ice is well with chicagos got a cold rain underway meanwhile theres a big conflict in the weather going on in the south where the warm air is meeting that cooler air and their Something Like eight million residents under these purple boxes. Closer tornado watch boxes and quite a line stretching from central tennessee down into parts of louisiana tornado warnings self for the moment tire basically popping up as these as storms are getting taller and taller and taller forty and fifty thousand feet i is not a player for our weather but it does talk about how strong this front is that is headed our way it will be dropping significant amounts of rain the showers we see tonight will be more in relation to warmer air trying to push out this chilly air succeed tonight you will be warmer upstairs and will be windy watch the front as it starts to dive across southwest and Central Virginia on wednesday. And around the early afternoon hours these are some big soakers this could be an additional inch of rain fortunately theres not much snow on the groun along the south side but theyre still a fair amount in the greenbrier valley the concern here is that it may bring streams and creeks right up up the bank for me belittled the below that flooding is not expected we would like to keep an eye new local situation just in case theres a streams jump up pretty quickly as his rain moves through notes all that snow and then it moves to the coastal areas it looks like the carolinas of you looking in Pretty Healthy dose of some stronger storms so in terms of temperatures tomorrow this is the one day bump this is where the numbers get into the 60s this is just ahead of the cold front that pushed out of the south will punch it up and then once the boundaries through were in the cooler air for thursday one colt would be in the mid forties with overnight lows in the twenties and you can see the skies are fairly clear during the coming up on thursday so its a seven days as we do an impact day a for wednesday for the heavy rain that without all partly sunny forecast for thursday meeting will still and breezy side and fridays mostly sunny with highs in the mid forties redeye saturday looks pretty good super bowl sunday looks pretty good as well with temperatures around fifty degrees and a little bit of a transition coming up on monday and tuesday. The idea here is that temperatures and become cold as little moisture moves and so we dont have a great deal of confidence in the tuesday forecast but there is a chance for difficult life can be on the road in the acc. Well hear from coach Buzz Williams as his team gets set to face syracuse later tonight in the carrier dome. scal good day, mlady i am sircanalot, here to save you from another breakfast bore. Wake up those eggs with glorious spam the tech mens following sundays loss at pittsburgh, the hokies will be in the carrier dome tonight to face syracuse in an 8 oclock tip. After a solid start in the conference, tech has now lost four straight in the league. Seth allen Virginia Tech guard when you lose, its not fun like you said, but you just want to keep playing hard and just keep fighting. Were not gonna go away. Thats what were known for. Were gonna keep playing hard and throwing punches. Statistically nobody wants us to win. Were not picked to win. Buzz williams Virginia Tech head coach really hard to win at syracuse. Its hard to win on the road in any league but particularly this league. I dont think that how hard we play, and the character and the guts and the grit that our guys play with, i dont think that you can question it. Super bowl 50 continues to draw closer and Peyton Manning continues to soak in his improbable run to the big game with the broncos. Its mannings fourth trip to the super bowl, and speculation continues to swirl about whether or not hell retire following sundays game. Manning, for now is second ring. Peyton manning fourth trip to the super bowl i feel like i have a good understanding of the significance in playing in the 50th super bowl. This is a unique, special opportunity and obvioulsy you want to take advantage of it so playing my first superbowl, superbowl 41 a Different Team playing for the indiapolis colts, a different coach playing for tony dungy, that was a fun time but im playing in my 4th superbowl but im happy for the guys playing in their first one. The markets closed to big losses on wall street today. The dow fell 296. Nasdaq dropped 103. Investigating yet another credit card skimmer in the roanoke valley. Wdbj7s shayne dwyer is here with a look at what hes working on for 6. Jean weve talked about credit card skimmers before but many of the times for various reasons we havent been able to actually show the skimming device. Now we can. This is a photo of a skimmer that was pulled off an atm here in the roanoke valley. As you can see it looks exactly like the real parts on an a tm. And thats by design, theives hope you wont suspect a thing so they can make off with your information. Well take a look at some more pictures of this device and ill yourself. Thats coming up in about thirty minutes just after andy. 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 at wdbj7weather. Thank you for choosing your Hometown News
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