Candidates criss candidates crisscross through virginia for a final push to gain support as we count down to super tuesday. Marco rubio just began speaking at his Campaign Stop in salem. A crowd of around 23 hundred people are packed into the bast Center Tonight to see him in person. Hes still speaking right now lets take a live look inside. Rubio just wrapped up his speech to a packed auditorium. You can see him greeting people now and people are already startng to file out. Rubio continued his war of wars with donald trump. This because he was endorsed by the kkktrump took to twitter today saying he does not want the endorsement from david duke a former grand wizard of the ku klux klan. During a Campaign Stop near richmond earlier todaymarco rubio. Hit back hard. Heres what both candidates said on the trail earlier today. Marco rubio should the head of the conservative movement, should the republican nominee, like someone like donald trump, refused, refused, to criticize the ku klux klan. He was interviewed on cnn and asked to disavow the ku klux klan and refused to do it. Donald trump i dont know anything about david duke, okay . I dont know anything about what youre even talking about with the White Supremacy or white supremacists. So, i dont know. I mean did he endorse me or whats going on. Because you know i know nothing about david duke. I know nothing about white supremacists. And so youre asking me a question that im supposed to be talking about people that i know nothing to twitter saying taking to twitter saying he disavows the endorsement from duke. Rubio making his final pitch to voters in southwest virginia before tuesdays primary but according to a Roanoke College poll he is trailing far behind his republican rivals. The poll interviewed 466 likely Republican Voters and donald trump leads with 38 , support. Rubio only got 13 and ted cruz 15 . With so many Republican Voters feeling betrayed by the party and wanting a washington outsider marco rubio has a fight ahead of him if he wants to win the partys nomination. Wfxrs solina lewis is live in salem solina what are rubios supports saying about his speech tonight and his ranking in the polls . Well you wouldnt know hes behind in the polls by rubios speech tonight he had the gym scoreboard lit up with the number 45 saying hell be the the majority of the speech afterwards was aimed at taking shots at trump and sanders and clinton, but a lot of the people here were younger and opinions really ran anywhere from strong rubio supporters to a line of protesters outside Holding Signs condemning his conservative policies on abortion and climate change. Umm im really interested in the political process im not sure that im vioting for rubio necessarily, but i want to see what he has to say because i havent spent that much time listening to him and i want to do it in person so i can really get a feel for him and his ideas i really like politics. I think marco is a great candidate i think hes not too conservative , definetely not too liberal he seems like a cool guy. I would make this sign just in general. Supporting the students. And doing a good thing i think. Exercising their First Amendment rights. Thats a powerful thing for college kids. That last woman protesting said she was actually a faculty member at Roanoke College and supported her students rights to protest. We;ll continue to keep you covered as the Campaign Heats solina lewis wfxr news. Thank you solina. The political spotlight will shine at Radford University tomorrow. Donald trump is set to speak on campus at noon. It will be a packed house and no more tickets are avilable. There is mixed reaction about republican frontrunners visit to campus. Blake harris radford freshman donald trump i mean, people either love him or hate him. I mean if you look at him, he has a lot of bankruptcy, stuff like that. Hes really not what the country needs. No name availableno matter who wins. There will be historical barriers that will be broken with each candidate. So if he does, potentially become president , i feel like, me going to a rally and being part of this experience is a big deal. Back packs, bottles and cans will not be bottles and cans will not be allowed inside the Dedmon Center tomorrow. Radford University Leaders say Trumps Campaign contacted them to rent the venue. They are not an official host and the school does not candidate. Rubio just wrapped up his speech to a packed auditorium. You can see him greeting people now and people are already startng to file out. Were in a lot of trouble if we keep doing what were doing now, under barack obama. You are going to be the first generation to ever inherit a country thats worse off than your parents he can provide us the strength especially if weve lost all of our physical belongings. If we have life he can give us even more life to go forward. Communities across appomattox are still trying to process that their homes and lives as they once knew it is now gone after being wiped out by a tornado this week. Churches in the area are stepping up and helping people work through their grief. Their grief. Work through helping people stepping up and area are churches in the this week. By a tornado being wiped out now gone after once knew it is lives as they their across forward. Communitimore life to go can give us even we have life he belongings. If of our physical weve lost all especially if us the strength he can provide tab. Headquarters election your local click on the dot com and virginia first to our website profiles head coverage on the for complete coverage on the elections, and other stories including candidate profiles head to our website virginia first dot com and click on the your local election headquarters tab. He can provide us the strength especially if weve lost all of our physical belongings. If we have life he can give us even more life to go forward. Communiti es across appomattox are still trying to process that their homes and lives as they once being wiped out by a tornado this week. Churches in the area are stepping up and helping people work through their grief. Wfxrs Charlie Cooper paid the Evergreen Baptist Church a visit this morning where a service was held to help people get through this dark time. 00 01 0000 05 0000 56 00 59 1 121 17 this past week Evergreen Baptist Church has served as somewhat of a Service Center allowing volunteers and Disaster Relief workers to come in and just take a break. The paster says throughout all this hes been trying to restore a sense of normalcy back into the commujity. One the reasons he decided to still hold sunday service. Inside of Evergreen Baptist Church voices and hands lift in worship. The church is one of the only things Still Standing after a tornado ripped through the community surrounding it. It could have been so much worse and we want to take some time and say lord thank you. Their service is a way to help people cope with the tragedy. Just coming into the area is 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 together. The stuff that we have out there its just stuff. Were left here on this earth as christians to share that love and show that love. Were just overwhelmed with in so i just want to thank everybody for that. Thankful that they have each other to lean on. In evergreen Charlie Cooper, wfxr news. Evergreen will have grief counselors available at the church throughout the week for anyone who may want that service. As the appomatox county community tries recover can to help. Yesterday alone, 820 meals were served by mercy chef and tysons. 189 volunteers visited nearly 2 hundred homes, and helped cover 19 roofs with tarps. Vdot will do Curbside Pickup of yard debris for those who live within the storm affected area until march 15th. The county will handle garbage pickup. For details on how the trash pickup works head to our website virginia first dot com. pkgb around the commonwealth officers in Prince William county are mourning one of their own after she was killed on the job. Officials say the rookie officer was just sworn in on friday. Tonight the Community Held a vigil for the fallen officer. As Kristen Fisher reports two and are still in the hospital tonight. The shooters been identified as Staff Sergeant ronald hamilton. 32yearsold. He was assigned to the pentagon. And now hes accused of killing a marine veteran who was working her very first shift as a Police Officer. 28yearold ashley gwinden had just been sworn in on friday. The Prince William county Police Deparment posted this picture with the caption. Welcome officers Steven Kendall ashley gwinden who were sworn in today begin their shifts this weekend. Be safe less than 24hourslater. Officer gwinden was dead. She was not only driven and passionate, but exceedingly intelligent. She struck us that way as we interviewed her, prior to hiring and rehiring her, its always the type of officer we are seeking, that type of passion and intelligence. Officer gwinden and two other officers were responding to a call about a domestic disturbance at a home in woodbridge, virginia. Thats about 20 miles south of washington, d. C. Police say when they approached the front door the suspect opened fire. All three officers were hit. Officer gwinden died at the hospital. The other two are still there recovering. As for the suspect Staff Sergeant hamilton surrernded without further incident. When officers were finally able to search his home. They found his wife dead. They also found the couples 11yearold son. Scared, but not hurt. Hamiltons now facing several charges. Including first degree murder of his wife. And capitol murder of a Police Officer the suspect is due in Court Tomorrow morning. Reporting. Fisher reporting. This isnt the first tragedy for officer gwindens family. Her father who was in the National Guard committed suicide after returning from iraq. In franklin county, two men were arrested on drug charges after traffic stop. Doug martin was pulled over by Police Friday night and booked on an outstanding warrant, dui and having an open container. This mandarius dunbar of michigan was also in the car. He was arrested on felony drug charges while being processed at the jail officers say they found these 30 small packages of cocaine in his pants. Dunbar was charged with promoting contraband and Trafficking Cocaine an update from roanoke tonight the Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center is officially apart of the curio brand a collection by hilton. It is the first of its kind in virginia and one of only hotels are carefully selected for their unique style and character. Under curio, the Hotel Roanoke will preserve its 130 year history while still offering upscale services. Coming up next a k9 partner shows his officer some love. Why the two are going viral tonight. Pluswant to own a chicken . Coming up in tonights ag life report how you can learn about keeping your own small flock. Overnight. Clear early this evening. Then becoming partly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the mid 40s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Monday. Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in themorning. Highs in the lower 60s. West winds 10 to 15 mph. Gustsup to 40 mph in the morning. Chance of rain 20 percent. Monday night. Mostly. Monday 20 percent. Chance of rain the morning. Up to 40 mph in gusts10 to 15 mph. 60s. West winds in the lower morning. Highs showers in the chance of sunny. A slight. Monday. Mostly 35 mph. With gusts up to 10 to 15 mph southwest windsin the mid 40s. R early this. Overnight. Clea donkey sound elephant sound theres a big difference between making noise, tapping sound and making sense. elephant sound donkey sound when it comes to Social Security, we need more than lip service. Our next president needs a real plan to keep Social Security strong. elephant noise hey candidates. Enough talk. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Her lifes work has been about breaking barriers. And so would her presidency. Which is why, for every american whos not being paid what theyre worth. Whos held back by student debt or a system tilted against them and there are far too many of you she understands that our country cant reach its potential. Unless we all do. Together. Becoming partlycloudy. Not as cool with lows in the mid 40s. Southwest winds10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Monday. Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the morning. Highs in the lower 60s. West winds 10 to 15 mph. Gustsup to 40 mph in the morning. Chance of rain 20 percent. Monday night. Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. West windsaround 10 mph in the evening. Becoming light and variable. Tuesday. Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Light and variable winds. Becoming south 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph inthe afternoon. Tuesday night. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance ofshowers. Not as cool with lows in the to 15 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Wednesday. Showers likely. Much cooler with highs in the upper40s. Temperature falling into the lower 40s in the afternoon. Chance of rain 60 percent. Wednesday night. Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the evening. Much cooler with lows in the upper 20s. Chance of rain40 percent. Thursday. Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 40s. Thursday night and friday. Mostly cloudy with a chance of rainand snow. Lows in the lower 30s. Highs in the mid 40s. Chance of a picture of an Arizona Police a picture of an Arizona Police deputy and his k9 partner is going viral. It shows deputy chase garrett getting a hug from his beloved partner manson. Take a look. Deputy garrett says he took the photo a few months ago during a narcotics investigation. Manson is a 5 yearold chocolate lab. He is used to find evidence specific to narcotic investigations. Deputy garrett says he never imagined the response his photo would get but he so much recognition. People dont else but i mean its good that the community actually likes police k9s and they care that much about them. The two worked together for the past three years. Manson even goes home with Deputy Garrett after their shift. Caring for chickens is no easy taskcoming up nextthe class that will teach you how to keep a small flock in so, let me get this straight u. S. Cellular has the phone youre looking for, a network thats built to give you coverage way out here where the other guys dont, and 6 gigs for only 40 a month. Thats a lot less than verizon and at t. So, why on earth would you ever go with one of those other guys . And get 6 gigs of data for 40 a month plus get 300 back. [ echoing ] just sayin. Dreamed of keeping a small flock of chickens . Well here is your chance. The Virginia Cooperative Extension is hosting a workshop for beginning poultry growers tuesday, march 8th at six p. M. Those attending will be taught about nurtition, egg and meat safety, and management. If you are interested in the class, we have details on our website at virginiafirst dot com, just click on the ag life tab. Coming upthe race to the white house. How candidates are trying to win your vote ahead of super tuesday. Andthe warm weather today had dozens outside coming up how one group got rid of cabin three people were stabbed, one critically at a ku klux klan rally. Nearly a dozen members of the group clashed with counterprotestors yesterday victims stabbed were counter protesters. Police say protesters attacked the group with a wooden plank and that fight sparked several others. Two kkk members were also stomped by the crowd. The fight, basically, broke out on the street and then the guys from the klan, they jumped in their suv and took off and then three of their klansmen were, kind of, left behind and then the fight escalated down the street. 13 people have been arrested in connection to the fight. An investigation is ongoing. The president ial candidates now in the final sprint ahead of super tuesday trying to get lastminute support before voters have their say. Caroline shively breaks down the race. 05 10 26 32 55 58 58 1 01 clinton says we are not taking anything, and we are not taking anyone, for granted. It was no surprise that Hillary Clinton won the South Carolina primary this weekend. The surprise was just how big she won. Crushing Bernie Sanders by nearly every demographic whites, blacks, seniors, women and men. Sanders says in politics on a given night, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Tonight we lost. Sanders says he expects to do well on super tuesday. But clinton appears to have begun a pivot to the general election, taking a shot at donald trump in her victory speech. Clinton says despite what you hear we dont need to make America Great again, america has never stopped being great republican senators marco rubio and ted cruz also hammered trump on the campaign trail saturday. Rubio says he should sue whoever did that to his face. Cruz says thats a very good way to get rich, pick the right daddy. Trump returned fire this morning, going after rubio. Trump says i think hes a light weight he couldnt get elected dog catcher if he goes back to florida. Trump is well ahead in most of the 15 states and territories that vote this week. But rubio says he could still get the nomination. Even without winning a single super tuesday still be ohfor15 and still be the nominee . Rubio says because were going to pick up a lot of delegates, sure. And, thats not the plan, by the way, but sure. I mean, absolutely we can because were going to pick up a lot of delegates. That was caroline shivley reporting. Starting now, it is all about the delegates. On tuesday, about half of the delegates needed to win the republican nomination are in play. And for democrats, a third. In tonights local good news reportdogs and their owners shook off the cabin fever and headed outside. The beautiful weather today had lots of people leaving the jackets at home. We stopped by the salem rotary dog park. There dogs and their owners got a break from the colder temperatures and headed outside. One owner says its a nice change from the winter when she and her daughter had to stay inside. Not too much cause my little one right here, she has asthma today. And its not just the dog owners who were happy to be outside you can see the dogs were having a good time as well coming upa massive irs data breech is affecting even more taxpayers. How you can find out if youre affected. Plusthe happiest place on earth just got a little more expensive. Coming upthe price. Overnight. Clea r early this evening. Then becoming partlycloudy. Not as cool with lows in the mid 40s. Southwest winds10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Monday. Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the morning. Highs in the lower 60s. West winds 10 to 15 mph. Gustsup to 40 mph in the morning. Chance of rain 20 percent. Monday night. Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. West windsaround 10 mph in the evening. Becoming light and variable. Tuesday. Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Light and variable winds. Becoming south 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph inthe afternoon. Tuesday night. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance ofshowers. Not as cool with lows in the upper 40s. Southwest winds10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Wednesday. Showers likely. Much cooler with highs in the upper40s. Temperature falling into the lower 40s in the afternoon. Chance of rain 60 percent. Wednesday night. Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the in the upper 20s. Chance of rain40 percent. Thursday. Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 40s. Thursday night and friday. Mostly cloudy with a chance of rainand snow. Lows in the lower 30s. Highs in the mid 40s. Chance of you may get an email next week warning you that your identity has been stolen last year and the irs believes there are more victims than they originally thought. May that 104 thousand people had their tax forms stolen by cyber criminals now irs officials believe about 720 thousand forms were stolen. The agency will send out emails warning victims next week. They will also be given free credit protection. It will now cost more for disney fans as both Walt Disney World in florida and disneyland in california will have demandbased prices. Three different pricesfor value, regular and peak periods will now be charged depending on the time of year. The Company Hopes the prices will help spread out visits. Peak dayssuch as most of december, july weekends and spring breaks will surge to 112 this is the time of year when we turn out attention to march madness and postseason basketball play. Coming up, the Virginia Tech mens team takes a trip to tobacco road for a date with the wake forest demon deacons. Highlights of this game are on the way. Plus, its senoir day for the women of tech as they look to make history in sweeping the wahoos. This and so much more is coming up on the so, let me get this straight u. S. Cellular has the phone youre looking for, a network thats built to give you coverage way out here where the other guys dont, and 6 gigs for only 40 a month. So, why on earth would you ever go with one of those other guys . Switch to u. S. Cellular now and get 6 gigs of data for 40 a month plus get 300 back. Virginia tech Mens Basketball Team is playing with some momentum. Winners of their last 2 games. The hokies hit the road tonight for a game with wake forest. Tech beat the demon deacons last month at the cassell by 2. If Virginia Tech can get a win over wake. They would clinch a first round bye in the acc tournament. To winstonsalem, north carolina. Tech going for their 8th conference win. In the 3 previous season the team had a total of 8 conference wins. Wakedinos mitoglou scores this one. The deac up early on tech 84techj triple. Wake lead is onetech bibbs tripletech bibbs 17tech seth allen the hokies clinch a 1st round acc tourney bye with an 8174 win over wake forest. Tech returns home wednesday night at 7 for a game with pittsburgh. To womens action hokies and cavaliers at the casell. The women of tech having their senior day honoring hannah young, Taijah Campbell, and dominique powell. Techsydney cook to Taijah Campbell tech cook to campbelltech cook triple uva led 2724 at the half sign fight 2nd half uva Mikayla Vinson triple uva steal and score 77 for 14 pointstech chinette hicks 19 go on a 160 run here tech picks up a season sweep for the First Time Ever over uva. Beating the wahoos 60 55. After the game, campbell talks about playing in her final home game. 01051115it was something really special. Because you kinda think. This is my last time playing on this court. With these girls so you wanna leave everyting you have on the court. I though taijah was phonominal in the game probabaly the best game she has played as a hokie the hokies will play Boston College in the acc tournament in greensboro, wednesday night at 6 30. Uva plays duke the following day at 2. To atlanta for the folds of honor quiktrip 500, kyle busch won the pole, but starts from the back of the field after failing postqualifying inspection. 41 laps to go. Leader Kevin Harvick pits under green and gives the lead to jimmie johnson. With 3 laps to go. Johnson appears headed for victory, until ryan newman blows a tire bringing out just 2nd caution of the day. Overtime. Yes, overtime on the restart, johnson leading but kyle busch who had fought his way back gets a great start from 3rd. But johnson is able to hold him off. There is a wreck on the backstretch but johnson had reached the and johnson stays gets the win. Johnson gets cup victory. That the legendary Dale Earnhardt time top five 2 Dale Earnhardt, jr. 4 kurt busch5 carl edwards coming up we go back to College Basketball court. As two odac titles were on the line in salem. Teams from lynchburg were playing for them. The odac tournament wrapped up today with both the mens and womenss championship. Lynchburg College Looking to pull off the double title wins. It was a hill city showdown in the mens final with randolph facing lynchburg. 1. The hornets came out of the gates quick. Zack burnett with the steal. He walks the tight rope and stays in bounds before laying it in to go up 70. 2. Randolph would respond with some great passing. Ryan fields scores in the paint. The wildcats trailed by 6 at filled with drama. Jason eddie drains the 3 to put randolph up 5 with just over a minute left. 4. Lynchburg now down 2 with 4 seconds left. Burnett calmly knocks down 2 free throws and this game is headed to overtime. 5. In ot. Randolph down 2 and running out of time. The wildcats with a good look at 3 for the win at the buzzer. But it doesnt fall. The hornets win the hill city battle over the wildcats in overtime 6260. Lynchburg claims their first odac title since 1979. 0006 11 17hillary scott this has been a crazy year. These guys stayed together, hung together and found a way to get it done. We knew this was going to be a tough game. We were fortunate enough to get this at the end. Lyndon white this is just a huge step for us. We fought hard. Like one of my teammates said, we worked for this. We werent given this, we worked for this. Lynchburg will find out who and when they play in the ncaa tournament tomorrow afternoon. The lynchburg women trying to make it a sweep of the titles for the hornets, facing a battle. Charmaine hairston gets the friendly roll on the 3. She had 8. The horetns take the lead 3128. 2. The quakers kept fighting. The pass to a cutting heaven walters for the basket. That trims the lead to 1, 4039. 3. Lynchburg would respond in a big way. The deep 3 from Olivia Defrancesco is pure. Caps an 80 run. Hornets up 4839 in the 4th. 4. Defrancesco puts the nail in the coffin with this triple to beat the shot clock. 6051 at that point. Lynchburg wins their first ever odac title. Beating guilford 6255. This is an emotional win for the team. 00 06 14 20abby pyzik smith its huge. Weve had a theme this year of conquer. And last year it was one. And we conquered this. This is what we wanted to do. We wanted to make history and do something special. As an alum its even more special to do that. Caroline naumann honestly, we knew what we had to do. And we made every move to make that possible. And were here now and i cant describe how great this their ncaa tournament path will look like tomorrow afternoon. Its ferrells follies time. We go back to the Salem Civic Center between games yesterday. This is the salems parks and recreation 9 and 10 year olds hooping it up. Spurs and hornets. The star of this one was the spurs bailey stratton. Stratton scores the first bucket for the spurs. With the game on the line. She hits what would be the game winners as the spurs get the win over the hornets. Lets hear from miss stratton. 0105i look for where the defense was and i went to where the defense wasnt. How much fun is it to play at this level it is very fun. My teammates are very good sports and they are very funny and i like them way to go bailey. Thanks for taking part in this weeks ferrells well be right back found in abandoned lots four shelter dogs were trained as ball dogs at an exhibition match in brazil the dogs retrived balls that went out of bounds and give them back to the playersor they were supposed to. Giving the balls retrieving them. They are expected to take part in the homer doh clears throat yes, uh, the students of springfield elementary have each created an alternative energy vehicle. As determined by a short race across the parking lot. mumbles yeah, yeah. And now, uh, what is your car powered by, uh, fat little boy . Hydrogenpowered fuel cells. Ah, hydrogen yeah, yes, wonderful. My car is powered by the wind oh, how it blows. Mine is potatopowered. I keep tell you im not a potato. Be quiet, hash browns dad, im so excited i think hey, please dont stand so close. In the world of solar power, shadows are the archenemy. I think i might win. I believe in you and thats a given. But i dont know. That kids car has flames painted on the side of it. Why would he do it if it wasnt fast . Children, start your engines theyre not engines thats the whole point of this thing yeah. Just go. crowd cheering that never works