Threat of violence against the school prompted increased security and parents getting no prior notification. That left many parents with Unanswered Questions and School Leaders allowing execused absences at both the middle school and the high school. As wfxrs bill wadell reports, while many Unanswered Questions do remain with both parents and students, Officials Say theyre doing what they can to ease concerns. 00 00 00 0500 20 00 25 Tom Mccracken i as well have heard embezzlement and fraud and all these other things and the rumors get juicy. Tom control. He and other Roanoke CountySchool Board Members are getting an earful online. The first complaint parents werent notified fast enough about a threat of violence at northside high last week. Billy spence id rather play it safe than sorry, you know. If they could have got it out quicker, that had been nice. Billy spence kept his kids home friday. Police determined the threat was not credible. Mccracken says an alert was posted on facebook but there were no phone calls or Text Messages to parents. Notified sooner. So thats a valid question. The other concern, rumors swirling about northside principal frank dent unexpectedly stepping down. As his assistant principal amy puckett asks to be reassigned only days later. While some accuse there was misconduct between the two, mccracken says its a personnel matter. Tom mccracken there is no validity, i have researched i have spent the time, the days the hours the weeks at northside at central trying to figure out whats going on. Ive seen nothing to substantiate any of these claims. The hope now shifting focus away from social media and back on school work. Billy spence its tough with teenagers anyways because theres always drama. But as a parent, i just try to to tell them dont listen to it. Try to get the facts and focus on that instead of worrying about what everyone else is saying. For good day virginia, im in Campbell County a woman now faces reckless driving charges after a three car crash sends five people to the hospital. That crash happpened just before 4 pm sunday afternoon on route 29. Police say Megan Barrett did not slow down in time and rearended another carforcing it into oncoming trafficwhere another car hit it. Police charged barrett with reckless driving. Hargrave military academy in chatham will reopen this morning after someone posted isis related threats towards the school online. Hargrave precaution. And there is an increased Police Presence at the school. While school Officials Say they dont anticipate any further problems related to the threat, they will continue to monitor the situation. Happening today in roanoke. The defense and prosecution in the kevin quick murder trial will present closing arguments. Six alleged gang members are on trial for killing the Waynesboro Police reserve captain back in 2014. His body later found in goochland county. That jury will have to decide whether those gang members are guilty on all or some of the 34 charges they face. A cold front will drop south through the area overnight allowinga wedge of High Pressure to build in from the north throughmonday. This will bring cool and damp conditions to theregion. Along with some patchy fog. By wednesday, a large area of low pressure will moveout of the Lower Mississippi valley and into the great lakes region. Bringing another round of widespread rainfall to theappalachians and central we have several traffic alerts this morning that could impact your morning commute across the Roanoke Valley in roanoke city. Weather permitting, crews will be making patch and paving improvements to numerous roads across the city. That work will happen between 7this morning and 7oclock tonight. Guardrail improvements could slow down your drive along route 419 this week in Roanoke County. Crews will be those improvements from 7pm to 6am from now until thursday. And happening right now on interstate 581 continued roadwork on the valley view interchange project has a double lane closure for the next hour. Youre looking live at that area from a vdot camera. Drivers approaching the area are encouraged to slow down and use caution through that work zone. Physicians at carilion clinic work to stay on the cutting edge of every type of medicine. Right now many of them are attending the 45th annual Critical Care congress in orlando were theyre exploring latest breakthroughs in research in intensive care medicine. Wfxrs paris holmes is here with more. Good morning. The Critical Care congress is an opporturnity for medical professionals from around the world to share ideas and diverse perspectives in treating people who are seriously ill or injured. At this five day event, carilion physicians are speakers, participating in interactive workshops and panel discussions. They will bring all of that information back to patients here in the Roanoke Valley. Dr. Alice ackerman is a peditrician at carillion. She has been attending this conference for about 20 years. She says its one thing to read up on the latest research on medicine, but its another to be in the room and talking with the people who are actually doing the reasearch. She also says the conference reassures her about the work they are already doing at carilion. Many of the things that i ve heard about this year are things that we are already doing in roanoke. The way that we treat children with severe respiratory diseases is right there. We are really doing everything that is reccomended and that the experts say yeah this is how we should do it. The conference organized by the society of Critical Care of social media to spread their word and works. You can use the hashtag ccc 45 to learn more. In the studio, paris holmes,wfxr news coming up on good day virginia an uber driver turned spree killer . What authorities in michigan are saying about a possible motive. Bill cosbys wife is scheduled to appear in court this morning for a defamation hearing. Stay with us and find out why his attorneys are fighting to stop it. Youre a cold front will drop south through the area overnight allowinga wedge of High Pressure to build in from the north throughmonday. This will bring cool and damp conditions to theregion. Along with some patchy fog. By wednesday, a large area of low pressure will moveout of the Lower Mississippi valley and into the great lakes region. Bringing another round of widespread rainfall to theappalachians and central mid atlantic region. Today. Cloudy. A chance of rain. Mainly this afternoon. Muchcooler. Near steady temperature in the mid 40s. Light andvariable winds. Chance of rain 40 percent. Tonight. Rain likely. Lows in the upper 30s. East winds around10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent. Tuesday. Rain. Near steady temperature in the upper 30s. Lightand variable winds. Chance of rain 80 near steady temperature in the upper 30s. East winds around 10 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent. Wednesday. Rain in the morning. Then rain with isolatedthunderstorms in the afternoon. Some thunderstorms may produceheavy rainfall in the afternoon. Not as cool with highs in theupper 40s. East winds around 10 mph. Becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance of rain near 100 percent. Wednesday night. Rain in the evening. Then rain showers likelyafter midnight. Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of rain. Thursday. Mostly cloudy in the morning. Then becoming showers in the morning. Breezy with highsin the lower 40s. Upper 30s in theafternoon. Nearly two dozen people are dead after a cyclone hits fiji. Officials now scrambling to assess the damage to the Popular Island destination. All schools in the area expected to remain closed. The countrys Prime Minister declaring a state of emergency for the a father of two is accused of going on a shooting spree in kalamazoo, michigan. Police say jason dalton killed six people and injured two others while making rounds as an uber driver. Authorities say it appears dalton chose his victims, who ranged in age from 14 to 74 at random. Foxs kelly wright has continuing coverage. A Michigan Community is grieving after a gunman goes on a shooting spree. Killing at least six people and injuring two others. The violence breaking out saturday night in the city of kalamazoo. Getting says there is no connection that we are aware of between the three sets of victims to each other or any of the victims to mr. Dalton. According to officials. 45 year old jason dalton shot five people outside a Cracker Barrel restaurant. Including a fourteen year old girl. Before killing a father and son outside a kia dealership. A woman was also shot outside of an apartment complex. Fletter says a bunch of people just came out and started helping her. I was like, oh, jeez. This lady got shot. dalton. Who was taken into custody sunday morning. Had no criminal record and worked as an uber driver. A man who had been a passenger in daltons vehicle hours before the shootings says he could tell something was wrong. Mellen says we got a mile from my house and then he got a telephone call and after he got that telephone call he started driving really erratically. We were running people in kalamazoo coming together for a prayer vigil sunday night. Those at the event pausing to remember the victims. While others saying the incident has left them shaken. Buchler says theres an underlying feeling of fear, and theres kids who dont want to go outside and are just really fearful. Jason dalton is expected to be arraigned monday on multiple counts of first degree murder and attempted murder. Bill cosbys wife will give her deposition in a defamation suit against him later today. The comedians attorneys are still fighting to stop it, but at this point the deposition is expected to go ahead at 9oclock. Eight woman sued cosby for defamation. They claim he portrayed them as liars after they publicly accused him of Sexual Assault. Cosby denies any wrondgoing. He faces separate criminal charges for Sexual Assault in pennsylvania as well. New this morning. Are you getting enough sleep . A new Study Reveals that a third of americans are not. The centers for Disease Control and prevention analyzed data from more than 4 hundred thousand people in all 50 states. Hundreds of thousands reported getting less than the recommended seven hours or more a day. Lack of sleep can be associated with Health Issues like diabetes, Heart Disease and mental illness. The cdc says this study is the first one to examine sleep hours on a state level. Southeastern states and those along the appalachian mountaisn reported the least single lowest was reported in hawaii. The highest colorado and minnesota. Drinking coffee could cut your chance of developing liver disease. Thats according to a medical journal that reviewed nine different studies on the effects of coffee. Researchers say two cups a day could cut your chances of developing cirrhosis by 44percent. Cirrhosis deteriorates the liver by blocking blood flow. Alcoholism is the secondmost common cause of that condition in the us. Next in our ag life report taking care of horses is no easy task how a farm that has dozens of rescued horses is keeping them enamel is your teeths first line of defense. But daily eating and drinking can make it weak. Try colgate enamel health. It replenishes weak spots with natural calcium to strengthen enamel four times better. Colgate enamel health. Being a horse at the reba farm inn can be hard work groups are stopping by for horseback riding tours all the time in this mornings ag life report, wfxrs Charlie Cooper shows us how reba farm cares for their horses and how the farm makes sure the 00 25 1800 27 1500 31 11 what meal time looks horses at reba farm inn only moments before theyre saddled up for a ride. Kathleen donovan owner, reba farm inn saddle especially in the winter is feeding. Keeping their weight up. Kathleen donovan and her husband ron make that a top priority when it comes to gore owner, reba farm inn saddle soargenerally id say about 12 to 13 hundred pounds of hay gets fed everyday and 3 or 4 hundred pounds of grain everyday. The horses usually graze throughout the day. Of 26 different breeds many care for the horses say its about knowing them individually and knowing how they react to different situations. Ronald gore owner, reba farm inn saddle soar when youre using your horses the way were using them you must know their body types, possibility when youre using them. And know when theres something wrong. Kathleen donovan owner, reba farm inn saddle soarwith the rubbing friction of the blanket, they can get sours. Saddles if its not sitting correctly or lopsided because maybe you didnt get all the dirt off their shoulders, it can create pressure points. Also important is being able to pair them with the right rider. Ronald gore owner, reba farm inn saddle soari already know the horses now i have to size up the group, whoevers riding and sometimes its their body language just like i do with the horses. To make sure the rider and the horse are comfortable with each other. Its all a part of looking out for their wellbeing the very reason they were brought to the farm in the first place. Ronald gore owner, reba farm inn saddle soarwhen we rescue them, we rescue them. Weve taken a lot of horses that a lot of places wouldnt. We were their last hope and theyre doing very well. In bedford, Charlie Cooper w get this reba farm is home to 73 horsesfor more information head to our website, virginia first dotcom. Patience paid off for these twins in california. Just how long they waited to california beat the odds a second time to win the lotterythey started splitting tickets at 18. And three decades later, hit the 6 Million Dollar jackpot. Th sisters will split the money sixty fourty. Big question though. Who will get the bigger share . They say it all depends on who bought the a cold front will drop south through the area overnight allowinga wedge of High Pressure to build in from the north throughmonday. This will bring cool and damp conditions good morning, its monday, february 22nd. Thanks for starting your day off with good day virginia. Im january keaton. And im Kyle Benjamin wfxr new is your local election headquarters the primaries and South Carolina and nevada are over the republican president al field is getting smaller. And the candiates are getting ready for super tuesday. Foxs john roberts is on the campaign trail this morning. In the race for the white house, candidates are going full speed ahead into a donald trump showing sunday technical difficulties to his didnt pay the electric bill. I like that much better those lights are brutal. Did they come from the Dishonest Press . Trumps solid win in South Carolina combined with the exit of jeb bush has marco rubio and ted cruz now jousting for position as the best alternative to trump. Rubio says donalds campaign has largely been about how bad things are. but you cant just say youre going to make american great again, you have to explain how youre going to do it. cruz says donald trump has demonstrated that he has a high floor of support but hes also got a ceiling. Meanwhile, the only governor left in the race all but sitting out this weeks nevada caucus. John kasich is not making any Campaign Stops there focusing his efforts instead on crucial southern states. On the blue side of the aisle, Hillary Clinton is hoping she can harness the momentum from her win in nevada into a push through South Carolina and super tuesday. Clinton says the fight goes on, the future that we want is within our grasp. But Bernie Sanders is showing no signs of slowing down, sanders says the wind is at our backs; we have the momentum. Roberts tag with democrats voting in South Carolina next saturday, and republicans having the nevada caucuses on tuesday, this a big week as everything rushes some technical problems led to the crashing of the Nevada Democratic caucus website. The high volume of traffic on the site led to the crash. As for the tun out, there were long lines at several polling sites. Its estimated that 65percent of those who partcipated in the caucuses were first timers. Caucuses involve a little more work. Your going in there and talking with your neighbors and declaring who you are voting for. That means a lot for the democrats going into well. Overall, there are more than 17hundred precincts in nevada. Bernie sanders won most of the counties in the northern part of the state. However, Hillary Clinton won most of the southern half enough to clinch the nomination in nevada. A cold front will drop south through the area overnight allowinga wedge of High Pressure to build in from the north throughmonday. This will bring cool and damp conditions to theregion. Along with some patchy fog. By wednesday, a large area of low pressure will moveout of the Lower Mississippi valley and into the great lakes region. Bringing another round of widespread rainfall to theappalachians and central pope francis is now calling for a oneyear moratorium on the death penalty. Hes proposing to suspend the practice during the holy year of mercy. That push for forgiveness runs through november. The pontiff is also throwing his support behind a conference that will begin today. That he hopes, will help bring an end to capital punishment. New this morning isis claimed responsibility for multiple bombings on sunday that left at least 140 people dead in the syrian cities of damascus and homs. Two car bombs exploded in one part of damascus. Peace negotiations are currently underway to end the civil war in syria. New this morning hoverboard makers may soon get hit with recalls if they dont thats the warning from the Consumer ProductSafety Commission issued to manufacturers, importers and retailers. Some models of the selfbalancing scooters are prone to catching fire and exploding. New york city has banned the scooters altogether. Coming up on good day virginia check your canned vegetables one woman finds a startling surprise inside this can of green beans plus. Your childhood dream to become an astronaut is still alive. Well explain when good day virginia if you open a can of green beans, you typically expect to find green beans. One utah woman claims she found a disgusting addition after serving green beans at a kewish explains. Hot, okay . Troy walker is an old pro in the kitchen. Were macaroni and cheese. She prefers cooking for her tiniest family members. I love it because my grandkids think im a good cook. But it was at a church youth function where she almost served up something to dish them out, i thought it was a burnt bean. And lo and behold, it was a snake head. Middle of all those beans. We just found the head, so i wonder where the body is . We reached out to western family. They told kslforeign matter is not something we take lightly. We want to know what it is, and we will immediately research and do any level of correction we can. Theyre already gone from the shelves of several Grocery Stores in the area. Were going to be doing better. Walker says shes not upset. My biggest concern that somebody else would get the body or something of the snake and not the snake head. Shes already planning for her next dinner party. Were having a family dinner on sunday and nobody responded to my text. I said i promise im not going to serve that was Ashley Kewish reporting. The company that makes the green beans says it has stopped all production of the canned vegetable. Its now trying to determine where those green beans in question came from. There are a whole lot of people hoping they have the right stuff to go to space. Nasa has announced theyve received a record 18 thousand3hundred applications for its astronaut candidate training program. Thats nearly threetimes the 2012. Since 1959, there have only been 338 astonauts. Once final candidates have been selected, they will undergo two years of basic training on things like learning how to space walk and learning russian. We are getting closer to the age of space tourism. Virgin galactic just rolled out a new version of its space ship 2 rocket. Its the first time the company has tested a flight since the 2014 accident that killed one pilot. Cassie carlisle was at the rockets unveiling in mojave, california. 001024294449120125 its humbling to see how much time and effort its taken. To see it its joy and very proud. Its an honor to be a part of a program thats changing history. Today the team that has been working on creating a new spaceship over the past year and a half had their celebration. You walk through this hangar and everyone is so excited to be a part of it, everyone shares the same goal of wanting to see this thing for what it is. As one planet there. The theme of today hope for the future. Together we open space to change the world for good. And for those who have bought the expensive 200 thousand dollar plus ticket worth every single cent i tell you, its been a fantastic journey now. Even though we havent gone yet, but now weve got the spaceship were so excited and so ready to go. Meet spaceship two, its name is unity and it means so much to sir richard branson, to the woman on the front that represents his mother to the eye that represents stephen hawking. Who also spoke on unity. We seem to cooperate as nations in space in a way we can only envy on earth. Sir branson said this new space age only starts with spaceship two but opens up the opportunities to so much more well be putting bigger rays and satellites into space which will connect three or four billion people many of them not connected will be able to be connected. And if you can get wifi and if you can get Internet Access it can help you get out of the poverty trap. We are all time travelers, traveling together into the future, but let us make that future a place we want to visit. A future many hope to see this a cold front will drop south through the area overnight allowinga wedge of High Pressure to build in from the north throughmonday. This will bring cool and damp conditions to theregion. Along with some patchy fog. By wednesday, a large area of low pressure will moveout of the Lower Mississippi valley and into the great lakes region. Bringing another round of widespread rainfall to theappalachians and central mid atlantic region. Today. Cloudy. A chance of rain. Mainly this afternoon. Muchcooler. Near steady temperature in the mid 40s. Light andvariable winds. Chance of rain 40 percent. Tonight. Rain likely. Lows in the upper 30s. East winds around10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent. Tuesday. Rain. In health news this morning a colorado boy is fighting a rare skin condition his body into stone. As serena ung reports, the condition is so rare, only 40 additional cases have been confirmed. Meh i`m sorry my hands are cold. Meh for as many doctors as Jaiden Rogers has visited, you would think someone would be able to help him. People dont get it, mainly because people dont know what it is, no ones ever heard of it. Three years ago, his parents noticed some spots on his skin were hardening. Its almost if you took your finger and tapped on his arm, its almost like tapping on a counter top, on a hard surface. The spots have spread. To his legs, matter of factly says i need a heart like me. She got a warm heart. Spot in his heart. She heart like me. She got a warm got a warm heart like me. That was serena ung reporting. Jaidens parents are now even for their son in europe, hoping that he can get some sort of relief and comfort. This teacher gets a youre watching good day if this doesnt put a smile on your face, nothing will students at a Texas High School suprised their english teacher with a classroom Birthday Party after they learned he hadnt gotten a birthday cake in almost ten years. The teacher was students sang happy birthday to him. They even presented him with a cake, balloons and gifts. Students say his reaction was will drop south through the area overnight allowinga wedge of High Pressure to build in from the north throughmonday. This will bring cool and damp conditions to the region. Along with some patchy fog. By wednesday, a large area of low pressure will moveout of the Lower Mississippi valley and into the great lakes region. Bringing another round of widespread rainfall to theappalachians and central mid atlantic region. Doing damage control after a week of allegations, rumors and threats of violence, some Roanoke County parents demand to know what is going on at their childrens high school. Take a look behind the scenes of the 911 center to find out what happens after you make that desperate call for help. The fire dispatcher has about 60 seconds to get that call entered and sent out to the fire department. Down to the wire. A long day of racing, it comes to inches as a virginia native tries to win his first daytona 500. Thank you for choosing good day virginia. Its monday february 22 im Kyle Benjamin. And im january keaton. Happening in matter of hours, parents and Community Leaders will gather at