Continues jason 8 00 now. Good morning thanks for joining us on good day, virginia. Im meteorologist jason caterina. A few rain showers trying to make the way across the region and then its going down to the rain shower action. Even though the radar is showing it here in roanoke, nothing showing up on surface observation for the street and then it is going to the sprinkles here and there and the very good looking afternoon 60s. Then it is going to another mild one later today and tomorrow before things start to turn cooler the rest of the week. All the details in the full 7 day forecast coming up when good day, virginia returns right now. Campaigning in the commonwealth. Bradford university prepares for republican president ial front runner donald trump this morning. And former senator marco rubio making his pitch to the voters before super tuesday and the primary. Donald wont make America Great. Hell make america orange and lifting another spirit. The people hit hard by last weeks massive tornado give thanks for being alive. Thank you for choosing good day virginia. Its monday february 29. Leap wfxr news is your local headquarters. And most of the nations political pundits will have their eyes on radford today. Republican president ial front runner donald trump will be making a Campaign Stop at the university this afternoon wfxrs paris holmes is outside the Dedmon Center as students and officials get ready for todays event. Good morning guys,doors open here at the Dedmon Center at 10am, with the event expected to start at noon. As you may expect security is tight. Federal and local Law Enforcement agencies are here making sure the area is secure. Parking will be tight here with University Officials encouraging attendees to take Public Transportation as well as possibly carpooling. This event comes ahead of super tuesday, which is tomorrow and right now trump is leading in the polls in virginia with 37 of the vote closely followed by been turning up their is a little bit of what they if you still want to attend todays event tickets may donaldtrump dot com to rubio made his coments yesterday in salem where more than 23 hundred people packed the bast center on the campus of roanoke college. The florida senator spoke for around 30 minutes, first focusing on his foe donald trump. After highlighting the shortcomings of his republican and democratic rivals, rubio discussed his platform for change. The biggest approval from the crowd came when rubio talked about defending the constitution,and protecting Second Amendment rights. But he couldnt help making a colorful remark about the frontrunner. , he says that i sweat all the time, its hot in here am i sweating . He doesnt sweat because his pours are clogged by the spray tan he uses. Donald is not going to make America Great, hes going to make america orange. Rubio says america orange. Rubio says he was saving the best for last with the late night stop in salem after cricrossing the commonwealth. Rubios campaign is expected to hit atlanta, knoxville, and Oklahoma City later today. On the democrat side, h Illary Clinton is far ahead of Bernie Sanders in three key states ahead of super tuesday. Thats according to a new wall street journal poll released sunday night. It shows clinton leading by about twotoone margins in texas, georgia, and tennessee. Those three states are among 11 Others Holding races this tuesday. Clinton is going into the contest with two backtoback victories behind her, that includes her win in the south priminary on saturday. The polls will be open from 6 a. M. Until 7 p. M. On super tuesday. If youre looking for information on where you can vote, head to our website virginia first dotcom. One other Important Note under virginia law, voters are required to bring a photo id to the polls. Happening this morning. Officerinvolved shooting in roanoke county. This was the scene friday night at the walgreens on brambleton avenue. Police say the suspect was waving a gun in the parking lot while wearing a bandana over his face. When authorities confronted the man, one officer opened fire, hitting the suspect. The suspect later died at the hospital. Well bring you any new information from that News Conference online at virginia first dotcom and tonight on wfxr news first at ten. A cold front will cross the mid Atlantic Region today. Movingthrough the mountains this morning. Then east of the blue ridgeby afternoon. Weak High Pressure moves in tonight. Followed by another stronger cold front last week was devastating for virginia. We will see how volunteers are helping them recover from the massive tornado. People in ive been blind since birth. I go through periods where its hard to sleep at night, and stay awake during the day. Learn about non24 by calling 8448442424. Appomattox county are still recovering welcome back. People in galax county are recovering after the strong ef3 tornados and heres whats happening in the county by the numbers. Groups dished out 820 meals and 189 volunteers visited 2200 homes and covered 19 damaged roofs with tarps. The Virginia Department of transplantation will pick up debris like brush and tree limbs until march 15th but theyll handle garbage pickup. And then large pieces of debris and well need to take that to the county landfill. For details on how that trash pickup works and other Resources Available for you at galax county, head to virginia first. Com and spending time at the Baptist Church on sunday. A service there to help the Community Get through the recovery period. Reporter this past week evergreen Baptist Church served as somewhat of a Service Center allowing volunteers to come in the pastor said throughout all of this hes tried to restore a sense of normalcy back into the community. One of the very reasons he decided to still hold sunday service. Inside voices and hands lifted in worship. Its one of the few things Still Standing after the storm surrounding it. It could have been so much worse and we want to take some time and say lord, thank you. The service is a way to help cope with people in the area. Its 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 the level of support that came in so i just want to thank everybody for that. Thankful that they have each other to charlie cooper, wfxr news. A local credit union is also helping credit union is a local credit union is also helping tornado victims also helping tornado victims in appomattox county. Here to tell us more is blue eagle credit union, Marketing Specialist andrew alegre. Andrew, why did you guys feel the need to tell us the items that are most needed . How can people donate if they want jason 8 19 now on monday morning. A look out of the roof and the light rain reported at the airport, as a matter of fact, here in roanoke. Well have a nice day once this front makes its way on by with a few spotty showers for some of us. But most of the action has dried up. See that north northwest wind indkailting the cold front maymade its way by. In advance of the front the winds out of the south and seen a few showers in in lynchburg winds out of the South Southwest in front of the front or in advance of the front and the winds shifting more to the west once the front goes by and the temperature at 50 for now in lynchburg. A pretty decent day albeit a breezy day but sunny skies for the leap day. Warm, too, with temperatures well into the 50s and the 60s. A widespread rain as we head on into the midweek portions for the week front that makes its february. And much below that as we go through all way into the weekend. 2025 mph winds and same story up in hot springs and even gustier winds at 3040 mph in spots. So if you are driving up and down 81 today, please make sure Steering Wheel and give the trucks extra space there as the cross winds buffet things around quite a bit. Temperatures mainly in the 40s and 50s as we update a couple of those temperatures. 48 in lewisburg, 45 in martinsville and 50 in Smith Mountain lake and danville and 48 in hot springs currently. A couple of very spotty showers and this front looked a lot more impressive making its way towards us and disrupting with that shower action left over and that spotty nuisance showers before the clouds come out again and that decent day with the high in before that and expect gusty winds through the day. The front getting blown apart throughout the day on our monday leaving us with lots of sunny skies and that sun not going down until after 6 00 this evening and still have time to enjoy as you head home from work. Make sure you take the despite the fact its cloudy now prentplenty of sunshine later on and want those for the ride from work. Spotty clouds trying to pop on up with that shower action late in the day and the cold front making its way through with heavy rain showers before things start to dry up heading into our wednesday but it will also cool down significantly and in the wake of that front. Do expect cooler temperatures the rest of the week so hopefully you can enjoy your monday or tuesday. Dont forget to make your voice heard tomorrow. Shouldnt be weather problems to get out and vote, especially the first half of the day though there will be some showers late but nothing really keeping out there. Vote early but only vote once. January this will end up well for you. Go to the latest website for the weather, news and sports at virginiafirst. Com local good news report, dogs and their owners shook off the winter cabin fever and headed outside the beautiful weather on sunday had plenty of people leaving jackets at home and we stopped to give belly scratches. And dogs and their owners got a break and one owner said it a nice change from the winter. Not too much. My little one has asthma and decided to come out today reporter the dogs clearly very happy with the decision to go outside. Everyone had a great time dogs like to run and frolic and flop. Mhmm. Busy weekend at the box office. Could anyone beat deadpool . This is violet. Shes been waiting for this moment for awhile. A moment other kids wouldnt think twice about. Her first bowl of cheerios. Because now that cheerios are gluten free, violet, and many others are enjoying their first kyle well, the oscarwinning films are not the only ones on peoples minds. Plenty headed to the theaters. January but they couldnt stop an eagle from crashing into the top 5. Daniel looks at the top films over the weekend. Reporter eddie the eagle opened in fifth place with 6. 3 Million Dollars. Risen fell just one spot in the second weekend landing in 4th place with 7 Million Dollars. Million in Domestic Box Office after a third place weekend worth 9 Million Dollars. You just shut up and stay out of my way reporter despite atrocious reviews, gods of egypt managed a second place debut grossing 14 Million Dollars. Your crazy matches my crazy big time. Nothing came close to stopping deadpool from taking its Third Straight weekend title. 31. 5 Million Dollars gave the raunchy super hero flick a domestic title of 286 million. In hollywood, im david daniel. January loving that deadpool kyle they really are. January still breaking in the top 5. Kyle ill have to catch it on itunes later. Its hard to find a baby siter and 7 00 on a friday night im ready for bed january i dont even have a child and im like 7 30 . Its late kyle thankfully the sun staying up later will help but the middle of winter its like what time is it . January time to go to bed is true. Baby sleeps january all right, speaking prod jason 8 30 now. The nuisance showers making thed way across the region. Not reaching the ground but a few showers on the surface observations and will find clearing skies in the wake of the frontal boundary and things looking much better as we go through the afternoon. High temperatures for many of us back in the 60s today and tomorrow. But things will cool down after that. Details in the full 7day forecast coming up m just a couple of minutes. Good day, virginia returns right now. Thank you for choosing good day virg january welcome back, everybody. 8 30 on monday, february 29th yes, leap year im january keaton. Kyle and im Kyle Benjamin and im also out of leap day jokes. January hes been making them every half hour like clockwork kyle i ran out. January and were less than 24 hours away from super tuesday here in virginia and elsewhere in the country. Happening today in ranford. Republican president ial front runner donald trump is speaking to hustle up and get there and get there because the queueis getting quite long. This is trumps second stop in virginia in less than 7 days. Wfxr news has plans to live stream the rally on the website. So at noon pop over to virginiafirst. Com to listen to the donald. And this morning more from southwest virginia. Hey, good morning, kyle. Doors open at 10 00 and then it is going to be super excited and then it is going to see with what donald trump has to say this afternoon. The officials came out and reiterated the importance of knowing no bottles, no cans, no book bags will be allowed. Someone came in with a pocket not allowed and even umbrellas are not allowed inside the stadium today. If youre coming you want to leave all those things at home. And parking is tight and take carpool or Public Transportation and again doors open at 10 00 and it starts at noon and try to get tickets at donaldtrump. Com reporting from bradford, paris holmes, wfxr news. Kyle Donald Trumps family is on the campaign trail today. Eric trump, the Vice President of Trump Industries spoke with us. He said theyre still pretty excited to see his father doing well. You can catch that entire interview we did on our super tuesday coverage. I think youd be lying there are so many people and have been effectively rehearsing the position and the interview and thats what senators and governors and Everything Else do and he entered the area and totally into the politics and the message is obviously resonating and everything he touches turns to gold whether it be real estate or anything hes ever done turns to gold. Just one of the guys thats got unbelievable intuition and making it a success and just this is another great example of that and, again, as i consider him my best friend. January and you can catch that full interview with eric trump on virginiafirst. Com the polls will be open 6 a. M. To 7 p. M. Tomorrow, super tuesday. If youre looking for information on where you can vote head to our website, virginiafirst. Com and dont forget virginia law requires you to bring a photo i. D. To the poll so dont leave your wallet at home. Kyle super tuesday represent a key cross road in the president ial primaries. Democrat side. Ramped up rhetoric the reed binion reports. Donalds not going to make America Great. Hes going to make america orange [ laughing ] reporter republican president ial candidates turning up the insults one day aheadst biggest single primary race and donald truffle taking fire sunday for deflecting questions about whether hed disavow support from kkk leader david duke. Would you say unequivically you condemn them and dont want their support . I dont know what group youre talking about. Okay, im just talking about david duke and the ku klux klan here, but. Honestly i dont know david duke. Reporter trump pointed out on twitter he disavowed david duke on friday. Okay, i disavow, okay . Reporter rubio and ted cruz pounced trying to slow trumps momentum going into super tuesday. Refused to criticize the ku klux klan. Donald trump as the nomme mean hillary probably wins and we lose this country. Reporter donald throwing in responsibler attacks. I dont understand why his hands are the size of someone whos 5 2. You know what they say about someone with small hands. A somewhat more cordial tone for those with the big win in the South Carolina primary. Clinton saving the most pointed attacks taking direct aim for Donald Trumps campaign slogan. We dont need to make America Great again america never stopped being great and now to news making headlines across virginia. The man accused of killing a Virginia Police officer and injuring 3 others will be in court in just a matter of hours. Police say Ronald Hamilton is a member of the army who also worked with the pentagon. Officers were responding to the saturday when hamilton opened fire. A Community Vigil was held sunday night to honor th of 27yearold ashley glendon. She was sworn in just one day before she was killed. Jason lets get you up to date for the first half of the week here. Temperatures remain nice and mild for us as we go on through today and tomorrow. However a second stronger cold front makes the way through tuesday evening and thats cooler temperatures. Ahead of the week with the Roanoke Valley and heading on through Central Virginia and solid run towards 70 tomorrow and cooling off towards the nitsds of the week to the south side tomorrow and back in the 50s as we head into wednesday with a few showers lingering. Heading into the new river valley temperatures high for today and tomorrow in the 70s and cooler turn dropping almost 20 in spots as we head into on wednesday same story as we head into the showers with windy conditions today and much keeler weather as we continue into wednesday and look at the complete 7day forecast in just a few minutes. January . January look forward to it jason. Thank you very much. At least one big surprise at last Nights Academy awards. Who the big picture winner was when good day, virginia continues. Stay with us. Awarded to the the oscars were last night. My wifes phone went off at 12 02 with the alert that leo won best actor and i woke straight up because the cnn alert sounds like theres a tornado coming. January really . Kyle im not kidding. January i didnt know there was such an alert. Who won the oscar alert . Kyle breaking news january wow the things you learn kyle i was quite surprised and had trouble going back to sleep. Anyway, leo finally won for best actor january and well deserved. Hes a great actor. Longlong time he needed to win that oscar. Chris rock treating people to Girl Scout Cookies and a little political xhntary. We have a look. Spot commentary. We have a look. Spotlight. Spotlight with the best picture oscar surprising many. The 88th Academy Awards which means this whole no black nominee thing has happened at least 71 other times. Okay . Reporter it wasnt a big surprise that host chris rock hit the diversity issue out of the gate spending the first 10 minutes of the opening monologue on the topic. Using humor and frankness to make his point, he continued to punch the subject with skits and other funny serious moments throughout the 3 and a half hour plus telecast. Thank you to the academy. Thank you to all of you in this room. Reporter in the lead acting category front runners didnt disappoint as leonardo won for the revinant and bri larson took hers home for the role in room. Im in love with my life by phases. Im the love of my life what about it . It feels amazing. Thank you academy. And they won as predicted but snagged away from the sentimental favorite sly stalone. And it is that single stinct. And the oscar goes to inside out and buzz and woody presented the blockbuster inside out for best animated feature. Oscarnominated song, what happens to you. Reporter and Vice President biden introducing lady gaga singing what happens to you. The 007 title song writing on the wall grabbed oscar gold. Amazing experience fox news. See Morgan Freeman go up and snag some of the thin mints . Kyle chris rock spent over 63,000. Joe biden dropped a 20 to buy a box. Jason nice beautiful afternoon after some clouds and a few showers this morning. Breezy and mild this afternoon details jason 8 47 now. A live look at the studio and see blue skies mixing in with the clouds. Well find more in the way of blue skies as the day wears on. Through the region right and with that little bit of extra showers mainly with the nuisance variety but a better looking day now that the front is passing by. 53 for you here in roanoke. The wind still strong and the northwest at 15 mph and that will continue throughout a good part of the day today with gusting winds for much of the region as a matter of fact. Hang on tight with the sky starting to clear in blacksburg. See the showers moving through there but from blue skies and can see a lot of sunshine starting to peek on out and find more of that as the day goes on as well. In lynchburg currently the temperature at 50. Winds still out of the South Southwest and that front not making it through just yet and find that front moving through and winds shifting into the west and spotty showers and leap showers and otherwise a more widespread rain as we head towards tomorrow evening with another stronger cold front and you can certainly see that will usher in some much cooler air as we head into the middle of as well temperatures should be in the low 50s for highs but 20 mph and same in hotsprings which seens 1015 mph winds and higher gust temperatures in the 40s and 50s. 56 around Smith Mountain lake. 48 in martinsville. 49 in witville and also lewisburg and spotty showers even just 10 minutes ago. See how much the showers in the Roanoke Valley and new river valley dried up as it made its way into dryer air. Look how impressive that front went off to the west and see it hits the mountains and starts to break up and dry out and the rest of it dries out with the and quickly Building Back in behind this frontal passage bringing in not only windy conditions but clearer skies into the afternoon. See that here on the future cast. Looking mainly sunny as we head through the region and right on into the afternoon and early evening so make sure you take the sunglasses with you this morning. Youll need them. Quiet skies as we go through the evening and overnight well start out with a lot of sunshine on our tuesday. Clouds beginning to work in as we head later in the day with a couple of spotty showers possible. Most of the rain will come through as we have with a longer, stronger cold front. For today in the Roanoke Valley looking great. Well find plenty of sunshine. Breezy conditions but temperatures in the low to close to mid60s around much of the Roanoke Valley. Well keep it warm for tomorrow before things take a turn for the cooler as we go on through the middle of the week and beyond. That weekend is looking really good like you said weve been batting a thousand for the past couple of weeks. As always head over to virginia first. Com well stream trumps speech from bradford. The decorations can create a big mess in your home. Fortunately our organized in 60 seconds gurus have ways to help cut the clutter. Hi. Im your clutter coach with the organized in 60 seconds tip of the day. If youre like me and love every holiday, youre bound to have tons of decorations for every occasion. Here are a few quick tips to help organize all of your decorations. Stard by dividing youra start by dividing by how they are themed and design amy in their own color tote. Label what holiday and keep it decorations arent spread `throughout our ome. `each oliday, ake n ffort o the socalled oprah effect hasnt worked yet for Weight Watchers sales. Kyle the oprah effect is watchers. January and the latest media ads, Oprah Winfrey says she lost 26 pounds. Well, friday shares of Weight Watchers plunged almost 30 after the 11 Million Dollar quarterly loss and winfrey saw her stake drop by 27 Million Dollars kyle ouch the Weight ManagementCompany Brought her on as the face in october. The number of active january 2nd. January but dont take up a collection for winfrey just yet. Shes still reportedly worth more than 3 billion dollars i think shell be all right. Like 15 cents. Everyone gets a carb and you get a carb and i get a carb. A carb carbs are tasty we like carbs here january well, too bad. So sorry. Kyle getting sunshine today, too. Jason a couple of spotty showers moving through and windy and right with the for many of us. Kyle and the wind nothing to do with the politicians ahead of super tuesday . January again, low hanging maury this february on maury, when men pay pennies in Child Support one penny every 3 1 2 days these moms demand they pay up. You can expect what can i do with 3 . Nothing. Maury the unexpected. Emily says mike has given money 8 in Child Support since she has been but his fiancee says even that is too much. Because she had sex with her exboyfriend the same day. Maury three angry people. Enough to park a car. Maury with a 4yearold boy caught in the middle. Is mike the problem or does she owe him 8 . Lakisha is furious ben doesnt support her. Ben is giving his son one penny every 3 past days. 3. 3. She says hes the dad. Look at these ears. What do you mean hes not the father . Maury he says the baby looks like an alien. Does that look like me . Maury dont miss these incredible dna results. Plus three times the diapers, three times the crying