Responsibleded to the 2900 block of green hill drive at 1 30 yesterday afternoon will someone was inside and crews searched the home but did not find anyone. A firefighter fell throughout second floor and rescued and expected to be okay. Crews say a cat died. The owner of the home has been displaced. Patti that was not the only fire. This log cabin on fire in green county 5 30 on wednesday night. There was a family inside they made it out safely. Fire was so large it was visible from several miles away. The cabin is a total loss. Mona judge found a man guilty of burning down a home where the mother and four children lived. The fire marshall called it suspicious at the time. Days later smith was charged. Over a dispute. Woman and children were not home but lost everything. Yesterday a judge found smith guilty of two fell niece heal be sentenced later. Melissa happy friday, it is 6 02. For your morning commute no worries. It is cold. We have high cloud cover. We are all seeing temperatures in the teens and 20s out there. 18 in lynchburg. 25 in danville. 21 in roanoke. 20 in blacksburg. You and your family will neated the heavy coat, scarf and gloves. If you are outside for an amount of time. Go ahead and prepare for that cold. Temperatures in the teens and 20s this morning. We will make it to the mid 30s. 18 degrees as children head to school. We will see a temperature of 31 at lunch. We could see light mountain snow showers even a few flurries pushing east. Not expecting accumulation its is something we have to watch out for. In looking ahead to your weekend. We will see the coldest air. Highs in the 20s. Lows in the Single Digits. We will look at that forecast coming up. Moan and and patty . Mona it Takes Minutes for the cold to get dangerous. Patti you may have spent time indoors yesterday making a living there are folk who is have to face the cold to collect a paycheck. Valerie reports. Reporter staying warm and cozy indoors is not an option for these guys. What we are doing is trying to find a sewer line. Reporter working hot or cold this is levans life every day. No complaints. This is jacksons 20th winter working outside. I wear the gloves we work in these. This keeps our hands warm. I wear long johns and several sweaters on. Reporter he is not new to the t. S, either. The longer you work outside the more your body a just. It is cold to you but to us it is not that cold. Reporter if you are new to working outside for long periods of time. When you come in a nice warm cup of hot chocolate or coffee and just wrap up. Put on things that will make them feel good like a hoody. The jacket. Reporter outside for eight hours a day every day is not easy at for the. It is about positive thinking for these guys. You like cold weather. Some do, some dont. I love it. It is cold but come with the mona the cold is not going anywhere. If you are not used to the temperatures stay inside as much as you can. Patti this frigid weather will be hoar for awhile. We want to warn you about something. We know we tell to you lay are up. There is a good reason. Frost bite can happen in minutes. Thats why it is crucial to keep your skin covered. If you feel pain in your apennedages or lose feeling, warm up. How long can you be in the elements varies on age, size and circulatory system. Get our latest forecast, that is at wset. Com mona app latchian power is improving the network in roanoke. They started construction on a project to boost the grid in month montgomery and roanoke. The 30 Million Dollars investment will bring upgrades to at least 14 substations the work is expected to be done by patti people who smoke in cars with children could be hit with a 100 fine if legislation proposed becomes law. The the house given approval to a bill that will make it illegal to smoke in a car with a child under eight. Drivers could not be pulled over but they could get the fine if they are pulled over for other reasons. Mona several families who lost children at Home Day Care were there to push bills hoping will make it safer. Their day care provider had 20 year experience. Not until after their sons death they learned the provider was caring for more kids than law allows. The familiesment fingerprint background checks. The Home Day Care provide are operates illegally that leads to it is important for families to have a safe and reliable to send their children. Mona 2014, two were kill indeed lynchburg. The woman is charged unlamply operating an unlicensed day care. Patti a panel killed a bill required students to use the bathroom that goes with their biological sex. Require School Boards adopt the policies encuring restrooms and lock are rooms are used by biological sex. It will protect students privacy. But transgender people should be allowed to use the bathroom of their choice. Mona during obamas final speech he opened the floor with new proposals. A push to cure cancer during a new program. Patti researchers at the that fight through precision reporter last month the president announced a new initiative the moon shut program. Gi was very excited. We have been proposing this, urging urging the terror a time. Report report the doctor has been leading research to prevision medicine. It means to genetic test to determine which individuals will get cancer. Reporter doctors look at Family History to discover clues. My mother passed at a young age i out lived her by a decade and a half. Reporter he lost his mother and grand mother to cancer. We have a gene to tell us if we will have colon cancer. Reporter since doctors discover today greg as a colonoscopy every year. With the screening that rescue can be eliminated. Reporter because of Precision Medicine doctors prevent the cancer before it gets too far. By preventing the cancer we increase the survival to 100 . Patti another key part of precision meds is tumor tissue testing. The doctor expects more resources from this will help well mona we are talking architectarctic air. Saturday will feel like the coldest day. Bitter wind of up to 30 miles per hour. Heise in the mid to upper 20s. Your morning lows on sunday into the teens and even Single Digits. Wind chill at 11 00 tonight until sunday morning at 10 00 a. M. If you are headed out, it is cold. 18 in lynchburg. 21 in roanoke. 20 in blacksburg. 25 in danville. Hour by hour forecast today, mostly cloudy. We have the chance for a few flurries and light snow showers we have a clipper system bringing a cold front. Look at this, by lunch. 31 your high. Right around 30 we will see below the freezing mark. We saw sun yesterday. Cloud cover today. Light scattered showers. No travel issues expected. No accumulations outside of the mountains. You may see flurries throughout the day. Later tonight the clearing out. Decreasing clouds. Beautiful for your saturday but behind that clipper and the tell be breezy. Looking at how much snowfall total. Light a dusting in some areas. Significant accumulations staying toward the mountains. Heise today. 34 in lynchburg. 36 in roanoke. 37 in danville 33 in the new river valley. Wind out of the southwest three10 miles per hour. Winds will shift out of the northwest behind that front temperatures dropping in the teens tell be another cold night for us. Here is your weekend forecast, not looking the warmest but skip all the warm stuff. 18 on saturday morning. 27 for the high on saturday. Sunday morning look at this lows wight spread five10 is what we will weak up to. High is 28 on sunday. Of course, saturday with those gusty wind of the going to be a frigid weekend for us. Two weather stories the cold air turning attention to monday and tuesday. Looks like a winter storm low pressure system will impact our area. What we are looking at expecting the travel impacts. Tell be a matter of the track of the low and how warm we get. That will determine what falls as more snow and a winter mix. We are look at a mix of rain, sleet and snow and warm weather by mid week. Check your weather photo of the day. How appropriate as we head throughout the coldest air of season. Tracy sent this in her snowy attire. Make sure the pets are taken care of and kept inside. As you take them out make sure they have their boots and sweater. Here is tech bytes. In todays tech bytes fighting terror online. Facebook adding a fight to reprove hate speech issue counter speech. Pais pages with opposing videos and message. Instagram is making a move to compete with vine and you tube introducing view counts. The company betting the counts will be so impressive that video makers will want to post. What is your dog face . Ted cruise is a chihuahua and john caseic a snouzer. And beyonce pit bull as a german sheppard and he is a german sheppard. It is part of my new facial those are your tech bytes. Reporter liquids may clump separate. If the tablet looked crushed or discolored or cracking. Even though they are within date they may have exposed to temperature. Now i know which medications to keep i cant put these in the trash. Take your capsules and tablets and medications you have that are expired. Throw in old coffee grounds, kitty litter. Saw dust to make it so someone will not want to dig through and find them. For Prescription Medications you want to cross out any personal information or scrape it off the container. Ooem kelly bowman. Patti a look at most viewed news stories on wset. Many viewers reading about the vire as the dan river plant. Many of you are logging on to read about the Police Department investigating the disappearance of a woman missing since november. 2 men facing charges log on to wset. 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Second quarter, the pioneers jordan hamlette drives and hits the reverse layup, hamlette led all scorers with 22. On the other end, john saunier splits defenders, hard to the rack for two for the cavaliers. But heritage wins 5250. Dont forget full court press tonight at 11 15. 3 Dennis Nascar is revamping its overtime procedure. Moving to an unlimited green whitecheckered finish but also establishing an overtime line to determine the winner. If the race leader passes the ot line on the first lap under green before a caution, thats a valid attempt. If the caution flies before the try again. They will try again that is sports. Have a great weekend. Melissa lets check the bus stop weather. Teens in lynchburg. 25 in danville. 21 in roanoke. You need to make sure everyone is in layers especially if the children stand outside. Temperatures you will need the coat this afternoon will 34 for the high in lynchburg. 37 in danville. 36 in roanoke. 33 in blacksburg. A chance for mountain snow showers. Saturday and sunday behind the clipper cold front moving through today. Usherring in the coldest air we have seen this season. Wind will be breezy. Your weekend forecast for valentines day will be cold. 18 as you wake up saturday morning. 27 for the high. Wind will make values feel near or below zero. Sunday waking up to temperatures high about 28 degrees. Your actual hour by hour forecast for valentines day. At 8 0022 by lunch. 28 for the high. Most of us staying below the freezing mark throughout the weekend. Here is what we are looking at the first weather story is the cold. Second is a chance for a winner storm mondaytuesday. Still a lot of factors the track of the low that will determine what we see as well as the temperature profile. What we are looking at monday snow and light snow. Most of us onethree inches will be possible with all of this. More snow toward the mountains sleet, rain and snow mix for many of us. We will fine tune that forecast and keep you updated with the latest. Mona and patty . Patti thank you. Coming up, just ahead we have the latest on the fire at the form are dan river plant. We will hear from those who saw mona more witnesses take the stand are if the trial of ashley white. Mother of the boy who died in a septic tank. You get a cold. You cant breathe through your nose. Suddenly, youre a mouthbreather. Opens your nose up to 38 more than Cold Medicine alone. Shut your mouth and say goodnight mouthbreathers. Thick clouds of smoke you could seat flames the whole building was on fire. Patti this morning we are continuing our coverage of that fire at the former dan river plant in brooknil. We have video hahas come in of that fire. You see it is nowhere near as large as it was. There are flames, now a short time ago we spoke with the fire marshall who says the fire is under control and the search for a cause begins. With a building this size you know this will be a little while before we have answers. A Fire Department worked throughout the night. Getting it under control brought team work it is great our fighting force is volunteers. There are a small amount getting compensation. Everyone is volunteering to do this. All the effort is put in is great to see. Prat pat we wanted show you a picture this morning. It is one of two firefighters one from brooknil one from rusburg. To give you an idea how cold it was you see ice on their helmets. We are told this morning that most firefighters have been released and a minimal crew will monitor it. As you saw a few flames left. As for the crews who stayed on over night. They did not do that on an empty stomach we will tell you why. Mona the plant has been shut down for a decade it has a special meaning to the folks in brooknil. Patti neighbors say it was a surprise to see the building go up in flames. Residents say, shock, is an going down the road i got stopped by our town cop who said, brooknil is on fire. Coming to watch i live a quarter mile up the road. Reporter the dan river plant was in the process of being torn down. Not a problem tearing it down now. Reporter neighbors say it was a sight to behold. Thick clouds of smoke and you could see the flames the whole building was on fire. You heard boom, boom, boom like explosions like the building was collapsing on its. When you went outside it burnt your eyes and made you cough am reporter especially for brooknil. Live nothing a small down nothing like this ever happens. Reporter in the face of misfortune. Pizzas. Reporter they show southern hospitality. All the firefighters brought them pizace. Kindness from a small town. You must need coffee. Thats the way a Community Come together. It makes me proud to be from brooknil. There you go mona the consensus a relief that no one was hurt. Patti follow the latest by going to wset. Com and by following us on our abc 13 facebook page. Melissa good friday morning. 6 35 if you are ready to head out you will be greeted by temperatures in the teens and 20s. Mostly cloud nelynchburg. 18 degrees. 25 in danville 21 in roanoke. 23 in brooknil. 20 in blacksburg. 13 degrees now in hot springs. Your school day forecast, mostly cloudy. Dont be surprised if you see a few snow flurries across the area. Showers we got a clip are system impacting our area today. Temperatures only 31 by lunch. Highs in the mid 30s about 34. Behind that front what are we talking about for your weekend . The coldest air of the season is arriving. Today 20 chance for flurries. 34 for the high. Saturday and sunday 27 degrees on sunday your high only 28. Wind chills in the Single Digits near zero for saturday and Winter Weather mondaytuesday. We will look at the full forecast in a bit. Patty . Patti thank you. New this morning two are recovering after shot in danville. Danville police say someone shot a 20 year old man and a 22 year old woman. Their wounds are not life threatening. Victims said someone shot them driving through first and addage theyre taken to the medical center. Patti ness withes will take the stand for ashley white. Yesterday a picture painted of an unsafe environment. She is charged with felony child abuse and neglect. Her son was found dead last match in a septic tank. In Opening Statements the prosecutor said that white admitted she lied about leaving her children at home the sunday she reported noah missing. There was discussion about the septic tank and the lid. Several investigators testified the lid was on the tank when they went to look for noah. Police are combing the area searching for a teen they say lead them on a car chase in two counties. Started wednesday in franklin and ended here on 220 near web road in roanoke. Thats where the car lost control and crashed. Four had to go to the hospital. The driver, who witness ids a he does have a gun on him. They dont think he is dangerous. I think now we have a scared kid. And you know i dont want to make assumptions but i dont think he is in the wood now. I think he is found somebody or called somebody to get him. So i dont think we are looking the a des operate personful patti police searches in air and ground, they have not found him. Patti two men following charges following a drug bust. Charged with possession and distribution charges. They computed a warrant over a week ago at an apartment in peninsula street. They have marijuana and smoking devices and handgun. No word what they found was worth. Mona a judge certified charges to the grand jury after 19 year old riddle is charged with dui maiming and driving under the influence. Driving with a suspended license charge was dropped. Back in october riddle sped off and crashed his car in a neighborhood. The car was reported stolen. Last month ritzed was sentenced to 60 days in jail in lynchburg for grand larceny. Patti Virginia House approved a bill undo the open carry of guns in some state owned buildings. It heads to the senate where it faces a likely veto. The executive order in october prohibited the open carry except by Law Enforcement in offices used by executive Branch Agencies the bill approved would prohibit state entities adopting or enforcing policyos the possession or storage of firearm s s. A proposal to allow security guards in virginia schools to carry gun system making its way bills like that fails for years this is different, the security guards have to be retired Police Officers and get permission from the school board. Philip the Defense League says he thinks permit holders should carry on school grounds. And says this bill is a stepping stone in the right direction. Not everyone agrees. Reporter every where they allow permit holders to carry is a success. Whether in schools or churches. If you find an opening to crack open the door and next year you can add more and push the door open wider. Patti this idea is working in higher education. Citing liberty university. With tired officers go through training before they carry on school grounds. Patti a bill inspired bite elephant at the Natural Bridge zoo did not make temperature called are [inaudible] law make it a felony to use a device that inflicts pain during a performance. A subcommittee tabled that bill on wednesday. Mona help for future home ordinance the Housing Authority is expanding the center of Housing Education into this building on franklin street. One part of the building will be used for workshops for how to buy a home and budgeting and oneonone counciling. Another section to teach home repairs the building will open between june and july. Facebook feedback from ronnie in response to whether or not virginia should follow North Carolina and do drug testing for welfare recipients. Yes, have you to have a drug test done before you are hired to get a paycheck. Why shouldnt you have one in order to receive free stuff from the government using taxpayer if you would like to be on our feedback of the week. Follow us and give us your opinion. Patti still to come, it is something that fans need to know about. A big change to this years show. We will tell but that in looking ahead. Mona if you are just waking up here is your forecast t. Is a bitter cold 18 degrees in lynchburg. 25 in danville. Highs only in the 30s. Reporter talking cold weather this weekend. Saturday and sunday bit are wind chills. Highs in the upper 20s and sunday in the Single Digits. Look at current temperatures 19 in blacksburg. Look at this, 21 in roanoke. 25 in danville. Hour by hour forecast, mostly cloudy for the day. A few flurries possible about 20 chance. Showers stay toward the mountains. Clouds begin to roll in. Scattered light showers possible. No significant accumulations not expecting travel issue. This cruises out bite afternoon. Mostly clear over night and saturday beautiful out there. It is going to be cold behind that front we will see gusts up to 30 miles per hour. As we look at future cast snowfall totals over all it is light in nature. Any significant snow will stay toward the mountains it is turning attention to that cold weather. 34 for the high. 35 in alta vista. 37 in danville. 33 in new river valley. Over night out later, temperatures dropping into the teens across. Ladies and gentlemen, nothing to mess with. We have a wind chill advisory at 11 00 tonight in affect until sunday morning at 10 00 a. M. Throughout tomorrow, wind chill values feel in the Single Digits. Rung through your future cast. Tomorrow morning if you are head out. Three degrees is what it will feel leak in lynchburg. Below zero in roanoke. The afternoon in the teens and Single Digits. That will continue all the way through sunday morning. Excuse me this cold weather is getting to people 18 for the high tomorrow. Saturday a high of 27. Single digits on sunday and 20s on monday. Tell be cold then we are turning attention to our winter storm. Rain, snow and sleet. I will bundle up and toss it back to you. Patti major preparations under way for the lynchburg air show. They want to make surety same missteps made phi years ago dont happen again. They are expecting 40,000 spectators up 32,000 that came out for the show in 2011. The two day Event Features the blue angels and 15 displays get tickets on our website wset. Com. Mona political heavy weight in lexington for washington popular Mock Convention. It kicked off yesterday and goes through saturday. Holds the Mock Convention every president ial year predicting who the party out of power will nominate for president. This years speakers include dick cheney. Dates this year. Moan mobile you can check out bands. Every year the festival is at oak ridge farm. This years lineup has not been announced Carlos Santana and dozens of other bands. On the melissa 6. 50. Temperatures in the teens and 20s. Make it to the mid 30s this afternoon. 34 in lynchburg. 37 in danville. 36 in roanoke. 33 in blacksburg. Cloud and he cold. Could see flurries throughout the day, of course. Thats due to the clip are system that will cross us later on in the day. Tell usher in the coldest air of the entire eastern half of the country. That means valentines day weekend will be bitter cold out there. Now headed to saturday. We will see temperatures warming up to the upper 20s. With gusts up to 30 miles per hour. It will feel in the Single Digits to below zero. For sunday. Morning around eight degrees many five10 degree range. 22 by lunch. Clouds increase later in the afternoon. We will see a high around 28 for valentines day. You need to break out the heavy coat and keep it with you throughout the week. Once we get through the cold weather everyone is turning attention to monday and tuesday. Low pressure system a winter storm looks like it is lick low to develop. Monday highs in the lower 30s. Anything that fall will fall in the form of snow. Very light totals. Area. Further east tell be a rain, sleet and snow mix. We will see the higher totals in the mountain its is something you need to watch as we fine tune this forecast and give you the latest details to plan your week. Mona and patty . Pam pat for the first time hints clinton lost to sanders in the democratic primary the two faced autopsy. Both look to nevada and South Carolina. Both candidates hope to convince a more diverse population they are the better choice for the democratic nomination. Rona has more. I do have a disagreement. Reporter differences were substantive and subtle in last nights democratic debate. We agree wall street should not not again. Here is the president obama i want to make tonight, im not a single issue candidate and dont believe we live in a single reporter clinton reset after walommed in New Hampshire. Drfk drafks changes voters 90 white in New Hampshire in South Carolina half could be africanamericans. When we have more people in jail africanamerican and latino than china does here is my promise at the end of my first term as president we will not have more people in jail than any other country. Report fireworks coming at the end with this moment. The criticism we heard from senator sanders about our president i expect from republicans not from someone running for the democrat nomination to succeed obama. Mad am secretary that is a low blow. One of us ran against obama. I was not that candidate. Reporter clinton was asked female voter in New Hampshire . She respond she worked her career to empower women to make their own choices if that choice was not to vote for her vment lana, abc news, washington. Patti still to committee latest on the fire at old dan river mill plant. Dead is set to be back 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 . Switch to u. S. Cellular now and get 6 gigs of data for 40 a month plus get 300 back. Patti back with the top stories. The fire marshall tells us the fire at old dan river plant is largely under control. You are looking at video we just got from the sceneful you seat flames are nowhere near as large as they were last night. Marshall johnson says most there are a few left monitoring the scene. Fire broke out at 3 00. The plant has been shut down and in the process of being taken down. The accept for the caused, we will bringut latest on air and online. Mona more witnesses take the stand in the trial of ashley white. Prosecutor painted a picture of an unsave environment during her trial. Charged with child abuse and neglect. Her son was found dead last match in a septic tank inform Opening Statements the ruling prosecutor said white admitted she lied about leaving hear children at home. The sunday morning she reported noah missing. There was discussion about the septic tank and the lid. Several investigators testified the lid was on the tank when they went to look for noasm patti two officering after shot in danville. Someone shot a 21 year old man wounds are not life threatening. Victims say someone shot them while driveingly through first street at 2 15 this morning. They were taken to the medical center. Mona we said, it is cold. Didnt feel as bad as yesterday. Melissa in the teens yesterday. Mona thanks to the cloud cover. Melissa in the teens tonight and Single Digits saturday and sunday. Hopefully everybody is ready to bundle up. 21 now with over cast skies. Cold morning. Still need the heavy coat and gloves. Temperatures in the mid 30s this afternoon and of course, two weather stories we will be watching the cold blast for valentines day weekend and monday into tuesday does look like we will see Winter Weather arriving in the heart of virginia. Medicare it past the weekend. News and weather have a great i have asthma. One of many pieces in my life. So when my asthma symptoms kept coming back on my longterm control medicine, i talked to my doctor and found a missing piece in my asthma treatment. Oncedaily breo prevents asthma symptoms. Breo is for adults with asthma not well controlled on a longterm asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. Breo wont replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. Breo opens up airways to help improve breathing for a full 24 hours. 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