37 in danville. 32 in roanoke. We will u. You in a bit. Pat and he whitney . Whitney we are continuing what is happening with the weather. Mona is live in bedford with the latest on Road Conditions and will is in lynchburg. We will send it over to melissa for more on our weather. Melissa we want to get to what you need to know, that is weather. I was saying 32 in lynchburg. 37 in danville. We are seeing a bit of a winter mix in roanoke they are at the freezing mark. 32 degrees. 35 in brooknil. 35 in blacksburg. Heavy rain in hot springs. Visibility is something we are watching. If you head out on the road, conditions are continuing to deteriorate about a mile and a quarter visibility in danville. Here is what you can expect for tuesday. Not necessarily going to be worried about winter mix. Freezing reason transitions to rain and heavy rain will be what you want to watch for. And roads, conscience, going to be very difficult out there. Please, stay home if you can. And stay with your families. We not thot see conscience improve until this afternoon. I want to take i live out to lynchburg. Will . Will it does not take long before you are soaking wet. There is so much moisture to be found. We have been Walking Around the parking lot. The ponding of water on the parking lot. I walked to langehorn road they have ponding there. Mona will talk about that in a moment. We have noticed that the snow is starting to melt. Last hour our snow from 5 and a water is flowing out into the streets. We are having ponding of water issues. We had heavy rain a 10th to 210th of an inch of rain is falling per hour. We will give you exactly a rainfall rate report coming up at about 67 00. Patty . Patti the snow and slow has been causing slick travel conditions in appomattox. Road conditions and speed contributed to a wreck on route 460 yesterday. No one was seriously injured. First responders rescued them and took them to the hospital. The children were not strapped in. The driver was cited for reckless driving and improperly securing children in a vehicle. Whitney lock at a crash after a tractor carrying officers spent hours rounding up the cows. This was yesterday on i81. Police say the truck driver 22 year old crabtree had minor injuries. He is charged with reckless driving. Six of the 3 cows on board died. Another 6 escaped. Patti accidents like those are an example why it is best not to be on the roads now. We will look how the roads are looking. Whitney mona is out with the latest on those conditions following an icy night. Mona Shopping Center on deteriorating the rain is coming down hard. I want you to look at this road behind meet northbound lanes of 221 and water is backed up on to the roads. Flooding the street it is mixed three are cause for dangerous road conscience. But all three together can prove to be quite dangerous. Now in the last 30 minutes of v dot power truck came by. Parking lot is covered in ice. Now went by and cleared that section which helped drain the water. It was worse early. I want to show you video before the plow truck came by. The water was just standing a few inches poof the road. Now because it is so dark, cars are coming down quite fast down 221 and they are hitting the water. Having to hit the brakes hard. They dont seat flooding this is not unique to this airrea. This is 221 temperature is dangerous. The plow trucks going from snow removal to clearing out of this melted snow. Patti having audio problems, we will follow this weather throughout the morning. Stick with us on good morning virginia. Love was not in the air for water at the Seattle Aquarium the meating with the octopus was called off this past valentines day. I dont know. Staffers say they were afraid the 70 pound octopus named kong was too big for the females. There were concerns that kong would eat mate. This may have been a missed Love Connection for kong. His wait may have extended his life an octopus usually die after mating. May be that is one. The Westminster Dog Show continues with seven new faces. Whitney seven new breeds are we go behind the scenes of the show. Reporter 3,000 dogs competing at the Westminster Dog Show. This is like the superbowl. Reporter 197 breeds including seven new breds more than ever before am janingo looks like a mop but he is a spanish water dog and another new dog. This is our first time. Reporter getting the dogs ready for the spotlight is no walk in the park. We sham 52 sham 52 for an hour. A tough life. He has a very tough life. Reporter he is already a champion winning best in his breed. Giving him a shot at best in patti love it. Whitney cute. Yea. I love my schitzue. Still to come, how are your new years resolutions going . Whitney a look outside, it is messy. You want to stay off the roads. In the 30s. Where we here is your tuesday, temperatures we are start negligent 30s. Heavy rain for the morning hours. We will be dry by lunchtime. We got tricky travel conditionso audio. Fors you are noticing it is tapering temperatures warm above the freezing mark. As we zoom in, give you a tour of our area. Seeing heavy rain through roanoke. Steady rain for blacksburg. Am zooing to lynchburg. Have a bit of freezing rain reported in amhurst and lovingston. Heavy rain for bedford. Moderate in lynchburg. Down towards the south side. Danville, south boston the rain moving along twine. Henry county seeing that pink now, look at rainfall totals, this is the last six hours half an inch in lynchburg. 1. 3 inches in bedford. Over an inch in buick anbuchanan. We have seen significant rainfall on top of the snow, sleet and ice. We will add to the rainfall throughout the morning. We will have to watch for flooding. A winter storm warning that is the pink in affect until 12 00 p. M. Around lunchtime. Have aerial flood watches to tell you about. Advisories for green here. That will be in affect until 8 45 hour for pennsylvania county issue henry and martinsville. That area flood advisory in affect until 12. 45. Nelson county. Flood watch until this evening. Temperatures as you see holding you see that sharp contrast 38 in danville. We are seeing 34 in farmville. The freezing mark for roanoke and martinsville. Your hour by hour forecast. Heavy rain will continue. We will see sun later on this afternoon. Temperatures will warm up in the upper 40s. That unsettled weather continues as that low pressure system that brought no moves to the northeast am another clip are system impacts us over night. Could bring showers but once we get through the rain well see things quiet down. Notice by len 00 already moving this rain out. And we will see clearing skies for the rest of your tuesday. How much rainfall are we looking at . Models calling for half an inch and inch and a half in some areas well watch for minor flooding. 40s this afternoon. Upper 40s and low 50s to the south side. The day. Sandra sent this in. Scenic snow in halifax. We had great viewer photos yesterday, continue to send them you stay safe. Whitney and patty . Whitney it is being called an uber for kids. Massachusetts zen car hopes to convince parent its is not only convenient but they show us how it works. Say kids miss the bus or there are days you cant do pick up there is an app. Zip car is available on android store. This Verizon Wireless executive and father of 2 created this. Compares it to uber for kitched parents schedule trips. Make it very secure. Checks hire drivers earn up to 35 an hour. There is video monitoring. They need to same pick up and the video starts getting broadcast to the parents. Riley zip car is coming for you. Need to tell the teacher or child zip car is coming. Record a permission slip. This message will get delivered to the driver and the teacher and the kichldz kid. 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It is all of bedford, parts of county arial Flood Warning. In affect until 12. 12 . 15. We have it to the west of the viewing area and the purple issue winter storm warning until 12 00 p. M. Now we will deal with the rain through 11 00. You see future cast half an inch to an inch. Patti we want to let you know we have been keeping our eye on twitter. Crews are dealing with downed trees up pennsylvania county that will be an issue in a lot of areas. Whitney coming up in the next halfhour. Vdot is urging to you be safe. A like look at the roads. We have whitney it is tuesday february 16th. Now this morning we had Team Coverage on what is happening with the weather. Patti well head out later to mona she is in bedford with the latest on Road Conditions there. Also will is out in front of our abc 13 studios in mid town, lynchburg. First over to melissa who is tracking the storm over night. We have gone from one thing to another in hours. Melissa thats right. The system are warming above the freezing mark from freezing rain now most seeing the heavy rainfall. Live view of danville. People are out on the roads. I hope those are crucial government or city workers going to work. Honestly you dont want to be check out satellite and radar now. You see heavy rain move to pennsylvania county. Bedford, making its way to lynchburg in the next 3045 minutes. Check your weather now. You see, of course, we are seeing heavy rain in danville roanoke at 32. Still seeing the freezing rain mixing in. 32 in lynchburg. 34 in brooknil. Flurries and snow reported in blacksburg they are there sitting at 33. Hovering there at the 32 degree mark. It is 38 in hot springs. Quick check of what you can expect. We are not worried about the mix now. We head throughout the morning it will be the rain and tell be heavy at times. That means Road Conditions will continue to deteriorate. They will be slushy and slippery. Add in the ice over night, dont want to be out there if you dont have to which we want to go out to will live in lynchburg. What are you seeing now . The rain come down moderate and occasionally heavy upon we are watching that heavy band of rain now in bedford that will move into our area in morning. See if we got a cup out there. We got a cup in the parking lot to give us a measurement of how much the rain rate is. I would say it is a 10210th of an inch we will confirm that. You will be Walking Around the parking lot. It is slick and it is a little on the wet side. A lot on the wet side. Melting snow and rain. The water has no place to g. It is starting to pond on the roadways. If you dont have a place to be go ahead and stay inside and be warm. Patty, back inside. Speak of warm. Patti vdot is recommending people stay off the roads until the ice mes. Crews have been working 12 hour shifts f. You have to be out drive nothing bad weather. Take is slow, and allow for extra time of leave time for your car and the car in front of you. No sudden braking gradually stop. Something else to keep in mind, it doesnt matter what vehicle you drive am ice does not discriminate. Look at an accident on route 29 in campbell county. The tread on your tires does not matter. If you hit a patch of black ice steer it in the direction you want to go. If it rotates steer in the other direction. Can you spot black ice on the road, there is mow water running from it. If you are going 20 Miles Per Hour on icy roads you need 180 feet of clearance to stop. That is about half the length of a football field. Whitney the ice highways made it dangerous. Last check, three fatal crash officials tell us two troop ands a firefighter were hit at a crash scene and had to be sent to the hospital. Last night. Troopers responded to 97 crashes and 14 disabled vehicles across the state. In appomattox there have been seven crashes and four in the salem divichlgz police are asking if you dont have to be on the roads, please, stay put. Ism we have the latest on the Road Conditions. Mona is out and about in bedford. She is seeing how the roads look now. Mona hey. Across the street from the Shopping Center to 221 in bedford county. And the weather conditions are changing by the minute. The rain has let up a bit. It is not raining as hard as it was. We were getting gusts of wind. We saw lightning a few times. Getting the full scope of the weather changes. We are dealing with on the roads. Look at this parking lot. Dealing with ice. We have slush as well. On the roads. And all of this are making for dangerous driving conscience. Now along with the rain. The water has backed up on to the road. 221 early was flooded because the drains were clogged up with the snow. Right now crews have been coming back and forth trying to clear the drains so the water gets off the road. Well is slush and ice on the roads. They tweeted out that they want you to be careful on bridges and over passes. Some can appear wet. However, they could be covered with ice. They say tell get to secondary roads there are some untouchd and have snow on them. As you head out you want time to deal with the conditions, on 221 when we were driving up we noticed there were spots that had slush. Some with all three inform this parking lot i this to tip tow and be careful because it is very ice. Even if you are walking tout to the bus stop be aware of your surroundings. Well send it back to you. I have to be careful as i walk back to the car now. Patti thank you. Mona. A deputy in serious condition after crashing responding to a call. According to the Sheriffs Office after mid Night Saturday smith was responding to a call about a Man Threatening to jump off a bridge. Smith ran off the road as he was headed there. He was air lifted to the hospital. They found the man later and took him in. This morning we are learning information about a pedestrian hit in roanoke. Police identified the man hit roanoke county. He is recovering at roanoke hospital. Police say he got hit by a vehicle on orange avenue after 8 00 p. M. So far no one has been charged. Patti still to come, period obama making spring travel plans in looking ahead. Whitney as we have been telling you all morning it is nasty. Making for a dangerous driving whats all this nonsense about balls . Pink balls, blue, yellow, red. Its hard to keep the whole thing straight. And all these socalled deals . Well, they come with a lot of deal breakers. Like when you leave the city the signal goes weak. U. S. Cellular built a network to give you a stronger signal where the other guys dont. And as for deals . Hows 300 back for every line you switch . 300 no ball nonsense. Get 300 per line and a stronger signal, melissa get a check about the rainful heavy rain will fall until 9 0010 00. We are seeing slush and he slick roads. If you dont have to get out the first part of the dame plan to stay home and have a staycasion. If you are getting out you have to use caution. Travel was quite tricky this morning. Check out the rainfall over the last six hours. Using parts of bedford. Heavy line moving through 1. 3 inches estimated. Lynchburg 710th of an inch. North of martinsville 2. 3 inches is what the radar is estimating. We will add to that over the next couple of hours. Check out satellite. We see the freezing rain dissipate. Now it is all falling as rain and heavy rain at that. Zooming into the line moving from bedford now along 221 and 460. Headed to the east. Tell make its way to lynchburg in 30 minutes or less. Down to the south pennsylvania county and halifax count and he henry, city of martinsville. Heavy rain will sudden. Seeing snow, most us dealing with the heavy rain as attaches above the freezing mark. We have been talking about flooding. Arial Flood Warning for parts of bedford, rockford and rockbridge and campbell. Parts of henry and pennsylvania county and parts of franklin have an arial flood watch in affect for nelson county. You will have to watch for that ponding on the roads. You have that winter storm warning for the viewing area in affect until 12 00 p. M. Temperatures we have been talking above freezeings. 32 in lynchburg and roanoke. 33 in blacksburg. 38 in danville. And low 50s for the day. Rain will move out and we will see sun later on this afternoon. That low pressure system as it moves to the north and east will take the rain, gotta get through the heavy line. The 8 00 hour. Most of rain tapers. Clearing skies by lunch. Well be dry for your tuesday. How much rainfall could we add to what we have seen . Future cast calling for an inch and a half in lynch bufrmg an inch and a half in danville. Temperatures this afternoon 48 in lynchburg and bedford. 50 in alta vista 52 in danville. 46 in roanoke. Increasing clouds. Showers possible as a clip are moves through. The 30s. After we get through today. I promise things will quiet down. 60s this weekend it is not the 60s outside. Will, what are you seeing in lynchburg. Im not a fan of warm weather. We got enough of a breeze to make it feel misable. We have been out since time 00. The rain is the lightest we have seen. That is about to change as the massive area of rain will come in here as you said over the next 30 minutes. Reason coming down by the buckets in bedford and back to the town and that is as you said moving here. We got a break i have a feeling it the not be that way for much longer. Whitney . Whitney u. S. Airlines will win routes to cuba u. S. Carriers have 15 days to submit applications to the department of transportation for those cuba routes. Now the development brings airlines and travellers close to scheduled flights between the two countries for the first time in over 50 years. U. S. And cubar expected to sign soon of the patti president bomal make his first visit to vietnam in may after the president met with vietnams Prime Minister at a summit. The president s vietnam visit be a side trip for the group of seven summit in japan. The president will be the third president to visit nation. Tonight tune in for a town hall, your voice your future. Oust Columbus Ohio is hosting this. It is set to tackle which president ial candidate can solve the challenges young people face tell be streamed live on our website 7 008 00 p. M. Whitney we are not the only melissa tell be a 50 50 day. Tell be sog and he second half all right. What are we tracking. Above freezing. At the 32 degree mark. Some of us in the upper 30s toward doneville. Heavy rain for this morning. Well watch for the slushy, slick and slippery roads. Be careful as you have to get out on the roads. We will see conditions improve as we dry out by the lunchtime hour. Pinpoint radar deposit a lot going on now. Still have a bit of freezing rain indicated by the pifrpg here and there. Over all heavy rain through bedford and moving through pennsylvania and halifax. And got snow coming in on the backside where we have the low frsh system that will track to the north and east our area today. Time everything out on future cast upon 7 00 heavy rain moves east am look at this. If you want to go out for lunch. We will see dry conditions. Tell be quiet throughout the afternoon. We have another quick clipper system that will impact our area. May see a few showers over night. Will light in nature. Future cast to the south saturday. Not expecting flooding or snowfall. If you are out dont be surprised if you see sprinkles. We are dry in time for the wednesday commute and looking good throughout wednesday. Dry are weather. We could add half an inch to an inch over the next couple of hours. Watch out for ponding and flooding on the roads. Patty . Patti thank you, freezing rain can bring Power Outages and companies are monitoring what is going on which here are the numbers and they are going up. Fcc reports 100 in this part of the state without power. Bedford more than 600. 350 in campbell and 500 in carol. Dominion says a thousand customers on the southed side dont have electric. We are watching the outage maps and keep you uptodate on air and facebook. Whitney if your power has not gone out it is good to be prepared. It is wise to have an emergency kit ready. And if you just stocked up on groceries and lose power consider this. Most meat and Dairy Products need to be tossed out if they were above 41 for more than two hours. Aep say its is important you report your outage and turn off major apliances to prevent circuits from over loading and all cell phones are charged. Patti continuing to track out well on the roads. Whitney mona is out and has the latest look on the conditions. Mona . We got all this morning we had heavy down pours, wind and light rain. Going forward we are not getting that heavy down pour like earlier. Now it is raining. But not like before am as for the road conscience v conscience v vdot has been working there was a mix of slush and iechs now the traffic picked up and roads are cleefrm going forward. Vdot will focus on keeping the drains clear. They will look for trees bought of the rain. They will focus that. Give yourself time if you are headed out this morning to get to where you are going so you dont hit ice spots on the roads. Back to you guys. Snow is make for dangerous driving conscience before a warm up. Abc meghan has more on the weather and the hardest hit states. Cleaning up the area in city hall so nobody slips. Respect report slippery sidewalks, on the roads the ice last drivers scrambling to get traction. Down route 29, he went off the road just missing this tree. Im trying not to hit the guy in front of me. I kind of came off the road. North carolina mix caused 1500 Car Accidents in less than 24 hours. The 1200 mile long winter storm is creating trouble at airports. Red dominated the board at charlotte international. 1600 flights were canceled on monday. Im ready for summer. The snow, ice and rain are matching north up the east coast. 17 states seeing alerts with a warm up in many places by later tonight. The wild weather stretching to the south with reports of tornado touchdowns. In mississippi the house destroyed. The high school catch us damaged. And louisiana wind whipping apart this car wash and pizza hut. Sending debris noticing. I seen it coming at me. It is scary. Reporter weather after a weekend that shattered cold record in new york and boston. Today temperatures in some places are expected to rise in the 50s. Meghan hughes abc news, washington. Patti still to come update on henry county deputy injuryod his way to a call. Urging when heartburn hits fight back fast the instant it touches your tongue and neutralizes stomach acid at the source tum, tum, tum, tum smoothies only from tums patti back with the top stories. This morning a henry county deputy listed in serious condition crashing his cruiser over the weekend. Just after mid night on saturday smith was responding to a call about a Man Threatening to jump off a bridge. Smith ran off the road. He was air lifted the hospital. They found the man and took him in for a mental evaluation. Whitney a story day the conditions of the roads. We learned that Police Responded to seven crashes since 1 30 this morning. Now they are urging you to use caution if you have to be out on the roads. As you see, we have a live look on vdot. Crews are working around the clock to plow and sand the streets. They say it takes 2436 hours. Remember since the streets were not pretreated they will not get plowed to the pavement. Now head out to will. Hello we are seeing rainfall out here. It is getting heavy. There is heavy rain to the west of us that will move in. If you are out this morning, watch out for ponding on the roadways. The occasional slick spot, toochlt allow extra time orreen better. Stay in place. Back to you. Whitney come inside. [laughter]. Patti and as we saw they were stand nothing a messy weather there. Melissa it has been heavy rain. Quick check of the drive we are seeing mostly cloudy skies. We have a winter mix. Will and i were watching. Now see will the transition in lynchburg. Slick roads. Use caution. Could see freezing rain mixing in with heavy rainfall. Temperatures today will make it in the upper 40s and low 50s and dry out. Stay safe the heart of the church, the mission of the church, is to change our world by developing christ followers who love god and love people. 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