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Good evening, and thanks for joining us for wsls 10 at six. Im brie jackson. Ripped through appomattox continue. Today people are rallying to offer relief to evergreen. A small storm. Wsls tens duke carter spoke feed those impacted. Mercy chefs is a Non Profit Organization that is feeding helping with the disaster relief. And because the need is so great so many people have come here, where mercy chefs volunteers have already gone through their breakfast and lunch menu. Nats of Truck Driving by in appomattox county off of cedar tree road you dont have to look far to see the destruction Mother Nature left behind. It really knocks you down you dont know what to say, cant say anything except pitch in to help those impacted by the tornado. Just to help out, help out the community. Paul biggio is from roanoke and 8he is here to help with cleanup efforts. Others are volunteering to serve food chefs. Paul biggio voluntee r Chicken Pot Pie made from oh we love coming out, gary leblanc is the founder of mercy chefs. Leblanc says they travelled from Virginia Beach to feed first responders, victims and anyone assisting with the relief effort. He says they expect to serve 500 people daily giving the pastor at Evergreen Baptist Church a sigh of relief. Its because the Pastors Church is the spot where people eat or take a break from helping others salvage items from the storm. Gary leblanc founde r mercy chefs i tell everybody i say i know why i do this it brings great personal satisfaction to the mission leblanc says he started the non profit days after hurricane katrina. And since then hes fed over 1 million people. Hes glad his food is now uniting people here in appomattax as the area recovers from a devastating tragedy biggio im grateful to help out, the head cook here at mercy chefs says hell be out here until the pastor tells him he is no longer needed. In evergreen, dc wsls ten. Appomattox volunteer fire organizations and agencies that are helping with the recovery. The group showed their appreciation on their Facebook Page saying. Cant thank those enough for their assistance as well as the citizens of appomattox who aided us clearing paths and helping their neighbors. Many heartfelt thanks to all those many folks who provided food and supplies. We appreciate your help parts of interstate 81 are now reopen after a single car crash in rockbridge county. It happened around 12 30 this afternoon near mile marker 194. As you can see here roads are now clear. But were blocked for several hours while police handled the crash. A median and then struck a few trees. Flown to a hospital. No word on their conditions. Their names have not yet been released. State police are investigating a deadly crash in rockbridge county. 60. Crash. Police continue to investigate this incident. Information becomes available. The suspect in an officer involved shooting in Roanoke County has died. According to a Roanoke County spokesperson, the suspect died last night at the hospital. His identity has not yet been released. This shooting happened friday night near the walgreens at brambelton avenue and electric road. Details remain limited, but one witness spoke with wsls ten about the shooting. Thomas gill witness i was coming out of kroger. Ambulance, fire trucks and everything else. Officers were placed on administrative leave a normal policy following officer officers were placed on administrative leave a normal policy following officer involved shootings. The incident remains under investigation. A fire damages a roanoke home it happened friday night in the 2000 block of lynn avenue southwest. Roanoke fire crews arrived at the scene around 10 45 with flames and smoke coming from the home. Two dogs were rescued. One died. The fire caused close to 130 thousand dollars in damages. The cause remains under investigation. Danville police are looking for a suspect who allegedly robbed a woman. It happened around 8 30 friday night near the 100 block of wesley drive. Officers received a call about a robbery upon arrival, a female victim told authorities a man hit her in the chest. She dropped her phone and the suspect took it and ran. Police say the suspect left in a white vehicle. No one was hurt. This incident remains under investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call police. Seven emaciated horses were rescued following an animal neglect investigation. It happened in franklin county. According to Roanoke Valley horse rescue the horses did not have access to water or hay and survived by eating bark off nearby trees. They say some were in bad condition. The animals were signed over to the county and brought to the horse rescue. They are now being treated and you can make a difference by giving blood. Wsls 10 is teaming up with the red cross for the 10 cares blood drive. Its monday march 9th at the American Red Cross donor center roanoke. The drive runs from noon to five p. M. Center in the square is offering 50 Percent Discount to blood donors. Donors can get half off admission toward the Science Museum of western virginia. Roanoke pinball museum. Harrison museum of African American culture and the History Museum of western virginia. So make sure to come out and donate still ahead things are heating up down south. The latest on the democratic president ial primary. Good afternoon. The polls are open and the heat is on tonight in South Carolina. Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders fought hard to win the firstinthesouth primary. And now, the final votes are coming in. Wsls 10s National Correspondent chance seales is live in washington. Chance clinton seems to be in good shape. She looks strong. About 50 of democrats voting tonight are expected to be minorities. Thats a big deal for clinton, who has won over many black women. Somethin g Bernie Sanders hasnt been able to match, so far. Still, both candidates have been verbatim winning South Carolina would solidify the momentum thats been building in the solidify the momentum thats been building in the clinton camp. As we head into super tuesday march 1st. 11 states are voting. And shed very much like to have some wind at her back. Polls close at 7pm and the race should be called shortly therafter. Well be watching the returns hopeful marco rubio is heading to southwest virginia. Rubio will visit Roanoke College sunday. Two days ahead of the march first primary. He will speak at the chomer bast center at 8 30 pm. Well have full coverage of that event on our website wsls dot com or sunday night during our six and 11 pm newscasts. Donald trumps upcoming rally at Radford University is causing students on both political sides to speak up. Some students and graduates are obtaining as many of the free tickets as they can. But with no plans to attend or give the tickets away. They say empty seats will send a message to trump. Some are planning a read in where they will sit in the rally but read a book the entire time. Others say those actions are unfair to Trump Supporters and those interested in what the candidate has to say. Colby bender Radford University i think its a great opportunity to come and see an actual president ial candidate come to your university and make history, not matter whether you agree or disagree with him. Radford University Says the Trump Campaign will will be given to walkins. If ticketholders dont show up. The event is monday at noon. Coming up on wsls 10 at 6. Alan will have another check of your storm team ten forecast. Thats coming up in just a few minutes. Plus. Its national entrepenuership week. How one organization is helping businesses in the Roanoke Valley succeed. And dont forget when you see news happening, i want to hear from you. Send me an email to bjacksonat wslsdotcom. Or you can message me on facebook. At brie jackson. Or find me on twitter at brie donkey sound elephant sound theres a big difference between making noise, tapping sound and making sense. elephant sound donkey sound when it comes to Social Security, we need more than lip service. Our next president needs a real plan to keep Social Security strong. elephant noise hey candidates. Enough talk. A time to celebrate Business Owners in our community. One program is helping local companies succeed. Scaleup Roanoke Valley is a federally funded program for small businesses. It launched in 2014 and provides expert Business Consulting and Eddy Communications is one company that has taken part in the program. Owners of the marketing and gross strategy business say having a supportive to connect with other entrepreneurs has helped theior company grow. Corp. 12 14 57 its almost like a Group Therapy type thing where we can bring some of our struggles to the table and say what are we struggling with in our business and we can hear from our peers. How did they find a solution. Organizers of scale up say they have worked with over 40 post valley. Through the program, the have increased Sales Numbers year over year and close to half have added new jobs. Youre looking at a live look of from our tower cam tonight clear and cold with lows in the upper 20s to sunday plenty of sun and very mild with highs in low to mid 60s. Sunday night increasing clouds with lows in the lower to middle 40s. Monday a weak cold front brings a slight chance for a morning shower, otherwise a mix of clouds and sun with highs in the low to mid 60s. Tuesday partly sunny with rain showers arriving by evening and overnight with a low pressure overhead. The high 67. Wednesday mostly sunny and windy with mountain snow showers. Highs in the 50s with temperatures dropping into the 40s by afternoon. Thursday were mostly cloudy with another fast moving low chance of rain and or snow showers in the afternoon and evening. Highs in the mid 40s and lows in the mid to upper 20s. Friday the low brings a chance of rain and or snow with a high around 40. Saturday we clear out with sunshine and temperatures below normal. The high 46 weather closed captioning tower cam tonight clear and cold with lows in the upper 20s to low 30s. Sunday plenty of sun and very mild with highs in low to mid 60s. Sunday night increasing clouds with lows in the lower to middle 40s. Monday a weak cold front brings a slight chance for a morning shower, sun with highs in the low to mid 60s. Tuesday partly sunny with rain showers arriving by evening and overnight with a low pressure overhead. The high 67. Wednesday mostly sunny and windy with mountain snow showers. Highs in the 50s with temperatures dropping into the 40s by afternoon. Thursday in the womens odac tournament. Lync hburg and washington and lee met on the hardwood. With less than 5 to go. Generals emily the key. Lynchburg not letting up. Sammi goldsmith dishes it to sarah extend their lead. 15 seconds left on he clock and perszyk hits a jumper but it was not enough and lynchburg takes the win 7157. For us today with top25 teams going head to head on the hardwood. 12 miami coming off an upset over uva on monday hosted 11 louisville. 2. Canes dayvon reed nails the 3 from the corner. Louisville keeping it close. Nice pass to damion lee for the layup to tie it up 3232. Second half. Down 4. Miami strips the ball and Angel Rodriguez makes the layin on the fast break to get within 2. With time winding down. Reed buries another trey and the u wins 7365. More acc scores from earlier today. Things are not getting sits in the cellar of the conference. They fell to georgia tech 7671. And remain winless in acc play. Syracuse picks up a win at home over n. C. State 7566. Frankley. The ncaa headliner for today. 7 ranked unc paying a visit to John Paul Jones area to take on 3 virginia. The cavaliers havent lost a home game since duke last year. The last time these teams met was in the acc tournament last year. When unc advanced. North carolina currently sits at the top of the conference standings. Tip off is at 6 30 tonight on espn. With the sprint cup race set for tomorrow at 1 pm. The Xfinity Series were in action today at atlanta motor speedway. Reigning sprint cup Champ Kyle Busch on the pole for this one. Lap 72. Busch and Brad Keselowski battling for the him. Now kyle larson putting on him trying to power past busch on the outside that is a nogo and kyle busch would hang on to win in atlanta. His 77th victory in alltime leader with wins in the Xfinity Series. To news and notes. West virginia is playing Oklahoma State right now. The game started at 6. Former ohio state quarterback Cardale Jones pulled his hamstring at the nfl combine. They expect him to back in just a couple weeks. And in a big 12 mens basketball meeting earlier today texas took down 3 ranked oklahoma. You can teach an old dog new tricks. Four rescued shelter dogs were trained as ball dogs for the brazil open tournament. Their job. To retrieve balls that went out of bounds and give them back to the players. As you can see here. They didnt like the giving back part as much as the getting the ball part. A local shelter hopes to raise awareness with its balldog initiative. Every insurance policy has a number. But not every Insurance Company understands the life behind it. For those whove served and the families who supported them, we offer our best service in return. Usaa. We know what it means to serve. Get an insurance quote and see why loose. Take a look at this. This little 20year old pony spends her days making peoples dreams come true by posing as a unicorn. Juliette the pony got loose on wednesday still wearing her unicorn horn. After being on the run, a neighbor was able to bring the unicorn back home. Juliettes owners say they are making changes to assure she doesnt escape again. Tonight clear and cold with lows in the upper 20s to low 30s. Sunday plenty of sun and very mild with highs in low to mid 60s. Sunday night increasing clouds with lows in the lower to middle 40s. Monday a weak cold front brings a slight chance for a morning shower, otherwise a mix of clouds and sun with highs in the low to mid 60s. Showers arriving by evening and overnight with a low pressure overhead. The high 67. Wednesday mostly sunny and windy with mountain snow showers. Highs in the 50s with temperatures dropping into the 40s by afternoon. Thursday were mostly cloudy with another fast moving low pressure bringing an chance of rain and or snow showers in the afternoon and evening. Highs in the mid 40s and lows in the mid to upper 20s

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