25 22 its going to be hard played together all the time back at the scene today debris is still scattered about the Investigation Police say too soon to tell who is at fault. But officers say they can confirm 9 year old lucas was wearing a seatbelt. Lucas mom who was driving the mini van told keion was wearing one too police say it s hard for them to confirm that themselves. Still the crash took away one best friend. Leaving the other fighting survive. Again Norfolk Police say they are still investigating interviewing both drivers and they don t know who is at fault but say when their investigation is over they will turn it to the commonwealth s attorney who will then decide if any charges will be filed. In the control room nadeen Yanes Newschannel 3. Weather is the water safe to drink . Thats what neighbors around fentress airfield in chesapeake are trying to figure out after reports last month that well water onbase was contaminated. This is a live look inside the Public Information meeting the navy is holding right now discussing their plans to test private wells around fentress. They are also answering questions for residents during the meeting at butts road intermediate school. Representatives from several agencies including the navy and the Environmental Protection agency are there. Newschannel 3s Erica Greenway has more on whats being done fentress. A water filling station is now up along Mount Pleasant road for people who live near fentress airfield. With the quality of well water in the area still unknown people who are concerned can fill up here for free. It opened on saturday but the city of chesapeake says crews are working to make it more durable since they dont know how long it may be needed. This all comes after news last month that the Drinking Water that comes from wells onbase is contamined with chemicals called pfcs. The navy says compounds had been in Fire Fighting foam used in years past for training. Standup people who work at fentress are using bottled water for now but its still unknown if wells at nearby homes are affected as well. Mark walker who lives right across from the bases entrance says it could explain a lot. 2 49 33 i was wondering, ok that might explain the taste 36 he says hed already been using bottled water because of that. Trevor hendricks says his family typically uses bottled water as well but the news has him worried for others in the area. Just more concerned for our neighbors safety and a bunch of other people s safety 08 according to the cdc sciencists are still working to understand how exposure to pfcs affects people. Testing will begin on private wells tomorrow the results are expected sometime next month. In chesapeake Erica Greenway news channel 3. Stabbed to death that s what the Montgomery CountyCommonwealth Attorney says is the preliminary cause of death of 13 year old nicole lovell. She announced it during a News Conference this afternoon. Charged in the 13 year old s death a Virginia Tech student 18 year old david eisenhauer. Another tech student 19 year old natalie keepers, who is charged with accessory to murder after the fact and hiding a body. She is now also facing accessory before the fact. The new charge released today. Nicole s mother broke down barely able to make out words, and had to eventually walk away investigators say they are working to piece together the timeline from the day nicole was killed and they have more than 400 leads thanks to the public. All Northampton CountyPublic Schools located on virginias eastern shore, closed early today because of a bomb threat. This includes two elementary schools, a middle school , and a high school. The schools started releasing students at 11 45 this morning. The superintendent tells newschannel 3 the threat didn t target a specific school so they closed all schools as a Chesapeake Police k9s searched the schools as a part of the investigation. Officials tell us nothing was found the all clear was given about 40 minutes ago. A newport news mothe is facing charges this afternoon. Because police say they found her drunk slumped over a child s stroller, with the child inside. Saturday Police Arrested 37 year old julie little. Police say she appeared to be drunk and was stumbling while pushing a stroller. She s charged with being drunk in public and felony child neglect. Little s child was placed in the custody of a friend. There they go again some lawmakers are making yet another attempt to put the power of school scheduling in the hands of localities, above the objections of the tourism industry. House bill 753 passed the house yesterday and today moved to the Senate Education and health committee. If the bill survives committee, it would allow School Divisions to set their schedule without seeking a waiver from the state board of education. Opponents say starting school their businesses because it impacts vacation plans for visiting tourists. A similar bill died in the same Senate Committee last week, only getting four favorable votes out of 15. Portsmouth police need you to take action against crime. They are looking for the person who robbed a getty mart on George Washington highway. It happened just before ten last night. No description of the robber has been released. If you know anything that can help Police Take Action and call the crime line. Two people were taken to the hospital this morning for smoke inhalation after their home caught fire in Virginia Beach. It happened just before six at a home on winterhaven drive. Firefighters were called to the home after Officials Say the smoke detectors woke up the family inside. Investigators say the cause of the fire is accidental. Suffolk police have arrested a man for robbing a rite aid last month. Police say 47 yearold lawrence clarr walked into a acted like he had a gun and demanded prescription drugs from the pharmacist. He got them then took off. No one hurt. Today he is charged with Armed Robbery and use of a firearm. He is being held without bond at the western tidewater regional jail. A new curbside residential recycling service will begin in nags head today. Last month nearly four thousand blue recycling bins were delivered in preparation for the new curbside recycling collection service. Recycling isnt new to nags head, but home owners previously had to pay a monthly fee to outer banks hauling for curbside disposal of their recyclables. Now curbside recycling will be included in their property tax. Ahead at 4 the president ial candidates hit the ground running in New Hampshire. Some, are trying to build on the momentum of iowa, while others are trying to get back on track. We have the latest on the campaign trail. Plus ever wander what happens to unwanted and returned Holiday Gifts . Well they end up here a wear house in illinois the reason coming breaking news out of Dallas County texas where health Officials Say the mosquitoborne zika virus is a sexually transmitted disease there s now a case of the zika virus being transmitted through sexual contact. The c dc confirmed it to Dallas HealthOfficials Saying the patient was infected with the virus after having sexual contact with someone who was sick with the illness. This raises new concerns about the spread of the virus that s linked to birth defects. The Iowa Caucuses are over and now the republican and democratic president ial candidates head to new steve nannes has a look at the next front in the race for the white house. After months of campaigning in iowa. The candidates have moved on to New Hampshire. Ted cruz may have bested fellow republican candidates donald trump and marco rubio in monday s caucuses. Sen. Ted cruz, president ial candidate so what a victory last night. But in New Hampshire, trump leads in the polls and rubio is expected to be a formidable challenger. Sen marco rubio, president ial candidate we need to unify the conservative movement and the republican party. I can do that better than anyone that s running. We need to grow it, i can do that better than anyone who s running and we need to beat Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Hillary clinton won the Iowa Caucuses over her democratic challenger Bernie Sanders by a razor thin margin. Hillary clinton, d president ial candidate i am so thrilled that i am coming to New Hampshire after winning iowa and sanders, a senator from nearby vermont is well positioned to win next tuesday s contest, which could make this a prolonged primary battle. Sen. President ial candidate we are going to fight really hard in New Hampshire and then we re going to nevada, going to south carolina. We look forward to doing well around the country. With the first contest in the books, the 2016 hopefuls are wasting no time courting voters in the next campaign battleground, as a win in the Granite State could swing the momentum once again. I m steve nannes reporting. Newschannel 3 is honoring our american heroes. Today we re honoring andrew heisler. His fiance sent in this picture of the two of them. She says he s been in the navy for six years and they re getting married later this year. Congratulations. We want to recognize your american hero, but we need your help. Send us a their picture and make sure you let us know their name, rank, and a little about makes them your american hero. Email it all to picsatwtkr dotcom and we ll honor them the Holiday Gifts people get arent always the gifts they want. In the past few weeks millions of americans returned items they received. And you may be surprised where many of them end up. Adriana diaz explains. Nats the holidays are long gone, but it s the most wonderful time of the year for Michael Ringelsten. Outside chicago. Nat walking mr it s like organized chaos back here. That s because this is where many items go when they re returned to sellers like amazon, home depot, and sears. Sot ad is this like santas little work shop for christmas rejects . Mr laughs for sure. Sot Michael Ringelsten consumers assume when they return it its put back on to the shelf which isn t the case ringelstens business has jumped 1 thousand percent in the past four years. And Online Shopping is a big reason why. Americans returned 260 billion dollars worth of items last year. Tobin moore ceo of optoro dot com helps stores process those returns. He says restocking items can be expensive for retailers. Sot tobin moore ceo, optoro. Com so often retailers just liquidate them for pennies on the dollar or in some cases throw them away in a landfill butt to because its more cost effective. items that survive end up at discount retailers, pawn shops and flea markets. Some companies also sell the goods online. Nats dave veerman came to shorewoods showroom and found a toy truck for his grandson, at a deep discount sotdavid veerman what s the wrong item for one is the right item for somebody else. a returned item rebought at the right price. Adriana diaz cbs news, shorewood illinois ahead at 4 new details on a retired Police Officer who is going above and beyond to get his beloved police k9 back find out how his community took action to here in vineland, home of progresso, we figured out how to get rich ingredients like bacon into 22 light soups, so if you want 100 calories or less per serving without giving up rich flavor do what we do. Make it progresso. You say avocado old el paso says. Zesty chicken and avocado tacos in our stand n stuff tortillas. record scratch you say stand n stuff tortillas old el paso says. A North Carolina teen accused of trying to support isis is now charged with murdering his elderly neighbor. Johnny clark s body was found police say he was shot several times. 19yearold Justin Sullivan was indicted for his murder. The fbi first arrested sullivan back in june. They say he wanted to kill americans at a club and tried to get an undercover agent to kill his parents when they got suspicious. They did not say if clark s death was tied to the terror plot. Four Oklahoma High School wrestlers are charged with raping two other wrestlers. The incident happened as the team was returning from a wrestling tournament. The victims were 12 and 16yearold boys. One suspect is 18 yearsold and will be tried as an adult on several charges including first degree rape. The three others also face rape charges, but will be tried as juveniles. Next at 4 making a murderer the addicting, 10 hour truecrime documentary that has millions of people asking lots of questions. Some revolve around what you should and shouldnt say to police. After the break a Regent University law professor explains why you our weather roller coaster is heading up again but so is our chance for Stormy Weather. After a big drop in temperatures on tuesday, a warm front will roll through the region overnight, bringing us a big warm up on wednesday. A gusty south wind will push temperatures into the 70s again. But a powerful cold front will arrive late in the afternoon. That will spark showers, possibly thunderstorms, and maybe even a few severe storms. Our biggest threats are from damaging winds and localized flooding. Most of the wet and Stormy Weather will fall on wednesday night and early thursday morning. But we could see lingering showers day on thursday, especially across northeastern North Carolina. We will be back down into the lowtomid 50s by thursday afternoon and only in the low tomid 40s on friday. Temperatures will rebound into the lower 50s for the super bowl weekend, with a slight chance for some showers by sunday making a murderer it s the wildly popular crime documentary series about a man who claims his innocence in prison for the rest of his life charged with murder. Newschannel 3 has a special report with a connection to the show right here in hampton roads. Newschannel s nadeen yanes has the story. Pkg nats of opening scene show making a murderer it s the addicting documentary serie millions are Binge Watching leaving them asking did steven avery kill Teresa Halbach or was he framed. Cbs pkg 05 09 you know we are all victims and they just won t leave us alone they just keep it up keep it up he s now convicted of her murder a conviction largely based on a confession made by his nephew. Brendan dassey this confession has many wisconsin detectives featured in the show. Tactics one Regent University professor has been saying for years you can avoid entirely if you just don t talk to the police. The lecture taught 8 years ago now going viral. With more than 9 Million People watching it in part on facebook. It s getting more clicks today because a Company Called insider took it and showed how it relates to netflix s addictive documentary series specifically with this confession by Brendan Dassey who told police he and steven both killed halbach together. A confession minutes later he told his mom in the now famous lecture professor duane shows how easily it can be done by a simple experiment using a simple newspaper article. Duane says it s those subconscious assumptions that found guilty. Save time we asked Portsmouth Police what they think. Duane warns his lecture isn t to bad mouth cops he just hopes to spread the word that everyone has the constitutional right to remain silent. Tag professor duane s lecuture has become so famous that amazon publishing contacted him about writing a book on this very subject. If you want to watch to his entire lecture you can on our coming up tonight at 5 a police group wants it to be easier to charge you with resisting arrest hear what they re saying to virginia lawmakers about this. Plus a portion of a busy Virginia Beach roadway is now closed to traffic how long you can continues to cleanup at the box Office Around the world. Analysts now reporting the scifi epic could pass twobillion dollars by the end of the week. Since its release date seven weeks ago the film has raked in over 895million dollars domestically, and over one billion dollars overseas. Now 17million more dollars to push it past the twobillion dollar mark . Tata motors plans to unveil its latest hatchback this week. It s name . The zica and it s causing some problems for the company. That s zica, as opposed to the virus, which is spelled zika. Tata has already promoted the zica hatchback as a stylish car with a peppy driving experience. But a Company Spokesperson says tata is evaluating the car s name and may consider a change. Ahead at 4 why a little girl sp letter lands her face to face pwith unleash the power of dough. Give it a pop. That sound. Like nails on a chalkboard. But listen to this family talking thats a different kind of sound. The sound of the weekend. Unleash the power of dough. Police in one small pennsylvania town say they got a very special surprise in the mail a handwritten thank you letter from one of the town s young residents. And in turn, they invited her to come meet one of her heroes. Peggy lee has the story. i m chief laidacker, how are you . good good, do you want to sit down . What started out as a School Project has now landed 8year old Sabrina Campbell in the Catawissa Police station. Face to face with the chief. it s such a great thing you did, we appreciate it thank you but sabrina s not in trouble. No. Far from it. She s here after department. Wh ere she thanks them for keeping our country safe from bad people. Chief Josh Laidacker says he was floored after reading what sabrina wrote. Chief Josh Laidacker, Catawissa Police very humbling to read this, especially from a child, it means so much to us to see Something Like this, i think this letter is not just for our Police Department but it s for every Police Department out there sabrina says her librarian told her class to pick a hero and write a letter to them. So sabrina picked her local Police Officers. In her letter she writes that people normally don t thank Police Officers but it seems like the right thing to do. Sabrina campbell, wrote a letter to police normally they don t get a thank you note every day from people from people they do stuff for chief Josh Laidacker, Catawissa Police the innocence of it and the genuine sincerity of it is something that, it s why we do this. Something like this, a letter like this can keep you another, the chief made sure handed. Chief Josh Laidacker, Catawissa Police this are from us, this is a patch that we wear on our arm, one is our American Flag and one is our Department Patch and you can keep those, a letter to police thank you the chief says he plans to frame the letter and display it at the police station. Our weather roller coaster is heading up again but so is our chance for Stormy Weather. After a big drop in temperatures on tuesday, a warm front will roll through the region warm up on wednesday. A again. But a powerful cold front will arrive late in the afternoon. That will spark showers, possibly thunderstorms, and maybe even a few severe storms. Our biggest threats are from damaging winds and localized flooding. Most of the wet and Stormy Weather will fall on wednesday night and early thursday morning. But we could see lingering showers throughout the day on thursday, especially across northeastern North Carolina. We will be back down into the lowtomid 50s by thursday afternoon and only in the low tomid 40s on friday. Temperatures will rebound into the lower 50s for the super bowl weekend, with a slight chance for some showers by sunday new details on a retired Police Officer in ohio who was in jeapordy of losing his k9 partner. He will now be able to keep him. Matthew hickey developed a close bond with ajax over three years of working together. According to hickey ajax wasn t like family he was family. When hickey recently retired from the force after 30 years of service, he couldn t just buy ajax and take him home. Under ohio law ajax was considered he had to be sold at auction. The story took off on social media. A gofundme page raised more than 60thousand dollars to help hickey buy ajax far more than was needed. The marietta Police Department and hickey managed to work out a resolution hickey has been appointed as an auxiliary officer, allowing him to keep ajax. The Carolina Panthers and Denver Broncos face off in super bowl 50 this sunday. Eager fans wait with anticipation across the country. But the excitement is especially intense in San Francisco where fans are gathering at super bowl city. Ali wolf reports. Nats street noise this week the bustling streets of downtown San Francisco. Are a lot more crowded than usual. If you didn t get the memo super bowl 50 is here. You don t have to look far to be reminded. Victoria beltran visiting super bowl city from oakdale its nice out here there s so much to see and what you re getting right here berg the big game is not beingp being played in the city. P but fans who didn t get tickets can come to the embarcadero for free activities at super bowl city. Noah love tourist it just adds to the excitement because its about 30 miles away the super bowl but everyone here is getting ready for it. And i want carolina to win because i don t like the broncos,. Raiders out here as families and sports fans enjoy live entertainment, games and photo ops. Police are roaming super bowl city and the surrounding area, some, in full tactical gear. The San FranciscoPolice Department is out in full force. They re working with the fbi and other local agencies. Lt. Sergio chin sfpd we are coordinating we have been for the past few months regarding what responsibilities need to be obtained to make this event and throughout the city safe. Along with extra manpower, there are also bomb sniffing dogs. Metal detectors parked along entrances to the Public Events throughout the city. And police are checking all vehicles bringing in supplies. Its all to make sure fans . Like adonis bell and Johnny Foster stay safe. Adonis bell in monterey. Ali roommates and rivals. Roommates rivals, broncos gonna win he knows this the roommates from monterey walked the streets as friends. But on sunday they ll be taking the competition seriously. Johnny foster panthers fan from monterey his half of the house is gona be bronco people only and my half is gonna be panthers. A house divided. And a city excited. And this is only the beginning of the week leading up to super bowl 50 and don t forget newschannel s very own Makenzie Walter will be at the super bowl covering everything from the crowds to the stats. She left today and posted this picture from the airport. You can catch all the action right here on newschannel three. Make sure you follow her on twitter and use the hashtag sb 50 wtkr. Makenzie s coverage will start tomorrow. And we want you to watch the super bowl in style each morning this week we re giving away one of these 50inch smart tv s. If you can t be at the game, this is the next best thing you just need the daily keyword but you have to watch to win. Make sure you wake up with us on newschannel 3 this morning tomorrow starting at five am. Police responding to a Burglar Alarm in pennsylvania made an unusual discovery. Officers responded to a pittsburgh Internet Marketing company after someone triggered the alarm. The company had just celebrated with a big pizza party and there was plenty of pizza left over. Police say the suspect helped himself to what was left in the fridge. He apparently got so full, he had to take a nap because officers found him asleep. 26yearold cory mcginnis, a former professional baseball player, is charged with burglary. Coming up next at 4 flint s water crisis has prompted other cities across the country to. Im nadeen yanes. Just few minutes. Flint, michigan s water crisis has prompted other cities to consider the quality and in stockton, california, some residents are worried about the city s use of a chlorine ammonia mix to disinfect municipal h2oh. Ben deci reports. Flint, michigan s water crisis has prompted other cities to consider the quality and safety of their own water. In stockton, california, some residents are worried about the ty s use of a chlorine monia mix to disinfect nicipal h2o. N deci reports. Even in water that the federal vernment says is safe to ink. Ere are compounds and emicals beyond the derstanding of any but the st sophisticated scientist. Ts 06 oc per billion. Plaining all that is not why in brockovich is in stockton tonight. She here because people who ven made Water Science eir lives, will instead have to make a decision about who to trust. Erin brockovich activist you can make a difference in your own back yard. Please. The city of stockton started adding chloramines to its water in january, after that water failed purity tests. City staff says the chemical is safe that it s used in scores of other communities. And it has been for decades. Christina fugazi stockton vice mayor the main purpose of this is to prevent those water borne pathogens any of those diseases, any of those viruses, bacterias, from coming to you and you then ingesting them. Brockovich and her colleague bob bowcock say chloramines are only the cheapest, most expedient solution to stockton s water problem. But they are bad for public health. Especially for pregnant women. Nats here s the health effects. Nats car honking many came to already made up. Nats i m willing to pay the 75cents more a month. I ve got it in my pocket right now. Still others in this town, that s faced so much adversity already, are just trying to figure who they can trust. Daniela valencia stockton united for healthy water you know, stockton already has lots of disadvantages, and we don t want to be just not cared about. We want our city officials to really care about us. You know, it doesn t matter what education we have, what color, what socioeconomic status we re at. We really want them to care in every way. Officials say roughly 12 hundred people attended last night s meeting. A norfolk man accused of killing his mom was no stranger to guns. Newschannel three uncovers new details from court documents. It could soon be easier for police to charge you with resisting arrest. That s if a Police Organization gets its way. Two families dealing with a nightmare. One child has died the other is fighting for his life. Welcome to newschannel three at 5 i m barbara ciara. P and i m Kurt Williams in forp les smith. P p p p p two best friends thrown from a van after a car crash yesterday. One of them a 9 year old died. The other is fighting for his life at the hospital today. Newschannel 3 s nadeen yanes joins us with the update. Norfolk police just released the name of the nine year old boy they say Lucas Ballard died at