Situation involving family at home on wildwood road. Police arrive and situation moved to wintergreen and n George Washington hey person in family baricades himself in home, making Threats Police don t know if he is armed or if anyone with him. A live look outside our norfolk studios right now we re tracking rain and maybe let s go now to chief meteorologist Patrick Rockey with a look at what we can expect tracking rain, maybe a few snowflakes, and much warmer air. The cold front that brought a lot of us rain today is now offshore, which will allow us to dry out briefly. In fact, most areas will see partly to mostly cloudy skies tonight with overnight low temperatures in the low and mid 30s. On thursday, all eyes will be on an area of low pressure that will track off the North Carolina coast. A few rain showers will be possible in the morning. But we re going to watch this system closely because, with temperatures starting the day in the 30s, a few snowflakes could mix in with the rain. By afternoon, scattered rain will be around. Otherwise, expect mostly cloudy skies with highs in the mid 40s. Skies will clear as we go near 50. Then, this weekend, sunshine. High temperatures will climb into the 50s and 60s more rain arrives by the middle of next week. New at 11 a chilly night to be outside a group of volunteers going out to help people who can t avoid the cold. Their mission count the Homeless People in Virginia Beach not in shelters but living on the streets. Newschannel 3 s Brendan Ponton is live at Police Precinct in kempsville. With the details brendan weather this is part of a requirement from the federal government for cities to go out and figure out how many Homeless People there are. Volunteers met here at the fourth precinct for this part of the city but it s happening city wide tonight and we met one of the people theyre looking for. Pkg 14 36 this is the porch robert has been living in the woods of Virginia Beach for about three years. He was one of the people volunteers and city Staff Members met as they count the number of Homeless People in Virginia Beach. 14 58 you can look inside if you want he has a tarp and a table set up. s been looking for a job he ys but hasnt had any luck. Th the cold temperatures and wet weather we ve been seeing lately life out here isn t easy. 15 50 the wind blew so hard with the wind the other day it actually blew the rain through the tent. I actually had an inch of water. In an effort to help people like robert crews across the city are looking for Homeless People tonight. Staff members and volunteers first met at different Police Precincts throughout the city. They re handing out things like toiletries and blankets to Homeless People throughout the city. They say this can happen to anyone. 52 27 homelessness is in every city in every state. Homeless is non preduxiced itll impact anyone at any time if the circumstnaces are right for those indivdulads. Next the crews went out and looked for the homeless by cars. Police are with them. We followed them tonight. A lot of Homeless People use stay in places like overpasses, store parking lots and the woods. The homeless in Virginia Beach so they can develop ways to help end homelessness. In some cases unfortunately children are the ones found by these crews on the streets. 54 45 if you can imagine going to school and not having a place to shower and youre living in hotel room day by day its embarrassing. Tomorrow the Homeless People who work with the crews out here tonight will have the chance to go to a local church for services and medical screenings to help them end their homelessness. Live in vb, Brendan Ponton newschannel3. Three School Employees three different arrests all sexually charged. Tonight newschannel 3 s allison mechanic is looking into each of these recent arrests. Gary jordan Darrell Walker and Samantha Quinn may have all worked in Different School systems across Hampton Roads but tonight they are all behind bars. Police in each of their respective cities have charged with sexually related crimes. Today in Norfolk Police reported that jordan an assistant principal at Madison Alternative Center was arrested on monday for taking incident liberties with a child. According to police on january 14th jordan made inappropriate comments to a juvenile while at the school. He was arrested on monday and has been denied bond norfolk Public Schools would not comment on jordan s arrest but released a statement saying jordan has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation. In Elizabeth CityDarrell Walker a science, technology, engineering and math teacher at Perquimans County middle school has been arrested after sexually assaulting another man according to police. A search warrant States Walker assaulted the man after hiring him to do landscaping work at his home. 52 507969 tons this does not involve any of our students it was a matter outside of our county outside of our district, it just happened to be one of our School Employees. Today, matt school superintendent, stressed that walker s alleged actions did not involve any students but he is urging parents to talk to their children and report any red flags they come across. 1 18 507969 tons at this time there have been no reports of any issues from any of our udents or staff in hampton Samantha Quinn a former special Education Teacher was been charged with two counts of indecent liberties. According to police quinn was still working at Hampton High School when she took incident liberties on two occasions with a student. Tonight all three School Employees remain behind bars. Jordan s next court date has been scheduled for next month. Walker s first appearance is thursday morning. And quinn s court date has not yet been set. In the control room i m allison mechanic newschannel 3. New details a crime line tip led to the arrest of a man accused of violating his probation twice in norfolk. We featured darrell vines in a recent edition of taking action against crime. His probation violations are connected to a charge of taking indecent vines is looking at 20 years in prison for those probation violations. An arrest today after a robbery in a Virginia Beach mcdonalds parking lot. We brought you the story as breaking news at 11 last night. Marcus turner, darren mccoy, and donte salley have all been charged for the robbery. Police tell us the three men were at this mcdonalds on bonney road to buy a cellphone from the victim. They say the men go into an argument and the victim was punched in the head knocking him to the ground. They took his phone but the victim stopped the attack by firing his gun. No one was injured by the gunshot but the three suspects got away. New details tonight in a transgender gloucester teen s bathroom fight. Today a federal Appeals Court in richmond heard arguments in the lawsuit on behalf of gavin grimm. Grimm appeared at the federal courthouse in richmond today as his attorney argued his case. Gavin was born female but identifies as male and wants to use the boy s bathroom at Gloucester County high. Forced to use a private restroom. Today he spoke to the media outside the richmond federal courthouse. I am banned from a sex specific or gender specific place certainly takes a big part of this issue for me. To me it is the school saying to me that we don t believe that who you are legitimate. And that is something that is very offensive to me, this is first time an issue like this has gone before the federal court of appeals. It could be two to four months before they make a ruling. If you drive the midtown tunnel we have a travel alert for you. Elizabeth river tunnels is closing down the midtown in both directions this weekend. As part of the tunnel project, crews will be removing the Elizabeth River trail pedestrian bridge. To do that the tunnel will be closed in both directions from friday night at 8 through monday morning at 5. Officials say replaced with a new bridge before the tunnel project is complete. Ahead at 11 tracking rain, maybe a few snowflakes, and much warmer air. The cold front that brought a lot of us rain today is now offshore, which will allow us to dry out briefly. In fact, most areas will see partly to mostly cloudy skies tonight with overnight low mperatures in the low and mid s. Big changes could be coming for some Virginia Beach and chesapeake students it has to do with the length of their school days also a father takes away his daughter s cell phone as punishment. What he calls parenting just got him some new details now protest leader ammon bundy is occupiers at an oregon wildlife refuge to go home tonight. His armed standoff there. The fbi arrested bundy and seven others and shootout. It s not clear who fired first. 51 it didnt have to happen. We all make choices in life. Sometimes our choices go bad. 101 bundy and his armed followers took control of the Malheur National wildlife refuge on january second. They claim the federal government is forcing ranchers to sell their lands. It is unclear how many people still occupy buildings inside the refuge. New at 11 necropsy on a twoyearold whale that washed up on a North Carolina beach today. This was on kure curie beach near wilmington. Exper ts say the whale appeared to have been sick for a long time and was most likely already dead when it washed up on the beach. The animal was moved to Higher Ground for the necropsy to determine the cause of death. Newschannel 3 is taking action for your health after a person in northwestern virginia tested positive for the zika virus. Doctor Nancy Khardori is an Infectious Disease specialist at eastern virginia medical school. She says zika virus has been around for decades but its resurgence now is especially troubling with the cdc reporting 24 countries with outbreaks. The virus and developmental issues in babies before they rep born. Right now evms is to a country with active transmissions of zika virus be screened. A full six Hour School Day could come soon for kindergarteners in chesapeake and Virginia Beach. Three s Makenzie Walter talked to bill that could change that. Its a staple across Hampton Roads. 2. 01. 00 you want to spend all day at school buddy . Yes every city besides chesapeake and Virginia Beach offer full day kindergarten classes. But soon that could change. A proposed bill would require the two School Districts to offer a full day option to all students. 2. 13. 37 given the two options of course full day is better but it also requires. Twice as many teachers twice as many classrooms Virginia BeachSchool Board Chairman dan edwards says that although a full day would be beneficial, this Unfunded Mandate from the state would fall on taxpayers. 2. 10. 14 to implement full day kindergarten where we are now to next year would eb about 15 Million Dollars 2. 14. 12 for provide no Additional Resources i think it would be terribly unfair but there are a number of studies that say putting kids that age in school for a full day can increase student achievement. And jonathan rein dew agrees. 2. 01. 38 oh yeah i think it would be great if they were going to all day kindergarten because this has been his first year in school so just the amount that hes been able to learn by only being in the school 3 hours a day it would be great to see how much he could have gained by doing twice as much stand up so there may be benefits for the students themselves but there may also be some perks for parents too 1. 58. 48 its really difficult to have a full time job but only have about 4 hours during the day where you dont have to pay for some kind of childcare right now schools in Virginia Beach only offer extended day kindergarten to students in need or who attend a Title One School which serves a Large Population of low income families. 2. 12. 44 we want to do more we are moving toward universal full day but as we move we want to make sure that those who need it have it if the bill were to ss the option would be ailable to everyone. Hool boards would need to have plan in place by 2017. Virginia beach, makenzie tracking rain, maybe a few snowflakes, and much warmer air. The cold front that brought a lot of us rain today is now offshore, which will allow us to dry out briefly. In fact, most areas will see partly to mostly cloudy skies tonight with overnight low temperatures in the low and mid 30s. On thursday, all eyes will be on an area of low pressure that will track off the North Carolina coast. A few rain showers will be possible in the morning. But we re going to watch this system closely because, with temperatures starting the day in the 30s, a few snowflakes could mix in with the rain. By afternoon, scattered rain will be around. Otherwise, expect mostly cloudy skies with highs in the mid 40s. Skies will clear as we go highs will be near 50. Then, this weekend, we re expecting plenty of sunshine. High temperatures will climb into the 50s and 60s an update now to that breaking news we re following in chesapeake allison mechanic joins us now live with more from near the scene where where a man has barricaded himself in a house allison what do police say a north texas father says justice has finally been served after a fight over his daughter s cell phone went before a judge. He got arrested for what he calls parenting. Jeff paul explains, a knock on the door at 2 in the morning and Ronald Jackson finds himself in handcuffs heading to jail. The reason this cell phone. Ronald jackson father i couldn t believe they could go to this extent for a cell phone. It didn t seem right. Jackson says in 2013 when his daughter was 12 he discovered a text on her phone he found rude regarding another woman. So he took it Ronald Jackson father i was being a parent. You know, a child them what s right. You tell them what they did wrong and you give them a punishment to show them they shouldn t being doing thatbut when jackson s exwife found out. Who s spouse is a Grand PrairiePolice Officer. The cop jackson refused. Ronald to Police Department telling me how to parent my child. It made no sense to me for them to show up and make a big deal out of something that was a small thing. Jackson was given a citation and plenty of opportunity to hand over the phone according to police. A year and a half later though a warrant was issued and jackson was charged with misdemeanor theft. Ronald jackson father why would you need to go arrest somebody for Something Like that . Don t you have Better Things to do as a Police Officer . Aren t there bigger crimes in the city to go take care of . A Dallas County judge ruled there wasn t enough evidence found jackson not guilty. Jackson s exwife said the phone was not his property to take in the first place. If he had just returned the phone in the first place she says none of this would have happened. By the way jackson also got to keep the confiscated phone. Its all work and no play for many americans. Travel news site skift says last year 40 percent of americans some say they were afraid to go on vacation and come back to more work or worse no job at all others worry about what the boss will think. They also said they didn t want their coworkers to think they re a slacker. Adlib next at 11 next at 11 there are smart phones and smart watches. You can catch all the super bowl action right here on newschannel three. Newschannel s Makenzie Walter will be in San Francisco with full coverage of everything involving the big game. Follow newschannel three on twitter at wtkrthree and use our hashtag sb 50 wtkr. Tracking rain, maybe a few snowflakes, and much warmer air. The cold front that brought a lot of us rain today is now offshore, which will allow us to dry out briefly. In fact, most areas will see partly to mostly cloudy skies tonight with overnight low new at 11 technology is here to help you with your yoga form there s a new pair of smart yoga pants that tell you how to do yoga. The fitness pants have sensors that alert you when your form is incorrect. The pant legs will vibrate slightly until you correct your form. Once you ve got the yoga position down. Art yoga pants are set to go on