Victimized either but i just want people to be more aware of their surroundings and i just dont think it was not arrested anyone yet. If you have any information call the crime line coming up tonight on thirteen years now its six youll hear why groom stopped his car in the first place. Marcella roberts in thirteen years now an assistant School Principal in office accused of sex crimes against a child sixty four year old gary jordan works at Madison Alternative Center tonight is charged with taking indecent liberties with the child police say earlier this month jordan made some kind of inappropriate comments to a child at the Center Jordan is currently behind bars. A former park womens county teacher is facing sex crime charges Elizabeth CityPolice Arrested forty one year old Darrell Walker monday night please do not release details on when the alleged crimes happened or if walker knew the victim investigators stress the alleged crimes did not involve any students and did not happen on school property. Walkers behind bars appearance is tomorrow morning. The parcel of mother accused of knocking out an assistant principal can get out of jail today a judge said tracy lawrences bonded ten thousand dollars but if she gets out shell need to follow strict rules she can have any contact with the assistant principal or anyone who witnessed yesterdays attack at Lakeview Elementary School investigators say lawrence who had a meeting about her child and police say lawrence that like with the assistant principal said in his bed Elizabeth City man is accused of stealing from the churchs Offering Police say fifty six year old timothy stalling severely thousand dollars from Calvary Baptist church investigator say stalins worked at the church and took the money from the offering over the course of five weeks hes in jail on a thousand dollars secured bond. Just in handle the criminal case against portsmouth mayor kenny wright thirteen news now has confirmed private lead the prosecution right is charged with felony eluding after he led the sheriff on a chase earlier this month only thirteen news now caught the whole thing on camera right now my hearing is set for next month. Standing room only at the last Portsmouth CityCouncil MeetingCommunity Members say they are concerned about several issues the list includes the budget. The charges against the mayor and the increase in violence last month mayor kenny wright said hed come up with a plan to cut down on crime and lay it all out in a few weeks hurricane is checking to see if the maris close to finishing that plan. Enough of them now. In december mayor kenny wright announced hed put forward a plan in the coming weeks to combat the rising rate of crime in portsmouth but nearly a month later the new way forward hasnt been released. Weve got a look at the form below and look at it in its totality at last nights packed Council Meeting mayor wright offered a glimpse into his strategy between sixteen fired were investments in education after School Programs and summer jobs were among the mayors ideas the homicide rate in portsmouth spiked to twenty seven in twenty fifteen more than double the year before the angry and i was just this blackie leading to an emotional protest against the mayor silence on the violence we called over to the Police Department to see if they were aware of the plan. A spokeswoman there said the chief wasnt and referred us back to the city our requests to speak with the city manager went unanswered but she told council yesterday the city is still seeking input from experts. We are looking more and not just a band aid or something but to law and hand out criminology us and how sociologists who are experts in working with communities across the United States to meet with us and help us to develop our play and no word yet on when that plan will be portsmouth. Eric cain thirty news now new information on a robbery outside a Virginia Beach mcdonalds please tell thirty news now they have made three arrests in the case investigators say three men met the victim in the mcdonalds parking lot off of bonney road last night the victim reportedly wanted to buy a cell phone police say a fight started. One suspect punched the victim in the head and robbed him police said the victim pulled out a gun and fired no one was certain the suspects took off in a car but they did not get very far. Virginia beach police say this is a good reminder of why you should find a safe place to buy and sell items from craigs list they say Police Precincts are a perfect spot in the community is welcome to use the spaces for that purpose from nine in the morning until nine at night any day of the week group of men car jacked a pizza delivery driv at gunpoint last night and often those workers says he was delivering a pizza near the intersection of mission and henry streets when three men walked up to him and demanded money and the car this Morning Police found the stolen car just a few blocks away and right now theyre still looking for those suspects right now Virginia State police are searching for a missing thirteen Year Old Girl they think the co level is in danger she was last seen in Blacksburg Police did not explain why they think level is in danger if you think you know where she is Call State Police right away just in six hundred animals rescued from a facility in North Carolina the whole county sheriff says the haven was operating without a license now the owners are behind bars charged with animal cruelty were talking hundreds of dogs cats and horses many of them living in filthy conditions. A s c p has stepped in to help. Now these animals are getting the medical care that they need another dust up between iran and the u s navy this one appears to be far less consequential than the last one has to do with some long planned Iranian Naval drills and some overzealous reporting by the iranian the details with a bit overzealous reporting and inaccurate reporting and this incident could just be much ado about nothing the initial iranian news media reports claim that the norfolk based guided missile cruiser uss monterrey had been warned twice to leave waters where iran had been conducting a live fire naval drill the incident taking place in the always volatile strait of hormuz at the mouth of the persian gulf problem as the monterrey is currently eight thousand miles away tied up at the pier at naval station norfolk. But that didnt stop an Iranian Navy Commander from going on iranian tv boasting that theres no need for the presence of others here heres the facts the only american cruiser in that part of the world right now is the us as an seo part of the Truman Strike Group the office of the navy chief of information at the pentagon tells thirteen news now that the us navy had long been aware of the arabian exercise adding we dont view it as a change threat. I think a lot of it is just the routine events that occur every year adjunct Political Science professor and retired Army Lieutenant colonel j r reilly views this episode is nothing more than in consequential saber rattling even coming as it does just few weeks after navy river in sailors were briefly detained by iran in both cases he points out a peaceful outcome. My guess would be that neither side is looking to provoke the other in this situation its fairly routine movement to have exercises to have forces are acting in close proximity and both sides essentially seem to be saying lets put the incident behind us and move on now the as their ship got back on november sixteen along with the bulk leave the gravely gonzalez and the truman its schedule be a seven month deployment meaning theyre supposed to return to norfolk sometime in june reporting on my cutting thirteen news now is the virus is getting the president s attention why president obama is fight the virus also will hear from a local specialist about what you can do to protect yourself and theres a push to bring tcc to downtown suffolk the idea to take a big step forward tonight plus thousands of Norfolk Southern jobs are at risk will detail the railroads layoff plans some cold temperatures here for couple days then a nice warm up in my forecast another chance of a weak system just grazing the area and now to an update in newport news six sixty four southbound at the monitor merrimack as we take a look at our camera. Traffic started moving again to sop look after it was stopped is it just tells us theyre closely monitoring the spread of disease the virus its a mosquito borne virus weve been telling you about that can be very dangerous for pregnant women. The fear is the seeker viruses linked to abnormal Brain Development in unborn babies and back can cause babies to be born with tiny hats. Kristina surgical talk to a specialist about the virus and because of how easily the virus can spread experts say they wouldnt be surprised to see more cases here in the us. Trouble is preventing and detecting the virus isnt that easy its a virus making a widely spread before its ever noticed the majority of the patients eighty percent or more are going to be a symptomatic meaning that i dont really know this is dr nancy her dory is talking about his ego virus can to ease a professor at Eastern Virginia Medical School and is an expert on infectious diseases. The corps is just has been around since nineteen forties beating him much about it because it was so restricted to certain parts of the world mostly south american countries but experts say because traveling has become easier for people the virus is spreading with the recent case reported here in virginia we asked doctor to dori how likely it is that well see a case right here in Hampton Roads and the answer is possibly we give an important case in the local mosquitoes who already been here a bite the person and then bite other people who have not seen in those parts of the most words eco virus is prevalent we then call the local transmission but it becomes a local transmission does when you start warning that case is over double and triple and quadruple and gone on so how do you protect yourself from this virus expert advice avoiding travel to areas where there is an active infestation but if you repellent over sunscreen make sure to cover your body and sleeve and air condition screen rooms in them and that someone does rag seek a virus in brings it to the us there is in very specific chain of actions that takes place between doctors and Health Officials were going to talk about that more in the six oclock news hour kit by kristina theres a push to bring a branch of Tidewater CommunityCollege Downtown suffolk a Group Called Friends of something feels the campus would be an economic boost to the area the group says first he needs to come up with a plan and they are meeting tonight at the Hilton Garden Inn suffolk riverfront at six oclock friends of suffolk say when their plane is ready theyll bring it to city council. Bad news for Norfolk Southern were told the Company Plans to cut two thousand jobs were told more than half the cuts will come this year. Norfolk southern says the rest will happen before two thousand twenty. Not only are jobs on the chopping block. So are some Railroad Tracks the railroad plans to hundred miles of track the federal reserves new us policy statement says it sustaining a key Interest Rate in the range of a quarter to a half percent the statement says Economic Growth has slowed since it raised rates from record lows last month repeated language that it foresees a gradual rate increases in the future some economists have said they now expect us to slight rate increases during two thousand and Sixteen Police in North Carolina arrested for demonstrators yesterday three of them face charges for disrupting a Board Meeting at unc chapel hill the protesters are fighting the boards appointment of their president elect Margaret Spellings take a listen media reports have shown that members of the University Community are highly critical of spellings and her credentials she is secretary under George W Bush a lot of clouds out there again weve seen sort of a mix from clouds to some sunshine at times clouds and sunshine right now again looking fairly cloudy at least on this view is we look sort of to the east and southeast from high atop our station. Meanwhile not showing anything on radar we were following some showers earlier out of North Carolina working the way to the northeast now theyre gone. Later tonight though another system moves towards a week one thing just like today another chance of rain with the best odds down the self right now down to forty degrees winds and the north northeast and the high was fifty six degrees or fifty seven not sure yet or wait on the numbers fifty six it looks like in the middle of the night and then it was all downhill from there spot on forecasts for tomorrow says forty three degrees we were forced to start over today after a long string and it looks like what i say for today oh i said for today we would be falling to thirty eight by five pm and again as a head start over temperatures anywhere from forty to forty two across outside slightly milder back a couple of in one area as you can see on the other side of the james river on that side too theres a forty five at fort eustis forty five that Williamsburg Jamestown Airport a lot of lower forties four demolished forty lewis said the forty three from hock lee down to kroger and theres a thirty nine couple of them from alpha nex more theres another one down in east l a slightly chilly air across areas are colder crosshairs the Eastern Shore and North Carolina looks like i generally around forty one to maybe forty five twenty four hours ago we were really warm especially compared to right now in the cold that sweeping and most areas especially on the south side near the water down twenty degrees or more compared to yesterday up the peninsula its only down eleven or twelve compared to the exact hour yesterday as we go to the evening notice that sort of whine of partial clearing but we expect it to move to the south later temptress to drop back into and through the thirties by morning now a new batch of moisture moves northward and out ahead of the main batch we cant rule out a couple of very isolated sprinkles or maybe even because theyre starting early enough and still pretty cold. Theres a slight chance of flurries or a couple of sleep palettes but really most of the should not see anything tomorrow morning or have any issues to deal with during the rest of the day were gonna start to see the moisture on the increase Breast Cancer a North Carolina few showers possible around here and remaining rather chilly as high temperatures will struggle again up into the forties tomorrow lower forties that bass you can see the next system very haphazard but starting to organize to the south couple isolated sprinkles early mainly in North Carolina and a low risk again much later tonight or morning and that means the morning forecast gives us a forty percent chance of a couple of showers tomorrow and then in the afternoon percent but again the highest odds id say more like sixty percent or so are in North Carolina for Hampton Roads its about thirty cents on average that out forty eight looking nice on friday saturday fifty two sunday fifty nine thats my idea of winter yet broken the sixty two on monday that either i take pat found themselves high and dry on top of a power pole least just to know warning from wendys why anyone who recently ate there selling mattresses the traditional way isnt the best way. Most are made in a large factory, and shipped hundreds of miles to a retailers warehouse, where theyre marked up and up before finally selling and delivering them at the original Mattress Factory we have eliminated the extra steps and created a direct line from our factory to you. Saving you hundreds of dollars. Right now an Appeals Court is the sighting of a Transgender Gloucester High School student can use the boys restroom. Gavin graham was born a girl but identifies as a boy in two thousand fourteen the school board and restrooms instead graham used a private restroom. A federal judge backed that decision today grahams attorney urged the federal Appeals Panel to overturn that ruling and were told a decision could take weeks. The Nelson County commonwealths attorney has resigned Anthony Martin submitted his letter of resignation yesterday he was the prosecutor in the case against randy taylor was serving time for the death of alexis murphy. There will need to be a special election to pine martens permanent replacement. Those exploding to cut air bags may be linked to another deadly car crash of two thousand seven hundred civic crashed last year in india Us Government says the air bag inflated exploded spraying metal fragments. If the if later is to blame. It would be the eleventh person killed worldwide by scott eyre back so far the airbags in two thousand seven hundred civics havent been recalled in the us but reports are that could change. No word yet on what caused a deadly house explosion in ohio this is all thats left to of columbus. Emergency workers pulled a body from the rubble this morning a neighbor says the victim lived alone. The explosion occurred right next to two schools a consumer alert for anyone whos eaten at wendys recently the fast food chain is investigating a possible credit card data breach the company says cards use legally at some of their locations have been used for fraudulent charges. Wendys did not release a list of the locations the company is selling all customers to watch for unauthorized charges. Waiting for train to pass by can be painful if youre in a hurry people in one southern neighborhood say they get stuck waiting for the train every day and they say they are sick of it or asking the city what can be done to stop the backups in their tracks. Plus its a growing problem weve been the troubled near the tracks a moving train causing huge backups here in south lake residents say that something has to be done. One dead aid arrested a deadly confrontation in oregon that doesnt have to be bloodshed house taking reservations for valentines day. You heard that right. Find out where the breakfast joint is serving up a romantic night the news at five thirty starts right now. Frustrated drivers in something say theyve had it with the traffic back several times a day a moving train comes through and blocks cars from passing through. Some people say theyve waited as long as thirty minutes for the train to pass at the Railroad Crossing by advancement parkway and will weigh road are generally is their live show is what these drivers at the janet so heres whats happening everytime the train comes through here. Carson are trying to make a right turn at the light can make a right turn on the scene because the gates come down there theres a moving train and cars behind and are trying to go straight can go straight because those cars that want