Stephen rankins motion hearing. Commonwealths attorney Stephanie Morales says the presence of the officers is stifling morales told the judge the presence of officers in uniform who may not actually be on duty would intimidate a jury and bolsters the credibility of a man charged with murder. C001 1 20 04 if theyre working and wearing their uniform we understand it. But at the same time we officers being in there. 20 18 morales wants only 10 uniformed officers in the court sitting in groups of three or less. The defense argued that any limitations could infringe upon First Amendment rights. C002 1 25 09 based on all of the research i did there is no precident in a situation like this. Judge morrison did not rule on the motion today saying he had to think about what could happen if he rules in favor. If hed then have to limit supporters of the vicitm. Or screen Police Officers uniform were really on duty. Morales also wants morrison to rule that Stephen Rankin cannot talk about william c
Im meteorologist deitra tate. Today partly sunny and a weak upper disturbance continue to dominate into to our area. Primarily on wednesday afternoon week. Doctors are working to save a man who got shot doctors are working to save a man who got shot in the chest early this morning in newport news. It happened just before 2 am at the ponderosa on jefferson avenue, near briarfield road. Police say a 39yearold man from hampton was standing in the parking lot, talking to friends. He stepped away from the group to take a phone call. And thats when a single gunshot hit him in the chest. Well keep working to find out more about this throughout our next two hours on the air. In the meantime, if you Hampton Roads is getting a lot of attention from president ial tuesday. Senator ted cruz made a stop in Virginia Beach critical primary. He spoke at Regent University yesterday as part of its president ial candidate forum. Cruz encouraged christian and conservative voters to head to the polls on tue
Move into the region today. It will create a produce snow showers later today. Temperatures will be cold enough for this to all fall as snow except for a few locations along the southern outer banks and northeast North Carolina. The heaviest snow will fall over northeast North Carolina up to the southside. 24 is possible over northeast North Carolina with 13 over the southside. Well see a possible 12 on the peninsula and lower could cause big problems during the evening commute. This will all will be in the teens. By monday some moisture will move into the colder airmass. That will be our next system. It will start as snow monday morning. Then it will transition to mostly rain monday afternoon into tuesday. It may wrap up as a brief wintry mix. Stay tuned for updates to all of these systems. Many schools in our area are closed today or are closing early because of the snow. Youll find them scrolling at the on wavy dot com. And before the snow arrives youre going to want have our wavy w
Seven month investigation into a deadly officerinvolved shooting. An officer killed kawaza beaty after he pointed a sawed off shotgun at police. 10 on your sides jason marks talked with beatys family who were disappointed at the investigation. Beatys family met with the commonwealths attorney this morning and he told them the shooting was justifed. They came out of that meeting very emotional as you can imagine. This is video of the family just after the meeting. They were sad yet angry at the same time. They felt as if their son was taken for no readon. The shooting happened last july 4th. Police got a call about a man in the east end of the city with a gun. Were told a detective along with a k9 officer and a sergeant spotted Kawanza Beaty walking down a street. Police say they tried talking with him but he started running. During the chase officers say they could see the gun and it fired three times and hit beaty in the head. Family was not happy the shooting was ruled jusitifed. Sai
First at 4 were tracking rain on the radar. Temperatures are dropping and theres a chance of snow. Meteorologist deitra tate is in the super doppler 10 Weather Center to tell you what you can expect the rest of the evening. Tonight light evening rain showers. Small light snow chance after midnight. Lows in the lower 30s. Wind wsw 510mph. Wednesday light snow possible before 8am. Otherwise, mainly cloudy. Highs in the lower 40s. Wind wsw 515mph. Thursday mainly sunny and cold. Highs in the mid 30s. Breezy. Wind wnw 1520mph. An unsettled weather patter continues for our area due to an upper level disturbance. Therefore, on and off showers will be possible now thru showers tonight. Then after midnight, light snow showers are possible disturbance moves away. It turns colder. Highs by thursday will 20s. With Winter Weather in the forecast be sure to tune in to wavy news 10 today tomorrow morning at 4 30. Jeremy wheeler, don roberts, lex gray and jen lewis are on your side with the latest ne