George is with us first. What the latest update this hour. George mark, the temperatures will rise and that will continue. A lot of this sleet and snow will melt this evening and the temperatures are going to be rising overnight. This means that when you wake up tomorrow morning, we are going to be above freezing. Temps will be in the upper 30s, and into the 40s for tuesday morning. We are also going to see heavy rain moving in tomorrow morning. Now right now, we tracking this little area of pink. That is light, freezing rain and light sleet which is which is advancing northward toward lynchburg. You can see it in pennsylvania county. Bedford county getting it right now. Also you can see toward Franklin County near rocky mount. For this evening, light freezing rain and light sleet on top of the existing snow. That means that a lot of the roads, the county roads and the neighborhoods are what is going to be getting more slippery. A look at the temperatures freezing. For an update on the
Visible one on wards road. Katie, you have been out on the roads today. Low they looking tonight . Reporter well, thats right, danner, they are looking really good, very clear. I talked to public works and they told me they have gotten to every road in the city. Take a look at this video driving all over. All roads are clear right now. Public works say they have gotten to every road and while some water is rushing down the side of 9side of the street there is no flooding. Warm temperatures, they urge you to be careful and a possibility that some of the wet roads can refreeze. We have a slight possibility of pockets refreezing; however, we have people onwe have people on call and they will be responding to those frozen any frozen spots on the road. Reporter tonight on abc 13 news at 6 00, what the city is planning to do about the growing number of potholes in the city. Live in lynchburg, katie brookelive in lynchburg, katie brooke, abc 13 news. Danner lets go live to danville where tola
Said when he was eating a group of young people surrounded him and began yelling about black lives matter. Marquez said he ignored them and tried to leave. And thats when he was attacked and robbed. Police are looking for three people. Marquez was in the iraq and afghanistan wars and received a bronze star for his heroism. Imagine your self in a deadly situation, and the people you call to help dont help at all. Officerinvolved shootings are under close watch by the media and the public eye. Now more than ever before. Our Valerie Bragg has spent the last six weeks investigating whether all of the recent scrutiny is impacting an officers decision to pull the trigger. Reporter danner, i sent out a survey to our local Law Enforcement agencies and on the continue of anonymity, more than 150 officers responded. Results show the majority of officers do feel the heightened Media Coverage will affect their decision in a deadly situation. Scrutiny on Law Enforcement seems to be at an alltime hi
How big that tornado was that touched down in appomattox county. This is the damage it left behind late yesterday afternoon. The National Weather service says the deadly twister had peak wind speeds with an ef 3 intensity thats between 136 and 165 miles per hour. They believe it touched down on berry lane and took a 13 mile track northeast. And it was about a quarter of a mile wide. This is only the third tornado to touch down in appomattox county since they started keeping track in 1950. 3 danner we have Live Team Coverage from appomattox. Marissa parra and Courtney Wheaton are live following new details about the storm. Chief meteorologist George Flickinger is in weather center. We begin our Team Coverage with Marissa Parra. 3 3 marissa satlive danner, one of the most important takeaways is that the storm may be over but it is still potentially dangerous to be outside. You can see the wind is pretty strong, and there is a lot of sharp, metal debris that can be easily picked up. It so
And they have workers on standby. Public works has 150,000 left in their snow budget which should cover this round of snow and ice. We only have enough trucks to work on primary and secondary. So those will be our priorities until we get those passable. Whitney lowes also had all of their snow prep and removal items on deck. They stocked up on ice melts, shovels, and snow blowers. A lot of generators, especially shovels and ice melts by the pallet. Whitney and thats snow blowers, not ice blowers. And they tell us that supplies are going fast. So head out before its too officials in danville said they began treating the roads there with brine on friday. The decision was made to start early because the frigid temperatures we saw this weekend could have caused that brine to freeze. It takes crews ten hours to pretreat all of the main thorough thoroughfares. Well keep you updated. And you can stay update at wset. Com. Tonight a Campbell County family is dealing with unspeakable tragedy aft