Wfxrs paris holmes is keeping an eye on Road Conditions for us this morning. She joins paris, what are you seeing right now . Kyle, the roads are are completely covered with snow. Snow plows on the interstates and new this morning new this morning Virginia State police say they arent dealing with any major incidents this morning in our area. Troopers responded to 16 crashes between midnight are still working on 3 of those crashes. 13 are cleared. Vsps division six covers 14 counties across southwest virginia. As paris just mentioned, vdot crews are urging drivers to stay off the roads crews and contractors are working 12hour shifts on the roads right now. This is a live look along interstate 81 in montgomery county. Crews have pretreated some major roads and interstates with a mixture of brine and liquid calcium chloride in advance of those flakes falling. Crews will not plow or treat lowvolume secondary roads or neighborhood streets until the snow stops and the interstates and main ro
Information on alexis on today . Get ready for those bitter cold temperatures to make a comeback. Were talking temperatures in the teens next week. Will stafford will have what we can expect. Will a lot of those mornings where temperatureses temperatures are in the teens, its going to be chilly. Weve also got a clipper system up here towards minnesota. Thats going to be our weathermaker as we head into the next few days. The clouds will flow back to the area in the overnight hours of tonight. And were talking wintry precipitation for monday. And we could see a cornucopia of precipitation. Rain, sleet, and snow. Mona Genworth Financial stocks took a blow today after the Company Announced they hundreds of employees. The stocks were down 21 . Most of the cuts are happening in richmond. 39 will be laid off in lynchburg. Authorities say an eescaped work release inmate from Henrico County has been captured. The Sheriffs Office in palm coast, florida said they learned of his whereabouts after
Cold with snow developing in the evening. Highs in the upper 20s. Tonight light snow with lows voter turnout, the polls are closed and we now know the candidates who won nominations during the firehouse primary. The democratic primary wrapped up at the Berglund Center late saturday night. The mayors seat is up for grabs with sherman lea winning the nomination with about 1600 votes. Several City Council Positions seats are also up for grabs with anita price, Freeda Cathcart and Trish White Boyd gaining the nomination. Wsls tens duke carter shares their reaction. Nats the three winners for city Trish White Boyd and Freeda Cathcart, cheers cheers filled the Berglund Center saturday evening. After about 4 hours of counting ballots the candidates running roanoke city office learned who is one step to being on city council. Nats yes we won woo hoo incumbent councilwoman anita price shares her reaction. Anita price councilwo man this has been an amazing adventure and im so so happy and so app
Winter storm watch in effect sunday afternoon through noon tuesday for snow, sleet and freezing rain. Tonight clear and blustery with lows in the Single Digits to low teens. Wind chills in the Single Digits to below 0. Sunday clouds thicken and cold with highs in the upper 20s to low 30s. Sunday night snow develops with lows in the low 20s. Monday snow transitions over to a wintry mix of sleet then freezing rain by monday afternoon and evening. Highs in the low to mid 30s. Tuesday morning freezing rain or rain ends by midday. Highs in the mid 40s. Wednesday partly sunny after a record turnout at todays roanoke firehouse primary. Residents cast their votes for who could be the next mayor of the star city. Wsls tens duke carter is live in roanoke. Duke its been a long day. What can you tell us . The chair of the democratic the chair of the Democratic Committee says they were not expecting a huge turnout mainly because of the cold weather. They printed out 4 thousand ballots and they say
Sunday valentines day starting mainly sunny. Ending mostly cloudy with highs in the upper 20s monday snow, ice rain likely with highs in the lower 30s tuesday early wintry mix then gradual clearing. Highs in the lower 40s wednesday increasing sunshine with highs in the middle 40s increasing clouds with highs in the middle 30s. Light snow showers possible mainly nrv highlands saturday morning flurries possible. Increasing time now for your timesaver traffic report. Were continuing to follow a developing story out of Campbell County. Where firefighters are still battling a massive fire this it started around three thirty thursday afternoon at the dan river plant in brookneal. And has now burned for more than twelve hours. Wsls 10s Erin Brookshier continues our coverage with details on what crews are dealing with on the scene right now. Erin. We spoke with crews on the scene just a little bit ago. They say the fire is under control right now, but still burning. Between 75to90 Fire Fighter