Holding too much traffic. Tonight we investigate whats putting the breaks on the construction plan for eye 73. Anda false alarm had some shoppers all wet inside of the valley view mall. Details on one stores fire system malfunction that left shoppers all wet. Alsohotel make over. Roanokes most will get a face liftplans to spruce up the place. Around this area, we get around this around this area, we get more crowded every day, people going to roanoke every day. Sometimes you have to wait almost five minutes to pull out in the road. Route 220 is one of the busiest and congested roads in our region. There have been plans to end the traffic headaches with the construction of a new interstate. That would also run through several states. To the south, North Carolina already wrapped up a big chunk of the project, South Carolina has plans to begin construction next year. Even started. In fact, plans interstate 73 have been stalled for the past 20 years. The plan is to have eye73 run through 6
Roanoke county still waiting for new information on a wreck that sent four people to the hospital. Youre looking at the scene along route 220 and webb road wednesday night. Roanoke county officials tell wfxr news a car being chased by Virginia State police from Franklin County crashed, flipped, and caught on fire. Police sent the dogs after one of the people inside the vehicle who ran from police. Its still not clear why state police were chasing the car. Well continue to follow this story and keep you updated as we get any new information into the newsroom. A strong upper low centered over the ohio valley will move easttonight into thursday. Weak upper shortwaves will move across themountains through tonight resulting in scattered snow showers andsnow flurries. A clipper system will cross our region on friday with some light snow accumulations. Especially in with wind chill values expected in the single digits, danville utilities is asking its customers to conserve power during peak p
Lets take a live look at Royal Caribbeans anthem of the seas. There it is docked safely in new jersey. They had four scary days on the water. Those hurricaneforce winds and passengers from that ship are standing by right now. Robin will talk to them live. I think they kissed the ground when they got back here. Also have a big morn ing ahead. Lara is live in hollywood. A huge scandal event taking us behind the scenes and those empty chairs. No, no, wait till you see whos coming to visit us. She wont be by her lonesome much longer. Told her where the camera is. Arctic blast moving east. Temperatures 20 degrees below normal. For many its about to get worse. More than 50 million could face below freezes and to rob marciano for that. Good morning, george. Temperatures below freezing. Come this weekend will drop another 20 degrees. The polar vertex will release a well be in the deep freeze. This picture out of i90 east of cleveland. The lakeeffect snow machine in erie and ontario. South of b
Local experts say that noreen, this could cause dangers on the road. Whitney delbridge is live to explain. Reporter mark, we are talking about tire pressure. An auto technician i spoke to said your air does not leave the tire when it is cold and the molecules move more slowly leading to change in pressure. It nay not just affect your stability but a big drop can have dangerous consequences. Cars come in with 35 pounds of pressure for trial and less than 20 in all four. And this is very unstable. Go around the corn we are a low tire, it will roll off the rim and cause you to crash. Reporter paul said a lot of his customers are making the switch from air to nitrogenswitch from air to nitrogen. His shop got a machine a few months ago and he said the nitrogen comes with a lot of benefits. The nitrogen is not affected so much by the cold, the tire year round and dryness before fit from an increased fuel economy of 3 . 5 per child to switch from tire you nitrogen. This is one our news vehicl
Citing virginia case law finch noted the quote difficulty in seating the jury. And the fact that a large percentage of jurors had knowledge or connections to the case beforehand weighed heavily in his decision that white receive a fair trial. After the ruling. Prosecutor mike fleenor asked for a bench trial. White and her attorneys agreed. Prosecutors expect to bring in some 20 witnesses to testify at todays trial which begins at 9 this morning. Stick with abc 13 for updates on this case. 3 3 3 mona tight new this morning. Danville police are investigating a robbery that happened at the golden coral on holt garrison parkway. They say they responed to a call last night that the businesss parking lot. There they found two Pittsylvania County residents said that a man pointed a gun at them and demanded money and then ran away. Police are looking for the suspect. 3 3 3 bundle up today as were waking up to morning lows in the teens with wind chill values in the teens and Single Digits to ne