Demolished, down to the ground, and familiy belongings and treasures just out on the grass. Laying there. What used to be in their house. Benjamin sisco student our goal out here is not to point at us or bring any glory to us. Its to point back at the mission and show the love of christ. More than 13 hundred students are involved with the lu send program and appomattox isnt the only place where theyre serving right now. A group just got back from greece a few days ago. They were helping middle eastern refugees in that country. Another team is headed to flint, michigan in a few days to help people whove been impacted by the water crisis. Live in appomattox county, tim also gods pit crews tractor trailers full of supplies headed out all over the state to help storm victims. Early this morning a team in danville left for tappahannock. Crew members say the damage is worse there than in appomattox. Responding to natural disasters all over the nation, its still the same hurt but you just nev
Power spokesperson teresa hall. We know at the highest 45 thousand apco customers in virginia were without power. How many tonight are still without electricity . Teresa hall appalachian power spokesperson around 5,000 customers are still without service in Roanoke County and the city of roanoke. Franklin county has about 1,000 customers without service. Bedford, botetourt, campbell, and patrick counties each have fewer than 600 customers still without service. Jean weve noticed in some neighborhoods one house has power, the next does not. Some people are wondering how is it power but i dont . Expect service to be back on for customers . Teresa in most areas, including bedford, botetourt, campbell and patrick counties, we expect to have Service Restored by late tonight. In franklin and roanoke counties, including the city of roanoke, we expect customers to have power by late thursday night. In isolated instances, especially where damage is severe or access is difficult, restoration may
Roanoke county police are still piecing together what happened after confirming that a man was shot by an officer. At 7 15 last night, they received a call that a man wearing a bandanna and hoodie was waving a gun off of route 419. We spoke with a witness who made the call to police. He says he was driving when he saw the man. Thomas gill, witness i saw his gun in the right hand. So he was waving it at cars and he turned around and he was waving it at me so i turned around and took a left and i called 911. Amy whittaker, Roanoke County spokesperson officers then arrived on scene and they confronted the suspect which is just up the road from walgreens parking officer involved shooting that took place. The suspect was transported to the hospital. We do not know the persons condition right now. That witness tells us he heard at least five shots but its not clear who fired all of them. Danville police are investigating a robbery that happened last night in the 100 block of wesley drive. A
But its about to get a lot more active and a lot more dangerous. Meteorologist robin reed begins with radar views and flood watches. Youwe got both and if you look at the rate alright i think you should not all that impressive in fact theres not much rain here at all and youd be absolutely correct but underneath the radar beams are zipped on a drizzle theres a fair amount of fog as well in the light showers do continue through the hill city right now for martinsville south boston as well so why the light stuff at the moment i think he could pretty well see why it is so much cooler and are part of the world right now than outlying areas like charleston the 50 bristol at 50 roanoke onforti to lynchburg and forty were staying in this cold air wedge which is actually good news for us but we will have a heavy rains by tomorrow afternoon that has instituted a flood watch for our entire viewing area its because of the kind of rain weve had it been here for a while and get all that melting sno
Wdbj7s Christian Heilman is live on scene at electric road in Roanoke County. Christian, what have you learned . This is still a very active scene out here as officers are still piecing together what happened here earlier. Roanoke county Police Confirmed that a male was shot by police. Police say all this information is preliminary. At 7 15, they recieved a call that a black man wearing a bandanna and hoodie was waving a gun off route 419. We spoke with a witness who says he made that call. He was driving when he saw the man. Thomas gill, witness i saw his gun in the right hand. So he was waving it at cars and he turned around and he was waving it at me so i turned around and took a left and i called 911. Amy whittaker, Roanoke County spokesperson officers then arrived on scene and they confronted the suspect which is just up the road from walgreens parking officer involved shooting that took place. The suspect was transported to the hospital. We do not know the persons condition right