Thankfully she is her daughter r. O. K. Heather good news indeed. A lot of questions right now after a body is discovered in a malden home. Ed newscenter 5 s Nicole Estaphan is live tonight with the latest in the investigation. I m going to start out of the shot and let you take a look at where this woman s body was found. It was found in this large apartment complex on broadway. Police tell us they responded to cliffside comments around 9 00 p. M. For a wellbeing check. When they arrived they discovered that woman s body. Police are always are only saying this is a death investigation. They do not believe the cause of this woman s death was random. They re not releasing that woman s identity at this time, but we are learning details to figure out what exactly was the cause. When we have that information, we will bring it to you. Heather new at 4 30, an arrest in a hit and run in lowell that sent a 15yearold on a bicycle to the hospital. Police believe that teen was struck intentionall
Be restored here, because its not just a one transformer job here. And as crews take care of the larger outages, a repair might restore 12 customers instead of 12hundred. So theres plenty of work ahead before everyone has power again. Live in roanoke joe dashiell wdbj7 thousands of people in our area are on day two of no power, and they want to know when its coming back. Appalachian powers teresa hall joins us now by phone, with some answers. Good afternoon, teresa. Kimberly mcbroom wdbj7 first, lets get the updated number of power outages, and which areas are still the most affected Kimberly Mcbroom wdbj7 it seems that the Roanoke Valley metro area has had the biggest chunk of outages since the beginning. Why do you think that is . Kimberly mcbroom wdbj7 as people are waiting for their power to come back on, are there any things that Kimberly Mcbroom wdbj7 if you do have an outage, do you just need to notify apco once, or checking in with the company . Its now been nearly 24 hours sin
Gate where customers are without power. Kimberly, here in iron gate you can tell the power outage is causing some confusion. Were at a gas station where weve seen a number of people drive in, look around, and leave. Thats because were told this sign up here is lit 24 7, but right now, because of the power, its off. There are more than 11,000 dominion virginia customers without power statewide. 419 of them here in alleghany county. And 383 in botetourt county. Crews are working on 16 projects between the two counties. Folks we talked to gate went out around 7am this morning. David well i sleep by the radio and when the radio when off i woke up when the house went silent, i woke up. I still got heat in the house, i got gas logs in the living room so heat for Dominion Virginia Power customers, power should be restored by midnight. For bath alleghany customers were and 143 in bath live in iron gate, amanda kenney, wdbj7. Thousand people are without power in henry county. Heavy winds knocke
And ice this morning. Yesterday many people got lucky with yesterday many people got lucky with yesterday many people got lucky with the timing of the storm and that it fell on a holiday when many people were already off work and out of school. But thats not the case today, and this latest round of winter storm may cause many headaches for people today. Wdbj7s shayne dwyer is live in Downtown Roanoke for us this morning. Morning, and most importantly how are the roads . Kimberly its downright dangerous out here. The primary roads are in as good as shape as they can be, the plow crews have been working all through the night to get those clear. But there is a lot of standing water and slush on the roads. My 15 minute commute into work this morning took me over 30 minutes. If you went slow yesterday, try to go about half that speed today. Kimberly ice can come out of no where and turn a normal day into a power crews are very on power lines and trees. More than 14 thousand outages reported
Colder spots, merrimac value, southern New Hampshire. Even there, you shoot up to 50. Winds gusting 20, 35 Miles Per Hour out of the south. That will continue to increase, a couple of showers in here across Worcester County as well as south and west out toward bon of. Back into hopkinton, these north. Expect scattered showers over the next few hours. Later this afternoon, this line of rain yesterdayed down pours and strong wind gusts has to work on through. It looks like the timing of that between about 4 and 8 p. M. Temperatures even this evening are running into the 50s. So contend with that strong wind at times, gusting over 50 Miles Per Hour over eastern mass. In between 4 and 8 p. M. Quick, half an inch, to an inch of rain. Do expect standing water on the roadways. Reduced visibility. So a slow go for the rain and evening commute. Isolated wind damage too. Tree branches falling down when the winds start gusting. This all wraps up by midnight tonight. More on that sevenday forecast