Brie how much money are we talking about here . Close to 22 thousand dollars. Thats how much the county could have paid Erica Williams. But tonight they voted 4 to 3 to eliminate that pay. During a work session this evening, board chair chris tuck presented information about Erica Williams attendance and past evaluations of her former employees. There have been a lot of questions surrounding her decision to not rehire 4 people after she was reelected. Since then there have been a lit of back and forth between county leaders. Tonight, they voted to eliminate her supplemental pay from the county. That money would have been in addition to the roughly 120,000 she recieves from the state. Some residents spoke in support of williams saying the county do. But county leaders decided to move forward with eliminate williams supplemental pay. Mary Alison Galloway moco resident 10 08 08 you are not the micromanagers of the constitutional officers and by the voters of the county. Chris tuck moco bo
German shorthead is the best in show at the westminster dog show, beating out 2 rksz,700 other dogs, to have his day today, wednesday, february 17th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a tuesday morning. Im savannah and we have willie in for matt this morning. Well talk to donald trump in a couple minutes. Hes taking fire from a sitting president and two former president s in this campaign. Not to mention all his rivals. A lot to talk about in politics, fresh polls, as well. Our top story, the major showdown between the federal government and apple. This after apple declined to give access to encrypted content farooks iphone. Apple is asked to help the fbi get the data. Steve patterson has more. Officials say this may be the key as to who suspects were doing at the time of the shooting. They say they need the key to the phone in order to make progress. Reporter a
Im dara brown. Nevada voters 30 republican delegate delegates. The race has become a threeway race. And cruz came under fire after showing marco rubio dismissing reading. For them to transscribe words, its flat out lying. And rick snider said the video was inaccurate. Cruz addressed the situation monday afternoon. Ive spend this morning investigating what happened. And this morning i asked for rick tylers resignation. Reporter praising tyler as a cruzs campaign to quote do the right thing and stop telling lies. And one thing hes remained relatively silent on is trump. And tweeting about the controversy, calling it more dirty tricks. For the latest, we go to tracie potts in washington. Good morning. Reporter good morning everyone. So, we know donald trump is not prone to be silent on anything and we learned that more late last night. He had a rally in nevada talking about the cruz ads and essentially calling cruz dishonest. Listen. The cruz ad, its not a subject i know anything about. B
Some hit power lines knocking out power to whole subdivisionsout power to whole subdivisions. Reporter lucky and millie are not guard dogs, but overnight they let their guardian know something was up. Behind our house is a lake and the trees and willows were breaking off huge limbs. The dogs heard it. Reporter seconds later. We heard an explosion. I am sure it was a transformer and we didnt hear anything because all the power went off. Reporter . Alone. At one point appalachian power reported 50,000 customers in virginia were without power. Crews started out early in the morning to cleanup and restore power. Appalachian power said for the most part, ice on trees is to blame the entire tree has come down onto the line and we have branches and limbs that have come in contact with the lines. Sometimes the power line itself has been on the ground. Reporter because the number does not know when everyones lights will come back on, but all hands on deck. We had Additional Resources from tenne
Chilly but not raining or snowing yet. V dot was busy well before the storm. They spent much of yesterday pretreating the primary roads like 77 and 460 with a brine. And they have crews ready to go tonight, but on secondary roads like the ones leading into craig county, crews arent able to pretreat. Thats one of the things that helps with the ice and snow from bonding to the road surface. So if we do see any significant accumulations on the secondary roads, if people drive on it, then we are able to see some of that frozen, icethat frozen, icy snow combat down compact on that road surface. With it forecasted to be a very cold week, whatever snow you see wont melt as quickly as the last storm. We are not expecting this to be a major snow event. Stay with abc 13 if the roads get slick. We will have up to the minute information on any closings too at wset. Com. Well, just moments ago, Pulaski County where a judge was working to seat a jury in a trial of ashley white, charged with child ab