News on the future of catawba hospital. Jean, the new budget proposals confirm what we heard last week, that keep the Mental Health facility open, at least for now. Proposals strip the funding that governor mcauliffe had proposed, to begin the process of closing the hospital in roanoke county. Lawmakers did call for a study of Psychiatric Services for geriatric patients, to be completed year. Roanoke county supervisor Martha Hooker says she is pleased catawba hospital will remain open for now, but doesnt view it as a permanent victory. Martha hooker r catawba supervisor i think that Mental Health care is changing. And were going to have to adapt to that, but this does give us a reprieve and we can gather our resources together and study, and most of all just take care of our Mental Health patients. Thats what we need. Passenger rail is another issue that received attention in the two budget proposals. Both plans include language designed to protect funding for the extension of Passenge
And leonardo dahicaprio took home the best actor at the british film awards. Kobe bryant made his final pappearance at the allstar game. I hope is not to be influential, mr. Rose. It is to be faithful to myself and apply the constitution. I was never cool. Were you a bookworm . I was. If we looked at your report card, it would never say you got in trouble . Absolutely not. Be straight as. Really . Straight as the whole time . Would i lie . If you cant trust me, who can you trust, right . Announcer this portion of cbs toyota. Lets go places. A wonderful man. Gayle king is off. Kristine johnson of our new york station wcbs is replacing her. Washington is bracing for a huge fight over scalias successor. His Supreme Court colleagues remember scalia as a giant legal titan and a best buddy. His death on saturday sparked an architect over the feat in the high court. We begin with jan crawford who is outside the Supreme Court in washington. Reporter good morning. The flags here at the Supreme
Candidates have scheduled events in our state before the march 1st. Primary. Donald trump will take part in regent universitys president ial candidate series on wednesday. Ben carson will also be at that series next monday. Todays event with john kasich starts at 6 30 p. M. Super tuesday is close and that means several deadlines are coming up for voters who want to participate. Since you can vote absentee in primaries, the deadline to request a mailed absentee ballot is tomorrow at 5pm. The deadline to vote absentee in person is february 27th. You can only vote in one Political Party primary election when multiple Party Primaries are held on the same day. Voting Officials Say make sure your voter details are correct now. Andrew cochran city of roanoke director of elections you can go to electionsdot virginiadot gov and in the upper lefthand corner is a red box that says citizen portal you can go in, put in your information and it will pull up your correct Voter Registration information
For a man who may be armed in roanoke county. The man is suspected of being the driver of a car that was chased by state police last night. The car crashed, flipped and caught on fire. The county says the vehicle was coming from Franklin County on route 220 when it hit another vehicle near webb road. Taken to the hospital. Stay with wdbj7, and wdbj7dotcom for any updates. A Pulaski County the outcome in ashley whites trial opening arguments lawyers are prepared to call 23 witnesses to testify in the case. A judge agreed to change the trial location because the potential jurors interviewed monday and tuesday knew about the case. But late tuesday night the judge and lawyers agreed to have a bench trial instead of a jury trial. A lawyer not asssociated with this case says that decision may now benefit ashley white. Richard chidester giles county attorney you may certainly get the same outcome but the judge is certainly more likely to be not caught up in the emotion and the passion of the
Kelsey bulger, objected six times to pictures submitted of home. They showed the bedrooms, and messy. The judge overruled that objection. White is back in shackles today and is wearing a black and white jail uniform. She has cried during many of the details described in court. The case is continuing inside and well have updates throughout the afternoon on wdbj7. Com. Live in pulaski, justin ward, wdbj7 lynchburgs mayor is leaving the elected office hes held for 12 years. Mike gillette has announced he will not run for reelection to city council in may. Gillette is an independant and represents ward one on city council. He was first elected in 2004 and foster as mayor in 2012. Gillette says hes putting a term limit doesnt want to be a career politician on advance auto is out with its Fourth Quarter earnings report. The auto parts giant reported sales of just over two billion months of 2015. Thats a twopoint six percent decrease from the same time period in 2014. President and interim ce