School back on february 12th after longtime principal frank dent suddenly resigned citing personal and family reasons. Then days later, dents assistant principal amy puckett asks to be reassigned. She had been with the School District in that role for nearly two years. On thursday, a possible threat of violence against the security and parents getting no prior notification. That left many parents with Unanswered Questions and School Leaders allowing execused absences at both the middle school and the high school. As wfxrs bill wadell reports, while many Unanswered Questions do remain with both parents and students, Officials Say theyre doing what they can to ease concerns. 00 00 00 0500 20 00 25 Tom Mccracken i as well have heard embezzlement and fraud and all these other things and the rumors get juicy. Tom mccracken is on damage control. He and other Roanoke County School Board Members are getting an earful online. The first complaint parents werent notified fast enough about a threa
Children to be prepared in case of an emergency. And who is john kasich. Sot lets revive the spirit of our countrytonight we profile and president ial hopeful. Does he have what it takes to be the next commander in chief . The weather feels like a rollercoaster ride in the rollercoaster feels like a the weather the weather feels like a rollercoaster ride in the last 24 hours. The snow and freezing rain that fell yesterday started to melt. With todays sunshine and mild breeze. Tonight all of that runoff could refreeze in spots creating dangerous black ice. This is a live look from outside our studios in roanoke county. Some untreated roads already shiny and slick. And heres a live look at ae ps outage map. More than 5 thousand homes and businesses without power in the city of roanoke. 4 thousand more in ronaoke county in the dark and three thousand without county. Early this morning more than 50thousand homes and businesses across the commonwealth were without power. Thanks for joining
Fighting a house fire. Paris holmes is at the scene. Paris, what can you tell us . Around 5am this morning the Bedford Fire Department responded to a fire here on the 1000 block shepards store road. According to the chief it took about 45 mins to put the fire out which they believe started in the garage. Theyre not sure what cause it yet. , but no one was hurt. The owners of the house are standing out here in front. Probably in shock. I havent had a chance to talk to them yet, but ive seen neighbors come out here and give them a blanket. Fire are still working in the house making sure the fire is completely thousands of people are still in the dark in our regional at this moment. Here is a live look at appalachian powers outage map. You can see the highest numbers still 24 hours later in Roanoke County and franklin county. 45hundred people are still in the dark in Roanoke County. 37hundred also in franklin county. Lets check in now with applachian powers spokeswoman teresa hamilton hal
Virginia after Severe Weather strikes wednesday afternoon. In the community of waverly near portsmouth, three people are confirmed dead closer to us, the storms swept through appomattox county in the evergreen community, killing one man and injuring seven others. Right now, there are reports that what hit the evergeen was a tornado, but official confirmation would come from a National Weather Service Survey team. No word yet on when a nws team will be in appomattox county. Governor mcaufliffe declared a state of emergency. Heres what it looked like on wednesday evening along route 460 in appomattox county. Dozens of homes were damaged, some had part of the roof missing, ohers had walls ripped away. As rescue crews from across the region raced to the scene, our crews saw neighbors pitching in, helping families search through damaged homes. One woman says she ran outside, held onto a big tree in a ditch, as the storm blew her mobile home away. Things were hitting me in my back. I felt a
Too many rumors on social media. 00 00 00 0500 20 00 25tom mccracken i as well have heard embezzlement and fraud and all these other things and the rumors get juicy. Tom mccracken is on damage control. He and other Roanoke County School Board Members are getting an earful online. The first complaint parents werent notified fast enough about a threat of violence at northside high last week. Billy spence id rather play it safe than sorry, you know. If they could have got it out quicker, that had been nice. Billy spence kept his kids home friday. Police determined the threat was not credible. Mccracken says an alert was posted on facebook but there were no phone calls or Text Messages to parents. Tom mccracken why werent we notified sooner. So thats a valid question. The other concern, rumors swirling about northside principal frank dent unexpectedly stepping down. As his assistant principal amy puckett asks to be reassigned only days later. While some accuse there was misconduct says its