Our erin kelly. The governor says there were 13 reports of tornadoes in virginia, unconfirmed so far. He estimates they caused more than 11 million in damage. Nats removing trees off the truck crushed beneath a fallen tree is William Browns truck. Its where he nearly lost his life wednesday, when a tornado plowed through the town of waverly. C0017 William Brown victim 559 i wasnt really paying attention to anything, but getting to where i wanted to go, and then out of nowhere, boom everything stopped. 606 the crack of the tree on browns truck knocked him unconscious. But later, he was able to pull himself out. C0017 William Brown victim 620 it said that god really loves me. He thing i received is a ligament torn in the back of my myself blessed 634 not far from where brown was theres a set of stairs leading nowhere. Scattered cinder blocks outline the place where a mobile home used to be. Three people in that home died in the storm. C0017 William Brown victim 810 that house was lifted
Everywhere, places that i never heard of before, they have come out and its not a whole lot of businesses its mostly citizens coming in their trucks, coming in their cars, just bringing all the donations that they can in the morning, dozens of volunteers will distribute them to those inneed c21 11 52 29 these are the times that you know how people really are. We may go through a lot during a course of our day but when it comes to a disaster when it comes to relief, we are here. Another volunteer Group Southern baptist Disaster Relief will be tarping homes like these on burt street. The red cross is planning to set up a shelter tomorrow tonight Officials Say those displaced including keesha had waverly, liz kilmer, 10 on your side. Weve spoken to the red cross about how you can help they say one of the best things to do is donate money, so they can buy whatever people need. If you have time to give, they also need volunteers whatever your skillset is please call us because we have a spo
Sure exactly what is in the barn but the top is still intact. The bottom not so much completely destroyed also be the walk over this way women think pieces of homes out here and even then this is sliding from one of the homes off to my right theres three homes actually there to my right i think the large abandoned homes because we didnt see or evidence of anyone living there but weve got siding out here from home. Also we walk a little bit farther here i would also assume that this is another piece i for one of these homes that are turning to just completely read through and im in the backyard of these homes and youll notice there she is debris everywhere debris everywhere when i first got out here. I almost had a tear my eyes because ive never seen anything like this and have actually been on this catastrophic has happened. Were going to continue to bring you reports of damage throughout the evening i will have live reports on thirteen years now and also in social media back to you i
Staying in the upper thirties through the afternoon he can see last evening geoff lawson tracking a few light flurries i know that because i was up last night checking my powerball numbers one here this morning for you and happy to be here but the both of those flakes jeff is tracking around eleven those are now offshore in moving away visibility is excellent as we start the day the winter South Southwest at seven mph in the skies right now mostly to partly cloudy across the region but those clouds going to thin out temperatures are chilly or in lieu of upper twenties air but for the most part temps in the low to mid thirties closer to the coast as we take it today temperatures getting up into the lower to mid fifties so will be warmer with more sunshine coming up later today ill be back with a full weekend and were going to talk about this there will be good chances for rain late in the day tomorrow and tomorrow night and into early saturday in many other coastal system passing by on
The local businesses that with some shoppers who we caught up with today say its an even bigger blow to the area after me sees announce that theyre closing their chesapeake square mall location. Its nine and now i think everythings going out in another direction that means that other businesses because theyre larger anchor stores in the smaller businesses are to be able to probably make it even Smaller Stores both mom and pop in a retail chains according to clerks who work at the American Eagle store inside the mall their store is next to go will be close by january twenty fourth its gonna be another om mississippi go back that far but its sad to see that the buildings vacated the people believe in this area we reached out to chesapeake square mall in Management Team asking them what their plans to fill the empty store friends inside the mall as they did they issued this statement basically told us that they will continue to be a popular shopping spot things to stores like jc penney an