High School Seniors who came up with the idea for thursdays program. Lidya tadesse, 12th grade we can really make a difference and the best way to do that is educating and having an open dialogue. About two dozen people attended. Hans wants thursdays discussion to serve as a start to more meaningful talks. Nancy hans, executive director, Prevention Council i look at that as heres an opportunity there are new faces in there. So we want to continue to build on all of this. If youre interested in hosting an event, you can get in touch with the roanoke alliance. We have a link to their website on ours, wdbj 7 dotcom. Christian heilman, wdbj7. New tonight, 67 people have been indicted on 188 drug charges in our area. This morning the Alleghany Highlands Drug Task force made the arrests with help from several local agencies and state police. Those arrested face charges related to marijuana, cocaine and heroin. Lynchburg police need your help solving several breaking and entering incidents ar
Police say there will be an increased Police Presence in blacksburg because of the search. Search effort yesterday. And more than 12 hundred searchers neighborhood to pass out fliers. A follow up now the Virginia Department of health has lifted a boil water notice in wythe county. The boil water notice was issued after a water main break earlier this week that caused 200 thousand gallons of water to empty from a water tank near route 11. After multiple tests of the water, the Health Department has determined the water is safe. Residents nearby are free to return to with some of these winds look at the wind us twenty nine mylan our wind us hot springs twenty eight bluefield thirty 32 in galax with the roanoke. The last wind us thirty six miles an are you take the temperature take the wind us look what it feels like out there right now would talk about the warm weather this weekend but still been a get through this afternoon feels against only eleven in hot springs at this lunch hour eig
The temperature starting things often the upper 50s low 60s by lunch time we should see some clearing. Debentures this afternoons pre much with such as today a person sees coesite mid 70s and said the bay we are talking whats the son sean barrel below his yacht theyre still dealing with the smoke from the fire. Seller in our shows again or not and were dry not looking up rain pushing of the push of the east. Yet again same substance scenario as last week so that said we could see showers wednesday night into thursday close look for that coming up in the extended forecast. Mila two men forced the girl of van nuys it assault occurred. No suspects lateson. to man of 37 as a Police Say Canadian girl and sexually assaulted her. Its terrible kron 4 caught in the afternoon the two men pulled up to grow on a white the silverman. Shes sitting at this bus stop on saratoga campbell avenue and police say the man polder in the vehicle and sexually assaulted her in broad daylight. the drop the girl
Peggy fox is live at the federal courthouse with more on how things are getting started. Peg . Reporter mike, its a packed courtroom inside. We have lots of media in there. We have many family members of the mcdonnell and of course just the curious all listening to Opening Statements. This morning once again we saw separate arrivals between these for defendants. First former governor Bob Mcdonnell walked in flanked by his attorneys. This is a strategy. Remember, these two people are being tried together but they have separate legal teams and those strategies macon flict. In fact, today may conflict. In fact today the judge made a point of telling the jury to never forget that there are two defendants with separate considerations. Then Maureen Mcdonnell walked in this morning a few minutes after Bob Mcdonnell. The prosecution first outlined the case going over what they believe was a quid pro quo. They say that the mcdonnells used the power of the Governors Office to enrich themselves,
Right now today, we have the technology to begin the process of significantly transforming our energy system. We know how to dod it with todays technology we know how to do it with todays technology, and that technology will only be improved in months and years to come. Let me just give you a few examples of some of the good news a thats happening in terms news thats happening in terms of the ability that we now have to move to Sustainable Energy. The cost of solar, which certainly will be one of the major Sustainable Energy technologies that we look to in the future, that Technology Cost continues to plummet. The Solar Energy Industry association, in a report issued just last week, reported that the average weighted cost of a solar p. V. System was 2. 59 per watt, a 15 drop from the year before. And according to the Solar Energy Industry association, utility scale solar, perhaps the best comparison to utilityscale conventional electricity generation, now costs, on average, 7. 7 cents