Around . What do drivers do to make the vdot crews job a little bit easier. Were having trouble with jason jasons audio. Well get back with him later in the newscast. The Winter Wonderland has returned to our area. Roads are covered with snow and snow is still falling out there. Wdbj7 Garrett Turner is out on the roads for us this morning. Good morning, garrett, how is it looking out there . Good morning, kim. So far it looks pretty good. Going north on to 20. Good news is plows have taken it down to pavement. Not here but a little bit south of us where we were right now. Not a lot of people on the roads i think the great thing about this kind of snow is it gives you a little traction if you have to get to work. So it is not as slick as it is going to be later today with the rain. But so far the roads are looking good and people are staying off of them. We plan to travel throughout roanoke today and so far we had not seen any stalled cars on the side of the road which is also great new
Have at least 10 thousand people track 2 Ohio Governor john kasich placed second with his largely positive message. But he says he will fight back if attacked. sot john kasich r oh president ial candidate im not going to take a pounding. Im not a pin cushion or a marshmallow Nats Ted Cruz track 3 ted cruz came in third followed closely by jeb bush who says hes ready for a long fight. jeb bush 6 45 04 i think the field will winnow eventually, i am a patient person track 4 and marco rubio who stumbled at the last debate. sot rubio i did not do well on saturday night so listen to this, that will never happen again bridge weijia jiang cbs news, manchester, nh on the democratic side, Hillary Clinton is trying to recover from her brutal loss to bernie sanders. He won across the board. Especially with young people. sot bernie bc of a yuge voter turnout and i say yuge we won sot clinton i know i have some work to do particularly with young people gfx the clinton camp quickly released a memo ex
Threat is different, that there are no set of instructions. But they are learning quickly how to defuse and track social media threats. Sheriff we take all the threats seriously. First of all we look to see if its met the threshold of a criminal violation. Of which we have the authority to act. Sheriff taylor says threats over social media are becoming all too common. Sot sheriff sheriff i think Law Enforcement is doing a much better job at keeping that level, at a level playing field. He is thanking the community for their continued support as officers have increased security around the school and the surrounding area. Sheriff they do know it was some type of threat and then to see the cooperation between all of these agencies. Chatham hall, located across the way did change their Class Schedule today because of this threat. Officers have picked them leaving anytime soon. Danielle staub wdbj7 is set to discuss whether to take more than 21thousand dollars from Circuit Court clerk Erica
The warmer weather has been a welcome change, as the deep freeze of the last few days begins to thaw. While we saw more pavement and better driving conditions, thousands of people in central and western virginia are still dealing with Power Outages. The storm moved on, and made way for blue skies, bright sun and a beautiful winter landscape. As the ice began to melt, the Power Outages lingered. Applachian power crews were on the job, assessing the damage and attacking the problems they found but the layer of ice brought down many tree limbs and power lines in neighborhoods throughout the area, including roanokes raleigh court. Aleta delaplane actually at 3 45 we woke up to a transformer exploding. It was big green arc light in the back. It was amazing. It was kind of cool. And then the power went out. And then it came back on. And then it went out again, so i think weve been without power since 6 45 this morning. 10thousand people without power in southWest Virginia. The hardest hit ar
But its about to get a lot more active and a lot more dangerous. Meteorologist robin reed begins with radar views and flood watches. Youwe got both and if you look at the rate alright i think you should not all that impressive in fact theres not much rain here at all and youd be absolutely correct but underneath the radar beams are zipped on a drizzle theres a fair amount of fog as well in the light showers do continue through the hill city right now for martinsville south boston as well so why the light stuff at the moment i think he could pretty well see why it is so much cooler and are part of the world right now than outlying areas like charleston the 50 bristol at 50 roanoke onforti to lynchburg and forty were staying in this cold air wedge which is actually good news for us but we will have a heavy rains by tomorrow afternoon that has instituted a flood watch for our entire viewing area its because of the kind of rain weve had it been here for a while and get all that melting sno