Near 16 at 6 00. For an update how cold it feels the wind chill. Take to you will stafford. Reporter the temperature factor and the wind chill what it will feel to your exposed skin. Our computer model what it will feel like, feel like 12 below in hot springs. 5 in lynchburg, 7 in martinsville. And feeling about 1 in blacksburg. You advance forward through the day it doesnt get any better. It will feel like temperatures in the teens. Below zero numbers to the mountain use location and bundle up as you are heading out. Danner stick with abc 13 to make sure that your kids are covered at the bus stop tomorrow morning. Whitney delbridge has more on keeping the kids safe. Reporter danner, the biggest factor is the exposure to the cold and most importantly the wind. When it comes to the bus stop tomorrow morning, you definitely kids in the car with you or inside the house if possible until you see that bus pulling up. Dr. Thomas epps tells me that exposed skin can make children very vulnerab
Say there are still crews working on some Power Outages at this hour. 3 danner there are new security concerns for the folks who live in evergreen. Mark thats the community the tornado hit the hardest. And as people there begin to clean up access to the area is tightening up significantly. Suri crowe is live with the latest. Suri satlive you can see the heavy Police Presence behind me here residents have expressed security concerns about their property and exposed homes in evergreen. And because of that they have now tightened up Police Access to the neighborhood. Starting tomorrow unless you have a placard displayed in your vehicle windshield 3 you will not be allowed access to the evergreen neighborhood. If you dont live there but you would like to help out and are a friend of then you need to reach out to those familes and ask them for one of those placards. Only families will be able to provide them. Everyone else will be turned away unless theyre an emergency or county officials.
Highs reach into the 40s for the 3afternoon. 3 3pattie tight the snow started falling in lynchburg last evening. Lets check in with Mona Kosar Abdi here in lynchburg. Mona any problems on the roads . Mona 3pattie plasma3 lynchburg public works works has been working overnight to try to keep the roads clear. Yesterday, we spoke to the director of lynchburg public works who says crews took all the precautions necessary to be ready for this round of Winter Weather. After our last winter storm, public works said they had about 150thousand dollars left in their snow budget which snow and ice. Theyre asking the public to be patient as they try to get to all roads over the next few days. Gaynell hart, public works director just as a reminder we only have enough trucks to work on primary and secondary roads so those will be our priority until we get those passable. 8 public works crews werent the only ones getting ready. Lowes also had all of their snow prep and removal items on deck. Sales As
The town out here today. 3 there were a few people earlier on who just drove up. Just to see what was going on. The Sheriffs Office tells me they have been working closely with state police and its cyber crimes unit to find the person behind this threat. 3 15 sheriff mike taylor as we speak, we have investigators reaching out, shifting through documents. And were going to identify the people who did this. You 3 can rest assured of that. Valerie satlive many of the students here at hargrave are not local, so not all of them were able to go home this weekend. General don broome tells me they still have about 60 students on campus. And for their safety they are rescriting their acitivites this weekend. Live outside of Hargrave Military Academy in chatham, valerie bragg, abc 13 news. 3 3 3 danner tight court has adjourned for the day in the murder trial of a Waynesboro Reserve Police captain. Closing arguments and jury instructions will start monday morning in the case of kevin quick. Quic
Will stafford for more. Wilson Wilson George see will will, see if we can pull up the model. There it is. We will see what we can give new the form of a forecast overnight tonight. Again that massive thing that developed will be making its way toward the east. Not affecting us. We will keep a stray shower in generallygenerally improving conditions as we make it throughout overnight hours tonight. Tomorrow look like a quieter day on tap and our sevenday forecast looking a little bit on the quiet side as well. A look at our hourbyhour forecast. Temperatures barely down into the 50s tonight. Back down into the 40s. And it will not arrive and already arrived and moving out of the area as we make our way through the rest of the period. We are going to attempt to build some graphics to get ready for our 5 00 show, georgeready for our 5 00 show, george, because we have been walltowall the last couple of hours. Take you back down to danner at the desk. Danner thank you, will, you guys get to w