Highs in the mid 20s with wind chills in the Single Digits. Saturday night partly cloudy and cold with lows around 10. Sunday partly cloudy and cold. Not as windy with highs in the mid to upper 20s. Light snow develops later sunday evening. Snow becomes moderate at times overnight sunday and into monday morning. Snow looks to be the dominate precipitation type initially from sunday through monday morning. Expect the monday morning commute to be impacted. Late monday morning top story this morning. One woman is dead after a head on collision in roanoke county. It happened around nine pm in the 22hundred block of hardy road. Police say 19 yearold Nicole Simmons was killed after her vehicle crossed the center line and hit another vehicle head on. The other driver, 33year old cristopher hash was taken to the hospital to be treated. Authorities believe drugs and alcohol could have been a factor in the crash. A lynchburg man remains behind bars after being connected to a joint Child Exploita
Nats fire chief a 911 call was received around 330 this afternoon that there was a fire at the old dan river plant, Randall Johnson is the fire marshall for campbell county. He says there are about 7590 firefighters on scene battling the flames. Johnson says this fire is unusual because of how massive it is, its engulfing the 355 thousand square foot facility. The biggest challenge to fight the fire getting resources like water to put it out. Randall johnson campbe ll county fire chief because we are limited to hydrants there are none in the factory in a proper it itself and also in the beginning we had several small spot fires that started in the grass surrounding the plant that we had to deal with, johnson says right now he feels there arent any toxic chemicals in the former site. The property was a textile plant. But was shutdown. For the past six months a recycling plant has been in the process of tearing it apart. Piece by piece. Cross after today i dont think they are going to ha
3 Pattie Lynchburg held its annual state of the city at city hall. And this one was a bit different. Whit both lynchburg mayor Michael Gillette and vice mayor Caesor Johnson announced they would not be seeking reelection. Marissa parra reports. 3 Caesor Johnson, vice mayor of lynchburg 17 32 04 now my time is coming to a close. 17 32 06 2 secs lynchburgs state of the city was an emotional one. Michael gillette, mayor of lynchburg 00 17 56 im sure you can appreciate what a bittersweet moment this is for me. To deliver my final state of the city address. 8 seconds the citys mayor seemed to look back on the citys progress fondly. Michael gillette, mayor of lynchburg our economy has grown, many of our city departments have received accolades. 5 seconds but of course, the city isnt without its problems the mayor addressed the 24 percent poverty rate in lynchburg. Michael gillette, mayor of lynchburg 17 38 05 some of these challenges, like the poverty rate are emorphose and do not readily ad
Water, but what better way to help than open your homeshe put her house on the market two years ago and it has yet to sell. Its fully furnished. And she says its the ideal space for a family with small children. 3 its perfect for a 3 small boy, it was me and my son that lived here and this was his room. Pack says she wants to give them everything they could possibly need. Im actually going to bring my old dishes silverware so they family doesnt have to worry about anythingall that, and the house. Free of charge. She just asks that whoever moves in. Pay the electric bill. Neighbor. Helping neighbor. We want to keep them in the community we dont want them having to go to lynchburg or surrounding areas their home is appomattox. Details on how to get in contact with jessica that information will be on our website wset dot com tonight with this story. Live in appomattox, courtney wheaton, abc 13 news. 3 mark one step in the Recovery Process is getting the Insurance Adjusters out. Allstate s
Brie how much money are we talking about here . Close to 22 thousand dollars. Thats how much the county could have paid Erica Williams. But tonight they voted 4 to 3 to eliminate that pay. During a work session this evening, board chair chris tuck presented information about Erica Williams attendance and past evaluations of her former employees. There have been a lot of questions surrounding her decision to not rehire 4 people after she was reelected. Since then there have been a lit of back and forth between county leaders. Tonight, they voted to eliminate her supplemental pay from the county. That money would have been in addition to the roughly 120,000 she recieves from the state. Some residents spoke in support of williams saying the county do. But county leaders decided to move forward with eliminate williams supplemental pay. Mary Alison Galloway moco resident 10 08 08 you are not the micromanagers of the constitutional officers and by the voters of the county. Chris tuck moco bo