Threat on social media. Tola is live in chatham. What can you tell us new, tola . Reporter well, danner, i spoke with the president of the school, general broome, and he tells me this all started at noon on tuesday. He said the School Received a threat to one of their social media accounts from a person who purported to be from isis. They said they were going to threaten the school tomorrow. The school contacted the Pittsylvania County sheriffs office. They have been investigating and federal agents have been investigating also. Classes are cancelled today and tomorrow. They had an open house and athletic events scheduled for the weekend. Those have been cancelled too. One parent said he got an email hours ago from the school saying that parents they wanted to do because they had an isisrelated threat. Not all the cadets are from the area. There are still some parents picking up their children. Theyre not 100 percent sure that this could be a hoax, but they are saying it very, very ver
State police say there are now 7 of the scanners statewide, one for every division. In Roanoke County, rob manch wsls 10. Hargrave military academy will be closed tomorrow due to a social media threat. Wsls 10s colter anstanett spoke to School Leaders and joins us now live from the chatham campus. Colter. The school says. This could be linked to isis . The school will only say that earlier this week. A threat was made to the school through a direct message on one of the schools social media sites. The school would not give any details about the threat or name the site, but did say that the threat could be linked to isis. Law enforcement will have an increased presence around the school tomorrow. Roanoke county police find no northside high school. According to a Roanoke County spokeswoman an anonymous phone call was received at the high school on wednesday afternoon. Concerns over the threat spread to social media. The School Resource officer investigated and didnt find a credible thre
That will switch everything over into plain liquid rain. We could get up to about a tenth of an inch of ice across the area here, especially in lynchburg. This will cause very slick conditions. Jonathan . Well the roads look good with the plows coming through. Were watching the slick roads and the snow for the most part were done with the accumulate part. Some good accumulations out there, as you mentioned, about five to 9 inches out there. We want to mention the impacts as well. Were talking about the ice and doing a great job keeping the roads keep. Power outages is something were tracking right now as we get to the higher amounts of snow. We could see up to an inch or half inch of ice. When we get that melt and the heavy rain were expecting overnight, theres really no place for it to go so well look at closer in a couple of minutes. The snow started to fall since last night and its making the roads slippery. Quite slippery and 8 to 12 inches here. Roanoke valley, and bethany is ther
General District Court today on charges related to the death of officer guindon. Right now republican president ial candidate donald trump is making a Campaign Appearance at radford university. The event was set to start at noon and is just getting underway were Live Streaming on our website, wdbj7. Saunders also has an interview with catch tonight on 6. Several other president ial candidates have come to virginia ahead of tomorrows super tuesday primary. Senator marco rubio made an appearance at Roanoke College yesterday. Continuing coverage now of campaign 2016. President ial hopefuls are criss crossing the country ahead of tomorrows super tuesday elections. Eleven states, including virginia, will vote tomorrow for both democratic and republican tickets. Craig boswell has our update from washington. Donald trump finds himself at the center of controversy after former ku klux klan leader david duke support for the businessman. On sunday, trump didnt immediately condemn the white supre
In fact, he was waiting right outside of the Roanoke County Public Safety building at the same time as the news conference. Spencer was hoping to find out more about his brothers death. While the brothers didnt live together, spencer says. They talked about 4 times a week. The last time he spoke with his brother was just hours before the shooting. Carl spencer, subjects brother thats what makes it so crazy. And, thats another reason why i came here, because this is not sitting right with me. Ill never be able to get over him until i find out what happened. Spencer says his brother lived in an independent Living Program and prior to that was housed in a local department of social services. We are still learning more information about this Roanoke County officer involved shooting. An internal investigation is underway to make sure protocol was followed. We also reached out to the school and Living Program that spencer attended. Well have more information tonight at 6. Reporting live in R