direction and usher the kids around but nicole just jumped right in." kids looked up to her and she was respected. sunday, the church held a special service to remember her life. people on social media and throughout the new river valley are also remembering lovell by wearing blue or posting this blue ribbon. her dad and friends made their profile pictures of her favorite animal - a panda. the search began for lovell wednesday after her mother reported her missing from her blacksburg home. she left without her daily medication after having a liver transplant. over the weekend the investigation led police to david eisenhauer charged with murder and abduction, and natalie keepers, charged with disposing of a dead body and being an accessory after the fact. her body was found in surry county, north carolina, not far from grayson county. it's now at the medical examiners office in roanoke. josh blankenship: "these teens are just emotionally broken. it's something you don't mccoy funeral home in blacksburg is handling the funeral arrangements. staff there tell me her funeral costs have already been covered and someone from galax paid for flowers. the two accused in her death are due in court march 28th. live in christiansburg, justin ward, wdbj7 with eisenhaur and keepers have already been charged, police are looking for any additional evidence in the case. the virginia state police and virginia tech police were at the vet med pond on virginia tech's campus today diving for any other pieces to the case. officers said they weren't looking for anything in particular, just anything suspicious that could be related. the blacksburg police department could not confirm if anything was found during the search. teachers and classmates at david eisenhauer's high school are also trying to make sense of what has happened. eisenhauer was described as an excellent student at wilde lake high school in columbia, maryland. james lemon/principal; he goal driven.he was very focused on academics but was also very focused on running. he was an outstanding runner. his principal said eisenhauer was recruited by several college running programs. continuing coverage of a deadly train crash in roanoke county. we'll learn more about the crash between a norfolk southern train and a commercial truck once next of kin has been notified. another person was taken to the hospital. the crash happened on an access road near the spring hollow reservoir around noon today. the truck burst into flames after. no one on the train was hurt. wouldconnie scattered showers have been the rule for much of the day today and now that the atmosphere is getting cut a saturated realist undersea areas of patchy fog start to form across the region and for tinnitus can be fairly quiet tomorrows can be fairly quiet and then he gets active again on wednesday quarter of an inch of rain or more in the two tenths of an inch radford six eleven one hunts in rocky mount nine 2/10 of an inch radford 611 100 and rocky mount 9/100 the range came in from the new river valley first that's weathering totals are just a little bit higher than everybody else's at the moment some of the heavier showers are located around smith mountain lake just near alta vista c couple heavy downpour is located just north of the lake in the showers are tracking to the northeast at this hour that means that the showers will taper off fairly quickly tonight just leave us with cloudy skies after that we have what interesting day coming up in terms of the temperature profile mets on wednesday that's when the rain showers could turn into thunderstorms and after that we drop back down the forties or break is all down for the handed down by a judge in campbell county this afternoon. vincent spinner was convicted of first degree murder and robbery in connection with the 20-12 death of his father-in-law. wdbj7's tim saunders is live in rustburg, where the case wrapped up less than an hour ago. jean, spinner waived his right to a fate in the hands of a judge, who rendered his verdict this afternoon. over the course of a three-day trial, prosecutors argued vincent spinner killed his father-in- law, james payne, because he needed money to buy cocaine. payne, the retired owner of a construction business, was found dead at his home near evington in august of 20-12. he was stabbed 25 times, according to prosecutors. cell phone records presented in court show spinner called payne multiple times on the morning of the murder. prosecutors say spinner drove from his home in winchester to carry out the crime. his cell phone made contact with a tower near payne's home around the time payne would have died. several witnesses testified that, on the afternoon of payne's murder, they saw a car matching the description of spinner's vehicle speeding out of payne's driveway. when payne was later found dead, prosecutors say a wallet was missing from his pocket. a friend testified that, on the same afternoon of payne's and acting strange. when investigators searched spinner's car a few days later, payne's insurance card was found tucked between a seat. spinner's defense insisted there were other people with motive to kill payne who weren't properly investigated. according to the defense, none of the physical evidence found by investigators like blood and the supposed murder weapon could be linked to spinner. spinner faces up to life in prison when he's formally sentenced at a later date. he could have faced the death penalty, but prosecutors took that off the table in late december when they reduced his charge from capital to first degree murder. i spoke to payne's son this afternoon who said today's outcome is not a victory, but it does give he and his family a measure of closure. several of spinner's relatives cried loudly in the courtroom when the verdict was read, live in rustburg, tim saunders, wdbj7. a traffic alert on interstate 64 in rockbridge county will continue for lanes of part of the interstate are closed right now for emergency pavement repairs. a 90-mile detour will be in place until 10 tonight. the location where the repair is needed is between exit 50 and the junction of interstate 81. drivers can expect delays. meanwhile a section of i-77 in carroll county remains closed because of bridge damage from a crash. both southbound lanes are blocked at exit 14, which is for hillsville. traffic is diverting around the closure by using the exit and entrance ramps at exit 14. the incident involved several vehicles and damaged the bridge over route 58. crews say it will be midnight at the earliest until the repairs are complete. roanoke city police chief chris perkins delivered his final update to city council today. perkins will retire march 1st. wdbj7's amanda kenney was there. amanda, what did he have to say about the city's safety? chief perkins says roanoke is much safer than most people think. in his presentation, perkins showed city using data analysis. chiefs hug, people clap there was a quick embrace between roanoke's fire and police chiefs monday before police chief chris perkins took over the podium one last time. chief perkins: i'm exceptionally pleased that i'm able to deliver this report as my last one, some chiefs around the country aren't delivering those last reports that are so favorable perkins started by telling city council he wanted to bust some myths about the city. number one, he says he's tired of people saying roanoke isn't safe. roanoke, per thousand, has a better violent crime rate than a lot of cities in our area, in our state, in our region. and that's despite the fact violent crimes in the city dropped by just one last year to 301 incidents. even though it's level, it's still at record lows, still a 48 year low. you gotta go back to 1967 to find a lower number of victims for violent crime in the city of roanoke then there's the the greenways are dangerous, true or false...false. that's a huge myth. in fact, perkins says there is only a 1 in 1.1 million chance of becoming a victim on the greenway. but perkins says there are real problems still facing the city. since 2010, there has been at least a 90% increase in mental health calls. no matter how much training we provide, these individuals need clinicians that are professionals at dealing with mental health problems and the general assembly really has to start getting their priorities right. he says the city's biggest problem is property crime. and he believes the department can do better with drug addiction and drug abuse. but perkins wants the city and citizens to focus on the positive things roanoke has to offer. we gotta stop talking about the bad and start doing some stuff to get rid of the bad and working together and talking about the good more than what we do. we just don't talk about it enough, we don't brand ourselves well, that's very aggravating for me. chief perkins noted that when it comes to neighbors need to start stepping up. he says it's important to report, and you can do it anonymously, jean.... and the nominees are.... it's been big day for two botetourt county natives in the country group "old dominon". plus chief meteorologist brent watts explains the el nino impact on our region. tonight - what is it and why climate change could be a extreme weather. record. 4 weeks later, a foot of snow. odd in recent years, you're not alone. first alert meteorologist brent watts looks at what may be happening. el nino has taken center stage as the meteorological buzz word, and with good reason. it was the strongest in decades. the warmer than normal ocean water in the pacific has influenced everything from the lack of atlantic hurricanes to a spell of winter tornado outbreaks. but, could climate change also be a contributing factor in our extreme winter weather? remember sweating to december's record heat? it wasn't just a local winter heat wave. it was a second year in a row earth's surface temperatures were the warmest since modern record keeping began in 1880. gavin schmidt/director of goddard institute for space studies: 2014 was also a record warm year, but just by a little bit. 2015 blew it into the grass. so, if the world is getting warmer, why were we stuck shoveling a foot of snow? research suggests a produce shorter winter seasons, with less snow overall. however, because of more moisture in the atmosphere, when snowstorms do occur, they will be big. sean sublette/ meteorologist, climate central: now, there may be fewer snowstorms overall, but remember that higher temperatures lead to more water evaporating into storms. in turn, this means there is more water available for precipitation, which can be snow as well as rain. the warmer the atmosphere gets the more moisture it can hold. so when cold air and moisture meet up, snowstorms could get even bigger. research shows a 30% increase in heavy precipitation events across the south, including virginia. the oceans are also getting warmer which adds even more fuel to the storm. frequency of foot- plus snowstorms, there used to be an average of 4 years between big storms. now they're getting more frequent. aspiring performers in the lynchburg area are getting a chance to learn from a pair of broadway veterans this week. terrence mann and charlotte d'amboise are spending several days in central virginia. they're teaching a master class and auditioning young professionals for summer programs in north carolina and new york. they're also visiting several lynchburg- area schools. the virginia theater for them to meet with students at jefferson forest and e-c glass high schools today. perry payne millner/virginia theater association executive director: "theater skills will take you forward in any career. confidence on your feet. confidence in front of people. it's a really great set of skills to have." mann and d'amboise are married. they've spent decades on the stage, performing in broadway versions of chicago, les miserables, and cats. a band with a southwest virginia connection can now add academy of country music awards nominee to its resume. botetourt county natives matthew ramsey and whit sellers are members of the country act old dominion. today, they were nominated for vocal group of the year and new vocal duo or group of the year. last year, old dominion released its debut album called "meat and candy" and the group's hit song "break up with him" made it to number one. the acm awards will be held on april 3rd. you can watch it right today but more widespread rain by midweek. meteorologist robin reed with more on that. here is a look at the highs, lows and precipitation at the regional airports. we are back with the complete first alert forecast after this workbookcan have snow people and then you can have snow people with attitude and if the grandparents have mustaches and knit caps will why not render gramps ... jack reed appreciated that very very much for there's not much left to make snowmen out of now not after a couple days it featured very warm temperatures and also very interested interesting split in the numbers at the moment lynchburg east it is quite warm to the west it's sharply cooler mid forties versus mid-sixties almost twenty front which is traversing virginia right now temperature fifty four here the digital broadcast center we've only had four one hundredths of an inch of rain but that's about we been seen in the rhone valley windsor on the light side of a concern about this the moisture is really a mere 96% with nudity, so a little patchy fog is artie started short because we have snow on the ground and that warm temperatures and mold moisture starting to come together with the saturation factor right now from boston to roanoke back to the mountains of north carolina this is the line of showers that were seen right now it's a pretty active cold front moved pretty quickly high pressure in behind it and this would normally be a fair weather maker but that's not good to be the case show you i just suck it is a contrast between the warm in the cold split by the front and showers basically running along the boundary right now is get a kick this warmer air out of the way and when that happens were in the set ourselves up for some drizzle and patchy rain coming up tomorrow showers leftover temperatures running in the mid 30s to the lower 40s with that as a start e on sunday right here &-pj*at their hometown is wdbj &-pj*seven will be watching them &-pj*unofficial but it is. i think &-pj*he's not busy shadowless the &-pj*tv like you to nascar is moving towards a charter system for its team owners. we'll explain as the closer. released today, back in the top ten following back to back wins over wake and louisville last week. the win over the cardinals was a vintage performance for the cavs who face boston college at home wednesday night before a trip to pittsburgh this weekend. tony bennett/virginia you could good it wouldn't be challenging thankful we had the performance we did and we know that it's in there. you have to first believe that you can like i said after the game. and then the you do it? that's the question you just asked me. that remains to the uva baseball preseason all connor jones and outfielder pavin and 3 last year, pitching 115 innings starts. smith batted .307 with 7 homers and 44 runs batted in, playing in all 68 games for coach brian o'connor. uva opens its state. the nascar racing season is now less and the sanctioning body is close to a with the team owners, and a deal could be announced before the teams head to daytona. system would guarantee financial to the teams. according to multiple reports, the plan calls for 36 charters, or car franchises, that a spot in every race. charters can be sold if an owner wanted to get out of the sport or reduce the number of full-time cars it fields. petty/richard petty motorsports owner: over a period of time a franchise deal will build up and if things go bad and you want to get out, if i get old enough and say okay, i don't want to do racing anymore, i'll have something to bank off of. right now, walk away from it. so this is one of the major, major things. this in turn, will to have new owners know they can get their money back at the end of the deal. right now someone comes they are gonna spend twenty million dollars and know that they're not gonna have nothing when it's over with, to invest in that. super bowl 50 it's now just 6 days between the panthers and broncos so we got some help tonight from galax high school's charles harris and his number 6 for the maroon tide. the all state tailback rambled for more than 32 hundred yards this past season to go with 45 touchdowns. cbs has the big game this year, which means you can catch super bowl 50 right here on wdbj7 at 6:30 next sunday. a mixed end to the day on wall street. nasdaq gained 6. s&p lost nearly a turn to our webpage at wdbj7.com and be sure to follow us on 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