Transcripts For WSLS WSLS 10 Virginia Today 20160220 : compa

Transcripts For WSLS WSLS 10 Virginia Today 20160220

Mother and daughter. Who havent been seen since thursday night. Have been found safe in cumberland, pennsylvania. According to police. 33year old cere lewis and her 9 yearold daughter sesha hill were found safe late friday night. Their family was worried and said it was highly unusual that lewis took off. Family members say lewis would never let sesha miss school. Its not known why lewis and her daughter were in pennsylvania. In other news around virginia. A richmond man and researcher at the college of william and mary is arrested on child pornography charges. Police arrested 46yearold Michael Wilson friday afternoon. Hes charged with four felony counts of possession of child pornography. According to the schools website. Wilson is a Research Biologist at the center for conservation biology. Hes being held at the virginia virginia lawmakers fail to ban the specific use of smartphone apps while driving. This. After members of the house of delegates postponed debate on a bill until 20 17. Highway Safety Advocates claim its still legal for virginia drivers to post to social media while on the road. This comes as police in philadelphia investigate whether snapchat played a role in the deaths of three young women. The social media app features a filter which posts drivers speeds while they record videos. According to triplea. More drivers are trying to set personal speed records and capture the moments with the speed displayed on the video. Dominion virginia power could be fined after mineral oil spilled into the Potomac River. The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality issued a notice of violation for the spill. A transformer failure at a substation in crystal city led to the release of more than 13 thousand gallons of a portion of the spill ended up along the banks of the Potomac River and in the river itself. 29 result. The state can fine the company 100dollars per gallon and require corrective action involving any environmental damage. According to the Virginia Department of health. Three adults in the commonwealth have the zika virus. All three cases were travel related. Last month. A student at the college of william and mary contracted the virus while traveling in Central America during winter break. Around the same time. A Northern Virginia resident contracted the zika virus while traveling in a different country. The cdc issued a travel alert for those going to countries or regions where the zika virus is widespread. As of february 17th. There have been 82 cases of the zika virus reported in the united states. A bill. Which would allow doctors to give longterm treatment to lyme disease patients. Moves forward in the the Senate Passed legislation eliminating sanctions physicians could face from the board of medicine if they put lyme patients on antibiotics for longer than virginias standard of 28 days. Some physicians refuse patients seeking help for lyme or other tickborne illnesses due to the possibility of investigations. This bill would clear the way for doctors to follow guidelines created by the federal government. The bill is headed to a house of delegates subcommittee on tuesday. The Washington Monument will be closed until next week to repair an elevator control box. According to the National Park service. The control box was damage by a contractor working in the structure on an unrelated issue. The reopening date will be determined as repairs are made over the weekend. Turning now to news making national headlines. The aircraft that crashed into pearl harbor thursday. Is salvaged. It took divers and crews about an hour to float the downed bags. It was then taken to joint base pearl harbor hickam. The ntsb will now inspect the bell206b chopper as part of an investigation thats expected to take months. The helicopter crashed into waters just off the Arizona Memorial Visitors Center about 10 30 thursday morning. A 15yearold boy was critically injured and two others were seriously hurt. A heated contest is playing out in nevada between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders ahead of today democratic caucuses. Both candidates held rallies friday night. Trying to gain support in the first in the west vote. After a full day of campaigning across the state. Clinton ended with a rally in las vegas alongside her husband and daughter. Former president bill clinton introduced his wife and asked everyone to bring her home tomorrow. Clinton urged the audience to caucus on her behalf. Hillary clinton d president ial candidate i will stand and fight for them through this campaign no matter who the thing i want you to remember is the republicans have been after me for years and im still standing. A total of 23 delegates are up for grabs in nevada where the caucuses get underway starting today at 11 am pacific time. The battle between apple and the government reaches another level. As weve previously reported. The tech giant is refusing to help the fbi unlock the San Bernardino shooters iphone. Friday. Federal prosecutors filed a motion. Saying a judge should force the tech giant to comply. The government says apples refusal quote. Appears to be based on its concern for its Business Model and public Marketing Strategy end quote. In whats news today. A new store filled with upcycled items opens in downtown roanoke. Shabby love is moving into 306 market street. The shabby love crew finds items them into unique pieces. The owner chose to open up their third store in roanoke because of the star citys appeal. Shabby love opens its doors today at ten am. You may want to enjoy a cocktail this weekend with the warmer temperatures. The big lick cocktail classic is happening today at the patrick henry. This years theme is mardi gras. Nine local restaurants and caterers will showcase food to pair with different drinks. Proceeds from the event will go towards leap a Non Profit Organization that builds community through sustainable agriculture. If you are interested in teaching education, come out today to the roanoke city Public Schools instructional job fair. The schools are recruiting for all areas of instructions such as elementary and middle education, foreign languages, mathematics, sciences and special education. Its happening today at William Fleming high school from eight am until five this afternoon. Switching gears now to your forecast. Into the 60s today. Hopefully all the snow thats still on the ground will melt. Storm team ten meteorologist Jonathan Kegges joins us now. Jonathan. Weve made it to the weekend, a weekend that will have you thinking spring for sure as we go on a date with the 60s. Sunshine will be mixed with clouds on saturday and while rain chances return for the second half of sunday, temperatures will still be warm for february standards. Today sun and clouds with highs in the lower 60s. Tonight partly cloudy with lows in the mid 40s. Sunday afternoon showers. Warm with highs in the low 60s. A complex weather setup portion of next week. Questions still remain as to how much cold air will be in place for a couple of different weather features to work with. At this time there is a shot for a wintry mix and heavy rain starting tuesday and hanging around through thursday. High temperatures cool back down to the 30s and 40s during the middle and latter portion of the upcoming week. The weekend, a weekend that will have you thinking spring for sure as we go on a date with the 60s. Sunshine will be mixed with clouds on saturday if youre looking for something fun to do this weekend. Theres plenty going on. The star city travels back in time today for the Jurassic Quest more than fifty lifesized animatronic dinosaurs will invade the berglund center. Its fun for all ages. Tickets start at 19dollars. The event is happening today from nine am until eight tonight. Botetourt county holds the first ever disc golf ice bowl. Its a day of disc golf no matter what the weather looks like. You can get in on the fun with an entry fee of twenty dollars. Its happening today at the greenfield disc golf course. Registration is from eight am until ten am. Roanoke valley home sales are 2016. According to the Roanoke Valley association of realtors. The number of homes sold in january was the highest number of home sales during the month of january since 2007. The Agency Reports 287 homes were sold last month in roanoke, salem and botetourt, craig and roanoke counties. Thats up from 248 homes sold in january of 2015. The average home price last month was just over 190 thousand dollars. Holidays most popular gifts. Have been deemed unsafe by the government. Thats the conclusion from the Consumer Product Safety Commission after a monthslong investigation into the safety hazards of hoverboards. The commission has sent official notice to retailers. Manufacturers and importers containing new hoverboard safety standards. Its calling on all makers and sellers to voluntarily take nonul compliant. Hoverboards off the market until they can be certified as safe. 52 reports of fires resulting from malfunctioning hoverboards that have caused over two Million Dollars in property damage. Tax season is fully underway. And when you get your refund. Do you plan to spend or save it . According to the National Retail federations annual tax returns survey. 49percent of people expecting a refund plan save the money. Instead of spending it. Thats the highest percentage in the surveys history. In addition to saving. Almost 35percent of people plan to pay down debt and 22percent will use the refund for everyday expenses. Now to whats trending today. A look at the biggest social networking, online and technology talkers. Mcdonalds is trying out chicken and waffles on the go. The restaurant chain is testing out its own version of the southern classic. Theyre calling it the chicken mcgriddle. Its a Fried Chicken patty between two maple syrup buns. So far. The new breakfast sandwich is only available in ohio. Mcdonalds says the new creation could go national. But it all depends on customer feedback. The maple syrup buns are already on mcdonalds menu with other mcdgriddle combinations. Philadelphia police are offering rapper kanye west a job 50Million Dollars in debt. The Police Department posted this tweet on thursday. It says we are hiring at kanye west the tweet continued to say how much the salary would be. Telling west he could be debt free by the year 3122 earlier this week. Kanye tweeted hes 53Million Dollars in personal debt. West also said Mark Zuckerberg should invest one billion dollars in him as quote the greatest artist of all time. A utah woman is a little surprised after opening her can of green beans. Take a look at this. Troy walker says she was preparing dinner for a church youth function when she noticed a snake head in the can. She contacted the manufacturer western family. The company says cans are already being removed from shelves. Walker says the snake in the can steps to prevent this from happening again. A baby tiger is finally getting a chance to join his mother after passing his swimming test. Miami zoo officials needed to make sure the tiger cub would be able to swim out of the moat in his mothers exhibit. If he accidentally fell in. Zoo staff threw the cub into the deep end with plenty of help just in case. The little guy didnt need any help though. He was able to paddle himself back to safety. As we kick off the day. Were seeing temperatures in the 40s. But its only going to get warmer. Jonathan kegges joins us now for a look at your forecast. Weve made it to the weekend, a weekend that will have you thinking spring for sure as we go on a date with the 60s. Sunshine will be mixed with clouds on saturday and while rain chances return for temperatures will still be warm for february standards. Today sun and clouds with highs in the lower 60s. Tonight partly cloudy with lows in the mid 40s. Sunday afternoon showers. Warm with highs in the low 60s. A complex weather setup still looms for the middle portion of next week. Questions still remain as to how much cold air will be in place for a couple of different weather features to the nascar boys are nearly ready to tackle another edition of the Great American race. And in salem the finest matmen in the state are battling for state gold. From nascar to high school wrestliing. John appicello and alyaaa rae give us a look at whats going on in the world of sports. The group a. Thru 4a state wrestling championships have converged on salem. Earlier today. Our own alyssa rae. Caught up with some of the key local teams that have golden aspirations this weekend the day has arrived. Its like Christmas Morning for wrestlers across virginia, all who come to the Salem Civic Center for the first day of the state tournament. These wrestlers arent looking for presents, but rather trophies. Brockenbrough the kids have been waiting all year, weve been in big tournaments but nothing like this. We prepare them everyday, all week long, people are going to be here. But the mentality is you just have to survive each round. Its parry mccluers jarrod clarks last chance to add a state trophy to the mantle, the senior hopes to put one next to his brother kainans, who won in 2011. Jarrod wrapped up his quarterfinal match with a ribbon on top. And advanced to the semifinals with a pin. Brockenbrough that means a lot to me. To be around a kid since hes been an eighth grader and to see hes two matches away from what hes been looking for it pretty exciting. Rae two notable teams here at the state tournament is up and coming Rural Retreat whos looking for their Third Straight team title and of course powerhouse christiansburg in the hunt for their 15th Straight Team title. There was no coal in Rural Retreats stocking, theyve earned back to back 1a team titles and look to stay on the good list this year with a threepeat. Boyd thats our goal coming in and its nice. Its a big deal back home in our community so these guys are getting after it and trying to get the job done. In and year out, working to deck their halls with their 15th straight trophy. It is real exciting its kind of an ambivalent feeling because youre wondering how the day is going to go but thats what i always tell the kids, dont feel nervous, just tell yourself youre excited and its kind of how its going now. But no gifts are opened on christmas eve. The finals are set for saturday. In salem, alyssa rae wsls 10. And updating tonight with state semifinal action. Parry mccluers jarrod clark at 106. In on a single late steps over. Far arm. Thats a key takedown late. To ring up a tech fall at 5 39 leading 181 clark. Into tomorrows 106 pound final. To 113 and trey boyd of Rural Retreat running a monster half nelson for back points to seal up a 61 dec win and 126 yours watching cave springs sam ring. Celebrate a 62 win to move into the finals. And at 132. Josh linkous of christiansburg. With a late reversal coming out the win. Over zach long of hidden valley. Worth noting christiansburg only leads cave spring by 5 and half points. After day one of the 3a team scoring for the lead. Fahkeer leads 4a. Grundy 2a and Rural Retreat is more than doubling everyone in 1a. Conference semifinal action. Tonight. Where rivals collide for the right to advance to the region tournament. Hidden valley. And cave spring. The top seeded knights. Jump out early. Nice look inside to jake furrow. He shows good patience with the ball fake underneath and the easy duece. It was 100 knights early in this one. The titans. Eventual ly come alive. Jonah fitzgerald the three ball. But the knights kept pressing the pace. While the titans. Wanted to slow it to a standstill. This is Baker Haviland for the cave spring. Advance s to the final. And punches their ticket to the region tournament with a. 5232 semifinal win. More scores rolling at the bottom of your screen. But here are a couple of conference finals tonhight. The 500 field. Is set. But not. Without some twisted scrap metal being created. Heres a closer lookin todays countdown to nascar. Last nights duels. Included very costly last lap. Fraycus. Jamie mcmurrays block attempt on Jimmie Johnson set off the affray. And sent a couple of teams. Scurryin g for backup cars. Moving forward Jimmie Johnson duel 2 wreck . I could see with his aggression how fast he was take that our line was going to take me into the wall so i heats up. As the democrats are in nevada and the republicans in South Carolina. Still ahead. A look at where the candidates stand and what we can expect tonight. Im chris bosh. When i was sidelined with blood clots in my lung, it was serious. Fortunately, my doctor had a game plan. Treatment with xarelto. Hey guys hey, finally, somebody i can look up to. Besides arnie. Xarelto is proven to treat and help reduce the risk of dvt and pe blood clots. 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