Layoffs five hundred and thirty that could happen in march. This is just the latest round of layoffs at the company. It was last month that they laid off one hundred and sixty workers at ge and then in november a hundred and eighty five received pink slips being blamed the cuts on a shrinking workload for maybe thirty news now is reaching out to be easy for more about these layoffs. Look for the latest on the news at four pm. Well a big goodbye to local sailors on the uss barry the ship and her crew just left naval station norfolk this morning and right now the guided missile destroyer is in route to japan yet this move has been long planned but its key for the region elise brown was peer site for todays appointment families here tell me were going to miss their loved ones in the navy sailors and the calling to protect their country and usually very proud of him consoling kids before the u s s theory its more than three hundred feet off the dock for its journey to japan ships new home port area today are you ready to have anywhere from twenty seven to thirty families go without a lot of family that if they ignore both the guided missile destroyer is taking over for the uss lassen which will now be home ported in florida the navy says this is in reaction to the recent north Korean Hydrogen bomb tests vary in preparing to go camping here for the last year and a half of the families knew the time to go with things to say it never gets easier. Its very difficult. It absolutely is but we love our country and were also proud of our sailors that it makes it all worthwhile in for kids its also especially difficult but they are very proud of their also take pride in what they do and say in how we affect other people not to fear but another country well and strive through my front door for elise brown thirteen years now and we wish a sailors well well Toxic Trouble potentially Toxic Trouble forced cancellation of classes at hilton elementary newport news crew stripping paid at the school made an alarming discovery lead based paint inside the School Building clean up started last night and continues today will escape joins us live from hilton elementary and velma when is the school expected to reopen the School Official told me this morning that theyre hoping to reopen Hilton Elementary School tomorrow but they really wont know until sometime this afternoon so right now crews are still inside cleaning and taking air samples yesterday while scraping paint off of door frames in a hallway discovered lead based paint for the safety of students and staff hilton elementary closed was closed today for clean up the cleanup is pretty extensive. This is a small school but the whole school is getting a wipe down and that includes all of the books certified industrial hygienist are guiding the staff with the clean up and taking air samples the School Officials hope to know sometime this afternoon if the air is safe enough for the school to reopen tomorrow. They want to be able to find out as early as possible to get parents notification as soon as possible so they can make plans for tomorrow live in newport news was skate team is now right now thank you so much will keep you updated what happens there. A Norfolk Middle School was put on brief lockdown because of a bomb Threat Police and fire crews responded to lee Taylor Middle School on kents hill road around nine oclock this morning they found no device students temporarily went to high school. Some parents even drop by to pick them up however once police gave the all clear students went back to school and continued their classes with new information on the death of a boy whose remains were found inside of his mothers trunk the medical Examiners Office reports that quincy davis manner of death is still undetermined. This is after they performed an autopsy davis is decomposing body was found in forty four year old tanya slate and strong last june after a state trooper pulled her over in hampton. Slate has been charged with one felony count of concealing a dead body knew a new Dominion Virginia Power announced the Company Plans to invest nearly two billion dollars a year through twenty twenty for infrastructure and upgrades the Company Hopes to move forward toward cleaner alternatives such as solar energy they also hope to expand and secure the electronic grid throughout virginia and northeastern North Carolina the company made one point similar investments last year and a big change to a popular venue in Virginia Beach the Abbey Theatre has a new name. Its no longer farm your live its now the veterans united home loans and the fear that a final state of the union from president obama what you should expect from his address tonight as his final term comes to an end and an later today president obama will make his address his address is expected to be a little different this time around focusing one Unfinished Business during his time in office with a look ahead to the speech here is abcs by the can on in his final year in Office President obama will deliver his last state of the Union Address to congress but instead of trying to persuade the joint session to work with in the legislative to do lists the president is expected to deliver a speech with a slightly different tone in a video released by the white house mr obama previews what hell say tonight but i want to focus on this day the rest just a remarkable progress weve made not just what i want to get done in the year ahead. But what we all need to do together in the years to come. Expect to hear about the economys recovery seven years ago auto sales hit twenty seven year low last year they had an all time high. The Affordable Care act. Weve brought more than seventeen million americans in our Healthcare System and Foreign Policy hes also expected to touch on the gun violence epidemic and the legalization of same sex marriage is the mythic it does become a little bit more of a legacy speech in terms of defining what has been achieved many highs to talk about but it may be a tough sell in the latest nbc news wall street journal poll seventy percent of americans say they believe the country the explanation from the white house obviously attributable to the avalanche of negativity that weve seen from republican candidate for president and with that the president s speech will also try to frame the choice facing americans as they select the next president of the United States a long list of guests will sit with First Lady Michelle Obama including refugees from war torn syria but a chair in mrs obama box will be left empty to honor victims of gun violence Stephanie Ramos abc News Washington and now we turn to the race to the white house were two republican candidates are left out of the next Debate Fox Business Network is only inviting seven candidates later this week that means rand paul and polly fury now are out. Fox Business NetworkOfficials Say in order to make the cut the candidate needs to be either among the top six in an average of the five most recent National Polls or among the top five in an recent iowa or New Hampshire polls a developing story out of turkey women falling for you today a suicide bomber killed ten people in the same will happen in a popular tourist area most of the victims were foreigners many from germany about fifteen were her. Turkeys Prime Minister says the bomber was a twenty eight year old syrian national. And right now denmark and germany are telling their citizens to avoid crowds and tourists attractions in turkey and also overseas British Counterterrorism Police say theyre concerned about the number of women and girls traveling to syria from the uk those numbers are increasing now Officials Say many of those travelers are unaware will likely never be able to return home. Britain had several high profile cases of young girls traveling to syria to marry militants or support ice ball barn doll back in the courtroom the latest developments on this for brac hearings coming up and take a clear the sun is out its a beautiful day. Temperatures are warming up a little bit the mayor of detroit mike duggan plans that or some of the Public Schools in the city today. This comes after so many teachers called out sick that many schools had to shut down as a result the so called sick out continues today. Teachers complained that there are rodent infestations and mold the other schools. Theyre also calling for smaller class sizes. Reardon said the statement that he will do whatever possible to make sure that all schools are up to health and building codes and building soaring out of berg dollars back before judge or four practices a pre trial hearing for dull faces charges including desertion for walking off his army outpost in afghanistan the taliban captured him and held him hostage for five years todays hearing comes before an expected Court Martial the summer. Virgo had a short assignment or rabid rather last month and didnt enter a plea on charges if convicted he could get a life sentence and in arkansas the jury selection is set to star in the trial for thirty accused of killing real satan in arkansas you might remember this ori lewis pleaded not guilty to capital murder and kidnapping and billy carters death she disappeared on september twenty four t after telling her husband she was going to show house. Her body was found days later in a shallow grave a concrete plant on blockbuster connection is not helping a very famous house to sell this Pennsylvania House was one of the stats for the classic movie silence of the lamps so in the film the psychotic killer buffalo bill and despite its linked to hollywood the owner say that the house is attracting more curious sight seers instead of serious buyers realtor say the houses location outside of pittsburgh is likely hurting the sale efforts as well and a lot of attention for noting a restaurant bathroom that your hands or clean up after themselves but instead to be understanding the check out the note charlotte North Carolina pizza parlor unisex because gender specific bathrooms can make some people uncomfortable that includes moms taking sons to the bathroom and caretakers helping disabled people online many people are praising the effort to make everyone comfortable just like a lot of other shopping more and more people are the groceries done in fact amazon is getting into the business with amazon fresh. There is however an annual membership of two hundred and ninety nine the groceries themselves online are usually more expensive than its stores as well. Ri were looking at a lot of sunshine right now across the region it is a gorgeous day temperatures are warmer than yesterday act until like when you step outside but no this front comes through tonight and he gets a lot colder tomorrow its also pretty windy out or not but we are seeing the winds gusting is starting to pick up will see gus this afternoon having that twenty five to thirty mph range taking a look right now at the forecast for the coming twelve hours and youll see the temperatures topping out in the lower fifties right around fifty three officially sometime between one and three and then falling back to fifty two and then through the forties as we head into the evening skies mostly sunny right now we will see a few more clouds this evening and maybe just maybe a few evening. Right now the radar still dry across the area as a mention it is gorgeous out there to get over into the mountains in West Virginia bat throughout kentucky Eastern Kentucky ohio indiana events in traffic accidents with the snow out that when some of the roads of snow back across pennsylvania so its a lot colder in the other side of the mountains with the frontal boundary that is going to push through our area later tonight as we take a look at the link youll see how the moisture is coming this way but again a lot of italy left over the mountains what does survive will encounter some warmer air and i think it could be a few rain showers maybe a stray flurry or two off to the north you see that with our future cast out ahead of the system ones are coming up from the south the southwest again it is a little dusty in these temperatures are being driven up with the south wins but to note the wind shift to the west northwest behind the front and it gets a lot colder for tomorrow sort em to see the early to mid afternoon close to fifty three degrees and mention and then as we go to the Late Afternoon by three four oclock we start to trend down. Maybe just a few clouds off to the north the most of us will enjoy a lot of sunshine through the afternoon as we head towards the evening i think the evening commutes going to be just fine for most of the metro look go off to the west of richmond a few sprinkles showing up and then by six or seven oclock a few stray showers be possible to the north and west cc seven oclock theyre pushing past williamsburg towards newport news little bit maybe clipping across the Northern Neck or the middle peninsula over towards Eastern Shore by seven thirty temperatures do fall back down through the forties but youre still well above normal. It will be colder aloft or you go up maybe five hundred thousand feet temperatures cooler once you get up off the ground and there could be maybe a stray flurry or two mixing in somewhere on the backside off to the north but in general i dont anticipate any problems around Hampton Roads we should be in good shape just a few showers passing by mainly to the north. Skies the temperatures fall after that in the meantime enjoy the warm up today right now fifty eight year put fifty two in Virginia Beach temperatures upper forties and one and the temperature change over the last twenty four hours were five to ten degrees warmer than this time yesterday as i mentioned feels good and theres that sunshine so it therefore we have South Southwest winds at sixty mph it will be a bit dusty through the afternoon winds from the South Southwest at about fifteen to say twenty five mph gusting thirty thirty five c the gusty winds continue the seeming again a couple stray showers that of the question otherwise clearing later to the overnight and tomorrow back to thirty seven for a high for quite a change but dont you worry about this now because temperatures back into the upper forties to near fifty on thursday and unloaded the disease we had the weekend based on that today is downright tasty and yet our own sin i will say another chance for priests it friday night but at that and wherever you go you can take thirteen years now with you with a thirteen years now whether caster app is free and compatible with apple and Android Devices you can find it under the weather tab with thirteen years now. 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Well a gathering of the communitys leaders all with the urban league of Hampton Roads on the thirty Second Annual community u1 alright next monday is doctor Martin Luther king day and every year in the spirit of doctor king the urban league of Hampton Roads host the Community Leaders breakfast the beam seeing the event as it goes into its thirty second year joining us today in the studio as a president of the urban league of Hampton Roads of life is so much again for joining us along with Bruce ThompsonAward Recipient this year and both for joining us thank you for having our youths are with you i mean this last was my first time at the event right when i got here. It was packed and this truly is an event with many Community Leaders there. It isnt the only Community Leaders but its an event for everyone. Its an event that gives the urban league and all of our partners an opportunity to continue the legacy of doctor king to advocate for justice and civil rights the economy and jobs and just making Hampton Roads a wonderful place to l