Old. The case went cold but never forgotten. In the last couple of years police named a man by the name of Lloyd Lee Welch as a person of interest. He was in and out of this area back then, working as a carny. His mug shot from the time eerily similar to a sketch made from a witness account. He was spoken to back then but was not considered a strong suspect. Things changed as the decades went on and police zeroed in on him. As we said just a couple of years ago. Searching again and again. A mountain top property in virginia that belonged to his family. We are told that evidence was found there to convince police that welch not only abducted the girls but killed them on that mountain. That led to todays indictment. I am honored to report that my Commonwealth Attorney obtained indietments charming indictments charging Lloyd Lee Welch with firstdegree felony murder for his involvement in the death of sheila and Katharine Lyon. Brad the prosecutor and the sheriff in Bedford County came to
But first, Veronica Johnson with the newest timing on tomorrows storm. As we say good morning here at 6 00. Autria lets go ahead and get a check on your forecast with the Veronica Johnson on this final day of february. Veronica just a ton of warm air ahead of the storm system that you mentioned. Storm trak 7 is already tracking it, its making its way through the ohio and Tennessee Valley today. No Severe Weather today, but we will be seeing some showers later and Severe Weather tomorrow. Mild start, temperatures at 9 a. M. On the other side, high side of 50 degrees. Mid 60s around lunchtime, the brightest part of your day is through the morning hours, then we will have clouds and rain coming our way, late, with a better chance by 2 00, 3 00, showers continuing until 9 00 this evening. Look at tomorrows high temperature, right here in the middle, forecasting 78 degrees. It is near record warmth for tomorrow, julie, we will have more on the warmth and timing of the cooldown and the kind
Who needs gatorade when you can have pickle juice. So did she complete the challenge . The answer ahead. News4 midday starts right now. First to your forecast, we are already, unfortunately, seeing rain on the storm team 4 radar. Will it wash out your plans for the rest of this Independence Day . Thats the big question. Storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell has the answer. So what do you say, chuck, fireworks tonight . Ill theyll be able to get the fireworks in, but between now and fireworks time, there is going to be quite a batch of rain to come through the area. Theres not much rain in the d. C. Metropolitan area just yet. Thats about ready to change. Theres some moderate rain moving into culpeper as well. This is all marching its way eastbound so that leading edge of the rain will be on the east side of the metro and coming onto the west shore of the bay within the next three hours. By 2 00, all will be covered. Heres the back end of the rain. That puts the back end moving in aroun
Point turn. Hit two men one that was injured critically before fleeing. Eventually going through this fence and taking off. Turning into an all night man hunt. Heres a photo of the suspect, taken into custody early this morning charged with multiple crimes including hit and run and driving with a suspended license. Youll look at Surveillance Video right now showing her video striking two other cars before leaving this lot. Police say 40yearold Noormustafa Shaikh who owns this lot stood in front and she ran over him. A crowd gathered to try to stop her. At which point mendez stepped on the gas ran off the foot of one man and ran over shaika who was laying on the ground. Witnesses could not believe what they have seen. Just lost conscious. Just lost human decency to do that to somebody else. Police say that mendez had no affiliation with anyone at this lot. So no explanation as to why this happened. They are certainly looking into the possibility as to whether or not she was under the in
Angst. With possible fare hikes and service cuts coming up at 5 00, well give you the ups and downs and tell you what riders think about all this. Meanwhile, four Baltimore Area residents have filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the maryland transit administration. The residents claim transportation officials are illegally limiting services for people with disabilities. The group is not seeking money. They are instead asking the administration to take immediate steps to broaden access to its service and ensure reliability. We seem to be in a pattern of some wintry weather about every other day. Pretty accurate there that would put us back in the bulls eye tomorrow night or so. Chief meteorologist doug hill in the storm watch weather 7 center with more on our latest Winter Weather alert. Doug . Hello there. Right now, nothing but blue skies and sunshine. 45 degrees. This time tomorrow, it will look a little different. Lets get into it and tell you the weather story. Live look