Now at 11, a 6. 4 earthquake shakes Southern California tonight. We visit the town at the epicenter of it all. A a new earthquake alert system finally on its way to the bay area. How a few seconds warning can save lives. 12 fires in just one hour. Tonight, the Quick Response from firefighters battling blazes across Contra Costa County. We were with police when they found this, 200 pounds of illegal fireworks. The big bust, tonight. Good evening. Im elizabeth cook. We begin with the continued fallout from that 6. 4 magnitude quake near the town of ridgecrest about 150 miles northeast of los angeles. Tonight, we have team coverage. We are in the town closest to the epicenter of the quake, trone, where residents are without the basics tonight. Reporter there have been a series of aftershocks here near the epicenter and 3. 5 with the latest one, very unsettling. The good news here is though the electricity is back on. I am still a little shaken up. Reporter a lifelong resident of trone up
System finally on its way to the bay area. How a few seconds warning can 1fires in just one hour. Tonight, the Quick Response from firefighters battling blazes across Contra Costa County. We were with police when they found this, 200 pounds of illegal fireworks. The big bust, tonight. Good evening. Im elizabeth cook. We begin with the continued fallout from that 6. 4 magnitude quake near the town of ridgecrest about 150 miles northeast of los angeles. Tonight, we have team coverage. We are in the town closest to the epicenter of the quake, trone, where residents are without the basics tonight. Reporter there have been a series of aftershocks here near the epicenter and 3. 5 with the latest one, very unsettling. The good news here is though the electricity is back on. I am still a little shaken up. Reporter a lifelong resident of trone up so the earthquake that rocked her small town traumatized her. Trone is very close to the epicenter. Still worried about the after shocks and they are
Community learned that lovell had been killed, but the support didnt end. From this tragedy that thank has happened just to see the outpouring of support and the phone calls that weve gotten and the friends that that care about this family and about this this girl. That is just a testimony to her, the person she was in the short 13 years that she was here. Reporter and even now, the community is coming out in force to pay their respects to lovell. All this is the people that knew her coming together like that. Maybe they did love her. Our community has been awesome with the prayer vigils and just the people praying and the comments i have read on facebook and whatnot. Reporter now tonights viewing will go on until 8 00, and then her funeral will be here tomorrow at 3 00 at the mccoy funeral home. Live in blacksburg, annie andersen, abc 13 news. Police in rocky mount are determining whether to file found dead overnight in a dutch administer there. Police got a call from carillion Memori
Shelves collecting dust and Police Departments months of me questioning officials about why they never sent the kids for dna testing and months of thirty news now lobbying lawmakers to take action with our hashtag test the kids campaign. Weve just learned the attorney general has finalized a contract to get the more than two thousand kits tested. Finally they could hold the keys to solving crimes like rape and Sexual Assault and now they will no longer sit on the shelves and local Police Departments without any sort of examination. Some of the kits we discovered that have not been tested for dna date back to nineteen eighty eight. Thats almost thirty years a victim has been waiting for answers waiting for a dna profile on the suspect who changed her out there again. Attorney general mark herring told thirteen news now exclusively he has contracted bodie sell mark forensics in Northern Virginia to test the more than two thousand Sexual Assault evidence kits and the first kids to be test
Our communities safer to help victims of Sexual Violence know that their perpetrator is brought to justice attorney general mark herring tells thirty news now bodie sell more forensics in Northern Virginia will be testing the more than two thousand Sexual Assault evidence kits and the first kits to be tested are coming from right here in Hampton Roads from the Virginia Beach police department. Those kids should begin to arrive at the lab in the next couple weeks with results on the way in about six to eight weeks its really important this be done thoughtfully and carefully because this could be used as evidence in criminal cases the testing is funded through the one point four Million Dollar grant to the a gs office ignored in september just a couple months after our initial investigation. I think the stories about the untested kits and Public Awareness helped really bring this issue to the forefront program started to provide the resources the use of those resources now sending a mess