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Recharge you need for the work anytime, anywhere, award anytime, anywhere, awardwinning coverage you can count on, this is abc 13 news. Mark we are staying on top of breaking news tonight at 5 30. Abc 13 live on the scene of a bad fire in brookneal. Danner Courtney Whedon is live outside of the old dan river plant off of 5 01 with everything that she is learning right now. Reporter danner, these flames are not letting up and the smell here is nearly unbearable. I talked to fire crews and they say they are wearing air masks to deal with e heavy smoke and they have to switch out team members every 30 minutes. A rough estimate fire crews are about 100 deep. They say that they are holding the wind is causing new fires to start every few minutes. I have been here for a while and i hear popping every once in a while and i believe that is explosions happening. Again, i do not know the cause of the fire. Crews are expected to be out here ....
Meteorologists are calling for afor it to get down to 8 degreesfor it to get down to 8 degrees. This is dangerous cold, folks. So lets send it right to chief meteorologist George Flickinger for the latest. George danner, this is going to be the coldest weather we have seen so far this season moving into the heart of virginia. We stay below freezing all day today. Right now we are in the 20s. The temp is 29. That light blue number, thats how combed it feels. Right now feels like 21. Around the rest of the area, lynchburg, roanoke, blacksburg, you stay below freezing. Toward south side, temps in the upper 30s. And it feels that much colder. Winds from the west. That fire you were seeing in the brookneal area. You can see where the wind was blowing that smoke from west to east as we have a west to east breeze right now. Some good news that the winds will be diminishing after sunwill be diminishing after sunset. The temperatures wi ....
Chilly but not raining or snowing yet. V dot was busy well before the storm. They spent much of yesterday pretreating the primary roads like 77 and 460 with a brine. And they have crews ready to go tonight, but on secondary roads like the ones leading into craig county, crews arent able to pretreat. Thats one of the things that helps with the ice and snow from bonding to the road surface. So if we do see any significant accumulations on the secondary roads, if people drive on it, then we are able to see some of that frozen, icethat frozen, icy snow combat down compact on that road surface. With it forecasted to be a very cold week, whatever snow you see wont melt as quickly as the last storm. We are not expecting this to be a major snow event. Stay with abc 13 if the roads get slick. We will have up to the minute information on any closings too at wset. Com. Well, just moments ago, Pulaski County where a judge was working to seat ....
13 years she was here. Reporter tonights viewing will go on until 8 00 tonight, and the funeral will be here at the mccrory funeral home tomorrow at 3 00. Live in blacksburg, applicant anne, abc 13 news. Danner thank you, annie. Police say that Nicole Lovell was very act any social media with facebook, instagram and kick account. Kick county has been active to help carry out the investigation. Kick is popular with younger teens at kicks respect, they stopped advertising kick messenger for kids appropriate 9 and older in its itunes store. Abc 13 is digging into new information on the death of a newborn found in a dumpster last night. This was in rocky mount. Mark i got off the phone 40 minutes ago from officials in rocky mount. Come out at any moment. This is what we know this hour, police found the baby at the blackwater collection site off of 220. Police got a call from carilion memorial hospital. A woman came in showing signs of ....