Storm recovery. This is our community and these are our people. How organizations and Community Members are teaming up to get parts of our area back to normal after a massive tornado ripped through. Tonight we have Live Team Coverage. Andgodzilla gone wild. Its sort of a middle of the road, tough to call forecast. Virginia has seen some crazy weather lately but what does all this mean for spring . We take a closer look at el nino. Thenpreparing for the show. People have a real misconception about horses. Theres a big horse show in our area and horse owners are getting prepared. What they want you to know about the animals in tonights ag life report. The National Weather service confirming a tornado hit appomattox county this as both the governor and the county declare a state of tornado recorded in appomattox county since 1950. Now tonight people are starting to clean up. Governor mcauliffe went to appomattox county today to tour the damage. This afternoon he visited white pine drive w
Marco rubio. Coming to our area. How you can get events before super tuesday. Then drone dilemma1 06 sot to get the maximum amount they can out of this little bitty plot of land. The highs and lows for farmers looking for help from above. Thanks for being us tonight at ten, im bill wadell. This weekend a lot of cleanup and questions about an alert system after the tornado that wrecked dozens of homes in appomattox county. Reveal 1f. E. M. A officials arrived today to survey the damage in evergreen. Reveal 2appomattox county schools are expected to reopen for classes monday morning. One polling place for super tuesday has been moved. Central Baptist Church was damaged by the ef 3 tornado. Anyone who was set to vote there can cast their ballot at Friendship Baptist chuch. Reveal 3and today we learned 3 thousand people who signed up for automated phone calls from alert appomattox never got the call about the Tornado Warning wednesday. The 911 us they are focused on recovery and clean up r
Courtney wheaton are live in appomattox. And chief meteorologist George Flickinger is tracking the latest conditions in the weather center. Marissa, lets begin with you. You spoke with one family thats dealing with the destruction first hand. 3 3 marissa live u mark, no matter how many times i visit a home in ruins from the tornado, i can never get used to the devastation. You see these cinder blocks below me . These were once a part of the foundation that someone called home. 3 sheila ferguson, family friend there was a large living room on the 3 other side. shows debris now in pieces, she struggles to remember what her friend sandy burchetts house looked like just two days ago. Her friends son, jake burchett, didnt see the tornado coming. Sheila ferguson, family friend his dog woke him upa and he was asleep in his bedroom. It still standing. Sheila ferguson, family friend and then it threw him against the brick wall there. About, probably id say 50 yards. The army veteran was rushed
We have Team Coverage of the storm damage in appomattox. You just saw melissa in our Weather Center. And Mona Kosar Abdi and tola adamson are live on the scene in appomattox right now to give us an idea of whats 3 going on there. First were checking in with mona. 3 sot3 pattie plasma that was Mona Kosar Abdi reporting. 3 3 3 pattie this morning we are getting another look at the devestation in appomattox from the sky. Central virginia Aerial Solutions shot this footage. You can see all the damage trees knocked over even uprooted in some cases. Authorities say. The tornado left a 13mile path of destruction. 3 pattie tight video like frightening. Just to look at. Now imagine living it. An appomattox teen still cant believe. Hes alive. Right in front of his eyes. 15yearold daniel poole watched a tornado destroy his entire home. Valerie bragg has his miraculous story of survival. 3 nat pop that would be the kitchen. torn to pieces. nat pop the big dresser, that was my moms. And i told you
Good evening, and thanks for joining us for wsls 10 at six. Im brie jackson. The race for the white house heats up as president ial candidates make last Minute Campaign stope before super tuesday. Republican hopeful marco rubio is making his rounds in the commonwealth today and is speaking at Roanoke College tonight. Wsls 10s ananda rochita is live in salem. Ananda how is the crowd looking so far . People are starting to line up to see senator marco rubio speak tonight at Roanoke College. Theres a big push for candidates ahead of super tuesday. In fact donald trump will be in radford tomorrow. Rubios Campaign Team listed support from virginia leaders this week on his website. Some from our area include Danville City Council member lee vogler and former chair for Roanoke County gop ed lynch. Rubio was at a rally in the richmond area a few hours ago and there he talked about the country needing a strong conservative movement. He also didnt hesitate to talk about Roanoke College a few min