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nation faces torrential rainfall and strong winds from the category 4 hurricane. a hurricane warning was in effect for jamaica, cuba and haiti, around jeremie and les cayes could see the worst of it. matthew is one of the most powerful atlantic hurricanes in recent history and briefly reached the top classification, category 5, becoming the strongest hurricane here since felix in 2007. ((michelle mortensen)) we re only three days into ((michelle mortensen)) we re only three days into october . but it has already been a deadly month on our roadways. according to police three accidents over the weekend involved impaired drivers. and according to safety advocates . october is historically a month where d-u-i fatalities increase. as of right now . 84 people have died in traffic there have been 54 deaths in n-h-p s. and while this rise in fatal accidents is concerning . police tell us there is one are where we ve seen vast improvement. ((erin breen dir. vulnerable road u ....
he has also had the joy to experience today. i think he is eager to go back south of the james. emmanuel grew up in did what he county. dinwiddie county, so petersburg was home for him. volunteering at the petersburg national battlefield where he became a seasonal, worked there for a number of years and became a permanent historian. he has beenm there 14 years sharing this story which has largely been forgotten. the stories of the people affected by the presence of those armies has gone untold. fortunately, emmanuel has brought that story to the forefront and is here to talk about one of the other enduring legacies of the war, the freedmen s bureau. the question, what is going to happen with all these emancipated slaves? the freedmen s bureau was an attempt to deal with that. it was a very complicated answer. emmanuel dabney, ladies and gentlemen. [applause] emmanuel: i am not sure how people deal with this traffic on the north side of richmond. it seems like whenev ....
seeming to express her annoyance with how long it s taking to seat a jury. she also cried on several occasions when potential jurors talked about times they met noah and white. a neighbor of noah s grandparents said he talked with the five year old when the boy visited his grandparents house. sheriff jim davis was in the courtroom also throughout the day observing the questioning. mike fleenor, the commonwealth s attorney had no comment on the jury selection process when he left for lunch. he is concerned about how her lawyers are handling the questions. he says kelsey bulger, white s attorney, is asking too many follow up questions that may be inappropriate to the case. both sides disagreed about wording of a question about the parents role in a child s life. the judge finally decided they could both ask it to jurors with their own changes. the prosecutor s witnesses are now rescheduled to come tomorrow. her lawyers asked their witnesses to come thursday. forecastwhen ....
first on wdbj-7, the trial for ashley white will continue thursday now but without a jury. just hours ago the judge accepted a compromise from the commonwealth s attorney and white s lawyers to hold a bench trial instead of a jury trial. white is charged with child abuse and neglect. her son noah thomas was found dead in a septic tank near the family s pulaski county home. kelsey bulger, her attorney, said it was impossible to seat a jury in pulaski county because so many people know about the case either through media or social media. both sides waived a jury trial. this comes after the court interviewed 66 potential jurors in two days and and filled its jury pool. about 60 percent of jurors were dismissed because they said they had an opinion or had heard about the case. new at 11: police are looking for a man they say robbed a pharmacy in rocky mount. it happened just after 5 at the family pharmacy in the schewels plaza on franklin street. authorities say joshua cund ....
white will continue tomorrow, but without a jury. yesterday the judge accepted a compromise from the commonwealth s attorney and white s lawyers to hold a bench trial instead of a jury trial. white is charged with child abuse and neglect. her son noah thomas was found dead in a septic tank near the family s pulaski county home. kelsey bulger, her attorney, said it was impossible to seat a jury in pulaski county because so many people know social media. jury trial. this comes after the court interviewed 66 potential jurors in two days and and filled about 60 percent of jurors were they said they had an opinion or had heard about the case. new details were revealed in a danville murder case during a christy michelle beskin pleaded guilty court to arson and murder of donna hiatt-lanier in march 20-15. beskin s attorney says the two were friends for a long time. she says beskin did not go to hiatt- lanier s house with intentions to kill. in court yesterday, beskin admits he ....