Fighting a house fire. Paris holmes is at the scene. Paris, what can you tell us . Around 5am this morning the Bedford Fire Department responded to a fire here on the 1000 block shepards store road. According to the chief it took about 45 mins to put the fire out which they believe started in the garage. Theyre not sure what cause it yet. , but no one was hurt. The owners of the house are standing out here in front. Probably in shock. I havent had a chance to talk to them yet, but ive seen neighbors come out here and give them a blanket. Fire are still working in the house making sure the fire is completely thousands of people are still in the dark in our regional at this moment. Here is a live look at appalachian powers outage map. You can see the highest numbers still 24 hours later in Roanoke County and franklin county. 45hundred people are still in the dark in Roanoke County. 37hundred also in franklin county. Lets check in now with applachian powers spokeswoman teresa hamilton hall. She joins us live by phone. Teresa, peoples power restored . Is a cold front will cross through the ohio valley today andtonight. Then will dissipate over the mid Atlantic Region bythursday morning. High pressure builds in behind the front andwill cover much of the eastern United States on thursday. A lowpressure system in the upper Mississippi Valley friday will moveeast across even though roads are in much better shape this morning than they were yesterday morning, there are still a few hazards to keep an eye on as you head out the door today. Meteoologist Taylor Kanost this morning in Roanoke County. Thanks to the warm conditions yesterday, city and vdot crews were able to get a lot accomplished yesterday. Most major roads have been cleared of all of the trees that came crashing down tuesday morning. Along with that, most roads including secondary neighborhood streets appear to be clear of snow at this point. However, we arent completely out of the woods just yet. Temperatures are expected to hover right around the freezing mark this morning in roanoke and other portions of southwest virginia which means black ice could be an issue. Even if your area does not drop below freezing, all of the snowmelt will pond on the roads. Bottom line is most of you shouldnt have any trouble getting where you need to go today, but its still a smart idea to take a bit slow and give yourself a little bit extra time. Reporting live in roanoke, Taylor Kanost wfxr news. This morning, were sitting down with roanoke mayoral candidate sherman lea who won the democratic primary last weekend. We want to get the answers that matter to you as citizens of roanoke. What are the plans to keep jobs here in the Roanoke Railroad is a huge part of roanokes history are there plans in place to keep them here . What are needs to january and chef jeff already putting me to work in the kitchen. You probably already know who this is. This is kev jeff. Joins us every week, sometimes a couple of days a week. We wish he could be here every day but today an interesting dish for us. A little surf and turf. The italia is something everyone is intimidated but about what we olive oil and onion and short grain italian rice and saute that together but you want it toasted and coated and add white wine to it and adding broth and the key is to stir, stir, stir. Stir . What will happen if you dont stir . If you dont stir, it wont become creamy because these little granules of the short grain rice have a lot of starch and youre trying to mix and barb them together and bring out that starch. And you want to stir, stir, stir, stir. So think you finish stiring and probably still need to some more. And it is going to add the half a cup of broth and stir in and want to get to the al dente state. So for the surf and turf were doing duck and scallops. You can find those usually in butcher counter probably. Take a fork and kind of crick it because what that is going to do is release the fat and make the scin crispy and thats what we want. Salt and pepper into the nice hand and season want this to brown and put in some fresh thyme. The whole spring in there, huh . The whole sprig and that will give off the essential thymile aromas and start to smell that now and really want the fat to render out because then we have the really great sea scallops and big kind and pepper and with that you want to peel that off and i thought i saved the foot. It gets kind of rubbery and like chewing the rubber band. And then cook about 3 of these. One duck breast and the risotto going ask well stir, stir, stir. Its my one job and i have to do it right and when we come back well finish up the rice with some really great Parmesan Cheese and put all this together and also some great mushrooms, too, because duck and scallops really lends itself to really earthy flavors and mushrooms are really earthy. The good kind, too. So baby bellas and shitakes and theyll pick up the flavor of the thyme and really just become a wonderful dish. January this smells incredible. Like i say i wish you had already permeating the room. We have duck and scallops. Im stirring, stirring, stirring the risotto and well give you about two machine just to gather yourself because im sure you wish you could taste it when good day, jason all right, 8 20 now. Looking doub towards the roanoke Regional Airport and seeing outside of the building it is looking pretty clear and could be slick spots out on the building here and take a live look outside at blacksburg and it is down to the Virginia Tech campus and you can see there are clouds out there and a little bit of sunshine peeking through from time to time and that will be case as we go through much of the morning hours. Do watch out. There could be there but a tomorrow and its suny and warm out there with temperatures pushing up to near 60 for many of us. For this morning, though, starting still below freezing and in lexington, 37 again in roanoke and 34 now in blacksburg where we just took a look outside. Skies are mainly clear across the eastern half area. The west and the appalachians and the alleghanois and the cold can see that squeegee out the moisture and the rest looking quiet with the High Pressure trying to nudge in for today and through the evening and the overnight hours it does start to wind down as the area of High Pressure makes its way on in. Notice that clockwise spin starting to take hold as that a Beautiful Day on thursday and heading into friday the mix of clouds and sun and stays dry with the temperatures coming up into the 50s for many of us and heading towards the 60s as we go into the weekend. Just short of normal and 43 in roanoke and call it partly sunny. Nice and dry though with the snow melt that will continue today. With temperatures dropping down below freezing overnight tonight and into tomorrow morning. Watch out tomorrow morning. We could find slick spots well and heading into the afternoon in Central Virginia and near 50 and the south side with the showers coming to an end and the temperatures climb into the and cooler into the few river valley and same story as we head up in elevation and the temperatures in the 30s to near 40. Through the weekend looking good with lots of sunshine and look at temperatures near 60 next chance of precipitation comes in on tuesday. Guys . Ridge Recreation Center came to us this week to show us how to get a workout we all want to make sure our children stay safe in an emergency. Coming up next on good day virginia we will see how one organization is working to prepare children hi dad. Uh huh. Yeah. Sorry about that. Think about it there must be higher love down in the heart what do you think . And in the stars above hi ted, glad you could join us, we think youre going to like these numbers. Bring me a higher love kyle thanks for being with us here on good day, virginia. Wednesday, february 17th. The American Red Cross is helping kids get ready for an emergency with the neat little project called the pillow case project. Its basically involving pillowcases and its painful flee simple. But until i heard about it i never would have thought of that being a way to teach kids how to handle themselves should something go sideways. Correct. Kyle bridget powell, a red break down the pillow project. It seems self explanatory but explain. Colleges were evacuating after Hurricane Katrina and putting all their items in the pillow case and that got to the c. E. O. In new orleans and said this would be a great preparation for youth to help them be prepared for emergency. And so they started to teach it at area schools and disney was a wonderful sponsor and donated it and in roanoke and in the Virginia Area have taught 3,384 student just this past year. Kyle what are you trying to teach kids about disaster preparation with the pillow case . For our area we focus on fire safety so schools and after school care. Seconds. Different parts of the u. S. May focus on hurricanes or tornados or Something Like that. But fire safety is what we find as critical as part of this project. Kyle and the idea is to teach kids what they might need to have with them if they evacuate their house. Right. Kyle and either prepare a pillowcase ahead of time or know what to grab as they rush out . The idea is be prepared ahead of time. Fast act emergency like a fire youre not going take that with you if you need to get out quick. But they get to color it through time pack these items in there. Most already have them at home so as soon as you get home, fill that. Kyle the kit includes a headlamp. The first aid kit which you need. Kind of obvious. Keep one in the car and readily take with you. A comfort item. Then this is the pretty cool thing you just its a handcranked, solarpowered radio with a usb cell phone charger in it most dont each know what a radio is so i have to educate them on that kyle well, with the charger usually in 72 hours youll be displaced and this isnt for long term but short term and kids have already used these things. In oklahoma a girl felt more at peace because of what she had. Kyle and have drinking water, toiletries and snack foods as well. Correct. Kyle bridget, thank you for coming in and diving into the pillowcase project with but just one kind of chicken. White breast meat chicken every time. So if youre not going to make your own chicken soup tonight, do what we do. Make it progresso. I would kill for something sweet. Wanna split that . No. Soooo much fat. Dont fight your instincts. With each for 150 calories or less try our lemon bars, brownies, and cheesecakes. Fiber one. Our next item is a genuine name your price tool. This highly soughtafter device from progressive can be yours for. Twenty grand . No we are giving it away for just 3 easy payments of 4. 99 plus tax the lines are blowing up weve got deborah from poughkeepsie. Flo yeah, no, its flo. You guys realize anyone can use the name your price tool for free on progressive. Com, right . [ laughing nervously ] [ pickles whines ] i know, its like theyre always on television. What . Discover card. I missed a payment. Aw, shoot. No were good this is your first time missing a payment. And youve got the discover it card, so we wont hike up your apr for paying late. Thats great it is great both simultaneously thank you. At discover, we treat you like youd treat you. Jason 8 36. Temperatures are on the rebound. Many up over the freezing mark this morning. While we start to lessen the risk of black ice but still lynch burgh and still below the freezing mark and 37 in mountain lake. We could touch on 15 and clouds and sunny skies with the bit of the breeze out there and sunset after 6 00. We are working our way earlier as well. In a couple of days with the 7 00 in the morning. Good news as we head deeper in the year with more daylight coming and milder temperatures, too. Details in the full forecast in just a couple. Good day, virginia returns right now. 17. Im kyle benjamin. And im january keaton. Thousands of people are still in the dark in our regional at this moment. Here is a live look at appalachian powers outage map. You will see some improvements at this hour. Roanoke county still has the highest number, but it is down to just over four thousand customers without power. And it is down to about 28 hundred people in franklin county. Still it could be a couple days before power is fully restored to all parts of the region. In virginia most milk must be pasturized before it has been heated to high enough temperature to kill bacteria. The fda says pasteurized milk has the same nutritional value as raw milk. It also says that unpasteurized milk is 150 times more likely to make you sick. But some advocates of raw milk disagree. They believe it is healthier, even though it is against the law to sell. A local farmer and families in our region have found a way around the rules. Wfxrs solina lewis shows us how they are getting their hands on raw milk in pittsylvania county. 43thats straight from the cow its unprocessed its straight from the animal for us to enjoy and consumebut unless you actually own a cow, or a share of a herd, its not legal for virginians to enjoy or consume. Some states where its illegal and some states where you can buy it in the store, so theres a big debate going onthe Debate Centers on the bacteria in raw versus pasteurized milk, which some say can be dangerous. Jack fuhrmann is able to get around that by selling shares of his herd, not milkcustomers just pay to board the animals. The milk is just a by product of owning a share of the herdthe milk is then delivered to the shareholders as a bonus for owning part of the herd. Its still a hotly contested issue, but jack says its due to misunderstanding. Praising the benefits of itim lactose intolerant drinking milk from the store, but thats not the case for me with raw milkjack that all of the herds partial owners found him in their search for raw milk. They actually find us theyve done their research and they want this for their familyhe encourages everyone to do their research on the issue and draw their own conclusion, and for those who dont agree . Well, theres no use crying over spilled milk. Solina the Virginia Department of health says raw milk does not help lactose intolerance. It says all milk contains lactose and pasteurization does not change that. A cold front will cross january thanks for sticking with good day, virginia, everybody chef jeff is absolutely making us some food fanatics over here were all drooling and a little bit of sweat on my forehead because hes making a delicious dish of scallops and has duck and risoto. Hes got the whole 9 yards and just put Parmesan Cheese in here which is one of my favorites. Though so this is what is amazing. Its most expensive in the world and it is what sticks out of the crocus flower and theyre hand picked and it takes about 180,000 of the stems to make an ounce of saffron so usual he its very, very expensive. So you can find it in the Grocery Store and comes in the little vial. And it is hold it up to the camera and turn it over there. It turns things a vibrant yellow and thats the very classical flavoring in a lot of italian dishes. Sometimes you see pasta and very, very risoto so january give us a recap. Its the saffron and scallops and duck and stir, stir, stir. And finish it off with the sea scallops. You can find pretty much in any we have nice duck breast with some really crispy skin. You seared the duck breast. All this is done on the stove . But duck, after you sear it, if you want to finish it in the oven, you can. The scallops, literally you want to cook about a minute to a minute and a half on one side and flip it over and maybe another 30 seconds. They really are done like that. I roasted off some mushrooms and also you can use whatever mushrooms you can find and roasted these off in the oven beforehand to give it a bit of a deeper flavor and also cook a lot quicker. So well finish it off with a little more parmesan. That looks so good also the drizzle of olive oil and my wife says you have to put a green thing as a chef. January look what it did as you put the green on it brings the colors out and you get to taste. January im so excited and go to virginiafirst. Com and now youll see how terrible i cut food. I was never taught to use the knife and fork. Im going to do both. A little duck and im going to cut a little scallop. And dont forget to taste the rice. January tell us about food fanatic. There are 40 food fanaticks and were culinary experts and go out and meet with customers and clients and we inspire them and help them with business and its a great thing and Great Organization and we just love meeting with people. January so you try to make People Better cooks. And get people excited about cooking and now food show season and food fanatics live is all over the country so go also next monday were releasing our spring edition of food fanatics magazine. So go to food fanatics. Com and see the latest edition. That magazine is amazing, by the way, though. The issue on butter put me to the moon. I loved it this is so good chef jeff, again, duck, we have scallops and a little surf and turf and pan seared surf and turf. And if you dont want to use scallops, you can use shrimp. If you dont want to use duck, use chicken breast. Make it how you love to eat so if you cook what you like, youll love it. I love this man chef jeff, thank you again for jason its 10 minutes to 9 00. Pointing east towards lynchburg the sunshine as well. A few slick spots with the milder afternoon and quiet into the wean. The slow warming trend will take hold and thats going to lead us to the temperatures near 60. Both saturday and sunday. This morning temperatures are starting out in the 20s and 30s. Weve seen them rebounding already. But lynchburg still under the freezing mark and martinsville at the freezing mark with bloomfield at 29 and hot springs. Everybody else is over freezing right now but there could be a few more with the satellite melt any of the snow ask ice left over and certainly see that continuing as we go through with milder temperatures and that quick area of low pressure off the coast bringing showers to the overnight with the cold front off to the west as well. Thats going to make its way into the region and bring a little bit of extra moisture and a few snow showers through the western facing slopes and can see that in the future cast and quite pleasant conscience albeit cool for this time of the year. Heading into the day on thursday looking good with plenty of sunshine around and the temperatures about the same if not maybe a degree warmer as we head on into tomorrow afternoon. But otherwise a beautiful and calm day. Youll certainly want to bring sunglasses with you tomorrow. Need them today in the Roanoke Valley as we go partly sun theafternoon. The dry day with the temperatures in the mid40s for youll certainly want the sunglasses as you walk out the door and becoming mostly sunny with high temperatures in the upper 40s to near 50. 50 is the average high in roanoke today. We will fall a little bit short of that and well get there in the coming days. The temperatures around to the south side and the upper 40s to near 50. The rain tapering off as the system pulls away. Cooler in the new river valley and breezy with the way of clouds and hold those temperatures down. Same story as we come up into the highlands with extra clouds and bit of snow shower activity and the temperatures are on the western side to be a touch cooler and the eastern side a touch warmer as well see more in the way of some sun. Ill have the 7day forecast and well keep it about the same for tomorrow but see more sunshine and friday great with highs near 60s and into the 50s near 60 over the weekend. Guys . Kyle thank you, jason. If you want to wheel like james bond, you can, but have to shell out a whole lot of money theres a catch. Rockets ride like doubleoh seven. If youre willing to pay for it. James bonds most recent kyle you can wheel like 007 if youre willing to pay for january thaston martin bb10 vehicle created for specter is expected to sell for as much as 2. 1 million dollars. It could hit a top speed around 190 mph unfortunately one catch. You cant actually take the version out on the road. Aston has made sure it is not road legal. Its probably super fast and doesnt have all the necessary usually find on the roadgoing super car. But again, just a lovely piece of hand crafted machinery there from the folks ataston. Jason a favorite car i will never own you can buy a gently used one for not a lot of money well see you back here tomorrow at 5. Captioning provided by depere, wi today on Maury Georgette is 52 years old. Oh, baby. Maury and in love with a 23yearold man. It might not last, but im going to ride it until falls off. Maury but deandres sister is here, to confront her brothers 52yearold girlfriend. Because some grandma is sleeping with my brother. Maury he said he loves her. This is my choice. Hes happy. Hes happy with grandma maury but he doesnt know we set him up with a girl pretending to like him. And this hidden camera sex tape we all saw it. 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