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storm activity will move out of our area around 6 pm this evening. light scattered showers stick around overnight. cold air will move in on the back side of this system, allowing up- slope snow storms possible ... triple a has some ways to stay safe on the roads. give trucks more room on the road. high winds can impact large trucks. do not use cruise control. it may be difficult to regain control of your car if you skid. make sure to turn your headlights on. pull over if the storm gets worse and visibility is limited. and apply your brakes slowly. ### violent thunderstorms south tuesday night ... leaving at least three dead and 30 hurt. communities from louisiana to florida continue to search for survivors after homes ... buildings destroyed. some people say they barely made it out alive. "we just held on to each other won't." "and all at once we hear a loud noise .. whooooo." the severe weather threat is moving east and northeast .... heading into georgia and the carolinas and virginia today.### new at noon ... a roanoke city fire fighter is arrested for forcible sodomy with a minor. 46 year old david bocock is charged with one count of forcible sodomy. bocock was arrested at his home in roanoke county with the assistance of the u-s marshall's service. he was arraigned this morning in juvenile and domestic relations court in botetourt county. according to a roanoke city spokesperson .. bocock is suspended without pay. he' s being held in botetourt county jail without bond.### a woman is dead following a it happened around 9:45 tuesday night on route 697 a mile east of route 626. the car ran off the the left side of the road and struck a tree. according to state police ... the driver ... 52 year old angela dalton was not wearing a seat belt and died at the scene. the crash remains under investigation. ### police continue investigating a homicide in roanoke. it happened just before 5 tuesday afternoon in the 500 block of westwood boulevard northwest. roanoke city police say 26 year old martavious cook was killed. officers are gathering evidence and interviewing witnesses. an arrest has not yet been made. if you have any information, you're asked to call police.### danville police are investigating a homicide. just after midnight... police we're called to the 2-hundred block of halifax street after someone had been shot. they found a man with what looked like gunshot wounds. he was pronounced dead at scene. this morning, investigators returned to look for evidence and identification. anyone with information is asked to call police.### after a three weeks trial for the suspected gang members accused of killing waynesboro reserve police captain kevin quick, the case is now in the hands of 12 jurors. four suspects are charged with the murder of waynesboro reserve police captain kevin quick while the other two are accused of being the gang's ring leaders in a racketeering conspiracy. the jury is looking at all pieces of evidence that trial. there were more than 50 witnesses called to the stand. we'll have continuing coverage throughout the day on our website and tonight starting at five. ### lawmakers say they're taking steps to stop president obama from closing guantanamo bay. house speaker paul ryan says there are enough votes in congress to block the president's plan and override any veto. under president obama's plan ... around 35 of the 91 current prisons in other countries ... leaving up t0 60 prisoners who are either facing trial by military commission or have been deemed too dangerous to release. those detainees would be relocated to a u-s facility. ### president obama identifies the qualities he's looking for in the next supreme court justice. on legal blog "scotus blog" ... the president says he's looking for someone with a clean record ... a deep respect for the justice's role and an understanding of how the law affects real people. the commander in chief also says he wants someone who approaches decisions with no particular ideology or agenda. the president is using the blog to push back on republicans who are refusing to hold hearings or permit a vote on appointing justice antonin scalia's replacement. ### turning to election coverage ... donald trump comes out on top less than a week away from super tuesday. the republican presidential candidate dominated the nevada caucus last night. and women in every age group over 30 and with evangelicials. donald trump / r presidential candidate - "we won the evangelicals,we won with young, we won with old. won with highly educated. won with poorly educated, i love the poorly educated." fellow party candidates ted cruz and marco rubio are fighting to keep up. both hope to bring home a win in their home states of texas and florida. ### presidential hopefuls are in the commonwealth ... ahead of super tuesday. donald trump is looking for a place to campaign in southwest virginia. the general manager of the berglund center says trump's campaign reached out but the date wasn't available. today trump is speaking at the regents university presidential forum in virginia beach. meanwhile... former president bill clinton comes to virginia to campaign for his wife, hillary. he's expected to visit richmond and northern virginia. this comes after democratic candidate bernie sanders made a stop in norfolk tuesday. he touched on a wide range of issues including unemployment works for everyone. ### we've been closely following the caucus and primary elections in key states over the past month. w-s-l-s 10's erin brookshier had more on how local students will likely play a big role in the election.### the younger voters can play a huge role in who runs for and eventually wins the race for the white house.. president barack obama spoke to college aged voters during his campaigns... vo and in turn-- they gave him a huge boost, winning by five million votes over mitt romney in the younger age demographics. but overall.. young voters have been turning out less and less to cast their votes.. according to the u-s census bureau, voters 18-to-24 have consistently voted at lower rates than all other age groups in presidential elections since 19--62. scott dunn.. an associate professor at radford university, says many college students just don't feel like the candidates care about them. sot it's sort of a vicious circle young people because they don't vote and the young people don't vote because the candidates exceptions, we see people like barack obama, bernie sanders and rand paul-- are people who are seen as outside of the norm. that may be appealing to young people who are getting jaded with politicians. continue vo dunn says he hopes that when students get excited about a particular candidate... that excitement transfers to voting in more specific candidate doesn't win the first time. live the primary election is coming up on tuesday.. and some college towns, like virginia tech and liberty university have created special on-campus voting precincts so students don't have to leave campus to cast their votes. virginia students have some of the highest advanced placement scores in the nation. according to the college board ... the commonwealth has the sixth highest percentage of public high school seniors qualifying for the organization says nearly 30 percent of graduating seniors earned a score of three or higher on at least one test. about 22 percent have achieved those scores nationwide. scores of three or higher indicate college level work.### kristina will have another check of your storm team 10 forecast ... that's coming up in a just a few minutes. plus ... dog lovers get ready ... the top dog breeds in america. then ... good news for those who always lose their keys ... the new feature volvo is testing ... flood watch in effect for wind advisory until 4 pm for bland, grayson, tazewell, & wythe counties today: rain likely.storms blue ridge parkway severe thunderstorms are possible this afternoon, especially for the far southeast corner of our area halifax & charlotte counties flooding and damaging wind pose the greatest threat. tornadoes are not likely, however, they are possible with this system. stay alert. the heaviest rain & storm activity will move out of our area around 6 pm this evening. light scattered showers stick around overnight. cold air will move in on the back side of this system, overnight through thursday. thursday will be mostly cloudy and cooler with highs in the upper 40s. most of us stay dry, however, our west va. counties and counties boarding west va. will see scattered light snow showers. the wind will be a huge factor on thursday. we could have gusts over 50 mph, especially in our highest elevations west of the blue ridge parkway. the saturated ground along with the high wind could cause trees to fall. friday will start windy. the wind will gradually weaken through friday evening. temperatures will top out in the lower 40s. with highs in the upper 40s. sunday will be mostly sunny with highs in the upper 50s and lower 60s. monday looks partly to mostly cloudy with a few effect for everyone until 7 pm wind advisory until 4 pm for bland, grayson, tazewell, & wythe counties today: rain likely.storms possible especially east of the blue ridge parkway severe thunderstorms are possible this afternoon, especially for the far southeast corner of our area halifax & charlotte counties flooding and damaging wind pose the greatest threat. tornadoes are not likely, however, they are possible with this system. stay activity will move out of our area around 6 pm this evening. light scattered showers stick around overnight. cold air will move in on the back side of this system, allowing up- slope snow showers to develop overnight through thursday. thursday will be mostly cloudy and cooler with highs in the upper 40s. most of us stay dry, however, our west va. counties and counties boarding west va. will see scattered light snow showers. the wind will be a huge factor on thursday. we could have gusts over 50 mph, especially in our highest elevations west of the blue ridge parkway. cause trees to fall. friday will start windy. the wind will gradually weaken through friday ... a man's wallet is returned 71 years later. clare mcintosh / reunited with wallet - "i thought at first it might be some sort of a joke and i thought couldn't be." 85 year old clare mcintosh lost his wallet at the movies when he was a teenager. over seven decades later ... it's brought back to him. a construction crew renovating an old movie theater found it. based on a pocket calendar found inside ... the crew determined the wallet had been buried in the theater's builder tracked down mcintosh to return it. the wallet also contained a boy stamps. look who's the top dog. the american kennel club has declared the labrador retriever popular dog breed. this is the 25th year in a row labs have topped the list. the a-k-c uses statistics from registration records to determine which breeds are most beloved by dog owners. breeders say labs are popular because they are intelligent and family friendly. rounding out the top five are german shepherds ... golden retrievers ... bulldogs and beagles. ### still ahead -- facebook continues to shake things up. the new features its adding to its site ... in a wsls 10 consumer johnson and johnson is ordered the company will pay 72 million dollars as part of a lawsuit over its talcum powder. the suit alleges that a woman died of ovarian cancer after using the product for years. plaintiffs argue johnson and johnson was aware of and neglected the dangers of its talcum powder. the company is appealing the ruling. johnson and johnson released a statement saying it stands by the safety of its product. ### good news for those always losing their car keys. volvo wants to replace your keys with smartphones. the company says blue tooth enabled smartphones can become digital keys ... eliminating the need for a physical key. phones would be able to start the car as well as unlock doors and the trunk. the device would also handle multiple digital keys ... one for every volvo car in the family. the company says it will start testing the technology this spring.### facebook is adding new features. facebook has been testing button. starting today ... the social and three other responses. the feature will automatically appear on web browsers, but you'll need to update your smartphone. ### we're now just a few minutes from daytime blue ridge.. for more on what's coming up today-- lets check in with natalie and lindee.# coming up today on daytime.. we'll be talking gardening.. and february is the best time of year to plant fruit trees.. we'll have tips from our horticultural expert.. and a little later... we'll head to the daytime kitchen to make some warm beverages with great health benefits... join us for some tea time.. we hope you can join us for daytime.. we're coming up in flood watch in effect for everyone until 7 pm wind advisory until 4 pm for today: rain likely.storms possible especially east of the blue ridge parkway severe thunderstorms are possible this afternoon, especially for the far southeast corner of our area halifax & charlotte counties flooding and damaging effect for everyone until 7 pm wind advisory until 4 pm for wythe counties 5 p-m for our 90 minutes of daytime blue ridge.. i'm natalie welcome to "daytime blue ridge" on this soggy wednesday. i am natalie fauce. >> i'm lindee katdare. >> we were talking about how tired we all are and it has to do with the weather. >> yes. >> it is true. i usually get up in the mornings and i've been sleeping in and it is rainy or cold. >> very hard to get up and super tired. hopefully we can get this out of here and will have a decent we can. and he and i were talking about the different types of mothers we come across and he talked about which one we identify with and which we identify with. the pta mom, the uptight mom and the laid-back mom. which are you? >> i'm partially the scatterbrained hot mess mom and

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