President ial hopeful who has stirred up the race for the white house. Then president ial survey. Sot we have a questions sort of relating to how angry people are, how unhappy they are with their own individual political party. Local College Students taking to the phones to gage who might win the virginia primary. I was wrong when i thought the board would take into consideraton the will of the people. A group sumitted a last minute proposal to keep two historic slave buildings on thier orginal site. But the question now is whether Botetourt County officials will accept that proposal. Thanks for joining us im travell eiland. And im becky freemal. Wfxrs Kristen Eskow was a meeting today where dozens of protestors showed up shes live in the newsroom with more on that becky and travell the Botetourt County board of supervisors unanimously approved the lease of the Botetourt Center at greenfield to the Economic Development authority. But also at todays meetings activists offered a lastminu
Holding too much traffic. Tonight we investigate whats putting the breaks on the construction plan for eye 73. Anda false alarm had some shoppers all wet inside of the valley view mall. Details on one stores fire system malfunction that left shoppers all wet. Alsohotel make over. Roanokes most will get a face liftplans to spruce up the place. Around this area, we get around this around this area, we get more crowded every day, people going to roanoke every day. Sometimes you have to wait almost five minutes to pull out in the road. Route 220 is one of the busiest and congested roads in our region. There have been plans to end the traffic headaches with the construction of a new interstate. That would also run through several states. To the south, North Carolina already wrapped up a big chunk of the project, South Carolina has plans to begin construction next year. Even started. In fact, plans interstate 73 have been stalled for the past 20 years. The plan is to have eye73 run through 6
3 your morning commute will again be soggy as light to steady rain continues for the heart of virginia. Heavy rain remains through wednesday afternoon. Additional rainfall totals of 0. 50 to 1. 75 will be common. Flood warnings are possible to likely across southside including near the dan river. A few strong storms are possible mainly south and east of lynchburg this afternoon. The highest Severe Weather risk will stay south and east the carolinas and far eastern virginia of the abc13 viewing area. Street and county road flooding will be a more widespread local issue, especially across southside. Gusty winds and small hail are possible in the stronger local storms. Please stay weather aware. Temperatures reach the mid to upper 50s, with 60s possible on the southside. The bulk of the rain moves out later tonight, with overnight lows 40s. 3 3 pattie this morning, donald trump is waking up a winner and one step closer to the gop nomination in the race for president. Whit trump got a big
Lyster abc live3 3 3 gop voters lined up to caucus here in nevada . Choosing who should represent republicans in the race for president. Sot mos1 the reason im really for trump is that hes saying what everyone is thinking. Sot mos2ted cruz sot mos3well, theres only course. Back in 2012 it took three days to find out who won . This year, everyones hoping for a faster verdict. Nats donald trump made his final push with nevada republicans while hurling insults at rival ted cruz sot donald trump r president ial candidatethis guy ted cruz is the single biggest liar i have ever dealt with in my life. I mean it. now ive met much tougher people than ted cruz, hes like a baby compared to some of the people i have to do. Hes like a little baby. And cruz responded. Sot sen. Ted cruz r president ial candidatefrankly daughters future with donald trump. Cruz telling abc news he thinks trumps insults are a barometer for how rattled the frontrunner is. Cruz, taking jabs of his own. Sot sen. Ted cruz r
50s by lunch and the 50s and 60s to the south side. You see a few thunderstorms later on this afternoon. Time everything out for you. Coming up in a bit. Patty . Back to you. Patti were working to get information on the situation off Promised Land road and the animals left after their owner died. The woman whos body was discovered had been there for a time that is according to the should haves office. They will know more after the autopsy. There is no foul play. Several of her animals were dead and the surviving ponent and he alpaca are ill from lack of food and water. Someone buried the ponent and he alpaca on monday night. Vets office says the animal control ralph called and asked for guidance. County is handling. We reached out to the supervisor count seinvestigating the situation. Whitney a puppy shot 18 times with a b. B. Gun is on the mend in South Carolina. Patti the alleged teen shooters are facing up to five years in jail and fines for that crime. Kristin has the story. Report