Not be decided by a jury. Last night. The judge granted ashley white a change of venue. After a jury couldnt be seated. Whites son. Noah thomas. Was found dead in a septic tank last march. Wsls 10s Bethany Teague breaks down this means for the case. Pulaski county Circuit Court judge Bradley Finch granted the change of venue motion for ashley white. Something that has only happened in Pulaski County twice in 50 years. Out of 66 potential jurors. 41 were disqualified. Finch explained that 20 jurors had fixed opinions already. Or knew they couldnt be impartial. 11 had been active on social media regarding the case. Six personally knew noah. Or had helped search for him last year. Eight felt that white should be charged with murder. Not just child abuse. Or that she should be required to prove her innocence. However. After this decision. The prosecution asked for a rather than a jury trial elsewhere. In a move that surprised some. The defense agreed to this. We spoke to a criminal justice
Citing virginia case law finch noted the quote difficulty in seating the jury. And the fact that a large percentage of jurors had knowledge or connections to the case beforehand weighed heavily in his decision that white receive a fair trial. After the ruling. Prosecutor mike fleenor asked for a bench trial. White and her attorneys agreed. Prosecutors expect to bring in some 20 witnesses to testify at todays trial which begins at 9 this morning. Stick with abc 13 for updates on this case. 3 3 3 mona tight new this morning. Danville police are investigating a robbery that happened at the golden coral on holt garrison parkway. They say they responed to a call last night that the businesss parking lot. There they found two Pittsylvania County residents said that a man pointed a gun at them and demanded money and then ran away. Police are looking for the suspect. 3 3 3 bundle up today as were waking up to morning lows in the teens with wind chill values in the teens and Single Digits to ne
Because you can see they are dropping. 24 degrees in center city. Feels like temperatures already in the teens. Take a look at the numbers. North and west we have 20 in pottstown. 13 degrees in the pocono mountains. Mid 20s in millville as well as wildwood but you factor in that wind, how your body reacts it already feels like 3 degrees in the pocono mountains. Wind chill advisories kick in for most of the area saturday evening continuing through sunday morning. Feels like temperatures, get this, from tepp to 20 degrees below zero. And look at ultimate doppler showing a little bit of light snow right now across the area. But bigger snow squalls north and west with that arctic front. Well talk much more about the danger how to stay safe as well as the potential for a president s day storm when i come inside. Back to you. All right, scott, thank you. Local communities are going into high alert to deal with this extreme cold this weekend. They are worried about vulnerable pop layings like
Jersey, you could see some of these showers trying to move in here very soon. Maybe a few sprinkles trying to move into parts of Lancaster County soon. For the majority of the afternoon, big improvements from yesterday. Visibility is about 2 1 2 miles in philadelphia, also pottstown. 1 3 4 mile in wildwood, below 2 miles in that area. As we go through the rest of the day today, improving conditions. Heres your bus stop forecast. By 7 00 a. M. , 42 degrees, cloudy, areas north and west of philadelphia. Mid40s in new jersey and delaware, the best chance for maybe a light shower by 7 00 a. M. Through the afternoon, well be topping out closer to about the mid to upper 50s and well still see the clouds around. I think some of the area could see breaks in the clouds. Maybe a little bit of sunshine. Not a completely sunny day, just a warmer day as we go through the afternoon. Warmer tomorrow, more rain chances this week. Well take a look at that coming up. Lets get a check on the roads with j
Traffic and weather on the 2s. High levels of lead discovered in the water. The taps now turned off as officials call for help from the state and federal government. Janelle burrell live in newark with more this morning. Reporter hi chris and mary, most of the samples were actually taken from water sources from sinks and polices where you would wash your hands these test results showed that some of the Drinking Water sources, some of the water fountains at this Charter School came back with lead levels ten times above the acceptable limits. The testing took 324 water samples, a sample from every single water source in all eight nontraditional facilities within the Newark Public School district for this phase of testing. A quarter of those samples came back with elevated levels of led. 16 of them were from Drinking Water sources, 10 of those Drinking Water sources were the newark legacy Charter School. The epas acceptable level of lead and water is 15 parts per billion and some of the s