Daytime high sunday and it looks like we could do it again to start the week. We remain under the influence of a ridge but a trough pushing toward the coast will set up some southwest winds today. It will remain dry and will trigger some winds for monday. Another trough moves across northern nevada on tuesday allowing for a little more cloud to develop over our area. Temperatures will start to cool off as we head into the middle and second half of the week. The uv index for monday is 9 or very high. Over the sudden loss of a las vegas woman. Now theyre doing what they can to help raise money for her funeral. Fox5s Abby Theodros tells us how the community is coming together for the victim. Lizeth cuevas, best friend it hasnt sunken in into many of our heads. We cant believe it. She didnt deserve what happened to her. She is wendy rodriguez. A twenty five year old whose body clothed in a pool of blood. Her suspected killer still on the loose. Lizeth cuevas, best friend i dont know why he
You more information as it becomes available. You can be the first to know about breaking news by downloading our mobile app. You can also watch livestreams of our newscast. Any time were on the air. Nate. Just a horrible start to our morning. Please tell me we can at least look forward to some good weather. Get ready for a brief ride up on the temperature rollercoaster. Well be near record highs for sunday and monday. The records for both days are 11 and the both days is 110. Well slowly see afternoon highs slide back down as next week moves along. Well even see some clouds moving in by wednesday and thursday leading to slight chances for showers. If we do get rain were not anticipating major accumulation, but we are expecting the afternoon highs and even slightly below normal by next weekend a Metro Police Officer is behind bars facing child pornography charges. Officer Ruben Delgadillo was arrested friday and is now on unpaid administrative leave. Officials say delgadillo was taken
Making driving difficult. Lets check in now with wdbj 7s joe duh seal in roanoke. Joe . All right. Joe dashiell, we are having some issues with you, but well check back with him in a little bit. The road is still slick where he was at the intersection of orange avenue and williamson road. Now we are going to head out to wdbj 7s Amanda Kenney in the allegheny highlands. Amanda, what are the Road Conditions like there . High. I will tell you ive seen a lot of clouds coming through here. Consistently, two at a time. And that didnt stop one driver. Didnt help him actually. Check out this camaro that he was in. He made it at least here to covington all the way from ohio. Now, justin is driving his her in camp leguine. And he didnt check the forecast, unfortunately. He says he, driving all this way, has not been easy so far. I know how you grab the Steering Wheel . The sleet is getting light. So yeah, those big old trucks, they dont slow down. Geez. Theyre going sideways and stuff. I said, t
Westbound crossed center line and struck vehicle head on traveling eastbound two drivers were rushed to the hospital with serious injuries. Weve just learned in the last 5 minutes that one of the drivers, 19 year old Kayla Simmons of Roanoke County, has died. Neither car had any passengers. Investigators say drugs and alcohol possibly may have been a factor. People can bypass on temple drive. Well bring you more information on this crash as we get it. Live in vinton, Christian Heilman wdbj7 a reminder now of how cold it will be tomorrow. Startedwatching sunday morning if we get down the record right now are projecting somewhere between seven and nine degrees and the wind is also an issue windchill advisory is up through a sunday morning because the winds kick him in this cold air gets involved. It really is very uncomfortable with the windchill right now around the region you can see that it is quite cold in the mountains they were from zero to six most of the eye eighty one quarters r
Brought down many tree limbs, and power lines in neighborhoods throughout the region, including roanokes raleigh court. Aleta delaplane actually at 3 45 we woke up to a transformer exploding. It was big green arc light in the back it was amazing. It was kind of cool. And then the power went out. And then it came back on. And then it went out again, so i think weve been without power since 6 45 this morning. When the electricity went out, so did aleta delaplanes heat. But she and a neighbor were making the best of their day without power, sitting by the gas fireplace. And when we left at midafternoon, they were waiting patiently for an appalachian power crew to arrive. Live in roanoke joe dashiell wdbj7. When will power be back on. Thats the question many of you want to know. Joining us now is teresa hall appalachian power spokesperson. First of all how many customers are without power right most of the outages . Teresa more than 29 thousand are without electric service. The most severe