Want to be because it is dangerous cold here. Mark over to Will Stafford for the very latest. Will how is it going, mark. Any time you get below 10 degrees it feels really cold any way you look at it. From our lynchburg tower camera. Our current air temperature at 28. We got to thinking how long we have been below freezing. Been below freezing for a minimum of 72 hours. It may be longer than that. Keep a few flurries around until 8 00 things will eventually quiet down. Decreasing clouds and low temperatures tonight eventually going down into the teens. Watch it clear and very cold conditions overnight. Single digits and negative wind chills. That cold will continue for tomorrow afternoon and we are also talking about the s word. The full forecast coming up in a little bit. Mark will, thanks. To katie brooke live in brookneal with the latest on fire that destroyed the old dan river plant. Katie . Reporter mark, there is still a haze over the entire town. Reminding everyone of the law he
Local experts say that noreen, this could cause dangers on the road. Whitney delbridge is live to explain. Reporter mark, we are talking about tire pressure. An auto technician i spoke to said your air does not leave the tire when it is cold and the molecules move more slowly leading to change in pressure. It nay not just affect your stability but a big drop can have dangerous consequences. Cars come in with 35 pounds of pressure for trial and less than 20 in all four. And this is very unstable. Go around the corn we are a low tire, it will roll off the rim and cause you to crash. Reporter paul said a lot of his customers are making the switch from air to nitrogenswitch from air to nitrogen. His shop got a machine a few months ago and he said the nitrogen comes with a lot of benefits. The nitrogen is not affected so much by the cold, the tire year round and dryness before fit from an increased fuel economy of 3 . 5 per child to switch from tire you nitrogen. This is one our news vehicl
From you mexico in are you from mexico . Reporter a few more were kicked out and the tone change when a group of Political Science protesters. The focus was from them and to this, a photographer and a secret Service Agent getting into an altercation. Reporter police initially arrest the photographer, but later they decided just to detain him. We will have more from the rally and hear from the photographer in the video tonight, tonight on abc 13 news at 7 00. It in roanoke, annie andersen, abc 13 news. Noreen thank you, annie. The cleanup process for hardhit appomattox county. Hundreds of volunteers are still onsite and getting a close he look at how many people and homes will be affected. Whitney delbridge joins us live in evergreen with the latest. Whitney . Reporter maureen, here are the official damaged totals so far. Officials tell us 41 homes were 161 structures were damaged and 35 people are displaced. Now initially right after the tornado, 375 people were without a home, but i a
I know they are doing the best that they can, and they have to wait for the sun to, you know, come out to. Reporter the sun something that the public works say is essential for residential streets. All main and secondary roads are clear. Public works say the residentials are the challenge. We continue to work on them. What we have been doing is plowwhat we have been doing is plowing and slagging them heavily to get melting on the roads, but with the temperatures going so low, the snow has frozen to the pavement and our plows just will not put enough pressure on it to get it up. Reporter until the sun melts the patched snow and melting mixture does it work, some people are plain stuck, especially if they dont have fourwheel drive. Just pick up their pace a little bit. I know they are working hard. Pick up the pace little bit and let the kids go back to school. Reporter i asked them why pretreated like the main ones, salt costs 117 per ton and the city does not have the resourcecity does
But we are definitely working to get the side roads done so they can get back in school. Reporter and, remember, although the sun was out today and temperatures are not dipping as low tonight, there is still a possibility of black ice on the roads, and these wet roads refreezing. That is just not for residential. That could be for any road. Be aware. Drive safely. Look out for icing dangers and keep off the roads if you can. Live in lynchburg, katie brooke, abc 13 news. Mark katie, thanks. Schools out in schools out but not the only places shut down because the weekend storms. Nonprofits like gods storehouse that feeds thousands of people have not been able to reopen its doors. Right now Valerie Bragg is live in danville with how they are staying on track despite the snow. Valerie . Reporter mark, the director of gods storehouse tell me they had about 20 people try to come in today, but they had to day. The employee there went to check out the parking lot this morning and said it was n