Cold with snow developing in the evening. Highs in the upper 20s. Tonight light snow with lows voter turnout, the polls are closed and we now know the candidates who won nominations during the firehouse primary. The democratic primary wrapped up at the Berglund Center late saturday night. The mayors seat is up for grabs with sherman lea winning the nomination with about 1600 votes. Several City Council Positions seats are also up for grabs with anita price, Freeda Cathcart and Trish White Boyd gaining the nomination. Wsls tens duke carter shares their reaction. Nats the three winners for city Trish White Boyd and Freeda Cathcart, cheers cheers filled the Berglund Center saturday evening. After about 4 hours of counting ballots the candidates running roanoke city office learned who is one step to being on city council. Nats yes we won woo hoo incumbent councilwoman anita price shares her reaction. Anita price councilwo man this has been an amazing adventure and im so so happy and so app
Make sure that once power is restored. It stays on. But they say rural areas and secondary neighborhoods might take longer than others. Flooding isnt the only concern for drivers following the winter weather. Downed power lines are a concern in roanoke. City workers put up warning signs and barricades to keep drivers off of mason mill road after trees toppled over leaving live power lines down. 13th street and north avenue northeast have also been barricaded. Roanoke city workers say. Theyve contacted aep about the problem. But as of now. There is no timeline as to when the live wires will be cleared. In your wsls ten timesaver traffic report. Another area to watch out for is i81 in salem. Theres about a 2andahalf mile backup near mile marker 137. The south Left Shoulder and left lane are both closed. While safe and salted roads are months. They do come with unintended consequences. The salt used to keep streets safe them as well. Says its typical to see more due to the salt used to tr
Lows in the low to mid 30s. Sunday mostly sunny and warm with temperatures in the mid 60s. Well keep the warmth rolling into tuesday as mild air is reinforced from s storm system that will likely track into the ohio river valley. When the cold front of this storm crosses late tuesday night and into wednesday expect the possibility of rain and thunderstorms. Temperatures crash once again as we close out the work week. With the colder temperatures in place we are watching the track of area of low pressure closely for late thursday and into friday. Depending upon the morning with the ongoing of an officer involved shooting in Roanoke County. It happened near the walgreens at brambelton avenue and electric road. Details remain limited, but one witness spoke with wsls ten about the incident. Thomas gill witness i was coming out of kroger. Ambulance, fire trucks and everything else. Investigation. Of an officer involved shooting in Roanoke County. It happened near the walgreens at brambelton
Places but with the wind. It feel even colder. For that reason. We want to head over to storm team ten chief meteorologist. Jeff haniewich. Jeff. Is there any relief in sight . The flurries and snow showers have finally ended. For a brief time. Thursday was pretty chilly but at least we another clipper will impact the region on friday, bringing more snow showers, especially into the mountains. Tonight clouds thicken, cold with less wind. Lows in the midtoupper teens. Friday mostly cloudy with mountain snow showers. Highs in the middle 30s. While most of the snow showers will occur in the mountains on friday, we will see flurries, maybe even a few snow showers farther east. We are looking at a coating1 maybe above 2500 ft. , up to 2 in the nrv and highlands, with a possible dusting in spots farther east. This will start southwest virginia families face. Law enforcement and Mental Health professionals work to combat the issue in adults. Now. A new river Valley Public School is working to
Like being here. My photographer and i when we arrived in appomattox we were speeches, the for one hour and 20 minutes we were talking about fun things and then you get to evergreen and silent. Peer and utter silence because we are touched by the devastation among the folks impacted by the tornado that hit on wednesday, was Renessa Mccormick. Heres what she had to say. You dont see this or you dont think this will happen to you. Just praise god and think god we wasnt in the house and we made it through a life. Reporter just echoing what Renessa Mccormick said my family lived in kansas for many years in kansas you see devastation like this. You simply dont see this in virginia. We saw it in appomattox. Again, it is hard to put into words just what you are seeing here. Brick homes completely off their foundation youre seeing windows completely blown off of humongous trees that have to be three or 400 years old on their side. One of the things jeff and i noticed on our way in is the way t