Around 10 mph. Tonight. Partly cloudy in the evening. Then clearing. Lows inthe mid 20s. Northwest winds around 10 mph with gusts up to20 mph. Thursday. Sunny. Highs in the mid 40s. Northwest winds around10 mph in the morning. Becoming light and variable. Thursday night. Mostly clear in the evening. Then becomingpartly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s. Light and variable winds. Friday. Mostly sunny. Highs around 50. South winds around 10 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph in the afternoon. Friday night through sunday. Partly cloudy. Lows around 40. Highs in the mid 50s. Sunday night. Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. Monday. Mostly good morning, its wednesday, february 17th. Thanks for starting your morning off with good day virginia. Benjamin. January keaton. We are following developing news out of Bedford County right now. Fire crews have been fighting a house fire for a good part of the morning in Bedford County. Thats holmes paris, what do we know right now . Around 5am this morning the Bedf
Thank you for choosing good day virginia. Its wednesday february 17. Im january keaton. And im even though roads are in much better shape this morning than they were yesterday morning, there are still a few hazards to keep an eye on as you head out the door today. Meteoologist Taylor Kanost is keeping an eye on the roads this morning in Roanoke County. Thanks to the warm conditions yesterday, city and vdot crews were able to get a lot accomplished yesterday. Most major roads have been cleared of all of the trees that, most roads including secondary neighborhood streets appear to be clear of snow at this point. However, we arent completely out of the woods just yet. Temperatures are expected to hover right around the freezing mark this morning in roanoke and other portions of southwest virginia which means black ice could be an not drop below freezing, all of the snowmelt will pond on the roads. Bottom line is most of you shouldnt have any trouble getting where you need to go today, but
Fighting a house fire. Paris holmes is at the scene. Paris, what can you tell us . Around 5am this morning the Bedford Fire Department responded to a fire here on the 1000 block shepards store road. According to the chief it took about 45 mins to put the fire out which they believe started in the garage. Theyre not sure what cause it yet. , but no one was hurt. The owners of the house are standing out here in front. Probably in shock. I havent had a chance to talk to them yet, but ive seen neighbors come out here and give them a blanket. Fire are still working in the house making sure the fire is completely thousands of people are still in the dark in our regional at this moment. Here is a live look at appalachian powers outage map. You can see the highest numbers still 24 hours later in Roanoke County and franklin county. 45hundred people are still in the dark in Roanoke County. 37hundred also in franklin county. Lets check in now with applachian powers spokeswoman teresa hamilton hal
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