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Meteorologist Doug Kammerer with new information about sandys track and the time line for potentially dangerous conditions here. Doug . I think were finally starting to understand just how big this storm is going to be and just how devastating it could potentially be. Weve been talking about it for over a week now, making its way very close to our region. You can see where it is right now, and this is the interesting thing here. It is still moving out to sea, northeast right now at about 15 Mile...

Were headed back. Breaking news we are following in nepal right now. More than 800 people have been killed after a 7. 8magnitude earthquake rocking that country. The earthquake hit around madeday local time. The epicenter less than 50 miles from the capital of kathmandu. Hours later the area was shaken again with a series of at least 15 aftershocks. The earthquake triggered landslides on nearby Mount Everest and some of nepals ancient historical sites have been devastated. Theres a frantic searc...

Ariel view of the destruction, buildings reduced to rubble a huge crack in a major road. And new surveyens video shows people inside a restaurant as the earthquake hit on saturday see them thrown from side to side as they scramble to get out of the building. At least 16 countries as well as the European Union and several International Aid agencies are sending assistance to nepal. The United States dispatched a search and rescue team from Fairfax County in virginia. The epicenter of the 7. 8 quak...

St. Thomas. Theyre going to be arriving here and going to the Convention Center. Theyre coming actually on a cruise ship which was in the region when Hurricane Irma came through. Theyve picked up 2,000. Theyve going to be processed through the Convention Center and move on hopefully to hotels or other destinations. Then on saturday, another 2,000 will be coming in as well via the same cruise ship. Now, those who remain in the Virgin Islands are pleading for help. The storm hit three of the large...

Our task force in Hampton Roads is asking for an additional $16 million added to the US&R annual budget, putting them at $56 million.

Election Day has come and gone, but people living in Virginia Beach still have one local seat to fill: Virginia Beach City Council District 1.

More than 150 first responders from across the country are in Virginia Beach this week sharpening skills and learning new techniques on how to rescue victims in a building collapse.

The Virginia Beach Fire Department and Virginia Task Force 2 are holding a course for first responders on how to respond to a structural collapse.

Julie Tomesheski received the Outstanding EMS Prehospital Provider award earlier this summer from the Northern Virginia Emergency Medical Services Council. Now she is named firefighter of the year by the

Members of the Virginia Beach-based Virginia Task Force 2 (VATF-2) are heading to Portsmouth, New Hampshire ahead of Hurricane Lee.