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WDBJ News 7 At 11 March 1, 2016

Franklin county animal control supervisor know that theyre on the mend. Theyre getting what they need. Theyre getting the nutrition and theyre going to be okay. The story may not have started well for these seven, but brooks is determined itll end differently. Cindy brooks, Franklin County animal control supervisor theyre going to bounce back pretty quickly and then be adopted out into loving homes and the next person will give them a kiss on the nose. No charges have been filed, but were told the commonwealths attorney is aware of the situation. The owner could face cruelty charges. That could lead to fines and up to seven years in prison. The horse rescue needs help providing for these horses. Find out how you can donate on wdbj7 dotcom christian heilman, wdbj7. Onepretty quiet weatherwise outside with clear skies and winds are starting to get a little bit lighter after david salt blustery conditions here wdbj rp gusted to thirty six miles an hour now starting to settle down just a little bit interesting clouds first Thing Community college and the blue skies all of that during the afternoon looks exactly a pretty chilly nights we get temperatures that are ranging anywhere from the thirties to forties when you look at a 30s to 40s when you look at a temperature map like nbcs exchanges. What would cause that while the skies are clear and as the wind diminishes certain valley locations will chill down much much quicker thirty seven lexington forty eight at the roadblocks for Regional Airport with winds coming in from the west but tends to keep the numbers up just a little bit all that said lets get into some sunshine for tuesday at seven super tuesday if you will with mostly sunny skies through the noontime hour getting closer to sixty and then maybe some rain showers by tamara and i will tell you why tha has paid off. County leaders say the outreach has been so great, theyre no longer taking clothing or water donations. Folks can pick up household supplies at Evergreen Baptist Church between 8 a. M and 6 p. M. Deliveries will be made if needed. And for those needing Disaster Relief supplies delivered, contact the administration office. Over the weekend, 10 roofs were tarped and all roads have been cleared and are now open to traffic. Mercy chefs and tysons served nearly 16hundred meals yesterday, with more provided today. The Albemarle County commonwealths Attorney Says Jesse Matthew is expected to plead guilty to the killings of College Students Morgan Harrington and hannah graham. That plea is set to happen wednesday. Graham was a uva student who disappeared in september 2014. Harrington was a Virginia Tech student who vanished in october 2009 after attending a concert at uva. Her mother gil says this outcome is the most compassionate for families because it has accountability, adding to go through two long trials for someone who already has three life sentences is not the best use of the commonwealths resources. Matthew is already serving life in prison for a Fairfax County learned the naacp in roanoke is holding a preconference tomorrow over an officerinvolved shooting that killed a black teenager. Chapter president brenda hale says she is extremely concerned with the way the investigation is being handled. 18yearold Kionte Spencer was shot and killed by police on friday in roanoke county. Today, Police Showed a picture of spencer walking along route 419 near cave spring corners. They say he has a gun in his hand. The investigation has revealed it was a bgun, but it looks similar to a 9 millimeter handgun. Roanoke countys police chief says two attempts to tase spencer were ineffective. After that, spencer turned around with the gun in his hand. Then officers fired, hitting spencer in the hip and collarbone area. The chief says the investigation indicates the officers responded within their training. Spencers brother says he didnt deserve to die. Roanoke co police chief howard hall this was a deadly force encounter, despite the fact that we know now that this handgun was an air gun. Brother no matter what he did, i still dont know what he did myself, you know, but no matter what nobody deserve to get killed like its not worth it man. Video of the incident was not released. Spencer died friday night at the hospital. The officers involved are on administrative leave. Protests and vigils in raleigh, North Carolina tonight after an officer shot and killed a man wanted on felony drug charges today. The police chief says the officer was chasing the fleeing man on foot before shooting him. Witnesses say he was shot multiple times. The victims distraught mother was at the scene and said he wasnt armed. Investigators though, say a gun was found near the mans body. Ohio Authorities Say a 14yearold boy is behind a shooting inside a High School Cafeteria today. Four students were hurt, but their injuries are not life threatening. Authorities say after the shooting, the teen ran outside of the school and got rid of his gun, but time later. The boy is charged with attempted murder, inducing terror, and making terrorist threats. Police are looking for a motive and where he got the gun. The viewing and funeral for Prince William county Police Officer Ashley Guindon will be held tomorow. She was killed while responding to a domestic shooting in Prince William county saturday night, just one day after being sworn in. Two other officers were also shot, but will survive. Police say the gunman is an Army Staff Sergeant at the pentagon who confessed to the shootings. He was in court today, charged with two counts of murder, for also killing his wife. Virginia state Police Say Two people died in this massive overnight fire at a marina destroyed or damaged about 50 boats. This is in urbanna which is on virginias coast, about 55 miles east of richmond. Authorities are investigating this as a possible arson. The giles county lifesaving and rescue squad is missing tens of thousands of dollars and the captain says of their own. Captain Nathan Frazier says they found the money was missing last month and turned over all evidence to state police. An investigation found a squad member took the money, and confessed to police. Frazier says the person has offered to pay the money back and is no longer with the rescue squad. Captain Nathan Frazier giles county lifesaving and rescue squad as soon as state Police Contacted this person, i immediately suspended them, and from that time, the person has resigned. We have been told were going to get the money back so thats a plus for us. Frazier says theyll be meeting with their commonwealth and squad attorneys soon to determine what happens next. Election officials are hoping to avoid confusion during tomorrows president ial primary especially in the city of roanoke where many people will be voting in new locations. Virginia is one of eleven states casting ballots as part of super tuesday. This will be the first election since roanoke realigned its voting precincts, reducing the number sent out more than 60thousand notices, and registrar Andrew Cochran is encouraging voters to double check the location where they are supposed to vote. Andrew cochran roanoke city voter registrar of the 32 polling locations that we had before, 18 are no longer serving as polling locations, so if you voted in one of the 14 precincts that survives you go to the same place, but there are seven new precincts, and as i stated about 18 are no longer in service, so that equates to almost two thirds of the voters will be voting in a different place this time. Anyone who doesnt know where they should vote can use the state board of elections website to locate their polling place. Weve included a link with this story on wdbj7dotcom. Take a look at this. A photographer with time magaine says a secret Service Agent chokeslammed him to the ground at Donald Trumps rally at radford university. Photographer chris morris tells cnn he stepped 18inches outside the media pen when the agent he was detained before being released. More than five interruptions didnt stop donald trump from sharing his message today. Members of the press who travel to every trump event say theyve never seen so many interuptions. A large group yelling caused trump to stop speaking for several minutes as they were escorted out of the arena. Before todays event trump granted wdbj7 a oneon one interview, where he talked about his plan to increase manufacturing in the us. Donald trump r president ial candidate were going to have a simplified tax code and were going to let people come back, but im going to make a concerted drive to bring people back. Im also going to make a concerted drive that nobody else is leaving and, if they do leave, when they send their product back they are paying a tax on that product. You can see our entire interview with trump on wdbj7 dotcom. Republican ben carson made a stop in Virginia Beach today. Hes the third president ial candidate to take part in regent universitys president ial Candidate Forum in cbs affiliate wt kr reports carson delivered a short speech and followed up with an interview with Pat Robertson and an audience q and a. A cbs news poll shows Democrat Hillary Clinton with a big lead in virginia over bernie sanders. She hosted a rally earlier today in Hampton Roads and George Mason University in fairfax. Clinton talked about higher education, student debate, and Marriage Equality against the lgbt community. A string of car breakins in Bedford County is under investigation. Wdbj7s Khiree Stewart heard from a victim and talked to authorities on how to prevent crimes like this. Last week, casey davis was shocked to find out someone had broken into her car. I had like receipts and all my paystubs were thrown on the seat and the back seat. This was one of ten car breakins that took place between february 18th and 22nd in the goodview, moneta, and huddleston areas. Items like purses, guns, cash, and credit cards were it makes me feel a lot more on edge coming out at night an making sure our doors to our house are locked. Authorities said there was one common denominator in most of the break ins. They said most of the owners did not lock their doors. Alot of people are just trustworthy people that dont ever think theyll be victimized. Major Ricky Gardner with the Bedford County Sheriffs Office says these kinds of crimes can easily be prevented. Lock your vehicles, dont leave valuable items in your vehicles and if you see something, then say something. If you see a suspicious vehicle in your neighborhood then pick the phone up and call 911. Luckily, davis says the only thing taken from her car was a pair of sunglasses, but other victims werent as lucky. She hopes deputies eventually find the people responsible. Stop doing it. I dont understand why you have to break into peoples cars and put fear into people. It doesnt seem fair. You are asked to call crimestoppers information on the breakins. We posted their phone number with this story on wd bj7 dot com. In Bedford County, Khiree Stewart, wdbj7. The cyberhack into the irs is worse than first thought. The agency says scammers gained access to more than 700thousand accounts. Thats more than double an estimate made in august. In may, the irs said the number was 104thousand. The information stolen includes data that could be used to file a false tax return and collect a refund. The irs is mailing notifications to affected taxpayers. Apple scores a win in new york court as it continues to fight the fbis court order in california. A federal judge has ruled investigators cannot force apple to unlock an iphone owned by a convicted drug dealer. The government had requested the company break the phones Security Code without wiping out the data so it could access the contact info of other suspected dealers. The judge ruled that the government apple the obligation to assist the governments investigation against its will. The Computer Company is currently being pressured by federal investigators to break into 13 iphones across the country, including the iphone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters. A navy seal based in Virginia Beach was awarded the medal of honor today. Us senior chief special Warfare Operator edward byers is the fifth navy seal to receive the award. In 2012, byers helped with the rescue of an american civilian being held hostage by the taliban insurgents in afghanistan. The pentagon says he used handto hand combat with assailants and used his body to shield the hostage. We hear from the uva student whos been detained in north korea for the last month. Who he is blaming for his troubles. Its a sad day for the wade family, and its a sad day for all of our employees. Jward a longtime Grocery Store in radford is shutting its doors. Why the owners of to close. These creamery shakes are so rich and creamy. I know. Finally a shake for an aficionado like myself. Wait. Youre a shake aficionado . Not a shake aficionado. The shake aficionado. Whoa. chuckles yeah. Well, perhaps you could be one too. Go ahead. Theres a coolness. Cold, its cold. Okay. Ice cream is cold . Stop the presses, guys. Ice cream is cold, says pete. Print it. New slowchurned creamery shakes are here in premium flavors like Bourbon Brown sugar. And all shakes are halfprice after 8 pm. Driver has been charged with dui, hit and run, and child endangerment after an accident this morning. Cbs affiliate wv ns reports the bus carried around a dozen children when the driver hit fences, mailboxes, and a car around 7 30 this morning. Betsy hargrave has been released from the southwest virginia Regional Jail after posting a 12 thousand dollar tonight, we hear from a university of virginia student detained in north korea for the first time. Otto warmbier confessed to a hostile act in a taped News Conference released by north korea today. He is accused of trying to steal a banner or sign containing a political slogan from a hotel in jaunary. Warmbier suggested he was lured into his criminal act by the us. Otto warmbier detained uva student i wish that the United States Administration Never manipulated people like myself in the future to commit crimes against foreign countries. Ive made the worst mistake of my life, but please act to save me. Warmbier said he wanted the banner as a trophy to give to the mother of a friend. North korean leaders say the conference was held at his own request, but its not clear if he was coerced to speak. Wades foods in radford is closing. Its owner blames big box and chain grocery stories for wdbj7s justin ward tells us how the business isnt totally moving out of the new river valley. The signs in the dairy section say it all. Greg wade owner its a sad day for the wades family, its a sad day for all of our employees. Customers noticed it in the produce and meat isles too. Patty mabry its going to be a loss. The plans to close the radford wades foods began more than a year ago. Sadly its now taking effect. Greg wade its a tough decision and there is nothing fun about it. Third generation owner greg wade manages three locations and says his competition a few miles away and rising expenses are taking away his business. Greg wade competitors across the bridge, one put gas in, the other put gas in and theyre at war with each other and we just kind of got caught in the middle and decided it was time to exit the radford market. Its one of the few locally owned Grocery Stores around our area and this one had a following. Greg wade we know were known for our meats and our deli bakeries. Now after 17 years its leaving radford. Wade tells me he doesnt know what will become of the hes working to transfer some of the 50 employees there while the Virginia Employment Commission helps the rest find new work. Greg wade i really appreciate the whole city of radford shopping with us. We really gave it our best shot. Patty mabry it just seems like all the locally owned are being overtaken and its going to be sad to see them go. Justin ward wdbj7 reporter the owner plans to close this location by the end of march. Wades in dublin and in christiansburg will remain open. In radford, justin ward, wdbj7. The Rockbridge Area ymca is set to become a branch of the ymca of the Roanoke Valley on july 1st. The boards of both organizations have approved the change. Leaders say they are not planning changes in membership rates, staffing or the classes and programs that the rockbridge y currently offers. New tonight, blacksburg will be using bronze frogs to try to keep downtown streams clean. Vice mayor leslie hagersmith says 16 statuettes will be set up. The

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