A childs tribute in 2001 leads to a reunion of strangers at a local restaurant. I had no clue when i did that it would impact somebody so deeply. Putting virginia first, you are watching wfxr news virginia in High Definition . Thanks for starting your morning off on good day, virginia january 28th. The search continues for a missing teen last seen early wednesday morning and will you see her on your screen right now 13yearold Nicole Madison lavelle. Her parents are desperate to find her. She needs to take medication for a liver transplant. Police are coming together with f. B. I. Trying to locate the 13yearold. Investigators have been chasing down possible leads to bring her home. Her disappearance are unclear. Whether it is run away situation or foul play involved we are not sure. Once again this is nicole here. Nicole madison lavelle. She is 13 years old and needs medical attention and please call police immediately. Police in roanoke need your help to find jonathan kent. Kents coworkers reported him missing and no word since january 20th and drives a gray honda crv. Police are not saying whether or not they believe foul play is involved in kents disappearance. If you know anything give Roanoke Police a call. New this morning wendys is investigating unusual activity related to credit and debit cards used in their restaurants. The fast food chain launched an investigation after being alerted to payment industry to possible fraudulent charges made elsewhere after cards were it is unclear how many cards or restaurants are affected. Wendys encourages those to watch for unauthorized charges and always keep an eye on your credit card bill. Putting together a 17 member panel and solve the water problem in flint. One of the members, the Virginia Tech professor who found elevated lead levels on flints water and they will monitor the lead levels. As i said, everyone is on the same page and thinking about one thing and one thing only and thats helping flint. Michigan Governor Rick Snyder wants 28 million in relief funds from the state government. If the relief fund is approved 28 million will go directly to people helping to pay their water bill in flint. For the 78th Straight Year shriners are hosting the circus in roanoke. The circus from las vegas will be performing. And live where all the fun will be happening tonight. Hey, taylor. Good morning, guys. We are excited to have surface mack in the berkland Center Setting up shop all morning long. We have been juggling and messing around and with this entire threering circus we have going on here and it should be a fantastic show tonight through the entire weekend and we are happy to be joined by Richard Boyer with the roanoke temple and almost, people are responsible for bringing the circus to town. Good morning, richard. Good morning. We are happy to have you here. This is the 58th circus and excited about a great weekend coming up. It sounds for sure. The fun begins tonight. Lets talk about what you do for the community and the reason you are putting on the circus in the first place. 100th year this year. We have been in roanoke 100 years. This is a fundraiser to support our units and clubs. We have a number of units. 19 units located here in roanoke. As a matter of fact, a couple of units will be at all the shows. The hillbilly unit is coming in and carriagers and clown units also. They will be involved right in the middle of the circus. Perform and skits even. Exactly. And after the Enter Mission our clown unit will open up the show. Great place to help out the temple and therefore the community and head to the Bergland Center and there are six shows this weekend, correct. Six shows starting at 6 30 tonight. Tomorrow 7 30. 10 00 saturday, 8 00 and sunday plenty of options and no excuses to miss out. They are expecting shy of 30,000 people to attend. If we can get it above 30,000 i dont think you would be too mad about that. Thank you for being with us this morning. Paris holmes will be here and playing with the performers later in the show. Reporting live in roanoke, wfxr news. Hey, we have a Beautiful Day in blacksberg hiding the sunshine and it is cold out there. Temperature 15 degrees in blacksberg and beautiful looking day at least and find milder conditions in the afternoon and got to walk the dogs before you head to work. Take your jacket, hat and gloves. You need sunglasses. Temperatures in the 20s and teens. Take it with you on your drive. Leave the umbrella at home. Some spots seeing clouds through the day in Central Virginia and eastern south side. And you can leave the umbrella at home. Cooler tomorrow in the wake of a cold front and big warm up over the weekend and details of your weekend forecast coming up in a couple. All right. Thank you. Coming up, we are headed to the kitchen next where kroeger chef tom williams will cook up some comfort food and soup. Stick around after the break on watching at 8 07. Putting virginia first in salem and martinsville you are watching wfxr news good day virginia in High Definition. All right. Welcome everybody. And good day virginia. You recognize this man here. Chef williams from brambleton avenue kroeger. He just revealed to you i was practicing with kroeger. And it smells so good in here i have to tell everybody what you are making. I am making a tomato florentine soup. I have celery, onion and garlic and saute in olive oil and soften it up and add the wet ingredients to it. Tomato sauce. I am using the simple truth natural food plan and add a 12ounce can of diced tomatoes, no salt added. Is that medium heat. It is over high and as you add things to it, it will drop the temperature fast and start with nice hot temperature. And i will add the recipe calls for two, 12ounce cans of chicken stock. Thats about 24ounces, 3 1 2 cups and we will add that to it. And add water and i didnt prep that. Bring it to a boil and let simmer 20 minutes. After simmering 20 minutes we will add in the other ingredients. I have a small shellshaped pasta i will add into the liquid here. We will let that simmer another 10, 1 minutes until the pasta is you got me all flustered. That smells amazing. About how much does this yield . We are not done making it. It will yield a half gallon when all is said and done. Maybe more. Let it cook 7, 8 minutes and two cups of fresh spinach and you want it to wilt. Thats probably the last thing. Before we come back in the second segment i will put it in. It is nice for cold weather days with tomato soup with heartiness adding the pasta and i will serve with Grilled Cheese sandwiches using ciabatta bread and harvarti. Cheese. If you have not had smoked harvarti you have not lived. I am telling you. I have samples there. Want to marry, him or jeff. I have been proposing. No one accepted. Stick around. All right. Thats boiling and simmering and this is starting out. All we are waiting is the finish. This is the soup pretty much. It is simple and real easy. Finish is the last thing and wilt and we will show you that when we come back. Right now we have to get this th wfxr pinpoint weather with jason caterina. 8 15. Good morning. Taking a live look at blacksberg as our picturers are. Fog in the distance and a lot of sunshine down the new river valley. For now we will find cloudiness wow, that sounds good. Kareem walked in and wow that looks delicious. Hourly temperatures middle 40s for highs and notice, let me go this way temperatures back down below the freezing mark headed to tomorrow morning. Melting going on today and possible refreezing into the overnight. Could be some slick spots once again. And temperature in roanoke, 23 degrees and pressure is falling as a cold front is approaching and we have a front to the east. We are sandwiched between. Up in the middle and upper 40s and trailing to the lower 30s headed through the overnight and not to the freezing mark, though. Good news there on liberty campus you can see we have quite a bit of melting going on and grass in between there what was all covered in snow yesterday when we took a look at the shot. 27 degrees dewpoint 22 and pressure falling there. Lynchburg this morning. Again, temperatures working well up into the 40s and mid and upper 40s today near the freezing mark by tomorrow morning. We will have to watch out in spots headed into tomorrow morning for possible slick spots. Stuck in the middle of a couple of fronts. Mountain snow showers due to a front headed into the overnight and absolutely gorgeous weekend on tap for us as temperatures rise well into the 50s. To near 60. 9 louisberg and 26 blacksberg 17 lexington and 29 danville. All is quiet and mainly clear on the satellite radar picture and quite a bit of cloudiness lynchburg to south boston and more as the day progresses. We have been watching this bump out in the clouds on the front bringing extra clouds in our afternoon. Here is the first of the fronts clouds late in the afternoon and higher terrain and new river valley and highlands and following that one. More moisture associated with it bringing snow to to highlands and westernfacing slopes into the overnight and tomorrow. This front stays out of our hair. We will get cloudiness and no precipitation. This front will bring in extra cloudiness later in the day sandwiched in between and nice sunshine and sun is setting after 5 30 now. Here is the second front with light snow in the evening and overnight bringing snow to Higher Elevations and some ski resorts and looking good for friday skiing and springlike skiing into the weekend and temperatures drop tomorrow in the wake of the front and bounce big time into the weekend and back in the 50s for us. Lots of sunshine and could be touching on 60 degrees in spots headed into the day on sunday and monday. Groundhog day and showers later in the day and chance of rain i like it. I like it, too. I have no issue with your forecast. Sweet. There you go. Thank you for that. I deliver the news Mother Nature is to blame if something goes wrong despite everybody giving me heat. You dont have a switch at the computer. No. It is down right now. Oh. Buried under snow. Yes. Virginiafirst. Com news and sports headlines. Virginiafirst. Com. The Federal Reserve leaves key Interest Rate unchanged saying the u. S. Economy lost momentum last year. Last month, the fed raised rates for the first time in nearly a decade. After the twoday meeting the Central Bank Says the job market improved and Economic Growth slowed at the end of 2015 and the fed gave no sign it will raise Interest Rates at least will continue monitoring Global Economic and financial development. Results in from a new study and the personal loan market is booming. The study indicates 20 million americans will take out a personal loan this year. People coming up with a car that needs to be fixed or roof leaking or Different Reasons for unexpected needs for money to kind of consolidate that debt. The survey found 30 of people did not have any savings whatsoever to handle an emergency. Texas, right. We have heard that. Except the price of gas. Thirtynine cents a gallon. Part of a promotion by ag producers and coop Grain Farmers it dropped to 30 a barrel. Wondering where you can get gas for 39 cents, it was 1969. All right. Up next on good day virginia we are having all sorts of fun this morning and getting making the rounds this morning kim white will talk about his we might be able to talk again again again again again . General mills is removing artificial flavors and colors from our cereals. So you can love cereal. Again putting virginia first in floyd and ham hearst county this is good day virginia in High Definition. Bluegrass and traditional music fans can catch this guy tim white next week. They are taping songs of the mountain scheduled at Lincoln Theater in marion and if you are looking for something to do head to marion february 6th. That date. We will have a great show. All the shows at Lincoln Mountain are great. If you dont recognize the artists name it will be great. Jeff little is a piano player from boone, North Carolina and we get email about jeff little coming back. He tours a lot with wayne henderson. He will be here february 6th at the Lincoln Theater with the jeff little trio fine appalachianstyle piano playing and jeff brown and still lonesome and this is their second trip on the show. A brother duo group will be in compton. And doing the fine brother harmony stuff and mike compton is famous from the movie. Very popular movie. If you like gospel music the Church Brothers from North Carolina will be on the show. All the information for our complete season a show every month in our web site song of we will be sure to have that virginiafirst. Com. Bluegrass and that style of music is immensely popular all over the country. Why do you feel it is important to keep this lifestyle alive. It is about our lifestyle in the southern appalachian region. Our name is song of the mountains. We are heavily laced with bluegrass and we have old time music and americana music and celtic and gospel and a whole array of different styles of music. Bluegrass is a big part of the music from our region. What time are you taping next saturday . 7 00 we tape it. It usually takes 8 months to a year to get edited and very good. Of course you brought your hands on. Take us to break. I smelled the good food in the hallway and it inspired me to do this one. World than i like better than bacon, lettuce and homegrown tomatoes. Up in the morning out in the garden, i pick it and plant them in the spring and eat em in the summer and without them it is culler in i forget about all the sweating and digging every time i get it i get a big one. Homegrown tomatoes what would life be without homegrown tomatoes. There are two things money cant homegrown tomatoes. Across us this evening and off the coastby midnight. Cold high mao wfxr news weather first. Coming up on 8 30. Thanks to tim coming in playing us out to break. We have a lot of sunshine for you starting our day. Temperatures rebounding. Louisberg, 23 roanoke and 27 lynchburg and Smith Mountain lake and temperatures headed in the 40s for the afternoon. A mix of sun and sun and clouds and warmer temperatures this weekend and almost shorts weather. We will talk about that in a couple minutes with your full forecast. Good day virginia returns right now. Putting virginia first you are watching good day virginia in High Definition. Thank you for joining us on 8 30 on the im kyle benjamin. We will start with trouble for norfolk southern. The railroad says profits are down and will cut more jobs profits. In an effort to combat the numbers they plan to cut 2,000 more jobs. Happen. Wfxr news is your local election headquarters. We are learning donald trump is Standing Firm and wonting part of Fox Newschannel debate tonight. Now trump will hold a competing event instead benefiting veterans. Hundreds are split on this move. On the plus side for him, all anyone is talking about is donald trump. On the down side Chris Christie says americans dont want a candidate who will walk away fox news debate in iowa maintaining fox news megan kelly treated him unfairly in the g. O. P. Debate in august asking him to explain past disparaging remarks about women. You once told people on Celebrity Apprentice you would like to see her on our knees. This escalated into testy back and forth of media statements with trump and fox news. The closest rival ted cruz challenged him to a oneonone debate saturday. Night and a super pack says they will donate 1. 5 million to veterans if trump shows up. He doesnt want to answer questions to men and women of iowa about how his record doesnt match what he is selling. Some of trumps rivals are critical of his moves, one seems happy. To me i feel i have a double win. I am in the main debate and dont have to put up with donald trump. Trump asked twitter if he should debate and 56 said yes and he still pulled out. Reporter in washington Caroline Shively fox news. The greatest show on dirt is opening at the Bergland Center. It is time to talk about the fun of it all now. We are talking about the circus and not the world of outlaws, wfxr paris holmes is joining us from the Bergland Center. She has a nice hat. I know, i will have a show for you with these hats. We had the contortionist and one of hundreds of acts and performances here at the shrine circus starting tonight. See, we have the human cannonball. The producers wanted me to get inside of it. We couldnt convince our boss to let us do that. As i said, theres a lot going on and lots of people all over the world performing tonight. Here is one of them. Me how you got the name. I was about to be on the stage and we have a problem, houston we have a problem. What. He cant say your name. I said try it. Tommy he said it wrong. I say try my name tommy tequila and thats how i became tommy could coahuila. I like that. It is kinda funny. He has been juggling 30 years and for the last two hours i have been practicing. And he will show us. Yes. Yes. And i will try that. Not quite that but try something here. I will try a couple. There you go. In five seconds. I dont know if i am as talented as him. Here we go. Oh. Oh. Keep practicing. Keep practicing. You can do it. I will try it one more time. Do it. Keep going. Oh im sorry. I will never be part of the circus. On the show i will do i juggle with my mouth. I go up to 7. And show you now. Yes. Right here. Good. Okay. Okay. Whew sound effects. Not just juggling. Great sound effects there. Look at that, guys. Will you have a great show. The show is two and a half hours and jampacked with excit