Into another another car but when they got there they found the two men dead shot to death. Several people gathered outside to see what was going on. 54;07 one was slumped on the back and one was slumped in the passenger seat so the person who was driving was gone and the person behind him gone investigators got a tip that a man took off and Police Officers caught up with him a few blocks over on roanoke avenue. Thats when police say a sargent and officer began shooting at him hitting him in the stomach. Police havent said what prompted the the arent releasing details on if that man had a weapon at this point. 48;13 during that encounter with that male subject our officer and sargent did discharge their firearms. The subject was taken to the hospital w a gunshot wound to his abdomen witnesses say there may have been another suspect so thats what they are focusing on now finding out who that is. They also have not released the names of the people who were now to Virginia Beach where the weather went from frigid to temperatures in the 60 s. That s winter in Hampton Roads for you can we expect another change on the way . Let s check in with chief meteorologist patrick rockey. Weather tracking rain and slightly warmer temps. We hope you ve enjoyed the sunshine lately because rain is moving back in, at least briefly. As we move through your friday, expect increasing clouds across Hampton Roads and ne North Carolina as an area of low pressure moves up the coast. While the day will likely start dry, rain chances will go up by friday afternoon and evening. Showers may linger into early saturday morning, but majority of saturday looks dry with partly sunny skies. High temperatures will be in the mid 50s friday and the upper 50s by saturday. We re keeping an eye on another area of low pressure that could bring us a couple of showers sunday, but at this point, the day does not look like a washout. High temperatures will dip into the upper 40s. By monday and tuesday, highs will struggle to get out of the breaking news right now Virginia State police are on the scene of a plane crash in Middlesex CountyPolice Say One person was found dead in the ultra light aircraft. A witness called just after two saying they saw a Plane Crash Police were able to find the plane around three. Stay with newschannel three for more on this developing story. A stunning Political Announcement today. Congressman scott rigell is not running for reelection. The third term republican said when he was first elected that he would not serve more than twelve years in office. Now he s leaving after six representing the 2nd district. The what he set out to dobuild a strong house majority, and check the democrats, who then controlled both political branches of government. Rigell and his wife owned automobile dealerships before he was elected to office. He has one year left in his term. Newschannel 3 s Brendan Ponton is at the congressmans home for a one on interview for his thoughts about leaving office. New at 4 Chesapeake Police are investigating after a mans body is found in a ditch. Officers arrived at the scene on cedar road just before noon today. So far police do not suspect is foul play. They are still trying to figure out how the man died and how he got there. Students and faculty at hilton elementary in newport news went back to school today. Officials closed the school after crews discovered lead based paint during a remodel. Professional crews have been working to clean the building over the last few days. They ve finished their work and now tests show the building is safe for students and staff to return. Winter is upon us and bad weather can lead to potholes on as todd corillo reports North Carolina s department of transportation now has a strict deadline for repairing reported potholes. Report a pothole on a state maintained road in North Carolina and ncdot will come out and fix it in 48 hours. It s not just a promise but now the law in the tar heel state. Ncdot has two Business Days to repair a reported pothole under legislation that went into effect january 1st. Right now many of the primary roads are in pretty good shape but Winter Weather can change that quickly 09 25 009 25 05 5 this week ncdot rolled out this potholes. They tell newschannel 3 it should help dispatch crews more effectively to repair those potholes when they do happen. For there are three big winners for the billion dollar powerball. None of the jackpot winners were in virginia but there are 700 thousand who won smaller prizes. Totaling nearly 7 Million Dollars in prizes . Including one Million Dollar ticket right here in Virginia Beach. Sot 13 51 46 08 13 51 51 09 you woke up this morning to what. somebody else winning the Million Dollars 13 49 42 00 13 49 46 13 unfortunately it wasnt me. So i get to go back to work. Yay some lucky someone walked into this 7 11 on lynnhaven parkway near salem road and picked just the right ticket. So far the employees, are sharing a lot of love for that lucky guy or girl. 13 55 49 26 13 55 52 06 i feel excited i hope it one of my regular customers josh vibrock was among the throng of customers who lined up last night, dreaming of powerball riches. 13 51 39 21 we couldnt even find pencils or anything. It was crazy across virginia more trhan 700 thousand Winning Tickets sold mdash;tota ling nearly 7 million in prizes not too shabby. But for the those who didnt wake up with a change our life moment contained in a little ticket, heres the reality that rolls off the lips. 13 54 51 20 134 54 55 06 samep as usual. Im glad to be above ground sooner or later we will find out who the winner is because virginia is one of those states where you have to declare your name to collect your prize, so whoever you are you may find you have a few long lost cousins before its all said and done. New at 4 Virginia Beach police have arrested a man who they say held an illegal hog farm 64yearold gary morris senior has been charged with eight counts of animal cruelty. This all stems from a discovery on salem road back in december. Police say more than one hundred hogs were there living in deplorable conditions. They could smell the hogs from nearby. A hazmat team had to be called out to clear the area. Animal enforcement took the hogs in and says all the hogs were taken to market or placed with a local farm a norfolk family is without a home after it caught fire late last night. Fire crews were called to saint louis avenue just after 1030. That s near the intersection of versailles avenue. Crews were able to get the fire out but say the damage was extensive to the walls and the attic. No one was hurt. Three adults and two dogs are being helped by the red cross. And in chesapeake firefighters are investigating what caused a home to catch fire. Crews were called to noggin circle last night just before 830. That s in the deep creek section of the city. When Fire Fighters arrived they found a screenedin porch on fire. Officials say they were able to contain the fire to the porch and put the flames out in just 12 minutes. Investigators say no one hurt. Right now fire crews say they re still trying to figure out how this fire started. Basketball player who recently awoke from a coma is making progress. Her sister just posted a touching video of her. Take a look. This is video amber brown s sister shared on face book. Amber has been in the hospital since new year s day. That s when her teammates found her unresponsive in her dorm room. Amber s family tells newschannel three they believe it s diabetesrelated. But the recent video is a sign of hope in her recovery. Coming up next at 4 new developments in the case of the american killed in italy police say they ve made an arrest. Plus the new Police Program that s preventing crime, and by making more arrests how they re stopping crime before it starts. And remember this . Police say the 2 foot long python stolen from its cage and placed down a west africa is officially ebola free according to the World Health Organization. Earlier today officials from the World Health Organization announced liberia s ebola epidemic is over putting an end to the world s worst outbreak of the disease. It has been 42 days since a new case in liberia. They now join guinea and sierra leone who both became ebola free last year. But it s still possible west africa may still see flare ups of the virus. Ebola has killed more than 11thousand people since december of 20 13. Italian police have arrested a man for killing the American Woman with family here in police say 35 year old ashley olsen was found strangled in her apartment in florence last weekend. Cbs allen pizzey reports from rome. O c ashley olsen will be buried tomorrow. And a huge turnout of from her neighbourhood is expected. The case appears to have been solved in record time. Not least because there was so much evidence available. Presser aptn vo at a press conference this morning. Prosec utor Giuseppe Creazzo said ashley olsen had two fractures to her skull 2 social media stills ashley olsen. And had been strangled. There was also evidence of consensual sex before the murder. Graphic with facebook photo of suspect, tidaine cheik diaw the suspect who has been arrested was named as tidiane cheik diaw. A senegalese with no criminal record who worked distributing flyers for local nightclubs, Street Scenes enex aptn evn witnesses saw the two enter olsen s apartment together. They were also both seen on cctv surveillance cameras in the area. According to the police at some point the suspect took olsen s phone and put his sim card in it. Body removal enex vo her apartment was described by the ndlady and olsen s yfriend. Who found her dy. As being in vo olsen spent most of friday night in this nightclub. The montecarla. A florence hot spot that has a history of problems over drug dealing and other public order offences. Father laying flowers aptn vo her father walter. Seen here laying flowers on tuesday outside the apartment where she was murdered. Said in a written statement at the time that he had confidence that the perpetrator of a horrible and senseless crime would be found and sentenced quickly. 2 ashley olsen social media stills vo ashley olsen had been living in florence for about three years. And was described as wellknown and popular in her neighbourhood. She came to florence to be near her father and start life over after a divorce. The man suspected of killing olsen is now charged with murder aggravated by cruelty. Tracking rain and slightly warmer temps. We hope you ve enjoyed the sunshine lately because rain is moving back in, at least briefly. As we increasing clouds across Hampton Roads and ne North Carolina as an area of low pressure moves up the coast. While the day will likely start dry, rain chances will go up by friday afternoon and evening. A couple of showers may linger into early saturday morning, but majority of saturday looks dry with partly sunny skies. High temperatures will be in the mid 50s friday and the upper 50s by saturday. We re keeping an eye on another area of low pressure that could bring us a couple of showers sunday, but at this point, the day does not look like a washout. High temperatures will dip into the upper 40s. By monday and tuesday, highs will struggle to get out of the new details on a stolen python in portland. Well the pet store owner now say the reptile is back . You probably remember seeing the video of a man taking a python out of its cage a t a pet store. Stuffing it down his pants and then walking out. Well the store owner says a man brought the snake back to the store. He said he bought the snake from a man then saw story about the stolen snake on the news. The story also got a lot of attention on social media. Police have still not caught the thief. Safe. A Police Department in arizona now has its officers use crime predicting software to help fight crime. Marc martinez has the story. The peoria Police Department is the first in arizona to use the hunchlab crimepredicting software. Sheffert says the goal is prevention, not necessarily we re going to go in that area and make a bunch of arrests the goal is to prevent crime from occurring in that area. During officers are given a mission for their patrol area. Determined by what crimes hunch lab predicts may be happening during the officers shift. Based on crime stats. Trends. Special events. Even the weather on that particular day. Sheffert says this kind of helps us with our Deployment Strategies as far as putting officers where the technology is saying there s a higher likelihood of a certain crime happening. Each box on the officers computer terminals represents areas where the crimes are most likely to occur. Sheffert says what we do is we focus on high visibility in those areas, which means not necessarily just stopping people in those areas, it s just being in those areas, making sure people see the squad car with the Peoria Police on the side of it. Sheffert this is just one more tool that will hopefully better protect the citizens of peoria, and help prevent crime in the city. So far officers have go on 16hundred missions since they began using the hunchlab software. They ll use the results to compare to previous years to ack the crime rates in the city. So far officers have gone on 16 hundred missions since they began using the hunchlab software. They ll use the results to compare to previous years in order to track the crime rates in the city. Ahead at 4 a teacher gets quite the surprise when president obama stopped by her home. The reason for their meeting theres a place online where you always get more than you pay for. Tjmaxx. Com family confirms that british Actor Alan Rickman has died after battling cancer. Rickman was known for his role as professor snape in the harry potter series, and his role as hans gruber in die hard. He s considered one of the most beloved british during his career, rickman also received many honors including a tony nomination. He was 69 years old. Nominees for this years 88th Academy Awards were announced this morning. There are 24 categories but best picture had the most nominations with eight. They are the revenant, mad max, spotlight, the martian, brooklyn, room, the big short, and bridge of spies. The revenant got the most nominations with 12. Mad max fury road had 10. Chris rock is hosting the oscars on february 28th at hollywood s dolby theatre. Coming up next at 4 two students face expulsion, over an asthma attack why lending a helping hand got both of them in tracking rain and slightly warmer temps. We hope you ve enjoyed the sunshine lately because rain is moving back in, at least briefly. As we move through your friday, expect increasing clouds across Hampton Roads and ne North Carolina as an area of low pressure moves up the coast. While the day will likely start dry, rain chances will go up by friday afternoon and evening. A couple of showers may linger into early saturday morning, but majority of saturday looks dry with partly sunny skies. High temperatures will be in the mid 50s friday and the upper 50s by saturday. We re keeping an eye on another area of low pressure that could bring us a couple of showers sunday, but at this point, the day does look like a washout. High temperatures will dip into the upper 40s. By monday and tuesday, highs will struggle to a North Carolina father is heartbroken after losing his threeyear old son. The little boy nicknamed cash accidentally shot himself with a misplaced gun. The boys father says his son was sitting on a stool inside his Convenience Store next to him behind the counter. Then, he started chatting with a customer just a few feet away from his son. And before he knew it his son was dead. Officials say the gun belongs to worked at the store and kept it there for security purposes. However, she told police it wasn t where it usually is. The boys father says it was an accident. Police say they are still investigating. A North CarolinaSchool Bus Driver showed her son what it takes to drive a bus. She says she never expected him to use those skills to save his fellow students but he did. The Robeson County school board honored middle School Student cory lewis on tuesday. He was one of the 50 students on a bus in december when the driver collapsed. Cory says he realized something was wrong when a car ran into the back of the bus. Then he saw they were about to go off the road and into the ditch. That s when he School Officials say the bus driver and the car s driver arep both okay. A 12 Year Old Girl thought she was helping save another girl s life instead she wound up suspended from school. School administers in texas say she gave her classmate an inhaler because the she was suffering an asthma attack. Natalie solis explains why that s against the rules. Nats asthma gets worse like every second 12 year old indiyah rush dependent on her rescue inhaler. Nats it feels like my lungs are closing up the 7th grade ab honor roll student knows all too well the scary feeling when it seems each breath could be the last. Tuesday in gym class at Schrade Middle School in garland she says another girl wi