Temps will be comfortable. It will be a little cooler near the shore. Tonight some showers move in along a weak area of low pressure. The showers will continue into tomorrow morning, but should push out through the day with some clearing. Well be drr and much cooler on good morning, hampton roads. Lets check voters in 11 states including virginia will head to the polls in the president ial primaries. The polls opened just two minutes ago and turnout is expected to be high the primaries could decide who gets the president ial nomination for both parties. Rico bush is live at a polling place in norfolk this morning with what you need to know before you head to the polls on this super tuesday. Rico. Don, katie, super tuesday is likely to live up to its name as candidates are bracing for a long and todays primary in virginia will likely be a makeorbreak moment for some president al candidates, particulary for ben carson or john kasich. Marco rubio is in desperate need of a win and ted cruz
The number of delegates up for grabs in the commonwealth could be decisive in determining who clinches the president al nomination for the republican and democratic parties. Heres a look at who is on the ballot in virginia. On the democratic side, three people are on the ballot, but only former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and vermont senator Bernie Sanders are squaring off in the states primary. Democrats are competing for 95 delegates plus 15 superdelegates. On the republican side, thirteen names will be on the ballot, including many who have dropped out of the race. Donald trump, ted cruz, marco rubio, ben carson and john kasich are fighting for a total of 49 delegates in the commonwealth. Heres some information to get you through your polling place smoothly. Make sure to bring an id to vote. If you dont have an id, you still can vote, but youll need to take some for it to count in the primary. All registered voters in virginia can cast ballots in either primary today, but not
Id, in state student id, workplace id and passport. You may vote in either the repubican or democratic primary not both. One candidate. Make sure your vote counts. There are more candidates on your ballot then are left in the race because the balots had to be ready to print early and some candidates have since dropped out. Candidates still running in the republican primary are dr. Ben carson, ted cruz, john kasich, marco rubio and donald trump. Candidates running in the democratic primary are Hillary Clinton and bernie sanders. Polls are open until 7pm. If there are long lines you wil not be turned away if you are in several candidates made stops in Hampton Roads over the past week to campaign heading in to super tuesday. Thousands of people turned out last night to see Hillary Clinton during a visit to norfolk. Hillary clinton it is not enough that my granddaughter has opportunities. I want your children and grandchildren to have exactly the same opportunities. To fulfill their dreams
Clinton was introduced by virginias Governor Terry mcauliffe. The first thing he pointed out to the crowd was, clinton is spending the monday before super tuesday in virginia. She made very few references to other president ial candidates. In fact, she only called senator bernie sanders, my opponent, when talking about paying for Higher Education and gun laws. And here is how she referenced donald trump when talking about the war on terror. C40 4 48 13 its hard putting together a coalition to defeat isis and these other terrorist groups. We need to have a coalition that includes muslim nations, dont we . Right . So when you have a leading candidate for president on the republican side who insults every body ,including muslims, that makes the job a little harder. Its not only offensive, its dangerous. It matters what you say when you run for president. And it really matters if you are a the lake taylor gym was told more than 14hundred people were there. As were a handful of local politi
A device that could prevent someone from dying from a heroin overdose. 13 20 if we can save one life than it s worth it. Virginia beach police are hoping to save more lives by using these devices. Inside them theres medicine called naloxone. Nalockszone it can counteract the effect of a heroin overdose. Right now the department has 50 but say they plan on getting 150 over the next few weeks. 2 53 we wanted to be among the first to roll out the program. The number of people overdosing is alarming. In Virginia Beach alone police say in 2015 they had 135 heroin overdoses of those 35 people died. And so far in 2016 36 people have overdosed and 6 of them were fatal. And those are just the cases that police have responded to. Mdash;tons 494483i never ever thought in one million years that my children would die from drugs. It s just horrible Carolyn Weems daughter overdosed at the age of 21. She is happy to hear that police are taking action in an effort to prevent people from dying. 13 36 th