A steeple that was perched atop the roof now sets in ruin about a quarter mile away. The churchs brick facade was peeled away. Stained glass windows are mangled and twisted. Just part of your life is gone. All kind of memories here. Theyre gone. Central baptist is an example of both the devastation in appomattox county and the communitys determination to persevere. Members of the Appomattox County High School Football Team showed up at the church early thursday morning to help clean up. All of the kids volunteered and said, coach, come pick us up. Come get us. Where can we meet and help . The team rallied around one of their own. Drew mann, a football player. My mom and dad got married in the church and i grew up here when i was younger. Its devastate to go see what happened to this place. So i need to help out. When they werent cleaning, Football Players held up signs asking for donations to help the community. One corner of the county where wednesdays tornado left a trail of damage.
But its about to get a lot more active and a lot more dangerous. Meteorologist robin reed begins with radar views and flood watches. Youwe got both and if you look at the rate alright i think you should not all that impressive in fact theres not much rain here at all and youd be absolutely correct but underneath the radar beams are zipped on a drizzle theres a fair amount of fog as well in the light showers do continue through the hill city right now for martinsville south boston as well so why the light stuff at the moment i think he could pretty well see why it is so much cooler and are part of the world right now than outlying areas like charleston the 50 bristol at 50 roanoke onforti to lynchburg and forty were staying in this cold air wedge which is actually good news for us but we will have a heavy rains by tomorrow afternoon that has instituted a flood watch for our entire viewing area its because of the kind of rain weve had it been here for a while and get all that melting sno
Storm recovery. This is our community and these are our people. How organizations and Community Members are teaming up to get parts of our area back to normal after a massive tornado ripped through. Tonight we have Live Team Coverage. Andgodzilla gone wild. Its sort of a middle of the road, tough to call forecast. Virginia has seen some crazy weather lately but what does all this mean for spring . We take a closer look at el nino. Thenpreparing for the show. People have a real misconception about horses. Theres a big horse show in our area and horse owners are getting prepared. What they want you to know about the animals in tonights ag life report. The National Weather service confirming a tornado hit appomattox county this as both the governor and the county declare a state of tornado recorded in appomattox county since 1950. Now tonight people are starting to clean up. Governor mcauliffe went to appomattox county today to tour the damage. This afternoon he visited white pine drive w
Good morning, its friday, february 26th thank you for choosing good day virginia. Im kyle benjamin. And im january keaton. Residents will continue to salvage anything they can in appomattox county once the sun rises later this morning two days after the Severe Weather rocked small communities across central virginia. National Weather Service officials confirming an ef3 tornado did touch down. This is appomattox county since 1950. Governor mcauliffe was in appomattox county on thursday to tour the damage left behind by the tornado. He visited the white pine drive area and spoke to people who live there. Wednesdays tornado destroyed many of their homes. Governor mcauliffe said he couldnt believe the destruction and is relieved people took shelter when they did. If this had happened in the middle of the night, ill tell you this, fatalities would have been way up. The kids were in school they kept the kids in school. So folks are very smart. After his tour through appomattox, the governor
We are following breaking news tonight out of kansas. Where Authorities Say four people including the gunman are dead after a series of attacks. Police say 14 people were also hurt in the shootings at excel industries. A manufacturing plant where the gunman was employed. Dan scheneman brings us the latest. Dylan shooting witness everybody said that there was gunshots, there was a shooter, and we just kept hearing pop pop. It was near the end of the work day when authorities in South Central kansas were called to a shooting. A man driving a truck hit in the shoulder. That was followed by a report of another attack at another location and then. Word of an active shooter inside excel industries. Sot jordan employe e it didnt matter who it was he had no specific target, he just. Shooting anyone who got in his way. Authorities say there were multiple fatalities and more injured. Donna excel employee just oh my god total shock just trying to get out of there and get help. There was a guy dow