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and ice this morning. yesterday many people got lucky with yesterday many people got lucky with yesterday many people got lucky with the timing of the storm and that it fell on a holiday when many people were already off work and out of school. but that s not the case today, and this latest round of winter storm may cause many headaches for people today. wdbj-7 s shayne dwyer is live in downtown roanoke for us this morning. morning, and most importantly how are the roads? kimberly it s downright dangerous out here. the primary roads are in as good as shape as they can be, the plow crews have been working all through the night to get those clear. but there is a lot of standing water and slush on the roads. my 15 minute commute into work this morning took me over 30 minutes. if you went slow yesterday, try to go about half that speed today. kimberly ice can come out of no where and turn a normal day into a power crews are very on power lines and trees. more than 14- thous ....
as an investigation continues, students at hargrave military academy are back to their normal schedule. after an threatening message was recieved over social media last week with possible ties to isis, the campus shut down for the weekend. law enforcement spent the weekend patroling the area and students were allowed to go home. school leaders say to normal and there are no updates on the investigation. pittsylvania county sheriff s officers say they are aggressively following up on many different leads. the man accused of abducting and killing teenager nicole lovell now has a new attorney. david eisenhauer hired tony anderson from roanoke to represent him in court. the montgomery county juvenile and domestric relations court confirmed the change yesterday morning. eisenhauer was first appointed christiansburg attorney chris tuck by the court. natalie keepers is also charged in lovell s death. both eisenhauer and keepers are in the western virginia regional jail. the su ....
the heavy rain is causing first responders to gear up in case someone gets stuck in the rising water. bobby haynes is one of 26 members of salem s swift water rescue team, and says he has had to gear up and save someone from rough waters several times. he says crews have flood gauges throughout the area to keep track of the amount rising water. they also train every month on different swift water rescue techniques. we re told it only takes a few inches to a feet of water for your car to get stuck. and if you see deep water, the best thing you can do is turn around, don t drown. bobby haynes: we ve had people with some close call situations and we re fortunate enough that those people have come back and taught us the lessons that they ve learned and try to keep us safe. you can read more of these tips and others on wdbj-7 dot com. just click on this story. police are investigating a homicide in northwest roanoke. after 4:30 yesterday afternoon. investigators are talkin ....
state police say they aren t dealing with any major incidents this morning in our area. troopers responded to 16 crashes between midnight and 2 a.m in division 6they are still working on 3 of those crashes. 13 are cleared. vsp s division six covers 14 counties across southwest virginia. cold high pressure moves east here now to update us on the road conditions is v-dot a water main break in roanoke forced the closure of part hershberger road right now, between williamson road and woodbury street.customers in the hershberger road area between hazleridge road and williamson road will experience water service disruption.service is expected to be restored this morning and the road reopened as well. we ll let you know when that happens. more people are joining a battle, hoping to save a historic site. we first told you last week about the planned move historic slave quarters near the former greenfield plantation in botetourt county. according to preston plantation s faceboo ....
much for snow to the region tomorrow. until the time a sunny and warm sunday letting at least some of the snow belt. i m elizabeth hopkins. we re in the middle of storm tracker weather alert. jim morelli spent the day with crews working to clear out damage from friday s storm, but let s begin with fox25 storm tracker meteorologist sarah wroblewski. sarah this storm making a huge change in just the last 12 hours. some of the models that were showing not that much snow in the forecast yesterday starting to trend with what i was thinking yesterday with some of those higher totals now going to continue across parts of the southeast. but we are increasing our weather that s, that s for sure, with heavy snow, strong winds and also the possibility of some coastal negotiated as we head into the day tomorrow. so what we re working, a series of storms this week unsettled, one up pushing through the great lakes, but this is our storm right here, it s getting going, it is going ....