reporting live in virginia beach by getting thirteen years now. well tonight democratic presidential candidate rally in norfolk he said lake taylor high school. doors open in an hour and here's a live picture outside the school you can see people lining up look for a live report on the rally coming up on thirty news now at six on super tuesday republicans in eleven states will vote to five hundred and ninety five republican delegates are at stake in virginia there are forty nine gop delegates up for grabs on the democrat side eight hundred and sixty five delegates are up for grabs in eleven states ninety five are virginia delegates and polls close at seven tomorrow even counted thirteen is now to bring you the results on air and online why live team coverage with political analysis to check results as they come and go to thirteen years now but com slash elections. breaking news just in from norfolk that's where police tell us a vehicle hit two kids this happened at about four o'clock along chesapeake police say emergency crews took those kids to t

michael rubio will come to virginia beach sunday hillary clinton is coming to the area monday that same day ben carson will again speak at regent university questions about gender neutral bathrooms and facilities are becoming more common around the nation now old dominion university is tackling the issue with some big changes on campus alternative medicine is pets are getting an orthodox medical treatments in if you want to get outside and enjoy yorktown officials need your help in tracking down some soft lifters from a wal mart earlier this month two men pictured here are where it went into walmart on george washington memorial highway there's a picture that's near deputies tell us the suspects left the store without paying for cell phones and a black hoody. if you recognize them and contact the crime line at the flu is finally getting widespread levels in virginia partners at the virginian pilot the surge coincides with the blast of winter weather the flu tends to do well in dry cold conditions but doctor say can spread faster when more people are too late to get your flu shot this ye

i think the clinton campaign probably feels relatively safe about virginia. i think if they started to feel like they were there when they were at risk of losing virginia to bernie sanders would see her hear a lot but i imagine you can see her in the states where she might be worried that the race is a little bit closer. i think that's probably probably why she's not in virginia the race just doesn't feel as close to the clinton campaign so they're not as worried about the need to be a place is rather more worried of course hillary clinton as in virginia on the airwaves she has a pair of tv commercials in rotation right now tomorrow's bernie sanders rally its scope is free and open the public as for the three republican speeches at regent due to a high demand tickets already sold out for those three about the virginia republican and tuesday. march first reporting live like getting thirty news now. i so let's run down those appearances from the four presidential candidates here in hampton roads tomorrow morning bernie sanders will hold a rally at norfolk scope

tom hanks took on captain phillips in virginia beach. what did he heads to hollywood to film in hampton roads reach locations natural locations great urban city locations are a great crew based in hampton roads area because you have a lot ongoing tv production that occurs everyday go there really is a content manufacturing factory operation them but when it comes to oil production is a very competitive high stakes seen virginia loses out to other areas willing to roll the dice on giving massive tax incentives to production company for example in georgia they have over two hundred and fifty million dollars a year tax credits are able to provide two and two sisters mrs virginia we time it's annie's roll to hit up the general assembly for more money in the movie budget hit mets were very conservative in how we use virginia's precious dollars into it and how to track this business. virginia tries to compensate by giving crews access to state locations without charging a location fee that's one way they were able to bring steven spielberg's l

virginia beach police are still working to extradite a man accused of shooting his mother police in los angeles arrested monty williams last week he had spent days on the run. police say williams shot his mom in the head at a home in ocean lakes we reached out to beach police today they told us they do not know exactly when williams will get back to virginia beach but they say they hope it will happen before next wednesday a federal trial began forty four use a soldier on tom communicating with three underage girls online court documents say he also admitted to communicating with more than a hundred other girls online. he lived in newport news of the time investigators say he tried to get them to sent an explicit images and try to visit at least two of the salad served to do tours of duty in iraq and afghanistan. new information about three homes and two cities are connected to a meth investigation police a suspicious substances found yesterday in hampton are connected to the discovery of two suspected meth labs in newport news hampton police on cynthia drive yesterday newport news poli

virginia beach mayor will assassins eleven his first state of the city address today since his december no contest plea to conflict of interest charges migrating was the system didn't waste any time hitting upon his december conflict of interest no contest plea right off the bat even though it was an unintentional mistake i'll regret it forever because he calls some people to question my integrity i want to take this moment to thank you ma friends and the city and encouragement throughout the last fifteen months my family are more grateful than you can ever imagine. thank you the mayor then went on to talk about big things in the works for the city like an arena and his hope that light rail eventually happens he talked about tourism and the military and ending veteran homelessness when the speech was over said some said it was important to discuss his legal challenges related to his former work as an executive at towne bank day i feel very strongly as well as for what's ahead of them are possible run for re election systems didn't want to go there just yet the next wave will make a fina

yesterday she arrived in virginia beach from maryland. she met with says she will continue to for tagger will hold one another what we need everybody to speak up for the truth and stop this and change this. now that's what are asking for the surveillance videos from seven eleven to be released because she feels police are dragging their feet with this investigation but the commonwealth's attorney is doing the criminal investigation. this is the videos will not be released until the review is done one in virginia beach to her thirty news now waiting to hear exactly what happened at a hotel that ended up requiring a large number of virginia beach police officers this morning dispatchers got a call about a robbery at the knight's inn on n hayden parkway around four forty five am a supervisor tells us the nature of the call changed several times. hours later police still were there and at least two people were handcuffed someone who works at nearby business says party and that it's not the first time there has been an issue at that hotel in a

shannon crawfor sior at the university of virginia. cover the thirteen point one mile course in an unofficial time of one hour twenty four minutes and forty nine seconds there she is right there was thirty seven thousand runners were entered in that race and she still won first place. people are still talking about how magical this marathon was and are using the hashtag trend is me right now to talk about it right this next story is my favorite of the day so far surrounded by giant whale under water at the georgia aquarium sunday. aquarium officials said the couple both frequent drivers chose the six point three million allon tank as the location for their wedding ceremony was kind of unique and i haven't seen any other wedding. oh and i can run afterheir vows that he also shared their first dance underwater before returning to the service to all of their guests wait wait wait a wait wait wait. how do they know they said i do use them that you just see the bubble the up and seven as he requested thank you. but the bubbles. ok they're t

for a commitment from the city to extend light rail virginia beach city leaders now have until april thirtieth to sign on the dotted line. amelia's live to explain exactly what needs to go into that contract again and this is really good news for light rail supporters because this means that a referendum would not at all jeopardize the one million dollars in state funding but the city must sign an agreement and commit to buying light rail cars april thirtieth in order to lock in that money weren't a whole lot better position than we were yesterday. mayor willis sms breathing a sigh of relief. very thankful for secretary elaine transportation board passed a resolution this morning telling virginia beach that it will get one hundred and fifty five million dollars in state funding if it submits an application to buy light rail cars and signs a memorandum of understanding or an agreement by april thirtieth believe will allow the city to move forward the referendum that we should desire without jeopardizing hundred and fifty five million dollars so if the city commits referendum or no ref

surely after virginia beach officers arrived and took her into custody. prosecutors say hobbs was driving with a blood alcohol level of nearly three times the legal limit all while her two in five year old children sat in the backseat. there is no good excuse for having children in the car while you're impaired loans no good excuse for driving impaired michael got off is a norfolk attorney and president of the southside chapter of mothers against drunk driving he isn't familiar with the specifics of the hobbs dui case but says her arrest should serve as a reminder no drunk driver is immune from demonstrates when you have a lot enforcement officer has been trained in the adverse effects of drinking and driving that no one can escape impaired driving. it's a systemic problem that we've come a long way but we see it still demonstrates that we have a way to go in that area hamas is not allowed to have all call as part of her bond condition her tentative date is april eight christina's for jacob thirteen years now the last time the virginia beach police office

virginia beach virginia supreme court upheld former governor bob mcdonnell is partial pardon which produced radio on blount sentenced to forty years in two thousand and six blount into eighteen year olds robbed people at a party the older teenagers pleaded guilty and received ten to thirteen years. blount went to trial and a court sentenced him to six life terms plus one hundred and eighteen years taking action to stop trouble teacher from shooting background checks what authorities are going to close a dangerous loophole is even more evidence the federal government is not taking veteran suicide seriously imagine making a phone call to a crisis line and getting no answer. had . ri again over virginia beach things pretty quiet right now it is damp but dry and we are goin that found the contradictory when i see rain had filled them out there it's cold but warm now i'm kidding. we have mild conditions this morning and while the roads were damp or not looking any rain across the immediate area that's been trying to get across to this morning and it is very breezy out there this one is actually

a thirty six mph gust in virginia beach. so a very windy out there right now virginia beach looking pretty good from my town center and you can see atop the western view they're pretty nice still but the winds are blowing south and twenty two mph that's going to drive our temperatures up as we take a look out to the west showers overtaking farmville we've got some light showers around the richmond area just kind of passing by but the line of storms farther to the west is a cold front out there that is going to march through later this evening it will drop temperatures when i get into the future castle take a wide view here and she again the approach of the showers in my late afternoon evening the rain becomes more likely around you'll see it pushing through and early tomorrow morning still out whether priests in north carolina now i do expect more showers to push northward in the hampton roads look for the wet weather around here as well but if you're farther north maybe peninsula middle peninsula northern neck your chances

it was for now is awesome at how congregation all virginia showed up and an amazing way a philosopher said people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care and i must say that virginia we showed up in a humongous weight what folks personally are they there was coming to me saying thank you so much thank you so much i had a pastor on he is congregation i was so thrilled some of the seniors because we really want to test the seals they were the water. fantastic have did you see their water up the first and i showing how to describe it. it was fun to scramble it was it was sickening to see that water and the feel of that water it was something that you just have to see for yourself in knowing now that because of the water that you would so many people out from hampton roads donated they don't have to walk miles to get clean water has a few. it feels tremendous relief to know that we played a humongous part. virginia was one of the most one of the top five givers in giving water and so it was a blessing to see others bless you in on facebook and it delivered. yeah gre

surely after virginia beach officers arrived and took her into custody. prosecutors say hobbs was driving with a blood alcohol level of nearly three times the legal limit all while her two in five year old children sat in the backseat. there is no good excuse for having children in the car while you're impaired loans no good excuse for driving impaired michael got off is a norfolk attorney and president of the southside chapter of mothers against drunk driving he isn't familiar with the specifics of the hobbs dui case but says her arrest should serve as a reminder no drunk driver is immune from

college hoops every virginia on the road to virginia with a chance of the lead. mary o'shea are fighting not to brag been underneath and senior somehow gets the shot to pull a second look just as impressive yet eighteen points for the goose is a one one six now with six seconds left in the game who knows with the ball. grayson allen will drive and could work on the camp wonder he is twenty better camp will even as cannes win streak ends at seven with the gut wrenching sixty three sixty two loss oh do you try to extend its win streak of five is a hosted rice but it's up to cast our bread instead of sixteen boards. it's the hoop and harm the baby with a tune up in the litter a street freeman's turn off the jordan baker dish e mail a corner jumper. it's now seven of the advantage the scene you're not done those behind the package drives opened last year up twenty two twenty a game high twenty the break marcus evans and just a freshman from chesapeake will get the drive for two with the lead thirty nine thirty one at halftime oh you couldn't recover is evans led the

while donald trump leads all contenders in the virginia republican primary about two thirds of virginia voters actually have an unfavorable view of trouble. marco rubio is new as the most favorable among all the candidates and seventy six percent of those polled say they are very likely to vote in the march first primary fifty percent plan to vote in the republican primary in thirty nine percent in the democratic primary know what it comes to the democrats the survey shows that hillary clinton is leading a twelve percent of you can check out the full survey for yourself right now that she's now the com very interesting thank you sanjay distinctively dress robber may be responsible for crimes in three different cities yet check out this photo given to us by virginia beach police a man with a double barreled shotgun and diamond springs road last week in dc right there frightening scene authorities believe this person also responsible for robberies in portsmouth and chesapeake lauer least brown joins us now with much more on this investigation that's a crazy picture least it is after me le

marco rubio will be in virginia beach. hillary clinton and ben carson will be making stops in hampton roads on monday democrats a super tuesday is going to be a close race between clinton and sanders sanders a supporter dana fleming minutes or until the close race and we plan on making it as loose as republicans are echoing the excitement of democrats hoping to hear directly from rubio and carson before march first i always cry if i can get to knew her thirteen news now and other news the news police are investigating three shootings in one day in fact two of them happened on the same story different parts of jefferson avenue the other one happened on twenty fifth st. now police say the latest shooting happened just before eleven o'clock last night on jefferson avenue near dresden drive officers found an eighteen year old carrollton man with an apparent gunshot wound to his left calf medics took him to the local hospital with non life threatening injuries. he's expected to be okay about eleven hours before that shooting of

now weather issues are causing problems of the lesser bridge in virginia beach. in fact were told that the project is now two months behind schedule partly because of weather delays and this band may need even more work because of potholes christopher j co went to virginia beach to find out when this work could finally wrap up on a sunny clear day like today it's hard to perfect weather for construction of the new last year break but crews tell me it's the exact opposite. cold temperatures in the wind had been slowing their progress the construction of the new lesser bridget moving forward but challenging weather are worth fighting whether a little bit on what we can do on the critical path we're on this bridge crisper tell it says the project manager. he windy days we have to be fought out and out right now to about the overall progress the official contract completion date right now is june up twenty seven team that month can't come soon enough for those who frequently drive on the road they say mother nature continues to take a toll on the existing two lanes g

secretary lane believes the referendum written commitment from virginia beach. the state cannot fund the projects right now the city has acted in last year's budget the money was put in there to bring light rail to trails and lanes coming up with a resolution tomorrow he will ask the transportation board for guidance in making a decision now says and says that if the state comes back tomorrow with a memorandum of understanding that he looks forward to reviewing it with the city manager and city council members to see if the terms of agreement or acceptable for now reporting live in virginia beach on jimmy thirteen years now well light rail has its critics of course the group say no to light rail needs twenty seven thousand signatures to get the light rail issue on the november ballot the group's organizer tells thirty news now he has seventeen thousand signatures and he believes he will get the rest is actually aiming for thirty four thousand signatures just to be say websites like you caring and the way to go when seeking donations and a special investigation t

he's only six points behind trump in virginia and ted cruz is a few points behind him can trump brain is less educated voters into the polls in a sufficient numbers to beat back the rising rubio time george mason political not going to win fairfax and fairfax is the game. it's the largest voting population in for june but he's not disclose fairfax because it's very well educated. it's also very diverse. even among statement total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states has had an effect would you vote for tom or not muslim not the one the prince william county chair corey stewart is transfer junior campaign chair you have a problem with what he said about banning muslims from coming to the country. well i don't agree with mr. trump on everything. stuart says he will help build trumps relations with the muslim community in virginia but what about this statement bringing drugs to bring in crime rate this is absolutely right when he said that a lot of the people were coming here illegally they're convicted of crimes in federal government still won't deport them virgin

still no word on the cause of a fire at an apartment complex in virginia beach overnight ten people were displaced. it happened a long tree top drive off her neck firefighters spent nearly an hour of battling the flames investigators say the fire started on an outside balcony around three thirty this morning. all twelve units were evacuated people rushing neighbor knocked on a door on someone's been fired as kind of scary as everyone was freaking out time and instead one person to the hospital for smoke inhalation. two cats remain missing. the red cross is helping some of the people who were displaced we had snow and then rain in hampton roads today will see rain tomorrow but it's going to feel a lot more geoff lawson is tracking the changes maybe even a thunderstorm tomorrow death than the morning there's a man probably thirty forty percent chance of us will see a thunderstorm hard to believe with conditions as chilly as they are out there right now in a lot of spots not everywhere. more on that in a second in fact up to richmond down i eighty five i ninety five corridor we had a little

evidence kits and the first kits to be tested are coming from right here in hampton roads from the virginia beach police department. those kids should begin to arrive at the lab in the next couple weeks with results on the way in about six to eight weeks it's really important this be done thoughtfully and carefully because this could be used as evidence in criminal cases the testing is funded through the one point four million dollar grant to the a g's office ignored in september just a couple months after our initial investigation. i think the stories about the untested kits and public awareness helped really bring this issue to the forefront program started to provide the resources the use of those resources now sending a message to the victims whose search for justice has gone on for far too long. they know that their commonwealth understands how serious this this and that we stand without and we're going to work and do everything we can to bring the perpetrators to justice to get him behind bars and that we stand with them and are helping them get onto a path of healing and recovery in

according to virginia state police a fifty year old man twenty six year old man and a three year old boy were killed in their mobile home as the storm hit they were found three hundred yards away from it you can see just how extensive the damage was homes torn open mobile homes while brick buildings crumbled cars overturned sightings from these homes just read about this horrible for these people here in waverly. we will be here in this town all throughout the morning and will be here as the governor come to keep you updated all throughout the day live in waverly elise brown thirteen years check back in with you later time thus for thirty five right now the virginia department of emergency management urging people to sign up for statewide tornado drill next month. central will be held on tuesday march twenty second at nine forty five in the morning emergency management says tornadoes can strike at anytime of the year as we have learned. although they're very common in the summer they're asking schools businesses and residents to take part in this trail for much more information on ho

we see gusts around twenty five mph for virginia beach down towards dark and handsome pretty close to that as well so little breeze is you're out the door to look at these temperatures here we are in the morning with temperatures upper forties to low fifties keep in mind were typically around fifty three or fifty four for a hike today so we're almost there and here it is just now five am as we take a look. visibility is excellent the windsor south southwest these are sustained winds of twenty two mph so it is breezy out there but it's going to be a warm breeze today as we head through the afternoon the high close to sixty nine degrees. lots of sunshine today make sure that your sunglasses will see more sunshine slightly cooler weather tomorrow and then some changes later in the week were to talk about cooler weather and our next chances for rain coming up check downtown tunnel right now ashley standing by with an update on all right craig just after five o'clock traffic is certainly not a to be watching to make sure nothing unusual pops up as well as the gradual rise in traffic volume

about a percent of virginia's bridges fall into that same category of those virginia bridges on that list is the two sixty four overpass and lynn haven parkway in virginia beach almost three million suv's are included in a recall tonight toyota says there's a problem with the seatbelts and rav four suv is a design the seat belts to break during a crash. dealers will fix the issue at no cost route four is made from two thousand five to twenty fourteen are impacted and delaware elementary school is apologizing after hurt feelings report was sent to parents the sarcastic documents states its purpose is to assist and whiners and documenting hurt feelings and one section of the document asks for the name of the person who hurt your pansy feelings. it also lists i am aware i am a crybaby as possible reasons for filing a report a school district spokesperson says the staff member accidentally sent the form out and the document is not actually use the school. what's a shootout shuts down traffic on i sixty four in newport news the state police hunt for suspects after a shooting on interstate

we also have new information this morning on a reported stabbing in virginia beach police tell thirty news now the victim is a fourteen year old boy incident happened around nine o'clock class that on wimbledon way that's in a neighborhood off holland road and lynn haven parkway a police dispatcher tells us they received the call bell a stabbing medics took the team to a local hospital with non life threatening injuries. no word yet on whether police are looking for a spa suspect cases still under investigation. developing now answers on his own time i mean think about ah but i think we are going anyways d it comes to me in a family demanding answers as they remember their daughter suzanne story was killed a little more than a week ago by her dog she found through a newspaper ad that attacked her while she was cleaning its crate still devastated her father spoke with her knew her saying someone needs to be held responsible. it's something that was anderson says he'll never hear again we're taking call me his ally be getting the reality still painful for him to wrap his mind around his

dna and a cold cases in virginia be one of those cases has already resulted in a conviction the jury found fifty four year old benjamin the donkey guilty of rape prosecutors say mcdonough assaulted a woman in his car back in nineteen eighty seven police also arrested julian romero for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman in nineteen eighty eight he was arrested and north carolina on unrelated charges. romero will soon be extradited to virginia beach and a third case fifty two year old charles connor brown is alleged to have grabbed his victim and the street and assaulted her at her house and house has been charged with rape and abduction a portsmouth man faces at least seven years in prison after he pleaded guilty to a series of armed robberies twenty four year old sharon can enter that plea in federal court today he admitted to holding up three seven eleven to chesapeake and portsmouth and an accomplice were later captured in charge he said to navy admiral answer some tough questions about the layoffs that have rocked local shipyards what is planned to give workers more peace of mi

beach in the name of india cake or cake or died in september after virginia beach police shot her and angela perry officers say they were looking at perry connection to a number of crimes and he started firing at them in psych acres card caper was there with them as well as her baby the baby was not her. there was a rally today the seven eleven with the exchange of gunfire took place kickers mother gina best was there with supporters. she's calling on the police department to be transparent and believes the demonstrations help call attention to what she considers police brutality my daughter a woman was not viewed as a human. she's in her great today and to the babies have to be raised now without a mother. best is asking for surveillance be released for the commonwealth's attorney's office says it can't release the video until it completes its investigation. yesterday she tried to meet with commonwealth's attorney cullen stalin but declined he declined rather to meet with how her attorney present we're waiting to hear exactly what happened at a hotel that wound up requiring a large n

three hundred miles across virginia and west virginia landowners in the appalachian mountains refused to let surveyors come onto their land to plot pelines passmakers argue surveyors should be able to enter their land under virginia's eminent domain law the court is questioning if that law is applicable legal battle is brewing on the campaign trail donald i would encourage you challenging this ad claiming it is defamation filed the loss donald trump sending d ist order to ted cruz over an ad he says is untrue. other pros campaign is reacting and the fight to fill justice antonin scalia as a seat continues a big name republican says he'll consider a nominee from president obama and coming up (phone ringing) you can't deal with something, by ignoring it. but that's how some presidential candidates seem to be dealing with social security. americans work hard, and pay into it. so our next president needs a real plan to keep it strong. (elephant noise) (donkey noise) now to the race for the white house the democratic presidential hopeful is about to set up shop here in hampton roads hillar

a virginia voter id lawsuit lawyers for the democratic party of virginia argue that the state's voter id law is unconstitutional a two thousand and thirteen law requires voters to show a photo id at the polls. some people argue that this law makes it difficult for minorities to vote more than thirty states have some sort of voter id requirements and lawsuits are pending in several states. a judge is expected to rule on north carolina's in just a few weeks. today was the first time the u s supreme court met since the death of justice antonin scalia the justices took the bench this morning to resume the courts work after school his funeral on saturday justice clarence thomas previously said it would be hard to imagine the court without scalia who served as a justice for almost three still in the works in a major point of debate senate republicans' pledge to block anyone president obama puts forward are i would have a pretty good day right now across hampton roads some chairs a lot cooler than yesterday no getting around that but that let's talk about some weather headlines for you today

may we use virginia beach boulevard as another route this afternoon and now is take a look at travel times here but head over to sixty four westbound if you're going to the hr bt at the drive that normally takes you eight minutes to get from grammy to the two now taking a team i might add a couple more minutes to that dreaded six sixty four south sound monitor merrimack newport news to someone taking you up quite a substantial amount of time more to get from twenty eighth street to college drive. we are busy this afternoon i have the latest in just a few minutes by the changing face of which dark world continues a ride to sixty four buildings are coming down and businesses more from the soon to be changing core door along which to grow the price is a third generation business on plans began to make a decision that they save his the business next door. he couldn't save him but there are technicians who work for prices transmissions a bit on the score for thirty eight years when the city first proposed the expansion of which road. curtis price worry how would he survive i don't think i

virginia beach city council vote on whether to make a commitment to the state about extending light rail for years city leaders have been talking about extending the norfolk line the commonwealth transportation board wants city leaders to promise to buy light rail cars the board said in april thirtieth deadline before the city council votes on the contract you can weigh in on the decision and were told there will be a public hearing on march fifteen there's a big group here in shape our future and you may already know some of them very well with blanks explains these people might be living in your house. i'm talking about your children there is a huge number of middle and high school students going up right now and is a mission here in hampton roads to understand them because of their influence and potential power they are incredibly important one for the wee one of the society coming together and accept each other for our differences i see it daily then talking about drugs everybody wants the blue devils secret then talking about games like this is the final straw and racism and di

beach today for a rally at the virginia beach convention center. he's hoping to stir up some supporters republicans and democrats get ready for super tuesday that's the day that more than a dozen states will vote in the primary campaign right now rubio is in third place in the republican field when you look at the number of delegates he has won in that regard donald trump holds a commanding lead over rubio and senator ted cruz rubio will talk about his vision for what he calls a new american century while he's at the rally door slid open at five p m today with the event starting at six we'll have coverage of the event online and in thirteen years now it's six are i think the brand down to a dominating win for hillary clinton south carolina democratic primary turned out to be a turning point for campaign hillary clinton dominated in the primary getting seventy three percent of the votes bernie sanders only got twenty six percent it was kind of redemption for hillary the wind in the state she lost to barack clinton now has the momentum she needs goin

he says extending the light rail to virginia beach is just too to go to referendum. but if that happens the city could lose a hundred and fifty five million dollars in state funding. secretary of transportation aubrey layne told delegate ron villa nueva in the latter but the money would go back into the state's high priority projects program because the state can only fund projects to completion so far atkinson has gathered seventeen thousand of the twenty seven thousand signatures he needs to put it on the ballet was first in the presidential primary on super tuesday we're going to have man every precinct weekend and i fully expect to get another ten thousand signatures. my stomach leases the executive director of virginia beach vision she says the region needs a multimillion transportation system in order to grow if we got to be gridlock and we're not going to be able to bring new businesses new jobs in the area she says without this funding the region may lose its chance to extend light rail once and for all for the city to come up for the region to come up with t

for example sixty three right now in chesapeake virginia beach sixty six degrees. a lot of people out running and doing some outdoor activities after the cold we've had it was a welcome shift now to go back the other way. temperatures right now running twenty two degrees above where they were yesterday at this exact time international similar numbers elsewhere you can see we're going to drop things back to the forties this evening keep it mainly clear to partly cloudy continues that way in to nine thirty or so at night and then here come some moisture later tonight and early tomorrow. a lot of this is going to tend to be very light oral often not even reach the ground but some of it probably will go into say a few isolated showers tomorrow for northern and western areas can even rule out a very brief very light shower of maybe soul eater some sort of a mix and then temptress my lot cooler than today with a northerly a north easterly wind and then even chilly as we get on into thursday. here's the first system coming through the second one. artie organizing out ther

the owners of a bakery in virginia beach are facing federal money laundering and drug charges sharon johnson and vernon oval own g's cake shop. court documents claim they use personal and business bank accounts to hide more than seven hundred thousand dollars in income prosecutors also say normal ran a large scale drug operation in an affidavit d e a agent said normally sold cocaine to confidential source is five ca news sports and much more ahead plus a weather update yet ready some precipitation this morning but most of the viewing area actually sitting nice and dry but will it last a latino minutes and a child or sunday this morning i issue we're joined by boom baby. sabi she needs selling mattresses the traditional way isn't the best way. most are made in a large factory, and shipped hundreds of miles to a retailers warehouse, where they're marked up and up before finally selling and delivering them at the original mattress factory we take a straightforward approach. we have eliminated the extra steps and created a direct line from our factory to you. i am welcome back time for s

dollars for go virginia. it's an initiative aimed at building up the private sector is very strong competition between localities they rarely collaborate and it's hurting us. this is an initiative that provides state come together and work on projects with business with higher education was not for profit recently newport news shipbuilding and be easy if not hundreds of workers not a good sign for a region that rely so heavily on federal and everybody got bills to pay in need of blood a week is like newborns allies of john debbie when is the chairman of the hampton roads community foundation he started the initiative after recognizing that virginia's economy is slipping to forty with two years ago and the rate of growth in our economy forty eight the state would never heard of such a thing right now the go virginia campaign is seeking additional funding legislation in the general assembly. it's an enormous effort that will take a lot of time and money but it's absolutely critical for the future of our region'

bowen was chosen after a national search six o five now in lansdowne high school in virginia beach is going green the school will receive solar panels along with the technical support and other educational materials that come along with it this morning. it's part of dominion power's solar education program the president of the dominion foundation says this program allows students to get firsthand experience with clean renewable energy has after parents the school year will be a little shorter next year for students in virginia beach. the school board voted to shorten the calendar by days. the debate over the counter centered on the value of extra time before this vote virginia beach had the longest school year in the region later that terrifying video that is making the rounds online there one minute and gone the next to father is taking to facebook to warn others about what he called the most frightening experience he's had as good at last getting rid of germs could be as easy when your cold makes you wish... ...you could stay... ...in bed all day... ...you need the power of... new t

reporting in virginia beach. erik ainge thirteen years now but as the start of virginia's spring fire season that means from now until the end of april you can't burn anything before. for the afternoon if you're caught breaking this law you could face a five hundred dollar fine. police say a cattle trailer ran off the road and flipped over in frederick county this morning that's near northern virginia a veterinarian came to the scene to check out the cals virginia state police say out of the thirty three cattle six animals died in that crash were told the driver had minor injuries and faces reckless driving charges officials had to close the northbound lanes of i eighty one and eat or traffic and police are investigating to see what exactly happened there inmates are finding new ways other contraband behind prison walls more on what lawmakers are doing to fight that next add a couple attacked by a man with a machete how they say they almost didn't make it out the is day three of pope francis is mexico trip people

reporting live in virginia beach. eric came thirteen years now. all right thanks eric will keep tabs on that story throughout the morning well so head over to the other hill with snow there as well lisa brown is live in the mobile weather lab with the latest on how the roads are looking there good morning elise the morning guys are right now we're about to turn onto the camera overseeing the building and the hair on her short while ago you may hear this now it's coming out in the car for many years to the house this morning which are the top three places you all the other straight and white nose guard against the ankle and i really want to hear it was probably some more salt on the computer this morning i woke you up to the sbc different conditions in the area the essence of won't be taking your morning should probably still be (toilet flush) if you need an opioid to manage your chronic pain, you may be sooo constipated it feels like everyone can go tried many things? still struggling to find relief? you may have opioid-induced constipation, oic.

police have two virginia tech students in custody accused of murdering her. you can hear much more about them in our next half hour of news thirteen is the investigation someone could be watching you inside your own home right now with a device you think is making your family safer. no day security cameras web cameras and crew cameras are part of everyday life but what our investigation uncovered my heavy thinking twice investigative reporter laura geller joins us now with some surprising revelations creepy is the word used by people we told about our findings we were even unnerved by what we saw security cameras that are broadcasting live online for all the world to see when we say all the world we mean anyone can view these camera feeds our investigation might cause you to wonder who's watching you watch as we go online with the cyber forensics expert to find live feeds from cameras right here in hampton roads. why would you want to give somebody the opportunity and this is like this is like having your front door there with maybe just the little chain on y

state leaders are looking for a commitment on light rail from the city of virginia beach city leaders not have an april thirtieth deadline for that commitment. state transportation board passed a resolution this morning virginia beach will get one hundred and fifty five million dollars in state funding if it submits an application to buy light rail cars and signs a memorandum of understanding if the city commits the state funding would be locked in with or without a referendum and even if the issue makes it to the november ballot and voters say no to light rail the city would not be in the hole if the referendum i believe the car could be sold to another train to come transportation secretary aubrey layne also said the state is not asking the city to commit money to the full construction of light rail because the final numbers on the cost will be out for another year so a start a house an open house tonight to give the public information about different light rail proposals was held at the weston town center there were details about the preferred route for the extension of the tide as

well the fight to extend the light rail from norfolk to virginia beach continues as virginia beach city councilman asks and set aside for light rail in virginia beach are erik ainge has the latest developments. regina one virginia beach city councilman is asking the city manager to stop spending money before the council approved agreements with the state virginia beach councilman john martz calling on the state to withdraw its one hundred and fifty five million dollar offer to help extend light rail from norfolk to town center must tells thirty news now he wrote to transportation secretary opry lane telling him the transportation board cannot be faithful to their fiduciary duty to the taxpayers of the commonwealth by appropriating the money the councilman cites a study which concluded the extension would not reduce traffic grow the economy or healthy environments. it's a tremendous bet everybody will have to pay for the ridership is miserably low city treasurer john atkinson is leading an effort to put light rail on the november ballot. atkinson agrees with the resolution moss will put

state line to virginia tech students are facing charges related to her murder police say one of them david eisenhower had a relationship with labelle kerry cook went she tried to warn her resource officer labelle was seeing someone who was older than them. someone other than eisenhower or this one guy whom would he look older than eighteen and be there for their day in and hung it with him for just posting screenshots of how they were cute couple and how they were great together and because he just looked too old i went to school and the police the investigators say they spoke to cook a day after the bill's disappearance but she did not mention any inappropriate relationship the blacksburg police department released a statement saying that if a student had reached out to the sri with the concern quote he would have acted on it through the appropriate channels football's biggest night did not disappoint super bowl fifty is in the books with the denver broncos emerging as champions consider a storybook ending for quarterback peyton manning and presidential candidates making every minut

one after another someone or people manage to pull off several smash and grabs into virginia beach town center parking garages. police say within the hour of two and three a m tuesday nearly thirty cars were vandalized and many had things stolen from inside a very quite unfortunate because counting is supposed to be in the prime place to be majority of those break ins happened in this new or parking garage that's part of the encore apartments but how exactly someone managed to smash the windows of so many is what has people baffled the area back there every time i come here that's pegged as a park and doesn't have to go in the bin and then worry about my car's been broken into and some who visit this area often say these rash of break and serve as a reminder that no place is really as safe as you think it is in virginia beach i never knew both thirteen years now. no tie the school year will be a little shorter next year for students in virginia beach the school board voted to shorten the calendar by three days that's because the city's public school calendar has three more school days t

buying light rail cars that deadline is april thirtieth jimmy lee joins us live from virginia beach and jenny if light rail goes to the ballots that could be well. state funding for the night that the city signed this agreement and commit to buying these light rail cars and no referendum would not at all jeopardize the one hundred and fifty five million dollars in state money to basically this state is promising this money to the city if the city signed a memorandum of understanding and it's in its application to purchase these cars now as we know city treasurer john atkinson has been leading an effort to put this issue on the ballot and several city council members have also expressed that they want to see this on the ballot as well but again if the city signed this agreement by april thirty s they're getting that one hundred and fifty five million dollars no matter what referendum or no referendum no secretary wayne also wanted to reiterate that the city to commit to funding the construction of the project just wants to know that it is on the right timeline on schedule with buying jus

this case just being one example disturbing details in the case right here in virginia beach boat wheel or a girl from new york promising her a better lifestyle telling her she could make money by giving massages when she got to hampton roads he made her have sex for money advertising her services on back page. we pled guilty in federal court thursday morning and unfortunately this case is not the only one human trafficking is akin to modern day slavery over the summer police arrested several people for trafficking a young girl in virginia beach and recently several massage parlors have also been investigated for prostitution. now lawmakers are stepping up to help too right now the general bills regarding human trafficking. we're not speaking for them and who our god to themselves. one would require teachers and law enforcement to go through training to detect it the other would give victims more time to take their traffickers to court in a civil suit as local and federal authorities try to tackle the problem they're asking for the community's help. the pc an individual's movements bein

alcohol related crashes and deaths are on the decline in virginia. data from the department of motor vehicles shows there were more than seventy three hundred alcohol related crashes and twenty fifteen that's compared to the nearly seventy seven hundred cases in twenty fourteen alcohol related deaths on virginia roadways also declined over the past year by twenty two percent and now the dmv is looking into whether ride sharing companies like wilbur and left are contributing to these lower numbers are generally when a ride along with an uber driver to talk about what is uber driver told me that he's competent and ride sharing services are taking from people of the roads especially on a friday and saturday night when people are hitting the bars. it's like fishing you never know what you're going to catch when when when you hit that button and go to driver in two parts has had some interesting late night pick ups to see the least had a couple incidents where people had too much to drink and had let out a car the nets twenty drunk people he's keeping off

elise brown will show us how virginia beach is snow at our team coverage continues of the store in north carolina the northeastern counties they are under winter storm warning right now this is one of four thirteen is no traffic cameras in the outer banks take a look there's nothing on the ground yet but part of that area could see up to three inches and cdot said now this picture santa cruz are already running and see it well from her all the way down to hatteras avoid going out this afternoon. if you can but if you do get in your car here is what aaa says you need to have inside a cell phone water snacks first aid kit and maybe some blankets and even jumper cables. that's just in case there is an emergency. good morning america's going to have more on this cold blast is coming up at seven o'clock and we're going to keep you updated on the storm on air and online throughout the day they so let's enter a search is now the sedation unexplained explosions broken legs cracked skulls hover board injuries and fires have parent pushing for safety standards and the feds issuing a very strong wa

department of transportation hampton roads operations center in virginia beach workers kept a close eye on the road conditions and there's much to watch this area has more than nine thousand miles of roadway in more than seventy five percent of the state's critical highway infrastructure. we look at things we can do before the storm was going to do during the storm and even what will have to do after the storm. the department has four hundred and fifty pieces of state owned and a contractor supplied pieces of equipment at the ready. much of it already pre positioned as for the sand or salt or braces and brian used to treat the roads the knots as it has an ample on hand supply of between eighty five to ninety percent having gotten replenished after using up some of it during the last snowstorm on january twenty second of every ready for this event and it was like getting reporting and cdot tells us they are ready as well pros will keep spreading sand and salt on reached the one inch mark in cdot brought out the snowplows and cdot tells us is the twenty four hour operation with crews