rob's got the weather. >> george, look at how sweet these kids are from virginia beach, virginia. emma celebrate ags birthday. how old are you? >> 8. >>> look, some severe weather we want to talk across the midsection of the country. kevin: warmer day for us. increase in clouds for the southern areas. clouds farther north there's oo broken line of a few light showers that will be moving across the state. behind that, winds out of the west. temperatures continue to form. they will start off in the 30's to lower 40's. it is 40's to mid 50's. still from the mid 40's to mid 50's tomorrow. sunshine by the next system arrives. it is going to be just othe >> it's mild and springlike out there. >>> "pop news" time. we'll begin with some sad, but heartwarming in the way. the musical grease come to life on fox. for one of the stars, it had to be incredibly difficult to perform. vanessa hudgens took the stage after revealing her he dad passed away from stage 4 cancer less than 24 hours earlier. take a listen. i can feel and i can cry >> wow, there she's singing "the worst things i could do."

death of a 13-year-old girl from blacksburg, virginia. thousands had been searching for her. nicole lovell was last seen on tuesday night. her parents say she pushed a dresser up against her bedroom door before climbing out of her window. saturday, police discovered her body about 80 miles away in north carolina. in court today, charges that the two students dumped the child's body here on wednesday, the day she went missing. 18-year-old engineering student david eisenhauer was charged with kidnapping and premeditated murder. police say he knew the victim. >> eisenhauer used this relationship to his advantage to abduct and then kill her. >> reporter: eisenhauer was a track star. well liked, goal driven. >> he was one of our good students here for sure. >> reporter: tonight, authorities continue to search for clues in this pond on the virginia tech campus. the student second, natalie keepers, charged as an accessory, accused of helping david, neither was charged with using a gun and neither has entered a plea. but ice eisenhauer saying, qu

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. >>> we turn to that horrific murder of a 13-year-old girl in virginia. two virginia tech students are behind bars as new details emerge about how the victim may have known the person charged with the murder. abc's eva pilgrim has the latest eva. >> reporter: two standout students facing charges in the death of a 13-year-old girl reported missing almost a week ago while police have found her body, the search for answers is just beginning. this morning two virginia tech without bond in connection to the death of a 13-year-old girl from blacksburg, virginia. >> she was a typical little girl, talkative, friendly, looked out for a lot of the younger kids that came in on the bus and just sweet. >> reporter: 18-year-old david eisenhauer charged with kidnapping and premeditated murder. police say he knew the victim. >> eisenhauer used this relationship to his advantage to abduct and then kill her. >> reporter: nicole lovell's mom telling "the washington post" that the 13-year-old met eisenhauer online. authorities believe lovell active on kick, a messaging app t

. >>> there are new and troubling developments tonight in that murder mystery in virginia. police now revealing new debates s details about the 13-year-old kidnapped and killed. now saying she was found stabbed to death. two college students are now charged. one, a star high school athlete before college, as we hear from a stunned principal tonight. abc's eva pilgrim on the case. >> reporter: new details tonight in the murder of seventh grader nicole lovell in blacksburg. >> a very preliminary determination of the cause of death is stabbing. >> reporter: nicole's mother remembering how hard her mother fought to survive childhood cancer and illnesses. >> her favorite color was blue. >> reporter: unable to complete her statement today. 13-year-old nicole lovell was last seen on tuesday night. her parents say she pushed a dresser up against her bedroom police say she was killed on wednesday. her bodice covered on saturday, about 80 miles south of blacksburg. authorities saying at least one of the two virginia tech students, natalie keepers, helped plan the murder for at least

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. >>> we turn next tonight to new details in the murder mystery of virginia. tonight, social p authority authorities say social media may have played a role. a former high school track star. here's abc's eva pilgrim from virginia. >> reporter: tonight, as the family prepares to lay their 13-year-old daughter to rest, authorities still trying to piece together the case. family and friends telling abc news, seventh grader nicole lovell was bullied at school, self-conscious about the way she looked after beating serious childhood illnesses. she had multiple social media accounts, facebook, instagram, snapchat, kik. it was there, police believe she met the david eisenhauer, a former high school track star, charged in her murder. >> he used this relationship to his advantage, to abduct and then kill her. >> reporter: nicole lovell's parents say they last saw her last tuesday night. saturday morning, police arrested david eisenhauer in his dorm at virginia tech. lovell's body, 80 miles away in north carolina. david, the alleged accomplice expected back here in court

. >> reporter: two virginia tech students david eisenhauer and natalie keepers behind bars facing charges for her death. >> one in five people don't have jobs. >> reporter: this video on youtube belonging to a student named natalie keepers may be giving us a glimpse at the now 19-year-old more than a year before the alleged murder. authorities say eisenhauer, a former member of the track team was abusing his relationship chatted with on a message, kik, his teammates stunned by the charges. one writing, none of this had to happen yet i'm left here wondering why it did. gaige kern posting this open letter to his friend. i hate what you've done but i don't hate you. three lives are now wasted. nicole's family say she vanished last tuesday night. authorities say she was murdered the next day. saturday her body was found more than 80 miles away in north

. >>> right now we'll get to new developments in that virginia murder mystery. as friends and family mourn 13-year-old nicole lovell one of the suspect's former teammates is speaking out. we'll tuque to a leading fbi

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winter weather advisories in ten states from virginia all the way up to maine. new york, up through new england. so, let's get right to rob, tracking this new system tonight. >> reporter: hey, david. the front that brought the severe weather to the east yesterday has stalled and a wave has developed along it. all the rain you see is going to move up into colder air. temperatures near 50 degrees tonight, but they should drop overnight to near freezing through new york, hartford and boston. should see welt snow throughout the mannering, ing morning, ending late in the day. four to eight inches, one or two inches new york to philly. a snow day for boston. could be another one on tuesday. still tracking that for next week. >> all right, rob, thank you. >>> tonight, the so-called bad boy of pharmaceuticals stirring up trouble again. martin skreli laughing in washington. he sparked outrage when he hiked the price of a life-saving drug by more than 4,000%. abc's mary bruce tracking him down today. >> reporter: the bad boy of the pharmaceutical world arrived on capitol

abc's eva pilgrim is in blacksburg, virginia, with the latest. good morning, eva. >> reporter: good morning, george. we are learning this morning exactly how prosecutors say allegedly plotted to murder 13-year-old nicole lovell. chilling details about the murder of 13-year-old nicole lovell. her family filing into the courtroom thursday wearing blue clothes and ribbons. prosecutors allege virginia tech students natalie keepers and david eisenhauer planned the murder of the middle school student for weeks, scouting out locations, even buying tools when police showed up to talk to keepers she tried to warn eisenhauer texting him police, it was then she told fbi investigators that eisenhauer killed nicole and put her body in his lexus reportedly saying the two drove with the body in the car to walmart where they bought supplies to clean up the crime telling authorities where to locate the murder weapon and nicole's body. keepers allegedly saying she was, quote, excited to be a part of something secretive and special. nicole's childhood friend says s

p>> reporter: two virginia tech pstudents, 18-year-old david peisenhauer and 19-year-old pnatalie keepers are behind bars paccused of allegedly plotting to pmurder the 13-year-old for pweeks. pauthorities say eisenhauer had pan inappropriate relationship pwith her, communicating with her pon social media. plovell's father telling dr. phil pher family tried to step in ptalking to older men online.

p>>> right now the father of that pyoung teen murdered in virginia pis now speaking out saying he pand his wife tried to do peverything they could to protect ptheir daughter. pabc's eva pilgrim is here with pthat story. pgood morning, eva. p>> reporter: good morning. pthis case sounding alarm bells pon social media for parents. pnicole lovell's father talks pabout his daughter this morning. pthe father of nicole lovell pspeaking out for the first time psince learning the details of phis daughter's death. p>> i know she fought like a pwildcat. pi mean, she's my kid. p>> reporter: two virginia tech pstudents, 18-year-old david peisenhauer and 19-year-old pnatalie keepers are behind bars paccused of allegedly plotting to pmurder the 13-year-old for pweeks. pauthorities say eisenhauer had pan inappropriate relationship pwith her, communicating with her pon social media. plovell's father telling dr. phil pher family tried to step in ptalking to older men online. p>> my daughter in ohio had dug paround in nicole's instagram paccounts and kik and so on and pthose. p>> reporter: abc news findi

his body arrived in virginia this morning two days after he ranch. the absence of the staunch consecutive could tilt the balance of the high court. president obama intends to nominate a replacement soon. but senate republicans insists that decision should be up to the next president. >>> a new poll finds donald trump leading in south carolina with a commanding 42% of the votes. trump's closest rival ted cruz and far behind with half of that is jeb bush. >>> meanwhile, hillary clinton was supposed to be in florida today instead she's staying in nevada to campaign against a surging bernie sanders. clinton and sander attended the same church on sunday reaching out to minority voters. >>> overseas this morning, doctors without borders says one of its hospitals has been bombed in syria. at least ten people were killed. >>> a record drug bust this morning. authorities in australia seized $1 billion in liquid meth hidden in bra inserts. >>> sobering news about a close member. the renowned novelist who wrote. pat con roy, he's fighting the ill witness with t

the hearse carrying his casket arriving in virginia, amid a fierce debate over who will replace him, and who will choose his replacement. republicans vowing to block anyone president obama nominates. abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl tonight, with who the president might nominate, and if they have any chance of getting confirmed. >> reporter: the flag is at half staff today at a snowy and peaceful supreme court, but the beginning. 79-year-old scalia had been on a weekend quail hunting trip at this ranch in texas, when he was discovered in his bed. >> he was totally peaceful. he's a man who went to sleep and just didn't wake up. >> reporter: even before scalia's family in court announced his death, senator ted cruz fired off this tweet. " "justice scalia was an american hero. we owe it to him and the nation for the senate to ensure that the next president names his replacement." within an hour, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell drew the battle lines, declaring, "this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president." then, president obama weighed in, p

heavy rain in baltimore, washington, d.c., back through west virginia. flood watches are posted for this rain. all snow from buffalo back through western pennsylvania and veer weather across parts of a massive, mass i have storm. as you mentioned, all sorts of wild swings. a difficult commute this morning and afternoon. >> you could feel the difference when you came to work this morning. >> baig difference. >>> we move to the race for the white house. the gop primary just four days away, jeb bush brings in his big brother to take on donald trump. trump doubles down on his attacks against bush, ted cruz, the entire republican establishment. tom llamas has more. >> reporter: george, good morning to you. that crowd last night loved seeing president bush. voters i speak to afterwards said it added a layer of campaign. donald trump says it's too late to save jeb and that his campaign is going nowhere. the bush campaign calling in the big gun. president george w. bush, hoping south carolina voters deliver for jeb like they did for w. >> i've been misunderestim

we're seeing the advisories extending from west virginia, the story extends to the south. we have a pattern change. the jet stream dipping to the south. the 2 to 4 inches. widespread, heavy rain. we need to spin it. there's an upside. it's not snow. it's rain. so yes, it's the weekend. it will still be warm for about day or so. each day gets a little bit cooler. notice the change as you talk about places like oklahoma city. a good 20-degree temperature drop. it's cool so >> so hard to believe these are temperatures for the morning time in february, but here they are. we're almost 50 degrees in portsmouth right now. the temperatures may go higher and then they level out and kind of hold steady or fall throughout the afternoon as the cool front rolls through. plenty of sunshine to the southeast, more clouds to the north and west and some snow showers headed this way for northern new hampshire which will be around some of the the highs 41 is to 51 for >> please tell me you went out yesterday. it was good for the soul. didn't it just feel good? >> i don't know. >> i did. i was

virginia mclaurin finally got to meet the president obama and first lady. she's 106 years old and she's very tech savvy. she launched a petition to meet the obamas. when she finally got the chance this is what happened. >> i want to be like you. >> she's dancing. come on! what's the secret to still dancing at 106? >> how much do we love that, virginia wouldn't reveal her secret to longevity because all that dancing she does, guys, she sprinted into the white house, that president obama had to tell her, slow it down, not too quick, virginia. >> 106. so glad you shared that with us, cecilia. >>> now, we have a health headline. a new study that provides more evidence that eating high cholesterol foods does not increase your risk for heart disease. sam before, you grab more bacon and eggs, dr. jen ashton is here with important details. there's some viewers who may be surprised by this new study. it. we file this under everything old is new again. we know that if you have high cholesterol in your blood, yes, that is a risk factor for heart disease but in terms o

. >> reporter: virginia mclaurin is one of those many black americans over a certain age who never thought they'd see the day when a black man would become leader of the free world. >> i am so happy. >> we are happy to have you. >> a black president. >> look at him. right there. >> a black wife. >> that's me. >> reporter: she's been begging the white house for this moment, for years. >> i was born 1909. >> reporter: sending them videos, and writing the president this petition, saying, "i could come to your house, to make things ease yerp." at 106, her energy and light seem endless. steve osunsami, abc news, atlanta. >> we could only wish at 106. >>> there is still much more ahead on "world news tonight" this monday. the new consumer alert, and the cancer concern. the government says it could be right in your own home. certain types of floors. one sold by one company. and the possible risk to your family. >>> then, watch this. the out of control truck, veering off the road, slamming straight into this house. you'll hear the driver's explanation, coming up here. >>> and right here tonight, w

the study conducted by the virginia tech transportation institute surveyed 3,500 drivers between the ages of 16 and 98 the author says that distractions that take a driver's eye away from the road create the greatest crash risk. the most common being reaching for a cell phone, reading or writing or using touch screen menus on the dashboard. the lead author of this study says these findings are particularly useful because they show just how distracted teens were while driving. he says if something isn't done soon to limit the distractions there could be scary results in the future. also looking on the dashboard too. part of those distractions playing around with the radio, doing things that people do and there's so much to see in the car. >> should be some way to disable the driver's phone? >> i'd like to see that. >> you got an incredible story. >> a dramatic rescue in california. a 10-year-old girl suddenly falling through the snow into freezing water. her father trying desperately to pull her out. abc's kayna whitworth has the details. phone video of a father trying to frantically

raleigh-durham, all the way into southern virginia. i want you to watch that today. these storms are still strong as they move in at 6:00 p.m., d.c., philly, you're in line for that squall line. only good news, jersey, new york connecticut and also western massachusetts, these storms weaken a little bit as they get to you by 10:00 p.m. but strong enough to make travel a nightmare. there are already delayed flights at many airports along the east coast and there will be today. robin, george, lara. >> all right. a lot for sam to track today. >>> we move on to new developments in that michigan murder getting our first look at surveillance video from the gun shop that uber driver visited before going on a rampage that killed six people, injured two others. abc's alex perez has the latest from kalamazoo. good morning, alex. >> reporter: good morning, george. this morning we're learning a lot more about what the suspect was doing and the hours before the shootings and just how close some people came to getting into his uber. this morning our first glimpse at what's believe

pand in virginia, at least three eople have been killed, just pweather. pand behind all of this, blizzard pconditions moving in, blowing pthis truck onto its side in pmore than 2,000 flights pcanceled, coast to coast. pabc's linzie janis leads us off pfrom the tornado zone tonight. p>> reporter: tonight, those pdeadly storms barrelling up the peast coast. p>> tornado just came through, pright on 460. p>> reporter: a suspected tornado pstriking waverly, virginia, pshredding homes and leaving at pleast three dead. pmany striking at night, as eople slept. p>> you need to pull over. p>> reporter: in pensacola, pflorida, campbell and his pgirlfriend making it to their pdriveway, riding out the tornado pin his pickup truck. p>> oh, my god. p>> all i could hear was sounded pas if i parked my truck next to pa train. p>> reporter: the ef-3 tornado acking 155-mile-per-hour winds, pdamaging more than 100 homes phere. pthese people didn't have very pmuch time to react at all. p>> very little. pvery little. p>> reporter: including these pstory of this apartment comple

pthat one in evergreen, virginia. pnow to waverly, virginia, a town pwaking up this morning pdestroyed. pa town that's looking around and prealizing that at least three pmembers of their community are pdead this morning. hillip mena is there live. phey, phillip, just tell us what pyou see around there. pagain, monster storm. p>> reporter: absolutely, sam. pgood morning. pthe devastation in this town is pmentioned, right here is where pthose three people were killed pincluding that toddler but there pare no signs of the trailer they pwere in when the storm hit, all pthat's left are these piles of plumber and twisted metal and pover there, the remnants of what pwas just yesterday a functioning plaundromat and right now you can pjust see the washing machines pjust lined up there in the open pair. pauthorities here are still passessing the damage, we are ptold. peverybody has been accounted for pbut it's going to take months to prebuild, so, sam, just as you pmentioned just a devastating pblow to this community. p>> i got

this home in virginia torn in half by a powerful storm. the fierce winds, all the way up to new england. a dramatic rescue in the waters off new york city today. this boat overturning. you can see the coast guard lowering in from above, and then water overturning, as well. abc's gio benitez, leading us off tonight. >> reporter: tonight, a trail of destruction after 48 hours of terrifying storms. a rare tornado outbreak from texas to pennsylvania. >> it was like the whole house kind of shook. >> reporter: the first ever deadly tornado in virginia in the month of the february. the governor there declaring a state of emergency, after a tornado tore through the town of waverly, killing three, including a toddler. david root and his wife, susan, took cover in their storm cellar. >> you just heard the rain pounding into the storm cellar really hard. >> reporter: when it was all over, root found victims, his neighbors, tossed 300 yards from their mobile home. >> 150 yards and the grace of god are what separated us from losing everything. >> repor

. >>> breaking overnight -- in the line of duty, a police officer in virginia shot and killed on her first day on the job. two other officers wounded. what went wrong on that seemingly routine call? >> fantastic finish. >> bang, bang, oh, what a shot record books, shrugging off an injured ankle, sinking 12 three-pointers, including an amazing buzzer beater. is this the best game of the season? >>> and countdown to oscar. we're live on the red carpet as hollywood gets set to honor its best. who can pull off an upset? >> and the award goes to -- >> "stoplight." >> and that awards show overnight. will you be tweaking your oscar picks now? >> let's do this. >> and host chris rock keeping everyone guessing how he'll handle oscars so white. and the red carpet looks, who will go bold? we're live at the oscars with everything you need to know for hollywood's biggest night. >>> hey, good morning. happy oscar sunday. paula and rob, right there on the red carpet. you look great. >> thank you. >> thank you, dan. we're going to prom, right? but we're not. he forgot the kor corsage this morning. >

the virginia police officer was shot and killed on saturday. it was her first day on the job. guindon graduated in 2005. her alleged killer is due in court today. investigators are trying to identify the body of a hiker found. two hikers discovered the frozen body of a middle-aged white man weighing 200 pounds. suspicious at the scene. the medical examiner tried to determine a cause of death. let's take you outside. a live look at the lake. kevin: increase in clouds. a couple of showers within a few hours. then the winds which will be out of the southwest and warming things up early this morning turn to the west into the afternoon. after a spike in temperatures to maybe one or two in the lower 60's we'll fall back and drop into the teens to 20's. southwest winds making all of the difference early as things warm up. into the mid to upper 40's today. highs in the 50's. there may be one or two lower 60's with enough sunshine. the west wind will start cooling us off later on. from there, maybe a couple of snow showers for the white mountains later on tonight. a lot of sunshine aro

abc's cecilia vega in virginia now. >> all right, everybody, fired up! >> reporter: tonight, hillary clinton hoping to sweep the south and win super tuesday. >> if you go out and vote for me tomorrow, i will stand up and fight for you throughout this campaign, no matter who the republicans nominate. >> reporter: in virginia, with just hours left until voting begins, clinton feeling confident. secretary clinton, your super tuesday prediction? >> just happy to be in virginia, working hard for every single vote. of momentum after her south carolina blowout, winning 86% of the black vote. that's even more than president obama won in 2008. now, she's looking for a repeat tomorrow in states like georgia and alabama, where african-americans make up half of all democratic voters. >> and tomorrow, this campaign goes national. >> reporter: bernie sanders now facing tough questions about the future of his campaign. >> we got decimated, but ed decimated. but we got killed. >> reporter: while he packed in the crowds today -- >> we can win. no question. here in minnes