A-T-and-T customers in eastern Kentucky are reporting service outages due to the explosion, which was at an A-T-and-T data center. The outage is disrupting phone, text and internet services, and keeping some cans from connecting to 911 services.
An RV explosion in Nashville has local firefighters thinking about their own response. South Charleston first responders say the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Department would respond with their bomb squad, and they would treat it like any other burning building. The FBI is investigating the explosion in Nashville, and possible human remains found at the site.
Fire destroyed on home on Sharon Road. Flames were shooting through the roof when firefighters arrived. No one was home at the time. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
The City of Charleston is opening warming centers for those in need of shelter. A warming center is open at the Salvation Army at Tennessee Avenue and Randolph Street. Social distancing guidelines are in place. And masks are required.
It was the first white Christmas in Charleston since 2010. The Kanawha Valley got three or four inches, and western West Virginia picked ups as much as nine inches of snow. We will get just above freezing this afternoon, which will cause some slick icy roads tonight.
West Virginia Division of Highway officials are preparing for the snow that is expected tonight. The DOH will deploy 185 new snow plows to clear the roads for holiday travel.
New Census figures show that West Virginia lost more ten-thousand residents in the past year, with a population of less than one-million seven-hundred-eighty-five-thousand. West Virginia is one of ten states project to lose congressional seats.
Senator Joe Manchin says he’s stunned by President Trump’s reaction to the COVID-19 relief bill. Trump wants Congress to increase stimulus checks to two-thousand-dollars, and he called the 600-dollar payments passed in the legislation, ridiculously low.
Governor Justice is urging West Virginians to safe during the holidays, and avoid family gatherings. The state’s COVID-19 positivity rate is over eleven-percent. There are almost 12-hundred new cases of the virus, and more than twenty additional deaths.
West Virginia continues to lead the country in COVID-19 vaccinations. Governor Justice says the state is on track to finish vaccinations at all long-term care facilities by Monday. More than 18-thousand people have been vaccinated, so far.