ISLE OF WIGHT CO -- Three people have died in crashes during this nor’easter.
Police said 26-year-old Amy Pippin of Smithfield tried to pass a vehicle on Route 258 in Isle of Wight County and hit a tractor-trailer head-on, killing her and seriously injuring her 6-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son.
On the Eastern Shore, police said 30-year-old Yesenia Rivera of Waltham, Mass., was killed and three others were injured when their car lost control and flipped the car along Route 688 in Northampton County.
In Nelson County, 66-year-old Alger Fleming of Amherst died when he was hit by a tractor trailer on Route 56 in Nelson County when he got out of his pickup truck after hitting a tree that had fallen across the road.
As Hampton Roads and other parts of Virginia deal with flooding and with the state under an emergency declaration, Gov. Tim Kaine headlined a private Democratic fundraiser Thursday in Arkansas.
Kaine, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, appeared with Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe at a closed $250-per-ticket luncheon at a home in Little Rock.
Kaine issued the emergency declaration Wednesday night, putting state agencies on alert to respond to flooding from the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida.
Aides said Kaine was in constant phone contact with the Emergency Operations Center and his chief of staff in Richmond. He returns to Virginia late Thursday and plans to visit flood-damaged areas across the state on Saturday.
Republicans, meanwhile, assailed Kaine's absence as "political dereliction."
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