Leanna Scachetti
WDBJ+ Anchor/Reporter
Roanoke VA
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Leanna Scachetti is an Emmy award-winning reporter for WDBJ7. She joined the WDBJ7 team in July 2017 after spending two years anchoring and reporting for WJHG/WECP in Panama City Beach, FL.
While at WDBJ7, Leanna has reported on severe weather and continuing crime in the area, and stays on top of high-profile local court cases.
She has earned multiple awards for her work, including a regional Emmy award for her work reporting from the aftermath of Hurricane Michael in the Florida Panhandle and Virginia, plus Virginia Association of Broadcasters first place award for Rise Up, The Virginia Associated Press 2018 award for Best Video journalist/One Man Band, a contributing reporter for a 2018 regional Murrow award on tornado coverage, as well as several professional Florida AP awards, another regional Edward R. Murrow award and a grand prize from the National Broadcasting society.
Leanna graduated with honors from the University of Florida, where she studied Broadcast Journalism and minored in Spanish. While in Gainesville, Leanna worked at WUFT News as an anchor, reporter and producer for the PBS affiliate TV station and the NPR affiliate radio station.
When not at work, Leanna likes to travel, visit state parks, practice yoga, learn phrases in foreign languages and sip coffee with friends. She is fluent in Spanish and speaks basic Brazilian Portuguese. Leanna is also an active skater with Twin Valleys Roller Derby.
Leanna is from Florida but is thoroughly enjoying life in Southwest Virginia!
Updated: Mar. 29, 2023 at 6:02 PM EDT
|By Leanna Scachetti
Now the opioid overdose reversal drug, Narcan, will be available over-the-counter.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 5:42 PM EDT
|By Leanna Scachetti
Dr. Carlos Mora of Carilion Clinic joins us on the WDBJ7+ Digital News Desk to explain MS and the latest treatments for patients.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 6:57 PM EDT
|By Leanna Scachetti
The Virginia Department of Corrections is expanding access to buprenorphine, while Carilion Clinic makes plan to work with hospitals statewide.
Updated: Mar. 22, 2023 at 5:42 PM EDT
|By Leanna Scachetti
“I think our legacy is just the importance of community.”
Updated: Mar. 10, 2023 at 1:38 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
Nearly 40 percent of surveyed travelers say they’re making this year’s break a multi-generational adventure.
Updated: Mar. 8, 2023 at 2:08 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
The new Birth to 5 Hub helps families find child care facilities near them that meet their needs.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2023 at 3:39 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
Dr. Morrow hopes the pandemic has show the community and our leaders the value of a robust public health system.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2023 at 1:26 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
Invasive group A strep can cause severe illness including Toxic Shock Syndrome and necrotizing fasciitis, also sometimes referred to as flesh-eating bacteria.
Updated: Mar. 1, 2023 at 6:15 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
Orlean Puckett lived to be around 100 years old. While she lost more than 20 children of her own over the course of her lifetime, Puckett delivered hundreds of babies as a mountain midwife.
Updated: Mar. 1, 2023 at 3:22 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
Slight Chance of Science Podcasts. Look like a genius at the dinner table. Bite-sized lessons with a sprinkle of science. No complicated charts and graphs here. Hosts go straight to the experts and cover environmental topics along with breakthroughs at hometown universities.
Updated: Mar. 1, 2023 at 2:10 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
In this episode of Hometown Stories, we look at how history and technology are painting us a more intimate picture of life as a soldier during World War II.
Updated: Feb. 28, 2023 at 4:55 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
At the height of the pandemic, these sites processed between 500 and 600 tests a day.
Updated: Feb. 20, 2023 at 8:32 PM EST
|By Janay Reece, Patsy Montesinos and Leanna Scachetti
Join reporters Janay Reece and Patsy Montesinos for this special coverage with behind-the-scenes details from reporters on stories about the people and places that make our hometowns unique!
Updated: Feb. 17, 2023 at 5:56 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
The RCAHD will be mentored by Seattle's health district in data collection tools to improve their efforts to help people with Substance Use Disorder.
Updated: Feb. 17, 2023 at 2:24 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
Watch this roundtable discussion with Roanoke area experts to learn how you can start the process of treatment and recovery, and how you can support loved ones struggling with SUD.
Updated: Feb. 16, 2023 at 7:07 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
About 70 to 80 percent of SUD patients in the ER make it to the bridge clinic and, with appropriate treatment, they reduce or eliminate use of opioids by 60 to 70 percent over six months to a year.
Updated: Feb. 16, 2023 at 6:57 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
"Everybody’s journey to sobriety is different."
Updated: Feb. 15, 2023 at 5:24 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
More than 90 percent of people served by the grant reported their peer supporter helped them maintain sobriety.
Updated: Feb. 14, 2023 at 5:13 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
In 2022, clients served by Virginia's Harm Reduction Coalition reported more than 1,100 overdose reversals.
Updated: Feb. 13, 2023 at 3:38 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
But experts say the number of fatal drug overdoses is still incredibly high.
Updated: Feb. 8, 2023 at 5:28 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
Jordan Bell aspires to inspire Roanoke to make the historically Black neighborhood a vibrant, self-sustaining community once again.
Updated: Feb. 7, 2023 at 5:26 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
Meanwhile, public health leaders are monitoring a strain of strep for which the rate of infection is nearing pre-pandemic levels.
Updated: Jan. 6, 2023 at 5:47 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
Today we’re looking at where they stand and what’s to come.
Updated: Jan. 3, 2023 at 4:00 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
Dr. Morrow continues to encourage vaccines and bivalent boosters to help protect everyone, especially those most vulnerable to serious disease.
Updated: Jan. 3, 2023 at 3:42 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
For just $3, you can test your home for an odorless gas which experts say is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the United States.
Updated: Dec. 30, 2022 at 3:14 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
Dr. Ella F Washington has written a book to help companies and organizations establish and grow in their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion journey.
Updated: Dec. 21, 2022 at 4:57 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
Hometown Health Podcasts
Updated: Dec. 19, 2022 at 2:02 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
You can listen to exclusive, one-on-one extended interviews with Xavier Duckett, Leah Weiss and Robin Reed!
Updated: Dec. 16, 2022 at 1:27 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
Some people are going to the store to buy groceries, only to find their cards wiped clean.
Updated: Dec. 15, 2022 at 4:38 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
The Hear@Home Podcast continues the conversation from our live show that airs weekdays at 3 on WDBJ7. We take some of the interviews that we’ve had with the people who are working hard to provide resources to help others in our hometowns, and we expand on them.
Updated: Dec. 15, 2022 at 4:35 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
En nuestro pódcast, Noticias de la Cuidad Estrella, tu locutora Patsy Montesinos te dice las últimas noticias de Roanoke, Virginia. También tendrá invitados especiales. No te pierdas todo lo reciente aquí en las Noticias de tu Cuidad Estrella.
Updated: Dec. 15, 2022 at 4:29 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
The Early Years podcast is an extension of WDBJ7's weekly segment that aims to educate parents about current issues affecting families. Host Kimberly McBroom also highlights inspiring stories involving kids and teens.
Updated: Dec. 15, 2022 at 4:27 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
Political Pulse is a WDBJ7 produced podcast keeping the pulse on political issues that matter to people in Southwest Virginia. Whether it's national, state or local, we will discuss the most salient issues, how they affect people in our region and why it matters.
Updated: Dec. 15, 2022 at 4:23 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
Hometown Sports Extra examines the importance of sports in our hometowns through the people who help us love them.
Updated: Dec. 6, 2022 at 6:01 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
RSV seems to be declining but COVID appears to be rising again, as expected.
Updated: Dec. 1, 2022 at 6:14 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
Watch and listen to our one-on-one with Robin Reed as he reflects on his decades-long career.
Updated: Nov. 21, 2022 at 8:04 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
Virginia's Department of Agriculture and Consumer Sciences is warning backyard birders to take their biosecurity seriously.
Updated: Nov. 15, 2022 at 1:25 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
Beyond the Eats: The Holiday Variant comes to the Berglund Center November 17 at 7:30.
Updated: Nov. 10, 2022 at 12:07 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
The investment will bring a provider online who can offer mental health services online.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2022 at 3:26 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
Thursday’s Care Fair is aimed at introducing the community to the options available through volunteers and local businesses.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2022 at 12:47 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
This comes after almost a year of surveys and assessments to determine the need for childcare.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2022 at 9:53 AM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
The display downtown features just have of Judith Sivonda's personal collection of more than 300 grinders.
Updated: Nov. 1, 2022 at 1:02 PM EDT
|By Leanna Scachetti
Dr. Cynthia Morrow said influenza cases are peaking early.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2022 at 12:08 PM EDT
|By Leanna Scachetti
Firearms must be unloaded and locked in a hard-sided container as checked baggage only.
Updated: Oct. 18, 2022 at 4:14 PM EDT
|By Leanna Scachetti
The department seeks feedback about things like access to transportation, meals, and in-home support.
Updated: Oct. 5, 2022 at 5:51 PM EDT
|By Leanna Scachetti
The October Ivy Talk is virtual and the public is invited to attend.
Updated: Oct. 4, 2022 at 4:53 PM EDT
|By Leanna Scachetti
The enrollment coordinator wants families to know their team can help them with more than just child care.
Updated: Oct. 4, 2022 at 3:51 PM EDT
|By Leanna Scachetti
Dr. Cynthia Morrow said Tuesday pverall COVID activity in our region and in the state appears to be declining.
Updated: Oct. 3, 2022 at 3:31 PM EDT
|By Leanna Scachetti
The plan will allow participants to pair with local pharmacies to try various cessation methods.
Updated: Sep. 30, 2022 at 4:11 PM EDT
|By Leanna Scachetti
As more local agencies are trained in its use, agents say more cases will appear.
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