Rnet and unlimited calling. Say yes to more. Call now. Eyewitness news. Flood water finally going down across the state. The next steps to restore what was lost. What you can do to help flood survivors. Plus. The governor. Touring the gop facility. firebombed over the weekend. What weve learned about the investigation. And. What former carolina student Chandler Kania said in court before he was hauled off to prison for causing a deadly wrongway crash on i85. Eyewitness news starts right n it now comes down to the three rs. receding water. recovery. And rebuilding after matthew. Good evening, everyone. Im steve daniels. And im tisha powell. The governor tonight. Says water levels statewide should return to normal. By the end of the week. And the drive through North Carolina has gotten much easier. Interstate 95. Is now open. Without any detours from governor mccrory also focusing on rebuilding. He plans to appoint a a Hurricane Recovery Task force. Focused on helping people. And putting together a longterm plan on how and where to rebuild and the best ways to spend the money. And several School Districts continue adjusting schedules because of matthew. Cumberland County will operate a 2hour delay again tomorrow. Johnston county. also on a 2hour delay. Edgecombe county. Sampson county. And wayne county schools are all closed tomorrow. Tonight at least still waiting to go back home. The neuse river is expected to drop out of a major flood stage by wednesday afternoon. But that gives little assurance to the people who still dont know if they have anything to go back to. Meanwhile, a countywide curfew remains in effect from nine pm until seven a m. Angelica alvarez has more from the kinston flood zone. Here at one of two shelters in kinston. Just to give you an idea of how tough it is out here. This shelter. You can get to by car. College. We were told you can only get there by military escort. Take pkg William Fleming 18 45 48 35 years. More than three decades here on shine street for William Fleming. And he says since last week. Its been a little quieter around here. William fleming kinston resident 18 48 07 it got probably 7 feet of water behind my house. Water. Seven feet deept. Behind his home. But even though he still doesnt have power. No water made it inside his home. He points to his neighbors. Who werent as lucky. He says the home right across the street is now empty. Fleming 18 46 52 it flood up about 2 feet inside. Were told at least 200 residents throughout kinston are in shelters. As the rising flood waters pushed them out of their homes. The nuese river. Cresting at more than 28 feet. This view from chopper 11 hd showing the extent of the flooding. And just hours ago. We were able to get this ground view with the National Guard. As they showed us highway 70. One of several major roads still businesses surrounded by flooding. Even military vehicles still trapped. Guard no name 16 14 30 the crew that was in that vehicle came across some deep water, that was rising steadily, they had to abandon the vehicles. In a news conference. Emergency officials. Say at this time. They estimate more than 800 homes may be flooded out. Along with more than 170 commercial properties. Again. This is only an estimate. As they wait for the water to recede to get a closer look at the while they wait for that. Many residents. Like fleming. Still drying out. Are also anxious to have power again. Fleming 18 48 37 if they cut it on tomorrow, itll be beautiful. On cam looking at duke energys outage map. Power outages dont seem as widespread so hopefully fleming will get it back soon. As far as the dollar amount of damage here. Again emergency officials can only estimate. But right now theyre thinking it may be up to 125 Million Dollars. Faytteville are still struggling to cleanup from historic flooding. People on sessoms street are hurting. At the height of matthew. water rescue crews were evacuating neighbors from rising flood water. The street is now littered with storm debris. Trash cans. And waterlogged furniture. Neighbors say they cant even think about starting over because their work. Is just beginning. Fayetteville neighborhood because its floodrelated. not storm related. The National Guard tonight. Draining water out of princeville. Six pumps have been running all weekend. And they are still running at this hour. Pumping some 1 point6 million gallons of water per hour. In nearby tarboro. A slightly better situation. In fact, some flood victims are able to return to their homes. Back across the bridge in princeville. A timeline on when residents can return remains unknown tonight. The Edgecombe County manager. Asking victims to remain patient. 11 together. Is launching a special Hurricane Relief food drive. Its our way of helping the flood victims. As youve seen many of them lost everything. The food drive kicksoff at six a m. And runs all day until seven pm. We have five dropoff locations. Our durham studio. At 411 liberty street. two locations in raleigh. Including our downtown raleigh studio at 319 fayetteville street. And the food bank of central and eastern North Carolina. On tarheel drive. And in fayetteville. You can dropoff food at our newsroom on 201 hay street. Also. The Second Harvest you can find all the details at abc 11 dot com. Tonight police are searching for an arsonist in what looks like an attempt to burn down the Orange CountyRepublican Party office. The fire went out on its own and the damage wasnt discovered until a call for help sunday morning. Joel brown is live in hillsborough at the scene of the attack. Joel . Governor mccrory, today, questioned why it took Hillsborough Police several hours to release information publicly about the firebombing. Hillsboroughs police chief taking the unusual step of releasing this q a news release. Calling the crime, the sole focus of his department, right now. Insisting the Response Time was immediate. After getting a glimpse of the burned out building. Governor mccrory could not tell us who was to blame but he seemed certain about the type of person. Anarchist who did this one day after a bottle filled with flammable liquid was thrown through the window of the Orange CountyRepublican Party. This is a horrific, horrific act of political terrorism. Gop volunteers set up shop at folding tables outside of their destroyed offices. Not far from where someone also scrawled nazi republicans. Leave town. Or else. On the side of a nearby wall. Hillsborough pd says atf agents were called in immediately arriving an hour after police the police chief pushing back against suggestions hillsborough cops initially treated the crime as mere vandalism not something more serious after sundays call to 911. They obviously threw in something that was flaming through the window. Im not sure what damage is inside and im not about to go look. In the midst of a contentious election cycle. The headline in hillsborough quickly made national news. Governor mccrory appearing on fox news channel. Local residents like hines boss stopping by to this stuff this cannot happen, this is america. This is not a banana republic. And while state republicans kicked off fundraising for an arson relief fund. Democrats started their own campaign to help republicans rebuild. Surpassing their 10,000 goal in less than an hour. Its an important election but it isnt so important you have to take lives or burn property or try to hurt other people. Hillsborough pd alongside federal investigators. Evidence gathered from the crime scene has been to sent the fbis crime lab in quantico. They say the case will be prioritized. But theres no timeline on when well see the results. Jbrabc11ewn. A concern tonight at the Democratic Party headquarters in targeted vandals. The words death to capitalism. Was scrawled on the side of the building on east main street. It was cleaned up quickly. Carrboro police say they dont believe its connected to the vandalism at the Republican Party headquarters in hillsborough. new details about a fire that damaged a durham home. We brought it to you as breaking news at four oclock. Firefighters responding to the home onmanford drive this afternoon. Flames. And heavy smoke were pouring from the home in hope valley. Fire investigators say an overloaded outlet in the garage start it took firefighters about an hour to get the fire under control. No one was hurt. Fresh video out of durham. A car that smashed right through a fire house. This is station 14 on umstead road. That car crashing right into a bedroom and bathroom while firefighters were at the station. The driver. Injured. But not badly. No one in the fire house was hurt. No word yet why the driver crashed into the place. The cause remains under investigation. Former student Chandler Kania choking back tears. While apologizing for taking three lives after driving drunk. And destroying other lives. An Orange County jury convicting kania on three counts of involuntary manslaughter. For a wrongway drunkdriving crash on i85 that killed three people. one juror says the panel was virtually split right down the middle up until this morning. Some wanting to go with the Second Degree murder conviction. Darlene mcgee. Felicia harris. And harris 6yearold granddaughter jahnice beard were all killed. Drunk and crashed his jeep. headon into their sedan. Harris daughter jahnia king was seriously injured but survived the crash. The 11yearold took the witness stand as the sentencing phase got underway. How do you feel today . Angry. What are you angry about . How this happened and why it happened. The jury deliberated for about 11 hours before choosing manslaughter. Over of Second Degree murder. Kania will now paying the price. new fallout from the donald trump sex talk tape. The two words that came out tonight. And. Protecting your right to vote. The new push to extend early voting registration. What one state lawmaker plans to do this week. Plus. A tiring effort. A white rhino sticks its snout where it doesnt belong. The rescue is the mustsee video of the night. But first. A live look outside of the Raleigh Eyewitness News Center liz is in for chris. North carolina used to make education a priority. Pat mccrory seems more interested in giving tax cuts to millionaires. We rank 44th in spending per student. Dropout rates have gone up for the first time in 8 years. Were 41st in how much we pay our teachers. There is a textbook shortage. And pat mccrory has cut 3,000 teaching assistants from the early grades. He may have given tax cuts to millionaires, lewd talk about women in a 2005 hotmic videotape. The exit came after the network spent a week negotiating the terms of his departure. Bush worked for access hollywood at the time. He later said he was embarrassed and ashamed. By his behavior on the tape. Trump has since denied groping women. And his wife, melania, says she believes her husband was egged on by bush. You can look for whats new with this story tomorrow morning here on Eyewitness News. Democrats fighting to give voters more time to have a say in the upcoming election. The state board three onestop early voting sites in the state are out of commission. Two in Lenoir County and one in columbus county. Several more are having to be relocated. A judge ordered early Voter Registration be extended through wednesday in 36 counties most affected by hurricane matthew. Wake county state senator dan blue plans to tour polling sites this week to assess the damage for himself. Vowing to do whatever it takes to accomodate voters. They state board of elections says counties affected should have alternate precinct locations set up soon. They say voters who cant get to a precinct can mail in absentee ballots. The deadline to request one is november 1st. Its a quiet day on the campaign trail. As the candidates gear up for wednesdays debate. The third and final debate of this campaign season. Donald trump is going all in on his latest conspiracy theory. At rallies. And in tweets. Hes allegations that the election is rigged. Trump has evening events. While Hillary Clinton is off the campaign trail today. Meanwhile, the Clinton Campaign is expanding into red states. Theyre buying ads in texas and arizona. And you can watch the final president ial debate on abc 11 wednesday night. Coverage begins at nine oclock. Thats followed by Eyewitness News at 11. Opening arguments begin tomorrow in the defamation trial against Rolling Stone over its now discredited story about a gang rape at the university of virginia. Uva eight Million Dollars from the magazine for its portrayal of her in the 2014 story. She claims it portrayed her as the chief villain. A 911 operator accused of hanging up on hundreds of emergency calls making her first court appearance. After getting a Court Appointed attorney Crenshanda Williams refused to answer any questions about why she allegedly hung up on people calling 911 for help in houston. Prosecutors say theyve looked at two cases. In one the to report a store robbery that resulted in the clerk getting killed. In the other the caller was trying to report illegal street racing. Now to the big board and the mustsee video of the night. We begin in zimbabwe where a white rhino named mark stuck his nose in it. Mark. Got a tire stuck around his snout as he was Walking Around the bush. Park rangers saw the rhino struggling to get the tire off his mouth. And alerted vets. After about 30 minutes they shot mark with a off his face. After 11 minutes, he was grazing again as if nothing happened. rescuers teamedup with a mother whale to rescue her calf. The calf became entangled in a shark net off the coast of australia. The mother pushed the calf above the surface of the water. While a rescue team cut the netting with specialized equipment. After they cut away the mesh the pair swam away calmly. And in good health. And. This dog is getting the job this smart, small pooch finds an intelligent solution to relieve his unbearable itch. He slips under a car. And uses it to scratch his back. Temperatures are warm now but will continue to warm tomorrow, possibly challenging record highs tomorrow and wednesday. The record high for october 18th is 86 degrees set back in 1938. Either way, temperatures will be about 10 degrees warmer than normal. The ridge will slowly lose control as a trough of low pressure builds in late in the week. As a front approaches, a shower or friday into early saturday. Noticeably cooler air will accompany that front late saturday into sunday, when highs will drop back into the 60s. The dry, warm weather much of this week will be helpful to those cleaning up from matthews we are also that has a 60 chance of developing into the next 5 days. Most models keep it out to sea at this turkey. Then empty your store opening up early on thanksgiving day. Just ahead. Plus. The new generation of pepsi. The major changes to the cola. And how they could impact after 20 years in washington, were learning lots about richard burr. First, he opposed a bill prohibiting Insider Trading by members of congress. Now we learn burr had over 100,000 in oil and gas stocks while he backed legislatio giving tax credits benefitting Gas Companies. And oil and Gas Companies donated over half a Million Dollars to burrs campaigns. No wonder richard burrs wealth has increased over 500 since hes been in congress. Thats making washington work for him. Macys is opening even earlier for thanksgiving day shopping. Despite other stores and even the mall of america being closed in an attempt to give some business say being open on thanksgiving day is bad business. Macys will be open at five pm until two am on thanksgiving day. Then reopen at five am the next day. Apple may soon untether its display i phones at least in some stores. Apple says removing the cords lets you hold the phone properly. try out different cases. And see how they feel in your pocket. apple is now reportedly offering leash free iphone shopping at two stores in the uk. And at one in toronto. Lot less sugar in pepsi drinks. Pepsico says it plans to aggressively cut sugars and calories in dozens of its products. Its promising that at least two thirds of pepsico drinks will have 100 calories or less by 2025. It said the changes are due to Consumer Preferences as well as new dietary guidelines from the world health sports. State fans got to add another chapter to their gallery of pain this past weekend. The team though is feeling positive. Plus the heels take a hit after taking out miami now your scores. David johnson has powered the cards to a 143 lead over the jets. And the indians are looking like going if you arent a tar heel fan, this was a sports weekend that likely blackened your soul with bitterness and pain. Not just losses, but losses in the most excruciating way possible. None more so than nc state falling at clemson the pack had gone blow for blow with the third ranked team in the the tigers physically for most of 60 minutes. Then they methodically powered the ball down the field in the waning minutes to set up an exceptionally makeable field goal. The problem being they didnt make the field goal. State fans have built up exceptional pain tolerance over the years, but this was a wound. It was also, still, potentially, a there was a ray of sunshine. And it came from south florida where the tar heels injected themselves right back into the coastal championship race with a 2013 win over the canes. Mitch trubisky and ryan switzer were up to their usual tricks this rollout score between the 2 gave the canes were driving for a potential tie with under two minutes to go when the defense stepped up. Malik carney with the sack and forced fumble and Jeremiah Clarke w the scoop. Heels win. Lucas crowley was also named acc o lineman of the week today the win came with effect. Mack hollins one of the Great Success stories of larry fedoras tenure will not return this year after fracturing his clavicle. Hollins a former walkon became a special teams menace and then the tar heels primary deep threat these past couple years. He ends his chapel hill career with 81 catches, nearly 1700 yards receiving and 20 td catches good for join us tomorrow morning on abc11 for the latest Eyewitness News. 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