Eyewitness news. Campaigning heats up as early voting gains momentum. why North Carolina is turning into the state to win. A wake county teen gets good news after red tape kept him from a potentially life saving procedure. And matthews aftermath creating a new problem for many of us. what you can do to protect ourself. And your home. Eyewitness news starts right now. Breaking news first up tonight a live look at a massive fire at a recycling facility in california. It broke out in the cardboard recycling plant in ontario, east of los angeles. The fire jumped nearby Railroad Tracks and burned even more. Firefighters say pallet fires can be difficult to battle because theyre built to keep heat inside, making them almost water resistant. Watch for updates throughout this newscast and on battleground North Carolina heating up tonight. Good evening, im tisha powell. And im steve daniels. The two president ial candidates laser focused on our state. trips to North Carolina ramping up as early voting gets underway here. Joel brown live at a voting location in raleigh. Thatll be a busy place this weekend. Traffic was thick again today here at early voting site in downtown raleigh. This is the green tape, theyre using for crowd control. And if youre in Hillary Clintons campaign, right no numbers, so far, coming out of North Carolina. Vote 2016 stinger tell me what it is about this election that drove you down here on the 2nd day of early voting . Donald trump i hope he drives people to turnout for Hillary Clinton. I like Hillary Clinton. I liked her from day 1. It was hillary all the way. At this early voting site at chavis park in raleigh. No surprise in this democratic leaning side of wake county. But looking at the Bigger Picture reveals some positive signs for clintons north behind republicans in the number of absentee ballots returned. But this is a number republicans historically dominate. At this point in 20 12. Republicans returned over 34,000 absentee ballots. This year, under 20,000. A troubling number for team trump. This is by far the most important vote you ever cast for anyone at any time. Friday afternoon, trump trying to rally his base in the North Carolina mountains on this 2nd full day of in thursday, over 164,000 ballots were cast statewide. Just under 2012s 167,000 1st day number. Clintons counting on the tradition of democrats dominating the early voting period. The trump faithful, near asheville, today have other ideas. I like the energy, the charisma, i like how trump speaks with compassion. I absolutely adore this man, hes my hero hes not a politician as far as im concerned and i know hes gonna local activists trying to make the most of this early voting period. Tomorrow morning at 10. The state naacp and the the Durham Committee on the affairs of black people. Are holding a souls to the polls event. First a rally, then a march to go vote early. Jbrabc11ewn. donald trump issues at his rally in the western part of the state. Trump talked about illegal immigration Foreign Trade deals and rebuilding the military. He did not speak about whether he would accept the Election Results if he loses. Nor his controversial joke about catholics. At last nights Al Smith Dinner in new york. His running mate mike pence will be in greensboro on monday. And Hillary Clinton will be back in North Carolina this weekend. The democratic nominee will be in raleigh on sunday. Campaigning with the mothers of the movement. Shell be joined by the mothers who lost their children in Police Involved campaign hasnt announced yet where the event is happening. The us senate race. also heating up. And we are getting a fresh look at the money trail. In the race between incumbent republican richard burr. And democratic challenger deborah ross. new figures show ross. outraising. And outspending senator burr overthe past three months. ross raising more than 4 point2 Million Dollars in the third quarter. Compared to 2 point5 for burr. But flurry of spending by the Ross Campaign is taking a toll. Entering october. Burr had just over seven Million Dollars in his account. Dollars. The two remain virtually deadlocked in polling. Abc11 is your election headquarters. You can follow the candidates on the campaign trail and find early voting locations in your county. On the abc 11 mobile news app or on abc dot com slash go vote. Tonight a chinese man named as one of the leaders of a statewide prostitution ring is behind bars. The man was arrested here at an apex business called touch of asia. Police in the wake front for the ring that brought women from china and forced them into the sex industry. 53year old quan li is charged with promoting prostitution and being part of a continuing criminal enterprise. He denies the allegations. Apex police say the bust identified more than 15 businesses from charlotte to wilmington that are involved in the ring. An unsettling crime in durham tonight. Police called to highway 70 at lynn road after someone in one car. shot into a person lat showed up at Durham Regional Hospital with a gunshot wound to his leg. Police dont know yet if it was a random act. Or if the people in the cars know each other. The family of Erica Parsons will remember her at a benefit concert this weekend. Her remains were found last month. years after she was last seen alive. Parsons biological mother is having a benefit concert tomorrow night in salisbury. She says the money raised will go toard preventing child abuse in rowan county. Some good news to report tonight about a wake county teenager tape. We first told you about 13 year old Hunter Pietrowski last night. Today, we learned that he can get the treatment he needs even after medicaid first said no. Hunter was diagnosed last summer with an aggressive form of cancer called medullo blastoma. Doctors had already removed a tumor the size of a golf ball from his brain but the cancer spread to hunters spine. Hes now i hospital wing so cure, on the who have been properly sanitized can enter. Through facetime, hunter can tell us about home. By the way, hunter is one of three triplets, all boys. Treatments will start monday and will last several months. In Durham County a big sinkhole is blamed on hurricane road. It goes over falls lake just east of i85. You can see from chopper 11 hd a huge hole in the middle of the road. Its pretty deep. And has some water in it. The dot says the hole opened up ten days ago and its blamed on the hurricane. detours will get you around the area. It will take a few days to know if there will be more flooding along the neuse rivers. That concern comes as the army corps of engineers started releasing water from falls lake in wake county today. The lake is swollen from all the rain from Hurricane Matthew. People in North Raleigh are eye on the neuse river. And so are people downstream in johnston. Wayne. And lenoir counties. The corps is releasing water from Falls Lake Dam at a rate of 30thousand gallons every second. Itll be months before road washouts from Hurricane Matthew will be repaired in lenoir cuonty. County commissioners tourned damage in the southern part of the county today. Officials say there are about 30 washouts of roads in the county, three just along one highway. Lenoir county schools have been closed for two weeks theyll reopen on monday. Matthews aftermath. mosquitos and other things in and near standing water. Experts say the standing water has created a mosquito frenzy. Dejuanhoggard live in raleigh to show us what you can do to protect yourself. Steve. Hurricane matthew has come and gone. But he also left behind a few things that could have some longlasting effects on our health. Chemicals, bacteria, and pathogens. Thats just a sple size of whats hidinin the Hurricane Matthew. Two weeks ago, the storms powerful surge left behind a threat to the wellbeing of those who live in affected areas. The floodwater is going to have variable amounts of contaminants. Depending on where the floodwater actually is. After flooding, biology and agricultural expert burchell says its best to protect yourself at all times. You need to protect yourself. Use insect repellant. Long pants, long sleeves, thats the best deterrent. Trapped more than 700 mosquitoes during surviellance wednesday night usually that number is between 20 and 30. We are trying to give some relief to the residents so they will not be impacted so much on their outdoor activities. The population of mosquitoes has risen because of the water and warm weather. Along with mosquitoes, theres the potential for bugs and other animals or wildlife that dont call your area home to wreak havoc. Of wildlife that gets swept downstream, could congregate on higher land, and theyre trying to get back to their Natural Environment too. Also. Burchell says both touching and Drinking Water after a flood could pose some Serious Health risks. 17 33 03 if you live next a chemi agricultural plant, the potential for chemical ntamination would be higher for you rather than someone who is in a remote you can do if you are worried about bugs or mosquitoes is to tip and toss. If you have a barrel or a bucket of standing water after a storm, dump that water out. Your health could depend on it. Live in raleigh, dejuan hoggard, abc11 Eyewitness News. Fema crews are spreading across Cumberland County tonight, visiting some of the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Matthew fayetteville a massive storm cleanup has begun. That sound of a huge front end loader echoed across neighborhoods as crews started scraping and picking up piles of debris. City and contract trash crews are going neighborhood to ighborhood where streets are lined with piles of storm debris. Much of it ripped out of soggy homes by an army of volunteers. City Officials Say the debris pickup will be 7 days a week until clean. Whos impacted whos to blame. Next. And. Airport evacuated. what happened inside a terminal that had people scattering. And. Spaced out. A mars rover lost on the red planet. what happened when it touched down. But first. A live look outside of the Raleigh Eyewitness News Center senator richard burr. Hes been in washington two decades. Like the hundreds of thousands burrs taken from oil and energy companies. And the billions in tax breaks hes voted for them. While voting against Clean Energy Jobs for North Carolina. See, burr had tens of thousands of dollars invested in oil and gas stocks. Big oil profits . So does richard burr. But in two decades, whats he done for you . League of conservation voters is responsible for the content dozens of people spent the day in the hospital in kansas. Because of this. A Chemical Spill that released a noxious cloud. It happened at a distilling plant. Crews say the cloud formed when two chemicals were mistakenly combined. The cloud disappeared a few hours later. Authorities gave the all clear late this afternoon. A cyber attack being blamed on a social media outage. It left twitter netflix Paypal Reddit others at a standstill. The outages are a result of a ddos, or denial of service attack, on largescale domain manager, dyn. These kinds of attacks are attempts to overwhelm websites with so much traffic that it impairs normal service. The cyber attack mainly affected the east coast. Its not cle who was behind this attack or why. Everything is back to normal now. In charleston officials are getting prepared for two high profile criminal trials. Former North CharlestonPolice OfficerMichael Slager black man during a traffic stop. Slagers trial is expected to begin on october 31st. dylann roof is charged with killing nine people at the predominately africanamerican Emanuel Ame Church last year. his trial begins on november 7th. Police and Community Groups are working together to allow peaceful demonstrations. security gates are now surrounding the pulse nightclub in orlando for the unveiling of a new memorial. hundreds of people were there as artists revealed a new mural. Featuring h rainbow flag. The background of the mural is white to encourage people to write their own messages. And tributes on it. 49 people were killed in the shooting rampage at the night club in june. A mars probe may be a total loss tonight. The European Space agency believes its experimental probe crash landed and may have exploded when it hit the planets surface. The probe was meant to Test Technology for a more ambitious european mars landing in 2020. Scientists say the data it sent back before going the pictures taken by nasa suggest the probes rocket fuel exploded on impact. A Successful Space Mission now a soyuz space capsule delivered astronauts from russia and the United States to the International Space station. It took two days to get from earth to the iss. This mission is expected to last four months. Now to the big board and the mustsee video of the night. We begin with a rescue at sea right off our coast. Air station Elizabeth City released this video late this afternoon. The air crew rescuing three people nearly 200 miles southeast of the cape fear river. The three french canadian sailors. Falling ill. And suffering from dehydration and exhaustion. All three. Pulled to safety aboard the coast guard chopper. London city airport is back open tonight after a frightening afternoon. A fire alarm went off. clearing out the entire airport. At the same time firefighters are crews evacuated the airport after dozens of passengers said they had trouble breathing. 26 people were treated at the airport. And two went to the hospital. And your awwwww moment of the night. Weve met angel before shes a 19 year old java macacque who loves to feel pretty. Here shes getting her teeth brushed with her fancy electric angel also likes to get her hair a nice little surprise for people in downtown raleigh this evening. The helping hand missions marching band marching down fayetteville street in fron Eyewitness News center. Were told there was no reason for the performance. They did it just because. halloween decorations that are going big. Really big, next. And its the final weekend of the state fair. What you need North Carolina used to make education a priority. We all understood the importance of having good schools. But 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. Our schools. Weekend of the state fair is now underway. And with great weather on tap. You can expect big crowds. Some of the musical highlights this weekend include the ultimate johnny cash tribute band tomorrow. And on sunday. An evening with maceo parker. A legendary saxophone player. A pennsylvania home is ready for halloween, and hopes to set a world record. Blair murphys home, southeast of pittsburgh, features, among other things, a giant ouija board on its roof. Its 44 feet by 29 feet, and murphy says World Records about possibly getting into the book. Murphy is opening it up for tours tonight and tomorrow. Coming up next in sports. Carolina hoops gets hit with a big injury. Plus we preview the College Football weekend and dennis smith did not disappoint as he debuted in front of a but first check this out from campbell. Former millbrook star chris clemons. Whos all of 58 with the 360 tomahawk throwdown. Thats worth a replay. My kingdom for those narrator its all connected. Richard burr wrote a plan to privatize medicare, making you pay more. And richard burr got one point one million senators to vote against banning Insider Trading by congress. And richard burr voted to raise his own pay. Seven times. He increased his wealth over 500 percent. Richard burr. Twenty years in washington. Serving himself. Dscc is responsible for the content years pack team what with so many new players and what with two of those new players still grappling with the ncaa over eligibility issues. But theres much to be excited about as well. Like all the new promising players. None more so than fayettevilles own dennis smith. Enjoy him while you can state fans. Smith on the break. Off the backboard to shaun kirk then dsj misses the j but Omer Yurtseven boards it back to him for the acrobatic smith to torin dorn on the breakout. Dorn the transfer from charlotte should be a big contributor smith to yurtseven. Waiting on his eligility ruling. Just a brutal injury week for carolina athletics with three Football Players basketball. Junior swingman theo pinson is out indefinitely after breaking the fifth metatarsal in his right foot. He suffered the injury in practice yesterday and is scheduled for surgery next wednesday with a 812 week recovery expected. Pinson is the teams biggest personality and oncourt Swiss Army Knife he does a little bit of everything. And his role figured to get bigger as a starter this season. Its the third time hes broken a fifth metatarsal. The two previous times wereis other foot statement today. In part theos our energy guy, he defends, hes our best passer, a threat on the offensive boards, he can play four different positions, and he gives our team personality, and i mean that in a good way. Hopefully we can get him back before the end of the season. To football. The good news from carolina running back elijah hood got engaged today. The bad theyre dealing with rampant injuries so winning at virginia is quite a bit more challenging. State meanwhile steps into a second straight lions den at louisville and nc central heads up morning on abc11 for the latest Eyewitness News. Well see you again tomorrow night for Eyewitness News at ten here on cw 22. 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 legislation 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. Afscme people is responsible for the content of this ad. Its called the snake a long, skinny Congressional District drawn along i85 to segregate African American voters. The snake and others like it were drawn by state legislators as a partisan power grab. And Justice Bob Edmunds . He wrote the decision supporting his partys discrimination. But federal judges rejected edmunds opinion today on tmz harvey so halloween evish paris hilton tells us that when she wanted treats, she went to the house where there were a lot of tricks. Whos k giving out nown for the best candy . Hugh hefner. Harvey its not just trickortreating. They had shows at the time she was owing up. Go to hugh hefners house and do an audition as well then. [laughter] taylor swift, shes in the middle of this lawsuit where shes claiming a radio d. J. Groped her. 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