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Dangerous storms will be hanging out for the next several hours as we drop from the low 80s and hold there until we go into the upper 70s late tonight. Of course, this is just day one of what is anticipated to be another stormy week. Well talk about when we might see dry time coming up. If you scrnt already havent already, download the weather app. Just look for it in your app learned today he will remain behind bars on murder charges. He is accused of firing a gun from inside his garage hitting kourenrodney thomas. You spoke to his family. What did they tell you. Reporter i spoke to his mother who said shes having a hard time function without her thomas two brothers said thomas was a good kid who was about to move into his apartment for the first time and that he did not deserve this. He took my baby. Reporter Simone Butler thomas is comforted by her two sons as she grieves the loss of so him. I cant even put in words how much theyve taken from us. Reporter Raleigh Police said thomas was shot and killed eay sunday morning. A caller described a group of men with firearms. 30yearold chad copley stood shot thomas who was outside. Thomas other said thomas brother called her early sunday morning to tell her. He was getting ready to move into his own apartment. Now were planning a funeral. Reporter copleys next Court Appearance is august 29 from two of thomass friends who were with him the night thomas was shot and youll hear their story. Delta airplanes were ground worldwide this morning. 450 flights were canceled and 1700 dispatched. It may take days for things to get back to normal. It wraps all the way around the counter here at delta and then wraps back around for people hoping to get checked. Heres what some people were telling us early this morning. I checked online this morning and my flight was on time oar person after person. Misery loves company. Reporter shares the same story. We got no notification. Reporter they all showed up and drove a long line. Reporter it looped around and snaked back to the doors. As soon as i walked in they said systems are down. Reporter delta said a power outage in atlanta impacted its Computer Systems and operations worldwide. The airline said it was aware the flights were being shown. From wedding bells for these newly weds. Im good with that. Reporter delta said customers who had their Flights Canceled or significantly delayed can get a refund. A busy 24 hours for fayetteville firefighters. One person is left critically hurt and a firefighter with burns. Steve sbraccia reports. Reporter this is the scene of he happened just off ramsey street late last night. From the outside it doesnt look like much. Once you go inside, you can see theres extensive damage from a blaze that was intentionally set. The owner of the home off camera told me that her 25year old son set the blaze using a can of gasoline. A fayetteville firefighter suffered burns battling this blaze and required treatment at the hospital. Seconddegree arson and burning to cause injury to a firefighter. Then shortly after 9 00 this morning a neighbor shot this home video of a blaze which erupted in a house. Some of the 911 callers thought they heard an explosion. So they cautiously approached the house. Reporter firefighters discovered a burn resident who was later transferred. By the time firefighters got a handle on this blaze, the home was gutted. They said it will take some time to figure out what caused it. In fayetteville, steve sbraccia. The Hillsborough Police department is looking into de escalation for training. It would help them deal with high stress situations. The mental strength that i think is important. We ask for judgment, Decision Making and were looking at doing this training focused on, you know, building the cognitive skills necessary. The chief will present the idea at the board of commissioners meeting tonight in hopes of gght the training started in the next six months. The board is scrambling make sure everyone complies with an order. Political reporter beau minnick joins us to explain what the judge wants wade county elections to do. Reporter the judge wants the board to rank in terms of feasibility four different possibilities for how the election can take place and the board has until 8 00 tonight to get it done. Surely we should be able to get our pieces in order and have pan election. Reporter Beverly Clark is a court ruled the lines drawn by the General Assembly for the Wake County Commission and school board were unconstitutional but some lawyers have pointed out changing the line cost jeopardize the election. It seems that going back to maps that were drawn constitutionally, using the most recent census data would be th judge asked the wake county board of elections to see which would work best. One uses the lines that had been declared unconstitutional. One option, the one favored by clark, goes back to the way it was drawn in 2011. A final option was presented to the judge last week by Republican Leaders at the General Assembly. I dont know how. I dont know what other laws the leadership of the house and their bodies voting on them and without them being in session. Reporter so 8 00 is the deadline. The wake county board of elections is meeting by a Conference Call coming up shortly at 5 30. Well update it. Theres a new candidate in the running for the white house. On the site you can join his as independent. He will face high hurdles. However, he says he will offer antitrump conservativetives an alternative. Ahead, how donald trump is preparing his supporters. Plus, cbs North Carolina will have complete coverage tomorrow beginning at 5 00. A federal judge is reviewing a challenge to a sex marriages due to religious beliefs. The hearing is taking place in asheville. It was passed by the state General Assembly last year. The plaintiffs in the case want the law overturned. Since the law has passed 35 magistrates have been exempted. The rule is expected in a few weeks. Well, what was supposed to be a family day at water park investigation of the accident a kansas water park is closed as investigators try to learn how a 10yearold boy waterslide. The family of 10yearold caleb schwab was visiting the water park. Reporter officials still have not said how 10yearold caleb schwab died, only that he was on the verruckt water slide. We honestly dont know what happened. Reporter witnesses said they saw the boys body lying on the ground. Sheet. You dont want to believe whats going on. Reporter caleb was at the park as part of a free admission day for lawmakers and their families. The slide sends riders on a raft. Riders must be at least 54 inches tall with each raft having a combined weight of 400 rocket verruckt made several delays a test showed the raft literally flying off the slide. Our rides are inspected by an outside party. Reporter representative schwab and his wife michelle issued a statement saying as we try to amend our home with caleb no longer with us, we are with jesus. The slide is closed indefinitely. The parks website doesnt give an age description. Reporting for cbs news, kansas city, kansas. A resort in disney world is building a stone wall around the lake where a toddler was killed. Yeold lane graves. Warning signs are also being installed. He was draged into the lake june 14th. The family decided not to file a lawsuit against disney. Rater texas boy who was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school . The family is suing the school saying their civil rights were violated. The school worried the clock was a bo. Mohammed was still suspend. The family then left the country claiming they received death threats. I lost my home. I lost my creativity because before i used to love building things, but now i cant. Theres nothing i can do. And i lost a lot of things. I lost my security. Back in november the family the School District denies wrong doing. The Fairfax Virginia mayor busted in a drug for sex sting was arrested during an undercover operation. The resignation will be effective as of noon thursday. Weve been telling you about the increase in the murder rate in goldsboro. Now a grant will help with this concerning issue. Reporter the Governors Crime Commission is offering the city of goldsboro 50,000 to help them reduce Gang Violence. Were told the police chief and sheriff are helping them determine where to fight the problem. It will likely go toward overtime for police officers. They cite the increase in homicides. Police said most of the murders help these small towns and cities anyway we can to fight this surge of gang activity. Reporter the Crime Commission offered a similar grant to nash county last year and authorities used the money to hire a retired dea agent. It significantly curbed Gang Violence in that area. Thank you ry severe storms more of across wake county. This is what it looks like from North Raleigh south to downtown. You can see the ominous clouds. There are some plighting in strikes in the distance. It dropped our temperature from 90 earlier to 79 degrees. Severe storms because of the possibility of hail and damaging winds. The heavy downpours and lightning are just has it encompasses all of raleigh a good portion of wake county. Its this storm thats producing an incredible amount of lightning. So it grs about North Raleigh up around 5 40 all the way through Holly Springs, fuquay into harnett county. The details have it until 5 45. It will impact you guys in carry, headed for garner and headed for downtown raleigh. As you can see, it loops into county, lots of lightning around Holly Springs and fuquay. Thats marching to the east. Theres a second line that starts in northern wayne county and jets off south of goldsboro and cuts through smithfield and Johnston County and ends up in lee county f you watch that one, that particular cluster is moving to the north. Last week it seems like every other day the storms were moving in a different storm also move in a different direction. Hopefully it will cool you off. We were around 90 earlier. Youre still there in the spand hills. So as we go hour by hour into tonight, well keep the rain chances around through 7, 8, 9 00. Then well lose the the daytime heating. Well dry out, keep the clouds and humidity. As you leave for work and school it will be about 72 degrees want we had today is pretty much going repeated most of this week. Weve got the instability of another stationary front laying on top of us. We had that last week. So we got a new one but its still the same scenario. We got the low pressure down into the gulf thats pumping moisture into our direction. We got the moisture, low to 90. We got instability. We introduce thunderstorms. It might be to the north a little bit tomorrow but not many change. Then it should start to middle of the week but we still got the heat and moisture coming from that area of low pressure. Thursday and friday we dont see many changes. Well get closer to 90, 19 instead of 88, 89. Partly to mostly cloudy, humid conditions. 89 in fayetteville. 30 chances of storms. So not everyone will get it but a strong one but very powerful and very dangerous. So i guess thats what august is. Well keep rain chance at 30 . Drier, a little more sunshine. Therefore, our temperatures will go up to 87 tomorrow. 89 wednesday. 90 on thursday. Well stay there on friday, in fact get a little bit hotter on saturday and sunday as temperatures stay in the low by monday. So some storms out there now. Boy, were there storms over the weekend. I have homes in wake county producing about a 5foot hole. There was some smoke. The Fire Department came. This house now has a new sky light. As you can see, First Responders were on hand and not only did it put a whole hole in the roof but it caved in part of the ceiling from the lightning explosion and it blew out the thermost i have the pictures because this is my house. Yes. Even a meteorologist can be caught in the danger. The lightning can be just as dangerous so. Take care. Make sure your home is ready. Make sure your family is ready for stuff like this. Im so sorry it happened to your family. No ones hurt. A lot of things ive learned, dont spend a lot on surge protectors. They dont work. We have to buy new tvs. Struck by lighting in. My goodness. We have breaking news in wake county. Heres a live look at i40 westbound near morrisville. As you can see, three lanes are closed. Backups in both conditions. You can see the backup there. Were wo details. Major backups, three lanes major backups, three lanes i got shot down over vietnam and spent eleven months in a pow camp. What donald trump said about our members of the military being captured is a disgrace. Hes a war hero because he was captured. I like people that werent captured. When you fly over enemy territory, the odds might be against you being able to come home. Donald trump doesnt understand the weight of sending americans into harms way. North carolina ranks 42nd in the nation as the worst place to have a baby. Vermont came in first while mississippi came in last. East carolina offering counseling. The school is offering after noticing an increase with counseling. The students are having a hard time understanding there will be setbacks in life. The chapel hill group is part of the homegrown music over 11 days on three stages. We are only 66 days away from the fair. And cooler temperatures. Why hulu is bringing an end to the free viewings. Later this week a meeting will be held to talk about tainted peanut butter. It sickened people 10 years ago. Party pan and great value were involved. To violating the act. Hulu is working on an Online Television service to rival television tv. You can still watch for free on yahoo. Coming up on North Carolinas news at 5 30, donald trump is headed back to the statement of one of his stops is in fayetteville. How the state gop leaders are preparing. At t gives a Million Dollars to help high scho schools that will benefit. Thats just ahead. North carolina news at 5 30 starts now. A Severe Thunderstorm Warning was issued in wake county not long ago and is set to continue until 5 45. Chief meteorologist Wes Hohenstein joins us. Severe thunderstorm warnings get issued because of hail or lot of lighting in. The roads are a mess, too. So the worst of the weather coming through northern raleigh, downtown. Holly spring, fuquay, lee county. Thats where the Severe Thunderstorm Warning is in wake county. That goes until 5 45. Heavy enough rain is falling where the National Weat john Flood Warning flash Flood Warning for johnston and wake county. The line in wake county is moving to the east. The one in Johnston County is moving to the north. We had the humidity. Its a mess out there. 440 both directions. 40 both directions. So take it slow. Well be back to find out ongoing the storms will still arc. A North Carolina University Chancellor is taking is taking time off for cancer treatment. Reporter Debra Saunders white spoke about her cancer diagnosis last year. Now she will take time off. We will fulfill the obligations to make sure they have a similar experience. Will serve as chancellor until she comes back. Reporter saunderswhite became the chancellor in 2013. The accomplishments that weve been able to experience under her leadership will only continue. She has built a strong, foundation for this university. Reporter theres no word on how long the chancellor will be out but while she is away, she wants the institution to move full steam ahead. In durham, im derrick lewis. Republican president ial candidate donald trump returns to fayetteville. Meanwhile North Carolina and the cumberland gop join forces gop calls this an intense republican mobilization and activism, especially for republicans and many who are undecided. Its the first time that i can remember we had a president ial candidate come here twice, really, the first president ial candidate i remember being here other than for fundraisers. Reporter the office space now serves as the cumberland campaign headquarters. Will shift into high gear to recruit volunteers and register new voters. This is a time were registering new voters. Were looking to get those in that are absentee voters. Were trying to get them to sign up for absentee ballots. Reporter trumps supporters said theyre looking forward to learning more about his plans about the economy. Voters to our party and this is something we have embraced and looking forward to. Reporter coming up tonight at 6 well tell you about security measures in place for the raleigh. Nate, thank you. Donald trump laid out his economic plan today in detroit arguing he is the one to get the american clam clam back on their dr middle class back on their feet. We proposals to reduce cost in child care, offering much needed relief to american families. Theyre suffering. Theyre suffering. Were going to get them this much nieded relief. I will unveil [ applause ] thank you. I will unveil my plan on this in the coming weeks. Ive been working on it with my daughter ivanka. Well, Hillary Clinton will investing in the states infrastructure, investing in manufacturing, investing in Scientific Research and technology and helping Small Businesses by cutting taxes. Clinton went on the attack today trouncing his plan for not paying workers for jobs he did for them. Its really outrageous for someone who claims to be so stiffing hard working americans. That is not how we do business in america. [ applause ] clinton is enjoying a double digit lead in her new polling. Its an average of 49 for the democrat pick nominee compared well, several high schools in our viewing area will be getting a little extra help from at t. The Company Announced it is giving more than a Million Dollars to North Carolina communities and school programs. Some of the money will go to help students in several areas including warren county, northwest halifax and jf webb. It resources inside the schools and communities and some schools need the most help. Governor mccrory and other state leaders were on hand fort announce m the money will be used to help improve graduation rates. The police is asking for the publics help in locating a durham area. The fayetteville recruiting unit is hosting an open house. Its for individuals interested in joining the fayetteville Police Department for the upcoming midoctober 2016 academy. There will be an opportunity to meet one on one with the recruiters and get answers to all your questions. Youll understand and youll see why we do some of the things we do so long. Were not hiring you to deliver food or fish or were hiring you to be a protector of the neighborhood. The event will also include a briefing of the process. Morrisville City Council Meets tonight. One thing they will be discussing is a new location and design for a Farmers Market. Conceptual design for a temporary site. A Permanent Location will be done. The meeting is tonight at 6. And it is National Farmers market week and more and more of those homegrown markets are becoming the place for people to choose. But are the markets different than whats at the major chains . Reporter north still assessing. Some are still sceptical. So we learned that it may fall on your shoulders to right the liewl rules. Its a buzzword. Reporter shopping directly from your local farmer is a growing trend. Our area has seen. 3 million customers. Many are still shopping at the markets. Its awesome. Supporting local business here. Its an experience. Its fun. There are people that i recognize and recognize me. I know what kind of tomatoes are best. Its as fresh as it gets. Reporter North Carolina department of agriculture tells me as fresh as it gets depends on each market. We went to some markets to ask what youre really buying. So is everything thats so fresh . Yes. Reporter the farmers area is one section. You can buy bananas, grapes and make a pineapple. Reporter we found all these fruits and more. You can purchase dole bananas. They are from guatemala. There are a few things in North Carolina. We actually have a process. Inbound that wishes to sell here, they have to submit a vendor application. Reporter and they can randomly visit a farm or place of business. The western wake farmers in cary vets its vendors with a similar process. My vision is to items that are grown locally. Reporter coffee beans are from local international growers. Otherwise, they said the vendors are local, like this Certified Organic farmer out of burlington. Its frustrating. It reminds me of that continuing education piece. When you see Farmers Market, consumers have to ask. Department agrees. The first person that needs to regulate it is the customer. Its a simple conversation and simply ask them did you grow it yourself or where did it come from. When you do ask, they will tell you not every product is regional. When its in season its all local. They try to get it within 100 tell knee practice is hurting their own profits which is why they encourage you to be the main watchdogs. If you want food harvested the same day only you can determine whether that is the case. To find the closest Farmers Market near you, head to wncn. Com where we have a complete list. Lots to think about. For sure. Still to come, the death of a young woman who contracted a center. Up next, what management is saying about the reopening of the facility. And recap of day two of the olympics and but raise your hand if your taxes have gone up while those at the top are the ones getting the tax break. And raise your hand if youre working more for less. Im roy cooper, and thats not a comeback. Thats moving backwards. Raise your hand if you agree that those at the top should pay their fair share. Raise your hand if you agree that tax breaks should be going to the middle class. And raise your hand if you agree were back with an update of that breaking news. This is harrison avenue near morrisville. Three lanes were closed. Direction, expect backups in both ways on that road. What a mess out there with the weather as welling. The lenoir Sheriffs Office has arrested a man and charged with the murder of trudy smith. Smith was found dead inside her home on Pleasant Hills road. Her nephew is in bond. In winstonsalem a driver hit a man while waiting on the church bus. He hit Steve Stewart who was standing on the sidewalk. Both men were taken to the hospital and charged with dwi. The u. S. National White Water Center in charlotte expects to reopen its rafting channel. The Communications Manager made the announcement today. Yearold lauren seitz of ohio died from contracting a brain eating amoeba there. They finished filling the channels last week. Public Health Monitors Public Health were monitoring it. The u. S. Has 12 medals within the first two today usa did make some history. Reporter for the first time a Muslim American woman competed in the olympics while wearing a hijab. She said her sports helps her encourage others. To be even more diverse than we have been in the amount of im looking forward to representing myself, my community and my country well. The women topping 100 points in an easy win over sprain. The men are expected to route venezuela. They trail china as they enter the final round. I mean, you can be the greatest team in the world but if you dont have each others backs and out there fighting for your brothers, then you will not have this theme is full of love and brotherhood. Reporter also in swimming tonight finals in four events, Michael Phelps will be back in the poll for preliminaries in the 400 meter butter fly. Were keeping an eye on strong storms. This is our camera about 50 its coming down pretty good here. You can almost hear it through my microphone. It dropped the temperature to 79 now. This was at the airport. Now they have cleared out some breaks in the clouds, still a lot of delays. A friend of mine tweeted the arrival and most of it is red. So arrivals and delays are slow. New chapel hill as we look at our top of the there, a little bit of sunshine generally dry. But heres the radar. Our problem now is since the see Severe Thunderstorm Warning has been dropped, heavy rain thats causing some flooding, these rains are bring up to 2 inches in 30 minutes. Thats a lot of rain. That will cause a lot of problems and lightning from springs and fuquayvarina. Storms on the eastern end of Johnston County and wilson and wayne county. Theyre moving in two different directions. The one in wake county moving to the east, northeast. The storms in the east generally moving to the north, kind of up i95. If youre getting this rain, it will be heavy. Technically the Severe Thunderstorm Warning is over but still some danger with the storms. Many of us are in the 70s. Well keep an eye on the storms, drying out. Sips its muggy we wont be able to cool off much. 70s. As you know, the higher that; the higher the humidity, the more moisture is in the area. Thats why weve been having the popup thunderstorms. Its easy for storms to pop up, especially when you have the instability of this. The humidity is not going away anytime soon because this area of low pressure down in the gulf will continue top send it up heres what weve got tomorrow, not many changes. The frontal boundary moves to the north. The instability, daytime storms, moisture from this area of low pressure continues through wednesday as we get a few spotty storms. By the end of the week the rain chances dont change much but the temperatures could jump into the low 90s. Not a big change but that is the week ahead. Partly to mostly cloudy skies. We get into the Late Afternoon and early evening and well have to watch out for storms. 87 tomorrow. 89 on wednesday. Near 90 on thursday and friday and for the weekend. Saturday and sunday, highs around 91 each day. Well keep the small coverage but powerful storms. So 87. D we forecast 85. So, unfortunately, no money today but our monthly total for the American Cancer Society is now 700. Theres more than 2 20 million from the American Cancer Society just here in North Carolina helping to raise money for grants and continuing to fund these studies. They raise a lot of money but a lot of it gets to stay right here. Coming up new at 6, hear the friends of a man killed by a raleigh homeowner describe the moments after the shooting and walmart announced today its buying jet. Com in hopes of it launched in 2015 and specializes in bulk orders. They will pay 3 billion in stock. It may help walmart reinvigorate growth. Meanwhile, amazons sales have rocketed above 100 billion annually. Nikes glasses have been jeered. They are called the wing and are super prevent fogging and keep your brow cool. They come with an like sized price tag 1200. Well a North Carolina boy is celebrating his birthday by helping others. He is collecting shoes instead of gifts. He said the idea came to him naturally. Since you have plenty, you s like every single year, like new shoes for school. And i want other kids to get them, too. Well, the soon to be 11year old has collected over 600 pairs of shoes over the past two years. They are distributed to children in time for the new school year. This is great. All the kids are taking this initiative to help others. Remember the child fr helping people out. Speaking of going outside for running, you will not be running tonight. The severe thunderstorm sperm has been dropped. That does not mean heavy storms will be moving through. Well talk about that at 6 00. All right. Income . K news at 6 North Carolina news at 6 starts now. A homeowner face murder. Plus, two fires in less than 12 hours keeps firefighters busy. Facing charges. Sad news shakes the nccu community. Why the chancellor is taking a leave of absence. Im sean maroney. Im sharon tazewell. Heavy rain moving across North Carolina bringing with it thunder and lightning. So it was another hot and humid phone and that is now helping to fuel some strong storms. The Severe Thunderstorm Warning from earlier has situation where we have heavy rain resulting in a flash Flood Warning for wake county and Johnston County. Then we have a tremendous amount of lightning which always seem to cause a lot of problems, moving flew raleigh and garner, those are headed to the east it. Pushes into wendell into wilson county. You can see northern wayne county from eureka up to a good

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