Time of year. We will drop back to the mid80 z as we head to 6 00 this evening. Those temperatures will get a bit hotter. The details on that but right now, those temperatures this morning look great, allie. Good morning. Doesnt get better than that. Roads dont get too much better than how they look right now. Morning rush not out there just yet. So easy ride take a look at all of the greens. This mean youre able to go to the speed limit. 84 durham freeway all things moving well. No incidents to report to you there. Map it is look great from u. S. 64 to rtp about 24 minutes there. If youre heading from the garner area about 25 and 540 at buffalo road. Quiet start right now at 5 0 nothing to complain about. We continue to follow breaking news. Nearly two dozen people are dead of a an earthquake hit italy. This came in just about an hour ago. The massive rescue efforts underway. You can see crews pull a woman out of the debris and then they rescue a dog. Cnn is reporting 21 people have been killed. The mayor t italy says residents are buried around the debris and the town isnt here anymore. And the Elon UniversityWomens Basketball team has been playing in italy for the past three days. Their coach sang on social media we are safe and o. K. No damage here but i felt the hotel shaking. Coach says until the team plans to fly out today. Well continue to follow an update this morning throughout the morning right here on cbs North Carolina. Ago we learned new information about breaking news. New picture just into the newsroom. We found out a pregnant woman escaped a burning ho em. As you can see these were brand new pictures. A vehicle caught fire and the names spread to the home. Thats in the cobble tone aive. The four dogs made it out i have ally. The red cross there and now he investigating a shooting near zebulon. The call came out around 9 00 last night and house on park village road. The victim was taken to the hospital. We dont know the condition or if deputy have made any rests. Investigating a driveby shooting. A man but shot in the leg right around 8 45 last night. Hes expected to be o. K. Right now we dont know if any arrests have been made. Why a childs parents were tried to drop him off. They tell us that 5yearold is safe. Theyre still trying to short out all of the details. New information about this case later on this morning. Well this is the kind of story we love to tell. Hundreds of volunteers are planning a huge back to school event for needy families. Their help will give thousands of students a really good start to our new year. Thats what wen. Live where its all kicking good morning. This is a big undertaking. The durham rescue puts on every year. Similar the to events at thanksgiving and christmas. It takes dozens and dozens of people. They plan to give away over 3,000 backpacks today to kids in need. These are some people getting ready to do that volunteer work. They are been collecting slies they plan on giving away some tbroash ris and also going to give the kids a little leg up before they start the school year. Giving away things like clothes and shoes. The guy who runs this earlier this morning. He says that theres a need for School Supplies and clothes and food every single year but he says as the years go on, it seems that the need gets greater and greater. He says there are of course happy to help a if youre seeing this right now maybe you could use a backpack for your child or some new school clothes. Come down here off of allston avenue. Theres always a big line but the rescue mission said they do want to help as many people as possible. We will continue to be out here throughout the morning and we will bring you more updates throughout the show. Reporting live in durham. Thanks a lot. We know a investigators say a cigarette and a plastic pot caused that fire. Family wasnt home at the time and neighbors say saved the nominee dog. Decades in prison for killing four people 11 years ago in durham. He sat in court handcuffed during the hearing. He pled guilty to four counts of seconddegree mu, murder and armed robbery. Several relatives had tees in theyre eyes. The sister pleaded for peace. Anybody in this courtroom. Black men, weve got to stop killing each other. If wen to get reason, this is where it starts. Dup can will spend between 36 and 44 years behind bars. Indiana governor mike pence will be back here in before holding a ral lie. Thats just outside of wilmington. More rain is expected today in parts of louisiana already hit hard by devastating floods. President obama visited yesterday. One of the heartest hit communities. Roughly 60,000 homes. More than 00,000 have rem sterred for federal mrnl aid. Its begin to distribute 127 million in federal disaster relief. When these kind of things happen it can seem too much to bear but theyre not alone on this even after the tv cameras leave. Ep helping those folks out t. Comes nearly a week after donald trump who tweeted out too little too late. The president met with the families of Baton Rouge Police officers gunned down last month as well as family members of aton killed in a gas station parking lot. Its 5 8 on your wednesday. Still ahead a woman is in a South Carolina jail right now accused of killing her newborn. What investigators say she did and why it took moms to face that arrest. This little girl is quite the miracle. Later well share her story and tell you why her [music] dr. Stanley we can understand and realize, its thh what paul said when he said, absent from the body, present with the lord. We dont have to fear death. Its through the gospel that our crisp garden vegetables. Rich, creamy. And delicious nothing else tastes like philadelphia . Welcome back. Its 5 40 right now on this wednesday morning. Were halfway through the workweek. Were starting it off with fantastic temperatures. Look at this. 65 degrees right now at the Raleigh Durham official sunrise. Its pretty dark out there right now. Were not able to seat cloud cover. Not expecting to see a lot though as the sunrises this morning. Lets get to the temperatures. If youre getting ready to head out mid60s. The mid60 nz dir ram. May get down to lee county. Sanford at 6 2. Rayford you started off around 70. Youve dropped to 6 and the upper 50s. 10 degr comfortable out the door this morning. 70 at 8 a. M. 82 at lunchtime. Thats a high right around 88. Were back to 85 as we head towards 6 00 this evening but temperatures will be climbing over the next few days. 90s return as early as tomorrow. Low 90s friday and for the weekend ahead some of these days you will need the umbrella. Ill let you know when. Thaption so much. Shes definitely on to something here. For sure. A second grade teacher is a taking a big stance. Shes in the going to assign in. What shes hoping theam [ bus engine revs ] i dont understand. Where do they all go . Well, we have plenty at staples and all at low prices. All right. Get another. Back to school or back for more . Staples has the lowest prices. Period. Beyond has a natural grain free pet food committed to truth on the label. When we say real meat is the first ingredient, it is number one. And we leave out corn, wheat and soy. For your pet, we go beyond. A massive rescue effort in central italy after an earthquake hit. At least 21 people died. The Elon UniversityWomens Basketball team has been they announced that they are safe. Good to know. Also new information about a house fire in clayton. We brought you this as breaking news around 4 30 this morning. A pregnant woman, her young son and their four dogs escaped the burning home safely. Crews say a vehicle got fire around 3 00 and the flames spread to the home on mystery hill court. Thats in the cobblestone neighborhood. The womans husband was at work. The red cross is helping the devastating floods. President obama toured the area and promised more help for thousands of people who lost their homes. At least 13 people have died. A man will face a felony and voluntary manslaughter after he intentionally hit and killed a man. They say stoney rayly ran over investigators say atkins called 911 after the incident but died at the hospital. At rial man pan is right now. After a judge raised his bond from 75 to 100,000. Both and the little girls mother are facing felony child abuse charges. An arrest warrant reveals the toddler had bruises all over. Shes out of the hospital and staying with family members. A boy is dead after investigators say his mother put him inside of a refrigerator. And shut the door for three hours. This happened back in february. They spent several mobts investigating. The boys grandfather is devastated. I held him for two and a half hours. Singing and humming to him. And its just too hard. The grandfather says he doesnt believe blackwell hurt the baby. Blackwell has another child. She could face life in prison. Three pe after a taxi cab jumped into a sidewalk. Those two people and the driver are being treated for lifethreatening injuries. Some schools in texas may be closed today because of a power outage after a fire at a substation. At one point 75,000 lost their power. No word on what caused it. One teacher in texas is making the rounds for her stance on homework. Brandi young believes in hands on inclass learning. She sent a letter home with her research has been unable to improve that it improves student performance. I ask that you spent your evenings doing things that are proven to correlate with student success. Instead of homework young ken spend time together. Of course her second graders love that decision. And her School District is also behind the move. Young says the plan may not work for all schoolaged kids. Just the younger ones. If its a plan that works for not . I dont remember much at all from second grade. We cut out valu valentines. I remember exactly where the classroom was and i also i think its a great idea to encourage families to eat dinner together. Yeah. We were jurs talking about that. Lets go ahead and get to your forecast. 65 degrees right now. Weve seen a few clouds throughout the scefer night from time to time. Right now most of those are out our area. No rain for another day in a row. Yes my grass is starting to get crunchyy. Make sure you water your plants and garden as well. Its 59 in south hill. Portions of harnick county. So heres a look hour by hour for you today. Well be close to 70 at 8 a. M. This morning. We climb toen 77 by 10 a. M. And then its the low 80s at lunchtime. Humidity is staying low. Staying comfortable. So if you are planning any Outdoor Activities maybe lunch outsiding exercising weather will cooperate. Its going be warm. But its seasonal. This time of year. Were seeing all of these fantastic conditions because of this area of high pressure. Still dominating our forecast today and tomorrow. And just as weve been thinking all week on friday its going slide off to our east. Making way for this cold front. This cold front is going to have a bigger factor in our weekend forecast ahead. Thats when that chance for a few showers will return. Now in the meantime humidity will slowly be making a comeback over the next few days. Not going to notice a lot today or even really tomorrow. Were back into the upper s for the dewpoints by friday and thats where youre going to notice the mugginess as we head into the afternoon. So at 7 a. M. This morning we are on the dry side. Walltowall sunshine through lunchtime. Right on through the afternoon hours. Nothing thats going to slow that morning or evening commute down. Now as we head into the overnight hours and towards tomorrow morning the clear skies are going to hang around. Now an update on the tropics for you. Still watching two system ises. The first moving through the very conducive. It approaches the bahamas over the weekend and thats when we could see it strengthen. Tropical storm and that continues to strengthen. Could become a hurricane later today. Closer to home 88 our high in raleigh. 90 in fayetteville. Well drop back into the mid 60s. The 90s are going to be b friday. Still drai but remember, by friday afternoon, its pretty humid for us. As we head into the upcoming weekend low 90s and a small chance for a shower or storm. Most of us should be dry as we head back to work and back to school next week. Big day on monday. And just a few days away. I cant believe. Its hard to believe. Where did the summer go . Wake county youve been tracking this. Ten through 12th graders will attend class at brand new south Garner High School campus while their high school undergoes renovations. About 2,000 students will now be traveling along heburn church road. Its adjusted signal lights and added lanes to intersections to ease congestion in the area. We feel like that thesizations to the plan are going to be very helpful in making sure that traffic can get into and with this little impact to our residents that are already in the area as possible. And in wake county, there are four new Elementary Schools beaver dam and raleigh, oak view in holly springs. Pleasant grove in cary and white oak in apeks. They return to their six forks road campus. At a temporary modular campus. Watch out. A lot of kids at new bus stops this year and break for bus brake for buses. 95, accident free this morning. A lack at your eastbound drive times on 540 from wo 17 minutes there taking 440, i 40 to capitol boulevard. About 10 and a pretty short ride for you there. Still have to have those headlights on. Not up quite yet. Not too many cars on the road. Before we go to break heres a look at whats coming up later on cbs this morning. Innovative companies. New information about a house fire. Firefighters responded to a house on short road around 9 45 last night. It took them 0 minutes to get them under control. That fire destroyed the house. The red cross helped a family find a place and investigators are trying to figure out what caused that blaze. Well, there are some big shoes that will need to be filled. Thats for sure. The chief announced he will retire in december. He has been in Law Enforcement for 28 years. Hes been chief in fayetteville for four of those. Hes taking a medical leave for surgery before retiring at the end of the year. Amy caught up with him to heart for this city. My heart for policing and the community. That i truly do love ive come to love this city. My wife and i both and i hope weve left just small improvement that folks will book and say he did o. K. He attended a Community Forum where they had a chance too take the questions to local officials. Much of the focus was on the you about. Elected Officials Say they will use the feedback moving forward. And speaking of the proposed baseball field in fayetteville. The Baseball Committee will meet at 5 00 tonight in city hall. Members will discuss the master plan including how to finance the plan. Last Week City Council approved a nonbinding agreement with the Houston Astros to bring in a farm team by the year 2019. Pretty exciting stuff. Yeah. A few more weeks a five month old baby girl may thanks to a lifesaving transplant. Shes been in the hospital since she was born. She was born with an underdeveloped heart. The only way to survive was a transplant. After waiting 145 day she received a hard transplant just last week. They hope it will change her life. Beautiful baby girl. I mean, shes a fighter. Shes always shown that shes brave and strong having to deal with, you know, her heart issues that she has. Loc raised a 5 ,000 already in three months. Their goal is 100,000. I bet they do it too. With those big eyes. Such a beautiful baby. Were pulling for it. We learned at least 37 people now dead of a a strong earthquake strikes the central utley. Coming next up well take a closer look at the destruction. Heres a live look outside. Rest of the week . Were also hearing fm a North Carolina coach who felt the impact. Whether we grow up knowing that we cant trust the police officers. Local group is calling for chan w what they are now demanding and how police are reacting. Durham families lining up for some muchneeded back to school assistance. We are live at the big giveaway right now on cbs North Carolina. Yep, the start of School Almost here. Its such a great thing to see right. There good morning, everybody. Thanks for watching North Carolina news. Were going to get to your big stories in just a moment. First were going to find out about the forecast. Storm Team Meteorologist is here. Good morning