Good morning, guys. Yeah, down pours greeting us this morning. Heres our wncn radar, these yellows, even a band of red moving now into portions of moore and towards Chatham County. If you have to head out right now please take it slow because a lot of water is going to collect on the roadways and then were going to couple that with low visibility making your drive certainly a tricky one. Visibility at two miles in durham, a half a mile in roxboro, also five mills disability in sanford, and clinton this morning. Your temperatures what a difference 24 hours can make. 57 in raleigh but 61 in clayton, 60 in littleton, and thats why were watching this line of showers thats moving our way for the potential to bring us some strong showers, also the chance for a few storms. 52, heavy rain likely in the Early Morning hours. Were drying out at noon today, still a lingering shower possible. 61 our high. The low 50s by 6 p. M. This evening with those falling temperatures and clearing skies. Overnight tonight well eventually drop into the 30s, and then were going to have some much dryer days ahead. Well throw it over to kristin who has an update on traffic. Good morning, everyone. We dealt with ice yesterday. Today were dealing with the rain. Lets take a look outside from a couple of our traffic cameras. We are seeing some fog and low visibility on nc 147 right now. Definitely make sure if youre hitting the road early that you leave yourself some extra time. Heres another camera i440, you can see the water on the roads reflecting into the headlights. Our traffic map as of right now not showing any major issues on the roads. So thats always good as we start the morning with some foggy continues and also with a little bit of rain in some spots so definitely keep that in mind here. So weve got some fog, low visibility. If youre heading on any of the eastbound loops it will take you about 19 minutes, i40 to capitol boulevard youre looking at 10 minutes. Well have more coming up in just a few minutes. All right. Thanks. Our Team Coverage of this round of weather issues continues. Emma wright is driving around our viewing area again. What are you seeing now . The good news is its not snowing, its raining pretty hard right now. Were on 540 right now in the area of airport and it is downpouring. Were also seeing some fog, were not did see a good amount on 40 just a few minutes ago. The wind is really picking it up. You know if the wind is blowing us around if you drive a smaller lighter car its really going to be moving you back and forth on the road. In terms of the actual Road Conditions were not seeing any black ice, anything left over from yesterdays storm. Most of that seems to have been melted by the rain and the warm temperatures. Its actually 30 degrees warmer right now than it was when we were out here at this time yesterday. However, you want to keep in mind we were seeing some disabled cars, some fenderbenders still parked on the sides of the road. So you want to look out for that when youre driving around especially when the fog rolls in it can cause some visibility issues. Thats what it looks like out here on 540. We will continue to monitor these conditions and bring you more updates later on throughout the show. Thanks. Well even though the Winter Weather is out of the area the impact on flights could be felt today. Thats right more than 70 flights were cancelled yesterday. Dozens more were delayed. This system is affecting millions of people up and down the east coast. If youre planning to fly out today be sure to check your flight status. Drivers also dealt with travel issues on the roads. Highway patrol says the calls start coming in around 5 30 yesterday morning. At least 50 calls came in throughout the morning there. Troopers say speed and losing control were the major problems. Despite a massive three story Apartment Fire in fayetteville and 911 calls that someone was trapped inside fortunately to one was hurt in the incident. Crews responded last night and investigators believe the fire started on the balcony. Late last night city leaders the Police Department to purchase body cameras. Several Council Members voiced concerns because of a draft policy to keep the videos secret. Several residents said the public should have should have access to body camera footage. We should be able to see whats going on if they dont have anything to hide. The counsel will revisit body cameras next month. Durham mayor bill bell also delivered the annual state of the city address but this years address was different as the mayor held a question and answer style delivery of his speech. The mayor touted the citys progress including new hotels downtown, creating jobs and renovations to city hall. Durham is in good hands, its in good hands because youve got a very capable council because youve got a capable administration and a capable set of employees over 2,400 working day and night to say good things happening in durham. Improving. Well, a big win for food truck owners, after weeks of debate about proposed restrictions surrounding where the mobile restaurants can serve, the towns Planning Commission landed on a proposal that satisfies everybody. Members got rid of some of the restrictive elements. They have choose ton open restaurants in your town i will choose to also. The much less restrictive proposal now goes to the town board of commissioners for approval at their next meeting. Today crews will survey damage in florida after tornados hit there. Still to come an you amazing story of survival that came outfit out of the devastation. The red carpet for and a good morning to you. Were looking at a current temperature of 57 degrees. This is live picture from our wncn tower camera and you can already see the moisture collecting on the lens. Were looking out over the belt line and because of the rain and rates its coming down cars definitely driving slower. Ill tell you when i came in there was a lot of fog. Theres still some fog but as the rain moves quickly into the area the fog is going to be pushed out. So heavy rain falling around wake county but im really watching this line of wet weather moving into western portions of Chatham County through moore county that could be bringing strong wind gusts just within the last hour. At 40 Miles Per Hour. And were seeing the heavy a downpour around wake county and downtown raleigh as well. Wake forest if Anyone Around wake county wanted to see the heavy downpour it would be you. So well check in with visibility, two and a half miles right now in durham, a half a mile in roxboro, right around 7 miles visibility in smithfield. 56 in durham, 53 in in henderson, and 47 in south hill. Our temperature here in raleigh actually jumped 7 degrees over the past hour. So these temperatures continue to warm up throughout the morning and then theyre going to fall quickly into the afternoon as the rain moves east. 58 at 8 a. M. , 60 at noon, 6 1 our high, were back into the low 50s by 6 p. M. This evening and get through today and sunshine will be back for us. 56 our high and suny on all right quite a contrast from yesterday. Were going to talk a little grammys. And the grammy goes to. The biggest night in the industry took place in la last night. Artists who left a boy, you can definitely hear that rain coming down. Yep, you sure can. As we continue to track Severe Weather headed our way some people still dealing with the impact of Winter Weather that we had on us yesterday. Thats right dozens of flights were cancelled or delayed so make sure that you check your flight status before you head out the door to the airport if youve got a flight. Also activist and cattle rancher bundy is expected to he will answer to the charges brought 2014. And happening next month the Durham City Council will revisit a proposal that could or would quip Police Officers with body last night leaders stopped that vote. Several Council Members voiced concerns because of a draft policy. Closing arguments will start today for the man accused of murdering hugginsjones. Weather delayed them from starting yesterday. Smith is on trial for her murder in 2013. Now, the defense and prosecution rested on friday. The state used the medical examiner as its last witness. The medical examiner said hugginsjones had 18 different injuries and bled to death during the course of an hour. Defense lawyers said smith would not take the stand and they rested without presenting any evidence. We also be updating the story all throughout the day on wncn. Com. Right now the mother of a threeyear old who accidentally shot himself last month in robinson county is now dead. And investigators say this man here is responsible. Investigators found the 23year old dead in a wooded area on sunday afternoon. A 27year old is now facing a list of charges. Right now we dont know his relationship with the victim. Today state lawmakers will hold a hearing by the Public Comments that theyve received surrounding redrawing two congressional districts, district 1 and 12 would be redrawn. District 12 is out towards the winstonsalem area. Three federal judges ruled that lawmakers used race as a predominant factor in redrawing the lines of those districts. The costlyness that is going on right now is of your own doing. Problem that did not exist. Let us draw districts without any consideration of race whatsoever. Lets make completely colorblind district drawing. Some democratic lawmakers responded that would not be consistent with the Voting Rights act. The General Assembly is is something the u. S. Supreme court for a delay in this order. The deadline is friday. Today crews will survey the damage in florida rest behind from reported tornados. At least ten homes were destroyed in the town of century thats 45 miles north of pensicola. No one was seriously injured. First responders rescued a woman from what was left through her home. They had to dig through debris he and form a human chain to pull her to safety. They were part of a large winter storm system thats bringing snow, sleet, strong winds and rain to the eastern part of the not seeing it that bad thankfully but we are hearing and seeing the rain. Absolutely, heavy showers moving through the area right now. You can see some of them actually. Were seeing some rain already on our lens here on our tower camera looking over 440 right now. Current temperature is 57 degrees. So thats a huge change compared to where we were yesterday and instead of dealing with the frozen precipitation right now weve got some rain falling around the area. And its heavy. We can actually hear it above us here on the roof at our studios. Weve got some heavy downpours moving through the triangle right now but the heaviest stuff is still sitting back to our west right now. Notice the deeper colors on the radar, the orange, yellows, water going to collect on the roads very quickly through this morning. So yesterday we were dealing with an icy morning commute, this morning were going to deal with some heavy rain at least for the next few hours and the heaviest stuff sitting over parts of Chatham County right now. A line just moved through siler city and you on the radar right there. And that water going to collect on morning. But heres the good news once we get rid of this wet weather this morning this is all thanks to a cold front moving in we will see conditions drying out as we head into this afternoon and evening. So things not looking fool bad as we head through the second half of our day today but be prepared for a slow going morning drive and you also may need the umbrella this morning as well. In addition to the rain were dealing with low visibility in some spots due to some fog. Visibility about 2 and a half miles in durham and roxboro, fayetteville about 2 point miles. So we will see the visibilities improving once we get the rain out of here but we are dealing with the wind in addition to the rain. We had a gust over 40 Miles Per Hour in fayetteville, but as of the last openings here 35mile per hour wind gust necessary in dunn, 31 in raleigh. So weve got gusty winds, rain and warm temperatures too. Check those out compared to yesterday a huge change its 57 degrees in raleigh, 56 in durham, its 61 in fayetteville. This time yesterday we were in the 20ses and we were dealing with ice across much of the area. So a completely different story today. Were mixing out all that frozen precipitation even our Northern Counties where temperatures still a little bit cooler were well above freezing and thats where were going to stay today. We will see skies clearing as we head into this afternoon, maybe a stray shower around lunchtime. Temperatures about 60 degrees at lunchtime. Our high today 61 with rain early. So lets break things down on our future cast. And you can see some of the heavier showers moving through early this morning, clearing the area after we get through lunchtime today. Were dry by lunchtime especially across the eastern portions of our viewing area. Maybe a stray shower moving through as we head into early tomorrow morning but i do think the majority of us going to stay dry. So a chance for a few morning showers here. In raleigh 61 degrees today, 60 in durham, 64 in fayetteville. Very warm. As we head throughout the day today and as we head into tomorrow temperatures going to be a little bit cool are but were going to be dry, 56 degrees for your High Temperature for your wednesday, 52 on thursday, we are going to see temperatures staying warm for friday as well. 54 degrees check out your weekend looking absolutely fantastic, 66 degrees on saturday, 64 on sunday. Lets take a look at that morning drive right now because roads could get a little bit tricky here as we have through the next few hours with some of that heavy rain. Youre taking a live look at i85 and u. S. 70 where we have that rain coming down. Washing away the frozen precipitation the bad news its reducing visibility and will pond on the roads quickly here. Lets take a look at another camera, you can see water collecting on that camera lens as well. So please take it slow and definitely use extreme caution outside this morning. Your traffic map showing no major issues at this point. I think the morning commute going to be a little bit slow because a lot of schools on the two hour delay, again we are dealing with some ponding on the roads especially especially across the western portions of our viewing area. So be safe, well have more weather and traffic updates come up in just a few minutes. Good morning and coming up this morning on today our reports special series step in our step off, a new social experiment scenario. When i was growing up and you were growing up you only got trophies when getting them for just about everything. How would you react if a couple of kids like these kids ran into a restaurant if you saw their dad berating, would you defend the dad or defend the kids. 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Thats right in addition to an expanded newscast at 5 00 well be your home for hit programming including ncis and big sporting events like the masters and you know what else, right. Hey, march madness. Weve got a lot more on the switch. Check it out on wncn. Com. Thanks for waking up with our weather coverage continues this morning. Just one day after weather hit our area more intense weather systems could be in our area today. Were dealing with and were going to keep you good morning. Thanks for watching wncn today. You made it past monday, snow, ice all that good stuff. You guys i was going to say just the ice. Youve got to deal with more today. Good morning thanks for us. Our top story this morning is is the weather. Once the ice and snow started to melt our focus turned to the potential for Severe Weather now. Lets begin with School Systems operating on a delay today because of the impact the ice had yesterday. All the systems that you see on your screen right now on a two hour delay. It includes orange durham, roanoke rapids, franklin, you can find a full list at the bottom of your screen. You can also go online to wncn. Com. Weve got it there for you as well. We also have Team Coverage this morning throughout our viewing area about the Severe Weather. Emma wright shes riding around checking out the conditions like she did yesterday for us. First lets check in with Kristin Ketchell whos in for alyssa corfont. Weve got a lot of stuff happening today. Yeah, you may have heard the rain already pounding on your rooftop this morning because weve got some heavy showers moving through the area right now some downpour in some spots, and its very heavy in a lot of locations here