Afternoon or 2 nato killed 3 people in northern alabama others injured include the children and 3 adult who took refuge from the storm at a Day Care Center in the cab county alabama and in the town of tuscumbia storms destroyed a threebedroom trailer here to rescue is about 3 minutes to save her 90yearold mother and her son from the debris. It s Community Members that were out here trying to help them out and try to get orders know what was going on, where we needed to start. Another big concern, down power lines rescue workers wanted some may still be energized extract the line of strong also hit hard to tennessee this morning. 10 shows us some of the morning damage in the town of benton. Counties and tennis the. Or tornado ripped through the southeast destroyed homes and businesses. Right now we are in the community that is that is is still. Power is out everywhere benton tennessee. Power lines were ripped down. The roof was torn off and thrown across the parking lot. Debris is block
First of 4. Think you for joining us. We want to begin with a quick update to those massive wildfires burning in east tennessee. The mayor is calling this the worst fire in 100 years. Wind whipped flames are causing the damage. There were 8 new flareups and now firefighters have no problems from mother nature. A new challenge that the weather is creating r after the fire mary spearing some small mudslides and rock slides. There is no longer that foliage that is Holding Everything together. The mayor of gatlinburg, the city that draws up to 11 million a year says his time will pull together and recover. It has been pretty dry in the bay area. We saw little rain today, a little bit is there any significant change coming . Chances we dont have any huge chances in the forecast so much like we saw today some of us have seen some real life stuff but as far as real measurable rain to help out, were not going to see a whole lot. Tomorrow we do bring in about a 20 percent rain chance but behind
Career. Hillary clinton wasted no time reacting. Newscenter 5s john atwater joins us with more. John . John this about face came out of nowhere and it came with no explanation. For years, donald trump has been perpetuating conspiracy theories about president obama for birthplace. Mr. Trump why doesnt he show his birth certificate . John but quite abruptly today, and with no apology, he gave up the fight. Mr. Trump president barack obama was born in the United States period. Mr. Trump Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther movement. Factcheck. Org has found no evidence of that claim, saying clinton may have stoked questions about obamas identity but never herself questioned his birth certificate. Ms. Clinton barack obama was born in america plain and simple and donald trump owes him and the American People an apology. Donald trump is a disgusting fraud. By any definition, donald trump is a disgusting fraud. John and the president himself says there are more importa
Were looking at some School Closings and delays in the mountains. Haywood county schools will open 2 hours late and Jackson County schools will be on a 2 and a half hour delay. Delay. Madison mitchell and Yancey County schools will all be closed. Well bring you updates on air via the ticker at the bottom of your screen as well as online at fox carolina dot com. 3 happening now 3 a scare at mary black hospitalm a fire inside a dumpster is under controlbut it sent flames and a lot of smoke shooting into the air at the skylin drive facility earlier this evening the fire even forced the er to evacuate patients 3 we know spartanburg city, cowpens, drayton, converse and whitney Fire Departments responded along with spartanburg ems and police. Police. Heres a look at the scene a little earlier tonight you can see the major flames and smoke on scene. Fire out in a dumpster right outside the hospital again the emergency room did have to be evacuated fortunately no reported injuries at this time
Public works having done a pretty good job of keeping the salt down overnight. As you can tell a lot of granular traction material. Were on chipawa driver here in a suburb getting ready to turn onto russert road. It was snow overnight, ice over snow. Most of the School Districts in poconos and northern hee lie valleys and northampton counties closed for day. I talked to the stroutsduring School District and he said theyre on snow day six or seven and last year there were about 17 snow days. Theyll get out later. Graduation will push back to the last day of school probably the second week of june. He said much rather error on the side of caution now than perhaps, have regrets later on. We spent most of our morning trekking all of the travails that people went through in the northern poconos in Lehigh Valley. First time in 37 years ive ever been stuck in a tractortrailer. Reporter he delivered most of his load. I was coming up the hill all of a sudden i started sliding backwards. Got int