These new tests make sure they are not hit with a onetwo punch. You are sitting in a chair. You can watch tv. Reporter rod millington has donated blood countless times over the past couple of years once every three months to be exact. You feel good about donating and helping your community and helping people out. Reporter today was a bit different. After one point of his blood was collected this afternoon, it will go through a set of new Screening Tests for a variety of pathogens including the zika virus. We are always concerned about the latest pathogens. For us, we do have pathogen inactivation of our platelets which has been proven effective to render the zika virus in the virus. Reporter these tests reduce the risk of tainted blood making its way into patients suncoast was the first blood center in the United States to adopt pathogen reduction. We want to provide the highest quality blood products to our community. Reporter bad products could have terrible effects on those who get
There is nothing i can do. I got to bury my child. I havent even seen him yet. Reporter his mother said he had been at the party less than 0 minutes when this incident happened. She says she moved her three sons here from new york city to North Carolina because she felt like it was a safe are place. Now, we talked with his attorney extensively, the familys attorney, and he says there is carolina that cover this is specific situation. Somebody shooting from within their home outside into a crowd that is in the street. He also believes these 911 tapes where copley talked about what he was going to do and then talked about what he did are going to be critical in prosecuting this case. Such emotion coming from that mother, that family today. Thank you so much. State authorities are investigating the death of a florida woman killed in a Police Simulation this week. Were supposed to be loaded with blanks but somehow live ammunition made its way into the gun that fired the fatal shots. It hap
Firefighters are there. Cruises have arrived. They are taking a defensive approach to fighting this right now given the magnitude of these flames that you are seeing in these live pictures. The flames are just shooting there. Part of the homes roof has collapsed as well. As far as we know, there are no injuries. Well continue to bring you updates in our next hour of wral news on fox 50. An update our breaking news this morning out of washington, d. C. It was a fire Officials Say roughly 30 people including three firefighters have been injured and seven people are unaccounted for after a large fire and a collapse at an apartment complex. The missing include men, women, children. The injuries are not thought to be lifethreatening at this point although some are serious an they do involve burns which is to be expected at a fire like this. Can you see the flames. This appears to be cell phone into our newsroom. The fire is in silver spring, maryland happening around midnight with an explos
Lean ais here and we welcome you. Elizabeth and i are already wearing purple. So were happy to have lena as the newest member of or morning team here. Lets take a look at our fayetteville skycam. Some sunshine starting to show up on the pretty buildings in downtown fayetteville. Holly springs in 72. 74 in goldsboro. This morning, expect mid 107 107 mid70s as you are heading out the door. Very few thunderstorms to cool things down so heat will be our big story over the next several days. Well talk about what the heat index will make it feel like today and into the weekend when it will feel even hotter. Want to know more about. It looked like a vehicle flipped over there and landed on the median or the jersey barrier if you will on the ramp from duke street to 85 southbound. This is the southbound side of 85 heading away from duke. You can see a lot of emergency crews on the scene there with a lot of lanes closed. Looks like the left lane of the ramp onto 85 south and the right lane of 8