Y246wy yy6y is next on Eyewitness News. A suspicious package discovered at the Charlotte Police department. A bomb robot called to the scene. The latest details just in. also tonight. Speaking out. A unc Football Player accused of rape. Telling his side of the story. Why he says hes been wrongly accused. And living life on mars. A moguls mission to make it reality sooner than you think. Eyewitness news starts right now. Showers and storms moving through parts of the area. Good evening everyone. Im tisha powell. And im steve daniels. parts of the triangle are under a Severe Thunderstorm Warning until 1030. Chief meteorologist Chris Hohmann is in the First Alert Storm Center tracking it all. Scattered showers tonight. Lows 6468. Scattered showers and are in a marginal risk for severe storms. Could be a few severe storms as cold front and upper level energy move over area. A few lingering showers thursday, finally drying out and pleasant for friday and into the weekend. Breaking news righ
There is enough energy tonight to produce this. Just an amazing amount of lightning where southwest of the triangle and south of seven lakes. Just getting hit with some heavy rain. A lot of dangerous lightning. You can see the stars with heavy rain moving from problems. Seven lakes you guys have seen anywhere from 1 to 3 inches of rain. Look at the rainfall rates with the heaviest of rain 4 inches and our. That does not mean you will get 4 inches. This is moving slowly enough were some of you could see another 1 to 3 inches. The extent all the way up into parts of sanford and Chatham County. As they continue off to the Anderson Creek around 12 40. The good news is while these will be around for the next couple of hours they will be gone for the morning commute but there is more rain tomorrow. I will walk you through the day in just a few minutes. Struck or chatty man is behind bars tonight after being busted in a murder for hire plot. They say brian allen was taken into custody. Amy cu
As well. Were starting with a few passing showers across north carolina. Most of rain this morning gravitating towards the virginia border so south hill, virginia, youre seeing wet weather. Grannville, vance, warren, person county. If youre heading for the door, take the umbrella with you. Lets look at those temperature. 71 raleigh, 70 lewisburg and clayton, also 71 littlington and goldsboro. Henderson in the 60s, 74, breezy at tiles at lunchtime, 78 our afternoon high and drier and warmer days ahead. Well let you know in the forecast. Lets go back to breaking news in charlotte. A second night of protests. Charlotte Mecklenburg Police officer shot Keith Lamonte scott. Someone in the apartment complex recorded this video for us. Police have not publicly released the dashcam video of the shooting. The naacp will be in charlotte, renewing their push for the release of the video. Robert richardson is live in charlotte with an update on what happened last night and what is happening right n
Eyewitness news. historic flooding. Parts of the sandhills remain underwater after record rainfall the School District cancelling classes. And the dams in jeopardy of failing. And breaking right now a Major Development in the Erica Parsons case. The discovery made in south carolina. The latest details just in. And. A familiar face from tg it here on abc 11 hits the campaign trail here in the triangle. E starts right now. A flash flood emergency in the sandhills. Historic rainfall putting lives at risk. An abc11 eyewitness capturing a fort bragg soldier checking on flood victims caught off guard by high water in fayetteville. That powerful image. Just one of the many coming in from viewers. Good evening everyone. Im tisha powell. County and the city of fayetteville remain under a state of emergency after more than ten inches of rain fell. Heres the latest rescue crews made more than two dozen emergency evacuations. Fayetteville Police say more thatwo dozen roads remain closed by flood w
Convention center. It was still good but just something about having it outside. If you are coming to the Bluegrass Festival today, wear your shorts and tshirts. It is really warm and muggy. Yesterday, we had very heavy rain at this time and down in that same area, we have a storm that has developed. Well zoom in down south. You can see the storm, when we talked about it 20 minute or so ago, it was moving across lightning with this. This is an area that saw devastating flooding yesterday. Dont be too concerned about this bringing us any more flooding. There are still some flash flood warnings down in that area. We have ahay cell move through roxboro. That moved up into virginia for the most part. Still lifting out of Person County right now. This is what well see all through the morning, just these isolated cells popping up with brief heavy rain. Morning. It is 73 in downtown. 7 in rocky mount. We check our forecast for today. Looking at temperatures visibilities very quickly, quarter