Off. Hillary clinton. And donald trump. In a battle for your vote and the future of the country. Were live with reaction. Plus. Coming under fire. Calls for the mayor of charlotte to resign over the keith scott shooting grow louder. The City Council Meeting that seemed more like a trial. And. how local Police Officers amade special delivery in a taco bell parking lot. Eyewitness news starts right now. President ial debate night in america. Hillary clinton and donald trump trading jabs and making the case for the presidency. Good evening, everyone. Im Heather Waliga in for tisha powell. And im steve daniels. The candidates facing off tonight at Hofstra University in new york. At the first of three president ial debates. Trump and clinton shaking hands as they took the stage. But that was the friendliest candidates. This first debate comes at a critical point in the campaign. recent polling reveals clinton and trump are in a statistical dead heat just 43 days before election day. Trump q
Eyewitness news center, abc at four starts right now. Joel a Winter Weather advisory is in effect and weve got our eye on that storm system making its way into North Carolina that could bring snow, sleet and rain tomorrow and into the weekend. Anna crews have expanded brining efforts across the area. First, chief meteorologist, Chris Hohmann kicks off our coverage from the first alert storm center. Chris it is going to be a light event in terms of precipitation. A clear and cold day here with lots of sunshine. No worries with anything going on precipitation wise this evening or tonight. We are watching a system off to the northwest. It doesnt look all that impressive but the energy is going to spawn and energy of low an area of low pressure off of our coast. Nothing showing up here. Breaks out. It is pretty much winding down early into the evening hours. A quick hitting system and temperatures will struggle to get above freezing. Accumulations look to be half an inch to up to an inch.
Back to sunshine tomorrow afternoon. Rainfall amounts will be a quarter of an inch or less. I will tell you how long it will last. Tisha this mornings rocky weather shook things up across the viewing area. Steve thousands of people were left in the dark. People are cleaning up from the damage. You can see trees crashing down in their yard. Tisha alayna joins us live. This is the worst damage. The homeowner within the last hour decided to work on it themselves. He wanted to get the area protected. You can see damage here. The family is waiting for an insurance adjuster. Remove the tree from the front yard. It looks pretty dangerous. There are nails on the ground that popped off the roof when the tree came crashing down. The overnight storm with rain and winds cause several trees to topple down. Ever a tree crashed down on this roof. The roof is rift ripped off in one spot and smashed in another. A memo sleeping on a couch when they tree crashed by his window. It was a lot of wind, it wa
The threat of brief tornado certainly is not zero. That is why we are in the enhanced risk area, midday in early afternoon hours. Round one, then possibly damaging winds bite evening. But the threat for damaging winds is the highest. Flooding is not a big issue, but there could be hail as well. Gusts up to 40 miles per hour. Tomorrow. We will be here with you through the day to get you through it. We will have all of the details, much more on the storm, coming up in just a bit. Steve . Steve another big story that has people weighing in from capitol hill to north carolinas capital city. President obamas plan to shut down the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay. Tisha today he has plans for he has been under fire for it all day. Jon camp has been digging into the proposal. He joins us with the story. Jon . Jon as we know, this is something the president promise to do due on the campaign trail, something he is still trying to do seven years later and he is getting more pushback on it toda
Within of the cameras all look look this 540 and glenwood. Cumberland county the same. We will have the drive times in a few minutes. Barbara first Raleigh Police have arrest d aed a person in the murder of a cab driver taking in major edwards jr. For murdering jose dominguez. Edwards is scheduled to make his First Court Appearance this morning. We will have a live report in our next half hour. The first votes are cast in the New Hampshire primary. We have a few, very few results in so far. Amber has the story. Amber very few as you said following this since we went on air the very first ballots were cast at midnight. We will have to wait until tonight to find out the winner participated in the midnight voting in three hamlets including dixville where anyone voted. Donald trump ands has an early lead over Hillary Clinton by a margin of 21. The rest of the polls will open in a few hours. Look for the results tonight here on Eyewitness News at 11 00. Also we are following breaking news i