The heavy rain also flooded some streets. There was a couple of feet of water still standing. Gloria rodriguez is live with breaking news in wake county. Things are looking a lot better than they did this morning. We are on route 40 heading west past week avenue. It was a whole different story earlier. Triangle residents were waking up to rain, fog, and wind. And because these traffic lights to go out in Cameron Village this morning. Raleigh police say the win transformers. At one point, nearly 35,000 people in the viewing area were without power. By 9 00 a. M. We saw ponding and several accidents this morning. This one left this suv mangled and somebody injured. The North Carolina Highway Patrol responded to six collisions in the triangle today. The sergeant says that is dramatically less than the nearly 500 accidents reported over yesterday. Today was a basic working day. Service inc. Based due to the increase of the storm. Today compared to yesterday, yesterday was worse. He says to
We are seeing sprinkles as don said. We can issue you them with the show uyou d. O. T. Cameras. That is 85 and 70. The good news is that it is early and volume is light and we are just dealing with a shower or two. Nothing major to slow down. We are picking up with the road weather index. The green is the scattered showers showers. We are accident free and durham freeway and alston off to a good start. A few. Barbara hundreds of you watched Travion Smith become a convicted killer on abc11. Com now that same jury that fondund him guilty has another decision to make. Gloria good morning. That decision is whether to send smith to death row. Court resumes today at 9 30. Yesterday the jury deliberated the verdict. Take a look. We the jury by unanimous vote find Travion Smith to be guilty of first agree murder. Gloria a guilty verdict for Traveon Smith convicted of the murder of raleigh mother melissa hugginsjones. Joness family erupts in tears of relief. The defense blames ronald anthony. E
Accordingly. Were still at 63 in raleigh and durham. 62 henderson. Sandhills mid60s. Here is the forecast you need to know today. 61, patchy fog out the door at 8 am. 73 at lunchtime with a mix of sun and clouds. Warmer this afternoon with a high of 78. There will be a chance for a few showers and storms this afternoon right on into tonight. I will let you know when you can see large hail and damaging wind gusts coming up. Good morning, we are off to a quiet start out on the roads. Lets take a look at what you can expect it. You are currently taking a look at how things are looking like on our thorough fairs. You can see headlights bouncing off the roads a little bit because pavement is wet from some of those showers we had overnight last night and early things are looking fairly quiet. We still have shoulder closure and project 45 fortify. Theres little bit of a tight squeeze through the area south of rally. We also have fiber work being done off of agency in see nc 94. Your eastbound
Following the visit. Will have more tonight at 5 00. All of this comes when we are less than 24 hours away from the primary. Heidi crews cruz will talk to supporters at fayetteville tech. Hillary clinton will focus in charlotte and her husband will make an appearance in greenville. Early voting ended saturday. We go live to Cameron Village. Reporter here you can see a large crowd at the Polling Center at the Cameron Village library. Candidates are hoping to see that tomorrow. 72 delegates are at stake. We are a winner take all state. For candidates, this is a must win. Polls have donald trump and taking a win in North Carolina as well they are making stops in the area. Those two president ial hopefuls are trying to steal the deal by making a push to make sure voters note their policy efforts and also what they will bring to america. Thats what i am proposing more jobs with infrastructure, manufacturing and lets combat climate change. Reporter voters, you cannot come to a Polling Center
Cold conditions but we will head up the hill quickly. The temperatures climbing mid 40s by lunchtime and to around 50 this afternoon. Current numbers across the area right now, 25 oxford and roxboro. 28 chapel hill. And Southern Pines. 26 fayetteville. 25 wilson. Looking at the day ahead temperatures in the 20s. By lunchtime mid 40s. By that afternoon around 50 degrees under mostly sunny skies. Warmer tomorrow and we will talk about that in a bit but now we will talk traffic and weather. Amber rupinta is off so i will handle the traffic duties. Several incidents showing up now. We are watching this on i40 exit 276 fayetteville road you can expect delays. We have a Traffic Camera on that . Reports that the car went over the guard rail. You can see Emergency Responders there. That will cause problems. We should have more in a bit. We will check a couple other incidents. We have another stalled vehicle on offer ret at Johnson Dairy and accident atlantic avenue and whitaker mill. This is 4