Our satellite and radar is clear with nothing to worry about. Temperatures are cool in the 40s. 44 durham. 39 sanford. A chilly start but a nice finish. 69 for the high today but normal is 74. Still below normal today. Warmer weather coming up. Those details next. Keeping a close watch on the tar river. It will crest sometime between 810 am which could force the princeville back to field. Wing to officials to evacuate princeville. They did so sunday morning. Lauren have led joins us live from Edgecombe County with more. Reporter yes we did. We could not even get into the town of princeville because all tarboro night now at st. James street in downtown about half a mile away from the tar river. Its blocked off because of the high water. Lets look at what the tar river looked like yesterday. River is supposed to crest sometime between 810 am this morning and payment how high the water gets it could get to a point that the princeville dike is unable to hold the water. If that happens the
Good evening. Thanks for watching. Republican Party Head Quarters across the state closed early tonight because of an attack on an office in hillsborough. The partys Orange County Head Quarters were attacked overnight byha the office was badly damaged. No one was injured. Now live in hillsborough. Theres now a Police Presence around at this Head Quarters. Reporter and Orange County Sheriffs Office thats right. Hillsborough police and the Sheriffs Office have been parked out front here and patrolling the area since about 30s. Not clear whether there is a taking any chances here or anywhere else in North Carolina tonight. Orange county Republican Party chairman Daniel Ashley is shaken at the act of violence against his party. This is nothing but intimidation and i wouldnt want to wish this on anyone. Reporter a bottle of flammable liquid thrown through the window. Igniting a fire. Ruining most of the party spry painted message. Saying nazi republicans leave town or else. Or else. Or else
Next on Eyewitness News. A fayetteville neighborhood rocked by two shootings in one day. How it all began with a homeowner defending his property. Plus and a Gas Leak Forces businesses to evacuate in raleigh. Eyewitness news starts right now. A gas leak in a congested area of raleigh. Sending rush hour traffic into gridlock. And businesses into evacuation. And it will impact the morning commute. Good evening im tisha powell. And im joel brown. Around 12 30. Work crews hit a gas line in the five points area. Closing down a number of roads. Some areas are still closed tonight. From raleigh. Any word yet on when everything will reopen . No word on that. So for the morning. Know that part of whitaker mill. In front of Hayes Barton Baptist church. Is still closed. Along with part of glenn avenue. Near yadkin bank. Everything else opened a few hours of traffic headaches. And lost business. Chopper 11 hd. Giving us a birds eye view of the mess that was the five points area. Crews working to s
Will still be very muggy. A little cloudy there over salem street in downtown apex this morning. The sunshine will warm things up quickly. 73 in wake forest. 73 in south hills. 75 in rocky mount. 77 in fayetteville. Expect upper 70s heading out the nearly 90 by lunchtime and mid 90s for this afternoon. We are looking at a big cooldown by next week but over the weekend, it still stays fairly warm and muggy. The big change is our chance for thunderstorms. That goes up and ill talk more about that in just a few minutes. Brian is here with a look at the roads. This is the durham freeway this now pulling it over into the work zone there in that east end connector project work zone. It is a minor crash. Everything is on the side of the road. In the past couple of moments, all of the lanes have opened on the southbound side of the durham freeway. It is backing up a little bit there. Ten minutes that make the ride from mangum street. Dont think you need to consider usi alternate route but well
Will also be setting up over here to serve food to the community. People are already sitting down waiting for hope house. I talked to the owner of the home, pastor holloway, from Friendship Chapel baptist church. Here what is he said when asked if this mornings violence and tragedy will keep hope house from serving the community. Not at all. It just moves us more knowing that our service is much more needed [ inaudible ] it just gives us the strength to move on further. Reporter it is pretty powerful and inspirational to hear pastor holloway talking about his determination. Police at this point have not made any arrests on the description of the suspect either. At this point, they are still reviewing evidence and we expect according to the town of wake forest to get more information on what investigators have learned this afternoon. Back to you. Thank you. Within the hour, Health Officials will talk about a lead scare at a school in Cumberland County. The school is implementing measure