Delay. You can see the list of the delays. They are checking on people today. Adam owens is out there tonight, adam, what are you seeing out there . Reporter right on the line with the the spring lake town limits. You can see here in front of me the are water that rolled over this roadway, this bridge here, deposited all of the sand and seeing the light here you can see there is a lot of debris. A lot of limbs caught up in the side of the bridge and the water level over there off of the edge of the bridge is still very high. Water levels are still high throughout this area tonight. A lot of people are keeping a close eye on the weather radar could only make things worse. Fast running. It is awesome. Reporter when the creek started rising emergency workers went house to house. Knocking on doors, giving them the option to leave. Reporter a lot of the water came from creek state park. Floodwater cut a hole in the damn holding back a massive lake. This is what things looked like a few hour
Schools are closed today. Moore county schools will be delayed two hours. You can see a complete list scrolling at the bottom of your screen or any time on wral. Com. At loaf we didnt get another round of really, really bad, bad weather overnight. We appreciate a little bit of dry weather because this festival is this weekend. Wide open Bluegrass Festival. It is a big deal with thousands of fans gathered. Lets go to iz who is one of the biggest bluegrass fans i know. Thats right. Im excited to be here in downtown raleigh for the Bluegrass Festival. But there are a lot of things going on here. We have a bunch of fans here getting ready. We stepped away from the stage because the earls of lester are doing a sound check right now. They are getting ready for the festival. Lets talk about the weather. Was going on now that the sun is up. Wave been here since about 5 charleston 30 this morning. Since about 5 30 this morning. A lot of low cloud cover. On the radar picture, we are seeing a lit
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
Like a monster. Its very symmetrical. It has a well defined eye. Both indications that it is a very strong storm. So the latest track, actually nudged it in a couple different directions. The next 48 hours it got nudged a little to the east. But where were concerned days four and five got nudged to the west. The previous track is the yellow line. You can see just how much of a nudge to the west it got. That means as we could have a category two hurricane anywhere from charlotte to a few hundred miles off shore. Something we need to start thinking about. Ill talk about what the impacts could be here coming up in just a few minutes. And heres a lack at what its like in haiti right now. Four people including two fishermen have already dined the rough seas as Hurricane Matthew approaches. Island the as we said, governor pat mccrory has declared a state of emergency for if counties. For the storm. Cbs North Carolinas beau minnick is live at the Emergency Operations center with more on hour