Afternoon 78 degrees under mostly sunny skies. Gorgeous day shaping up today. We will see the temperatures jump even warmer tomorrow. We will talk about that and we have cooler air for the first day of spring in the sevenday forecast but now weather and traffic with amber. Amber good tuesday morning. If you are heading to the polls watch for the volume around the sites. At the open 6 30 until 7 30 tonight. Now it sis pretty light volume with police activity, maybe a disabled vehicle 40 westbound at cary towne boulevard. Looks like a tow truck just arrived. No delay there. A little glistening on the live cameras. This is skibo and raeford in fayetteville a aive camera no problems into fragment Cumberland County off to a nice start. We have some storms that passed through so you may have wet roads. As far as shower activity we are we were seeing showers around 95 and Roanoke Rapids and a little patchy fog in raleigh. Barbara thanksgiving you. John North Carolina one of five crucial state
By hroeufrplglunchtime and by afternoon near 80. Warmer in the sand hills and warmer tomorrow. We will talk about that in the complete forecast in a couple of minutes. John new this morning, overnight severe storms leave hyped behind damage. This home in the south hall subdivision was struck by lightning. Flames were shooting from the roof and attic. The two inside made it out. Barbara meantime, strong wind is to blame for knocking down this tree on the durham Orange County line. It was blocking traffic on old irwin road until crews cleared it. For a week North Carolina voters had to sit on the sidelines while the rest of the nation decided the direction of the president ial race. Not any more. Barbara it is one of five states in super tuesday round Gloria Rodriguez has the latest. Gloria good morning. It will open at 6 30 so it is quiet now but we will see more activity later on in the morning. We will be here and bring you the latest. Many have cast ballots voting early. Here in wake
During the same time rain and thunder moved through sebastopol and other spots. Kron 4s dan rubin is tracking the weather. Dan what can we expect this weekend . We will see partly cloudy skies cooler temperatures, but not a whole lot of rain. Knapp reporting just over one half in inch of rain close to threequarters. A lot of heavy rain and the north bay, with lightning and hail. Theyre very unsafe roadways in driving conditions. One viewer snapped a photograph of a double rainbow and lightning in the sky. In the hours of the evening. Continuing our Team Coverage on the wild weather. Lightning also struck a chimney of a napa house. The residents inside are bit shaken tonight, but are okay. Kron 4s jeff bush shows us some people captured today. The storm was literally hair raising. It had every kind of weather you could imagine. I was planning game of chess with my girlfriend and all the sudden i heard a huge noise. What was it like . I saw sparks flying and with the shaking of my house
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Hello, everyone, its 11 00 on the east coast. Im fredricka whitfield. The newsroom starts right now. More on the breaking news weve been following this weekend. The world is on edge after two terror attacks in a span of four days, as the National Manhunt continues for all those responsibility. Heres what we know right now. Overnight in bangladesh gunmen seized a popular tourist cafe in dhaka. 20 hostages were killed and among them nine italians. And three u. S. College students, two Emory University students. Abinta kabir and faraaz hossain. An indian citizen from berkeley was also killed. The standoff lasted 10 hours. 13 hostages were rescued. Although there has not been one report of there has been, ratherer o one report of isis claiming responsibility. Meanwhile, investigations are progressing into tuesdays bombing in istanbul, turkey. Officials say a top soldier in the isis war ministry organized that suicide bombing. The chairman of the committee on Homeland Security says the man