Center has been set up now. Chp says 60 to 70 cars were there along the i15. People escort people back to lead the area if the cars were still drivable. Matt has more. Fir tonight sparking an inferno open the highway. Look at that plume. Raises up to i would immanuel 12, 13 up to i would immanuel 12, 13,000 feet. Bursting in flame. At least a dozen cars torched. Brush fire jump the 15 freeway about 75 miles east of los angeles. I grab my kid and just ran up the hill. Everyone was screaming. Cars were open fire. Blowing up. It was pretty bad. Bracing for injury. Including burns. I declare on the 15 freeway. The fire consuming hundreds of acres. So thick it cast this massive shadow. Fire grinding traffic on the highway to a stop. Dozens of cars abandoned stop. Dozens of cars abandoned. Here you see motorist scramble to safety past burning vehicle and guard rails. There it is. Dropped water. Helicopters dropping water on the cars which again burst that flames. Redlin of flame retarred apa
72 in henderson. 73 in louisburg. 73 in rocky mount and clayton. The exceptions in raleigh and lillington, 76 degrees. So a bit warm and muggy here. 75 in clinton and 77 right now in raeford. So lets take a look at that forecast for your day ahead. 78 at 8 00 a. M. Rather muggy by then. 88 at lunchtime. Most of us on the dry side. 92 our high but get ready for this. It will feel like 103. Also keep that possible as we had into the afternoon. More on that weekend ahead but lets check in with ali. Hows that commute look snag. Looks great if youre starting your friday, your monday whatever day its, if youre get out early, youll be getting to work on time. Overnight construction in cary. Walnut street until 8 00 a. M. For some water valve replacement so intermittent lane closures there. No major delays. No delays to report through the into fayetteville a nice easy ride to start off which hopefully is your friday morning. Heres a look at your drive times, 25 minutes there. Heading in from 4
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We also have frank lynn county schools, grandville county skills, halifax county, and Harnett County schools delayed two hours, as well as haute county schools, and mecklenburg, and virginia schools are closed. Orange county, and Person County schools are closed. Vance, and wake county public schools. Twohour delay. You can find all of this information scrolling along the bottom of your screen. Roads were bonedry when we were driving in, but we want to know when the precipitation will start falling around the triangle. It is right now. Lets take a look at whats happening in roxboro. And in many cases they tend to see it first. We had a band that rolled its all sticking to the roads. What has fallen is sticking very quickly because its been very, very cold over the weekend. Radar picture shows overnight. Most of the precipitation has been coming overnight, so we have parts of durham, chatham, and northern wake county, seeing this band coming through, frank land county, as well, so the s
Breaking news, capturing the trouble on the roads. We will talk with jeff gordon who is collecting crash numbers. Steve and here is the staging number for thousands of power crews that have assembled, waiting to respond as we get Power Outages. Crews have been called in from neighboring states and theyre ready to respond. 62,000 Power Outages reported across north carolina. Here is a look. 7900. No Power Outages in durham county. In Cumberland County it is 2600. Thankfully the power crews are ready to go and try to get your powerback on if you lose it because of this freezing rain. Steve Chris Hohmann is here with the latest. Chris those power outage numbers tell a story. Durham county is zero so far. In riley we have been transitioning to freezing rain. If sleep does not cause issues if you make a mess of the roads. Six flights are going out out of the normal 200 that go out. 31 degrees, closer to freezing. Officially the airport is standing at 30. If youre just joining us, four and h