Barrier and fuel sparked the huge five destroying the truck and littering the highway with debris. Amazingly the driver escaped and will survive although he does have serious injuries, live right now, crews on scene trying to clear away the wreckage likely for the next couple of hours. Lets get to the alert, 7 00 a. M. Gray is off, jeaneatte reyes joins us, meteorologist chris sowers is outside. A lot of rain strong winds the written is knocking on the door raining heavily in baltimore and dc, National Weather service issued a Flash Flood Watch. The area that is you see highlighted in green and in particular, the its the smaller creeks and streams were most concerned about, low lying areas and areas of poor drainage, rainfall totals will range anywhere from one to three inches when all is said and done, with isolate heavier amounts possible to four inch, a real good soaking is on the way. Here is Storm Tracker 6. Weve set it in motion. And the rain will come in bands today, its not goi
Just west of you guys in spring lake and on post. We come to the west just a little bit where there was another Flood Warning in Chatham County. You can see incredibly heavy rain there with even more dangerous lightning. We come to the north of it from Chatham County around siler city just west of pittsboro on up toward chapel hill in hillsboro in orange county. Load warnings and heavy downpours continue. Its not as heavy with the rain up in parts of granville and Person County and across the border into western parts of Mecklenburg County but rain continuing, also know Flood Warning there. It looks like as we wrap up the evening and had up into head heavy rain will be the biggest threat, several bullseyes, wanted reenters along the i94 i95 corridor. 12 inches but some parts of the sandhills and heavy rain continues to the west of the triangle where they have already received 34 inches and i fear that rain will continue for the next couple of hours and that might even lead to some prob
A bigger Police Presence could save others. The applause the citys efforts to step up policing. By march to move them all off into the streets to actually do what i think is a key component which is to reduce gun violence and gang activity. Before flying becomes a fire put it out. We should have clarks doing clerical work. We do not train people to the police work and have them doing clerical work. The sophomore had marched with the schools band at the president ial inauguration in washington just over a week ago. Police believe she is mistaken for a gang member. The team was in exemplary student. It is ironic. That it would happen to her. It is real hard braking. Heartbreaking the latest redeployment will begin immediately with 60 officers moving from administrative duties to the streets of areas central as well as north and south. Civilians will pick up the administrative jobs within the department by the end of march. The pendleton family is in the midst of making funeral arrangemen
The state government has revived hopes for mass-transit links to Fishermans Bend by confirming a preferred route for a proposed new cross-city rail line.