Now. Crews are checking weak spots. There could be more closures to come. Bryan slayeder is live at a huge hole in i40 in Johns Ton County and bryan, are you saying they can get this thing ready by tomorrow . Thats the plan. When we showed it just about a half hour ago here on fox 50, its a huge hole. Its about 10 feet deep and maybe 10 feet across theyre out there working on it now. You can see the excavator and backhoe trying to get it all prepared. Yesterday they were working all day on it. Again, they hope to have it reopened by friday. This is the westbound side of i 40 coming out of newton grove and a lot of people have had to take a detour to get around all of this. Theres so many other roads that kim smith sent yesterday from fayettville. They havent seen anything like this since floyd. They are waiting if for the waters to reseed to find what to do. Were waiting for the waters to reseed. We dont have a good idea of what the idea is there. A lot of rural areas with long term cl
Here, Tropical Storm hermine is the trend. This is what you expect as it loses the energy from the water. Then it transitions into a bigger rain event than it is a wind event. Still 70 mileperhour winds close to hurricane strength. Theres the track moving away from the state of florida. The problem is, well still have the impact throughout the day because of the heavy rainfall. Friday at 1 30, we first rainfall making landfall in the state of florida in years. As i mentioned, a Tropical Storm. Look at the rains associated with it. The winds that are setting up, we had one last night. Thiss nebringing us torrential rain. You are hearing the thunder out there if you are waking up with us. Look at Wesley Chapel and pasco. Very heavy rain into pinellas. That band a little farther to eastern and citrus and portions of hernando, its not raining there. A lyle drier to the north and up for the rest us, its coming through. This band that has set up here will stay on topch us here. It will pour
As wbtvs alex giles is on your side showing us how crews continue to work to get the tree out of the way. Reporter one by one the cars are taking a detour tonight. I have to figure how to get home. Reporter the path home is blocked by an ageold tree, uprooted this afternoon. I was in awe. I couldnt think of what happened. Reporter what happened was wild, windy weather. The kids normally catch the school bus here in the mornings, tomorrow they will be waiting somewhere else. The wind was strong but didnt realize it was going to be blowing down huge old trees. Reporter this wasnt the only one. The red cross called until to help out a family after heavy winds took down a tree on stone haven drive. Neighbors saw the aftermath. Been here 14 years, nothing like this ever happened to us. Really strong winds. Still blowing tonight. Christine that was alex giles reporting there. Charlottemecklenburg police told us the road could be shut down through the morning commute. We will remain at the sc
Dangerous storms hammering the eastern half of the country. The death toll climbing to at least eight people. Four of those died in virginia. More than 238,000 people without power from the carolinas to maine. This tuesday there have been at least 34 confirmed tornadoes. We have it all covered including the impact on travel. Well start with miguel almaguer. Reporter the storm took at least eight lives. Three were killed in this region alone. The storm went right through this community. It was a powerful and deadly system. Another night of severe weather. In pennsylvania some 50 homes damaged. Dangerous winds in new york city. In long island firefighters rushed to extinguish cars on in washington, d. C. Hammering hail. It was the smallest towns hit with the biggest damage. Overnight rescues in virginia. Some communities wiped off the maps as homes were destroyed. Took my truck up in the air and glass was coming in. I thought the truck was going to turn over. Reporter frank rose witnesse
Latest Road Conditions on your way to work. Thats from 5 00 to 9 00 on thee morning news. 3 back to you. 3 we do have some delays to tell you aboutmadison, mitchell and Yancey County schools with all start three hours late. And Graham County will begin on a two hour delay. Remember for the latest updates on delays or closings just head to fox carolina dot com. 3 and this Winter Weather has caused some outages across the upstateat this hour there are less than 1thousand Duke Energy Power outages in our area. And people are making some tough decisions tonight. Some are using kerosene heaters to stay warm. While others trying to make it to a hotel. Some have been without power since wednesday morning since strong winds barrelled through the carolinas. 3 3 3 now its going in the second day and we still have no power. Another cold night. Theyre concerned about food spoiling in their refrigerator and how the elderly people without power are making it. But in the past hour those outage number