Childhood to say that he does not fit into the narrow category of people of eligible for the Death Penalty. Prosecutors say he serves the Death Penalty. Melissa hugginsjones not only suffered physically but emotionally and was no doubt worried about her 8yearold daughter who was sleeping down the hall as she lied dying. She had been struck 18 times at this point. Lying there in a pool of ood. Helpless. Travion smith should be punished. And nished severely. You, as an individual, believe that the Death Penalty is not the appropriate punishment, and the answer to that question is, no. Smith guilty of firstdegree murder in about an hour after two weeks testimony. How long this difficult history has 38 mitigating factors to consider it away along with two aggravating factors, and of course we will progress of e jury. One person is dead after a logging truck crashed in gaston county. It happened on ghway 321. Lo festivals across the 2 lane road. Stopping traffic. Highway patrol has not said
The theme throughout durham. A dark canopy moved over durham in a hurry bringing with it sporadic downpours and of course, wind, heavy wind. Some trees fell, cutting through homes on their way down. It was a huge explosion. The rain, wind and swirling. You know, it was a little bit scary. Reporter neighbor, kimberly wingatebrown says a mother and three children were in this house on delwood drive when the tree toppled over. She moved to the basement when the weather first turned bad, a smart call. The falling tree smashed through one of the childrens bedrooms. She was visibly upset, of course. Reporter this storm wrote similar stories in other neighborhoods. This tree went into this home on rose brier drive. The tops of surrounding pine trees were snapped off in the wind. And then this one on north roxboro road. Roots lifted into the air. With their insurance company. In this particular case, shattered glass is pretty much everywhere across this driveway. For many homeowners today is t
In from the coast. Once that spreads across the area of the stage will be set for thunderstorms to develop into much ronger storms. That could produce wind damage and possible tornadoes. Right now there is not a whole lot of rain happening. We have had a couple of sprinkles and showers. We have had fought develop across the region but again, not a lot falling from the sky at the moment. Now we do have a wind advisory that goes into effect at 9 00 a. M. This is completely separate from thunderstorms that may run through your town or neighborhood. We are going to have gusty conditions around the area, starting this rning. Gusts later on could be up to 50 Miles Per Hour. Once those thunderstorms begin to develop those could be much stronger. 75 Miles Per Hour were greater even in severe thunderstorms. Tornado winds could be Even Stronger than that. A lot to talk about, a lot to go over this morning. Our severe Thunderstorm Risk is at a level iii and four out of five. Thats unusual for us
Are coming from this morning. The wind advisory in effect until 2 00 pm for the entire viewing area. Weve got gusts up to 30 per hour, we may cost up 45 later this morning. Some small branches maypole, a few isolated Power Outages with this. 42 cary and holly springs. Town by town, 41 roxboro, 40 in fayetteville, temperatures remain in the low to mid s. Not terribly cold, pretty close to normal. We dont have the warmup in the forecast that we did yesterday. 52 at lunchtime, high of 56 this afternoon. Lots of sunshine. We will enjoy that. Its going to be a chilly breeze were dealing with is morning. A beautiful warm up into the weekend, well take a look at that in a few minutes. Brian is taking a look at the roads. Folks are going to run into a couple of branches. I saw a couple coming in. Yesterday evening, the worst have some downed trees it may not get reported. Something to keep in mind as you head out with the wind advisory still in effect. The weather is not completely off the tab
Safe places. On your basement if you have one or first floor in a small room without a window. That could be a closet or bathroom. Keep that plan in mind. The other thing to do is know when one of the storms is heading our way. We will be right here on fox50 and wral all day long as the storms develop. We are going to put you where it is were going to let you know where it is and how you can plan. No need to panic, just have a plan of how to get your information and where to go when it happens. Lets take a look at radar. Were looking at a little bit of a lull in some action, we had scattered showers and thunderstorms earlier, none of that was severe. The storms are moving very fast from the south to the north. You might have a so come through bringing rain and then its over very quick. You may hear a rule of thunder. As long as our temperatures are in the low to mid 50s were not likely to have Severe Weather and thats where we are right now. Okay, this is a separate issue beyond the th