Lives in roseville. Ken smith is live with how the city is honoring him. He was just 30 years old, stationed at fort carson, colorado, and this was his first tour of duty in afghanistan. He was a highly decorated soldier with more than eight years serving his country. Reporter the family lives in roseville, and this womans tears are for all the soldiers families currently grieving. All the soldiers are our family, and they need to be remembered and honored. Reporter the town is honoring the captains memory and military service. The flags at town hall flying at half staff, and at the Veterans Memorial. Sizable demographic of veterans, and the military means a lot, and for someone this young to pass away is shocking. Reporter his duty station in fort carson, colorado, issued a statement reading in part its always hashed to lose a part hard to lose a part of our military family. Our thoughts are with his family and friends during this difficult time. Theyre sure he served with honor. Its
Records and the overnight lows have been so warm and the humidity so high. 105 feels like at rdu. The good news is we have two more hot days and then relief. Youll see that in the 7day forecast coming up. You both mentioned the heat advisory at 8 00 tonight toward the triangle. Heat index values from 105 to 108 and this evening, still near 100 degrees and a cool off on the way thunderstorms out there. Well look at those on the radar coming up and show you the cool down coming our way. Gerald . Thank you, mike. The sweltering heat has forced several schools to cancel Outdoor Activities. In wake county sports were postponed until at least 6 30 and longer if temperatures are not below 90 degrees. And Cumberland County canceled all Outdoor Activities l and band practice. Reporter lynda, its empty and quiet and im listening to the grass grow. There hasnt been anyone out here all day. The magnificent marching machine held band camp last week and they are good to go but the Football Team is s
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Flooding. We have a Flash Flood Warning in effect for portions of moore, hoke and across Cumberland County. We have a Flash Flood Warning there that now extends until 9 30 this morning. So this is going to take us through the majority of your morning commute. Certainly watch for water to be rising in those areas. We have a number of reports coming in from moore and hoke counties of roads that are impassable. Straight to the rea rain and flooding conditions. Thats where the rain is coming down really hard at this. In time. Rainfall rates over an inch and quarter of rain per hour. Look at that. Seeing a lot of lightning strikes toward the rayford area. Were seeing some very heavy rain this morning. 66 is where we are in raleigh and clayton. 65 in wilmington. The showers are here this morning and into the afternoon. Some more gusty storms. Allie . Good morning. 5 01. Its raping out there. Your morning commute going to get youre going it need extra time. I8 5 and duke street. We do have fl
Portions of Mecklenburg County as well fsm you are heading in those directions hearing all of that thunder thats what we have and thats only the the only storms in town. We did have rain late last night. Lets get to those temperatures. 68 in durham. 70 in raleigh, wilmington and clayton. More than what we saw yesterday many 67 in roanoke well climb to 78 for an afternoon high. A few storms and scattered showers in our forecast. Also some gusty winds possible with some of those storms. Ill get to the rest of your workweek forecast. Send it back to you guys. Breaking news in harnick county. An Early Morning shooting call. Just after midnight. Creek area. Earlier this morning the 911 call that came in as a report of someone being shot. Now we have called the Sheriffs Office and are waiting for a call back about the victims condition or if any arrests have been made. The highway patrols also confirms they helped the Sheriffs Office with the incident at the scene. We continue to update the