Toaster strudel. California. Burnin g along a road from la to las vegas. Its fierceness stunning even veteran firefighters. The latest on the fire fight. Plus. A deadly crash on a busy triangle highway. The road shut down for hours. What weve learned about the investigation. And. A local mans fight to make his home safe. What he wants the city to stop from happening. How the community is rallying around him. Starts right now. Breaking news right off the top a major wildfire burning out of control in california. Good evening everyone from the breaking news center. Im tisha powell. The flames hitting so hard and fast. Its already ripped through 30 thousand acres in just 24 hours. The blue cut fire is burning along that major road from la to las thousand of resident told to get out of their homes. Authorities couldnt immediately say how many homes had been destroyed but they warned the number will be large. Tonight on the front lines hundreds of firefighters are on the attack. The fire ig
Having it rough and also down south, louisiana. With all the flooding. Really puts things in perspective. We were talk about how hot it was. We will see a break in that today. Lets start off with your forecast. Its 75 degrees right now. This is a live picture from the Raleigh Durham International Airport. You can see a breakup in the clouds but not a lot to see that beautiful sunrise that we saw yesterday. Still dont expect it to be that bad. Official sunrise happens after 6 30 this morning. So i want to show you these. Were looking at showers just back to the west of Person County. So it looks like portions of Person County will see that light shower move through. Mecklenburg county cant rule out a shower or two for you over the next, say, half hour or hour. Well watch the changes throughout the rest of the morning. Lets get to the temperatures. 70 in henderson. Feeling pretty nice. 74 in durham. 76 in lillington. Also in the mid70s around degrees. So heres a look at what youre planni
Durham. It is moving to the southeast at 20 miles an hour. The warning is in effect until 10 30. A lot of cloudtoground lightning right now. This is where the storm should be seen. Again, a lot of cloudtoground lightning. Wind gusts at 60 miles an hour and quarter sized hail. There were reports of wind damage in the county where the as it moves through the southeast there is severe damaging wind gusts for parts of Person County and it may not maintain its integrity by the time it makes its way into orange and durham couldnties. We will watch it. Of farther south. Activity moving through. There is what is left of the activity moving through moore county. The trend through midnight, a weekending of this. Should see showers weekending of this and showers and storms coming through. Tomorrow, we see the dark shaded green that is a marginal risk of storms including the area for damaging winds and heavy rain that may result in flooding. So, right now we have portions of three counties under w
I love my brother. This day last year, joshua hill was 13 months old in march he died in a fire that his brother jacob morgan was adieused of setting. My best friend. At tuesdays plea hearing prosecutors told a judge that fire had two points of origin one in the bedroom and the other in the living room. According to investigators morgan admitted to lighting tea candles before the home went up in flames. Whether he intended to kill his brother or not and may be up for debate. But he set the fire that killed his brother. Prosecutors say morgan had a cellphone but never use to do to call for help despite the evidence against the brother, loved ones continue to stand behind him after the death of their toddler. I will never get over losing my little boy. I will never get over my other son being accused of the loss of our little boy. More began pleaded guilty to unlawful conduct towards a child as part of the plea. He maintains his innocence in the arson entering a plea to the third degree
In the charlotte area. A lot of you are in the teens so its 19. Hickory statesville 21 in charlotte. And 13 in boone right now. Yesterday evening if you get weather aall right on your phone you may have found theres a winter storm watch weather alerts. Some areas have winter storm warning. We do have slight changes to the storm forecast. So well talk about that in a few minutes. New this morning president obama says he will seek to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of antonio scalia. It will likely charge no a fight with republicans in congress. Just last night he said a nomination was bigger than any one big party with half a dozen of major cases before the court obama plans to fulfill his lee responsibility to nominate a successor in due time. Scalia died on a weekend trip to texas. He was 79 years old. Sparks fly. The ninth republican event took before the primary that could help decide who becomes the republican nominee for president. The republican president ial