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
Multiple eyewitnesses and as an excel employees. The sheriff says he was armed with a long gun and a pistol. Police shot and killed him inside the plant. We heard a pop pop and we thought it was just metal falling on the ground and then doors opened, people started screaming, going out. Go to the front, go to the front. Then people said no, hes out front. So we started going back to the right over here. Did you know him when you saw him . Yes, i know the shooter personally. He was my partner. Were there any indications that this could happen with him . No. This is a small town, employees are gathered at the plant trying to comfort each other and check on the safety of friends. Again, at least seven. Injured are in critical condition. We are working to get more information and we are waiting to find out an motive. An update from officers at the scene are expected shortly. We will bring them any new details as we get them. Newspaper website, because its a plant, a lot of people had ear p
Past 15 minutes. Charlotte Mecklenburg Police announced they will be giving a major update on a south charlotte case from 82 years from two years ago. 82yearold ina feldman was hit in the head in 2014. She was discovered by her son. And the case put the neighbor in that area on edge. So far, no arrests have ever been made in that case. And breaking just in the last 30 minutes, the governor has now declared a state of emergency, this after yesterdays storms. Some may not get back on until tomorrow night. Tonight, we is Team Coverage from the strong wind that has been tonling all the trees. First, we start out with all the outages. All over town, we have seen power out all over. Eastwood elementary, closed down for classes today. Because they had no power. Affected as well. The Charlotte Surgery Center on randolph road remains shut down. More than 2 dozen patients had to have their surgeries reschedule. And more could be coming. We are on standby. Theyre telling us maybe tomorrow night,
Now the wer outages. Wind being the big story, 35,000 customers without power in wake county, 1200 and durham county. 3700 and Granville County which is seen the most problems but it is a crazy morning out there with the severe weather. Blustery wind and all of the rain ming down. Thats right, we have not had a lot of lightning but a squall line has much from west to east across the viewing area and kicked wind. We had just been wrals just gusts in fayetteville of to 50 Miles Per Hour on custom of places of 45 Miles Per Hour. We start out with e radar, the squall line is beginning to weaken a little bit. 15 minutes or so we had eight or nine counties under a severe thunderstorm warning, much of that has expired but we zoom into the counties that are still affected. That would be Wilson County and johnson unty affected. Prceton and kenly, your single rain right now and most tuxedos strong gusty winds of those bands of rain. So lets take a look at who is likely to see this and the timing
Large tree that is across the road right now. It has been done since about 10 30 last night and as you can see, police are making sure drivers dont go into that area. You can see they have it blocked off until crews can get out there to remove the tree. Traffic team 9s mark taylor monitoring the situation. They have alternate routes for us just ahead. Part of a busy road in meyers park is still shut down. This is more than 14 hours after strong winds brought down this massive tree right into the road. Eyewitness News Reporter joe bruno is live at the scene for us on queens road near henley place. What is taking so long, . The crews will be out here this morning but in the meantime, check out how major, how huge and big this tree is. The tree is lying across the southbound lanes of queens road heading towards southpark. Across the carolinas, many towns and citys are dealing with damage from yesterdays storm. Channel 9 received these photos a fire broke out on the power lines near mack w