Rains many on the brink good evening everyone. Here is what we know right now. Tonight governor mccorey is urging everyone to stay home he says the roads are too dangerous. At least a half million customers are without power across North Carolina. The fayetteville is sanford areas are under a boil water order. Live Team Coverage across North Carolina storm zone first the latest on the tract and rain totals from chris in first alert stormcenter. These totals are incredible. Rivalling numbers from floyd in 1999 especially south and east of the triangle lets show you the good news rain litenned up around the triangle, even to the east across the i95 corridor. Coastal plain heavier. Light rain, raleigh, durham, fayetteville dry, in terms of anything coming from the sky this rain will not add to a whole lot more misery we have hours, dry around fayetteville, light rain, rally, durham, virginia board raleigh, durham, virginia border. The overall trend is for it to go on out. Check out these
Breaking news this morning as matthew continues to cause problems. We are going life to the center in raleigh for where governor pat mccrory is. Life. This storm is not over for North Carolina. One thing we have learned is that when you go from a category 4 hurricane to a category 1, the danger and harm is still there. What those categories do not include is how water can kill. That is exactly what has happened in North Carolina. We still have those dangers potentially killing people. As we speak, people are trapped in their homes throughout North Carolina, especially in the east at and at the coast. Hurricane matthew is still hitting the northeastern part of our state, especially the outer banks. We are concerned with the storm surge and the outer banks. We are currently having a 36 foot surge. As we said yesterd going out and this is causing a great deal of flooding and destruction and dangerous water and road issues in the north east. It is similar to what we have been seeing in ral
Floodwaters swept their cars off roads. five people are still missing. four in Cumberland County and one in harnett. Duke Energy Reports 392 thousand Power Outages across the state. Parts of eye40 are still closed tonight near benson. Stretches of eye 95 also closed around fayetteville. princeville in Edgecombe County evacuated as floodwaters from the tar river rise. And voluntary evacuations are also in place for goldsboro. The neuse river in that area we have Team Coverage tonight of matthews aftermath. We have crews stationed in cumberland, wake and edgecombe countiesmonitori ng the latest developments. But we start in Cumberland Countywhere its still a very dangerous situation there tonight. Four people are still missing in flood waters. Swift water teams from new york, new jersey, and ohio spent the morning pulling people from stranded cars and flooded homes. Angelica alvarez is live in fayetteville with the latest car in water. I talked to the guy who says thats his car earlier.
Im lena tillett. And im bill leslie. We have the latest on the School Closings. Heres a look at the list, and lets begin with the list now. Lets move to the next page. Thank you very much. Clinton and Cumberland County, edgecombe, and Franklin County schools all closed today. There are more here. Halifax county harnett, hoke county and johns ton monday and tuesday. Sampson, wayne county schools closed today and tomorrow and Wilson County schools. The full list is scrolling at the bottom of your screen and on wral. Com. Hurricane matthew unleashed its fury this weekend with mass there are reports of high water in cumberland count yes at least 700 people were rescued. Bryan mimes mim mims is along the cape fear river. Reporter we had to move from the cape fear. I planned to be there at 7 00 but we had to move inland, if you will, to mirror lake, a remarkable scene. Mirror lake drive, look at the chewed away, just chewed away, took a bite out of the asphalt and it looks like a canyon down
Today. Sampson county we mentioned, wayne county closed today and tomorrow. And Wilson County schools. A full list is scrolling at the bottom of your screen and wral. Com. Hurricane matthew unleashed its fewery this morning and dropped massive amounts of rain triggering flooding in roads and neighborhoods. Hundreds of rescues in Cumberland County and more today. At least rescued. Bryan mims is live along the Cape Fear River. And bryan, you have seen so many dramatic scenes over the weekend. Reporter and i must say that the Cape Fear River looks dramatic this morning. Its a monster. Ill put it that way, a brown, roiling monster. I have never seen it this high in 10 years living in the area. Downstream. From this standpoint, its usually 40 to 50 feet down. And look at the water, almost up to the bridge and a railroad trestle. Its touching that. A number of traffic lights are out and power remains out for most businesses. And let me show you video from lena was talking about the rescues,