Just west of you guys in spring lake and on post. We come to the west just a little bit where there was another Flood Warning in Chatham County. You can see incredibly heavy rain there with even more dangerous lightning. We come to the north of it from Chatham County around siler city just west of pittsboro on up toward chapel hill in hillsboro in orange county. Load warnings and heavy downpours continue. Its not as heavy with the rain up in parts of granville and Person County and across the border into western parts of Mecklenburg County but rain continuing, also know Flood Warning there. It looks like as we wrap up the evening and had up into head heavy rain will be the biggest threat, several bullseyes, wanted reenters along the i94 i95 corridor. 12 inches but some parts of the sandhills and heavy rain continues to the west of the triangle where they have already received 34 inches and i fear that rain will continue for the next couple of hours and that might even lead to some prob
Started over night in wake county and it led to hundreds of accidents across the triangle this morning. Wncns david hurst reports. As temperatures rose today, Road Conditions gradually got better. Behind me here along i 440 theres still a little bit of slush left over. But were not seeing any of the ice that caused so many problems this morning. Icy and slippery roads caused headaches for many drivers across the triangle. What normally would take me a good 30 minute commute took about an hour and a half. The North Carolina Highway Patrol reported over 1,000 the state. Most of those were in the triangle area where troopers crashes. Troopers say none of the wrecks resulted in serious injuries. Delays. On days like monday, when roads are slippery, auto body shops like capitol city collision see a spike in the business. An accident is an accident for the most part. We hope no ones hurt. Experiences a 15 to 20 increase every time theres a significant weather event. Theres usually a small fe
We are barbara we have a winter storm bringing everything from snow to freeze freezing rain. John we have Live Team Coverage and latest School Closings and delays. These are live from 440 and u. S. 1. Barbara at love accidents because roads are a lot of accidents. Welcome on monday february 15, president s day and 23 degrees right now 7 01. John im john clark with barbara gibbs. We will check in with meteorologist Don Schwenneker on the latest on the storm in a moment but first we have bring you the School Closings and delays. There are changes. Wake county, durham public, chapel Hill Carrboro all closed. Barbara also closed orange, chatham. Edgecombe. Franklin, granville. Halifax, harnett, lee, mecklinburg, virginia. Vance, warren and Wilson County john twohour delay for clinton, hoke, johnston, moore, robinson and wayne county. You can find a list of closings and delays on abc11. Com with the links on the home page. Barbara time for weather and traffic together. Busy folks in the fir
Triangle to the sand hills and roxboro where a good amount of snow is on the ground. John some schools are closed or opening late. Wake county, durham Public Schools and chapel Hill Carrboro schools closed. Barbara also orange, edgecombe. Franklin, granville. Mecklinburg, person, vance and warren schools closed. Chatham. Clinton. Harnett. Hoke, johnston, lee, moore, robinson, wayne and Wilson County schools. You can find a list on abc11. Com. It is on the link on the home page. Now weather and traffic together. Here is meteorologist Don Schwenneker in the First Alert Storm Center with the latest. Don good morning to you. We will talk advisories and warnings. We have a winter storm warning for orange, person and alamance counties through 9 00 tonight. We have a went weather advisories extended to can 7 00 tonight for most of the middle we have the Winter Weather advisory down south for the southern part of the viewing area until 1 00 because of the anticipating change to more rain earli
Both sides of the aisles are gearing up for a fight. There are new details this morning on the days and hours leading up to scalias death. He died of Natural Causes saturday at a texas ranch during a quail humpbting trip. Senate republicans are calling president. But president obama already said seat. The body of the 79yearold justice is believed to have arrive on a private plane in austin. A firsttime guest at that resort ranch in west texas. His body was discovered in his room. Abcs jim avila is there. He spoke with one of the people who saw his last. Reporter an exclusive group of mostly texan couples. Justice scalia was the only he arrived friday about noon. Toured the property. Did not join that days hunt. He had dinner with the group overlooking the scenic group. At 9 00 p. M. , he said, its been a long day, had a long week. Id like to be excused. Reporter others told investigators they heard the 79yearold justice mention an illness. The county judge would pronounced him dead ove