The storm approached. The dangerous categories category storm for storm left dangerous left damage to the western part of the country. It had helling 140 mileper hour winds. It tore off roofs of many areas. It uprooted trees and left rivers full of debris. Death totals are unclear as communication on the island has been severely impacted. Alyssa, some very positive news. At least for the moment. At least for the moment. We have to stress that. As much is this track has shifted to the east, it could still shift to the west. This is a closeup view. The center of the track where were seeing this redline this morning, you can see it is staying well offshore of wilmington and continuing to taken easterly turn as we head toward saturday and sunday of this upcoming weekend. It made still be a very strong winds of 100 Miles Per Hour. Parts of North Carolina in that area this morning. At no longer includes the triangle. Adjust includes extreme southeastern portions of our viewing area. We will
Im lena tilllet. And im bill leslie. The latest on matthew, releasing rain on haiti, and there is damage and casualties. And its reported catastrophicy in les cayes. But cuba has not been hit as hard as haiti. In our state, there is a mandatory evacuation with ferries running the same today and tomorrow but not on friday. Unc wilmington has issued a mandatory evacuation for the latest models and the official hurricane track. Elizabeth gardner has been digesting all of this information and joins us to try and make sense of it all. I will say that a lot of times people are shocked by what kind of weather happens maybe because they were not paying attention to the forecast. Its not that often that the meterologists are shocked but i was truly shocked when i came in and saw what models have done. Its just a little hard to digest, like you said. The center of the circulation on the north end of the convection, pulling away from cuba and haiti and moving north at 10 Miles Per Hour and heres
And the its described as cat catastrophic in les cayes. And for our area, we have mandatory evacuations. And unc wilmington issued a mandatory evacuation for all students. All students must leave that campus by noon tomorrow, noon meterologists are getting whiplash trying to keep up with the hurricanes. Its been all over. It definitely has. We had a dramatic change overnight. And we are waiting for the next run to see if they continue along the track which will pull the storm away from North Carolina. Thats the only real change. It continues to hug the coast of florida and South Carolina and makes a dramatic turn to the right with the current forecast track. Well talk more about that just a few minutes ago, we had a new update from the National Hurricane center. We dont get a new track until 11 00 a. M. Which we will share on the noon newscast. But the good news, it has weakened a little bit more, moving northwest at 10, and thats going to kind of turn it toward florida and bring it ac
Closings. In wake county, only one School Remains closed, Vernon Malone Career College because of water in the school and powering out of the front doors early on sunday morning. You can see the latest list your screen and any time on wral. Com. Elizabeth, the only reprieve with the flooding is sunshine. Thankfully. I couldnt imagine if we had more rain coming to make the situation worse. We do have a nice stretch of dry weather through the weekend and into next week. A look at the apex skycam, serving quiet, and we do still have a Flood Warning in effect from the triangle area closed. The Flood Warning is not because we are expecting more rain but we still have rivers in flood stage. Ill be picking the different river basins and showing you the levels and when it may go down. 43 in durham and 43 in moncure, 37 in roxboro and 41 in south hill and 48 in goldsboro. So a chilly morning for kids that do have to go to they will want a jacket. 45 out the door and 65 at lunchtime and a high o
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