Major highway in charlotte. The cell phone video thats fueling tonights demonstration. Plus a Johnston County Football Player beaten up at schoolforcing him to go to the hospital. The mother of the accused studentis sharing her side of the storly to abc11 tonight. Eyewitness news starts right now. Breaking news first at ten. Demonstrators marching through the streets of charlotte. and atlanta protesting the Police Shooting death of keith scott. Good evening from the breaking news center im steve daniels. The big headline here tonight the sbi says discussions are actively underway between local officials in charlotte to release the police video of the shooting. Heres a live look at uptown charlotte. Where a curfew goes into effect at midnight. Take a look at demonstrators marching on to i 277 shutting down the highway and stopping traffic just as they did last g. Thenaonal guard is on the streets. So far. Its been a peaceful protest. Faith leaders and a peaceful protest. Faith leaders a
Lily. You deserve it. I dont know. What can i say . Its a happy day. Its a monday. Little cooler. Youre getting all the good things today. We ordered it special. I wish we had a little sun to go along with it. Well take what we get. Take a look at the radar picture. We do have some showers you can see off to the left side of your screen. Those are trying to ease into our area. We could have a little p warm front thats moving toss area followed by a cool front tomorrow. We may still have showers lingering into wednesday, pebbly even thursday. But, boy, this weekend looks fantastic. Heres a look at our view across the raleigh skycam. Of course that building on your right is the catholic cathedral thats being built just right by our cities. 67 in durham. Its 66 in Holly Springs and wake forest, 63 in expect mid to upper 60s, 71 at lunch time, and a high of 77. Temperatures remain cool, because it will stay cloudy. Couple of isolated showers is all well see today. A better chance for rain
Police released the video after several days of protests. The department giving their version of events leading up to the deadly encoutner. They say they went to the apartment tuesdayto serve an arrest warrant for another man. While at the apartment they say they saw scott rolling a marijuana joint in his car. They ignored that activity. Police say officer Brantley Vinson l the tapes show what happened next. In this dashcam video the frantic final moments of the fatal standoff as recorded by police. Keith lamont scott is seen exiting his vehicle and walking backwards, his hands down, then nats gunfire as video freezes nats up we got shots fired, one suspect down. This bodycam video partially silent has another perspective. An officer wields a baton in an of his vehicle. Scott is seen briefly standing in the parking lot. Then the 43year old is seen lying mortally wounded as police advance with guns drawn. Nats up handcuffs handcuffs officers appear to administer first aid. Nats up polic
Weve had a lot of rain in the witten area of h,rford county. Some of that rain is accumulating yeah. Up in herford county, more than 8 inches in the weve had heavy rain around here, but we havent had huge flood issues. A steady rain coming down across parts of the viewing area. Down to the south, samson county, hard net county over toward apex and carry, holly springs, and the northern half of the viewing area. So a bit of a wet start of the day. Temperatures are in the upper 60s and low 70s issues 70 in south his, 72 degrees in fayetteville. Clouds and rain out there this morning. Rocksboro getting a little break now, sort of in between rain showers. Temperatures will be in the upper 50s, 60s this morning with showers around. Some of you. Then some rain, maybe even a few rumbles of thunder this afternoon with temperatures in the upper 70s. So another day where we have to deal with the rain, but some drier air will work in as we head toward the weekend. And ill have more on that coming
Stadium protesters said the voices will not be sally spitz thank you joining us im kathryn brown. Here is a live look at the protests going on right now in Charlotte North Carolina of course became the epicenter in a collision between sports and social issues and ken smith talks to some concerned fans trying to make the best of the situation today. Reporter we are at the park near uptown charlotte one of a couple of parks meeting spaces for demonstrators before taking it to the streets. Sunday the Meeting Place was bankAmerica Stadium. They came with message as fans streamed into bank of America Stadium for sundays sundays panthers vikings game this wasnt the usual game day atmosphere. Do have a second bouts of, to begin . We feel guilty that we are not more committed to the cause here and where going on with our lives and watching a football game. The hearing the singing of the National Anthem demonstrators took a some held a fist in the air while others the nightly have resident kath