Cameron indoor stadium. Were noticing some new security measures, julia. Reporter thats right, ken, these metal detectors were put in place last month, and because of the big crowd today they opened Cameron Indoor stadium 30 minutes early to get those crowds through the metal detectors and into the stadium. Tipoff is 30 minutes away. Boy, these folks have been ready for weeks. Reporter its the games they wait for, for months. I love game day on saturday. To get to come to duke and get to be a part of this experience, its unbelievable. Lets go duke reporter welcome to krzyzewskiville. It started in 1986. Back then students camped out for just two to three nights. It now its more like six to seven weeks. Reporter the game faces are put on early. The evening wear is decidedly a darker shade of blue. Duke walked out of chapel hill last month with a win. Dyehard blue devil fans are hoping for a repeat. Im nervous. Im excited, im 30 against unc. I would love to finish out a full four years.
Have lesser chance of freezing rain. Southern pines at 28. 28 in rocky mount. 27 in roxboro. Still plenty cold to for that as we head through the afternoon. Here at lunchtime in the triangle looking at upper 20s to near 30 degrees. 32 at 4 00. Temperatures will offer around freezing this evening but the precipitation will taper off a god bit. Well talk more about what to coming up. Governor pat mccrory declared a state of emergency ahead of the storm. That was yesterday. He also talked about the storm again today and the state of emergency frees things up in terms of aid in the event of a catastrophe. Reporter he discussed that in morning in a briefing, a press conference in which he ared ised the state response to the storm. Laura leslie has more. Reporter the main message until the storm is over and conditions are safe. He said this morning that he was thinking businesses an schools for closing and helping people to stay off the highways but he wbtw. Commed out this event is far from
It is 29 in rocky mount and and fayetteville. That means the chance of working mission is certainly dimensioning there in Southern Pines is 28 and 27 in roxboro. The best thing we can hope for freezing rain. We are seeing some sleet along the triangle area and that will keep down our transfer an ice storm. We are still expecting to thing from a quarter to a half an inch of ice toward sanford and Southern Pines. We are still expecting Power Outages to develop this afternoon as the precipitation continues. We also have the Winter Weather advisory in effect of the way through tomorrow in the eastern part of the viewing area. Temperatures are beginning to come up which is good news. Roads with them looking bad, do you see accidents . Reporter thankfully we are seeing few traffic today. Although we are seeing some crashes on major routes. Right now i want to show you a picture the d. O. T. Treated south of angier and lillington. Look at the stock power poll. The ice is really starting to ha
And Harnett County at 10,00518 10,518. A Duke Energy Spokesman told us earlier this morning, they are concerned about the increasing wind speeds coming up this afternoon, in fact they thought they were going to have more troubles in the western part of the state. But since they got mostly snow out there, they are moving a lot of those crews, in the west, toward the east to help out the of us who have been experiencing problems related to the ice buildup we are showing you this map to give you a better perspective of what it is across the state, not just locally here. Every single marking on that map indicates the Power Outages that duke energy is working on right now, at this very hour. One of the questions we took directly to duke energy this morning when we spoke to them is when will the power be back . How will customers know trade in some cases, he was very blunt, you will not know immediately. There are a few resources online that you can check on, and of course we will keep you u
County are on to our delays today. Lee county and Mecklenburg County schools are closed. We also have Lee County School close, northampton county, Orange County and Person County schools close. Vance county, wake county as we mentioned and Warren County schools are closed. Find a list of closings and delays on www. Wral. Com and also find them closing at the bottom of your screen. It was a beautiful sunrise this morning. Gorgeous that sun is going to do some work today. It has some work to do. It was so pretty if you happen to be up early before the ice and trees, but around the triangle area, gosh, it was pretty. The ice, trees, sun and blue skies. The ice did not stick around on the trees too long and thats enchanted help to melt the roads. This is a look at the raleigh sky cam. You can see everything looks okay on western boulevard but dont be fooled. Temperature still in the mid to upper 20s this morning. We have a lot of slick places especially heading north and weve got sky 5 up