Lifethreatening injuries and was taken to the hospital. Scene. Police officers inspecting that accident. We will be looking for an update on the condition of the pedestrian yap. We will bring you new center. Back to you. All right thank you. All right. I have moved over to the First Alert Weather Center with our meteorologist leigh brock. We had a great couple of days, leigh, but real changes are moving in. Big changes the cold front is on the way and it will be here before you know it tomorrow. Not the 70s anymore. And rain as well . Mainly tonight. But, yeah, rain is coming this way. Right now the clouds can taken over. Lets look where the rain is. Its making Good Progress moving across the eastern part of tennessee. The heavy rain and the lightning strikes in there. A couple of showers have made it into the wbtv viewing area. And here is what we have through as timing. Pushing to the east. Quickly seems to be 40milesperhour. Not wasting anytime close to hickory around 8 00 p. M. And
Warm as yesterday. Not as nice as yesterday but a storm system could dump rain on your neighborhood. That front that came through and dropped the rain last night it moved through and it busted the door open. Look at the cold air pouring in. High pressure building in from the west. And that is going to drive our temperatures below freezing tonight. If you have the plants sitting around the house think about bringing them inside and protecting them. But we are running 1921 colder than at this time yesterday and 30 colder right now around boone and blowing rock than they were at this time yesterday. The hd towercam, the sun did not help much today as we stayed in the low 50s and still have a brisk wind and gusts 2025milesperhour over the last few hours. If you are heading out be aware its breezey and that windchill temperatures in the 440s north of charlotte and in the 20s in the high country. Your forecast down to 42 at 9 00 p. M. Coming up, we will rebound from this. But before we do, m
Continue to follow the latest on this breaking news and bring you new information as it comes into our newsroom. Cmpd chief kerr putney opens up about a viral video which shows one of his officers striking a man under arrest. You can see the man is surrounded by officers but one is punching him. Its raised questions about the departments use of force policy and whether that was followed. Sharon smith joins us live with more how the chief explains it. Tell us what is his stance here . First, i think tonights newscast shows you the different situations they respond to. And in this case, chief kerr putney says that he finds no criminal wrongdoing with his officers. But there is still an internal cmpd investigation going on. That is not over yet and Department Policy is different from state law as the face of his organization, the chief is trying to balance internal trust at cmpd and trust with the community. Going viral protestors organized and the suspects mom did interviews. The only th
Get it off their chest because that helps. Firefighters are processing what happened. As are candaces friends and family. The one thing we have all held hands and prayed together the one thing weve talked through is just getting not thinking about what tomorrow brings or what tonight brings just how we can get through every minute. She was a mother dedicated to her children. Candace was an amazing mom. They will surround the boys with love. Those little boys thank god they made it through. They will need a lot of support. The pastor of the church here tells me that he went to the hospital that the threeyearold had his neck checked to be safe and that the sevenyearold was not physically hurt. But he is asking that our viewers pray for the family tonight. Live here in lincoln county, Pamela Escobar wbtv on your side. We know so many people will be doing that. Troopers said at one point the driver told them that driver of the truck, david boyd, that he saw a deer. And they say no other wi
Afternoon high of only 53. Ill let you know when you need the umbrellas again coming up. Right now, ill send it to kristin with an update on traffic. Reporter good morning, everyone. Lets take a live look outside at whats going on, on the roads. Things are actually moving okay at this hour, but again, youll run into wet spots on the roads with some of the rain we were seeing earlier this morning. We switch things onto your traffic map here. One note, though, rock quarry road is blocked at i40 currently both northbound and southbound directions due to Police Activity. We have a crew en route right now to check out the situation. Well have more updates throughout the morning. 6 02. Thats your traffic. Well send things back to russ the death of 24yearold akiel dinkins during an a denkins during an arrest attempt. The investigation into what led up to the deadly incident is very active. Emma wright joins us now live from the Raleigh Police department. Shes been on the story and has details