Decade. Haiti has seen heavy rain that can trigger deadly mudslides, this in a country that is still recovering from a deadly earthquake six years ago and it looks like earn cuba will be next. And lets send it over to julie phillips. Thank you. We are closely watching Hurricane Matthew, still a strong and powerful hurricane. You can see the eye defined and you can see haiti is being hit hard from this storm. It is going to pass over far eastern cuba tonight and then move toward the bahamas, at this point moving to the north at 10 Miles Per Hour, maximum sustained winds still at 145 Miles Per Hour. You can see the hurricane warnings posted from eastern cuba all the way up through the bahamas and as we head off through thursday. You can see this will likely be right off the east coast of coast of florida. As a strong category four hurricane. Remember, in the tampa bay area, were on the western side of the storm, and then it will continue to curve up over towards the southeast and potenti
Weather forecast from fox6 meteorologist Stephanie Barichello rain with with some embedded thunder this morning then gradual clearing. Temperatures will cool through the morning and hover in the low 60s this afternoon. Clear and chilly for friday night football, lows by early tomorrow will drop into the upper 30s and low 40s. Sunny for the weekend with upper 50s saturday and low to mid 60s sunday. Increasing clouds on monday with a few rain showers traffic map major delays yellow on traffic map some delays green on traffic map no delays green on traffic map no delays as of this morning Hurricane Matthew is a category three storm with winds of about 120 miles per hour. Angelica is in the newsroom with details on the storm. Hurricane matthew pushes its way up the coast as the most powerful storm the southeast has seen in a decade. Heres a l florida overnight as heavy winds set in ahead of the storm. This morning were learning more than 270thousand residents are without power. The Nationa
Right now wbtvs Ashton Pellom is live and on your side with simple ways to protect your home when it is below freezing. Reporter good morning, christine. These are common sense, they can cost hundreds of thousands of damage to your home if you dont do them. We spoke with experts over at michael son, they want to tell to you let the faucets drip, especially on the outside wall. Also leave cabinets open in your home the warm air cancer can you late and the pipes wont freeze. Garden hoses should not be connected to the faucets. Experts tell us that is the no. 1 device that will freeze and cause an issue. Get out there and disconnect those hoses and lastly, experts say if disaster occurs, you need to know where your emergency shut off valve is, that is important. These tips can help you protect reporting live in uptown share, Ashton Pellom, wbtv on your side. Christine you can track the next round of Winter Weather any time using the smart phones, very handy download the wbtv weather app.
In the alert center. Kristen World Health Organization making an announcement about efforts to fight the zika virus. Christine thanks, kristen. John lets start with charlottes most experienced morning meteorologist, here is al conklin. Al a cold start but not as frigid as yesterday when we dipped to 17 degrees. This morning closer to freezing because of the canopy of cloud cover and bit of a breeze. That cloud cover producing light snow for the mountains, debatable how much is reaching the ground but again, power Doppler Radar is picking up a little bit of snow and flurries across the area especially north of town. A Winter Weather advisory runs through tomorrow morning for mountain counties. Keep in mind a lot of the heavier snow will come later this afternoon and on in to tonight. Dry here in charlotte right now, mostly cloudy, that is the metro School Camera in the queen city, no snow falling at the moment. 32 charlotte, 29 monroe, but colder north of town, 28 wadesboro up to alberm
The hildebran town hall building. Christine Brody Oconnell following the details now in the alert center. Brody, what do you know so far . Brody this is up near i40 off i40 near morganton at the hildebran town hall. Here is the map giving you an idea where it is while i give you the latest details. We called dispatchers to see what was going on, we reached an official who gave us the address of 202 center street. We specifically asked if this was the town hall that was on fire, dispatcher said they were responding to a fire at the town hall, which is in a complex that shares office space with other buildings. So the town hall and other offices are located in a bigger building, that used to be the old hill Hildebran High School. Steve ohnesorge has done thorough coverage whether they were going to tear down the building. They are in the newer part of the section slate forward demolition was the oldest part of the build, built in 1917. Well bring you updates whether we get crews to the s