Toaster strudel. California. Burnin g along a road from la to las vegas. Its fierceness stunning even veteran firefighters. The latest on the fire fight. Plus. A deadly crash on a busy triangle highway. The road shut down for hours. What weve learned about the investigation. And. A local mans fight to make his home safe. What he wants the city to stop from happening. How the community is rallying around him. Starts right now. Breaking news right off the top a major wildfire burning out of control in california. Good evening everyone from the breaking news center. Im tisha powell. The flames hitting so hard and fast. Its already ripped through 30 thousand acres in just 24 hours. The blue cut fire is burning along that major road from la to las thousand of resident told to get out of their homes. Authorities couldnt immediately say how many homes had been destroyed but they warned the number will be large. Tonight on the front lines hundreds of firefighters are on the attack. The fire ig
As well. Were starting with a few passing showers across north carolina. Most of rain this morning gravitating towards the virginia border so south hill, virginia, youre seeing wet weather. Grannville, vance, warren, person county. If youre heading for the door, take the umbrella with you. Lets look at those temperature. 71 raleigh, 70 lewisburg and clayton, also 71 littlington and goldsboro. Henderson in the 60s, 74, breezy at tiles at lunchtime, 78 our afternoon high and drier and warmer days ahead. Well let you know in the forecast. Lets go back to breaking news in charlotte. A second night of protests. Charlotte Mecklenburg Police officer shot Keith Lamonte scott. Someone in the apartment complex recorded this video for us. Police have not publicly released the dashcam video of the shooting. The naacp will be in charlotte, renewing their push for the release of the video. Robert richardson is live in charlotte with an update on what happened last night and what is happening right n
New shiny building. City Council Member don moffit told us it has been years since a significant amount of money has been spent on police headquarters. However, he says city leaders are open to feedback from the public. Both donald trump and Hillary Clinton are celebrating huge victories after prmaies in 5 states. Including North Carolina in the republican primary. Donald trump won North Carolina. As well as the winnertake all state of florida. He lost to Governor John Kasich in ohio. Another winner take all state. And kasichs home. But trump won illinois. And in missouri, trump beats senator ted cruz by a narrow margin. Attorney general roy cooper did not dwell on his primary win very long. Hes already looking to the next fight. 21 03 34 it is time for us to come together and get ready for the battle ahead in cooper is the democratic nominee for governor. That officially makes governor mccrory his new opponent. Cooper wasted no time going after him. In a speech tuesday night, he took
Were giving you a heads up. Dont get tricked. Our raleigh skycam looks beautiful right now. We are seeing sunshine, mix of clouds. As we get through the next 15 or 20 minutes, it will be beautiful. Just the right mix of sun and clouds. That does not say rainy afternoon to you, does it . That is why were here to let you know by lunchtime, it will be cloudy and by 1 00 to 3 00, depending on where you are, it will be raining. 36 in durham. 35 in cary. 36 in raleigh. 29 in south hill and rocky mount. 33 in fayetteville. For the most part, we are either side of freezing. Raleigh is a the warmer than that here in the mid30s. Expect temperatures to be somewhere in the 30s as you are stepping out this morning. By lunchtime, 46 and it will be cloudy and rain sets in. Some of this rain will be heavy at times. Expect a high of 52. It will be a fairly interesting weekend. Saturday looks beautiful but weve been tracking a system that could bring us precipitation for sunday. It looks like it could b
Real shock with today is that temperatures arent going to move a whole lot so well drop to 50 by 8 00 this morning. 53 at lunchtime, a high of only 54. Yesterday we hit the 70s for day number 2 in a row. Wont be the same. So today as we head into 6 00 cloudy and cool right around 52 degrees. Ill get to more on how long the temperatures will last coming up. But lets check in with traffic on this tuesday morning. If youre getting ready to head out the door this is i400 and western boulevard. Lets check in with your live drive conditions and you can see all in green around raleigh this morning around the belt line were looking at i440 moving close to the posted speed limits. More on traffic and weather in about ten minutes. Some breaking news from the in just moments ago. Hillary clinton edging out Bernie Sanders by five delegates in what the convention is calling a historically close caucus. With the tough fight the people of iowa had a message. We came to this beautiful state, we had no