The storm approached. The dangerous categories category storm for storm left dangerous left damage to the western part of the country. It had helling 140 mileper hour winds. It tore off roofs of many areas. It uprooted trees and left rivers full of debris. Death totals are unclear as communication on the island has been severely impacted. Alyssa, some very positive news. At least for the moment. At least for the moment. We have to stress that. As much is this track has shifted to the east, it could still shift to the west. This is a closeup view. The center of the track where were seeing this redline this morning, you can see it is staying well offshore of wilmington and continuing to taken easterly turn as we head toward saturday and sunday of this upcoming weekend. It made still be a very strong winds of 100 Miles Per Hour. Parts of North Carolina in that area this morning. At no longer includes the triangle. Adjust includes extreme southeastern portions of our viewing area. We will
State are still scheduled for saturday. We will have more on the storms path. We could all here that sigh of relief. I did let out a sigh of relief woman got the 5 am advisory. I do not want to be overly optimistic because the shift to the east could easily ship to the west as we head next few days. This is a close look at the forecast track. This is the 5 am advisory. The could this. Saturday into sunday, staying well offshore of North Carolina. A pretty much takes a hard right turn right around the wilmington area offshore. Were seeing we are staying as a category two hurricane during that time. Wins it 100 miles per hour. Weve been talking about it all week long. This cone of uncertainty. His fellow shaded area still includes eastern portions of North Carolina. At no longer includes the cumberland, sampson, and wayne counties as we head into the weekend. We will continue to monitor this track. If it continues to shift east, that means less and less impact here in central North Carol
Im lena tilllet. And im bill leslie. The latest on matthew, releasing rain on haiti, and there is damage and casualties. And its reported catastrophicy in les cayes. But cuba has not been hit as hard as haiti. In our state, there is a mandatory evacuation with ferries running the same today and tomorrow but not on friday. Unc wilmington has issued a mandatory evacuation for the latest models and the official hurricane track. Elizabeth gardner has been digesting all of this information and joins us to try and make sense of it all. I will say that a lot of times people are shocked by what kind of weather happens maybe because they were not paying attention to the forecast. Its not that often that the meterologists are shocked but i was truly shocked when i came in and saw what models have done. Its just a little hard to digest, like you said. The center of the circulation on the north end of the convection, pulling away from cuba and haiti and moving north at 10 Miles Per Hour and heres
Closings. In wake county, only one School Remains closed, Vernon Malone Career College because of water in the school and powering out of the front doors early on sunday morning. You can see the latest list your screen and any time on wral. Com. Elizabeth, the only reprieve with the flooding is sunshine. Thankfully. I couldnt imagine if we had more rain coming to make the situation worse. We do have a nice stretch of dry weather through the weekend and into next week. A look at the apex skycam, serving quiet, and we do still have a Flood Warning in effect from the triangle area closed. The Flood Warning is not because we are expecting more rain but we still have rivers in flood stage. Ill be picking the different river basins and showing you the levels and when it may go down. 43 in durham and 43 in moncure, 37 in roxboro and 41 in south hill and 48 in goldsboro. So a chilly morning for kids that do have to go to they will want a jacket. 45 out the door and 65 at lunchtime and a high o
Closings because of matthews impact. The full list is scrolling at the bottom of your screen and on wral. Com. Mike, how long will it be this hot . It looks like it will be the warmest day of the week today, lena. And a warm day thursday but we have changes going through friday and the weekend, and well detail those for you in the 7day forecast in about 15 right now, not feeling fall like. We have upper 50s to low 60s. 64 for rocky mount and 63 at the tv station in raleigh. As we take a look at the areaings further south, 63 in erwin and 64 in fayetteville and Southern Pines. Goldsboro checking in at 65. The satellite and radar look quiet, and a couple of showers much dissipating. A couple of fair weather clouds popping up yesterday and sunshine as well. But as we look at the planner for today, we have clear skies and 63 degrees. 80 by lunchtime and 4 00 or 5 00, 86, and a couple of fair weather clouds. Brian . 7 02, mike, and we have problems on the wake county, 64 westbound before yo