Looking at i440, you can see some of the roads are still a little wet around the area as the showers move in. So far, no major issues to tell us about this morning. The traffic map shows the Community Still looking good. Were all green at 440 and 540 this morning. If you are planning to head southbound into raleigh on u. S. 1 from 540 to downtown, that should take about you five minutes. On 70, you are looking about a 13minute drive to downtown. More updates coming up in a few minutes. This morning, Community Members and officials are looking to learn more about just what led up to a deadly policeinvolved shooting in raleigh. We are learning more about those tense moments when officer d. C. Twiddy shot akiel denkins. We have radio dispatch calls. Shots fired in the back of the house on east street. I got the male. [unintelligible] emma wright joins us live from the Police Department with whats next. Emma . Reporter the police chief says they plan to issue a report about that and the fb
It wont be a washout and the chance will be there and thats a big change from all the sunshine we saw. 70 at noon. A high around four before we drop back to 71. That threat for showers. And after lunchtime today. I will let you know when it arrives. Coming up in the complete storm forecast. Justin. All eyes had will be on North Carolina tuesday. Early voting has ended. That was the chance to skip what is likely to be longer lines on primary day and still make voices heard. Early voting started march 3rd and ended. Board of elections said the turnout for early voting was recordbreaking. 500,000 voters cast ballots as of friday morning. That is seven and a half percent of the six and a half million registered voters. Election day, you have one massive day they come out and vote. You have all the people and it is more conformed to how the lifestyles are. It is also the first time voters had to show photo ids and that person had to cast a provisional ballot. They had to show an id at the c
Low cloud cover and fog near the virginia line. It is warm, 63 in durham, 64 wake forest. Town by town 59 in roxboro where it is foggy. 59 s. Hill, 64 in fayetteville and clinton. Expect temperatures to remain in the mid70s by lunchtime, and during the afternoon the clouds will break a little bit however there may be a few patchy showers. High of 80 degrees. This evening chance of thunderstorms. We could have large hail or damaging winds with those storms. We will talk about the threats coming up. Brian is here taking a look at the ramp closure at wade avenue and i40. Whats going on . Pretty serious accident from 40 westbound to wade avenue. We will take a live look at the camera. This is i40 and trinity road. Wade avenue interchange, exit 289. This is leaving the chapel hill road area heading toward wade avenue. At this point the ramp is blocked and will likely remain blocks for some time. We have a crew on the way to get details and well let you know what we find out. Lets talk about
The only person i had. She would do anything for anything. She would take the shirt off her back. She i mean, she was all about helping. The victim was a mother of 3 and 8yearold and threeyearold twins, a spokes penn with the Johnston County Sheriffs Office tells us tonight, investigators are working around the clock to solve this double homicide. No arrests have been made inch the family of akiel denkins says a Raleigh Police officer shot him in the back. Lawyers say their independent investigation shows other discrepancies with the information released by police as well. The attorneys released their findings during a press conference today. A preliminary autopsy report shows denkins was short four times, in his left chest, right forearm, upper right arm and shoulder. Attorneys for the family say the report is misleading. There were other shots, the appropriate from a legal point of view to share that now is because of the impression that released by the state and the officer and the
As i mentioned, the celebration continues for the unc tar heels. They will be returning to chapel hill as the acc champions. They beat uva6157 last night at the Verizon Center in washington, d. C. That is where we had our crew wrals jeff bradley was courtside. He has the highlights from the big win. North carolina had been here on the doorstep of an acc tournament title. The tar heels knocked down that door to win their first acc tournament since 2008. Yeah, i couldnt get the image out of my head the past couple days. When the stuff shot off weekend we are walking back to the locker room. To have it fall out here to celebrate and our great fans staying around, its the exact opposite of how i felt a couple years ago. I am ecstatic. We were able to get another ring. Reporter the tar heels accomplished the feat thanks to part to the all acc play of Bryce Johnson. They did it with the old marcus paige coming to life offensively and playing incredible defense. They are acc champs in part be