Eyewitness news. historic flooding. Parts of the sandhills remain underwater after record rainfall the School District cancelling classes. And the dams in jeopardy of failing. And breaking right now a Major Development in the Erica Parsons case. The discovery made in south carolina. The latest details just in. And. A familiar face from tg it here on abc 11 hits the campaign trail here in the triangle. E starts right now. A flash flood emergency in the sandhills. Historic rainfall putting lives at risk. An abc11 eyewitness capturing a fort bragg soldier checking on flood victims caught off guard by high water in fayetteville. That powerful image. Just one of the many coming in from viewers. Good evening everyone. Im tisha powell. County and the city of fayetteville remain under a state of emergency after more than ten inches of rain fell. Heres the latest rescue crews made more than two dozen emergency evacuations. Fayetteville Police say more thatwo dozen roads remain closed by flood w
That is sunshine. For tonight a few scattered showers and storms through 8 00, 9 00. Then we will dry out as we head into the 70s. We just got new news from the noshing National Hurricane center. Matthew has 140mileanhour winds. Ill feel fill you in on the grips with the damage caused by one family said fire water flooded their entire home. Its still a mess. Reporter let me show you a little bit of that. This is the little rockfish higher a couple hours ago. This familys lawn looked like a pond. You can see the water line on the brick of their house. The water got up that high even using kayaks. They wasted little time trying to get into their house, kayak or truck. Nonlifethreatening smallest even the smallest sentimental item was worth saving. Its a disaster he said he could never imagine happening, water washing away everything his family has worked for. It got about 2 1 2 foot from here a few minutes ago. Its a sign of how much they will have to throw away because the damage done.
A female student stabbed during a robbery on the ncstate campus. The search for her attacker underway tonight. Plusmatthew intensifies. The storm a category four hurricane tonightwe are tracking its latest path. And president obamas playful message to the tardy bill clinton. Eyewitness news starts right now. Were following several new and breaking stories tonight including the search for a man who stabbed a female student on the nc state campus. Good evening im steve daniels. And im tisha powell. Tonight police need your help tracking down the man who did it. The attack happened around 4oclock this afternoon in the varsity parking lotoff gorman street. Angelica alvarez on the story tonight. On cam the robbery happened here in just trying to get in her car. Pkg 17 52 20 this happened in broad daylight, does that concern you . Oh yeah rusata loher. Is a sophomore at nc state. And says she uses this parking lot on varsity. Almost everyday. So she was shocked to hear that just two hours be
The area we are focussing on is the sand hills. Brought record flooding to that area because of that, Cumberland County schools and fort bragg schools are closed today. We, of course, have Team Coverage of the flooding chl cbs North Carolina justin is in hornet county. Allie is keepg an eye on all these roads. Well have a look at the morning commute and how thats shaping start with Storm Team Meteorologist alyssa. A very, very busy couple of days for all of us. It certainly was. Thankfully, we didnt see see as many showers and storms yesterday, but the Flood Warnings that were still tracking are because of the heavy rain we received wednesday night into thursday morning. Roads are still flooded and in some sayses still impassable. Actually received close to 10 inches of rain. Same situation in rock fish yesterday morning. So very dangerous situation there yesterday. Thankfully, the waters are starting to recede, but that Flood Warning in effect until later this evening. We are looking
Will be a lot of rain, that will break loose and well deal with rain before we get through the neck seven days. Ill let you know the best shot when that gets here. Christine, back to you. Christine al, thank you. Charlottemecklenburg police are looking for the person who violently attacked a preeing pregnant woman. The woman was at the bus stop when a man attacked her, tried to steal her purse. She talked with our alex giles about how she and the baby are doing and the mixed emotions she feels after the attack. This is where he was kicking me in the face. Reporter olivia oning could did you has the wounds from saturday nights battle. Waiting for the bus, she was surprised to see a strange man inching toward mur. Came up and said im waiting on the bus just like you, but smacked me on the butt to grab my purse. She wouldnt give it up. Head. A tussle while nine months pregnant. He kicked me in the face telling me to shut up. She kept yelling. The man took off, she went to a neighbors hous