Education and a champion for teachers and students. Jewells say he spoke with ellis back to work in forysth County School system. He family says they nee time to grieve and arrangements are still in the works. A shooting investigation is underway tonight at a wake forest gas station. It happened this afternoon a the shell station on durham road. Polie say the victim was shot in the armthe injuries are not life threatning. Officers say the shooting appears to be accidental. Police are still working to piece together exactly what happened. Were working to learn who pulled the trigger and if be filed. Tonight. A North Carolina Police Officer is in Critical Condition and authorities are searching for the shooter. It happened just after midnight in shelby. Thats in cleveland county. Officer tim brackeen was looking for a person wanted on outstanding warrants. Authorities are now searching for Lucien Fenner junior. Hes wanted for attempted murder. But more charges could be coming as the inve
Reduced visibility, i want to start off with the visibility math, look at this fayetteville seeing foggy conditions, reducing visibility below 2 miles, 5 miles around portions sampson county, well monitor this closely as we head throughout the morning. Lets check in temperatures 69 in raleigh. Upper 60s in durham. Here is the forecast for the day ah 8 00 a. M. 82 by lunch time. 87 our afternoon high. Mainly dry through 6 00 this evening. Coming up in 10 minutes, back to you guys. The fallout out over house bill continues,. Its a major blow to the state and colleges here in the triangle, North Carolina david hurst joins us live, david, governor about this. Yeah, the ncaa made the announcement last night. The governor has yet to give a response to this decision. So we may hear from him about it. The ncaa announced they are pulling seven events, the first and second rounds of the mens basketball tournament. The head of the ncaa provide a safe and at their events. Nbas decision to pull fro
A beautiful week heading our way with a small chance of a shower. Were starting off dry. 66 is where we are in raleigh over the beltline, no changes to the skyline just yet. Sunrise is not until 6 57. In the meantime, we have something to talk about, foggier conditions, south of the triangle so lets check the visibility. Right now 5mile in fayetteville and clinton but check out lee county, half a miles towards pinehurst. Here in raleigh, lewisburg, smithfield reporting full visibility along the 95 corridor, things are touch and go and not really causing that many slowdowns so if youre getting ready to head out the door, take it easy if you encounter foggier conditions. Mid60s in durham and raleigh, 69 wilmington, low 70s around the sandhill, fayetteville, 72. It will be a comfortable commute for you, 69, good for weather for those at the bus stop, 82 lunchtime, still dry, 87 this afternoon, but normal is 83. Most of us dry throughout the afternoon, back to 85 by 6 00. I will have a loo
Overturned logging truck, north of exit 65, Union Harmony grove, not seeing any significant delays but we have a crew on the way to the scene and let you know the situation there when we get more in. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. Christine thank you, chris. On your side investigating a shortage of Police Officers in two community in Gaston County. The Sheriffs Office is pitching in to cover the gaps. Mark davenport live with this story, so mark, explain why not everyone is happy with the decision. Reporter christine, some people are worried the Gaston County deputies wont be compensated for the amount of time they are working in. Working double time on their off days, incurring overtime. But we spoke to Gaston County sheriff Alan Cloninger and he says his deputies are being taken care of. Cloninger told wbtv he got a call from two local police departments, first it was from belmont, thennrom stanley, both cloninger jumped i
41 seems to be a popular number from shelby, morganton, rock hill, charlotte, monroe, albermarle, salisbury and statesville, colder in boone at 29, not getting reports out of lancaster and chester, they had Power Outages this way. Partly to mostly sunny, windy, wont be damage like yesterday but still wind gusts up to 30 Miles Per Hour in the piedmont, 55 Miles Per Hour in the mountains and afternoon temperature of 56 degrees. Remember, youre never more than and traffic on wbtv news this heres chris, first alert traffic. Chris al, thank you, first alert traffic this morning is sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. And were getting going early with the morning accident here just down to the south of gilead road, that is mccoy atkin see avenue, ifat kinseyavenue, new in the last 5, 10 minutes. I77 at west boulevard, freeways once again volume light, running clearly this morning so you see a whole lot of green out there 485, 77, 85 look okay, providence road, independence, no problems as