Forecast and when youll need the umbrella in the days ahead, coming up. Right now lets check traffic. If youre getting ready to head out, lets show you a live picture, i85 and avondale drive. You can see the skies are starting to get brighter so that is good news. As far as the cars, wow, they are cruising along at a good speed because there are not many cars out there just yet. I do want to check with the drive times. If youre coming northbound into raleigh starting to see some slower action on u. S. 1 and 401 this morning between nc 55 and downtown. That is close to a 20minute drive now. Well keep you up to date on drive times and your forecast as well coming up in about 10 minutes. Now to an update on breaking news weve been telling but all morning. The bodies of two men have within found in a raleigh parking lot overnight. The scene on glenwood avenue and cbs North Carolinas Lauren Haviland is there now live and lauren, what are you learning at this point . Reporter we do know its
Person street with reaction. Sorry, we are not able to get audio with her, but will check back in and just a little bit. But, this is video from this mornings prayer vigil where dozens of people gathered to pray for the family of akiel denkins. There is the church in raleigh, people there including the family. One pastor said, this is a time when there are more questions than answers and people need to come together and pray. When that prayer started, the media was asked to leave the church. The crowd embracing akiel denkins mother during the prayer as she broke down in tears. Rolanda byrd said she was not aware of the Prayer Service until she saw it broadcasted on television this morning. Sons funeral arrangements today and came to the service because she needed support before she begins the work. Heres what she had to say. On my own i got me and my family together to be here because the proceedings that i have to go through today, i felt like i needed prayer. I came here for oktoly h
In a raleigh jonathan rodriguez. A local church held a prayer vigil for the family of denkins his mother rolanda byrd spoke briefly after the vigil and said she was able to view her sods body and her sons body yesterday and she is disappointed and frustrated with the lack of communication from raleigh pd. The Raleigh Police department has not contacted mow at all since they left crime scene. There are other people that abcs that are my lawyer has been in contact with, and most of those contacts were made by us. Dekins families what not denkins family has not said when the few rail will be held. They asked naac funeral will be held. They asked the naacp to joinen this they will. William barber spoke today on the radio he echoing calls for be vigilant for justice. Dont be violent toward one another. Nccu law professor attorneyjoyner is handel the handling the legal portion of the case in monday marks the first time an officer shot and killed someone in the line of duty in more than 7 yea
Afternoon high of only 53. Ill let you know when you need the umbrellas again coming up. Right now, ill send it to kristin with an update on traffic. Reporter good morning, everyone. Lets take a live look outside at whats going on, on the roads. Things are actually moving okay at this hour, but again, youll run into wet spots on the roads with some of the rain we were seeing earlier this morning. We switch things onto your traffic map here. One note, though, rock quarry road is blocked at i40 currently both northbound and southbound directions due to Police Activity. We have a crew en route right now to check out the situation. Well have more updates throughout the morning. 6 02. Thats your traffic. Well send things back to russ the death of 24yearold akiel dinkins during an a denkins during an arrest attempt. The investigation into what led up to the deadly incident is very active. Emma wright joins us now live from the Raleigh Police department. Shes been on the story and has details
Police going through them anything. Thrave been talking to witnesses and said they have not really gotten anything from the witnesses. Let me show you some video of what it looked like earlier. Raleigh police were called to this area about 12 30 this morning. They were originally called to do a welfare check. When they arrived they found the two men dead from gunshot wounds. When police say they have not they have identified but are not releasing the names, to us at this point but as weve been seeing for the past couple of hours a lot of family, a lot of friends, are coming here and crying, we have not been able to talk to them too much but you can tell they are just going through a lot at this point. So are police. They are going through Surveillance Video and witnesses and trying to get as much information as possible because right now they are saying they dont have much to go on. Avenue and urging you to call Crime Stoppers or the Raleigh Police department if you have any informatio