Thanks for joining us. Im bob massi. Im 1954, walt disney began construction on what he envisioned to be a magical place for families on the site of a former orange grove in california. Walt disney is a man who had a dream, a dream to take raw land and, with courage and conviction, build a Magic Kingdom called disneyland. Disneyland was a huge success. But walt disney knew that hardly anyone crossed the mississippi to travel to disneyland. So he needed a place on the east coast. The requirements were good weather and also a populous destination. Walt disney saw the unlimited potential of Central Florida. The area around orlando was mostly orange groves, swamps and farmland. There were only 7,500 total residents in Osceola County back in the early 60s. There werent, for miles, any utilities that people could have even connected to. Nothing but cows and oranges. With the florida turnpike and interstate 4 under construction, well, disney made his decision. But he kept it very quiet. Well,
Steady in nature but scattered enough to cause issues. Very warm and muggy, mid70s durham and raleigh, 74 sanford. Your forecast for the day ahead calling for some fog and as you head out the door, 74 at 8 00 a. M. , 79 at noon, 82 our afternoon high, big drop from yesterday. It does look like rain will stick around the next few days. Ill have the forecast in ten minutes. Over to you guy. Thank you, alyssa. Authorities are questioning several people determine any possible connection between several incidents in new york and new jersey. An explosion in a busy neighborhood injured 29 people. Authorities found an unexploded Pressure Cooker device blocks away and found suspicious device over in new jersey. An fbi spokesperson said agents stopped a suspicious vehicle. So far authorities have not charged anyone. One of five device in a backpack near a train station exploded while a robot tried to disarm it. The fbi is trying to disarm the others without them going off. There were no report o
The moment. As we head through the next couple of hours we will see that moving to chat a and possibly wake county. Keep it here, we watch the showers moving through on the radar and brian will show you how that affects you on the roads. Looking out toward western boulevard, you can see the lights but cannot point out the state fairgrounds. Some low clouds. At the tv studios, 53. 53 in durham, 51 in wake forest, 53 in zebulun. These temperatures are not likely to warm up much because of that front coming true. Going to keep our temperatures cool today. Heres a look at the planner. 50s across the board, cloudy skies all day. Better chance of showers top of the triangle later this afternoon. Brian is here as promised taking a look at the road with her index. A little bit of patchy fog out there. Just a little bit. Can find anything on the cameras, that is a change an hour ago when we had fog on the western side of wake county. Looking clear run the triangle. However heading to the south
And 3 30 this afternoon in our area including this one east of clayton involving a pick up. Statewide that number of accidents is more than 1,000. We have Team Coverage of this winter storm starting with greg fishel. Greg . All right deb from raleigh south and east this has transformed into a liquid event so nothing to worry about tonight but well talk about the areas that do have something to worry about in just a minute. Heres the radar color coated so you can see the areas that are still experiencing freezing rain and drizzle and the green areas indicating in liquid form and that boundary will be moving to the north and west overnight. Lets check out the current temperatures right now so basically if your air temperature is at 32 or higher the ice event is over. So rocky mount, the 31 you see there is actually at rdu close to 32 in raleigh itself. About. Raleigh durham airport points north and west where its 31 or lower theres a chance of a little bit of ice this evening before temp
Beaten and stabbed by her 8 yearold daughter in her North Raleigh apartment in may 2013. The same jury found Travion Smith kildee of her first killed her and was convicted of firstdegree murder. On friday, the state and defense rested. Today, the jury is expected to get the sentencing case. The state requires a unanimous decision by all jurors. When the jury comes back with a decision we will stream live on www. Wral. Com. It is set to start at 9. 30. A michigan man will be arraigned withconnections to a seven hour crime spree that killed six people and left to injured. Asked on champion reports, authorities are now working to piece together the timeline of the suspect. A 45yearold uber driver who reportedly picked up passengers in between shootings. Multiple murder and apons charges connected to a deadly shooting rampage in kalamazoo. The 45yearold uber driver targeted victims at random, mark dutton gets chills thinking about his encounter. Its crazy to think someone could have gone o