He is the one responsible in the death of melissa ggins jones. This case is about the state of North Carolina versus Travion Smith. At the end of the day, the fact that Ronald Anthony has pled guilty to firstdegree murder has no basis, has no relevance to what you are here decide. The jury is considering firstdegree murder and Second Degree murder. If convicted of firstdegree murder, the jury will have to decide if he should be sentenced to death or life in prison. Now to a breaking traffic news, a Massive Police presence has closed i40 in raleigh. Heres what we know. Police are investigating a person on that bridge. I40 is closed in both directions on rock quarry road. Youre looking at the Traffic Camera. You can see evidence of it being close. It is also close up i40 overpass. The incident involves a person on e bridge. Updates as soon as information becomes available. You can also find breaking news updates on our website, www. Wral. Com. The court of appeals ruled in a series of ca
Now the wer outages. Wind being the big story, 35,000 customers without power in wake county, 1200 and durham county. 3700 and Granville County which is seen the most problems but it is a crazy morning out there with the severe weather. Blustery wind and all of the rain ming down. Thats right, we have not had a lot of lightning but a squall line has much from west to east across the viewing area and kicked wind. We had just been wrals just gusts in fayetteville of to 50 Miles Per Hour on custom of places of 45 Miles Per Hour. We start out with e radar, the squall line is beginning to weaken a little bit. 15 minutes or so we had eight or nine counties under a severe thunderstorm warning, much of that has expired but we zoom into the counties that are still affected. That would be Wilson County and johnson unty affected. Prceton and kenly, your single rain right now and most tuxedos strong gusty winds of those bands of rain. So lets take a look at who is likely to see this and the timing
Also some wind and could be outages. Don, good morning. Don good morning to you. We are watching the line of showers, not a ton of thunder. It has weakened a bit but heavy rainfall with the line as in pours through putting down a good quarter to a half inch of rain in 15 minutes. It extends from roxboro through eastern Durham County and now arriving over downtown raleigh. About a half hour to 45 minutes it picked up speed so it is ahead of schedule. Moving into Johnston County and in smithfield the next half hour and out of favorite but clinton will see it. Goldsboro will be 7 00 to get to you. Behind it, it is cooling it. 52 roxboro. 54 chapel hill. 56 fayetteville. Looking at the day ahead. 57 now and by lunchtime clouds and sunshine, 55 degrees. We will talk more about the warm roads with Amber Rupinta. Amber watch for ponding on some roadways with the heavy rain. We have some of that we can show with a live picture. This is new hope and buffaloe road and you see some of the ponding
The delayed expansion of the wastewater treatment plant in Wilkesboro is expected to cost $72 million and take about three years to complete, according to an engineering report released Monday.