County schools and fort bragg schools closed today. We do have our Team Coverage of the flooding. Cbs North Carolinas justin is in hornet county and amy cut ler in Cumberland County. Allie is keeping an eye on the roads and has details of any places you should avoid today. Lets go straight to storm team meat rolgs. We just need some dry spell for a couple of days, dont we . E most part as we head into the weekend and early next week. This morning, we are looking at a lingering shower or two wrapping up. Cant promise you a dry morning or dry afternoon, but the weekend, like i said, looking considerably drier for us. So lets get to the temperatures. If you are getting ready to head out early this morning or maybe just roll oefrg in bed, know theres very warm temperatures for this time of year. 73 in both raleigh and lilington. 71 in clinton. A few areas in the 60s. Remember, normal overnight lows actually in the 50s for this time of year. When we finally hit those again, boy, is it going
Meteorologist. Floosh Flood Warning through 545 this morning for hope counties. Getting reports of water rising. So well work to get the latest on that information for you this morning. Now in the meantime lets go ahead and check in with where the rain is falling this morning. Take this full screen for heres that radar. Style associated with these storms. Rain is starting to let up here in moore county. Seeing the latest images. Across hope, dumb berland county. A lot of crowd to ground lightning. That continue to be in effect this morning. Getting to your temperatures 66 in raleigh and in clayton. 65 in wilmington. 63 in henlderson north of the triangle. South of triangle were at 67 76 at lunchtime. More storms possible this amp. The potential for some gusty winds. Ill walk you through the rest of the forecast. Allie . Good morning. 4 32. Youre going to need a lot of extra time. Wet condition. I40 at painl road. That spray from the tractor trailer as hard to see because of that rain f
Rain likely. Also much cooler. We are at 76 at lunchtime. 78 for an afternoon high. Wet and windy conditions really starting to pick up at 6 00 this evening. 76 there. More on when all of this rain and wind will move out of the area when the sunshine will return coming up in your storm team forecast. All right. Thanks a lot. Now, along the shores, many of people have spent the last couple of days bracing for the impact. Cbs North Carolinas a. J. Joins us now from oak island wit now, when we first got to oak island, the waves were not what theyre like right now. Weve been talking to people who live here. They are saying thats the one thing noticeable with this storm coming is just the intensity of the ocean. We are actually having to move up on the beach because this storm surge is just continuing to push up the coast. Now, friday is the day that people within Brunswick County say that they are ready for this storm, specifically Officials Services have specific hours on friday they are
Truck. Now, there is roadwork being done about a mile from where we are on 401 south. Apparently the driver was headed that way when this accident happened. From what we have been able to see here on the scene the driver of the white car did not make it. We are hearing from witnesses here on the scene that she was a young woman . Her early 20s. That is about now. But, again, all lanes of 401 south, the remain closed at this hour. Likely they will remain closed for quite some time. Right now the state Highway Patrol Reconstruction Team just arrived on the scene and they are going over their measuring the street and figuring out exactly how this accident happened. We will remain here on the scene and bring you updates during this newscast or at the station wral. Gerald, lynda. Thank you. The police are investigating a crash of their own. It happened a little more than an hour ago. An suv hit a pedestrian walking nor the fog line on the road. The person was killed. Durham police have not
Through charleston through columbia, south carolina. Theres been from time to time tornado warnings. That threat should mainly stay along the coast. Here around our area in central North Carolina, most of us on the dry side, but those outer bands already making their self known across the portion of the sand hills. Rain in fayetteville. Most of the northern communities still on the dry side, but if you are not seeing the rain, you are likely going to wake up to a in raleigh. 72 lewisburg and durham. 70 in henderson and roanoke rapids. Your forecast for the day ahead, its going to be wet for us. 73, some patchy fog at 8 a. M. 76 at noon. Rain likely. Rain heavy at times. All in all around our viewing area between 2 and 5 inches of rain. 78, our afternoon high. Ly let you know when the rain and wind will taper off. Well have a look at all the ten minutes in your storm team forecast. Well, storm preparations are underway right now from here to the coast for this storm. She is live in the