Thursday, over the bahamas, off the coast of florida, friday. Then possibly on our doorstep as we had into the weekend. So here it is. The cone of uncertainty covering most of our state. Remember, two out of 2 3 goes in the cone. As we head through the week something on our doorstep saturday. There will be a lot of changes. Well have to changes and shifts together. Well tell you when it could arrive here if at all coming up. Governor pat mccrory launched a state emergency for 66 county ahead of the storm. Cbs North Carolina beau minnick joins us live to break down how this latest action could affect you. Reporter sean, this declaration covers central and eastern North Carolina, and today the governor said hes concerned about areas in particular ones where the our rivers are at this point in time very high because of the rain during the last two weeks. So we want to make sure that we have everything in place early. Reporter Emergency Management Officials Say since we kent know qb exactl
Tempatures in the ow70 well talk about sunshine in a few mis. R Team Coverage continues in cumberland where some homes are still unr w arleigh griffe ie in hope m wa look at how with e carleigh. Reporter sharon, the water you see behind us is actually a small creek that flowed over its banks and homes and this family here just within the last couple of h the water receded enough for them to get back tir housa home just own t road from e has now becoa xture inthe little rockfish creek. A home turned to an highland island. No way to get to this except by boat. They posted a sign asking for help from one, so they can justdo the road, before the waters drew away from the house, keith davis anhis family were using a kayak. They floated fromtheir poh to save any item they could. Things are a mess, just scattered around. Reporter the water poured inside filling rooms up to the ceiling. Davis said their home of yean possessions are gone. There are no words. Theres no words. Thats everything we
That is sunshine. For tonight a few scattered showers and storms through 8 00, 9 00. Then we will dry out as we head into the 70s. We just got new news from the noshing National Hurricane center. Matthew has 140mileanhour winds. Ill feel fill you in on the grips with the damage caused by one family said fire water flooded their entire home. Its still a mess. Reporter let me show you a little bit of that. This is the little rockfish higher a couple hours ago. This familys lawn looked like a pond. You can see the water line on the brick of their house. The water got up that high even using kayaks. They wasted little time trying to get into their house, kayak or truck. Nonlifethreatening smallest even the smallest sentimental item was worth saving. Its a disaster he said he could never imagine happening, water washing away everything his family has worked for. It got about 2 1 2 foot from here a few minutes ago. Its a sign of how much they will have to throw away because the damage done.
Just west of you guys in spring lake and on post. We come to the west just a little bit where there was another Flood Warning in Chatham County. You can see incredibly heavy rain there with even more dangerous lightning. We come to the north of it from Chatham County around siler city just west of pittsboro on up toward chapel hill in hillsboro in orange county. Load warnings and heavy downpours continue. Its not as heavy with the rain up in parts of granville and Person County and across the border into western parts of Mecklenburg County but rain continuing, also know Flood Warning there. It looks like as we wrap up the evening and had up into head heavy rain will be the biggest threat, several bullseyes, wanted reenters along the i94 i95 corridor. 12 inches but some parts of the sandhills and heavy rain continues to the west of the triangle where they have already received 34 inches and i fear that rain will continue for the next couple of hours and that might even lead to some prob
Hospital and is expected to survive. Police are telling us the two shootings are connected but at this point they have not made any arrests that would suggest that the suspect or suspects remain at large. Well be t here gathering more information. Im amy cutler, cbs North Carolina. Different counties, different early voting rules. The state board of steve . Reporter over and over again the issue over sunday voting came up. Now a lot of counties dont want it because they said we have 17 days of early voting instead of 10, but others say the sunday voting is or for minority participation. The board unanimously approved very very but no sunday voting. I am aware of the stats and will not support it mels the board tells me. So your position is are respective of what the law requires you to consider, you as an individual will never support sunday voting. Should i infer that is. If you as a board ll support sunday voting. If left up to me, i will not. Whats the basis . We have extended sites