Eyewitness news. Belt tightening at your childs school. What wake schools is doing to save money and how it will affect your kids classroom. A triangle man accused of kidnapping three girls. How Police Caught the suspect the crime hes charged with from a year ago. A College Student charged with killing a couple the horrific thing police say he did during the murders. Eyewitness news starts right now. The heat index hovering close to 100 again tomorrow. Good evening, im tisha powell. And im joel brown. In for steve daniels. That extreme heat. forcing wake schools to change practice schedules again today and tomorrow. Chief meteorologist Chris Hohmann joins us from the storm center with more on what we can expect tomorrow. No surpriseanother heat index of 100 105. Once again, shower activity was virtually non existent as High Pressure controls the atmosphere. Tonight will be clear and warm with lows in the low and mid 70s. Not much change tomorrow, although a spotty shower or storm is po
With their slights flashing. We asked one of the officials on scene if that was connected to this. They were being cagey and all they were saying is were checking a few things out. We have confirmed a 45yearold cab driver shot to death after he brought one or more fare fairs fairs here. Im steve sbraccia. The man shot and killed in raleigh pleading for justice. The attorney calling the accused killer George Zimmerman 2. 0. Copley is charged with murder after he shot Kouren Thomas on singleleaf lane. Minutes before the shooting copley called 911 and said he was armed and was going to protect the neighborhood. Im locked and loaded and going out to secure the neighborhood. Im sorry . Im going to secure my neighborhood. Im the Neighborhood Watch and ill have my neighbors with me. Its 1 00 in the morning. Were going to secure our neighborhood. After the shooting copley called 911 again saying quote he fired ani arm. There is no Neighborhood Watch for singleleaf lane and friends of thomas sa
The strength of an update as soon as we have information. Wrals laura leslie showing what she knows about the job cuts over a cisco. Reporter multiple Media Outlets are reporting the tech giant is expected to cut the 40,000 jobs over the next couple of months. They employ 71,000 people around the world amounting to 20 . The Industry Analysts say the reduction is response for the changing demand for networking as more and more businesses turn to Cloud Computing and other webbased servic servers is falling. That isnt expected to change anytime soon. A Company Insider say they are transferring to a less hardware heavy business model. Cisco has not yet confirmed the reported cuts and it is unclear how many will be cut at the rtp site. It is not just cisco. Other giants has also announced cuts. Iker soft is laying off about this summer we learned a should be would be cutting 3000 jobs. The production at cisco is by far the largest. Laura leslie reporting. Jack robbins took over as ceo last
Today will be like yesterday and the day before. But we will gradually have some changes coming into the area. We should see some thunderstorms tomorrow and it stays muggy around here through the weekend. Look at that sunshine in durham. We do have a heat advisory in effect across most of our viewing area along the i95 corridor. It will still feel close to 100 advisory area. It is another day to take it easy in the afternoon. It is 76 in durham and 75 in rocky mount, wilson, and erwin with 73 in southfield. Expect to mid and upper 70s and 90 by lunchtime. It is going to be a toasty one. Not a lot of reporter today that the we will take a look at that on futurecast. Brian is here with a look at the commitment. It looks good inside the beltline for sure. As we take a look at durham wral traffic south on rock quarry road will for a crush on lyndhurst drive. I will zoom in just to check the sensors. We are not picked up any delays on it could change. Right now it is looking clear as they g
Want to take it easy. Especially along the i95 corridor for this afternoon. We are still expecting a gradual backing off of the heat over the next several days. Are chance of precipitation should go up as well. We will cover all of that coming up. Things, elizabeth. They were accused of milking the Wake County School system out of money. The last of the cases is being tried this week. Rodney smith started the scheme. Wrals amanda lamb has been in the courtroom following this story and he joins us Wayne County Justice Center to explain what is going on. Reporter bill, it is a little complicated, but i am going to break it down for you. Smith is accused of paying a Wake County Court here are the wake county Justice Center to falsify information in the computer. That information that allowed him to get out of paying tens of thousands of dollars that was owed to the court system. By law, this money goes to the so the prosecutor in this case says they are the real victims. In an old on orth