Y2474y yy6y Eyewitness News. Severe Weather knocking out power. And pelting parts of the triangle with hail. Were tracking the storms. Plus terror playing out inside an Elementary School in South Carolina. A teenager walking into the school with a gun. What weve learned about the suspect and his victims. And. A frightening find. why a major retailer is pulling one halloween decoration. Eyewitness news starts right now. Breaking news one on the road in the triangle. This i40 westbound. Near harrison avenue in cary. wet and dreary conditions not clearing up anytime soon. Good evening everyone. Im steve daniels. And im powell. A severe thunderstorm watch just expired for the viewing area, but some area remain under a flash tracking it all in the first alert storm center. Chris . Severe thunderstorm watchnt 10 pm strong to severe thunderstorms erupting now. Lr there is a threat of an isolated tornado as well through the evening. Showers and storms may re ignite late evening, but Severe Thr
Warm air and see continued sunshine. Temperatures feel like they should in late april. Its a significant warmup on the way here. Not as cold today, looking at temperatures around 49 degrees still at 8 00 a. M. Up to 59 degrees by lunchtime. 75 is our high as we head into this afternoon. Ill have the forecast coming up. For now, lets get a check on the morning drive. Outside currently, taking a live look here at i440 and capital boulevard. Lets go ahead and switch things over a second here to our traffic map, which is going to show no major issues to tell you about on the road. We have the shoulder closed. That is between exit 293 and 301. Also, we have the exit ramps at russ and stefan . We have two senators expected to visit our state. Ted cruz and donald trump will be here. Cbs North Carolinas emma right is live with more on what we can expect. Emma. Cruz has been battling front runner donald trump for the past few months, with trump coming up on top. Cruz trailed by any one delegate
Colleague Steve Birkenau teaches at the Army War College in fort leavenworth. He welcomed me to cal state northridge in 2000 and pretty much taught me how to be a professor. I appreciate that. The other person i really appreciate is my ophthalmologist. If you buy the book, you know the book is dedicated to my ophthalmologist. Terrible series of eye surgeries a few years ago and he literally saved my vision and my life as i want to live it so a shout out to him. Look him up. He is the best there is. I think i will talk specifically tonight not on all of the different aspects of the Wallace Campaign but to give you a sliver in particular on wallaces tour through the south in august and september of 1948. Openingways, it was an for what became the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Theres plenty of time for questions at the end and i would any things onwer american communists which is a big part of the book and Foreign Policy and the cold war. Tonight, my focus will be primarily on the s
Im brian flores in for tori campbell. Cleanup is currently underway in perkily after another night of destructive berkeley after another night of destructive demonstrations by protesters. Heres more. Reporter work crews were out early this morning boarding up businesses in berkeley that were damaged during last nights demonstration. Vandals smashed windows and busted the at ms at this chase bank. This nearby mcdonalds was ransacked and protesters hit city hall. People who work downtown are frustrated by all of this destruction. Its not necessary. The protests, its not real. [chanting [brrk. Reporter close to 600 people took to the streets of berkeley for a second straight night. Protesters are angry over the recent deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police. Early on, things were peaceful here. But then some in the crowd got out of hand. Vandalizing stores, setting bon fires and smashing patrol cars. At one point, protesters clashed with chp officers on highway 24, briefly shut
80 of the students would be considered black and universities. There are even a couple of historical black colleges and universities because of the history who actually have student populations that are more predominantly caucasian. They represented an opportunity for blacks at that time to get an education, and overtime has evolved into worldclass institution such as ours. Host as far as the role they serve today, how would you describe that particularly as colleges as a competitive thing and a lot of colleges to compete with . Guest absolutely. We remain competitive. For several reasons. We represent about the percent of africanamerican students in Higher Education. The account for 21 or 22 of all africanamerican graduates from Higher Education in the country today. When you look at that impact as a population, we certainly have a very strong impact in the core group of institutions. I do not think the issue is about relevance, i think the issue is about how excellent we can become.