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List of closings at the bottom of your screen and on wral. Com. Huge concerns this more than about the continued threat of flooding on the neuse river. Smithfield, goldsboro, and kinston seeing flooding and renee chou is seeing firsthand how bad it is in goldsboro this morning. Renee . Reporter bill, lena, i am standing on me beyond the crime scene tape, the yellow tape, you can see water as far as the eye can see. Its astounding especially now that the sun is coming up and you can see the extent of this. We are on North Carolina street in the southwest part of goldsboro. A third of the city is unte this morning, and if yo over to the stop sign there, you can see over there it will give you an idea of how high thats probably 3 feet of water there. And the neuse river is a mile away, and we are seeing flooding here in the city of goldsboro. It has been quite a morning as we have been talking with the mayor and city manager about the status and the overview of whats going on here in the city. More than 125 structures damage. And roads throughout the county travel transcribes for folks. T ranscribe problems for folks. We want to take you to video of the neighborhoods underwater. Even this morning, water rescues are taking place. When i spoke with the county manager about how quickly the water was rising, they have been going to homes trying to get people out, yesterday and this morning. A lot of them some of them because they feel like the water is not coming to them but sooner or later, the water does come and they have to get out. So the situation in goldsboro is changing quickly as the neuse river rises to a record level. Last night, it started ticking its way down very, very slowly, and this morning, it filled up to the front yard. We were watching it progress through the its way up to the porch. Reporter and the other issue is that many residents are dealing with no power, without electricity and duke energy did have crews here trying to get to locations, but logistically, its been difficult to get to those places because of roads washed out or covered with water, and they do have crews from as far as michigan helping them out to are mica thurmond in raleigh to talk about the Power Outages. Reporter across the state nearly 166,000 customers are without power. Duke energy said all power should be restored as late as monday morning. Lets take a look at the numbers of the hardest hit areas. Robeson county with the most number in the state at 17500. Wake has 8000 power. Harnett is down to about 6500 and wayne county still has 5000 customers in the dark. Of course, as crews are heading out, they are asking for patience during this very difficult time. Mikaya thurmond, wral news, raleigh. Reporter moving down the neuse river now, there are concerns about kinston and all eyes on that town. Flooding. Some of the main streets have been flooded and evacuations are underway there as they have learned from floyd. But all the river towns are comparing this to floyd and saying that the aftermath of matthew is much worse than floyd because not only are they dealing with the rain from saturday but they are dealing with the neuse river overflow, and back here live in goldsboro, i did get to speak who was on his way to work and lives in those homes over there and was telling me yesterday afternoon, the water was only to the transformer there, about 50 yards away, and this morning you can see the water has pooled over and come up closer to where we are. So the word is at least from what the mayors telling me what he is hearing from Emergency Management officials that the river is cresting far surpasss a level set by hurricane floyd. So dealing with historic flooding in goldsboro and it will be tough for the days and weeks to come. Back to you. A third of the town underwater, unbelievable. Renee, thank you. Those people need a lot of help. A state trooper is on administrative leave after a shooting on monday night. The sergeant shot and killed a on monday night during a search and rescue operation. He was with two robeson deputies when they came across a man with a gun on a flooded road and he became hostile. Authorities have not identified the man. The fbi is handling the case. Much of lumberton is still underwater while hundreds hunker down in shelters. Carsand buildings on Martin Luther king are under water, and there are reports of gas being siphoned from vehicles in used car lots. Our storm relief phone bank today. Wral is teaming up with the red cross to help. You can call between 4 00 and 7 00 p. M. To donate to communitys who need the basics, food, water, and shelter, and they will work to get these necessities to the hardest hit areas. Certainly, with the rivers rising, its just people waiting and wishing for the best. But you guys can technically look at it and tell what will happen. Thats right. We still have a ways to go. The rivers are still rising. The tar river in the tarboro and princeville area, its still rising and expected to crest later this afternoon. Heres a look at where we still have flood warnings in effect. All of the areas shaded in green right now and also today, big concerns across the neuse river, goldsboro and kinston friday, and the Cape Fear River stage to fayetteville. So big concerns in all the areas you see shaded in green especially along the tar river and neuse river where it continues to the neuse river is looking like right now. Ng in goldsboro heres a loat the satellite and radar, quiet weather and a mix of sun and clouds, on the cool side, 45 in wake forest and here at the studios in raleigh and 44 41 in 51 in fayetteville. Highs today in the low 70s and brian shrader. Tting a on fic lights out e raleigh in garner. And i want to appreciate or i want to thank our twitter follower for that report and helping you out this morning. When you go through the intersection with the lights stop even though there are a lot of lanes coming together. The bottom line is come to a stop. Everybody stops and then proceeds sloa. Le owly. Lets take a look at the delays on the south side of raleigh the u. S. 1 interchange, a up to repo a broken down vehicle on to the delays. Beyond that, traffic is moving pretty well. But that drive, 31 minutes 440 to wade. And 440 westbound busy from the beyond as you head toward i40. Durham slow on rthbound inspots triangle secondary rod 40 westbound is between new and benson. The d. O. T. Has no time for what they will reopen. Thank you, brian. Coming up, the candidates for govema it they stand the is governor mccrory is attacking roy cooper on the state crime lab. Well, we know roy cooper ene became attorney general. Roy found a backlog of over 5,000 dna test kits and years worth of shoddy investigations. But he cleared the backlog. And roy cooper helped us solve over 2 and pus d from cold cases. Its 8 13. Hurricane matthew certainly hit the i95 corridor extremely hard. The good news is all lanes are open in south carolina. But sections of the interstate in North Carolina remain closed. Leyla santiago is checking out detours in reporter lena and bill, we mean northbound and southbound. Im going to get out of the way so you can see what the stretch of 301 south looks like in lumberton and this area, im surprised. We havent seen much of the backup that we are seeing in other parts of i95 south. The good news is we were heading down from raleigh to lumberton and had two detours, of fayetteville. So, yeah. You will see big rigs and extra traffic and 301 south, what caught my attention is a good stretch of this is only a 2 lane road. So, yeah. You can expect delays and certainly, plan for that. But, again, as you mentioned, once you hit south carolina, you will not see any of those closures. But do take note that we are southbound and hit the delay but there are closures northbound. Shrader. That brian shrader, he does a good job planning that out for you. He sure does. R 20 years in washington, were learning lots about richard burr. First, he opposed a bill prohibiting Insider Trading by members of congress. Now we learn burr had over 100,000 in oil and gas stocks while he backed legislation giving tax credits benefitting Gas Companies. And oil and Gas Companies donated over half a Million Dollars to burrs campaigns. No wonder richard burrs wealth has increased over 500 since hes been in congress. Thats making washington work for him. Well, rivers still rising, and the sun is shining and people are saying when can we ease up on the tension. Youre saying through the weekend. Through the weekend. If you progress from the east to the coast, it will be at least through potentially the first part of next week for some of you, unfortunately, but here is a look at the neuse river and where we have concerns. It did crest yesterday in the smithfield area and is starting to drop. In goldsboro, right now its starting to crest and kinston, likely cresting into friday. Kinston. Here is a look at the goldsboro level, and once you get to 24 feet, major flood stage and were at 29. 7 feet, the current reading, a new record and its likely where they will stay before it dips down. And right now, where it was forecasted to crest, its cresting now and starting to drop once we move into the later Morning Hours and in the afternoon. But its very high being above flood stage and likely above flood staig stage for the weekend. 43degrees right now in clarksville, cool outside and 49 in durham and 41 in roxboro and 51 in laurinburg, so cooler out there. Heres a live look from the roxboro skycam. We have a little bit of cloud sky. 50 at the airport with cloudy skies and high clouds and low clouds. The dew point at 49 and the humidity at 96 . A mix of sun and clouds out there for us with an area of High Pressure still the main dominant feature for us. We dont want any rain. A cold front will move in late tomorrow and run into the dry air in place and all the rain that you see, it it here. Dont worry about this rain ahead of the front. And once it moves in, it will be too dry to support the rain. Heres a current look at the hurricane we are keeping a close eye on, hurricane nicole, a category 2 storm moving north northwest at 5 Miles Per Hour and this will impact bermuda perhaps as a category 2 storm but look at what happens, the and east, and it will not affect the united states. We hoper hope hope bermuda will be okay, but it will not impact the united states. We have a northeast breeze at 5 Miles Per Hour for noon and fabulous weather for today, another great fall weather day. 78 tomorrow after starting off at 49, a start to the state fair gorgeous weather for that. 68 on friday and a front moving temperatures down. The forecast is 68 and the normal, 73. Well be below normal for friday. Saturday, 68 for the high and 45 in the low and 70s on sunday, 74 and 78 on monday and low 80s as we head into tuesday. Oak ampitheatre in greensboro last night to see President Obama Campaign for hillary clinton. The president criticized trump over the vulgar statements he made in a videotaped recording. Trump supporters repeatedly interrupted his speech. The president urged supporters to get out and vote. Donald trump will be in greensboro on friday for a rally at the white oak ampitheatre. Doors open at 11 00, and his vice pre pence, will be in raleigh today at the hilton on wake forest road at 6 00 and democratic Vice President ial nominee tim kaine will be at Davidson College for a party organizing event at 5 00 on the Chambers Hall lawn. The candidates for governor in the for their first televised debate, and attorney mccrory touched on house bill 2 d the state crime lab also came up. The candidates sparred over who would best prepare the state for an emergency. The attorney general recommended that our Rainy Day Fund was too high. Our Rainy Day Fund was too high. Ladies and gentlemen, weve had a lot of rain lately. When talking about Disaster Relief, governor mccrory took 500,000 directly out of the Disaster Relief found. You know what house bill 2. To watch the full hourlong debate, you can go to wral. Com. Wral will host another debate next tuesday. David crabtree and laura leslie will moderate. Libertarian lon cecil will join cooper and mccory. Will be tomorrow night at 7 00. It will air on wral. New overnight, a bad crash in raleigh shortly before 2 00 a. M. On hillsboro near Jones Franklin road. The car crashed and flipped and a man was thrown from the vehicle, and police tell us he is in critical condition. No word what caused the crash. Durham police are trying store robbers breaking into a durham finks jeweler. They may be driving cars like these. Our Team Coverage of matthews impact continues in our next half hour. We go back live to renee chou who is in hardhit goldsboro. And concerns for residents of moore county as they monitor red 97 set red 97 did you say 97 . Yes. You know, that reminds me of geicos 97 Customer Satisfaction rating. 97 . Helped by geicos fast and friendly claims service. Geicos as fast and friendly as it gets. Woo geico. Expect great savings and a whole lot more. Narrator what would you do if you were sent to washington . Cut the debt . Create some good jobs . Youd make peopls in washington, richard burr has made his own life better. The Insurance Industry miland wrote a planm to privatize medicare. The Insurance Industry would make billions, richard burr. Twenty years in washington. Serving himself. The time stories. Governor mccrory will hold your News Conference at 9 00 this morning to update us on the storm response. Al. Com. Watch live on wral people in edgecombe counwat of the tar river. The river is expected to crest near tarboro this afternoon which is next door princeville. Parts of that town are already underwater. A state trooper is anscoperation in lumberton. The sergeant is saido have shot and killed a man carrying a gun on a flooded road after he became hostile. The mans name has not been released. Aimee has an update on the weather. We have a few rivers reading in locations but a gorgeous start in durham, mostly sunny skies but overall, quiet and comfortable and mostly sunny skies for the forecast later today as well. A few clouds remaining dry which is great news for us. Temperatures in the 40s and 50s. 51 in raleigh and 47 in greensboro andin boone. 72 and mostly sunny, tonight and warmer tomorrow, 78, and a cold front moves in tomorrow and highs in the upper 60s on friday. We have a few accidents here and well and delays we had an earlier disabled vehicle, and it slowed things between 42 and the u. S. 1 interchange, 42 minutes from a get to u. S. 1 its clear out to airport and und. Our Team Coverage of i was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer on my spinal chord. But i spent my whole life fighting back. So you can imagine what i thought when i saw donald trump say. I dont know what i said, ah, i dont remember that reporter he is talking abothatai imprs movementonic of his arms. I dont want a president who makes fun of me. Right now on fox 50, hurric and major rivers are rising. Good morning. Good to have you us. Ill bill leslie through and im lena tillett. The neuse river remains at historic levels and wrals renee chou renee . Reporter lean, the area been very hard hit by matthew, and in times of disaster, the American Red Cross is there to help and here with me now is the Regional Communications officer for the eastern north art of the American Red Cross, brittany jennings, to tell us first of all, just how the need who are leaving their homes and evacuating the area. They are going to shelters put up by the red cross. Thats right. Nuing to see t effects of Hurricane Matthew here in as rivers begin to crest like o continuing to drive families out of their homes. Last night, the red cross and Partner Organizations are in 61 shelters, 4 in wayne and we housed about 3000 folks to grow in the coming weeks if flooding like this continues. Reporter right now, you are meeting the basic needs for people, and its important to have a place to stay, meals, showers. Thats right. Thats what were doing with the shelters right now, a safe place to stay, a cannot, a blanket cot, a blanket, and a hot meal. Orter and how are you able to help people in such organizations will be on every scene until every need is met and we will be working one on one with folks impacted to make sure that their needs are met. Ter and you seup quarters in you are getting help from volunteers all even out of the o the efforts here and the need for volunteers is urgent, and anyone who wants to help the with the red cross we encourage them to visit redcross. Org volunteers and fill out an application. The help is much appreciated. Reporter is that a long process to be trained in helping people . Its extremely quick. You go online and fill out your basic information and a the ground as quickly as possible. Reporter and the most common question when folks see flooding like this in communities in eastern North Carolina, how can i help . What can i do . Some people might want to give supplies. Are you taking tabsolutely. If you want to donate, our biggest needs are bottled water and sphoar bought snacks. Deliver them to shelters in person. The Salvation Army is wonderful partner and collecting clothing items and make sure that folks impacted by the storm are equipped with those materials. They are a great resource in the community. Reporter and cash is always appreciated. Absolutely. You can visit orext matthew to 90999 to a 0 t you c reporter and we make it tonight, wral is hosting the storm relief phone bank from 4 00 to 7 00 and call in with your donation to help eastern North Carolina and that will help the oarings including the North Carolina<\/a> street in the southwest part of goldsboro. A third of the city is unte this morning, and if yo over to the stop sign there, you can see over there it will give you an idea of how high thats probably 3 feet of water there. And the neuse river is a mile away, and we are seeing flooding here in the city of goldsboro. It has been quite a morning as we have been talking with the mayor and city manager about the status and the overview of whats going on here in the city. More than 125 structures damage. And roads throughout the county travel transcribes for folks. T ranscribe problems for folks. We want to take you to video of the neighborhoods underwater. Even this morning, water rescues are taking place. When i spoke with the county manager about how quickly the water was rising, they have been going to homes trying to get people out, yesterday and this morning. A lot of them some of them because they feel like the water is not coming to them but sooner or later, the water does come and they have to get out. So the situation in goldsboro is changing quickly as the neuse river rises to a record level. Last night, it started ticking its way down very, very slowly, and this morning, it filled up to the front yard. We were watching it progress through the its way up to the porch. Reporter and the other issue is that many residents are dealing with no power, without electricity and duke energy did have crews here trying to get to locations, but logistically, its been difficult to get to those places because of roads washed out or covered with water, and they do have crews from as far as michigan helping them out to are mica thurmond in raleigh to talk about the Power Outages<\/a>. Reporter across the state nearly 166,000 customers are without power. Duke energy said all power should be restored as late as monday morning. Lets take a look at the numbers of the hardest hit areas. Robeson county with the most number in the state at 17500. Wake has 8000 power. Harnett is down to about 6500 and wayne county still has 5000 customers in the dark. Of course, as crews are heading out, they are asking for patience during this very difficult time. Mikaya thurmond, wral news, raleigh. Reporter moving down the neuse river now, there are concerns about kinston and all eyes on that town. Flooding. Some of the main streets have been flooded and evacuations are underway there as they have learned from floyd. But all the river towns are comparing this to floyd and saying that the aftermath of matthew is much worse than floyd because not only are they dealing with the rain from saturday but they are dealing with the neuse river overflow, and back here live in goldsboro, i did get to speak who was on his way to work and lives in those homes over there and was telling me yesterday afternoon, the water was only to the transformer there, about 50 yards away, and this morning you can see the water has pooled over and come up closer to where we are. So the word is at least from what the mayors telling me what he is hearing from Emergency Management<\/a> officials that the river is cresting far surpasss a level set by hurricane floyd. So dealing with historic flooding in goldsboro and it will be tough for the days and weeks to come. Back to you. A third of the town underwater, unbelievable. Renee, thank you. Those people need a lot of help. A state trooper is on administrative leave after a shooting on monday night. The sergeant shot and killed a on monday night during a search and rescue operation. He was with two robeson deputies when they came across a man with a gun on a flooded road and he became hostile. Authorities have not identified the man. The fbi is handling the case. Much of lumberton is still underwater while hundreds hunker down in shelters. Carsand buildings on Martin Luther<\/a> king are under water, and there are reports of gas being siphoned from vehicles in used car lots. Our storm relief phone bank today. Wral is teaming up with the red cross to help. You can call between 4 00 and 7 00 p. M. To donate to communitys who need the basics, food, water, and shelter, and they will work to get these necessities to the hardest hit areas. Certainly, with the rivers rising, its just people waiting and wishing for the best. But you guys can technically look at it and tell what will happen. Thats right. We still have a ways to go. The rivers are still rising. The tar river in the tarboro and princeville area, its still rising and expected to crest later this afternoon. Heres a look at where we still have flood warnings in effect. All of the areas shaded in green right now and also today, big concerns across the neuse river, goldsboro and kinston friday, and the Cape Fear River<\/a> stage to fayetteville. So big concerns in all the areas you see shaded in green especially along the tar river and neuse river where it continues to the neuse river is looking like right now. Ng in goldsboro heres a loat the satellite and radar, quiet weather and a mix of sun and clouds, on the cool side, 45 in wake forest and here at the studios in raleigh and 44 41 in 51 in fayetteville. Highs today in the low 70s and brian shrader. Tting a on fic lights out e raleigh in garner. And i want to appreciate or i want to thank our twitter follower for that report and helping you out this morning. When you go through the intersection with the lights stop even though there are a lot of lanes coming together. The bottom line is come to a stop. Everybody stops and then proceeds sloa. Le owly. Lets take a look at the delays on the south side of raleigh the u. S. 1 interchange, a up to repo a broken down vehicle on to the delays. Beyond that, traffic is moving pretty well. But that drive, 31 minutes 440 to wade. And 440 westbound busy from the beyond as you head toward i40. Durham slow on rthbound inspots triangle secondary rod 40 westbound is between new and benson. The d. O. T. Has no time for what they will reopen. Thank you, brian. Coming up, the candidates for govema it they stand the is governor mccrory is attacking roy cooper on the state crime lab. Well, we know roy cooper ene became attorney general. Roy found a backlog of over 5,000 dna test kits and years worth of shoddy investigations. But he cleared the backlog. And roy cooper helped us solve over 2 and pus d from cold cases. Its 8 13. Hurricane matthew certainly hit the i95 corridor extremely hard. The good news is all lanes are open in south carolina. But sections of the interstate in North Carolina<\/a> remain closed. Leyla santiago is checking out detours in reporter lena and bill, we mean northbound and southbound. Im going to get out of the way so you can see what the stretch of 301 south looks like in lumberton and this area, im surprised. We havent seen much of the backup that we are seeing in other parts of i95 south. The good news is we were heading down from raleigh to lumberton and had two detours, of fayetteville. So, yeah. You will see big rigs and extra traffic and 301 south, what caught my attention is a good stretch of this is only a 2 lane road. So, yeah. You can expect delays and certainly, plan for that. But, again, as you mentioned, once you hit south carolina, you will not see any of those closures. But do take note that we are southbound and hit the delay but there are closures northbound. Shrader. That brian shrader, he does a good job planning that out for you. He sure does. R 20 years in washington, were learning lots about richard burr. First, he opposed a bill prohibiting Insider Trading<\/a> by members of congress. Now we learn burr had over 100,000 in oil and gas stocks while he backed legislation giving tax credits benefitting Gas Companies<\/a>. And oil and Gas Companies<\/a> donated over half a Million Dollars<\/a> to burrs campaigns. No wonder richard burrs wealth has increased over 500 since hes been in congress. Thats making washington work for him. Well, rivers still rising, and the sun is shining and people are saying when can we ease up on the tension. Youre saying through the weekend. Through the weekend. If you progress from the east to the coast, it will be at least through potentially the first part of next week for some of you, unfortunately, but here is a look at the neuse river and where we have concerns. It did crest yesterday in the smithfield area and is starting to drop. In goldsboro, right now its starting to crest and kinston, likely cresting into friday. Kinston. Here is a look at the goldsboro level, and once you get to 24 feet, major flood stage and were at 29. 7 feet, the current reading, a new record and its likely where they will stay before it dips down. And right now, where it was forecasted to crest, its cresting now and starting to drop once we move into the later Morning Hours<\/a> and in the afternoon. But its very high being above flood stage and likely above flood staig stage for the weekend. 43degrees right now in clarksville, cool outside and 49 in durham and 41 in roxboro and 51 in laurinburg, so cooler out there. Heres a live look from the roxboro skycam. We have a little bit of cloud sky. 50 at the airport with cloudy skies and high clouds and low clouds. The dew point at 49 and the humidity at 96 . A mix of sun and clouds out there for us with an area of High Pressure<\/a> still the main dominant feature for us. We dont want any rain. A cold front will move in late tomorrow and run into the dry air in place and all the rain that you see, it it here. Dont worry about this rain ahead of the front. And once it moves in, it will be too dry to support the rain. Heres a current look at the hurricane we are keeping a close eye on, hurricane nicole, a category 2 storm moving north northwest at 5 Miles Per Hour<\/a> and this will impact bermuda perhaps as a category 2 storm but look at what happens, the and east, and it will not affect the united states. We hoper hope hope bermuda will be okay, but it will not impact the united states. We have a northeast breeze at 5 Miles Per Hour<\/a> for noon and fabulous weather for today, another great fall weather day. 78 tomorrow after starting off at 49, a start to the state fair gorgeous weather for that. 68 on friday and a front moving temperatures down. The forecast is 68 and the normal, 73. Well be below normal for friday. Saturday, 68 for the high and 45 in the low and 70s on sunday, 74 and 78 on monday and low 80s as we head into tuesday. Oak ampitheatre in greensboro last night to see President Obama Campaign<\/a> for hillary clinton. The president criticized trump over the vulgar statements he made in a videotaped recording. Trump supporters repeatedly interrupted his speech. The president urged supporters to get out and vote. Donald trump will be in greensboro on friday for a rally at the white oak ampitheatre. Doors open at 11 00, and his vice pre pence, will be in raleigh today at the hilton on wake forest road at 6 00 and democratic Vice President<\/a> ial nominee tim kaine will be at Davidson College<\/a> for a party organizing event at 5 00 on the Chambers Hall<\/a> lawn. The candidates for governor in the for their first televised debate, and attorney mccrory touched on house bill 2 d the state crime lab also came up. The candidates sparred over who would best prepare the state for an emergency. The attorney general recommended that our Rainy Day Fund<\/a> was too high. Our Rainy Day Fund<\/a> was too high. Ladies and gentlemen, weve had a lot of rain lately. When talking about Disaster Relief<\/a>, governor mccrory took 500,000 directly out of the Disaster Relief<\/a> found. You know what house bill 2. To watch the full hourlong debate, you can go to wral. Com. Wral will host another debate next tuesday. David crabtree and laura leslie will moderate. Libertarian lon cecil will join cooper and mccory. Will be tomorrow night at 7 00. It will air on wral. New overnight, a bad crash in raleigh shortly before 2 00 a. M. On hillsboro near Jones Franklin<\/a> road. The car crashed and flipped and a man was thrown from the vehicle, and police tell us he is in critical condition. No word what caused the crash. Durham police are trying store robbers breaking into a durham finks jeweler. They may be driving cars like these. Our Team Coverage<\/a> of matthews impact continues in our next half hour. We go back live to renee chou who is in hardhit goldsboro. And concerns for residents of moore county as they monitor red 97 set red 97 did you say 97 . Yes. You know, that reminds me of geicos 97 Customer Satisfaction<\/a> rating. 97 . Helped by geicos fast and friendly claims service. Geicos as fast and friendly as it gets. Woo geico. Expect great savings and a whole lot more. Narrator what would you do if you were sent to washington . Cut the debt . Create some good jobs . Youd make peopls in washington, richard burr has made his own life better. The Insurance Industry<\/a> miland wrote a planm to privatize medicare. The Insurance Industry<\/a> would make billions, richard burr. Twenty years in washington. Serving himself. The time stories. Governor mccrory will hold your News Conference<\/a> at 9 00 this morning to update us on the storm response. Al. Com. Watch live on wral people in edgecombe counwat of the tar river. The river is expected to crest near tarboro this afternoon which is next door princeville. Parts of that town are already underwater. A state trooper is anscoperation in lumberton. The sergeant is saido have shot and killed a man carrying a gun on a flooded road after he became hostile. The mans name has not been released. Aimee has an update on the weather. We have a few rivers reading in locations but a gorgeous start in durham, mostly sunny skies but overall, quiet and comfortable and mostly sunny skies for the forecast later today as well. A few clouds remaining dry which is great news for us. Temperatures in the 40s and 50s. 51 in raleigh and 47 in greensboro andin boone. 72 and mostly sunny, tonight and warmer tomorrow, 78, and a cold front moves in tomorrow and highs in the upper 60s on friday. We have a few accidents here and well and delays we had an earlier disabled vehicle, and it slowed things between 42 and the u. S. 1 interchange, 42 minutes from a get to u. S. 1 its clear out to airport and und. Our Team Coverage<\/a> of i was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer on my spinal chord. But i spent my whole life fighting back. So you can imagine what i thought when i saw donald trump say. I dont know what i said, ah, i dont remember that reporter he is talking abothatai imprs movementonic of his arms. I dont want a president who makes fun of me. Right now on fox 50, hurric and major rivers are rising. Good morning. Good to have you us. Ill bill leslie through and im lena tillett. The neuse river remains at historic levels and wrals renee chou renee . Reporter lean, the area been very hard hit by matthew, and in times of disaster, the American Red Cross<\/a> is there to help and here with me now is the Regional Communications<\/a> officer for the eastern north art of the American Red Cross<\/a>, brittany jennings, to tell us first of all, just how the need who are leaving their homes and evacuating the area. They are going to shelters put up by the red cross. Thats right. Nuing to see t effects of Hurricane Matthew<\/a> here in as rivers begin to crest like o continuing to drive families out of their homes. Last night, the red cross and Partner Organizations<\/a> are in 61 shelters, 4 in wayne and we housed about 3000 folks to grow in the coming weeks if flooding like this continues. Reporter right now, you are meeting the basic needs for people, and its important to have a place to stay, meals, showers. Thats right. Thats what were doing with the shelters right now, a safe place to stay, a cannot, a blanket cot, a blanket, and a hot meal. Orter and how are you able to help people in such organizations will be on every scene until every need is met and we will be working one on one with folks impacted to make sure that their needs are met. Ter and you seup quarters in you are getting help from volunteers all even out of the o the efforts here and the need for volunteers is urgent, and anyone who wants to help the with the red cross we encourage them to visit redcross. Org volunteers and fill out an application. The help is much appreciated. Reporter is that a long process to be trained in helping people . Its extremely quick. You go online and fill out your basic information and a the ground as quickly as possible. Reporter and the most common question when folks see flooding like this in communities in eastern North Carolina<\/a>, how can i help . What can i do . Some people might want to give supplies. Are you taking tabsolutely. If you want to donate, our biggest needs are bottled water and sphoar bought snacks. Deliver them to shelters in person. The Salvation Army<\/a> is wonderful partner and collecting clothing items and make sure that folks impacted by the storm are equipped with those materials. They are a great resource in the community. Reporter and cash is always appreciated. Absolutely. You can visit orext matthew to 90999 to a 0 t you c reporter and we make it tonight, wral is hosting the storm relief phone bank from 4 00 to 7 00 and call in with your donation to help eastern North Carolina<\/a> and that will help the oarings including the American Red Cross<\/a>. Brittany, thank you so much. And you heard her say, 3000 renee, thank you so much. They are seeing such trouble. And because of the flooding, we have a number of schools closed in our area. List now. You can fient a complete list of closings scrolling at the bottom of your screen and on wral. Com. The tar river at tarboro is slowly rising and is expected to crest this afternoon at more than 35 feet. More than 150 buildings are at risk of high water and in greenville, the tar river is expected to crest on friday. Widespread flooding is putting more than 500 buildings at risk. And we expect to get a status update on a crumbling hole that is as large as two large trucks. The National Guard<\/a> is using pumps and sandbags to slow the water flow and try and stop this. But concerns over the potential breach led to the evacuation of hundreds of residents, many quite reluctant to leave. Aimee, you are expecting people to be affected through the weekend, not cleaning up but more water on through the thats right. And it will last through the weekend. As you get closer to the coast, it could last into the first part of next week. We have a ways to go for the waters to come down, and they are still rising along the tar river close to tarboro and princeville. A pretty shot from the apex skycam. At least the weather is staying nice after the clean up from matthew and the Power Outages<\/a> and the flooding in the eastern its on the cool side. 47 in south hill and 41 in roxboro and now its 45. Were on the cool side of normal expected it feels good outside. It will be a nice afternoon. We have a mix of sun and clouds this morning but no rain in sight. We dont have any rain in the forecast for the foreseeable future. The temperatures, 72, nice, lower than normal for this time of year and will bring the temperatures back in to the 60s through saturday. Brn shrader now keeping a close eye the roads for us. Good morning, brian. Good morning, osed because of the rricane, flooding, out, trees down in other areas. Yesterday, they reopened 95 between dunn and fayetteville but its closed between fayetteville and lumberton where we find wrals leyla santiago, and leyla, i95 closed, so much traffic looking for alternate routes. Hows traffic behind you . Reporter let me get out of the way so you can see 301 south at lumberton and we are off to the side of the radio road at a have 3 people who have come to me saying where do i go . You will get off 301 south for a detour. And you will be there for a bit, a 2lane road. But the good news is we havent seen too many problem when is it comes to accimajor delays. Just come up with a plan before you head out. Avoid it if you can. I know they found a different detour heading to lumberton for local traffic, and let me show you the detours from the d. O. T. Leaving fayetteville, 95 business to 162 westbound to u. S. 401, and then to 74 and head eastbound. The northbound trip, off at 74 and head out to laurinburg, and takes you to u. S. 1 north 40 eastbound in raleigh and b ack Johnston County<\/a> and pick up 95 on the other side of benson. And 40 westbound closed as you leave newton grove. And no word when of the interstates will reopen. County at church tree and sampson county, back to you. Thank you, brian. How the communities at the tar river are dealing with flooding. And a man attacked me in a parking garage. Tried to stab me with an 8inch knife. A pistol. I fight back. Thats why im still here. Every woman has a right to defend herself with a gun if she chooses. Hillary clinton disagrees with that. Dont let politicians take away your right to own a gun. Donald trump supports my right to own a gun. . . . . Can you say i love it . . . Oh love it . . . Can you say hey . . . Hey . . Thats the spirit oooooh. . . Ooh ooh . . Wooh ooh . . Wooh ooh . . Sing sing, baby baby i love you. Oh yes. . . Ooooh oooh. . Flooding remains a concern in Edgecombe County<\/a> along the tar river where the river is expected to crest if princeville in tarboro this afternoon. The National Guard<\/a> has been using trucks to get people out of flooded homes 25 at a time. The water is receding but other communities downstream on the tar river are still in danger. The flooding in 1 Johnston County<\/a> community is looking a little bit better. In smithfield where it sits along the neuse river. Wrals drone 5 flew over the areas underwater, and you can see the communities dealing with water in the roads and yards. Mandatory evacuations in Pender County<\/a> for those in the black river basin. People are told to get out now. Homes along the river are already underwater as it rises two shelters opened in the country for those forced to leave without anywhere to go. You can help those impacted calling into the phone bank today. Renee chou was talking about this a little ago. You can call between 4 00 and 7 00 to donate. Many communities need the basics, food, water, and shelter and this will raise the hardest hit areas. Oak view elementary has canceled classes today due to a water main break. A florida family fled the path of matthew and came ho arsenic, mercury, lead. Thats what you got. Duke energy endangered the Drinking Water<\/a> of 1. 6 Million People<\/a> in North Carolina<\/a>. And what did duke energy get . Thousands in Campaign Contributions<\/a> from duke energy executives. And what will you get . Years of higher electric bills to pay for cleaning up their mess. Welcome back. The time is now 8 46. There are so many communities right now just bracing for more water. Its so scary. You feel for them knowing they will get so much damage to their homes and their lives. And its incredible how long we have to deal with this. It was this weekend when it first arrived and we are still dealing with the impact and with the floodwaters through the weekend. This is not going anywhere any time soon for parts of the viewing area. Heres a look at the flood warnings in effect. All the areas shaded in green under flood warnings. We will talk about a few of those, the tar have i river is still rising and expected to crest in tarboro and princeville. Later this afternoon is when its expected to crest, and we are concerned about edgecombe and the neuse crest and those levels will start to drop in the afternoon. Kinston, not likely to crest until perhaps late friday into saturday. So youll be dealing with this headed into the weekend with the floodwaters rising as the waters continue to move to the east and fill up with the floodwaters. As we go south into Cumberland County<\/a> along cape fear, those news for Cumberland County<\/a>. Still above flood stage but moderate flood stage and the numbers continue to fall. So the neuse river and wayne county and kinston and parts of the tar river in tarboro and princeville, the levels continue to climb. Another cool start to the day. 45 in roxboro and 55 in goldsboro and 54 in fayetteville and it feels good but on the cool side. Dew points 50 in raleigh and the dew point in fayetteville, 53. We have fairly dry air in place ahead of a cold front that will move through tomorrow. Here is a look at the durham skycam, cloud cover and blue sky as well. The airport is reporting cloudy skies, 51 degrees and winds out of the northeast at 5 Miles Per Hour<\/a> and High Pressure<\/a> will keep things quiet for today and keep the air dry for us which is very good. Have rain along this front and ahead of this front, showers and thunderstorms possible. But as it it runs into the dry air, it will fall apart. We are not expect anything rain as it makes its way into the area tomorrow and tomorrow night. So the front will not bring us any rain. You can see the rain here. This is today at accident is 00 in the evening. Quiet here as we head into tomorrow morning, and the front will be. It moves into our area and falls apart moving into the dry air mass in place. Thank goodness we have the dry air. 66 at lunchta beautiful day, mostly sunny skies at lunchtime and temperatures this afternoon, close to normal an below that. 72 in raleigh anin fayetteville and 70 in roxboro under mostly sunny skies. Gorgeo today and 78 state fair, beautiful weather for that, and gorgeous weather for the first week of the fair. Temperatures in the 60s for the fireworks, and cooler on friday and saturday and back into the 80s as we head into tuesday. Lena . Thank you, aimee. The north korea general election North Carolina<\/a> general election is november and we are asking the candidates to tell us points on the issues. In this clip, richard burr tells us what he would do surrounding illegal immigration. Its obvious our current immigration systems what is a major failure of our govesolution, i want to ensure the integrity once we have done so we make sure wehave a Legal Process<\/a> that is understandable and consistent because thats the only way that we can ensure the Legal Process<\/a> of coming to america is solid. Solving this issue requires us to first prove to the American People<\/a> that we have finally secured the border and have a workable process that is fair and respects the rule of law. To see all position statements by the candidates, a group of hospital workers at butner Regional Hospital<\/a> are planning a mass sick out, protesting what they call unfair conditions. The search is on for a man who sexually assaulted an 11 count county. She was waiting for a school bus with other children when he forced her into his car and attacked her and let her go. He is descriwhite man with a red hat and driving a gray sedan, possibly a buick w a skull sticker on the back. A possible fires, samsung has recalled all phones and stopped making the note 7 because of a number of them overheating and catching fire. The company will offer prepaid shipping boxes for their return. A man and dog trapped in their attic are safe thanks to twitter, a drone, and a brother. Chris williams sent Text Messages<\/a> to his family he was trapped in a flooded house. Get through. Craig, the brother, turned to twitter expected found the drone photos and jokingly sent it to his brother. Turns out, his brothers house. So craig becomed the photographer. I was like hes in the neighborhood right now filming. He must be a boat or something. He told me he is getting hold of the guy in the boat and i was like, t work. The drone, of me. Chris williams was stuck in the floodwaters for 14 hours. F from their home by the storm returned a little larger than when they left. The jewell family earnedded up in a shelter in greenville, and misty went into labor and had moving from moore squa center for the performing. Moore square is preparing for major renovations. The acorn is 2 first times the size of a regular nut made of steel and copper. Well be right back. Where does North Carolina<\/a> go from here . Im roy cooper, and after years of our state moving backward, these would be my priorities as governor. First, instead of social issues, ill focus on our schools and keeping good teachers with better pay. We need to end giveaways for companies that send jobs overseas and grow our economy here. And we need to reform our tax system so those at the top arent getting tax breaks at your expense. . Nothing like a good game of sports. Acs us a valuable life lesson. That we must both maintain our composure in victory and be gracious and humble in defeat. . Narrator what would you do if you were sent to washington . Cut the debt . Create some good jobs . Youd make peoples lives better. In washington, rlife better. Ma his own richard burr took 1. 1 Million Dollars<\/a> from the Insurance Industry<\/a> and wrote a plan to privatize medicare. The Insurance Industry<\/a> would make billions, while you pay more. Richard burr. Twenty years in washington. Serving himself. Dscc is responsible for the content of this advertising. The time is 8 56. Im lena tillett. Here are your top stories. Governor mccrory will hold a News Conference<\/a> at 9 00, a few you can watch it live on wral and wral. Com. The neuse river is rising in goldsboro. In wayne county, its several feet above flood stage and in edgecombe, they are watching the rising waters of tar river. The rivers expected to crest near tarboro this afternoon. Parts of that town are already underwater, and aimee, you say this could last weekend . It very well could. Its going across the tar river basin and the neuse river as well. Well check out the latest readings on the levels coming up on wral news at noon. A beautiful start to the day for everybody. Heres a look at the wral garden where is the sun is shining. Gorgeous weather and well have mostly sunny skies throughout the day. Another pretty one. Temperatures in the low 50s, brian . 8 57, aimee, and slow downs on 40 westbound, an accident around rock quarried radio. Square quarry road. The travel times are gradually improving. I95 is still closed in both directions between lumberton and fayetteville and a detour on 40 west between newton grove and benson. Minutes, and we will carry the governors News Conference<\/a> on a man attacked me in a parking garage. Tried to stab me with an 8inch knife. But i carry a pistol. I fight back. Thats why im still here. Every woman has a right to defend herself with a gun if she chooses. Hillary clinton disagrees with that. Dont let politicians take away your right to own a gun. Announcer its time to play family feud give it up for steve harvey [captioning made possible by fremantle media] steve good, good. Thank yall. I appreciate you, now. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Hey, welcome to family feud, everybody. Im your man, steve harvey. Weve got another good one for you today, folks. Returning for their third day, from augusta, georgia, its the vandiver family. [cheering and applause] and from grady, alabama, its the dicks family. [cheering and applause] everybodys here trying to win theirself a lot of cash and a shot at driving out of here in a brandnew, headturning ford fusion hybrid, folks. 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