Transcripts For WRAZ WRALs 7AM News On Fox50 20161018 : comp

Transcripts For WRAZ WRALs 7AM News On Fox50 20161018

Skycam where you can see sunshine behind the courthouse. 61 in cary and Holly Springs. 61 in fayetteville and 58 degrees in south hill. These temperatures are well above normal for this morning and we will see well above normal temperatures this afternoon as well. Sunshine across the board with a high of 84 and temperatures up near record highs we will see a big crash in our temperatures and we will talk about the front that will create that and how much rain we may or may not see also a little wave in the tropics. In the meantime brian is here with some slow spots on the roads. We are seeing some good news but also some bad news on the east side of raleigh. This is an durham on the southbound durham freeway. And that has cleared up all lanes are open with some Police Activity on the shoulder. Lets take a look at your typical delays starting to build on 40 westbound through gardner. You can see the delays starting in advance of 42 continuing toward the clayton bypass and it looks like we have an accident on 40 westbound around lake wheeler road slowing things down on lake wheeler but let us head over to the east side of raleigh. Eastbound at 540 photographer jamie london on the scene with these life pictures. You can see there is a lot of activity and you can see a state trooper on the cement mixer and this is what we always come into concrete versus this is a concrete mixer not a cement mixer. Thank you very much. We are also seeing some westbound onlooker delays leaving myself toward raleigh. Knightdale toward raleigh. 20 would minutes coming in from the eastern side of wake county toward raleigh. You might consider using 64 business. We will talk with some of the specifics coming up in about 10 [ music ] you will be hearing the words quid pro quo a lot over the next few days with Hillary Clinton preparing for the last residential debate. Donald trump has a new attack stemming from more emails released by the fbi. As Edward Lawrence reports, trump says the process is rigs reporter the emails show a scandal. The fbi documents show Patrick Kennedy with the request for altering classification as part of a quid pro quo pitchbook in other words, a deal. This is felony corruption. Reporter in one exchange the under secretary asked to ch when she was secretary of state. The state department would then support by a lengthy appear to place more agents in countries where they are forbidden. They deny any wrongdoing. Nope quid pro quo. No exchange here. Reporter as part of the latest push his wife went on cnn planning billy bush for his food comments about women. From the host to say dirty and bad stuff. Meanwhile senator Bernie Sanders tried to reach out to Trump Supporters playing off of his rigged election claims. The system is rigged in favor of the wealthy and the powerful. Take about voting for Hillary Clinton on this issue alone. Reporter Edward Lawrence, washington. Hillary clinton has not commented. She does not scheduled to make a public appearance until the debates. Those candidates make several stops this week with mike pence holding a rally in fayetteville today also a stop in wilmington tim kaine will convene in asheville and charlotte on thursday. The three men face of one last time for the election. Pat mccrory and roy cooper and lon cecil will debate tonight at 7 00. You can see it is live on wral and on www. Wral. Com. Still no suspect always the firebombing of a local gop headquarters. No one was in the office early sunday morning and someone through a cop tells with the window send the office on fire. That person also put graffiti on an adjacent building. The Orange County gop claims to be moving to a nearby building with a joint investigation. Tackle a hot button issues. Student reassignment is always thorny. Renee chou gives us a preview in our newsroom. Reporter bill and lena, School Board Leaders today will get an overview of what came up about the proposed reassignment plan. Draft 2 of the 2017 plus 2018 assignment plan was delivered. They say it is the result of some parents are worried it will move their kids to move a new school, portis creek elementary. They say many feminists want to stay assigned at mills park elementary but the reassignment remains in the proposed plan. Some other items is the board will consider grants from four schools with an update of to the performance and adopt a budget for next school year. A quick note about the Student Assignment issue. The School System is still accepting feedback and a third draft will be announced next month. Bill and lena . Thanks, renie. The search is on for a suspect in a violent Armed Robbery. The newly released Surveillance Video police hope will help them make an arrest. After 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. Wral news on fox 50 is lena tillett. A merciful man was arrested in cary. Christopher moore no basis two charges of felony hit and runs. It happened last night before 7 pm on high house road. And sab ran over two cyclists headed in the same direction and they are now being treated at wakemed. His First Court Appearance is Surveillance Video will help them catch an Armed Robbery suspect with the Dominos Pizza on mile road grab on thursday. He is wearing a dark hooded sweat shirt and blue jeans. The suspect shot an employee, Joshua Graham in the leg before running off. Police believe suspect may be connected to other crimes in the city. Chandler kania will spend up to 16 years behind bars with a jury finding deadly crash. After a night of underaged drinking kania drove the wrong way down interstate 85 killing three people inside. Kania expressed remorse for his actions. The state parks system is celebrating a major milestone. Coming up, how you can get a taste of the safe park history at the state for next. North carolina used to make education a priority. We all understood the importance of having good schools. But pat mccrory seems more interested in giving tax cuts to millionaires. We rank 44th in spending per student. Dropout rates have gone up for the first time in 8 years. Were 41st in how much we pay our teachers. There is a textbook shortage. Early grades. He may have given tax cuts to millionaires, . Theres nothing like spending a quiet afternoon with your pals. Organize an adultappropriate activity, like a stroll through a museum. Always remain civil and mildmannered and never draw undue attention to yourself. . [ music ] the other morning coming into work. I saying data sang that son the other morning coming to work. Who does not love adele . We have some neat acts at the state fair this year, too. Usually see. So check it out. Around here we are dealing with a Beautiful Day today. A nice day at the state fair and nice that we have not had any rain since matthew came through. We are continuing to watch our river levels drop and there has been a big improvement next week. We will talk about the neuse river riding rising above false lake and then of course it comes out of the base of the dam and i have contacted the folks over at Falls Lake Dam find out when they will start to release the water in the lake that is really high. They will start to have to put water back in the river. It will be interesting to see when and how much. Smithfield of course started out with a good bit of flooding early right after matthew and then goldsboro in kinston seen the water come downstream. In goldsboro we should be out of the woods your pretty quickly below flood stage by flood stage at 17 feet. In kinston it will be a while longer with 24. 7 and that is still 3 feet above major flood stages. It is likely to be in major flood stages through tomorrow and in flood stage st. Martin flood stage to the weekend. It will be a while before all of the water drains out around kinston. Roxboro skycam looking pretty and a lot of times clouds lead for a beautiful our current temperature at the airport with the dew points on its way up. It will feel a little muggier today with temperatures feeling good at 52 in roxboro and 61 in raleigh, or when, and fayetteville. Erwin, and fayetteville. High pressure in control of our weather here bringing us plenty of sunshine. The front right now and very little rain when it comes through as well. Taking a look at what is happening in the tropics. There is a wave in the bahamas with your contender giving it a 70 chance of developing into a tropical system. While yes some of them to start to turn toward the United States all of them pulling northeastward and do not affect the southeast coast. We will continue to track that particular system for you look at these warm temperatures with 86 degrees for tomorrow and the record 87. That is true for today and thursday as well. 71 friday with temperatures starting to drop after the front comes through. 63 degrees on football friday and most of the rain will happen a little earlier in the day friday. Saturday and sunday show 60s. What a dramatic drop that will be with our normal High Temperature in the low 60s and cold temperatures into next week. Brian is here with a look at what is happening on i40. On the right lane i guess it is in the shoulder of 40 westbound around lake wheeler road and the fortify work zone we have what appears to be a minor accident. We significant delays this morning from 440 out to wade avenue. At it all together and it is a little slow this morning, as usual heading into south raleigh. Once you get beyond this congestion heading out toward corbin street we are looking good on the west side of two rtv. Out to rtv. Had that accident we showed you involving the mixer and we are still seeing some slowdowns on the eastbound of the knightdale bypass. Let us take a look at that closure south and east of the triangle with washouts and flooding. But spread this far and wide with 95 now open in both directions through North Carolina. Yesterday it was closed in sections between fayetteville and lumberto with a section on the southbound side with the right lane blocked as they do repair work right around benson. We are not seeing any big delays at this point. Damage assessments are ongoing more than a week after Hurricane Matthew struck eyes. Governor mccrory said with many areas underwater it will be a while before we know the true Financial Impact of matthew. The Cumberland County board of commissioners plans to meet tomorrow to get updates on Recovery Efforts from the hurricane. The counties in will will begin testing Drinking Water to make sure it is safe to use. Also the county says the west over accretion center is now the only Emergency Center left open. The North Carolina National Guard could use to retract the continues redirect water into the tar river. Yesterday officials will go into the town as the water recedes with major roads being clear soon. So larger vehicles can start assessing the damage. The storm is still affecting schools for a second week with tomberlin and Johnson County schools on a two hour delay and Edgecombe County closed with wade county schools remaining close. Closings at the bottom of your screen and on www. Wral. Com. This year is the Centennial Anniversary of North Carolina state park systems. 100 years ago the summit of Mount Mitchell became the first state park and now a quarter of 1,000,000 acres are set aside. Join us this morning is the director of state parks, mike murphy. Thanks so much for joining me this morning. First of all, let us get this out of many parks were actually damaged because of Hurricane Matthew. We ended up having to close 24 parks and we had them as far west as moral mountain. Certainly the parks in the central part of the state to the east sustained damage. Mostly it was tree damage. We had just a few buildings that were impacted. We are rapidly coming back. And how many at the height of flood damage were closed . 24. So it was we were more concerned that it turned out to be. So at the state fair this year you all have a special exhibit commemorating 100 years. It is kind of neat. We are trying to hit on the fact we are having our centennial year. So people can actually register to be part of the challenge and actually ride either a stationary bike pretending they are at lake norman state park or they can pretend they are in a canoe and pretend your merchants mill state park. It will be prizes for getting to 10 or 40 state parks. So you are still getting your talk about 100 years. How heavy cd parks grow since you have been here . How have you seen the parks grow since you have been here . It is interesting. We end up adding three or 5000 acres a year just through Land Acquisitions around the park. That is really the equivalent of a new state park every year statewide. Talk about attendance. You mentioned 18 audubon park . Last year we had 17. 3 million. This year we are up 8 so we will probably see 18 million this year. That is congressional that is fantastic. Congratulations. So today is Senior Citizens day at the state fair and it is free admission every day but today there will also be a begins at 9 00. Thanks, lena. More on the i am bill leslie with a federal Appeals Court to hear from the state of North Carolina by today on early voting. Some voters are asking the court to step in and force expanded early voting in five counties they say are not complying with a ruling. Republican Vice President ial nominee mike pence makes two stops in North Carolina today attending a rally in wilmington this afternoon. He will be in fayetteville tonight for democratic Vice President ial nominee tim kaine makes a two day visit to North Carolina tuesday starting tomorrow. Let us check in with elizabeth for the forecast. How is it looking . Looking beautiful again today. The sun is just starting to come up and it will be another gorgeous day with clear skies and very warm temperatures. If you are out today, you are going to want shorts and t shirts. It is with 61 in raleigh, erwin, and fayetteville. We continue this warm pattern all of the way through thursday with 84 today and 83 degrees on thursday then turning much cooler for the weekend. Brian . We have an accident on the right shoulder a 40 westbound in the fortified works on at lake wheeler road leading to the phillies on the south side of raleigh. Just give yourself plenty of extra time as you make that way. We have a few accidents here and there working on getting some details about an accident on westgate road in the 6200 block. The durham freeway also looking pretty good. Back to you. Brian, thank you much. The Surveillance Video that triggered ter twenty richard burr has yemade millions. , increasing his wealth over five hundred percent. No wonder richard burr was one of just three burr wrote a plan to privatize medicare and got one point one Million Dollars from the insurance industry. You. Would pay more for medicare. Richard burr. Twenty years in washington. Serving himself. Dscc is responsible for the content of this advertising. Focused on people and community for 60 years, we promise a relentless pursuit of excellence. Welcome back. It is 7 03 and the three money for the highest office in North Carolina face of tonight. Wral assessing the debate between the three candidates for governor. Mikaya thurmond joins us with a preview. We are less than one month out from the november 8 election and that means there is a lot at stake. This is the last time the candidates will face each other on the debate stage. Governor Pat Mccrory Cooper and libertarian lon cecil will face each other at 7 pm. Governor mccrory is seeking his seventh term with cooper and cecil his challengers. A news poll shows cooper holding a narrow lead over governor mccrory. He has a 44 lead over the incumbent. Wral news will host the debate David Crabtree and laura leslie will serve as moderators. And www. Wral. Com. It will air on fox 50 at 11 pm. Bill and lena . Thanks, mikaya. A man is facing a murder charge in a case from last fall. Tyrone hall was arrested in august. Now he is charged with murder. Deputy say he robbed, shot, and killed Joshua Gutierrez in his home in hope mills last november. A second person was taken to the hospital and t

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