Closings because of matthews impact. The full list is scrolling at the bottom of your screen and on wral. Com. Mike, how long will it be this hot . It looks like it will be the warmest day of the week today, lena. And a warm day thursday but we have changes going through friday and the weekend, and well detail those for you in the 7day forecast in about 15 right now, not feeling fall like. We have upper 50s to low 60s. 64 for rocky mount and 63 at the tv station in raleigh. As we take a look at the areaings further south, 63 in erwin and 64 in fayetteville and Southern Pines. Goldsboro checking in at 65. The satellite and radar look quiet, and a couple of showers much dissipating. A couple of fair weather clouds popping up yesterday and sunshine as well. But as we look at the planner for today, we have clear skies and 63 degrees. 80 by lunchtime and 4 00 or 5 00, 86, and a couple of fair weather clouds. Brian . 7 02, mike, and we have problems on the wake county, 64 westbound before you get to roseville road interchange, leaving zebulon to knightdale. Taking a look at the camera, you can see the slow down there is. We have a shoulder blocked a little while ago with police activity. The delay persist. The ride from 96 out to 64 business will take you about 18 minutes this morning. So you might consider using 97 zebulon and wendell. The backups on 440 westbound primarily due to congestion at the clayton bypass and extend to business 70 and maybe towards the jones sausage road interchange with delays before you get to 42. Consider using 70 business as an alternate route. Once you get beyond that, looks good to the fortify work zone and 40 westbound. Durham, 85 is looking good in both directions and i40 looking good on the south side. Also looking good at 15501 between durham and chapel hill. And 540 westbound delay free from capital boulevard to i40. Back to you. Thank you, brian. A man accused of a hit and we first reported this yesterday morning. Mikaya thurmond is live outside the Justice Center with what we have learned since then. Mikaya . Reporter a morrisville man was charged with two counts of hit and run. 33yearold Christopher Moore was arrested after witnesses identified his vehicle. Authoritiessay two cyclists were pedaling with two others on high house road when they were one of the victims was 55year old ginny davis and the other, lori cove see in an interview with 5 on your side. Both seriously injured and taken to the hospital. The driver drove with a bike in his windshield, stopped, discarded it, and took off. Bill and lena . Mikaya, thank you. Officers were responding to a shooting on wiggins street. They found a man shot to death but have not released his name. A picture appears to show coal ash in the river in wayne county at the hf lee power plant. Duke energy said that the substance is not coal ash but byproduct of the coalburning power plant. The department of Environmental Quality determined that some coal ash leaked but inspectors determined that the inactive basin was safe. The Raleigh City Council provided matching funds to provide body cameras. A 600,000 grant was received from the department of justice to finance them and the city for 1. 2 million. The Police Department started testing the cameras this week. The candidates for North Carolinas highest office got testy during the final debate last night, the one that was hosted by wral. The three men touched on a wide range of issues including the economy, coal ash, and, of course, house bill 2. This is one of the reasons why house bill 2 has been pointed out discriminatory laws in the country and why we are suffering such economic damage. If you agree to take out the gender identity and gender expression including access to schools, locker rooms, restrooms, and showers i will support a bipartisan effort to make sure we descrim i keep hearing people do not want boys rl bathroom. It turned especially testy when governor mccrory accused roy cooper of taking money for a Campaign Reporter bill and lean a they continued microphone on . No, its on. I have said so much about it. Why dont we move on . Its not the most important subject in North Carolina. It clearly. I think i educated the media some. I dont think my opponent or the media even knew about the charlotte ordinance. It hurt our economy and writes discrimination into the law and im going to keep fighting it. I think it will be important the future of r state that the next governor work it out so that we fix it and fix North Carolinas brand across this country and that we tell the rest of the country that North Carolina is open for business again for everyone. Entire debate on wral. Com and a postdebate discussion hosted by david crabtree, laura leslie, and mark binker. Coming up in our 8 00 hour on fox 50, well get more from the candidate that is prompted for mccrory to call for coopers immediate resignation as coming up, the candidates fighting to keep issues out of the headlines. And vw fights to put the cheating scandal in the rear view. Dema there is no limit to what every student in North Carolina not when were 44th in per student funding. We should not ask for more money from you. He gave tax breaks to those at the top while raising taxes 67 ways on the middle class. Its time to polish up our brand and once more say, come check out North Carolina. Hb2 costing us thousands of jobs. Tonight is the last debate between Hillary Clinton and donald trump. Its happening in las vegas. The latest nevada polls show clinton has pulled ahead there. Trumps thats because the media is on her side and the election is rigged against him. Where toafnt tonight, all bets are off. Reporter volunteers working the phones at Hillary Clintons nevada headquarters. Voting in three weeks. Is there anything we can talk about . Reporter confidence in their candidate but some anxious with the debate. One little thing can go wrong and thats all people remember. Reporter donald trump claims that the media is more focused on sexual allegations against him than emails. The press has created a rigged system and poisoned the minds of the voters. I advise mr. Trump to stop whining and try and make a case to get votes. Reporter the president s halfmother, malik is attending tonight, a trump supporter and meg whitman who is now backing clinton. Trumps game plan is to go after clintons record and look smart studying policy. He will come out swinging. Reporter hell be on the left and shell be on the right with millions of undecided voters still in the middle. Tracie potts, nbc news, tim kaine will be in asheville today and tomorrow, he will number charlotte followed by a rally in durham for the North CarolinaCentral Library bowl. Trump running mate mike pence held a rally in fayetteville and touched on Foreign Policy and Homeland Security and the future of the Supreme Court and visited the gop headquarters in Orange County still cleaning up after they want they want to put self driving vehicles on the road without Steering Wheels but 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. Ng 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. And pat mccrory has cut 3,000 teaching assistants from the early grades. He may have given tax cuts to millionaires, c1 i love that song. Isnt that beautiful . Beautiful. And the singing. A summer day, feels like a summer day. Exactly, and it will feel summer like out there and even summer humidity that we get here but noticeable and unusual for this time of year. Well talk about the temperatures in just a second. Weve been following the rivers which, of course, has been going down and lowest to the east along the river basins. Well update you quickly on a couple of stages along the way. On the tar river over at tarboro were at 19. 4 feet and the flood stage is and tell likely drop below flood stage. Green fill, 19 feet is the current rating and 13 is the flood stage. It looks like it will probably take until tomorrow sometime until maybe later in the day before it qz to flood stage. The neuse river in goldsboro, 16. 2 feet is the reading and and in kinston, 23. 2 feet and flood stage 14. So tell take until probably sunday to drop below flood rage. And a look at the raleigh skycam at the fairgrounds. Things are pretty quiet out there. A lot of us are seeing clear skies to start the day, 63, and the dew point at 61 and may be in the lower to mid60s for humidity to go with the warm temperatures. Our pressure at 30. 06 and our temperatures on the warm side, 59 at roxboro and 63 degrees in the erwin area. The satellite and radar showing a couple of showers offshore yesterday. Those have mostly fizzled out or drifted to the east. Otherwise, its pretty quiet as High Pressure centered off the atlantic to the northeast and the ridge is back in north and south carolina, and were just on the north side of it with a we have a frontal boundary that has stalled and it will be stuck there for a while and a deepening upper level trough will push this across North Carolina on friday and give us a chance of rain as we finish out the week. Today, things will be quiet. We dont expect rain across the region. High pressure with a lot of sunshine and maybe a couple of fair weather clouds here and there. And overnight tonight, we stick with fair skies for the most part, a couple of fair weather clouds possible, a mixture of sunshine and the scattered cumulus clouds, mostly sunny to partly cloudy and then on friday, a cold front coming in and will be moving across the area late morning into the midday hours and it should bring a band or two of scattered showers and an isolated thunderstorm in places, a 40 chance. Today, a high of 86 and very warm and normal highs in the low 70s. If you are heading to the fair, evening, and 74. A high of 71 for football friday and most of the rain associated with the front should have moved out. Partly cloudy at 7 00 and down to 60 and breezy by 10 00, mainly clear and 53, and over the weekend, cool and breezy with a high of 60or saturday and 66 on sunday with sun and sunday, lows with the upper traffic. Mike, we had delays earlier on 64 westbound heading away from zebulon to the roseville road interchange towards knightdale and raleigh. Had the shoulder blocked for a while and now its cleared up. However as we take a look at the live commute map we have residual back unions closer to zebulon. Its not quite wide open but steady improvements. Side of raleigh blocking the right and left lanes of 440 westbound at new bern avenue. Hard to see it there but there is an ambulance and d. O. T. Trucks. We have one right lane open on 440 and take a look at the delays in advance of the knightdale pass interchange to brentwood and because of the backups on 440, we are seeing delays on inbound knightdale bypass beginning around new minutes this morning. A crash in North Raleigh on calvary drive on the New Hope Church road and the west side of raleigh, an accident glenwood avenue not far from 540. In durham, major routes are all clear and no accidents to report. Back to you. Bring brian, thank you. There is a meeting in california for selfdriving cars. Regulations to prevent autonomous carmakers to remove the Steering Wheel and pedals. Criticssay that they are pushing to have people embrace the technology that is still in a testing phase. A group of angry volkswagen owners are part of a focal minority that objected to a deal as hundreds of thousands of others signed up for payment. Theysay that the 10 billion settlement does not adequately compensate them. Full Purchase Price of his car and part of his registration fee. A federal judge could decide the case next week. Airlines could be required to refund fees when checked bags are substantially delayed under new rules announced by the transportation department. The airlines are required to refund fees for bags that are lost already and this rule goes a step further. One rule forces airlines to operated by regional carriers. Under another rule, oin line ticketing services would not be allowed to favor one line over other. Travelers can bring their phones to tables like this one at Reagan National airport in washington, d. C. , and exchange their samsung note 7. Airport offi handful of phones have been turned in. Creepy clowns are creeping people out this halloween after several incidents. Dozens of copycats have posted on social media. Officialssay there have been could seens of pranks. Officialssay they are taking any and all clownrelated murder case. Coming up, the Evidence Police say led to an arrest and the man facing charges this morning. 7 betweens. Ill bill leslie. Top stories now. A man accused of hitting two bicyclists and leaving the scene is due in court today. 33yearold Christopher Moore is charged with hit and run in cary monday night. Two women were seriously injured and at last check were still in the hospital. Democratic Vice President ial nominee tim kaine will attend an early vote rally in asheville this afternoon and tomorrow. Hot weather today and feels like summer, mike. It is warm, bill, and it will be humid going along with the heat and we are starting off fairly warm, 59 in roxboro and 63 in raleigh and erwin and 64 for Southern Pines and fayetteville. As we head through the course of the day, you can see were starting out without much in the way of cloud cover on the satellite and radar. Lunchtime, mostly sunny or we start out i should degrees and clear skies. Lunchtime, sunny and up to 80. Later in the afternoon, were topping out at 86. Over to brian for a look at traffic. 7 27, mike, and an accident on 440 westbound right around the new bern avenue interchange. We had two lanes blocked a while ago and now, the accident has been moved over to the right shoulder. Scoot over into the . And left lanes if you can and we are seeing delays on 440 westbound at the pool road interchange and we are seeing big ramp delays on inbound knightdale bypass for stalled traffic. Give yourself extra time there. Otherwise, major routes look typical for a wednesday morning. Back to you. Brian, thank you very much. Coming up, a report on Mikaya Thurmond on the death of welcome back. The time is 7 30. A raleigh man charged in the death of a 10monthold girl has his First Court Appearance today. She was found dead in an apartment on sunday night. Mikaya thurmond has mikaya . Report er lena and bill, Police Responded to a home in raleigh and found a 10month old girl dead, her kidney and liver lacerated. Authorities have not said how the baby was injured but Police Arrested the man caring for the child at the time. 20yearold Marcus Alston is charged with felony child abuse and murder. Reports show he is the boyfriend of the childs mother. Contact with the infants family and alston is held without bond. The Court Appearance is scheduled for later today. Mikaya thurmond, thank you for the live report. A former daycare worker in raleigh is charged with child abuse after being caught on camera last week mishandling a 1yearold, an update to a story we told you about on monday. Tracey stallings was charged with 1 count of misdemeanor child abuse, and they could be changed if it was found that the child was injured under arrest incident. Stallings was allowed back in the classroom the day after the footage was discovered. Residents in 36 counties the deadline was extended because of matthew. Fema will talk about how people impacted by flooding can apply for help today. Classes resume for students at Vernon MaloneCareer College today even though the school under repair. The 9th and tenth graders will be relocated to wake forest and juniors d in four locations to maintain their coursework in wake tech. Water was seen pouring out of the doors and cafeteria, all damaged. Inspectors are looking at damage but its not clear when the repairs will be complete. There are still districts that remain closed because of matthews impact. Lets take a look. Wayne and Robeson County schools closed and edgecombe optional teacher workday. The full list is scrolling at the bottom of your screen and on wral. Com. People living in princeville dont know when they will be allowed to go back and check on their homes. While escorted by the National Guard, they walked hand in hand as a sign of unity. Hurricane floyd also devastated the town in 1999. But its still not safe to return. The National Guard has been pumping water back into the tar river for the past four days. Officialssay they must inspect the roads and buildings once the water is gone to make sure its safe to return. Residents evacuated from the Wood Lake Dam in moore county are back. The dam did not breach but the scare forced hundreds from their home. This is the view of the dam from sky 5 and it forced a huge club. Part of the spillway crumbled under the force of water. About 150 people who lived downstream were told to leave their homes as a precaution. An Engineering Firm is putt