Transcripts For WTVD ABC 11 Eyewitness News At 600 AM 201603

Transcripts For WTVD ABC 11 Eyewitness News At 600 AM 20160322

34 chapel hill, 20s in sanford. 37 fayetteville. 32 in smithfield and 30 louisburg and wilson. Looking at the day ahead right now around freezing. By lunchtime 58 and mostly sunny skies and 65 degrees. Even warmer tomorrow. We will talk about that but now weve weather and traffic with amber rupinta. Amber looking forward to that. This is shaping up with a pretty serious accident in durham. It should be cleared shortly but you may see residual cleanup. This is 15 501 at garrett road and southbound lanes weral shut down due to the accident involving a tractortrailer which hit a pickup truck. The northbound lanes were getting by. It is well over an hour since it occurred so it is almost out of there but there could be cleanup. Road will be the best bet if you are trying to avoid this. Erwin and 15 501 and garrett road closed. That is the best bet. The rest of the area, the weather is cooperating and no fog or precipitation. Dry and 40 at south saunders wake county just fine. We have light volume around the main interstates. John belgium at maximum terror letter following several explosions in brussels. Other european cities are on alert. These are live pictures from brussels. Two explosions hit the airport during the morning rush. Theres another explosion in the subway system. At least 13 people are dead. This is only days after the prime suspect in the paris attack Salah Abdeslam was arrested in brussels. Belgium calling the attacks british airports are increaseing security and they are convening the emergency committee. We will follow the breaking situation on the air, online and mobile app. Get the latest on Good Morning America following Eyewitness News. Barbara state lawmakers preparing for a special session to discuss charlottes nondiscrimination ordinance. Anthony wilson is live in raleigh with more. Anthony state house and Senate Leaders say they have the threefifths majority to call for session after rallies on both sides of the issue. On monday dozens turned out for a rally after they delivered a petition with 13,to you signatures calling for special session. Justice and fairness demands we protect our children. Please, governor mccrory, we implore you to repeal this around. Anthony nine speakers railed against the charlotte ordinance. Were only expanding their offhand antidiscrimination. Religious leaders said it was against gods policy. A spokesperson for the lesbian bi sexual bisexual gay and transgender a waist of taxpayer monday. They are pushing for a 42,000 a day special session because of something based on fear mongering and not facts. John in vote 2016 we are on top of developments in the state attorney general race. The state Democratic Party has the job of finding josh steins replacement. He resigned from his district 16 seat to run for North Carolina attorney general. He worked on jones street the expect a decision next month. The state Republican Party said he resigned because he didnt want to take a stand on the charlotte bathroom ordinance. Barbara Matthew Phillips was visiting a house on Putnam Church road when he went missing. He was found on the side of the road friday with no sign of the vehicle that hit him. Murdersuicide under investigation in edgecombe county. Monday deputies were called to a house on highway 97 in east tarboro and found 71yearold annie perry in the bedroom shot to death. Her husband curtis was found in another room with what appeared to be a selfinflicted gunshot onehand. John a hearing over whether to tpheub may not need their help to hack phone. John two Good Samaritans come to the rescue of a man in this we are above freezing but not by much. Don we will warm up through the day. We are not seeing anything on don this morning you will need the sun glasses and heat. By 10 00 almost 50. Current numbers, 30 roanoke rapids, 31 roxboro and 53 louisburg, 30 rocky mount. 36 joined raleigh and cary. 37 fayetteville and 35 hope mills an 29 sanford, 39 pinehurst. We have clear skies now and temperatures around freezing. By lunchtime we are near 60 degrees with nothing but sunshine. Then through the late day we get to the mid 60s and mostly sunny. Sunshine today and warmer temperatures tomorrow and thursday. We will talk about that in the sevenday forecast. Amber much anticipated considerate hearing between the government and apple is canceled. Need apples help to unlock the eagain iphone used by the San Bernardino shooter. They have been researching ways to access information in syed farooks phone and they are getting help from a outside party. It is an uncomfortable position for apple. The or data and over our privacy. Amber if the f. B. I. Is able to work with an outside party to unlook the ephone that with make apples cooperation unnecessary. Barbara time for the mustsee videos starting with a brave act by two people determined to get a driver out of a burning car. Inter any near inferno. The driver slammed into a tree and fainted. They bent the metal to free him. Definitely happy about the risk i took even though i put myself at risk. Barbara the victim is recovering from severe burns to his legs. Deputies are look googleing into whether he was drinking. Those new cars will not make it to the lot obviously. Flames consumed it stopping traffic east of indianapolis. No one was hurt but it is not clear what started it. Meet dagger. He is 3yearold block lab originally going to help people with disabilities until his owner discovered his love of painting. He always lays down next it within day i said do you want to paint and he was so excited to see the brush stroke on that canvas. It was almost as his whole world opened up. Barbara dagger paints by following yvonnes commands. His works sell between 50 and 100 and it goes to animal related charities. John you want to boil the water in benson. A boil weather alert is in place for all public water customers there. This is as precaution while workers repair lines. The town will update you when the order is lifted and we will pass along the notice. Barbara it is 6 12. Breaking coverage of the brussels terror attack intelligence. John we will go back to that city for new theres a freedom about asheville. An unspoken invitation to discover who you really are. Come up for air. Asheville. Theres more to life than the climb. Theres the view. Youve gotta stop and look around a little. Come, shed lifes layers in asheville. Asheville. John we continue to follow breaking news in belgium explosions shaking the airport and one subway station. Barbara all during the rush hour commute. At least 13 are dead and dozens hurt. We will show you live pictures from brussels. It is on lockdown. You see a city official talking about it. All Flights Canceled and high right now the search is on for was near the American Airlines checkin counter. Supporters of a Triangle High School student scheduled to be departed. A stay was granted for wildin accost it. Ice agents picked him up in january. Congressman g. K. Butterfield was able to convince them to hold off to allow him time to appeal. His mother who is undocumented says she is hopeful about the process under how it will end. The end of this struggle and task is something good that will be powerful for my son, his family and his parents. Hopefully very soon he will be freed from that place. Barbara his attorney is focusing on getting him become here. Voters in three western states go to the polls to cast ballots in the president ial primary and a Campaign Speech by bill clinton is sparking controversy. Finally come to the point where we can put the awful behind us and seven years before that. John the former president sealed to be criticizing the tenure of president obama. Despite the fact his wife Hillary Clinton tried to cast herself as the best candidate to protect president obamas legacy. A clinton aide said the awful legacy he was referring to is obstructionism from the republican congress. The former president has consistently praised president obama in stuff speeches. Ted cruz is running second behind donald trump but already saying no to potential trump cruz ticket. He says he has zero interest in being trumps Vice President ial running mate. He said if trump gets the until nation he predicts a clinton win. Trump is getting support from a North Carolina congresswoman. Republican representative Renee Barbara more financial problems for the city once considered the las vegas of the east. The mayor of Atlantic City says the finances will force weeks long shut down. Under that scenario in, fire and sanitation workers would continue to do their job without soon as possible. The citys tax base has shrunk since four of 12 casinos closed. Greensboro Police Released video of a blast that damaged self several vehicles. Manhole covers went into the air. Crews are trying to determine the cause of the blast. People were in the area but no one was hurt. Barbara another code morning. Don we are starting with temperatures across the region around freezing but today will be the coldest of the next seven. We are dry. Thursday zero. Thursday night into friday about 60 . I threw in a 30 chance for easter sunday. That looks like late day. Raleigh temperature right now 33, dew point 30 and 89 humidity. Winds calm, sunrise 7 15. R. D. U. And temperatures right now in the 30s. 38, 65 humidity and winds calm. Latest satellite and radar doctor satellite and radar composite shows clear skies and a clear crisp morning. We zoom out and you see the dry conditions back into the Mississippi River valley and this sis satellite and radar, in the much rain or snow. Not much moisture on the eastern half of the u. S. Looking at the first alert predictor forecast model, as we go into the afternoon hours we are clear and not much to show you. Much to show you but the temperatures 10 degrees warmer tomorrow. Mid 60s today, mid 70s tomorrow and staying in the 70s on thursday. The big blue h means high pressure, sunshine and blue case. That is what we have. As it slides east it will pull warm air in and we will see temperatures climbing warmer as we get into the mid 70s tomorrow. The rest of today lots of sunshine in the capital city. Warming quickly. 42 by 9 00. By lunchtime 58 degrees and into the afternoon 65 degrees across the region and more sunshine. These are typical temperatures for this time of year. The normal high is 65. That is where you will be in cary and who willholly springs. 67 smithfield. 64 siler city. Almost 70 in fayetteville. 70 lumberton. 66 sanford. 67 pinehurst. 65 rocky mount and 64 wake forest. Tonight clear and overnight lows 40s. 42 raleigh and 45 fayetteville. First alert sevenday forecast powered by accuweather showing temperatures tomorrow back into the 70s, 76. 80 degrees on thursday and friday 68. Showers thursday night into friday. Saturday 65, sunday 67 and monday 68 with rain sunday night into monday. Easter morning for Early Services looks fine. The afternoon could see showers. John busy. Amber we are getting better. Durham started pretty busy and we had the accident on 15 501 on garrett with the southbound lanes shut down. It is getting back to normal. First i want to show you a normal delay 40 and u. S. 70 clayton bypass. Westbound lanes jammed up and always slow at the merge. That is 40 westbound at u. S. 70 clayton bypass. There are flashing lights in the distance so that could be adding to it. No reports of anything. Road weather index, weather looking great, dry, clear, no fog or precipitation. You can see it would be indicated by some of the colors but all the colors are lots of green realtime travel flow. This is the issue in durham and it should be cleared. I was checking roxboro a lot of loyal viewers, if you are taking 501 we are in good shape average speed 54 miles an hour. These are the drive teams. 40 eastbound clear five minutes 60 to 70 and no problems on the beltline durham freeway seven minutes up to 15 fplt. John breaking overnight new executives comments about women aes womens players. John duke and from the Dairy Farmers of fairlife, this is our promise. We start with delicious, creamy, real milk thats then ultra filtered so fairlife has more protein and and only half the sugar. And never any artificial growth hormones. To you, theyre more than just a pet. So protect them with k9 advantix ii. It kills fleas, ticks and mosquitoes. K9 advantix ii. C. Of alert. We will have details at 6 30. Barbara more fallout from comments from a apologized. John the duke blue devils on the way to the sweet 16 heading up the bus monday to fly to anaheim. They face oregon on thursday night. Carolina is scheduled to leave today for philadelphia for the game friday. We are on the road with both teams. Joe mazur going with duke to the was coast and Mark Armstrong with the heels in philadelphia. You can follow both on twitter and faculty for the action. 6 27 and brussels on alert. We will have the latest at 6 30. Fayetteville mcdona john belgium under attack, explosions rip through the airport and metro station killing at least 13. The city is on lockdown. Europe on high alert. Barbara also breaking on Eyewitness News a bad crash and flood of broken hearts and prayers on social media. What we have learned about this wreck. Good morning, carolina, welcome on tuesday march 22, 33 degrees and 6 30. Barbara bury. John im john clark. We will get to the breaking stories but we are under a frost advisory right now. We will go to meteorologist don schwenneker. Don good morning to you. That goes until 9 00 and once the sun climbs we will warm fairly quickly. You see the temperatures jumping the next several hours. By lunchtime 50s and by 2 00 we are in the 60s. We will warm nicely throughout the day. Current temperatures across the region cold spot is sanford at 28. Warm spot is fayetteville 37. 30 louisburg, 31 roxboro and 32 roanoke rapids. Mainly clear now and 33. By lunchtime 25 degrees warmer and sunny skies and 58. This afternoon mostly sunny and 65. 10 degrees warmer tomorrow and big warmup on the way. Now we will have traffic and worth with amber rupinta. Amber we will show you how things are. We had an earlier issue into durham but first we say good morning to the friends in fayetteville on ramsey street looking great. Anyone 4edheading into fort bragg shouldnt have problems. This s this is the clayton bypass. Earlier we checked and i thought i saw flashing lights westbound so this is just a lot of congestion for folks heading to wake county. Johnston county commuters know all about this. Checking the map and speeds in that area down to 24 hours westbound approaching 70. Watch for stalled vehicle at New Hope Church road heading into raleigh. John now back to breaking news from belgium authorities calling the explosion at the Brussels Airport and one subway situation a terror attack. Barbara they are under lockdown. The terror alert is at the highest level. We have live pictures. At least 13 dead and many injured. Diverted and and was planning new attacks. John a tragedy hits close to home at North Carolina wesleyan a serious crash on highway 301 near rocky mount led to a response from the administration on twitter. We understand four were killed and the response we really are a family, continue to pray for everyone affected. The staff and faculty are holding you all close in our hearts tonight. We are following the hash tag pray for wesleyan. Dozens saying their hearts are heavy and asking for prayers for the family. We will have more on the mobile app and abc11. Com. Hopefully we will learn exactly what caused it. Barbara a chase ends at a crash in raleigh. We are working to learn more from the highway patrol. And trawick road. You see it was blocked off as troopers investigated. No word on what led to the crash. John we expect to learn more about a shocking decision out of Harnett County the sheriff abruptly resigning for what he calls personal reasons. Anthony wilson has the latest. Anthony larry rollinss resignation has people talking stepping down for what he called personal regions. Unspecified. What is not clear is whether it had anything to do with a deputy involved shooting in november. According to a source rollins would not comment when asked if that is the reason. Harnett county deputy shot and scheduled John Livingston after he refused to allow deputies, who had no warrant, to search his home. The family said they had the wrong house and wrong man. More. Live from the raleigh Eyewitness News center, anthony wilson. Barbara today the president s visit to cuba expands from trade and human rights to include baseball. Bout that. Barbara it is 6 36 and 33 coming up, a craigslist sale ends in a shootout. John all at a busy Mcdonalds Restaurant in fayetteville. Don as you head out temperatures around freezing. Will don welcome back. Lets talk about the bus stop forecast. As the kids head out you will want to bundle tell up. It is a cold morning. By 8 00 we are still just in the 30s. They wont need jackets coming home. 34 south hill right now. 31 roxboro. 30 rocky mount and 33 siler city and 35 lillington and 37 fayetteville and 34 hope mills. Looking at the day ahead we are 33 now, 25 degrees warmer at lunch, around 60. Should be a nice lunch hour. Yesterday not bad but windy. Today wind not as bad. By 5 00 it is 64. That is typical. We have warmer temperatures and we will talk about that in the complete forecast in a bit. Barbara people in a mcdonalds get a shock when a craigslist deal ends in a shootout. Police say three were meeting another man to sell two cell phones but tried to rob him. Both groups were armed and started firing. Two of the suspects were shot survive. Police say it could have been much worse. 4 30 in the afternoon people are going home and young people leaving school. We had families in this restaurant actually eating their john no one working or eating inside was hurt. A woman was knocked to the ground when the suspects tried to make a run. They were all f

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