Today. Sampson county we mentioned, wayne county closed today and tomorrow. And Wilson County schools. A full list is scrolling at the bottom of your screen and wral. Com. Hurricane matthew unleashed its fewery this morning and dropped massive amounts of rain triggering flooding in roads and neighborhoods. Hundreds of rescues in Cumberland County and more today. At least rescued. Bryan mims is live along the Cape Fear River. And bryan, you have seen so many dramatic scenes over the weekend. Reporter and i must say that the Cape Fear River looks dramatic this morning. Its a monster. Ill put it that way, a brown, roiling monster. I have never seen it this high in 10 years living in the area. Downstream. From this standpoint, its usually 40 to 50 feet down. And look at the water, almost up to the bridge and a railroad trestle. Its touching that. A number of traffic lights are out and power remains out for most businesses. And let me show you video from lena was talking about the rescues,
Storm watch thats in effect later tonight and early tomorrow. Weexpect to see some areas of snow developing over night and changing to snow and sleet tomorrow morning and early on, we change to a mix of sleet and freezing rain and eventually going over to rain during the later afternoon. Well talk all about that in the sevenday forecast trajection of all of that. Right now, we got temperatures in the Single Digits to low teens across the north n. The south, we move to the upper teens. Not as much wind as yesterday. We gotclouds making their way in from the west. 16 degrees at 8 00 and turning mostly cloudy after that and about 27 at lunchtime and we top out around 33 and at least not as much wind as yesterday. Have made an arrest in connection to a stabbing death of a man in durham. 25 years old efrenon martinez. Martinez is charged with burglary. Hes also accusedof assaulting the victims wife and the 16 months old child. The investigation is continuing. We learned the body of the late
Also some wind and could be outages. Don, good morning. Don good morning to you. We are watching the line of showers, not a ton of thunder. It has weakened a bit but heavy rainfall with the line as in pours through putting down a good quarter to a half inch of rain in 15 minutes. It extends from roxboro through eastern Durham County and now arriving over downtown raleigh. About a half hour to 45 minutes it picked up speed so it is ahead of schedule. Moving into Johnston County and in smithfield the next half hour and out of favorite but clinton will see it. Goldsboro will be 7 00 to get to you. Behind it, it is cooling it. 52 roxboro. 54 chapel hill. 56 fayetteville. Looking at the day ahead. 57 now and by lunchtime clouds and sunshine, 55 degrees. We will talk more about the warm roads with Amber Rupinta. Amber watch for ponding on some roadways with the heavy rain. We have some of that we can show with a live picture. This is new hope and buffaloe road and you see some of the ponding
Good morning, carolina, welcome on tuesday february 16. 59 degrees. John thanks for tuning in. Get ready for another possible rough khraout. Not ice but rain. Don and amber have weather and traffic. Barbara first we have closings and delays. Durham, franklin, granville, halifax, northampton, orange, person, Roanoke Rapids, vance county and Warren County schools on a twohour delay. John wake county schools are norm but schools in mecklinburg are closed. You can check the closings and delays on abc11. Com. Barbara it is time for weather and traffic with meteorologist Don Schwenneker. Think this is causing the Power Outages . Don i do. We are seeing wind gusts up to 40. Over 8,000 without power and that is climbing. A live look at first alert doppler xp and on the most powerful radar in the carolinas weve got this heavy line of showers. Thunderstorms with this. We have had one or two rumbles of thunder. The big story is wind. We are seeing gusts over 40 miles an hour. We have seen them re
Don good morning to you. As you head out we have a cold day across the region. We will see the temperatures throughout the day staying in the 20s for most of the morning then going into the 30s this afternoon. The weather commuter seems to be locked up and i will see if i can reset it showing you what is happening. That is raleigh and it is a cold morning. Temperatures right now running in the 20s across the region. We will see the temperatures throughout the day staying chilly. These are the current numbers nope. It doesnt want to work but we are seeing 20s and teens. There we go. We have temperatures to show you. It is 22 r. D. U. 19 roxboro, 27 smithfield. 24 wilson and 25 goldsboro. 22 now and mainly clear. By lunchtime 36 under mostly sunny skies. This afternoon mostly sunny and 39 degrees. Cold day and even Colder Weather headed in but snowflakes tomorrow. We will show you how much we will have in the complete forecast in a bit. Barbara those are screams of joy from passengers fi