bulls eye is, that s down from cumberland county over to hoke county, and that s estimated from 7up to 10 inches. 1 up to 10 inches. i ll other 7 up to 10 inches, and there s a flash flood watch through the southern part of viewing area mainly through 10:00 tonight, and we have rain hanging around as hangs around. we ll go through that hour by hour, and look ahead to a drier weekend and hurricane pact crew later. and matthew. and he mentioned the bulls eye, there s a dam at risk of break ago way putting homes at risk. steve is there with the very latest. steve? reporter: and we re standing right by the dam on rhodes pond, and take a look over but that s not the worst of it. if you look down towards where the dam ends and the levee begins, you can see the area was breached this afternoon, it s out, they re currently trying to reinforce it with stone. let s show you what it looked like earlier this afternoon. officials chance the dam could break and could flood high
could still impact areas along and east of i-95. but another major flooding event is not in the forecast tonight and not even tomorrow even though there s more rain in the forecast tomorrow. and now as we switch over to the radar estimated rainfall reports, everyone got rain and just by looking at the colors, if you see orange or anything else, red, purple, orange is three inches. a lot of people got at least th in the sandhills from hash et down to cumberland county. as we put in some of the amounts, you can see widespread amounts from 7 to 11 inches. again that is a historic flooding event. because of the rain that s already in the ground, knot necessarily because we re expecting more flooding rain, there remains a flash flood watch through 10:00 tonight. but again, it s just small rain chances for the next several hours with mostly cloudy skies and temperatures holding in the low 70s. seven at a before we re dry. i ll tell you how we ll get through the next couple of days
jeopardy still as we head spoo the daytime hours today as the water starts to recede, it could cause as many problems as when the water was rising. we are also looking at a flood warning until 10:45 this evening for those areas shaded in green. remember, spring lake, rock fish received close to 10 inches of rain yesterday morning so the water there still across some roads. please be careful if you are heading out the door early this morning. we have a river flood warning in effect for the lower throughout the early morning hours of our saturday. all-time flooding happened yesterday, crested at 31 feet rather. still moderate flooding there this morning chl now, as we look at our satellite radar composite, thankfully we are drier. just a passing shower around person county. i will walk you through your day ahead, and when we could see a few more storms coming up in your complete storm team forecast. good morning, alyssa. happy friday to you out there. i-40 at barbie road, ver
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schools are closed today. moore county schools will be delayed two hours. you can see a complete list scrolling at the bottom of your screen or any time on wral.com. at loaf we didn t get another round of really, really bad, bad weather overnight. we appreciate a little bit of dry weather because this festival is this weekend. wide open bluegrass festival. it is a big deal with thousands of fans gathered. let s go to iz who is one of the biggest bluegrass fans i know. that s right. i m excited to be here in downtown raleigh for the bluegrass festival. but there are a lot of things going on here. we have a bunch of fans here getting ready. we stepped away from the stage because the earls of lester are doing a sound check right now. they are getting ready for the festival. let s talk about the weather. was going on now that the sun is up. wave been here since about 5 charleston 30 this morning. since about 5:30 this morning. a lot of low cloud cover. on the radar pict