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Sport including kobe bryant wins his 18th and final nba allstar game and action coming up, later this hour. We saw in this news hour with reports from syria that medical facility of Doctors Without Borders has come over attack in idlib in the northwest of the country where air strikes are taking place and the border between turkey and syria continues to come under fire and we are live to correspondent zaina in the southern part of turkey right on the border with turkey and first of all zaina tell us more about this msf air strike that has happened in idlib. Well, like you mentioned Doctors Without Borders confirming its one of the Health Facilities it supports in the village in a rebel controlled village has been hit and didnt have information concerning the casualties but the observatory for human rights which monitors the conflict in syria says nine people are killed and they are saying it was a suspected russian air strike. This is not the first time a Health Facility supported by m
Is a problem. A look at first alert doppler xp and the most powerful radar in the carolinas showing the heavy rain working through durham and rally and that line through greensboro and siler city. We are talking about the line out to the west. This is the frontal boundary and this will take time to move through. It doesnt work into raleigh until about 7 00. As it crosses we will see the shower activity ahead of it. We look at temperatures. At one point there is still a pretty big spread. 37 roxboro. Chapel hill at 38. Two 60s in clinton and fayetteville and smithfield. 58 wilson. 50 roanoke rapids. Rain sticks around this morning and we have rain and clouds. By lunch a mixture of clouds and sunshine. 55. Temperatures go done a little behind the rain then rebound to about 60 this afternoon under very wet today and this afternoon great. Amber we are starting with rain and you might see fog but that will dissipate shortly. We will show you how things look in 540. A disabled vehicle there.
Halifax, nash rocky mount. Northampton northampton. Wayne and others closed. John franklin on a two lower delay. We have not heard from the schools in the triangle. You can check closings and delays at abc11. Com. Barbara lets check in with meteorologist Don Schwenneker in the first alert storm center. Good morning. Don good morning. You should say those triangle schools are still on time. Ha, ha, ha. Kids are getting up to check. That is me. Im sorry. We will show you what is going on. We have a Winter Weather advisory that goes into effect later this morning for the eastern half of the viewing area. We are not seeing anything right now. A little radar return west much south hill. Most of it not making it to the ground. Temperatures in the 20s. 27 right now in roxboro. 26 chapel hill, 25 sanford and looking at the day ahead and temperatures across the region staying in the 20s. 26 and cloudy. Lunchtime snow showers and 34. This afternoon 35 degrees with snowflakes ending. We will talk
Now we have traffic with amber rupinta. Amber we are looking forward to a nice day and we start nice on our roads. Thursday morning commute looking great. This is a peek into fayetteville and owen drive and gillespie and you see it is clear and moving fine. Heading into fort bragg you should not encounter any problems and the weather is departmenting after we had such cooperating. Our road weather index not returning any issues, no fog or precipitation this morning. We start accident free on the majors. This is 540 and glenwood avenue. We will check the drive times in a few. John happening today a special session of the General Assembly that could change how we vote in North Carolina. Governor mccrory summoning lawmakers to west jones street to approve a new congressional map. Gloria rodriguez is there with gloria there is still some controversy over the new maps. It passed with a 2411 vote. The committee decided on criteria to follow in the new map. They include creating districts of