alyssa, who s closely monitoring the storm s path. we are closely watching this path. right now, the storm has winds of 70 miles per hour, has been downgraded into a tropical storm since it made land fall as a hurricane moving to the northeast at about 14 miles per hour as we head right now. throughout georgia is where the storm is. it will continue to move through georgia, south carolina, moves into central or eastern portions of north carolina late tonight into first thing exiting the outer banks as we head towards tomorrow morn tomorrow afternoon losing a lot of tropical characteristics. as far as what that means for us, the outer bands already starting to approach us. closer look at this storm across the southern portions of georgia. you can see the bands really extending through tampa and daytona beach and up towards south carolina, columbia, charleston area really seeing some heavy rain at this point in time. the coast will be a threat for isolated tornados today. w
hermine hitting north carolina.. heavy rain, flooding and rough surf along the coast.. we ll bring you the latest on the storm s path.. and when it moves out. plus, the storm knocking down trees and power lines all over the area. we ll show you some of the damage. those stories plus, a tropical storm threatening their big day. hear from the couple not letting hermine wash out their wedding. eyewitness news starts right now. tropical storm hermine. hitting north carolina right now.. north carolina right now.. the storm made landfall in florida early this morning and then headed right for our state. it s been bringing heavy rains and some flooding. this is a live look at wrightsville beach. here s what we know right now. one death is now one death is now being blamed on hermine. the death happened in florida. more than 18 thousand people in north carolina are without power right now. and we re getting reports of trees down.. and some flash flooding. good evening i m joel bro
temperatures running cooler than yesterday. 61 in goldsboro, 55 in southern pines. this morning temperatures will be mainly into the upper 50s, i lunchtime 71, gradual clearing through the morning and much of the afternoon will be nice and bright. expect a high of 76. tomorrow, warmer with-80s but after that temperature swing in a big direction the other way. we ll talk about that in a minute. tell us what s happening on the roads. we have an accident blocking two left lanes of 40 westbound beyond harrison avenue creating huge delays this morning. let s head back to that camera at 40 and harrison to show you how traffic is going along approaching that interchange this morning. this is the ramp from harrison on 240 westbound. if you can get to harrison you will run into a little bit of a delay merging into the slow traffic but that is an option to get to 40 westbound. avoid picking of chapel hill road or wade avenue heading from their outward 40 w. because you will run into
we are looking at a lot of key races and candidates and actually some issues on the ballot as well. two important things that you will want to know as far as heading out, wral s tara lynn tells us about an id change and something on the ballot that could be confusing to some voters. reporter: that s right. you will not want to bring cell phones into the voting booth because they will not be allowed. leave those in the car. this will be the first time that voters have to show an id when they go to vote. here are acceptable forms of id that you can show. of course, a north carolina s driver s license that must be current or could not have expired in the last four years. a state issued id, unexpired passport, veterans id card, u.s. military card or tribal id card. if your driver s license is from another state you can registered within the last 90 days. the law includes exceptions for voters who had a reason for not being able to get that photo id. reasons include lack of pr
governor john kasich joining us, former mayor of new york city michael bloomberg, city s current mayor bill deblasio, also a joint interview with two senate key voices on foreign relations, committee chairman bob corker and democratic member chris coons join the conversation. good morning, it s tuesday, april 25th. we have with us fortunately president obama s spokesperson. we re going to ask you some questions, mr. ernest, mr. ernest, josh, josh. it was good to see him back. tan, rested, not wearing a tie. i think, mika, i think he actually kite surfed into the sunset. he didn t jet ski. somewhere in like poll nearby yeah. a lot of democrats looking at the situation saying we need this guy. we know he doesn t want to talk about trump. that s sweet, but we need to rebuild a party. we ve got to win. we ve got to take control of the house. we ve got to take control of the state legislatures, and there s not a leader of the democratic party right now and people are des