Who is raising sarahs little girl and struggling with what to tell her. Well have more at 6 00. N. J. Burkett, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you. A four hour standoff in newark is over after police say a man stabbed his wife in front of her own grandson. All this starts around 11 30 this morning. The wife and grandson were able to get out of the house after inside. Eventually the 65yearold surrendered and was taken away on a stretcher. A woman was taken to the hospital where she is now undergoing surgery. No word yet about exactly what led to the initial stabbing. We are learning more about the first cases of zika apparently transmitted by mosquitoes on the u. S. Mainland. A woman and three men in florida likely contracted the virus through mosquito bites according to the states area. There have been 537 travel related cases of zika, 449 in new york, 50 in new jersey, and 38 in connecticut. Eyewitness News Reporter stacey sager is at La Guardia Airport with the new concerns tonight.
Phillips graduated fromi win high school and never believed she would be where she is today, cheering for the Carolina Panthers as they get ready for the biggest game on the planet. Superbowl 50. She is a classically trained what lay dancer who has ties to the asheville area. She has been with the Carolina Panthers now for the past five seasons but never experienced anything like this, getting ready for the superbowl. We caught up with her yesterday morning to kind of talk to her about what her experience has been like and why she has extra special motivation to be at her best on sunday night. Mom has been fighting cancer, her. Luke in the Carolina Panthers panthers are able to beet the Denver Broncos to win superbowl there will be no happier group of people than shannon, her teammate, and her mother. Reporting from levi stadium in santa clara, im luke notestine, news 13. Evan last year three of ashevilles own rescue dogs were valuable puppy. At last years puppy bowl i. Was titan and t
He stepped into save a young girls life but he may have put his own health at risk along the way. Tonight officials are searching for Good Samaritan who may have been exposed to rabies after fighting off a diseased racoon attacking a little girl. A saturday night. Im walter perez. Big story on action news is a rabies warning in Montgomery County. Health officials are trying to track down a Good Samaritan who may have been exposed to rabies when he he stopped to save a youngster. Action News Reporter jeff chirico is live at gladwynn Elementary School with the details, jeff . Reporter walter, this is where that young girl started her, walk from school, to home on thursday have afternoon. Now she is going to be fine, Officials Say shes under going a series of treatments right the now and now Health Officials want to make sure the man who saved her was not exposed to the rabies virus. The girl was walking home from school along the bridal ridal trail yesterday afternoon when a racoon a att
We had reports in clayton a wait while ago at 8 30. National Weather Service employee reported heavy sleet in clayton, and enough to get the roads write there. Very tiny, though, at this point and time. Numbers in the 30s across the board, but above freezing. Higher dew points to the south north. That means if the precipitation makes it into wake county a lot of it evaporates before it reaches the ground until the dew point comes up dew points to the south the lions share of this event will stay to the east. Law of us from raleigh northward dont get a sprinkle today. Thats a possibility. Were in the chance category. Obviously likely happening right now off to the south. The area of low pressure we watched development yesterday, here it is. It is pulling away a little bit. That is good news, the farther away it is, less chance of the off to the to the west. Mainly in eastern North Carolina event. The temperatures cool around the triangle, low to mid40s for highs today. Tomorrow warmer a
I want to show you where the precipitation is. Its wintry in the form of sleet or wet snow flakes mixing in. What youre noticing is no northward progression, staying along the 95 corridor and points east ward and i think thats where it will hold its form today. It might try to advance to the north but our area is so dry, most of it will evaporate. Fayetteville towards benson, along 95, getting sleet reports this morning and have been a few hours now. 34 in roxboro, 38 in san ford, 37 in fayetteville. Everybody seeing abovefreezing temperatures. But the dew points, a little bit higher, where were seeing more moisture, but theyre lower up to the north. Precip trying to come up here and will evaporate first and eventually reach the ground. Our chance is probably 20, maybe 30 around the triangle, of getting some showers. Farther to the south, obviously, its 100 because its happening right now but it really will hold the form along the 95. It all depends on where it tracks. North and the ea