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Smoke and flames tearing through a home. A wake county family loses nearly everything. what weve learned about the cause. Plus calls for change. A tearful plea from the mother of a murder victim. What shes demanding from police and the community. And. A raleigh couple accused of abusing and killing a dog. The womans teary defense. Eyewitness news starts right now. Now a Fire Destroys a wake county home. Good evening everyone. Im tisha powell. And im steve daniels. chopper 11 hd. Brought you the story live as breaking news during our news at six oclock. As flames and thick black smoke poured from the roof. The fire started just before six oclock on cortona way. not far from buffalo road near the wake Johnston County line. Angelica alvarez is live near the scene with the the home though. Is a total loss. Its going to be a long night for firefighters. Theyre still here. Working ....
And fayetteville. 67 in durham. Still 60 in henderson and south hill. So heres a look at your forecast for the day ahead. Overall a cooler morning for us. Close to 64 at 8 00 a. M. 81 at lunchtime. 87 the afternoon high. Overall close to where we should be for this time of year. No rain, though, in our forecast. Still sunny and dry as we had towards 6 00 this evening. We d have rain chances now in the 7 day i. Will let you know up in the complete storm team forecast. Good morning its 5 01 roads look great through the raleigh area. Take a look at the maps enjoy the green. Means youre able to go the speed limit on 40, 540 anywhere youre headed seems delay free. Through durham, same thing. 85, durham freeway moving pretty well. We take you into Orange County we have a road closure. Orange grove road is closed the week. So a big heads up to you there. 10mile key tour in place for that. Through fayetteville, no problems to report to you ....
Look at this getting an army morning peek at the colors starting to spread across the horizon. Just a few clouds as we start our day. Lets check in with the satellite and radar composite. Over the past few hours, weve seen the clouds kind of drift across the area. One important part of our morning forecast, no rain on our radar. So let get straight to the temperatures. Dropping all around the area. 64 right now in durham. 60 in sanford. Also 60 in henderson, south hill youre at 61 along with louisburg. Fayetteville at 68 with hoke county. Raeford at 68, as well. Plans for the day ahead, with these temperatures much cooler between five and 10 degrees cooler. In some cases even 11 or 12 degrees cooler. Lunchtime today the sunshine is still around but back to 81. Human trafficking low side, as well. Knee normal, as well. Sunshine will continue for the work week. The 90s will return ill let you know when. Right now lets send it to ali with the latest on the compute. We only have one minor ....
Mikaya thurmond joins us outside the courthouse with more. Reporter bill and lena, investigators have called this one of the most disturbing crime scenes they have ever come across. The murders happened in 2005. The four were shot execution style in the upstairs bedroom of a townhome. Two others were hurt when they jumped out of a window. Authority says 3 lee three suspects were seen the home. Roderick duncan is the only person arrested, already serving eight years in federal prison for drug charges. This afternoon, duncan is expected to take responsibility for the quadruple murder. Wral will follow the case and bring you the latest updates in our afternoon newscast. Lena and bill . Mikaya thurmond, thank you. Indicted on a murder charge. Chad copely will face a jury for the august 7 shooting death of kouren thomas. Copely called 911 and said he was, quote, locks and loaded and ready to secure the neighbor because a group was outside robbing the neighborhood. He believed that people ou ....