New tonight on Eyewitness News. Hurricane matthew on the move. The southeastern United States preparing for the possibility of a direct hit. The latest track from the Hurricane Center just in. plus. Facing the family. A former unc student on trial for a deadly drunk driving crash. The emotional testimony from family. And. Off the menu. A mom gets a big surprise at a wake county restaurant. Its the mustsee video of the night. Eyewitness news the southeast United States preparing for Hurricane Matthew. The monster storm moving toward the us. Tonight millions of americans either ordered. Or urged to get away from the coast. We have the latest storm track. And the preparations underway right now. Good evening everyone, im steve daniels. And im tisha powell. North carolina is on alert for us. Governor mccrory says the state is prepared to respond at a moments notice. He also says North Carolina will provide help to neighboring states. Right now, there are no evacuations planned for any city
We are now approaching the sixth hour of the investigation. As of right now, one person has died, another is in Critical Condition at a local hospital. There is debris that we were seeing still on the ground, and lots of information we are waiting to learn. Including how this happened. How the car got stuck in the guardrail. There are still other pieces of germination are waiting to hear from, we have spoken with information we are waiting to hear from, police and waiting to hear more. I want to bring in Brian Shrader to talk to you about how this could affect your morning commute. Reporter the good news right now is that sensors are not indicating any huge delays on dawson street. That is welcome news. It has been pretty quieon the roads this morning but still, that is a major route through downtown raleigh southbound and is closed at cabarrus street. As you saw, it looks like with the cleanup job it could be closed for some time to come. Think about an alternate route. One option mig
Showers say towards halifax county, wake county and some very light rain. A lot of this will taper off before its time to hit out the door this morning. 68 in henderson and roxboro. We have 73 in raleigh and dur rasm and southward a. M. Low 70s. We climb to 84 at lunchtime. We make it to 89 this afternoon. Just a little above where we should be. There will be a chance for a stray shower. Make sure the kiddos take an umbrella with them. Right now lets check in with allie. If you are up early and getting ready to head to conditions for you if youre driving to school as well. Near freedom drivement if youre heading up through durham roads look good. All the green says youre able able to go to the speed limit. A lot of bus stops are going to be slowing down for today fsm youre flying out today looks like good travel conditions in the major airports. A live look outside. Not too much to just one car out there right now. Well have another update on the traffic conditions as kids head back to
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Were under an inch, so far as we know. There were some years that got enough to whiten things up, in a narrow band to the south and east of raleigh, expecting the cloud cover to move out of the here, once we get to midnight and beyond, the wind is going to start to pick up, thats going to be a sign that second blast of arctic air is moving in, and this one promises to be colder than when we experienced the last few days. We have winter to deal with, we lock l talk about signs releasing the grip a little bit all that coming up in a little bit. Slick spots have been an issue on the roadways and to chethe ndionsnove 5,is i onwest stony, aca see, no problems. Rain this morning, quickly turned in to a wintery mix in Cumberland County. Gilbert baez is life on highway 401, where the slick conditions caused a bad accident that sent reporter we are just south of lyndon this, is reefs bridge road, the accident came in, the call to the Highway Patrol 1 45, it did involve two vehicles. Back to sho