Southward for a couple of wet early this morning. The hourbyhour forecast show 65 degrees at 7 a. M. Partly cloudy skies. And that means on and off clouds through much of the day. We are back to 80 by 11 00 this morning. Into the afternoon, upper 80s inland. It is going to be hot. I would say about 80 degrees there. The coast including boston at 86. And cape about 81 degrees. And an hour by hour afternoon. A slight shower risk. Auburn this morning. Two tractortrailers collided on the pike eastbound. This is right under the under the bancroft street overpass. Our photographer at the scene say it is appears that one tractortrailer rear ended the other, and the driver of the second tractortrailer was trapped inside. Rescue crews used the jaws of life to pull that driver out, and he was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. The latest on the traffic holdups associated with that crash are coming up right now. Here is Catherine Parrotta update. How is that situation working out right
Will still be very muggy. A little cloudy there over salem street in downtown apex this morning. The sunshine will warm things up quickly. 73 in wake forest. 73 in south hills. 75 in rocky mount. 77 in fayetteville. Expect upper 70s heading out the nearly 90 by lunchtime and mid 90s for this afternoon. We are looking at a big cooldown by next week but over the weekend, it still stays fairly warm and muggy. The big change is our chance for thunderstorms. That goes up and ill talk more about that in just a few minutes. Brian is here with a look at the roads. This is the durham freeway this now pulling it over into the work zone there in that east end connector project work zone. It is a minor crash. Everything is on the side of the road. In the past couple of moments, all of the lanes have opened on the southbound side of the durham freeway. It is backing up a little bit there. Ten minutes that make the ride from mangum street. Dont think you need to consider usi alternate route but well
Tonight people are pleading for something he was my best friend. I cant talk to him no more. I cannot talk to him no more. I cant because he is gone. Tonight something should be done to help fix this sways. Another person has died crossing a busy sixlane road. Here is the thing, people rarely even cross the intersection of roosevelt street in Pinellas County safely because the nearest crosswalk is several hundred feet away. Lauren rozyla is tonight pressing fdot for answers. Reporter on any given day you will see cars flying by. And people illegally crossing the street at roosevelt and morgan. Now, another person is dead. A homeless veteran who had fallen on hard times. He was he was a friend. Reporter wesley mertz has seen one too many accidents there. When he learned it was his of a car. For others, the pain is fresh too. I cant talk to him because he is gone. Reporter brett says the man killed yesterday was his best friend. He couldnt bare to look at the body. That was my friend. I
Killed someone or killed himself. At the goes into a gas station to get another shirt. As he is out in the middle of 60 he is trying to carjack vehicles. He hopes into a maroon truck they take a he has a story to sell. And he ripped my shirt. Thats when he kind of come up there trying to get around my neck and stuff. And thats he just took hit him truck. This is the suspect. Notice the eye. That is getting hit. And a crazy chase for the deputies with mr. Johnson on the ground in cuffs. Why was he running . We asked the deputies, they dont know he is not. A lightning bolt a bang and the house was shaking. It destroyed their 6000 square foot mansion. Im sure the family is shaken up. , theyre all safe they have they can salvage. You realize how lucky they are. Look that the. That is a hole and in the roof. They believe it is a loss. And a mother and were inside. And they felt the house shake. They didnt know they took a direct hit but they heard crackling and they are filled with later we
There. Good afternoon, tampa bay. Im paul lagrone, in for laura harris. And im ashley glass. We have a lot to cover with the system headed our way. We could be under a Tropical Storm watch by the end of the show. We learned that Governor Scott is on his way to look how the tampa bay is preparing. Rain and wind could start to affect the turnout at the polls in the final few hours florida primary today. A crew at a station just had to break down their camera because of the threat of lightning. It does happen. We have a team of reporters though watching the polls and posted at them in various counties. Sue them all here. But first shay ryan with the most updated track. Shay, what have you got. Right now im going to start with the storms across tampa bay. You can see in tampa, also just to the south of i4, across polk county. All of thesehipo that lightning. All of the quite a few lightnings and storms acrs the area. Remember, the last few days, in fact quite a bit of the summer, we have b