reporter: many of the victims families were at the statehouse and so were thousands of others who came to witness a day many thought would never come. for the first time in my life the state has said we are one, all the lives matter. if it offends us we will take it down. the flag that came down today will now have a new home. in the state s confederate relic museum as part of the deal that the lawmakers in south carolina agreed to. marry bruce abc7 news. jonathan: a southern heritage group will be going to federal court later this month in an attempt to keep the confederate flag on the virginia specialty license plates. virginia governor called the confederate flag divisive and hurtful and said he wanted to phase out the image on the silence plate. in the lawsuit, the sons of the confederate veterans said the charleston church shooting was not caused by the confederate battle flag and a ban on the confederate flag would not have prevented it. kimberly: now to a major sh
everybody. bo minnick, wncn news now. in the last half hour, we learned from senate leader phil burger s office that a judge has given the plaintiffs in the redistricting case until noon tomorrow to respond to the state s request for a stay. we ll keep you updated. well also tomorrow, much colder temperatures return to the area. tonight it s rain. chief meteorologist wes hohenstein is tracking the rain and joins us with the latest. good evening to you and you at home. it was dry most of the day. now showers have moved in. and they re also on their way out depending on where you are. they cleared a good portion of the area. but rain with heavy down pours, nothing severe and nothing flooding is what we re in for for the next few hours. along the i-95 corridor from the virginia border through wilson and rocky mount into wayne county, the heaviest rain sampson county. and in another few hours, these showers will be clear. but so will any thought of warm temperatures. today
because the roads are cold and there s slick spots i will call it a medium event and that is tough one on what schools are going to do. there are changes possible but a lot of this is going to happen after the morning commute and before the evening commute. here s what we are thinking. bull s eye is one to two inches and that s east of the area. up to ionch for a lot of us an inch for a lot of us and a dusting out to the west. i will take you through the day hour by hour coming up in few minutes. we will go over this map a little more and we have colder air this weekend. see you in a few minute for the details. speak of the roads late this afternoon bill reh met to talk about presidentials ahead of the possible winter weather and this is what he had to say. we have a little snow tomorrow and in 2005 woad snow forecasted in the middle of the day similar with a very cold morning and we had gridlock. right. the big difference is brine we didn t brine back then and we w
good evening i am chennai. the winter weather eight advisory is in effect for tomorrow. all of these close tomorrow. roanoke rapids, wayne and wilson county schools. chief meteorologist wes hohenstein joint us. as you can see, it just doesn t look like anything is going on. we are waiting on an area of low pressure that will develop to ourselves and eventually bring moisture into our area to bring us what i would call a minor weather event. because the roads are so cold, anything that falls will stick and become slick. tomorrow s event is one of three. we have a stronger blast of cold air coming in this weekend. another winter weather system and tuesday. the first of three starts with this. we are all below freezing in the 20s. that is very important. if it was 70 degrees yesterday and we brought in snow tomorrow, a lot of it would melt before it accumulated. we have been cold all week. that first flake is going to melts. psg just try. it looks like it will start lat
started over night in wake county and it led to hundreds of accidents across the triangle this morning. wncn s david hurst reports. as temperatures rose today, road conditions gradually got better. behind me here along i 440 there s still a little bit of slush left over. but we re not seeing any of the ice that caused so many problems this morning. icy and slippery roads caused headaches for many drivers across the triangle. what normally would take me a good 30 minute commute took about an hour and a half. the north carolina highway patrol reported over 1,000 the state. most of those were in the triangle area where troopers crashes. troopers say none of the wrecks resulted in serious injuries. delays. on days like monday, when roads are slippery, auto body shops like capitol city collision see a spike in the business. an accident is an accident for the most part. we hope no one s hurt. experiences a 15 to 20% increase every time there s a significant weather event. t