Devastating flooding and even though the storm has weakened to a tropical storm since making Land Fall official, say that its still poses a deadly threat to take a very seriously. So far, six states have declared a State Of Emergency millions of people across the region are without power and at least seven stormrelated deaths have been reported. At any minute. Now were going to hear from Governor Roy Cooper about the storms impact in North Carolina. But for first i want to bring in Isabel Rosales and asheville, North Carolina as well. Were getting these reports of catastrophic flooding there. What are you seeing pam, lets move the camera. He shall see it for yourself right here. The amount of debris that these floodwaters are just up bringing into whats a road right here looking at it as this was a Metal Propane Tank of some sort that was another one back there looking at Garbage Bags back here some sort of a metal container. It is just incredible what these floodwaters are dragging th
Rain falling down in the southern part of the viewing area, and thats where all the trouble is. Lets go straight to the dual doppler radar. Those counties highlighted in green are where we have a flash flood emergency until 10 00 a. M. Of course thats not just a flash flood warning, but and emergency, and thats the highest alert that we have for flooding. A lot of roads are flooded or washed out in places, especially the southern part of Harnett County. Thats where all the trouble starting to ease up. Thats great news. That does not mean the flooding is going to ease um. Instead, of course, the rivers and streams are filling up because of all that run, and it will still be a problem. A lot of heavy rain in clinton. If youre coming down i40, youre going to run into some heavy rain. Scattered showers in goldsboro, wilson, rocky mount. As you head north up to roanoke rapids. Around the triangle, the rain has begun to taper off seen across the region. Its been just incredible down south. W
Convention center. It was still good but just something about having it outside. If you are coming to the Bluegrass Festival today, wear your shorts and tshirts. It is really warm and muggy. Yesterday, we had very heavy rain at this time and down in that same area, we have a storm that has developed. Well zoom in down south. You can see the storm, when we talked about it 20 minute or so ago, it was moving across lightning with this. This is an area that saw devastating flooding yesterday. Dont be too concerned about this bringing us any more flooding. There are still some flash flood warnings down in that area. We have ahay cell move through roxboro. That moved up into virginia for the most part. Still lifting out of Person County right now. This is what well see all through the morning, just these isolated cells popping up with brief heavy rain. Morning. It is 73 in downtown. 7 in rocky mount. We check our forecast for today. Looking at temperatures visibilities very quickly, quarter
Snow showers the next in line is the brutal cold and the president s day storm monday morning. Here is what the radar looks like not a lot falling right now. Some of you had snow showers and enough to put down a dusting in our South Carolina counties. But that has exited off to the east. Cloudy and a flurry or two in the mountains as we take you through the evening. Definitely cold. Much colder than yesterday. 36 in charlotte and we have a new fresh shot of arctic air moving in. Look at the temperatures off to the northwest as you get up towards minneapolis, 10 , 8 in winnipeg, canada and that is the direct ton that our air is coming from. That air will be put in place by the time the storm rolls in here monday morning. We will get into this in detail but its looking like for charlotte this does start as a brief period of snow by day break monday morning changing over to a mix. Accumulation up to two inches at best that we are forecasting for charlotte before this ends as rain monday e
Have an overturned van, so they are beginning to clear that accident scene, but if youre coming on the outer loop heading toward brookshire boulevard and down toward pineville, you are going to find that inner lane closed because of that accident scene. Again, that is oakdale on the outer loop of 485. Volume light, not seeing any significant delays, well keep our eye on that accident. Looking at the overall charlotte commute, 485, primarily looks good, 77, 85, no significant problems, down to our south we have an accident on i77 southbound at anderson road, that is highway 21, most of the delays that were seeing are there along anderson road. That is a check of the morning commute, christine, over to you. Christine department of transportation crews spending the weekend treating the roads across the charlotte region in advance of the Winter Weather. This morning they continue to monitor conditions as things will worsen later. Kristen hampton live in have you since seen crews out while