So theres the big picture now. I can kind of slice the area into three sections. The i95 corridor, and east of there, about to get it. Many of you along i95 and west, are getting it now. That clues up to franklin county, on into the virginia area. The western part of our viewing area has been through a lot already. They are kind of in the all clear now. Lets first of all pop in the current Tornado Warnings. Those are the boxes you see here in red. Well start up to the north, and i want to just kind of go down the line of storms and well go in close and talk about what we have. First, parts of franklin and vance county, that is leaving wake county. It extends into Warren County as well. Thats a Tornado Warning in effect until 6 30. Thats this storm down here at the bottom of your screen, it its very quickly moving into parts of, there you can see, franklin, vance, and Warren County. That includes roseville, and wake forest. Its a big cluster of storms, but only a small portion of that c
Counties those counties and west pinehurst and siler city and pittsboro all in the clear right now. Get get read reidy for sunshine and colder temperatures. However still some rough weather and its centers around the i95 corridor. Heave yes rain thund heavy rain and thunder and lightning and severe thunderstorms warning producing winds Strong Enough to knock knock down trees. Thats the biggest teak away. All the damage reports there will be more trees down more than anything caused by Straight Line winds. Headlines will be taken by the tornadoes we have and tornado damage but theres couple but most of the theres a couple, but most of the damage came from thunderstorm warnings and we have those. Again no Tornado Warnings right now that are active. But starting here in northern Franklin County moving through warrington and warren and virginia, thats one thunderstorm warning that last for the next few minutes possibly producing damaging wind. Wilson up through edge come and i95 by the way
Were back to 51 by 6 p. M. , cool and calmer for us for the evening drive home. More on your forecast and the weekend ahead in just a few minutes but lets check in with traffic this morning. This is i440 and lake boone trail. Weve been checking in throughout the morning and steadily seeing more cars. Now, just into the news room we do have a closure this is southern portions of wncn, this had is u. S. 1. This closure is actually on penny road there are power lines down between 1010 road and killed air farm road. So certainly try to avoid this area. Again power lines down. Well work to get more information for you. Right now im going to send it back. Breaking news, just 30 minutes ago wayne county officials announced two schools will operate on a threehour delay today. And that list includes spring the reason, of course, a power outage caused by yesterdays storms. Thats right. Well, right now crews throughout the state work to go restore power to thousands of people. We just checked the
Clinton. Heres your forecast for this afternoon, still windy at lunchtime, 53, 56 our high were back into the low 50s head into 6 oclock this evening. We also have a quick reminder for you this honoring to download the wncn news and weather app. You can keep track of any changing weather conditions, alerts and real time maps when youre on the going. Its all free for your apple and android device. And as you can imagine clean up is underway right now in Granville County after a possible tornado touched down yesterday. Thats where we find wncns emma wright. Shes been talk to go people whose homes were destroyed and it appears that neighbors have a whole lot of work to do. It really does and it appears that it left a pretty specific starting right here, were told there used to be a barn right here but you can see what used to be in it over here where the roof of this house is completed taken off. Weve talked to the folks who live around here and say they are just beginning to comprehend w
Near hi body. Chief cassandra deck brown wouldnt answer questions or elaborate on details. I ask everyone to be patience while foolup investigations continue. Reporter as police left the neighborhood, hundreds of people filled bragg street. They filled candles and wrote messages. They wanted to make a point to the larger community. Some neighbors say they would have liked to have seen police back here tonight. Where is cassandra . She says it doesnt happen in california whreeb North Carolina. She said this would never happen. What you got to say now . The community is still left reporter the chunlt is still left with a lot of questions, but neighbors are urging peace. Southeast raleigh is overlooked. We have unity. We have needs but we have unity. Reporter the state bureau of investigation is handling the criminal investigation while raleigh pd conducts it own interim invest. The chief says a written report will go to the City Managers Office within 5 business days. Michael hyland, Nor