Transcripts For WNCN North Carolina News At 500PM 20160901 :

Transcripts For WNCN North Carolina News At 500PM 20160901

Weaken. Either way the rain is coming. Sure, the track has gotten skinnier but the center line track still has it over eastern North Carolina and it hasnt shifted much. However, we now know what kind of rain were expecting. It will happen from 10 a. M. Tomorrow to 10 a. M. Saturday. It could amount to 2 inches. The entire ea Flash Flood Watch. Speaking of florida, its under a state of merge emergency. In st. Petersburg floodwaters are rising. A nearby lake began overflowing its banks. Some people have seen they were planning events for the Labor Day Weekend and theyre now preparing people for the storm. Aj, are people concerned . Reporter if you look behind me looks like theyre getting ready for this fun event. Its sunny skies. The only thing you looks different is some rough waters. You can probably see a guy coming out right now. He was just out there as well as the wind. Its a little bit more than comfortable. A lot of these people are out enjoying the day trying to get as much of the sun as they can. As you have mentioned, this probably will not be the scene here tomorrow on oak island. I did speak with some of the officials in Brunswick County concerned about flooding. The bottom line is this going to be a rain event for Brunswick County. If we tell you to evacuate, evacuate. If we tell you to go inside and stay inside, do that. Reporter some concerns from the county officials making sure the people behind me take warning. Well talk to some of them and ask what theyre doing and reporting live in Brunswick County, im aj janavel. If you have a student at east carolina university, the school hams sent out an alert saying theyre monitoring the situation. Classes are going on as usual. Due to the weather several High School Football games in the sand hills will be played in our area in real time, make sure to download the cbs North Carolina weather app. Its available for free in the apple store. People trying to get home and nc fans are driving the area around Carter Finley stadium. This is i440 as people get home from wherever they may be. We have new information on the body found in fayetteville. Cumberland county deputies confirm it was anthony macneill. The discovery was made about two blocks away from a deadly shooting on sunday. Thats where macneill killed eugene racine, con tested on social media and disappeared. It is believed he killed himself. Body camera will become standardgoer for Police Officers. I think its good for the Police Department as well as the citizens as well. Reporter this retired new york cop said body cameras need to be standard issue. Blue lights come on, this automatically comes on. Reporter whether its body cameras, they know their officers are being fully documented. We want transparency with the public. We want to protect our citizens and officers. Reporter transparency that comes at the right time. With everything going on reporter the towns chief said they have to get used to the fact that its a way of life. Reporter they have renewed interest on when body cameras will be us very are checking with different vendors. Once thats done they will begin testing. Raleigh police plan on purchasing 600 body cams once they figure out which system they want to use. Im Steve Sbraccia cbs North Carolina. A spokesperson said the city police do not have them yet but plan on getting them. Looking into the deadly Early Morning crash. It happened about 2 40 this morning. One person died at the scene. A dump truck driver stayses charges after a deadly accident that killed a woman in garner. It happened last night along highway 401 and old stage road. The Highway Patrol tells cbs North Carolina that a dump truck was making a it hit and killed the driver. Right now city leaders in fayetteville are looking over the cost and mass thr plan for the new baseball stayed master plan for the new baseball stadium. Well have an update on what was decided tonight. A Leesville High School student who was hit by a car on improvements. In 2010 josh lawton was a freshman when he was hit at leesville road. He was diagnosed with a brain injury that left him with chronic headaches. His mother rallied the community to see change. There are now stop signs with plans to install a crossing signal. We had a Real Community engagement process. Construction will start this december on ne bike lanes near Leesville High School. All eyes will be on one player tonight before the 49ers game. Will Colin Kaepernick continue his protest. Theres new concern surrounding the zika virus. Heres a live look at wade avenue and edwards mill where s time pat mccrory and republicans in raleigh tell the truth about our schools. Instead of putting our children first, billions in tax breaks that could have lifted North Carolinas schools have been diverted into tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations. And what are we left with . The ratio of teachers to students is worse. Funds for textbooks and supplies are scarce. Teaching assistants have been depleted. The state is worried about an increase of mosquitoes. They are asking people to stay out where the bugs and breathe. There is concern for the zika virus. The the miami beach area. The state considered stay steps to control. It. The chicago Police Department is dealing with its highest numbers of murders in two decades. They finished with 90 murders and more than 472 shooting victims. Police superintendent eddie Certain Group thats responsible. You get sick of seeing it. You really do but i stay optimistic because i know we can reduce it if we can get our legislature to help us. There have been more nan new york city and los angeles combined. After 33 years on the Dallas Police force, chief david brown plans to but joined the force in 1983. Brown helped unite the community after a sniper attack in july that killed five officers. There are new sightings of a clown in South Carolina. Its like a bad campfire story. The first happened on august 21st in greenville. The latest happened 40 minutes away in spartanburg. Someone saw someone dressed as a clown in her backyard. Tonight all eyes will be on San Francisco 49ers Colin Kaepernick to see if he will protest the national anthem. He sat down on the bench saying he will not stand until briewlt brutality against minorities. Some do not want kaepernick on their team. Strong reactions from both sides of Donald Trumps recent address on immigration. Political report are beau minnick takes a closer look at the effects here. Very offensive to the priority to make sure we have a secure nation. Reporter supporters and opponents of donald trump are reacting to his plan to build a wall. Help hasnt said how he would deport 11 million people. Many say its not possible. I hope its not. Reporter he space the lot Latino Community is and has been alarmed by trump. To tear apart families, we have people who are 21, born in the United States and come to mow and say my mom and dad have been here for 30 years. What can i do. Reporter the lot platt Latino Community makeup about i dont think it was a plan. It was basically spur of the moment. They all had to do withen forcement. A plan to me would be positive. Reporter representative ron raven said it is a plan and it makes sense for america. How can it be wrong in a nation of laws. If you want to enforce the laws that we have i see us on a path li administration, a path toward another amnesty. No one should be above the law. I to thely agree with that but that is different from being a humanitarian. Trumps running mate mike pence will be in fayetteville on saturday. Pence visited three cities in North Carolina last week no chapel hill skyline. This is the photo of the new google sign. It set up a small fiber business. It will help businesses who need work with computers. All right. A good thursday evening to you. Weve got thunderstorms, cooler weather and a Tropical Storm that will be in our state tomorrow Tropical Storm. Monday is the 21st anniversary of fran, nothing like that. This will be a rain maker, should cause minor flooding. As far as significant damage and significant impact, were not going to say things like that. In fact, most of our Holiday Weekend looks to be okay. Most of the effects from hermine will be felt friday and friday night. The rain starts about 10 a. M. Tomorrow from the south. Saturday. 2 to 5 inches is the average number were looking at. The strongest winds from late friday night to Early Saturday Morning 20 to maybe 40milean hour winds. Things will improve quickly on saturday. Before we get to all that, though, we got a busy thunderstorm afternoon today. It was hot and humid again just like most of august was. Thats how the first day of september started. Heavy rain from lee to county. Rain around Carter Finley. The wolfpack are going at it tonight. So a little bit of rain for the tailgaters. I think there will be more later tonight. Theyre cautious about lightning. Make sure youre planning for that. Rain will not stop them. As we come east along the i95 corridor, we have scattered storms. Everything moving from west to people like don in fayetteville, pine hurst, clinton, still in the low 90s but this could be the last of the low 90s starting tomorrow. Well keep the scattered showers and storms in the forecast. Well go from the upper 70s to the mid70s overnight and tomorrow morning early well be dry, still warm and muggy but its later in the morning that we will feel the effects of this wall of water headed way. So its not the hurricane thats now in the gulf of mexico. Its this rain and little bit of wind. The big story was Tropical Storm hermine became hurricane hermine, the fourth of this season. Later tonight into the overnight hours, it will be the first hurricane. Listen to this. It will be the first hurricane to hit florida in 11 years. Florida gets hit more than any other state in our country and we had a lot of storms and hurricane. It will weaken quickly throughout the day friday and into the Early Morning hours of friday. I want to give you a track compare son. Since were closer and closer to the time, the cone will shrink up, the closer we get to being here. The center line remains over eastern North Carolina. It hasnt shifted much as we put up a drone line from earlier today. So not a lot has changed unleak yesterday. So theai concern. As we pick up the weather map, here this comes in from the south spreading through the triangle late in the morning. Heavy rain for a good portion of the area from lunchtime through most of the afternoon, through most of friday night. Theres the eye of what would be a Tropical Storm late friday night. Friday night and Early Saturday Morning rain continues and it wraps up saturday morning. Some of the cloud also stick day saturday, just not perfectly sunny. Look at some of the computer model rain projections. Well look at the whole group. Thats a high amount of rain. We dont often see that amount of rain. On average our forecast is 2 to 5 inches. Thats why everybody is under a flood watch, because we could see flooding with this. Winds wouldnt be as bad as what theyre getting in florida by the time you get up saturday morning, it will be breezy, not really windy. Different store is ri for the coast. Things wont calm down there until sat day afternoon. Then you have the rest of saturday, sunday and monday. Temperatures wont be as hot as today but it will be muggy. Great holiday weather days. 86 on monday for labor day. And well be complaining about the 90s again. They will be back by the middle of next week. So rain and little bit of rain are my biggest concerns. A couple of messy days. Most of the weekend still looks good. Thank you, wes. A significant piece of history is hanging in a welcome. Its me the extra crispy colonel. My extra crispy, twenty dollar fillup feeds a family of four. If you live in raeford, your help is needed. The survey asks residents for their input on what the city should focus on. This is part of creating a master plan. This weekend you can get an upclose look at the civil rights march from selma to birmingham. It captured the backlash the marchers faced. I think people need to understand the sacrifice that people 50 and 60 years ago during that 1964, time frame in opened saturdayed will be on display until march of next year. Nc state is preparing for the start of the football season, which means tailgating fun. Well check in with the fans havertys furniture helps your home look perfect hey. Umm. Sign here . Sure, you got a pen . I do thanks sweetie. The labor day sale is on now at havertys. Life looks good. Im roy cooper, and you deserve the truth about the crime lab. When i became attorney general, but what governor mccrory isnt telling you is that we cleared the backlog. We also solved over 2,000 crimes and put killers and rapists in prison from cold cases. We fixed the problems at the crime lab, and governor mccrory knows that. If you have ever installed a car seat, you know it can be trick why i am, the lexus and prius all earned top ratings for ease from the Insurance Institute for highway safety. The study looks at where the anchors are located. The problem is theyre too deep in the seat. Access matter . Sop parents can find it and attach the connector. In all the vehicles we see, received a perfect score. The safest spot for the child is in the middle. Most cars earned a good rating. Well, its not even labor about christmas. Its opening its lay away program and is out with the hottest toys for the holidays, as picked by kids. It include as teenage mutant ninja turtle remote control. It officially launches on september 6. The fan pass is a code you can get by entering your phone number on starbucks website. Its not the only drink theyre rolling out. Customers will be offered starbucks chilly mocha chili mocha. Its cinnamon and sea salt. If youre a latte Love Research suggests your caffeine habits may be linked to your genes. People with a newly identified trait drink less than those who didnt have the trait. Right now at 5 30, the state is unveiling its grades. How the states in our area stack up and how one high school is making major strides. Plus, rush hour traffic. College football and wet weather. Well go for the latest on track. North carolina news at 5 30 starts now. North carolina shows the School Grades improved last year. In the past 10 years Graduation Rates have climbed more than 17 across the state. Lauren haviland found a Wake County High School that had an intervention to ensure more students would earn their diploma. We still have a lot of work to do. Reporter but in 2016, an School Graduated compared to the year before. And the team at sanderson new a major intervention was needed. They call it save our seniors. It responds to the immediate needs of those struggling to graduate. We have 3356 days 365 days to deal with this and correct the problem. Reporter with that suck set school staff is energy toward ninth graders. If uponly look at seniors, youre going to be in a pan eke as an administrator because the damage has been done for 13 years. Reporter the goal is to have 93 earn a diploma. Our trend may be like global warming. Is to go up. Theyre willing to do anything. Reporter in raleigh, lauren haviland. They have created a hashtag sanderson way for all. Cbs North Carolina doug into the results of several counties. Johnston county schools improved their school rating. Just one school earned a d and a third earned as or rose a percent and a half. Durham had a poor showing with nine schools earning f and another 12 earning ds. Only 50 earned a b or better. Cumberland curb county it rose to nearly 80 . None receiving fs. Wayne county saw a more than 1 decrease since last year. Right now thousands of fans are getting ready for the triangles First College Football Game of the season. That means theyre competing with traffic. Carleigh, whats it like out there right now . Reporter weve been stuck in rush hour track for about 30 minutes. Weve been going through of 440 west and 440 east to wade avenue. We just got off on glenwood avenue to get back to 440 west. Of course glenwood avenue absolutely packed. Its packed trying to get on to the beltline at this hour. It took us about 15 minutes to get from exit 10, wake forest road to exit 4 to get on to throughout that ime. That makes traffic immediately slow down and the roads are a little wet at this hour as well. So you definitely need to stay on your toe pay close attention if youre out here and, of course, if you can all, at possible avoid wade avenue, blue ridge, trinity and edward mills road, then that would be great and greatly ncdot would great appreciate that. Take your time and Pay Attention and stay save safe. Back to you. Thank you. We continue our Team Coverage as the College Football teams kick off. Theyre tai

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