Transcripts For WNCN North Carolina News At 500PM 20160921 :

Transcripts For WNCN North Carolina News At 500PM 20160921

Transparent and inform us of whats going on. Reporter the two narratives, police say, are causing confusion. I can tell you the stories are different as to how its been portrayed so far, especially through social media. Reporter as for any potential protests police are hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. My plans are appropriately. Hopefully well have peaceful protests and do things the charlotte way. Reporter and back here in uptown charlotte, many businesses let their employees go home early for the day and in anticipation of protests. David hurst, cbs North Carolina. Theres a call for an economic boycott. For an independent investigation. Were standing up for our black manhood, black people. What were calling for is an economic boycott of the whole city of charlotte. Since black lives do not matter, then the black dollar shouldnt matter. He said its a form of modern day the aclu is calling on the charlottemecklenburg to release any dash cam video. Video of Police Shooting can shed light, especially when you have a conflict between what police are saying and what the community is saying. The aclu also says the clock 1st. It would require the Law Enforcement to release a copy of the footage. We wanted to know what causes the outbursts. Derrick lewis speaks to one professor. What were his thoughts. Reporter help points out when it comes to confronting race issues durham and charlotte are not the same. He said the ome different. North carolina central professor Irving Joyner watched the events unfold overnight. Now with the Police Killings occurring all over the country and the frequency of which they are occurring, i was not surprised. Reporter exexplained he explained how protesters started fires. They are upset as they lock at those things occurring around the country. Reporter ir irving said there was no one two control the situation and it would have played out differently in durham. Theres a lot of leadership in durham dealing with the issues. In that sense durham is significantly different than charlotte. Reporter communities may different, they must build trust. The feeling in the community that the police is actually there to protect and serve them and that is not feeling that africanamericans have in communities today. Reporter now in response to the shooting in charlotte yesterday students will gather on campus tonight at 10 00 in this hear for a rally. End to the war on black america. Live in durham, im derrick lewis. There was one major protest following the shooting of the man killed by a Raleigh Police officer who was trying to arrest him but since the shooting Jenkins Family has held smaller protests hoping to improve count relations within the city. Raleigh police plan to get body and the deadly Police Shooting in charlotte comes days after the one in oklahoma. On friday 40yearold Terence Crutcher was shot by a white police officer. She shot him while he was at a stalled vehicle. Ahead at 5 30 what his family wncn. Com. Our nonstop rain is causing problems. A road collapsed after heavy rain eroded the road. Weve seen this as a pattern. The 90s are gone but the rain is here s there any rain in sight. It will eventu and clear out. Today is day three in a row. Weve got another one coming tomorrow. Theyve had the heaviest rain along the coast. Thats why the rain is getting washed out. Some of the heaviest rain is starting to slide in our area from the northeast. This is part of a much larger situation, counter clock wise thats pulling in moisture from the openings and dumping it in our neck of thed woulds. It was another day of temperatures in the 70s. That sure looks nice and its going to be equally has cool as we head no tomorrow. But well keep showers in the forecast tonight. Clouds are locked in. Temperatures locked in to the low 70s. We will let up on rain in the overnight. Well walk you through the next co to the first weekend of fall in just a few minutes. A federal judge dismissed a challenge that allowed a magistrate to refuse to mary gay couples. The judge said it lacked legal standings. He also cited they lacked evidence showing they were harmed directly by by the law. The law took effect in june stop in rolesville after an 11 yearold boy was hit by a car. The parents told us they are concerned about their kids safety. Henry cruz was hit. 16yearold jordan nobles hit cruz as he waited for the bus. This morning neither henry nor his classmates were at the bus stop for shock to what happened. I thought this was a dream. I didnt think this would happen. His concerns have been answered since there is a new sto. Another good reminder to help cbs North Carolina save lives and break for buss if you think a school bus is not safe, send it to us. Two separate incidents have been reported this week. Police said a person dressed in white clothes tried to grab two clothes. The second was reported on grant street and linwood avenue. Two men grabbed her and she was able to get away. Sometime this evening thats when Colonial Pipeline said it will restart the. Line we visited a pump in fayetteville. The signs say no gas. The leak forced the pipeline to be shut down. Crews have create lad solution and hope to have the problems resolved this weekend. One of the situations with the shortage is price gouging. Steve sbraccia joins us from smith field at a pump. Reporter this mom and pop earlier. We came to check this out. The owner told me by phone at was a mistake and they ended up putting the price back to 2. 59 which is where it is right now. In the meantime the attorney general said there are higher prices elsewhere in the state and theyre checking it out. Were asking people to let us know if they see price gouging. Reporter and the public has respond. Over10 parts of North Carolina with 184 from the triangle, 275 from the triad. 45 charlotte. 40 greenville and 38 from asheville. For some drivers higher gas prices are a real concern. Hopefully ill have enough money to keep money in my car. Reporter what is price gouging. If its unreasonably reporter whats the most you would pay for gas if it was a real emergency . I would say about 4, if i really had to. Reporter as the flow of fuel begins normalizing once again, the Attorney Generals Office has subpoenaed a half dozen stations. I think there should be strong penalties for people who rob people. Reporter do you this gouging does that . Yes, thats stealing. Reporter the attorney general has obtained records from two more stations. In the meantime if you think youve been ripped off, first of all, they said save your receipt. Take some cell phone pictures and file a written complaint with the Attorney Generals Office. Steve sbraccia, cbs North Carolina. In reopening an emergency room. Franklin Medical Center closed last fall. In july the county received approval to bring in a new provider to run the emergency room. The county commissioner released a statement saying the three proposals have been turned in including wake med. They will be reviewed by the countys legal team before a decision will be made. Check the back seat of your car, your booster seat will be on the recall problem. And next the fbi is searching for two people in connection with the new york ary clinton and i donald trump says he alone can fix the problems we face. Well i dont believe thats how you get things done in our country. It takes democrats and republicans working together. Thats how we got health care for 8 million kids. Rebuilt new york city after 9 11. And got the treaty cutting russias nuclear arms. Thats how you solve problems and thats what ill do as president. The search is on for two men in connection with the bombings in new york and new the house home land security held up a copy of the bloody page from bombing suspect ahmad khan rahamis journal. He talks about the sound of bombs we heard in the streets, gunshots to your police, death to your oppression. Reporter rahami is facing at least 10 federal charges including use of a weapon of mass destruction and bombing a public place. In the near intention to bring the defendant to the court in new york which has jurisdiction over where more than 30 were wounded and countless others were endangered. Reporter prosecutors also saw video of rahami setting off with appeared to be a pipe bomb in his backyard earlier this month. Investigators said it may have been practice for saturdays wednesday locating two people shown on Surveillance Video apparently removing an unexploded Pressure Cooker from a piece of luggage saturday, just a few blocks from where the other bomb detonated. We have no reason to believe theyre connected. I cant stress enough theyre witnesses at this time. Reporter authorities said the men took the suitcase and investigators want it back for rahami and a girlfriend had a child. The exgirlfriend was granted sole custody of the child yesterday. The Chicago Police pores will grow by over 1,000 officers over the next two years. They want to address the record setting crime rates. The city has seen over 500 homicides this year. 2016 is considered the deadliest year in two decades in chicago. Even flow as the three in one seat that will be on the recall list. Even flow has received 27 complaints. The company has created videos to explain how you can fix it. If you have registered your seat, you will be notified. Now free car seat checks are avale car seat is properly installed. Oils the car seat can move or shift during an accident. If the recall doesnt help you, registering is helpful. Registering is one of the most important things we can do. When purchased it will come with a registration card. By registering that seat with that manufacturer, if there are that. Wake county Human Services are hosting the free checks through the weekend. Well, my grass already died this summer when they had those new nos those 90s. Its good to wash the car off and its keeping temperatures down in the 70s and we like that after the hot summer we had. Today we got light to moderate showers mostly centered off to the northeast of the what you dont see is that misty drizzly light rain. That will continue as we led into this evening head into this evening. It will slide through our area in the overnight ours. So were halfway through the through 8 00, same thing at 10, kind of the same thing at midnight. You will have clouds, maybe some drizzle and mist. When you walk out the door thursday, temperatures about 68 degrees. I want to show you the visible satellite. This is like taking your phone into space and taking a picture where the normal satellite uses heat signatures. What the clouds look like. This will give you a view. Actually sunshine along the coast today, so we had the worst of the weather, the dreariest of the weather with the clouds and showers as the leftovers from trope Tropical Storm julia. Friday is when we will see noticeable changes and it system off to the south as it weakens. Tomorrows map, the fourth day in a row, kind of looks the same as it has the last three days. The area of low pressure, clouds and rain still hanging around. We get into friday. Thats when it starts to weaken and push away. It will be a lot drier, not completely dry. We have a 20 chance of rain on friday. Then we get into the week. We sunday. So saturday will be generally dry and really warm. Some of us will be close to 90. Sunday well be noticeably cooler with a very small chance of rain. Meanwhile, out in the tropics, karl and lisa are not doing a whole lot. Karl is now a depression. Lisa remain as Tropical Storm. Ill put both on the mass. More importantly away from the east coast and North Carolina. Back here at home our fourth day in a row with temperatures in the 70s. Upper 70s tomorrow in the triangle. 80 in fayetteville, cloudy skies with small chances of rain. Tomorrow, of course, is also the first day of fall and well do it with temperatures in the 70s but then we warm up to 82 on friday. 88 on saturday. Thats the warm day ahead of the cold through on sunday, drops our temperatures by 10 degrees and leaves us with a small chance of rain. We get into next woke and well hold them in the upper 70s with small rain chances returning tuesday and wednesday. And i will caution you about this. I will warn you about whats coming monday morning and that is temperatures when you leave for work and school about 50 degrees. Almost brisk. Enjoy that. Up next, one of the most unusual flowers in the world is set to bloom narrator look up the facts on richard burr. The Insurance Industry gave richard burrs campaigns onepointone million dollars. Thats public record. And richard burr wrote a plan to privatize medicare. New profits for private insurers would be as high as sixteen to twentysix billion. But seniors would pay nine percent more for medicare. Richard burr is looking out for himself and the Insurance Industry. Not you. Scientists are awaiting a stinky surprise. Youre watching a live stream of a corpse flower thats set to bloom in the next few hours. To eight years. Very note to see. Well, if youve been to costco lately, you might have seen the joint teddy bear on sale. Its making an internet famous. This little girl is the proud owner of one. The heads bigger than her. The girl ames parents spotted it at costco and made the mistake of joking that their infant daughter so what any great grand a would do, he bought one. This is growing viral. When you see it in the store, you have to take a picture with it. We have an update on the First Amendment that has a lot of people angry. We asked the d. A. Six years ago, my mother was murdered. Her name was kathy taft, and she had touched so many childrens lives on the state board of education. The police wouldnt have been able to catch her murderer if roy cooper hadnt fixed the problems at the state crime lab that he discovered when he became attorney general. Now governor mccrory is attacking mr. Cooper, trying to gain politically from the pain of victims and families. Mylans ceo is being grilled by congress over the price hike of epipens. Lawmakers said they raised the cost of the drug with no thought on how families would pay for it. For two and youre going to do the generic to save people money youre going to charge 300, your revenue goes up. It doesnt go down. We said the wholesale ac question signatures cost is 300. We cut it in half. The only thing you did was change the name. This is why we dont believe it. The ceo said she wished she magnitude of the issue but never intended it to happen. The cost of the pippen has gone up 500 since 2007. Investors are asking to be repaid for the 900 billion in damage. Volkswagen admitted to fitting the vehicles with software that could cheat the automaker already agreed to pay fines. 1 million samsung phones were recalled after the battery started catching fire. North carolina news at 5 30 starts now. Charlotte police are bracing for another round of deadly officerinvolved shooting. Plus, a Homicide Investigation is underway near a busy College Campus in raleigh. The 911 calls weve just gont into ours newsroom right now on cbs North Carolina. Charlotte police are preparing for the possibility of another night of arrest. It started when 43yearold keith scott was shot by man. Protesters took over i85 in charlotte Damaging Police cruisers and sending at least a dozen officers to the hospital. Our david hurst is in charlotte. Reporter this began as a violent protest. Theres a woman speaking a protest word. Holding up signs. The organizers tell me they dont have any intention to disrupt traffic or make disruptions here. Theyre just trying to prove a point. As you can see, the crowd gathering but not blocking any inters, blocking intersections, blocking traffic. A couple dozen folks gathered. This is one events this evening. Its what theyre call agriculturally for justice up the street reporting live in charlotte, david hurst. The shooting came days after the death of an unarmed man in tulsa, oklahoma. After officers responded to a stalled vehicle. The images showed the drivers side window was up. How can you be reaching into the car when the window is up and theres blood on the glass. The shooting was captures on two cameras a helicopter plus two police dash grants earmarked for them last year. Attorney general Loretta Lynch weighed in on the shooting investigations today. Now these tragic incidents, particularly coming so close together, have once again left americans with feelings of sorrow, with feelings of anger and uncertainty. Theyve highlated in the most vivid and painful terms, the real divisions that exist in enforcement and communities of color. Lynch said it undermined the justice that demonstrators are seeking and that the department of just justice is opening a civil rights vase into the tulsa incident. Cam newton did not shy way way from talking about the situation today even though it puts hem situation. Im not happy with how the justice has been dealt with over the years, the state of oppression in our community but we also have black people have to do right by ourselves. We cant be hypocrites. Newton said people should be held accountable for their actions but he doesnt know enough about the situation to specific in specifics. Today the third day in a row with clouds, showers and temperatures in the 70s. Its been light to moderate rain. A good portion of us is getting light rain, maybe mist and drizzle. The heaviest is up i95 up into parts of virginia. Remember, all of this rain will rotate around through over the next couple of hours, including into the we get into the overnight hours, temperatures will hold in the low 70s and thats where our dew point temperature has held, meaning its moist outside and muggy. Thats why the temperatures wont drop much. 70s now than the weeks of 90s. As you can see as we go hour by hour well keep the clouds, showers and low 70s around. Well start to see some changes saturday. Well look ahead to the first weekend in fall. Tonight police are investigating a deadly shooting near shay university in downtown raleigh. Officers had been canvassing that scene. Carleigh

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