In from the coast. Once that spreads across the area of the stage will be set for thunderstorms to develop into much ronger storms. That could produce wind damage and possible tornadoes. Right now there is not a whole lot of rain happening. We have had a couple of sprinkles and showers. We have had fought develop across the region but again, not a lot falling from the sky at the moment. Now we do have a wind advisory that goes into effect at 9 00 a. M. This is completely separate from thunderstorms that may run through your town or neighborhood. We are going to have gusty conditions around the area, starting this rning. Gusts later on could be up to 50 Miles Per Hour. Once those thunderstorms begin to develop those could be much stronger. 75 Miles Per Hour were greater even in severe thunderstorms. Tornado winds could be Even Stronger than that. A lot to talk about, a lot to go over this morning. Our severe Thunderstorm Risk is at a level iii and four out of five. Thats unusual for us to figure from leigh eastward, but the entire viewing area has potential for tornadoes especially late this afternoon. Fog is an issue this morning. You can see on solar rm 5, you can barely make out the trees in the background. Our temperature 50s in the triangle, 49 in wake forest, 52 holly springs. 54 rocky mount, 63 in goldsboro and clinton. Some of that warm air approaching the viewing area this morning, temperatures mostly around 50 but by lunchtime we quickly jump into the 60s, at that point we begin to expect more stronger thunderstorms to develop. We will see a squall line crossing the area, at some point today, as early as late morning. It may continue into the afternoon. As i mentioned, greg fishel will join me later this morning. We will also cut into programming at 10 00 11 00 to update you on where that line is and how it is developing. Heading out the door in the next little bit you will run into some dog. And some delays on major roots in a couple of spots at pretty much seen the white rose and fog. As we take a look at the live commute map zoomed into the triangle, we can see that sending out on the belt line. 440 westbound is very slow this morning from the 40 split around wade avenue. That trip is taking about 30 minutes. And, in all of that mess, haveMikaya Thurmond in live drive 5. You are going through capital oulevard. Looks like a stop and crawl. Reporter thats exactly right. We have seen Traffic Building up throughout the morning. This is partly due to the weather, partly due to the fact that this is definitely one of the trouble spots. If you look ahead of me you can see the amount of fog that drivers are seeing this morning in this area. This isnt as dense as we have seen it but so certainly a problem. Visibility ing blurred,ust slowed down. You need to allow some extra time. And right now, its not raining. But it has been on and off. You can look to the bottom right and left of the camera, you can see the pounding of water accumulating on the side of the roads. Of course thats what we expect all morning long. It means you have to allow yourself extra time because these are the types of Road Conditions you will be seen. All right, Mikaya Thurmond in live drive 5 , a good reminder that when you go to work think about the Severe Weather plan at work and timing of ese storms could affect your trip out of the office for lunch or your evening commute. Stay with wral and download our wral weather app for updates through the day. We have an accident in downtown raleigh on mcdowell street at hillsboro street in the learing stages. We are picking up slowdowns this morning on mcdowell. Also seeing some slow traffic through cary on us1 northbound around the 64 interchange toward i40. Northbound durham freeway, busy from 42 men come. The history taking minutes. Probably not a great alternate back to you. So, when a Violent Storm system is heading our way today. It is a storm system, as we mentioned, that has caused damage and deaths across the southeast. Tara lynn is live in raleigh with more on what we can do today to keep safe. It looks like the wind is starting to pick up where you are right now. Reporter yeah, it has been fairly calm all morning long. No rain right now but we are not far away from when e official advisory is going to be kicking in. Now of course, we know on days like these and in storms and the Severe Weather, there does not have to be an actual tornado for there to be extensive damage. We do expect to have wind gusts up to 50 miles an hour starting at about 9 00 a. M. That is why the National Weather service has issued that advisory for wake county and surrounding counties starting at that time. Later this afternoon we have a chance for more severe thunderstorms. It was five years ago that two dozen tornadoes crossed the state april 16. 24 people re killed. Here are some things that you can keep in mind, if we do have any Tornado Warnings or watches. The important thing is to make sure you are inside a sturdy building. Dont try to ride out the storm in a car or mobile home. Also stay away om windows. If they shatter, they can become flying debris. Even if it does stop raining, lightning can still be a threat. Governor patrick 15 has put search and rescue teams on standby as well as Hazardous Materials response teams. Again, we are going to check the structure of the day. Tara lynn ven leigh, thank u. Raising our concerns this morning is when you see what the storm system left behind in other states. At least three people are dead, several missing after strong storms and tornadoes ripped through the gulf states. Done champion reports in some places homes and entire neighborhoods are barely recognizable. Overnight hours, storms showed little mercy in the gulf state. In pensacola, florida a reported tornado tossed around cars and damaged most of this neighborhood. Kelly williamson admits she barely survived. Im okay. Thats all that matters. It felt like a big train coming through. Reporter in many areas daylight will reveal the true extent of damage. With power knocked out, people using flashlights to sift through debris. The storms gained strength all day tuesday with at least 26 tornadoes reported in the south. In new orleans, the storms even spawned three waterspouts on lake pontchartrain. Governors in mississippi and louisiana declared states of emergency. Now is the time to make sure wral weather app. It will use the gps on your phone or tablet to send notifications when Severe Weather is in your area. For all the details, go to www. Wral. Com, search alert another big win for nald trump. Nevada voters picked him to be the nominee. There is a tight race for second place. 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We are going to be talking about all that over the next couple of minutes. Whats to come. Is going to be pretty big deal around here looks like. Lets start off with radar. Im sorry, were going to start off with what to expect during the day today. We do have a pretty significant talking about that all morning. And really for the last several days, it is kind of a nice thing that we could see these things coming. Certainly looks like the storms that will develop later this morning and into the afternoon have a good chance of producing wind damage. Knocking down trees. In fact, cars, houses, people, unfortunately. And we should expect a number of tornadoes across the viewing area today. Number one, where do you go when we have a Tornado Warning or Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued . In this case a lot of times when we have Severe Thunderstorm Warning is issued, we can expect damage t it will be more than usual today. The basement is a great place to go, or the first floor of your home that does not have windows. A small room like a bathroom or closet. If you are not in a place that seems to have that immediately, think about where you could go today that you could get there in time to protect your self. How do you know when the storms are coming . Tuned to wral all day. Orf a thunderstorm starts to approach your house or place of work, turn us on. Also get information on www. Wral. Com, and on our Severe Weather app. We will do our very best to keep you safe out ere today. Our radar picture selling some showers out there right now. We had a few thunderstorms from the north earlier is morning. No thunderstorms now. Earlier. Our best chance of Severe Weather will come late morning durham skycam, stockton with low cloud cover and fog. We have scattered showers and fog we are aling with. 54 is the current temperature, temperatures warming up, dewpoint is 52. The warmer these temperatures go, the more likely we are to start seeing this more vere weather. Now in the mid60s in goldsboro in clinton. We have a warm front marching across the area from southeast to northwest. Still in the mid50s in roxboro and the south hill. The school temperatures mean that we have a stable hermas. As we get into this war muggy air, that is unstable springlike conditions that set the stage for thunderstorms that we will likely see later today. A big area of fog from tran07s, south hill to raleigh, visibility improving from rocky mount, roman and fayetteville where temperatures have started to come up. Our warmest frontier will continue to push inland. After it moves up into virginia, the stage will be set for thunderstorms that are down south to continue eastward. We just had a Tornado Warning issued out of that little wine right there. Which is really south carolina, georgia, North Carolina into the mountains. This was one of our first Tornado Warnings that is getting closer to us. Of course, we certainly have that right as we get through the day today. Lets talk about the timing of the debate. Really all the way through 10 00, 11 00, talking attered showers. Futurecast showing that, i still think we have the potential to see this earlier. But here mes this squall line. Move across the gion. Expect that it could happen earlier than that. Keep it tuned and we will continue to update you on whats happening. Our biggest threats today will be straightline winds which can do damage for tornado winds. Some hail and flooding is a possibility as well. Of course we will have a warm afternoon. All this tapers off by 6 00 or 7 00 this evening. Its not going to be an overnight event. The ytime event. At work, you need to know where your safe spot is as well. Altering the day, think about what you could do to keep yourself safe and where you are going to find her weather information. We hope that you will tune here. We will update you at 10 00 and 11 00 and greg fishel will join me before lunchtime today as well. After that, things will be nice and quiet into the eekend. Overnor pat mccrory says heplans to take legislative action on charlottes controversial lgbt bathroom ordinance. Earlier this week city leaders it against the law for businesses to discriminate against members of the Lgbt Community and allow them to use bathrooms of their choice. Governor mccrory says he believes allowing transgender people to use the bathroom of privacy and overreach so he is stepping in. Well, as i warned, and as i expected, we already have state legislators working on legislation for april to reverse what the city council did. The law goes into effect lawmakers will likely file a bill later that month. The murder case against kennedy usin, Michael Skakel is going against the high court. State prosecutors are asking the court to reinstate a murder conviction against skakel. He served more than 11 years for e 1975 murder of neighbor, martha moxley. That conviction was overturned the Supreme Court is not expected on the case today. New details on the death of Supreme Court justice, antonin scalia. A letter from the Supreme Courts doctor says he suffered for Many Health Problems and probably contributed to his death earlier this month. A letter cited to make sure there was nothing suspicious about his death. He was 79. Protesters gathered outside apple Stores Across the country and here in durham in support of the company. First your phone, then your home demonstrators wanted to show that they stand behind the tech companys decision not to comply with the court order to hack into the iphone of the San Bernardino shooter. The fbi argues this is a matter of national security. Apples attorneys say the order infringes on the First Amendment rights. Southwest airlines may be heading to havana. The companys ceo says the carrier could begin flights u. S. Andthe country to the south of us agreed to allow travel. Us carriers have a march 2 deadline to submit applications. 8 22. Discussions about sidewalk space in downtown raleigh continue today. The move one raleigh kittie if you have it is 8 25. Im renee chou. Our top stories. Severe weather will roll into the area later this morning. Elizabeth is tracking this system. Thats right. Lets take a look. We have had showers will to the south and the north, even thunderstorms west raleigh. None of that was severe, none of it likely to be severe in the next hour or maybe two. But, made to the latter part of the weekend, morning, there will be more concerned about the Severe Weather developing. Damaging winds, tornadoes, all the things we will see as we head today today especially from lunchtime on. Not much happening in durham, raleigh or chapel hill at the moment. But there is fog and drizzle we are doing with. We are at a level 3 and 4 out of 5 for a severe storm risk. This is unusual for our area. This form test the Severe Weather storm system has upgraded that, we are getting this information into the computer right now but that is an update in the last few minutes. Roxboro skycam looking foggy, its wet and drizzly. Goldsboro temperatures and up into the upper 60s, we get into unstable air that will support the wind damage we are expecting a little later on today. Greg fishel will be joining me before noon, and we will update you at 10 00 and 11 00 as to how the storms are developing on wral and on fox50. This is over tonight, thursday and friday look much quieter. Brian . Almost 8 27. We are seeing a lot of fog. This is a tweet, a picture from the police chief in roxboro. That is pretty much widespread. Allow extra time as you head out this morning to account for the fog and the wet conditions. Taking a look at the live commute map, we have a couple of accident showing up on the map. One in downtown raleigh on mcdowell around hillsboro. Earlier crash on 440 westbound 16 forks road in the clearing stages. A lot of those delays we had seen earlier on 440 westbound minor accidents reported on 40 w. Around jones sausage road. Piercing slowdowns on the northbound side of usone through cary, 55 in apex about nine minutes, and in cary, a report of an accident, twitter follower on westbound white house wrote before davis drive. No big delays just yet but something to keep in mind. Earlier delays on the northbound durham freeway starting to ease up. Testimony resumes in the trial of chris lawing, accused in the murder of Shaw University student, lacoy mcqueen. A former into state poce officer says he was suspicious of lawing. An effort to control medical cost is the focus of a Healthcare Providers are once again asking state lawmakers to limit how Insurance Companies restrict the use of expensive