Transcripts For WRAZ WRAL 8am News On Fox 50 20160808 : vima

WRAZ WRAL 8am News On Fox 50 August 8, 2016

For passengers are getting out of their cars only to realize a systemwide outage has granted all delta flights. This is the shorter of the two lines. The longer is just behind these screen doors here. Inside that line around the interior terminal 2. Take a look at this video. It is from a few hours ago. The number of passengers are frustrated. Starting at 2 30 am for the system outage. Some sort of glitch that has caused worldwide outages or delta and a number of passengers are frustrated. Frustrated. I am not really understanding what the problem is and why we have other airlines have things flowing. I am wondering what kind of database they have. It is very frustrating. That frustration. We do know all delta flights are grounded. Please check before you get here. We continue to see passengers out of their car and say they have no idea what was going on. Large groups are impacted including the unc Womens Basketball team stranded in ireland trying to get back to rdu because they were taking else like a delta flight. Mikaya thurmond dilemma this morning. Thank you very much. We are following a developing story calling a raleigh man accused of murder after a dispute in his neighborhood. 911 call suggests he used a shotgun to shoot and kill 20 yearold corrine thomas. All of this happened on single leaf lane. Police arrested chad copley. He he fired a shotgun from inside of his garage that killed thomas who was outside of his home. Coming up we will hear portions of the 911 calls that led up to the shooting. There is a search for a second man involved in an Armed Robbery in garner. Police say Jesse Mclaurin and another man tried to rob two men. Mclaurin is charged with robbery firearm by a felon. Police are still looking for the second man. The president ial candidates plan to deliver speeches on the economy this week took they both plan to lay out their ideas in detroit. Meanwhile, as tracy potts tells us, one member of thbush family is now saying donald t going public to support donald trump. You get up and you help the man. Reporter trump goes to the heart of american any fracturing to lay out his economic plans. Our country is losing its companies. Our country is losing its jobs. Our trade deficits are massive all over the world. Reporter on government regulation and trade. Avoiding deals like the tpp. Hillary clintons running mate says he will vote against it. We cannot have a deal that cannot be enforced. Reporter the candidates numbers do not add up. s pac no candidates numbers add up. About jobs, the economy, and foreignpolicy. Reporter clintons speech will focus on the big jobs package she has promised. And an economy that works for middleclass families. A poll pretzer eight points ahead of trump but they are even on who voters trust with the economy. Tracie potts, nbc news, p is using a plumber apprentice contestant to court black voters. He said Omarosa Manigault to campaign for him at historically africanamerican church in child yesterday. T pea the first season of the apprenticed the apprentice. Gay marriage is the focus of a federal Court Hearing in asheville. The judge will hear a motion about a lawsuit involving North Carolina magistrates who refuse to officiate in samesex marriages. Three couples claim tax dollars are being spent on what they allowing the magistrates to opt out. Attorneys for the state see the coupleshave no standing to e the law. Case for a local attorney who bites for those who say they were wrongly convicted. She is hoping to free johnny small when he was 15 years old small was convicted of killing a store owner during a robbery i gton. That was 1989. The witness has since recanted his testimony saying he lied about smallss involvement. It is time to check your forecast. Diyo yeer yes. It looks like we might have anothe take a look at the radar picture. We are still dealing with showers this morning. Just a little bit of lining left. We have these patchy rain showers out there from nor line we will run into just a band of heavy rain all north of tarboro and we head back down south of the triangle not seeing a whole lot right now but we have another little cell. May be dealing with a little more rain shortly. Durham is 74 and 74 in cary. It is also 74 in and erwin and clinton. Lunchtime there may be a few breaks in the clouds. Mid80s this afternoon and edit that 4 00 or even before you may have showers developing. The biggest threat from these will be from heavy rain continuing overnight tonight. Our chance of rain after today goes down. I will show you that in the sevenday forecast in just a few minutes. Prime is checking the roads this morning. Problem spots but on the southwestern side of wake county on Holly Springs road at sunset lake road we are running into some problems. E in flash mode at the tehts ection of Holly Springs and sunset lake road. The traffic on the police radio has a tricky situation out there. As you head toward the intersection, remember to treated as a fourway stop. That has been that way since early this morning. We still havent been able to fix it. Downtown durham is looking good. On the freeway toward briggs avenue we are picking up delays on the northbound side because of a minor accident. No lanes are blocked right now. Lets take a look at the latest drive times. From i40 up to mangum street it is taking 10 minutes. It is best to be patient through the break tapping you will encounter between ellis and briggs this morning. Beyond that, no trouble on the northbound side of the fairway. Really all over the triangle it is been quiet. The only slow down is a little bit of break tapping on the south side of raleigh especially between rock quarry road no delays all the way out it is looking good right around aviation parkway. Back to you. Reprinted take the world stage of the olympics today. Plus, another group of russian athletes are now banned from playing at rio. Hurricane earl causes devastation in mexico. The Community Clean up after mudslides in the new storm sentenced to slammed the cooper governor mccrory wants you to believe theres a carolina comeback. But raise your hand if your taxes have gone up while those at the top are the ones getting the tax break. And raise your hand if youre working more for less. Im roy cooper, and thats not a comeback. Thats moving backwards. Raise your hand if you agree that tax breaks should be going to the middle class. And raise your hand if you agree this is day three of the 2016 summer olympics in rio. On the schedule gold medal events in diving also the u. S. Mens Gymnastic Team will compete. Swimming events include the meter breaststroke. Heres a quick check of the count so far. Right now the u. S. Is in the lead with 12 in china follows with italy and japan tied. They are followed by australia. Former duke allamerican fencer Ibtijah Muhammad will make her olympic debut today. She will compete in the womens individual saber competition. Muhammad is a worldclass fencer in the First American to a quick programming note because the olympic will be on the wral, some of our newscasts are moving during the summer games wrals news at noon and 4 pm will air on fox 50. Russia is banned from the paralympics. The head of the Committee Said the decision puts a burden in the doping culture of russia has polluted sports. Contrast to an earlier decision to allow individual sports to decide. Russias team finished first in the 2014 winter games. The fight against the zika virus continues in florida. The latest on prevention efforts and the possible w tool that help the spread of the disease. In the wake county ections of the disease. In the wake county ections report to a federal judge. Z22r7z zy6z z22srz zy6z y22sry yy6y need to sing along to this thing, but i dont want to mess it up. Go ahead. Give it a whirl. I need another song. [ laughter ] just keeping it real. That is one thing about monica. She is real. But bill does a great job. He sings all of the time. I just dont stray from my [ laughter ] i try not to stray too much from the weather. Typically we have afternoon and evening thunderstorms. But we still have some of this lingering from last night. Were going to take a little tour and show you what is happening where. We will see in first two roxboro. We have a small cell starting to have some lightning. You can see southwest of it will be up to your north and west. Just to the Southwest Corner of Person County moving toward roxboro. Over toward virginia we are seeing some patchy showers and over toward hobgood this is our were also seeing some showers terms. The northern part of the county is seeing some rain as well. Nothing really happening around the triangle or south. That are just being persistent. We take a look at what is going on assuming in with the radar picture starting at 4 18 you can see some widespread showers at that point but all of that has continued to push northward and it is weakening. I think we will begin to see more showers develop around lunchtime down south. Llift up northward as we head through the afternoon. North of downtown 74 is our current temperature at rdu in the dew point is at the visity has no real problems, but we had a little fog in the sandhills. Southern pines is a three quarter mile visibility. Those are coming up a little bit. It is a little gray and we are doing with most of those showers northeast of it is 74 in rocky mount and 76 in goldsboro. Are temperatures will be fairly slow to warm up and we are seeing clouds in many temperatures places this morning. The stationary front will continue to bring us some scattered thunderstorms. Here is 11 00 and already those storms are starting to fall out. Probably be here as early as midafternoon moving closer to the evening. Checking the satellite view in the tropics, nothing major. But we see a cluster of storms here. The Hurricane Center has its eye on that. They be in several days a 20 chance of developing. Just wanted to let you know it is something they are watching. This morning what we have been seeing mid70s at lunchtime with a break in the clouds around lunchtime. Have a 60 chance today 40 chance of afternoon and evening storms for tomorrow. To the weekend our temperatures start to climb with 91 saturday and 88 on sunday. A chance of showers and thunderstorms practically every day this week. On friday it is down to a 20 chance. But very summerlike forecast. Venezuela continues to struggle with massive food Falling Oil Prices and some say government failure. As wrals leyla santiago explains. Reporter in this food truck to make a lots of this food. It is a tradi summit that reminds her of her culture. Something that reminds her of venezuela. Venezuelan food truck, she considers herself likely to eat this staple of the country where she was born because in venezuela right now, this can be hard to come by. Reporter it is a difficult situation, she tells me. A troubled economy has resulted in shortages of food and medicine. Many have crossed into neighboring colombia in search of supplies. She says people come to her over reports. She tells them it is all true because her 80yearold father is struggling. The pack of flour she pays four dollars in the u. S. Is hard to find their. There. She fears as she celebrates her culture every day in her food truck, the world doesnt seem to know in venezuela are struggling just to get food. In raleigh, leyla santiago, wral news. And leyla adds she would like to send food packages to her family, but the government does not allow it. An american professor was abducted in afghanistan. Five gunman wearing military uniforms carried out the kidnapping in kabul. The American University where they work. Mountain communities in two mexican states are digging out of deadly mudslides as a result of heavy rains brought by hurricane earl. 39 people are dead. On the other side the concern is that Tropical Storm half a year javier. Zika virus. Crews spent the weekend spraying insecticide by air and land. A travel advisory warning pregnant women not to visit remains in effect this morning. Federal authorities approved testing of genetically modified mosquitoes designed to stop the spread of zika by reducing the mosquito populations. A gas station in cary is coming up. Has, a 10yearold boys selfless gift to others on his good morning. Gay marriage is the focus of a federal Court Hearing in asheville. A judge will hear emotion to dismiss a lawsuit involving North Carolina magistrates who refused to officiate in same sex marriages. Three couples call the law discriminatory. Alt. Of flights are grounded today because of a worldwide system outage. Systems are down everywhere and we will have a live report from Rdu International coming up on fox 50. Tempe check your forecast. We had some overnight rain across the region and the take a look at the radar picture. Still some showers around persons county as well as mecklenburg county, virginia. Continues to redevelop back to the waste. Roxboro is in for another round of those showers shortly. Expect with mainly with 70s and 76 and erwin. Temperatures will not climb too much this afternoon. We have clouds with us for much of the day and another chance of showers and storms this afternoon. Tuesday and wednesday upper 80s. Dont forget the Traffic Signals at the intersection of Holly Springs road and sunset lake road out right now you need to exercise caution in that area. To Downtown Durham we go looking pretty good on the freeway. As you approach brooks avenue, you will run into a backup. Back to you. A deadline today for the wake county board of elections. Next on fox 50 what they must focused on people and community for 60 years, we promise a relentless pursuit of good morning, everyone. We continue to follow the breaking news involving delta flights worldwide that remained grounded. The problem is a complete Computer System shutdown. It is causing headaches all over the world. Rdu is not unlike exception. Wrals Mikaya Thurmond is out at rdu to bring us uptodate on how folks are feeling. I guess it is a blue mood out there. Reporter it is very tense inside of the airport. I am standing just outside of rdu right now. I want to give you a live look at the ticketing counter. This is actually an option to going inside. Many of these people have figured out you can go ahead and check in outside rather than going inside where the line is wrapped around the interior of the building. Those people coming in on aware of the system outage that started around 2 30 am that is completely grounded all delta flight. They are now starting to issue waivers for any passenger impacted. But of course not just here it is everywhere around the world. This is a video right outside of atlantas hartsfieldjackson international airport. As you can see, issues for everyone involved. The outage actually started from the delta hub that is based in atlanta. They are working furiously to get this issue fixed. They are now issuing waivers. But if you havent headed to the airport and you do have a flight later today, be sure to check online. This will be an issue throughout the morning and Mikaya Thurmond reporting from Rdu International. We have a developing story for a man is charged with murder and has his First Court Appearance today. Police say the suspected shooter is a white man was inside his garage when he shot and killed a 20yearold black man outside of his home. Mikaya thurmond failed this report. Reporter it all started around 2 30 am sunny morning. 911 to report a bunch of hoodlums in the neighborhood. I neighborhood watch. There is some hoodlums out here walking up and down the street. It is 1 00 in the morning. They have firearms. If i was you, i would send police. Reporter the third call reported the situation had escalated. We have a lot of people and shouting profanities. They were showing a firearm. So i fired a warning shot. Somebody got hit. Somebody was shot . Well, i dont know if they are shot or not, but i fired a warning shot. Okay. They do have firearms im trying to protect myself and my family. Reporter now someone is dead. That 50 turn out to be 20year old Kouren Thomas who later died at the hospital. Police arrested 39yearold chad copley charging him with murder. Authorities say he fired a shotgun from inside of his garage and killed thomas who was outside of his home. That was Mikaya Thurmond reporting. Right now copley is being held finding a man who robbed a Convenience Store with a gun. It happened around 9 30 am yesterday morning. The suspect you can see escaped with some money. Witnesses said he was armed with a small handgun and was wearing a black ski mask and a dark pants. Anyone with information should call police. A driver faces charges in a hit and run crash. Fayetteville Police Charged Jerome Thompson with reckless driving. He crashed into another car at the intersection of room and cliff dell roads yesterday afternoon. The driver and all passengers were treated at a hospital and released. There is a deadline this afternoon for the week county board of elections to respond to a federal court order. A federal judge wants to know how the county will hold elections this fall. The state board of fill vacancy on the wake county board. They appointed edwin woodhouse. The state Republican Party executive director. The grass will grow even taller with more rain. We will have to get a machete before long. I tried to cut my yard before it gets that tall. Take a look at what is happening in roxboro. We have a cell that is getting a little stronger. We will go ahead and zoom in as you are heading on highway 158 you will run into some rain. If you are headed toward yancy bill we have some heavy rain this morning. Right now we been watching some rain in southfield virginia. It is light up into mecklenburg county. Are not dealing with any rain at the moment. 7

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