Firefighters are there. Cruises have arrived. They are taking a defensive approach to fighting this right now given the magnitude of these flames that you are seeing in these live pictures. The flames are just shooting there. Part of the homes roof has collapsed as well. As far as we know, there are no injuries. Well continue to bring you updates in our next hour of wral news on fox 50. An update our breaking news this morning out of washington, d. C. It was a fire Officials Say roughly 30 people including three firefighters have been injured and seven people are unaccounted for after a large fire and a collapse at an apartment complex. The missing include men, women, children. The injuries are not thought to be lifethreatening at this point although some are serious an they do involve burns which is to be expected at a fire like this. Can you see the flames. This appears to be cell phone into our newsroom. The fire is in silver spring, maryland happening around midnight with an explosion that sent debris flying. Look at the debris from an aerial view t took firefighters about 90 minutes to get those flames under control. Firefighters calling this, by the way, a mass casualty event. That certainly puts it into perspective for you. Well continue to provoid updates over the next two hours here on fox 50. And al yearold Kouren Thomas talking to the media this morning. Tom was was shot an killed outside a raleigh home over weekend. Bill leslie has more on the case Getting National attention. Reporter Thomas Family has already announced that an attorney known for taking on high profile cases will represent them. He was killed outside a house on single leaf lane. The home owner, chad copley, murder. He called 911 shortly after 1 00 a. M. To complain about armed, quote, hoodlums vandalizing his neighborhood. He said im locked and loaded. Im going to secure the neighborhood. Im on Neighborhood Watch and ill have my neighbors with me. Someone called 911 to report a shooting. Investigators said copley fired a shotgun from inside his garage striking thomas who was outside. Copley said he only fired a warning shot but he juan sure if anyone had wasnt sure if anyone will be hit. Police are still investigating to determine what happened. Copleys attorney is asking people not to rush to judgment over the murder charge. Copley remains in the wake county jail without bond. The family of Kouren Thomas will speak to the media this morning at 10 00ment well have i live update on wrals news at noon. Back to you. Thank you, bill. A deadly shooting in fayetteville may have been a random act of violence. They hope will help someone identify the person they are hocking for. The shooting happened tuesday night around 6 30. 32yearold Angela Taylor was walking along andy street when she was shot. She died yesterday at cape fear valley medical center. Detectives are looking for this person in the picture on the cruiserstyle motorcycle wearing a bright yellow shirt and scene leaving the area heading to bragg boulevard moment as of the shooting. Right now, police dont know if concerned about coal ash say today theyll demand transparency and accountability from the mccrory administration. The 11 00 a. M. News conference comes a day after we learned the state epidemiologist has resigned n her resignation letter, dr. Megan davies says, i cannot work for a department and administration that deliberately misleads the public. Her tending down is linked to a raised concerns about well water safety Near Duke Energy coal ash ponds. State leaders denounced the finings saying dr. Ken rudo lied. Dr. Zach moore is now the acting state epidemiologist. Atlantis public hearing today over the proposal to bring Minor League Baseball to fayetteville. The city council will discuss negotiations with the houston astros. Leaders dont want to spend more than 35 million on a new stadium. Tonights hearing is from 7 00 to street. With these summer days, we all spent a left time often times at the baseball folk go to the durham bulls i hope you get a chance to go out there. I cant wait to go. Probably not a good day to go. You want to be on the shady side. You want to be shady. Pick your tickets wisely. By the time the games kick off, unless it is a day game, sup okay out there. Sun starts to go down and it is okay out there. If you stay inside all summer because it is hot, you are missing out. Wilson skycam showing more sunshine than cloud cover this morning. We have some some low clouds in a few spots. Right now, it is 77 here at the tv studios and in durham. 72 in wake forest. 75 in erwin. 78 in goldsboro. We afternoon under partly cloudy skies. We have a 10 to 20 chance of scatter storms today. That is very few so well just have to deal with the heat without much help from rain coleing us down. Brian is here with a look at what is happening on the roads. That is a lot of accidents. A lot of these have cleared up in the past few minutes and a lot of them are in residential areas. The major routes are in pretty good shape this morning. The biggest problem right now in raleigh is an accident on louisburg road at Mitchell Mill road. You can see some pretty heavy delays showing up on sensors on in inbound 401. A little bit of a northbound delay there. And there are not too many good alternate routes in that area so just need be to patient you leave rolesville. You will run into the backups. We are told they begin in advance of forestville road and continue down towards Mitchell Mill. Coming in from wake forest looked pretty good on inbound capital boulevard. Just a little bit of a slowdown between falls of neuse and the airport. A lot of these accidents have cheered up in the past few little bit of a fortifyrelated delay on 40 westbound out to the u. S. 1 interchange. It look like a disbe ad vehicle as well on 40 westbound around the u. S. 1 interchange. It slows down again from chapel hill road out toward harrison avenue interchange on 40 westbound but as soon as you get beyond that, it looks good heading out to the park. Thank you so much. This week, the candidates are talking about the economy which also means theyre talking jobs. Coming up, the new scandal facing Hillary Clinton and donald trump trying to link president obama and Hillary Clinton to isis. The new deal being offered youve heard of the popular Harris Teeter super doubles promotion, right . I get excited every time i see the promos in the store. Now, the Supermarket Chain is upping the an attempt by tripling manufacturers coupons but only in certain areas y i cannot wait to learn more about this. Joining us this morning to tell us all of the exciting new dealings our wral smart shopper fay prosser. What are the rules to this new deal . So it is a phenomenal youre allowed to do before can you go in and score the big savings. So this promotion lasts through tuesday. This is the 16th. And they will allow to you triple coupons that are 99 cents are less. So, a 50cent coupon triples to 1. 50. A 75cent coupon ends up being worth 2. 25 at the register. They will let you triple up to 0 coupe op awe day and you can see a very long list of all of blog at wral. Com. Click on smart shopper. So this is day two. This promotion started yesterday. Show me the goods here. What are we talking . I know you have ahe gone in for your groceries. I went yesterday more than ar and by the time i got there because i had a little issue where my car didnt start yesterday morning. Oh, bummer. I know, not i agood way to start triple. 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My guess, this is not an official Harris Teeter statement, but my guess is the triangle is a hot market right now for groceries and waver got publix making their mark, wegmans coming in. I think this is their way of dry had traffic and getting the Harris Teeter brand back on peoples minds. You mentioned a few of the the other chains. What are the other big deals beyond Harris Teeter . Sure. We have some great buys. Number one on the list, eggs. Can you core them a does krrly cs is coming in for 50 cents for an 1 countment chicken leg quarter, 59 cents awe pound at krogerment cant lapd, only 1. 29 for a whole can lope at aldi. 59 cents a pound at kroger. Cantaloupe, only 1. 29 for a whole cantaloupe at aldi. Head to my blog. Thank you so much. For more short Shopping Tips from fay, can you go to our web site. The concerned about the zika virus are pretty up there. They are high. 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You need to make a list because there are a lot of places in North Carolina. A long list. I guarantee you it is cooler but not less humid. Still pretty humid in the mountains but at least you get a little break from the temperature. It looks beautiful around here. There is our south hill skycam. There. But in other spots, we are see something clouds this morning. Not overcast but part hi cloudy skies. 77degrees. Our wind southwest at five miles per hour. Our dew point is 74. And our temperatures right now south hill at 75 as well as Roanoke Rapids at 77. 76 in fayetteville. With all of the humidity that is with us right now, you would think that we add a li thunderstorms popping up all over the place. But here is what is happening that is going to prevent that. We have what we call the bermuda high which is almost a permanent fix tour out here in the atlantic especially during the summer. Every once in a while, it noses back into North Carolina. We have not seep very much of it this summer but it is making an appearance. What that means is that, even though it is very sticky here around where we are, in the mid an upper levels of the air. That is not conducive to thunderstorms. We need the air to be rising for that. So we wont have a lot of thunderstorms over us. This is sort of the fringe of that High Pressure system and it has winds that rotate clockwise and it is coming around this way. Well have a good bit of thunderstorm activity for South Carolina, for the mountains of North Carolina out there. And on up into pennsylvania. Where we are sitting, we are just not going to have a lot thunderstorms developing today. Starting at 1 00, the heat index is already 101 inner win, goldsboro and rocky mount. Rs in in erwin, goldsboro and rocky mount. The heat will be something you will have to factor in. 94 for us on friday and then 96 thunderstorms is you should have great vowing of the perseid meteor shower. It always comes around this time of year. It is always midaugust. Well see twice as many meteors as usual. As long as you wait until it gets dark, you can look in any part of the sky and see that meteor shower. The biggest thing you have to remember is have you you have to get out of the city lights. The heat index will be high. Feeling like 105 of time. Just cope that in mind. Well be looking at the heat lingering easily into early next week. Lena . Hillary clinton make a Major Economic speech in detroit today. As tracie potts reports, that comes amid new questions about ties between the state department and her Foundation Father attending one of her rallies. Friend dont let friended vote for trump. Reporter Hillary Clinton going after republican votes as she prepares for todays economic speech near detroit. I am determined that we are going to build more and we are going to be able to create more businesses and more jobs. Reporter donald trump calls her record unimpressive. She promised the world and it went like this. It went down. Us. Reporter now, emails obtained by a conservative group suggest the Clinton Foundation asked the state department for favors that her Campaign Says neve happened. That is the only pay to play system the American People are sick and tired of. Reporter and look who is right behind clinton at this florida rade, the father of the clinton disavowed his support. Isis is honoring president obama. He is the founder of isis. He is the founder of isis and ill say the cofounder would be crooked Hillary Clinton. Reporter poll show trumps appear sport is waning. His attacks are not. Tracie potts, nbc news, washington. Some candidates in wake county need it file for novembers election all over again that. New filing period starts today at noon. The elecon commissioner and school board are this fall. They were supposed to take place under a new map drown by state lawmaker with seven districts and two soup are districts, a and b. The federal Appeals Court ruled the map was unconstitutional. Under a ruling tuesday, the county must use the nine district map drawn in 2011. Wednesday to file. The races for a number of districts are not affected. A Cumberland County teen is accused of killing a man with a hatchet. The request for the judge hatchet. The request for the judge 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 those at the top should pay their fair share. That tax breaks should be going to the middle class. And raise your hand if you agree im he lena tillett with your top stories. We have breaking news in Fuquay Varina route now where many firefighters are battling flames at a home. There was a heavy fire showing what crews arrived and they had to take a defensive approach to fighting it. Part of the homes roof even collapsed. As far as we know, there are no injuries. Of course, were dealing with a very muggy morning this morning but otherwise, no real problems to your morning commute. Driving range. I dont see anybody out there. Surely not too hot for the golfers just yet. Our temperatures are in the mid to upper 70s. 76 in fayetteville. 77 in rocky mount and here in raleigh. Expect 93 this afternoon. 94 on friday. 96 on saturday an sunday. Very few thunderstorms for the next several afternoons but it will be hot. Heat index today up around 100 10. Before a disabled vehicle on 40 eastbound right around gorman street. Mostly over here on the shoulder but we can say that that right lane is partially blocked. You need to stay in the center and left lanes on 40 eastbound this morning. Not really causing any big problemsment we are just getting word that the crash at louisburg road at Mitchell Mill road still is out there, still looking at a 20 minute ride coming in from rolesville towards 540. Just need to allow a little extra time. Looks like it is starting to you are in pretty good shape heading out towards i40. This is backing up around the wade avenue interchange. That means outbound wade avenue incident traffic is very slow this morning. The rules on shortterm rentals in raleigh up in the air. Next on fox 50, what officials are now thinking about doing breaking news. In awe washington, d. C. Suburb this morning, there are a number of injuries following an explosion and fire at an apartment complex. This apartment complex in silver spring, maryland. Wrals bill leslie gathering information about what we have learned this morning. Reporter fire officials have declared this a mass casualty incident. The missing people include men, women and children. Responders are scrambling righ for. This is new have i video of the scene that came into our newsroom. Thirty occupants of the building did go to the hospital, some of them with severe injuries. Now, three firefighters suffered nonlifethreatening injuries. Some people suffered burns. A natural gas line apparently fed the flames which tore through the large apartment complex in silver spring, Nations Capital just before midnight. There is significant structural damage and part of a building has collapsed. Firefighters made numerous rescues in heavy fire conditions. Ems spokesman said the debris indicates an explosion. This is the latest we have right now. Responders were able to get most of the fire out by 1 30 this mo