Going through them. In many ways, it was less about the actual sound and more about people in the crowd yelling to one another that someone with a gun was in the mall. Now, witnesses say it was chaos as thousands of people ran for their lives and tried to get out of the building at the same time. Others hid in the back of stores and storage rooms and bathrooms until police let them know it was safe to come out. Were in the Crabtree Valley there was lots of bangs and shootings somewhere downstairs. Did you see anybody . No, didnt see anybody but everybody is running. Has somebody been shot . I dont know. Reporter because Raleigh Police still do not know the origin of that sound that a lot of shoppers identified as a gunshot, they have asked the fbi lab to analyze video with the sound in the background to see if they can figure it out. We have a team of people continuing to pore over these calls and we will have more in wral. Com. Back to you. Thank you. Contradicting reports from the swimmers themselves. Officials in rio this afternoon confidently said four u. S. Olympic swimmers were not robbed. Police acknowledge the swimmers were confronted by Armed Security guards them said the group was damaging some property when they were confronted. The swimmer did his pay cash for the damages. Officials say some of the swimmers were being questioned in rio today. However, ryan lochte had already board a flight back to the u. S. Police say speed was likely a factor in a involving a motorcycle and a pickup. Investigators say willie lee tried to make a left turn onto south alston when the crash happened. The motorcycle operator, 34 yearold octavius blackwell, died. Sky 5 flew over the scene shortly after the decision. After the collision. A trial involving corruption in the wake county Clerks Office continued today way State Government employee who admitted taking bribes. Former Clark Kelvin Ballentine he agreed to change computer records to make it look like large bond amounts were not owed. It was money earmarked for wake county schools. Ballentine says he was paid between 500 and 1,000 each time. He testified bondsmonday ronnie smith was his first partner in the scheme. Being escorted out of a place taken a toll. I wish i could go back and not do it. It wasnt worth it at all. Ballentine faces four criminal charges in the case. He says he simply cooperated with investigators because it was the right thing to do. An antiabortion group is a zoning decision. They wanted to move their office into a space and the city said the move wasnt consistent with the comprehensive plan. They filed a federal lawsuit today claiming the decision violated the groups ride to prespeech. Superintendent frank till held a News Conference to give details on how much lead was found and what they plan to do about it. Gill baryt baez joins us live from outside william h. Owen found. Gilbert baez. Reporter this school is locat on raeford road. This cool was built in 1956. Can you bet any building built before 197 probably has lead in the paint. They found lead in the chipping paint in 99 of the areas tested. The standard for Dangerous Levels of lead at Elementary Schools is higher than other of being exposed. The lead was found in areas where the children were not likely to come in contact and no lead was found inside the school. There is no issues in the water. There are some small areas that we can mitigate and so were in the process now of mitigating those. And we have no concern abouts the well be open on time. Reporter dr. Frank till says his staff will block off areas where the lead was discovered to make sure no children are exposed while the cleanup gets under way. The Health Department is offering free lead screenings for anyone would thinks their children may have been exposed. Those will be taking place monday through friday from 8 00 a. M. To 5 00. They will have extend hours on tuesday. On september 12th, they will set up a lead screening station that want to have their children tested. Landowners opposed to the Atlantic Coast pipeline held a protest today. It was held in front. Courthouse this afternoon in fayetteville. Opponents say they are concerned about the dangers and tactics duke and dominion are using. The Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League sponsored todays event. Suicide bombers carried out car bombing attacks killing at least eight people a spokesperson for the troops loyal to the government blamed the tax on isis. Also overseas, more than 200 people injured after two car bombs in turkey. The attacks targeted police stations in the eastern part of the country. Six people were killed. They blamed a Workers Party which has launched a campaign of attacks targeting police. Breaking news this afternoon in a controversial payment to iran the same day the american prisoners were released. The state Department Says the 400 million cash payment to release of the prisoners. Critics called it a ransom payment. Today, both candidates for governor spoke about their platforms. Republican pat mccrory and democrats roy cooper participated in a candidate forum. Our Capital Bureau chief laura leslie is here with what they had to say. Reporter that forum was held by the Greater Raleigh Chamber of commerce. Governor pat mccrory and attorney general rye cooper each spoke to the group for about a half hour. Business background and 9 plan to help expand the states economy. They each spoke on a sensitive topic known as house bill 2. Shortly after the law was passed earlier this year, the Raleigh Chamber of commerce spoke out against it calling on lawmakers to repeal it. The city has lost tourism dollars over the law. The governor acknowledged the chambers position but said the law was necessary to protect privacy. He blamed the, quote, political left for forcing the issue. Said the law was driven by the right wing, not the left. Right now, we have a governor who is putting partisan political ideology above the best interests of jobs and schools and economic development. This is common sense North Carolina. We cannot lose those basic values. Ill fight for those values because im running for governor of North Carolina, not governor of new york. Reporter the two also squared off over the economy. Mccrory touted the progress made in jobs and tax cuts since he took office in 2013. While cooper said middle class families havent gotten back to where they were before the recession hit. Mccrory and cooper have so far only agreed to two actual debates this campaign season. One was held back in june and another will take place on october 11th. Back to you. Thank you. It is a big day tomorrow for High School Football teams all across the area. It is the debut of our new high live lookins on about eight games a week over high school ot. Com. It is also the first week for football friday this. Weeks show will be abbreviated because of the olympics and will be part of our 11 00 news. The full show begins next week. A fundraiser for the family of kouren thomas. Plus, visitor spending in North Carolina is up. Le by l the ll our state last year. Nearly one in five adults deal with some level of mental illness. The growing issue in wake county and why it should concern all of us. The weather is comfortable today by a few degrees. Temperatures dropped a bit. 9 so far this afternoon out at rdu compared to 97 yesterday. 93 so far this afternoon out at rdu compared to 97 yesterday. Better weather is on the way. Take a look at these bbq trophies best cracked pepper sauce. Most ribs eaten while calf roping. Yep, greatness deserves recognition. You got any trophies, cowboy . . Whoomp there it is . Uh, yeah. Yeah, two years in a row. Well ill be. Does that thing just follow you around . 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If you take a look here, wade and i440, you can see the traffic is already backed up. What were told is a flatbed truck had an accident, overturned or got off on the side of the road somehow. Lost the load that it was carrying. You can see it is causing major backups. And people coming home from wo before they get that cleaned up and that traffic could be backed up for a while. Keep it here to wral and well keep you updated on that Traffic Accident soirchlt nearly two weeks after a local man fell victim to an rs. Nearly two weeks after a local man fell victim to an are trying to help. Reporter this fundraiser today, half of the proceeds at this mcdonalds between 5 00 and 7 00 will go to the family along with any donations that folks wanted to give here. Of his a beloved member of this team and the opener says he was an incredible employee. Pictures of the 20yearold sit inside the restaurant. Thomas had been working here the night before he died. That night, went to a party with friends. When he when he was shot. The home owner turned 911 tayse patchers that hoodlums were outside and he was quote, locked and loaded and prepared to secure his neighborhood. He later called back saying he shot someone. The Restaurant Owner andy martin tells me everyone here is still struggling to understand it. Every time i would come into the restaurant, i make it a point to say hi to everybody. Always bubbly and friendly and day if you were working with him. Reporter clearly, he made quite an impact. He had only been working here since april. However, head ed been working for other mcdonalds including one in louisburg since he was 16 and we are told they are actually sending a van up to louisburg to that restaurant to bring a lot of the employees down here to raleigh. Thomas funeral is scheduled for sunday. But this fundraiser is tonight. Spring forest road at the mcdonalds. It is from 5 00 to 7 00. Thank you. A jogger and two dogs are recovering after being taxed by a rabid fox in cary. It happened yesterday morning on a greenway near Lantern Ridge lane. Police say animal control euthanized the animal and testing confirmed it had rabies. The jogger was okay. Both dogs were up to date on rabies vaccines. This is the first case of rabies in cary this year. Retail giant target reports theyve seen a more than 20 decrease of apple products in stores. Business leaders hope for a turnaround with the release of the new iphone 7 this fall. Companies like apple and samsung are seeing changes. That is as customers are in less of a hurry to replace old devices. Pretty quiet day for stocks. The dow closed up 24 point. The nasdaq up 11 1 2. In you notice smoke in the air over American Tobacco trail. The training will last until 5 00 p. M. This is part of the town of carys exercise. Smoke may lynner after the training has ended so make sure that you know what youre looking at before you call 911 to say there is a fire somewhere. It was still hot today but for me, it felt better. Especially when you went in the shade, it wasnt even as and said it felt better. Im in the feeling t it is still hot. 96 is less than a hundred but 96 is still hot. Tomorrow could be a little cooler. 92. It is not until monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday of next week that we are talking comfort. A lower high and a lower humidity. Lets look at what is happening on the radar view. As we expand the view and shift southward, look at all that thunderstorm activity across South Carolina and down east of the coas close to home, their few showers across Cumberland County and samson county. They are moving away as well. If you are watching from clinton and areas throughout samson county, some of these will be sliding on by. Warsaw could see a shower as well. There is more activity across southern virginia. Chas moving towards Roanoke Rapids and infield and over towards jackson and conway. Be aware of that over the next couple of hours. Far more activity off to the west in the Mountain Ways the disturbance in the upper atmosphere. The thinking is that energy later this evening and overnight that. May help develop a few showers and storms. Well keep the chance for storms mentioned. So what is ahead . More evening rumbles possible . Overnight showers too. The heat will stick around for tomorrow, saturday and sunday. It will still be hot. Wont be as oppressive. We are following a cold front. Coming up, ill show you where it is right now t will be passing through the area monday a comfortable next week as you will see in the sevenday forecast. Tall tower cam, another day with that gorgeous blue sky up there. A few fair weather cumulus clouds. There is our 93. The dew point 68. The dew points fell today. Not quite as oppressive. It feels better than it did yesterday. 91 at holly springs. 88 at goldsboro. 74 in new bern with some showers and storms in the vicinity. Those heat index values nowhere near as bad as they were yesterday although erwin is kind of tough. 100 in fayetteville feels like 99 here in raleigh. A general trend of trick cloud cover through virginia. We have a zonal flow in the upper atmosphere. So any little disturbances riding in this flow will come across North Carolina and could contribute to shower thunderstorm development. But the next big feature is this. This is the big game changer. The frontal boundary coming in from canada that has the comfy air mass. Well call it nice air. This is moving to the southeast. By monday morning, this should be passing through the area. Futurecast showing the potential for showers and storms this evening. There is 8 00. By midnight, still some activity around as you see it there. Then overnight, were not going it rule out a stray shower but that widespread. Should see plenty of clouds to start your friday. Cant rule out a shower to start the day. During the afternoon and evening, showers and thunderstorms start to pop occupy a scattered basis. We have another opportunity to see some activity tomorrow afternoon and evening. By 8 00, a storm is possible. I dont think they will be all that widespread. 84 at this point. Partly to mostly cloudy. Overnight, still a chance of stray showers and storms. In the morning, plenty of clouds. 76 by 8 00 a. M. Tomorrow afternoon, mid80s to lo the triangle. Well call it variably cloudy, a mix of sun and clouds. Friday, saturday, sunday, wont kid you. We are still in the 90degree area. 86 is a lot better than 96, 97. Yes. There is your comfort. Today. Ahead in whats trending, the latest on their Armed Robbery report and how ryan lochte is changing his original story. . . 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They were trying to get back to the u. S. They say the athletes made the whole thing up. In a News Conference, they said they can confirm the men were not victims of by people posing as Police Officers as the swimmers claimed. Also, video surfaced today after an altercation between the swimmers and employees at a gas station. Excuse me. The employees say the americans vandalized the bathroom and they agreed to pay for the damage leaving before police arrived. They say that one of the swimmers admitted to this to police. Ryan lochte walked his story back to nbcs matt lauer. He said instead of the gun pointed at my head, he said it was pointed in my direction. That he may have had in his story. He is going to have to come clean at some point. It is pointing in that direction. He is trying to loosen the story a little bit so he can work his way back to what really happened. He just needs to cut bait right now and come clean. Say im done. The whole issue, youve got swimmers in rio and youve got him in the u. S. They can face charges. False police report, damaging property. He is on safe soil it gets dicey. It