Want to take it easy. Especially along the i95 corridor for this afternoon. We are still expecting a gradual backing off of the heat over the next several days. Are chance of precipitation should go up as well. We will cover all of that coming up. Things, elizabeth. They were accused of milking the Wake County School system out of money. The last of the cases is being tried this week. Rodney smith started the scheme. Wrals amanda lamb has been in the courtroom following this story and he joins us Wayne County Justice Center to explain what is going on. Reporter bill, it is a little complicated, but i am going to break it down for you. Smith is accused of paying a Wake County Court here are the wake county Justice Center to falsify information in the computer. That information that allowed him to get out of paying tens of thousands of dollars that was owed to the court system. By law, this money goes to the so the prosecutor in this case says they are the real victims. In an old on orthodox move the District Attorney who is the former clerk of superior court, lauren freeman, took the stand. She talked about irregularities that have been brought to her attention by an employee which triggered an internal investigation by the fbi. I had an assistant clerk in my Criminal Division and tell me that she had received information that there were a number some irregularities. It was basically a tip that we had some irregularities in our bond process. Reporter two other bill bondsmen or charge. One of them has pleaded guilty and the other has been convicted. Two of the clerks involved in this afternoon in this case for the state. Smiths attorney in Opening Statement that his client didnt do anything wrong and it was actually another bill bondsmen and he says his client but the information to the attention of investigators. We will be in the courtroom bringing reports later. Back to you, bill. I look for to this. Thank you very much. A pitt county man is accused of killing a mother and her three small children and then fleeing acros lines. 39yearold dibon toone was arrested in richmond, virginia overnight and charged with murder. The children were all under the age of 10. Police believe toone was in a relationship with the mother and lived in the home. It is not clear when the murders happened. Will be a News Conference today with an update later on this afternoon. Durham police are working to win more about a shooting on price avenue. A young man was shot and he did go to the hospital. His injuries are not believed to be lifethreatening. Police have not released his name. So far no suspects or emotive have emerged. A burke county teenager is accused of helping isis in north carolina. Justin sullivan attempted to get a Law Enforcement agent to join the terrorist group. They the paperwork se me in the United States and put support to avoid being arrested. Sysco could be cutting thousands of jobs. Technology news website computer reseller news reports that cisco is fun to cut 14,000 jobs is planning to cut 14,000 jobs. One of the largest operations is in rtp with 5000 fulltime employees working there. Coming up in the next half hour, wrals laura leslie a large oak tree fell in raleigh causing some people to lose power at dixie trail and clark avenue on the crosswalk in front of the elementary school. The treaty got the School Crossing light tree took out the School Crossing light. After years of planning, the ground has been broken on a new homeless shelter in fayetteville. Wrals gilbert baze beneficial to do more homeless a safe place to sleep. Reporter i am at the intersection of chan street and hillsborough street. This is not just a pile of dirt bags. For a lot of folks here, this is the beginning of hope. The foundation has been dug in the concrete ordered. This is what the new homeless shelter will look like when it is completed. Operations has in planning this for years. They have run into some across the street. Church leaders are not opposed to helping the homeless, but they are worried that the church is being surrounded by homeless encampments. They say the new shelter will house about 40 men and will do more than just take the homeless off the streets for a night. Each will have a job program associated with it. We are not interested in people coming off the streets just so they can go back to the street and doing the same thing they have been doing. We dont want just a bed to for people. Reporter they say saint luke hasnt talked much about the shelter but the church is still helpful by letting the less fortunate use their parking lot while they get meals inside operation inasmuch. The plan is about the shelter built by christmas. If not, they hope to have in place by valentines day. In fayetteville, gilbert baze, wral news. Thanks, gilbert. Operation inasmuch was able to raise the money through private donations. The ride is changing today on the stretch of i295 connecting bragg boulevard to i 295. Begins stay, northbound bragg boulevard will close permanently at randolph street. Are being sent on to nc210 murchison road. Do expect some delays through the area for the next few weeks as drivers get used to the changes and more changes will follow. Ultimately, it will mean a faster trip. Me [ music ] Durham County officials will meet today to talk about early voting. They must come up with new plans to accommodate early or when some voting in the wake of a Court Decision tracking down that meeting is at 5 00. The Donald Trump Campaign is undergoing a Major Overhaul bring in Steven Bennett upright first news as chief executive officer and promoting Kellyanne Conway to campaign manager. They are following the departure of corey lewandowski. The shakeup comes as trump has been slipping in the polls in recent weeks. Trump returns to the lineup tomorrow. He plans to hold a rally of the shot convention center. Ken smith will be in the queen city to cover that event. For updates on www. Wral. Com. We snuck [ music ] a brazilian judge has ordered the passports of american swimmers ryan lochte and james fagan be robbed at gunpoint. We meanwhile, the father of lochte says the swimmers are back in the yes. Lochte and his teammates were robbed at gunpoint in a taxi. Police have found little evidence to support their accounts and city swimmers were unable to provide key details in police interviews. Rio de janeiro authorities issued an arrest warrant for an International OlympicCommittee Executive accused of scalping tickets for the summer games. Patrick hickey legally sell tickets. He has been part of the ioc executive board since 2012 and is president of both the Olympic Council of ireland and of the european committees. An executive was arrested by a sweep in the same investigation. Agents have seized more than 1000 tickets being sold. Lets take a look at the medal count right now. It is looking good for the u. S. With 85 total split evenly with bronze. China is second with 51 total. Great Britain Third with 15. 82,000 people have been forced to leave their homes in california as the fire spreads. Why firefighters say the battle right now is unrelenting. Also, water is expected to rise in louisiana. It forces thousands more from their homes. The latest on the historic flooding. Plus, by police in florida we have some great news. With at t, the bundle price you sign up for is guaranteed to stay the same for two years. Call at t now and bundle directv, home phone and high Speed Internet for just 89. 99 a month guaranteed. With directv, take your entertainment to a whole new level. Watch shows you forgot to dvr from the last 72 hours or restart a show already in progress. And with high Speed Internet from at t, you can enjoy 99. 9 percent reliability and consistently fast speeds. 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The police have been running up and down the street and telling us we need to get out and i guess it is really moving fast. Reporter the fire is a result of a heatwave and strong winds. It is still a 0 contained as firefighter crews battle the flames. Hopefully we can come back. This is the third time, so hopefully we will still be standing. Some parishes in louisiana with widespread flooding damage have in place under curfew because of reports of looting. 24 inches of rain fell in just two days causing massive flooding. Floodwaters have started to recede in some areas, but in others, it is still rising downstream. 11 people have died with tens of thousands having to be rescued with damaged. What a mess. The death toll rises after the explosion at a maryland apartment complex near the nations capital. Police say a seventh body was found in the debris of the Flowery Branch apartments in silver spring, maryland. And explosion last wednesday shook buildings more than a mile away. More than 30 people were hurt includg three firefighters the cause of the explosion remains under investigation all the residents reported smelling gas price to the explosion. A Milwaukee Police officer who shot and killed a black man this weekend is being threatened online. Police said officer who shot him as being targeted on social media. They are not confirming the name who was also block. The shooting touched off two nights of protests and violence and is still under investigation. All of the rides at a theme park in connecticut are shut down as investigators try to people to receive an electric shock in ocean beach park. One boy burned his hands after touching a metal fence. The operator of the scrambler told police he felt a tingling sensation when he hit the stop to on the ride. The six people say they felt the same thing. Police in florida believe they have a good chance of solving an unusual burglary while Memorial Hall and his family slept, their home was burglarized. Around and getting into the familys home only all they took was food. Beverages and sausage. That is not okay with mario home hall. They took a half a gallon of milk, or shoes, and a package of sausage. I think it is rocktenn. It is rotten. They got some good leads the video and they will catch those robbers. Caught on cameranew york, and amazing lightning show. It was at the sky last night and the photographer Anthony Quinn ton of snapped these electrifying photos across the hudson river. The storms also brought some much needed rain to the area and does look like they are going to get any muchneeded rain anytime soon. We discontinue this dry pattern with the bermuda High Pressure system. It is a pattern we do see some time in the summers. We will start to see a little butter chance of showers and storms tomorrow and then again on friday and probably to the weekend. Dont worry about your weekend plans. We will Just Transition back into a more normal ttern with the afternoon storms. Lets check out what is going on outside. We have our skycam fayetteville. You can see the cumulus clouds developing. We have seen this every day this week so far. They have been hardpressed to get out of the thunderstorms. It is 90 degrees at the airport right now. The dew point is currently 75. The higher the number, the mug year and miserable it feels. And dew points rarely get above 80. That is one of the highest 85 in henderson and 89 in south hill. 91 in harborough and in rocky mount. 90 in sanford and 92 in southern pines. Check out the satellite and radar picture. Still dealing with the bermuda High Pressure system right now. It typically hangs over the atlantic. And then every once in a while it comes back in the southeast. High pressure has sinking air and it is just not producing it put a lid on thunderstorm activities developing. This hike will slip away from us and the cold front that has been installed to the west will kick in. It may bring a better chance of thunderstorms near the virginia this afternoon. It will probably be tomorrow before we see a lot of that moving in helping to bump up our chance for showers and storms. That said, once the front moves into north carolina, it will widespread storms. It is just our chance will go up a bit more compared to what we have seen so far this week. At 1 00 a tiny shower showing up on futurecast and this comes off the mountains related to the cold front heading our way. Especially from raleigh with a better chance of storms this afternoon and even better chance for tomorrow. Here is lunchtime still quiet you can see a few 60s and 70s to midnight with scattered storms. A number of those will produce some i was thinking that the 11 00 advisory would announce that we had fiona on our hands, but this is still just tropical depression six. So our next update comes at 5 pm. So maybe we will have something done. He sure to tune into mike and greg this evening. Right now 30 milesperhour winds an issue shortly. As it travels across the ocean, it will move into an area that is not as favorable for development. Whether or not this affects land is still yet to be seen. A big weekend could have it fizzling out over the atlantic. It is something that we are watching very closely. Of course are heat index is already into the triple digits with expecting the chance of rain to only be tomorrow 40 tomorrow and also again on friday. We will see similar conditions on saturday and sunday. We have a treat in our forecast. On tuesday, 87 degrees. The big treat will be the fact that by then we should see our humidity dropping a little bit. It will not drop a whole lot over the weekend. We should get out of the intense heat by friday through another sticky weekend. Im ready for midoctober. It is barbecue season and backyard grills are working overtime. Today at four clock on fox 50 we have some grill cleaning tips that could help you avoid a trip to the emergency room. And a school that is helping students sharpen their soccer skills and develop a core academic curriculum. Still to come on wral noon news, an un partnership. That syria, russia, and iran are doing that has raised concerns for the united date. Americas affectionate Vice President and her hug analysis. . . These patients could have received their cancer care at many hospitals. America in Metro Atlanta because we focus only on the treatment of cancer. Thats just one important way were different from other hospitals. Here, our centers for advanced oncology have taken specialized care to the next level in the treatment of breast and lung cancer. Here, youll have one medical team, all in one place, committed to clinical excellence and compassionate care. 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Sometimes with cringe worthy results. Jimmy most has a long look at his hilarious hugs. Reporter there are hugs were just go for it and then there are hugs that keep going and going and going. Joe biden Woodland Hills we go on the tarmac at scranton airport. About four seconds into the hug the semidisengage. Hillary for almost 16 seconds. Notice how many times he tries to get out. He is Still Holding on. Second top out. You got to let go. Reporter this latest hug wouldnt have been and was it hadnt been for all of the other orderly handy overly the time when he gently rearranges a young girls hair and many rearranges some more. The Vice President knows his on camera at the ceremonies and the parents are right there as he leans in for a kiss. Dvp is known as a close talker. He even does it to the president. Perhaps his most famous moment came on the put his hands on the wife of ash carter picks up conservatives pand this is the creepiest thing. Reporter and so did some liberals. You appear to smell her hair. Reporter at least the Vice President didnt get that close to hillary. Now hillary and president obama have come a long way in their