The fear of the weather coming in. We got a cold air scenario set up. Still cold out there. 45 right now. Drizzle and dense fog. Now, i have been following the threat throughout the evening. Following what is happening in the panhandle, florida, tornadoes touching down. There was a report of a family sucked out of the house at the Community Near pensacola. One of the Storm Chasers is taking them to the hospital. Around crestview a tornado touching down as well. The big red boxes are tornado watches that are all in effect in the highlighted counties. The ones here pink. The parameters seen here in florida and alabama may be repeated around here tomorrow. Typically we show you storm systems to the south and west weaken. This may not be the case during the day tomorrow. All of the reports of the tornadoes touching down over alabama, report of a tornado touching down. Some in mississippi as well with the reports of wind damage around laurel and lots of wind damage across louisiana and all of that is making its way to the east and northeast. Here is future cast at 10 00. Showing the line of showers and storms. One thing i am hoping that will happen, a lot of times we have a the lot of thunderstorm activity it blocks the transport to the north. If that is the case tomorrow, we may see lesser coverage of the showers and the thunderstorms. Dont take it to the bank. Tomorrow morning we have the potential in the atmosphere with rotating winds, height, lending for rotation that will help. And a squall line. We are watching out tomorrow, the greatest threat, damaging wind gusts, maybe winds greater than 70 miles an hour. Tornadoes, hail. We will go in greater detail coming up if a few minutes. A busy day tomorrow, mike, thank you. The storms in louisiana and mississippi are starting to emerge tonight. The tornado that hit in louisiana threw them around like toys, as Kenneth Craig reports other tornadoes tore a roof off of a gym and destroyed homes. Rescue workers going door to door in what is left in this park in louisiana. They were searching for people trapped or wounded after a reported tornado went through the area. We know of two fatalities. We know of 7 critically injured. And we know of 30 plus that were injured all different types of injuries. Reporter the storm flipped and mangled dozens of trailers and knocked down trees, ryan lives next door to this rv park. Heard a rumbling sound. He says he and his family i hid with a dog, they were praying. I was so scared. Reporter about a dozen people were working out when a possible tornado tore a wall off of this gym in prairieville. Other areas reported downed trees and power lines. Severe weather moved through the new orleans area earlier in the day. These waterspouts were reported over lake pontchartrain. Some schools sent kids home early before the storm hit. Back to you. With the devastation left in the storms wake, fear of what the system could bring us is fresh in the minds of people who were hit hard after deadly storms devastated our area in 2011. Tonight, adam owens spoke with one of the families hit hard by the storm and he joins us live with their concerns, adam . Reporter weather reports like the ones we are looking at tonight really bring back sore that survived through some of the worst nature has to offer. Wherever i hear about the weather it does kind of bring a little anxiety to me. A threatening forecast means Something Different for natasha than you and i. Five years ago she returned home to this. I just lost my house. My neighbors lost their house. Reporter her garage just was not there. It was thrown into the house next door. Reporter she is thankful nobody was at her home when the tornado moved throughher neighborhood. The ceiling collapsed through r neighborhood. The ceiling collapsed. He noticed his upstairs couch on his back lawn. Homes damaged or destroyed are rebuilt or repaired but that experience, the power of nature stays with you. Now, when the forecast threatens evans and his family hurry to the basement, again. When we feel like it is clear we will come back up. Itchy gunshot, i am sure. Oh, yeah. Reporter what do you do if there are damaging winds in your area . You might want to get into an interior room, one of the safety place in any building you may be in. You might want to get under a stair well, even, anything to give you support overhead. The important thing is to be in a sturdy building. Avoid riding out a storm in a car or a mobile home. Stay away from windows that can become ming debris and strong winds and remember lightning remains a threat even after all of the rainfall associateiated with it has stopped. And here is hoping we have no when it has stopped. And here is hoping we have no need for any of this information tomorrow. Make sure your phone has smart phone weather app. It will end you notifications when Severe Weather is in your area. For all of details go to wral. Com and search alert center. The Police Protective Association says they will not boycott a concert of beyonce. The decision comes after the super bowl performance in which her dancers depicted members of the the black panter party. Kenneth sweat joins us with more. What did this decision boil down to . Reporter the sorbiation says each of the members took an oath to protect and serve members took an oath to protect and serve regardless of the communitys opinion. We have concerns over the preserved antilaw enforcement images that mrs. Knowles uses in her video and halftime performance at the super bowl, we voted unanimously not to boycott the may 3rd cop cert. Reporter matt cooper, president of the Raleigh Police protection Association Says the decision to provide security will be a person one with each officer personal one. We encourage our officers to work offduty at this. Reporter cooper said several officers within the organization expressed concerns about the super bowl performance. Specifically the issue is with her dancers whorp dressed as members of the black panter her dancers who were dressed as members of the black panther party. They will always speak out against what they nsider negative depictions. We have officers coming from different background and believes and political parties. Reporter the spokesperson wanted to be clear. It is an association decision, not a decision that represents the entire police department. Also Highway Patrol spoke out and said they will continue to provide any sort of traffic services. This term volunteer is for the off duty security. All right, thank you. We are learning more about a wake county man involved in a plane crash in florida. The investigators say thomas was flying from raleigh to sarasota when he requested to make a emergency landing. They deployed a parachute and landed in a yard in florida. That south of jacksonville. No one on the ground was hurt. Thomas was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. 20 years after pregnant student disappeared her boyfriend is now charged with murder. Her remains were found in 19 9710 months after e disappeared. 1997, 10 months after shes did appeared. Hay found new evidence and rearrested him in 2014. He was upset that she was pregnant and wanted her to have an abortion. The two planned to meet the day she disappeared. A former judge must undergo substance treatment as part of a guilty plea in a dwi case. He was charged with drunk driving in december and pled guilty earlier this month. Prefious ory Previous Story we did in 2007. He will be on unsupervised probation for the next year. Members of the naacp are demanding more information about the leadership change. They handdelivered a public records request of the unc board of governors today asking for more information about the firing of system president tom ross and the hiring of his replacement, spelling. The board has not been transparent throughout the process. Still to come, a jury returns a verdict in a case against a case that a woman is accused of cutting a womans baby from her womb. A bb gun. Guilty verdict was for lane who cut a baby out of a woman. She responded to a craigslist ad for a baby. The baby died. The mother survived and testified. Lane could get 140 years in prison for her crime. Domestic violence charges player were dismissed. Ward was arrested in october at his home and charged with misdemeanor assault on a female and interfering with communications. The Police Report revealed that ward took his wifes phone with she tried to call 911 following the confrontation, both charges were dropped on friday. A man wanted for murder was arrested in charlotte after a standoff with the police. Officers say that powell barricaded himself at a home but surrendered. He is charged with murder and other crimes related to the death. The police say daniels was shot while sitting at a car in january. The police are still looking for a second suspect, ward. The u. S. Senate race in North Carolina is hitting the airwaves, senator richard berh had his First Television ad. So far it is airing only in rolly and greensbor. He is seeking his third term. He has three opponents in the he is seeking his third term. He has three opponents in the republican primary. There will be a debate on thursday at 7 00 here on wral, commercial free. You will have to wait longer to hear if federal judges will approve our election maps. A few more days for people challenging the maps to file objections, the court will issue its decision on the new maps. Orange county Health Department wants to explore adding ecigs to the smoking ban. Expanding smoking bans to include vaping. They hope to have Public Feedback in april. Oh, say can you sing the National Anthem . The bulls want to hear you perform if you can. They are filling dates in the up coming season. Auditions, this year it is march 12th. Wow nice. You can sing it or you can. It is clear quickly. Bringing out the west and worse of us. All right, a busy man. It is busy, unusual for a system this strong. We are not in the mind set for Severe Weather. Tippicly march, april, may. And tonight and tomorrow we will focus on potential of Severe Weather and damaging hail. Lets go to the radar view. We will show you little going on right now. A lot of dense fog, drizzle and mist. Our warm front is on the coast. As it approaches we should see the fog dense. Widespread basis. Once it blows by tomorrow and more up stable air mass. How unstable can we be. We will be the same or repeated just like tonight and in alabama and florida. Outside of the weather, we are under a wind advisory from 9 00 until midnight. All of the counties highlighted in purple are in that advisory. Sustained winds, 2025 miles an hour. Gusts, 35, 45, 50 miles an hour. Trees hitting power lines will cause the power outages, regardless we will have the potential for damaging winds. Our skycam focusing here. Highs, middle 40s, 45 right now. We are just stuck in the cold air mass. Forth east wind at 5. Or 8 miles an hour. The dew point is 44. As we take a look at the numbers closer to home. We are all seeing 40s locally. Tkour ham, 45, wake forest, 44, and as we expand the view it you dropped to 49. It is warmer. Now warming, greensboro and asheville, it is late met morning and afternoon you may be protected by the weather. The farther west it will go the more Severe Weather. The farther east you go it will be unstable. Right now, the view, the fronts on the map. On the coast, well is the front that lingers throughout the soun wl e it rotating, it is a bit of cloud cover and rain. That is where our upper level low is. It will travel to the north and east. The Severe Weather throughout the panhandle of florida. Here is the threat. You see the red, risk of tornadoes, winds and hail. We are in an advanced risk. Orange, up tpwraeuded to upgraded to a moderate risk. A good chance of damaging wind gusts and the weather that pops there could be a few tornadoes, some large and staying on the ground for awhile. Now, through the night we start to see the thunderstorms pop up in our southern counties and moving by. There may be a focus of more of the activity towards the coast during the afternoon hours and looking at a squall line to move through in the afternoon. Once we get passed 3 00, 4 00, 5 00, we should look good. This time tomorrow night the threat will be over. Looking for a cooling mass. So, 2 things, you dont have a smart phone, it will come in handy. You will get a call from greg letting you know what to do. The a p p for the smart phone. Any warnings in the lowcasion you will be made aware of that. Lows in the 40s, low 50s, no Severe Weather overnight. Quiet. With the exception of tkreuz drizzle, fog and mist. Showers possible. Isolated storm, anticipation is, we should begin the warming process. Lunchtime, middle 60s, showers, not too widespread until the afternoon. Upper 60s and 70s, 71 here in raleigh and fayetteville. Here is the forecast. Busiest day of the next 7 days, tomorrow, cooler for thursday, friday, side and sunday we will have sunshine on saturday. 53, warmer day on sunday, 64. And then monday and tuesday next week we will welcome in nbc to wral will be near 70 degrees. Potential for Severe Weather tomorrow. Going in more in detail on weather desk top coming up. Be ready for it. Yes. Adam did a good job. You need to think where are you going to go. Yes. We have not talk about it yet. Severe weather does not start until march. 10 or 12 more active than later in the afternoon . When we get into late morning and early afternoon the wind set up is more tornatic. So it will be for Straight Line wind damage. Greater threat they come late Straight Line wind at 5 00. Equally as devastating. 70 mileanhour wind gust it can blow things over like a tornado. All right, thank you, mike. A scaff fold malfunctions outside of a highrise in new york city. The rescue effort and why the men were laughing when they finally were on the ground again, jeff . We will set the table for tomorrow nights game between North Carolina and nc state. Tonight hurricanes are 4 points out of the playoffs. The head coach said you have to step up and play. Justin has not played since february 7th. He is back in the lineup tonight. The flyers goalie trying to clear but it is picked off and put in the net. 11. Ward gave up a softy in the 1st. But stone walled 36 shots on the night. Later in the second, stall, 24 points in the last 21 games tally another for a 21 lead. Heading to the third. Now, getting the shot. Look at the handiwork. That is the first goal since january th. Canes get the win, 31. As much as i like to take the goals back you cant. You got to get prepared and ready for it. Today i was able to put it behind me and get ready for the next round. Yes. He stole the game for us. Big saves and, break aways and allen kinds of stuff going on. And all kinds of stuff going on. Next up for the hurricanes, maple leafs. Now, settling another topic of conversation here, how many more years does he plan on coach . Williams says do not believe what you hear unless it comes from him. He does not want to leave with the university and the ncaa. [low audio ] for me it would be a hard time to leave. I am going to get old one of these days, you know, hen i am 94 i dont want to be tting here saying the same thing. Season low here for the game against clemson. 1 for 12 with 8 points against the tigers. In the last 2 games he is only 5 for 23. We want him not to struggle. And all of the other pieces play well. And at times when we beat miami we beat pittsburgh on the road. We have everyone clicking well. For our Team Obviously they had a couple tough games, needing to bounce back. Anxious to play. North carolina and nc state can be seen on wral. The tournament scores at the half. The mens play, now, the leader over the city state. Womens play, the locals vote, getting loose. Going to lincoln. Duke lost offensive coordinator, montgomery to ecu, now, the news of offensive line coach is retiring. He developed quite a group of lineman. That is two major losses on the offensive side of the football for duke. That is what happens with success. That is right. People want you before you retire. Yes. Wishing them the best. Thank you. An army soldier wanted to take his wife and kids to see carry underwood in concert. Little did they know they got to meet the former american idol. How people rallied around a what we learned about arrests two people are charged with shooting a puppy 18 times with a bb gun. The the puppy, a six week old lab mix is now at an an pal staff today to check in on them. There is no hiding the horrible circumstances that brought brody here to steal all of the hundreds of hearts. 18 pellets are still inside. I never seen somebody shoot at a dog. Not just any dog but one that is only 6 weeks old. The worst in some people brings out the best in others. The phones have not stopped ringing. Today, what . 75 to 100, easily. Yes. Phone calls . Yes. Phone calls. Yes. Reporter the Animal Hospital is running double duty as pr agent for the 6 week old lab mix. Yes, adoption is a big one, how is he doing and some of them want to contribute to his care. Reporter emails are running neck and neck with the phone all from people calling and caring about the little dog that did not stand much of a he is definitely a lucky this is not something that most puppies his age would survive. He is not ready to be adopted yet. When he is, so many people signed up to take him home they had to shutdown the list. It is great that everybody stands with us to wish him well in his recovery. Hard to believe someone would be capable of do tag. Many people called today to make donations for his care. The suspects charged with cruelty to animals and an unnamed 14yearold was released to his parents. Holly springs police do not plan to feel charges in a deadly accident involving a pedestrian. Officers say a man was walking on the outbound side of the road last night when he was hit from behind. Late today they identified him as 52yearold patrick mcdonald. Is charged with failing to maintain lane control after running a bus into a ditch. It happened on Pleasant Union church road in rolly. The investigators say the 58 yearold lost control while making a turn and the bus rolled on its side. No students on the bus and brody was