Transcripts For WRAZ WRALs 7AM News On Fox50 20160829 : vima

WRAZ WRALs 7AM News On Fox50 August 29, 2016

Your shoes and you coordinate and today i guess sleeveless shirts. It is a hot day. Yeah, starting off the school year feeling like summer definitely. There was a lot of that going on at my house. Everybody is excited thinking about what theyre going to wear. My daughter said let me make sure i text my friend and see what shes going to wear. Maybe we can be twins. Some of the kids are already out the door. Some of them have to leave so early. Here is how it looks, a nice mix of for a beautiful sun rise. In durham it is 70. 79 in kerry. 67 in south hill, 74 in goldsboro and clinton. Expect low to mid 70s this morning. 82 by lunchtime and a high of 89. It is nice to keep it just under 90 and the dew points should stay in the involve. We do have showers stay in 60s. We do have showers and storms, more about that in just a few minutes. Bryan, of course is following the commute which a mess in east raleigh. In deed, breaking news from overnight a car hit a utility poll, and right now new bern avenue is blocked in one direction, all lanes on the inbound side are blocked. The eastbound side, the outbound side, one lane is open as we zoom into that area and show you where it is you can see that newbern avenue is bl ton inbound side. I believe we do have yesterday owe of this from earlier when had car hit the utility poll. Again, no serious injuries but it did cause damage to poll. Thats a big mess to clean up and it looks like it will be longer before that is restored and traffic is restored to its normal at herb out there. A detour is set up. It takes you over to takes parkway and out to new hope and lane. So for that one lane is open but were not seeing big delays. As traffic builds we will have to keep our eyes on those senator. We had a deadly accident involving a pedestrian on the the eastbound side of u. S. 70, this is the camera at 85 at u. S. 70. You can see where police have blocked it ramp. Theyre blocking all traffic from 85 on to 70 eastbound. It is closed from 85 down toward they set up, and it is like lick detour set up and it is likely to be the rest of the morning before they can reopen this street. It is down to miami boulevard. You can pick up 70 on the other side of the accident. We will follow both of those this morning. Also a couple of other crashes reported. One in clayton at 70 and another in garner this morning on timber right now were not seeingty delays on the senators on this back sensors on this looking for the man who killed two people outside after an apartment complex. They were discovered shortly before 5 00 yesterday morning. That is near strickland and rayford roads. Police have not released the names and no words on a suspect. Less believe someone kill today people and set fire to a home to cover their tracks. Fire fighters responded only to find two bodies. Theyre trying to find out what the people inside died. But they are classifying this as a suspicious homicide. Autopsys are scheduled today. Raleigh police need your help identifying a man accused of inappropriately touching a woman at a department store. Police sent us this surveillance video. He has short hair and a goatee. He claims he touched on july former durham prosecutor is expected to testify in a hearing beginning today. Yeah, a hearing that could free a man that he helped convict more than 20 years ago. Wrals renee is in our news room with more on the car real howard case. Renee. The testimony will focus on evidence used to convict howard in the 1991 murder of doris washington and her daughter. Howard has always maintained his innocence and in 2014 a judge vacated the conviction and ordered a new trial. There need today be a hearing on the evidence first. That hearing starts today a. Among the evidence a dna test that excluded howard and point today someone else. Theres also a police memo that stateed it case appear today be thew of the new york gang for which the victim sold drugs. He never handed the memo over to defense attorneys. The former prosecutor is no longer practicing law. He was disbarred as a result of the duke lacrosse case. Could last three days. This is a big case with a lot of attention. Look for live reports on wral news at noon. All right. Renee, thank you. The trial of a durham man accuseed in a deadly restaurant shooting nearly five years ago is scheduled to start today. Police say jerry adams killed allen at an ihop in 201. Two off duty Durham County deputies told a group of people that included adams that they could not sit in a closed off section was crowd window 30 to 40 people. Police say adams turn todayst rant a short time returned to the restaurant a short time later and opened fire. Is holding a News Conference today to share his story. He was held for months in a defense afacility in georgia. His attorney believes he qualifieds for a salem because he pled guilty to gang able to return to durham. His News Conference is set for 35 45 p. M. Deputys are looking for a man accused of killing his childs grandfather. Anthony mcneal shot and killed eugene ray at a house north of fayetteville about 30 minutes after the shooting, a message appeared on the Facebook Page reading i am not turning myself in. If i cant make it out of North Carolina, i am going to shoot myself. Mcneal has a child with tell us the relationship had become contemptuous over last several month. Fayetteville police are looking for the man who killed two people outside of an apartment complex. Deputies discovered the men shortly before 5 00 yesterday morning. Thats near strickland bridge and rayford roads. They have not released the victims names and no word on a suspect. Theyre asking anyone with information to call fayetteville police. Debate between Hillary Clinton and donald trump. How theyre preparing now and the issues they plan to address this week. And the death of dewayne wades cousin. And how the pope is honoring im roy cooper, and you deserve the truth about the crime lab. When i became attorney general, we discovered a backlog of more than 5,000 dna test kits and years worth of shoddy investigations. But what governor mccrory isnt telling you is that we cleared the backlog. We also solved over 2,000 crimes and put killers and rapists in prison from cold cases. Italy. 7 10. Today. Trump said he has a major we have more from washington. Reporter Hillary Clinton has more fund raises are today and tomorrow, she raised over 11 million sunday amid debate prep, advisor tell us shes studying policy, shortening her answers and preparing for the unpredictable. Well behaved, modest trump, i doubt we will see that. Kind of off the rails trump. Sources say donald trumpsless formal preferring to discuss issues over lunch. Locking her in a room and cram her mind with all of these binders. Her corruption has been exposed again. The new web ad target it is emails in state Department Meeting with donation donor. When republicans meet, they call a meeting. When democrat doss that they call it a conflict. In a predominantly black detroit on sunday. Wednesday in as hes giving a major immigration speech after confusion about whether he would deport undocumented immigrants or let them display no path to legalization, no path to citizenship unless people leave the country. He said he would work with law abiding immigrant who is have been here for years. Tracy potts. Trumps running mate will visit North Carolina for a second time in a week. Hes schedule today speak in Winston Salem tomorrow week, in charlotte and also New Brunswick county on the coast. 7 12. New rules are now in effect for drones throughout the cub industry, how it could impact you and how nasa is hoping guide the future. Plus, why two United Airline pilots were arrested welcome back. Thats the perfect song for this monday morning as a lot of kids head back to school this morning. Exactly. I them. Some of them are ready for school again. At least the first day is typically exciting. It is. Then when you are recognizing the reality that this is for the foreseeable future, maybe then you start getting a little grumpy. Especially you get that first homework assignment. It is like oh no, here we go. At least the weather is behaving certainly for today and it will really all week. Theres not a whole lot of rain around to impact your morning commute or your ride home in the evening, either one. Of i95. Mate be slightly bigger chance there. Lets take it might approximate a slightly bigger chance there. We have a nice mix of sun and clouds make for dramatic scenes, you can see that behind the camera, the sun has found a whole in the clouds and it is really lit up the feeder there, and Downtown South hill, really pretty and of course gray skies behind it. It is beautiful, beautiful shot there and we are seeing that all over place, a mix of sun and clouds and even though we are seeing cloud cover in plac falling out of these clouds and that will be the same story for the next few days. 70 is our current temperature, the northeast wind at 5 Miles Per Hour. The dew point is 68. It should stay in the 60s for most of the day so that help it is oppressive humidity, however it is like throw be mid to upper 60s. It is not going feel refreshing but it wont feel oppressively muggy either. 74 in goldsboro, 72 in erwin, 74 in fayetteville. Radar. We have High Pressure situate to the north and west the High Pressure system has winds that rotate clockwise. This is about the extent of the High Pressure system, it edges down here into North Carolina and it does have sneaking air that keeps everything dry. We will be mainly dry from western part of North Carolina up through the triangle area. But then just east of that along and east of i95. We have the good flow of moisture tough at atlanta kick that mean it is potential for scattered showers thunderstorms. Tropical depression, eight there, you can see this is the one thats going to affect us first not a big deal but impacts along the coast. Hurricane gastone not likely to affect the United States and tropical depression nine likely behind eight. Eight has one to three inches of rain fall, Tropical Storm watch in effect from moore head city up toward virginia. Deal. These wind gusts wont do a gusts, may just toss trash ca and a little low lying flooding, later today that storm likely to become a Tropical Storm. It may either be hermine or because nine is also likely to get a name in the next 24 hours brushes by the outer banks with winds at 40 to 45 Miles Per Hour and then back into the atlantic. Here is tropical depression nine off the and cuba. It cippus cross the florida pea innocence it zips across the florida peninsula and then away from North Carolina. Thats good news for anybody who plans to be at the coast for the Holiday Weekend. Watch that. Thing can say certainly change with tropical systems. At the bus stop this morning, 73 at 8 00 a. M. And at at, 89. It will be worm a light chance of thunderstorms east but moist kids dont have to stow the backpacks, 86 is the normal high for this time of year. 101 is the record on thursday. We have a cold front that will drop our temperatures for nice conditions for the Holiday Weekend and highs in the 80s and lows in the 60s and actually stay dry. Of course still following whats happening on newbern avenue which has been a reallies mess this morning any improvement at has been really a mess this morning. Any improvement. No. We will start at new hope road. It is a live picture from traffic camera, and right now the inbound side of newbern remains blocked. Theyre turning traffic around there. The outbound side, down to one lane. You can see some traffic making its way beyond the camera here out toward that intersection, that right lane remains open. At the moment at least were not seeing big delays through that area but it is something you need to keep in mind as we zoom in there you can see the purple indicating where inbound and you will notice traffic is building that morning through that area. This is all due to an accident overnight where a car took out a utility poll. No serious injuries but it will be a while before they can get everything reopened out there. In durham we had a deadly pedestrian accident blocking now 70 eastbound at now 0 it is closed from 85 all the way down toward cheek road. Here is video from just a little while ago, where you can see where that is closed. Here is where they have the 70. That investigation is going to continue through the rest of the commute. You need to think about alternate routes, if they do have it is gear to miami, pick up 70 on the other side. In last few minutes we is a report of a crash on 55 at James Slaughter down to the arena and also an accident on laura dunkin road at indian trail in apex area, also looking out for a vehicle fire hammond road glid the two people accused of killing the cousin of dewayne wade. Theyre both convicted felons out on parole. Alldredge was pushing her baby in a stroller on the south side of chicago on friday when she got caught in the cross fire. This happened shortly after the mother of four registered her older children for school. Donald trump true an online backlash saturday for a tweet he tweeted just what i have been saying, African American will vote for trump. He later tweeted his condolences. At least one person die affidavit a Chemical Plant in florida. Investigators say they recovered it remains of one victim at the facility in canton, near pensacola. They say the blast left the plant welcoming like a mini war zone. The gas nitroxide exploded but ignite. Pope francis will visit central italy as soon as possible. He made the pledge during his Weekly Prayer Service the holy father sent a prayer for those affected. Museums in italy want to do their part. They will donate money toward the rebuilding also, italy soccer teams are planning moments of silence before each match. A stunning bridge collapse shut down major roads through traffic backed up and was at a stand still as crews work today remove rubble and ensure the rest of the structure was safe for drivers. A piece of heavy equipment being transported ton back of a truck hit the bridge which then physician fell en to another truck. The highway linked lon con with key channel route. Two United Airlines pilots are suspended Police Arrested the men just before they were about to fly from saturday. The arrest delayed the flight for ten hours, while the airline got a replacement crew. The men will be arraigned today in scotland, you nighted airline also conduct an internal investigation in addition to police investigation. New overnight, new rules meant to track sky eyes in skies eyes in skys are now in effect. Anthony forwardlooking statements discuss the new drone rules which went into effect at mittened. Some of the a weight limit, 5 pounds ask a time restriction flying in daylight only. The Unmanned Aircraft must only stay within the pilots visual loin of site. It is time to go back to school today, and School Districts all districts the viewing area. The remainder for parents, the reminders for parents. And the new campaign kicking off today ahead of the fall why why the first lets go straight to bryan monitoring a lot of issues on the roads this morning. In deed some major issues. Lets start off at heading a. M. Boulevard. We had an heddingham. Outbound is reduced to one lane. Inbound is blocked we are starting to see pretty heavy an alternate route, that is really showing up really supports there. We had a sensor there is. We had a deadly accident at 70 east is closed right now from 85 down beyond cheek road. Your best route is 85 from avon dale and then here to here to miami. Back too you. Thank you, bryan. Deputys in couple ber listen county are looking for a man accused of killing his eugene north of fayetteville staff shooting a message appeared on facebook saying he did not plan to turn himself in. Elizabeth. Looking at the raleigh sky cam. It is looking gray but dont expect to see much rain. It is a pretty sun rise this morning but of course sun has been up for a little while now. In terms of temperatures, it is looking fairly mild this b 4 in faye yell yetville. Faye 9 this afternoon. Variablely cloudy and fairly warm and muggy. 91 on tuesday and wednesday but very little chance of showers and storm. Reporter thank you, elizabeth. It is back to school time for kids across the viewing area and across the state. Next on fox 50, the changes for students on their first day back in wake and durham today is the first day of school for 1. 5 Million Students in our state. Along with them it is a huge day for the teacher, Staff Members and of course the parents we will do live to roseville elementary, remembering her first day of school. Reporter it is not a good memory. I was nervous and it was hard but hopefully it will be different. Were here at roseville because they had to do some last minute preparations in order to ready for today due to construction over summer. Luckily all of that is taken care of and summer is officially over the yellow bus also be rolling out this morning, as a matter of fact probably right now, of course with this new year theres plenty of changes today there will be a total of 159,000 students headed to school. That number is up by 1,000 from last year, also, theres a new price hike on school meals, 0. 25 more. As far as facility, wake county now has six brand new school, that brings the total to 177 supporting those students are more than 19,000 Staff Members including more than 10,000 teacher. The bottom line is it takes a lot of people to prepare for this school year and bill and lena we have been talking about the first day of School Experiences but you really had a special picture that you posted online and hopefull

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