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Our satellite and radar is clear with nothing to worry about. Temperatures are cool in the 40s. 44 durham. 39 sanford. A chilly start but a nice finish. 69 for the high today but normal is 74. Still below normal today. Warmer weather coming up. Those details next. Keeping a close watch on the tar river. It will crest sometime between 810 am which could force the princeville back to field. Wing to officials to evacuate princeville. They did so sunday morning. Lauren have led joins us live from Edgecombe County with more. Reporter yes we did. We could not even get into the town of princeville because all tarboro night now at st. James street in downtown about half a mile away from the tar river. Its blocked off because of the high water. Lets look at what the tar river looked like yesterday. River is supposed to crest sometime between 810 am this morning and payment how high the water gets it could get to a point that the princevi ....
My fianci. Thats what i could grab when i came out, her blanket and thats about it. Reporte f responde told her ere was a nearby she woulder but they wouldnt allow her to bring her dog. She didnt wantto leave hi with animtrole stayed in her tck. Sevel lies hbeen staying at this gas station, sleeping in cars. Eir at rk to goinhem. F e ry mihe a 13yeaveof highwapatrol. Hes been placed o administ leave, in a shooting. The flooding has forced thousands from their homes and arping. Reporter its devtati site here in lumberton. This area was completely dry yesterday but today thats not the case. As you look into western mberton, its complety flooded, rescue crews going ba and forth to bring familiesback to safety. The First Baptist church behind me, you can see the church va geinbout 5 feet of water. Fortunately we have somegood least one to. Left mydog on suny. Therwawatoget the dog. Epter then moments bowa he excited. Anthe guys fm the ....
This is one of the devices used to gauge the water levels and information from this combined with computer models indicated to officials the water would princeville levee. Even so, others are worried and want to get home to what they left behind. They told us mandatory evacuation, we got what we could and left on sunday. Reporter today the tar river didnt reach the levels it did after hurricane floyd in 1999, a storm that brings back a loof sad memories. Go out with what we had on our back. And we came back, everything was just gone. It was devastating. Reporter tonight county Officials Say the river will not overtop this dyke at 37 feet. That is the point where princeville would flood. How relieved do you feel at this point . Very relieved and very hopeful. Reporter as the river continues to roll, re evacuees. The good thing is were out. Material things can be replaced. We are thankful we were able to get out, not knowing whats go ....
And im stefan chase. Several School Systems in our viewing area remain closed again today because of the impact from Hurricane Matthew. Cumberland, halifax, harnett, moore, nash, rocky mount all closed today. And lee county is on a onehour delay. We have more School Closings on our website wncn. Com. For right now lets go straight to Storm Team MeteorologistAlyssa Corfont. Good morning to you at mentioned are still under Flood Warnings as we progress throughout this morning. Flooded roads and rivers continue, full creeks and streams, even clogged storm drains. We have a number of road closured because of high water and storm damage from this ....