WRAL Newscasts
4:30AM News on WRAL - Friday, July 5, 2024
[MUSIC PLAYING] Now breaking news from WRAL, coverage you can count on. And that breaking news this morning? One person is shot here in Durham on Glenbrook Avenue. Coming up, I'm going to show you all the evidence markers behind me. Also, more breaking news for you. About 1,800 people in Durham are without power after crash took down power lines. We'll show you the extent of the damage. And if you thought yesterday was hot, we are only getting hotter today, excessive heat warnings out across the area. We're going to break down just how high those fields like temperatures could go coming up. Hurricane barrel regained strength overnight. Now setting its aim on the Yucatan Peninsula. When and where forecasters think, it will have impacts here in the US. A lot to tell you about here on this Friday. We hope you had a wonderful 4th of July. We're glad you're with us. I'm Renee Chu. And I'm Jeff Hoege. Great to have you along here Friday. You know yesterday kind of felt with a holiday. It almost felt like a Friday. But here we are on the 5th and a Friday. And Anthony Baglione in the WRA weather center. Turning up the heat. Yeah, it's going to get even hotter for us, guys. Yesterday, we tied a record across the area. 101 is what we set for a high temperature. Here's a look this morning at some new alerts that we have, an excessive heat warning. We've not seen this yet this year in that purple color contour. What that's saying is we could see feels like values up to about 110 degrees here across Raleigh. Durham, most of our viewing, or at least the central parts of our viewing area. Heat advisories outlined there in the orange, no matter where you are at. Plan for values feeling like 105 plus today. Where we currently sit across the area, temperatures are in the 70s. So it's manageable close to 80 though in Raleigh. 77 Rocky Mount. It's a muggy for us. And there's a look at those hour by hour feels like temps today. If you're out and about at all, 108 at 3 o'clock, 108 at 4, that's going to be the peak heating of the day, even into this evening. We're going to see values close to 100. So just please take that heat very seriously. We go through the day. There may be a spotty shower. We're storm to help cool us off. Not a lot though. You can see on Futurecast by about lunchtime. We're still quiet. We'll watch that potential here later on this afternoon. We do have much better rain chances, though, guys, on the way. We're going to talk about when those arrive here in just a few. Anthony, thanks. Breaking news, a person is in the hospital after an early morning shooting. This happened around 1 AM in a neighborhood on Glenbrook Drive. Nick Perlin joins us now, live from the scene in the W-O-R-E-L Breaking News Tracker. And Nick, you notice there are a lot of evidence markers there on the ground. Renee, it's very jarring how many of evidence markers there are actually. And I'm going to get behind the camera just so I can show you just how many. And as I zoom in here, you're going to see dozens of evidence markers all throughout Glenbrook here, and you can also see some detectives over there shining some flashlights on some of those evidence markers. I can tell you, I counted up to 65 evidence markers on a Glenbrook Drive. We do know one person was shot and taken to the hospital. Like Renee was saying, we're still working to get an update on that person's condition. And we're also trying to learn from Durham Police if they know who fired that gun early this morning. I'll stay on top of this one all morning. Live in Durham, Nick Pearl in WRL News. Well, some Chris Lovinggood here in the WRL Live Center with a breaking update. There was some sort of vehicle rollover crash that happened in Durham. And that resulted in 1,800 plus people being without power because power lines were brought down here. This is the Duke Energy Outage Map, where you can see in Durham right there. I'll hit that little button. And you'll see toward the left part of the screen where it reads 1,862 customers without power. This crash happened at Washington in making streets just after two this morning. I think we may have some video that we can play from the scene here. Morgan, do you see that in there? Are we able to play that? Looks like. OK, maybe not there. Well, in any case, Duke Energy's Map again shows this outage happened around 4.45 this morning, at least for a restoration time. No word just yet or more specifics with this. But WRL will stay with this story to try to get you some more information in terms of what led to that car crash even happening. The WRL breaking news tracker was also on the scene of this house fire early this morning. It happened on Wensley Court, right near Lewisburg Road in US 1 in Raleigh, just after 1 30 this morning. Raleigh Police and fire crews responded. We're working to learn if anyone was hurt or if they will be displaced after that fire. Crowds of people gathered at Raleigh's Dix Park did not get the fireworks show they imagined went a rain delay last night, created mass confusion. W Orioles Kelsey Coffee joins us now live from Dix Park this morning. And Kelsey organizers say rain and technical difficulties were to blame. Renee, this morning we're reaching out to city leaders to get to the bottom of what happened with all of that confusion, a huge crowd. Left this part of Dix Park yesterday after that major mix up. And right now you're looking at video of when those crowds were leaving in that mass exodus. Heavy rain moved through the area just before 9 30. That's when some people thought the park was being evacuated and left, creating a major traffic jam. Now, despite that rain, the show did go on, but only for a few minutes. The city later released a statement saying the show was cut short due to technical difficulties. Earlier, the city created a sign up link for text alerts about the show. We checked in on that. They did not send any notifications about the weather or delays and they also did not offer any updates on social media. The city did say that the show would not be rescheduled. Kelsey Coffee, WREO News, live in Raleigh. This morning Hurricane barrel has strengthened back into a category three storm. It is headed for what could be a direct hit on Mexico's Caribbean coast. The resort there of Tulum south of Cancun. Landfall is expected sometime this morning. Authorities there are urging people to get to higher ground. The hurricane is already blamed in nine deaths in Venezuela, Jamaica, Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. After barrel hit the Yucatan Peninsula this morning, it could hit southern Texas or northern Mexico. The storm also could make it dangerous for vacationers in states along the Gulf of Mexico. - Here in our area, we have an excessive heat warning for today and cooling centers are open all across our area. Wake counties are open starting this morning through next Monday. They include public libraries and regional health and human services centers. In Durham, one is open at the Durham rescue mission until the weather cools down a bit. Cumberland counties are open at parks and rec centers with even more opening up today. - A barricade situation with a man with a gun was taken into custody in Raleigh on Live Oak Road. Police were first called to that home around 4.15 yesterday afternoon. This is video from the WRL breaking news tracker. The man was barricaded inside for more than an hour and was taken into custody without incident and no one was hurt. - Law enforcement is increasing patrols to keep you and your family safe all weekend. WRL joined the Nash County Sheriff's Office as they conducted a checkpoint for drivers on 64, one of the busiest highways in our state. It's part of an operation called arrive alive on July 5th. Nash County Sheriff Keith Stone says while driving under the influence is one of the biggest issues, so is road rage. He urges everyone to use caution on the roads. - President Biden is looking to calm the concerns of his party as he sits down for his first televised interview since last week's debate. The next few days of his campaign are critical after last week's disastrous debate performance. NBC News has learned the president is privately torn between defiance and acceptance amid calls to step aside according to four people familiar with that matter. The president acknowledged his performance in a radio interview that aired yesterday. - That's screwed up, I made a mistake. That's 90 minutes on stage. Look at what I've done in 3.5 year. We're gonna win this election. We're gonna just beat Donald Trump like we did in 2020. - President is contradicting his own press secretary. He says he had a brief checkup with a doctor a few days after the debate and was fine. Press Secretary Corinne Jean-Pierre said Wednesday that he was not checked by a doctor. - The town of Apex confirms a ransomware attack is behind the problem with their computer system. In the statement, the town said, quote, nothing more about the cyber criminals is known at this time, including their demand. The town of Apex has not and will not communicate with, negotiate with nor make payment to those responsible. This all started Wednesday. The town of Apex says cyber criminals hacked its system forcing them to take everything offline. And they can't contact the state cyber security task force to sort it out. - Raleigh police have arrested a man accused of stabbing and killing a man last month. Ernesto Torres, Torres is accused of stabbing. 32 year old Aaron Heath on June 20th. Heath later died at a hospital. Heath's father tells W.R.Y.L. he was happy to learn of the arrest and it was the first time he saw his wife smile since that stabbing. - This morning a 14 year old is still missing after disappearing in the waters off North Topsel Beach. Crews from surrounding areas help search the new river inlet for the teen yesterday. Two other people were also pulled from the ocean in North Topsel yesterday. Just south of there, crews are investigating a possible drowning in Curry Beach. It happened near the pier. - It was a scary fourth of July for people at a Texas beach after a shark attacks four different people. The fish was caught on camera as well. We'll tell you about the victim's injuries. - And FAFSA delays are causing some future college students to stress as the start of fall semester for colleges is weeks away. - And we take you out to the live look right now at the D-Bab fireworks last night with their game. It's gonna be a hot weekend with several chances for rain meteorologist Anthony back then and we'll join us after the break to time it all out for us. (dramatic music) - From the W.R.Y.L. Severe Weather Center, North Carolina's most experienced team of meteorologists. - Welcome back on this Friday. It is 443 here. Hopefully you had a great July 4th holiday - Let's talk about what we're looking at as we go through today because we do have a couple of rain chances on the way that are really gonna help to kind of mitigate some of our drought conditions across the area. Here's future cast for today. Number one, you can see we're starting off dry. We don't really have any issues through the majority of our forecast, aside from the heat. Please take that in mind today. It's gonna be very, very hot once again. We get into this afternoon and you notice it's still pretty quiet but there are some bubble up storms that could get going closer to this evening. Let's say after about six o'clock if you have any plans tonight, that may be a factor. A lot of that may stay north of the triangle. We get into tomorrow though, very similar story. Only better coverage tomorrow, afternoon and evening. - Firefighters in California are dealing with stifling heat as they try to put out this wildfire. The Thompson fire has now burned more than 3,500 acres. Those crews have finally been able to get a foothold after a day of favorable winds. Now they're facing that extreme heat. - Fire officials say at least four first responders were injured. The flames have also torn through several buildings. - A key donor to the Democratic Party is withholding donations until President Biden drops out of the presidential race. Abigail Disney, the granddaughter of Disney's co-founder, says she will no longer donate. In a statement to CNBC, Disney said in part, "If Biden does not step down, the Democrats will lose." Of that, I'm absolutely certain. The president has said he has no plans to withdraw from the race. Meanwhile, anonymous sources tell CNBC Vice President Kamala Harris' past donors are privately discussing what her candidacy would look like if Biden dropped out. - The U.S. Coast Guard in Texas is warning people not to go into the water after there were several shark attacks. One person was taken to the hospital with severe injuries. Others were injured in separate attacks as well. - The severity of those attacks isn't known just yet. The Coast Guard deployed drones, boats, and helicopters to monitor the waters. - We are weeks away from the start of the fall semester for many colleges. Some students still don't know if they'll be able to afford to go. That's because of delays with the new free application for federal student aid or FAFSA letters. The FAFSA's remodel was supposed to make the application process easier and faster to the application easier and faster to fill out. It made the application process easier for some but created glitches and crashes for others. Now, many students still don't know how much federal student aid they'll get, if any. And that's not normal for July. - So what would happen is we would give a student their admissions decision and then within two weeks be able to deliver a financial aid package. Which is really helpful because then they would have anywhere from two to three months to be able to work towards that May 1st deadline of when the National candidate reply date is. - Instead, weeks out from the fall semester admissions staff are struggling and parents are concerned. - The FBI is investigating a deadly shooting at Yellowstone National Park. According to a statement from the park, Rangers responded to Canyon Village overnight Thursday about an armed person making threats. When Rangers confronted that person, shots were fired. The armed person was killed and a Ranger was injured. No names have been released. Special agents from the National Park Service are helping with this investigation. - One person is dead and at least 10 are hurt after a boat crashed in Long Beach, California. The local fire department says it happened late Wednesday night. All 10 people who were hurt were taken to hospitals. Lifeguards and firefighters who were assisting with a water rescue said the boat crashed into a jetty. The cause of the crash is still under investigation. Fire officials say speed was likely a factor. - Governor Roy Cooper passed a series of bills this week and one of them introduces digital driver licenses for our state. DMV Commissioner Wayne Goodwin says the digital licenses would be more secure than the laminated ones. People can decide whether or not they want one. It wouldn't be forced upon anybody. The option will be available around this time next year. 447 is the time right now. Anthony Baglione and the WRO Civil Weather Center. We had some of those showers passing through last night. Gone now. - Yeah, we're starting off dry here this morning. We're gonna see a couple big stories for us as we head into the weekend. One of course is the heat that's been with us the past couple days and really gonna be continuing. And then a couple more storm chances that we really could use, which we'll talk about here in just a second. Let's go over though, kind of the heat alerts across this part of the country because it's incredible to see how many of these and how consistently they've been put out here the past little while. We see all of that orange right there. Those are heat advisories. What that's saying is it's one step below an excessive heat warning where we're seeing fields like values here in the orange showing up probably up to about 105 to 109 where it gets a little bit worse if the heat is up to about 110. Raleigh, most of the triangle right there, we have an excessive heat warning in place. No matter the designation, just make sure to keep all of the areas today in mind where we're expecting all of that heat. We start off this morning. Temperatures are currently in the upper 70s where it's 77 Rocky Mountain 73 in South Hill. We're going to continue to climb those temps here as far as the fields like values up into about 109 this afternoon. It still is going to be pretty hot here even this evening. 101 at seven o'clock. You notice some of those thunderstorm icons though coming in. Most of our day is totally dry but we get closer to this evening. Kind of like what we saw yesterday where we get the daytime heating. Some of those storms start to bubble on up and that will be a potential for us today. Here's lunchtime. We're still looking good to go. Just a nice mix of sun and clouds but that will be a very hot mix of sun and clouds today. We get closer to seven o'clock. You see some bubble up storms. There's one near Fayetteville. We get there's nine o'clock. You can see still relatively quiet but some of those that you see there on Futurecast could get closer as we head through tonight into tomorrow morning. Keep in mind too, we saw many, many rip current threat rescues yesterday or many rip current rescues. We have high rip currents along most of our coast today. So if you see the red flags flying and just in general, it is not going to be a good day to go in the water despite the fact with how warm it's going to be out there. Hurricane Beryl here in the tropics, it's starting to approach Kazumil, Mexico, right there, Cancun on the top of your screen. 110 mile prior wins. We expect a landfall with this system at any time here this morning and then it will push back out into the Gulf of Mexico and get closer to Mexico once again as we head into next week. And 102 for us today. Very, very hot. Keep the heat in mind 97 tomorrow. Milder though on Sunday at 89. Scattered storm chances though guys do stick with us here through really the next seven days. - Anthony, thanks. Congratulations are in order for Vanessa Hudgens and her husband. They are now a family of three. We'll tell you about the birth of the couple's first child. - We'll also take a look at the most recent explosion at the world's most active volcano. (upbeat music) - Christmas is coming in July. It's a great month to save on just about everything from a new mattress to large appliances even back to school gear. 500 Sides, Kelly Arthur has consumer reports best buys for July. - We always want folks to hang on to their money and save it. But if you're in the market for some new items, July is actually a great month with sales because of the 4th of July as well as prime deal days later this month. (upbeat music) - July 4th sales have already been going on since late June and you can expect big discounts on things like mattresses, large appliances, and also summer items like grills. - First, this Samsung top freezer refrigerator is as low as $694 at Walmart. CR says this 28 inch fridge is excellent at keeping internal temperatures constant through the fridge. Next, Casper's, the one mattress queen, is now as low as $995. This foam mattress and a box ACR's mattress durability tests and is a great option for back sleep births. And let's take the savings outside with a brand new grill. The Monument Grill's Mesa Grill is as low as $425 at Walmart and mark your calendars for mid-July when the online sales really heat up. - Amazon Prime Day falls on July 16th and 17th this year and what we tend to see are black Friday level prices on pretty much everything that Amazon has to offer, but you do need to be a prime member to shop the sale. - And although it might seem early towards the end of the month, look out for back to school sales. Whether you're looking for new tech devices like a new set of headphones or a laptop or a printer, anything that you're gonna need for the back to school season, you're gonna see discounts this month. - Heli Arthur, five on your side. - Looking for something else? CR says you can expect discounts on dishwashers, washers and dryers, things like that. Also home security cameras, sunscreen, insect repellents, lots of other stuff as well. - Italy's Mount Etna erupted in a fiery glow this week. Lava could be seen cascading down the sides of the mountain after one of its craters erupted for the first time in four years. Etna is one of Europe's most active volcanoes, wow. - Beautiful pictures there. Today a peaceful demonstration is planned as a traveling circus comes to the NC State Fairgrounds. Loomis Brothers Circus is one of the few remaining traveling circus companies still using wild animals. It'll perform at the Hunt Horse Complex today through Sunday. Organizers tell us there will be demonstrations each day this weekend to talk about animal injustice in the circus industry. - Fans of Jaws and Legos have something to be excited about. Legos unveiling its nearly 1,500 piece set based on the 1975 blockbuster Jaws. The set features the main characters from the movie. It also includes the iconic Orca boat, along with of course a great white shark. The new set comes before the movie's 50th anniversary next year. Wow, Jaws is 50 years old. - And we're still gonna need a bigger boat. Actress Vanessa Hudgens and her husband, Major League Baseball player Cole Tucker have welcomed a new baby. The couple was seen leaving a California hospital with their newborn Wednesday. That was also Tucker's 28th birthday. Hudgens first revealed her pregnancy when she attended the Oscars back in March with a baby bump. - The couple tied the knot in December. This is their first child. With breaking news we're following this morning, police are investigating a shooting right now in Durham. This is a live look at that scene. We'll tell you what we know about the person who was shot. - People who went out to Rolly's Dicks Park last night to see fireworks were disappointed and frustrated when the show was cut short. What organizers say went wrong. - Also the United Kingdom has a new prime minister. What is next for Keir Starmer after the labor party's landslide win in the general election? (upbeat music)