confined to a relatively narrow swath. take a look at the swath. you can see within it that the destruction was extensive. there are folks who are being paid to help clean up and then there are folks who just want to help. >> relatives jumped in and friends and neighbors -- just everybody willing. [ indiscernible ] it is just a good feeling. >> his 81-year-old mother survived the tornados wrath. she barricaded herself in the bathroom of this home. now folks from everywhere are offering to help. her other son said that makes things a lot easier. >> knowing you are not alone. knowing you have support and -- you don't even have to ask for the help. they are just here.

storm. a couple of local brothers showed up offering to help. news. i decided to come drop by and see if you wanted help. >> why do you want to open your heart like this in. >> just to help somebody out. feel bad everything happened. >> meanwhile state officials spent time here doing damage assessments. >> with no injuries and a very narrow swath a tornado took through here our assessment won't take too long. cal u.k. late -- calculating the figures probably will. >> back to you. >> wow. so much destruction but everybody coming together. >> yeah. it is great.

it is rocking side to side. >> we all know how big one of those are. the columns supporting it snapped. fortunately no one was injured. >> residents reported multiple trees down yesterday and power out ajs -- outages but the most unusual situation happened here at the gas station. >> it was a nerve wracking day yesterday. thank god we made it through it. >> take a look at what people near this gas station experienced yesterday. this video provided by the gas station manager shows a canopy above the gas pumps rocking side to side. a base column that supports the canopy snapped.

quickly. they closed the gas pumps off and roped the area off. it was taken care of quickly. >> today the gas station was closed. there were no injuries. emergency management also received reports of more than trees down throughout the area. in addition there was damage to a mobile home and out building all clear now. >> back out here live everything is back to normal. the gas station reopened about an hour or so ago. as you see the canopy is now gone but the manager of the gas station tells us they hope to have it back within the next month or so were no injuries. that is the latest here. back to you. >> the national weather service was also out in northern durham today surveying storm damage. we spoke with one neighbor who said when she looked outside

car or tree on her car. >> i just heard all this commotion and banging. i heard falling and -- i heard a crack. >> what you are looking at there is the aftermath. crews say it will take about an a week and a half to clean all that up. >> winds destroy about 15 homes here. look at this. the storm ripped off roofs and toppled trees. over 20,000 people in western north carolina remain without power tonight. those high winds toppled plenty of trees in our area as well >> that is right. it turned out to be a busy day for a tree removal company. >> it is the sound that is all too familiar on the day after a storm. the sight isn't something that happened everyday. trees flying over the top of house.

there is going to be winds in excess of 25 miles an hour, we are on standby. >> tim owns harbor max tree service. on days like this he knows it will be busy. >> from last night when the first band starting moving through to -- right now the phones haven't stopped ringing. raleigh. in this case an already scheduled visit. scott anderson has had three trees come down in his backyard including one during weather last week. >> we were delayed a couple of days because of the rain. yesterday made me nervous with all the rain. >> late in the day it is onto chapel hill. it put a hole in the roof by the attic but everyone inside was okay. >> the eye storm weakened a bunch of trees. as a result the wind came in and

>> he said the company received about 70 calls just today alone. those calls came from right here in chapel hill. also durham, raleigh and to the south in johnstown county. back to you. >> wow. what a difference a day makes. yesterday's rough weather -- well it gave way to sun sign the day. what you are looking at is a peaceful evening. for the latest on the forecast let's send over tos we. >> so 70s with storms yesterday. sunshine, wind and mid to low 50s today. many of us have started to creep down into the 40s. it will be chilly out there. the good news is the winds will event little calm down. look how much colder it is now compared to yesterday. it is 22 degrees colder now in goldsboro. 16 degrees colder in raleigh. 21 degrees colder right now in roxboro than it was last night at 7:00. as you can imagine it will be a colder morning tomorrow.

wind gusts have come down a bit but still above 20 miles per hour in many spots in central north carolina. 45 at 8:00. 40 overnight. friday morning 33 with a windchill of 29. numbers go down even more this weekend. we will talk about that in a bit. breaking news right now in wade county troopers are investigating a deadly crash on mitchel mill road. authorities say a car pulled out in front of another vehicle. one person died. three others were hurt. no word yet on their identities. this time in kansas. they are on the skeeven -- scene of an active shooter situation. our sister station reports of at least two people are dead and several others injured.

a johnstown county woman faces reckless driving charges following a crash that hurt four cyclists over the weekend. troopers say she struck them when she tried to pass them. a judge gave her a $2,000 bond. the crash happened saturday afternoon. two of the victims remain in the hospital tonight. a husband and wife face charges in connection with a bank robbery in apex. it happened yesterday. police arrested aaron wagoner inside the bank and following an investigate arrested his wife hannah later. investigators went door to door today searching for answers in the drive-by shooting of grandmother. back on february 12th someone fired into a home hitting dorothy in the legs. her injuries were so bad that doctors had to am but -- am but tate one of her legs. >> we want the suspects.

community -- appeal to anyone who might have information in this crime. if you have any information please call crime stoppers. human trafficking may seem like something that only happens oversea but local organizations say it is happening in our backyard. we spoke what former victim and here is her story. >> it is has taken sometime but she said 12 years later he is finally able to tell her story. >> i was forced to do unthinkable things. >> when she was 17 she turned to a 40-year-old man for attention. that man drugged her and force her to perform sex acts on camera. at the time she had no idea she was caught up in the world of human trafficking. >> it is a violent issue. >> she said her story is more prevalent than many would think. the large highway system in

easy access to traffic human victims. that is why the north carolina governor's crime commission is making ate priority this year to prevent human trafficking. >> i don't think people know the depths of human trafficking. i think the commission is extremely important to start to shine a light on the impact it has on north carolina communities. >> students are also trying to shine light on the issue. >> it affects people in your own community. it is not just third world countries. [ indiscernible ] >> we really want to come together and raise our voice and create awareness that leads to actions so we can put a day to modern day slavery. >> it is important we start talking about it. >> a change she says is crucial in order to reverse a frightening trend in our state. back to you. >> so powerful to hear her story.

apple's fight against the fbi is taking a new turn. >> next at 6:00 the actions the giant tech took today and how federal investigators are responding.

well long gone are the 70s we had yesterday. temperatures today in the 50s

dip into the 40s tonight.

i will tell you when happening right now cary town council is voting on a controversial shopping center. >> the site would be called amber lee village. the controversy centers on two issues. there are concerns of higher traffic in the area. look for updates tonight at 11:00. tonight apple asked a federal judge to throw out the federal order to unlock the iphone. the fbi is not backing down. today the director made his case to congress. investigators want to get into farook's phone look for other

apple is refusing saying it will open a dangerous precedent of the government violating your privacy. >> part of me thinks that is great. then i step back and say law enforcement really does save people's lives. >> some in congress back a new law requiring called back doors into senator phone security. apple is reportedly working on a new opinion right system that could never be unlocked. jackson is a junior at hillside high school. listen to this, he had his left leg amputated above his knee just before his 1st birthday. >> jackson is just like any other athlete for the most part. >> jackson was an athlete in search of a sport. baseball, basketball, soccer, even horse back riding. jackson tried them all. >> track was one of the less

>> i say he found his sport. down. athletes during the regular season. at the state track meet he has to run alone. >> i am at peace with it. it helps my team so -- because of that it -- no problem for me. >> these are the medals i won on saturday at the state championship meet. >> still he would rather compete. >> he does everything he is suppose to as a regular kid. i believe eshould be able -- he should be able to run with the regular kids. >> he will soon be running against other amputees.

>> pan am games in canada and he played third against grown men. >> well right now i am number one in t 100 meter in the united states. i would think my chances are pretty high. >> if jackson does making the u.s. squad, he will be one of the youngest members on the team. >> i am just humbled to be at the position that i am today. hopefully i keep getting better. >> and next year when he shows up to the state championships again, he just might head to the starting blocks with a medal around his neck. back to you. >> good for him. awesome. i love that story. jackson's training is going very well. he recently cut his 100 meter time from 13.4 seconds to 12.7 in less than a month and a half of training. a power storm system that came through our area yesterday

an ef-2 tornado ripped apart barns and damaged at least 50 buildings. in virginia high winds also brought down branchs and left thousands without power. >> our tram to trampoline is wrapped around our telephone pole. >> those wind gusts also knocked over a tractor trailer and brought traffic to a standstill in new york city. and we have quite the mess to clean up in a lot of our areas around here. >> we now have a total of three confirmed tornados in our area. we knew about the one in granville and vance county. the confirmed. a weak ef-1 tornado in northern durham. of course there is one in wayne county. that is three in our area. two on the coast. a total of five in february.

we have video of in henderson yesterday during the aughter --. there were some 21 tornado warnings issued. [ indiscernible ] on the ground. we had 21 warnings yesterday and throughout all of 2015 we only have five warnings issued. an amazing day yesterday. tonight it is chilly. it is still a little breezy. 48 degrees if you are getting ready to step outside. not as breezy as it was earlier though. here are some of the top wind gusts we have seen in the past 24 hours. 62 miles an hour in fort bragg. wayne county 51 miles an hour. up in oxford and in lieu ice louis --

it is currently 48 here inair to our north, with winds coming out of the north that cold air will get sucked into north carolina and you will feel it tomorrow morning. it will stay breezy tonight as we slowly drop through the 40s. going hour by hour you can see we are down 45 at 8:00. 42 at 10:00. no rain for the next couple of days. eventually clearing out. tomorrow morning 33 will feel like 29 degrees. at least it is friday, right? so two big things we are watctcng on the weather map. one is the area of low pressure way up to the northeast. that is the one that is connected to the cold front. yesterday. remember circulation around low pressure is counter clockwise. that is grabbing that cold air and pulling it down here. it is disagreeing with the opposite area of pressure. when those two get together, if

usually not pretty. as low pressure moves away and high pressure moves in things will eventually calm them. at it's coldest the next several days will be saturday morning when we start off in the 20s. >> from there, we warmup as we look at the temperature contours. 60s by next monday. i will stay mild in the 60s on tuesday as well. i want you to look way up here to the northwest. watch as we go toward the first couple of days of march, how another blast of cold air comes in. while it may warmup into the 60s early next week -- it is going to get cold again. tomorrow it will be chilly but sunny and not as breezy. a high of 50 here in the triangle. 52 down in fayetteville. 51 saturday. then we are up to 60 on the nose sunday. 66 on monday. the last day of february, leap

62 degrees. we stay in the 60s by next wednesday. march is almost here. spring will be here and before you know it we will be complaining about it's too hot. >> but not this week. after what we had yesterday we

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out a gender gap in one of the most advanced and technical fields out there? >> that is a great question. that is what n.c. state has been working on. today is national introduce a girl to engineering day. this year she is proud to say their freshman engineering class is 26% women. >> there has been a lot of support and a lot of comradery. >> she said next year they hope to have a third of their engineering freshmen class

>> two day ago we had highs in the 40s with rain. yesterday was stormed with 70s. today it was cold and wind with 50s. we barely make it to 50 tomorrow.

monday.

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