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heavy traffic for this time of day. people on their way home from work and school. the rain is slowing you down. be careful. build in a bit more time. also let's look at what is happening on i-40, miami boulevard, rush hour traffic this afternoon, you can see one of those directions there, a couple of lanes are awfully slow, the onramp is backed up. i see flashing lights there. lot of brake lights in the area. if you have to be out, just be careful. no better time to download the latest wral weather app. it uses your phone's gps tracking your location and will aler you if you are in the path of any severe weather. wral weather app available in the i tunes store, and the google play store. the system that's passing through is the same system that spawned a devastating tornado across mississipp and alabama yesterday.
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damage it left behind in collinsville. the weather service confirmed 4 tornados tore across the state. many homes and businesses were damaged. at this time there were no reports of injuries or deaths related to the stms. severe storms to blizzard conditions, the system created this mess across the central plain, iowa and nebraska saw more than a foot of snow, a whiteout in southwestern minnesota prompted a travel ban. you pull in to a gas station and fill your tank and your car stops working. that's what drivers say happened to them ining on county back in december. -- to them ining on county back in december. >> reporter: several drivers came to this gas station and say the gas they got that day left them frustrated and out of hundreds of dollars. the common task of filling up left drivers fed up.
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lane with water in it from this zags on highway 70 -- this station on highway 70 west. >> i started going down the road and my car stopped going. >> reporter: this is her mechanic bill, noted found water in fuel, the repair cost her $550. she like the other drivers had to pay for repairs up front. now they want to know who will pay them back. >> we are not able to get basic information as to when we are going to be reimbursed. >> reporter: carl who paid over $800 in repairs recorded a conversation with the gas station representative, where
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krispy kreme store is drawing in fans with a new design tings perfect panthers colors lt theys be et cetera to go through 9 gallons of blue icing through super bowl weekend. that's enough iceing to cover 300 dozen doughnuts. >> the tarheel traveler has been out shopping and he only had to visit one store. >> scott mason takes us to the little cross roads called gulf. to a well popular country
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>> reporter: groceries, feeds, hardware, clothing, shoes, here in chatham county is jr moore and son, a country store with a little bit of everything. >> we got it all. >> reporter: they got pants, they still called dun garies. >> reporter: and boots. hoochies and home made ma lassous -- mo lassous. >> they would swap it with hams and shoulders barter trade. >> reporter: make room for grandma's lye soap and willma's
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milk gravy. >> it's rather unique. >> reporter: a calendar to keep track of days. >> at my age you have to have all the help you can get. >> reporter: i bet people come for the atmosphere. >> they do. >> they come from all over, raleigh, chapel hill, carthage. >> reporter: they have been coming to gulf a long time. >> the old people called it the gulf. >> reporter: like the gulf coast. >> coal mines at one time. >> reporter: three busy stores right here. >> this is the only one left. >> why have you survived. >> by having what folks wanted. >> reporter: hardware and cooking supplies and knifes and belts and jams anceinfans and pork brains. >> we ship them. >> people like pork brains. >> people love it. people love it. yes. you would think they would call them something other than brains. >> reporter: no false
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everything. >> i have eaten about everything but pork brains is not on my list. sunday. go and check that one out. coming up, our live team coverage of super bowl 50 continues, find out if being located in super bowl city is good for business or bad. you are looking live at super bowl city, up there in san francisco, gerald owens will have a live report. wral news at 6:00 starts right now. . we have been monitoring storms as they moved across the viewing area. now on wral, who is seeing the worst of it at this hour and
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rain is gone. >> a threat of severe her passed in raleigh, icking is liveat drive 5 patrolling the roads. evs ght we see more rain the evening commute. greg fishel is here to tell us how long the rain will stick around. >> persistent for several hours. perhaps lasting in to the wee hours of the morning and some of us get a break before it comes back again. we will talk about that in the regular weather segment. there is nothing to pin detail in on here, it's a big blob of rain right now with the threat of severe weather, pretty much over i would say if you are around clinton or keenansville, a chance you could see severe thunderstorm activity, there is just no recent history of that anything that bad. the activity is not moveing
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