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our four chock moves on -- our 4:00 news moves to wral. >> it happens a week prosecute tonight. a tribal company helping. coming up, what they are doing to track and hopefully stop the mosquito-borne zika virus. encouraging news about a victim in the hospital. it is a cool and clammy and miserable night out there.
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two family members are still in the hospital and a third was treated and released. they are still trying to figure out why the helicopter crashed. the company that made the rifle used in the sandy hook shootings are asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit. the parent company for bush master firearms, the company says it is protected boy a federal law that shields gun manufactures from most lawsuits over the use of their products. the judge used the arguments today. the families say they are suing under an exception to the law. >> jury selection continues tomorrow in the trial of charles sane of the man is accused of the shooting at power police officers from his home with his wife and two young children this. his lawyers plan to use the sleeping drug defense. they say he use today and did not know what he was doing at the time of shooting. one of two bicyclists hit
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one is still in critical. 50-year-old person hit four cyclists on saturday. charges are pending against the driver. the upon troopers do not believe alcohol or speed were factors. >> in durham, a grass-roots effort to keep cyclists safe. proposing something called bicycle boulevards. cyclists would have priorities over drivers in those areas, the design is rarely seen on the east coast. drivers diverted off of the roads every few blocks making the streets calmer for cyclists. the bicycle boulevard group says it will help less experienced cyclists feel more comfortable. >> per for me it is a matter of access. my son turns 10 next month and the network that we have currently does not serve kids. bike lanes are something for confident riders, they are great. we need those in durham as well. but the whole network needs to be a combination of green ways, bike lanes and bike boulevards.
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would be used to accomplish these boulevards. one member calls it a low-cost solution to bike safety. >> state health workers are looking at a possible etof more mumps cases. they received 9 new reports of patients. not including the three cases confirmed by the department of health and human services. health workers say their next update on the numbers is thursday. a tribal company is at the forefront of the fight against the mosquito-borne zika virus. it is getting the data collection technology. to track the spread of zika. they are working to bring together a ground breaking health agency, cdc, heth orgaond ccin kers. the goal, to pool data and use the shared information to
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future outbreaks and speedup the vaccine process. >> what we are talking about is perhaps bringing all of the knowledge together in a central place. i would envision a feature where the next big out break we would have this structure in place. >> so far more than 80 travel- related cases are confirmed in the u.s. the cdc predicts the cases in the hundreds and thousands before this crisis is brought under control. a jeep burst into names on a highway in tennessee. thanks to good samaritans the driver survived. the witnesses say the driver was bumped by another car. the vehicle rolled down the embankment and hit a poll and burst into names. a person was take tone the hospital with nonlife- threatening injuries. the police are looking for the other driver. a twist in this, the police found only one item in the car that was not burned, a bible sitting on the front seat. >> oh, my. fiji's government dechaired
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8 people died in the storm. hundreds of homes destroyed. you can see flooding. the cyclone was a category 5 with winds of 184 miles an hour. the strongest cyclone ever recorded in the southern hemisphere. i am surprised the little houses exist when you look at the hillside there with those winds. >> incredible stuff. of course, we think about the tropical season the farthest thing from our minds right now. but over this the opposite is going on. there you see some of the devastation there. that thing went very close to, i guess the island of fiji recently and then wondered on from there. any ways, thankfully we don't have anything like that to worry about right now. we have a chance of severe weather on wednesday. afternoon night. we will talk about that more in just a hreul bit. let's go ahead and check the radar. a widespread light rain.
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every once in awhile you see the pixels. here is a look at the skycam. 47. down a couple from where we were at 6:00 this evening. the wind out of the east at 10 miles an hour. the dew point temperature, as you might expect, close to the temperature that gives us a 93%. now, really, an awful lot of times the surface weather map is just a reflection of what is going on aloft. it is stronger than anything we earth. so, the surface weather map it is just a reflection of how it is moved around by the very strong forces up there.
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beginning to develop in advance of this and once the system links up with this area of moisture then we are going to start to see the presse small and in the middle of this, it will intensify and move up west of the mountains, now, when that happens the flow around the low pressure is counterclockwise, the low is here, that means we are on the warm side of the fence. we get into the southerly winds and it warms up. that is not a problem. the problem is, it is that if it is warm it makes the atmosphere unstable. if you lift the air just a little bit. upward and grow into big thunderstorms. and, if you have a lot of vertical wind sheer on top of that, the wind changing direction and speed as you go up through the atmosphere then it helps the thunderstorms in rotation process. that could lead to the development of severe thunderstorms and even some cases tornadoes. let's take a look at the 2 ingredients that go into producing the thunderstorms,
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night. wednesday morning, the greatest values are off to the west of us. slowly they creep eastward into our area by early afternoon and 7:00. by 10:00 it is pretty much all out of here. so, from a wind sheer perspective. the environment is positive all day long for strong to severe do we have the instability at let's look. starting at 7:00 on tuesday night. instability. other than our extreme southeastern counties not much on wednesday morning. the temperatures begin to jump upward towards the 70 degree mark then we get a big increase in instability at 1:00. instability. the strong wind sheer together and that is when the threat of severe weather will be maximized probably between 1:00 and 7:00 on wednesday afternoon
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here heading towards the late night. forecast for the rest of the night. plain yucky rain to quote debra, that is her technical term or ikky. okay. tomorrow, it looks like the best chance of measurable rain, in the morning, tapering off. chilly, only about 48. and then a dramatic turn of events oned with. becoming windy and warmer. -- on wednesday. becoming windy and warmer. maybe a few tornadoes wednesday afternoon into the early evening. getting passed that things quiet down nicely. e oppof ics d. es. hank>> shehe pnt
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