five miles south. 4:it moved up to grantville county. the weather service will be up there determining if it was one tornado that did all that we've seen a lot of pictures. plenty of sunshine for the first part of the day. the flags are really whipping around. we have that wind advisory in effect until 2:00 this afternoon. here's a look at some of the wind gusts. 29 at rocky mount. those are some of the higher ones i've seen. we may gust up to 45 or 50 this afternoon. after mid-day, we should start to see that ease up a little bit. the winds will be dying down. it looks like we have quiet weather into the weekend. we'll talk about that more in a few minutes. >>> thank you very much. this just coming into us. national weather service confirming that the tornado struck grantville county. >> julia is on the phone right now with a look at the damage what she sees there. >> reporter: we're actually on the phone because we've been experiencing some heavy winds up here. we didn't feel comfortable going live. that being said, this is a hub of ac

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here around wake county to durham county to the north through grantville, vance, franklin county where you are seeing the green those are wet roads. towards chapel hill and chatham and lee counties. take your time. >>> we continue our team coverage of the threat of severe weather. emma wright is live in our mobile news tracker keeping an eye on the conditions. >>reporter: like alyssa said we morning. we were on four 4540 -- 440, 540 . we are passing through apex you can see on both sides of the screen there is fog. the only have a couple hundred feet visibility in front of you. it is not too much of a problem just yet because there aren't too many cars on the road that something you have to keep in mind when headed out this morning. to cross into apex it started to rain a bit and hearing drops hit the windshield. not real heavy yet we have seen showers on and off as he came over here this way from raleigh. . in the few minutes we had been driving it has gotten heavier as we have driven further into apex. water ponding on the road left over from the rain last night. he wanted to take it