chillier boon, 33. 42 ashville. 59 willmington, the cloud cover this morning, a little bit of rain, that was it. let's expand the view. the feature is a weak cool front. it's moving through the ohio valley. washing out before it arrives. high pressure tomorrow and friday, tomorrow and friday maybe a little cooler than what we had today. there is nice warming off to the west. the weekend with mid-60s on saturday maybe upper 60s on sunday. just a moment ago, i showed you the rain west, that is certainly approaching our area, we will see what it will do on future cast over the coming days. over the next couple of days, should be quiet. tomorrow morning expect to wake up to temperatures in the lower to mid 30s, sunshine at lunchtime tomorrow. we expect temperatures to be in the 40s, on on the drive home, things look okay. cool with sunshine. friday nice as well. lows in the 20s to 30s in the morning. in the afternoon low 50s. watch to the south and west, the upper level winds are changing the orientation, we will see moisture build to the south and west, saturday and sunday, that should star

years old, found her mom and ran to ask nearby construction worker for the grandmother who lived in willmington. defense attorneys say smith was manipulated by his codefendant, ronald anthony and anthony committed the murder. anthony pleaded guilty and serving a life sentence. smith could get the death penalty. >>> a prayer individual toil bring attention to unsolved murder in durham, orie was found shot in the head along concord or december 1st. the crime was not random. so far, no arrests. pastors of three local churches will hold a vigil at 6:00 tonight at the scene of the crime. >>> round for annual charter school report. >> comes after the lieutenant governor asked for a revision, he said it was too negative and needed to be worked on. tara lynn joins us. >> reporter: this report went to the state oh board of education, a month ago, the some more highlights to be included to make it positive in terms of the reflection on charter schools, today the board will have a chance to review the newly released and revised report. staff added data to the report, some facts are not changing. chatter s

there are the warmer temperatures down east towards the coast, willmington and hatteras, areas west may get stuck in the weather tomorrow. here is our satellite and radar picture, back in time 8 hours, the action is heres see the big spin in the atmosphere, low pressure resides in the upper atmosphere. the warm front, other fronts throughout the south. area of low pressure forming. this will intensify and travel to the north and east through the night. all this warm air, you see and the warm front will overspread the area where the weather is severe across mississippi and louisiana. with tornados being reported on the ground. hattiesburg, about here, the big red boxes that pop up, those are the watches in effect. maybe a new one issued for southern alabama shortly. all the highlighted counties are tornado warnings, and some of the reflecttivity values on the radar, the velocity values, look impressives tornados are likely on the ground. these are the reports of tornados touching down, praie , wehod yoe de e gethe, sithe rp had tornado touching down. 8 reports of tornados touching down.

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60 now, that's the highest we have seen so far. 64 fayetteville, 54 greensboro. 69 columbia. 59 willmington, a lot of us saw clouds, during the afternoon, tended to see clearing. our front from yesterday is now down to the south. we are in a different air mass. the mess off to the west severe weather from tennessee down in to mississippi, take a look at the watches that are in effect. the boxes are tornado watches and those highlighted counties, in pink, purple, pink are tornado warnings , the other ones severe thunderstorm warnings. a tornado touching down near newton, mississippi. large hail and tornados, the orange areas where the highest risk is, enhanced, and the system advances to the east tomorrow, marginal risk for severe weather, including damaging winds, isolated brief to keep your eyes and ears on the weather tomorrow. weather call will inform you, too, if there are warnings in your neighborhood. clouds as we start your morning, lack of rainfall, breezy and mild and 53. windy, 70 the high, the front goes by, we don't clear out the moisture behind the front. clouds and a chance fo

we got temperatures town by town, 28 hillsborough, 31 holly springs, 27 henderson, willmington 30, 38 night dale, 28 smithfield as well. at the bus stop today, don't have to worry about precipitation, seeing a mission of sun and high clouds, 29 degrees or so, upper 20s to around 30 to start the day. looks like on the way home this afternoon, our temperatures a little on the short side of normal, well within the normal range, we are looking for highs in the low 50s, should see sunshine, couple of streaky high clouds in places. area are warning residents of scammers posing as irs or u.s. treasury investigators. they say there is a 400% jump in report of phishing emails in the fist six weeks compared to the last year at the same time, the same period, the scammers are trying to confuse and trick taxpayers in to thinking the irs is trying to contact them. remember, the irs does not anybodyuate contact through an email, a text or a phone call. if you are contacted, don't share any of your personal information. >>> airlines get a fourth of their revenue from charging additional fees. for ba

morrisville, apex, holly springs, we head south, it's aiming for fayetteville, expect to see that and willmington, 15 or 20 minutes. keep it here, we will be following this, some strong gusty winds, a wind gust ahead of this to 42, 43 miles per hour. this band has a history of producing 47 miles per hour winds. we had gusts like that with this band. we may have small limbs down, that sort of thing. 40-45 miles per hour gusts possibly. trees down, sips it's been wet lately. another look at the radar, see this band pushing in to the areas everybody is seeing rain at the moment. 59 degrees our temperatures are running more than 30 degrees warmer than this time yesterday. wind is southeast, 22 miles per hour. gusting up to 30, 35, dew point 55, lots of moisture in the atmosphere. 50 roxboro, notice it's 39 greensboro, 51 asheboro. earlier talking about how quickly the temperatures are warming up, greg fishel found within a 2-mile stretch, the temperature went from 50-32 as he traveled westward, just amazing. the warm temperatures are here. they will stay here for the remainder of the day. 34 degrees

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