it was a typical morning at the pnc bank on arendell avenue in zebulon... chief tim hayworth/zebulon police: the manager of the bank happened to be standing in the lobbying looking out the door. the manager sees a man dressed in all black running across the parking lot wards the door of the bank. chief: the manager grabs the door and enters a little game of tug-of-war... the door opens a little, but the manager holds on. chief tim hayworth/zebulon police: the suspect produces a small black semi-automatic handgun and begins to strike the window and the manager doesn't give up. the suspect does give up. chief: he runs off without ever making it into the bank. bank employees had already alarm button, and police were there in under a minute to find people inside e bank frazzled, but safe. chief: if the suspect had made it into the bank, you never know what's going to happen then. the guy is obviously agitated. he has a gun. it could have been much worse had he made it into the bank. the police chief says there is one man to thank for this... chief: i consider t

overnight a second arrest in the murder of a raleigh cab driver. 27-year-old conrad patterson of zebulon is expected to face a judge today for monday's shooting of jose dominguez. another man 25-year-old major edwards jr. was arrested tuesday. u.n.c. basketball coach roy williams said to be doing fine after collapsing during the game last night in boston. the team said he went down with a case of vertigo and this is coach. and republican donald trump and democrat bernie sanders are the big winners in the new hampshire primary. trump easily outpaced surprising second place finisher john kasich and sanders beat hillary clinton by almost two to one. barbara: there will be heavy hearts at a north carolina elementary school this morning a day after a beloved teacher was hit and killed by a bus. brandon kincaid was a second grade teacher and counselors are provided to students and staff. many witnessed it. his wife was expecting their first child. the case against the soldier held by the taliban five years after he walked off his post in afghanistan hits a snag. bowe bergdahl faces charges of

that is mitchell mill road near zebulon zebulon. it appears the red car crashed several others were hurt. now to an "eyewitness news" exclusive a durham man home this morning nursing a number of wounds. >> he was attacked in a parking garage. he talked to elena athens. >> i'm angry about this. this was a bad experience. reporter: ralph gildehaus has a gash, a cut lip and ear taped. he is nursing the injuries after being verbsly attacked and robbed in the corcoran parking garage. all he can remember is walking into the stairwell yesterday and seeing two men. >> the next thing that i remember is a co-worker was with me holding a wound on my head and the police and emergency responders were there. there was a pool of blood. reporter: a co-worker found him on the ground and called authorities. >> is he awake? >> he is barelily conscious. he is losing blood. should get here quickly. robbed by a 15-year-old who took his wallet. the minor is facing charges. the city owns the garbage and police say officers do regular patrol. we are told th

in the 20s, 23 in wake forest. 26 in zebulon. town by town, 23 here at the tv studios in raleigh. it is also 23 in cary. but we have a couple of teens now, 19 in south hill and 19 in roxboro. tonight will be the coldest night we've had so far this season. i think we've made it down to 18 degrees. that was in january. a couple of days we made it down to 18 at rdu. so with temperatures down to around 15 tonight, it will probably be the coldest we've been so far this season. take a look at temperatures as you head up to the north, it's 8 in new york city. 16 in d.c. 3 in pits brg. of course 23 here. but you factor in the wind it feels like minus 14 in work it feels like 17 here in raleigh. so this is some bitterly cold air that is here and it will stick around for all of sunday. here's a live look from the raleigh sky cam. very quiet tonight but we will watching all of our sky cams as get into monday as we're tracking another winter storm that's headed this way. for now things are quiet for the rest of the weekend, for the most part. high pressure centered up to the north, that's goi

it's 35 durham, 34 cary. 34 wake forest. 36 zebulon. 36 south hill. 38 fayetteville and erwin. none of our temperatures are below freezingm we may get there, towards the virginia your planner expect mid 30s out the door. 44 lunchtime. high of 49 this afternoon. folks never make it out of the 40s for temperatures today. we have the nice warm up in store for a second half of the weekend. we will talk about what that looks like coming up. >>> a kansas community in shock this morning, following a gunman's deadly rampage. >> flags will fly at half staff to honor the victims. tara lynn is gathering more information about what happened. >>> we are waiting to learn the name and identity of the shooter. as you can imagine, it wasn't a couple of days ago, we had a mass shooting in the united states. the shooter is dead along with 4 other victims. police say that the man shot and injured two people on the street before heading to the plant where he worked. excel industries which making lawn mower equipment. he had a history with law of what they have triggered the shootings. they started

temperatures are too warm for icy conditions this morning. 39 in zebulon and wake forest. 42 holly springs. 37 roxboro. 41 goldsboro, 39 southern pines. folks are in the 30s this morning, not down to freezing. 38 at 8:00 a.m., 48 lunchtime. high of 52ing cooler than yesterday, we should have nice sunshine and brian here, looking at roads this morning, little bit wet out there but not bad. >> this camera illustrates it well on 85, 70, see it's rained enough to get the concrete wet on the rails of the bridge. we are not talking about wet conditions heres we are not looking at ponding water or anything like that. the rainfall is just heavy enough to get the roads damp this morning. i don't think it will be a huge problem. the road weather index, most of this is confined north of raleigh in to parts of durham up towards the north carolina- we will watch out and see what the roads are like north and east before too long as the rain moves that way. all clear around the triangle. no accidents, major routes, a- okay. >>> a fayetteville woman will appear in court accused of stabbing a man to death.

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second person arrested in connection with the murder of dominguez. 27-year-old conrad patterson of zebulon is in custody at wake county detention center. yesterday 25-year-old major earl edwards jr. appeared in court. the louisburg resident is also charged with the murder. 55-year-old domin taxi when he was shot down and killed at hodges creek apartments in raleigh monday morning. a parade of fellow taxi cabs circled the wake county justice center to honor him yesterday. they attached black ribbons to their cars and rest in peace signs. they say dominguez was being robdz. police are not confirming that. there could be more arrests in the raleigh police department has said several suspects are expected in the crime. they believe that the suspects fled in a white car and the investigation is progressing. live in raleigh, gloria rodriguez, abc 11 eyewitness news. john: thank you, gloria: kwrafrplt more breaks news police identify a man along a road in fayetteville. 37-year-old hanny bird was found yesterday the cause of death under investigation. they have also identified a person of interest

town, 54 degrees in west raleigh at the tv station and 54 at durham and a cool spot on this spot is zebulon at 49. it is not too bad. in the sunshine. and across the entire area, 50 right now in south hill. and we will get to 55 in fayetteville and 55 in clinton and 5 in newburn at this hour. the democrat -- 56 in newburn at this hour. the numbers are a little cooler from yesterday, especially the triangle and points eave. but still for the sunshine, it is making for a fairly nice day outside. rain last night. and spotty showers. but overall, things have cleared out quite nicely across central and eastern north carolina. and we mentioned in the last half hour, this trough of low pressure, you can sort of pick out a u-shape, if you will, and that is what has allowed the cold air to settle into the region, over the last few days. as we take a look at the upper level wind flow, you can see how that is going to break down. there is that shape. you picked it up pretty clearly, the air blowing parallel to the flight lines. like cars on a highway. and they are looking at the temperature ank, a cou

damaging straight line winds, some maybe tornados, hail, heavy rain a goods risk for those today. 46 zebulon and durham. 51 fayetteville. seeing the warm air coming up from the south, that's when our threat will increase a little bit, any time from 8:00 on, a this morning, maybe just damaging winds, lunchtime 64, 71 the high later on today. we will be with you all morning long, even after the news casts are over tracking the strong storms. >>> several local school systems have announced an early release. edgecombe county schools will close four hours early. >> sampson county closing at 11:30. find list scrolling at the bottom of the screen and any time on wral.com. >>> tornados and severe weather tore through the gulf coast. 7 tornados hit louisiana and mississippi, this is the one that's headed our way. one slammed in to an rv park in louisiana killing two people. another 30 people were hurt, 7 in critical condition. a third person died after a near perv u.s., mississippi. no word of injuries in the state. . the storms as we said are now heading our way. >> tara lynn is live in raleigh with

a second person arrested in taxi driver jose dominguez. 27-year-old conrad patterson of zebulon is in custody at wake county tkpbgsdetention center. yesterday major earl edwards appeared in court. he is also murder. dominguez was slot down and killed at -- shot down and killed monday morning. a parade of fellow taxi cabs circled the wake county justice center yesterday to honor him. they attached black ribbons to their cars and rest in peace signs. they say dominguez was being robbed. police still not confirming that was the motive of the murder. the raleigh police department has said many times that they do believe there are multiple suspects so there could be more arrests. the raleigh police department saying that the investigation is live in raleigh, gloria rodriguez, abc 11 eyewitness news. john: thank you, gloria. more breaking news, police identified the man found dead along a fayetteville road. hanni bird was found near shaw mill road yesterday. the cause of death is under investigation. detectives have identified a person of interest in the case 23-year-old damien boyd. author

everybody is in the 40s. 40s in moncur, zebulon. wral, we are following suit as well and expanding the view, 42 at roxboro. 48 goldsboro, 46 right now in rocky mount. form soaks saw some snow flakes, carthage. they saw some and moved out fast. snowing still inboston this afternoon. that storm is moving away and high pressure is building in. skies will be clear as the high pressure will be in command tonight. we expect temperatures fall into the mid- to upper 20s. next system we are watching is off to the west. we showed you the water vapor imagery yesterday because it's really good to use to find disturbances in the upper atmosphere. the orange that you see is the drier air. this upper level disturbance will move to the east and southeast and give birth to high pressure off the coast of florida. what we see on sunday will be slowly dictated by the movement of the low. if it moves close enough to us, we could see moisture creep its way back north and west to us. take a look at future cast. again, there is the disturbance. we see some

this is mitchellville road and fowler road near zebulon. it appears that the red car collided with a white s.u.v. sexual others were hurt. -- several others were hurt. john: a durham man attacked and robbed in a parking garage. >> it was a really bad experience. exclusively to "eyewitness news." find out the last thing he remembers before this unbelievable crime went down. don, good morning. don: good morning to you, john and barbara. we have got dry conditions across the region. not seeing any rainfall. weather that sticks around and don: welcome back. let's look at the commuter forecast. as you drive in it should be easy. temperatures running in the mid 30's. by 10:00, 42 and mainly clear. 37 south hill. 5 roxboro. 38 rocky mount. 36 hills proceed. 37 cary. 33 sanford, 38 fayetteville. 35 mainly clear now. by lunchtime mostly sunny and 44. through the late day 47 under memorandum skies -- mostly sunny skies. still a little cool but we are going to warm up and we will see 60's by the end of the weekend. we will talk about that in the compl

arrested in connection with the murder of taxi driver jose dominguez. 27-year-old conrad patterson of zebulon is in custody at wake county deposition center. appeared in court. the louisburg resident is also charged in connection with the murder. 55-year-old dominguez was amigo taxi when he was shot down and killed at hodges creek apartment monday. a parade of fellow taxi cabs circled the justice center yesterday to honor him. they attached black ribbons to cars and rest in peace signs. they say was being robbed. police not confirm being that was the motive of the murder. police have said multiple times they believe that there were multiple suspects and there could be more arrests in this case. we will continue to stay on top of it. in the next hour we will have new information about the case as well. john: more breaking news now, police identifying a man found dead alongside a fayetteville 37-year-old hanni bird was found on the road near fayetteville. detectives have identified a person of interest. 23-year-old damien boyd. authorities say he was last seen with bird sunday morning near hawt

extending orange county as you have one of our folks said a half inch of snow on the ground near zebulon. more snow to the north. temperatures across the region, 21 south hill. 23 roxboro, 23 louisburg, 28 sanford, 29 in fayetteville and clinton. looking at the day ahead mid 20's now. by lunchtime the wintry mix continuing and this afternoon rain. temperatures will go up this afternoon and up overnight. we will talk about the warm air in a bit but now we've weather and traffic with amber rupinta. amber: of course, we have school cancellations. it is a holiday so hopefully that will work in our favor and keep the volume down to a minimum. we have those emergency crews out doing their thing. this is one of our breaking news one vehicles behind a city truck on carver street in durham and they are doing what they can to keep the roads safe for you. little tricky when you have some rain mixed in. we will keep you posted. durham so far is in good shape. this is fayetteville, owen and gillespie and you see it is still nice and quiet there. into the raleigh area we have a accident in wake county

this happened on mitchell mill road outside of zebulon. three >>> new information about the charges against the driver accused of hitting for cyclists. >> wncn's michael highland has more about why they are disappointed with the case is going. >> reporter: two of those people are in the hospital one in critical condition. one of the writers was surprised the driver is facing misdemeanor charges. mangled bicycles and broken glass along this road in johnson county. >> i think we were knocked down before the driver even realize what happened. >> reporter: joe lawrence was one of four people riding bikes here saturday. the state highway patrol says johnny williams crashed her car into the. she is facing several charges including forecast of improper passing resulting in serious injury. warren says that may not go far enough. all charges are misdemeanors. >> a bit disappointed. mainly because it seems like the charges are minimal. bicyclists are still in hospital. >> mike is still conscious the >> reporter: his attorney specializing cases invol

at the current temperatures, locally, 30 degrees around durham, 28 for cary, holly springs 31, 26 zebulon and wake forest. 30 at the station in raleigh, we winds things out, the same thing at the raleigh durham airport. mid 20s towards the virginia line to start the day, 32 around goldsboro, 30 28 at southern pines. a real contrast weekend wise, between last weekend, and what we are coming up on the next couple of days, to take you back, last saturday, topped oh out at 34 degrees for a high on sunday, freezing, this weekend, on saturday, looking at 63, probably upper 60s on sunday, thanks to a southwest breeze through the course of the weekend. the breeze will come our way thanks to high pressure, at is over eastern, north carolina today, moving out, see the fair skies we had yesterday, fair skies overnight as well. moisture moving our direction, at times, as it moves in on the area of high pressure, the high pressure causing the air to sink, the high clouds coming our direction have tended to thin out and dissipates. you might see streaks of high clouds from time to time today. that shou

cary, zebulon in the 40s. 43 roxboro. 59 clinton,s that temperatures warm this morning, we will start to get in to a better chance for those strong thunderstorms producing severe weather. that's going to happen most likely by lunchtime if not before. mid to late morning, we will starto see that threat increasing, high this afternoon of 71, likely to have a squall line through this afternoon. we will talk about the timing in a few minutes. this morning k other issues you will have to deal withs raining and foggy. >> need to allow extra time at 6:03, let's take you to the camera, i-40, u.s. 1 interchange. as far as we can tell, not thick follow, combined with the wet roads, in for a mess. road weather index. watching what the little cell in southern chatham county does through the trip through pitsboro. major routes looking good. an accident cleared up capital boulevard. back to you. >>> we want to let you know, clinton city schools in sampson county are closing at 11:30 today because of the severe weather expected. the severe weather bracing for, already left behind damage and destruct

we'll zoom around and talk about the patchy light rain from holly springs to garner and zebulon and bond and over to wilson and elm city and fremont and princeton. we head southward. and it will lighten up a little bit in fayetteville with rain in clinton and war saw. so a little wet in places this morning, especially along and that is where we'll have the best chance of seeing any rain for this morning. so just be on the lookout for the showers across the region again. it will be a wet day for us this is the radar pick. and you can see what is going on out there in fayetteville and goldsboro. this is a look at our skycam. we'll be in the low to mid-60s. the high yesterday was 72. by the time we get to this afternoon, we're looking at 50. so we'll see the temperatures drop as much as 15 degrees through the day from where we're siting right now. patchy fog and a half mile visibility. and it is showing some potential for fog in chatum up in person county and the visibility dropped in fayetteville to two and a half miles. and no real problems out there. but expect low cloud cover as we get

those don't be quite spread. 28 degrees the temperature in temperature wake forest about 25 to 24 in zebulon. we take a look at the wider view and the raleigh durham airport also at 28 degrees. colder toward the virginia line, mid-20s in roxboro and south hills. upper 20s in goldsboro and fayetteville. 342 degrees around clinton. taking a look at the contrast that's coming up between last weekend and the weekend ahead to 34 degrees on saturday. 32 is the high. could not get past freezing at past weekend. this weekend, a whole at this. world out there 63. 2 sunday. we'll 67 on sunday. yesterday, not too much in the way of cloud cover. last night, fair skies for the most part. large clouds largely dissipated. they have been having to compete against the fact that as the cloud move over north carolina, they run into an area where a ridge of high pressure from thenortheastern united states creates some siding air and while the air subsides like that, it heats on and when it warms up a little bit, it can evaporate cloud particles. we were watching that high move off to the east tomorrow. on the w

mid 40s now, for most of the viewing area, zebulon, durham, raleigh, 48 rocky mount. watching the warm air from the south. as we warm up, our threat for the stronger storms will increase. temperatures by lunchtime, climbing in to the 60s, that's when the threat of severe weather will increase. it may come in two bands and talking about the timing of the bands more coming up. >>> the severe weather is a developing story this morning in the south. >> three people are dead and several missing after strong storms. >> tornados ripped through the gulf states, as don champion reports, some places and homes and neighborhoods are barely recognizable now. >> reporter: in to the overnight hours, storms showed little mercy on the gulf states. in pensacola, florida, a reported tornado tossed around cars and damaged most of the neighborhood. williamson admits she barely survived. >> we are okay, that's all that matters. >> reporter: in many areas, daylight will review the true extent of the damage. people used flashlights to sift through debris. day tuesday, with at least 26 tornad

this line is writer for zebulon and it is moving on -- line is it is moving out of franklin county and tracking eastward at about 30 miles per hour and stretching into northern parts of cumberland county. any one of these could have not necessarily damaging winds but winds of about 35 to 40 miles per hour. liz horton's steady by with more. hey, liz. liz: all of the circles you see here indicate areas of damage. we are going to zoom in on one of these in morgan son -- morgantown. we have seen many trees down in randolph county and trees have fallen on power lines. multiple reports of trees down on homes. also, heavy rain reported in rockingham county and of that actually is causing flooding on the roads. we still could be seeing more rain ahead. right, chris? chris: behind that area there is a good amount of rainfall. behind that line, standby for that to come through in the next couple of hours. in the evening hours, it will diminish tonight overall, but we will see more rain tomorrow. just a thunderstorm warning imports of south carolina. at the airport, rain is settling down a bit th

it was near zebulon yesterday. troopers say hill's red car pulled out in front of the s.u.v. exclusive. a durham man is home this morning nursing a number of wounds. he was viciously attacked and garage. and stole has wallet. the teen faces charges but police are not identifying him because he is a juvenile. gildehaus works for a nonprofit that fights for social justice. he tells "eyewitness news" he hopes to get back to work next week on a mission to make do you recall safer. we are keeping you connected to big stories online. amber: a couple of stories trending this morning lighting up the news. this is one you could read on the abc11 home page. better takes dying sister to her first dance. that is a.j. who is 5 and15 and his sister rebecca who is battling cancer and her bone marrow her to his winter formal to make sure she got to experience that. this is getting attention. cheryl tiegs said she was not happy she didn't support "sports illustrated" putting a full figure model on the cover. she said it is not healthy and took backlash and she is clarifying see doesn't think

numbers close to home, everybody in the 40s. 40 in cary and zebulon. in the expanded view, some 50s showing up in the southern counties. more will show up tomorrow. 40 roxboro. 45 in rocky mount. and some wind gusts. no 30 mile-per-hour gusts, at least for now. 20 in rocks pro, 20 at rocky mounts. satellite picture, bright skies this afternoon. clouds not quite as thick as yesterday. tomorrow, mostly to partly sunny. a little disturbance will drift across the state that will generate some cloud cover. parts of the ohio valley, a weak fronts is there that will not really bother us. we have high pressure and the flow around the highs in a clock weise fashion, still getting some cooler air to be tomorrow, we'll wake up to light wind. there is a winds chill out there right now, by daybreak, with light wind, not much of a wind chill but it will be colder, expected to wake up in the 30s but warming up into the 50s tomorrow afternoon. temperatures right now, 49, 37 in cincinnati. 41 in philadelphia. but warmer weather is building off to the west. 59 in dallas

and wake county is dropped from the steer thunderstorm although wendell you are in heavy rain and zebulon on your doorstep. into johnston and wilson mills on top ofou and smithfield and beatenville and newton grover. it will be in grantham and it advances east. as it is raining it is challenging. you were in the 60's, favorite. you are 55. sanford down to 51. 52 roxboro. no worse about this refreezing. it will be warm throughout the morning. looking at the day lunchtime mixture of clouds and sunshine and going home we will be near 60 under partly sunny skies. again we have severe thunderstorm warnings and we will watch that throughout the morning and right now we will watch the roads with amber rupinta. amber: if you can wait until the severe thunderstorm warnings expire that would probably be the best rule of thumb if you are in the bull's eye of some of those areas don was mentioning. everyone in the viewing area dealing with precipitation. there is an accident 540 eastbound at aviation parkway the flashing lights there off to the side and you can see glisteningen to the roads here -- g

conrad patterson of zebulon was booked last night and due in court today. jose dominguez was shot to death monday in the parking lot of the hodges creek apartments. one person 25-year-old major edwards jr. is also charmed in t the -- charged. time for first alert traffic. looking at chopper 11 h.d. checking a crash involving a school bus in raleigh on perry creek road and sylvan creek drive. we are hearing no children were on the bus but one injury reported. also looking at d.o.t. cameras i-40 and airport boulevard you see traffic moving well in both directions even though it is heavy. "good morning america" is coming ship in a hurricane-force winds a terrifying 12 hours at sea don: welcome back. lots of sunshine and blue skies but it is a cold picture if you step out. 26 right now joined raleigh. 58% humidity. west wind five. nice sunrise in fayetteville but 28 degrees with west wind nine. numbers from across the reasonable everybody in the 20's. cold spot is sanford and southern pines both 21. 24 oxford, 27 wilson. first alert seven-day forecast powered b