Appalachian State's home football game against Liberty in Boone, North Carolina, scheduled for Saturday was canceled because of the impacts of severe weather on the area from Tropical Storm Helene.
WCCB Meteorologist James Scott was live on-air reporting about a massive tree that fell across South York Street in Gastonia when a vehicle nearly drove into the tree during the broadcast.
Gov. Cooper provides updates on Helene's impacts on N.C. Helene has dumped heavy rain across the state which has caused catastrophic flooding and produced damaging wind that has knocked out power to more than a million people.
Hurricane Helene will bring heavy rain, catastrophic flash flooding and damaging wind to the region through Friday morning, with significant flood risks leading to landslides in the mountains and widespread power outages expected. Conditions improve by Friday afternoon with a calmer weekend ahead.
Maggie Smith, the actress who starred as the dowager Countess of Grantham in “Downton Abbey” and Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films, died Friday. She was 89.
I-85 Southbound is completely shut down in Gastonia after a semi truck crashed into a fallen tree.
Hurricane Helene weakened to a tropical storm over Georgia with maximum sustained winds of 70 mph (110 kph) early Friday, the National Hurricane Center said.
Over a million customers are without power throughout the Carolinas due to Helene.
Rock Hill has seen its fair share of rain from Hurricane Helene. York County Emergency management says the City has been in good shape, but that could change as the night goes on.
Much of Alexander County has already received over 6” of rain since Thursday morning, inundating rivers, roads, and neighborhoods - and the worst is still yet to come.
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