We are tracking a winter storm that will bring snow to the Charlotte area by the end of the week. That storm is out West right now and will make a nearly 2,600 mile journey across the country over the next 48 hours. Road crews will be out early Thursday treating local roads.
It ripped shingles off rooftops, siding off homes, and toppled massive trees. Clean-up continues as people assess how their homes, churches and businesses were damaged.
Police officers and firefighters in eastern North Carolina cruised low-lying areas and shouted a simple message from bullhorns: Get out before the floodwaters from Hurricane Matthew arrive.
Volunteer firefighters drove their military-surplus truck with 4-foot tires into dark flood waters, after torrents from Hurricane Matthew sent the Lumber River overflowing its banks on North Carolina's coastal plain.