Name: Tree falls on car, blocking Highway 42
Uploaded: 2021-10-09T18:37:57-0400
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Description: Crews worked on Saturday to remove a large tree that fell across a highway in Johnston County. More than 7 inches of rain fell in some areas of central NC and a handful of people were rescued from the floodwaters.

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Crews worked on Saturday to remove a large tree that fell across a highway in Johnston County. More than 7 inches of rain fell in some areas of central NC and a handful of people were rescued from the floodwaters. 

>>> YOUR NUMBER ONE SOURCE FOR LOCAL NEWS. THIS IS WRAL, COVERAGE YOU CAN COUNT ON. >> TONIGHT, WE HAVE TEAM COVERAGE OF HEAVY RAIN THAT BROUGHT FLASH FLOODING TO WAKE COUNTY, JOHNSTON COUNTY AND MORE. METEOROLOGIST ZACH MALOCH IS TRACKING THE STORMS. >>> FIRST, HIGHWAY 42 BLOCKEDED IN CLAYTON WHEN A TREE FELL ON A CAR. WRAL'S AARON THOMAS ARRIVED ON THE SCENE. IT IS HARD TO BELIEVE THE DRIVER MADE IT OUT OF THIS OKAY. >> HARD TO BELIEVE. CERTAINLY THANKFUL FOR THE OUTCOME. YOU CAN SEE THE LARGE TREE THEY ARE WORKING TO CLEAR OUT OF THE ROAD. THAT TREE JUST NARROWLY MISSED HITTING THE CABIN PART OF THE VEHICLE. YOU CAN TAKE A LOOK FOR YOURSELF. YOU SEE ONE LARGE BRANCH LANDED ON THE HOOD AND THE BACK OF WHAT APPEAR TO BE A SMALL SEDAN. THE DRIVER DID MANAGE TO CLIMB OUT OF THE CAR BEFORE FIRE AND EMS CREWS ARRIVED. THEY ARE WORKING NOW TO CLEAN UP THE ROAD AND RESTORE POWER. AT LAST CHECK, WE ARE TOLD THERE WERE UP TO 1,000 CUSTOMERS WITHOUT POWER. CREWS HAVE BEEN OUT HERE FOR SOME HOURS NOW. WE ARE TOLD IT WILL TAKE SOME TIME TO CLEAN UP THAT TREE. THIS IS A HUGE HEADACHE RIGHT HERE. YOU CAN SEE, SOME DRIVERS HAVING TO TURN AROUND HERE ON HIGHWAY 42. GOVERNMENT ROAD AND ANNA DRIVE ARE BLOCKED OFF. >> SOMEONE SERIOUSLY COUNTING THEIR BLESSINGS TONIGHT. AARON THOMAS, THANK YOU. >>> A RUDE AWAKENING FOR FAMILIES. RESCUE CREWS WERE CALLED IN TO GET PEOPLE TO SAFETY. WRAL'S ADAM OWENS TELLS US THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAS HAPPENED. FOR SEVERAL PEOPLE, THE REAL NIGHTMARE STARTED WHEN THEY WOKE UP. THEY LOOKED OUTSIDE, AND SAW THIS. EMERGENCY WORKERS WADEING IN FAST RISING WATER SURROUNDING THEIR HOME. >> YOU GO TO BED SAFE AND SOUND AND YOUR WHOLE DOWNSTAIRS IS FLOODED AND GONE. >> Reporter: THESE ARE PICTURES INSIDE ASHLEY KATE'S HOME. >> WATER WAS COMING IN OUR FRONT DOOR, FLOODED ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE KITCHEN. >> Reporter: WHEN SHE OPENED THE FRONT DOOR, BELONGINGS FLOATED OUTSIDE AND AWAY WITH THE CURRENT. LIKE MANY OTHERS, SHE HAD GOTTEN IN A RESCUE BOAT TO GET TO HIGHER GROUND. >> THE FIRST THING WAS WE GOT TO GET EVERYBODY READY TO GET OUT. WE GOT TO GET OUT. >> THEY GOT RAFTS OUT HERE. AND THEY EVACUATED. >> Reporter: FLOATING PAST CARS SUBMERGED IN THE PARKING LOT. HARRIS ALLEN WAS SHOCKED AT HOW FAST THE FLOODING HAPPENED. >> I HAVE SEEN THINGS NOT LIKE THAT. >> Reporter: THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE AT BROOK HILL TOWN HOMES. THE DEVELOPMENT IS IN A FLOOD PLANE NEAR WALNUT CREEK. THIS IS WHAT WE FOUND BACK IN 2016. THE RED CROSS IS HELPING MORE THAN 20 PEOPLE IN A DOZEN TOWN HOMES CARRYING WHAT THEY COULD SAVE IN THE RUSH TO GET OUT. >> IF I WASN'T THINKING ABOUT MOVING, I AM NOW. >> Reporter: ADAM OWENS, WRAL NEWS. >> WOW, WE ARE SO THANKFUL FOR THOSE FIRST RESPONDERS. WE MADE CALLS TO BROOK HILL TOWN HOMES AND ARE WAITING TO HEAR BACK. RALEIGH WORKS ATTEMPTED TO BUY UNIT WITHS FEMA FUNDS. POLICE RESPONDED TO REPORTS OF FLOODING AND DOWNED TREES. POLICE ASKED PEOPLE TO FIND ALTERNATIVE ROUTE AS THEY TRIED TO DRIVE SAFELY AROUND IT. IN WAKE COUNTY, FLOODING WASH OUT PART OF CAMPBELL ROAD. A WRAL VIEWER SHARED PHOTO OF THE DAMAGES. DOT CREWS BLOCKED OFF THE ROAD. >>> SO MUCH TO TALK ABOUT. LET'S BRING IN METEOROLOGIST ZACH MALOCH. HE IS TRACKING RAIN CHANCES FOR THE REST OF THE EVENING AND ZACH, WHAT ARE WE SEEING NOW AND HOW MUCH RAIN DID WE SEE EARLIER TODAY? >> A LOT OF THESE SHOWERS NOW BEGINNING TO FADE OUT. NOT SEEING A LOT OF RAIN CURRENTLY ON DUEL DOPPLER 5,000. JUST A FEW LIGHT RAIN AREAS. WE SAW THE RAIN COME DOWN VERY QUICKLY. IN THE PAST 24 HOURS ALONE, A LARGE SWATH SOFT RAIN COVERING PORTIONS OF CHATHAM COUNTY, NORTH PORTIONS OF MOORE COUNTY. UP TO FIVE TO SEVEN INCHES LOCALLY THERE. RDU, CARY, HOLLY SPRINGS. FIVE TO SIX INCHES. OFF TOWARD JOHNSTON COUNTY. SIX TO SEVEN INCHES FROM SMITHFIELD OFF TOWARD THE EAST. A LOT OF RAIN CAME DOWN IN A VERY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. LEADING TO MINOR FLOODING ON THE RIVERS, THE NOOSE RIVER NEAR SMITHFIELD IS IN MINOR FLOOD STAGE. THAT COULD IMPACT THE NOOSE RIVER WALK TOMORROW. KEEP IN MIND, IT WILL BE NICE FOR A SUNDAY PLAN. MORE RAIN COULD BE IMPACTING THAT AS THE RIVER COULD BE A LITTLE HIGHER AS THE WATER NOW FLOWS DOWN THE RIVER. HERE IS WHY WE HAVE SEEN SO MUCH RAIN. THIS COASTAL LOW HANGING OUT. HURRICANE HUNTERS FLYING THROUGH IT TO SEE IF IT IS A TROPICAL SYSTEM. SOME SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE OFF AND ON THIS EVENING. MOST OF THIS RAIN HANGING ALONG

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Brian Shrader flies over the site of a plane crash at Raleigh-Durham International Airport approximately three hours after the accident.

Seen some activity just in the past 10 minutes or so. I want to take you outside Sky five right now for a live look at the scene. We saw a van being escorted to the runway there and someone got out and now there appears to be a really careful inspection of the debris going on. So we're working to confirm if that may be the NTSB investigation team arriving at the scene. Let's zoom out and give you some about where this is. There are two main runways at RDU International and this is in the grassy field next to the runway that mostly serves terminal one on the east side of the airport, that runway remains closed while this investigation continues at the top of your screen. That is the other main runway that serves terminal two, mostly that runway is open. So we have two things going on here that could affect your flights for the rest of the day and maybe even into tomorrow, the airport takeoff and landing capacity is roughly reduced by half because they are only working with one runway. And if you have a flight coming out of terminal one, maybe Southwest, you're going to have to take that crossover all the way out to that other runway. It's going to add a lot of extra time.

Sky 5 flies over RDU plane crash 3 hours later 

A UNC Health physician and pilot were taken to the hospital Wednesday after a small plane crashed at Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU).


Sky 5 flies over plane crash at RDU

RDU Airport Authority gives an update on a plane crash that sent a physician and pilot to the hospital. The crash occurred Wednesday morning on a flight that took off from Wilmington.

<p>Landguth first, I want to extend my thoughts to those affected by this morning's aircraft accident and thank our first responders for their quick action to respond. The airport authority and its mutual aid partners responded to an aircraft accident at RDU involving a general aviation aircraft. The accident occurred at approximately 10:10 a.m. in the grass next to runway five, right 23 left. The flight was arriving from Wilmington, North Carolina. The A the aircraft is owned by medical Air Inc and operated by UN C air operations. The aircraft had two people on board, one pilot and one passenger. Both were transported to area hospitals. The federal A Bush administration issued a ground stop that was lifted at approximately 1130 this morning. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board have both been notified. The National Transportation Safety Board is en route and expected to arrive within the next hour at which time we will conduct an accident investigation. Rdu's runway five left 23 right reopened to departing and arriving aircraft around 11:30 a.m. this morning. Are you experiencing approximately 70 delays and several arriving flights were diverted to other airports? Until ground stock was lifted, travelers should contact their airline for the latest updates regarding the flight status. And of course questions about the identity and condition of the pilot and passenger should be directed to UN C health. And at this time I'll try to answer any questions. You may have, uh, the one, any other accidents in, in the past. I'm not familiar with any other accidents have occurred with that operation. I don't know, uh, that's the role of the National Transportation Safety Board. They'll actually come in and do the investigation. Uh, and at some point in the future, they write up a report and determine what the cause of the accident was. You know, that there was no notification to the airport authority or to the FAA uh about any type of emergency on board. Do we have a guy? We don't, all we know that we've got them out of the airplane and we've got them transported to local hospitals. We know situations like this and delays have a ripple effect on, you know, flights. Do you have any idea what type of impact we'll see here in our view and for not sure, but what we're going to encourage everybody to do is reach out to your airlines. We'll be able to give you real time information about the impact of your particular flight. Ok. I believe some of them went to Greensboro and I think a couple went to Charlotte as well. What, what to be impacted due to the NTSD. Say that one more time at this point in time, what we call the west side of our airport is now open the investigation they'll conduct will all be on the east side. So at this point, we are anticipating normal operations returning to normal operations from this point forward. I don't think that anything that they're doing regarding the investigation or where they would have to investigate would have any impact to the west side of the airport. No, the aircraft is still on the airfield itself. It's on the east side of the field. So terminal one that runways the east side of the field, that's where the debris field actually sits, the west side of the field is open and operational and safe to operate. Not that I'm aware of in operations for you throughout this event today. What was your main concern concerning the passengers that were in the internals? Right. I think our primary focus when, when that accident occurred were the two people sitting in that aircraft? Our primary mission is to make sure we can get to them and try to rescue them and try to make sure that we can get them in a safe condition as fast as we possibly can. Uh secondarily is trying to figure out then how we recover and get our operations back up and running. Mhm. How does that affect? What goes on term? Yeah, so great. Question. So the team has figured out a way to get all the aircraft they're gonna operate at terminal one. Your Southwest develops. Uh We've got a crossover taxi way that we can actually get them through our general aviation aircraft. We've got a crossover taxiway, we can get them to. But the rest of the uh accident scene is actually kind of isolated and closed and locked off. Yeah, you're terminal one at this point in time. Once they can get back on their schedule, it's going to be a normal operations. All right. Thank you guys. All right. Thank you. Grab your phone, right.</p>

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