Month: February 2020

By Elizabeth Gardner, WRAL meteorologist Raleigh, N.C. — Unsettled weather is keeping the Triangle on its toes this week. Highs reach the 70s. Lows reach the 20s. Rain and potentially severe storms march across the state. Tuesday’s morning commute was a bit foggy and rainy, causing potential for visibility issues and slower traffic. Temperatures will warm up to the high 60s Tuesday afternoon as the rain begins to taper off. However, another front developing in…

By Elizabeth Gardner, WRAL meteorologist Raleigh, N.C. — Unsettled weather is keeping the Triangle on its toes this week. Highs reach the 70s. Lows reach the 20s. Rain and potentially severe storms march across the state. Tuesday’s morning commute was a bit foggy and rainy, causing potential for visibility issues and slower traffic. Temperatures will warm up to the high 60s Tuesday afternoon as the rain begins to taper off. However, another front developing in…

By NINIEK KARMINI, Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia — Floods that have crippled much of Indonesia’s capital worsened Tuesday, inundating thousands of homes and buildings, including the presidential palace, and paralyzing transport networks, officials and witnesses said. Overnight rains caused more rivers to burst their banks in greater Jakarta starting Sunday, sending muddy water up to 1.5 meters (5 feet) deep into more residential and commercial areas, said Agus Wibowo, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency’s spokesman….

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — I remember the placid old days of Jim Rutherford or Ron Francis sitting quietly in front of us on deadline day and explaining why they only made one minor league move or no moves at all. It was a quaint time. It was also impossibly dull. Nothing like the chainsaw juggling act that Don Waddell unfurled Monday. While the fanbase was still buzzing from a weekend that saw the Hurricanes become…

TORONTO (WTVD) — A 42-year-old zamboni driver was called on to help the Carolina Hurricanes win a regular season NHL game. In one of the wildest sports stories of recent memory, David Ayres left his seat in the stands to suit up and eventually get on the ice and face down professional hockey players. It happened because the Canes’ two goalies both got injured during the Saturday night’s match against the Toronto Maple Leafs. A…

TORONTO (WTVD) — A 42-year-old zamboni driver was called on to help the Carolina Hurricanes win a regular season NHL game. In one of the wildest sports stories of recent memory, David Ayres left his seat in the stands to suit up and eventually get on the ice and face down professional hockey players. It happened because the Canes’ two goalies both got injured during the Saturday night’s match against the Toronto Maple Leafs. A…

TORONTO — In an unprecedented turn of events, the Carolina Hurricanes had no choice but to put their emergency goalie on the ice against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Forty-two-year-old David Ayres, who drives the Zamboni for the AHL Toronto Marlies and works as a maintenance man at another Toronto arena, came into face the franchise he works for late in the second period. Ayres was sitting in the stands with his wife at Scotiabank Arena…

TORONTO (WTVD) — In an unprecedented turn of events, the Carolina Hurricanes had no choice but to put their emergency goalie on the ice against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Forty-two-year-old David Ayres, who drives the Zamboni for the Leafs and works as a maintenance man at another Toronto arena, came into face the franchise he works for late in the second period. The Canes with a ZAMBONI DRIVER in net ripping the Leafs! — Joe…

TORONTO (WTVD) — In an unprecedented turn of events, the Carolina Hurricanes had no choice but to put their emergency goalie on the ice against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Forty-two-year-old David Ayres, who drives the Zamboni for the Leafs and works as a maintenance man at another Toronto arena, came into face the franchise he works for late in the second period. The Canes with a ZAMBONI DRIVER in net ripping the Leafs! — Joe…

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia — A flash flood hit hundreds of students and teachers who were hiking along a river on Indonesia’s main island of Java, killing at least six of the students, officials said. Five others were reported missing. The group of 250 junior high students was conducting scouting activities in Sleman district of Yogyakarta province and wasn’t paying attention to weather conditions, National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Agus Wibowo said. Local military chief Lt. Col….