ABC11 Eyewitness News - Eyewitness News at 11pm - January 13, 2026

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Right now, live coverage from your local news leader, preparing you for tomorrow starting tonight and your first alert forecast. Here's what's happening where you live. This is ABC 11 eyewitness news. And right now at 11, we need to get ready for an Arctic blast after weeks of pretty mild air. Winter is finally settling in across the region with feels like temperatures expected to drop into the single digits by Thursday morning. Hi everyone. Thanks for joining us here for the news at 11. I'm Steve Dan. And I'm Lauren Johnson. It's not just the dangerous cold that's coming our way. We could also see rain and even flakes and flurries falling over the next couple of days. Chief meteorologist Don Schwinnaker joins us now with the latest on the forecast.

Hi, Don. And good evening, too. We'll start with those flakes and flurries. And this is our first alert predictor forecast model Wednesday night through the overnight into Thursday morning. That's where we could see some isolated showers working through. It's the last part of this that changes it from rain to some snowflakes. Now, whenever cold air chases rain, we don't get a. a lot of snow out of it. But between 6 a.m. and 11 a.m. You could see some flurries across the area.

And again, maybe a flurry through this blue area, some heavier snow showers possible up through parts of Virginia. The bigger story will be the change in temperatures. Look at the first alert forecast model as we hit from Wednesday night into Thursday morning. There's that cold air pushing in. Our feels like temperatures 17, Lewisburg, 19 in Raleigh. And at times could dip down into the single digits with the gus. Even by Thursday at 3 o'clock, we're still seeing feels like temperatures in the 20s, just 21 in Roxborough and Oxford. Then as we go into Friday morning, the cold air continues. We stay in the teens and 20s. Now, tonight we're not seeing anything like that. First alert, Dopplernet is dry and clear. It'll stay that way through

the overnight. A look at your overnight forecast. The next 12 hours will stay in the 40s through about 6, 7 in the morning. We'll drop into the upper 30s. The clouds hang with us throughout the day. We'll talk more about those rain chances headed in and a second chance at seeing some snowflakes. That's in your seven-day forecast coming up in just a bit. Lauren. All right, Don, thank you. Make sure you download our free ABC 11 mobile app to stay up to date on current weather conditions. We'll send you watches and warnings directly to your devices.

You can access live.com. And that seven-day forecast at any time. New tonight in Southern Way County, police in Fuqua Varena are investigating a drive-by shooting that left one man injured. This happened about 730 on McLean Street near the Pine Acres Community Center in Action Park. Officers arrived there on the scene to find a man with gunshot wounds in both of his legs. That victim was taken to the hospital and is expected to survive. Police believe the victim was a passenger in a vehicle with two other people as their vehicle pulled up between two homes. Another vehicle approached and someone fired shots at them and then took off.

Police do not have a description of the shooter or their vehicle, but they do believe it was an isolated incident. Also new tonight in Fuqua Verena, a man will face nine animal cruelty charges after dogs were rescued from his home. On Monday, police received a request from Wake County Animal Control to check on reports of abandoned animals at a home on Wilburn Road. Once on scene, they found nine dogs in what they call severe unsanitary living conditions and removed them. The dog's owner, 64-year-old, Michael Thomas Duke was initially charged with nine felony counts of animal cruelty, but those charges were later dismissed because no evidence of maliciousness or killing of an animal was found. His bond was set at $10,000. Duke will be back in court next month. He was ordered not to own, possess, or have any animals in his care or control.

New tonight, people in APEC speaking out at a town council meeting about their concerns over a massive new data center. The plan has been floated for months, and while there's been no decision yet, many people who live there are fighting to stop it because they have concerns about noise. Tom George was at the meeting and joins us now with more. Now again, this is still very early in the process, but next week there is a key meeting again here in Apex, this time, a joint work session where they'll be going a little bit. bit deeper into the proposal and hopefully get some questions answered. All wearing red, people from APEX who live near the proposed data center letting council know they want to put a stop to the project. Yeah, a lot of people in Jordan Point are showing up.

The proposed site on 190 acres near Old U.S. 1 and Sharon Harris Road would include four buildings, housing computing and networking, for AI and cloud services. The developer, Natelli Holdings, has worked on similar projects in Maryland for Fannie Mae and the Social Security Administration. At a previous community meeting, Natelli said they would try and mitigate the noise caused by the cooling system and backup generators. But many neighbors brought up concerns about electricity usage, which would be a big strain on Apex.

The biggest one for us is just the resources it takes to power that thing. It's going to take 25 to 30 percent of Sharon Harris's power just for that one center, probably at least a million gallons of water per day, which really limits the growth of Apex. And also, from what I understand, the way they negotiate the contracts for the power, they get a discount. Right now, counsel, wanting to make a cost. it clear nothing is set in stone and they want to learn what those impacts are before any

further steps are taken. We all recognize that data centers are going to be a problem. They're going to be a thing that's going to be coming before us. And what we need to do is we need to figure out what's going to be our policy way ahead. But in a future of AI, some saying it's about more than just not in my backyard. Regulation honestly is going to be where we can really make change. We're going to need data centers in some places because we just need the internet. We need all that computing power, but it doesn't need to be in people's neighborhoods.

And it certainly doesn't need to be the number of data centers that people are throwing money at right now. Now again, this is all very early in the process. But next week, there is going to be another key meeting. This one with the planning board where we're expected to hear a little bit more in-depth details before this town can decide on a potential proposal in this case. In APEX, Tom George, ABC 11, IWitness News. And your voice, your vote. We are less than a month away from the state.

start of early in person voting for the March primary elections and changes are on the way for some counties and some colleges. Yeah, today the State Board of Elections voted to eliminate Sunday voting hours in some counties and shut down early voting sites at four different universities across the state. James Price live now with the State Board of Elections and Raleigh with new reaction to all of this tonight. James. See, voting right advocates say this decision really suppresses the young vote, making it difficult for those students who do not have transportation to get to these new voting. sites off campus. Now the Republican-led board cited a number of factors for their decision, including proximity and parking. So war on students. Very clear. No, it is. No, I disagree with a tense back and forth with North Carolina State Board of Election members today. We're trying to

hold this meeting, so please let us continue. The board move forward with plans to eliminate early in-person voting sites at colleges, the state, including UNCG, Western Carolina, Elon, and North Carolina A&T, where students showed up, pushing back against the board's decision, holding signs, and then a small rally outside the building. They tried to silence us here, but they know that outside of that conference room, they cannot do anything to stop our voices from being heard. The early voting primary election plans were brought to the state board of elections by a dozen counties, after the local boards couldn't come to a unanimous decision, forcing the state to have the final say.

Some state board of election members cited proximity, logistics, and parking availability as some of the reasons for their decisions to pull the early voting sites from college campuses. I'm specifically thinking of the university sites. Can I drive in and park anywhere on the university without a pass? There are obvious efforts to suppress the votes of certain voters. Dr. Jarvis Hall is a political sciences and professor at North Carolina Central University. The school is an early voting site and has been for years. He's following what happened today closely.

One would think that everybody who is a part of the election process and the election apparatus would want the same thing. But obviously, that's not the case. And, of course, there are reasons for that. In addition to eliminating early voting sites, the state election board members, also voted to eliminate Sunday early voting hours in five counties, including Wayne and Harnett County. Hall says Sunday voting is synonymous with faith-based groups and their push to get out the vote.

It becomes one of those vehicles that have been used in the past that are being used now in order to get people out to vote. And again, with the technology that we have, we should be making voting easier as opposed to making it more. more difficult. Hall says he hopes the churches and universities will counteract today's decision using every resource possible transportation and programming to help get out and vote. We're live in Raleigh, James Price, ABC 11, eyewitnesses. James thanks. The SBI has opened an investigation into former Kerrytown manager Sean Stiegel at the request of Wake County District Attorney Lauren

Freeman. It comes on the heels of the state auditor's preliminary report flagging potential fraud over the use of a procurement card. Freeman says it's too early in the investigation to say if a crime has been committed and her office will follow the evidence. She adds public officials have a duty to spend taxpayer money appropriately. At the same time public money is being spent. Those of us who work in the public sector, you know, we have a duty to spend that money, you know, in an appropriate way to use it efficiently, effectively on behalf of the people.

Meanwhile, the mayor of Kerry tells us Stiegel has not yet received any severance pay and won't get any until all contractual obligations have been met. The mayor, Harold Weinberg, believes criminal wrongdoing would void any severance pay. Still to come here on eyewitnesses tonight, demonstrations against immigration and customs enforcement are intensifying in Minnesota as agents are caught on camera shooting tear gas in a crowd of demonstrators, just blocks from where Renee Good was shot and killed last week. Plus, the DOJ is pushing its team of lawyers to speed up their review of the Epstein files as criticism of those redactions continues.

And Don's got his eye on the chill outside tonight. demonstrations continue in Minneapolis where federal agents use tear gas to break up crowds protesting against immigration and customs enforcement. One of the standoffs happening less than a block from the scene of that deadly shooting of Renee Good, it comes as President Trump vows, quote, reckoning and retribution is coming to Minnesota, accusing Democrats there of causing unrest. ABC's Melissa Adon has the very latest. Protest against immigration and customs enforcement intensifying in Minnesota. New video shows the moment a federal agent deploys an irritant to a crowd of protesters. As tense moments unfold less than a block away from where Renee Good was shot and killed by ICE agent Jonathan Ross nearly a week ago.

The Department of Justice calling the killing justified and are not cooperating with state or local agencies on an investigation. ABC News has learned at least six federal prosecutors working out of Minnesota have resigned out of concerns that the Department of Justice is focusing the shooting investigation. into good, who they have called a domestic terrorist and her ties to groups that have been protesting in the city. And new video obtained by Bring Me the News showing DHS agents arresting two workers at a Minnesota target last week. A state lawmakers say they were U.S. citizens. A ICE operation in Minnesota, for example, is finding hundreds of killers, violent predators and child rapists,

some of the worst criminal offenders anywhere in the world, murderers all over the place. Minnesota and the Twin Cities filing lawsuits, alleging agents were told to, quote, push the envelope of immigration enforcement tactics. President Trump responding to that suit on truth social, writing, Minnesota Democrats love the unrest that anarchist and professional agitators are causing. Fear not, great people of Minnesota,

the day of reckoning and retribution is coming. Some Democratic lawmakers in DC speaking out against immigration and customs enforcement tactics. ICE agents, Border Patrol agents, relentless in their cruelty and their aggressiveness in communities like Los Angeles and Chicago and Portland and now Minneapolis and beyond. Melissa Donne, ABC News, Los Angeles. The Justice Department continues its deep dive processing the massive trove of Epstein files. Now the department is pushing hundreds of lawyers to review pages faster. That's according to a recent email from DOJ leadership and court.

filings over the past few days. An email from the head of the Justice Department's criminal division asked his team to aim to review documents at a pace of 1,000 pages a day. The Justice Department is making redactions to documents as it operates under a mandate to make the Epstein files public in compliance with a transparency law. In entertainment news, some of the biggest names in Hollywood are in New York City tonight for the National Board of Review Gala. It's one of several awards shows leading up to the Oscars, one battle after another, one

Best film and Leonardo DiCaprio won best actor. Ryan Cougler took home the prize for Best Original Screenplay for Sinners. He's emerging as an Oscar frontrunner and spoke to entertainment reporter, Joel Gullo, alongside his creative writing teacher. For me, the reward has been all of it. Like just getting the script done was a type of reward, getting my crew together with the type of reward, getting everybody to come to New Orleans, getting to share the screen. I shared it with Rosemary, like I always do, getting good feedback from her.

and then showing the movie to audiences, it was just the biggest reward that somebody could ask for it. Voting for Oscar nomination started on Monday, the Oscars air on Sunday, March 15th, right here on ABC. The popular K-pop group, BTS, is hitting the road after all seven members completed South Korea's mandatory military service. Today they announced their first world tour in nearly seven years. It kicks off on April 9th with three hometown concerts in South Korea.

Then after shows in Japan, BTS is heading to North America. America and if you want to see them, you'll have to travel a little bit of distance. The closest stops are in Tampa and Baltimore. Pre-sale tickets go on sale on January 22nd and 23rd. General public sales launch the following day. And Alicia, our producer, is our resident BTS expert. Knows all things BTS and says a new album is coming out. So a lot of BTS fans are excited to see them in concert with the new music.

That's right. New music's on the way. Yeah, absolutely. All right, we got to get ready for this Arctic blast and Don's going to be feeling just in on the possibility of some flake. A couple of chances. Rain flakes, Yeah. Cold.

A little bit of everything over the next several days. Yeah, right. Good evening to you. Let's talk about that. Show you the seven days. Tomorrow we're at 56. That's the warmest day of the next seven. Then the numbers go down some colder air Thursday into Friday.

Look at this Thursday night into Friday morning. 18 degrees. We'll stay in the 40s. Another push of colder air Sunday into Monday. We'll talk more about that in a moment. But factor the winds in this week and it, I'm not sure what just happened there. That's our emotional. He is not happy with tomorrow if you're headed out and about tomorrow.

Not bad, not great, just some cloud cover working through. So we will watch for some mild temps as we go through the day. Remember you can get that emoji forecast anytime in our 630 online only broadcast. We'd love for you to join us tomorrow after the 6 o'clock news. Now let's show you these feels like numbers. Wednesday 32, Thursday 22. And by Friday morning that feels like temperature could dip down to seven. And then we surge back up and we stay cold.

If you've got plans to work outside, maybe you're doing a day of service for Dr. King's Day on Monday, just 12 degrees. You're going to want to bundle up that day as well. Live look on our first Lord Doppler net tonight scanning. This guy's not seeing any rainfall out there. We'll stay dry all night to live look on the mutual tower sky. Cam downtown Durham's at 46,

mainly clear on a south-southwest wind at 10 miles per hour. Mannyota Murphy tonight, 45 out at the coast. 42 right now in Greenville. Chase cities at 45. Lumberton's actually colder under a clear sky. You've dropped to 37 degrees. 47 out in the triad, 46 in Charlotte. And look at Boone. 29 degrees out in the mountains tonight and it will get colder. Around here, we'll see those numbers down into the 30s. Seasonal average is 32. We'll get to 37 in Raleigh. 38 in Durham, Fayetteville, 37, Clinton, 36, Rono Crapids and Henderson. Satellite radar composite. We had some high clouds earlier, but those skies have cloned. that's helped to slam those temperatures down.

Now rain works through parts of Indiana, Illinois, into Missouri. This is the first of two cold fronts that will work through the Midwest. Now we will see some of that colder air on into the end of the work week. Now we first little predictor forecast model where cloudy to start today tomorrow.

Notice there is a chance of an isolated shower. Most of you will not see a lot of rain, but a shower could fire tomorrow. So throw the umbrella in the car as you had to work or the kids head to school. As we get into Thursday morning, that cold air pushes in right here this boundary, there could be a flurry or two. Don't think it's going to be much, but the possibility

is there for a flurry. And then Thursday, we stay very cold with temperatures in the 30s, wind chills in the 20s throughout the day on Thursday. Tomorrow, cloud cover around. Notice Fayetteville is a higher chance of rain as those showers pass through in the afternoon. 53 there, 53 in Durham and 56 in Raleigh. First alert, seven-day forecast showing those temperatures getting colder. Friday, great hockey night in Raleigh, 44. feeling like hockey weather. Saturday, partly Sunday 54, Sunday 42.

Sunday night into Monday as we get another push of cold air. Could see another round of flurries, not anticipating anything big yet. We'll keep an eye on it. Sunday 42 and we stay in the upper 30s on into Tuesday. So feeling like January, certainly over the next seven days, guys. Yeah.

The emoji guy snuck in here to the 11 o'clock news. Maybe he should become a regular part of it. I like him. I do too. Maybe I'll add him to it. So there you go. Don, thank you. Still ahead.

Closing the gap in. providing care for those who are living with an eating disorder. We'll tell you about the first of its kind treatment center now open in the Bull City. The Durham nonprofit, the Emily K program, has opened the country's first ever residential inpatient center, dedicated to treating an eating disorder known as avoidant, restrictive food intake disorder in adults. That's when people severely limit the amount of food they eat. We tour the Around the Clock Center designed for individuals with complex needs. Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder has historically been viewed as a pediatric condition.

Clinicians say they are seeing a growing number of adults struggling with this disorder, often without access to any specialized care. Clinic leaders say this is a major step in treating eating disorders. We know that only about 30% of people with an eating disorder ever get care. We're trying to increase that number because people shouldn't have to suffer in silence with any eating disorder. And so it really is particularly to the triangle, like this is a first in the nation program and it makes sense that it's here. This program also offers care for sensory sensitivity, neurodivergence, and anxiety disorders. The center is located on Sterip Creek Drive in Durham.

Okay, next week is a chance for you to pay it forward, donating blood at our sixth annual ABC11 together, Blood Drive. Yes, Wednesday, January 21st from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., appointments are available at the Embassy Suites, Crabbtree, and Raleigh, the streets at South Point in Durham, and Fayetteville Technical Community College. You can make an appointment by going to ABC11.com, and walk-ins are also excellent. for all the softball lovers heel and triangle. Across the entire country. They have pro-woman sports right here in our area. Professional softball. Kate, thank you.

And thank you at home for watching. That's going to do it for us here tonight. Remember, the news is always on at ABC11.com, and we hope to see you back here tomorrow night at 11 o'clock. Good night. ABC 11 eyewitness news is sponsored by Capital Chevrolet. Together, let's drive. Shop capitalshelverillet.com.