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>> INTO THE WALL, INTO THE AIR.
KENNY: A TERRIFYING FINISH TO TONIGHT’S DAYTONA 500.
NASCAR STAR RYAN NEWMAN IN THE HOSPITAL AFTER THIS WRECK.
BRIANA: HE WAS RUSHED TO HALIFAX HOSPITAL IN DAYTONA BEACH.
RIGHT NOW, THERE’S NO WORD ON HOW HE’S DOING.
NASCAR’S SEASON-OPENING RACE AND ITS BIGGEST RACE OF THE SEASON ENDED WITH MOST FANS IN STUNNED SILENCE.
KENNY: THAT’S BECAUSE OF A LAST-LAP CRASH INVOLVING A VETERAN DRIVER.
CHRIS LEA IS IN THE STUDIO TONIGHT.
IS THERE ANY UPDATE ON RYAN NEWMAN?
CHRIS: YOU JUST SAID IT.
ALL WE KNOW IS RYAN NEWMAN IS IN A HOSPITAL IN THE DAYTONA BEACH FLORIDA AREA, AFTER A VERY SCARY CRASH AT THE DAYTONA 500.
THE RACE’S WINNER, DENNY HAMLIN, CALLED THE CRASH, THE WORST CASE SCENARIO.
HERE’S THE VIDEO ONCE AGAIN.
NEWMAN IN THE NUMBER 6 CAR COMING OUT OF TURN 4, HIGH POINT NATIVE RYAN BLANEY TRIES TO PASS, NEWMAN BLOCKS, BUT THEN LOSES CONTROL AND THIS IS WHERE THE CRASH HAPPENED.
HIS CAR THEN SLID, FIERY SPARKS . HERE IS WHAT HAPPENED IN SLOW MOTION.
NEWMAN LOSES CONTROL.
HE HIT THE DRIVER’S SIDE, THEN FLIPPED ONTO HIS ROOF.
ONCOMING COREY LAJOIE HITS NEWMAN ON THE DRIVER’S SIDE, THE CAR FLIPS AGAIN BACK ONTO THE TO SLIDE.
WE ARE STILL WAITING ON WORD ON HIS CONDITION.
YOU CANNOT HELP BUT THINK ABOUT DALE EARNHARDT SENIOR, WHO DIED 19 YEARS AGO TOMORROW ON THE FINAL LAP OF THE DAYTONA 500.
EVERYONE IS SAYING A PRAYER THAT THIS IS NOT THE OUTCOME.
WE ARE GOING TO HEAR FROM DAYTONA 500 WINNER DENNY HAMLIN IN SPORTS.
KENNY: THIS IS RYAN NEWMAN’S 21ST YEAR RACING AT NASCAR’S TOP LEVEL.
HE DRIVES THE NUMBER 6 FORD MUSTANG FOR ROUSH FENWAY RACING.
NOTHING FROM HIS TEAM, YET.
FORD DID TWEET THIS A LITTLE BIT AGO.
OUR THOUGHTS ARE WITH @RYANJNEWMAN AND HIS FAMILY.
WE HOPE TO HEAR GOOD NEWS SOON.
#NEWMANSTRONG.
ANOTHER CUP SERIES VETERAN MOCKSVILLE RESIDENT CLNT BOWYER TWEETED, THIS S IS REAL.
WE’RE ALL ON THE ROAD TOGETHER DOING WHAT WE LOVE.
PLEASE LET @RYANJNEWMAN BE OK HERE.
BOWYER AND NEWMAN HAVE BOTH PREVIOUSLY DRIVEN FOR RICHARD CHILDRESS RACING IN WELCOME.
WE ALSO HAVE THIS FROM DENNY HAMLIN’S SPOTTER EXPLAINING WHY, INITIALLY, HAMLIN WAS CELEBRATING HIS DAYTONA 500 WIN.
CHRIS LAMBERT WRITES, ONE, FOR THOSE HAMMERING @DENNYHAMLIN FOR HIS DONUTS, PUT THE BLAME ON ME IF YOU MUST BLAME ANYONE.
I TOLD HIM TO SLOW DOWN ON THE BACKSTRETCH AND GIVE THE EMERGENCY STAFF TIME TO ROLL, THAT WE HAD A BAD WRECK.
I SAW DH GET IN LINE FOR LUG NUT CHECK AND ASSUMED HE WAS GOING TO VICTORY LANE.
TWO, I THEN MADE A BEELINE DOWN TO JASON JARRETT TO CHECK ON THE STATUS OF RYAN.
I DID NOT COMMUNICATE ANY MORE INFORMATION TO DENNY HAMLIN AFTER THAT BECAUSE I WAS ONLY CONCERNED WITH FINDING OUT INFO ON RYAN.
THAT IS 100% ON ME, AND I’M EXTREMLY SORRY.
BRIANA: NEW TONIGHT, THE MAN ACCUSED OF STABBING AND DISMEMBERING HIS ROOMMATES IN WINSTON-SALEM TWO AND A HALF YEARS AGO PLEADED GUILTY TO THE CRIMES TODAY.
THE JUDGE SENTENCED TYRONE GLADDEN TO TWO CONSECUTIVE LIFE SENTENCES WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE.
DEVETTE CAMPBELL AND GARY CRAIG’S BODIES WERE FOUND BEHIND THE WILLOW CREEK APARTMENTS ON STAGE COACH ROAD BACK IN JULY 2017, ONE MONTH AFTER THEY WERE LAST SEEN.
TONIGHT, THE SEARCH FOR ANSWERS IN A WEEKEND HOMICIDE THAT SPANS TWO COUNTIES.
GREENSBORO POLICE SAY THEY GOT A CALL FROM AUTHORITIES IN KERNERSVILLE.
SAYING THAT A MAN WHO’D BEEN SHOT SHOWED UP TO A HOSPITAL IN FORSYTH COUNTY EARLY SUNDAY MORNING.
HE DIED LATER ON FROM HIS INJURIES.
INVESTIGATORS HAVE NOT RELEASED HIS NAME, BUT SAY THE SHOOTING HAPPENED ON BUNKER HILL ROAD IN GREENSBORO SATURDAY NIGHT, DURING A FIGHT.
KENNY: A NEW LAW IS NOW IN EFFECT NATIONWIDE THAT MAKES CONTACTING EMERGENCY SERVICES THAT MUCH EASIER.
KARI’S LAW ALLOWS PEOPLE TO DIRECTLY CALL 911 FROM PLACES LIKE HOTELS AND BUILDINGS WHERE THEY MIGHT NEED TO USE AN EXTENSION TO DIAL OUT.
TRIAD EMERGENCY DISPATCHERS TELL OUR KIRSTEN GUTIERREZ, IT WILL SAVE TIME, AND POSSIBLY LIVES.
REPORTER: -- >> UNIT RESPOND TO BREATHING DIFFICULTY.
REPORTER: FOR TELECOMMUNICATORS AT THE FORSYTH COUNTY 911 CENTER, EVERY CALL MATTERS.
>> ANYWHERE FROM, WE HAVE HAD ENTRAPMENT, A VEHICLE ROLLED UP AN EMBANKMENT, BREATHING DIFFICULTIES, HEART PROBLEMS, IT COULD BE A SHOOTING, STABBING, THERE COUL BE A CHILD WITH
SOMETHING LODGED IN THEIR THROAT.
ANYTHING.
YOU NAME IT.
REPORTER: EMPLOYEE MICHELLE LEWIS, NEEDS TO BE READY AT ALL TIMES, EVEN WHILE BEING INTERVIEWED.
>> WHEN YOU HAVE BEEN DOING THIS FOR A WHILE, YOU KICK INTO GEAR.
YOU DON’T THINK ABOUT IT.
YOU PICK UP AND GO.
REPORTER: TELECOMMUNICATORS HOPE KARI’S LAW WILL MAKE THINGS THAT MUCH EASIER WHEN CALLING IN AN EMERGENCY.
>> EMERGENCY SERVICES.
REPORTER: THE LAW IS NAMED AFTER KARI HUNT, WHO WAS MURDERED IN A HOTEL ROOM IN TEXAS IN 2013.
>> IT WAS ENACTED BECAUSE, A LITTLE GIRL TRIED TO DIAL 911 FROM A HOTEL ROOM AND SHE DID NOT KNOW -- SHE WAS NINE YEARS OLD AREA SHE DID NOT UNDERSTAND YOU HAD TO DIAL NINE TO GET AN
OUTSIDE LINE.
BECAUSE OF THAT, HER CALL DID NOT GO THROUGH, AND AS A RESULT, HER MOTHER PASSED AWAY.
IT IS IMPORTANT THAT ANY PHONE SYSTEMS WHERE YOU HAVE TO DIAL NINE TO GET AN OUTSIDE LINE, THAT BE CORRECTED.
PEOPLE JUST DON’T KNOW THAT.
THEY SAIL 911.
-- DIAL 911, IT NEEDS TO COME DIRECTLY TO US.
REPORTER: INVESTIGATORS SAYS HUNT WOULD HAVE SURVIVED THE ATTACK IF SHE HAD REACHED EMERGENCY SERVICES.
NOW, NO MATTER WHERE YOU’RE CALLING FROM, YOU JUST NEED TO DIAL 911.
IN WINSTON-SALEM, KIERSTEN GUTIERREZ, WXII 12 NEWS.
KENNY: THE FORSYTH COUNTY 911 CENTER RECEIVES 200 EMERGENCY CALLS A DAY AND AROUND 100,000 EACH YEAR.
WE WANT TO SHARE BREAKING NEWS ABOUT THE RYAN NEWMAN SITUATION.
PRAYERS, IT APPEARS, HAVE BEEN ANSWERED.
I WILL REVIEW A STATEMENT FROM RAUCH FENWAY RACING, HIS RACE TEAM.
HE IS IN SERIOUS CONDITION, BUT DOCTORS HAVE INDICATED HIS INJURIES ARE NOT LIFE-THREATENING.
HALLELUJAH.
WE APPRECIATE, THE STATEMENT GOES ON TO SAY, YOUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS AND ASK YOU RESPECT THE PRIVACY OF RYAN AND HIS FAMILY.
WE WILL PROVIDE MORE INFORMATION AS IT BECOMES AVAILABLE.
BRIANA: A MAN FROM GREENSBORO IS THE LATEST TO BE CHARGED IN CONNECTION TO A DEADLY DRUG OVERDOSE IN REIDSVILLE.
PATRICK MILLNER HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR DEATH BY DISTRIBUTION.
POLICE SAY HE GAVE SOMEONE THE DRUGS THAT LED TO AN OVERDOSE DEATH ON JANUARY SECOND.
AUTHORITIES HAVE NOT RELEASED ANY INFORMATION ABOUT THE PERSON WHO DIED.
JUST LAST WEEK, FORSYTH COUNTY AUTHORITIES ARRESTED AND CHARGED JONATHON BARFIELD FOR SECOND DEGREE MURDER.
THEY SAY HE SOLD A MAN THE HEROIN THAT KILLED HIM IN CLEMENS BACK IN SEPTEMBER.
FORSYTH COUNTY HAS ALREADY SEEN 20 OVERDOSES AND TWO PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY DIED THIS YEAR.
IN 2019, THERE WERE 121 OVERDOSES, AND 47 PEOPLE DIE THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS THIS IS A GROWING PROBLEM THEY FIGHT DAILY.
AND THEY’RE GOING AFTER DEALERS IN HOPES OF CURBING THE OPIOID CRISIS.
KENNY: SURRY COUNTY RANKS SECOND IN THE COUNTRY, PER CAPITA, FOR OPIOD OVERDOSES.
THAT NUMBER LED TO A COMMUNITY FORUM IN MOUNT AIRY.
BRANDON BATES HAS MORE ON THE OVERALL PURPOSE OF THE FORUM AND WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN NEXT.
>> I DON’T KNOW WHAT I CAN LEARN IN EIGHT ADDITIONAL HOURS.
REPORTER: THREE YEARS AGO YOU NEVER WOULD’VE SEEN JESSE SNOW SITTING, LISTENING AND TAKING MENTAL NOTES AT AN OPIOID EPIDEMIC FORUM.
IN FACT, THERE’S A GOOD CHANCE HE WAS CONSUMING SOME FORM OF OPIOID, FIGHTING ADDICTION HIMSELF.
>> I WAS ADDICTED PRETTY MUCH MY WHOLE LIFE.
REPORTER: SNOW TURNED HIS LIFE AROUND AND RUNS A RECOVERY PROGRAM IN A COUNTY AT A BREAKING POINT WHEN IT COMES TO THE OPIOID CRISIS.
>> THERE’S A LOT OF PEOPLE SUFFERING IN SURRY COUNTY.
REPORTER: COMMUNITY MEMBERS PACKED THE EARLE THEATRE IN DOWNTOWN MOUNT AIRY TUESDAY WITH THE SAME GOAL IN MIND, TO FIND A FIX TO THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC.
>> WE WANT TO SEE SOMETHING TAKE PLACE IN THIS COUNTY.
REPORTER: IN 2019 ALONE, SURREY COUNTY EMS RESPONDED TO 358 CALLS FOR SERVICE INVOLVING OVERDOSE.
UNFORTUNATELY, IN SOME CASES EMS CAN’T HELP.
>> WE LOST A DAUGHTER, MY WIFE AND I.
AUGUST 23, 2019.
REPORTER: THE GREATER MOUNT AIRY MISSIONAL NETWORK HOSTED THIS FORUM LOOKING FOR SOLUTIONS SO PEOPLE DON’T HAVE TO LIVE THROUGH THE LOSS OF A LOVED ONE LIKE STEVEN ODUM IS DOING.
>> WE HAVE GOT TO STEP UP.
REPORTER: MEMBERS ON THE PANEL SAY THIS NEEDS TO BE A COMMUNITY EFFORT.
PEOPLE NEED TO SUPPORT EACH OTHER AND GET WORD OF THE STIGMA AGAINST ATTIC BECAUSE IT -- AGAINST ADDICTS BECAUSE IT’S NOT AN EASY BATTLE, JUST ASK JESSEE SNOW.
>> IT’S ONE OF THE HARDEST THINGS I’VE EVER HAD TO DO IN MY LIFE.
REPORTER: SPEAKERS TONIGHT SAID THE FACT THAT SO MANY PEOPLE SHOWED UP WAS THE FIRST STEP IN FIGHTING THE OPIOID CRISIS AND NOW IT’S TIME TO ACT AND IMPLEMENT SOLUTIONS.
BRIANA: TONIGHT, MAINLAND CHINA IS DEALING WITH MORE THAN 72,000 CORONAVIRUS CASES.
MORE THAN 1800 PEOPLE HAVE DIED.
TODAY, DELTA AIR LINES SAID IT IS REACHING OUT TO PASSENGERS WHO RECENTLY TRAVELED ON ONE OF ITS FLIGHTS BETWEEN HONOLULU AND JAPA THE AIRLINER SAYS TWO PASSENGERS
ON THAT FLIGHT ARE BEING REPORTEDLY TREATED FOR THE CORONAVIRUS.
THE NUMBER OF AMERICANS INFECTED HAS NEARLY DOUBLED TONIGHT, WITH THE ARRIVAL OF TWO CHARTER PLANES BRINGING CITIZENS HOME FROM OVERSEAS.
AS NBC’S MIGUEL ALMAGUER REPORTS, THEY FACE A TWO-WEEK QUARANTINE IN THIS COUNTRY.
REPORTER: UNDER HEAVY GUARD, THE LARGEST CLUSTER OF AMERICANS INFECTED WITH THE CORONAVIRUS, ARRIVED IN THE U.S. TODAY, NOW HEADED FOR TREATMENT.
THE 14 SICK PASSENGERS, ISOLATED ON THEIR FLIGHTS IN BIOCONTAINMENT PODS KEPT CLEAR OF MORE THAN 300 OTHERS ON TWO EMERGENCY CHARTERS.
>> WE’RE ON THE PLANE AND THAT’S A GOOD FEELING.
REPORTER: U.S. CITIZENS LIKE THE MOLESKY’S WILL NOW SPEND AT LEAST TWO WEEKS IN QUARANTINE, AFTER JUST SPENDING 14 DAYS IN ISOLATION ON THE DIAMOND PRINCESS CRUISE SHIP OFF THE
COAST OF JAPAN.
>> I HAVE TO PUT ON MY MASK.
REPORTER: THE STATE DEPARTMENT, ALLOWING THE 14 UNIDENTIFIED SICK PASSENGERS WHO SHOWED NO SYMPTOMS TO RETURN TO THE U.S., LEARNING THEY WERE INFECTED JUST BEFORE TAKEOFF.
REPORTER: CRAZY.
CRAZY.
REPORTER: BUT NOT EVERY AMERICAN ABOARD THE CRUISE SHIP CAME HOME.
MATTHEW SMITH CHOSE TO STAY BEHIND.
>> WE’RE TRYING TO MAINTAIN THE ISOLATION.
THEY TOLD US ALL ALONG, THIS IS THE BEST WAY TO PREVENT YOU FROM CATCHING IT.
REPORTER: THE NIGHTMARE ON THIS SHIP, NOT THE ONLY TROUBLE AT SEA.
ANOTHER CRUISE LINER THE WESTERDAM WAS DENIED ENTRY AT SEVERAL INTERNATIONAL PORTS, BEFORE 1000 PASSENGERS WERE FINALLY ALLOWED TO DISEMBARK IN CAMBODIA.
NOW CONFIRMATION AN 83-YEAR-OLD AMERICAN WHO WAS ABOARD, AND LEFT THE SHIP, HAS THE VIRUS.
AND MAY HAVE EXPOSED OTHER CHINA NOW SOARING ABOVE 70,000 AND THE DEATH TOLL APPROACHING 2000, THE VIRUS IS SPREADING TO MORE CORNERS OF THE WORLD.
OFFICIALS IN HAWAII, CONFIRMING AN INFECTED JAPANESE COUPLE, SPENT TIME IN HONOLULU’S PACKED TOURIST DISTRICT STAYING IN A POPULAR HOTEL.
>> OUR FOCUS IS ON WHO THIS PERSON MIGHT HAVE SAT DOWN WITH, TALKED, HAD CONVERSATION WITH.
REPORTER: AN ECONOMIC TOLL IS ALSO RIPPLING AROUND THE WORLD . APPLE NOW SAYING IT WILL MISS ITS REVENUE FORECASTS BECAUSE OF SUPPLY ISSUES WITH ITS IPHONES
PRODUCED IN CHINA.
TONIGHT, THE GLOBAL REACH OF A VIRUS, AND THE FEAR IT SPREADS MCGIRR REPORTING.
ONE OF THOSE AMERICANS ONBOARD THE DIAMOND PRINCESS CRUISE SHIP WAS WINSTON-SALEM WOMAN CANDACE CULCLEASURE.
HER MOTHER TELLS US CANDACE IS BACK IN THE U.S. AND DOING WELL.
KENNY: EARLY VOTING IS UNDERWAY IN NEVADA AHEAD OF THIS SATURDAY’S CAUCUS.
SOME WAITED FOR MORE THAN TWO HOURS TODAY IN LAS VEGAS TO CAST THEIR BALLOT.
THIS IS THE FIRST YEAR NEVADA’S DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS MAKING EARLY VOTING AVAILABLE FOR THE CAUCU CANDIDATES HAVE BEEN ALL OVER THE STATE TRYING TO SWAY LAST-MINUTE VOTERS.
BERNIE SANDERS APPEARS TO BE THE ONE TO BEAT AFTER HIS NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY WIN.
BUT FORMER NEW YORK CITY MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG IS SURGING IN THE POLLS, EVEN THOUGH HE’S NOT ON THE BALLOT IN NEVADA.
THE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES WILL SQUARE OFF ON THE DEBATE STAGE ONCE AGAIN, AHEAD OF SATURDAY’S CAUCUS.
THE TWO-HOUR DEBATE IS SET FOR THIS WEDNESDAY AT 9:00.
WE WILL CARRY AND ON NBC.
-- CARRY IT ON NBC.
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG MAY BE ON THE CUSP OF QUALIFYING FOR THIS DEBATE.
SEVERAL OF HIS RIVALS HAVE MADE IT CLEAR, THEY’D LIKE TO GET HIM ON THE STAGE.
BRIANA: PRESIDENT TRUMP PLANS TO HOLD A RALLY IN CHARLOTTE ON MARCH 2, ONE DAY BEFORE NORTH CAROLINA’S PRIMARY.
DOORS AT BOJANGLES COLISEUM OPENS AT 3:00 P.M.
THE PRESIDENT IS EXPECTED TO SPEAK AROUND SEVEN, AND WILL RETURN TO CHAR