Name: Years-long JFK Towers turmoil pushes residents to breaking point
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Description: "Something has to be done," Joshua Allen said. "Or this place is going to be sheer hell. That's what's going to happen."

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"Something has to be done," Joshua  Allen said. "Or this place is going to be sheer hell. That's what's going to happen."

TV SPECTRUM AND THE WRAL APP ON YOUR TV OR STREAMING DEVICE. LET'S TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE PROBLEMS IN THIS BUILDING HERE. MORE THAN 180 VIOLATIONS AND THIS APARTMENT BUILDING IN JUST >> ONE YEAR. THAT'S WHAT OUR WRAL INVESTIGATES TEAM UNCOVERED, SHINING A LIGHT ON JUST HOW MANY ISSUES THERE ARE AT JFK TOWERS IN DURHAM. SARAH KRUEGER SHARES THE LATEST CONCERNS AND WHAT'S BEING DONE. >> DO YOU THINK IT'S NICE IN HERE? >> I DON'T THINK SO. >> NOT LONG AGO, JOSHUA ALLEN MOVED INTO A NEWLY RENOVATED UNIT AT JFK TOWERS IN DURHAM AFTER 5 YEARS ON ANOTHER FLOOR, HIS OPTIMISM THAT MIGHT MEAN THE END TO HIS ISSUES AT THE BUILDING. QUICKLY FADED AWAY. HIS FIELDS. WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO CLEAN OR COOK? >> SHE CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT WHAT HE DESCRIBES AS A ROACH INFESTATION IN HIS APARTMENT SOMETIME I PUT THE LIGHT ON WHAT IS. >> AND HE EVEN SAT I COULD DO. MY OWN IS A BIG POWER. ROACHES EVERYWHERE? >> AN ISSUE. HE CLAIMS MANAGEMENT IS NOT ADDRESSING. THAT'S WHY HE CALLED IN TO THE WRAL INVESTIGATES TIP LINE. WHY DO YOU THINK THINGS ARE NOT GETTING FIXED? >> PROBABLY THEY JUST SORRY. SO PEOPLE. SO I MANAGEMENT WRAL HAS REPORTED 4 YEARS ON THE ISSUES AT THE NORTH DURHAM APARTMENT >> WHICH IS HOME TO SOME OF DURHAM'S MOST VULNERABLE OPEN ONLY TO SENIORS AND THOSE WITH DISABILITIES AND ELEVATED WRAP. >> I FILED A RECORDS REQUEST WITH THE CITY FOR THE NUMBER OF VIOLATIONS HERE. IT TOOK MONTHS TO GET THEM. BUT I FINALLY DID. >> THERE WERE 182 VIOLATIONS IN JUST ONE YEAR. >> BECAUSE SOMETHING HAS TO BE TO WALK. IT'S A PLACE CALLED ME AND A LOT OUT SHARE. HEY, OVER. THAT'S WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. >> THE RECORDS OBTAINED BY WRAL INVESTIGATES COVERING NOVEMBER 2022. THROUGH NOVEMBER 2023. DESCRIBE A TRASH CHUTE FULL OF TRASH, NATS AND FLIES WATER DAMAGE TO CARPETS AND CEILINGS, A LACK OF SMOKE DETECTORS IN BEDROOMS AND MULTIPLE ISSUES WITH ROACHES? I'M TIRED. FIT TO WRAL HAS REPORTED ALLEN, ALONG WITH SEVERAL OTHER TENANTS IS SUING JFK TOWERS MANAGEMENT MILLENNIA, HOUSING MANAGEMENT. THE COMPANY IS ALSO FACING A FEDERAL INVESTIGATION THAT IT MISHANDLED SECURITY DEPOSITS AND TAXPAYER DOLLARS. ALLEN HAS LITTLE FAITH IN FIXES. >> AND IS INSTEAD LOOKING FOR A NEW PLACE TO LIVE BATTLE AND ME WE ALL AND IS BUILDING IT DESERVES THAT SARAH KRUEGER WRAL NEWS, DURHAM. >> WE ALSO ASKED THE CITY IF ANY OF THE FINES HAVE BEEN ISSUED AND THEY TOLD US KNOW SAYING THEY HAVE AN ISSUE FINES BECAUSE MILLENNIA IS IN THE PROCESS OF MAKING PROGRESS IN COMING INTO COMPLIANCE. IN A STATEMENT, MILLENNIA HOUSING MANAGEMENT SAID IT ACQUIRED THE PROPERTY IN 2019 AND HAS INVESTED ROUGHLY 35 MILLION DOLLARS INTO MAKING IMPROVEMENTS. WRITING THIS, QUOTE, THE COMMUNITY IS STILL UNDERGOING A SUBSTANTIAL REHABILITATION AND RESIDENTS. OUR REGULARLY UPDATED ON THE PROGRESS WHILE NUMEROUS MAINTENANCE ISSUES HAVE ALREADY BEEN ADDRESSED. THE MANAGEMENT TEAM AND JFK TOWERS CONTINUES

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Years-long JFK Towers turmoil pushes residents to breaking point

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I'm meteorologist, Amy Wilm in the WRL severe weather center. Pretty nice weather today. A mix of sun and clouds with temperatures close to normal for this time of year. We reach 80 degrees in Raleigh and Durham, 79 in Rocky Mount. 81 for the high temperature in Fayetteville. If you want to have dinner outside this evening, it's going to be a lovely evening to do that at 7 p.m. We're in the mid seventies, mostly sunny skies, low seventies at 8 p.m. and then we're back down to the sixties by nine o'clock and certainly no rain in the forecast for today. For the next three days. The weather stays pretty quiet and the big story will be the warming of our temperatures 80 today, 84 Tuesday and then 88 for the high temperature on Wednesday. Once we get to the holiday weekend, that's when things turn unsettled and temperatures will drop a little bit. We have scattered storms in the forecast for Friday, especially Friday night. Saturday, scattered storms possible at any point in time, just a few spotty showers and storms Sunday and then we're back to some scattered storm chances on Monday, no day looks like a washout as of now. So keep checking back in and we'll have a better idea on the exact timing and amounts once we get to around Thursday or so, here's a look at Futurecast. This is for Thursday morning. It's a dry start to the day. But then Thursday night we have some scattered showers. So most of Thursday is dry. It's not until very late. We could see a few showers. Friday morning looks dry. Maybe you're hitting the road early on Friday for the long holiday weekend, it looks dry for most of the state. And then once we get to Friday evening, it's the western half of the state that has some storms for us. It'll be Friday night, an overnight Friday in early Saturday, we'll have a good opportunity for some rain and storms. Saturday morning, rain chances for us fairly slim and really across most of North Carolina rain, chances look pretty low Saturday morning. But then we get into the afternoon and evening, the peak heating and we'll have some scattered showers and thunderstorms. Sunday morning. We could have some rain along the North Carolina coast and then just some hit showers and storms across a good part of the state. But a lot of dry time as well. Monday for Memorial Day, we'll have some hit and miss showers and storms as well. So it's very quiet for the next few days with temperatures warming up. We're in the low nineties by Thursday and then temperatures back off a little bit over the weekend. But again, that does come with the potential for some scattered showers and storms.

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