NC man dies after being pulled from water in Florida Keys
PEOPLE LOOKING FOR A WEEKEND ON THE LAKE. YEAH, NORTH CAROLINA IS A GREAT DESTINATION. WE HAVE BEACH, MOUNTAINS, PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING. I JUST HOPE PEOPLE HAVE A BETTER CAR TRIP EXPERIENCE THAN WE JUST DID. AND NOW WE TALKING ABOUT IT IN THE NEWSROOM. YOU HEARD THIS STORY. 13 MONTH OLD. HE GAVE US THE BUSINESS FOR FOUR STRAIGHT HOURS YELLING AND SCREAMING IN THE CAR. SO YEAH, THERE’S THAT. TWO PEOPLE. HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY RIGHT. YEAH THAT’S RIGHT. SHE HAD YOU ALONG. THAT’S TO HELP OUT WITH THAT. YEAH. SOMETIMES THEY CAN GIVE US FITS, BUT IT’S ALL WORTH IT IN THE END. YOU KNOW, YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND. AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE TEMPERATURES, THEY USUALLY GET TO ABOUT 80 DEGREES IN THE AFTERNOON FOR AN AVERAGE HIGH AROUND THE END OF MAY. AND THEN WE USUALLY SEE UPPER 80S AS WE HEAD INTO JULY ON OUR SEVEN DAY FORECAST. WE’VE ACTUALLY GOT SOME UPPER 80S IN IT. SO IT’S GOING TO START TO FEEL A LITTLE BIT MORE LIKE SUMMER. HAVE TO WAIT IT OUT THOUGH, BECAUSE IT’S RATHER CHILLY OUT THERE RIGHT NOW. ONLY IN THE 50S. WE’VE GOT 70S MOST OF THIS WEEK. AND THEN BY THE WEEKEND THOSE TEMPERATURES DO START TO CLIMB. BUT AS I MENTIONED, PRETTY CHILLY OUT THERE RIGHT NOW. 51 IN SPARTA, 53 WINSTON-SALEM AND GREENSBORO, 52 IN MARTINSVILLE AND 61 IN LEXINGTON. NOW WE’VE GOT ANOTHER CHANCE OF RAIN COMING IN HERE ON WEDNESDAY, DRY FOR THE LATTER HALF OF THE WEEK. AND THEN OF COURSE, THAT MUCH WARMER WEEKEND. A LOT OF GRAY SKIES OUT THERE, ALONG WITH A FEW DROPS OF RAIN TODAY. THESE CLOUDS WILL THIN OUT AS WE HEAD INTO THE EVENING HOURS. YOU’RE NOTICING THE RADAR GETTING A LITTLE DRIER TO MOST OF THE RAIN FELL ALONG THE VIRGINIA NORTH CAROLINA BORDER. SO THAT’S WHERE YOU’RE GOING TO SEE A HALF OF AN INCH OR MORE UP OVER PARTS OF PATRICK COUNTY, AS WELL AS HENRY COUNTY DID SEE SOME LIGHT AMOUNTS IN NORTH WILKESBORO, ABOUT A QUARTER OF AN INCH IN MOUNT AIRY. EVERYBODY NEEDS IT. THIS IS THE MAP THAT WAS UPDATED ON THURSDAY. THAT PUTS EXTREME DROUGHT ACROSS MOST OF OUR AREA. THAT INCLUDES DOWN TO CHARLOTTE, OVER TO RALEIGH. NOW, THANKFULLY, ALL OF THE COUNTIES IN NORTH CAROLINA HAVE BEEN LIFTED FROM THE BURN BAN. SO AT LEAST THE RAIN IS HELPING WITH THAT PARTICULAR SITUATION. WE NEED A LOT MORE RAIN TO HELP WITH THE DROUGHT. YOU LOOK AT WHERE WE’VE SEEN RAIN OVER THE LAST 24 HOURS, LIKE I SAID, UP TOWARD VIRGINIA, BUT ALSO DOWN TOWARD THE COASTLINE. THEY’VE BEEN GETTING A LITTLE BIT OF WET WEATHER. THEY EVEN HAVE SOME STORMS TAKING PLACE RIGHT NOW AROUND THAT AREA OF LOW PRESSURE. AND THAT FRONT THAT IS MOVING THROUGH OUR REGION. AND THEY COULD SEE SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM MYRTLE BEACH UP TOWARD WILMINGTON, BUT THOSE WILL STAY TO OUR SOUTHEAST. WE ARE GOING TO BE DRYING OUT. WE CLEAR OUT, BUT WITH CLEAR SKIES AND THAT MOISTURE AROUND IN THE LOW LEVELS, THERE’S ACTUALLY AN OPPORTUNITY THAT WE WILL SEE FOG REALLY FILLING IN AFTER MIDNIGHT AND INTO EARLY TOMORROW MORNING. WE COULD SEE VISIBILITIES THAT ARE LESS THAN A HALF OF A MILE ACROSS A WIDESPREAD AREA THAT MAY MOVE UP INTO THE FOOTHILLS AS WELL. SO JUST GO AHEAD AND PLAN TO HAVE A LITTLE EXTRA TIME EARLY TOMORROW MORNING. IT MAY BE LATE MORNING BEFORE THAT VISIBILITY IS ANY BETTER. WE DO EXPECT TO HAVE CLOUDS AROUND EARLY IN THE MORNING, BUT NOTICE A LOT OF SUNSHINE BY TOMORROW AFTERNOON WITH TEMPERATURES THAT WILL GET WARMER THAN TODAY. SO WE START KIND OF COOL AT 44, BUT OUR HIGH IS 73 TOMORROW AFTERNOON WITH THAT SOUTH WIND AT ABOUT FIVE MILES AN HOUR. WE’VE GOT A HIGH OF 72 IN THE FOOTHILLS TOMORROW, LOW 40S TO START WITH. SOME CLOUDS AND FOG AROUND IN THE MOUNTAINS UP TO ABOUT 69 BY TOMORROW AFTERNOON. AND WE START AROUND 40. THAT WARMER AIR IS JUST TO OUR WEST AND IT WILL BE MOVING OUR WAY. YOU SEE THE 80S OUT THERE. WE ALSO HAVE ANOTHER FRONT THAT’S GOING TO BE MOVING IN HERE. SO THAT WILL BE OUR RAIN CHANCE AS WE HEAD INTO WEDNESDAY. AND RIGHT NOW IT LOOKS LIKE LATE WEDNESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT. BREEZY CONDITIONS, SOME SCATTERED SHOWERS, POSSIBLY A LITTLE BIT OF THUNDER. HERE’S YOUR SEVEN DAY FORECAST AND SHOWS YOU THOSE TEMPERATURES AND LOTS OF SUNSHINE HEADING TOWARD THE WEEKEND. GETTING A CHECK ON TRAFFIC. A LIVE LOOK FROM I-85 AT YOUNG’S MILL ROAD IN GUILFORD COUNTY.
NC man dies after being pulled from water in Florida Keys
Updated: 9:26 PM EDT May 11, 2026
A North Carolina man has died after being pulled unconscious from the water in the Florida Keys, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies and the U.S. Coast Guard responded just before noon Sunday to an area near Cottrell Key off Key West.Officials said Benjamin Millspaw, 56, of Belmont, North Carolina, was pronounced dead at Lower Keys Medical Center on Stock Island. He had been with a commercial snorkel company.The sheriff’s office said foul play is not suspected. Autopsy results are pending.
MONROE COUNTY, Fla. —
A North Carolina man has died after being pulled unconscious from the water in the Florida Keys, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies and the U.S. Coast Guard responded just before noon Sunday to an area near Cottrell Key off Key West.
Officials said Benjamin Millspaw, 56, of Belmont, North Carolina, was pronounced dead at Lower Keys Medical Center on Stock Island. He had been with a commercial snorkel company.
The sheriff’s office said foul play is not suspected. Autopsy results are pending.