Dropping in south hill to near 63 this morning. So heres a look at yer forecast for the day a a look at your forecast for the day ahead. 84 by lunchtime. Still pretty comfortable although a cloud or two there at lunchtime. 90 our afternoon high. And yes, this could be the hottest day so far this week but i dont think it will be the hottest one. Id think temperatures continue to climb towards our friday afternoon. Ill have a look at these changes and when you need the umbrella, again, coming up forecast. Good morning. We have a lot going on on the roads already. Already have a crash out there. Well take you right to it. Wilmington street at tryon road. Be aware of that. Causing moderate delays. Also some road work going on on 40 eastbound. The gorman street exit ramp closed until rush hour. You want to take exit 295 excuse me. Do not take that exit. That is cloudy. Lake wheeler road exit is open, to get onto gorman street. Also a born fire out in nash county at racetrack road Andrew Lanier caster store road that area is closed while crews battle that blaze. If we take you in durham nothing like that roads are moving pretty well. To the airport, some good news flying out to laguardia, d. C. , you should be arriving on time. And we do have a coworker headed out to rdu for some travel see says she got through security in 4 minutes. Youre returning a little late. I40 at lake wheeler road. This is the way you want to take if you want to get on gorman street. No delays there. Another check on traffic coming up. We have breaking news this morning. An hours long militant attack on the American University of afghanistan is now over but at least 12 people are dead and dozens more hurt. Heres a look at where it happened. The assault started just as monday of students headed to evening classes at the western edge of kabul. Enamelers emma wright has been covering this all morning live in the studio with full details. Reporter according to kabul police 13 people were killed in the attack include of cluing seven students, three policemen and three guards. 750 students were rescued from the american of the in kabul. Witnesses say they heard gunshots, then a blast. Some say during the blast, the gate to the school was blown open and that let the attackers themselves in classrooms. A cbs news producer was inside one of those classrooms at the u. When the attack happened. The gunfire was getting closer i. Felt few bullets flying over my head. And there was few seconds i thought that these bullets may hit me or my friends. Is over. U. S. Government says no one has claimed responsibilities for the attack yet. Also breaking overnight, the frantic search for survivors in central italy has entered a second day. More than 245 people are dead. Many others injured. Reporter from the hard hit town of amatrice. Reporter rescue teams and earthquake ravenel bridge ind and into daybreak using search dogs and heavy equipment trying to find people feared buried alive. Armored tanks are joining the effort in towns. Yesterday crews there carefully pulled a girl named julia to safety. She had been trapped for 17 hours. The scene did little comfort this firefighter. Julia is being tan to the hospital and thats good news the images speak for themselves. The powerful quake struck wednesday leaving hundreds dead. Many of the victims came from here in amatrice which is packed with tourists this time of year. Several guests of the damage hotel in the town lost their lives when the quake hit including an 11yearold boy, first found alive in the rubble. Amatrice was set to hold in annual Food Festival this weekend. Now thousands of those left homeless bit disaster have set the devastation wondering how theyll rebuild from here. President obama offered his condolences to italys president by phone add he mended the nations First Responders on their quick action. Mike pence made two stopped here yesterday in n orth carolina. He held an afternoon rally in leeland just outside of wilmington. Tavern in wilmington before going back to indiana. The Hillary ClintonCampaign Calling a report by the Associated Press quoted absurd and a lot of smoke, no fire. Referring to the accusations surrounding the clinton foundation. The report claims more than half of the people who met her while serving as secretary of state contributed personally or through the groups to her familys foundation. Several new pom numbers have been released for the big monmouth university. In the race for the white House DemocraticHillary Clinton has a two point lead over donald trump. 4442 . That lead is within the margin of error. Now, in the governors race the race isnt as close. Democratic attorney general roy cooper adding to his lead over incumbent republican pat mccrory your. 5243 . Richard burr holds a two point Democratic Senate candidate held a round table discussion to focus on the importance of protecting Social Security and medical care in cary. Shes an attorney and former wake county representative in the general assembly. We have to put our heads together. This is a hard problem. We have to do it in a bipartisan way. I have a history of working across the aisle on tough issues. We reached out to burrs office for a response in a a consist on the support e of protecting Social Security and medicare. He will continue to work in a bipartisan way. Ones again, protesters taking their message straight to the governor. This was the scene outside last night. The air horn orchestra started earlier this year in protest to house bill 2. They will continue to protest until changes are made. Currently 5 07 people injured and property damaged coming up after the break well show you the devastation left behind. Plus a Durham Rescue Mission helping children get ready to head back to school. Coming up well tell you about a big event held yesterday. And temperatures before you get to head out the door on this thursday, right around the low to mid60s. 61 in smithfield. 63 in goldsboro and clinton right now reporting 65. Now later today it will be a bit hotter. A closer look at the temperatures up next. Project fortify road work how to get around it, let you [music] dr. Stanley we can understand and realize, its through the gospel that you and i can be absolutely assured at what paul said when he said, absent from the body, present with the lord. We dont have to fear death. Its through the gospel that our so if you saw the clouds yesterday you probably were thinking just like me, is it going to rain . But there was never any rain. No rain yet. At times it was pretty cloudy yesterday but thankfully we saw more sunshine. We are going to see sunshine to start the day. But, again, if you see the clouds no worries for any rain today. I think tomorrow possibly some of you could see a stray shower or two. Right now a live picture from the top other him restaurant in chapel hill. Wee seen a few cars driving around downtown. Not a lot going on. Still early on this thursday morning. So lets get straight to your temperatures. Its 66 right now. Well stain the mid60s through 7 00 a. M. Start to climb slowly at first. We should be back to 70 by 8 00 74 by 9 00. Most of us seeing wall to wall sunshine throughout the morning hours. That could change later this afternoon. We could see a few more clouds. So lets get to the satellite and radar composite, again, no rain showing up on our satellite and radar composite so if you are getting ready to head out the door all is quiet. So heres a look at temperatures around central North Carolina. Its 61 in louisburg, clayton and rocky mount. So as we head into the afternoon, 84 at lunchtime. 90, though, our afternoon high. Days, still on the dry side. More on your rest of your work week forecast in just a little bit. In durham, crest street park will soon be home to the newest playground. Yesterday more than 250 volunteers created a safe place for kids to have fun. Blue cross blue shield of North Carolinas funding it and getting help from a grant from the organization kaboom. Its a National Nonprofit dedicated to bringing active play untot lives of all children. Manyol live in that area. Playground will be dedicated and officially open up for children to play this sunday. Still ahead here on cbs North Carolina. Students in one county will be getting extra sleep once the school year begins. Coming up the reason behind the change. And a new assistant coach for the tar heels football team. Why this addition to the breaking news, 247 people are dead after the earthquake in italy. It recause three towns to rabble. Emergency crews are still searching for survivors. We have been on the scene of breaking news. A barn full of hay and Farm Equipment went up in flames in nash county. It is near racetrack road an lancaster store road. They expect the fire to burn for days but it will not spread. Than two dozen injured after a militant attack on the American University of afghanistan. The victims include seven students, three police officers, two security guard. The assault began yesterday evening with a suicide car bombing at the entrance in kabul. 8. 5 hours later the siege ended when Police Killed the two attackers. At least eight funnel clouds were spotted in indiana last night as severe storms moved through. You can see what a mess eight dozen people were injured including a 5monthold child. According to officials thankfully everyone is specd to be okay. They have declared a state of emergency for the affected area. And that same storm system also spawned two tornado in ohio. Damage was record ate Mobile Home Park and other sites across northwest ohio. One minor injury was reported. Nine people are recovering after Duke Medical Center after being exposed to Carbon Monoxide yesterday. This happened at a Catering Company in edenton North Carolina near virginia border. Six others were treated at the hospital. At the time, people reported feeling fainted nauseous. Everyone, though, is expected to be okay. Now, to an update to a story that we brought to you yesterday morning. In durham, thousands of kids got a jump start on the school year. Yeah, more than 3000 children walked away with new rescue mission. Parents say its a big help. Many families are struggling just to pay the increased rents, utilities and food, so once they get all those bases covered, theres really nothing left in the budget for the backpacks and School Supplies. Now along with School Supplies they also gave away food, clothes and ways for families who attended and i was in a Couple Stores over the a dollar. Think if you just spend 20 you can buy 20 things. Now speaking of durham i was there last week working on this. Durham Public Schools have been considering a change in the Bell Schedule for over a decade right now. Starting monday morning, High Schoolers actually get to sleep in a little bit longer. So heres why. Theres a lot of research that indicates that high schools need more sleep. So were hopeful that by and of course, they will achieve better results. The new start time 9 00 a. M. For most high schools. They used to start at 7 30. The day will now end at 4 00. Teachers hope this will reduce tardiness and improve perform afternoon. Parents i spoke with have some mixed feels. Youll hear from them later this morning i. Also talked with a teacher about how she thinks this is going to impact her classroom. You know for those kids i need my sleep, too. By friday we dont know what you know one other moms i talked with she said she doesnt think this is going to work. Thats an extra hour at night for facebook and instagram. Got to have a lot of discipline. Lets get to the forecast. It wont be long before were talking about that back to school forecast. Right now 66 degrees this is a live picture from the airport as we do start off our morning. Pretty nice. Clear skies but we went see the clear skies until we see the sunrise. Thats still over an hour away around 6 41 this morning. Satellite and radar composite well rely on this until we see the dry skies, clear conditions, as well. So lets get straight to the temperatures, 62 in south hill. 63 in henderson. We have 61 right now in louisburg and clayton. Mid60s around lillington. 65 in clinton and ye 68 degrees. So heres a look at your hour by hour forecast. We should be close to 78 at 10 00 a. M. This morning. 84 at lunchtime. So for most of you still comfortable enough to maybe take that lunch outdoors. Temperatures this afternoon will be a bit hotter. Well make it to 90. Also a little bit more humid. I dont think youll be very oppressive until tomorrow afternoon. Thats when cue point temperatures are back in the upper 60s. In the meantime High Pressure still controlling our forecast for one more day. Yesterday. This starts the track off to the east tomorrow. Cold front starts approaching ahead of that. Its going to be the hottest day of the work week. Also the humidity will return. Most of us will stay dry tomorrow as that cold front approaches for saturday. Thats when i think that rain chance will go up for us. Still not a washout for the weekend ahead but there will be that chance to see a shower or some. Dry this morning and afternoon. If you have outdoor plans, again, today, towards tomorrow most of us should stay dry in the morning. Cant rule out a stray shower in the afternoon. You can see it would be very isolated in nature u. Auto do expect most of us to stay dry tomorrow. Now, an update on the tropics we have hurricane gaston that strengthened throughout the overnight hours. Wind at 75 miles per hour. Heres the update, though, not expected to stay as a hurricane for long. Will likely weaken into a Tropical Storm later today or tomorrow morning. Weekend. Then it starts to move into more favorable conditions and could restrengthen late this weekend into a hurricane. Expected to make a knoterly turn which means it poses no threat on the east coast. High today tv 90 in raleigh. 89 in durham and 92 in fayetteville. Overnight tonight well fall to 71. So yeah, a bit warmer. Not nearly as comfortable as the past funnies of nights. Low 90s for friday and saturday. Sp small chance for shower or storm mainly in the afternoon. Let me hand it over to ali. The 80s were nice while they lasted. You still have time to wash your car. If you heading out the door give yourself extra time. We have a bunch of things going on out there on this friday eve. Wilmington street crash at tryon road in raleigh. We also have road work going on on i40 east. The ramp to gorman street is and get onto gorman street from there. Start at 9 00 today were going to have inside lane closures on i40. On the Johnston County wake county line in garner between exit 306 and 309. More Maintenance Work going on there. Always take it slow around the construction crews. If youre heading through fayetteville, roads look pretty good. 95 moving well and look at your westbound drive times, nothing to complain about here. Easy ride for u. S. 64 to glenwood avenue, 17 minutes there. 440 new bern to wade avenue 8. Clayton bypass about 11 minute there t. 440 and lake boone trail. Bunch of headlights out there all going the speed limit. Come on. Its triple action formula is relentless at killing fleas and ticks for a full 30 days. 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Still, less than a year after losing his job for mistreating players he not only found himself back on his feet, he officially joined a unc staff coming off an 11 win season. And the his decision. I promise you i didnt see anywhere where the ncaa said he should be banished from the game of football i. Department believe everything i read i. Know tim i. Know his side of the story, also. So i was comfortable with it. So im glad were able to give him this opportunity until hes able to find employment. Since beckman is a volunteer auto he does not work directly with the players he just assists the coaches as needed. Versus georgia. Thats all the time we have for sports but dont forget to check us out this evening. A preview of the High School Game of the week. The latest on dukes preparation and one set of high of High School Football teams will take the field tonight. Well have the highlights right here on cbs North Carolina. 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Yeah, thursday or friday eve as our ali likes to call it. Lets get started with our forecast. Pretty clear skies, again, no rain as we do start o head out the door you will not need the umbrella. Youll need those sunglasses as soon as its sun rises. So lets get to the current temperatures, were here in the mix of mid60s in the triangle. Off to the east the low six ties through louisburg, clayton through rocky mount. 61. We head towards roxboro, 66 there. South, 66 in raeford and 68 in fayetteville. So heres a look at your forecast for the day ahead