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Wind tore through you. It will be breezy today but not as windy as yesterday. Gusts to 20 instead of 30. Look at this beautiful sun glow in durham. A gorgeous sight. The sun is pretty lighting things up. 31 in durham, 30 in holly springs, 26 in carey, 32 in south hill, all the towns in our viewing area at least on below freezing except fayetteville at 34. Temperatures will climb into the 32 degree range at 8 a. M. At lunchtime 48, and mid50s for highs this afternoon. Lots of sunshine today. We have a cold front that will get here just in time for thanksgiving morning. Well talk about how that may affect your weather then. Coming up in just a few minutes, bryan is here with a look at a real mess there at the split of i40 and i85. With a truck that was carrying bananas. And the driver of that truck fell asleep. The truck overturned. The driver is not badly hurt, but look at this big backup were tracking right now on 85 northbound or 40 eastbound. You know they are both numbered there as
Across the road and the cleanup continues now. Lets take you back to the live camera and show you the situation as it stands now. This is 85 southbound and 40 westbound where it comes together and we have the two left lanes blocked right now. On the other side, 85 northbound and 40 eastbound coming in from the western side of Orange County through hillsborough, we have all lanes open but some heavy residual delays as people trying to work their way through that area. Lets head over to that part of the map an again, well in advance of the 70 interchange there heading into hillsborough. 70 is your best option if youre trying to get from the western side of Orange County out towards durham this morning. You can pick up 85 on the other side of the delays. You will notice that red there, very heavy eastbound delays on highway 70. It might at this point be best for you to stay in the traffic. Now that we have all lanes open we could see the drive times improving considerably over the next wh
We have should be fairly clear today. A front could bring us some rain for, say, thursday morning. Ill show you that coming up on future cast. In durham its 28. Its 28 in wake forest and here at the tv studios. Its 25 right now at our sensor in cary. 28 in roxboro, 26 in south hill. Its a cold morning out there. 29 in Southern Pines and 34 degrees in fayetteville. By 8 00 a. M. Temperatures will be climbing back up to about freezing. 50 at close to the high of 54 yesterday. We have high fire danger because its extremely dry. The the winds will be a bit more calm. Officials ask you not to do any out door burning today. We will talk about thanksgiving day. Coming up. Bryan has some spot s to avoid. If you had to use capitol boulevard yesterday afternoon you will remember that it was because of a water main break that continues this morning and will continue through the day. That is between capitol boulevard and wake forest road and wade avenue as we take a look at it. Comes in from 440 t
Wonder about their own childs bus safety. We have a closer look at the issue of school bus safety. Reporter even before this terrible tragedy, the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration had a straightforward answer for the question of how safe are school buses . That answer is that they are the safest way for children to get to and from school. The Administration Says that buses are seven than traveling by car or truck. While more than 30,000 people are killed in crashes every year, six School Aged Children die as passengers in school buses annually. Of course we want the number to be zero but statistics reveal how rare School Bus Crash deaths really are. Still questions remain about why safety belts arent required on school buses like they have been in cars. The government doesnt feel theyre needed. For one thing, what passengers likely to be significantly less forceful than they experience in a car crash. Also the high backed cushion seats usually protect passengers in fronta