Candidates within 4700 votes of each other, and night we learned governor mccrory challenging votes cast in 52 counties. Adam owens is live in downtown raleigh to explain what all of this means. Reporter it appear it is counting is not over. There are protests to votes in North Carolina counties. E latest challenge in the gorns race volves most of those counties. There are claims votes were cast by felons and in the name cast multiple balts. In wake county nearly 30 votes having challenged. Anotr sue, a federal cour order effecting the canvass in dozens of counties. Last month the judge id people whos registrations were not turned over by thdmv in a timely manner should be alwed to vote provisionally. Confming thecases uld take more time. Adto that allegations of Election Fraud fr governor mccrorys mpaigninvolving dozen counties. The outcome could effect close races across the strait. In the governors state. In the governors raccoer leads mccrory by roughly 5,000 votes staid white. A s
The sky that you could smell while you were outside. So how long will the smoke stick around and what are the impacts . We have live team coverage. Ken smith is live in downtown raleigh where thousands will line the streets for the wral Christmas Parade. But we start with mike maze in the weather center. The smoke invaded today, and heres a satellite picture. The smoke plumes weve been watching out west for the past couple of weeks, but the wasnt trajectories has been to the on or about and northeast, but today ahead of a cold front we had a wind from the west and southwest thats effectively carried the smoke spot air. The white was from the smoke, and one woman had a terrible asthma attack. Shes been shush viving on cortisone and benadryl all day. Were in code orange meaning its unhealthy for sensitive folks. Were talking about older adults, young children, those with lung and heart issues. Limit your prolonged outdoor exertion for the remainder of the night and during the day tomorro
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