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
Havent seen it it. We have moisture in the atmosphere, it was too dry yesterday for any frost, kind of fun to see. First time ive seen any walking in this fall and getting into winter season. High then cloud cover already. Were going to see increasing clouds today, a warm front comes through tomorrow morning which will bring us the chance of patchy light rain. More about that and how will affect your thanksgiving day coming up. 29 in durham, 29 in holly springs, and 26 in wake forest, 27 in south hill, 32 in fayetteville. Expect temperatures to be close to freezing by 8 a. M. 53 at lunchtime, 58 our high this afternoon. Similar temperatures to yesterday and the day before, but what we will see is an increase in our cloud cover. Well talk more about thursdays rain in out the door this morning. What you are run in to on the roads. As we get started, really, with the thick of the morning commute here at 7 02, looking at the sensors, some backups. Fine in downtown raleigh. Capitol boulevar
Get the fire under control in just about 20 minutes but again, one person, we have now learned, has died. At this time were still working to learn what may have caused this fire, but of course, right before a holiday, this has to be absolutely devastating. Renee and lena. Mikaya thurmond, live in raleigh, through. The state bureau of investigation is looking into a tedly shooting involving that involving a Durham Police officer. A man died at the scene. Police say a gun was found next to his body. No names have been released. Also in durham, a Homicide Investigation is now underway after a man was found shot to death there. Police say javan burks body was found near the Railroad Tracks on monday. Anyone with information about the shooting should call Durham Police. We head into the Holiday Weekend with requested a recount. Meanwhile, supporters of his roy cooper are getting increasingly frustrated. They hold a News Conference about the election. Reporter that News Conference is set for
This morning. Im renee chou. Im Brian Shrader and Elizabeth Gardner is in for herself this morning. We have some rain that were dealing with. Not so much right around the triangle area right at the moment. But we do have showers up and down the i95 corridor, and then the Northern County has showers. Were still seeing rain all the way back toward the mountains and were going to have to see all this work through before we can call it done i think certainly by lunchtime were finished with the rain. In some places it may be over a little earlier than that. Heres our rdu skycam. Thats a lot of cloud cover. Just some beautiful contours there with the clouds. A little wet at the airport. You can see some showers coming through. Its a lot warmer than it was this time yesterday. 46 in wake forest, 50 in holy springs. 51 in fayetteville. You need a jacket but not the if we had temperatures like yesterday with the precipitation, you know what would be happening. 8 a. M. , about 50 degrees but clo
Lunchtime, we should cover almost everybody. Steadier rain from roxboro over toward mecklenburg county, virginia, steady rain. From raleigh south ward and westward, a little bit of mist and drizzle. Christmas decorations, and i know its kind of a yucky start to thanksgiving, but we needed the rain. Not a whole lot in the rain gauges, though, probably just a trace to a quarter of an springs. Much, much warmer holly springs. In your planner at lunchtime, expect the rain to be over. Well start to see a peek of sunshine here, starting to see that in a couple of spots already. 58 at lunchtime and with a little more sunshine, expect mid 60s for highs this afternoon. Tomorrow also remains mild. We may see rain toward the end of the day and ill show you the progress of a front across the minutes. Thank you very much. Its 802, and breaking news from china where people have been killed and others trapped in a scaffolding collapse. Two workers injured and one is missing. At a power plants cooling