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
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
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Be dry, too. The streak of 80s will come to an end when the 90s return. When we have a dew point temperature like today in the 70s in that steamy zone, we have to Start Talking about a heat index again over 100 degrees. Thats how the first full weekend of august will begin. Starts off early tomorrow, muggy. Youll be sadly that will be the coolest time all weekend. 92 for a high. Will feel like 102. Tomorrow its an isolated storm. Sunday it gets cooler, but its a tradeoff. Download the wncn app if you havent already, look for it in your app store. Two horses with the raleigh accident this afternoon on u. S. 401. These are photos the Police Department provided us of ike and willow. They were headed back to their stable after being on duty. As the truck approached the intersection, a car cut the truck off, forcing the driver of the trailer to swerve. They were treated by a veterinarian, but should be okay. The Governors Office is offering up to 50,000 to violence. Police say most of the m