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 you head into hillsborough from the west. And then they split off there in hillsborough and 40 goes on down toward chapel hill and 85 to durham. These are the delays just before you get to the split and mess. We have the inside lanes blocked in both directions. Wrals Mikaya Thurmond arrived on the scene. And are there bananas on the road . A lot of people are asking me this morning on twitter. Reporter thats exactly right, bryan. And in fact it smells like bananas which is not a good thing for me, necessarily. Take a look right behind me. Exactly as you said, 85 southbound is where all this happened. When the tractortrailer went left off of the road and overturned and struck the guardrail as many as many cones. Where you see all the workers is where most of the bananas are. You can see theyve got a fork theyre using to pick up most of the mess and move the median back to where it is supposed to be. They got two lanes here closed on the southbound lanes, and it appears to be one lane in the northbound lane is closed as w closed for about 2 to 3 more hours and we do also know that the driver is expected to be charged in this case for careless and reckless driving. So allow yourself extra time. We did just head up this way. Not seeing any traffic delays on either direction. Thanks. Lets talk about alternate routes to get around the mess this morning, especially if youre coming in from the west toward chapel hill or toward durham on hillsborough, rejoin 85 on the other side of that mess. It will probably save you 5 to 10 minutes so you might consider doing that. As we head deeper into the 7 00 hour i think those eastbound delays on i40 are going to build. Major routes, not looking bad. Typical delays on garner on westbound, otherwise quiet. Pedestrian struck on Pleasant Valley road. Were seeing heavy delays on the inbound side of glenwood avenue so you need to allow extra time heading through the area. Report of a crash on durant road and capitol boulevard and also at trailer road. Those are minor accidents as far as we can tell. No serious injuries and big backups according to sensors. 17 minutes through garner this morning from 4 it up to 440 on westbound. Is being considered for top positions in the trump administration. More on the meetings the president elect has been holding over the weekend and those planned for today as well. Reporter president elect donald trump interviewed more than a dozen candidates at his new Jersey Golf Club over the weekend including former Massachusetts Governor and mittt romney. Reporter so is giuliani. Chris christie had a 30 minute setdown with the president elect. Kansas secretary of state coback has been called in, tough on immigration. James mattis seems to be a favorite for secretary of defense. Trump tweeted that mattis was reporter the new administration will have to deal with democrats in congress, poised to put up a fight but signalling cooperation in some areas. We could get a major infrastructre bill done, but maybe even in the first hundred days. Reporter but first, securing a cabinet. That continues today. Tracie pots, nbc news, washington. Former Texas Governor rick perry is scheduled to meet with the president elect today. Considered for three different cabinet positions, defense, energy, and veterans affairs. Firefighters are still facing an uphill battle in the western part of North Carolina. High winds and dry conditions have spread 20 wildfires. Wral renee chou is here to bring us the latest. Reporter weve learned more new fires flared up. Two of them are in mcdell county. Overworked crews on the front line fire. Fortunately that fire did not grow outside the containment lines. The size remains at about 7,000 acres. 36 contained. Officials allowed residents and Business Owners who evacuated chemney rock village to return today. In ashe county a brush fire was sparked by a house fire. It is growing. A tense standoff continues this morning between police and protesters against the Dakota Access pipeline. An estimated 400 protesters were involved initially. At last check, that number was down to about 100. Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets into the protesters overnight. This in an effort to stop them the protesters say they were fired on while trapped on the bridge and shot with a water canon in subfreezing temperatures. Firefighters say theyre putting out a fire started by protesters. Wake county board of commissioners will report today on the state of the county. His presentation during todays county Board Meeting is expected to touch on areas such as economic strength, growth, and education and provide a look at initiatives for next year. That meeting starts at 2 p. M. Durham City Council Members take vote on Police Body Cameras today. Theyre considering a contract to authorize the cameras. They could spend 282,000 for a period of five years to buy the cameras. Law enforcement agencies are launching their click it or ticket operation today. Officials will be looking for any type of illegal activity which includes course, dwi. Last year officials had 41,000 traffic and criminal violations. Wake county had the highest number of incidents with more than 2700. Departments across the country are alert and mourning after attacks on several Police Officers. Investigations are underway in four different cities. The warning for officers to stay. Wral news on fox 50 is back were following a developing story this morning. Four Police Officers shot in four different u. S. Cities. Three officers were hospitalized and one has died, all in a span of 24 hours. The most recent shooting was in missouri in kansas city where there was a shootout at a traffic stop. An officer and two suspects were shot. One of the suspects died. The officer is in critical but stable condition, no update yet on the second suspects condition. St. Louis say an officer sitting in traffic was shot twice in the face but is expected to live. Police say another car pulled alongside the officers marked patrol vehicle early yesterday evening and fired at least twice and then pulled away. Police say the gunman died in a shootout with officers. In san antonio, texas, an officer was writing a traffic ticket and he was killed. Police say the gunman walked up to the and shot 50yearold Benjamin Marconi twice, killing him. Police dont believe the shooter has a relationship to the original driver pulled over. A person of interest is in custody. In florida, a suspect is in custody after shooting a Police Officer during a traffic stop as well. The suspect was captured after exchanging gunfire with officers. The officer was treated at the hospital and releesd. Police departments released. Police departments across the country are vigilant. Two teens are accused of killing the grandson of danny davis. A 16yearold boy and 17yearold girl killed wilson over a fight over clothes and shoes. They say the teens went to the victims apartment to get shoes and an argument escalated. In aleppo. You dont have to wait a. [ music ]. . Though i clear, my world crumbles when youre not there . . Its that time of year. Long shadows. Yes. Who is the singer . Macy grey. Thats called i try. Yeah. Macy grey. I found myself sprinting to the car this morning, thats how cold it was, elizabeth, my goodness. We have winter here. Coat. And then youre going to need to wear it. It was an illusion on friday. And then on saturday, so pretty, people were, you know, kind of trying to wear sweaters at the Christmas Parade and it was short sleeve weather and then yesterday nothing of the sort. Take a look around the area. Pretty out there this morning. Check out the ski cam. Pretty sunshine there in wilson. Pretty glow there against the Wilson County 31 is our temperature at the airport. Dewpoint is 21 so its dry. With the dry chilly conditions and the wind conditions we have fire danger. No outdoor burning because the fire spread quickly. 30 in southern pines, 34 in temperatures have started to come up about. 7 17 right now. We dont see much of a warmup until the 8 00 hour but the temperatures are creeping up from the 20s this morning in many spots. And its a bit colder than it was yesterday in some places. 6 degrees colder in roxboro. So heres whats happening. We have a huge area of high pressure, we have low pressure bringing some snow to parts of the northeast, including new york, and around the high and the low we have winds blowing into our area north northwest. And its still going to be blustery today, winds at 20 miles an hour instead of 30 Miles Per Hour yesterday. Back off to the west, a cold front, it starts to get cranked up as it approaches the Mississippi Valley. Well see impacts on wednesday and thursday from that. Well talk about that in a moment. Were heading to the tropics 16. It is likely to be a named storm by the end of the week and its name would be otto. Were on the o storm, moving west at 1 mile per hour but drifting. Winds at 35 miles an hour. A look at the forecast track, it may become a hurricane by wednesday night, early thursday morning, and then back down to a Tropical Storm as it crosses Central America and then moves on off into the pacific. So its not something thats likely to affect the united states, but just in case you did we get that o storm from. Mid50s today and tomorrow but our morning lows are close to or below freezing for thursday and wednesday morning. If you have to travel thursday morning the weather looks good. That 60 degrees ton wednesday is close to normal. 61 is our normal for this time of year. It could be as cold as 35 this time of thursday looks nice. Late wednesday night, early thursday morning, front comes through, cloud up on wednesday. By lunchtime on thursday it should be passed us with maybe a tenth of an inch or less of rain on early thursday morning. At lunchtime 64, 70 in the afternoon, and at 5 00, 53. Saturday and sunday like dry, 59 saturday, 56 on sunday. Of course travel weather looks good, thursday morning there may be patchy showers but it is a dry sevenday forecast. Ryan watching whats going on at i85 and i40. It looks like traffic is moving. Traffic is moving, the problem is were seeing Traffic Volume building especially on that eastbound side of i40 or northbound 85 just before the split in hillsborough that. Is due to the overnight crash transfer truck that was caring bananas. It overturned, and the cleanup is likely for a few more hours. Thankfully the driver was not hurt in that crash but the backups are heavy as you come in from the western side of Orange County towards hillsborough trying to get to durham. The delays are in advance of 70 as you head into hillsborough, your alter meat route is 70 eastbound and you can pick up 85 on the other side of the accident. To get to chapel hill on 40 eastbound, you probably are going to need to cut through hillsborough and pick up 86 and head down and pick up i40 on that side of the accident. There are no too many good alternate routes as come in from the western side of Orange County. So think about using 70, thats the bottom line here this morning. Around the triangle, major routes looking a pedestrian accident. Also starting to see inbound capitol delays because of the crash around durant road. Back to you. Syrian Government Forces continued bombing aleppo over the weekend. This video was released showing the aftermath of an airstrike. At least 164 civilians have been killed since the government renewed its assault on aleppo six days ago. Every hospital in aleppo is damaged or destroyed. Th no to the truce calling on insurgents to withdraw. Syrias foreign minister says it will not allow the people of eastern aleppo to be hostages to 6,000 gunman. An estimated 275,000 people are now trapped in the city. Rescuers are using cranes to search for survivors in indias worse train crash in five years. 145 people are confirmed dead as crews continue to search through the through a 27 hour journey when it slid off the tracks sunday morning. 14 cars derailed, one of the coaches landed on top of another. Now anxious relatives are searching for their family members among the injured. Federal regulators wasnt train operators across the country tested for sleep apnea. There was a safety advisory sent to railroads stressing the importance of sleep apnea screening and the engineer in septembers deadly commuter crash in new jersey had undiagnosed sleep apnea. It was going twice the speed limit when it crashed into the platform killing one woman. The advisory is a stopgap measure while regulators draft rules to require railroads to screen engineers. A special note for shoppers, cyber monday will start earlier this year. Walmart announced it will kick off its Cyber Monday Deals on friday, black friday. Last year walmart began offering its deals on sunday night in an this year the Cyber Monday Deals go live at 12 01 ill have that goat cheese garden salad. That gentleman got the last one. Sir, you give me that salad and i will pay for your movie and one snack box. Can i keep the walnuts . Sold. But i get to pick your movie. Can i pick the genre . Yes, but it has to be a comedy. A little cash back on the side. Throw. Its more than cash back. Its backed by the service and security of american express. Lissly, its 7 26 with your stop stories. Number one is traffic this hour. That overnight accident where a truck carrying bananas overturned at i40 at the i85 split in hillsborough. The driver is not seriously injured but we have a big mess to clean up and state troopers tell us its going to take a few more hours to clean up 40,000 to 50,000 bananas that were spilled across county to show you the delays. Its in advance of the u. S. 70 split is the backup. If youre trying to get to chapel hill on i40 eastbound youre going to need to head through hillsborough and pick up 86. In the triangle, delays on glenwood avenue around Pleasant Valley road due toarilyier crash. Thousands of fires are still on the front lines of wildfires burning in the western part of our state. High winds are making contain several fires. There is some progress to report. Fire officials are opening chimney rock village near the chimney rock fire at noon today, opening that to the public. Our weather is chilly this morning but elizabeth says it will be all right later on. Warming back up into the mid50s, similar to yesterday. Breezy like yesterday but not quite as windy, gusts to 20 miles an hour instead of up to 30 miles an hour. Sunshine, 31 at airport, 30 in roxboro and southern pines. Were starting to see temperatures warm up a little bit. Mid50s today, upper 50s tomorrow, wednesday 60 degrees with increasing clouds. Back to you. Thanks, elizabeth. The state board of elections decides not to take over election complaints in dozens of counties. What the board is preparing to do, coming up in our next half hour on fox. Focused on people and community for 60 years. We promise a relentless pursuit of excellence. We are coming up on 7 30. Good morning, and welcome back. The state board of elections will hold a major meeting in raleigh tomorrow and that is to decide legal matters related to a rash of election complaints filed with more than 50 county boards of elections. This meeting follows an emergency meeting yesterday to discuss governor mccrorys challenges to elections results. Emmy victor joins us with a closer look. Emmy. Reporter lena, the members of the state board of elections say process. The complaints given to the counties will be handled by the counties themselves. This is a discussion they had for nearly two hours yesterday. They discussed more than 50 counties in which these complaints were filed. The complaints were mostly filed by governor mccrorys supporters. The concerns include allegations of deceased voters, voters with active felonies and voters that voted ward cooper is leading over pat mccrory but more than 6,600 votes. So there will be briefs and arguments from attorneys representing the mccrory and cooper campaigns. Theyre asking that there are time limits for all the speakers. There is only one county in the state of North Carolina that the state board will interfere in, that is bladen county, because there are allegations of misconduct of voter turnout volunteers there. Back to you. Emmy thank you. Cooper release add video message saying that mccrory is doing all he can to undermine the results of this election and the will of the people. We came out ahead on election day and our margin of victory has only grown since then. Im confident that once the results election are finalized well come out on top. He went on to say that over the next few weeks he will be sharing his asking for peace following the murder after 23yearold man. Julio downy was found lying in a yard over the weekend. Bennie harris pulled the trigger. The men were arguing prior to the shooting. Harris is charged with firstdegree murder. I am deeply burdened by what those hurting. This tragedy has emotions running high. The hate that is being spread is prolong the healing process, enough is enough. Harris is in court on december 17th. A man is in court on child porn charges. 27yearold christopher ferknelli was charged. Found in