Name: March Madness begins; productivity plummets
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Description: The NCAA tournament tips off later today. From sports bars to office breakrooms, fans will be giving into March Madness.

2 NC counties are under alert, including Cumberland County.

WRAL Weather Alert Day issued for Saturday, severe risk upgraded. On WRAL at 4:30, the areas that could see isolated tornadoes & power outages.

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The NCAA tournament tips off later today.  From sports bars to office breakrooms, fans will be giving into March Madness. 

Jodi Leese Glusco

March Madness begins; productivity plummets

WRAL-TV News Broadcasts: Watch each newscast live or watch the most recent newscast on demand.

WRAL Late News 

Get the latest WRAL WeatherCenter Forecast whenever you need it, including the DUALDoppler5000 and the 7-Day Forecast.

Good morning. I'm meteorologist Elizabeth Gardner. Saturday is now a wr weather alert day. Our southern counties are in a level two risk for severe storms and we have a level one risk for the rest of the viewing area. Almost all of it timing mid to late afternoon and evening, damaging winds, isolated tornadoes would be the main threat is isolated tornadoes potentially in our southern counties. And those counties are Wayne County, Sampson County, Cumberland County and Hoke County. And then most of the remainder of the viewing area in that level one risk, we could see some wind damage. We take a look at the big picture and we had deadly thunderstorms coming through Houston yesterday and last night, they continued to slide eastward with a lot of scattered severe weather, severe thunderstorms mostly. And you can see where that is now down in the deep south along the Gulf coast. And so that system is headed our way and it will linger around the area through the weekend. Checking out futurecast this morning, we'll see a mix of sun and clouds. None of these days today. Tomorrow or Sunday will be a total wash will be dry this morning. There's nine o'clock. After lunchtime we start to see a few isolated storms developing. There's two o'clock, five o'clock again, you can see it's just widely scattered there at five o'clock, seven o'clock, a storm or two, but some heavy rain potentially and some dusty winds. And then tomorrow we have the severe threats Saturday in the morning, 6 a.m. there's 9 a.m. maybe a Sprinkle or two, probably going to be cloudy in the morning, but we're still fairly dry at lunchtime. And then once we get into the mid to late afternoon, that's when we'll have a better chance for storm three o'clock. The showers and storms down south five o'clock around the triangle area and then that continues to lift northward. So not a ton of coverage out there for Saturday, but we do have that potential severe threat in our southern counties. Weather watcher in Sanford. Kristen Cox said this is beautiful sunrise there. You can see some high cloud cover there for us. We're going to see increasing clouds and showers and storms this afternoon. 82 Raleigh 81 Durham, 85 in Fayetteville. And the Mikey meter is sitting at tolerable with a due point of 62. It will be a little higher over the weekend of the showers and storms, but it dips a little bit from Monday and Tuesday with some sunshine and some actually fairly pleasant temperatures. Saturday, the Bin Bay Cultural Arts Festival is happening in downtown Durham. Of course, we do have a level one risk for severe storms in Durham. Not a washout but scattered storms. And the later you wait in the day, the better chance we'll have of seeing some of those thunderstorms. It does look a little drier and quieter for much of next week.

WRAL WeatherCenter Forecast

Nightly N.C. Education Lottery drawings during the 11 p.m. News.

Good evening. I'm Tina sold in cash with tonight's lottery drugs for Thursday. May 16, 2024. Here we go with the Carolina pick three. Our first winning number one. Second pick 32. 3rd winning number tonight is one and our pick three. Fireball number is also one. Joining me for tonight's drawing is our auditor from the Common and Jones L LP. Now it's time for the Carolina pick for here. We good luck. First winning number eight. Second pick for tonight is four, third pick 40. 4th winning number is one and our pick for fireball number is seven. Let's turn now to the Carolina cash five. If no one matches all five numbers to win the jackpot tonight, tomorrow's top prize is an estimated $120,000. First winning cash 5, 36. That's followed by 43 3rd cash five tonight. 15, 4th winning number five and good luck. Our final winning cash five number tonight is 40. The North Carolina education lottery has contributed over $10 billion to education. Thanks for your support and get the winning numbers every night right here.

Evening Pick 3 Pick 4 and Cash 5

Sky 5 is flying over the scene of a developing situation of a tanker truck fuel leak in Raleigh.

Sky 5 flies over the scene of a tanker truck fuel leak 

Daytime Pick 3 and Pick 4 drawings are held at 3 p.m. daily. They can be seen as live or on-demand video.

Good afternoon to you. I'm Noah Klein. Welcome to this afternoon. Joining us for Thursday, May 16th 2024. Let's get started. Carolina pick three. That first number is three. The second number is five. The third number is zero. Last number is six. Joining me for this afternoon's draw auditor from mcconnell and Jones. Now, let's with Caroline pick four. That first pick four number is zero zero. Fourth number is six pick where a firewall number is two. The North Carolina Education lottery contributed over $10 million in education. Thank you for your support.

Daytime Pick 3 and Pick 4 Drawing

The Second Quarter North Carolina Economic Forecast is held Thursday at UNC Charlotte. Economist John Connaughton will present his quarterly forecast on the North Carolina economy.

UNC Charlotte economist gives his NC economic forecast for 2024's 2nd quarter

On Thursday morning, hundreds of people are expected to gather at Halifax Mall in Raleigh to highlight the looming crisis they say will come with the expiration of federal funding.

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A statue of the late Rev. Billy Graham set to stand inside the U.S. Capitol to represent North Carolina will be unveiled Thursday.


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