Name: Fair fun without the flu
Uploaded: 2009-10-19T18:33:52-0400
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Description: The masses of people add to the excitement of the North Carolina State Fair, but they also make it a potential breeding ground for viruses, including the H1N1 flu.

5 On Your Side digs into potential fire hazards all over your home. Found inside phones, toys, cars, and lawn tools, lithium-ion batteries can cause serious damage. At 6 p.m., WRAL shares simple steps to protect your home from lithium batteries.

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The masses of people add to the excitement of the North Carolina State Fair, but they also make it a potential breeding ground for viruses, including the H1N1 flu.

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Fair fun without the flu

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I'm meteorologist, Amy Wilmoth in the WRL severe weather center, a summer like day today. A lot of sunshine, warm temperatures highs will climb into the upper eighties for most of you today. We have severe weather west of us today, but that same system is headed our way. It arrives Friday afternoon and has the potential to bring some severe storms here as well. We have a level one risk for severe storms for most of the area, including all of the triangle. The biggest threats would be some damaging winds and maybe a little bit of hail. So this system as it does move into North Carolina, it weakens, but we still have that threat. We'll still have some storm energy in the afternoon and evening and we have that potential for some isolated severe storms the second half of the day tomorrow overnight, tonight, clouds will increase. We'll have a dry morning commute. So you don't have to worry about the rain in the morning when you leave. But then in the afternoon, around three o'clock or so, we'll start to notice the development of some hit and miss showers and storms and that will likely continue through the evening commute. And if you have Friday night plans, you probably want the umbrella just to be on the safe side. At nine o'clock, we'll still have some scattered showers and storms. And then beyond that, I think things will start to settle down and we'll have a little bit of a break from the rain on Saturday. But some hit and miss storms possible the second half of the day tomorrow on Friday and then we'll have a better chance for some rain as we wrap up the weekend, a decent chance for scattered showers the second half of the day on Sunday, this is just going to be rain. We don't expect severe weather. It will be a stable air mass in place. Highs will be in the sixties. So just plain old rain for the second half of the day on Sunday. So for the rest of the day today, it is dry and warm. A high of 87 today, a dry start Friday. But then late in the afternoon and through the evening, we'll have some hit and miss showers and storms and any storms that form could become become severe. Saturday. We have partly to mostly cloudy skies. Only a 20% chance for rain with a high near normal. Around 75 Sunday will probably start dry. And then the second half of the day, we have scattered showers. It's cooler with a high of 6365 with the high on Monday and we'll have lows in the forties Monday morning and Tuesday morning. But temperatures will start to go up again next week. We're back in the mid seventies, Tuesday and upper seventies by Wednesday.

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

Good evening. I'm Gail her. Welcome to tonight's drawing for Wednesday, April 17th, 2024. Well, let's get start tonight with our Carolina pick three. Our first winning numbers are two. Our second number is nine and the third number tonight is six and our pick three. Fireball number is an eight. Joining me for tonight's show is the auditor from mcconnell and Jones L LP. Now lets move of the Carolina pick four. Good luck. Everyone who's that first number. It's a three. Our second pick four. Number is one, third, one is one again and our fourth pick four number is a nine and our pick for fireball number is a six. Well, turning now to the Carolina cash five. If no one was the top prize tonight, tomorrow's top prize is estimated at $191,000. Good luck. Everyone is that first winning cash five number. It's 33. Our second number is an eight third number. Tonight is 10. Our fourth number is 22 and the final number in our cash five this evening, 41 the North Carolina education lottery has contributed over $10 billion to education. Get your winning numbers right here every night at your exclusive station for the North Carolina Education lottery. Thanks for playing. Have a great night.

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Is powerball. Good evening, everyone. I'm Randy Trainer. Tonight. We have our life changing jackpot. It's estimated to be $80.7 million to get your tickets ready. Here. Come, tonight's winning numbers. Let's start things off this evening with the number 24. Right after that America. We have the number 54 and congratulations to Lisa Hayes from Illinois. She won $2 million playing powerball. All right, the rest of your winning number is 4447. And let's round it out tonight with the number 29 and tonight's win powerball number that's gonna be two and your power play multiplier is two. Let's take a look at tonight's winning numbers. Remember there are multiple ways to win. Good luck, everyone. We'll see you back here on Saturday night. It's time to play America's favorite.

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

Hey there. Good afternoon. I'm Noah Klein. Welcome to this afternoon's draws for Wednesday, April 17th, 2024. Let's get started here with Carolina pick three. That first pick three number is eight, second number is nine. Third number is eight pick 35. Ball number is one. Joining me for this afternoon's drawings are auditor from mcconnell and Jones L LP. Let's move to the Carolina pick four. That first pick four. Number is nine eight third number 64. Number is five and a pick for firewall number is five. The North Carolina Education lottery contributed over $10 billion to educate occasion. Thank you for your support. You get your winning numbers each day at 3 p.m. and again at 11:22 p.m. right here on your exclusive station for the North Carolina Education Lottery.

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>> ACROSS AMERICA WITH MEGA JACKPOTS, IT'S MEGA MILLIONS. HELLO, MAYOR COMES ON CODE IS TUESDAY. APRIL 16TH AND TONIGHT'S MEGA MILLIONS JACKPOT IS AN ESTIMATED A NEW TIES. 148 MILLION DOLLARS. >> DUE TO TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES. TONIGHT'S DRAWING HAS BEEN TEMPORARILY HALTED. ONCE THE MALFUNCTION IS CORRECTED, THE DRAWING WILL CONTINUE UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE AUDITOR. WE SAY TO THE STATION FOR ALL WINNING NUMBERS. >> SPOTTY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS POPPING UP HOW

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Fans of the NC State Wolfpack's men's and women's basketball teams are celebrating the teams' run to the Final Four on Monday night on Hillsborough Street at the Memorial Belltower. NC State Chancellor Randy Woodson, Athletics Director Boo Corrigan and Raleigh Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin are expected to speak Monday night at the event.