Name: Advocates say move away from gas-powered vehicles will make big dent in NC's air pollution
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Description: Environmental groups on Tuesday called for state leaders to do more to address air pollution in North Carolina.

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>>> SEE YOU THEN. >> RALEIGH WANTS YOUR OPINION ON NEW AREAS COMING TO NEW BERN AVENUE. THEY ARE BRINGING 10 TRANSIT STATIONS STRETCHING FROM DOWNTOWN TO HOPE ROAD. PEOPLE LIVING IN THE MIDDLE AND EASTERN STATION AREAS CAN GIVE OPINIONS AND INPUT. TONIGHT'S PRESENTATIONS BEGAN A FEW MINUTES AGO. ONE OF THEM IS ROBERTS PARK COMMUNITY CENTER. ANOTHER IS AT THE COMFORT SUITES ON CORPORATION PARKWAY. >>> ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS RELEASED A NEW REPORT ON AIR POLLUTION IN NORTH CAROLINA. THEY ARE CALLING ON STATE LEADERS TO DO MORE TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEM. CHIEF LAURA LESLIE IS LIVE WITH THE LEGISLATIVE BUILDING AND WHAT THE DATA SHOWS. LAURA? >> Reporter: THE GOOD NEWS IS, THE AIR POLLUTION WAS DOWN LAST YEAR BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC. ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES SAY THEY EXPECT 2021 TO BE A LOT WORSE. >> Reporter: THE WORST CITIES FOR AIR POLLUTION IN NORTH CAROLINA LAST YEAR MIGHT SURPRISE YOU. NUMBER ONE WAS WINSTON, SALEM WITH 55 DAYS OF ELEVATED AIR POLLUTION AS DEFINED BY THE EPA. NUMBER TWO, HICKORY WITH 46 DAYS. FAYETTEVILLE WAS NUMBER THREE WITH 34 DAYS OF ELEVATED POLLUTION, AND AT NUMBER 4, THE CARRY AREA WITH 33 DAYS. ROUNDING OUT THE TOP FIVE, THE QUEENSBORO AREA WAS 32 DAYS. HIGH OZONE, HIGH PARTICULATE MATTER OR BOTH OFTEN CAUSE CARDIOVASCULAR AND BREATHING PROBLEMS AS WELL AS CANCER. IT IS ESPECIALLY A PROBLEM WITH ELDERLY PEOPLE AND CHILDREN. >> WE KNOW THAT ONE DAY OF BREATHING IN POLLUTED AIR IS DANGEROUS FOR OUR HEALTH. 33 DAYS IS UNACCEPTABLE AND WE NEED TO DO A TON MORE TO DELIVER CLEAN AIR. >> Reporter: TRANSPORTATION IS, BY FAR, THE BIGGEST OFFENDER IN THE STATE CONTRIBUTING TWO THIRDS OF OUR AIR POLLUTION. IT IS GETTING WORSE AS THE STATE GROWS. >> IF WE WANT TO SAVE LIVES, WE HAVE TO GET OURSELVES OFF BURNING FOSSIL FUELS. >> Reporter: THE PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP TRAINS LAWMAKERS IN BOTH PARTIES TO GET MORE ELECTRIC CAR CHARGING STATIONS AROUND THE STATE. JUST A FEW YEARS AGO, REPUBLICAN STATE LAWMAKERS WERE MOVING IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION, RELAXING A MISSION STANDARD IN DOZENS OF COUNTIES. REPRESENTATIVE HARRY WARREN SAYS THINGS ARE CHANGING. >> I THINK IT IS REFLECTIVE OF THE CHANGE AND FOCUS AND AWARENESS ON GENERAL ASSEMBLIES IN PART, THAT WE NEED TO BE BETTER STEWARDS OF OUR ENVIRONMENT. WE NEED TO BE MORE COGNIZANT OF THE IMPACT WE MAKE ON IT. WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING PROACTIVELY ABOUT IT NOW. >> Reporter: WHILE NORTH CAROLINA OVERALL DOES HAVE MORE POLLUTION THAN SOME STATES, IT IS THE WESTERN STATES BY FAR THAT HAVE THE HIGHEST RATES OF

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Good morning. I'm meteorologist Elizabeth Gardner. Boy, it was a wet day yesterday, especially for our western counties. A lot of folks east of the Triangle really didn't see much rain yesterday. A cold front will continue to slide eastward and help to push more of that rain eastward across North Carolina. So our eastern counties that didn't see any rain yesterday have a much better chance of seeing it today. This morning, the bulk of the rain has been from the Triangle area northward or westward. But watch what happens as we get closer to lunchtime, we start to see more of that rain filling in in our eastern counties along the I 95 Corridor and that continues through the afternoon. There's 3 p.m. there's 5 p.m. And then after that, once we get past sunset, we begin to see the rain tapering off with a bit of a drier period overnight. First thing tomorrow morning, just a few isolated showers should be a fairly dry morning commute. But then once we get into the middle of the afternoon, we start to see more rain development and more thunderstorms too. So we're looking pretty wet during the late afternoon through the evening, commute all the way up until around midnight or so. And then the precipitation changes just keep on coming. 70% today. 40% Monday, 30 Tuesday, 20 Wednesday, 40 Thursday, we have rain in the forecast. At least some rain in the forecast doesn't mean everybody is going to see rain but some rain in the forecast all the way through next Saturday. Take a look at and you can see it is wet out there. Temperatures this morning have been in the upper sixties and then climbing into the seventies. Getting closer to lunchtime, checking out our uh high temperature for this afternoon, 77 and the trang 77 is actually normal for this time of year. It's just we were so warm last week, 75 Durham, 80 degrees in Fayetteville for the highs today, we are looking, of course, we've had a cooler weekend, our normal high 77 we're seeing 77 and then we really warm up again by the middle of next week, looking at a high of 92 on Wednesday and 91 on Thursday. Of course, that's way above normal. Again, we continue to see our wet pattern at least on and off with a chance of showers and thunderstorms through Saturday. But a little sneak peek at Mother's Day looks gorgeous. We should see highs in the mid seventies with some sunshine and drier conditions.

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