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Sister Lena Mae Perry says music is like medicine. She would know. At 80-years-old, Sister Perry has helmed the Branchettes, a celebrated gospel group from Johnston County, North Carolina, for decades. To see her perform is to witness the healing powers of music, and, at risk of cliché, to be taken to church. Indie musician Phil Cook knows that better than anyone, and has joined up with Sister Perry for a new, and unlikely, artist pairing. 

way My name is Lena May Perry A lot of people call me May Then he called me sister Pair it and they called me Mother Perry So I asked all those names so we didn't hear now in the lower part of Johnson County at the little church to that joint years and years ago And we just love coming here And this place was my life I joined it because my grandmother and my arm was here up the road Look further up is the church my mom and daddy belong to And I thought down here would be our like to be so I don't hear And Mom and Dad didn't have any objections to it  You know little long we were in church We had we had to go to church It won't No I can't I don't feel like you had come to church way Jesus Way way The first night we performed a do gardens We were there and we had rehearsed a few songs to gather that I knew we were going to do  But as happens with Sister Perry um we she'll get into ah in front of people and and she says this sense And so the Lord will speak to her and will say uh tell her what song and he's actually happen next So that meant a song came up that we hadn't rehearsed So I just sat down and just let her and Wilbur play And it was a song called God Will Take Care of You which is a great old standard in new gardens The lawn is there and so people are sitting on everyone sitting on the grass and they're all on blankets  As far back is the is the hedges And you know I like to sit there and look out at people um and look at people's faces as they're receiving music and they're receiving energy and everything that's happening I said I really enjoy watching that Especially when um that the chance happens where you can see the unification that everyone goes through All of a sudden you see something happen that everyone responds to exactly at the same time that I really enjoy seeing that And so as I sat there and uh and she's saying the 1st 1st and I saw the entire 1st 40 yards of people burst into tears at the same time At the same time I looked at everyone Everyone started crying at the same time When she's saying I mean I did to you what I mean But I saw it So I mean but I saw that was the first thing I mean that's the At the first show he performed within the first couple songs I saw the work I saw Um I saw like the sauce surrender I think the surrender like she surrenders and that's why she does her She goes to her place and she surrenders and she she's open and she passes it on And then you see everyone else when they surrender That's That's the rial That's the real uh you know it didn't take me long to scope out People learn people and know what they're all about and that there's something inside of me that will let you know Let me know that this is perfect This is right for you You need I was needing to get out and meet new people and feel was so like he at all  You have known me for a long time and uh we're just about bond It right together Uh I would sing and he was saying with me And I think that day we were there You will be Demery I try uh was needed Tam Marine And uh I'm gonna tell you what's the truth now Those people really did launch on us Ria whale It was real red I didn't try to do anything that was used to doing and it just blended And ever since Zan field being in my car I know his core That's right No he told me that these I know he's brought me I don't I don't way no mercy There's so much that music brings Took people There's so much that would lift heavy burdens Music is a healing process I don't have you down in adults I don't know what happened yesterday What you think my happen tomorrow How it turned out  But there's a comfort It's like you taking medication and there's a feeling right  They're dead Lets you know everything is all right Things all right I love everybody as I told you out there I mean it Everybody is here I love you Because if I don't love you all of the singing all of these churches I go to nursing homes hospitals cruises and the schools  Yes And the church Yes And I didn't live all these years of my living being I can't make Helen if I love you and I go is to reach him I could see in the heavily time I remember Where would you go That system may loves everyone of you and that's from the bottom of my heart Uh thanks So you oh sure is that she No make a truck

Behind the Scenes: The musical collaboration of Sister Lena Mae Perry of the Branchettes & Phil Cook

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I'm meteorologist, Amy Wilmoth in the WRL severe weather center tracking a cold front that will move through the state throughout the day. Today, we'll have some light rain with this perhaps moderate rain at times, but most of you won't get a ton of rain. It's just going to be some light passing showers at four o'clock this afternoon, we'll still have some rain showing up on the radar scattered showers possible. Uh, basically anywhere aside from our northern counties, our northern counties should be dry at that point by 5 p.m. or so. The rain is south of the triangle impacting our southern counties during the evening. Commute, still some showers around in our southern counties at 7 p.m. But beyond that, the rain will start to move out and it will be dry overnight tonight. And we're back to sunshine as we head into tomorrow. Look at how much rain we could get. It's less than 1/10 of an inch of rain. So we're not going to get much out of this system, but at least it's something, it's our only rain chance in the next seven days. So we'll have some light rain moving through thanks to the cold front, temperatures will likely get into the low eighties in our southern counties where we'll have sunshine a little bit longer. 74 for the high in Raleigh and Durham, 75 in Roxboro, 73 for the high temperature in South Hill, Virginia. So temperatures running pretty close to normal throughout the day today. Good news. If you're headed to the Bulls game this evening at 635 it looks like the rain will be out of here. We have a 20% chance for rain, but the best chance will be in the southern part of the viewing area, 70 degrees, the expected temperature at 6 p.m. 68 by seven and in the mid six by 8 p.m. So maybe take the jacket or the sweater with you as temperatures fall into the sixties starting around seven o'clock or so. So we have passing showers today. Generally light rain a little breezy at times with the high of 74 tonight, we'll have mostly clear skies. We'll get down to 51 beautiful weather. Thursday, partly cloudy to mostly sunny with a high of 72. Pretty much the same thing on Friday. Temperatures will be in the low seventies for highs. We're up to 76 Saturday and then low eighties by Sunday, mid to upper eighties for high temperatures in the forecast for Monday and Tuesday of next week.

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Brian Shrader flies over the site of a plane crash at Raleigh-Durham International Airport approximately three hours after the accident.

Seen some activity just in the past 10 minutes or so. I want to take you outside Sky five right now for a live look at the scene. We saw a van being escorted to the runway there and someone got out and now there appears to be a really careful inspection of the debris going on. So we're working to confirm if that may be the NTSB investigation team arriving at the scene. Let's zoom out and give you some about where this is. There are two main runways at RDU International and this is in the grassy field next to the runway that mostly serves terminal one on the east side of the airport, that runway remains closed while this investigation continues at the top of your screen. That is the other main runway that serves terminal two, mostly that runway is open. So we have two things going on here that could affect your flights for the rest of the day and maybe even into tomorrow, the airport takeoff and landing capacity is roughly reduced by half because they are only working with one runway. And if you have a flight coming out of terminal one, maybe Southwest, you're going to have to take that crossover all the way out to that other runway. It's going to add a lot of extra time.

Sky 5 flies over RDU plane crash 3 hours later 

A UNC Health physician and pilot were taken to the hospital Wednesday after a small plane crashed at Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU).


Sky 5 flies over plane crash at RDU

RDU Airport Authority gives an update on a plane crash that sent a physician and pilot to the hospital. The crash occurred Wednesday morning on a flight that took off from Wilmington.

<p>Landguth first, I want to extend my thoughts to those affected by this morning's aircraft accident and thank our first responders for their quick action to respond. The airport authority and its mutual aid partners responded to an aircraft accident at RDU involving a general aviation aircraft. The accident occurred at approximately 10:10 a.m. in the grass next to runway five, right 23 left. The flight was arriving from Wilmington, North Carolina. The A the aircraft is owned by medical Air Inc and operated by UN C air operations. The aircraft had two people on board, one pilot and one passenger. Both were transported to area hospitals. The federal A Bush administration issued a ground stop that was lifted at approximately 1130 this morning. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board have both been notified. The National Transportation Safety Board is en route and expected to arrive within the next hour at which time we will conduct an accident investigation. Rdu's runway five left 23 right reopened to departing and arriving aircraft around 11:30 a.m. this morning. Are you experiencing approximately 70 delays and several arriving flights were diverted to other airports? Until ground stock was lifted, travelers should contact their airline for the latest updates regarding the flight status. And of course questions about the identity and condition of the pilot and passenger should be directed to UN C health. And at this time I'll try to answer any questions. You may have, uh, the one, any other accidents in, in the past. I'm not familiar with any other accidents have occurred with that operation. I don't know, uh, that's the role of the National Transportation Safety Board. They'll actually come in and do the investigation. Uh, and at some point in the future, they write up a report and determine what the cause of the accident was. You know, that there was no notification to the airport authority or to the FAA uh about any type of emergency on board. Do we have a guy? We don't, all we know that we've got them out of the airplane and we've got them transported to local hospitals. We know situations like this and delays have a ripple effect on, you know, flights. Do you have any idea what type of impact we'll see here in our view and for not sure, but what we're going to encourage everybody to do is reach out to your airlines. We'll be able to give you real time information about the impact of your particular flight. Ok. I believe some of them went to Greensboro and I think a couple went to Charlotte as well. What, what to be impacted due to the NTSD. Say that one more time at this point in time, what we call the west side of our airport is now open the investigation they'll conduct will all be on the east side. So at this point, we are anticipating normal operations returning to normal operations from this point forward. I don't think that anything that they're doing regarding the investigation or where they would have to investigate would have any impact to the west side of the airport. No, the aircraft is still on the airfield itself. It's on the east side of the field. So terminal one that runways the east side of the field, that's where the debris field actually sits, the west side of the field is open and operational and safe to operate. Not that I'm aware of in operations for you throughout this event today. What was your main concern concerning the passengers that were in the internals? Right. I think our primary focus when, when that accident occurred were the two people sitting in that aircraft? Our primary mission is to make sure we can get to them and try to rescue them and try to make sure that we can get them in a safe condition as fast as we possibly can. Uh secondarily is trying to figure out then how we recover and get our operations back up and running. Mhm. How does that affect? What goes on term? Yeah, so great. Question. So the team has figured out a way to get all the aircraft they're gonna operate at terminal one. Your Southwest develops. Uh We've got a crossover taxi way that we can actually get them through our general aviation aircraft. We've got a crossover taxiway, we can get them to. But the rest of the uh accident scene is actually kind of isolated and closed and locked off. Yeah, you're terminal one at this point in time. Once they can get back on their schedule, it's going to be a normal operations. All right. Thank you guys. All right. Thank you. Grab your phone, right.</p>

News conference: RDU plane crash sent 2 to hospital

A small plane crashed at Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) Wednesday morning.



WRAL News coverage: Plane crashes at RDU, pilot and physician injured

A small plane crash with injuries was reported Wednesday at Raleigh-Durham International Airport.

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