Name: Biden: Relief payments go out to families of 60 million children
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Description: President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the Child Tax Credit relief payments as families of some 60 million children receive money Thursday that could help them recover from the economic hardships of the pandemic.

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President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the Child Tax Credit relief payments as families of some 60 million children receive money Thursday that could help them recover from the economic hardships of the pandemic. 

okay for families all over our country, for Children, all over our country help us here. It is a good day America and I'll tell you know, my mother, she worked hard at being a mother, whether it was waking up at the crack of dawn to pack our lunches and get us ready for school or whether after we went to bed sitting at our kitchen table and trying to just figure out how to make it all work. And I know it wasn't easy even though she never said that my family's story is not all that remarkable. It is the story of the american family. Parents who will do anything for their Children, parents who work so hard every day, parents who deserve their government and their leaders to really see them to really understand them as they juggle all their responsibilities every month, every month the rent becomes due every month the child care provider needs a check, a check that could take half an income every month. American families need to buy groceries and gas to pay for rent or homeowners, insurance utilities and car loans. And even if they have enough to make ends meet, it is often just barely enough. One unexpected expense could mean the difference between taking on more debt or losing it all in the wealthiest nation in the world. It should not be this way and the president and I, well, we both believe that. So when we took office, we set out to provide american families with some relief. And that is exactly what we are doing. And I want to thank those members of Congress who led and voted to expand the child tax credit. The president will detail the expansion, but let me _ one important piece. This tax cut will be issued in monthly payments. This has never happened before and America. Yes, it is a big deal. I have been fighting for months and for for quite some time even when I was in the Senate for monthly payments because I know if the struggle to make ends meet is monthly. The solution has to be also so before I introduce our president, let me close with this. The payments may be monthly. But the impact of this child tax credit will undoubtedly be generational. Indeed it is the largest middle class tax cut in generations and will lift up half of our nation's Children who are living in poverty out of poverty and then lifting up those Children and then lifting up the american family. It will lift up our entire nation. Today is a good day America. It is a historic day and we are here today because of the vision and the leadership of a fellow parent of a president who believes with all his heart that the strength of our nation should be measured by the strength of our families and our Children. It is my great honor to introduce President joe biden. Right. Thank you. Well for you. Anybody under the age 13. This is gonna be boring, boring, boring. Right? Well, I'll tell you what, we have to work something out here. So this is over your parents, Your uncles, your answer ever. You're with, they always some ice cream or something. You know, folks, it's a pleasure to be here. Take a sip here and uh huh This um, I believe this is actually a historic day, historic day in the sense that we continue to build an economy that respects and recognizes the dignity of working class families and middle class families. It's historic and it's our effort to make another giant step toward ending child poverty America. I think this will be one of the things that the vice president, I will be most proud of when our terms are up beginning this morning. Nearly all working families that is people making under $150,000 as families are an individual making $120,000 25,000 who have Children or raising Children american, they're going to receive their first monthly, first monthly tax cut payment, that payment, that payment from the expanded child tax credit is that we signed in the law as part of my, our american rescue plan, It's one of the largest ever single tax cuts for families with Children. And it's a reflection of our belief that the people of this country who need a tax cut aren't the folks at the top, They've got plenty of tax cuts. They're doing just fine. But it's the people in the middle, the folks who are struggling, we're just looking for a little bit and my dad would say a little bit of breathing, a little bit of breathing. This has the potential to reduce child poverty in the same way that the Social Security reduced poverty for the elderly. And by the way, you think of monthly payments, you get a Social Security, check those who you know, get Social Security, they get it monthly. Well this will be unless you want it in one lump sum. This will be a monthly payment for child care for for me, for your Children. A tax cut. Here's how the tax credit works for every child under the age of six Parent will get $3,600 a year For every child, 6-17, They'll get $3,000 per year. For example, Middle Class family with two young Children could expect to receive $7,200 a year to help raise their Children. This will be that they'll get the first half of this, $3,600 starting today today today. And will be paid out at $600 a month between now july and december. And then they get the rest of the payment next spring around tax day. Now if you file taxes electronically, you can go to your bank account today today and you'll see a a payment that says child C. T. C. Let me say that again, Payments of $300 for each child under the age of six, $250 for each child between the age of six and 17 on a monthly basis. Between now between July and December. If you don't file electron your taxes electronically as you did last year, you can expect to receive a check in the mail beginning today or a few days from now And you'll get this payment on the 15th of every month for the rest of this year. And if you're not required to file taxes at all in the past, you haven't filed because you didn't owe any taxes, then you can go to child tax credit dot gov. We say it again. Child tax credit dot gov. And you will give you, I'll give you clear information and a link help you sign up for the first time. This can be life changing for so many families because of the way the tax credit was structured before the american rescue plan. More than 26 million Children from the hardest pressed working families didn't get any full payment for the Child credit, for child care, for a child tax credit, half of all black and hispanic Children in America never received the full tax credit. We've changed all that. In technical terms, we've made this tax cut fully refundable in plain english. It means instead of families who need help the most getting like getting the least the hard working families, hardworking families will get this on a month full monthly basis, 97% of the Children receiving this credit come from working families And the other 3% include kids being raised by retired grandparents or by someone with a serious disability. And by the way, this credit doesn't start to phase out until A couple is making $150,000 or a single parent is making $112,000. It begins to phase out. Then this is a middle class tax cut when I came up when I decided I wanted this in the legislation, I referred to it in the way it really is. It's a middle class tax cut. It's just like the wealthy get tax cuts for a lot of things. It's a tax cut for your Children having Children. And this can make it possible for hardworking parents to say to his or her child honey, we get, you can get your new braces now you can get your tutor to help you in that math class, you having trouble, We can get you the sports community to sign up for your first team. You're going to plan. People have written to me to tell me they use the money to buy their kids new shoes to send them to summer camp cover after school care when school starts up again, you know, and to give you a sense of how transformative this is. This would be the largest ever one year decrease in child poverty in the history of the United States of America as we begin now, historic reductions in child poverty among white, black and Latinos and api communities. It's not even close. The benefits will be felt for years. Studies have shown the tax relief that helps Children. That's okay. Don't worry about it's okay. Let him cry her whichever that helps Children and can lead to better health, better school performance and better future journeys. In fact, research from Columbia University in new york found that for each dollar this tax cut cost It returns $8 in benefits down the line. $8 would have to be spent other ways. It's a gigantic help. It's an 8-1 return your head, your heart and your budget all lead to the same place. This is the right thing to do. And it's a smart thing to do today. These tax cut payments are arriving automatically, but it didn't happen automatically the result of the work of people who did this, advocating for this for a long, long time. And we finally got a pass to my american rescue plan. I want to particularly thank those who have been fighting for this for years. Congresswoman Rosa, dealer from Connecticut. She has been a champion for this issue. Congressman Richie NEal and and Torres and Senators Bennett Brown and Booker Ron Wyden probably hear from our Republican friends, all who voted against this, but they'll tout the success as it helps working families and in their states, in their districts. But in the coming days, we're also going to hear from them saying I want to now extend this tax. Well, it's only for one year now. All I can get it for the first time. And so I want to extend it into the future. Now have another piece of legislation we voted on soon time. We're going to continue this to the people who say we can't afford to give the middle class of break. I say we can't afford it By making people at the top. And the big corporations over 50 of which paid no taxes last year at all. Finally, just just start paying their fair share, Not gonna gouge them, Just pay their fair share because people who are working hard and paying taxes deserve a break. That's why I excuse me for all these terms amusing. But my build back better agenda, which still needs to be voted on in. The Congress keeps this tax cut for working families in place for years to come. We shouldn't let taxes go up on working families. We shouldn't let child poverty continue to stain the conscience or drag down our economy. And so I say to my colleagues in Congress, this tax cut for working families is something we should extend. Not end next year. And I say to all of you watching, make sure your family, friends and community know about this tax cut. Send to them as I said, child tax credit dot gov to learn more about the difference this is going to make in their lives. Let me close with this. I signed the american rescue plan Less than two months after taking office in January 20. Four months later, we've implemented the first, we've implement the first ever automatic monthly payment for any major tax credit ever as the vice president's talking about on Social Security, which is a long time ago. This groundbreaking effort is similar to what we did and are what I called our wartime effort to vaccinate Americans against COVID-19 to mobilize the whole country. We're proving we're proving that democracy can deliver for people and deliver in a timely way, saving lives and improving lives, helping fuel record setting recovery, giving working families a fighting chance. Again, I received an email today from a mother in Washington state. She's a young teacher who had just received her payment. She wrote and I'm quoting my family has been living. Hand them out to put me through school so I can follow my passion of molding young minds. This first CTC payment has come at the exact moment when we need it. Most these payments may seem small to some, but their life changing for my family. For us, millions of Children and their families starting today. Their lives are about to change for the better and our country will be better off for it as well. This is a really good day. And parents are you able to tell your kids when they're 25 years old and you were there the day this happened, we talked about we're showing once again that there's nothing beyond the capacity, our capacities, americans to get done when we do it together. So I want to thank you God bless you all and may God protect our troops and kids. Thank you for being so polite while I was speaking. You're very, very nice. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. See you. Bye bye. Thank you.

Jessica Patrick

Biden: Relief payments go out to families of 60 million children

Biden speaks as families of 60 million children receive their first relief payments

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Gov. Roy Cooper, museum leaders and museum paleontologist Dr. Lindsay Zanno on Thursday preview Dueling Dinosaurs, a brand new exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. The exhibit opens to the public Saturday.

In that institution's history. But all of you can and I have seen that enthusiasm and that understanding that you are part of something special over the past few years as you have prepared for this day. So to the staff of the museum, thank you. And it's not just staff, a project like this wouldn't have been possible without a lot of important partners on behalf of everyone involved in this immensely successful public private partnership. And in addition to the General Assembly's extraordinary investment, I would like to take a moment to thank some of the very generous supporters of the Dueling Dinosaurs capital campaign, the SECU Foundation, the Bank of America Duke Energy, the North Carolina Glaxo Smith Kline Foundation, Wake County, friends of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences who really not only helped us in, in raising the funds but also in making this day happen and this opportunity happen. And so many others who are recognized on the campaign do donor wall just to the right of the exhibit entrance. So I encourage you as you go through there today to make sure you take a look at that wall. Now, along with the state's investment. This village of support has enabled the museum to open this new globally unique visitor experience. And on that note, I would like to invite Secu Foundation board chair, Chris Ayers to speak to the foundation's leadership gift, Chris. Thank you. Well, good morning fellow paleontologists. Um I'm excited to be here today representing the SECU Foundation and the over 2.7 million members of state employees credit union who fund that foundation. So this is a great day of celebration for the State of North Carolina, the Department of Cultural and Natural Resources and the many museum supporters and friends who have joined together to make this day a reality. I can tell you the foundation, the State Employees Credit Union has been looking forward to this day for a long time, going all the way back to when we got a sneak peek when they first rolled these fossils into the museum uh a number of years ago. So today's ribbon cutting ceremony shines a brilliant light on the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences as a research institution and the largest museum in the southeast of its kind. The work of the museum professionals and the world class facility benefits more than 1 million visitors each year. And we're delighted to help fund the Secu Dino Lab, which will be enjoyed by students, teachers and families from across the state and beyond. In addition to the SECU Diner lab, the foundation support of the museum also includes the large icon globe that we're in right now that you see outside the building, uh The SECU Daily Planet. As longtime supporters of the museum SECU is pleased that our collaborative efforts help bring the museum and our state to the forefront of natural sciences, education and research, innovative initiatives like this can only be achieved through incredible teamwork and support from the community if it isn't obvious. Let me say that we are so happy to be part of this team and we feel really lucky to have our SECU headquarters and our Sal Salisbury Street branch right next door where we get to see the daily droves of visitors year round. SECU is built on the principle of people helping people and our members live that philosophy through our support of nonprofits that uplift people and communities throughout our great state. For those of you who may not know the SECU foundation is funded through a unique concept known as the power of a dollar where SECU members contribute through the reallocation of their $1 monthly checking account fee. Collectively a dollar truly can make a profound difference. As you see here today, this summer marks the foundation's 20th anniversary. And over the past 20 years, our foundation's commitment to North Carolina nonprofits has surpassed a quarter of a billion dollars for scholarships, grants, financing for education, housing, health care, human services, all benefits to our great state. And we're going to celebrate that 20th anniversary. This fall dueling Dinosaurs is history in the making right here in downtown Raleigh. And we're so lucky to have a front row seat to marvel at the Scientific Discovery and the World of Paleontology. We at the SECU Foundation are honored to be part of this and I want to thank everyone for the great work and contributions that so many of you have made to make this day in this exhibit a reality. Thank you, Chris. Now I mentioned earlier about our staff and they really are all superstars, but there is one particular staff member who has as this project has developed over the recent years, kind of reached celebrity status. If you read Walter magazine, you probably read a profile of her and her work and how that has contributed to uh this particular exhibit. I'm pleased to introduce that person to you this morning. None other than uh the individual who had the vision to make this happen. Doctor Lindsay Zano, head of Paleontology here at the museum, Doctor Doctor Zano. Good morning. It's wonderful to be hosting you all this morning. You know, every week I get an email from a parent who wants their child to meet and talk to a scientist every single week. They want to fuel that child's love for science, encourage them to pursue their dreams. But more than anything they want that science to be real, they want it to be accessible, meeting those Children is wonderful. It's also not enough because not every parent has the resources of the opportunities to reach out to a scientist and arrange a one on one meeting for their child. Most of the Children who are interested in science will fall through the cracks and every public event I attend, I have a conversation with someone in our community who doesn't see the relevance of science to their daily lives who's never been invited to peek behind the proverbial curtain to see who scientists are and what we do and how we go about solving problems that are relevant to our communities. Today, we mark the next step in the evolution of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. We celebrate the opening of the dueling dinosaurs experience. This is one of the most daring public science projects ever imagined at its heart is a world class specimen and the barrier breaking sccu Dino lab that houses it. The specimen represents a single moment in time 67 million years ago when behemoths like tyrannosaurs and triceratops battled for life. The lab is a place where there are no walls between the scientists and the communities that we serve. One where the term behind the scenes loses all of its meaning. A place where every kid regardless of their socioeconomical status can talk to a scientist every day, any day, a place where they can look in the face of a scientist and see themselves staring back at them a place where science is done for the public with the public and transparently in front of the public and for those that cannot make it to us on site, we're broadcasting this project all over the world. Now, the dueling dinosaurs experience is fueled by an amazing team of scientists who I'm so proud of. And in the past two years, we've grown from 6 to 14,000. And that's because a year and a half ago, we launched our public science project Cretaceous Creatures. And already over 14,000 middle school students from around the state have made once in a lifetime scientific discoveries as real members of our scientific team. And we are just getting started. I want to close this morning by thanking the state all of our incredible donors, my amazing museum colleagues, and especially my team for believing in this project, for believing in my vision. I want to thank them for tirelessly working for eight years to bring this project to the people of North Carolina and beyond. You are all dreamers and I could not be more honored to be on this journey with you. One thing we can all agree on is the world loves dinosaurs. So today we're going to bring the next generation of leaders in science and technology and engineering and innovation and have them born right here in North Carolina. Let's show the world how it's done. Thank you. Make sure I didn't mess up the screen and dropping that. Um Thank you, Doctor Zano and I don't know what the acoustics are back there. But standing up here as you were talking about Children in that next generation from up here, you could hear all the Children up there in nature Research Center visiting the labs and it just kind of brought to life. What you're talking about this experience will mean it's now my pleasure to introduce to you, my boss, uh Secretary Reed Wilson. Now I can tell you, Secretary Wilson, this is a special project. He does a lot of openings, ribbon cuttings for our sites all across the state, state parks aquariums and not to play favorites. But I know this one ha holds a special place in his heart. He was telling someone this morning that he's been working on this project for seven years and so Secretary Wilson, I'm pleased to introduce you and we finally got here. Thank you, Jeff. Good morning, everybody. Uh Thank you all for being here this morning and to all involved. Uh Congratulations. This is an amazing huge day for North Carolina and for this museum, you know, making doing dinosaurs a reality has been a collective effort. And I want to thank some people that have already been thanked, but you can never thank these people enough. First, our sponsors, we would not be here today without your generous support. No doubt about that. I also want to thank the board and the staff of the friends of the Museum of Natural Sciences and three of the four board presidents who have been presidents during this period are here with us today. Um, but the whole board has been invested in this and not only did you all raise significant sums of money, but you tiptoed way out on that branch of risk. I remember the conversations. Well, we really sure we wanna do this. Uh But you were, you made the decision to, to just dive in um because you kept your eyes on the prize and, and understood what the risk was, but all that risk went away. Uh I wanna thank the museum staff. Um Thank you so much. I know that every section of this museum has been involved with this. And I, I dare say that there isn't anyone on the staff of this museum who wasn't involved in this project at some point. Um And obviously to Doctor Zano and your paleontology team. Um Y'all are just amazing. You're brilliant. All of you. Um Javin Sutton and your ex exhibition team, Christy Flint and your education team. I mean, I could mention everybody in this museum, everyone's been involved. It's been a long process and you've done a phenomenal job because here we are today and of course, we wouldn't be here without substantial public support. Thank you to members of the General Assembly um who prioritized the investment in this state of the art lab in particular. I do want to thank the leadership of the legislature speaker Moore, Senator Pro TEM Berger, minority leader, blue and minority leader Reeves. Uh, they're unable to join us today, but I think we should give a round of applause to the entire general assembly who supported this project. So it's taken us a while for us to get here today. And as Jeff mentioned, I've been involved with this one probably since the first week I was in this department in early February 2017. Um So it's not been quite 67 million years, but sometimes it felt like it. Um Is that my wife laughing? I remember, I do remember vividly the early Sunday morning in April 2017, almost exactly seven years ago to this day when these specimens arrived. I watched as the movers painstakingly removed them from the tractor trailer truck and carefully moved them into their hidden storage places. It was definitely a goose bumps moment for hours and then we had the groundbreaking in the midst of COVID, uh which complicated everything. And as I said, then at the groundbreaking, when this lab opens, our state will become a must see destination for dinosaur lovers everywhere, from young kids to academics to anybody. Um And so here we are and it's even better than I think any of us dreamed it could be. You will see when you go in there. What a special exhibit this is. We have the best dinosaur specimens in the world and the best setting for people to see them and learn from them. Hundreds of moments and of awe and wonder will unfold in there every single day. And I can't wait to just wander over here sometimes to watch the kids' eyes pop open. Now, at the heart of this project is the science. Our paleontologists will make discoveries as they carefully uncover these and analyze them. Science will be happening in front of the public's eyes. Um And so do doing dinosaurs is an excellent way for the state to engage students in scientist scientific discovery and to develop greater science literacy. So why is that important? Um It's important because the only way we're going to solve our big problems is to rely on the science and the experts who know what they're talking about. And the key to getting to that point is to expand science education to make sure that every child understands the value of science and how scientific discovery works. The Dueling Dinosaurs exhibit is going to pull people into this amazing world of science that's so important to our future. So I am now pleased to introduce a leader who uses science and facts and data to make his decisions as governor of the state of North Carolina and he has supported this project throughout its duration. Everyone please give a warm welcome to our Governor Roy Cooper. Thank you, Secretary Wilson. I'll tell you when we have cabinet meetings every Monday. His is always the coolest report, particularly when we get the updates on the dueling dinosaurs. Uh I am so grateful to everyone who helped to make this happen. The partners. Thank you so much for the work you've done all of the contributors. Uh My family, Chris is proud that our state employees credit union accounts that $1 a month is going to things like this. That is so exciting. And when I think about this week, I spent Monday Earth Day on the Blue Ridge Parkway looking at our amazing vistas uh in Western North Carolina on Tuesday and Wednesday, I got to spend time with North Carolina's own astronaut Christina Cook who set records for time that a woman astronaut spent in space and space walking. And she actually presented us with a lob Lily pine that had been germinated on the moon. Native plant, Karen, first lady made sure it was a native plant, uh excited about planting that in our pine forest at the executive mansion. And she presented us with the North Carolina flag that flew with her on her mission in the International Space Station for 11 months, presenting it to the people of North Carolina. Then I got to come over here with Doctor Zano, doctor Doctor Young and to go through this exhibit and to talk to these scientists and see see these dinosaurs and think about how amazing it was that this was happening right here in North Carolina. You know, North Carolina is the first and best in so many things. Now, we're the best in dinosaurs. I love it. You know, it is amazing and extraordinary that we have the best preserved and most complete tyrannosaur and triceratops in the world. Right here at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Scientists. This exhibit will add to an already excellent rep reputation that North Carolina has as a world class research university community College state. And I'm excited about that. I have been through this exhibit and, and to see the faces of the paleontologist, how excited energetic that they are. And they're also excited and maybe even a little bit nervous about sharing their work as they do it with the world, with the cameras on top of them, with their brushes and their equipment as they make discovery after discovery. And I said, you know, you're gonna get comments and praise and maybe some criticism from science, all scientists all over the world. They said, we know we know and we're ready for that and that's what makes this so special. Uh Doctor Young Doctor Zano, thank you for leading me through. Thank, thank you for the work. I asked Doctor Zano what she was gonna do this summer? She said, Utah, Montana and Mongolia. Wow, that's cool. Bring some stuff back with us uh to, to us but to compete, compete in today's world stem and steam classes. Are more important than ever. And our next generation of leaders will be walking through this museum every day that it's open and this exhibit will stimulate interest in a lot of them. I have declared 2024 as the year of public schools in North Carolina. And I am deeply grateful that the legislature stepped up and invested in this exhibit. Uh It, it took a lot of work to pull everything together and their work was instrumental and I am encouraging them now also to invest more in our public schools in our early childhood education. Our state has a history of investing in public education in order to fuel our innovation and our discovery. And when these young students learn in their school classes and they get to come here and meet face to face with these sci scientists. It's going to develop interest and it's going to create our scientists of the future this state of the art secu diner lab and the dueling dinosaurs belong to the people of North Carolina. It's open to everyone free of charge. That is amazing. Thanks to everybody who made this happen. This is a proud day for the state of North Carolina. Thank you so much. Thank you, Governor Cooper. Uh It truly is an exciting day for all of us and thank you for being here. Now, at this time, I would like to invite everyone to join us just outside the auditorium here. A little bit to the right at the at the entrance for doing dinosaurs for the official ribbon cutting. And I want to invite all of you up there on the 2nd, 3rd floor. Presents. Come on down and join us. So let's go celebrate. Thank you. Yeah, we're at the back line up a little bit. It's gonna be quite a few people here. They are going to be coupled. OK? Don't cut it. Yeah, check, check, get out. OK. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Right. The the face. Thanks this chair, right. You all right. So fantastic. Hey guys for media. We questions afterwards over step on. This is the best to the future. This very good virtually. Yes. Is young. Was it? How about that? This is Yeah, you and then I now make the tea for. Can you be away if you're gonna be here? J JJ? Yeah, I was gonna have how many we have to get here in the morning right here. I didn't see anyone. All right, I need to tell everyone you should never put your hands inside the mouth of a tyrannosaurus. It's very sharp, well done on the end. Just a little bit here. Thank you. All right, just in the position. All right forward. Creep forward. Look for the fray. There we go. 321. Hold on. Is there we go. No cool, cool. The skin is tough. It's a meat eater. Not a ribbon eater. So OK. Sorry. OK. Barry can we do one more second? Let me fill in real quickly with one more. Yeah, they have thank you. Who gets to keep this to bring here? Let's get next to a do what you want us here. That be perfect. And can I get you on? So right here, you know what the secret with you and, but yeah, one photo, 12 and three. All right, thanks everybody. Right. If we have five, hello, if you guys want to come over here, I'll stand where the governor is gonna be. I.

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Good evening. I'm Gayle Hurd. Welcome to tonight's drawings for Wednesday, April 24th, 2024. Well, let's get started tonight with our Carolina pick three. Our first winning number is a seven. Our second number is six and the third number tonight is a nine and our pick three. Fireball number is six. Joining me for tonight's show is our auditor from mcconnell and Jones L LP. Now let's move to the Carolina pick four. Good luck. Everyone who's that first winning pick four number, it's zero. Our second number is a nine. Third number tonight is three and our fourth number is one in our pick for fireball number. There it is. It's three. Again, we're turning now to the Carolina cash five and no one was the top prize tonight. Tomorrow's top prize is estimated at $620,000. Good luck. Everyone here's their first win in cash five number. It's a 29. Our second number, it's 37 3rd number tonight. It's 34. Our fourth number is lucky 13 and the final number in our cash five this evening is 12. The North Carolina Education lottery has contributed over $10 billion to education. Get your winning numbers right here every night on your exclusive station for the North Carolina Education lottery. Thanks for playing. Have a great night.

Evening Pick 3 Pick 4 and Cash 5

Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday Powerball drawings, as shown live on WRAL.

Ball. Good evening, Ruan, I Randy trainer. Tonight. We have another life changing jackpot. It's worth an estimated $130.2 million. So, get your tickets ready here. Come, tonight's winning numbers. Let's start things off this evening with the number 26. Right after that America. We have the number two and congratulations to Gina Magnum from North Carolina. She won $50,000 playing powerball. All right, the rest of your winning numbers tonight 20 47. And let's round it out tonight with the number 22 and tonight 20 powerball number, that's gonna be 21 and your power play multiplayer is four. Let's take another look at tonight's winning numbers. We'll see you back here on Saturday night. It's time to play America's favorite.

Powerball Drawing

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).


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