Name: Gun violence is at an all-time high in Durham. WRAL Documentary looks at what's being done to stop it.
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Description: While big tech companies are flocking to Durham and home prices are soaring in the Bull City, gun violence continues to be a problem. In 2021, Durham recorded its deadliest year yet.

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While big tech companies are flocking to Durham and home prices are soaring in the Bull City, gun violence continues to be a problem. In 2021, Durham recorded its deadliest year yet.

CITY CITY LEADERS PLAN TO HOLD ANOTHER MEETING BEFORE THAT HAPPENS. >> GUN VIOLENCE IN DURHAM IS AT AN ALL TIME HIGH AND IT SHOWS NO SIGNS OF SLOWING DOWN. THE MOST RECENT DATA SHOWS THERE'S AN AVERAGE OF 2 SHOOTINGS. EVERY SINGLE DAY IN DURHAM. IT'S A SUBJECT OF A BRAND-NEW WRAL DOCUMENTARY PREMIERING THIS WEEK CALLED DURHAM UNDER FIRE AND WRAL'S INVESTIGATOR DOCTOR PORTER. KRISTEN SEVERANCE PRODUCED AND HOST THE DOCK. SHE JOINS US NOW TO TALK ABOUT IT. AND, KRISTEN, THIS IS SUCH A COMPLEX ISSUE. WHY DID YOU AND THE TEAM WANT TO PURSUE THIS? WELL, RENEE, YOU KNOW, I DON'T HAVE TO TELL YOU THIS. YOU KNOW THIS, YOU ANCHOR THE NEWS EVERY DAY. WE COVER THE SHOOTINGS JUST ABOUT EVERY DAY ON WRAL. >> THAT ALL OF US AGREED. YOU KNOW, THERE NEEDED TO BE A DEEPER LOOK AT WHY IT'S HAPPENING. WHAT IT'S DOING TO FAMILIES, WHAT IT'S DOING TO THE COMMUNITY AND REALLY THE MOST IMPORTANT THING, WHAT'S BEING DONE TO STOP IT AS PART OF THIS, WE WERE GIVEN EXCLUSIVE ACCESS TO THE DURHAM POLICE DEPARTMENT TO SEE HOW OFFICERS ARE FIGHTING THIS RAMPANT IN COMPLEX ISSUE. AND AS PART OF THAT ACTS AS WE DID A SERIES OF RIDE ALONGS WITH OFFICERS FROM THE CHIEF POLICE CHIEF PATRICE ANDREWS. WE ALSO RODE ALONG WITH THE GANG UNIT. POLICE TELL ME STAFFING LEVELS HAVE NEVER BEEN THIS BAD. THERE IS A 20% VACANCY RATE. 111 OPENINGS AND CHIEF ANDREWS IN HER COMMAND STAFF THERE NOW COVERING PATROL SHIPS TO HELP OUT THE OFFICERS ON THE STREET. AND WE WERE ACTUALLY WITH CHIEF ANDREWS FOR HER VERY FIRST SHIFT. NOW, THIS WAS A MONDAY AFTERNOON, 40 MINUTES INTO OUR RIGHT ALONG THERE WAS A SHOOTING AT A GAS STATION AND WE'RE ABOUT TO SHOW YOU A CLIP FROM THE DOCUMENTARY WHERE SHE GETS BACK INTO THE CAR AFTER RESPONDING TO THAT SHOOTING. >> THERE IS JUST NO REGARD FOR LIFE WHEN THE SHOTS WERE FIRED AND EVERYONE SCATTERED. BUT THERE WERE PEOPLE THERE THAT HAD SMALL CHILDREN. >> JUST THINKING THAT IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, IT'S ONE 17 AND THIS HAPPENS. I SENSE JUST. THE REAL FRUSTRATION. IT'S FRUSTRATING. IT'S FRUSTRATING AS WELL. >> BROAD DAYLIGHT, SUCH A PUBLIC PLACE AND 40 MINUTES, RIGHT WHEN YOU SEND THE CAR WITH OUR I KNOW YOU ALSO TALKED WITH CITY AND COUNTY LEADERS ABOUT ALL THE GUN VIOLENCE HAPPENING IN DURHAM. TELL US ABOUT THAT PART OF THE DOCUMENTARY. SO WE REALLY TRIED TO TELL THIS DOCUMENTARY IN 3 DIFFERENT PARTS, OK, SO POLICING WHICH WE JUST TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ACCOUNTABILITY AND THEN SOLUTIONS AS PART OF THE ACCOUNTABILITY PEACE. WE TALKED TO CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, THE MAYOR, THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY ABOUT, YOU KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING TO FIGHT THIS MAYOR ELAINE O'NEAL, SHE'S NOT NEW TO DURHAM. SHE'S BORN AND RAISED THERE. SHE'S BEEN IN OFFICE, THOUGH, JUST 6 MONTHS. SHE'S A FORMER LONGTIME JUDGE IN DURHAM AND THEN A LAW SCHOOL DEAN. AND SHE'S BEEN WORKING WITH GANG MEMBER. SO PART OF HER PLAN IS TO WORK WITH GANG MEMBERS OR FORMER GANG MEMBERS TO INTERVENE AND REALLY STOP GUN VIOLENCE BEFORE IT HAPPENS. SHE YOU'VE HEARD THIS BEFORE. THEY'RE CALLED VIOLENCE INTERRUPTERS. THIS IS HER MOVEMENT AND IT IS THIS GROUP IS CALLED THE REFORMERS. SOME PEOPLE AGREE WITH HER APPROACH. SOME PEOPLE DON'T. I ASKED HER ABOUT THAT. AND HERE'S HER RESPONSE. YOU BROUGHT UP TANKS, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE GONE CRITICISM FOR MEETING WITH GANGS DEVELOPING A RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM. WOULD YOU SAY TO PEOPLE WHO DON'T THINK YOU SHOULD BE DOING THAT KILLED HIM TO GIVE ME ANOTHER SOLUTION? >> THAT'S WHY THEY CALLED IN THE NATION. IF YOU WANT TO BE MIA, RUN FOR IT AND THEN DO IT. JUST DO. IT CAN BE EASY TO CRITICIZE THE PROBLEM. INCOME AND OTHER THING TO TRY AND COME UP WITH SOLUTIONS TO THIS RIGHT. >> AND THERE ARE SO MANY LAYERS TO GUN VIOLENCE. AND CERTAINLY THIS IS NOT JUST A DURHAM PROBLEM. IT'S A NATIONWIDE PROBLEM. THAT IS WHY FOCUS ON DURHAM, YOU. SEVERAL PEOPLE HAVE ASKED ME THAT AND I THINK THERE THERE ARE SEVERAL ANSWERS. ONE, I DON'T YOU, DURHAM IS GROWING ITS THIS IT CITY RIGHT CONSISTENTLY TOPS THE LIST OF PLACES TO LIVE IN WORK AND IT'S ATTRACTING THOUSANDS OF HIGH-TECH JOBS. BUT IT ALSO HAS THIS GUN VIOLENCE PROBLEM. >> AND OFFICIALS HAVE SAID TIME AND TIME AGAIN, THIS HAS TO STOP. YOU KNOW, INNOCENT PEOPLE ARE DYING AND IT'S IT'S REALLY HURTING THE COMMUNITY. WE, OF COURSE, SPENT TIME WITH AND TALK TO FAMILIES IMPACTED BY GUN VIOLENCE IN THE DOCUMENTARY. AND, YOU KNOW, THEY SHARE THEIR PAIN AND IT STAYS WITH YOU. YOU KNOW, THE FAMILIES WE SPENT TIME WITH, I THOUGHT ABOUT THEM EVERY SINGLE DAY BECAUSE THESE ARE LIVES. I MEAN, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE THEY'VE LOST FAMILY MEMBERS AND YOU CAN FEEL THEIR PAIN AND THEY LIVE WITH THAT LOSS IN PAIN EVERY DAY. AND GUN VIOLENCE IS SOMETHING THAT CAN AFFECT ANY FAMILY. KRISTEN, THANK YOU SO MUCH. YOU CAN WATCH DURHAM UNDER FIRE ON AIR AND ONLINE TOMORROW AT 07:30PM. >> ON WRAL AND ON WRAL

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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 

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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>

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