Name: Chapel Hill team builds world's first jump rope gym
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Good afternoon. I'm meteorologist, Amy Wilmuth in the WRL severe weather center, another cold start this morning but milder this afternoon, highs in the upper fifties and lower sixties under mostly sunny to partly cloudy skies overnight. Tonight, it is chilly but not as cold as the last couple of mornings will drop down into the thirties. 33 in Durham, 35 in Raleigh, 36 for the low temperature in Fayetteville. And then tomorrow have the rain gear handy. Some light rain will be possible on and off throughout the day with high temperatures in the upper fifties to low sixties for the northern half of the area. We might climb into the upper sixties in some of our southern communities. Here's what we're tracking a low pressure system moving across Texas right now in advance of that showers and even some thunderstorms. Now, as the system moves into our area, we don't expect any storms but light rain will be possible. Friday. Then that rain could pick up as we head into Saturday evening. So Friday, we'll have some light rain on and off. Not a huge deal. It's not going to be a huge impact. We'll have cloudy skies throughout the day. Saturday morning, we should start off dry. But then as we head toward the second half of the day, especially later in the evening, we'll have some scattered showers moving in from the south and west overnight Saturday into very early Sunday. It looks like we have a decent chance for some rain. And then Sunday, a cold front will move through North Carolina and we'll see some scattered showers along and ahead of that front, maybe even behind the front. So on and off rain possible for Sunday as well. So we're going into an unsettled weather pattern for the weekend, but it won't rain for the entire weekend as far as how much rain we could get anywhere from about a quarter of an inch to maybe three quarters of an inch in a few spots. So we desperately need the rain. We did get a new drought monitor in and we have had improvements, but we could use more improvements. We need some more rain because still part of the viewing area, especially the northern and western part of the viewing area under a moderate drought and some of our northern counties under a severe drought still. So we still need some rain now for the mountains. Some of the ski resorts opening up this weekend doesn't look like the best weather for them tomorrow. They're going to have rain, temperatures are above freezing and that's the same thing for Saturn so not the best weekend in the mountains. They're gonna have rain as well and milder temperatures for us. The big story is this change in our weather pat pattern. Leading into the weekend, we're going into milder temperatures with on and off rain throughout the weekend. Monday looks drier with highs in the low sixties and then turning cooler by Tuesday and Wednesday with highs back in the fifties.

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N.C. High School Athletic Association Commissioner Que Tucker and President Chris Blanton hold a press conference following the winter board of directors meeting in Chapel Hill.

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According to Harnett County Sheriff Wayne Coats, authorities identified the body as that of Tyrone Taylor II. Coats held a press conference at 11 a.m. Thursday to discuss the details of the case, including a suspect they have in custody.



<p>Ok, good morning. Um, I don't thank everybody for coming this morning. Um, we're here today. Um, unfortunately, we're here. Say, unfortunately, um, we'll go ahead and give you a timeline of what, what happened. Uh, in this case, as you all know, uh, Mr Tyrone Taylor Junior, uh, he went missing and Dunn on September the seventh. Uh, he was reported missing and this has been a joint effort from the Hunter County Sheriff's office, Dunn Police Department SB I, uh, in trying to locate this gentleman. And, uh, so with that said, the last confirmed contact with, uh, Tyrone Taylor Junior was during the morning hours of September the sixth, uh, Ty Tyrone Taylor vehicle was found burned on LA Ray Road in Cumberland County on September the eighth. A t-shirt belonging to Tyrone Taylor was located in the urban riverside community on September the 10th. Um, Dayquan Thomas was identified by the Taylor family as a person of interest very early due to his violent and abusive relationship with their daughter, Tanisha Taylor, the sister of Tyrone Taylor Junior. Daquan. Uh, Thomas was arrested on October 10th for charges stemming from domestic violence against Tasha Tanisha Tago Uh, on November the 20th, skeleton remains were located off of Shady Grove Road. Um, here in Harnett County. Uh, uh, the skeletal remains are identified by the office of the Chief Medical Examiner Raleigh as Tyrone Taylor Junior on November the 29th trauma was identified on the remains that indicate foul play in this incident. Investigation efforts by the Hornet County Sheriff's office, Dunn Police Department and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation identified Dayquan Thomas as being involved with the disappearance of Tyrone Taylor Junior. Dayquan Thomas has been charged this morning for the murder of Tyrone Taylor Junior and concealment of the body. This is still an active investigation and no other details concerning the events will be released at this time. What I wanna say right now is this is the time of year when we should all be rejoicing Thanksgiving and Christmas and sharing these times with your family members and your loved ones. But today, because of these actions by this individual, MS Ross and Mr Taylor unfortunately have to sit there in an empty seat that would have been a seat for their son at Thanksgiving and now Christmas because of this senseless act. And as I've told the family this morning and the chief and I, you know, there's no words I can say to ease the pain that they're going through. I've never lost a child. But what we can bring to them through the working together with these agencies is we can bring closure that the body has found and that we have brought this gentleman. Excuse me, let me rephrase gentlemen. We've brought this man to be held accountable for his actions. That the family again, I've spoken with them. I think it's their preference that they don't want to say anything right now afterwards, after we go off camera, they may or may not, if they choose not to please respect that because they are still grieving. But I thought some prayers go out to this family. Uh and their loved ones again. I wanna thank Chief Jackson and her, her um, fellow officers over there that help work with us. Once it, we, we saw that it came out of the city and into the county, they still help and, and were alone with us. They've been working with the family as well, keeping them informed and this investigation is still ongoing. Um, and we will be, um, keeping in touch with the family as well. We'll have to keep the news media up to date as much as we can, can put out there. So at this time, has anybody got any questions we'll try to answer what we can at this time, sir. Are you able to speak anymore on the relationship between uh Thomas and Mr Taylor? Uh That, that, that what I know is that he was dating their daughter and that was the domestic violence and that's what we arrested him for and had him in custody at the time. Sure, it may take you and Chief Jackson both to answer this question. But how many man hours do you estimate have been put into this investigation since September 5? Well, it's never stopped since September the fifth. Uh, Officer Jackson and her crowd worked around the clock. I'm sure as we have since we got involved in, um, I, I couldn't give you an amount of man hours, but it was every day, every day since September the fifth on her part, as well as ours. Um, we're looking what November the 30th. So that tells you it was just not put down for 11 person to handle this. I think we had three and four or five working on it from the sheriff's office. And, um, how many of y'all have we had at least four or five ourselves? And also, um, emergency management. There's other agencies that also stepped in to help that. Uh, we would like to thank as well because we did do a lot of, uh, as the tips came in. We did a lot of walking in the woods, uh, along the river. Um, and we especially want to thank all those volunteers that came out to help look and bring and try to locate this for the family. Mr Taylor's mom had originally said that they thought somebody was involved that he wouldn't have just gone off on his own was there anything that made you think about the suspect in the disappearance of Mr Taylor Chief says it started with you. I believe the information we received was, um, from the sheriff's office about the domestic violence incident that had occurred previously and that kind of put the relationship there between, um, Tyrone Taylor the second and, uh, the suspect, that's kind of how we made a connection that, that could possibly be, um, the connection with the case. Did Tyrone confront the suspect about the domestic violence? That's something we're not able to answer at this time. Thank you sure. What she did the, the medical examiner give you uh preliminary, what they think is the cause of death. I know you said that it was not natural causes, but no, they did not because the deterioration of the body, they are still working on that at this time. So it, it may be a little while before we get the results of it because of the condition of the body at the time. It was fine. If was there a protection? W that was in? Not to my knowledge, it was not, have there been any previous incidents with uh the suspect? And Denisha, did I say that? Right? Did you all have any in the city? Not that I'm aware of in our jurisdiction? All right, if there's no other questions again, velvet cake that will conclude this and please respect the privacy of the family. Um Thank you so much for coming. Thank you. Mhm. Yeah. In this past two years old in the mass you travel for. So this is the only exactly she was there to. I used to be. And how about the old office center last week? You smoking? Yeah. So we have a picture at the easy the baby and then last Sunday I just took the baby and rested me. They put the and ok, this is simply. Yes.</p>

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The NCHSAA Board of Directors wraps up its winter meeting with affiliate reports and votes on a number of different proposals.

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