Name: Mom Chat Monday with Jessica Patrick
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Description: Jessica Patrick is a multi-platform producer at WRAL and she is also a new mom. WRAL Lifestyle Editor Kathy Hanrahan and Jessica catch up on new mom life in this interview.

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Jessica Patrick is a multi-platform producer at WRAL and she is also a new mom. WRAL Lifestyle Editor Kathy Hanrahan and Jessica catch up on new mom life in this interview. 

All right, So um mom chatting with Jessica Patrick, who is one of our web, what are you a multi platform producer, fancy name? Multi platform? It really means I work in breaking news and I do almost anything to Wrl dot com. We run live streams, We post stories a little bit of everything and you know, I started out doing that stuff. That was you know, when I started Wrl that was what I did for several years before I came over and did out about and now lifestyle Glass mom not about, but Jessica is doing tons of stuff, but she's also a new mom and she's writing for Glass Mom and her parenting section. Uh So tell me about the baby, what's the baby doing right now? It's babysitting? No, right now she is with dad. Um Dad works from home and we're lucky to have a nanny. Um So it's kind of crazy right now because we're all in the apartment, but dad watches, so I log in to work at three a.m. Um And so sometimes baby wakes up and I have to wake dad up and he becomes like baby duty until the nanny arrives. So it's a little crazy. Um But thankfully he gets to work from home and his shift doesn't start until nine, so we really only need a few hours of childcare in the middle of the day before I get off, then I get because of my early schedule, I get the afternoon with her, which is which is great. That must be really nice. You will be tired though, but I mean new moms were always tired. You know new parents were tired at the beginning anyway. But how old is she now? She is four months as of two days ago. So what what stage are you at this point? What is, what is, you know, what is she doing? What is she eating or doing Well the best thing right now is that she started laughing. She started smiling a couple months ago. But now she's full out laughing and it just as you know, other moms can attest. It's just the best thing ever when she laughs. So we're constantly trying to get her to laugh and we go to the pediatrician for her. Well visit tomorrow and I know that pretty soon we could get the okay to start trying food. Which is going to be really fun because right now, you know, we're just doing milk and or in formula and it's just, it's very tricky overnight Still. I'm still getting up multiple times a night um to make sure she's fed and then I'm also, you know, like I said waking up at three a.m. To go to work. So I am very tired and I'm looking forward to her being able to eat food. Well what do you think you want to give her first. What do you have you thought about it all? What you would want to let her sample first in the food. I haven't, I haven't, I know I loved apple sauce and I know I loved like rice cereals and cheerios, so I don't know, like oatmeal, like oatmeal, like the baby oatmeal or whatever. That's that's Colton loved baby oatmeal, that little, you know, he just makes it a little formula and and he would eat Baby Hayden was like, no, get that away from me. That's terrible. She liked the squeezy pouch food. I mean we did, it wasn't her first food, but she did eat salmon and bacon um flavored, it was bacon, baby food. And before I found at the Harris teeter and it was, I forget what brand it was salmon. It was like uh salmon. And she loved her salmon, baby food. It stunk but it was delicious, but they make these days that's amazing baby food. Yeah, I think, I think sweet potatoes was like the consensus, I think for both my kids that they just both took two sweet potatoes right away, so that's always a good and it's popular, It's not as gross's peas or something, you know, eventually going to sample that food because you're gonna be like, oh, what's it taste like I'm totally gonna try everything. I'm weird like that we want to do if she's eating, you want to know what it tastes like. So well, they also don't know what real food tastes like. So when they figure out what real food tastes like, they're like, hold up, this is what you've been giving me. No, I don't want that. You have to be careful with that to let them have the real good stuff. Just, she's my little buddy. Like if she's trying something, I want to try something just just to see, you know, what is one of the most challenging things that maybe, you know, you didn't realize about motherhood that kind of surprised you. Oh, let's see. Um, probably just how, you know, you're always on. I mean, I, I was a lot of talk before I had a baby about, oh, I'm still going to do self care. You know, I'm still going to squeeze in workouts and I'm still gonna, you know, um, see friends or have an occasional date night and we have been able to do those things thankfully we have a lot of family support in town. But I, I'm kind of like shaking my head at myself because I didn't, you know, I've heard it, but I don't think until you experience that you realize how all in, you have to be. I mean, you know, she, she needs me, you know, all the time and at least it feels like that and I just, I'm always on, you know, I'm always thinking of her needs. Um, and also covid, you know, now I'm starting to wonder and this is something I'm going to do some research and hopefully right about and one of my go ask mom blogs, I'm really starting to question. um you know, where we, where we take her and who she sees because of the delta variant. It's a scary time. I mean because she's not, she's not vaccinated. Um and she can't wear a mask and it's like, what do I do? You know, I mean, I've got two year old and I can't get her to wear the mask. So I'm kind of in that same boat of like, what are we, you know, what do we do do we do? How do we go anywhere? Like, I don't know. Yeah, that's, that's being a new mom during this time is incredibly difficult to being a parent, being a human being during this time is very hard. Um but without a doubt, having a little tiny little baby because you just want to keep them safe in the world every little bump and bruise, you're like, no, are they okay? I try to, that's one thing as a new mom I think I've been really good at and I don't know if it's because I was a nanny in the past. I've cared for a lot of babies before, but I try to remember that, you know, she's gonna be okay. Like, you know, where we do our best to take care of her, you know, her safety and her happiness. It's all like, you know, priority and my husband and me and our family who's helping, but at the same time, it's like stuff is going to happen, you know I mean and I'm just, I'm ready for that and we've already had a few situations where it's just, you know, something surprises us or you know, she got sick a couple months ago and I was so pleased with how, how, how calm I was. You know, it's like she just postpartum, you were the even postpartum, you were calm. Like, I mean, I feel like it took me several months to like postpartum before I could think straight and not just be like, like I'm not calm all the time, but I'm just, you know, like I'm prepared for, you know, sickness or like, you know, schedules get all mixed up. I mean it's just, it's very unpredictable. I'm such an organized person. I've always been so organized and on top of everything and now that I have a baby, I'm realizing I can't do that anymore. Things are just gonna jump at me and you know, we're just going to be ready. We're just going to be ready to handle it. Yeah. Take it as it comes. I mean, first kid, it's true though for me. First kid coughs, that's it. We're going to the doctor right now. First kid sneezes. Oh my goodness. All second kid sneezes. She's gonna be okay. Second kid goes flying, you know, running around and everything. You bleeding. Are you okay? Um No, Hayden's more of my, my two year old is definitely more of my daredevil. She's the one that's like running all over the house like crazy. She runs like, you know how I think I saw like an owl when an owl runs. Don't they like hold their arms back like they're flying. That's what she does. And she just face first and I'm like waiting for, she runs laps around the kitchen, the kitchen area and I'm waiting because at some point she is going to go crashing into something and I'm like, be careful, be careful and she's like be careful, be careful. I'm like, no, I'm telling you to be careful. So yeah, she runs and runs and falls down and she was fall down, gets her right back up, keeps going hardcore running around. So here again because of Covid, the digital team is really, we're really behind on seeing each other and seeing each other's families were scattered. I mean, I have, I was able to meet your baby, which was fantastic. I am live from my guest room right now because I needed and as you can see there's a basketball, make sure Hayden gets her basketball in there. Her and my son, they like to play basketball together. We have two basketball goals in here, we have one that's high and then one slow um, so that they can do their, this is their sports room, This is the playroom, complete disaster. I think he's an awesome big brother. He is a good big brother, but he's still figuring her out. He keeps saying you're just weird. He tells her she's weird. I mean there's like a six year age to age difference there so of course he's gonna think she's weird but she thinks he is the greatest thing on her. She's she's just eyes chases him around, telling how much she loves him.

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<p>To, to all of you and we bring you greetings. I would like to also extend gratitude to other elected officials who are joining us today. If you'll please stand. Thank you. I want to also start by expressing how thrilled we are to have you here today. We are proud of our city here in Greenville. And I think that pride is evident in this room today and why wouldn't we be proud? Greenville is a thriving hub of, of eastern North Carolina. We have a growing population, a diverse based manufacturing manufacturers, top notch educational institutions, state of the art, medical facilities and vibrant art and entertainment scenes. The people in Greenville are as friendly and as talented as they come. We all work well together and that is a tremendous, tremendous key to progress. There are so many reasons to be proud of Greenville and today I'm thrilled that our city is getting even better with all of that being said, I would like to introduce to you a Greenville native and Chief Deputy Secretary of Commerce Jordan Richard. Well, thank you so much. Uh Mayor Pro Daniels. Uh it is a beautiful day and uh uh especially great day to be back home in Greenville, North Carolina. Uh So, on behalf of uh our North Carolina Secretary of Commerce Michelle Baker Sanders, uh Good afternoon. Uh Today really is not only the celebration of an incredible partnership uh with the city of Greenville, Pitt County, uh the Greenville Eastern North Carolina Alliance, the Department of Commerce, our, our partners across the state. Uh But it's also calls to celebrate uh some really exciting news and the first uh such announcement this year in Pitt County across the state in North Carolina, we are uh already ahead of our pace from last year. Uh Having a wonderful year in terms of economic development. Today is a wonderful announcement of that. Since January across the state, we've announced uh 39 projects and this will be our 40th, more than 3600 jobs across North Carolina and over $2.5 billion in economic development investment statewide. And today's news uh is also great as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of Greenville, North Carolina. Over those 250 years, we've seen Greenville change and evolve and the evolution of Greenville as a community is parallel to what we've seen across the state from an economy once dependent on agriculture and tobacco. Pitt County and Greenville is transformed into an economy that's supported by medicine uh and advanced manufacturing and clean energy jobs like we're here to talk about today. Uh having grown up here and watch that evolution and watch Downtown and Dickinson Avenue evolve and having gone to school across the street at CMXS Middle School, it's especially gratifying to be back and to be working on wonderful announcements like this. Uh And today, it's also an incredible honor to introduce uh someone who I've had the great pleasure of working for in Raleigh for the past 7.5 years. Uh He's been working to build a stronger North Carolina uh where everyone has as an opportunity to live in safe communities, get a quality education, uh have good access to great jobs and great health care. Uh And where everybody has a chance to live lives of purpose and abundance. And today he'll share with the Greenville community some outstanding news. Uh that'll help get us closer to North Carolina, North Carolina. That's more diverse, more inclusive works uh even more for all the people of this great state. Uh So it's my honor now to introduce to you the 75th governor of North Carolina Roy Cooper. Thank you so much, Greenville, aren't you proud of Jordan Witcher? Let me just say, Chief Deputy Secretary of the Department of Commerce. And uh you might notice that I have a lot of people in my administration who are from Eastern North Carolina. It's because I grew up here and I know the kind of people that they are. So I am so happy to be here. With you today, seeing so many friends and familiar faces uh and to celebrate what's gonna happen today. Uh Thank you Marquita for being here, Representative reader. Thank you for, for, for being here. Thank you representative for you. Uh Thank you, appreciate all of you guys candy. Thank you for coming. Very grateful for you coming and being part of this. Um II, I wanna thank Mayor Pro TEM Daniels and say thank you very much for your hard work here. But it's great to join with you today with an outstanding announcement for the city of Greenville, Pitt County, eastern North Carolina and I am our entire state. I am so proud to announce that Bovi at Solar, an international renewable energy company has selected North Carolina for its first North American solar panel manufacturing facility that will create 900 jobs and invest $294 million right here in Greenville, North Carolina. Our economists predict that this project will lift North Carolina's economy by more than $2.9 billion over the next 12 years. This economic development. When shows us how teamwork, teamwork and that's a fitting word here in front of Dowdy Ficklin Stadium, teamwork and our amazing workforce. Keep bringing advanced manufacturing jobs to our state here in Pitt County. You have a great legacy of manufacturing, making everything from life saving pharmaceuticals to packaging personal care products and now comes important components for clean renewable energy. North Carolina is becoming an epicenter for clean energy that's putting money in the pockets of North Carolina families and small businesses. And as we've learned in North Carolina the last few years, a clean energy economy is a strong economy, providing American security. North Carolina is a leader in that 19 billion in capital investments and nearly 16,000 good paying manufacturing jobs created here since 2021 with the fourth largest producer of solar energy in the country. And with our bipartisan clean power plan that will get us producing zero emission clean energy by 2050. That means a lot more solar panels need to be made right here in North Carolina. This announcement means that they're going to be made right here. And North Carolina's emergence as a clean energy leader has fueled our growth and helped set us apart as the number one state to do business in the country for two years in a row, we all get to celebrate that recognition and much of the credit goes to our well trained, dedicated and diverse workforce, the people of North Carolina, they make up the best workforce in the country. And Bovi at solar is gonna find out about that. And our university Chancellor Rogers, thank you for hosting this today. Our university and community college systems including East Carolina Pitt community College and our research institutions and workforce partnerships help North Carolina stay first in talent coupled with our central east location, East coast location and includes easy access to transportation infrastructure by land, plain sea. And of course our excellent quality of life. North Carolina continues to be a top choice and we don't take opportunities and announcement like these for granted because we know that companies like Bovi at solar can choose to locate anywhere in the world, but they chose us. And that's why we must continue to increase our investments in education, workforce training in our public schools and in early childhood education, that is absolutely critical. This announcement is the result of strong collaboration by company executives, elected officials across both aisles and economic development professionals. In addition to Secretary Sanders and the Department of Commerce, I'd like to thank our Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina that works so well led by Chris Chung works so well with our Department of Commerce, our North Carolina General Assembly. Those members are here today, our Golden Leaf Foundation, our Greenville Eastern North Carolina Alliance, Pitt County Electric Cities, Greenville Utilities Commission and the city of Greenville. At this time, I would like to, to welcome to the podium, the CEO of Bovi at Solar, Jimmy Shea. And I'd like to present him with a gift on behalf of the people of North Carolina, Jimmy. If you could come forward, Jimmy, this is a piece of pottery made one of our, by one of our famous artists uh Ben Owen. And on it has the great seal of the state of North Carolina and it has a part of it. Our, our motto, Si Quam Beri, which means to be rather than to seem, we want you to know in North Carolina we are who we say we are. And we look forward to this partnership for years and decades to come. Congratulations. Thank you for being here. Uh This is uh cup of the Chinese tea. Oh, outstanding. Thank you very much. Well, on behalf of the people of North Carolina, we accept this gift and hopefully we can sit and drink some tea and talk about the great success of this company. Thank you, Jimmy very much. Thank you. Mm Let uh let me begin to say uh by saying, thank you to the press, our partners and everyone who took the time to join us at today's event. Uh We are around to be receiving this investment grade and uh we are excited uh for how it uh will enable us to get our first us solar panel manufacturer facility up to and running and uh created, created uh economic uh uh our opportunities for the pul air. Yeah, for those who uh who aren't familiar. Let me introduce the about the poet founded in 2013 poet, solar head office in Unite, unite us Germany and our group uh headquarters in Vietnam. We have a proven track record of successful working with many of the industrial leading players. And our PV module are known for their power performance. And quality. This is evident because Bo has uh maintained its uh pos uh position at a Bloomberg new energy financing T one solar module manufacturers. Since 2017, we have been written at the top performance on people's PV module reliability uh score card since 2019 BB. Successfully completed. And in the independent e estimate of bo uh uh water solar manufacturers facility in 2022 the US uh solar industrial had been in K for water solar since we first uh entered the uh in 20 17 as of 2020 f uh three world solar PV sales and the PV models manufacturing capacity is more than three gigawatts and it's a shar a total of more than 6.6 gigawatt since uh in fabric, manually operating in us. Marketing. We are dedicated uh to helping to build uh American solar manufacturers uh with our new facility and uh filing, you know, cutting power in uh petit county, North Carolina and the, the natural. Uh let me tell you more about our plan for the manufacture plant. First one of the project, we use the building to manufacture our solar modules per to will including contracting uh start uh start off the art 500,000 to 60 thou uh 100,000 square foot factory on 34 acres to manufacture of PV cells which are used to build the solar panels. The location is expected to output the two gigawatts of solar and the two gigawatt uh PV cells since the future, uh uh will help bring our top performance PV modules to our variable clients to foster stronger connections with the independent uh power products. EP CS product uh developers, solar in, in installs and the contractors. We will have product uh they need uh in increase the deve deployment of uh uh U utilities, commercial industrial and uh dangerous solar project. We will require a strong workforce to product pro produce these solar panels so we will hearing about uh 900 employees uh over the next five years, job are expect expected to increase engineers, product workers. And so on, on behalf of uh B solar, I would like to thank everyone in involved in making this uh weight of product uh possible. The first is the governor uh Rio Cooper and uh and the secu uh secondary security Sanders and the North Korea development of the commerce tr uh territory uh D feature and the e economy uh economic uh developer partners of the North Korea Carolina, North Carolina General and Een North Korea uh communi Community College System, Go Goen Le found uh Foundation, Yanda down uh and the team at the Greenville East, North Carolina Islands, Kelly Andrew and the Peter County developer office, as well as the Pitter county government, Kathy Howard and the leadership team at the Greenville Utilities Commission City of the Greenville Electricity of the North Carolina and our advances today, our dream are coming true. We are upon the to begin pro product in our pe models in the US, bring our manufacturers exciting excellence to our most important uh solar market, creating jobs and the ma uh making up in impact. Solar energy in the United States is a bombing driving by its many benefits. Solar is an economic engine, a source of clean cheap um produce energy set and make a electricity affordable for customers and improve the air quality for health uh communities. We are surrendered to help uh future wills rep reputation for the green. I I can economic and uh manufacturing. We look forward to working with all of our partners, our path towards a cleaning future in the United. Thank you. I wanted to make sure I recognized Senator Candy Smith and Representative Glory Steam Brown and Representative reader, the legislature helped us a lot with this too. So, thank you very much for. Ok. Mhm. Good afternoon. My name is Anne Lord Huggins and I serve on the Pitt County Board of Commissioners. In conclusion of this momentous announcement, we must emphasize how truly honored we are that Pitt County was chosen over the many communities that were under consideration for this project. We are not only announcing the selection of Pitt County for a new industry that will bring strong economic growth to our community, but we are celebrating the collaboration that have developed and will continue to develop among Pitt County. Our partners and this esteem company. This announcement is the culmination of shared vision. This company's vision for its first us manufacturing facility in a business friendly asset, rich and welcoming community and Pitt County's vision for growth through strong industry partners that create highly skilled high paying jobs for our citizens. This vision will come to life in the, in the gr in the green corporate park and we look forward to our continued partnership to make this project successful. Beyond expectation. On behalf of Pitt County and the Board of commissioners, we extend our appreciation to each and every individual who has contributed their time, expertise and passion to make today possible. Most importantly, we extend heartfelt thanks to Bovier Sola for choosing us to communicate, to commemorate. Excuse me, this day, we would like to present a sculpture crafted by local artist Jordan Pera titled Connecting the Links May this day be a continuation of connections that will ensure your continued success. We are honored to be your partners and your chosen community. Welcome to your new home, Pitt County. OK. And I accept this on behalf of pick him and now and welcome to the podium, Thomas Taft Junior Board of Directors of Greenville, NENC Alliance for a toast. That's good. Not a force of guys. II, I had a prepared speech, but I'm gonna take this in a slightly different direction because II I, everyone has, has talked so much about the relationships and everything else. That got us to this point. But all I can say on behalf of Pitt County and on behalf of the Greenville NC Alliance is we won. We have won, we have beat out other communities, phobia technologies to come here. It's everything that we've all been working for, for years and years and years. I look at so many of you out here that uh were participants in that. And again, all I want to say is we won. Pitt County won North Carolina won. Thank you, Governor Cooper. Cheers, everyone. Cheers. Thank you. I don't mind. That's fine. No, no, no, no. Well, I would just add that this is the single largest jobs announcement in Pitt County's history. Uh, I don't believe we've had a governor here in, uh, about 15 years to announce anything, uh, economic development, a new, a new, uh, I'm sorry. But, uh, but either way we're proud to have you here. We're proud to have you guys here. Cheers again to a victory for Pitt County here here. Thank you. Thank you very much. Ok. Thank you so much. I'm ready to provide. Yeah. Yeah. Ok. They see. All right. Right. Yes. That's first. He said going across the way, come back in time.</p>

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Good afternoon. My name is Lieutenant Jason with the Public Information Office of the Raleigh Police Department. Deputy Chief Boyce is going to provide an update on the incident that happened at a high school today. Uh Good morning, uh Deputy Chief Rico Boyce of the Raleigh Police Department. I want to provide an update of the incident that occurred here at in low high school this morning. I'm joined here with Major Harrison of the Field Operations Division as well as major latour of the field operations division. I want to begin by saying that everything and everyone is safe at Inlow High School. There's no students, no staff that has been injured as a result of this. Obviously with uh with the allegation of a firearm on campus, it really has an effect on the students and staff, but I want to alert the public that everything is ok. Uh Wake County schools have been very helpful in investigating this matter with the Raleigh Police Department. So what happened just after 10 a.m. this morning, a student approached the principal and made the principal aware that there is a subject on campus with a firearm. The principal immediately placed a school on code red lockdown and with the assistance of the school resource officer, additional officers were called to the scene. Once officers arrived on scene, they began to do a systematic search of the entire school interior and exterior of the school to determine that there was no one on campus with the firearm. Obviously, when you talk about a firearm on campus, it has a very large impact in our community and that's why we had a very large presence of law enforcement. But I will say Raleigh PD working with the Wake County public schools, we have determined that there is no threat on campus. We took this matter very seriously. We're going to continue to investigate and see how this all originated. But at this time, I just want to let the community know that this threat is unfounded, right? There's no threat, there's no firearm, there's no one injured at in high school. So we're going to continue to make sure that the message get out and Wake County public schools will put out an update of how the rest of the school day is going to go as far as any potential early release. I cannot say that right now, what I can say is a student made the principal aware that there is a potential of someone on campus with a firearm. The principal took that information very seriously and placed the school on a code grade lockdown and we began to investigate from there. So at this time, I can't determine if it was a hoax or not. Are you looking for anyone else? I mean, there have been a report that there was a student who said her boyfriend was with a gun. Are you looking for that person? Since no one was found in the school with a gun? We're investigating right now, like say this originated from a student and the information was shared with the principal. So we're still trying to determine what exactly was shared with the principal to lead to the core lockdown. So right now that is like say under investigation, did you guys do a systematic room by room search? Yes, we did. Like I say with this being a school and the threat of a firearm on campus, the Raleigh Police Department's selective enforcement unit, state capital PD County Sheriff's office, they all responded to help us do a systematic search of the entire campus, not only inside the school but it outside school in the surrounding neighborhoods is the lockdown lifted currently. No, it's still code red lockdown right now. We're just finishing up like say some last minute details with Wake County public schools and they will update us when they're going to lift that code red. One more question. I just want to make sure I'm clarifying this correctly. A call from the principle that a student had reported this. Are you still on the lookout for someone who might have been on campus and then left or are you investigating this in a different way? We're investigating this in a different way that this was a alleged threat of someone with a gun on campus. So right now, there's nobody on campus, but we're trying to get the exact details. Like what else was involved in this communication with the student and the principal. Can you really quickly just talk about the response? I mean, this is a massive response to something like this and the impact that has on officers, parents, students out there actually has a huge toll, a huge effect on our officers responding to any school with the potential of a firearm b on a campus. That's why you saw the response to get today. Uh We work very well with our law enforcement partners and we're very thankful for them helping us to clear the school. Uh And obviously with parents, of course, this is going to have a huge impact on parents as well as student and staff. Anytime you see a large police presence on a, on a school campus, but it's all to make sure that everyone is safe. Uh And then we're quickly, we'll try to get the school back to normal operators uh operating as soon as possible. So yes, we came with a lot of resources if there was a threat or would someone would have gone, we wanted to quickly mitigate that. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all. Thank you.

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Enloe High School is under a code red lockdown. Sky 5 is flying over the school.

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Good evening. I'm Gail. Hi, welcome to tonight's drawings for Thursday, April 25th, 2024. Well, let's get started tonight with our Carolina pick three. Our first winning number is a one. Our second number is eight and our third number tonight is a nine and our pick three fireball number is eight. Again, join me for tonight's joining us on Auditor from mcconnell and Jones L LP. Now let's move to the Carolina pick four. Good luck. Everyone who's their first winning pick four number. It's a six. Our second number is eight. Third number tonight is eight again and our fourth number is a three in our pick four fireball number. There it comes. It is a one. Well, turning now to the Carolina cash five and no one wins our prize tonight. Tomorrow's, our prize is estimated at $721,000. Good luck. Everyone here's our first winning cash five number. It's the number eight. Our second number is five third number. Tonight is seven. Our fourth number here it comes. It's a 41 in the final number, NRC five. This evening is 27. The North Carolina Education Lottery has contributed over $10 billion to education. Get your winning numbers right here every night in your exclusive station for the North Carolina Education lottery. Thanks for playing. Have a great night.

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