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Hello everyone. I'm meteorologist mike maze in the WRL severe weather center with our forecast update for this Tuesday night had a beautiful day. Today. Got up to 66 out at R. D. U. We expect a warmer day tomorrow we should make our way up into the low seventies across the area. Are forecast tomorrow morning as you step out. Not as cold as the 34 we have this morning. It's about 47 by eight a.m. You can ditch the jackets later on during the afternoon because again we expect a warm today than what we had today at the bus stop in the morning. 43 is our forecast low partly cloudy skies to begin the day 47 at eight a.m. By 10 a.m. It's 57 an hour by hour for the day tomorrow it's a more gorgeous sunshine expected for the day with some clouds up above 72. Is the forecast high. A record high is 75. Set back in 1920 19 I should say so tomorrow should be another fine day. Take a look at the big picture. We're tracking two systems one moving through the southwest right now that will make its way here on thursday with about a 20% chance of rain and then that system over the pacific northwest over Washington state that gets here for the weekend. It looks like it's going to make its way into the area slower and we'll have a bigger effect on the weekend. It looks like friday saturday and sunday will now feature rain but tomorrow a great day 70 to 72 in Fayetteville 57 of Boone 73 in Willington thursday will go mostly cloudy. If not a complete overcast, breezy 72. The high in Raleigh 74 in Fayetteville, just about a 20% chance for rain and then an 80% chance for rain on friday. Maybe even an isolated thunderstorm 66. The high in Raleigh 68 in Fayetteville. Now, this is our weekend trending wetter, 80% chance of rain, friday, 60% on saturday, 50% on sunday. What's going on? Well, there's an upper level trough of low pressure that will be over us. Looks like it's forming what we call a cut off area of low pressure and if that's the case, we have a colder pocket of air loft that could produce some wet snowflakes, saturday night into sunday morning, this is the time stamp for sunday. Around lunchtime. You can see the snow in the mountains. So low pressure forming offshore. That's a new trend we're seeing in the models today and also it looks like it'll be wetter into saturday and sunday and the possibility of some wet snowflakes. Keep checking back as we have more model runs and we'll see if it shifts back into a less wet scenario. So not as cold overnight lows will be in the forties, it's partly cloudy 43 Raleigh 42 in Fayetteville and it's warmer tomorrow upper sixties to low seventies get outside enjoying the warmer weather. Now, it's still going to be warm on thursday but it should be overcast 60 70 to the high 66 on friday with that good chance of rain, 70% chance friday night, 60% saturday, 60% saturday night, 50% chance on sunday. Then we're back to warmer weather monday and Tuesday. That's our forecast update. Thanks for joining me. Have a great night.

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Nightly N.C. Education Lottery drawings during the 11 p.m. News.

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Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who gained a national profile as former President Donald Trump's press secretary, delivers the Republican response to President Joe Biden's speech.

Crisis and threat from china biden and the democrats have failed you. They know it and you know it and it's time for a change tonight. Let us reaffirm our commitment to a timeless american idea that government exists not to rule the people but to serve the people. Democrats want to rule us with more government control. But that's not who we are. America is the greatest country in the world has ever known because we're the freest country the world has ever known with the people who are strong and resilient. five months ago I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. It was a hard time for our family, particularly our kids, scarlet huck and George. But we kept our faith and persevered thanks to exceptional doctors here in Arkansas a successful surgery and the grace of God. I am cancer free through it all. I couldn't help but think about my mom. She was 20 years old and into her first year of marriage when she was diagnosed with spinal cancer. The doctors told her she might not live and if she did live, they said she'd never walk again and if she did walk, she definitely never have Children. The daughter, she was told she'd never have was just sworn in as the new governor of Arkansas and is speaking to you tonight. Adversity and fear of the unknown can paralyze us. But faith propels us to charge boldly ahead. We can't stand still in the face of great challenges you and I were put on this earth for such a time as this to charge boldly ahead. I'll be the first to admit president Biden and I don't have a lot in common. I'm for freedom. He's for government control at 40. I'm the youngest governor in the country and at 80 he's the oldest president in American history. I'm the first woman to lead my state and he's the first man to surrender his presidency to a woke mob that can't even tell you what a woman is in the radical left. America Washington taxes you and lights your hard earned money on fire but you get crushed with high gas prices, empty grocery shelves and our Children are taught to hate one another on account of their race, but not to love one another or our great country. Whether joe biden believes this madness or is simply too weak to resist it. His administration has been completely hijacked by the radical left. The dividing line in America is no longer between right or left. The choice is between normal or crazy. It's time for a new generation of republican leadership. Upon taking office just a few weeks ago, I signed executive orders to ban CRT racism and indoctrination in our schools, eliminate the use of derogatory term latin X in our government repealed covid orders and said never again to authoritarian mandates and shutdowns. Americans want common sense from their leaders. But in Washington, the biden administration is doubling down on crazy. President biden inherited the fastest economic recovery on record, The most secure border in history, cheap, abundant, homegrown energy. Fast rising wages, a rebuilt military and a world that was stable and at peace. But over the last two years democrats destroyed it all. Despite democrats, trillions in reckless spending and mountains of debt. We now have the worst border crisis in american history. As a mom. My heart breaks for every parent who has lost a son or daughter to addiction. 100,000 Americans a year are now killed from drug overdoses largely from fentaNYL pouring across our southern border. Yet the biden administration refuses to secure the border and save american lives. And after years of democrat attacks on law enforcement and calls to defund the police, violent criminals roam free while law abiding families live in fear beyond our border. From Afghanistan to Ukraine, from north Korea to Iran. President biden's weakness puts our nation and the world at risk and the president's refusal to stand up to china. Our most formidable adversary is dangerous and unacceptable. President biden is unwilling to defend our border, defend our skies and defend our people. He is simply unfit to serve as commander in chief. And while you reap the consequences of their failures, the biden administration seems more interested in woke fantasies than the hard reality americans face every day. Most americans simply want to live their lives in freedom and peace. But we are under attack in a left wing culture war. We didn't start and never wanted to fight every day. We are told we must partake in their rituals, salute their flags and worship their false idols all while big government collude with big tech to strip away the most american thing. There is your freedom of speech. That's not normal. It's crazy and it's wrong. Make no mistake. Republicans will not surrender this fight. We will lead with courage and do what's right, not what's politically correct or convenient. Republicans believe in an America where strong families thrive in safe communities, where jobs are abundant and paychecks are rising, where the freedom our veterans shed their blood to defend is the birthright of every man, woman and child. These are the principles republican governors are fighting for and in Washington under the leadership of Senate republicans and Speaker kevin McCarthy. We will hold the biden administration accountable down the street from where I sit is my almond water. Little rock Central high as a student there, I will never forget watching my dad, Governor mike Huckabee and President Bill Clinton hold the doors open to the little rock nine doors that 40 years earlier had been closed to them because they were black today. Those Children once barred from the schoolhouse are now heroes memorialized in bronze at our State house. I'm proud of the progress our country has made and I believe giving every child access to a quality education regardless of their race or income, is the civil rights issue of our day. Tomorrow I will unveil an education package that will be the most far reaching bold conservative education reform in the country, My plan empowers parents with real choices, improves literacy and career readiness and helps put a good teacher in every classroom by increasing their starting salary from one of the lowest to one of the highest in the nation. Here in Arkansas and across America, republicans are working to end the policy of trapping kids in failing schools and sentencing them to a lifetime of poverty. We will educate, not indoctrinate our kids and put students on a path to success. It's time for a new generation to lead. This is our moment. This is our opportunity. A new generation born in the waning decades of the last century shaped by economic booms and stock market busts forged by the triumph of the Cold War and the tragedy of 9 11. A generation brimming with passion and new ideas to solve age old problems a generation more to our deepest values and oldest traditions yet unafraid to challenge the present order and find a better way forward. If we seize this moment together, America can once again be the land of the free and the home of the brave. During my 2.5 years at the White House, I traveled on every foreign trip with the president. A trip I will never forget was on December 25 of 2018, my husband brian and I had just cleaned up wrapping paper that was shoved into every corner of our house. Thanks to our three kids when I had to walk out on my own family's christmas unable to tell them where I was going that night because the place I'd be traveling was so dangerous. They didn't want anybody to know that the President was going to be on the ground Even for a few hours We boarded Air Force one in complete and total darkness. There were no lights on the plane, no lights on the runway. Our phones and computers shut down and turned in. We were going completely off the grid. Nearly 12 hours later in the pitch black of night we landed in the war torn part of Western Iraq. It was again a similar scene. No lights on the plane. The lights on the runway. The only thing you could see was coming from about a mile away in a dining hall where hundreds of troops who were in the fight against ISIS had gathered expecting to celebrate christmas with senior military leadership from around the region. They had absolutely no idea that the President and first lady were about to walk into that room and when they did it was a sight and a scene and a sound. I hope I never forget the room erupted. Men and women from every race, religion and region, every political party, every demographic you can imagine started chanting in perfect unison over and over and over again. Usa USA USa. It was an absolutely perfect picture of what makes our country great. One of the young soldiers yelled from the back. Mr. President. I? Re enlisted in the military because of you and the president said and son, I'm here because of you. Shortly after that young soldier came up to me he said, Sarah, you have a tough job. I told him what I do is nothing. You take bombs and bullets. That's a tough job. And in a moment that I know I'll cherish for the rest of my life. That soldier reached up and he pulled the brave rifles patch he wore on his shoulder and he placed it into my hand. A sign of ultimate respect and he said Sarah, we are in this together, overwhelmed with emotion and speechless. I just hugged him with tears in my eyes and a grateful heart for our heroes who keep us free. That young man and everyone who has served before him. All of those who serve alongside him and the thousands, we know who will be called upon to serve after him deserve to know they have a country in a community back home. Doing our part in the fight for freedom. America is great because we are free. But today our freedom is under attack and the America we love is in danger. President biden and the democrats have failed you and it's time for a change. A new generation of republican leaders are stepping up not to be caretakers of the status quo, but to be change makers. For the american people. We know not what the future holds, but we know who holds the future in his hands. And with God as our witness, we will show the world that America is still the place where freedom reigns and liberty will never die. Thank you. God bless you and God bless America.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders delivers Republican response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union Address

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N AND SPEECHLESS I JUST HUGGED THEM. WITH TEARS IN MY EYES AND A GRATEFUL HEART. FOR HEROES WHO KEEP US FREE. THAT YOUNG MAN AND EVERYONE WHO HAS SERVED BEFORE HIM. ALL OF THOSE WHO SERVE ALONGSIDE HIM. AND THE THOUSANDS WE KNOW WHO WILL BE CALLED UPON TO SERVE AFTER HIM. DESERVE TO KNOW THEY HAVE A COUNTRY IN A COMMUNITY BACK HOME DOING OUR PART IN THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. AMERICA IS GREAT BECAUSE WE ARE FREE. BUT TODAY. OUR

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President Biden will address a joint session of Congress on Tuesday at the U.S. Capitol. The address comes as the country faces economic uncertainty, the war in Ukraine, tensions with China and the potential for Biden to seek re-election in 2024.

President Joe Biden delivers the 2023 State of the Union Address

The lockdowns have disrupted student learning and caused stress among students and their families, as gun violence has been a major concern for schools for years.

After week of lockdowns, Wake County school board discusses safety

People are not paying their parking tickets in Durham - and it's costing the city a lot of money.

<p>ALL-WHEEL-DRIVE SYSTEM. &gt;&gt; PEOPLE ARE NOT PAYING THEIR PARKING TICKETS IN DURHAM AND IT'S COSTING THE CITY A LOT OF MONEY. CITY LEADERS ARE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE ISSUE AS THEIR OWN. NEARLY $700,000 FOR UNPAID CITATIONS WRAL'S DURHAM REPORTER SARAH KRUEGER SHARES. WHAT STAFF IS PROPOSING TO DO ABOUT IT. PARKING ON THE STREET IN DOWNTOWN DURHAM WILL COST YOU $2.50 AN HOUR. IF YOU DON'T PAY HERE, YOU COULD GET ONE OF THESE WHICH WILL RUN YOU $30 THING IS THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ARE GETTING THESE AND JUST NOT PAY THEM. &gt;&gt; THE SINKING FEELING OF COMING BACK TO YOUR CAR AND FINDING THE GREEN PAPER ON YOUR WINDSHIELD. THE PARKING ENFORCEMENT WORKERS ARE ALWAYS BUSY IN DOWNTOWN DURHAM EVER GOTTEN A PARKING TICKET IN DURHAM. &gt;&gt; NO, I HAVEN'T. I PICK MY PARKING LOOKING INTO A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T, THOUGH. AND THEN THEY DON'T PAY FOR THE CITATIONS EITHER. A NEW REPORT CITY COUNCIL WILL RECEIVE THIS WEEK SHOWS MORE THAN A 3RD OF THE PARKING TICKETS ISSUED IN THE CITY SINCE 2020 HAVE NOT BEEN PAID. &gt;&gt; THAT'S ROUGHLY 50,000 TICKETS. NEARLY ALL OF THEM ARE AT LEAST 3 MONTHS OLD IN TOTAL. THAT MEANS THE CITY IS OWED ROUGHLY $683,000. THAT'S A LOT OF MONEY IN. &gt;&gt; PEOPLE SHOULD PAY THEIR TICKETS, BUT THEY'RE ALSO SITUATIONS WHERE PEOPLE JUST CAN'T PAY. I'M SO I THINK INCREASING IN TRANSPORTATION AND ALLOWING PEOPLE TO. HAVE THOSE METHODS THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO PAY FOR PARKING. I DEFINITELY THOUGHT THERE SOME TYPE OF SYSTEM IN PLACE THAT, YOU KNOW, HELP PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE FOR PAYING FOR THEIR PARKING. ACCORDING TO THE REPORT, CITY STAFF THINKS IT CAN IMPROVE IN THAT AREA TO ACKNOWLEDGING A ROBUST COLLECTIONS PROCESS DOES NOT EXIST FOR COLLECTIONS OF OUTSTANDING BALANCES. IT'S LOOKING INTO HOW TO HOLD PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE. &gt;&gt; SOME ETHICS ALONE CAN MOTIVATE THEM TO CHANGE THEIR WAYS. AND IF YOU PAY FOR PARKING AND THAT THE PARTY'S BASE PAY IT, YOU KNOW, IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO. ONE RECOMMENDATION THAT CAME OUT OF THE REPORT IS POSSIBILITY OF USING A COLLECTION AGENCY TO GET PEOPLE TO PAY UP. SARAH</p>

Locals owe Durham nearly $700,000 in unpaid parking tickets

One in five people in North Carolina are currently experiencing a behavioral health issue. A new online tool could help them find care more quickly.

IT LOCALLY THAT STORY MONDAY AT 5. >> DOCTORS SAY THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE NEEDING BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE IS ON THE RISE. THE STATE HAS A NEW ONLINE TOOL TO GET PATIENTS WHERE THEY NEED TO BE THE BUREAU'S. MONICA CASEY SHOWS US HOW IT CAN REDUCE WAIT TIMES IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT >> ONE IN 5 PEOPLE IN NORTH CAROLINA ARE CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING A BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ISSUE. DOCTORS SAY THIS PROBLEM HAS GOTTEN WORSE. I THINK WE'VE SEEN UNPRECEDENTED NUMBERS IN OUR EMERGENCY ROOM OVER THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS OF PEOPLE NEEDING HELP UN SEES DOCTOR KEN AND BEN US COVID. HE'S IN CHARGE OF THE UNIT HELPING PEOPLE WITH SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS IS A LOT MORE DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY IS WHAT WE'VE BEEN SEEING ON AVERAGE STATEWIDE. THERE ARE 350 ADULTS AND CHILDREN WAITING IN EMERGENCY ROOMS FOR AN AVAILABLE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH BED. THE STATE DEVELOPED BH SCAN A CENTRALIZED ONLINE BED REGISTRY SHOWING WHERE SPOTS ARE AVAILABLE. KELLY CROSBY WITH NCDHHS AS IT ELIMINATES THE NEED FOR HOSPITALS TO CALL AROUND SEARCHING FOR A SPOT. IT REALLY HELPS WITH THE ADMINISTRATIVE BURDEN CROSBY SAYS IT ALSO STREAMLINES THE ADMITTANCE PROCESS. IT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO GET PEOPLE OUT OF THE HOSPITAL A LOT QUICKER. THE STATE ALSO HAS ACCESS TO THE REGISTRY FOR LONG-TERM PLANNING. SO WE SEE WHERE WE HAVE ONGOING HOLES. >> ONGOING EXTRA ACCESS AND HELPS US PLAN A LITTLE BIT BETTER. DOCTOR BEN IS COVID TELLS ME THIS WILL CONNECT PEOPLE TO CARE MORE QUICKLY. HE BELIEVES THE STATE NEEDS MORE BEDS AS A WHOLE. WE'RE SEEING, YOU KNOW, SURGES OF PEOPLE NEEDING HELP. AND WE'RE THRILLED THAT THE STATE IS, YOU KNOW, WANTING TO, YOU KNOW, INVEST AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. >> ABOUT 100 HOSPITALS AND FACILITIES ARE ALREADY PARTICIPATING IN THIS REGISTRY IN THE STATE IS HOPING TO EXPAND IT FURTHER TO INCLUDE HEALTH PLANS. MONICA KC WR L NEWS IN DURHAM. >> AND DUKE, UNC WAKE MED ARE

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