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In the August episode of Out and About TV, we visit Salt & Lime​, Alara & Zane, YoBa Studio, Olde Raleigh Distillery and check out Last Fridays in Hillsborough 



<p>tonight on out. Nobody laura and Zane is a shop play learn party concept. Welcome to the online, we have a basil lime margarita quickly pair but orange unique flavors that you don't get everywhere. We bring artists of all backgrounds kinds and shapes to Hillsborough to bring our community together. We offer different modalities at yoga studio so that every single day you can choose what your body needs. Each small batch uses the same three types of bourbon, but each batch tastes totally different. Go out and about. Mm. Welcome to laura and Zane. Laura and Zane at face value is a shop play learn party concept. We've created a space that parents can come and their kids can play. They can play together. They can play with staff. They can shop for trendy quality kids clothing. They can learn and grow together and they can party and celebrate because we truly enjoy the little moments. All of the spaces are connected but have an individual feel. The main room that you walk into is bright and sunny, almost floor to ceiling windows through the whole space. And it has our tower and our tour li slide. It has the grassy space which also has a slide built in. This is what we call our active play room because kids can run, we do obstacle courses. We play hide and seek. There's also a dedicated baby or infant area with a soft ball pit, fuzzy little carpets and a play gym and there's a really cute ballet bar and nearer so that kids can see themselves during tummy time and pull themselves up as they're learning to stand up and walk our art room is very loved. We have daily Crafts, we have something called Draw Alive where their drawings come to life on the screen, which is really amazing to them. Our room upstairs sometimes gets overlooked, but it's very montessori inspired, It's calm. Lots of wooden toys and educational, so there's a shelf for language, math, practical life are imaginative play room features all the dress up and play kitchen and we try to incorporate toys that inspire imaginative play and we rotate those toys regularly. There's a lot of, a lot of favorite toys in there. We have several different classes for kids. We have music class, which is a child and parent class. It's either a 45 minute music class or we do a music and play, which is 30 minutes of music and then 30 minutes of play. We also have a messy art class, which is a lot of fun. We've seen many people walk by and look in the window because it truly is messy art, but it's great for the kids. So that right now is for 1.5 to 3 year olds, kids leave feeling confident and it's a great intro to art and we'll expand that, offering two older kids soon coming in the fall, we have a few more classes. We're gonna do a dance and movement class. Uh, and then also an intro to reading and reading literacy class. We have a variety of curated brands from around the world. And so there are brands that focus on sustainability and organic material. We have sizes zero all the way up to nine, there's clothes, there's shoes, there's lots of gifts and toys and party products which people really like when you come in for an open play, parents do stay with the kids so you can shop, but you can also sit down and work. You can also sit on the floor and play. It's really up to what the parent needs at that time. We hope that coming to a lara enzyme can create a little less chaos in the day, I created it because I wanted a support system for parents, it's support on, on little levels. We're here to make life a little bit easier. People can get more information from our website, which is a large reason dot com. We welcome you to come in and shop or play. We'd be happy to give you a tour and we look forward to meeting you. Mhm Yeah, welcome to the last friday's art walk in Hillsboro. Last friday's art walk is a monthly event from april to november. That's where we bring artists of all backgrounds, kinds and shapes to Hillsborough to bring our community together. Typically on the last friday you will see music at local venues, so you can come park and walk throughout the entire town is really nice and you can catch them live music of all different varieties at our local venues at local art galleries. You can catch spoken word poetry that wanders throughout the talent to different venues and uh partners with the local music, which is really cool to see that diversity converge into one show, meet local artists and talk to them about their art is really unique experience. Last friday's is the last friday of every month. From april to november, you can find out more information by visiting Hillsborough Arts Council dot org slash last dash friday. Mhm. Welcome to online. Salt and lime is just our dream of having a different style mexican restaurant that's more Cali Mex or coastal Mex. So kelly max is just a blend of mexican flavors. People are really surprised that we have a lot of unique dishes on the menu. We have a mango salad with chicken. We have kaba roles that are super delicious with a spicy ranch. We have barbecue, mahi tacos have delicious salmon, vera cruz. Everything here is, is made fresh daily. All the juices from the bar to the kitchen and we're very proud of that. You know, the food here is always good, always delicious. A lot of dishes have co following the salmon, we use great Canadian atlantic salmon. We do it with a black bean cake, sauteed spinach in butter with some chili flake a little salt and pepper and then the salmon goes on top and then we do a roll hot sauce. It was just a red pepper, butter, cream sauce, avocado and then a little bit of just PICO on top. Bangkok's from tacos. Just delicious. We do with a mango, pineapple salsa, caribbean salsa with some napa, cabbage and romaine. Mix on the tortilla fried shrimp. We just toss the shrimp in some seasoned flour, Quickly flash fry them and then kind of glaze them with a honey, chipotle glaze. Um, serve those up with some just some really crispy rice noodles and some storage of any surf and turf burrito is by far the most popular shoulder tender. Fresh shrimp sauteed down with some sofrito, a little bit of a little bit of caramelized onions rolled up in a burrito with some rice, a little bit of PICO on top to garnish with fresh cilantro. College Street Chicken is half a chicken but flattened out. We see it on the front top almost all the way on the skin. So you get a nice crispy skin and then we cover it with our adobo sauce served with koso rice, the chicken goes on top of that with some bacon. Really good flavors. We try to make every dish is really flavorful as we possibly can. Our margaritas are super fun. We have over 70 different tequila. So I have 17 different margaritas. We have basil, lime margarita, prickly pear but orange. People really enjoy the balance of a peach, habanero margarita, you know, unique flavors that you don't get everywhere. And it's just something really fun for all kinds of different types and flavors and people that like to travel and enjoy good food and good dreams. Yeah, what we wanted to recreate is what would it be like to, to dine on a beach or dying outside underneath the stars. And it started looking at all of these star lights in these beautiful decorations, having an open ceiling really lended to the atmosphere of being outdoors and that's what we were really going for. It's just a fun kind of beach vibe. The star lights plants everywhere and it's just a really fun environment that people really just enjoy being around. It's just a nice escape and you know, the food complements the hard work that we put into the atmosphere and at the end of the day you got to have something that's a good value. I mean we want them to walk away going, I can't wait to go back. We're very proud of this place. It's taken a lot of hard work and it's just a fun environment. We have great kitchen staff. It's, it's a family that we've created here. You'll really enjoy being here with us and we hope to make your experience super fun and pleasurable where you're going to come back on a date night or bring your friends or family and have a birthday with us. We are located 6006 falls of neuse road. Our website is salt and lime Kabo dot com. The Oba buses essentially traveling yoga studio. We've done thatcher. It's we've done birthday parties. Yeah. Mhm mm Yeah. Welcome to yoga studio. Yoga studio is a movement with heart studio. So not your traditional fitness brick and mortar studio. So movement with heart means that instead of just thinking about what your physical body is doing, it's tapping into what am I feeling today? What do I actually need today and not listening to this. But listening to this, we offer different modalities at yoga studio so that every single day you can choose what your body needs to feel that day for yoga. We only offer pretty much one type of classes kind of are formatted class that is very regimented to help your body live for years and be able to move for years. Bar is a zero impact workout where you use weights, bands, balls and you're barefoot, so you're feeling your own body, no jumping resistance posture. Also at yoga we offer a very high impact class that we recommend only doing one or two days a week just to really get your heart rate up. If that's something that serves your body, we have a different body focus every two weeks. Yoga is here because I couldn't find what I was looking for in my body anywhere else. And I knew just from other teachers that surrounded me at the time that there was a need for it and it's something that really didn't have and I just knew that it would be successful. The young of us was born as we call it, the pandemic blessing. So we were forced to close and I wasn't gonna close, I had to figure out some way for me to still be able to take care of my mental health and my physical health as well as my team. The yoga bus is essentially a traveling Yo bus studio. So it offers the same, unique, warm, inviting welcome that we hope that you get at the studio that can travel anywhere and everywhere. So it's kind of like a beautiful blessing that came out of this year. We plan on bringing it anywhere. We've done bachelorettes, we've done birthday parties, we've done pop up events around the triangle, just with other businesses as well as testing out new markets, you know, coming into a fitness studio is so intimidating and I've done my best to just really try to break the barrier so anybody can come move their body, they just kind of have to get over that initial walk through the door, you can buy classes in folk drop in that can mean you can just show up, walk in and you'll pay a flat fee if you can do live stream, you can do on demand, we have every option. So even if you never really want to come to the studio, but you're just craving our type of movement. We have it for you. I think it's really important that we figure out some type of practice that serves us and Yoba will not be that for everyone. But in our day to day lives we live here. You have to, it's so important to find some type of practice that brings you back to here. The studio is located at 5003 Falls of Neuse Road, which is in Quell Corner shopping centre in North Raleigh. Our website is www dot yoga studio dot com. The Greensboro Science Center is an amazing way to spend the day. We've got an aquarium, we've got a museum. We've got Zoo and we have Sky Wild, which is our Treetop adventure course here at Sky Wild. You can actually act like an animal, go wild up in the trees and mimic their adaptations. It's much more than a zip line. So it's a great way to have some physical activity and of course your zip lines at the end of sort of like your reward. There's so much to do here at the Greensboro Science that are, It's a very awesome way to spend the day. Check out our website Greensboro Science dot org and see all the things you can do here. Bold Raleigh distillery is a craft distillery located in zebulon north Carolina where we specialize in small batch whiskey blends. Our approach to blending is taking uniquely different bourbon or whiskey is with different recipes or mash bills matching those are blending those together to create a unique expression. So to create our blend, I spent two years hand selecting barrels from around the country to come up with our unique blended whiskey. Each small batch uses the same three types of bourbon, but each batch tastes totally different. Our goal was to have a new small batch every two months and in between that would do a limited release. We worked with a local beekeeper here, Baxter's bees at Isabel in and we took three different distinct honeys, blending them together, put them in an empty 17 year bourbon barrel. So we'll do a limited release honey cask finish bourbon to roll out this fall. We went through a lot of planning from the bottle design, to the packaging, to the branding itself and then also the ambiance of the space that we have. We reclaim the lumber from the Rafters as 50 year old time because, and then we went down the street and the local was able and bass wood Werksman helped craft the bar and the table. What I wanted to showcase though was when you walked through the doors, the essence of everything that we do. So the stills right when you walk in. In addition to that, we've got an event space where we host private events, weddings, things such as that and for me, the most exciting aspect of our business is the back end where we house all of our bourbon and our barrels on site here. If you walk back here with me, you'll notice it's a bit warmer relative to the front of our building. And that's because this area is unconditioned space. You want unconditioned space because how whiskey ages is they use the seasonal temperature swings. So this time of year, for example, it's warmer. But what that means is that whiskey is expanding in the barrel deep into the woods as the temperature cools again in the winter, it contracts. So all of that flavor that it picked up in the wood from that bourbon and now pulls back in. So flavors evolve continuously. Our flagship brand is called the old Riley whiskey society and it sounds like something you can join, like a club and it is the thought was that, hey, what if we rolled out a brand where we create unique expressions but also allow for those enthusiasts that want to learn about the art of bourbon or whiskey. They can come here and they can learn about barrel dumping and sampling right out the barrel as we're starting to develop the blend To educational aspects of Bourbon 101. So really just a schoolhouse, if you will, uh, something that we offer here for those that have any sort of appetite for whiskey or bourbon. We also have a selection of craft cocktails, craft beers and then also we've got a wine menu and non alcoholic drinks as well. We try to have a healthy mix of entertainment and events. The steady array of food trucks are here thursday through sunday, we have live music on Fridays and saturday nights. Music bingo on Tuesdays are event space, host of pop up market once a month and I'll host tastings, workshops, educational classes, things like that. Old Riley Distillery is located in the heart of Zeppelin, right in downtown. Check out our website Old Riley Distillery dot com. Well, for it is a very small, quaint historical field to the community itself. Yeah. Mhm. Mhm. Welcome to the Beaufort Hotel. We're glad you're here and visiting us on the crystal coast of north Carolina. Alfred is a very small, quaint historical field to the community itself. It has a almost a laid back, comfortable, relaxed feel to it. There's a lot of local outdoor activities, of things to do on the water or the beaches nearby. The property itself sits on 10 acres as two different buildings. One encompasses the rooms, there's a fitness facility and outdoor pool that's open seasonally a whirlpool and then 34 north, which is the other building encompasses our restaurant and banquet facility. Beaufort Hotel is built on a location that was at one point that man, Hayden fish plant. We've maintained some of the history of that in the building process. When the hotel was originally designed by our owner, they were trying to get the feel of the historical site that they sat upon and also the general feel of what Crystal Coast was. We did a lot with refurbished products from other areas of north Carolina. The floor comes from the heart mill, which is 100 year old cotton mill in Tarboro. The brick is from another mill in Tarboro as well. The products that we use in the guest room for the amenities are very upscale. Each bathroom has its own chandelier, which is very unusual. But you know, that's sort of Wendy's touch. The owner, she had a little pieces of decor designed to each guest room. Um, some of the other amenities that we offer on the property, we have bikes that are rental by full day or half a day. We have golf cart rentals and you can take off carts to go into town into ball for and kayaks and stand up 34° North is a waterfront restaurant that we try to do a little bit for everybody. Local seafood. We partnered with local farms, hand cut steaks with a little bit of creativity, a little bit of flair. I call it upscale casual. You can pull a boat right up to the dock and you can take take out food, but yet you can dress up on a saturday night, but you can go casual in the afternoon and uh, it kind of makes everybody comfortable in north Carolina. You have to have a shrimp and grits. But we do a really good shrimp and grits with tasso ham, Beautiful grouper dishes, Great angus beef. But then we have a great burger with fried green tomatoes, pimento cheese and applewood bacon on a brioche bun. You can't beat it on the beverage side. Uh we saw sort of a need for a whiskey bar. One of the things that we did prior to opening was went to Maker's Mark and we blended our own barrel of bourbon and Maker's Mark. We've got a great wine selection. We have about 18 wine choices by the glass, over 100 by the bottle. We do specialty cocktails that change on a seasonal basis and the beers that we run on tap are all craft beers will always feature two or 3 of the local Carteret County Burgers as well. We have a few different locations to hold events. We have the Rachel Carson ballroom, which is directly above the restaurant. We have great outdoor space. There's three or four different lawns that we can hold events on and then adjacent to us in the boathouse facility on the second floor is a room called the marlin room. That room has a real historical field to it. We do a lot of weddings. There there's a great outdoor deck again that looks over taylors creek. If you're looking for information on the hotel, visit our website Beaufort Hotel, N. C. Dot com. Please sign up for our newsletter. We'll send something out to you once a month. It will just remind you of all the great things that happened in, both for it and not that you need a reason to come and visit, but there'll always be one in there. Mhm, mm. Yeah. Yeah, mm. Mhm. Mhm. Okay. Yeah. Yeah mm.</p>

Kathy Hanrahan

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Hi, everyone. Meteorologist Anthony Bag Leone, here on this Friday, we have just about made it to the weekend. We did it. We're almost there. Our weather on the whole is looking pretty good too for the next couple of days. Let's focus on today though first because of course, we've seen the cloud cover. We've seen cool temperatures across most of North Carolina. We time out what's likely to happen here on futurecast. So you see the clouds do stick with us for the first half of the day. Some light spotty rainfall back toward the mountains, Johnson City, Asheville Boone. And that's where we could see some drizzle. We head towards central North Carolina. The clouds should break up for us though. I do anticipate some sunshine getting through, then they refill back in as we get into tonight and then through the majority of our Saturday, we are looking at mostly cloudy skies. That's kind of the only thing that I would kind of ding the forecast on a little bit tomorrow. Otherwise it's looking like a pretty good couple of days. There's a look at tomorrow afternoon still, let's say partly to mostly cloudy skies. We should stay dry as Futurecast is trying to show a light spotty Sprinkle south of us. I think most of us are looking good. We go to 68 today right around three o'clock, low seventies for high temperatures this afternoon. And then we start to climb there, especially in the Sunday. We go to 82. All of these days are really looking pretty good. I think they'll feel decently comfortable if you want to head outside, get some fresh air, go on your bike ride, get some steps in, take the dog out. I know my dog Doppler is at home. Probably thinking let's do that, dad. It's gonna be a good couple of days to do that we talk about. So also, of course, an event going on downtown both tonight and as we head into our Saturday, Brugal in downtown Raleigh, we're seeing temperatures there in the sixties. It should be a great night for it. I think we'll see some sunshine. You may want the sunglasses, it'll be pretty comfortable. We start to climb into the upper eighties. By the time we get into next week, records are in the low nineties. I don't think we will quite get there, but still we have the potential at least to hit our 1st 90 degree reading of this year. 74 as today. That's the coolest temperature on the seven day over the next seven days, 74 as we get into tomorrow, 82 on Sunday and then our next potential chance at some very light rainfall comes in Tuesday night. The majority of us are looking calm and definitely much warmer. By the time we get into next week, have a great weekend.

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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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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.

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