Look around and you'll notice it everywhere on the roads - drivers looking down at their phones. Tonight at 6 p.m., what lawmakers and parents are doing to protect the group most at risk in North Carolina - teenage drivers.  

Tonight at 6: It's blamed for more crashes among NC teens than speed and alcohol combined. WRAL Investigates distracted teen driving.

The "Dueling Dinosaurs" exhibit opening this weekend at Raleigh's North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences will feature what's believed to be the most complete T. rex skeleton ever discovered.

'Dueling Dinosaurs:' One-of-a-kind dig, laboratory access at Raleigh science museum

DinoLab at North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

Athens Drive Magnet High School and Conn Magnet Elementary School won national awards Saturday at the Magnet Schools of America's annual conference.

Top two magnet schools in the US are in Wake County

Athens Drive High School

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Ahead of the annual celebration of Veteran's Day, Fort Bragg on Thursday honored some very special soldiers.

Special Ops veterans get a special ceremony

Special Operations soldiers

At the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare School, retired members of the Special Operations Command were inducted into three distinguished and honorary Special Forces Regiments.

SUPPORTS SUCH AS HEALTH CARE AND JOB TRAINING TO KEEP PEOPLE HOUSED AND NOVEMBER. 11TH IS VETERANS DAY AND FORT BRAGG IS GETTING THE CELEBRATION STARTED EARLY. WRAL, FAYETTEVILLE, REPORTER GILBERT BAIZE WAS ON POST TODAY AT A CEREMONY THAT CELEBRATED DUTY, HONOR AND SERVICE. WELL, I'M INSIDE THE JOHN F KENNEDY. SPECIAL WARFARE CENTER AND SCHOOL HERE AT FORT BRAGG. AND TODAY ON THIS STAGE, SOME OUTSTANDING HEROES WERE HONORED. >> THEY CELEBRATED WITH SONG AND LOTS OF APPLAUSE. ONE BY ONE RETIRED MEMBERS OF THE SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND WERE INDUCTED INTO 3 DISTINGUISHED HONOR. A SPECIAL FORCES REGIMENT. >> AMONG THE MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT, MASTER SERGEANT PLUMLEE ALL THE NAMES ARE BEING READ OFF AND THERE YOU ARE FAMOUS NAMES FROM THE REGIMENT AND THE STORIES I'VE MATURING IN THE ARMY AND TO BE IN THE ROOM WITH PLUMLEY SERVED AS A WEAPON. SERGEANT PLUMLEE STORY IS PHENOMENAL TO AUGUST. 28 2013, HIS BASE IN AFGHANISTAN WAS ATTACKED BY 10 INSURGENTS WEARING SUICIDE VESTS. >> THEY BLEW A HOLE 60 FEET WIDE IN THE PERIMETER. WALL OF THE BASE CAMP PLUMLEE IN 5 OF THE SPECIAL OPERATIONS SOLDIERS COUNTER ATTACKED PLUMLEE WAS WOUNDED BUT USED HIS PISTOL TO KILL 2 INSURGENTS IN GAVE AID TO A WOUNDED SOLDIER. IT'S A DAY IN HIS MILITARY CAREER. HE'LL NEVER FORGET. I JUST REMEMBER, YOU KNOW, I WANTED TO GET ENOUGH DONE THERE BE SOMETHING FOR SOMEBODY BEHIND ME. I REALLY DIDN'T THINK I WAS GOING TO MAKE IT THE FINAL WHEN WE ALL GOT TOGETHER STORIES ABOUT DUTY, HONOR AND SERVICE FEEL THE THE TORY MID FORT BRAGG TODAY, SPECIAL FORCES SOLDIERS ARE KNOWN AS THE SILENT PROFESSIONALS. THE OPERATING JUST ABOUT EVERY CORNER OF THE WORLD. BUT SELDOM DO HEAR ABOUT THEM OR CELEBRATE THEIR HEROICS. THAT'S WHAT TODAY WAS ALL ABOUT. WHAT I SEE THESE I SEE PEOPLE THAT I KNOW THAT I'VE INTERACTED WITH GREAT HEROES THAT, YOU KNOW, I LOOKED UP TO WHEN I WAS YOUNGER. SOME OF THESE FOLKS I GOT TO SERVE WITH IN SO I AM HUMBLED THAT SO I FEEL HUMBLED INSIDE THIS PROGRAM. A WHO'S WHO IN THE SPECIAL WARFARE COMMUNITY. >> YOU KNOW, THIS IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG OF WHAT THE SOLDIERS DO HERE AT FORT BRAGG EVERY DAY AT FORT BRAGG, GILBERT BAYS, WRAL NEWS. IN ADDITION TO HONOREES, THE 23RD HEADQUARTERS, SPECIAL TROOPS UNIT KNOWN AS THE GHOST ARMY BECAME AN HONORED MEMBER OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS

Special warfare soldiers honored

The solder received her Special Forces Tab and donned her Green Beret at the graduation ceremony Thursday. 

First female soldier graduates from Special Forces course at Fort Bragg

Fort Bragg

Army officials are telling North Carolina residents not to worry if they see suspicious-looking military activity over the next few weeks, saying it's most likely part of Special Forces training that'll be staged across 21 counties.

Don't worry about those men with guns: Army's annual Special Forces training touches 21 NC counties

The Senate Finance committee takes up a bill creating a license plate for Special Forces.

Senate panel discusses Special Forces license plates

Sen. Ralph Hise, R-Mitchell

Members of the Army's third special forces group put their boots in the ocean, turning the South Carolina coastline into a training ground. 