People brave frigid air to see monks' Walk For Peace

DO SAFELY. SO MANY CITIES

AROUND THE COUNTRY DEALING WITH

THIS WEATHER STORY IS THIS

WINTER STORM. THANK YOU, GRACE.

ALL RIGHT. WELL, THE HUGE NEWS

TODAY, THE OTHER HUGE NEWS

BESIDES THE WEATHER, THE

BUDDHIST MONKS CAME THROUGH

RALEIGH TODAY ON THEIR WALK FOR

PEACE AND THEY ARE, OF COURSE,

CAREFULLY MONITORING THE

WEATHER.

>> AS THEY EXPECT TO CONTINUE

ON THEIR JOURNEY. THEY'RE NOT

STOPPING KNOW WRAL'S ERIC

MILLER WAS WITH THEM TODAY AND

WITH THE HUGE CROWD THAT ENDED

UP SHOWING UP. ERIC TO BRAVE

THE COLD FOR THIS EVENT.

>> DAN, IT WAS REALLY

UNBELIEVABLE THIS AFTERNOON.

THIS CROWD LITERALLY FILLED

HILLSBOROUGH STREET HERE.

IT COVERED THE ENTIRETY OF THE

LAWN IN FRONT OF THE CAPITOL

BUILDING. IT WAS A HISTORIC

MOMENT NOT JUST WITH THE MONKS

VISIT, BUT FOR THE MONKS

THEMSELVES. THEY SAY THIS WAS

THE FIRST TIME THAT A SITTING

GOVERNOR HAD COME DOWN AND JOIN

THEM TO SHARE A PROCLAMATION

IN HONOR OF THEIR VISIT.

A SPECIAL DAY FOR ALL INVOLVED

WHEN ONE OF THE COLDEST DAYS

YET THE MAYOR WALK FOR PEACE.

THESE BUDDHIST MONKS FOUND A

WARM WELCOME IN WAKE COUNTY TO

SEE HOW MANY PEOPLE HERE.

>> EVERYBODY IS GOING TO TAKE

THIS MESSAGE HOME AND TO THEIR

COMMUNITY TOED THE NEIGHBOR.

WHO IS BECAUSE IF EVERYBODY'S

NAME FROM RALEIGH SO THAT

PEOPLE FROM EVERY WITH THE

MONKS ON THE 91ST DAY OF THEIR

WALK, STARTING PRE-DAWN AT APEX

HIGH SCHOOL. IT'S AND MARCHING

THROUGH THE STREETS OF KERRY

WITH HUNDREDS OF SUPPORTERS

THERE TO WITNESS IT AND TAKE IN

THE EMOTIONS YOU I'M GONNA CRY.

I'M GONNA CRY. AND THEN THIS

MOMENT WHEN THEY NEEDED TO DIX

PARK, BRAVING THE BITTER FRIGID

WEATHER WITH ALL THAT IS

EVERYTHING IS HAPPENING IN THE

WORLD TODAY. IT'S KIND OF

ESPECIALLY WITH THIS COLD

WEATHER. IT'S IT'S AMAZING.

YOU JUST FORGET EVERYTHING

ELSE. AND YOU JUST WHAT YOU

THAT I'M GOING THROUGH ALL THIS

AND PEACE. THE CROWDS GROW INTO

THOUSANDS SURROUNDING ALL

FAITHS, CHAPEL TO WALK ALL

TOGETHER TO THE STATE CAPITOL

SKY 5 SHOWING EVERY STEP AS

THEY HEADED DOWN HILLSBOROUGH

STREET.

>> THESE MONTHS TAKING THE

STAGE TO GIVE PEACE IN THIS

COOL WEATHER IS FREEZING AND

ALL OF US HERE COMING OUT.

JUST PUT THIS SAM MISSING

PIECE. IS THIS WAY, WAY BEYOND

WHAT I EXPECTED AND THOUSANDS

LINING UP TO RECEIVE IT.

IT GETS REALLY HARD OUT THERE

WHEN IT FEELS LIKE EVERYTHING

IS JUST.

>> TRASH SOMETIMES. THE MOST

GIVE YOU A REALLY GOOD REASON

TO FEEL LIKE YOU GOT TO KEEP

GOING.

>> YEAH, THAT EMOTION JUST SO

PRESENCE OUT HERE TODAY.

NOW, WHAT ABOUT THAT? WHETHER

YOU CAN SEE THE FLAGS JUST

WHIPPING HERE AT THE STATE

CAPITAL TONIGHT, OF COURSE, THE

MONKS SAY THEY ARE DETERMINED

TO CONTINUE WITH THEIR MARCH

REGARDLESS OF THESE CONDITIONS.

THEY SAY THEY ARE WELL PREPARED

FOR ALL OF THIS, BUT THEY DID

MAKE SOME CONCESSIONS TODAY

FOR THE FIRST TIME WE'VE SEEN

THIS WEEK, THEY CANCELED

SEVERAL OF THEIR PUBLIC

APPEARANCES AND WITH THIS CROWD

OUT HERE, NORMALLY THEY WOULD

OFFER INDIVIDUAL BLESSINGS.

INSTEAD, THEY OFFERED ONE GROUP

BLESSING TO TRY TO GIVE

EVERYBODY THE OPPORTUNITY TO

GET HOME SAFE, GET HOME EARLY

AND GET OUT OF WHAT WE'RE

EXPECTING TO ROLL IN HERE

TONIGHT IN RALEIGH. ORIGINALLY

WRAL LIVE. THANK YOU, ERIC.

THE DEDICATION AND THE

PERSEVERANCE OF THE MONKS TO

BE.

>> HE NOT ONLY DOING WHAT

THEY'RE DOING 30 MILES A DAY

DAY AFTER DAY, BUT IN THE

WEATHER IN EVERYTHING THAT

MOTHER NATURE IS THROWING AT

THEM, THEY HAVE NOT SLOWED

DOWN. IT'S BEEN REMARKABLE.

THEY HAVE NOT. AND YOU KNOW,

THEY THEY DID SAY YOU LISTEN TO

WEATHER MAY AFFECT US A LITTLE

BIT, BUT WE WILL NOT STOP.

WE ARE NOT TAKING A BREAK.

WE ARE NOT GIVING UP.

>> THEY ARE TRACKING 2300 MILES

FROM FORT WORTH, TEXAS. ALL

THE WAY TO WASHINGTON, D.C., IT