Name: Violent crime on upward trend in Raleigh, police chief says
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Description: Two months after taking office, Raleigh Police Chief Estella Patterson on Thursday started laying out her plans to combat crime in the city.

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Two months after taking office, Raleigh Police Chief Estella Patterson on Thursday started laying out her plans to combat crime in the city.

GEORGE FLOYD BY GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY. THE DATE OF SERVICE THAT HOPES TO BRING THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TOGETHER. THE GRIM REPORT FROM THE CHIEF OF POLICE IN RALEIGH, CRIME IS UP IN ALMOST ALL CATEGORIES. THIS COMES AS A CHEAP HAILED THE FIRST OF WHAT WILL BE QUARTERLY BRIEFINGS. THIS AFTERNOON THE CHIEF BROKE DOWN DATA COLLECTED FROM THE THIRD QUARTER OF THIS YEAR. HOMICIDE, AGGRAVATED ASSAULT, VEHICLE THEFT ARE ALL HIGHER THAN THEY WERE LAST YEAR. KEELEY ARTHUR SPOKE WITH RICHIE TODAY AND SHE IS LIVE IN RALEIGH TO DESCRIBE THE CHIEF ACTION. >> Reporter: THE THIRD OF HOMICIDES THAT HAPPENED BETWEEN JULY AND SEPTEMBER, HAPPENED AT PLACES LIKE NIGHTCLUBS AND BARS. THERE WAS A SHOOTING AT BISON BAR LAST MONTH. LUCKILY THOSE PEOPLE SURVIVE. BUT THIS KIND OF DATA THAT PATTERSON IS USING TO TARGET THE TROUBLE SPOTS INCLUDING BARS AND NIGHTCLUBS AND HOPEFULLY FIX THE SITUATION. >> IF YOU COMMIT VIOLENT CRIMES IN OUR CITY, WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING OF IT. >> Reporter: STRONG WORDS FROM THE CHIEF, WHO AFTER LEAVING A POLICING POSITION IN CHINA, INHERITED A CITY WITH RISING VIOLENT CRIME RATES. >> WE ARE EXPERIENCING HOMICIDES AS UNFORTUNATELY PART OF A DISTURBING NATIONAL TREND BASED ON INCREASE IN GUN VIOLENCE LEADING TO LIVES BEING LOST. >> Reporter: TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT THE NUMBERS. BETWEEN JULY AND SEPTEMBER 2019, THERE WERE 4 HOMICIDES. IN THAT SAME TIME SPENT IN 2021, 12. >> 11 OF THE 12 RESULT AT THE SUSPECT BEING ARRESTED IN CASES MAY ONLY APPEAR >> Reporter: SO FAR THERE HAVE BEEN 26 HOMICIDE THIS YEAR. OUR CAMERAS WERE THERE AS AUTHORITIES INVESTIGATE A SHOOTING DEATH AT AN APARTMENT COMPLEX ON SEPTEMBER 7, ANOTHER NEAR HARGROVE RURAL NEAR THE END OF SEPTEMBER AND WHEN IN JULY WHO TOOK THE LIFE OF A VOLUNTEER DRUM MAJOR. HE DIED IN THE DISTRICT COUNCILMAN -- WORKING WITH NONPROFITS TO REACH THE YOUNGER POPULATION IS KEY TO CURBING VIOLENCE AND IN LINE WITH PATTERSON. HE IS ALSO OPEN TO POLICING DONE IN THE RIGHT WAY. >> FINDING WAYS THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE IN THEIR FULL UNIFORM. BUT A WAY TO GO OUT IN THEIR COMMUNITY SO PEOPLE WILL SEE THAT THEY ARE HUMAN. THEY ARE NOT JUST A PERSON WITH A BADGE AND A GUN. >> Reporter: DON'T BE SURPRISED IF YOU SEE MORE POLICE OFFICERS. >> THE INCREASING HIGH VISIBILITY PATROLS IN AREAS WHERE WE ARE EXPERIENCING REPEAT CALLS A VIOLENT. >> Reporter: SHE ALSO WANTS TO TARGET KNOWN REPEAT OFFENSES OFFENDERS. >> ONE OF THE THINGS I HAVE REPEATEDLY EXPRESSED AS THE NEW CHIEF IS MY DESIRE TO MAKE RALEIGH THE SAFEST CITY IN THIS COUNTRY. >> Reporter: AND BOTH CAMERAS ARE GOING TO BE NECESSARY. THERE ARE CURRENTLY 100 VACANCIES WITHIN THE RALEIGH POLICE DEPARTMENT. SOMETHING WE CAN ALL DO TO HELP CURB ANY CRIME, LOCK YOUR CARS. VEHICLE THEFTS ARE UP ACROSS THE CITY. SHE PATTERSON SAYS AS HE STARTS TO GET COLDER OUTCOME MAKE SURE YOU LOCK YOUR CAR AND TAKE ANY

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I'm meteorologist, Amy Wilmoth in the severe weather center, an update on our air quality. We now have a code orange air quality for all of the area and this is really for all of North Carolina. So no more code red air quality alert for today, which is great news. The heaviest smoke has stayed north of us, which is certainly good to hear. You still want to limit your time outdoors. If you have health issues, maybe you have lung disease, heart disease, the elderly, the young, you still want to limit your time outdoors for the rest of the day today and into Thursday and Friday, we have a code orange air quality for both of those days as well. So we'll still have the smoky haze but it will not be really, really thick. Still a little hazy out there though. This is a look at future cast the potential smoke for the next several hours. And while we'll still have some smoke, it's just not going to be awful. The heaviest smoke. Certainly staying north of us across parts of the northeast, you've maybe seen some of the images coming out of New York City. The airports halted airlines. It has just been awful across New York State and also Pennsylvania. But that's where the heaviest smoke has been and the heaviest smoke will stay north of us through Thursday as well. We'll still have a haze to the sky. You might be able to smell a little bit of smoke. But again, it's going to be a code orange for tomorrow and for Friday as well, we also have some scattered showers that will be with us through the evening and we'll expect the rain to continue 10, 11 o'clock tonight by midnight tonight, some of the rain will be exiting our southeastern counties, but we also have some rain to contend with through the evening and into the first part of the night time hours heading into Thursday, we'll have partly cloudy skies. Our high temperature gets up to 80. It's mostly sunny Friday with a high temperature of 83. If you're looking ahead to the weekend, Saturday looks like a great summer like day, mostly sunny with a high of 87. We get up to 89 Sunday about a 30% chance for storms and then a good chance for scattered showers and thunderstorms as we head into Monday.

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The bill would allow betting on professional, college and other sports on phones or other electronic devices.

House Bill 3 47 the corporal rate representative Bill Hawkins and Clements House Bill 3 47 a bill to be entitled sports wagering, horse racing. Wagering. The General Assembly of North Carolina and the gentleman from Lincoln Representative Sain is recognized for motion. Thank you, Mr Speaker. I would like to move that. We concur with the changes that the Senate sent over on House Bill 3 47 Sports Wagering. Yesterday, we had a great vote. I do appreciate the body allowing me to get out of here very quickly because I barely got on a plane with three minutes to go, to go to Washington DC. Had the opportunity to present Senator Tom Tillerson award in DC last night. So that was a lot of fun and they made it back, uh, a little late. But today, I hope we have the, uh, a very similar vote. Really appreciate all the support, uh, all the debate that has happened throughout this process, not just in the house side or the senate side, but in committee as well. I just appreciate your support. Thank you. The gentleman has moved that the house to concur with Senate Committee substitute House Bill 3 47 for what purpose does the Lady from Guilford Representative Harrison rise to briefly debate the bill. Um Thank you, Mr Speaker. Um, ladies and gentlemen in the house. I, I don't want to repeat all the points that I made in the previous debate when this bill was on the house floor, but I want to highlight a couple of things. Um, this predatory gambling bill is still predatory, um, and is going to hurt North Carolina and it doesn't look like we're going to achieve very much in exchange. But I, but I want to thank, represents San and the others who worked on some of the improvements. I think that removing the deductions is, is a big improvement on the bill. The tax deductions and raising the income tax rate to 18 percent is also an improvement over the 14% that it was once in this house. But I will add that I still, um, will, uh, claim that this is an, this is, uh, not constitutional because we have income tax in our, in our constitution at 7%. So what I haven't been able to discern is what happens if the 18% income tax is challenging. State court is, is thrown out and then we don't even have the revenue from, uh, the income tax to fund the oversight. And, um, and, and the additional revenue that this gambling legalizing gambling is supposed to provide for our state So that's a problem. Um uh a lot of us are particularly bothered by the additional horse racing. It was deliberately taken out in the house and now it's back in, in the Senate. And I will just say to you all that Churchill downs shut down because of 12 dust of the last five weeks. Um Seven of which occurred in the week before the Kentucky Derby. This is an inhumane, terrible, terrible industry and this is, um, that's emblematic that, uh, there is a problem with that industry. 900,900 horses died in 2020 to 900 thoroughbreds who are involved in racing died. And, um, there is, uh, that, to me, I don't know why it was added. I, I, it would have been nice to have some more thorough debate and, and I don't know if the lottery commission is actually gonna regulate horse racing and if they're qualified to regulate horse racing, I know it's complicated and many states have their own set ups and they're all different and I would just say that the effective date. Um, I ca I can't tell if that's an improvement or not. January 8th 2024 is still too soon. That's a little bit more than six months away to set up a gambling regulatory structure in our state. So I, I still have problems. I appreciate the improvements that were made in the Senate. I know y'all worked on it very hard. Representatives saying, but I encourage you to vote no on this motion to concur. Thank you for. What purpose does the gentleman from wake represent Jones Rise, speak to the motion in the bill has four. Uh, appreciate the chance to speak. Uh, I didn't know if we're gonna get it yesterday. So I thank you for that. I will be quick. Uh, I'm against this bill because gambling is a predatory industry. I think nobody in here would doubt that. Ultimately, the only person, the only entity that really gains won't be North Carolina won't be the guys that go have fun in gambling. It'll be the gambling industry that ultimately is the only entity that gains in the end. That's why they're doing such a good job getting it to us because they will profit. We will not even with the increased tax revenue, uh, gallons a vice. I put it right along with, uh, and it brings other cousins with it. It brings in many instances where we know gamblin is in Vegas and Jersey City, uh, loan sharking prostitution and I put it right in there with cock fighting and some of the other things that we know are unsavory. Uh, lastly al I mean, secondly, I mean, thirdly, uh, we also, um, I think the gambling preys on the weak. Uh, many people are addicted to it and it breaks up families. We used to have an insurance company around. I don't remember which one it was, we used to say we protect the family and in this body, I think we need to protect the family. This hurts families. It doesn't help families. I'm a family man, leaving my family, love my family. I'm sure all of you do. But there are people out there who are weak who will go gamble and won't protect their family. We should protect those families for them. Another point I wanna make, I saw in the paper that um the first year we're gonna get $8.5 million of tax revenue in the next year, 36 million. But we, we are flush right now in North Carolina, we had couple billion left over last year, maybe three, probably gonna have that much left over this year. So we don't need this money to bring this industry in. They need to stay out of here. They're gonna hurt people, real people are going to be hurt. And then the last thing I wanna say just uh kind of a law school argument, but it's true. It's just bad public policy and we about the business of making good public policy. So I urge you to vote. No, if you would just think about it in your heart about what we're doing today. Thank you for letting me be heard. For. What purpose does the gentleman from Mecklenburg represent Walt Ross to speak to the motion. Gentlemen has four. Uh Thank you, Mr Speaker. Uh Ladies and gentlemen, uh, this is still a bad bill and it's bad for North Carolina and it's bad for the North Carolina citizens. But I'll just let me point out that one of the things about the house version of the bill was the ban on betting during college sports events or eight hours prior to those events and on the property of those events, the Senate version removes that prohibition on sports wagering at a sports facility during or eight hours prior to a college game being played at the facility or the adjacent to that facility. Just another bad bill that got a little bit worse when it went to the Senate. I would encourage all the members to vote. No, on this bill. Thank you for what purpose? LA from ribs and rice. Thank you, Mr Speaker. And we do appreciate very much being able just to briefly debate this bill again. I know we did it when it was first on the floor and I would just add to what my colleagues have said, the integrity of sports. I think we are really harming the integrity of pure sports by putting gambling in. People will be now more interested in the spread than they will in the victory or the defeat. And I think it's a sad day for athletes and a sad day for people that will become addicted and we only put $2 million in for addiction treatment. We're going to need a lot more. A lot of families, a lot of people will suffer. I wish we could have limited this. So it won't be in our, on our mobile phones, on our billboards. Everywhere we look, we are going to be inundated by the advertising. This is going to result in. But thank you for the opportunity to speak. I appreciate it for the discussion for the debate. If not, the question for the house is the adoption of the motion concur with the Senate committee substitute to House Bill 3 47. Those in favor will vote I those opposed to vote. No, the court will open the vote lock. The machine recorded the vote 68 having voted in the affirmative 45 in the negative. The has the house has voted to concur with the Senate committee substitute to House Bill 3 47. The bill is ordered enrolled and sent to the governor.

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SIMILAR THEFTS ACROSS THE STATE. IT WORKED. >> MORE THAN EVER BEFORE. KIDS AND TEENAGERS ARE BEING DIAGNOSED WITH ANXIETY DISORDERS. BUT A NEW STUDY SHOWS MANY OF THEM AREN'T GETTING THE RIGHT TYPE OF TREATMENT. WR IS KEN SMITH IS HERE WITH WHAT THIS STUDY IS REVEALING ABOUT THE EFFORTS TO SUPPORT THOSE KIDS CAN JUST THIS SUCH A FOCUSED NOW ON YOUTH, MENTAL HEALTH OF THAT ATTENTION IS ALSO. >> CHILDREN AND TEENS AND GETTING THE RIGHT HELP. NEW RESEARCH OUT TODAY SHOWS CHILDREN IN TEENAGE IS DEALING WITH ANXIETY OFTEN BEING TREATED WITH MEDICATION AND NOT COUNSELING. THIS NEW STUDY PUBLISHED TODAY IN THE JOURNAL PEDIATRICS. LOOK THE DOUBT INVOLVING PATIENTS FROM 4 TO 24 YEARS OLD AND THE TREATMENT OVER A PERIOD OF 12 YEARS. IT FOUND WHILE YOUNG PATIENTS WITH ANXIETY DISORDERS INCREASED, THE NUMBER OF THEM RECEIVING PSYCHOTHERAPY DECREASED. EXPERTS SAY RESULTS OF THIS STUDY. LITTLE TROUBLING SINCE FOR THE MOST PART, MOST PEOPLE THERAPIES, THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO TREAT ANXIETY DISORDERS AND IDEALLY ACCOMMODATION OF COUNSELING AND MEDICATION. OF COURSE, WE HAVE A MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCE GUIDE ONLINE COUNTY BY COUNTY. IT'S AVAILABLE ON OUR HOMEPAGE AND THE DON'T MISS IT. SECTION OF OUR WEBSITE, WRAL DOT COM.

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Good evening, Darren here with tonight's drawings for Tuesday, June the 6th, 2023 we get started as always with Carolina pick three where the first winning number is six. The second is four and the third is one and our pick three. Fireball number tonight is six. Joining me for tonight's drawing is our auditor from Thomas and Gibbs. We move along to Carolina pick four. The first pick four number is to the second is seven. The third is two and the fourth is zero in our pick four. Fireball number is seven turning now to the Carolina cash five. If no one wins the top prize tonight, tomorrow's top prize is estimated at $130,000. Good luck. Here comes the first cash five number. It's 17. The second is 18. The third is 34 is the fourth, it's four and the fifth and final number tonight is 11 over the past 16 years, the lottery has contributed over $9 billion to education. So thanks for your support and thanks for playing the North Carolina Education lottery.

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