Name: Wake school board improves raises for all employees in hopes of addressing staff shortages
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Description: The Wake County Public School System employees will provide wage and salary increases for "all employees," including substitute teachers, to the tune of $38.9 million this year.

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The Wake County Public School System employees will provide wage and salary increases for "all employees," including substitute teachers, to the tune of $38.9 million this year.



WE WILL SHOW YOU HOW IT WORKS. >>> LOW-PRESSURE DEVELOPING OFF THE SOUTH CAROLINA QUITE LIKELY TO BRING US RAIN IN THE MORNING. TO BREAK A NEW TOPIC AS PAY RAISES APPROVED FOR WAKE COUNTY IN PLACE AFTER WEEKS OF BUS DRIVERS AND CAFETERIA WORKERS CALLING OUT SICK DEMANDING BETTER PAY AND BETTER WORKING CONDITIONS. AARON THOMPSON HAS BEEN HOURS FOLLOWING EVERY DEVELOPMENT AND JOINTS I LIVE OUTSIDE THE WAKE SCHOOL HEADQUARTERS IN CARY. >> Reporter: FOUR WEEKS WE HAVE SEEN MANY OF THESE WORKERS RALLY OUTSIDE HERE AND EVEN CALL OUT SICK BUT SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS HOPE THAT IT WILL ADDRESS THE STAFFING SHORTAGES AND PREVENT FUTURE DISRUPTIONS. THEY GATHERED EARLY IN THE AFTERNOON AND RALLIED AS THE SUN WENT DOWN. WITH COUNTY SCHOOLS RALLIED AROUND THEIR CAUSE, BETTER WAGES AND BETTER CONDITIONS AS BOARD MEMBERS MET INDOORS. PROJECT THEY NEED TO DO THEIR PART. >> Reporter: CHERYL WORKS AS AN INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANT . >> I'M HOPING AS WELL AS THE REST OF US THAT THEY WON'T GIVE US WHAT WE ARE ASKING FOR. >> Reporter: THE WAKE COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD VOTED TO INCREASE SALARIES FOR ALL EMPLOYEES INCLUDING SUBSTITUTE TEACHER PAT NONCERTIFIED STAFF WITH MINIMAL WAGE STARTING AT $50 PER HOUR. >> WENT BONUSES AND BASE PAY ARE COMBINED AND GENERATE MOST EMPLOYEES, CERTIFIED AND NONCERTIFIED WILL RECEIVE LIKELY THE LARGEST PAYCHECK OF THEIR CAREER. >> Reporter: SCHOOL LEADERS SAW THE DISRUPTIVE FELIX EXPENSE WHEN BUS DRIVERS AT CAFETERIA WORKERS CALLED OUT SICK FIGHTING FOR BETTER PAPER AND IT IS USING $39 MILLION IN LOCAL FUNDS TO MAKE THESE RAISES POSSIBLE. MAGIC WE ARE DOING WHAT WE ARE DOING BECAUSE WE ARE TAKING A RISK WITHOUT SAVINGS BY ELIMINATING POSITIONS, WHEREVER YOU CAN FIND IT. >> Reporter: SOME ARE CONTINUING THEIR FIGHT FOR $70 AN HOUR. >> IT IS THE START, IT IS BETTER THAN NOTHING. >> Reporter: THE SCHOOL BOARD TO VOTING TO CONTINUE ITS MASK MANDATE. THESE RAISES ARE TOTALLY SEPARATE FROM THE $3750 IN RACES THEY APPROVED JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO FOR 500 AND PLACE BUT HONESTLY, WILL HAVE A FULL

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Hi, everyone. Happy Thursday, meteorologist, Anthony Bag Leone here in the WRL SE Weather center, we are on track to see a really nice day if you like temperatures close to normal sunshine. No rainfall expected for us today. Although we could use a little bit more. It is a little bit dry. Our latest drought monitor is showing that across most of the viewing area. We go to 74 though this afternoon, it'll come with a lot of sunshine, maybe some clouds floating on by. But other than that really no big problems for you today. A pretty normal stretch for this the next couple of days or normal 75 below that tomorrow. But close enough, we get to 81 on Sunday, 86 on Monday and then that continues into next week. That will be our weather story next week is definitely some warmer weather and pretty calm with minimal rain chances. Tuesday is really the only chance I have at this point. We of course, have the Durham Bulls though playing at home Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Even into Sunday, we have Dollar dog night bark at the park tonight. I think it's gonna be probably pretty packed temperatures at 71 upper sixties tomorrow. 72 on Saturday, zero rain chances for any of those games. So it's gonna be a really, I think probably busy time at the DB A here into the weekend. 68 for Brugal. Also happening tomorrow as you're headed out there 67 at seven o'clock, sixties for the majority of that forecast looks like, probably partly to mostly cloudy skies. Saturday. Very similar. Just a couple degrees warmer at 74 at four o'clock and then still 78 at eight o'clock in the evening, we head over the next seven. You see temperatures really not moving too much. The next couple of days we get to Monday. That's when we start to climb 8688 on Tuesday and Tuesday during the afternoon into Tuesday evening. That's when we could see a few areas of rain. It doesn't look like a big system right now. But when we have no other chances in the forecast, that's at least the only one that we are watching right now and still warm there into Wednesday at 87.

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Good evening. I'm Gayle Hurd. Welcome to tonight's drawings for Wednesday, April 24th, 2024. Well, let's get started tonight with our Carolina pick three. Our first winning number is a seven. Our second number is six and the third number tonight is a nine and our pick three. Fireball number is six. Joining me for tonight's show is our auditor from mcconnell and Jones L LP. Now let's move to the Carolina pick four. Good luck. Everyone who's that first winning pick four number, it's zero. Our second number is a nine. Third number tonight is three and our fourth number is one in our pick for fireball number. There it is. It's three. Again, we're turning now to the Carolina cash five and no one was the top prize tonight. Tomorrow's top prize is estimated at $620,000. Good luck. Everyone here's their first win in cash five number. It's a 29. Our second number, it's 37 3rd number tonight. It's 34. Our fourth number is lucky 13 and the final number in our cash five this evening is 12. The North Carolina Education lottery has contributed over $10 billion to education. Get your winning numbers right here every night on your exclusive station for the North Carolina Education lottery. Thanks for playing. Have a great night.

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Good afternoon. I'm Luis Fernandez. Welcome to this afternoon's drawings for Wednesday, April 24th, 2024. Let's get started with Carolina pick three. The first pick three number is two, second is eight and the third is eight and our pick three fireball number is five. Join me for this afternoon's drawing is our auditor for mcconnell LP. Now let's move to Carolina pick four. The first pick four, number is five. The second is one, the third is three and the fourth is zero and our pick four. Fireball number is five. The North Carolina Education lottery has contributed over $10 billion to education and thanks for your support.

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Brian Shrader flies over the site of a plane crash at Raleigh-Durham International Airport approximately three hours after the accident.

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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