Name: Want to travel? It might be a good time to book that flight
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Description: As more and more people get COVID-19 vaccines, many are counting the days until they believe they can safely travel again.

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EXPECT THIS >>> WITH MORE PEOPLE RECEIVING THE VACCINE, MANY OF YOU ARE COUNTING DAYS UNTIL YOU CAN TRAVEL AGAIN. >> DEPENDING ON YOUR PLANS, MONICA LALIBERTE SAYS NOW CAN BE THE TIME TO BOOK. >> Reporter: WHERE DO YOU WISH IT WAS SAFE TO GO? NEW YORK, PORT RETOE, SOMEWHERE, MAYBE ANYWHERE ON THE LIST? DON'T JUST DREAM ABOUT IT? TRAVEL EXPERTS SAY NOW IS A GREAT TIME TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. LET'S GO. MANY ARE READY TO GET BACK TO TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE. >> WE ARE GOING TO SEE NUMBERS TAKE OFF FOR DOMESTIC TRAVEL IN THE SPRING AND THEN FOR INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL IN THE SUMMER. >> Reporter: SCOTT LOVES TO TRAVEL ON A BUDGET. THAT'S WHY HE CREATED SCOTT'S CHEAP FLIGHTS, A WEBSITE THAT E- MAILS BEST TRAVEL DEALS FROM AIRPORTS YOU PICK. THE COMPANY SURVEYED THOUSANDS OF SUBSCRIBERS ABOUT TRAVEL PLANS AND FOUND PEOPLE ARE READY. >> ONCE THEY GET VACCINE, I AM GETTING ON THE ROAD, I AM TRAVELING AGAIN, I AM GOING TO MAKE UP FOR LOST TIME. >> Reporter: HE SAYS IF THAT'S YOU, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE EYEING INTERNATIONAL TRIP, DEALS ARE GOOD NOW. >> Reporter: RIGHT NOW TODAY THERE ARE TWO THINGS THAT ARE TRUE. YOU CAN'T TRAVEL TO PARIS. >> Reporter: NOT EASILY. >> YOU PROBABLY HAVEN'T BEEN VACCINATED. IF YOU WAIT TO BOOK YOUR FLIGHTS UNTIL BOTH THINGS ARE NO LONGER TRUE, CHANCES ARE THERE IS NOT GOING TO BE ANY CHEAP SUMMER FLIGHTS LEFT. LOCK IN THE CHEAP FLIGHT AND KNOW THAT YOU HAVE THE FLEXIBILITY TO BE ABLE TO CHANGE IT. >> Reporter: FLEXIBILITY IN AIRLINE POLICY. MOST NOW ALLOW YOU TO POSTPONE OR CANCEL FLIGHTS THOUGH HE SAYS AT THE MOMENT, DOMESTIC FLIGHTS ARE LEANING MORE EXPENSIVE. >> Reporter: YOU REALLY END UP GETTING A BETTER DEAL BY BOOKING WELL IN ADVANCE. IF YOU WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE, THEY TEND TO BE EXPENSIVE. WHAT THE PANDEMIC HAS DONE IS REALLY KIND OF FLIPPED THAT ON ITS HEAD. >> Reporter: YOU MIGHT FIND THE BEST DEALS BOOKING A FEW WEEKS OUT. DEFINITELY INFO TO KNOW AS WE AWAIT TRAVEL PLANS. MOST WOULD BET ONCE VACCINATIONS ARE COMMON,

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Want to travel? It might be a good time to book that flight

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Get the latest WRAL WeatherCenter Forecast whenever you need it, including the DUALDoppler5000 and the 7-Day Forecast.

A meteorologist, Elizabeth Gardner, checking out what's happening. We are tracking this cold front. We've been watching it all week. This is the same one that did a lot of damage across the plains and Midwest. And you can still see that there's a lot of activity out ahead of this front. We've had a few thunderstorms even early this morning in the mountains of North Carolina and a couple of sprinkles showing up in our southern counties this morning. But the best chance for strong to severe thunderstorms come later on this evening, we do have a level to risk for severe storms both today and tomorrow. It's a little bit of an unusual weather pattern for us. It's the usual threats, damaging winds, isolated tornadoes, heavy rain and hail, but it's the timeline of this. That's a little unusual. We'll see that beginning this evening tonight lasting overnight and into the first half of the day on Thursday, typically these storms will die down after midnight and then redevelop in the afternoon. Instead, this is going to be an ongoing overnight and tomorrow morning kind of event. So keep that in mind again, damaging wind, hail, isolated tornadoes maybe even a little isolated flooding with these waves of storms and maybe even some spotty power outages. So here's a look at Futurecast. We're looking at mostly cloudy skies for today, some sunshine trying to peak through here and there. Um, once we get into the evening, the thunderstorm to begin to develop and you can see those 7 to 9 o'clock continuing there at midnight and overnight, look at that 6 a.m. with a good chance for scattered storms and then some waves on and off through the morning with it eventually moving out by around lunchtime or so, uh, looks mostly dry for the afternoon. Couldn't rule out an isolated shower or thunderstorm. And then another round most likely on Friday afternoon and evening check in what it looks like across the area. We get a mix of sun and clouds for us. Temperatures in the mid seventies, it is really warm and sticky. It feels just like July out there. We'll see a high of 92 and Raleigh 91 in Durham and 93 in Fayetteville. Our heat index mid to maybe even upper nineties in some places. This afternoon, we're sitting at steamie right now. We'll jump to tropical tomorrow making it feel also like low to mid nineties. And then after that, a nice break as we get into the weekend, so less heat, less humidity, a pretty weekend for Mother's Day. But for tonight and for much of the day tomorrow you're going to need to be weather. We make sure that you're tuning in to us on TV, as we're tracking these storms for you.

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Nightly N.C. Education Lottery drawings during the 11 p.m. News.

Good evening. I'm Tina Soldan Cash with the night time lottery drawing for Tuesday. May 7th, 2024. 1st winning pick three tonight is seven, followed by eight, third pick three is six and our pick three. Fireball number is eight. Joining me for tonight's drawing is our auditor from mcconn Jones L LP. Now it's time for the Carolina pick four, check your tickets. Good luck. Eight is our first winning pick four followed by six, third pick for tonight. Another six fourth winning number is zero and our pick for a fireball number tonight is three. Let's turn now to the Carolina cash five. If no one matches all five numbers to win the jackpot tonight, tomorrow's top prize is an estimated $493,000. Good luck. Six is our first winning cash five number tonight followed by seven. Third winning number is 19. Our fourth cash five tonight 11 and our final winning number is 15. The North Carolina education lottery has contributed over $10 billion to education. Thanks for your support and get the winning numbers right here every night. Thanks for playing

Evening Pick 3 Pick 4 and Cash 5

Tuesday and Friday Mega Millions Drawing.

>> ACROSS AMERICA WITH MEGA JACKPOTS, IT'S MEGA MILLIONS AMERICA ON TIME. CODE IS TUESDAY MAY 7TH AND TONIGHT'S MEGA MILLIONS JACKPOT IS AN ESTIMATED A NEW TIES 306 MILLION DOLLARS DOING THAT JACKPOT. YOU MUST MATCH THESE 5 WHITE. PLUS THAT GOLD MEGA MALL. NOW, LET'S SEE IF I CAN MAKE YOU A MILLIONAIRE TONIGHT. OUR FIRST WINNING NUMBER TONIGHT IS 63 FOLLOWED BY 28. UP NEXT, WE HAVE 36 YOU NEXT NUMBER IS 66 IN YOUR FINAL WHITE BALL NUMBER FOR THIS EVENING IS 26 NOW FOR THE MEGA BALL NUMBER THAT IS 15 AGAIN. TONIGHT'S WINNING NUMBERS ARE 63. 28. 36 66. 26 IN THE GOLD.

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Daytime Pick 3 and Pick 4 drawings are held at 3 p.m. daily. They can be seen as live or on-demand video.

Hey there. Good afternoon. I'm Noah Klein. Welcome to this afternoon's draws for Tuesday, May 7th 2024. Let's get it going here with Carolina pick three. That first pick three number is seven. Second number is zero third, number two, pick 35. Roll number is seven. Joining me for this afternoon draws our auditor from mcconnell and Jones L LP. Now let's move to the Carolina pick four. That first pick four number is seven. Second number six, eight. Fourth number is nine and our pick for a firewall number is five. The North Carolina Education lottery contributed over $10 billion education. Thank you for your support. Get your winning numbers each day at 3 p.m. and again at 11:22 p.m. right here on your exclusive station for the North Carolina Education Lottery.

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Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday Powerball drawings, as shown live on WRAL.

Good evening, America. I'm Michelle Isles. Tonight. We've got another life changing jackpot for you in an estimated amount of $214.9 million. Get your tickets out. We'll start things off tonight with the number 60 right after that America. We have 56. Let's congratulate better late than never of Maryland who won $50,000. Your next number up tonight is seven. That's followed by 24 and we'll round it out tonight with 23 now for your winning powerball number. Good luck, everyone. It is 25 and your power play multiplier is two. Let's take another look at those winning numbers. Remember there are multiple ways to win. We'll see you back here Wednesday night. Good night, everyone. It's time to play America's favorite jackpot.

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