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I'm meteorologist, Amy Wilmeth. In the severe weather center, tropical storm Ophelia has officially formed south of Cape Hatteras. It is gaining some strength too. Winds are at 60 MPH, moving to the north northwest at 12 MPH. The current track no big changes with this still expected to make landfall close to Morehead City early Saturday morning around four or 56 o'clock in the morning storm and then continuing to lift to the north and east models. In great agreement that this center of circulation will travel along the North Carolina Coast over eastern North Carolina through the day, Saturday and continuing to pull away from us through the day. On Sunday. A tropical storm warning remains in effect for our eastern counties continuing to the coast. This is where we'll have the strongest winds and the potential for some very heavy rain. The winds for our area anywhere from 30 to 40 mile per hour, wind gusts will have the potential for 50 to 70 mile per hour wind gusts along the North Carolina Coast. So some dangerous conditions along the North Carolina Coast already happening and this will continue overnight tonight and through the day on Saturday. Here's a look at future cast. The heavy rain will move in during the evening commute or just after the evening commute. We'll have bands of rain moving in from the coast and within these bands will have some strong gusty winds and the potential for some very heavy rain. This is going to continue on and off overnight tonight and into Saturday, Saturday morning, very early in the day, Ophelia makes landfall and then continues to lift to the north and it will eventually pull away from us. We'll have some improvements by Sunday but very messy weather to kick off the weekend. Tonight into Saturday, we'll have rainy and windy conditions as far as how much rain we could get. The heaviest totals will be over our eastern counties and that's where we have a flood watch anywhere from 2 to 3 inches of rain around an inch, maybe an inch and a quarter, close to the triangle and then lesser amounts in our western communities. We have the w weather alert day in place starting this evening. Continuing into Saturday. Also note the temperatures. It is a cool day, Saturday with highs only in the 60 s. We'll have improvements Sunday as we wrap up the weekend, a little bit of sunshine with high temperatures up to about 80 degrees.

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Good afternoon. I'm Tina Cash with the daytime lottery drawing for Friday. September 22nd, 2023. The first winning number in the Carolina pick three. Today is nine, followed by three third winning number five and our pick three. Fireball number is eight. Joining me for today's drawing is our auditor from mcconnell and Jones LP. Now it's time for the Carolina pick four. Check your tickets first winning number three. Second pick four. Today is eight third winning number zero. Our fourth pick four is another zero and our pick four. Fireball number is one. The North Carolina Education lottery has contributed over $10 billion to education and thanks for your support. We get the winning numbers every day at three o'clock and again at 11 22 every night. Thanks for playing.

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The Senate could vote on a new bill passed overnight by the House that strips the NCHSAA of much of its power to govern high school sports in the state.

Senate Bill 4 52 NC Department of Insurance, Omnibus A B Senator Johnson recognized. Uh, thank you, Mr President members, uh Senate Bill 4 52 as the Department of Insurance Bill, uh, passed this uh chamber unanimously went over to the house, they added some provisions, it came back. Um So what they've added, we've decided to keep in in the conference report. Um, that would be a un under insured motorist offset regards to um auto insurance, a reduction of small group insurance from 20 to 12 and an increase in the beach plan limits, uh which we also passed through this chamber unanimously. I'm sure most of you have received some concerning emails about that. So we're gonna go and get that taken care of today. In addition, uh, we've added Senate Bill 6 36 which has passed this chamber, this chamber already concerning high school athletics and also uh Senate Bill 1 25 which deals with auto insurance rate making. And it's designed to, um, it's designed to depopulate the facility that we have and also reduce the recruitment that all North Carolinians pay by putting more of an emphasis on DWIs reckless driving and other major violations. But ask for, for your sports stand for any questions, discussion, discussion or debate. Here. Question for the Senate is the adoption of the conference report, Senate bill 4 52. All in favor of vote. I oppose the vote. No five seconds be allowed for the voting clerk record the vote. 43 having voted in the affirmative none in the negative. The conference report is adopted.

Senate passes new bill targeting high school sports in NC

A late night session for the North Carolina House of Representatives includes consideration of a bill that could overhaul the N.C. High School Athletic Association.

A number of times and had folks in here to testify and the high school athletic association piece that you see in this bill provides some accountability and oversight. It does not mute the current high school Athletic Association, it continues to exist, but it's gonna have some guard rails. It's gonna have some accountability so that we know where the Children money or will be going. Uh This organization maintains uh uh large amounts of money in its accounts. Uh It's been difficult in the past to track that money down. So this is gonna provide some accountability as to that also very important. Uh It's, it's gonna provide the ability for an appeals process from the high school athletic association. Uh that if uh the, the individual is not satisfied with the association's decision, it can be appealed to appeals board. Remember, the association is a private entity, it's not a, a government related entity. So we essentially have a private entity that has complete oversight of our public high school sports right now in North Carolina. Uh Glad to stand for any questions which I'm going to direct to. Representative Bell. Probably. Uh thank you, Mr Speaker for what purpose? The gentleman from Guilford represented quick rise to debate the bill. Gentlemen has four. Thank you, Mr Speaker. Uh as Chairman Hall has pointed out the North Carolina High School Athletic Association is a private entity that has administered high school athletics in our state. However, this has not been a, a new thing that it has done. This is the North Carolina High School Athletic Association has been in existence since 1913. And millions of our high school students throughout our state have been governed by the rules and policies of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association. This association in my opinion, has done an outstanding job governing sports in our state again since 1913. Now, the question comes up about the transparency of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association. For those of you who have been here longer than two years, you will remember in this house two years ago, we debated this very issue uh for a very long time. However, tonight, this bill is brought back before us uh after about uh I'm sorry about 15 minutes prior to us beginning debate on yesterday. And so, while those of us who were here two years ago have been well versed in this subject, about 25% of us who are in here now were not here two years ago. And so this bill has been brought to us in a very non transparent manner. Uh Many members on both sides of the aisle have much interest in high school athletics in North Carolina. As Chair Hall said in our rules committee, it's probably a safe bet to say that most of us participated in North Carolina high school athletics at some point during our high school career to have this agency, the North Carolina High School Athletic Association. While Chair hall says it is not being nuked, it is certainly being threatened by this bill. And the reason that is being threatened, it probably is more personal than it is uh a professional reason for us to threaten the North Carolina High School Athletic Association for us to take the power away from the State Board of Education or some of the powers from the State Board of Education and give them to the Superintendent of Public Instruction. It's kind of the opposite argument for why we're saying we're doing this. We have heard that, that the executive director of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association has too much power, but the current director, she has to report to a board. So what we we're actually doing is taking the powers from a board, giving it to an individual because we're upset that an individual who has to answer to the board has too many powers. That is a confusing argument to make and one on its face which is enough for us to vote against this bill. We have an organization that since 1913 has administered high school sports. I've been on both sides of rulings from the North Carolina High School Athletic Association. In fact, two of the most significant rulings that the association made both when I was an athlete in high school and when I was the vice chair of the Guilford County School Board actually went against me, but I still respect the integrity, the process and the way that those hearings and those uh decisions were so for reasons of lack of transparency in this process and reasons of uh threatening a 110 year old organization because someone's gotten upset because a ruling was made uh by my understanding a few years ago that didn't go someone's way. I don't think that's a reason to uh threaten the North Carolina High School Athletic Association and I certainly can see it being in the very near future. Please vote. No. For what purpose does the lady from Durham? Representative Morris, thank you, Mr Speaker to speak on the bill. I think Representative Quick, pretty much said it all and I know it's late, but this bill really is about retaliation and to take this out of a commissioner and a board's decisions for appeals for eligibility and to give it to an elected official, we're making this political. We had some members on the other house, other side of the aisle, not the aisle. I'm sorry, the other chamber, they had constituents, they had eligibility issues. They didn't like the way it go, then they strong armed this bill. This has been going on as a personal vendetta against someone who has served as commissioner and worked there for over 32 years. And because they don't like a decision, this is retaliation and it's not just against her, it's the entire board that makes ultimately eligibility decisions, the appeals process. And if you read the language, yes, it does. Nuke it. It takes the power away and we give it to the superintendent. Let's keep what we have. It's been working for generations. You have kids, you have grandkids, they have succeeded in athletics because this is a great organization. Please do not undo it. And I'm sorry, it's tied to this insurance bill. It shouldn't be, it's totally separate, but now that it is, this should go down. Thank you. What purpose slave from your hand ever represent a rise to debate the bill. He has. I just wanted to rise to talk about the fact that at this very late hour and at the end of a an arduous session that we are taking one final stab at our most vulnerable population in our Children who are trans transgender Children. We've talked about this on several occasions are eight times more likely to commit suicide. If there's any group that could benefit from organized team sports, it is trans youth and they are being vilified and denied that opportunity. And I think it is tragic for us to do that. Thank you. What purpose from Wayne represents uh to debate? The conference report has the four thank you members, um members as much been said about this and we can go and we debated it in the committee for a little bit. And the, the fact to say that this is something that just popped up is completely not true. This issue has been debated in these halls for, for many years. And the hope was that the school board and the high school Athletic Association would actually do the right thing and come to an agreement. I was actually part of those discussions along with others in this room and others in the other chamber on both sides of the aisle. And unfortunately, that just didn't happen. And when they were given the authority through a more watered down version of the bill to put a memorandum of understanding in place that without accountability, transparency, believe it or not during this process, the appeals process is very simple. The same person hears the same appeal all three times. How do you think that's gonna work out when you start trying to find out where the money is going? They can't give you answers. They sit right upstairs in that committee room and we asked question after question and there was no accountability, no transparency. This is an entity that is a nonprofit entity that receives taxpayer dollars and does what they want to with them with no open meeting laws, no rules to govern what goes on and how it goes on. So the general public can actually understand how decisions are made. Every single one of these people that serve on these boards are public officials that are in our school system yet. You can't ask a question or get a phone call, return. This bill simply puts in place a memorandum of understanding that has rules and regulations in place such as fee structures there. At one point, I believe it was 1.2 years ago when I looked at this, I think it was when you looked at the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Endowment, it was the NCAA, the Southern Athletic SEC. Then it came to the SEC and then the North Carolina High School Athletic Association. You know, what are they doing with those funds? Are your schools in your district receiving those funds? I've talked to high schools that say, hey, when we have a playoff game, once we pay out the, the, the high school Athletic Association, sometimes we have one or $2 left that we put into our kitty. That's not right. And when questions are asked, there's no transparency. It takes an act of the General Assembly to actually get information released. It took an act of this body to settle a very clear and transparent eligibility deal at. And I believe in Representative Shepherd's district last year, we had to file a bill to get something done that the rules said should have been done. It's time to end. I know this is a late hour. This bill is before us. It's a good bill. It provides total transparency and I ask for your support for what purpose does the lady from Ham or is it a pray the rise has four? I just can't believe we're talking about accountability and transparency. I I'm sorry, what purpose does the g in quick rise to debate the bill briefly a second time accountability. Transparency. All of those things are outstanding and great. However, mister Speaker, forgive me for conflating two issues. We just earlier gave hundreds of millions of dollars to private schools that don't have accountability and transparency to this body. Question for the house, the adoption of the Council support Senate Bill 4 52. Those in favor will vote uh those opposed to vote. No. The clerk waving to vote motion to vote on the Bill. Clemens was about clerk machine record the vote 67 having voted in the affirmative 43 in the negative. The report, the Senate Bill 4 52 is adopted and the Senate will be so notified. House bill 2 59.

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Good evening. I'm Gail her. Welcome to tonight's Strongs for Thursday, September 21st, 2023. Well, let's get start tonight with our Carolina pick three. Our first winning number is a nine. Our second number is seven and the third number tonight is zero and our pick three. Fireball number is five. Joining me for tonight's show is our auditor from mcconn Jones L LP. Now let's move to the Carolina pick four. Good luck. Everyone who's that first winning pick four. Number, it is a six. Our second number is six. Again, third number is an eight. Our fourth number is nine and our pick for a fireball number is five. We're turning now to the Carolina cash five. No one wins the top prize tonight. Tomorrow's top prize is estimated at $110,000. Good luck. Everyone who's their first win in cash five number. It's a 19. Our second number is 13th number. Tonight is 33. Our fourth number there it comes, it's a six and the final number in our cash five. Tonight is 22. The North Carolina education lottery has contributed over $10 billion to education get your winning numbers right here every night in your exclusive station for the North Carolina Education lottery. Thanks for playing. Have a great night.

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