it's because someone there won the powerball. three people, or at least three tickets will be split that way. good morning, i've stephan chase, >> i'm mike gonzalez, glad you're with us on this january 14th. are they thinking perhaps they will get a little piece of that? >> they were all gathering. who knows? i guess they are just showing their support. let's check in with the weather. we're off to a a chilly start but looking good for later today? >> certainly is, the 50s will be back later today. that is a jackpot enough i guess for me. 29 degrees though now in raleigh. 29siler city and mid-20s in sanford. fayetteville now dropped to below freezing at 31 degrees. look at this, , talk about a little bit of a wind, makes it

in raleigh feels more like 22. feels like 19 in roxboro. look around roanoke rapids and rock rowa -- rocky mount, feels like low 20s. before the sun rises. we warm up after the sun comes up. we'll be almost 13 degrees warmer than where we were yesterday. 50 at 6:00 p.m. this evening. as the clear skies hang around. we'll get to more on the forecast and when you're going to need an umbrella again coming up. right now look at this, glenwood avenue and blue ridge road completely empty. there you go. i stand corrected. one car out there this morning. i do want to show you our traffic maps, our live drive showing all green in all directions, so that means everyone is moving at the posted speed limits around 4:40 and 40 this morning. i'll keep you up to date on

update in 10 minutes. this morning we're waiting to find out who won the world's biggest jackpot. we know there were at least three powerball winners in three different states splitting $1.6 billion. >> not one of them was in north carolina. unfortunately. tracie potts is in washington following all the excitement. >> reporter: this was the scene outside. >> i feel i'm at a one direction concert. jingle bells >> reporter: and in in the chinao hills, california, 7- eleven where at least one winning ticket was sold. >> i am excited and i don't even know who it is. >> reporter: there are winners in florida and tennessee. >> winning powerball number. the number 10 tonight. >> reporter: the biggest jackpot in the world, ever. so big that people in nevada drove across state lines and waited four hours to get tickets. >> good luck, everybody!

1,500 free tickets to celebrate. >> it's going to be really hard to get anybody interested in a $40 million jackpot again. >> reporter: players have big plans. >> if i wanted it i would share it with family and i would buy an island. >> reporter: our financial expert says you may be better off not winning. >> now you are going to be forced to take control of your own financial future. >> reporter: for at least three people this morning the future looks a billion times brighter. >> we did a little math. after a split and after taxes turns out the winners only get about $300 million each. assuming you're not sharing it with somebody else which they will be. next month, a brunswick county woman who made it big in the lottery is headed to court. mary holmes was served a criminal summons wednesday for making threatening and harassing phone calls earlier this month. you may remember she won a $188 million jackpot nearly a year

so far she's spent millions bailing out her boyfriend on various drug charges. today we are set up to learn new information about clean-up efforts underway at the dan river coal ash site. >> we'll tour with the duke energy coal excavation operations. emma wright joins us live with a preview of what we can expect. >> reporter: this tour comes just a day after the environmental commission reviewed -- got reviews of clean-up efforts across the state. people who live in the area say they are still concerned about their drinking water and just want it cleaned up. nearly two years after tens of thousands of tons of coal ash spilled into the dan river clean-up continues. recently some people living near the ash ponds received letters from the state health department warning them of elevated levels of pollutants in their well water the state says the water is safe but environment groups say they just want to see it dleepped up.

do its job, follow science, recognize common sense, stop playing politics and get the coal ash cleaned up. >> reporter: "wncn investigates" will be getting more answers during a tour of the site. we visited a coal ash containment site last year in chatham county where residents say they are worried about the health effects. >> both of them have asthma, i'm afraid some of this coal ash will drift over here. >> reporter: wncn was also there when the state and dan river riverkeeper took samples near the spill site. >> this stuff is dangerous. >> reporter: the state says they have not determined if any contamination is actually coming from the coal ash ponds. the tour is happening this afternoon, "wncn investigates" will have an update on the news at 6:00 and 7:00. environmental groups say they are planning a protest outside of the governor's mansion this morning.

hill bar will lose its alcohol license for three weeks. come february. the bar will also have to pay a $5,000 for their role in a deadly dui crash last summer. the bar was one of two places former unc student chandler kenna went to before police say he got into a crash on i-85 in orange county. three people were killed including a little girl. that girl's family says the punishment doesn't go far enough. i don't think anyone who lost a loved one would be satisfied with that as adequate punishment. >> the bar's attorney declined to comment on the suspension. attorneys for the accused mastermind of a kidnapping plot targeting a wake county assistant da asked for the charges to be dropped wednesday. the judge denied the request though, kevin melton is one of the several men charged in the 2014 kidnapping of frank jansen, later rescued by the fbi in atlanta.

county da previously prosecuted melton. prosecutors claim he directed the plot from prison using a smuggled cell phone. 5:07. before firing up the griddle for breakfast, listen up -- if you got it from walmart, stay tuned for an important recall. >> plus, an initiative in fayetteville is raising money for schools but not slowing down drivers, we're going to

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welcome back. 29 degrees, live picture from our wncn studios, just a few morning. very clear skies have paved the way for very cold temperatures once again. 25 in sanford and raeford, pinehurst, still just above freezing. lillington and clayton also in the upper 20s this morning. factor in a little bit of a breeze that is out there and this is what it actually feels like. more like 22 in raleigh, feels like 19 roxboro. feels more like 30, a little below freezing, in pinehurst. these are the temperatures to be prepared for. layer up. we'll be in the upper 20s through 7:00 and 8:00 this morning. i don't think we get to above freezing until about 9:00 at 34. as we head into the afternoon

its job today with a high near 55. get ready though for rain by friday afternoon. we're looking at widespread rain chances. i'll let you know exactly when those arrive coming up in the complete forecast. 5:11 is your time. it's been nearly six months since fayetteville reinstalled its red light cameras, you can see them at eight of the city's most traveled areas. so far they've gotten 7,500 people running red lights. at the intersection of ramsey and law alone the city saw more than 1,300 red light offenders but city leaders admit even with the cameras in place there's been no drop in the violations. the city found that 98% of poem who -- people who received one ticket don't get a second. the cumberland county school district received more than $100,000 from the program so far. still ahead -- a meeting of different perspectives in raleigh last night. coming up, why people of all different faiths came together. plus, if you have a swinging

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parts of the city. police say four attackers and three others were killed. >> friends and family are holding an overnight vigil to remember an east chapel hill high school student that passed away. 17-year-old mckenzie reston died in a plane crash earlier this month. >> it's official, the world's biggest lotto jackpot of $1.6 billion will be split these ways. they were sold in florida, tennessee and southern california. none of the winners' identities have been revealed yet but it's still pretty early. people in flint, michigan are still living off bottled water and filter kits. the michigan national guard went into action wednesday handing out water, filters, blood test kits to check for lead poisoning. the drinking water became contaminated with too much lead after the city switched water supply in 2014 from detroit to the saltier flint river to save money. a hoverboards catches fire

crews got a call that the board burst into flames and sparked the fire. they quickly put them out but say there was a lot of smoke damage. the government is investigating this after dozens of fires. duke university is one of a long list of colleges banning the hoverboards. students have been asked to remove them for safety reasons. so far unc east carolina and north carolina central already banned them in dorms. organizers plan to hold more interfaith forums after hundreds showed up to one in raleigh last night. members of various faiths met at the tullman memorial baptist church in raleigh. they want to shine a light on islamo phobia. >> we went to reach out to all

to create a more peaceful world, more just where everybody has a place at the table. >> organizers say the dialogue started just a few months ago. martin luther king day isn't until monday but city and county leaders and workers in durham teamed up yesterday to kick off the holiday. dozens of employees and community members all participated in the 11th annual observance of downtown durham to honor the legacy of dr. king. dr. reginald van stevens of the white rock baptist church gave the key note address. dr. king was assassinated in memphis, tennessee, in 1968. pier 1 imports is recalling hundreds of thousands of swinging chairs in the united states and canada because of a fall hazard. the recall includes 276,000 of the swing osan chairs. through january 2010 through august of 2015 the suspension hardware can break or the stand

contact peer 1 for a repair kit or return it for a full refund. walmart is recalling 330,000 rival brand griddles because of a shock hazard. if you own one you could return it for a full refund. the food is making me hungry though. >> 29 degrees now. this is a live picture from the raleigh-durham international airport. a quiet morning so far at the airport. very clear skies. that's another reason we're dealing with another cold morning. you can see the temperatures just updating as we speak. here's what you need to know as you plan your day, plenty of sunshine, 7:00 a.m.

by noon we'll already be warmer than where we were yesterday with a temperature of 48. we keep climbing though, 55 our afternoon high and for that evening drive home really looking at clear skies hanging around as temperatures fall back to near 50. so here's our satellite and radar and you can see over the past two hours really no clouds in sight. if you're waking up now and you're a stargazer peek outside. i noticed the sky full of stars as i drove to work this morning. here we are, 7:00 a.m. and through the afternoon hours, i'm not expecting a lot to change. so plenty of sunshine, remember those sunglasses along with the winter jacket. as we head into the overnight hours we'll start to see a few clouds here and there, that is going to keep us a bit milder. i think temperatures could stay above freezing for sunrise tomorrow morning. now as we head towards tomorrow, at lunchtime we're starting to see more and more clouds but we'll still be on the dry side. notice this is friday at 1:00. as we head into the afternoon that is when the widespread rain showers move up the east coast.

pockets of heavy rain for your evening drive home tomorrow. so this is certainly something to keep an eye out for. you can download our weather app and track the rain into your neighborhood as it starts to fall tomorrow. here's an update i didn't expect to be talking about in january. we have a subtropical storm, alex, formed yesterday, in the open atlantic, way towards the coast of africa. winds at 70 miles per hour. get this, this is only the fourth named storm ever to form in january. so 55 our high back here at home. 54 durham today and 58 fayetteville. overnight tonight i mention not as cold, 35 -- love to see a temperature above freezing. as we head into the coming days, 50 tomorrow, good chance for afternoon rain. i'm really thinking that rain should be out of here by daybreak saturday. so saturday looking fairly dry. sunday another round of a few showers and then by the start

colder, 38 on monday and tuesday. 5:21. thursday morning. time to check with traffic. this is i-440 and capital boulevard, the headlights kind of blinding to start the morning but you can clearly see no trouble spots with traffic out there this morning. so if you're heading in this direction the commute should be a fairly safe and easy one. let's go ahead and check in with drive times. if you're heading eastbound on i-540 between glenwood and u.s. 64 it's 18 minutes. and 440 and 40 heading eastbound, everybody cruising post to the speed limit. back to you. 5:22. time to meet our "pet of the morning," "paza," lives in

>> e-mail pictures two teams looking for their first win met last night at pnc arena. >> looking to turn their fortunes around. here's todd gibson with the story. >> reporter: it's been nearly two decades since nc state began league play 0-4, the pac needs an acc win in the worst way. so does florida state. the seminoles also winless in the league. fsu shoots well. visitors hit 50% of their

range on 19-17 from beyond the arc and lobbing over their shorter opponent. state struggles to put the ball in the hole, none more so than caleb martin who misses the first 10 shots on his way to a 2-13 night. >> i don't think you would get to a place where you tell a guy like caleb don't ever shoot. i'm not one of those guys. he really struggled tonight. >> reporter: state got a double- double from abu, who tallies 21 points and 13 rebounds while acc's leading scorer cat barber goes for 22, but not enough. though the pac did cut a second half deficit to just three with under a minute to go, thanks to three-pointers maverick from maverick but that's as close as they would get. >> we always beat ourselves, like, froze and turning the ball over the last couple of minutes and this is -- we beat ourselves.

wolf pack hits the road saturday to take on arch rival north carolina. todd gibson, wncn sports. >> they are not losing by much, all right? the ninth ranked blue devils headed to greenville, south carolina to take on the clemson tigers. >> duke entered undefeated but clemson changed that. both teams went on everal runs in the first half. duke holding to a slim 2-point lead at the break. until the 7:00 mark when the tigers took over and win 68-63. in the next half-hour - >> we're going to learn new information about clean-up efforts at the dan river coal ash site. >> what does this friday eve

we look at the forecast for

we'll be right back. there's something to be said for exploring the world around you. why should snacking be any different? discover all nine flavors of our creamy cheese and tap into your curiosity. the laughing cow. reinvent snacking. breaking news -- at least seven people killed after terrorists attack indonesia. >> today we'll get an inside look at the process to remove coal ash from the dan river. >> and at least three winning powerball tickets are sold for the $1.6 billion jackpot. was it here in north carolina? no. sorry. good morning. thank you for watching "wncn today," i'm stefan chase. >> i'm mike gonzalez. though there was a $2 million ticket sold in north carolina so check it anyway. emma wright has a look at the duke energy coal ash clean-up efforts but first let's check

chilly start but it's going to