after a 30 year partnership with cbs we will be changing. wral will become nbc. >> we look forward to bringing you the today show, the nbc nightly news with lester holt, the voice, the tonight show with jimmy fallon and much more. you'll still be watching all of your local programming in the same place on wral. >> the vice president and general manager says the station is changing because nbc is clearly the best fit for wral t.v. for years to come. this is a long term agreement. >> and we will keep you up to date on everything you need to know through out of this entire process so exciting news here at wral. now to our other top story a chatham county mourning the loss of firefighter joshua woods today. >> a viewing is being held. that's where we find ariel clay. >> it's a sad day for everyone in the community but especially

live and work in this community. many are gathering to say goodbye to joshua woods. the 24-year-old died early tuesday morning. a memorial has been set-up at the fire department where he worked. woods was driving south tuesday at around 1:00 a.m. when he crossed the center lane over direct corrected and went off of the center road. woods was responding to a call friday morning. they could ride over to the viewing together. the viewing is scheduled to go from 5 until 9 tonight. again many coming here tonight to say some of their final goodbyes. gerald and linda. >> ariel clay live thank you. garner police opened it's new headquarters today located on 7th avenue and today's celebration is just the beginning of a weekend of events. among one of the many features

building that was vandalized a few months ago but it's been repaired. the department will hold an open house tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. >> tomorrow marks a quarter century since the bombing of iraq the starting of operation desert storm and the effort to liberate from invading troops. they continue to operate on the front lines in the midst east today. the important event and retired robert springer. thank you for being here. you've been our military expert and announced it's been a long time. first of all walk us back through. how did we get to desert storm. >> as you know his troops invaded kuwait. the united nations to get those troops. they didn't respond.

the time gave them an ultimate yum and a specific date and time to have the troops out of there or we would take action. president bush didn't wait very long after that red line pass. >> what i did they have for north carolina troops. >> obviously the first combat they had been in for quite some time. it's amazing when you look back at the young ones fighting in the war. some of them were officers as a consequence of time but we had over a half million troops inserted into that conflict. >> 430,000 of those were americans and many of those were fort bragg soldiers men and women. >> what have we learned as a nation from that war and a state because of operation desert storm. >> what we learned as a nation is the interesting things that

for the first time we used a seth fighter plane that evening in baghdad against a pretty good air densand it was successful. the first time we used satellites for weapons use and also for communications for information and intelligence, surveillance. we were doing all of these things for the first time in a combat environment and those things have rolled over down to the day and they have been refined in great measure. >> here we are 25 years later and we still have a presence there. how does the war continue to influence us today. >> how does it continue to influence us? i think you are talking about 25 years ago or today's war? >> what's been left behind basically? >> well i think what's left behind is we didn't leave behind. we should have left more forces in iraq in 2011 and opted not to do that and as a consequence they didn't have a stable government.

that we don't want to end up in afghanistan coming up here within the next year because the stability of those governments depends on an american influence. it's amazing what soldiers and marines will do in order to give confidence to those governments. >> general we really appreciate you coming back again today. we hope we are not talking about this 25 years from now in terms of us being involved in some sort of conflict. >> i'd like to be talking to you in 25 years from now. >> we hope we are talking about golf in 25 years. >> linda, thank you. >> today marks 75 years sips the miracle on the hudson after flying into a flock of birds. amazingly all 155 people on board survived. the pilot captain chesley sully was hailed as a hero after

that flight was headed from charlotte to new york. that very plane so display in charlotte. a passenger will be on hand to talk to visitors about the entire ordeal. >> industry dropped for a third straight month according to the federal reserve by weakening demand over seas. a strong dollar makes american made products more expensive in foreign products. job growth is also slow. factories added 30,000 jobs last year the fewest since 2009. >> today would have been martin luther king's 87th birthday. >> and memorial services in the triangle. still ahead how they remember those. >> and sean penn talks to the exclusive interview with the drug king pin on the run. >> and crews are racing to

into homes in the triangle. today would have been martin luther king jr.'s 87th birthday. >> today state employees gathered to honor his legacy. laura leslie has more about that. laura. >> it's the 27th annual state employee celebrating the memory of dr. martin luther king jr.

following in dr. king's foot steps. it honors one state employee who worked to improve race and human relations. this year's winner is stanley melvin director of the pit county juvenile detention center. his mother faced in goldsboro before the civil rights era. >> it's strange on this freedom friday i should be presented this award. >> governor pat mccrory also honored two civil rights pioneers with the order of the long leaf pine. john johnson long time honor of ham lin drug and the children of john who braved death threats to integrate schools in 1958. >> this is history. >> cultural secretary suzanne klutz announced a new state monument has been approved. >> for the first time in the history of the state of north carolina there will be a monument honoring african americans and that is wonderful.

professor dr. freddie parker urged state employees to further king's dream of equality for all. >> we must continue to be relentless and unswervivi and to make this nation, this state and this to live up to this creed but nobody ever said it would be easy. >> martin luther king triangle prayer breakfast at 7:15 at the hotel in research park. capital broadcasting is a proud sponsor. >> laura leslie in our news room thank you. he talked with a drug king pin on the run. now he's talking to 60 minutes. >> we'll preview his controversial video with el chapo. >> and i'm greg fishel. we've got rain lingering and allowing us to enjoy a nice saturday.

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sean penn sat down with charlie rose to talk about the actor's rolling stone interview with joaquin el chapo guzman. this meeting helped lead to his capture. he spoke about it for 60 minutes. here's a preview.

visit that we made. >> sean penn tells 60 minutes charlie rose that he does not believe his october interview with joaquin el chapo guzman led to the drug lord's capture last week. >> as far as you know you had nothing to do and your visit had nothing to do with his capture. >> the mexican government was really very. we were able to facilitate an invitation. >> guzman crawl through a hole in the shower and a mile long tunnel 30 feet under ground. he's believed to be responsible for 34,000 deaths. his cartel is the number one supplier of heroin, cocaine and

>> do you believe that the mexican government released this in part because they wanted to see you blamed and to put you at risk. >> yes. i wanted to encourage the cartel to put you in their cross hairs. >> yes. >> are you fearful for your life? >> no. >> penn says the focus on his meeting with guzman and his recapture means his article which was supposed to bring attention to the war on drugs has failed. kenneth craig cbs news north new york. >> you can watch the entire interview on wral this sunday at 6:00 p.m. the first astronaut to go out on a space walk but it's a technicality. the main goal of the six and a half hour walk was cut short because of a water bubble in the helmet. michael foal was the first

than two decades ago but was working for nasa not the uk. just before that space walk nasa spent images of hurricane alex or at least it was at that time. the system is now just a tropical storm as it continues moving away. forecasters say it will lose it's tropical properties. alex the first since 1938. >> the carolina panthers start the post season campaign after a stellar season. >> with a 15-1 record and one of the hottest defenses in the nfl panthers earn a bye for the first week of the play offs plus home field advantage. the first game the former nc state quarterback and the seattle seahawks. this is going to be some game. you with watch it on our sister station on fox 50. >> wral will be in charlotte as the panthers make their play off debut from bank of america stadium.

charlotte and jared will be at the game with highlights fan reaction and much more. newscasts throughout the day.

heading to charlotte for the ] ww3 what we call this factor that we are looking at here is toronto genesis. i'm sure you say i don't know

it's two words put together. front is simply a boundary between air masses so warm to cold. so front and then genesis think of the first book of the bible. the first book the beginning. so you've got the beginning of a front or the strengthening of a front. so if you have the strengthening of a front that sets up the circulation on one side of it the air is sinking and the other it's rising so look for those reasons of potential sets. we start out at 10:00 nothing going on there and as we venture we start to pick up this area to our south and west and that comes over us during the morning on sunday just for a short time really starts to get his act together towards the coast. by that time too late for us. in terms of temperatures very marginal so if it comes down really hard it may mix with or change to wet snow for a little

getting to freezing so not a problem on the roads even if we see flakes by the time we get to later in the evening everything settles down. so stay on this side of the map. so tonight showers this evening ending later overnight with clearing skies low 41. tomorrow partly to mostly sunny 59, 62 in fayetteville and the 16th of january. let's see if we take a look at the seven day colder with clouds and light precipitation in the morning nothing to stop you from what you are doing outside. clearing sunday afternoon and cold air pours in monday and tuesday despite sunshine highs in the 30s. >> my oh my i can feel it already. sit in front of the fireplace if you have one with somebody you like a lot. >> that always helps. [laughter] >> bundle up. sounds good. >> have a nice cozy day. thank you.

yours if not for the experience and especially because of the scenery. >> and this week's good things a park ranger tells you about his experiences of sharing nature to the world as his career draws to a close. and a year on wall street. i don't think you need to panic yet but you need to pay attention. >> new tonight at 6 the five things we as investors need to be aware of and what they mean to the performance and why citizens will have a do over on

it is a dip in the frigid water will bring peace and happiness to your life. it's part of an annual festival. the holy dip pure phis them of sins. there's no proper way to do it. some get in quickly and some walk in. it marks the beginning of longer days and the end of the harvest season. >> quick would be better. a lawsuit with the national park service means several land marks will have to change their name. most of the name changes will happen at nearby hotels owned by the park service. the lawsuit stems from an

operator that owns a trade mark. the company wants $51 million for the names and other property. this lawsuit could effect other hotels owned by the park service nationwide. they have begun a year long retiring celebration. >> an impressive video production. bill leslie explains in tonight's good things report. >> imagine if your work place looked like this. or this. >> i know people like their jobs but i don't think there's ranger. >> 55-year-old dave cook retires at the end of this month after serving as a park ranger for 30 years. >> the coolest thing about being a park ranger is you get to do things. you get to be a hero for people where decisions that i've made, people have saved lives, alleviated suffering so we educated people. we save people. we provide these amazing experiences.

amazing experience of his own. >> one of the things i make a suggestion in state government is you get to. >> a documentary highlighting the scenery of the 100-year-old state park system. dave even recruited me as a nature ator and composer. here is a place of time. dave hopes this video titled here in this place will hope lure children away from video devices and into our state parks. >> if you can get a kid just to play in the creek. if you can get a kid just to walk in and pick things up and flip over logs which is how i grew up it fascinates and it develops a life long love of god's creation. >> i'm bill leslie wral news raleigh. >> all of life's worries seem to evaporate when you are in that environment.

and taking the family. you can take the kids and they can go and have fun for hours and not have anything plugged in. >> free. >> and the video the documentary shot by 28 rangers and education specialists in the state park system. fiber optic speeds are coming to the triangle and crews are racing to get the system in place. we'll look at the challenges for the crews. wral news at 6 starts right now. the end of the week not much to applaud about. losses will put into perspective for the people who don't try to mark it's every move. so far 2016 is off to a very red start. thank you for joining us tonight. i'm david crabtree. >> i'm linda loveland.

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