right now on fox 50, wildfires continue to rage in our western county, the area where residents will have to follow an evacuation few hours. president-elect trump responds to criticism of how he is building his transition team. and raleigh's mayor lends an open ear to the public. where you can join in on today's talks. thank you for joining us on this hump day. you can get through. we're in the middle of the week. i'm lena tillett. >> and i'm bill leslie. good to have you with us and

and elizabeth. >> the whole gang and it will be a beautiful day, too. it is, the helicopter flying by here with the raleigh skycam and patching fog looking east across the skyline of raleigh. we haven't seen much of it on the camera, but a few pockets out there. cold out there. 37 in durham and 36 in cary. and 32 in roxboro and south hill in southern pines and fayetteville and rocky mount and wilson. temperatures will climb into the mid-40s quickly in the next hour or so. 67 the high this afternoon, and a nice afternoon. temperatures climbing into the 70s. brian has a look at the roads. it gets busier in the 7:00 hour.

accident in garner on 40 westbound at 7:02. and this is i-40 from jones sausage road, and this is westbound traffic from business 70. we have an accident blocking the right lane. so traffic is squeezing by in the two left lanes and is really getting things backed up. the latest sensor reading shows a 37-minute ride from 42 to 440. consider alternate routes. 50 ?oash backing 42 to business 70. and if you are trying to get on to i 40 westbound from the raleigh area make from rock quarry or hammond road you're in good shape because the traffic is backed up. the traffic volume to the south side of raleigh to the west side is looking pretty light at this point. we have a crash on airport

picking up significant southbound delays as we leave the airport heading to the i-40 interchange. we'll let you know how it's shaping up in durham, the routes looking fine. air quality alerts have been extended because of dozens of wildfires. >> firefighters made progress yesterday thanks to cooler weather but the situation is still critical. it wral's renee renee? >> reporter: lena and bill, this is due to the party rock fire that burned tens of thousands of acres. a 5-man team went out to western north carolina to spend a week in lake lure. officialssay ground level shock will remain a concern, and

the fires have burned more than 40,000 acres in the state alone with fires in georgia, south carolina, and tennessee. when you factor in those states, more than 80,000 acres have burned. arson is suspected in many of the fires. >> renee, thank you. president obama is spending his final days in greece, touring famous monuments like the acropolis marching in athens to protest his visit saying they are dissatisfied with the u.s. foreign policy with greece. president-elect trump took to twitter to dispute rumors that his transition team is in turmoil. >> have a good meal. >> reporter: president-elect donald trump dining out in new york after his first perfect

he knows the finalists for his cabinet. but insiders describe turmoil. >> governor christie and his team moving out and trump is moving in and trying to figure out who he he want at his side. >> reporter: his son-in-law will be influenced with security clearance and vice president to be mike pence is in charge n washington today, he had lunch with vice leadership team is unified and this entire house republican conference is unified. we are so eager to get to work with our new president-elect. >> reporter: republicans in congress elect new leaders. house democrats took their elections with nancy pelosi expecting to face a challenge. >> we need to move forward. >> reporter: the country is

tracie potts, nbc news, washington. the race for north carolina governor is undecided with pat mccrory challenging several hundred ballots. there is an investigation for alleged irregularities from the general election. it will be a few more weeks before student assignments are taken up. some students elementary could be moved to fill horton creek elementary. parents are upset saying that it would split their community and that horton creek would become over crowded itself. they want to look at the numbers one more time before making a decision. and raleigh city the leaders want to hear your thoughts on the issues facing the city. >> they will cover everything

affordable housing. mikaya thurmond has more from outside where it will take place. >> reporter: good morning. the goal is simple, to bring together residents to talk about the issues they have to face in every day life. the city talks will be group conversations including community policing, race relations, education, and affordable housing. the museum will be at the millbrook exchange community center offspring forest road. it's happening from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. the first city wide sessions will be followed by five district wide sessions and cover each of the districts represented at city council. while they have not been scheduled, we will let you know when they happen. bill and lena?

a in order august. the suspect told the dispatcher that he was, quote, locked and loaded and intending to secure his neighborhood. after the shoot -- shooting, he said he believed that people outside had guns. police had no evidence that the victim was armed. newly released search warrants show that at facebook video posted by someone who claims it shows what happened and that it was a murder. and a disturbing tweet saying the official twitter of

continue to show support for the football team. but that's not the disturbing tweet. it came overnight that read don't forget to wear white tomorrow to show your support for #whitesupremacy, #trump2016. this has since been deleted. a plan to help the home unless raleigh is >> how the proposal will provide a 1-stop center for those who need it. >> and a continued protest for the dakota access pipeline.

are diewmg energy officials issued a warning on twitter about a recent scam. the official account post that does scammers are targeting customers by phone. a spokesperson tweeted last week alone, 178 customers received the scam calls. than $8700. duke energy reminds customers that utilities will never demand payment using a credit card over the phone. there is a proposal to help the homeless by creating a 1- stop resource center offering showers and laundry facilities.

threatened with arrests for feeding homeless people in morris square. the commissioners will vote on the proposal in january. dr. william brown died on monday. dr.brown was principal at several fayetteville schools in the 1960s. the burial will take place friday afternoon at cumberland memorial gardens. dr.brown was 87. a man is fighting for his life after being hit by a in fayetteville. policesay the 45-year-old was hit on owen drive near village drive at 6:45 last night. he is in critical condition at cape fear valley medical center. now might be a very good time to visit our nation's capitol. a look at the multimillion dollar renovations made to the dome. and complaints over ballots

gene autry and why are we playing christmas mu thanksgiving? >> you have to explain yourself, bill. people will be upset with us. >> we have a parade on saturday. trying to get in the mood. getting our minds set. >> i mentioned on monday, it's the christmas parade this weekend and it's like this saturday? already? it's that time. >> always the saturday before thanksgiving. always. it's a tradition. >> and durham has a new parade. they had a parade and then went

>> just double the christmas. >> exactly. this one and that one. lots of fun holiday celebrations. what's ahead for us? it's chilly. temperatures are mainly in the 30s right now and the sun's up, and in another hour, temperatures should climb into the 40s and then 60s for high this is -- highs this afternoon. we are watching the weekend front. saturday for the christmas parade, nice and warm, and late satu and colder for sunday, monday, and tuesday and i'll show you that coming up in the 7-day forecast. what a beautiful shot in roxboro, just a band of cloud cover. the sun is popping up, creating pretty colors there. the reflection is on the bottom of the clouds, beautiful there in roxboro this morning. 35 is the temperature at the airport, so it's cool out there, coat weather and the dew point, 35 and temperatures will probably not drop much more than they are right now.

goldsboro. 38 in southern pines and erwin and 39 in fayetteville. it's chilly out there and colder than it was yesterday in the eastern and southern parts of the viewing area where we had clouds yesterday and kept the temperatures warmer. not so today. be prepared. where is this chilly air coming from? it's coming along the side of the high pressure system with wind -- winds th clockwise. the afternoon, nice and mild with the sunshine. the backside of the high is where the warm air is, and we'll seal that friday and saturday with the temperatures 10 degrees above normal and watch this. the upper wind and temperature map and these white lines here, the winds typically follow. so the winds are coming out of the north and northwest with cooler temperatures. we take it into tomorrow and the high pressure system builds over us and makes this ridge here and stops that flow of

you can see that with the color contours. that will not last. look at this huge dip or trough in the jet stream. that comes in late saturday and we are back into a northwesterly flow, cold on sunday and will stick around at least through monday into tuesday and temperatures will moderate a bit. 67 today and tomorrow and morning lows in the low to mid- 40s, so warmer tomorrow morning and expect that through on this front to get its act together way back in the pacific northwest and by friday evening, the front pushes into the mountains. you'll see a bit of rain there. we don't see it until late on saturday, just a little bit, though. we wish for the mountains a good stretch but it's not likely to be the case. we will see considerably colder air. 73 on saturday and, of course,

warm. for the wral christmas parade, the start time is 61. so very warm and a chance of showers late saturday and cold air on monday and tuesday. i will be grabbed my coat on monday morning at 29 degrees. we have cold air next week. here's a look at the roads. my goodness. what happened? that's more than one spot in the red. we have an accident in garner ear at jones sausage road. that accident has cleared up. that's the good news. the bad news is almost an hour drive time, still with the residual delays. all lanes are open around jones sausage road but backup is past 40 westbound and takes a long time to get the residual delays worked out. when you have an accident like this in the morning commute we

to normal until 9:00, 9:30 so just the nature of the stretch of road through gasher with congestion and volume increasing in the 7:00 and 8:00 hours. i think thuy -- we will probably see delays through the commute. and clayton to hammond, 20 minutes, northbound, pretty bad up to business 70, 25 minutes. be patient leaving garner into raleigh. back to you. family members of victims of the stanley hook shooting are appealing the dismissal of a lawsuit against a north carolina gun maker. they want to hold remington

a rummington bushmaster in the attack. the families claim that the gun maker and the wholesalers that sold his mother the weapon were negligent . the protests continue with the company building the $3 billion oil pipeline that wants to move ahead with a section of the project in north dakota. they have asked the court to let them lay reservoir. the sioux tribe says this will lead to water toxicity. a suspect shot and killed a southwest airline employee. the victim was the father of james winchester, the kansas city chiefs player.

backing out of plans to make cars in mexico, no longer in michigan. president-elect trump has repeatedly criticized the decision. ford'sceostressed that no jobs will be lost since the michigan plant will make two other vehicles. renovations for the u.s. capitol dome are complete. the $60 million project took three years. it had not been restored the dwight eisenhower administration. it removed hazardous materials and used 1200 gallons of paint. 7:23. a handful of businesses supported by loyal customers very to find a new location. >> the issue that is forcing them to leave. and twitter is empowering users to fight cyberbullies.

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good morning. 7:26. i'm bill leslie with the top stories, and we've got traffic troubles, brian shrader. we do, bill, an earlier crash on westbound 40 at garner at jones sausage road. it's cleared up but with very heavy residual delays. you can see the clayton bypass crawling along out of raleigh. a 50 to 55-minute trip between 42 and 440, just the nature of

see the traffic patterns dropping any time soon. we have a number of minor crashes around the triangle, none of which are causing big problems but for the most part, traffic is moving along well. back to you. breaking news. fire destroyed a double wide mobile home in selma off old county lane. firefighterssay no one was hurt but obviously nothing much left of the house. no word on a community policing is expected to be one of the topics at a community conversation series in raleigh and starts tonight at millbrook communities exchange center. mayor mcfarland wants to identify the challenges facing the city. no challenges in terms of the weather today, elizabeth. it's nice out there, and it's chilly but that's all we is say today.

mount and 39 in fayetteville. so we dropped into the 30s almost everywhere except goldsboro at 31. the temperatures this afternoon respond nicely town sketch and 67 for tomorrow and friday, 73, as much as 10 degrees above normal. back to you. elizabeth, thank you. and in the next half hour, a meeting in durham county that

welcome back. the time is 7:30. the durham county board of elections meets this morning to discuss the recount of tens of thousands of votes. >> the general counsel of the state republican party claims that the results from 94,000 ballots captain be trusted. emmy victor is live in durham to bring us up to date. emmy? >> reporter: bill and lena, we expect the conversation to kickoff in about 30 minutes or so. the durham board of elections will decide if a rediscounts necessary. the chairman of the board said that there is no reason right now as to why they need one. this is a conversation that was sparked last tuesday. voting totals from five early voting sites and one election day precinct couldn't be read on a computer so the team printed off the results and entered them manually into the computer. the board is being challenged

make or break in the race for governor between republican pat mccrory and roy cooper. mccrory was leading throughout the night until the election results from durham county came into play. cooper leads by about 5000 votes and claims he will be the next governor of north carolina. people have concerns why they have the meeting which will start in about 30 minutes. >> emmy victor, that you were. and absentee ballots will be reviewed ahead of the friday deadline to be finalized. they will go over provisional ballots tomorrow. the cumberland disaster recovery coalition is a volunteer long-term recovery group meant to keep victims top of mind and last night, they

needs they are still seeing in local communities and for people who may need additional help. homeowners say they are being booted out. businesses said that they will not be renewing their leases saying they altogether. >> december 1? >> pretty upset about it. you know, nobody really knows where they are going. >> several weeks ago, target announced plans to build a small store above the affected businesses. >> the whole hillsborough street area just continues to

transformation. >> certainly want the local businesses to stay. >> part of the charm. >> exactly. >> and target is not exactly local but popular, i guess. >> a beautiful day to go to target, elizabeth. definitely beautiful for anything to do today. the raleigh skycam, hazy and looking past the buildings, we are seeing just a bit of patchy fog. we haven't seen much of it so if you see it, it's likely to be in small pockets. 33 in henderson and 38 in wilmington and 39 in wilson, a chilly start. the temperatures will warm up quickly with the sunshine. 62 at noon and upper 60s this afternoon and dropping into the upper 50s by the time the folks are headed home. at the bus stop, coat weather and temperatures in the 30s and then we'll warm into the mid-

67 the high temperature this afternoon, and we'll do better than that if you like the warm weather. cloudy saturday and above normal and above normal for the end of the week and below normal for sunday and next week. i'll show you that coming up. brian's here with a look at traffic that you don't want to get messed up with. exactly right. 7:34 and big backups through garner because of an earlier accident 40 westbound at jones sausage road. for a while, it looked right lane. the accident itself is clear but the residual delay linger. i-40 at 42 and toward the clayton bypass you can see the stop and roll. that's like that towards jones sauce annual road. the drive times, the 50 to 55- minute mark. it's a slow trip. we are in the busiest part of the commute, and the traffic volume is high enough even with

the delays will ease. thinking about alternate routes. 70 business might be your best bet if you can get there heading towards hammond road and then up into southeast raleigh. that might be the best option this morning and there are not many good options. at this point on the southeastern side of wake county, consider using 42 to fuquay or old stage road and 401 that way. it might save you time. it's a long, slow ride from to 440. but notice with the traffic backed up around the clayton bypass on the south side of raleigh and the fortify work zone and beyond, very light conditions. it's all jammed up back there. it's a miserable morning through garner and raleigh, looking good. 540 westbound delays are not so bad as you head away from capital boulevard to highway 6. back to you. >>thank you, brian. you know you are in the

for three decades. >> lynda loveland talks with a teacher who is always excited about coming to work. >> reporter: are you surprised? >> i -- . [laughter] >> yes. >> reporter: 31 years in the classroom and karen is still excited about coming to school every day. she loves the new experiences with students at the wake young re >> i credit the students 100%. they keep me on my toes with knowing what the latest mannequin challenge is or, you know, song. >> reporter: her principal said that the passion for her students makes her great. >> it's not about what would be easy for her or good for her. but it's what is good for students. >> reporter: she is focused on the mission of growing young women leaders and coming up

students. >> okay. good job. leyla? >> reporter: karen said you never really know you are making a difference until later. >> the girls i caught the first year come back and see me and say, remember when we did that or that? and i'm like you still think about that? >> reporter: with our teacher of the week, karyn gloden, i'm doctors estimate that lung cancer will kill 160,000 americans this year. >> the 30 days, 30 30 ways campaign and how you can make a difference. and twitter is helping -- i don't think this is what it's supposed to say.

lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer indicatings among all americans. it kills twice as many women as breast cancer. yet research funding for cancer is 5 times greater than lung cancer. lung cancer doesn't discriminate and all month long, there is an effort to raise awareness. good morning to both of you. >> good morning, lena. >> reporter: thank you for joining us. juanita, i understand you were

picture of health when diagnosed with lung cancer. tell us how this changed your life. >> hi. good morning, lena. yes. it changed my life drastically. when i was diagnosed, it was the most serious thing. i was in shock. and the hardest thing tousers tell my 5 children that mom may not make it for five years. and i went through chemo and radiation and i had the genomi testing done and it took a while to come back. i could have gone on to immunotherapy. and then i went to chemo and then the targeted therapy pills, and that saved my life. >> reporter: doctor, why is lung cancer the so-called forgotten cancer. what are the clinical trials related to the research happening now? >> absolutely. lung cancer is really a deadly disease but what people need to

targeted and immunotherapy that juanita mentioned. in funding, it's a decease that is forgotten because there is much more focus on other cancers such as breast cancer. we need your support for the trials to discover new and exciting ways to treat lung cancer which is going on in the lung cancer of america website. >> reporter: juanita, you can quickly tell us about the 30 days 3 every day americans can help? >> yes. the 30 days 30 ways campaign is pick a day -- today, why not -- and educate yourself, friends, family, co-workers, neighbors, facebook, internet, and let them know what lung cancer is -- it's just we need your help. we need your support. so the more awareness, the more people will know about the lung cancer and the more they will

least funded for lung cancer. please donate even if $5. and#littlethings on facebook and instagram and let people know what takes your breath away. >> reporter: doctor and juanita, thank you so much. >> thank you, lena. the popular dating app tinnedder is getting an update. how they are making it inclusive. and they called it mission impossible. lester holt's close call on the

elizabeth knows there will be no snow on the parade day. >> nope. not this year. >> you didn't want to sing that? >> no, no. i take that back. i mean, there is often snow on the parade route. oh, come >> santa will be riding through all that? >> you never know what you will see. >> the wral raleigh christmas parade. and that's why we are playing the christmas music early. it's coming up on saturday. and the weather looks great for it. we'll talk about the forecast in a few minutes and it's beautiful right now, too. fayetteville and durham will have their parades in december and we'll be talking about that as we get closer to it. but the raleigh 1 is always the

35 at the airport and cold out there. and the dew point, 35 and you might run into a couple of patches of fog. i mean, tiny patches like in creek bottoms. it's 36 in roanoake rapids and 38 in chapel hill and 34 in smithfield and 39 in fayetteville. it's cold out there this morning and it will cool tomorrow morning but we are starting a warming trend. right now, high pressure is just to the west and helping this morning. the sunshine will warm us up nicely and the high moves eastward into a warmer flow. we'll feel that on friday and saturday. saturday, really warm for the raleigh christmas parade. we take a look at futurecast and it's nice and bright and high pressure is keeping things dry and bright through friday and we'll watch the cold front. it's just starting to move back to the west and you can see

starting to produce rain as it crosses the mississippi valley and so much of the southeast could use rain. a lot of wildfires and dry conditions, but once again, this front as it approaches the mountains will weaken and probably not going to bring us rain. probably a .25" or less with the system coming through. ready of it, nice and warm. 67 today and tomorrow and 73 for tomorrow will certainly be warmer than normal by 10 degrees. air comes in with a chance rain late saturday with the front coming by but it should wait until after the parade is over. keep checking in with us in case the front changes. but sunshine and 61 degrees and at noon, 68, and brian and renee and bill will be hosting the parade. the rain on saturday will be fairly minimal likely late in

not even showing any, a little bit in the mountains, maybe .1" but a fairly dry front and then cold, cold, cold monday morning and 29 degrees, between degrees below normal, not getting to the record, 17 in 1914 but a cold morning on monday and again on tuesday but mostly sunny and sunshine and dry conditions except for saturday. brian, you are still having trouble but this is not the same place we were talking problem on -- new problem on the northbound durham freeway, 147 at alston, a 41 minute ride between mangum. so that's three times what it usually takes. and, of course, we are dealing

west at jones sausage road. it's starting to ease up a bit. we were looking at an hour drive time between 42 and 440 and we're looking at 40 minutes now and most delays around the clayton bypass. as we head closer to 8:00, we'll see the numbers dropping a bit, and still almost 40 minutes through garner. consider business 70 towards clayton an raleigh. slow at south saunders street and lake wheeler road. wade to 540 take 7 minutes as usual, and slowing down on 40 westbound around wade, and heavy outbound delays on wade and an accident on chp hill on

lena? >> thank you, brian. tinder's late update allows gender identity. users can be shown in searches that best reflect their identity and those who believe they were wrongfully removed from their gender selection are invited back. twitter is expanding a new function. users keywords, phrases, and content they don't want to be notified about. twitter is changing its policies on hateful conduct. renee chou is here with what's trending this morning. nbc's lester holt nearly missed making it to his set on

tracked the whole thing on hit twitter dubbing the race to 30 rock that began in boston at 4:30 a.m. eastern. holt said he had just over two hours to the broadcast and was still on the ground in boston, and then he was on board, flight time, 50 minutes and tweeted wish me luck, got to la guardia and hopped on subway, and it's only 20 minutes. he tweeted, it will be close. and you can only imagine what his blood pressure was like, what his producer's blood pressure was like. >> i usually watch it but i -- i always hate that feeling. >> i love social media. you can see the whole process

>> and he picked the subway. >> exactly. probably the fastest way. >> probably is, yeah. also trending the emoji. the peach emoji is back to what it used to be and a lot of people are happy with it because they believe it looks like -- what do you think it looks like? a few weeks ago, apple had the update that came with dozens of new and redesigned emojis, they redesigned the peach emoji to look like a peach and now we're back to the postier. what does look like to you?

c1 the time is 7:56. i'm lena tillett. brian shrader is tracking quite a few backups. a mess in durham, alston. the left lane is blocked with what appears to be a minor crash and we have a tow truck on the scene to hopefully get this cleared up quickly. but traffic is squeezing by. almost 60 minutes from i-40 to downtown durham. the alternate, 55 westbound from i-40 to the durham freeway for now at least. it will save you time. and seeing very heavy delays from garner looking at 30 to 40

consider 70 business as an alternate route. once you get beyond that, a pretty smooth ride. >> thank you, brian. the board of elections will give preliminary consideration to a protest filed by an attorney, council for the state republican party and he claims that the board failed to obtain the accuracy of early voting. struggling after hurricane matthew. the coalition met last night to address the unmet needs in the community. and elizabeth, a beautiful day. yeah. really pretty with the sunshine and it will produce energy at solar farm 5 in the eastern part of wake county. chilly out there but we have started to see the warm up. 40 in raleigh and 42 in roxboro and south hill and a quick warm

for the high on friday. lena? >> looks great. thank you, elizabeth. he told dispatchers he was locked and loaded, the new evidence that police are seeking against the man charged

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in western counties. where residents will have to follow an evacuation order. and president-elect trump is building his transition team as insiders describe turmoil. and a car crashes into a build -- building in raleigh. i'm lena tillett. >> i'm renee chou. >> this is on execute they -- thurmond is on the scene. mikaya? >> reporter: a scary look, lena and renee. police have gone needs now but this was busier about 20 minutes ago. this is the duke-raleigh life