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

management center. a man at some point ended up crashing into the window of the front of the building. the good news is a spokeswoman tells us that no one is injured. no one was inside. the area of the building that was hit was the gym. so we are fortunate that no one was inside at the time. in western north carolina, air quality alerts have been firefighters. >> firefighters have made progress because was cooler weather but the situation is critical. bill? >> reporter: lena and renee, an evacuation goes into effect for parts of highway 9 in henderson county, and if you are not familiar with it, it's

county. firefighters from wake county will go and spend a week in the lake lure area, near asheville but on the other side. ground-level smoke will remain a concern over the next few days. winds along ridge tops are expected to increase through today and may expand the fire. the fires have burned more than 40,000 acres in our state alone and there are also fires in georgia, south carolina, and tennessee, firefighters that acres. arson is expected in many of the fires. it will be tough until we get a decent amount of rain there. back to you. >> bill, thank you. while it's beautiful, we aren't getting rain to help out with the wildfires. every front since hurricane matthew has not produced much rain at off. we had under .50" with the front that came through earlier

let's take a look at the museum skycam and you can see lots of sunshine over downtown raleigh looking from the north carolina museum of natural sciences. 34 in wake forest, and the sunshine is warming things up just a touch. 41 in goldsboro and 32 in roxboro and south hill. still cold near the virginia line but by lunchtime, the afternoon. and we'll jump into the 70s by the end of the week and a front will bring us cold air by sunday. we'll talk about the transition through the weekend in just a few minutes. brian's here with the busy roads out there. it's indeed busy with the durham freeway, huge delays northbound because the left lane is blocked at alston

40 to mangum street. for now at least we're looking at 8 minutes here but i am sure as a lot of people run into the backups on the northbound side of the freeway, they will scoot over to 55 and those travel times will begin to worsen a bit. and i have pretty good news in garner, an earlier crash 40 westbound at jones sausage road that backeds up out of johnston county and we are getting back from 42 to 440. and 440 wade, watching the traffic from garner starting to move into south raleigh from the earlier delays and wade to 540, 8 minutes on 40 westbound. another crash that looks like it's just clearing up on chapel hill road at i-40 between cary and raleigh, 54, chapel hill

looking toward cary here. we have significant delays leaving cary. take a look at the sensor roadings, maynard road and because of the delays on 54, northbound maynard, starting to back up. keep that in mind. back to you. >> thank you, brian. president obama is praising greece for accepting refugees. this is a live look from air force one where the president is expected to board and leave greece to go to germany. on his final day in athens, he said that greece's accepting refugees is inspiring. and he toured the acropolis. president-elect trump

to the white house is in turmoil. >> reporter: president-elect trump dining out in new york, tweeting overnight that only he knows the finalists for his cabinet. insiders describe turmoil. >> governor christie and his team moving out and others moving in as trump tries to figure out who he wants at his side. >> reporter: congressman mike rogers is out are calling a purge of those associated with chris christie. the team has inquired about getting his son-in-law security clearance. and mike pence is in charge having lunch with vice president joe biden. >> this entire house republican conference is unified. we are so eager to get to work with our new president-elect.

house democrats took their elections off. >> we need to move forward. >> reporter: the country is still trying to move forward. tracie potts, nbc news, washington. and former democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton will make a public appearance tonight. secretary clinton last spoke a week ago after her loss to president-elect donald trump. will honor her in washington, d.c. where she once worked as a staff attorney. they call her a lifelong champion of children. the race for north carolina's governor is undecided. incumbent pat mccrory is challenging what he calls several hundred ballots.

ballots before the general election. and it will be weeks before wake county will take up the student assignment proposal. students from mills park elementary could be moved to fill hortons creek elementary. parents are upset saying it splits their community and hortons creek would become over crowded. school board members want to look at the numbers one more time before making a decision. facebook may hold clues to the mu summer. chad copely is accused of shooting the victim in august. copely told the 911 dispatcher he was, quote, locked and loaded and intended to security his neighborhood because people at a nearby party were, quote, using profanity. police reports show no evidence that the victim was armed or on copely's property. police want to look at facebook

claims it shows what happened and it's murder. we are working to learn more about a disturbing tweet from the account called triton blue crew, and it posted information about the athletic teams. triton high is in erwin in harnett county. a tweet posted said everyone wear white tomorrow to continue to show their supp football team. that's not the disturbing tweet. it was the one that came after it overnight. that one reads, don't forget to wear white to remember show your support for #whitesupremacy, #trump2016. again this, tweet has been deleted. we are reaching out from the school and the district to find out who runs the could and what, if any, oversight the school has over it.

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last week alone received scam calls. they were able to steal $8700 this way, and duke energy reminds you it will never demand a payment by credit card over the phone. a plan to turn an empty building on wilmington street into a one-stop resource center for refreshments, job training, showers, and laundry facilities. it was chosen because of the peoplesay having all the resources under 1 roof would be invaluable. >> i am disabled and having to struggle to get from one thing to the other to get the things that i need. being that i have no income it's very difficult. >> this stems from a controversy three years ago when people with non-profit groups were threatened with arrests for feeding homeless people. this plan is considered a long- term solution. the council will vote on it next month, and county

a man who helped to lead the desegregation of schools in fayetteville has died. dr.william brown was 87. a look at the changes the u.s. capitol dome.

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we keep having to explain ourselves. we are not putting pressure on you to get your shoppingly out shopping out of the way but we are excited about the christmas parade. >> we are trying to get you in the spirit and a little there. quotation marks there. >> tiny white patches at the snowshoe ski resort. even up there in west virginia it was not that cold. >> they haven't opened? >> oh, no, not even close. they like to open by thanksgiving but it does not look like it will happen. >> i'm loving it. 70 on friday? >> i'll take it.

one or the other. snow for a while and then back to 70. looking at the fayetteville skycam. the sunshine is warming up quickly, and now it's 40 degrees at the airport and winds are calm and dew points in the 30s, and looking at 39 and it's looking like on the cameras, patchy fog and not much of it out there. 30s in south hill and brocksboro but looking in the low to mid-40s elsewhere. these temperatures are below where we were yesterday and significantly so from south hill to clinton and erwin and fayetteville with warm conditions yesterday. high pressure will keep things dry for sometime. take a look at the map. the next rain is back here in the pacific northwest or up here around the great lakes. none of that is coming

into the cooler air. felt it this morning, and the sunshine is warming things up today, and we are getting into the warmer air on the other side of the high pressure to warm things up dramatically friday and saturday, and still talking about the tropics. you may say, what? yes. the hurricane season lasts until the end of november, two weeks from today and it's possible we named storm. we have had them every month of the year. the computer models are all over the place on this one. tell come across? will it sit and spin and go forwards cuba? the storm has an 80% chance of developing into a storm in the next five days. but the computer models are the

lows will be in the 40s for the next couple days, and it will be 10 degrees normal at 63, and 79 is the record setback in 1942. 73 on saturday, and we are watching the christmas parade. the forecasts, yes. a little bit of rain, and that is likely to come in late saturday, 4:00, 5:00, 6:00. so for the christmas parade, temperatures, 61 and finishing up at nearly 70 at lunchtime, and of course, the parade starts at 10:00 a.m. and then it will finish at noon and bill and renee and brian are hosting the parade. a brief round of showers late saturday and then cold air for us sunday, monday, and tuesday. renee? >> thank you, elizabeth. family members of victims of the sandy hook elementary

the dismissal of a lawsuit against remington arms. the gunman used a remington bushmaster in the attack. they allege that the wholesaler that celled his mother the weapon were negligent. the protests continue but the company building the oil pipeline wants to move ahead in north data let them lay pipe under a reservoir. the sioux tribe said it threatens cultural sites and drinking water. no word on what led to a shooting outside of oklahoma city in the parking garage at the airport. this is hours after he shot and killed a southwest employee michael winchester yesterday.

chief's player, and officials believe this was a premeditated attack. boeing is cutting 500 jobs and closing two plants, one in texas and the other in virginia. boeing's stock dropped yesterday after united said tell postpone delivery of 61 boeing 737 jets calling for new, more fuel efficient 737. the ford motor company is not backing out of plans to move small car production to mexico despite the election results. they will be making the new cars out of the plant in mexico by 2018. president-elect trump has criticized this decision. ford'sceostressed that no jobs

apartment build accident today. 600 tenants signed a petition saying they were embarrassed to live in a place named after the president-elect. the company that opens and manages the new york skyscrapers said trump place will be removed soon and replaced with voters in manhattan voted 87% for hillary clinton. the capitol dome's restoration is complete. look at this here, look be fabulous. more than 1300 cracks were fixed and crews removed hazardous materials and used 1200 gallons of participate. a handful of local businesses supported by loyal customers will have to find a

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the time i'm lean after tillet. first to brian. on the northbound durham freeway at alston avenue, the left lane is blocked with a minor crash and still have tow trucks out here but take a look at the latest drive times, 49 minutes from i-40 to downtown at mangum. the best route, 55 westbound.

minutes. 40 westbound, still a little slow through garner because of an earlier crash, 14 minutes and returning to normal on the suggest side of raleigh and the west side. back to you. >> thank you, brian. community policing is expected to be one of the topics at a community conversation series in raleigh. the session will be at the millbrook center. mayor mcfarland wants the city. and no decision from the wake student assignment committee. the board will discuss the matter theater month. elizabeth, it will be a beautiful couple days. absolutely, a lot of sunshine, and look at the tall tower camera as we look west across wake county, nothing but sunshine. so the temperatures are starting to warm up.

40s, we warm up rapidly to 67 and a high of 67 on thursday ande friday, a good 10 degrees abovarily at 73. saturday stays warm, too, and the beginning of the day stays dry for the wral christmas parade. colder temperatures on sunday. lena some. still to come on fox 50,

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the time is now 8:30. the durham county board of elections is meeting right now to discuss whether a request to recount tens of thousands of votes is valid. >> the general counsel said that 94,000 ballots cannot be trusted. emmy victor is live in durham with more. emmy? >> reporter: renee, the durham county board of minutes ago. now, right before this meeting, there was a group of people outside with signs saying our votes count. now, that advocacy group as well as the other people outside have since gone into the building for the meeting. the room inside is quite packed. seating on a first come, first serve basis. the public is welcome into the meeting but there is no opportunity for the public to speak.

again whether a recount is necessary. voting totals from election day at one precinct had to be entered manually into the computer. an attorney for the north carolina gop is challenging the board saying that the votes can't be trusted. this is 9400 votes and it could be a break or break for governor mccrory and general roy cooper. right now, mccrory is losing by about 5000 votes to cooper. we have more in you in our later newscasts. back to you. >> emmy victor live in durham, thank you. wake county's board of elections will meet in raleigh to review absentee ballots ahead of a friday deadline to have the votes finalized. the board will go over

helping storm victims struggles after hurricane matthew is the object of the long-term recovery group meant to keep victims top of mind. they gathered to address the residents' unmet needs still seen in the communities. governor mccrory's hurricane recovery committee held the first public meeting in lumberton. th what is next. minding flood victims's permanent housing was top of mind. there are more meetings planned in the hardest-hit areas. you can find dates and locations at wral.com. some business owners along hillsborough street between horn and poke street were notified that their monthly

starting december 1. at least two of the owners say that they may have to close altogether. >> who would -- december 1? i mean, january 1st or something like that. pretty upset. you know, nobody really knows where they are going to go. >> several weeks ago, target announced plans for a small scale store just above the affected bes. developerssay they will still use the space for retailers but haven't said who the place of the shops. another meeting for concerns over development in holly spring off avents ferry road. nothing was decided this time around. students at a raleigh school learned about programming and a lot about

stough elementary. students worked in teams to assemble the codes to navigate the robots on the floor. once they have decided on the instructions, it will be fed into an ipad through the application. >> cool stuff. very cutting edge. >> i certainly don't know anything about that. >> robots and all that? great stuff at wake county schools, elizabeth. >> we didn't imlearn of that. we don't need to go let's talk about the weather. a lot of sunshine over the solar panels in eastern wake county, a pretty day with temperatures in the 30s and almost everyone working into the 40s. 40 in durham and 40 in clayton and 41 in roanoake rapids, and the sunshine will warm us up nicely, close to 60 at lunchtime and mid to upper 60s for highs in the mid-century and 5:00, upper 60s.

in the low to mid-40s, and it is sunshine out there that will warm us up quickly. warmer and warmer for friday and saturday. more on that in a couple of minutes. back to you. >> thank you, elizabeth. you know you are in the right profession when you love coming to work every day and it's lasted more than three decades. >> in partner with the north carolina education lottery wral's lynda loveland with a teacher who is always excited to come to work. >> reporter: are you surprised? [laughter] >> yes. >> reporter: 31 years in the classroom and karyn gloden is still excited about coming to school every day. she is proud to remember that she scored a 28 on the mental aide quiz.

they keep me up to date with the mannequin challenge or songs. >> it's not about what would be easy for her or good for her. it's always what's good for students. she really is focused on the mission of growg young women leaders, and she is coming up with great ideas to help the students. >> reporter: karyn said you never really finish a difference with students until later. >> they 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 lynda loveland. coming up, we'll have a preview of the most popular

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thanksgiving is next week and then christmas will be >> we have holiday season activities for the families. >> it's really looking a lot like christmas. it's here. >> starting with parades. everyone lovers a parade, and of course, we have one this saturday. >> yeah. this is something like growing up in new york, there were never christmas parades because there was snow everywhere. but the raleigh christmas parade is on saturday.

coffee and sits out there for a few hours. but it starts a whole bunch of parades across the triangle and beyond and i have a big list on go ask mom. and durham will have one in december. a lot of parades all over. a big list. >> they were on hiatus for a while. >> and santa for all the kiddos who wants to get their in. where can we find him? >> at the mall. starting last week he was at the mall and will be through december 24. i have a big list on go ask mom. this weekend, he appears at crabtree valley mall and north gate mall with a big parade and everything to welcome him and i have details and i have north

ceremony. and it's magical. santa throws up like a fairy dust thing and the tree lights up. >> magical power thing. >> right, exactly. >> and that's special. >> and vu great ideas for festive food? >> every year, i have been doing this for seven years on go ask mom and recipes and you had your spritz cookie recipes last year, and we have a big list and a database to look and find something new for your holiday table. >> don't and me for recipes.

[laughter] >> a whole new christmas tradition. >> that's right. lena gave me this recipe. >> directions to a restaurant. and christmas lights? >> a lot of houses will be putting up the lights, and we will have meadow lights open friday and christmas at the charlotte motor speedway a couple of hours from here. they have more than 3 and a put out and next week over thanksgiving week, we'll have all the other big ones open. >> i love this time of year. sarah, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> for go ask mom advice or a different perspective from other moms, search moms on

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love it. >> oh, gosh. [laughter ] all right. it will fun to have christmas music. laying it down now. we have what, >> wow. >> that's a lot of christmas. >> but we're excited. it's fun. the weather will be beautiful today. and let's take a look as you are heading out the door this morning. looking at the camera, there it is. there is the tall tower camera, nothing but sunshine looking west across wake county, and a beautiful day, and checking out

at 39. so it will feel really nice. 36 in roxboro and 44 in fayetteville and goldsboro and 43 in south hill and 40 at the airport. so what's going on? we have a big area of high pressure. look how much of the country is dry right now all the way from almost pennsylvania back to the great lakes and the rockies and toward it is gulf coast we are dry thanks to a high system. we have sinking air surrounding it, and this is a pretty big one encompassing a big part of the country and keeping the precipitation away. we had a very cool start this morning and temperatures in the low to mid-40s in spots thanks to the northwesterly flow. the high will pick up and move eastward and drive some of the

friday and saturday. it will feel nice. and we can see that with the range of temperatures. here is where the high pressure system is right there. around this side of the high we have a northerly flow and that pushed the cool air in. as the high picks up and shifts eastward to about here we have more of a southwesterly flow to the west, calm on friday and it puts us into the nice warm air. yo in yellow. that won't last long. we will get back into a northwesterly flow with the cold air moving back in sunday, sunday night, monday, and monday night, coast weather. we don't get into the warm air any time soon until at least the middle of next week with temperatures belowarily. 67 today and tomorrow, and the normal high, 63, 64 this time of year and 73 on friday.

is 63. so well above normal for friday. saturday, of course, we'll have a very warm start to the day. the wral raleigh christmas parade looks unseasonably warm. it begins at 10:00 a.m. and we encourage to you join us. 61 when it starts and at noon, 68. then 33 on sunday morning and 29 on monday morning and not a saturday night but we'll see the cold temperatures coming in. 29 on monday morning compared to 39 which is normal for this time of year and still cool into next week and dry, too. back to you. >> thank you, elizabeth. this thanksgiving is expected to be one of the busiest for and a half nearly a decade. triple a estimates more than 48 and a half million americans will head out of town for the

in consumer confidence. gas prices are at the cheapest levels in 9 years. if you are flying this thanksgiving, get ready to pay a little more. holiday airfares are up 21%. tinders is giving users an option to select a man other than man or woman. it allows users to type a word that describes their gender unite. they can choose to be shown in identity. tinder said that people who believe they were wrongfully removed over their gender selection are invited back to the platform. twitter said it's expanding a mute function. users can mute accounts and mute phrases and keywords that they don't want notifications about. the company is making it easier

has reframed policies on hateful conduct. the man behind the documentary film super size me is testing a new facility food concept. he is opening holy chicken in columbus, ohio this weekend. he picked columbus because it's known as a test market. he calls the concept a mission driven localicious chickin experience. quite a word. we are a little more than a week away from thanksgiving. we mentioned it a few times now and one of the biggest events, the macy's thanksgiving day parade. artistsand engineers gave the media a sneak peek at where the floats are stored. the deck the hall float has christmas trees, a carousel and a snowman and a fun house float that stands three stories tall,

tribute to have how how. you can watch the parade right here on wral next thursday at 9::00 a.m. >> like what floats we get for the wral raleigh parade. helium balloons, santa. >> the whole thing. >> we moved up in the world when we got the balloons. >> now we have balloons. >> you remember the helium shortage a couple of years ago. o >> we had one balloon. but we found more helium. >> plenty of hot air to help them out. the oh, wow video of the morning phoenix, arizona. a cement truck trying to beat the light, makes the turn, and it's the driver's unlucky day. everybody's okay. no injuries. no injuries. you can enjoy there video. >> it looked like he had it, though, for a long time.

around in the back. >> oh, that guy is like, whew. >> in a rush and now he has to wait longer. >> probably not good for the driving career, i think. on television in raleigh, new york, probably not how he wanted that day to turn out. and it's mcrib time. any fans here? anybody? anybody? anybody? you don't want fresh pork meat in a sandwich? the mcrib, they are making it easier, mcdonalds. only limited restaurants will serve. it they have an app. it uses the iphone's gps to find the nearest mcrib-selling mcdonald's and allows you to share that with your friend. i downloaded the app but i

imessage. and i am ann droid guy. >> you are dying for a mcrib. >> i am dying for a mcrib. it has typical fanfare in the

the time is 8:56. i'm lena tillett. >> and i'm renee chou. here's brian shrader. an earlier crash on the

cleared at alston and lanes are open but the bad news is we are looking at heavy residual delays from i-40 to mangum. consider 55 westbound. that ride is taking about 8 minutes. and good news in wake county, 40 westbound is clearing up nicely in garner. slow from wade avenue to 540. back to you. >> thank you, brian. voting in durham county comes under scrutiny tay the board of elections beginning at 8:00 this morning and meeting with protesters. the counsel for the state republican party claims that the board failed to ensure the accuracy of the tab ulation of votes in early voting. this beautiful, mild weather is holding on, elizabeth. it's mild out there. and this is fayetteville with sunshine. and the temperature, 53

37 in roxboro and the sunshine will warm things up quickly today. not as cold tomorrow or friday. temperatures in the low 40s and friday's high, 73. lena? a disturbing tweet sent under an account at triton high school is under investigation. we are working to find out who is behind the message. bryan mims will have a live report at noon. that's our news for and the next newscast on wral

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