. >> i'm brian shrader and elizabeth gardner is in for herself this morning. >> we have some rain that we're dealing with. not so much right around the triangle area right at the moment. but we do have showers up and down the i-95 corridor, and then the northern county has showers. we're still seeing rain all the way back toward the mountains and we're going to have to see all this work through before we can call it done i think certainly by lunchtime we're finished with the rain. in some places it may be over a little earlier than that. here's our rdu skycam. that's a lot of cloud cover. just some beautiful contours there with the clouds. a little wet at the airport. you can see some showers coming through. it's a lot warmer than it was this time yesterday. 46 in wake forest, 50 in holy springs. 51 in fayetteville. you need a jacket but not the if we had temperatures like yesterday with the precipitation, you know what would be happening. 8 a.m., about 50 degrees but cloudy with lingering showers. by lunchtime much of that should be over and by 4:00, peek at sunshine. tomorrow will be

the newest animated film alana >>> that is elizabeth gardner. the happy place right there. >> at the nana hilla outdoor center. weird things hanging by the river. the river is low right now. and then fires nearby there. but still beautiful. >> love that. there it is. it is cold there. and cold here as well. upper 20s in a few places. let's take a look. we fact that we are still seeing pretty color of the trees around here even though we are past thanksgiving. this is the wral gardens. the trees that line the driveway are standing in the fall. they have all moved across their leaves. a big pile of leaves their underneath some of them especially the first one. those are so pretty. a nice morning. it is chilly. cloud cover with a great gray day per day -- grade today. 28 in roxboro. 32 chapel hill. 32 fayetteville. 33 clinton. definitely cold weather. this afternoon we make it to 60 and then low 70s on tuesday. while that sounds wonderful tuesday and wednesday will bring us rain. not all day rain. tuesday will be in the morning and wednesday in the

. >>> elizabeth gardner is calling for 80 degrees today. >>> that's right. 80degrees this afternoon and sunshine behind the durham county courthouse and just beginning to see a pretty sunrise. 53 in south hill and 47 in southern pines and 49 in rocky mount and 54 in temperatures in the mid-40s to mid-50s but expected to be nice and warm this afternoon and increasing sunshine with a high of 80. thursday, a high of 83 and rain late, probably during the evening and cool or friday with a high of 62. brian? >>> 7:27, elizabeth, and congestion on 40 westbound in garner, and earlier we had a disabled vehicle on 40 west in south raleigh. seeing residual delays back to business 70 in garner. 32 minutes to make the trip up to 440 and 20 minutes through the fortify work zone out to wade avenue. beyond that, no delays heading out to the airport and rtp. back to you. >> thank you, brian. >>> the latest hearing on naacp >>> the time is 7:30. the orange county gop will hold an official re-opening of the headquarters today. >> they were firebombed last month and spray painted with hateful graffiti. emm

elizabeth gardner has a look at the yucky start, but it's going to be just fine. >> we need the rain and i know folks are thankful to see it. it started around the area, 3, 3:30 this morning. still lingering. we're not finished with this yet. it should be out of here by lunchtime and in some places probably before that, but i lunchtime, we should cover almost everybody. steadier rain from roxboro over toward mecklenburg county, virginia, steady rain. from raleigh south ward and westward, a little bit of mist and drizzle. christmas decorations, and i know it's kind of a yucky start to thanksgiving, but we needed the rain. not a whole lot in the rain gauges, though, probably just a trace to a quarter of an springs. much, much warmer -- holly springs. in your planner at lunchtime, expect the rain to be over. we'll start to see a peek of sunshine here, starting to see that in a couple of spots already. 58 at lunchtime and with a little more sunshine, expect mid 60s for highs this afternoon. tomorrow also remains mild. we may see rain toward the end of the day and i'll show you the progre

. >>> elizabeth gardner says the weather is honoring our veterans as well. >> temperatures were great for a run this morning, upper 30s stands -- sounds chilly if you are standing around. our tall tower cam shows nothing but sunshine, beautiful day today. we are seeing temperatures in the 30s, 37 in irwin, raleigh, 39 in southern pines. 45 in south hill and 43 degrees in fayetteville. 63 degrees, warming up nicely, crashing tomorrow with a high of 55 and by 28 sunday morning likely to be our first hard freeze of this fall season. >>> 7:27. we have the ramp from 40 eastbound two miami boulevard blocked as trues try to clear an earlier overturned tractor- the ramp from miami boulevard 240 eastbound is fine but you can see durham police blocking the ramp from the interstate. as we take a look at your best alternate route trying to get to miami boulevard from 40 east, take davis drive down to 54 and pick up miami boulevard on the other side. we had an earlier accident in downtown raleigh, the crash investigation continues, dawson >>> we are following breaking news in downtown raleigh wher

>>> elizabeth gardner, how are you doing this morning? >> i'm doing fine. i grew up watching "the brady free -- definitely sad. there still a lot of cloud cover lingering in the east, you can tell that by the shadows, downtown raleigh all illuminated by sunshine right now, mix of sun and clouds today. you have times when it is overcast and times when it is sunny as well. 54 in durham, 55 holly springs, 43 in roxboro. it has been chilly this morning but low to mid-50s everywhere else. 55 in goldsboro and southern pines, 57 in fayetteville. at lunchtime temperatures will be in the mid-60s, we climbed to 70 this afternoon with a mix of sun and clouds. now about five or 6:00, there may be a few sprinkles rolling through pure heading out to shopping or a movie, football friday, there is the playoffs. you might run into patchy light rain, should move through very quick, should be nice and bright for saturday and sunday. we will talk about how much cooler coming up. >>> brian is here with a look at what you're going to run morning. >> is. you won't run into much,

. >>, an equestrian event tonight with special guest is trying to elizabeth gardner is part of the event and she will be back after the break with an pened to our north carolina? pat mccrory's disastrous hb2 discrimination law has cost us jobs and damaged our reputation. duke energy's toxic coal ash threatens our drinking water, but mccrory's given them a sweetheart deal, leaving us to pay for cleaning up their mess. and while mccrory's given huge tax breaks to those at the top, his education cuts have left our schools falling behind. >>> the boys and girls club of johnson county was hit hard by flooding from hurricane matthew. and so we are so excited to have these two people here who are helping those folks recover. sort of in an interesting way. there is an equestrian event this evening. we have corey martin, and olympian, also very fun, we are so excited to broadcast the olympics here for the first time on wral. boyd martin, and holly, here to talk about the event tonight. this is going to be what's called a master class where people can hear what you did to become an olympian and ho