Of university of North Carolina at chapel hill. It is the First State University in the country. This is a contested claim we argue with the university of georgia about. The university of georgia was chartered first in 1785. Later butter came they were first to open and had graduated a couple of classes. The university and the city were founded at the same time so when this area was selected as the site of a university, there was no town or village here. There were a few neighboring farms, and anglican chapel on the side of the carolina inn, but no town to speak of peer down the day they laid the cornerstone, they had an auction of town lots so that they understood that if the university was going to succeed, they needed to have a town around it to support it, to provide businesses, places for people to live. The were in essence born on same day. The university was chartered in 1789. The ground broke for the first building in 1793 and then about 1. 5 years later, in 1795 when the unive
Latest on the trop. So we are going to get a look at the master plan . Reporter thats right. The fight to keep the rays right here in downtown st. Pete is going to come down to three different master plans that city officials are going to be presenting to City Council Later on today. But its not just about redeveloping the trop. This is also about redeveloping all of this land down here in downtown st. Pete and trying to turn this area into a much more lively place than it is now. So if the city has its way we will see a Public Private partnership go up. That could include an entertainment district, possibly some sort of research and educational district, possibly housing, businesses and restaurants. Of course, the ideal situation for the city is to have the rays build their new stadium here. If they do not, we will see redevelopment happen anyway. But its redevelopment that 30 years ago the city used imminent domain. City leaders say this time around things are going to be different a
He makes it look easy right now. And the United States is onto the quarterfinals. This was a tremendous routine. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the Olympic Games with matt lauer live from rio de janeiro, brazil, and Savannah Guthrie live from rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to a split edition from rio and new york. Can we start by saying its a Beautiful Day. Can we show you a shot of the most decorated u. S. Woman in olympic track and field history. That is Allyson Felix. She now has [ applause ] a dramatic finish to the 400 also it was the finish that people will be watching for a long, long time. It was a dive that ended in basically a photo finish. Today is also the final day of gymnastics. Simone biles is looking to bounce back on the floor. She finally proved by the way that shes human, all right. She lost her balance on the beam. En you have to give it to 16yearold Laurie Hernandez. She made the most of her lone individual event
Well. Were watching rain from the west and for some of you wet morning commute so showing you our radar this morning, scattered showers in orange and durham counties through person and grandville county, chatham, lee, moore counties. You can see the band moving in an easterly direction meaning wake county will see the rain, 95 corridor as well, and this is the beginning. Scattered showers in the forecast throughout the day. As far as temperatures are fayetteville, 71 lillington, 68 raleigh and clayton. The forecast look like this 69 out the door, a few showers at 8 00 a. M. , 76 at noon, and a high of 78. Ill let you know how long the wet weather will hang and in the storm team forecast. Breaking news now. An amber alert for a missing rocky mount toddler. Investigators are for 2yearold neveah richardson. Good morning, large. Good morning, lauren. Reporter good morning. Investigators confirmed the toddler was in her mothers car when it was allegedly stolen around midnight. Take a look.
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