Serve as chief of staff and conservative news executive Stephen Bannon who headed the Trump Campaign will become chief strategist. They will both have big roles in the Trump Administration as well as they should. There is a small senior team. In a wideranging interview trump admits he wont completely replace obamacare. Are you going to make sure that people with preexisting conditions are still covered . Yes, of the strongest assets also with children living with their parents for an extended period. Republicans say part of the trump wall with mexico could be a fence and millions of immigrants will not be quickly deported. We are focused on securing the border. As protests continue, democrats are concerned. I caution anyone who in their protest becomes the very thing they are protesting against turning to hateful and ideals that are sacred in this country. Tracie potts nbc news washington. A possible contender for next chairman of the dnc could emerge today representative Keith Ellison will make a decision soon about if he will try for the job. Senate minority leader harry reid through support behind ellison yesterday and prior to that Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer endorsed ellison. He received approval from senator Bernie Sanders and elizabeth warren. He is the first Muslim American elected to congress. President obama departing for his last major trip abroad. It was supposed to be a grand farewell tour but the president may expect questions about the outcome of the us elections. The trigger election outcome triggering concern around the he will give a speech in athens and then he will meet with germanys chancellor and attend an asian economic summit. Armory Sergeant Bowe bergdahl back in the news in advance of his trial at fort bragg. The military accusing him of deserting his post in afghanistan. Mikaya thurmond is at fort bragg right now. Reporter these most recent hearings have been focused on what information will be available to the defense team of bergdahl. The defense team also wants the court to consider whether the decision to bring bergdahl back to trial was improperly influenced. Senator john mccain has said the Senate Armed Forces committee would hold a hearing if the soldier isnt punished. A military judge already denied a motion to dismiss the case in august. Bergdahl faces a courtmartial for charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy june 2009, he was captured and held in captivity by the taliban until a Prisoner Exchange of may 2014. There might be another factor in play now that we know donald trump will be the next president. Last year trump called him a no good traitor who should have been executed. The trial starts in february, bergdahl could spend the rest of his life in prison , but observers in the case say that is unlikely. Fort bragg, thank you. Representatives have until friday to finalize their Election Results including provisional and absentee ballots that could determine a winner in the race for governor. Roy cooper and map Patrick Mccrory are only separated by a few thousand votes. Commissioners meet to go taking the next step after the transit tax passed. Bill leslie is in the newsroom with the update. Voters approved the referendum raising the sales tax to help pay for the 2. 3 billion plan, the plan has three main components, expanded bus service to connect municipalities, a bus trip Transit System and, it includes a Commuter Rail right line to the county. Growth citing figures that show the area is growing by 63 people every day and that is adding to traffic congestion, but organizations such as the John Locke Foundation opposed the tax increase and the tax transit plan, they say it would be underused, overpriced and outdated by the time it was green light, commissioners have a list of things to do to get the ball rolling which is what they will talk about today. Back to you. The roads are downright wet. In some places. The rain is really patchy looking at the radar picture doppler 5000 showing this band coming into the western part of the county and a strip toward lee county. Some more significant rain toward roxboro and then i95 looks pretty dry even though we had some rain overnight. It will be like this all day a little band of rain coming through and then it will be gone for a while you may see drizzle or missed. A decent amount of rain west of the beltline through the airport down toward apex and Holly Springs, from hillsboro northward Roanoke Rapids patchy rain. Temperature on the surface looks not so bad, 44 wake forest, town by town 45 roxboro, 48 fayetteville, if you add the dampness it makes it feel cooler, nothing like yesterday morning with low to mid 20s but it does feel chilly this morning. At lunchtime not much has changed temperatures in the upper 40s and highs in the low 50s. The clouds linger and so does the drizzle of here we will talk about the difference in temperature coming up. We have a number of accidents causing backups. The biggest delays have been on the durham freeway northbound because of an earlier crash around briggs avenue it was blocking the left lane they have moved it to the right shoulder but residual delays and the congestion we typically see starting to add up is flowing but still pretty backed up moving toward downtown durham. Your best alternate route as usual delays on the durham freeway 55 westbound the right from i42 the freeway taking eight minutes. That will save you a little time. You can see how good it is looking on the latest sensor readings. A lot of red showing up on the fortified works own especially between 440 toward the us interchange. It looks put a good as you get to the airport a slowdown around way to avenue and harrison avenue. Overall not a bad ride. We are seeing some light rain moving through leaving the roads a little wet this morning. Elsewhere look for an earlier crash on the louisburg road more significant inbound delays on capital boulevard from wake aftershocks and tremors rocking new zealand as officials assess the damage. The latest from the country after a massive 7. 8 magnitude earthquake. The battle for mosul is more than one month old. How iraqi militants are progressing. The one tool that could hey is this enough . A little more. Grandma there you go. Theres no more room. Oh look whos here i know i had one more. Hmmm. More. 8, 9. We need 1 more yes. Lets enjoy. We need more rolls there was a little girl, and she became friends with every animal she met. Its getting late, grandma should go. One more . Where shopping is a pleasure. Wral morning news on fox and lena tillett each year more than 1000 people are killed in more than 25,000 people are injured in crashes involving speeding tractortrailers. Advocates say one solution is to slow them down, right now the us dot is considering changes to force some trucks to use speed limiters. Joining us are the cofounders of road safe America Steve and susan owings think you joining me. I understand you founded road safe america after the death of your son in 2003. Tell us about your experience. It is every parents nightmare. Our sons were trying to get back to college the sunday after thanksgiving. They came to a parking lot situation, the only vehicle that did not stop safely was the speeding tractortrailers behind them. There have been other high trailer crashes in addition to your son including the one that injured tracy morgan. How has that helped or hurt your movement . The us is the only leading country on earth without a rule that are heaviest tractor trailers must set the speed limiters. Capabilities have been built into the trucks since the 90s. Incredibly, the proposed rule we have worked on for over years would only apply to the new trucks. That would take 20 or 30 years for the whole fleet to change, we need the public to comment on this and say we want the safety benefits today. Not 20 or 30 years from now. They can do so on our website and we encourage them to do so. Im sure the death of your son changed the course of your life in terms of this new has it been to get the government behind what you want to see happen . It has been extremely frustrating. It is something we have to live with every day. What is comforting, there is something people can do to help us and that is go to our website make a comment let the government know you want a rule to apply to all trucks. Thank you so much for joining me this money. Roadsafeamerica. Org. The newest fleet of stealth destroyers could be shooting blanks. The problem with the new ammunition and why costs are going up to extract back to court for mike peterson, what [ music ] boy are we the clouds this morning. We dont get to see the supermoon. But some folks did see it just after sunset last night. So it was neat to see, skies were clear tonight and we will see it again early tomorrow morning if you are up as the skies clear out and you probably wont notice a big know that the moon is closer than it will be for another three decades. We get another supermoon next month. If you are totally dying to see it we may get to see it one month now. A look at the radar picture some rain, very light and patchy but we are seeing some in spots, that band just rolled across raleigh impacting the airport impacting Holly Springs getting ready to come ro minutes and you will see the rain. Some rain in hillsboro and chapel hill moving north and westward into person county. Littleton, Roanoke Rapids, over toward henderson and oxford really patchy light rain sensing for sanford toward Southern Pines patchy and light , a look at the big view starting off at 4 15 most of the steady rain is toward the wrapping around filling in a little bit with additional showers. When we are all said and done the amounts wont be heavy but i want to thank a viewer who roped in and said they had over one inch of rain, we are not seeing that in most places however. It will make for some messy travel in a few spaces but not overall. 47 at the airport with rain falling. 40 the dewpoint range from 45 in roxboro to 48 in Rocky Mountain. 51 in goldsboro. While that is so much warmer than yesterday 10 to 12 to 17 degrees warmer it feels chilly with temperatures in the low to mid 40s and rain falling or damp conditions it does feel chilly so make sure everybody has their coat on this morning, in some spots you will need raingear. A lowpressure system north of toward North Carolina, not where we need it the most which is in the mountains. They are desperate for rain with extreme drought in the mountains and all of the wildfires they will not see any of this, we have showers on and off through lunchtime and then it starts to fizzle back to an isolated sprinkle or two and the skies clear bringing us to 5 00 am. 7 00 ama little bit of fog due to the damp conditions. A Beautiful Day tuesday with temperatures. 51 today, 65 tuesday, 67 wednesday and check out friday 70 degrees beautiful, a nice week in store. Football friday into the playoffs 7 00, 60 degrees and 10 00 53. Nice weather for the Raleigh Christmas parade, a high saturday of 67, the parade begins at 10 00 am temperature likely to be 56 finishing a little cooler on sunday back down to a high of 53. The Prime Minister of new zealand took a helicopter tour of damage caused by the earthquake. At least two people reported dead after the earthquake hit a south island. Roads also cracked, the countrys military is sending helicopters and a navy ship to rescue taurus and residents that were stranded after a powerful earthquake today cut off train and vehicle access. A lantern memorial marking one year since the deadly attacks in paris. They replaced in a canal close to many of the bars and cafis targeted in the attacks leaving 130 people that. People rote personal messages on the lanterns, proceeds go to the victims associations. Troops have driven islamic just south of mosul near the site of famed ancient syrian ruins that were destroyed by the extremist. This special forces battled militants in mosul itself where they struggle to advance against waves of suicide car bombs. The special forces hold a handful of districts on the citys eastern edge. South of baghdad a Suicide Attack killed at least six civilians. Blowing himself up Iraqi Government says six bombers try to enter the city, security courses forces killed five of them. A wave of attacks killed at least 23 people yesterday. Swedish authorities are said to interview Julian Assange over Sexual Assault allegations. The interview will take place in the Ecuador Embassy in london today. A prosecutor from ecuador will conduct the interview. A Swedish Police officer will be present. Assange denies the allegation and has been requesting an interview, he sought refuge in june 2012 and was later granted asylum. The navy looking for a Cost Effective alternative to the pricey ammunition used on its new self stealth destroyer. The rocket powered projectiles cost about 800,000 a piece making them too expensive for the navy to purchase in large quantities. They need 600. The defense contractors and say the costs are up because fewer ships needing the ammunition are being made. Changing weather conditions could help the fight against several wildfires burning in the western part of the state. We will tell you about the experimental drug being used to keep addicts from relaxing when well when i shop, my coupons are in a neat little stack, and my weekly ad is folded like this. Ready to go. Thats how i save a lot at publix. How bout you . I dont clip, i dont plan, but i still save a lot. I just shop for publix brand products, cuz theyre great. And thats it. No really, thats it. Thats how i save at publix. How bout you . The time 8 26. Lets get straight to Brian Shrader roads are slow this morning. Largely because they are getting pretty wet because of light rain moving through some areas leaving the roads in some spots with standing water. One of our twitter followers saw some on i40. Heres a look at harrison avenue the pavement is wet, headlines headlights reflecting. Raining it could come down at a moderate pace this morning, enough to get the roads wet especially over raleigh. Not so much endure him in durham. About to see rain in durham look at the radar picture starting with the wide view most of the rain raleigh north and westward wrapping around this low on the course coast. You can see the rain about to push in from the east, we have had rain in hillsboro, north and west and some rain here the virginia line. Looking at temperatures definitely looking a little bit on the chilly side temperatures for the most part in the 60s, or excuse me in the 40s and then a high this afternoon in the low 50s and 60s tuesday and wednesday. The case against army Sergeant Bowe bergdahl is bergdahl accused of deserting his post in afghanistan before being captured by the taliban. There is a hearing on legal motions ahead of his february trial. 15 wildfires burning in North Carolina. 18 from florida taking command and a team from arizona on the focused on people and community for 60 years, we promise a relentless pursuit of peterson will be back in court today. Seeking to get his case dismissed, more than one decade after being convicted of murdering his wife. Wiggle live to durham to bring us up to speed. Reporter this murder case has gained a lot of attention over the years, there is even a lifetime movie about it. But today Mark Peterson will be in court and he wants the case dismissed. His wife was found dead in december 2001, her body was at the bottom of the staircase in their mansion in Durham Mike Peterson was convicted of first degree murder sentenced to life in prison. He was released in december 2011 after the judge learned a key witness lied on the stand. He has been a free man since. s attorney said the pieces were not properly stored. The hearing will start at 10 00 am. Julia simms will be in the courtroom. Governor mccrory will be in Western North carolina today where crews are fighting more than a dozen wildfires, 15 fires are burning involving more than 40,000 acres, the largest covering 21 square miles. This morning. A 10 mile section of us 1974 in the gorge is closed, higher humidity is helping crews fight and contain the fires. Teams from florida and arizona will be in the state to help. Mccrory will have a command center News Conference at 9 30. A state of emergency in effect in tennessee were 58 active wildfires have burned more than 12,000 acres. The majority of the fires are suspected arson. A man arrested in a shooting will be in court today, lee harris charged with possession of a firearm by a felon and assault with a deadly weapon. Harris was visiting his girlfriend saturday when the father of the womans children came to the door. The father cut power to the home and started banging on the door, harris opened the door and rogers was taken to the hospital, investigators are working to determine why he went to the home. A raleigh Police Officer is okay after being assaulted during a foot chase. Police say the officer was hit on the head with a flashlight. No word on what started the chase. The suspect is facing assault charges. Prisons are experimenting with a highpriced monthly injection to help addicted states have received federal grants to test the drug. Inmates being released into post supervision will be injected with the drug, those on probation will also get the drug. The drug targets receptors in the brain gradually extinguishing the urge to use heroin or other opioids but skeptics questioned