Mail, pushing the boards of elections across the state to close polling places on sundays and eliminate the sites on college campuses. The email causing quite a buzz in political circles. It could be applied to the finish. Each side jockeying to the respective parties for a solid showing. Wral obtained copy of the e mail the state Department Director officials about eliminates early voting hours. In it he says republicans should fight to pro most safe and secure voting and for rules that are fair to our side. He made the point democrats are mobilelizing for a fight over early voting lowingcasions at times and filling up election board meetings and de locations at times and filling up election board meetings and demanding it. Republican members should feel empowered to make the plans republicans. Now, hall, the democracy rc called the email irresponsible. In a statement he says Many RepublicanBoard Members have more allegiance to the oath than the directives of woodhouse. He defended his writing. Board members are an independent body and we have a right to lobby them as much as anybody else for republican positions. Hall with democracy mc making the voting plans could help republicans this election cycle as they did back in 2010 when the biggest users of early voting were white republican men. Now, to read the entire text of the email Dallas Woodhouse sent to boards of e elections across the state go to our web site wral. Com and click on this story. Ken smith, live in raleigh, months away from the november election. Jill stein and her running make took part in a live hall event. In the latest poll, she was at 5 support nationwide. Donald trump is making more changes to his campaign staff. Today he named steven banon as his chief executive officer. He also promoted conway from polester to campaign manager. Emphasize his outsider status instead of moving towards the more traditional republican base. Trump did not have Public Events today he met with his National Security advisories if new york. The gathering was billed as a discussion of tactics to defeat terrorism. Tomorrow, trump will bring his message to voters. He will hold a rally at the Charlotte Convention center at 7 30. Ken smith will cover the event and have live reports beginning of her day in cleveland talking to voters. She hosted what was dubbed her tax fairness event. Clinton said trumps decision to shake up the staff will have little impact on his message. In ohio she toured a high school. Rain and floodwaters devastated areas of louisiana over the past several days. Aid and relief is on the way thanks to agencies like red cross and National Guard. Wral candace sweat tells us about a handful of local Business Owners who stepped up and helped and why it and dear to them. One of a handful of local establishments collecting donations to send to louisiana. These items will ship off on saturday with another local Business Owner who calls himself a native son of louisiana. Chad mcentire says the reason he wants to help is simple. Baton rouge is hardest hit area. East of baton rouge. He knows how vital they are to he still has family giving him eyewitness accounts. My mom live miss in watson right now. My inlaws live in baton rouge close to the central line so everybody was affected. He teamed up with other local Business Owners, restaurants, breweries to create a donation drive. Drew shank is part of the sports grill. One of many helping. Sometimes there are ways to help that are out of reach. Not everyone can get and build schools but just about everybody can get toilet paper or some toothpaste. Reporter the primary goal for making the nearly 1,000 mile drive is to help with cleanup and recovery. Trash bags, mask, disinfect ant products are important. I am from West Virginia originally. I used to be in the National Guard there. I worked the flood duty. Floods are horrible. Obviously you lose your property, everything is dirty and everything is wet. What is right. Beyond anything of just self serving feeling of like i did good. Pat on my back. It is what you do. It is what defines us as humans. Reporter he will leave for louisiana around 1 00 p. M. On saturday. Donations can be made up until close to that point. He is as he simply is agency to get his boots on the ground and in raleigh, candace sweat, wral. For a list of participating businesses go to wral. Com and click on this story. We are following news. A shooting at a party sent a woman to the hospital. This happened at a home on nugget court just before eight time time 30. She was take tone cape fear medical center. The police are not releasing her name. For overnight developings go to our web site. A mother and three kids found dead. Charged of murdering the 32 yearold woman and facing charges for killing her three children ages 6, 7, 11. The police found the bodies in the familys apartment on tuesday night. The family was concerned about comments he made about his childrens welfare. Officers went by the apartment on monday night after howards employer saying she had not shown up for work. The Police Officers did not find her or her car so they left and cleared the case. Whe point she is in harm. We dont have a history of Domestic Violence at the home or anything. Any red flags that are coming up to us that would require us to, you know, force entry into the home and take it a step farther. The police were called to the home in july after reports of an attempted sued. He was evaluated. There was no indication he was a danger to the mother or to the children. A teenager is accused of trying to help isis recruit in North Carolina. To get an undercover Law Enforcement agent to join the group. The paperwork says he urged the officer to remain in the u. S. And pledge support to avoid being arrested for traveling abroad. Breaking news in rio. The United States olympic committeey says american swimmers were removed from their flight to the United States by brazilian authorities. We are working to get more information from the situation and we will update you as we get more information. Coming up in the next we will look into that investigation into if ryan lochte and other swimmers filed a false crime report when they reported being robbed at gunpoint. A tech layoff. Cisco is laying off employees they employ 5,000 people, 350 positions could be cut by the end of the year. It is a win for minor fayetteville. Officials of the Houston Astros made intentions to bring a team to the city official. They passed a memorandum of understanding tonight. The big question now remains how to pay for a new stadium. A stadium that existed in renderings in the Digital World was a step closer to the real world. The City Council Approved a memorandum of Houston Astros, saying both sides went to bring a Minor League Baseball team to the city. This is about economic development. It is about a growth of our downtown and our city. Estimates show baseball will bring around 60 million in investment to the downtown area and under the agreement, the new team would be longterm fayetteville residents. A Minor League Team for 30 years. Reporter this is where they could be playing ball in the city of fayetteville. Making this field of dreams a reality takes money. That part out yet. We got to make sure we can pay for it and do it in a responsible way. The stadium will cost as much as 35 million. All options are on the table to play for it they have no plans for a tax increase. We want to look how we can do it and not do it with a tax increase. Reporter it allows the city and the haouft an astros and the Houston Astros to do the real work. Look at development and finance. It is an exciting day for fayetteville. The new team could come as early as next year. They would play in a temporary home until the stadium is complete in 2019. Look for the finer details of the agreement on our web site. People trying to escape a wildfire. Even a news crew that got too enferno blazing outside of california. Claims that ryan lochte and other swimmers being robbed. 99 in fayetteville. High pressure cooking us for the last several days breaks down tonight. The two changes you will see in on powerball gets wait, lucky for life is free with powerball . Boom sign me up. 1,000 a day for life . Thats my game. Cause im gonna be around for awhile. I dont even get sick. Veteran firefighters in california say they never seen a wildfire with such intensity. Thousands are forced to leave their homes as flames rage out of control. Officials dont know how many homes were destroyed but the number w in my 40 years of fighting fire i never seen fire behavior so extreme. Extreme and uncontrolled. A roaring fire is burning everything in its path. Weather and dry brush only help the fire spread. It is challenging when we are up against a fire burning aggressively. We are struggling to keep up with it. The bluecut fire is 70 miles east of los angeles. You can see the flames light up the night sky in this time with these the rate of spread we have seen if we ask you to leave you have to leave. Reporter the fire started around 10 30 on tuesday morning. Engulfing mountains in plumes of smoke. Crews say the explosive and fastmoving flames make fighting this kind of fire dangerous. We are seeing the fires are burning really unprecedented fashion. It is to the point where explosive fire growth is the new normal this year. That is a challenge for all of us to take. That fire covers 28 square miles threatening more than 34,000 homes. The crews warned 82,000 people who live in San Bernardino county to evacuate the fast moving fire. Millions of dollars will develop affordable apartments. It will build the money in 37 development is expected to create more than 13,000 jobs. Plans were approved by the North Carolina federal tax reform allocation committee. Students return to School Monday august 29th. This year it will cost more to buy lunch at school. Lunch will be 2. 85. It will cover costs associated with the new federal guidelines requiring fr vegetables and grains. Now looking at olympic medals, u. S. In lead with 89. Debra morgan is in rio and will join us following the olympic coverage on wral. Well, we saw showers moving through the area earlier this evening and they are all gone now, right . Yes, they died down but we will see a repeat tomorrow. Couple of days through the weekend. High pressure moving out. Allowing showers and storms to form more easily. Lets take a look at what is ahead. We do see the radar view out there. A all is quiet. So, we will just bipass that and look at what is ahead. High pressure leaves, the Storm Chances will be rising in the coming days. Also we have a Tropical Storm it is upgraded to fiona earlier this afternoon. Could be more storms coming in off of africa. There is a whole slew of them farther in the interior of africa. The waves, they will emerge from the coastal area. Moving into the waters of the at hrapbtic in the coming days. Seeing more tropical systems coming up. Could we be looking at a break from the heat . There is a really strong cold front that will bring cooler less humid area that moves by early on monday. It could bring in highs in the 80s and lows in the 60s by next tuesday anded with. We will see that coming up. Doing well. Bees are sitting on the porch of all of the hives, you expect them there in august. Official high, 80, official low 71. Numbers cloes to close to home. 80 here at wral. Town by town, showers, dying down, we dont expect rain throughout the night. Showers and thunderstorms, evolving throughout the day. A lot of left over cloud cover. Expanding the view and the High Pressure upon us. It is breaking down and it will not be presence tomorrow. We talked about it last night. The character of the atmosphere. The air lost it is dry. Warm, hard. Now, in the coming days the air lost will be cooler and moist and the thunderstorms could develop more in that kind of development. Not much of a trigger but for the heating of the day. A surtpas trough set up in central North Carolina that could be a trigtory develop the storms. Partly cloudy to trigger to develop the storms. Partly cloudy day. The week is chugging along quickly. Future cast suggests primarily south and east of the fayetteville and raleigh area is where the shower thunderstorm storms will develop. Suggesting in the triangle a 40 50 chance of showers and thunderstorms tomorrow. So, yoma just in case the storms come on by. Overnight, lower to middle 70s. The same drill tomorrow morning. Muggy. Partly cloudy, love to see the trend come to an end. Perhaps not until next week. 89 at lunchtime. Partly cloudy skies, lower to middle 90s. Now, speaking of rainfall probabilities. Lets check them out for the chance heading into the afternoon. So, potential then more of us will see thunderstorms, not everybody saw them today. A few widely scattered ones across the triangle and to the north and east and more widespread north and west. Friday, high of 92. And the rainfall probability still descent. 50 50 shot going through the afternoon there. Then, on saturday, still descent shot with rainfall probabilities about the 3040 range. Each afternoon, tomorrow, friday, saturday, sunday, we have the opportunity coming days dictated how quickly they can develop. Early enough, maybe having a hard time to get into the 90s. There is your monday, tuesday, wednesday forecast. Highs in the 80s. Perhaps middle 80s tuesday and wednesday. Lower 60s. Down to 60, that is an indication that the air is drier. A that would feel more comfortable. I just count the days. I can not imagine what it feels like anymore. I know, i forget. Yes. Yes. Balmy. Yes. Yes. Nasty. Yes. Tropical out there. Yes. A gym owner hopes to turn kids with autism into super heros. How soon she hopes to help those children and her inspiration to help as many as possible. Next in sports, coach k. Talks about team auss win. 2 golfers who are just back . . Hey, is this our turn . Honey. Our turn . Yeah, we go left right here. woman vo Great Adventures are still out there. Well find them in our subaru outback. avo love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. Get zero percent on select subaru models during the subaru a lot to love event, now through august thirtyfirst. . . From the mountains. To the beaches. North carolina is possessed of spectacular natural beauty. [ sea gulls crying ] [ man vocalizing ] run . . . I dont feel like im falling . . Im up against the sky . . I said id taken it all in . . And i dont feel like im falling . . Im up against the sky . Its ours to preserve. Because were only borrowing it from our children. U. S. Mens Basketball Team is heading to the semifinals after three close games. This did not make anyone sweat. Team usa wins 10578. They got off to a slow start. Down by 10 and then used a 272 run to end the first half. That will do it. Put this one away early. Kevin durant scored 27. The team gets ready for a game friday night with spain. I think we are evolving, you know, the 3 games, the last three games in full play. They were very beneficial to us. We played 3 outstanding teams and it showed some weaknesses that we have and we try to get better. The only way you get better is by playing the tough games. Many u. S. Golfers declined the chance to go to rio for the first golf competition in more in greensboro it had week for the championship. 100 years. 2 golfers that did are back in greensboro for a week of championship. Once you are on sight and see all of the rings everywhere it puts chills down your back thinking one, i am an olympian and two, we are here. Reporter all of the Horror Stories in perspective nightmares they have been you felt safe. A huge key for a lot of the guys. You know, the security and when i heard about zika everyone is going to worry about diseases and anything like that. Dinot see a single mosquito all week. Reporter his moment came at 1 spot he tries to avoid on the course. The water. Time spent at the u. S. Swim teams warm up pool. We start to walk out and you start to hear the cowbell ring and chanting usa. It back. It was a cool moment. I could of gone and swam a 100 meter and done pretty good at that point. Reporter the only thing he would of changed was the format. Make it more like the ryder cup. Where a countrys success is just as important as the individuals. Back to you. Friday say big day as High School Football begins. The first week the 36 season of football friday. This week it will be shortened as part of the newscast on back to normal at 11 45 thanks week. You know it is almost football season when they make the annual appearance at the raleigh sports club. The head coach answered a bunch of questions as he always does today. The biggest one, who is going to play quarterback for the pack in 2016. The positive part of this conversation is that we like both of them. That is the positive thing. We just have not had one kid out play the other kid for it is like he will have a good day and then he has a good day. It is a good problem. In other words he is undecided. Yes. A very safe answer. Yes, very safe. [ laughter ] still to come, a Wake County School that hopes to get more kids involved in sports at an earlier age. Doing so could develop better athletes. Leaders from the school share their plan, just ahead. Why there are more questions than asks when it comes to ryan lochtes claim that he and a at gunpoint. The odd burglary that they investigators are one step closer to finding a pair of twins that disappeared outside of pittsburgh more than 10 years ago and their mother is under arrest tonight. She initially told the police she sold her children but later retracted her story. The investigators do not believe the children he h