Complain about. Always. Yes, we could use more rain but we are happy to have what we have, they will make for a cool and drizzly type date especially until lunchtime after lunchtime are chances are certainly better this morning. The bulk of the ring is toward the coast, more steady showers across parts of halifax and Northampton County everybody else pretty light and patchy there is a little tiny hole in the clouds there, dont expect much of that, skies clear tonight with sunshine tomorrow. We have white roads in places. Showers coming through, none of this is heavy enough to create issues for your commute but it does feel chilly. For a six term, 46 holly springs. These temperatures are much chilly. 47 in fayetteville. Temperatures likely in the mid 40s this morning warming up to the upper 40s by lunchtime and low 50s this afternoon. Ryan is here talking about how this is impacting the roads. We dont need ring to have problems on the road and we have an accident in apex us 1 northbound the left lane you can see the overturned vehicle with a tow truck out there, police are on the scene also the dot trucks squeezing traffic into the right lane seeing a bit of a backup from the toll road on us 55 northbound through apex give yourself a few extra minutes. As soon as you get beyond the accident moved toward us 20 minutes through garner, 22 after the beltline split, just beyond the fortified works zone taking about 11 minutes, from wade avenue two 540 a five minute ride toward the airport, around the triangle pretty quiet overall, an accident near the airport a minor crash at florida place, no trouble 540. Durkheim looks good between downtown and i40 and 40 itself from chapel hill taking only five or six minutes from 54 to the freeway. Pretrial hearings continue for Army Sergeant accused of deserting his post in afghanistan. Legal live to fort bragg this morning. Hearings have been focused on what information is defense team will have access to during the trial. The defense you months the court to reconsider whether or not the decision to bring the sergeant to trial was improperly influenced. The Senate Armed Forces committee would hear hold a hearing if he was not punish. A judge heard a motion to dismiss the case in august. Is facing disappearing from his base in afghanistan of june 2009. He was captured and held in captivity by the taliban until a Prisoner Exchange in may 2014. There might be another factor in play now that we know donald trump will be the next president. Last year trump called bergdahl a no good traitor who should have been executed. Bergdahl could face the rest of his life in prison but many say that is unlikely. Mikaya thurmond live from fort bragg. Leaders will meet today to discuss this the results of the election. The trim Transition Team announced Reince Priebus will serve as chief of staff and conservative n steve bannon will become the chief strategist. They will both have big roles in the administration. As well as they should. In an interview with 60 minutes trump admits he wont completely replace obamacare. Are you going to make sure people with preconditioned are still covered . Yes, that happens to be a strong asset also People Living part of the 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 becomes the very thing they are protesting against many turning to hateful speech, violating principles and ideals that are sacred. Washington. A possible contender for chairman of the dnc could emerge today, Keith Ellison of minnesota says he will make a decision about if he will try for a job. Harry reid put support behind ellison yesterday, prior to that Chuck Schumer endorsed ellison, he also received approval from Bernie Sanders and elizabeth warren. Until friday to finalize results from the election tuesday including counting the provisional absentee ballots. Attorney general roy cooper and incumbent pat mccrory are separated by fewer than 5000 votes, mccrory is calling for all ballots to be counted. County commissioners meeting to go over several major issues, one of them taking the next steps after the transit passed. Lets go to the newsroom with more. Voters approved the referendum to raise the sales tax to pay for a 2. 3 billion plan that has three main parts, expanded service to connect every municipality, a Transit System that gives frequent service to high traffic corridors including a Commuter Rail line through the county. They pointed to the population showing Raleigh Durham damn and the surrounding area growing by 63 people per day. Organizations opposed the tax increase and the transit time, they said it could be used overused out priced and outdated by the time it is complete. Commissioners have a list of things they need to do the ball rolling which is what they will be talking about today. All right, renee chou think you. Aftershocks are rocking new zealand. The latest reports after a massive 7. 8 magnitude earthquake. The battle for mosul is more than one wont wral news on fox 50 is back with bill leslie and lena tillett. President obama departs for his last major trip abroad. A grand farewell tour to Greece Germany and peru but the president expects questions about the outcome of the us election, Donald Trumps win triggering uncertainty around the world. Athens is the first stop it will give a speech about democracy and globalization, he will then meet with germans attended grand chancellor. Decisions that trump makes as president benefit him or his family financially, trump has a direct stake in more than 500 companies according to his disclosures with election officials, trump families control the companies it could be handed over to an independent trustee. It is unrealistic to say youre going to take the business away from the three people who are running it and give it to an independent person the government because of the Government Role against nepotism. So you would be putting them out of work. Trumps three Adult Children were not able to advise trump when he becomes president. The newest fleet of stealth destroyers could be shooting blanks. The problem with the new ammunition and why it is so costly. Back to court for durham another unique sound. A lot of unique sound coming there, this is the only day we will likely be cloudy and this cool, not that we will have a heatwave but temperatures will be close to normal for the rest of the week, some rain out there with the radar picture 3 15 this morning we had more rain than than we do now. A lot of the steadier rain is confined to the coast, we have patchy light rain across some places, other places not seeing much at from the triangle area north and west around roxborough we have this band moving into virginia. Roanoke rapids and east we are seeing some showers but the book of us not seeing rain at this point, we do have potential for light patchy rain throughout lunchtime and after that even that chance begins to drop off. Not a lot of rain but happy to see what we have. 1 inches in raleigh. We will take what we can get. The roads are little wet in Virginia South hill, this is what we will see for the bulk of the day today, 46 the current temperature, east wind seven Miles Per Hour the dewpoint at 41. Even though the temperatures are not that cold it is so damp that it feels chilly. We got really cold yesterday in the morning we were in the low temperatures like that today or for the rest of the week 45 roxboro and Roanoke Rapids, town by town 46 smithville, 47 fayetteville, 45 Southern Pines. We have a lowpressure system sitting just north of wilmington on its way up the coast and the north and northeast, we continue to have some stray showers on the patchy showers through lunchtime into the afternoon. It is not going to be much more in the rain gauges it will just be drizzly. Unfortunately for the folks in the mountains they are not seen any rain either, the humidity that has come with the system being close by has helped them fight the fire but they are not seeing this rate and even that would help them out. Overnight we clear sunshine tuesday wednesday thursday friday, a front saturday it looks like it will be dry. No real relief folks in the mountains. A high of 51 this afternoon, our best chance of rain is between now and lunchtime, 45 to 60 by the evening commute back to 15 to 20 . So chances go down through the date but we do not eliminate them completely. And then we are pleasant, mid 60s tuesday wednesday thursday, friday jumping up to 70. To mid 40s through saturday. Nothing terribly cold for this time of year, close to normal and then we are excited about the Raleigh Christmas parade start Time Temperature 56 degrees. Prayed finishes around noon at 62 degrees. It will feel pretty nice and then we will turn colder sunday behind the dry front. We are following this accident on us 1, looks like it is causing issues. It in apex at the highway 55 interchange, it is 7 19 so we can see we have a truck in the median, it was overturned now they are loading it onto the tow truck hopefully this will get cleared up shortly. You can see the dot truck and apex Police Seeing some delays a little bit of a delay coming from and see for 540. And try on road looking pretty good. Raleigh police just cleared the scene of what appears to be a minor crash or a stalled vehicle on the right shoulder of the 440 westbound this is between six forks road and glenwood avenue, no flashing lights but try to move over to the center and left lanes. Building delays through garner on 40 westbound taking minutes getting from 42 to the beltline split. Looking good to the fortify works on, look out for the crash at the 55 bypass in holly springs. An accident on the west side of raleigh, looking at the sensors east and westbound i40 looking pretty good. The Prime Minister of new zealand took a helicopter tour of damage caused by a 7. 8 aftershocks triggered landslides and a small tsunami, the military sent helicopters and a navy ship to rescue tourists and residents that were stranded after a powerful earthquake earlier today cut off train and vehicle access. One year since the deadly terrorist attacks in paris, lights were placed in the canal to honor is close to many of the bars and cafis targeted in the attacks that killed 130 people. People broke personal messages on the lanterns, proceeds of the sales go to the victims association. Troops have driven Islamic State militants out of a site just south of mosul. Iraqi special forces battle militants in the city of mosul advance against waves of suicide car bombs. Troops are converging from several fronts on mosul. There are a handful of districts being held on the eastern edge of the city, south of baghdad a Suicide Attack killed at least six civilians. A suicide bomber blew himself up. Six bombers tried to enter the city, security enforcers killed five of them. The sixth broke into a house where he detonated his vast. A wave of attacks killed at least 23 people. Swedish authorities are said to investigate Julian Assange over Sexual Assault allegations. The interview will take place inside of the Ecuador Embassy in london today. And ecuadorian prosecutor will conduct the interview. Sweden says two representatives from its Prosecutors Office along with a Swedish Police official will be there. Assange denies the allegation he sought refuge in june if 2012 and was later granted asylum. The navy is looking for a costeffective alternative to the pricey in ammunition used on its self destroyer projectiles. They cost about 800,000 apiece making them too expensive for the navy to purchase in large quantities. They need 600. Costs are up because fewer ships need the ammunition are being made. 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Im bill leslie, the case against Army SergeantBowe Bergdahl is back in court today, bergdahl accused of deserting his post in afghanistan before being captured by the taliban. He was freed in 2014, there is a hearing on legal motions ahead of the trial in february. 15 wildfires burning in North Carolina mostly out west, a team from florida will take its way to help another one. There will be an update from the command center at the lake more from the governor. We are on the human side but no rain unfortunately, we continue to get the ring here but they have been moisture starved to the west, a band of rain starting to increase it could spread westward along the virginia line, this tiny band coming through wake county producing a little this is right outside of our tv studios, we have some patchy light rain. You will run into that this morning, when chilled wipers running in spots but not everybody will see very much rain. 45 roxboro, 47 rocky mountain. It feels chilly because it is damp, 51 today back to sunshine tuesday and wednesday with highs in the 60s. Lets take a look at apex from the median and we had the left lane blocked coming from the new hill area and nc 540. You need to scoot over to the right lane, you will run into a backup as they get that cleared up, we are seeing some light rainfall here and there including wet roads in order to county, this is 85 at 40 in hillsboro give yourself a few extra minutes. Mike peterson returns to focused on people and community for 60 years, we promise a relentless pursuit of morning news on fox 50 it is 7 30, Mike Peterson is back in court today. He is seeking to get his case dismissed more than one decade after he was convicted of murdering his wife in 2001. Weigle live to durham with more. This is a widely known murder case one that there is a lifetime will be about, we know Mike Peterson is ready to put this to the past but it is not over yet, here in court, they will try to have the case dismissed. Kathleen peterson his wife was found dead in december 2001, her body was found at the bottom of the staircase in their mansion in durham convicted of firstdegree murder and sentenced to life in prison but he was later released in december 2011 after the judge learned a key witness lied on the stand. He has been a free man since. Back in august questions trial. The pieces were not properly stored and could have been contaminated. The hearing will start at 10 00 am. Julia sims has been following this since the beginning. She will be back with more. Governor mccrory in western North Carolina where crews are fighting more than a dozen wildfires, 15 are burning involving more than 40,000 acres, the largest fire covers 21 square miles this morning. A 10 mile section of us 1974 in the gorge is closed at this time, higher humidity has helped crews fight the fires. Teams will be in the state today to help, mccrory will be in Rutherford County at a command center at 9 30. State of emergency in 12,000 acres. A burn ban across nine counties. The majority of the fires are suspected arsons but no arrests have been made. A man arrested from a shooting in night it will be in court, lee harris charged with possession of a firearm as a felon. 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 door. Harris opened the door and shot rogers. Rogers was taken to the hospital, investigators are working to determine why rogers went to the home. A Raleigh Police officer doing okay after being assaulted during a foot chase at the walmart at 5 00 pm. The officer was hit in the head with a flashlight. The suspect is now facing assault charges. Prisons are monthly injection to help addicted inmates stay off opioids after they are released. Eight states have received grants to try the drug. Inmates will be injected with the drug, those who are on probation and live in selected communities will also get the drug. It targets receptors in the brain reward system blocking the height and gradually extinguishing the urge to use heroin or other opioids. Picture your teenage son getting questionable Text Messages from his teacher. This mother contacted us when she found months of text between her son and his teacher. We found the teacher is still teaching and they take the issue all the way to the top for answers. We investigate tonight at 6 00. It is quite chilly today. It is that moist chill that it is not nearly as cold as it was yesterday when we saw temperatures in the low to mid 20s, definitely the coldest this season. 46 invention, 47 rocky mountain. When i stepped outside even in a nice coat it felt chilly because of the dampness. 50 degrees in clinton, 45 roxboro, 45 in gardner. Are temperatures wont warm up much because of the cloud co the moisture inland. At lunchtime in garner mid 50s we will hold there through the a