And elizabeth. The whole gang and it will be a Beautiful Day, too. It is, the helicopter flying by here with the raleigh skycam and patching fog looking east across the skyline of raleigh. We havent seen much of it on the camera, but a few pockets out there. Cold out there. 37 in durham and 36 in cary. And 32 in roxboro and south hill in Southern Pines and fayetteville and rocky mount and wilson. Temperatures will climb into the mid40s quickly in the next hour or so. 67 the high this afternoon, and a nice afternoon. Temperatures climbing into the 70s. Brian has a look at the roads. It gets busier in the 7 00 hour. Accident in garner on 40 westbound at 7 02. And this is i40 from jones sausage road, and this is westbound traffic from business 70. We have an accident blocking the right lane. So traffic is squeezing by in the two left lanes and is really getting things backed up. The latest sensor reading shows a 37minute ride from 42 to 440. Consider alternate routes. 50 . Oash backing 42 to business 70. And if you are trying to get on to i 40 westbound from the raleigh area make from rock quarry or hammond road youre in good shape because the traffic is backed up. The Traffic Volume to the south side of raleigh to the west side is looking pretty light at this point. We have a crash on airport picking up significant southbound delays as we leave the airport heading to the i40 interchange. Well let you know how its shaping up in durham, the routes looking fine. Air quality alerts have been extended because of dozens of wildfires. Firefighters made progress yesterday thanks to cooler weather but the situation is still critical. It wrals renee renee . Reporter lena and bill, this is due to the Party Rock Fire that burned tens of thousands of acres. A 5man team went out to Western North carolina to spend a week in lake lure. Officialssay ground level shock will remain a concern, and the fires have burned more than 40,000 acres in the state alone with fires in georgia, south carolina, and tennessee. When you factor in those states, more than 80,000 acres have burned. Arson is suspected in many of the fires. Renee, thank you. President obama is spending his final days in greece, touring famous monuments like the acropolis marching in athens to protest his visit saying they are dissatisfied with the u. S. Foreign policy with greece. President elect trump took to twitter to dispute rumors that his Transition Team is in turmoil. Have a good meal. Reporter president elect donald trump dining out in new york after his first perfect he knows the finalists for his cabinet. But insiders describe turmoil. Governor christie and his team moving out and trump is moving in and trying to figure out who he he want at his side. Reporter his soninlaw will be influenced with security clearance and Vice President to be mike pence is in charge n washington today, he had lunch with vice Leadership Team is unified and this entire House Republican conference is unified. We are so eager to get to work with our new president elect. Reporter republicans in congress elect new leaders. House democrats took their elections with nancy pelosi expecting to face a challenge. We need to move forward. Reporter the country is tracie potts, nbc news, washington. The race for North Carolina governor is undecided with pat mccrory challenging several hundred ballots. There is an investigation for alleged irregularities from the general election. It will be a few more weeks before student assignments are taken up. Some students elementary could be moved to fill horton creek elementary. Parents are upset saying that it would split their community and that horton creek would become over crowded itself. They want to look at the numbers one more time before making a decision. And raleigh city the leaders want to hear your thoughts on the issues facing the city. They will cover everything affordable housing. Mikaya thurmond has more from outside where it will take place. Reporter good morning. The goal is simple, to bring together residents to talk about the issues they have to face in every day life. The city talks will be Group Conversations including Community Policing, race relations, education, and affordable housing. The museum will be at the Millbrook ExchangeCommunity Center offspring forest road. Its happening from 6 30 to 8 30 p. M. The first city wide sessions will be followed by five district wide sessions and cover each of the districts represented at city council. While they have not been scheduled, we will let you know when they happen. Bill and lena . A in order august. The suspect told the dispatcher that he was, quote, locked and loaded and intending to secure his neighborhood. After the shoot shooting, he said he believed that people outside had guns. Police had no evidence that the victim was armed. Newly released search warrants show that at facebook video posted by someone who claims it shows what happened and that it was a murder. And a disturbing tweet saying the official twitter of continue to show support for the football team. But thats not the disturbing tweet. It came overnight that read dont forget to wear white tomorrow to show your support for whitesupremacy, trump2016. This has since been deleted. A plan to help the home unless raleigh is how the proposal will provide a 1stop center for those who need it. And a continued protest for the Dakota Access pipeline. Are diewmg Energy Officials issued a warning on twitter about a recent scam. The official account post that does scammers are targeting customers by phone. A spokesperson tweeted last week alone, 178 customers received the scam calls. Than 8700. Duke energy reminds customers that utilities will never demand payment using a credit card over the phone. There is a proposal to help the homeless by creating a 1 stop Resource Center offering showers and laundry facilities. Threatened with arrests for feeding Homeless People in morris square. The commissioners will vote on the proposal in january. Dr. William brown died on monday. Dr. Brown was principal at several fayetteville schools in the 1960s. The burial will take place friday afternoon at cumberland memorial gardens. Dr. Brown was 87. A man is fighting for his life after being hit by a in fayetteville. Policesay the 45yearold was hit on owen drive near Village Drive at 6 45 last night. He is in Critical Condition at cape fear valley medical center. Now might be a very good time to visit our nations capitol. A look at the multimillion dollar renovations made to the dome. And complaints over ballots gene autry and why are we playing christmas mu thanksgiving . You have to explain yourself, bill. People will be upset with us. We have a parade on saturday. Trying to get in the mood. Getting our minds set. I mentioned on monday, its the Christmas Parade this weekend and its like this saturday . Already . Its that time. Always the saturday before thanksgiving. Always. Its a tradition. And durham has a new parade. They had a parade and then went just double the christmas. Exactly. This one and that one. Lots of fun holiday celebrations. Whats ahead for us . Its chilly. Temperatures are mainly in the 30s right now and the suns up, and in another hour, temperatures should climb into the 40s and then 60s for high this is highs this afternoon. We are watching the weekend front. Saturday for the Christmas Parade, nice and warm, and late satu and colder for sunday, monday, and tuesday and ill show you that coming up in the 7day forecast. What a beautiful shot in roxboro, just a band of cloud cover. The sun is popping up, creating pretty colors there. The reflection is on the bottom of the clouds, beautiful there in roxboro this morning. 35 is the temperature at the airport, so its cool out there, coat weather and the dew point, 35 and temperatures will probably not drop much more than they are right now. Goldsboro. 38 in Southern Pines and erwin and 39 in fayetteville. Its chilly out there and colder than it was yesterday in the eastern and southern parts of the viewing area where we had clouds yesterday and kept the temperatures warmer. Not so today. Be prepared. Where is this chilly air coming from . Its coming along the side of the High Pressure system with wind winds th clockwise. The afternoon, nice and mild with the sunshine. The backside of the high is where the warm air is, and well seal that friday and saturday with the temperatures 10 degrees above normal and watch this. The upper wind and temperature map and these white lines here, the winds typically follow. So the winds are coming out of the north and northwest with cooler temperatures. We take it into tomorrow and the High Pressure system builds over us and makes this ridge here and stops that flow of you can see that with the color contours. That will not last. Look at this huge dip or trough in the jet stream. That comes in late saturday and we are back into a northwesterly flow, cold on sunday and will stick around at least through monday into tuesday and temperatures will moderate a bit. 67 today and tomorrow and morning lows in the low to mid 40s, so warmer tomorrow morning and expect that through on this front to get its act together way back in the Pacific Northwest and by friday evening, the front pushes into the mountains. Youll see a bit of rain there. We dont see it until late on saturday, just a little bit, though. We wish for the mountains a good stretch but its not likely to be the case. We will see considerably colder air. 73 on saturday and, of course, warm. For the wral Christmas Parade, the start time is 61. So very warm and a chance of showers late saturday and cold air on monday and tuesday. I will be grabbed my coat on monday morning at 29 degrees. We have cold air next week. Heres a look at the roads. My goodness. What happened . Thats more than one spot in the red. We have an accident in garner ear at jones sausage road. That accident has cleared up. Thats the good news. The bad news is almost an hour drive time, still with the residual delays. All lanes are open around jones sausage road but backup is past 40 westbound and takes a long time to get the residual delays worked out. When you have an accident like this in the morning commute we to normal until 9 00, 9 30 so just the nature of the stretch of road through gasher with congestion and volume increasing in the 7 00 and 8 00 hours. I think thuy we will probably see delays through the commute. And clayton to hammond, 20 minutes, northbound, pretty bad up to business 70, 25 minutes. Be patient leaving garner into raleigh. Back to you. Family members of victims of the stanley hook shooting are appealing the dismissal of a lawsuit against a North Carolina gun maker. They want to hold remington a rummington bushmaster in the attack. The families claim that the gun maker and the wholesalers that sold his mother the weapon were negligent. The protests continue with the Company Building the 3 billion oil pipeline that wants to move ahead with a section of the project in north dakota. They have asked the court to let them lay reservoir. The sioux tribe says this will lead to water toxicity. A suspect shot and killed a southwest airline employee. The victim was the father of james winchester, the Kansas City Chiefs player. Backing out of plans to make cars in mexico, no longer in michigan. President elect trump has repeatedly criticized the decision. Fordsceostressed that no jobs will be lost since the michigan plant will make two other vehicles. Renovations for the u. S. Capitol dome are complete. The 60 million project took three years. It had not been restored the Dwight Eisenhower administration. It removed Hazardous Materials and used 1200 gallons of paint. 7 23. A handful of businesses supported by loyal customers very to find a new location. The issue that is forcing them to leave. And twitter is empowering users to fight cyberbullies. Week. Hey is this enough . There you go. Theres no more room. Oh look whos here i know i had one more. Hmmm. More. Hows it looking . 20 more minutes. 8, 9. We need 1 more yes. Lets enjoy. And she became friends with every animal she met. Its getting late, grandma should go. One more . In the end, all we really need more of, is each other. Happy thanksgiving from publix. Where shopping is a pleasure. . . . . . . La vie est belle. La vie est belle leau de parfum, lanc . Me. Good morning. 7 26. Im bill leslie with the top stories, and weve got traffic troubles, brian shrader. We do, bill, an earlier crash on westbound 40 at garner at jones sausage road. Its cleared up but with very heavy residual delays. You can see the clayton bypass crawling along out of raleigh. A 50 to 55minute trip between 42 and 440, just the nature of see the traffic patterns dropping any time soon. We have a number of minor crashes around the triangle, none of which are causing big problems but for the most part, traffic is moving along well. Back to you. Breaking news. Fire destroyed a double wide mobile home in selma off old county lane. Firefighterssay no one was hurt but obviously nothing much left of the house. No word on a Community Policing is expected to be one of the topics at a Community Conversation series in raleigh and starts tonight at millbrook communities exchange center. Mayor mcfarland wants to identify the challenges facing the city. No challenges in terms of the weather today, elizabeth. Its nice out there, and its chilly but thats all we is say today. Mount and 39 in fayetteville. So we dropped into the 30s almost everywhere except goldsboro at 31. The temperatures this afternoon respond nicely town sketch and 67 for tomorrow and friday, 73, as much as 10 degrees above normal. Back to you. Elizabeth, thank you. And in the next half hour, a meeting in Durham County that welcome back. The time is 7 30. The Durham County board of elections meets this morning to discuss the recount of tens of thousands of votes. The general counsel of the state Republican Party claims that the results from 94,000 ballots captain be trusted. Emmy victor is live in durham to bring us up to date. Emmy . Reporter bill and lena, we expect the conversation to kickoff in about 30 minutes or so. The durham board of elections will decide if a rediscounts necessary. The chairman of the board said that there is no reason right now as to why they need one. This is a conversation that was sparked last tuesday. Voting totals from five early voting sites and one election day precinct couldnt be read on a computer so the team printed off the results and entered them manually into the computer. The board is being challenged make or break in the race for governor between republican pat mccrory and roy cooper. Mccrory was leading throughout the night until the Election Results from Durham County came into play. Cooper leads by about 5000 votes and claims he will be the next governor of North Carolina. People have concerns why they have the meeting which will start in about 30 minutes. Emmy victor, that you were. And absentee ballots will be reviewed ahead of the friday deadline to be finalized. They will go over provisional ballots tomorrow. The Cumberland Disaster Recovery Coalition is a volunteer Longterm Recovery Group meant to keep victims top of mind and last night, they needs they are still seeing in local communities and for people who may need additional help. Homeowners say they are being booted out. Businesses said that they will not be renewing their leases saying they altogether. December 1 . Pretty upset about it. You know, nobody really knows where they are going. Several weeks ago, target announced plans to build a small store above the affected businesses. The whole hillsborough street area just continues to transformation. Certainly want the local businesses to stay. Part of the charm. Exactly. And target is not exactly local but popular, i guess. A Beautiful Day to go to target, elizabeth. Definitely beautiful for anything to do today. The raleigh skycam, hazy and looking past the buildings, we are seeing just a bit of patchy fog. We havent seen much of it so if you see it, its likely to be in small pockets. 33 in henderson and 38 in wilmington and 39 in wilson, a chilly start. The temperatures will warm up quickly with the sunshine. 62 at noon and upper 60s this afternoon and dropping into the upper 50s by the time the folks are headed home. At the bus stop, coat weather and temperatures in the 30s and then well warm into the mid 67 the High Temperature this afternoon, and well do better than that if you like the warm weather. Cloudy saturday and above normal and above normal for the end of the week and below normal for sunday and next week. Ill show you that coming up. Brians here with a look at traffic that you dont want to get messed up with. Exactly right. 7 34 and big backups through garner because of an earlier accident 40 westbound at jones sausage road. For a while, it looked right lane. The accident itself is clear but the residual delay linger. I40 at 42 and toward the clayton bypass you can see the stop and roll. Thats like that towards jones sauce annual road. The drive times, the 50 to 55 minute mark. Its a slow trip. We are in the busiest part of the commute, and the Traffic Volume is high enough even with the delays will e