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Vice President Kamala Harris visits North Carolina as Democratic Division widens over President Joe Biden's political future. We'll have a preview of today's event. Plus, a local businessman faces federal charges of cheating the government. What WRL investigates learned about those charges? A front stall just to our east. It'll move across our area tonight. And tomorrow bringing us a good chance of soaking rain as you take a live look at Carolina Beach right now. That looks scrumptious here this noon. I'm Jeff Hogan. Good afternoon. And I'm Michelle McConaughey in for an A2. Thanks for joining us. Yeah, that beach looks beautiful. A lot of people still there, but they're not going to be there tomorrow. Elizabeth Gardner is the WRL Severe Weather Center. With a look at the timing of the rain and how much we could see. So over the last three or four hours, we've watched the stationary front here produce a lot of rain here in eastern North Carolina. It continues to be pretty heavy, just south and east of Samson County. Hopefully, that will dissipate because we've seen this rain falling for hours. So there could end up being some flooding. Now, that is fairly sandy soil there, and it drains well. But that's something we'll watch. It's not part of our viewing area. It's something to keep in mind. If you happen to be driving all the way down I-40 toward the beach for today. Let's take a look at future cast, and you can see that wave of rain starting to move back into our viewing area around five or six o'clock, but it dissipates once we hit sunset. So we're not looking at a whole lot of rain today, but from Clinton to Goldsboro to Rocky Mount, you may see some late afternoon evening storms. Around midnight, a few isolated storms start to pop up. And look at this, at 7 AM tomorrow, we may have some rain. We'll see waves of rain moving across our area during the day. It's fairly heavy there from three to five o'clock. And then between seven and eight, it dissipates. So the heaviest rain will be from the triangle area eastward with this particular system. And we'll begin to see that cropping up in our eastern counties late this afternoon and then developing overnight. So we're going to wake up to some rain. Now, we definitely need the rain. This is our brand new drought status. It really hasn't changed for our viewing area, but parts of North Carolina out to the west are now under the severe drought. And down just west of Wilmington is some extreme drought. We'll talk more about when else we may see some rain in the next seven days coming up. - Happening now in the WRA live center of Raleigh leaders, county leaders, they're all gathered this at noon hour at the Raleigh Convention Center for the annual state of the city, county and schools annual event. This is the luncheon that's just about to get started. They started gathering about 11.30 this morning. This is hosted by the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce. Speakers will include Raleigh's mayor, the chair of the Wake County Commissioners, the Wake School Superintendent and other city and county leaders. There again, there's a live picture of what you're seeing. WRAO is the media sponsored. Renee Chu is the MC for this event. We've got our Destiny Patterson there as well, covering this event along with photographer Keith Baker giving us these live pictures today. We are also live streaming this on the new BRAO News app as well as WRAL.com. We'll keep monitoring this for any new information on any revealing information that comes out of this event and we'll have it for you right here on WROs at noon. - Now on WRAL, Vice President Kamala Harris is in Greensboro as President Joe Biden faces pressure to drop out of the 2024 presidential race. Colorado Senator Michael Bennett and actor on top Democratic donor George Clooney are among those calling for Biden to step aside. WRAL NC Capital Chief Laura Leslie is in Greensboro where Vice President Harris is expected to reassure voters that they are in it for the long haul. - We're here at Dudley High School in Greensboro where Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to hold a campaign rally this afternoon at 2.30. We can already hear the Dudley High School band warming up in the gymnasium where this event is gonna take place. Op-ed Public and New York Times by actor George Clooney has really sparked an intense debate among Democrats about whether or not President Biden should relinquish his reelection bid. Kamala Harris has been his defender in chief since that bad debate night, but all eyes are on her today as observers weigh whether or not she could lead the presidential ticket in his stead. Now right now we are outside the venue. We are waiting outside while the Secret Service conducts a security sweep of the venue and our gear that is standard for any presidential or vice presidential visit. I'll step back and let you see folks are already lining up for this event. This is an invitation-only event but the parking lot is already just about full. We will of course have this whole thing live for you at 2.30 and we'll have coverage for you coming up tonight in our later shows. More or less than your ARL News live in Greensboro. Security preparations are underway for next week's Republican National Convention as Donald Trump prepares to announce a running mate. Officials are putting up fencing in downtown Milwaukee where about 50,000 people are expected to attend. During the convention, former President Trump will be formally selected as the Republican nominee. New polling shows how close the race is between former President Donald Trump and President Biden here in North Carolina. A Bloomberg poll conducted last weekend shows in a two-way race. Biden is three points behind Trump. Tonight President Biden will host her hold-aimed solo news conference. Biden is scheduled to take questions from the White House press corps at 5.30 this evening. He won't be speaking at the White House though but rather at a nearby convention center when the NATO summit is happening. President Biden will also speak with NBC News' Lester Holt in a one-on-one interview next week. You can see a preview on NBC Nightly News Monday and then the full unedited interview in a primetime special that night at nine o'clock. Then stay tuned for NBC News coverage, special coverage of the Republican National Convention that's at 9.30 and it's all right here on WRAL. - A Hornet County teacher is behind bars today after being charged for having sex with a student. It's a story we first brought you last month and WRAL Sean Gallagher joins us live outside of the Harnet County Courthouse and Sean, what else do we know about this case? - Yeah, Michelle, well, right now Mackenzie Parham is in a jail cell here behind me in Harnet County. She's here on a $70,000 secured bond facing seven charges, two of which are sexual activity with a student and five others for indecent liberties with a student. The 26-year-old woman worked at Triton High School from August of 2021 until this May. Her last day of employment was the same day the Harnet County Sheriff began its investigation on May 10th. Sheriff Wayne Coates posted on Facebook that Parham turned herself in today. I reached out to Harnet County Schools this morning about this, they tell me they can't comment on the situation, but they say they conducted a careful review of the information they received and made all of the required reports and took appropriate personnel action based on what they learned from their investigation. Now Parham made her initial appearance earlier this morning and she is expected back in a courtroom later this month. Sean Gallagher, WRAL News, Harnet County. - A local businessman is at the center of a WRAL investigation and now faces federal charges for COVID relief fraud. The charges come more than a year after we took our concerns to the U.S. Attorney's Office. WRAL investigates Chris Leavengood is here with an update, Chris. - Jeff, following a tip, WRAL investigates cross-checked databases for the Paycheck Protection Program. We compared names, owners and addresses of local businesses that received loans that worked turned up a web of companies that cashed in on one and a half million dollars in disaster loans, most of which were completely forgiven. Our research only turned up a physical location for just one company, the insurance centers in Garner. We went there last spring looking for the owner to ask him about our findings and never received a response. Today, that owner Wilson Oliveira is in federal custody. U.S. Marshals arrested him. A viewer sent this photo only to WRAL. It shows Oliveira being led away in handcuffs. The newly unsealed indictment reflects our findings and confirms what we suspected. Oliveira was using shell companies to get loans. Investigators found Oliveira filed false tax returns in his loan applications. He also submitted false quarterly reports. The state's unemployment office never received as well as false payroll records to convince banks to approve his loans. Oliveira faces nine counts of wire fraud. He'll be in jail until a more thorough detention hearing next week where a judge will decide if Oliveira can go free until his trial. And WRAL is interviewing U.S. Attorney Michael Easley about this story. Look for that in our later news casts on WRAL today. - Certainly will, Chris, thanks. The Internal Revenue Service has collected more than a billion dollars in past due taxes from millionaires since last fall. And it's all thanks to the Democrat-backed Inflation Reduction Act. Last fall, the IRS launched an initiative to collect from wealthy individuals who have not paid the taxes they owe. The agency identified about 1,600 taxpayers with more than a million dollars in income and more than $250,000 in tax debt. To date, more than a billion dollars has been recovered from those individuals. - Happening now in the WRA live center, what was herkin barrel still wreaking havoc and causing death and destruction all across the United States. This is brand new video into our newsroom out of Vermont where the governor confirms one person died after the vehicle the man was in was swept away by flood waters in the town of Picham. In the last 24 hours, parts of Vermont got four to six inches of rain, washing out roads, demolishing apartment buildings and flooding homes. All this re-traumatizing this state that is still recovering from catastrophic flooding a year ago to the day, the state issuing the statewide wall water notice for places like Barrie, Vermont, more river flooding expected today, residents and low-lying areas of being asked to go to higher ground will keep monitoring this story for any new developments during this, our news here in WRAL. - Thanks Ken. And covering Way County, a lightning strike is being blamed for a house fire. Fire crews arrived at the three-story home on Carpenter Upchurch Road at about 915 last night. This is video from the WRAL breaking news tracker. The Morrisville Fire Chief says the lightning hit the chimney, started a fire that damaged the sunroom. Crews were able to put the fire out in about 20 minutes, nobody was hurt. And in Raleigh, fire crews are searching for the cause of a fire in the historic Oakwood neighborhood. The emergency call came in around midnight. This is video from the WRAL breaking news tracker on Elm Street. We are working to learn the extent of the damage there and whether anyone was in the house at the time. And we're also working to learn more about this three car crash in Fayetteville video from the WRAL breaking news tracker shows the aftermath of the crash on Merckison Road at Pammelly Drive. This is the same intersection where a deadly hit and run crash happened Tuesday. This crash happened at about 1115 last night. We're trying to find out whether anyone was hurt. - Next at noon, House Republicans passed a bill requiring proof of U.S. citizenship in order to vote. - The key issues that the bill faces its future remains uncertain. - Also fire 500 feet up in a gothic cathedral in France, how smoke from that fire rekindled memories of the Notre Dame fire in Paris five years ago. - Plus today is the funeral for a two year old Durham girl killed by gun violence. We'll take you there at 1230 for what will be an emotional day for that family. - Keep watching WRAL News over the Air Channel 34 and Spectrum Channel 1257. (upbeat music) (dramatic music) - House Republicans passed a bill requiring proof of U.S. citizenship for voter registration. Its future is uncertain in the Senate with many Democrats calling it unnecessary. Connor Hanson explains one of the key issues for Republicans. - With the Yays are 221, the Nays are 198, the bill is passed. - A key part of their agenda, House Republicans passed the SAVE Act, expressing concerns that people in the country illegally could be voting in upcoming elections. Five Democrats voted for it as well. - Let me be clear, non-citizen voting reduces confidence in our elections. American elections are for American citizens and we intend to keep it that way. - The law would require people to provide documents proving their citizenship when they register to vote and it would give states access to federal databases to help them remove non-citizens from the roles. - These common sense solutions are not controversial. - State audits show it's rare for ballots from non-citizens to be counted and they haven't impacted an election. Many Democrats argue the SAVE Act is unnecessary and could make it harder for some Americans if they've lost documents or if they're overseas and can't register in person. - Republicans are pushing a bill that will disenfranchise U.S. military personnel protecting its overseas from registering. It's unpatriotic and it's shameful. - Former President Trump supports the bill and stood with House Speaker Mike Johnson when he announced it. Trump says it would stop, quote, "weaponization" and cheating, but opponents argue its purpose is far more cynical. It only perpetrates lives now to set up even bigger lives later when they're unhappy with the outcome of the November election. - Let's count our hands on reporting. The SAVE Act would still have to survive the Democrat-led Senate and the White House, which has voiced opposition to the bill. - In less than an hour, state leaders will kick off a new effort to protect children from online sexual exploitation. It's called No to Protect. Homeland Security's Investigations Charlotte Office is partnering with Governor Roy Cooper and Attorney General Josh Stein on this campaign. They'll speak more about it during an event in Raleigh at one o'clock. WRLL will be there and will have a report in our later newscasts. And this new effort comes as Meta announces that kids as young as 10 years old will soon be able to chat with others in virtual reality. Parents will have to give their approval before kids ages 10 to 12 can interact with others while using quest headsets. Meta also will not show ads to this age group and parents will have full control over the headsets. - Happening now in the WRA Live Citizen video that you'll be talking about the rest of the day, no doubt will be populating your social media feed. Take a look at your screen right now. That is a young bear caught on a ring doorbell camera at a home in McGee's Crossroads in Johnston County. You can see the curiosity of that young bear walking up to the back door of that home. Of course, it's overnight, everybody's sleeping. Nobody in the backyard, which is a good thing, but there you see the curiosity of a young animal just wandering through that backyard in McGee's Crossroads. Very interesting. - Aspire under renovation burst into flames today in Northern France, but firefighters were able to bring it under control about 90 minutes later. A lot of firefighters, though 70 of them. The fire was contained in an area where there was mostly metal. It was that covering there that caught on fire from some construction. The magnificent Gothic Cathedral near Normandy is widely known from a series of paintings by artist Claude Monet. Witnesses compared the smoke from the spire to the devastating fire in 2019 at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The cause of that fire was deemed accidental. - A lot of us remember that. - Well, a lot of thoughts, that was five years ago. - Yeah, oh my gosh, it's great thing, yeah. We're talking about, you think about Paris, you think about France, you're talking about the Summer Olympics here, we're getting our own Summer heat wave just continues to hang on here at Elizabeth. - It definitely does. We take a live look here at RDU and you can see some cloud cover here. We're gonna see some increasing clouds for today, some sunshine peeking through, but once we get to tonight, we're gonna see that next round of rain moving through and it will be a great day tomorrow with rain on and off. Right now, it is 85 degrees. We do have a big change in our conditions today versus yesterday. Yesterday at noon, our dew point was 77. It really felt like you could truly swim through the air yesterday. And so a big drop in our dew point. Now, it's still just as warm as it was yesterday, we're almost, but that dew point drop has been a little bit more comfortable for us. 92 in Raleigh and Durham, 92 in Fayetteville. And you can see we have the thunderstorm icons here, really not likely to see much activity until much later on this evening and overnight. We're sitting at steamy right now, but at the bottom end of steamy, almost tolerable. And of course, much more comfortable than what we saw yesterday when that dew point was way up in the mid to upper 70s. Now, it's gonna swing back the other direction starting tomorrow. We're gonna see tropical moisture coming in with a low pressure system. And that's gonna bring us our rainy day. But our temperatures will be much cooler. We're talking about highs in the 80s. But by Saturday, Sunday and Monday, and we're stuck with that tropical air mass, it is going to feel rather hot. This is a look at our conditions for the rest of the day today, hour by hour through the afternoon. It's going to feel like upper 90s with the heat index. But then once we get into the evening, we'll see that dropping off. And then we'll be seeing 70s overnight tonight with that potential for some mugginess to come back with the rain. So upper 90s will be our heat index for this afternoon. But for tomorrow, it'll feel like the low 80s on Saturday, high of 90, but we see that humidity hanging around again for a temperature of feels like 99. And then Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, next week, we may be back into some heat advisories with some even hotter temperatures. So when do we get rid of the humidity? Everybody's asking, and here we are in the middle of July. Those of us who have been here for a while, you know, it doesn't come anytime soon. We tend to have around 24 days in July, almost the entire month with that very tropical feeling air mass, and then in August, it's about 22 days. But it really changes. By September, I know that seems like a long time, about six more weeks before we really start to regularly see that muggy meter down below tropical. Here's what's happening out there right now. Beginning of the newscast, we talked about that front sitting along the coast that's been producing the scattered thunderstorms for the last four or five hours. This high pressure system is keeping the rest of the viewing area dry. But eventually, this line is going to start to pick up and move inland a little bit farther and affect some of our eastern counties. As it happens, it's likely that some of this will fizzle out. But once we get to early tomorrow, we'll start to see some waves of moisture, a low pressure system down to the south. We'll start to move northward and push more rain in. We'll see that as early as six or seven in the morning. And that will continue on up until around nine or 10 o'clock tomorrow night. So for tomorrow, 82. Over the weekend, we're looking at temperatures in the 90s. And by Sunday, in particular, it's going to feel a whole lot hotter. Now, we definitely need this rain that's on tap for Friday. I'll show you how much you could see where you are. All right, thanks, Elizabeth. A town in Johnston County is the latest to open a social district in a downtown area. Sip and stroll in Clayton goes live today. We've seen social districts pop up all over the state. 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The annual giveaway this year marks the 97th birthday of the chain. It opened in Dallas in 1927. Today, it has more than 84,000 locations in 20 countries. No purchase is necessary to get a free slurpee today. You just have to stop by a 7/11 speedway or stripe store and check 7/11's rewards app for a chance to win free slurpies for an entire year. And those are your business headlines. I'm Maribel Abert, the Nasdaq Market site. I stopped listening to free slurpee. I'm in right there. Amazon prime members can get a $20 credit just in time for prime day. Here's how you get it. Upload at least one photo through Amazon's photo app for the first time. And you have to do it before 3.59 AM eastern time on July 13 to get that credit. Amazon says, if you qualify, you will receive an email confirming that the credit has been applied to your account. The credit only applies to orders purchased through Amazon.com or Amazon Digital Services. 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Manari's funeral will be happening right over here at the Antioch Baptist Church. Her family is gathering here right now to honor and remember her two short life. Manari's mother tells WRAL the toddler had a big smile and personality, bringing joy to the people around her, often through her dance moves. Her obituary says she leaves behind many people, including her father and a brother in Burlington, her mother and a three-year-old sister in Durham, grandparents and many aunts and uncles. Now Manari was shot in a drive by three weeks ago on June 20th. She died nearly a week later on June 27th. Her mother was also grazed by a bullet in that shooting on Cornwallis Road. Durham police are still looking for the person responsible for killing this little girl. She is one of 20 people under the age of Durham who has been shot in Durham this year. Her funeral will get underway in just about half an hour here. We'll have a live stream over on our website. In Durham, Monica Casey, WRAL news. Why don't you take a good look at this video right now? It shows the moment that car slammed through the wall of a Selma business. That was the 4th of July. The driver was being chased by Selma Police. The owners of Surfin Turf on Anderson Street are now working to reopen that business. lawnmower store was closed for the holiday when that crash happened. So thankfully, there was no one inside. Since the crash, the community of Selma has rallied around the business owners. Great sport in the community. We've got a lot of phone calls, a lot of big reaching out, trying to help us out, give us stuff. You know, they've been really good to us, but they're just taught in each community. The driver of the car was 37-year-old Tyrone Jones. Store owners say police found him hiding in a back room behind a pile of tires. He was taken into custody. OSHA is investigating the possible heat-related death of a postal worker. Wendy Johnson worked as a postal supervisor in Fayetteville. Family members tell WRAL that she died on June 6th after working out of the back of a postal truck without air conditioning for hours. One postal worker, who did not want to be on camera, told us they call these postal trucks easy, big ovens. Johnson's son says his mother would text family members about the heat inside those trucks. She takes my aunt. She said, yeah, I'm in the back of this truck and I'm hot. Being in her situation, I don't think she should have been in the truck on 95 degree weather then in the back of that truck if like 102. And we've reached out to the Postmaster and Charlotte to get more information about the circumstances surrounding Johnson's death. We have not heard back yet. - Michelle, we also know dangerously high temperatures can be deadly for infants and small children and pediatric doctors say it's extremely important to know the signs of heat exhaustion in babies. Doctors at Duke and UNC tell WRAL heat is especially dangerous for infants because they have no way to communicate, no way to tell us. They can't tell us what they're feeling, how they're feeling. So you need to be ultra aware. Anytime that your baby is not responding to you as well as it usually does, so if your baby usually is smiling at you, laughing at you and suddenly stops doing that, it's important to check the baby carefully to make sure that the baby is feeling okay. - Some signs of heat exhaustion include pale, clammy, skin, listlessness, nausea and a fast but weak pulse. Abbing now in the W.R.A. Live Center, a passive note to note this noon hour. Actress Shelley Duvall has died. She was best known for her roles in "The Shining" with Jack Nicholson as well as Olive Oil in the movie "Papa" that also starred the late Robin Williams. She also starred in a number of Robert Altman films, including the first film he cast her in, which was Busta McCloud, a longtime partner. Dan Gilroy said Duvall died in her sleep at their home in "Black of Texas" of complications of diabetes. She was an original, one of the best. Shelley Duvall died at the age of 75 years old. - Thank you, Ken. Well, there's outrage surrounding the death of a Wisconsin man that is now being investigated as a homicide. Police say Duvall T. Mitchell caused a disturbance at a Hyatt Regency in Milwaukee and was escorted out by security guards, beaten and kicked. He died before officers arrived on scene. This is a live look at funeral services right now. NBC's Emily Aketa shares the plea from his family. (air whooshing) This morning, the death of a Wisconsin man that has drawn outrage, now being reviewed by the Milwaukee district attorney as a homicide. Duvall T. Mitchell died following an encounter at a Hyatt Regency in Milwaukee. This cell phone video recorded by a witness. - Stay down. Please stop fighting, please. - Showing Mitchell pleading for help as he's held face down by four people identified by police as hotel security. To see them beat him repeatedly over and over and over again. They didn't stop. They couldn't stop. They couldn't let them go and they didn't. - Mitchell's family says they viewed surveillance video that they say showed Mitchell running through the lobby on Sunday, June 30th, entering a women's restroom. - I'm gonna go into the ladies and girls. - Milwaukee police saying Mitchell had fought with security guards who detained him until police arrived. They say officers found Mitchell unresponsive and he later died. The 43-year-old husband and father may have been suffering from a mental health episode according to Mitchell's family. - Fatay. - Civil rights attorney, Ben Crump says one of the men who held him down, a front desk employee, claims he told security guards Mitchell couldn't breathe but was ordered to keep holding him. - It's outrageous. It was inhumane. It was unnecessary. - That was Emily Aketa reporting. Coming up, Senator Bernie Sanders is shaming a major company over their sticker prices, what he's asking Novo Nordisk to do regarding weight loss drugs. - Also, falling just short of a new world record will show you this more than 11,000 foot walk over Italy. We'd love to connect with you online. Follow WRAL on Facebook to join the conversation. (dramatic music) - And how about the countdown right now, Team USA athletes being introduced at the Paris Olympics in 15 days counting right now, the Paris Olympics. They'll be wearing clothing that's made right here in America. - That's right, two companies based in Maine are helping to outfit the Olympians. Ralph Lauren, the official officer of Team USA have reached out to rogue industries about partnering on a belt and rogues spent the past two years producing a woven belt with leather detail. - When I think of the sacrifice that the Olympians have made to get where they are, I just think it's incredible that a small business in Maine can be a part of that whole picture. - Ralph Lauren contracted Rencourt and company in Lewiston, Maine to make Team USA shoes for the fourth time, it's pretty cool. - WRAL is your home of Summer Olympic coverage. Liz McLaughlin will be in Paris bringing you live reports. We'll also have live coverage all day from July 26th to August 11th on WRAL. - And next at new Neuralink is ready to implant its device into a second patient, the timetable for the next operation straight ahead. - And when it comes to infants, parents, you wanna make sure that they are safe from harmful products, but the result of a rest of well-known baby lotions. - This is the story of the one. As head of maintenance at a concert hall, he knows the show must always go on. That's why he works behind the scenes, ensuring every light is working, the HVAC is humming, and his facility shines. With Granger's supplies and solutions for every challenge he faces plus 24/7 customer support, his venue never misses a beat. Call quickgranger.com or just.buy. Granger, for the ones who get it done. - CEO of Novo Nordisk will head to Capitol Hill in September to testify before a Senate committee. Senator Bernie Sanders plans to call attention how much changes in the U.S. versus other countries. Sanders wants Novo to reduce the price of Ozempic to about $155, which is what it costs in Canada. A month's supply currently costs $935 in the U.S. while Wigobi is more than $1,300. Last month, the company announced plans for a $1 billion expansion in Johnston County. Neuralink hopes to implant its second human patient within the next week or so. That is according to founder Elon Musk. Neuralink's goal is to help patients by using breakthrough paralysis control technology. Company implants at its first human patient this winter, but executives say only 15% of the implants' channels are working. Neuralink executives are making changes to address the hardware problems. - There are very few things that are as soft as baby skin. So you might expect products made for them would be gentler or free from harsh ingredients. Consumer reporters tested some of the top brands and what Marcy Wayland shares might surprise you. - A baby skin can't regulate moisture as well as an adult. So parents often purchased special baby lotions to help meet their unique needs. Consumer reports and fellow nonprofit organization made safe, examined the ingredients of several popular baby lotions. - What we want to identify are ingredients that are concerned to human health. We want to also look at ingredients that impact our air, our water, our soil. - Of the 13 baby lotions, seven from these brands had the most concerning ingredients. Aquaphor, Aveeno, Burt's Bees, Saravi, Dove, Yucerin, and Johnson's. - Ingredients to avoid are ones that are potentially linked to cancer such as preservatives like phenoxy ethanol and polysorbate. Additionally, petroleum ingredients, including mineral oil and parrotin. Also with petroleum products, they don't break down in the environment. - Consumer reports reached out to the makers of all seven brands and none responded. Another potential issue, fragrance and dyes. They can both be hiding hundreds of other ingredients that don't have to get listed on the label. - Fragrance and dyes in personal care products and cosmetics are considered trade secrets in the US, which means they can be kept confidential, but could be linked to health concerns like cancer and endocrine disruption. Lotions with safer ingredients include California baby super sensitive everyday lotion and earth mama simply nonsense baby lotion. These lotions might be pricier because natural ingredients cost more than synthetically produced ones. But since you only need to use lotion when your baby skin is dry, it might be worth the extra money. - If you are ingredients, better ingredients, that's what you wanna do. - That was Marcy Whalen reporting. Consumer reports also tested 10 of the baby lotions for lead and other toxins and found none. - And some of those baby lotions have sunscreen in them and that'd be a good thing these days. The Elizabeth Gardner and the WRS severe weather center. Although it's kinda peeking in and out of those clouds today. - It is, you know, we've been following this front that's just to our east and that's gonna continue to send some clouds our way. And then eventually some rain mainly this evening and tonight and really all day tomorrow. You can put the sunscreen away. We're gonna be dealing with clouds and rain and we'll get a break from the heat. We take a lot like at Goldsboro. Goldsboro of course, down to the south and east, definitely seeing a lot more cloud cover than St. Chapel Hill, which is on the west side of the viewing area at Chapel Hill, they're courtesy of top of the Hill restaurant. Some cloud cover in Fayetteville and kind of a mix of sun and clouds there in Apex. Here's what's happening. We have a stationary front. Fortunately, this rain is starting to weaken a little bit but we've seen a lot of rain developing in the same place just sort of stalled here. We call that training. It's like train cars moving right along the same line and we tend to see some flooding when that happens and we just see that rain over and over. None of that's happening in our viewing area per se but as we get through the next several hours, we'll start to see this front gradually moving back to the west and that will help to push some rain into our area. We saw that front actually starting in the west and moving eastward overnight last night. We saw some significant rain but only in a narrow band from just west of Roanoke Rapids to around Wake Forest. We saw anywhere from an inch to an inch and a half there along that purple mine but it was a pretty narrow band. Down to the south, same story. The western part of Wake County saw anywhere from about an inch to an inch and a half but the eastern part of the county was maybe like a quarter of an inch and then we had a pocket down here in the western part of Harnett County where we had a radar estimate of three inches of rain. So it was definitely halves and half knots and mostly half knots yesterday. We'll have more widespread rain as this front gradually pushes to the west. We'll pause it at eight o'clock tonight, maybe an isolated shower or two starting to develop in places and then that continues to push westward to pause it again at around six a.m. There may be a few stray showers during the morning commute. More widespread by lunchtime and into the afternoons, we get into some daytime heating and that low itself starts to move on up into our area. Now that low has a very tiny chance of having some tropical characteristics. It will definitely have a lot of tropical moisture. So we are looking at the potential for some heavy rain at least at times of the system, but it's potential to be a tropical depression is fairly low. We take a look at our rainfall potential with this, not just tonight and tomorrow, but all the way into Saturday and Sunday as well. Some of this rain may linger into Saturday also. So we're looking at the potential for about an inch to an inch and a half in our western counties as much as two and a half plus inches around the triangle, I would say about an inch and a half to two inches. That is not a huge amount of rain, but it is possible that we would have some flooding, especially in places that tend to flood fairly easily. Low-lying spots could see some flooding on Friday, maybe into early Saturday morning. Our drought status has not changed a whole lot. It hasn't really changed for our viewing area. We have a sliver of edge gum part of Wilson County and most of Wayne County that are in that severe drought. We do have Columbus County. I'm going to widen that out a little bit more that is now an extreme drought. Whiteville, close to the coast, only had one inch in the last 30 days. And so there are a lot of crops in that area. So that's definitely going to be a serious issue. I'm hoping that the rain that we see tomorrow will help things out. After that, we don't have a whole lot more rain in the forecast for the rest of the week. We're talking about a fine line as this man, thanks a little bit as this man, a stunt man walks into history, but fails to claim a coveted title. Find out how long this trip took into the record books. Oh boy. And here's a look at your winning Powerball numbers. 7, 11, 12, 27, 46. The Powerball is 26 and the power play is three. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) - We wrap things up with look at a few of the headlines. We're following for you today. - Vice President Kamala Harris is in Greensboro today. Harris is expected to reassure voters that she and President Biden are in it for the long haul. It is Harris' sixth trip to North Carolina this year and the third for the Biden reelection campaign since the debate. WRL Capital Bureau Chief Lord Leslie is out the event. She will bring you the latest on WRAL.com and in our evening news. - A Harnock County teachers behind bars today after being charged for having sex with a student. Kenzie Parham is facing seven charges, two for sexual activity with a student and five others for indecent liberties with a student. She's currently in jail in Harnock County on a $70,000 secured bond. The 26 year old woman worked at Triton High School from August of 2021 until this May. - And one of Durham's youngest victims of gun violence will be remembered today. The funeral for two year old Menari in just a few minutes at a church in East Durham. Menari was shot in a drive-by three weeks ago on June 20th. She died nearly a week later on June 27th. Her mother was also grazed by a bullet in that shooting on Cornwallis Road. Durham police are still looking for the person responsible for killing this little girl. - It's been nearly four months since someone hit the $1.3 billion mega millions jackpot but we still don't know the winner's identity. Winning ticket was sold at a liquor store in New Jersey, March 26th. The winner only has a year to claim the prize. So lottery officials are urging that winner to sign a ticket and contact them to claim the grand prize. - A Hollywood stunt man entered the history books after becoming the first person to do a slack line walk over Italy Strait of Messina, but he failed to capture another world record. The 11,961 foot walk connected mainland Italy with Sicily it anchored on two towers on either side. It was the longest slack line ever built and people on boats passing through the Strait of Messina could be heard cheering him on. - My first feeling was finally to get a good little bread of fresh air. You know, it was so hard to remind myself I keep breathing right while walking and I feel actually incredible. - Yeah, it looks a little scary to me. It took him nearly three hours to cross to the other side which is farther than current world record distance but you just saw it there. He fell approximately 260 feet from the end which meant that his walk could not be officially recognized as a new world record. The rules require him to finish the walk without falling in order for that record to be validated. - What a bummer but pretty bold way to go. Our pet of the day is poised and proper. This girl from SPCA of Wake County just look at her picture. This is Torell, there's a black and white cat who is a female who has very unique pronounced beauty marks on her nose. She loves to quietly observe the staff work at the SPCA adoption center. Torell is kind and affectionate, very tidy. She would love to meet you in person so just make an appointment to visit SPCA-Wake.org. - Weight loss drugs are soaring in popularity but what happens when people stop using them? Today on WRL news at four, a doctor explains what you can expect plus how weight loss programs are adapting to the new medication. - Boy, that guy with the slack line there. - Oh my gosh, I know. - Jittery. - He was like, I just have to look around and see how I'm, it's amazing but oh my goodness sir, you are so high up. - He's taken, he says he needed to remind himself to breathe. I would say, yeah, the slack line between those two towers. - Ooh. - Yeah, I'd be crying. - I guess he had some safety lines anyway. - He did, yeah. - For what he fell, you know, he could grab on him, pull himself back up but still, mm-hmm. - Could you imagine getting almost to the end though and falling like a little. - I know, within a couple hundred feet. - The poor guy. - ABC News Daily up next on WRL, your next local news in 30 minutes. - And you can get breaking news updates anytime with our WRL News app. Have a great day. (upbeat music) - Keep watching WRL News over the Air Channel 34 and Spectrum Channel 1257. (upbeat music) - Save big this summer with great deals. All in the King Supers app. Get juicy Washington red cherries for £2.99 a pound. Then get 10 for 10 on items like Lays Stacks, Rice Oroni and Sparkling Ice Sparkling Water for $1 each, all with your card. 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