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I'll show you how many more days it'll feel that hot or hotter. And we're expecting to hear a major announcement from Novo Nordiz. What we're learning about the company's plans for expansion in Johnston County. Oh, good morning, everybody. Thank you so much for joining us here. Starting off your Monday hot humid and it is summer time for sure. Meteorologist Elizabeth Gardner joining us with forecast. Elizabeth. Heatwave really kicked off every the weekend, Saturday and Sunday and it stretches, you know, all the way into potentially this coming weekend. We take a look at North Hills and there's some cloud cover out there. Those clouds, you know, tend to help us keep the temperatures for warming up as quickly. But the problem is, I mean, at 4 a.m. it was already 81 degrees. So it's not like we cooled off last night. 83 right now with a dew point at 75. Sometimes a dew point will climb to 76 or 77, but 75 is really, you know, sometimes really some of the upper limit that we see. So very hot, very humid for us today. This is a look at our heat index. We're going to feel like upper 90s to around 100 this afternoon. We do have a chance of a few isolated storms. We're going to see a cold front that comes through. You could see these isolated showers and storms in our southeastern counties. Starting right around or just after lunchtime, up until around the evening commute. Notice that the wind starts to come out of the northwest and sometimes that cools us off. But remember, it's hot everywhere. So we'll see a five degree drop in our temperature. We hit 100 yesterday. We'll see a high of 95 for today. We have a severe threat for us in our southeastern counties. Parts of Wayne, Samson and Cumberland counties in that level one risk for severe storms. So the small chance for wind damage. That high temperature 95 for this afternoon. And we do have some even hotter temperatures in the forecast later in the weekend. 802. Elizabeth happening right now in the W.R. traffic center. We just got reports of rolling police working this crash on Gorman Street in the northbound lane near i40. Right now we're not seeing any congestion building in that area. So just to keep in mind, you'll see some police activity there if you have to navigate Gorman Street this morning. Also around the triangle of here's what we're seeing, a major congestion on the north side of the Beltline as well, the south side of the Beltline as well. Even the alternate route at i540, there's seeing some congestion this morning. So let's take you outside and show exactly what we're talking about here. This is i440 and Lake Boone Trail. The inner lanes. Those folks are staying on the Beltline getting to U.S. 1 and all points west. The folks on the outer lane, those folks are trying to get onto i40 westbound. So you see a bit of a slow down there. This is the south side of the Beltline i40 and Lake Wheeler Road. The westbound lanes are moving away from us. We're not seeing that crash in those eastbound lanes near Gorman Street on this camera, but just keep this in mind. You're about to hit out. Give yourself some extra time. Some extra time and it's definitely a windows up and air conditioning on Kennedy. Ken, thank you. Well, of course, I'll be feeling the effects of that dangerous heat here today. If you do need to go outside, it's important to take all the necessary precautions. The Bureau's Laura Levine is at Nightdale Station Park this morning for us. Laura, doctors say people are in danger of heat-related illnesses if they are prepared. Yeah, Eric, doctors say excessive heat could really take a toll on your body pretty quickly. If you are not prepared, here we are at Nightdale Station Park where you can see we have some families already gathering here near the splash pad. It's going to be a very popular day. I'm sure here at the park, but this heat wave will have temperatures feeling like triple digits as we just heard from Elizabeth at 100 degrees today. So first responders and hospitals have already seen an influx of patients for this month anticipating to see more in the coming days. The way County EMS says they received eight heat-related calls on Saturday, and they've treated more than 20 patients because of this since the start of June. Dr. J. J Hoff with Duke University Hospital says knowing the symptoms and pre-hydrating is key. One of the ways that our body reacts to extreme heat like this is you get a lot of inflammation which can lead to you getting dehydrated pretty quickly compared to normally. So you need to pre-hydrate so that all of your vital organs that are not used to being exposed to this kind of heat can do their normal job. And he says if you or someone you know begins to feel their body overheating, it's important to take immediate action by trying to cool off maybe with a nice damp towel or just a fan with a mister. Laurel Levine, WRL news live in Nightdale. Two people are hurt after shooting this morning near New Hope Church Road and Atlantic Avenue in Raleigh, Nick Perlin was in the WRL breaking news tracker as police investigate overnight. Raleigh police were busy early this morning investigating a very large crime scene at a shopping center right off of New Hope Church Road. I'm going to show you this video from the WRL breaking news tracker just so you can see for yourself just how large this crime scene was as Raleigh police tried to piece together what exactly happened early this morning. We do know two people were shot, they are expected to recover. Now I do also want to show you this video as well. This is a car crash that happened right off of New Hope Church Road right next to that shopping center where that shooting happened. And the reason why this is important is because you can see Raleigh police here searching through this white car and taking pictures of it. Now we're still trying to learn from Raleigh police if they know if this crash had anything to do with that shooting that left two people hurt. We're going to keep asking for more information this morning in Raleigh, Nick Perlin, WRL news. We're following breaking news this morning. Three people are in the hospital after a shooting. They were a restaurant in Raleigh. It happened around 11 p.m. outside of La Buena Vida on falls of news road. Police say a man and woman have minor injuries. Another man has serious injuries. They're working to determine what led up to the shooting and so far a shooter is not in custody. Today we expect an announcement from Novo Nordisk on a major expansion at a news conference this afternoon plan for two o'clock. The drug manufacturer will unveil plans for what it describes as a significant development. People familiar with Novo Nordisk's plans tell WRAL's NC Capital team the company is investing more than a billion dollars in Johnston County. The expansion is expected to create about a thousand jobs there. The Johnston County Board of Commissioners are holding a special meeting this morning to talk about economic incentives for development. Sources tell WRAL that meeting is about Novo Nordisk. Raleigh police are working to learn what led to a shooting that sent a man to the hospital. They say a person was shot at an apartment complex Sunday afternoon. Video from the WRAL breaking news tracker here shows police cars blocking off Crockett court. Witnesses say they heard two men arguing before this shooting happened. No charges have been filed yet. Several people are in police custody after two separate high-speed chases over the weekend. According to WRAL data trackers this makes at least 44 chases involving law enforcement in our area already this year. Police say the latest chase started Sunday afternoon after two people tried to steal from a Walmart. Officers tried to stop their car but the driver spent away at chase ended with a crash on NC-98 near Camp Canada Road. Both people in the car were hurt but are expected to be okay. An arrayford man is facing serious charges after leading a trooper on a high-speed chase. At chase started on I-40 East just before midnight Saturday night. The driver crashed when trying to exit onto I-95 South near Benson. Troopers say he went off the road while trying to take the exit at nearly a hundred miles an hour. Troopers say that driver. 26-year-old Lemin Lowe was in a stolen car. Happening today, a funeral for a former Raleigh City Councilman Eugene Weeks. It's happening at noon at Watts Chapel Baptist Church in Raleigh. A visitation will begin at 11 a.m. Weeks passed away on June 14th. He was appointed as a councilman in 2010 and Weeks was 83 years old. The state senate is expected to vote today on how the state should spend a $1 billion surplus. The vote is another step in a standoff with the state house over how the money should be spent. The chambers need to agree on a proposal for any of it to be spent but lawmakers are still at odds over things such as extra raises for state workers. The new fiscal year begins in a week. Legislative leaders indicate that it could be months before a new budget is approved. If one gets approved at all for full coverage of state budget negotiations, you can go to the NC Capital section of WRAL.com. Starting today, you may notice more law enforcement along the highway. It's the first day of Operation Firecracker. Booze it and lose it. Dozens of law enforcement agencies will be increasing their patrols and be on the lookout for drunk drivers. It's an annual effort focused on the 4th of July travel period. Duke University leaders will mark the beginning of the campaign at the Karsh Alumni Center this morning. Operation Firecracker runs through July 7th. Surgeries with less than ideal outcomes. And if I could have told the whole story, I think that they would probably not want this position that operated on me doing any more surgery in North Carolina. Tonight, WRAL investigates actions taken against doctors in North Carolina and why some patients say operating room errors deserve more than what they feel is a slap on the wrist. WRL investigates tonight at six. And a three-hour hike turned into days for one California man. How he survived wandering the wilderness before he was finally located. Plus, it's no secret that coffee may be America's favorite drink. And now there's new research dedicated to it. Just ahead, we'll look at the new research facility aiming to improve the future of the coffee industry. And the heat that started building over the weekend continues this week. We have the potential for a heat index up around 100 and a chance of some storms. We may see that chance go up a little later in the week. We need the rain. I'll show you when you should expect it coming up. [Music] Offer not valid in all state-to-wear prohibited by law loans are subject to lender approval. See website for details. Meet Brian. Brian seems pretty typical. Hardworking lives modestly but has gotten a little behind with bills. Except Brian just got five thousand dollars deposited into his bank account. Yep, five thousand dollars and it was actually quite easy. I'll tell you how Brian did it in 30 seconds. Brian was in need of cash help. After being rejected by banks, family, and friends, he decided to try getcash.com. 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And you can see that front kind of moving right through that spot. We'll watch along that front for a few sprinkles and then later this afternoon, right around or just after lunchtime, there could be some thunderstorms. We do have a line of thunderstorms down here across the deep south, the Georgia down into Alabama, Mississippi. So we may have that as well. You can see future cast shows that front moving through. And then a few isolated showers at lunchtime, maybe a thunderstorm or two, especially along in east to by 95 middle of the afternoon. Also notice the clouds are now coming out of the north. Now some parts of the year that really helps to make things more refreshing, but it's been so hot and humid to our north that that's really not ushering in anything cooler. So we hit 100 yesterday. We'll see around 95 today. So doesn't cool us off much. It's not going to drop our humidity very much a little bit. We may see the dew points drop down into the upper 60s. For Thursday, we also have another chance of some showers and thunderstorms, maybe a little more widespread than what we see today. And that'll be good news. We definitely need some rain. We also today have a risk for severe storms, just in a small part of the viewing area, a southeastern corner of Wayne County, most of Samsung County and just a teeny piece of Cumberland County. So it's a 40% chance today than a 60% chance on Thursday, 20 to 30 on Wednesday, Wednesday and Friday. That's a really small chance in this sort of a pattern. Take a look at how much rain we might end up seeing from the triangle, northward and westward. I mean, barely measurable, but around a half an inch from southern pines, to Fayetteville, to Clinton, to Goldsboro, half to three quarters of an inch. So there may be parts of the viewing area that see a little bit of rain. Everybody needs it. We've seen anywhere from zero to around 20% of our normal rainfall in the last 30 days. So we are desperately in need of some rain. Our heat index for today and tomorrow will be upper 90s to right around 100. That does not qualify for a heat index. Heat index is going to be 104 or hotter. So Wednesday and Thursday, we may go back under a heat advisory. We'll be watching for that closely. Wednesday in isolated storm, better chance for storms there on Thursday. Coming up, we're going to talk a little bit more about today. Heat index, as we go through the rest of the weekend. Well, there's with an 816, all new into the W-R-O traffic center. Just a handful of crashes to tell you about this morning. And this crash is in north Raleigh. It's on Glen Eden Drive, in the eastbound lane there, Essex Garden Lane. It's in a neighborhood area, not really causing any problems for your morning commute, but you live in that area. I wanted you to know there's some police activity you're going to run into if you're navigating Glen Eden this morning. This crash also just happened. On I-40, the westbound lanes, there's State Highway 55. As you can see, we're not seeing any delays in that immediate area, but just watch for some police activity. And if you can't move over one lane, that's the law. To give a law enforcement officers an opportunity to work that crash scene rather safely. This crash, we've been monitoring for the last 45 minutes or so. It's on Gorman Street proper in the northbound lane, just not far from I-40 in the eastbound lanes. Not causing any problems on Gorman Street air, but you can see the slowdown that's right there on the belt line. So keep that in mind if you're about to head out. Give yourself some extra time, why don't you? Jeff Hogan in the Del Barrow Live Center, you have some updates on the royal family happening right now. Princess Anne, 73-year-old sister to King Charles, is in a hospital. She was taken to the hospital after some sort of incident on her estate. Now, Buckingham Palace is confirming some of the details here, not a lot. Minor injuries, including a concussion, it happened at her estate. She is expected to make a full and swift recovery. That's what Buckingham Palace is saying. She was taken there for a precautionary measure, for observation. King Charles has been kept closely informed about his sister's health, but few details beyond that. There are some published broadcasts and other reports out there saying there may have been a horse involved on her estate. We'll wait to get the confirmation from that from Buckingham Palace and bring it on to you in the Live Center. Be looking out for that. Thanks, Jeff. A lifeguard is dead after an apparent shark attack off the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Local officials say the body of 49-year-old Tamayo Perry was found on a beach Sunday afternoon. The 911 caller said his body had signs of more than one shark bite. Perry was a well-known surfer, an actor who appeared in the movie Blue Crush and episodes of Hawaii 50. Officials say Perry was a highly skilled waterman and was loved by all. Myles' personality was infectious and as much as people loved him, he loved everyone else more. Perry's official cause of death has not been released. A three-hour hike turned into a 10-day ordeal when a man disappeared in California. Lucas McLeish was lost in the Santa Cruz Mountains for nine nights and ten days, shirtless, with only a flashlight and folding scissors. He didn't tell anyone where he was going, so his family filed a missing person's report. McLeish drank water from creeks, eight wild berries slept on wet beds of leaves, while yelling for help or thinking of his next meal. Well, comfortable the whole time I was out there I wasn't worried about. I had a mountain line that was following me, but it was cool. He kept the distance. I think it was just somebody watching over me. 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No matter how Americans take their favorite cup of Joe, data from the National Coffee Association reveals US adults consume more Java each day than any other type of drink. Oh, wow. Isn't that something? Yeah. But researchers at the University of California, Davis, say scientific studies centered around coffee are lacking compared to alcoholic beverages like wine. What I'd like to convey is it's actually more difficult to make a good cup of coffee than it is to make a good bottle of wine. And when I say that to my wine colleagues, they get all riled up because they know how difficult it is to make wine. It turns out coffee is even more complicated. To perk up the buzz, the school recently opened its new coffee center. The nation's first academic facility dedicated to the science and art of coffee. The sprawling facility features various labs and roasting rooms where students can conduct chemical engineering and other research. 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The southern part of Moore County, a little bit of Hope County into Cumberland County. We are likely to see at least a few isolated showers and thunderstorms later this afternoon. We have a cold front coming through, plenty of rain and storms on the southern end of this Friday, but we'll have our chance as well, mainly in our southeastern counties. We do have a few counties that are in that level one risk. We're looking at Wayne County, Cumberland County, Sampson County and that level one risk for today for the potential for damaging winds. Our rain chances by lunchtime to one o'clock around 30%. We bump into around 40% late afternoon, and then that potential really starts to go down. Check in Goldsboro this morning. We're looking at a little bit of cloud cover. It's going to be a hot one, 95 feeling like 100, Ken. All right, Elizabeth, quick check of the major roadways in Wayne County this morning. 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Spending time outdoors during excessive heat could be dangerous. Doctors say if you don't take the proper precautions just ahead with experts are saying the symptoms you should be looking out for when outdoors. Well, thank you so much for joining us everybody. I'm Eric Miller. Well, yet again, it is a day to grab that water bottle and maybe hug the air conditioner. That's how hot it is outside. Meteorologist Elizabeth Gardner joining us with our forecast now, Elizabeth. Even a cold front is not going to save us. We have a cold front that's going to swing through for today, but it's not going to change our situation very much. We do have a few sprinkles that are showing up down here in the Sandhills, a little bit of Hoke County, Southern Moore County, getting ready to move on up into parts of Harnett County and Cumberland County. But this is just a sprinkle at best. Probably what this will do for you is just make it feel even stickier. I pulled up Pinehurst so we could see a sprinkler too. Nothing really showing up just yet, but there's not a whole lot out there. A few people out there braving all of this heat and humidity. You can see the flag there at the golf course there at Pinehurst Golf and Country Club Resort and Country Club. So there's at least a little bit of breeze there. 83 in the triangle with a dew point of 75. So it already feels just oppressively hot for us. We'll hit around 100 this afternoon for the heat index. Yesterday we were 100 for the high temperature with the heat index above that. So we brought it back down under heat advisory criteria, but still going to be very hot for us. Some scattered showers and thunderstorms developing mostly along and east of I-95 for today. And hopefully that will maybe help to cool things off slightly. But some of these storms could produce some strong winds, parts of Wayne County, Samson County, and Cumberland County are in a level one risk for severe storms. And it will be hot. High temperatures will be in the mid 90s. I'll show you how many more days we have with excessive heat coming up, Ken. Well, let's with it. 8.32 happening now in the doubly aerial traffic center. We're following a few crashes that we want to tell you about. This one in the westbound lanes of I-40 and a highway 55. You can see right now we're not seeing any congestion in that immediate area. Just watch for some police activity. And if you can, move over one lane to give low enforcement officers an opportunity to work that crash scene safely. We're also monitoring this crash on the on Gorman Street proper. It's near I-40 there in West Raleigh, not causing any major problems there on Gorman Street. And you can see things are thinning out a bit there on the belt line as well. This crash is in North Raleigh. It's really in a neighborhood area, Glen Eden Drive and Eastbound Lane Essex Garden Lane. If you live in that neighborhood, you see some police activity. That's what's going on right now. Elsewhere on the Triangle and surrounding communities, this is what we're talking about this morning. We can see just a usual congestion building on I-40 this morning. And over in Durham, I-885 in both directions we're seeing a bit of a slowdown this morning. It's already very warm as you head outside this morning and it's going to get dangerously hot again later today. So when you head out, be sure to grab that water bottle and take all the necessary precautions. As WRAL's Laura Levine explains, people are at risk for heat-related illnesses if they don't take this seriously. Excessive heat can really take a toll on your body if you're not careful. That's what doctors are saying as we're here at Nightdale Station Park behind me. You can see the playground and the splash pad. This is going to be a very popular area throughout the day as many people try to beat the heat. But this heat wave will have temperatures feeling like the triple digits. We're talking about 100 degrees today. So earlier today we saw people coming out even before the sun came to get that workout in an exercise. First responders and hospitals have already seen an influx of patients for this month, anticipating to see more in the coming days. With County EMS told WRAL News, they received eight heat-related calls on Saturday and they've treated more than 20 patients because of this since the start of June. Dr. JJ Hoff with Duke University Hospital says knowing the symptoms and pre-hydrating is key. Very often in the early stages of heat waves like this we, you don't really see people come in saying that they're here because they're hot but what you do see is a little more people here for things like lightheadedness and dehydration and things of that nature where they're starting to feel the effects. And he says if you or someone you know begins to feel overheated it's important to take immediate action by what they call evaporative cooling by throwing some cold water on someone taking a nice damn towel and placing it on their body or just having a nice fan to cool off. Laurel Levine, WRAL News in Nightdale. Two people are heard after a shooting this morning near New Hope Church Road in Atlantic Avenue in Raleigh. Nick Pirlan was in the WRAL breaking news tracker as police investigated. Raleigh police were busy early this morning investigating a very large crime scene at a shopping center right off of New Hope Church Road. I'm going to get to show you this video from the WRAL breaking news tracker just so you can see for yourself just how large this crime scene was as Raleigh police tried to piece together what exactly happened earlier this morning. We do know two people were shot they are expected to recover. Now I do also want to show you this video as well. This is a car crash that happened right off of New Hope Church Road right next to that shopping center where that shooting happened. And the reason why this is important is because you can see Raleigh police here searching through this white car and taking pictures of it. Now we're still trying to learn from Raleigh police if they know if this crash had anything to do with that shooting that left two people hurt. We're going to keep asking for more information this morning in Raleigh, Nick Pirlan, WRAL News. We're following more breaking news this morning now. Three people are in the hospital after a shooting near a restaurant in Raleigh. This happened around 11 p.m. outside of La Buena Vida on Falls of Loose Road. Police say a man and a woman have minor injuries. Another man has serious injuries. We're working to determine what exactly led up to that shooting. The more breaking news now, crews responded to a fire at home on Crosslink Road in Raleigh. This is video right here from the WRAL breaking news tracker. We're working to learn more about the cause of this fire and exactly how badly that home was damaged. The state Senate is expected to vote today on how the state should spend a billion dollar surplus. The vote is another step in a standoff with the state house over how exactly to spend all this money. The chambers need to agree on a proposal for any of it to be spent, but lawmakers are still at odds over extra things, including extra raises for state workers. The new fiscal year begins in just a week, but legislative leaders indicate that it could be months before a new budget is approved, if one gets approved at all. For full coverage of the state budget negotiations, go to the NC Capital section of WRAL.gov. Today marks two years since the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. That anniversary comes as the High Court considers another potentially monumental abortion case. It could rule any day now on whether a federal law mandating emergency care can override a state ban on the procedure. The Biden campaign says it's holding more than 50 events or rally supporters around the anniversary. A pro-life event is happening today in Raleigh to talk about what's changed since then. The NC Values Coalition will hold a news conference at 10 this morning on Halifax Mall. The group says women from across the state will talk about the ongoing effect of the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe on state law. Right now, a portion is banned in North Carolina after 12 weeks. The state branch of the National Organization for Women is leading a reproductive rights rally in March today. It starts at 3 this afternoon outside of the state legislative building. The North Carolina Alliance of the Equal Rights Amendment is also participating in the event. Investigators are looking into how this fire right here got started. Firefighters were sent to an apartment complex fire in Fayetteville early Sunday morning. The Fayetteville Fire Department says this happened at Westlake and Morgan to an apartment homes. That's on Woodhill Drive. These pictures right here are from the fire department. You can see significant damage to a unit there on the third floor. Well, today you can weigh in on how Durham County could use millions of dollars from a national opioid settlement. A community meeting is happening today at 5 p.m. at the Durham Board of Commissioners chambers. Attendees will help identify gaps and potential funding priorities for the future. There will also be an update on what Durham County has done since its first input session. Jeff Hogan in the WRLF Center. I want to take you this video just into the WRLF News. I'm looking at the distance this traffic camera video. This is just south of Seoul, South Korea. There was a battery factory there where there was a terrible fire. 22 people were killed there today when that fire broke out inside the battery plant. It began with a series of battery cells that exploded inside the warehouse there. This is all according to fire officials there. What sparked the explosion has not been determined. The investigation still is going on but others. Lots of folks suffered some injuries out of this. Dozens more workers are still missing inside. So this is something that is continuing to be investigated until they find all those people. And you have a lot to keep our eyes on there. The team USA track and field trials are now in full swing in Oregon. UNC's Ethan Strand will be racing for a spot on the Olympic team tonight. We qualify for the men's 1,500-meter final with his performance at the trials on Saturday. Raleigh native in Campbell University student Dominique Alexander competed in the men's 100-meter semi-final last night. Unfortunately, he did not qualify for the final. And two local women raced in the 400-meter final. Jameesha Ford went to Jack Barrett High School in Vantville and Kwanira Hayes is from Hope Mills. Unfortunately neither were able to secure a spot there on the Olympic team. You can watch all of the events from the trials right here on WRAL. The track and field Olympic trials are on air starting tonight at 8 and coming up in less than 10 minutes. Look at the local competitors going to the Olympics in the pool as the team USA swimming trials wrap up. Imagine purchasing a home for a fraction of its worth. But you've got to wait years before moving in. Or the homeowner of this San Francisco home won't be able to live there for 30 years. And wild thing that might make your heart sing coming up. Meet the dog enjoying his new celebrity status for having a face that only a mother could love. Honey the credit card bill came and we're maxed out. Great. 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We have a little bit of light rain down here in the sand hills. That's where the showers are right now. So we'll zoom in and you can see a little rain moving across Rayford right now, a little bit of that into the northern part of Cumberland County, Southwestern, Hornet County, and it kind of cruised right through southern Pines. I pulled up that southern Pines camera a couple of minutes ago. You can't tell that it's raining. These are tiny little showers. The rain is north of Fayetteville right now, but you can see the cloud cover here in Fayetteville. It's 83 degrees right now in the triangle. We have southwest wind at 10, so it's a little breezy without southwest wind, but a southwest wind also doesn't help us out. That's going to be where all the heat and humidity is coming from, so that's just going to keep us hot today. We'll climb to 95 with an increasing chance of showers and thunderstorms later on this afternoon. Thanks to our weather watcher John Hipskin from Durham, who sent us this beautiful swallowtail. Looks like that was a very sunny day there. We would love to see your photos. Send us those go to www.wrl.com search weather watchers and upload a few photos. We'll try to get them on TV. 95 today in Raleigh and Durham and 97 in Fayetteville. Here's a look at our cold front that is bringing us a few isolated showers to the sandhills right now. That will slide eastward but continue to help bring us a chance of some showers and thunderstorms, especially closer to lunchtime. There's 11 30 and we'll pause it again there at two o'clock in the afternoon. Isolated showers, thunderstorms, especially along in east of I-95. Now behind the front, notice where the clouds are coming from. They're coming out of the north northwest. That's what we want to see, but the temperatures to our north are still really hot and it's pretty humid up there too, so we're not going to be able to have a cooler, drier air mass really come in. There's just not much of that to be found anywhere. We do have a level one risk for severe storms in that southeast corner of Wayne County. Most of Samson County and a little sliver of southeastern Cumberland County damaging winds would be our biggest threat. We are sitting way up at tropical right now. 75 is our due point compared to last week where we were low to mid 60s. That's a huge, huge jump. This front may help to drop our humidity slightly, but by Wednesday and Thursday we're creeping back up to tropical again and that will bring us an increased chance for a heat advisory. No heat advisory for most of the east coast right now, but again that could change in the next few days. 89 is our normal high. We climbed in 99 on Wednesday. We hit 100 yesterday. It'll feel like close to 100 today and tomorrow and then 105 potentially Wednesday, 106 on Thursday and that would potentially bring us a heat advisory. 104, 105 is the criteria for a heat advisory. With some showers and thunderstorms on Thursday, the temperature may fall a bit down to 93, but it'll still be quite humid. Thursday will bring us our best chance of rain in the next seven days. Elizabeth, thank you very much. Police in Arkansas are giving more details about a mass shooting that killed four people in a supermarket. State Police say the suspected shooter started shooting as soon as he got out of his truck in the parking lot on Friday. They say he then went into the store, firing at both customers and employees. State police say they were on the scene in just three minutes after the first call. In total 13 people were shot, including two officers. The suspected shooter, Travis Posey, faces four counts of capital murder. He's doing court today. Authorities say they don't know why he started shooting. A monsoon story in Arizona is responsible for the death of one woman in Tucson. That's according to the Tucson Fire Department. They say the woman was found in a river. First responders pulled her from that river Saturday afternoon and tried to resuscitate her. She was pronounced dead at the scene. The fire department says they responded to over 25 storm-related calls in just 90 minutes. Well, it was a scary situation on Harris Lake for three people who had to be rescued from a sinking boat. The Wake County Sheriff's Office says that boat was reported just before noon on Sunday. A team with the Sheriff's Office found the boat and was able to rescue one of the passengers. A nearby boater rescued the two other passengers. The Sheriff's Office said the boat sank because of a mechanical issue. Two people were hurt after a boat ran ashore in Atlantic Beach out on the coast. See here where that boat is stuck there on the sand? This happened Saturday night around six investigators say the boat was traveling fast. When it ran into the shore there, the two people were on the boat when this happened. Both were taken to the hospital with minor injuries. It's been six years since Rocky Mountain Police Officer Christopher Driver died on the job. Officer Driver got into a crash in his patrol car while responding to a call in 2018. The police department said on Facebook that Officer Driver was a true hero who embodied the finest qualities of the law enforcement officer. Andrew Capobianco from Holly Springs is headed to Paris this summer. He made the Team USA dive team. He won the men's three-meters springboard competition at the Olympic trials on Sunday. Capobianco won a silver medal in synchronized springboard at the Tokyo Games three years ago. A former NC State swimmer, Ryan Held, is heading back to the Olympics the 28-year-old. He officially became a member of the team Saturday night in the four-by- 100-meter freestyle relay. He captured a gold medal in the four-by-100-free relay at the 2016 Rio Games with Michael Phelps on his squad through to roster limitation during the 2021 Olympics. Held didn't make the team. That motivated him to keep training and he's on his way back. The U.S. Olympic teams are bringing their own air conditioners to Paris for the summer games. However, organizers say the rooms in the athlete's village have cooling floors. They'll also have their own fans. U.S. officials say they want to keep athletes comfortable and help them remain consistent. Germany, Australia, Italy, Canada and Britain may also bring their own AC. Chicago's most iconic tourist attraction is finally reopening. Cloud gates, also known as the Bean, had been closed off for nearly a year so workers could renovate the surrounding plaza. The new renovations include new stairs, accessible ramps and a waterproofing system. 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