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RIGHT NOW. ALL ACROSS OUR STATE AND HERE IN THE TRIAD. PEOPLE ARE STUCK IN LINE AT THE DMV. HOW YOU CAN MAKE GETTING AN APPOINTMENT A LITTLE EASIER. PLUS, MOSQUITO BORNE VIRUSES ON THE RISE UP AND DOWN THE EAST COAST. WHAT TO DO TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND HOW LOCAL HEALTH LEADERS TRACK THESE ILLNESSES. OH, LORD, ITS JUST SOMETHING YOU CANT EVEN EXPLAIN. ITS JUST SCARY. BEARS ARE ON THE MOVE FROM THE WOODS TO THE FRONT PORCHES AND TRASH CANS. HOW TO MAKE SURE A BEAR DOESNT MAKE ITSELF RIGHT AT HOME AT YOUR HOME. GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. IF YOU HAD TROUBLE RENEWING YOUR DRIVERS LICENSE RECENTLY, YOURE NOT ALONE. SLOWDOWNS ACROSS THE STATE AND IN THE PIEDMONT TRIAD SPECIFICALLY, ARE PUSHING BACK APPOINTMENTS AND WAIT TIMES FOR WALK INS ARE UP. WXII 12 SARAH SOWERS HAS MORE ON WHAT YOU CAN DO TO MAKE THE PROCESS A. LITTLE BIT EASIER WITH APPOINTMENTS FOR IN-PERSON LICENSE RENEWAL BOOKED OUT THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NOVEMBER, SOME RESIDENTS ARE FRUSTRATED BY THE ENTIRE DMV PROCESS. SUMMER AND BACK TO SCHOOL IS THE BUSIEST TIME OF YEAR FOR RENEWING LICENSES, SAYS MARTY HOMAN WITH THE NORTH CAROLINA DMV. HE SAYS OFFICES ARE INUNDATED WITH NEW NORTH CAROLINA RESIDENTS BOOKING APPOINTMENTS AND NO ADDITIONAL STAFF POSITIONS IN PLACE TO SUPPORT THE INCREASED NEED. ITS KIND OF A NUMBERS GAME. YOU KNOW, THERE ARE ONLY SO MANY PEOPLE THAT THAT WE CAN GET IN A DAY TAKING CARE OF WITH THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THAT WE HAVE. OUR STAFF IS WORKING AS HARD AS THEY CAN, TRYING TO PROCESS AS MANY PEOPLE AS THEY CAN. HOMAN SAYS THERE ARE A FEW TIPS TO KEEP IN MIND IF YOU ARE LOOKING TO VISIT THE DMV. DONT WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE TO START THE RENEWAL PROCESS, HOMAN SAYS. TO BRING WATER, SNACKS AND ANTICIPATE A WAIT. IF YOU DONT HAVE AN APPOINTMENT, BE PREPARED FOR RAIN AND HEAT. HAVE ALL NECESSARY MATERIALS WITH YOU. SCAN THE PROVIDED QR CODE TO GET IN THE VIRTUAL QUEUE AND WAIT IN YOUR CAR INSTEAD. IF YOU NEED AN ACCOMMODATION OR A PLACE TO SIT, LET SOMEONE WHO WORKS AT THE DMV KNOW. HOMAN SAYS THERE ARE OPTIONS TO RENEW YOUR LICENSE ONLINE, BUT IF YOU OPT TO GO IN PERSON, HE SUGGESTS MAKING AN APPOINTMENT. REPORTING IN DAVIE COUNTY, SARAH SOWERS, WXII 12 NEWS SARAH THANK YOU. AND IF YOURE LOOKING FOR WAIT TIMES AND APPOINTMENT AVAILABILITY AT LOCAL DMVS, YOU CAN HEAD TO OUR WEBSITE WXII 12.COM, WHERE WE HAVE ALL THE LINKS YOU NEED. YOU ARE LOOKING LIVE AT OUR BELEWS LAKE SKYCAM AFTER A WET, GLOOMY MORNING. A NICE LABOR DAY AFTERNOON AROUND THE PIEDMONT. WE SEE SOME BOATS ON THE WATER THERE AND WERE LOOKING FORWARD TO SOME POSSIBLY COOLER TEMPS. RIGHT, DAVE? YEAH, AND A FAR CRY FROM WHAT WE HAD YESTERDAY ACROSS THE REGION. WE HAD HUMID CONDITIONS AND SOME HEAVY RAINS ACROSS THE REGION YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. WEVE DRIED OUT SOME AND THATS NICE. AFTER WE HAD A FEW CLOUDS, LITTLE FOG, LITTLE SPRINKLE EARLY THIS MORNING. BUT NOW TEMPERATURES NOT BAD. AND TEMPERATURES IN THE LOW 80S, EVEN SOME MID 80S LIKE IN WINSTON-SALEM AND LEXINGTON WHERE ITS 85 RIGHT NOW, 84 REIDSVILLE BACK OUT IN THE FOOTHILLS INTO THE LOW 80S, 82 IN MOUNT AIRY. AND NOTICE OUR WINDS OUT OF THE EAST AT THE NORTHEAST AT THIS HOUR. SO THATS PROMOTING A LITTLE BIT MORE IN THE WAY OF SOME DRIER WEATHER, AS A COLD FRONT HAS NOW MOVED THROUGH THE REGION AND DRIED US OUT SOME AT 76 UP AT ALLEGHANY COUNTY AND A COMFORTABLE 75 IN BOONE AT THIS HOUR. SATELLITE AND RADAR. PRETTY QUIET. TRY TO GET A FEW SPRINKLES AND SHOWERS GOING UP OVER SOUTHSIDE VIRGINIA A LITTLE EARLIER, BUT THEYRE JUST NOT HOLDING TOGETHER, SO I THINK WELL BE MAINLY DRY THIS EVENING. FEW SHOWERS DOWN TO OUR SOUTH AND EAST ALONG THAT OLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY AS WE GET ON INTO ABOUT 9:00 THIS EVENING. WEVE GOT SOME LATE EVENING LABOR DAY PLANS, MOSTLY DRY IN THE PIEDMONT. MAYBE A STRAY SHOWER IN THE MOUNTAINS OF THE FOOTHILLS THIS EVENING. AND TEMPERATURES WILL FALL INTO THE LOW 70S AND 60S INTO THE MOUNTAINS TOMORROW. LOOKING GOOD. MID 70S, MOSTLY SUNNY, COMFORTABLE, A LITTLE BREEZY TOMORROW AFTERNOON TOO. SOME DRY, PLEASANT DAYS AHEAD AND THEN WEVE GOT ANOTHER CHANCE FOR RAIN LATER THIS WEEK. WELL TALK ABOUT THAT COMING UP IN JUST A LITTLE BIT. ALL RIGHT DAVE THANK YOU. THE END OF SUMMER MEANS THE END OF POOL DAYS. AND OUTDOOR HIKES FOR A LOT OF FAMILIES. AND SOME PEOPLE MAY BE CELEBRATING THE END OF THEIR YEARLY BATTLE WITH MOSQUITOES. WXII 12 S ERIN BURNETT JOINS US IN STUDIO WITH MORE ON THE RISE OF MOSQUITO BORNE ILLNESSES. LOCAL DOCTORS SAY THERE HAS BEEN A RISE IN THE WEST NILE AND EASTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES UP AND DOWN THE EAST COAST. THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL SAY WEST NILE IS THE LEADING CAUSE OF MOSQUITO BORNE ILLNESSES IN THE U.S., AND THOUGH COMMONLY SEEN IN BIRDS AND HORSES, EASTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS IS A RARE INFECTION THAT CAN CAUSE INFLAMMATION IN THE BRAIN AND EVEN SEIZURES. EXPERTS SAY. BOTH VIRUSES CAN CAUSE SYMPTOMS LIKE FEVER, HEADACHE, VOMITING, AND DIARRHEA. WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE INFECTIOUS DISEASE EXPERT DOCTOR CHRISTOPHER UHL SAYS WHILE MOSQUITOES HERE IN NORTH CAROLINA HAVE TESTED POSITIVE FOR WEST NILE, HES NOT TOO CONCERNED. EVERY YEAR WE MONITOR OUR MOSQUITOES TO SEE IF WE GET IT. IT DOESNT SEEM LIKE THERES REALLY ANY MORE ACTIVITY OF WEST NILE THIS YEAR. IN PREVIOUS YEARS, BUT WELL HAVE TO SEE AS WE GET INTO THE EARLY FALL. SO FAR THIS YEAR, THE CDC HAS REPORTED THREE CASES OF WEST NILE VIRUS IN NORTH CAROLINA AND NO CASES OF EASTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS. THEY SAY THERES CURRENTLY NO VACCINE FOR EITHER VIRUS. AS WE HEAD INTO FALL, THE EXPERTS RECOMMEND USING BUG SPRAY WEARING LONG SLEEVES AND TREATING FOR MOSQUITOES IN YOUR HOME. IN THE STUDIO, IM ERIN BURNETT, WXII 12 NEWS. ERIN. THANK YOU. HERES AN UPDATE TO A STORY WE FIRST BROUGHT YOU SUNDAY. A MAN HAS DIED AFTER A SHOOTING IN GREENSBORO. THIS HAPPENED AROUND 615 SUNDAY MORNING. POLICE SAY OFFICERS FOUND 21 YEAR OLD JOSEPH MINOR SHOT MULTIPLE TIMES ON THE GROUND FLOOR PARKING DECK OF THE DOWNTOWN MARRIOTT HOTEL ON NORTH GREEN STREET. MINOR WAS TAKEN TO A HOSPITAL WHERE OFFICERS SAY HE DIED FROM HIS INJURIES. NO DETAILS HAVE BEEN RELEASED ABOUT A POSSIBLE SUSPECT OR MOTIVE IN THE SHOOTING. AND COMMITMENT 2024. NOW WE ARE 63 DAYS AWAY FROM ELECTION DAY. THE LATEST POLLING FROM THE REAL CLEAR POLITICS POLL AVERAGE SHOWS KAMALA HARRIS AND DONALD TRUMP WITHIN A PERCENTAGE POINT OF EACH OTHER. WXII 12 KELLY KENDALL SPOKE WITH VOTERS AND KELLY, HOW DO THEY FEEL ABOUT THIS RACE? I SPOKE WITH VOTERS ON BOTH SIDES AND THEY SHARED A COMMON SENTIMENT WITH LESS THAN 70 DAYS TO GO, THEY WANT TO SEE MORE POLICY AND LESS PERSONALITY. DIFFERENT VOTERS. IM A REPUBLICAN. ILL PROBABLY BE VOTING DEMOCRATIC FOR BOTH ELECTIONS. IM LOOKING AT BOTH CANDIDATES WITH DIFFERENT ISSUES. IMMIGRATION AND WHAT IMMIGRATION IS DOING TO OUR SCHOOL SYSTEMS. ABORTION RIGHTS. FINANCIALLY, I NEED TO NOT PAY. SO MUCH AT THE GROCERY STORE. WITH THE VICE PRESIDENT AND FORMER PRESIDENT POLLING SO CLOSELY. IT COULD BE UP TO THESE VOTERS TO DECIDE WHO WILL TAKE THE OVAL OFFICE. NORTH CAROLINA IS LIKELY TO CONTINUE, AT LEAST FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE, TO ATTRACT ATTENTION FROM BOTH OF THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS AND THATS SIGNIFICANT. ITS ITS POSSIBLE TO SEE NORTH CAROLINA BEING THE PIVOTAL STATE. DOCTOR JOHN DYNAN, A POLITICAL SCIENCE PROFESSOR AT WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY, SAYS AT THIS POINT, THE RACE IS A TOSS UP IN THIS, HARRIS TRUMP MATCHUP. YOU CAN SEE A PATH TO VICTORY FOR BOTH. I THINK THE DEBATE, IF ITS DONE PROPERLY, MIGHT GIVE TRUMP A BUMP. I THINK HES BETTER AT THATTHAN HARRIS IS BY FAR. I WASNT THAT CONFIDENT BEFORE WE MADE THE SWITCH TO KAMALA, BUT I THINK ONCE SHE SWITCHED, IVE BEEN DEFINITELY FEELING THE MOMENTUM PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT, DYNAN SAYS. THE NEXT BIG ELECTION EVENT WILL BE THE SEPTEMBER 10TH DEBATE, AND THESE VOTERS ARE READY FOR IT. THEY SAY THEY WANT TO HEAR POLICY, NOT POLITICS. IM LOOKING FOR HIM TO DO AWAY WITH ALL THE HYPE THAT HE IS KNOWN FOR, AND REALLY TELL US THIS IS WHAT IM GOING TO DO AND STICK TO IT AND DO IT, EVEN THOUGH THEY LABELED HER AS BEING A BLACK WOMAN AND I AM A BLACK WOMAN, THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. ITS WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR THIS COUNTRY. DYNAN SAYS VOTER TURNOUT, ENTHUSIASM AND LATE BREAKING DEVELOPMENTS WILL ULTIMATELY DECIDE WHO WINS THIS RACE. BUT HE SAYS BOTH CANDIDATES HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO COURT VOTERS, ESPECIALLY HERE IN NORTH CAROLINA. REPORTING IN WINSTON-SALEM. IM KELLY KENDALL, WXII 12 NEWS. KELLY THANK YOU. FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP WILL RETURN TO NORTH CAROLINA THIS WEEK. HIS CAMPAIGN SAYS HE WILL BE IN CHARLOTTE TO SPEAK AT THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICES NATIONAL BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING. THAT EVENT BEGINS WEDNESDAY. IT RUNS THROUGH SUNDAY. TRUMP IS EXPECTED TO DELIVER HIS SPEECH ON FRIDAY. LOOKING AHEAD, VOTERS CAN START DECIDING WHICH CANDIDATE THEY WANT TO TAKE OFFICE LATER THIS WEEK. FRIDAY IS THE FIRST DAY. ABSENTEE BALLOTS WILL BEGIN MAILING OUT IN-PERSON EARLY. VOTING BEGINS OCTOBER 17TH. IF YOU ARENT REGISTERED TO VOTE IN NORTH CAROLINA YET, YOU CAN DO SO THE SAME DAY YOU EARLY VOTE. IF YOU PLAN TO CAST A BALLOT ON ELECTION DAY, MAKE SURE YOU ARE REGISTERED TO VOTE BY. OCTOBER 11TH. ISRAELS LABOR COURT HAS RULED THAT A NATIONWIDE STRIKE THAT BEGAN THIS MORNING IN ISRAEL MUST END. THE COUNTRYS BIGGEST UNION VOWED TO SHUT DOWN THE ECONOMY IN A FURIOUS PUSH FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO AGREE TO A CEASE FIRE DEAL AFTER THE DEATHS OF SIX HOSTAGES TAKEN DURING HAMASS OCTOBER SEVENTH TERROR ATTACK. NBCS MATT BRADLEY REPORTS. WELL, THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE DAY THAT BROUGHT THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT AND THE ISRAELI PUBLIC TO ITS KNEES. THERE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A NATIONWIDE STRIKE LASTING ALL DAY, SHUTTING DOWN THE AIRPORT, SNARLING UP CIVIL SERVICES. INSTEAD, WE GOT, YOU KNOW, SOME COMPLICATIONS. BUT AS YOU CAN HEAR, THERES STILL A LOT OF CONSTRUCTION WORK GOING ON. I CAN SEE THE TRAFFIC IS CIRCULATING AS NORMAL. BEN GURION INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT WAS MORE OR LESS OPERATING AS NORMAL WITH A COUPLE OF COMPLICATIONS, AND EVEN JUST NOW WE HEARD THAT A COURT HAS RULED THAT ALL OF THESE STRIKES MUST END. SO IT LOOKS AS THOUGH THIS WAS MOSTLY SYMBOLIC, BUT THAT IS STILL A VERY FORCEFUL EXPRESSION TO THE GOVERNMENT. ALONGSIDE WHAT WE SAW LAST NIGHT, THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE DESCENDING INTO THE STREETS HERE IN TEL AVIV AND IN JERUSALEM AND IN OTHER CITIES LIKE HAIFA, SNARLING UP PUBLIC SQUARES AND TRAFFIC CIRCLES, DEMANDING THAT THE GOVERNMENT COME TO SOME SORT OF DEAL TO RELEASE THOSE REMAINING HOSTAGES IN THE GAZA STRIP. NOW, WHAT SPARKED ALL OF THIS OUTRAGE WAS THE MURDER OF SIX YOUNG PEOPLE, ALL OF THEM 40 AND UNDER IN THE GAZA STRIP, AND THE GRISLY DISCOVERY OF THEIR BODIES BY THE IDF OVER THE WEEKEND. THIS HAS CAUSED SO MUCH ANGER IN THIS COUNTRY, NOT JUST AGAINST HAMAS, BUT ALSO AGAINST PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU. FOLKS HERE ARE DEMANDING THAT THE GOVERNMENT COME TO A DEAL, COMPROMISE WITH HAMAS, TO RELEASE THOSE REMAINING HOSTAGES. AND WE HAVENT HEARD EXACTLY WHATS GOING TO BE HAPPENING NEXT WITH THESE NEGOTIATIONS. ITS UNCLEAR WHETHER THIS FORCEFUL EXPRESSION OF RAGE IS GOING TO MAKE ANY POLITICAL CHANGE, BUT WELL KNOW MORE ABOUT THAT IN THE COMING DAYS AND WEEKS. MATT BRADLEY, NBC NEWS TEL AVIV. AND THIS AFTERNOON, PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU PUSHED BACK AGAINST THAT PRESSURE TO REACH A CEASEFIRE DEAL. IN A PUBLIC ADDRESS, HE SAID HE WOULD CONTINUE TO INSIST ON A DEMAND THAT SRAEL CONTIN