SUPPLY, N.C. — A day after confirming he wouldn’t be a candidate for Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said Tuesday at a public event that he’s excited that Democrats “have a lot of great options for her to choose from.”
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North Carolina climatologist breaks down how climate change affects severe weather
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GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) – Highly effective storms are sweeping throughout Louisiana and different areas of the South throughout a time of 12 months that’s significantly uncommon.
WITN Meteorologist Jim Howard says, “I simply assume it’s distinctive to take a look at a storm in December and seeing this many tornadoes.”
Howard additionally explains what the devastating climate is brought on by. “Chilly air, heat air, clashing collectively. Completely different wind instructions, completely different speeds, causes rotations within the ambiance and we definitely had that with this storm.”
Completely different air temperatures aren’t the one issue in keeping with North Carolina climatologist, Corey Davis.
Davis says, “What we’re beginning to see now in local weather change is that even in the course of the winter time, these airmasses which might be forming like over the gulf of Mexico and off to our South can nonetheless be pretty heat and really tropical virtually and that may pull airmasses from the North and create this extreme climate surroundings in the course of the occasions of the 12 months the place we simply actually by no means needed to fear in regards to the form of influence prior to now.”
Specialists additionally say seeing programs as damaging as these latest storms is uncommon. “Nationwide, December is essentially the most quiet month out of all of the months. The typical variety of tornadoes in December in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama is about three tornadoes all through the month of December on common. We’ve acquired 35 twister studies yesterday, it was fairly an outbreak, definitely by December requirements,” Howard explains.
Although this isn’t the form of climate anybody needs to see, Davis anticipates extra. “We do anticipate to see that these so referred to as off seasons extreme climate occasions taking place in the course of the wintertime will grow to be extra widespread. We’re already seeing that these shoulder seasons, the autumn and the spring, are going to encroach in our wintertime.”
Together with the acute extreme climate Louisiana is experiencing, right here within the East, we’re additionally at present seeing rain from the identical system that might in return assist the drought we’re seeing in our space in keeping with the U.S. Drought Monitor.
That is the second December in a row we’re seeing devastating tornadoes.
Final 12 months, a twister killed a complete of 57 folks throughout its unusually lengthy trek via Western Kentucky.
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Thousands of school buildings in North Carolina, including many in Wake County, do not have carbon monoxide detectors.
On Wednesday, state schools leaders will look at how to address that. Talks are happening inside the state education building about ways to keep your student safe.
On Wednesday, we’ll get a breakdown of what it would take to install carbon monoxide detectors in schools.
State education leaders will be reviewing a report Wednesday afternoon. It shows most North Carolina schools don’t have them.
In Wake County, about 200 school buildings don’t have the devices. That’s more than a third of school buildings in the county. It would cost about $2.1 million to get them installed. It would cost $40 million to install them in schools across the state.
Nikki James Zellner with CO Safe Schools said not having these detectors puts children at risk.
“We think that we’re protected when we’re going into these establishments,” she said. “We think that our children are protected, but in reality, we’re relying on institutional standards that haven’t really been updated in a significant amount of time.”
Cooper, barred by term limits from seeking reelection this year, had been among roughly a dozen potential contenders that Harris’ team was initially looking at for a vice presidential pick. He’s been a surrogate for President Joe Biden’s reelection bid and now for Harris.
“I am going to work every day to see that she is elected,” Cooper told WECT-TV. “I believe that she will win, and I look forward to this campaign because she has the right message and she is the right person for this country.”
In making his decision, Cooper confirmed Tuesday that he was concerned in part about what Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson could do if he left the state to campaign as part of the Democratic ticket. The state constitution says that “during the absence of the Governor from the State … the Lieutenant Governor shall be Acting Governor.” Robinson is running for governor this fall.
“We had concerns that he would try to seize the limelight because there would be a lot, if I were the vice presidential candidate, on him, and that would be a real distraction to the presidential campaign,” Cooper said.
Cooper pointed to when he traveled to Japan last fall on an economic development trip. As acting governor at the time, Robinson held a news conference during his absence to announce he had issued a “NC Solidarity with Israel Week” proclamation after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack inside the country.
Cooper also said Tuesday that he informed Harris’ campaign “early in the process” that he would not be a candidate, but that he didn’t reveal publicly that decision at first so as not to dampen enthusiasm for Harris within the party.
“My name had already been prominently put into the media and so I did not want to cause any problems for her or to slow her great momentum,” he told WRAL-TV while in Supply, located about 160 miles (258 kilometers) south of Raleigh. Cooper said he announced his decision when “there had begun to be a lot of speculation about the fact that I was not going to be in the pool of candidates, and in order to avoid the distraction of the speculation.”
Tuesday’s event at Green Swamp Preserve celebrated a $421 million grant for projects in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland to reduce climate pollution. The money will be used to preserve, enhance or restore coastal habitats, forests and farmland, Cooper’s office said.
The state of North Carolina is uber-important to the Tennessee Volunteers on the recruiting trail and should only get more important in the coming years.
The Tennessee Volunteers are currently on a hot streak on the recruiting trail. They added commitments from Toombs County safety Lagonza Hayward and Derby High School tight end Da’Saahn Brame over the weekend, putting them at the No. 8 overall class in the 2025 cycle. They still have several important announcements in the near future, several from the state of North Carolina.
The Vols have been adamant about successfully recruiting the state of North Carolina for years, and as more blue-chip talent continues to come from the Tarheel state, the more Tennessee will spend its time within that footprint. They’re firmly in the race for Providence Day School offensive tackle David Sanders Jr., who ranks as the No. 2 prospect in the 2025 class. He announces his decision on August 17th, and the North Carolina native is quite high on the Vols.
Additionally, Grimsley High School quarterback Faizon Brandon decides between Alabama, LSU, North Carolina State, and Tennessee this weekend. The No. 9 prospect in the 2026 class also hails from North Carolina and is Tennessee’s top target at the quarterback position.
There are plenty of examples of future standouts coming from the state and past ones who’ve made an impact at the University of Tennessee – the school’s first 1,000-yard rusher since 2015 was North Carolina native Jaylen Wright, who was selected in the fourth round of the 2024 NFL Draft by the Miami Dolphins. Tennessee head coach Josh Heupel met with the media ahead of fall camp and discussed why they continue investing so much in the state.
“It is a border state,” Heupel explained to media on Tuesday. “For us, we believe and look at it and view it as part of our footprint. We are intentional in how we recruit that state.”
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