Name: Concerns mount in Durham over fears of bus driver shortage on Thursday
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Description: Durham Public Schools informed parents Wednesday night that school buses will be impacted by an ongoing shortage of drivers. Drivers stayed home on Wednesday, forcing parents to drive children to and from school.

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Durham Public Schools informed parents Wednesday night that school buses will be impacted by an ongoing shortage of drivers. Drivers stayed home on Wednesday, forcing parents to drive children to and from school.

THOSE COMMUNITIES IN TRANSPORT PEOPLE TO THAT WARMING CENTER. MARC, THANK YOU SO MUCH. >> THE PARENTS ARE PREPARING FOR ANOTHER TOUGH DAY AT THE BUS. STOP IN. THIS IS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE WEATHER TODAY. MORE THAN 50 BUS DRIVERS AND 40 OTHER SCHOOL EMPLOYEES DID NOT SHOW UP FOR WORK. TOMORROW. THE SITUATION IS EXPECTED TO GET WORSE. THE PROBLEM STEMS FROM A SALARY DISPUTE THAT THE SOME SCHOOL EMPLOYEES FOUND OUT THEIR PAY RAISES WOULD BE CUT. TONIGHT, THE SCHOOL SYSTEM SENT A MESSAGE TO PARENTS. THEY SHOULD FIND OTHER WAYS TO GET THEIR CHILDREN TO SCHOOL OF THESE BUSES REMAIN PART. THE ISRAELI DAILY JOINS US LIVE FROM DURHAM. AND WILLIE, PARENTS ARE WORRIED THAT THIS COULD LAST FOR A WHILE. >> YES, JOEL, TONIGHT, A LOT OF PARENTS AND STAFF MEMBERS HAVE VOICED THEIR FRUSTRATION NOW THAT THE STUDENTS ARE BEING IMPACTED BY THE DISTRICT'S MOVED TO RE-EVALUATE THE SALARIES LAST WEEK. THE DISTRICT NOTIFIED EMPLOYEES THAT SOME SALARIES WOULD BE LOWERED AFTER THE SCHOOL SYSTEM SAYS SOME STAFF MEMBERS WERE OVERPAID. >> I STAYED ARE GOING TO BE CONTINUING WAS IMPACTED. IF WE DO TAKE OUR EDUCATIONAL, OUR KIDS EDUCATION SERIOUSLY >> TODAY, DURHAM, PUBLIC SCHOOLS REQUESTED THAT PARENTS PICK UP AND DROP OFF STUDENTS DUE TO THE ONGOING DRIVER SHORTAGE. AVIS, LANGLEY IS A DPS BUS DRIVER WHO'S NOT GOING ON STRIKE. >> THEY WERE GIVEN. >> ARE BEING TAKEN THERE, BUT THAT THEY DID AND THEY WERE OVERPAID OR THEIR BRAINS WERE TOO HIGH LATELY TELLS WRAL THAT SCHOOL STAFF WORK A LOT AND SHOULD BE COMPENSATED FAIRLY, WHICH IS WHY CERTAIN EMPLOYEES ARE STRIKING. >> KEEPERS. WHICH IS LIKE ALL THE PERSONNEL AND SO WHAT IS IT TOO LATE? LEE SAYS ALL THESE JOBS ARE CRUCIAL FOR SCHOOLS TO RUN PROPERLY. AND THE DRIVER OUT THAT MECHANIC, THEY BELIEVE IN OUR BUDGET AREN'T SUPPOSED TO >> AND WITHOUT PROVIDING HAVE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO? A TURQUOISE PARKER, THE MEDIA COORDINATOR AT LAKEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TELLS ME THAT THE PAY ISSUE ISN'T JUST IMPACTING STAFF. IT'S HURTING THE STUDENTS. THEY'RE MISSING SOME IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS. THEY'RE MISSING BREAK HIS AND LIKE AND THEY'RE MISSING AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE AROUND THEIR PEERS. >> DURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT APOLOGIZED TO EMPLOYEES. IT SAID HE AND OTHER LEADERS ARE WORKING TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM. I JUST GOT OFF THE PHONE WITH AN INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANT WITH DURHAM, PUBLIC SCHOOLS, AND HE TOLD ME THAT HE AND OTHER STAFF MEMBERS WILL BE MEETING AT THE STAFF DEVELOPMENT CENTER TOMORROW MORNING TO VOICE THEIR FRUSTRATIONS IN PERSON IN DURHAM, A LEAD. AND ALI WRAL NEWS. >> ALRIGHT, WILLIE DENULLY REPORTING LIVE FOR US IN DURHAM. THANK YOU. NOW FOR THE VERY LATEST ON THE IMPACTS OF THE BUS DRIVER SHORTAGE IN

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Hi, everyone. Meteorologist Anthony Baglione here in the Wral Severe Weather Center. Let's talk about our forecast as we head into the upcoming week. As we head past this weekend, we have a couple of things there, what we're tracking as far as sunshine returning. So it's been definitely kind of a cloudy weekend for most of us on the whole. Should be a very pleasant start to the week though. Some sunshine getting through warmer temperatures, nineties by the time we get into our Thursday and then a holiday weekend, rain chances very early starting on, let's say Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. We're just tracking the potential for some rain heading into the holiday weekend. I'll talk about that here in just a second. Otherwise, let's talk about what we're looking at here. Future cast wise, there could be a spotty Sprinkle as we get into tonight for the most part though. Uh, just about everyone's quiet. Something to keep in mind though. There could be some fog out there for your Monday morning commute. We should start off with a little bit of fog. We'll start off with partly cloudy skies and really keep a mix of sun and clouds through the majority of the day. It'll be dry though to start the week and actually a pretty good day. If you want to just enjoy out on the patio or something, it should be fine. Maybe firing up the grill tomorrow night. Sounds kind of good. We go to 80 degrees for a high temperature tomorrow. 76 at seven o'clock. And then we start to see a warm up once again. 84 on Tuesday, 88 on Wednesday, we should hit 91 by the time we get to our Thursday 86 on Friday. And I know a lot of times when that heat kind of comes back into the forecast that begs the question, is it gonna feel gross as you walk outside? I really don't think it will the next couple of days it does get back in the humid kind of category though for us Thursday, Friday, we're not quite too tropical where we could be during the summertime months. But I think for our Monday, Tuesday, even into Wednesday, it should feel fine as you're headed out. Just a little bit of humidity. There's what we're looking at here the next seven days. 80 on our Monday, 84 on Tuesday, we go to 88 Wednesday 91 Thursday. You see those rain chances starting to come in there. Thursday, Thursday night, a stray shower or a thunderstorm. The best chances at the this point look to come in Friday night, Saturday during the morning, we may get a break. Saturday afternoon, Sunday afternoon doesn't look like total drenching conditions, but just enough where if you're traveling, you may want to keep an eye on the forecast here with a couple of chances of showers and storms.

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