carolina wants this. And we should have done this and been a clear cut issue years ago. If they want to continue the war on cannabis and south carolina. That's fine. But can we at least agree to get the sick, dying and ill off the battlefield? Enforcement and other groups against medical cannabis say without fda approval, they remain against it in the state. In north carolina, lawmakers are still deciding whether to legalize medical marijuana in the tar heel, state state senators passed the compassionate care act last month. It faces a second senate vote before going to house lawmakers. The measure would allow doctors to prescribe medical cannabis to patients to treat and manage debilitating conditions and control. Don't save lives. Researchers in north carolina hope to have that answer soon. They're looking into ways drones could help people experiencing cardiac arrest. Only 10% of people survive that type of medical emergency, meaning every second counts cardiologist from duke or teaming up with drone engineers to work on a way to make defibrillators more affordable. Researchers say they could be placed at multiple locations in each county and arrive using a drone even before e. M s. The goal would be for the 9911 operator to be able to walk the bystander through whatever procedures they need, whether that's approaching the drone or simply collecting the defibrillator. Still some hurdles right now, drone operators have to see the drone wallets flying, which wouldn't be possible when responding to 911 calls. Drones are also limited by weather conditions. But if you're flying a drone today, you're going to have clear skies, right. Alisa com wins the drone pilots definitely have had a hard time with the with them yesterday with the wind, so breezy, dry roads right now on independence boulevard. We've got some clear skies 49 degrees a little bit of a cool or start by 15 to 20 degrees in most locations, so a little bit of a bite, and a chilling near this morning is 49 degrees in charlotte, 46. In statesville. Just above freezing up in the high country, where for the most part are winds have really relaxed down to 5 to 10 mph still finding some wind gusts up to 30 mph in boone, so still a little bit breezy, but not nearly as gusty is yesterday were gus top, 50 60, even 70 mph in some of the highest peaks in the backyard. Today you'll find lance's sunshine temperatures climbing into the middle number sixty's pretty seasonal for this time of year. Really nice. March day ahead beautiful with the wider winds. Again numbers in the middle and upper sixties. We will find sunshine today, but rain returns tomorrow. Take a look at that. The showers for you in just a few minutes. Queen city news is visiting your hometown. Our latest stop. Sharaa, south carolina marine word spent the last several weeks finding interesting stories in the community. Here's her latest about local journalists sharing the news using an old school method. I wanted to be the scrapbook of the county. It's a blur from start to finish, but the words are perfectly fit into columns. The pages folded and stacked with precision. A modern day printing press proudly put on by the journalists who decided this news was worth writing down. A lot of communities are losing their local paper. If you ask jane pig, she was always a journalist even back when she was 1/4 grader making her radio debut and I found out well, I can talk faster than I can tied. So I believe I'll do broadcast for many years to had a hometown paper until everything slowed down in the early two thousands and the paper was sold. They got rid of people who had been with him for 20 years. 30 years long time, but this story doesn't have that typical ending because there's jane and joan yates. The residents of the county are creating the history of the county. But we are preserving it . The two of them and the other journalists who had been let go, got together and formed a newspaper that partners with the local radio station. You're listening to classic hits 93.9, which jane owns the stories that we tell our your stories. The stories are printed weekly. On a paper with a name that does exactly what paper is meant to do. Oh, I can never remember the name of the newspaper. And we just say it's the length the link. It's like a leak. You know you're all linked up and you're linked around and the late newspaper brings everything together. Call it old school, but from the writers to the people they write about captured in the columns is a sense. Of home. That was maureen worth