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He was transported to UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill after multiple organizations teamed up to pull him to safety.

In Raleigh, WRAL reports State Attorney General Jeff Jackson reached a settlement with multiple chemical companies this week over contamination caused by the dumping of PFAS forever chemicals.

Chemours, DuPont, and Corteva will pay a combined $455 million to resolve the ongoing legal suits, plus another $135 million for cleanup efforts.

Also in Raleigh, all five of the state's living former governors are siding with current Governor Josh Stein in an ongoing legal battle with the General Assembly over the governor's power to oversee executive branch agencies.

After all, who knows how good TCU actually is?

is?The point being, the UNC headlines for once were all football related.

But that pleasant break didn't even last a week, as last Thursday, suspended general manager Michael Lombardi resigned, and WRAL published a bombshell report about the program's internal investigation.

Belichick's press conference Monday turned surreal as reporters grilled the curmudgeonly coach about whether his program truly is compliant with NCAA rules.

What was the TV situation like? Because there were TV and studios across the territory.

WRAL, everybody remembers in Raleigh, was one of the main ones, and that's where Bob Caudill got his start back in the days when Marconi was still in charge of the cameras.

But the other TVs, there was Charlotte, right? Where were TVs?

Every week there was a local TV in Charlotte.

Yeah, there are a lot of upset people inside the North Carolina administration right now about how this is all playing out.

Uh, you got WRAL, uh, wanna get that right, out of the Raleigh area, uh, that has reported multiple investigations have been ongoing, and the questions they are asking involve sex, drugs, and just probably not a little bit of rock and roll.

Uh, they involve Steve Belichick-

Yeah

This isn't just, "Hey, get rid of the kid.

Get rid of Lombardi, and we've cleaned house." There, there's some real stuff here, right? I mean, that's what you're saying here.

WRAL is not reporting these questions being asked for nothing.

And then I would also say-

Yes.

And WRAL also reported on the fact that Steve Belichick, who is Bill Belichick's son, and he is the offensive court, defensive, defensive coordinator for the team.

He has been on medical leave since early August.

And they reported that he apparently had been questioned by lawyers for drug related issues and involvement with players.

It's not great.

So this is...

First of all, not surprising, because at the end of last season, WRAL, which is a local station around Chapel Hill, they've done an amazing job looking into the Belichick era.

A lot of parents talked about the toxic environment there, talked about Steve having some issues in terms of communication with players, talked about Bill not being available.

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Peeling back the curtain.

What led up to UNC football general manager Michael Lombardi resigning? Pat Welter and Chris Lee with WRAL Sports walk us through the month leading up to his resignation.

It's kind of a once-in-a-lifetime story.

We've been a part of the last year-plus of Bill Belichick going back to college.

in that question as well.

So we start looking into it.

I

was planning to move on from this topic, but I only got through the first page of a five page, sorry, four page report by WRAL, which is sort of the 800 pound political gorilla up in Raleigh when it comes to state political coverage.

And I started this at the end of the last hour.

I was trying to get through it all, but I did not.

The headline is already misleading me.

So I knew what I was getting.

Well, I mean, I knew what I was getting when I went to WRAL.

But I know now, OK, this piece is going to be slanted.

I did not know that.

Um, so WRAL did a story a couple of weeks ago- Headline, Cooper, Watley on immig- on immigration: a fight over how to focus enforcement.

And that is false.

Okay? That is false.

"About one million immigrants are estimated to live in North Carolina, including about four hundred forty thousand naturalized U.S. citizens." Okay, well then, w- why are you putting the naturalized citizens group of four hundred forty thousand into the one million immigrants in North Carolina? Why, why are you doing that? Uh, this isn't a question about immigration per se.

This is a question about illegal immigration, but the media constantly conflates the two.

All right, so from this WRAL piece, uh, a million immigrants, but like four hundred forty thousand of them are naturalized U.S. citizens, so like, okay, great, I don't care about the naturalized U.S. citizens.

They obviously did it the right way, so now we're looking at half a million.

She plans to plead not guilty by reasons of insanity.

WRAL's Sean Gallagher has been following this case.

He joins us live.

Sean, we should mention Faust's defense says that this case is eerily similar to a national case, the Lindsey Clancy case out of Massachusetts that's making big headlines.