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WRAL's award winning documentary unit is checking in with the people and stories at the heart of our most impactful 2023 documentaries.

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A new 30-minute show, "WRAL Docs 2023: Where Are They Now?," premieres December 25, 2023, and features new interviews with some of the most memorable people in our films.<br>

Several of the hurricane victims in our documentary, "<a href="https://www.wral.com/video/wral-doc-aftermath-north-carolina-hurricane-victims-left-behind/20627163/">Aftermath: North Carolina Hurricane Victims Left Behind</a>," are finally back home after waiting years for help and answers from a state program.<br>

“These are the moments and stories that never leave you,” said WRAL Investigative Documentary Reporter Cristin Severance who leads the WRAL Doc unit. “We were there when Franklin Jones, a Hurricane Matthew and Florence survivor, was at his lowest point. He tearfully told us he could not take living in a hotel any longer. A year later, Jones and his wife are finally back home, and their new house is beautiful. It’s an honor to share these hopeful moments with our viewers.”

Severance and WRAL Documentary Photojournalist Dwayne Myers check in with the mother in our <a href="https://www.wral.com/video/wral-documentary-critical-term-why-are-black-mothers-and-babies-dying/20482409/">"Critical Term: Why are Black mothers and babies dying?"</a> documentary who delivered a baby boy, Denver, on camera at UNC Women’s Hospital in Chapel Hill.

Our WRAL Doc Unit is sharing new stories from some of their most powerful documentaries over the last year. 

SOUTH WILMINGTON STREET CENTER IN RALEIGH. >> HOW WRAL DOC UNIT IS SHARING NEW STORIES FROM SOME OF THE MOST POWERFUL DOCUMENTARIES OVER THE LAST YEAR. WRAL, INVESTIGATIVE DOCUMENTARY REPORTER KRISTEN 7. SO IT IS NOW JUST TALK ABOUT THE BRAND-NEW SPECIAL CALLED, WHERE ARE THEY NOW, AARON CHRISTMAS DAY, CHRIS, AND GREAT TO SEE YOU AT THE SCENE. LOOKING BACK OF THESE POWERFUL STORIES. WALK US THROUGH SOME OF THE ONES THAT HAVE STOOD UP CAN ALL OF THEM REALLY STICK WITH YOU? IT WAS AMAZING TO REALLY CHECK BACK IN TO SEE HOW SOME OF THE PEOPLE IN OUR DOCUMENTARIES ARE DOING. >> IF YOU REMEMBER CRITICAL TIME WAS A DOCUMENTARY. I REPORTED ON WITH WRAL ANCHOR JULIAN GRACE. WE INVESTIGATED THE MATERNAL AND INFANT MORTALITY CRISIS IN THE U.S. AND SET OUT TO UNCOVER WHY BLACK MOMS AND BABIES ARE DYING MORE THAN ANY OTHER RACE. YOU KNOW, BLACK MOMS ARE TWICE AS LIKELY TO DIE IN NORTH CAROLINA FROM PREGNANCY RELATED COMPLICATIONS COMPARED TO WHITE MOMS. DONAHUE'S WAS A PREGNANT MOM IN OUR DOCUMENTARY. SHE WAS PART OF THIS PROGRAM FOR UNC, DUKE AND VANDERBILT THAT PAIRED MOMS WITH DUAL US AND THE DOULA, IF YOU DON'T KNOW IS BASICALLY A COACH FOR MOM, HER ADVOCATED PARTNER THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE PREGNANCY. WELL, IF YOU REMEMBER, WE WERE THERE WHEN DAY ON A GAVE BIRTH TO HER SON, DENVER. IT WAS AN ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE EXPERIENCE. BUT IT WAS ALSO SCARY. YOU KNOW, JAY JENNINGS, LONGTIME WRAL PHOTOGRAPHER WAS THERE IN THE HOSPITAL ROOM DURING THE BIRTH. AND THERE WAS A SCARE, YOU KNOW, DAY ON A SHE'D LOST A LOT OF BLOOD DOCTORS AND NURSES HAD TO BE CALLED IN TO SAVE HER. AND WE TALK TODAY AND HER NURSE MIDWIFE, THE NEW STANDARD ABOUT THE NIGHT THE DENVER WAS BORN IN OUR SHOW AIRING ON CHRISTMAS. HERE'S JUST A SMALL SNIPPET FROM THE SHOW. >> DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE QUITE HAVING VENUS AND YOUR TO LIVE THERE? WHAT DO YOU THINK THAT MEANT THAT NIGHT? I FEEL LIKE IF THEY WEREN'T THERE, THIS WILL BE A TOTALLY DIFFERENT OUTCOME. ISLAND GETS IN HERE. TALKING TO YOU RIGHT NOW. >> BECAUSE SHE LISTENED THAT HORRIFIC. SOMETHING DOES NOT FEEL IT. I DON'T FEEL RIGHT. SHE SAID I KNOW YOU BELIEVE IN MORE NOW LIKE I CAN STOP. I JUST NEED TERM. JUST HAVE TO STOP IT. AND I WAS LIKE, I DON'T I DON'T KNOW. FEEL LIKE I'M GOING MAKE IT THROUGH. SO IT WAS IT WAS AT THE TOURNAMENT WITH ROUTE. WAS KIND OF SCARED. IAND NEVER GET TO SEE MY FUNDING IN MY HE SAID THEY'RE NOT GOING. I'M NOT GOING TO BE HERE TO RAISE MY SON A THING, IF YOU WILL. >> IN THIS PROGRAM SAVE MY DAUGHTER BECAUSE GOD PUT THEM IN HER IN HER PAST. I JUST BELIEVE THE GUY PUT EVERYONE IN PLACE IT WAS LIKE. AND BEAUTIFUL OR CHRISTIAN OR EVEN A CERTAIN TIME. IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL. ALL QUESTIONS AND BEING WITH IT I GETTING IN. IT'S I CAN'T PUT INTO WORDS BECAUSE THERE IS NO WORDS BUT HOW SHE ONE OVER. I KNOW THAT LITTLE BOY. I DON'T KNOW LIKE HE IS. HE'S AMAZING. HE'S AWESOME. HE'S VERY AND HE SAYS. HE JUST MAKES MY DAY AND I AM SO GRATEFUL THAT HE'S HERE AND I'M GRATEFUL THAT MY DAUGHTER IS HERE JUST TO WITNESS. ONE GUY GAVE HER. I REMEMBER HOW MOVING THAT WAS. I KNOW IN TO SEE HIM. NO. AND I MEAN, YOU WERE BOTH PARENTS. YEAH, I JUST I WANT TO CRY. JUST EVEN WATCHING THAT SMALL BUT IT WAS REALLY HEARTWARMING. >> JUST TO SEE WHAT THEY ON IS DOING. SEE HOW DENVER IS DOING IN REALLY TALK ABOUT THAT SCARY MOMENT. YOU KNOW, WHEN WHEN THINGS WILL, WE WEREN'T SURE WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN AND WHAT CAN WE DO THAT STUCK WITH ME WITH A HURRICANE VICTIM? YES, MANY OF THEM. SO WE'RE GOING BACK IN THEIR HOME. WHITES. REMEMBER, THEY WERE WAITING YEARS. DURING THE SHOW, WE DO TALK TO A THEY WERE LIVING IN A HOTEL FOR MONTHS. WE CHECK IN WITH HURRICANE SURVIVORS FROM THE AFTERMATH DOCUMENTARY AND WE ALSO TALKED TO A MOM FROM OUR FENTANYL DOCUMENTARY CALLED CRISIS NEXT DOOR ABOUT HER. REALLY JUST INCREDIBLE STORY OF FORGIVENESS. WHY HOPE PEOPLE CAN WATCH THEY WILL SMILE AND THEY THEY MAY SHED A TEAR. I THINK WE MIGHT HAVE TO HAVE THAT ISSUE ABOUT. YES, KRISTEN, THANKS OF ABSOLUTELY. COME FORWARD TO IT. OF COURSE YOU CAN WATCH WHERE THEY NOW ON CHRISTMAS EVENING AT 07:30PM,

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Christmas Day documentary checks in on people we covered this year

WRAL Documentary: Where are they now?

Our <a href="https://www.wral.com/video/crisis-next-door-spreading-the-word-to-prevent-fentanyl-related-overdose-deaths/20812225/">"Crisis Next Door"</a> documentary investigated the fentanyl epidemic in North Carolina and featured mom Christie Barker Cummings. Christie lost her 18-year-old son Kevin to a fentanyl overdose and forgave the man who sold Kevin the drugs that killed him. Her story of forgiveness and her mission to educate others continues to inspire others.

"The work that the WRAL doc team has done this year is impactful and important," Ashley Talley, WRAL's Enterprise Executive Producer said. "From exposing a broken system that wasn't serving hurricane victims well, to examining the long-standing misconceptions that endanger the lives of Black women and babies, the change Cristin and Dwayne have helped bring about is evident in this latest work."

<h2>Watch "WRAL Docs 2023: Where Are They Now?"</h2>

December 25 at 7:30 p.m on WRAL or on wraldocumentaries.com.

Monday, December 25th at 10:35 p.m. on FOX 50/WRAZ<br>

Sunday, December 31st at 11 a.m. on WILM/Wilmington

All WRAL documentaries are available for on-demand viewing on wraldocumentary.com, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Roku, and Samsung Smart TV.

Watch "WRAL Docs 2023: Where Are They Now?" beginning Monday, December 25th, at 7:30 p.m.

WRAL Documentary: 'Where Are They Now?' updates impactful stories of 2023

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