Good morning. It’s Wednesday, October 28th. This is your briefing from Moneen Daley for The News & Observer. Today will have a strong chance of showers throughout the day, with a high of 77 and a low of 66. In our top story: More North Carolina voters have already cast absentee ballots through mail-in and in-person early voting than in all of 2016. A total of about 3.14 million North Carolinians used absentee voting in 2016. And as of Monday, about 3.4 million ballots have been cast in North Carolina with a week to go before Election Day.