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>>> Good sunday morning thank you for starting the day with us here on global. They are all runners taking off you can show them on from the comfort of your home this morning 13,000 out there raising. 6 degrees and partly cloudy right now and calgary warming up to a high of 15 degrees today with a little bit more rain on the way. In and around the city to pitchers bearing -- varying. This is how the day we'll break down. Over the noon hour we will be at about 13 degrees partly cloudy. In the afternoon around 2:00 we will see some rain arriving in the calgary region once again. That will come with some strong winds. Today northwest winds at 20 km/h gusting up to 40. You will definitely feel it out and about. The rain continues into the evening hours and than clears overnight getting down to 6 degrees paving the way for a very clear and sunny monday. Finally a dry day in store for us as we welcome a new work week, school week in the last week of may. Lens -- wind speeds around the region, up to 46 in lethbridge. We will experience a bit of that later. Across the southern part of the province a look at the current temperatures. We have some rain moving to the area today looking at a hive 17. This is the rain that will move through around 2:30 pm you can see it passing through the calgary region. It will continue in the evening and clear overnight paving the way for the beautiful week ahead. So this is really it acclimated through that stretch of rain and thanks are going to start to change throughout the next couple days starting off tomorrow with all that sunshine. Here's a look at red deer and banff with conditions and temperatures to start the week. Normal high in calgary this time of year is 18. Tuesday 23 the warmest day of the week before things cool down and rain expected later this week. Tracy. >> Tracy: thank you courtney. Calgary police are asking for help to find a missing woman from the northwest community of sage hill. At 22-year-old lexi last seen friday afternoon in sage hill terrace. Family and police are concerned for her well-being. Anyone with information is asked to contact -- police. You might live in an area with logic and bills. Over the past 2 years a lot of homes have been demolished to make way for nuance. Only 61 of them were saved and moved to another location at a time we are experiencing housing crisis. Carolyn kury de castillo witnessed the painstaking process of moving an entire home. >> Reporter: houses are coming down throughout calgary's inner city to make way for do homes, but in this case the 1950s bone below has been spared. It's about to hit the road taking a trip to newtown. -- 1950s bungalow. >> People are looking for good quality recycled homes but mack the team comes into strip the basement and later beams are inserted and checked the house up to get it off the foundation with a blocking system that looks like agenda again. Workers raise it with a hydraulic jack system. In this case they spun it around to save his city tree. From there it is slid out and put on beams that it will travel on. Loads of permits and prep work happen before the move ensuring the house fits underwires and cars are not parked on the route. Business has shifted over the years they say from moving buildings and barns to recycling houses. >> 18 years ago we may be used to do 30 sent mack -- 30% of that and now is probably 80% apart business is recycled house sales. Everything is so expensive so to be able to find a home and had it set up for a fraction of the cost of building or buying new is huge. >> Reporter: she said it can be in the news -- owner's best interest to have them home moved but not every home is wanted. They have to reject many because of their condition. Tons of waste is spared from going into landfills by moving a home. She said it will make sense for incentives to be offered to homeowners to recycle. >> Not only our company, our friend the affiliates and also for landowners saving these companies if there would be some type of, something available that would help in the process to make it happen even more. >> Reporter: it's hard to catch a glimpse of house travel through the city because they slip through the middle of the night. This 1 road down mcknight boulevard friday and south to community near taber where another family we'll soon call the house there home. Carolyn kury de castillo global news.

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