Youre going to find out what she did for him. I didnt know, i thought they were like strength. Kayla Rock Hill Police take interacting activities to a whole new level. How they spent the evening with kids. Good evening and thank you for joining us on fox 46 news at 10 00. Im kayla ayres. Bill and im bill melugin. The discussion over the Student Assignment plan continues. Point of the plan is to promote diversity at Public Schools and make things more equal for all students. Kayla the board of education lis teachers concerned over the plan. Sam smith is at the meeting, hes joining us live with more. Hi, sam. Reporter good evening, there was a packed house inside the Meeting Chamber today because parents wanted their voices heard. If you couldnt find a seat, you needed to find a place to stand, and there were plenty of people willing to do that tuesday night to address the board is trying to work out the details of the Student Assignment plan. One goal of that plan is reducing the number of schools with high concentrations of poor and high needs children. The board listened to the public on this matter for more than 90 minutes where several people spoke out against it. It does not matter what color the childs skin is or how much money the childs parents have in a bank account. If a child does not have support at home and child is. Reporter if you want to weigh in on the Student Assignment plan, there is a survey available. That survey is available until february 22nd. Sam smith, fox 46 wjzy. Kayla all right, thank you, sam. You can visit the cms website. To participate in the survey, the board expects to vote on the assignment plan in november. If passed, the changes take effect for the 201718 school year. Bill while its definitely chillier in charlotte, the snow is flying just west of the queen city. School closings to tell you about. Ashe, avery and Watauga County schools will be closed due to inclement weather. Well send it over to chief meteorologist brian basham. Where are we expecting snow in the coming days . Brian those folks are going to see snow. Believe it or not, we didnt see a lot in the region. As we take a look whats happening across the area right now. The heaviest snow is down to the south across chester and lancaster counties. Its not been a ton and not accumulations down. Kayla that fire was set intentionally, morgans family believes hes innocent and did not set the fire on purpose. Bill a North Carolina second grade teacher passed away after he was hit by a bus in his own schools parking lot. 25yearold brandon kincaide was hit by a day care bus this morning. Kincaide died at a nearby hospital. He was just in second year of teaching and no students witnessed that incident. North carolina is hitting duke energy with a bigtime fine. For violation surrounding the 2014 coal ash spill of the dan river power plant of eden. Duke energy is reviewing whether or not to challenge that fine. The company argues the Water Quality in the dan river went back to normal right after the spill. Kayla scary moments during tonights unc basketball game where coach roy williams fell during the game against boston college. He was able to walk off the court and helped back to the locker room. Keep it here for the latest on the coachs condition. He was being evaluated in the locker room. The heels won the game with a final score of 6865. The Carolina Panthers cleaned out lockers as they prepare for the offseason and much needed r r. The team is saying farewell to a recordsetting season that took them all the way to the super bowl before coming up just short against the denver bronco. Bill it was right after that, that cam newton made National Headlines by walking out in as josh sims reports, today cam talked about why he did it. Reporter cam newton ripped in the media since sunday night when he cut his post Game Press Conference short and sped out. A game where the offense struggled mightily. Now during the short time, he was at the podium, he moped, he gave very short answers before walking out. Today he had a chance to defend his actions and he was not apologetic at all. Ive been on record it say im a sore loser. Who likes to lose . You show me a good loser, im going to show you a loser. Im not here to its not a popularity contest, im here to win football games. He hates to lose, thats the bottom line. Id much rather have a guy that hates to lose than accept it. You might as well push him out of locker room because you dont want him around. Im proud of who he is as far wish he handled it better or differently . Yes, thats who he is and i understand who the young man is for us. Reporter not only does the coach have his back but teammates. They fully support their quarterback. More heat for cam. People are wondering why he did not dive on the fumble in the Fourth Quarter. Cam is going to explain that later in sports. Bill all new at 10 00, the panthers biggest fan and honorary coach, sixyearold braylon beam returned from the super bowl. His story touched Ellen Degeneres so much, she gave him and his parents a roundtrip ticket to the game. With the panthers loss it was the trip of a lifetime. Braylon stopped to take pictures with fans on his own. He had these final words of wisdom for the panthers to win the super bowl next year. We need to blitz more and hold the ball more. Bill got to love the suggestions right there. The family says the entire football season with the panthers has helped them cope with braylons cancer and optimistic about having four more treatments left. Kayla in the words of panthers tight end greg olsen all good things must come to an end. Olsen posted a collage of shaving off his beard. Olsen says hes relatively clean shaven but as long as the team kept winning, he decided to keep the beard. Charlotte mayor Jennifer Roberts is keeping her promises, since the panthers lost against the broncos, mayor roberts had to wear a Peyton Manning jersey and post a picture on her twitter account. She made the friendly wager with mayor Michael Hancock before the big game. Bill the super bowl ended up going to the dogs, so did the name of a couple of the they lost the bet with denver animal protection, they had to name two of the newest pit bulls after the broncos quarterback and mvp. They sent denver a video introducing their pups. Peyton manning and our other great little pit bull, von miller. Unfortunately, were a little bummed about our panthers losing but always keep our bets. Von already got adopted but twoyearold peyton is still up for adoption. If youre interested in picking him up, contact animal care and control. Kayla something tells me he wont be up for adoption for very long. Die hard panthers fans gathered to welcome the players home, an 8yearold sat among them with hopes of giving a token of appreciation to her favorite quarterback. Bill she felt that cam deserved any kind of trophy. Emily collins introduces us to one of newtons number one fans. Wrestling with her dad, playing with her sister or scoring goals on the soccer field. Kelsey young always has her head in the game. I like to go out there and kick the ball around and have fun and stuff, and my dads my coach and makes it a lot more fun. Reporter kelseys dad is also the one who introduced her to the Carolina Panthers, and ever since her mom misty says her love for the team is undeniable. She loves the panthers in general. But cam, she talks about him all the time. His smile. Hes so cute. Such a good player. Reporter no surprise monday when kelsey decided she would take one of her own soccer trophies to cam from san francisco. Wanted to make him feel better and give him something. Reporter out of 14 trophies lining kelseys shelf, she chose this one because its the one season i felt like i played one of the best seasons, that season i felt i did pretty good that season. Reporter in other words, she had a season similar to cams. But unfortunately, her trophy never made it into his hands. Did you actually get a glimpse of cam . Yeah, kind of. Reporter thats not stopping her from still sending her love. I love you, and i love your smile. Reporter emily collins, fox 46 wjzy. Bill pretty cool girl right there, isnt it . In case you were wondering, kelsey does plan to give cam her trophy. Shes waiting for the right opportunity. You can find everything on the panthers and run to super bowl 50 on our website. Head to fox46charlotte. Com and click on the stories you need to check them out. Kayla here is something you Police Officers dancing and having a blast with local teens. Well take you to rock hill after the break for this exclusive story. Being able to mentor the folks who come through the program and teach them the ropes. Bill playing sports can teach us a lot about teamwork and leadership, but what about working for nascar . Youre going find out why nascar wants previous athletes on their pit team. Kayla voters in New Hampshire made their voices heard tonight. The firstinthenati. Bill welcome back, typically when youre talking to kids and ask them to describe a police officer, youre going to hear words like guns, handcuffs and flashing blue lights. Kayla all of those may be true, for kids in rock hill, they include dance moves, good friends and role models. David sentendrey spent the afternoon at the York County Public Library where this is all going down. Reporter you probably never seen a library quite like this before. Lot of them will cut up with us. Reporter Rock Hill Police officers scott eller is showing off his dance moves. If thats what you want to call them, with teenagers at the York County Public Library. Hes not the only one of rock hills finest rocking out. Reporter normally libraries this library says game night is exactly what everyone needs. And its been a great way to kind of break that barrier between Police Officers and teens. Were not the bad guys in uniforms that they hear about all the time. Reporter these kids enjoy seeing a different side of the officers. I didnt know they were this fun. I thought they were strict. Reporter officers hope to connect with the kids who say there are plenty of police stereotypes. Stone face and they just look angry and intimidating. Reporter and are letting them see a different face of the men and women in blue. Is it good . Yes. This is a good way to bond. Theres another side to law enforcement. Some of the kids, this might be the only happiness they get. Reporter the library says most of these kids are atrisk and game night is keeping them busy. Ill probably be at home watching youtube videos. Laying around watching youtube. And letting them know they have friends. Its shocking and surprised to know we are just like them. Reporter friends they are protecting, serving and playing. In rock hill, david sentendrey, fox 46 wjzy. Kayla he was really getting into it. The York County Public Library received about 1,000 and a gaming grant from the state library which brought about the idea of game night. Bill thats a cool program. You never see side of the cops. Looks like they were having a blast. I loved when the guy had whipped cream launched into his face. Brian had a good comment, what does it is a about our generation, id be home watching youtube. Kayla i dont know. Lets get our accuWeather Forecast from brian. Brian glad they had a good time. We are having a good time, to be in the library any time in the next week or at home or somewhere indoors, extremely uncomfortable temperaturewise. Things are quiet across the snowfall. Its been very light but down to the south, this is lancaster here, north of lancaster, were seeing some light snowfall and then again south of chester, an area that continues to see some light fall as well. Thats going to continue over the next couple of hours. Areas of the north okay, but theyre going to pick up opportunities for snow later on. Headlines, big windchills tomorrow. Then were going to see more mountain snow opportunity, especially on the tennessee side, and the temperatures, well, i hate to say, this no relief through the weekend, if youre thinking about rung around outside, retool the plans. Temperatures extremely cold already. Already freezing across most of the area. Wadesboro and chesterfield, wind up north, teens and 20s across boon and jefferson. Not as bad in the valleys. Good news, relatively light but windchill factors, cold 20s for most of the rest of the area. Now, want to track your windchills here over the next couple days. As you get up and running into school and work tomorrow, 7 42, talking about minus numbers in the north. Teens, low 20s in the southern elevations, hickory about 7. Very cold to get started and wednesday night, Late Wednesday night. Minus 10 and teens for most of the rest of the area here and thursday morning about the same. About 14 here in charlotte as you get up and running, minus 12 numbers in jefferson and boon and thursday in the afternoon, warmer but very, very cold out there. So just buckle in, make sure you have your big coat as you get prepared for the next few days. Want to show you quickly on future cast, we want to continue to see the snow in the northern sections here. We see that the lower elevations should get sunshine over the next couple of days. Theres a saving grace. The only problem is it comes with the wind and high of canada and thats going to keep that wind and cold temperatures just funneling across the area. This is friday were looking at right here but the cold temperatures stick well into sunday as well. 41 for the high tomorrow. 18 for the low on thursday morning, then 40, friday has a chance of showers, light chance at this point. Well track that and talk about the next opportunity to see snow in charlotte in about 10 minutes from right now. Bill sounds good, thank you. Police look for a man who robbed a cpcc student at knifepoint near the merancas campus near noon. Suspect was last seen then, if you have Information ContactHuntersville Police or security. Kayla from rushing the field to fueling cars on the track. Drivers in and pit crew members who display great athleticism are taught the a pit crew coach tells us this is part of nascars drive for Diversity Program. Athletes are recruited, trained and mentored to become drive crew members and pit members. There are 35 athletes and 17 working in the sprint cup series. This program is needed to diversify the sports, basically, you know, we have a small fan base of minorities and, of course, we want to increase that. Kayla phil horton believes the reason athletes stick with the program for the long haul is because of what it provides. Opportunity to learn, opportunity to grow and an added outlet to feed competitive drive. Nascars drive for Diversity Program began in 2004 to attract minority and female athletes to the sport. So she was a miracle just in the fact that she was able to make it out of the delivery room. Bill we already introduced you to miracle baby born right here in charlotte. She only weighed 10 ounces at in the battle of the burgers, jack made a declaration of delicious. He took a stand for handleafed lettuce and freshsliced tomatoes. He formed a Perfect Union between 100 beef, cheese, and mouth. With buttery bakery buns for all and america ate it up. True story. Were making every burger better, like the new double jack. History never tasted so good. Terry bradshaw . What a surprise you know what else is a surprise . Shingles. And how it can hit you out of nowhere. I know. I had it. Cmon lets sit down and talk about it. And did you know that one in three people will get shingles . all no. Thats why im reminding people if you had chickenpox then the shingles virus is already inside you. all oooh. Whos had chickenpox . Scoot over. And look that nasty rash can pop up anywhere and the pain can be even worse than it looks. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist. Kayla one of the worlds smallest surviving babies born in charlotte is finally home from the hospital tonight, Elayah Pegues weighed less than a can of soda, only 10 later, shes 5 pounds 8 ,. We had that coupled with freezing temperatures, the Road Conditions were poor at best. 911 dispatch got a reckless driving call. 26yearold heath woods was heading westbound in a toyota minivan weaving in and out of travel. Traveling in the 60mileanhour range. In a 50mileperhour zone. The office set up a sign hoping to intercept woods once he passed by. Instead woods clipped a car and lost control. And starting to fish tail. Reporter crashing into the officer. Your face and you have no time, the loudest crunch can you imagine. Reporter officer joseph saw the crash and pulled his cruiser nearby. My first thought is i lost i partner. Reporter everyone walked away without major injuries. Shoulder is bruised. Reporter woods was cited without driving without a license or insurance, and reckless driving and burglary and property damage. As for the super bowl. I saw the last ten minutes obviously. Reporter the officers watched the second half and more importantly the officer is still here. Im walking and talking, so cant beat that. Bill coming up, federal judges and the state battle over where to draw the line for two Congressional Districts. Bill recapping top stories, the discussion or the cms Student Assignment plan is designed to promote diversity at all cms schools. The board listened to comments from dozens of parents and teachers concerned over the plan. They talked about the search for a new superintendent. Board voted 54 to extend superintendent clarks contract, it runs through july 31st. Shes hoping to extending her contract if there are no other prospects to fill the role. Kayla the panthers didnt come home with a super bowl trying to change that. Kelsey young was at bank of america stadium. She didnt give a chance to give cam newton her soccer trophy like she wanted but hopes to give it to him soon. Bill when you think of a night at the library, you think of students reading and researching projects, but it was a whole different case in rock hill, thats where it was all about playing games. Officers came together with kids to promote community involvement. The library received 1,000 in a gaming grant and brought about the idea of having a game night. No major surprises on election day. Bernie sanders and donald trump winning the New Hampshire president ial primary. Kayla now the question is will the candidates who fell short continue their campaigns. Joel waldman has more from manchester, New Hampshire. Reporter it was a big night as predicted for Bernie Sanders and donald trump, but could help clear out the crowded republican field. After months of leading in the polls, donald trump winning the firstinthenation primary, the billionaire businessman achieving victory. Make America Great again. Were going to make America Great again. Reporter much of the attention on the second slot, john kasich coming in second with voters showing strong support for marco rubio and ted cruz. Jeb bush and Chris Christie not finding the bump theyre hoping for. Likely theyll find renewed pressure to drop out of race and throw their support to either rubio or kasich. Were going to leave with more delegates than we came in and im going to South Carolina and continue to build. Reporter in the two person democratic race, Bernie Sanders with a win over hillary clinton. Hes hoping a strong showing in the early states will give his campaign momentuma the race moves to the south and west, areas that have supported clinton in the past. What ive done my entire life, showing folks they can meet and well make Real Progress together. Reporter no rest for the weary, republican candidates heading to South Carolina to campaign there while Bernie Sanders heads to new york to meet with the reverend al sharpton. In manchester, New Hampshire, joel waldman, fox news. Kayla with the South Carolina primary just on the horizon, many president ial candidates will be stumping their way through the palmetto state. Republican senator marco rubio plans to make a stop in columbia and head to the Nations Capital for a prior engagement. That doesnt mean his reps will be following him. Trey gowdy will head to North Charleston to campaign for rubio. Bill ted cruz is also going to be campaigning in South Carolina. Cruz is expected to hold a rally this thursday with special guest glen beck. Thats happening at 7 30 at the Morningstar Fellowship church. Going to be making a stop in the palmetto state friday. Clinton will be talking about plans for education, health care, and jobs, no word on where in the state shes going to be speaking. South carolina democratic 27th. Kayla thousands of absentee ballots have been sent out for the march 15th primary in North Carolina, but a recent court order requires the state to redraw two Congressional District lines. Districts one and 12 were created to carve out voters based on race which is unconstitutional. Because of the history of race in the united states, you shouldnt be taking race into account when youre selecting representatives. Thats up to voters, not the state legislature. Kayla one of those districts county. They ordered lawmakers to redraw the lines by february 19th but could be delayed so as not to interfere with next months election. Eighth and final Budget Proposal has been delivered. A number of boxes, take a look at all of them. That is a lot of paperwork, they contain the record 4 trillion, 2017 budget. The boxes were opened up and books stacked up. Heres how the numbers reportedly stack up in departments. A proposed 12 billion bucks slated for Agriculture Department to help feed School Children from lowincome families. One billion in new funding for states to develop drug treatment and rehab programs to deal with the rise in Substance Abuse especially heroin addiction. 400 million transportation bill aimed at new environmentally friendly cars and transit projects and over 7. 5 million is earmarked for a number of Clean Energy Investments including wind, solar and geothermal power. Good news for those of you looking for a new job. The u. S. Labor Department Says jumped by 4. 9 , thats the most since july. They report that people quitting their jobs increased 6. 9 . Thats the highest in 9 years. People typically quit for better paying positions which might be a sign overall pay levels could be increasing in the future. Kayla a reminder we have School Closings to tell you about. For more on why and what we can expect this week, lets head over to brian basham. Brian that area didnt get hit too badly, thats the good news, the potential for more snow tonight, tomorrow and wednesday night, and well see cold and big windchills across the area tomorrow. 42 was the high today. Want to show you well below the seasonal average. The next seven days and the temperatures are very, very cold, i want you to know our typical average about, 54 for this time of year. So were going to be very, very uncomfortable in the next were freezing, 29, under mostly cloudy skies in charlotte. Winds have slowed to about 7 miles an hour, they will kick up again tomorrow, could see gusts up around 25 miles an hour. Here is your satellite and radar. Once again, we thought we might get a good shot of mountain snow today. That is staying away from the northern edges, falling across the south. Not a ton of show but pockets of snowfall to areas to the west and north of the area. You see the flow here, coming from the north and west, well continue to see the opportunities in the mountain ranges, thats why you see the School Closings, more tomorrow. Most of it is going to fall on the tennessee side. If you get on the i40, 510 of snowfall on the regions. Just to put you on alert there. Talk about what we expect to see locally over the next couple of days. Pretty quiet. Tonight at 11 52 and tomorrow snow will continue to fall in the north through wednesday night. Everything clears out thursday and things quiet but cold. Want to mention were under a Winter Weather advisory for the sections in the north because of the potential for snow and blowing snow as well. Now temperatures, theyre going to be tonight below freezing, teens in the north. 20s in the south. Were going to see charlotte at 22 degrees. Then tomorrow, cooler than it was today. About the same i should say. 41 in charlotte. Concorde at 40. Couple of degrees cooler. Thats about it for us. Want to show you what happens over the next few days, especially in the nighttime hours. 18 on thursday morning, keep in mind, windchill will put us in the low to mid teens there. Well see low 40s, wednesday thursday, friday and friday 20 chance of precipitation, right now during the daytime hours, when were above freezing, looking for mainly cold over the weekend, sunny saturday. Warm to 35 at a max, and then we see the cold air lingering into monday, tuesday for chances for precipitation, rainsnow possible on monday tuesday. Stay tuned over the next week and through the weekend as folk us. Definitely not look forward to the 14 degrees. Keep you plugged into the changing weather conditions, head over to fox46charlotte. Com, find the weather tab, thats where your Weather Forecast is waiting for you. Kayla cmpd needs your help finding this man. He supported for indecent liberties with a child incident that happened last december. Singh was last seen in north charlotte. You are asked to call 911 or police if you know where he might be. Bill 23yearold Denzel Boozer stabbed a 51yearold night. Meanwhile boozer is wanted on attempted murder charges. If you know where he is or seen him recently, contact 911 or crimestoppers. Kayla troopers continue their search for a truck involved in a deadly hitandrun on i77 in Chester County early monday morning. Troopers say a purple truck crashed into suv, sending the suv into the median where it overturned. 49yearold flora ellenberg was killed and the driver was taken to the hospital. The purple truck is believed to have been damaged and troopers say it could be heading towards virginia. You are asked to contact South CarolinaHighway Patrol if you know anything about this. Bill new information tonight in the case of a missing 13yearold found stabbed to death in North Carolina. A friend of Nicole Lovell tells Washington Post she planned on running away and starting a family with the man charged in her death. The friend claims loverel told lovell disappeared january 27th. Her body was found four days later in North Carolina. Another Virginia Tech student nicole keepers is charged in the murder. Kayla new numbers out of germany where Authorities Say 10 people have died after two commuter trains collided head on this morning. This happened in the southern part of the country near munich. In addition to those killed, 88 people were injured. Nine seriously. Officials say the trains slammed into each other on a curve after an automatic safety braking system appears to have failed. Its a terrifying picture of the crash site. Shocking how the two trains are wedged into each other. One drilled itself into the other and completely tore apart the cabin of the second train. Kayla the impact shredded metal train cars and flipped several of the cars on their sides. Emergency crews arrived in minutes, because of the heavy forest surrounding the area it the injured in the wreckage. The crash is under investigation. Bill u. S. Lawmakers want the air force to prove it can cover Airborne Operations out of ft. Bragg after leaders of the air force and army certified the deactivation of the 44th airlift wing. There are 550 remaining airmen in the 440th reserve unit that all have to find new homes. Changes are expected to take effect by the end of the year. Kayla a Company Looking to expand food print in charlotte is backing out. Electrolux will no longer move forward with plans to expand north american headquarters in the queen city. 850 people work in the university area. A spokesperson says the decision not to expand in charlotte has to do with the acquisition of Ge Appliances falling through. The company says north american headquarters will stay in charlotte, electrolux moved headquarters here in bill starting this week, u. S. Attorney general Loretta Lynch will visit six cities to highlight Police Departments she believes can be a role model for law enforcement. Fayetteville in North Carolina is on the list. Lynch is going to start with Miamidade County on thursday, lynch visited places where policy forces have troubled community relations, she said the upcoming signs were picked because they have effective policing such as effective use of data. Cam newton apologized for actions before and after the super bowl. The fumble and vo shop all makes, models and colors in your neighborhood. All with worryfree ownership. Head to your neighborhood enterprise car sales and let the people who buy more vehicles than anyone. Cam newton is taking tons of criticism for about what you saw right, there walking out early after losing to the denver bronco in super bowl 50. The mvp with the chance to defend himself on why he cut that presser short. Ive been on record to say im a sore loser. Who likes to lose . You show me a good loser and im going to show you a loser. The truth of the matter is, you know, who are you to say that your way is right . Thats what i dont understand. Weve got all these people that condemning and saying man, he should have did this and that, what makes your way right . For cam, joining a lot of heat for not diving on the loose ball in the Fourth Quarter of sundays game. Looks like he has a chance to get it but decides to bail. Cam explaining his reasoning for that as well. I didnt get the fumble. We can play tit for tat. I see numerous quarterbacks throw interceptions and effort afterward, they dont go. I dont down on one fumble because the way my leg was it could have been controlled in a way. You say my effort, i didnt dive down. I fumbled. Thats fine. But that game wasnt built off of we didnt lose that game because of that fumble. Reporter time to move past what cam did or did not do and hear from the rest of the panthers players. The team cleaning out lockers today as they head into the offseason. Champions and not runnersup, they still have a lot to be proud of from this season. We had an amazing time playing this year, coming to work every day, day in and day out. It was fun, you know . We had a good time with it. We stayed true to ourselves and being who we were. 172, obviously, thats pretty special in the nfl, you know. Were missing that one final we didnt check that last box. There was only one more thing we could have accomplish. Thats the way it goes. Reporter head coach ron rivera says the panthers will move back mini mtas to ensure they get the rest they need. Well discuss the offseason when retooling the roster next year. Big news out of nascar, brian france announced longterm agreement expected value and sustainability to nascars premiere series. 36 teams have been granted charters and guaranteed entry into each of the 36oints events the four charter were based on participation. What does this mean for the sport of nassar . Ceo brian france explains. Its going create more opportunities for our for as i said, for new owners to come into the sport. Thats number one. Number two, its going to have the ability to feel better, more competitive race teams. Thats great for our fans. Thats what they want. Reporter and the nascar kicks off this weekend at. Bill welcome back, previous winners and finalists on the popular fox Program American role. Mentoring the top 24 kayla the competitors are thrilled to be receiving the guidance. Foxs adam housley takes a look. Reporter its reunion week on idol as past winners and finalists return to mentor and sing with the top 24 contestants. From nick, lauren, fantasia, caleb, Scotty Mccreery and reuben studdard. People who won or placed high in the show probably makes them more nervous than anything, like i told the two girls im singing with, you have to have fun. I can give my opinions, thats great. I dont know about that. At the end of the day, its their show and their performance, im here to help them shine. Theyre asking questions, most are good questions, working with me on the side, so were comfortable. Reporter 24 move onto the final spot. Host Ryan Seacrest is impressed by the judges top 24 picks. You did such a great job picking talent. It came down to what they decided to do. Right . They all have it, but did they make the right choice . Agreed. Reporter the contestants are learning a lot from the former idols. Mentor, helped me loosen up and act like every time is the last time i will be performing. Most of the time i was freaking out, i cant believe i got scottie he was one of my favorites. I remember screaming. I was like ah and i got paired up with reuben. Incredible. Reporter the idol hopefuls team up with mentors for a duet on thursday. In hollywood, adam housley, fox news. Kayla stick around, well be of your accuWeather Forecast. Bill all right, heres the game you certainly dont want to miss, la sal is taking on davidson is the 10 00. You can catch the game on our sister station, my 12. Kayla how would you like to have this big rabbit as your new pet . This dog sized bun see appropriately named atlas, now in the care of Animal Welfare officials in scotland. The rabbit is only 7 months old, the continental giant rabbit. Its young so it actually still has growing to do. Due to breed and side, officials are looking for a specific home for atlas where hell have plenty of space. They can grow to weigh around 40 pounds. Bill hes huge already. Look at him. Half the size of a human. Bill you learn something new every day. Good day, charlotte wakes you up bright and early every morning. Heres whats coming up, a special young lady with a special heart. How can you help fight congenital heart disease. If you are single, listen up, tips before you land the valentines date. Coming up tomorrow on good day, charlotte 4 30 to 9 00. Brian gusts up to 25 miles an hour, you couple that with temperatures between 22 and 35, think about bundling up out there. Cold at night as well. 3037 during the evening hours. Should stay dry for the day tomorrow. Now lets check in on the rest of the 7. Next rain chance friday. Not a great chance. About 20 . Not looking for a lot of moisture but chances for snow monday and tuesday. Bill any chance can you change that sunday forecast for us . Kayla thanks, brian, a if i want to go up. Hello. Or if i want to go down. No. But then if i want to come back again. Yes. Its perfect. My favorite part is to be able to lift your legs up a little bit and it feels like im just cradled. vo change your sleep, change your life, announcer the following is a paid presentation for the nuwave oven pro, brought to you by the makers of the nuwave precision induction cooktop. [. ] professional chefs create greattasting meals from years of experience and by using professional equipment. 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