New tonight on eyewitness news. The search for a shooter. Durham Police and the swat team surround a house. what they found inside in a live an update. Plus. The latest debate over the ballot box comes to an end. The new early voting plans that will impact you at election time. And. Dialingup danger. A warning for smartphone owners. what you need to know. Eyewitness news starts right now. Developing right now a manhunt continues tonight for a gunman after three people were shot at two different locations in durham. Good evening everyone. Im tisha powell. And im steve daniels. The first shooting happened on north maple street at about 305 this afternoon. Officers found a man and woman whod been shot. The second shooting. On harvard avenue less than ten minutes later. Dejuanhoggard is live at dpd headquarters with the latest on the investigation. Durham Police Believe the person they are looking for is responsible for both shootings. And tonight they need your help in finding the shooter. Durham police staged themselves outside of an apartment on Taylor Street earlier today. In hopes of finding a gunman responsible for two shootings. I walked up to my house and went in my backyard and peeked around and they had officers in the back with guns drawn. The first shooting happened shortly after 3 00pm in the 500 block maple street. Where a man and a woman were both shot. They were taken to the hospital with non life threatening wounds. Less than 15 minutes later. Another shooting. This one in the 2400 block of harvard avenue. With one man being shot and taken to the hospital. Anytime you have an individual that you think might be a hazard or Public Safety hazard to the community. You want to go in and try and deal with it as soon as possible and not the scene unfolding on Taylor Street as Durham Police and swat descended on an apartment complex where they believed the suspect was holed up. Information led us to this particular location and we had good information to believe that the suspect was either at the apartment on this particular street or fled the apartment. For over 4 hours. Police focused their efforts on this particular location. Around 8 15, swat officers made t into the complex, only to come up short. Their suspect. Not inside the apartment. Still no description on the suspect, but if you know anything about either of the shootings this afternoon, you are being asked to contact durham pd or crimestoppers. Live in durham, dejuan hoggard, abc11 eyewitness news. New tonight center confronting the head of homeland security. Secretary jeh johnson. Appearing at Duke University tonight marking the 15th anniversary of nineeleven. Wildin acosta. directly questioned johnson about the conditions at the Stewart Detention Center in georgia. He then met privately with johnson. Federal agents took acosta into custody last year for being in the country illegally. He was released last month. And has applied for asylum. Four Cary High School students accused of committing a robbery in a Fast Food Restaurant parking lot. It happened in the burger king parking lot right across the street from Cary High School. According to the 911 call they forced a fellow student to hand over his cell phone and cash at last check, the teens were in the wake county jail under 80thousand dollars bond each. Theyre due back in court next month. A Kenly Police Officer now charged in a deadly stun gun incident is still a cop. Officer Jesse Santifort is charged with Involuntary Manslaughter in connection with the death of alex thompson. In court today. A judge stripped arrest power. But allowed him to remain on the streets. He also refused the das request to raise his bond to 20 thousand dollars. The Prosecutor Says santifort told two different stories about the tasing one time saying thompson tried to run. And another time saying thompson lunged at him. She says two eyewitnesses tell a different story. New tonight prosecutors dropping all charges against a North Carolina man who spent 28 years in prison for murder. The da saying theres not enough evidence to try the case again. 43yearold johnny small a 1988 murder of a wilmington woman at a tropical fish store. Small. Who was just 15 years old at the time. Maintained he had never even visited the place. New tonight firefighters trying to figure out what sparked a fire that damaged a durham apartment. It happened at the foxfire apartments this afternoon. The small fire was quickly put out. But theres smoke damage in the apartment. And damage in the kitchen where they had to remove sheetrock to get to the fire. no one was at home when the fire started. Another fire this one in fayetteville parked beside the grace and truth church was on fire. That fire spread to the church. Firefighters quickly put the flames out but the churchs roof was damaged where the bus was parked. No one was hurt and the church was not being used at the time. Police fire and the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives are investigating. Thats normal when a fire involves a place of worship. Now to vote 20 16. And a decision tonight thatll impact how and when you can cast a ballot during early voting. Thursday, october 20th. And ends november fifth. Joel brown is live at the state board of elections on harrington street downtown with more on what the state board decided. Joel . After a federal court ruled state lawmakers intentionally discriminated against black voters with their 2013 election law and big changes would have to be made for this upcoming election. The state board spent all day, here sorting out, how many days wed have to cast our ballots. It was standing room only inside the state board of elections. Fallout from last months federal Appeals Court ruling calling the states 3 year old election law. The most restrictive voting law North Carolina has seen since the era of jim crow. The judges struck down the voter id requirement. And forced the state to return to 17 days of early voting instead of the ten republicans wanted. This is all a do this is about motivating the Democratic Base because they have nothing to run on nc gop director Dallas Woodhouse defending against accusations republicans were using the law to discourage minorities from voting. Inside the meeting the state elections board had to sign off on new proposals to for early voting dates, hours, and locations in 33 of the states 100 counties. Mark ezell, the lone democrat on wake countys elections board won his battle to overturn a republican plan open a single polling place for locations the state board agreed. We are the largest county in terms of the number of voters in the state and its essential that we have as many opportunities for people to vote as possible. At raleighs angus barn restaurant a rare bipartisan moment, this election season. Democrats and republicans gathered for a political pig picking. We asked about woodhouses emails to local elections boards pleading with members to not allow sunday voting used by many black churches as a souls to the polls event. Majority of counties have never voted on sunday. We made it couple hundred years with nobody voting on sunday. When i heard what dallas had done, i thought it was absolutely atrocious nobody should be trying to limit access to voting booths. But the courts have rules and so well have those 17 days, and were looking forward to a strong campaign. While all the state county elections boards have republican majorities. The state board did give some wins to democrats. We talked about the expanded in wake county. Also, sunday voting will be restored in hoke, craven and richmond counties. Small adjustments that could have a big impact on this president ial battleground state election. Hillary clinton back in North Carolina and firing up the crowd at johnson c. Smith university in charlotte. Lot of ground. She talked about her plan to help bring down student debt. Something very popular with the mostlycollege crowd. Clinton offered withering reviews of her opponent, donald trump, on everything from his temperament to his praise just last night for russian president vladimir putin. And republican president ial nominee donald trump is coming back to our state less than a week since he held a rally in greenville. This time. Hes on the western side of the state. Trump will host a rally at ashevilles Us Cellular Center on monday at six. Once we find out those details. Well post them to abc11dotcom. Just look under the politics section. Weve been getting a lot of calls into the newsroom this evening about a fireball shooting across the sky. A lot of you posting about it on social media too. chris is here in the First Alert Storm Center to explain what happened. Chris . A meteor fireball was seen in the sky above the triangle at 6 006 05 pm edt this afternoon. What is a fireball . You get around the 40 440 work zone. Breaking news one on i40 westbound between the lake wheeler road and Jones Franklin street exits. The dot is in the process of shutting down the exit from i40 westbound to gorman street. It will remain closed all weekend. Its scheduled to reopen before monday mornings rush hour. You can look for updates on the traffic situation in the i40 work zone tomorrow eyewitness news. A restaurant thatll give homeless women from wake county a Second Chance is about to open. We first told you about carrols kitchen. Back in april. Its on the corner of martin and wilmington streets in downtown raleigh. The Restaurants Mission is to hire single women living in homeless shelters. Give them a place to live. A job. And on the job training so they can learn how to run a restaurant. Carrolls kitchen. Is expected to open in two weeks. The Governors Mansion in downtown raleigh glowing orange ann mccrory say they wants to use this month to raise awareness about the need to end hunger in our state. The governor has proclaimed september as Hunger Action month in North Carolina. A Deadly School shooting in west texas. A 14yearold opening fire. what weve learned about the victim and the shooter. Plus. A tale of survival. An amazing rescue from the earthquake zone in italy. Its the mustsee video of the night. And. Smartphone warning. An suv goes up in flames. While the phon know. But first. A live look outside of the raleigh adelle at first, i was so happy to teach in North Carolina. But weve fallen to 41st in teacher pay, 44th in perstudent spending, and a lot of us even have to buy school supplies. Governor mccrory talks about raising our pay, but he tried to cut Education Funding to its lowest budget share in over 30 years. Like over two thousand other teachers, im having to move to another state z243bz zi0z y243by yi0y school. Authorities say a 14yearold shot and wounded another student. And then killed herself. no motive has been released. For the shooting at alpine high school. The sheriff says the family of the girl who died moved to the alpine area about six months ago. She was a freshman at the school. The injured student ran outside to get help. And was taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. The shooting prompted a lockdown at three other Public Schools in alpine. Which were later lifted. A 52yearold turkish man visiting orlando on his honeymoon was shot and killed defended his wife during an armed robbery. Deputies say osman darcan and his wife were approached by an armed man as they got out of their car at the Wyndham Orlando resort around 1 40 this morning. The Sheriffs Office says there was a struggle and darcan was shot. He was pronounced dead at the scene. His wife was not injured. The shooter ran away from the scene. A scare at the cincinnati zoo. About 50 visitors and 75 Staff Members were evacuated. After someone calledin a threat to the zoo. Provide details about what the caller said. The zoo has been the target of critics on social media after a gorilla named harambe. Was shot and killed by a special Response Team in may when a 3yearold boy fell into the gorillas enclosure. Just days after samsung recalled its galaxy note 7 smartphones, a florida man says he found out the hard way why the recall was issued in the first place. Nathan dornacher says his note 7 caught fire. While it was charging in the Center Console of his jeep grand cherokee. He had exploded and engulfed the jeep in flames. Samsung recalled the smartphones in 10 countries last week, after 35 instances of note 7s catching fire or exploding were confirmed. The faa has even asked Airline Passengers not to turn or charge them during flights. Talk about a happy birthday a baby born midflight is getting free travel for life on buraq air. The boys mom was flying from tripoli to the capital of niger the bouncing baby boy happily. But rather surprisingly arrived into the world with the help of the cabin crew. In recognition of their efforts. The mother named him after the planes captain. The american flag, raised by firefighters at ground zero of the 911 attacks on the world trade center, is back home. Its now on display at the National September 11 memorial and museum in new york. The flag was missing for years but turned up in november 2014 when a man gave it to police in he told them it was given to him by a widow of a 911 victim. Now to the big board and the mustsee video of the night. We begin in the earthquake zone in italy with an incredible rescue Italian Firefighters pulling a cat form the rubble of a collapsed home two weeks after the magnitude sixpointone quake hit. The cat, called he was in good spirits, even attempting to scratch the hand of the firefighter who was trying to pull him out. Pietro was dehydrated and had a fractured jaw. But hes expected to survive. Police in florida make quite a catch. They wrangled an 11foot 450 feet pound one eyed. Snaggle Tooth alligator that was lurking near two schools. The trapper says theyve been trying to catch this gator for quite some time. The trapper says it lost its fear of hums being fed. Passengers traveling to seattle on the carnival legend. Got an adventure they didnt expect. They were nearing the end of the sevenday alaskan cruise. When the boat suddenly lists a passenger captured video of water from the swimming pools forming a waterfall over the side of the ship. And his family struggling to keep their mostly sunny and hot weather will prevail into saturday, as pressure system remains in place across the region. It will feel like midsummer across the triangle as highs soar into the middle 90s into saturday and heat indicies run close to 100. A cold front will swing through the area on sunday and spark a shower or thunderstorm in the afternoon. This is our next and best chance of rainfall in the area. In addition to bringing rain, the front will also usher in cooler rocking right outside the raleigh eyewitness newsroom on fayetteville street. Thousands of festival. Hopscotch has been a pillar of raleighs music scene for six years. Featuring rock. Hip hop. Metal. Folk and electronic artists. Nearly half the performers are from right here in North Carolina. Hopscotch runs all weekend burritos falling from the sky will soon be a reality. The Delivery Program preparing to for takeoff just ahead. Plus the president ial parasite. The new honor for president obama. why one scientist says a tiny worm em inchief. I never shop without a list. 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Trevor kirsch senior lb our mottos been fearless this year and just going out with that fearless attitude and executing. Jamie broughton grad chris dawson returns home after coaching a national top20 program. Broughton coach chris dawson you know the First Priority was just turning the culture around. Getting guys excited about playing, excited about working rd. And t ys have donagood job g in so far. We won our first two games, which hasnt happened here in a long time. Ben ralls senior g de so for seniors its really great that chemistry. Avi smithrose junior dt coach dawsons kind of brought a sense of like, positivity. Cresyan scurlock senior rb olb its working. We 21, were having a good year, and its been amazing. Jamie go to raleighcw. Com for extended coach and player interviews. Well see you next thursday for the cw22 game of the week. Join us tomorrow morning on abc11 for the latest eyewitness news. Well see you im a coupon guy. I signed up for the publix digital ones. 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