The poorly educated. But with trump highly favored even before results came in. The real fight was between ted cruz and marco rubio for second place. Cruz, spinning his showing in nevada as progress. ted cruz we are one step closer to turning the the pages on the failures on the obamaclinton disaster. Rubio, touting his establishmentcandidate identity as critical for a general election win. rubio i am a conservative that can unite this party. As the republicans watched the nevada returns. Democrats hit them on the issue of race at cnns South Carolina town hall. sanders this birther issue which we heard from donald trump and others a racist effort to try to delegitimize the president of the united states. Bernie sanders, courting the minority vote ahead of the states saturday primary. And also hitting rival Hillary Clinton over her paid speeches to wall street, demanding she release the transcriptsclinton saying she would. On one condition Hillary Clinton d president ial candidate sure, if everybody does it, and that includes the republicans. Why and not for everybody else. Im reid binion reporting. 3 3 3 new this morning. Democratic president ial candidate Bernie Sanders will hold a News Conference today on poverty in South Carolina. It is scheduled to begin at 9 this morning at the Double Tree Hotel in columbia. The event is by invitation only. He will be joined by South Carolina state representatives joe neal and justin bamberg. Later today, he has Campaign Rallies planned in kansas city and tulsa. 3 Hillary Clinton is scheduled to participate in the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority statewide luncheon today in west columiba. Tonight, she will hold a fundraiser in charleston. Her husband and former president bill clinton will be campaigning for her during get out the vote rallies in virginia today. 3 3 3 happening today, closing arguments will begin in a Transylvania County murder trial. Prosecutors say Richard Oshields killed toby mathis back in 2011 as an act of revenge. At the time, mathis was charged with Involuntary Manslaughter in the death of oshieldss son. Yesterday, a forensic psychiatrist testified that because after his sons death, along with ptsd and alcoholism, there was little chance that he planned the murder. 3 when you walked in and saw him out of the corner of your eye you knew that was the man you wanted to kill i didnt intend to kill him, i only remember seeing his face. While it is possible that he did what the state has said, it is sort of unusual that someone with his psychiatric structure he would do that. In an exchange with the prosecutor, doctor corbin acknowledged that neither a stroke nor heart problems makes a person want to kill someone. 3 3 we have an update this morning on a woman accused of cutting an unborn baby from a mothers womb. A jury in colorado found dynel lane guilty on all counts in the attack last year on former brevard resident, michelle wilkins. Wilkins survived, but her baby did not. Lane will be sentenced april 29th. She faces up to 140 years in prison. 3 3 investigation into a possible hate crime at brevard college. In november, a 20yearold and two minors were charged with crimes related to ethnic intimidation. The alleged victim was black, and the suspects are white. Over the last two weeks, fbi agents have been interviewing those involved with the situation, and are considering more charges. The Transylvania County ndoubleacp president says agents told him the investigation began after an anonymous tip. 3 we feel that it should have been classified as a hate crime because of everything that it involved and all of the circumstances surrounding it. 3 School Officials say they are cooperating fully with the fbi. There is no timeline for when a decision could be made in the case. 3 3 Brevard Police are searching for a missing man. 24yearold Matthew Jenkins was last seen a week ago. He is known to visit asheville and knoxville. If you have any information. Call Brevard Police. Morning for another missing man, this time from mcdowell county. Deputies say Reynaldo Tapia was last seen in nebo in december. They hope showing his picture again will lead to information. 3 3 3 in our carolina roundup. A sixweekold puppy is recovering this morning after someone shot it 18 times with a bb gun. It happened sunday in rock hill, south of charlotte. A utility worker told officers he saw a group playing with the puppy, and when he checked on the dog a little later, it was bleeding heavily. Vets found 18 bbs lodged in the dogs skin. 3 there is no doubt here. This is one of the worst acts ive ever seen and its hard to think that someone could be capable of doing something to an animal this young and defenseless. Two teenagers were arrested yesterday. Vets say the puppy is able to eat and move around. Once he is fully recovered, he will be put up for adoption. 3 police hope a surveillance picture from an atm will help them track down a man who kidnapped and robbed a pizza yesterday in charlotte. The 61year old papa johns driver was taken 80 miles away before he managed to get away. He was not hurt. He told officials a man and a woman made him drive to three different atms and take out cash before they let him go. 3 the rain during the last 24 hours has left neighborhoods in charlotte soaked, and even caused a tree to fall on a home. This huge tree slammed onto the roof while a family with three children was inside. It went through the attic, thankfully no one was hurt. 3 3 a highspeed police chase in california ends with a suspect dead and two others hurt. That starts this mornings newsreel. 3 3 police say they tried to pull over a man on a highway, but he sped away. The suspect then crashed into an suv causing it to flip over the guardrails. A mother and her child inside the suv suffered minor injuries. Police shot the suspect who they say was armed when he tried to runaway. 3 severe storms in the south leave a trail of damage. Two people were killed and several more injured after a storm louisiana. The storm overturned trailers and scattered debris. Search and rescue teams are working to help victims. It is possible a tornado touched down. At least seven people suffered critical injuries, and 30 others were hurt. 3 the same storm system brought tornadoes to pensacola florida, injuring several people there. Utility poles came down and cars flipped over. Forecasters said earlier yesterday that at least 20 Million People across the southeast could face the risk of severe storms and tornadoes into today. 3 Minnesota State Police Release dashcam video of a train hitting a big rig. The accident took place in january, when the driver pulled right into the path of the train. The driver suffered only a minor injury. Even though his truck was dragged a quarter of a mile down the tracks. He was ticketed for failure to stop at a crossing. 3 3 a man who lost his wallet at a Movie Theater in iowa gets it back 71years later. A contractor who used to be an investigator found it under the floorboards. He tracked clare mcintosh. The wallet contained a boy scout card, world war twoera ration stamps and an id. They believed a theater employee found the wallet all those years ago, took the money out and hid it in the floorboards. 3 3 3 3 we have another chance for you to see the chance for you another we have another chance for you to see the harlem to see the chance for you another chance for you to see the Harlem Globetrotters in this mornings early bird gets the win giveaway. We are giving away six family four packs of tickets for their show at the bon secours wellness arena in greenville on march 19th. To enter, go to facebook dot com slash news 13. We will announce the six winners just before 7 this morning. 3 3 3 a new portrait of house of cards kevin spacey. Where it is located, how long it will be there and when you can 3 3 3 time for this mornings see it, shoot it, send it picture. This photo comes to us from michelle rabb. This is a picture of lake junaluska. You can send us your pictures and video too. Just log on to wlos dot com. Or email them to pics at wlos dot com. 3 3 3 3 the time is now 4 xx. Shes celebrating her 110th birthday, but shes not celebrating being on local 3 its time for this mornings find 3 this and all of our other viral videos in the around the web section on wlos dot com. Https www. Youtube. Com watch . V oaun3a4qtai 3 3 3 its now 4 xx. Here is a look at what you can expect 3 3 3 3 William Shatner writes a book about his costar. What shatner hopes readers will get tt2watv 4 bt qq door peephole he had made. Two years later, he pleaded guilty and received a sentence of 30 months in prison. The trial is expected to take two weeks. 3 William Shatner writes a book about star trek costar leonard nimoy. The book traces his 50year relationship with nimoy who died a year ago. The 84yearold said it felt right to write a book to memorialize his onagain, offagain relationship with nimoy. 3 and im not going to be around for a great deal more time. And that hopefully will define if somebody is interested what these two actors felt. Shatner says the book is not meant to capitalize on nimoys death, but is simply another reflection from an actor who has been doing plenty of reflecting later in life. 3 a new portrait featuring Actor Kevin Spacey in his role as president Frank Underwood in house of cards will go on display at the Smithsonian National portrait gallery. House of cards is a popular netflix drama dealing with the dark side of politics in first original series produced by the streaming service and season four premiers next month. The image of spaceyas president underwood will hang in the gallery through october. 3 3 3 3 here is a look at Current Conditions. In our next half hour well talk more about what to expect in the next 7 3 its 4 xx its tmz time. Jay, ronda rousey says she does not regret her shocking confession. Yeah, she went on Live Television admitting she thought about killing herself after losing to ufc competitor holly holm. She says having suicidal thoughts is not a sign of weakness. Rousey says quote it is Something Real people are going through. And she wants to help. She says it is important for people not to bottle up their feelings and instead reach out for help. Mister mcdreamy is in the middle of Divorce Proceedings but you wouldnt tell with this photo. Tmz reports, Patrick Dempsey and his wife are vacationing in saint barts filed for divorce 13 months ago because tmz says dempsey had become so obsessed with racing cars, he wasnt around a lot. A group of girls is threatening singer bruno mars. They claim he stole the song uptown funk. The sequence, 3 one of the first female rap groups, claims mars used their 1979 hit funk you up as inspiration for his massive hit with mark ronson. The groups rep says the hook to both songs is the same. So far, no lawsuit has been filed. 3 3 here is a look at Current Conditions. Here are your weather headlines for today. Up next. Well talk about what to expect in the extended forecast. 3 3 3 the end goal is not to eliminate the mosquitos, but to basically replace this population. Scientist from around the world will be here in North Carolina today. How they plan to create a new 3 the rain continues to fall this morning. Here is a live look from our indigo camera in downtown asheville. There is a Flash Flood Watch in effect until later this evening. Please be careful when heading out on the roads this morning. 3 3 good morning. Its wednesday, february 24th. Im holly headrick. And im jay siltzer we have Live Team Coverage this morning. News 13s Lauren Brigman is standing by in asheville. But first lets get right to your Current Conditions, ingrid . Good morning. Here is a look at Current Conditions across the region. Your day planner shows temperatures warming by noon. Coming up, ill show you our 7day forecast for both the mountains and upstate