Was springlike temperatures we have spring thunderstorms. The good news for the south from louisiana to mississippi alabama up to tennessee the tornado threat has relaxed but they still have heavy rain with flooding problems and severe thunderstorm warnings producing strong winds and hail. What this system will head our way tomorrow it will weaken some. A lot of the video you saw there and pictures im going to show you later we will not be in for the same stuff. A lot of it will still make it here tonight. Tonight cloudy and dry and we should stay that way through the the morning commute. This warm front will pass through and will help warm us up and wipe in our atmosphere. A cold front then moves through tomorrow night and closes down. Cloudy, dry and mile and it will be a windy day. We will approach 70 but after lunchtime is when the heavy rain and storms will arrive so through the afternoon ride home from school and the evening commute home armed home we will have storms and range. Assure you at the radar could look like tomorrow and how much colder it will get after that front. Take the latest conditions with you on the go if you downloaded are wncn news that. An effort to curb Violent Crime may be paying off. The number of shootings is dropping in recent weeks. Investigators have given special focus the violent gun crime. Were live interim with more on whats changing. Reporter people know the stakes in this situation all too well are the victims of these crimes. Alfredo joe bell two years ago durham and tonight his killer is still out there. The twoyear anniversary. He was just 28 when he was shot and killed at the intersection of park avenue and liberty street living behind two kids. His brother talk to us about the case but asked not to be identified because the killer has not been caught. People adhere witnessed crime. They will not make an effort to come forward. Reporter police are trying new strategies to curb violence in the city. The trying to tied tracked down 19 people. Weve seen a significant and decrease in crime in the last 30 days. Weve made significant arrest and we continue to work this special operation and keep the pressure in the right places. Reporter police say the number of shooting incidents has dropped by about one half. Officers took the oath that will begin patrols next week. Larry smith says hes encouraging his officers to interact with the community as much as they can. Weve asked them to get out to talk to the community and informants. Reporter thats what alfredo is still hoping will happen. Hopefully his killer will face justice. Its time for the community to come together and realize what the real problem is. Reporter last year and during their a 42 homicides nearly doubled the year before. Live in Durham Michael highland. The murder of a mom and north hills. Her body was found in may of 2013 in a north hills apartment. Trae veon smith is accused of killing her. In Court Witnesses testify her eightyearold daughter found a womans body covered in blood construction worker for help. She had blood all over her face and blood was everywhere. I put two fingers on her wrist and there was no polls. Ice. He is one of three charged Ronald Anthony has pled guilty for firstdegree murder. Gone to trial. The group was breaking into cars in the area where haggen jones is been to death. Investigators trying to figure out what sparked a fire at a raleigh home. It happened just after three. No one was home and fire crews say the house did have smoke damage. Three teenagers behind bars charged with throwing rocks of an interstate overpass. Several 911 calls from drivers led them to mile marker 65 and Cheryl Beckett road thats in a white bmw. They faced accusations of throwing rocks onto a lease five vehicles most of them freightliner trucks. They are behind bars with bond set at a quarter of 1 million. A death of a prayer track paratrooper. He was found unresponsive in his barracks room yesterday. He joined the army in 2014. Buckmaster and oklahoma native is survived by a child in his parents. Its been nearly 3 months of effort deputy will because in the death of donald livingston. People are demanding justice. The 33yearold was shot and killed by nicholas gahagan us on november 15. Livingston was on time. Furnace stewart says hes awaiting information from the medical examiner to determine if you will be charged. What have you received from burden stewart . Pornographers me back to the nothing. They havent call my client, they havent called me, they havent done anything. The only thing theyve done is my client got an emt bill and the burial bell. Court documents say livingston grabbed the documents taser after the two began fighting a livingston sports. Livingston was shot multiple times and died at the scene. The sbi has been investigating the incident. One of the biggest environmental disasters in our state history. Two years ago today a pipe burst that a coal facility north against greensboro. Is built toxic coal ash into the river. Millions of tons of coal ash stored a 14 facilities across the state. Regulators and the Utility Company are working to clean it out. Lawmakers gave the Company Raleigh city council is taking a look at a plan that would make six forks road the plant took two years after taking input from the community. It would regulate growth along the road as well as makes exports more pedestrian and bike friendly. Those who use the road say the changes are needed. Without the New Buildings around north hills mall that bill that area has gotten really bad. The Council Approves that the next step would be designing the new roadway which will cost about 2 million which would be paid for in part by transportation bonds. Raleigh city council approving an application for 40 million grants from the federal government. The Competition Among several cities is an incentive for leaders to use more innovation and technology will planning the future of their communities. The race for the white house is in New Hampshire theyre caring the momentum. Steve handles and has more. Clinton rushed New Hampshire trying to put the best light on last night. A few coin tosses in iowa decided who got the final democratic delegates. Clinton did not lose iowa like she did in no way. New hampshires going to have to decide who can go toe to toe with the republicans to make sure they dont wreck is again. 350 supporters up before john help bernie sandals as a winner as he came on to new england. I just got in from iowa where we astounded the world. Republican ted cruz the only candidate tonight get a convincing win came to New Hampshire. This election is not going to be decided by the meek. Marco rubio is in New Hampshire with a plus for his we had a great time and turnout and were ready to do it in New Hampshire. Donald trump make clear he intends to win in this day. I have very good relationships with the people of New Hampshire. He had a 22 point lead. Sanders and clinton debate here on thursday night. The republican candidates on saturday night and the vote is next tuesday. Between now and then intense campaign. Steve handles. Nbc news. Battling underage drinking one server at a time still today focused on and why i can be mr. Clark taking matters into his own hands and florida. This is video from Brevard County store. The suspect walked in and goes to the counter shows a gun and demands money. The clerk a military veteran walked to the register, opens it up and jumps into action whistling the weapon away. The suspect ran from the store. No one was hurt except for the guy who got punched. Bill cosby today his lawyer hoping to get a felony cases miss. Opted not to charge it cosby back in 2004 took the stand. He says he did not have enough evidence to convict him. At the time i remember thinking he probably did do something inappropriate. But thinking that and being able to prove it are two different things. Cosby was rearrested in december for the same case in his lawyers wanted charges dismissed. The hearing continues tomorrow. The state abc commission met with employees in chapel hill to offer training on id check. Chapel hill has been the spotlight after the state fined and suspended alcohol license does at two bars there both accused of serving an underage patron when he got behind the wheel and crash the december killing three people including a child. Todays training was free and designed to spot big ideas ids as well as patrons who have had too much to drink. One of the biggest downtown chapel hill and our guest in the come from other restaurants or bars. By the time they come to us, its later in the evening so its important we are aware of when to be able to tell that that is their limit at that point. Some students at Duke University are taking their Design Skills out of this world. They lines to weather balloons in hillsboro. They even attached ago pro camera to the balloons to record the journey. Heres the story. Reporter we launched the weather balloons into the lower atmosphere. A huge accomplishment for a group of duke engineering students who began their project with one goal. The whole purpose of the class was i have these different subgroups in our team of 12 people working on different parts of the project. The teamwork paid off in the lodge was a success. The lines went smoothly. One of our balloons pop just below one hundred thousand feet 25,000 feet. The student built much of the equipment launched themselves spending countless hours perfecting their designs. I would say collectively 12 people working on the two balloons. It was easily over 500 hours. They had to consider many environmental factors as the balloons travel more than 20 miles into the atmosphere like harsh temperatures owens. After the balloons pop their equipment was recovered. More than one hundred miles from the lush location. This one landed in a bog in eastern North Carolina. Now comes the analysis of the weather data. All the data right here is 12 dozen lines of data we collected. Although it may be tedious the students are eager to share their findings. We set up a website and were hoping to publish it is open source material if anyone wants to take a look at that data and use it for their theyre excited to continue their research. The hope would be to launch another one in the near future. Reports of iowa buried in snow tonight after blizzard blew through. In waterloo there was anywhere from a dusting to several inches of snow. In sioux city it was another story. Massive amounts of snow coming down there. People driving with no visibility and part of interstate 29 was shut down because the weather was so bad. Amazing that this same night we show you that video of snow in iowa a few states away we have tornadoes in the south. Mississippi and alabama had a rough early evening and now a rough night as heavy rain continues. This is all ahead of a cold front that will be here tomorrow. The showers and storms will be in the tar heel state tomorrow but they will be a little bit weaker. Is not really an hour forecast. Look at a few of the tornado shot from ellisville alabama and a lot of the tornadoes happen right and the mississippi alabama line. This is from debbies nose twitter feed. Theres one in dancy alabama. You can say that often the dead distance and a scuba mississippi some amazing shots and it all happened right about rushhour when this horrible timing but its also why we had so many pictures out there on social media. Weve got storms coming here tomorrow when we can a half after we had snow and ice. We are underway to a high of 70 again just like we had a monday. It will be sunny like a was on monday. Clouds from start to finish tomorrow and the morning time will be the dry time so the right to work and school will be dry and 54degrees mack. Thats some february 3 weather. 58 x 9 a. M. As we get to lunchtime thats we will top out at 70 and it will be a windy day. As we get into the afternoon, 2 00 oclock on through six and 7 00 oclock, thats what most of the storms will move through bringing heavy rain and stronger winds and even a thread of some isolated thunderstorms so a couple things have to happen before the storms get here. That will warm us up and energize the atmosphere. Weve got them a lot of moisture right moisture coming in and as soon as the cold front comes through that will help further destabilize the atmosphere and thats why we have such a good chance of rain, heavy rain and thunderstorms. So lets take you through the day tomorrow. Your morning commute i dont see any issues there with temperatures starting in the mid50s. We could see thinning of clouds in a few peaks of sunshine otherwise a cloudy day. Here we are at 11 am. You see that line coming through the mountains to charlotte in the morning time but for us it gets here of lunchtime. Shortly through a 2 00 oclock out toward boxborough getting a first and then its moving through the triangle the parts of vance some warrant its a diagonal movement. And parts of the sandhills getting into five, six, 7 00 oclock in the front pushes everything out of. And the i95 quarter by eight 9 00 and there could be a little bit of leftover rain early thursday morning otherwise thursday will be drying out temperatures will feel like february by the end of this week so we remain under a marginal risk of Severe Weather. At the lowest threat level but damaging winds and heavy rain are the two things ill be watching or so warmer and windy day and is the afternoon the gets pretty wet. Temperatures will top out near 70degrees. That record highs but 20degrees above normal for this time of year. So wet day especially in the afternoon and evening was 70 moved down into upper 40s on friday and thats february weather and weve got some sunshine with highs in the low 50s is weekend but watch out friday saturday and sunday morning as we will start off their freezing. And will be a lot different than whats coming our way tomorrow. A little bit of us which there. A key piece of dukes puzzle missing tonight. 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Thousands stood in pennsylvania to see upon to tonny feel would see a shadow. An early spring. This is the 17 time fell has not seen his shadow. Thats bills good news for the nation as a whole. He said i dont see my adow. So dramatic. Sir walter bolle predicts there will be an early spring. He made a prediction for fans during the 19th annual groundhog day celebration. The museum says wally has been accurate 55 of the time since 1998. We can do better than that. Yes, we do. We should of led the news cast with the fact that we have a talking groundhog in our state. Is very serious. What you do is serious. Tomorrow will be serious. We have got some thunderstorms rolling our way. A small threat of Severe Weather but some heavy rain especially in the afternoon. So you get on the bus in the afternoon and by the afternoon the right home from school or with temperatures around 70. Alyssa will be here starting a 4 30 tracking those dorms. We get through tomorrow afternoon and then after that it will feel a lot more like february and weve even got some sunshine heading into the weekend. At lisas going now instead of waiting until the cold weather gets there