Ill let you know how long the warm weather is going to last. For now, lets get a check on the warm air. Here is a look at the i40 and reedy creek road. Were off to a nice start to the day here. No traffic problems there, but we have some to tell about you in the fortified Construction Zone again today. Weve got ramp closures and the shoulder closed as well. So on i40, the exit ramp is closed at south saunders street and the shoulder is closed between exit 298 and 301. Breaking overnight, a fallen tree across Railroad Tracks caused a Train Derailment on the west coast. It was traveling from silicone valley to stockton in central california. One train car derailed and fell on its side on the creek. Crews rushed to pull passengers to safety. Those aboard were certainly rattled by the experience, but we went up to the number one car on its side and there were 20 or 30 people inside when we opened the rear door. I wasnt sure if we were going to turn over or not. As soon as i knew we were stable and started listening to the screams, people were crying for help and i went to find the conductor. Officials say 214 people were on board in the crash. More than a dozen were hurt. There were no fatalities, though. Now to campaign 2016, president ial candidates are turning their focus to North Carolina voters. Early voting is ongoing right now, and the primary is just a week away. On the republican side, they are vying to earn the support of 72 deal gates. Donald trumps headed to fayetteville tomorrow and emma wright is in raleigh this morning where republican ted cruz is expected later today. Tell us more, emma. Expected here at the Calvary Baptist church in school. Were told he is going to get here around noon. It is free and open for the public. You do have to register online before you show up. They say if you register, you do want to show up about an hour early. Ted cruz has been busy battling republican frontrunner donald trump over the past few weeks. Trails trail behind donald trump in most polls. Hes leading up to into tuesdays primary. Both candidates have been going headtohead in various debates and been hitting the campaign trail where ted cruz says he has been very outspoken about what would happen to donald trump if he won the Republican National convention. A bunch of washington deal makers try to step into a brokered convention and steal the election, i think well have a manifest uprising. Reporter donald trump says to drop out so ted cruz and he can run against each other. 5 30. Reporting live in raleigh, im carolina. Democratic frontrunner North Carolina. Location. Her challenger Bernie Sanders has not yet been to North Carolina, and there are no set dates for him to visit. Voters will be asked to narrow down contenders for democrat for governor. Attorney general roy cooper is facing off with jim spalding. Cooler has an Event Campaign scheduled for today at wake tech but has not released much information about that tappic. Republicans are choosing between pat mccolor little, charles moss and c. Robert wally of all of the states. North carolina has the earliest primary. Voters in michigan, mississippi, hawaii, and idaho today. At least 150 republican delegates up for grabs. Democrats are choosing candidates in two of the states. Michigan Election Officials are expected record turnout there. Well have more on why that state may play a big role coming up in about 15 minutes. New this morning, a fire in Cumberland County damages a law office. It happen on dix street in fayetteville. Firefighters saw heavy fire and smoke coming from the building. You can see crews on scene with two ladder trucks. The office is home to downing and downing attorneys. They were closed for the day, so no one was there and no one was hurt. At this point, crews are trying to figure out the cause and cost of the damage. It was two years ago today that Malaysia Airlines flight 370 disappeared without a trace during a flight. The search continues for the wreckage. One piece has been recovered, found this week and are undergoing testing. Today, malaysian lawmakers are observing a moment of silence to work the second anniversary of the planes disappearance. New Jersey State Police say a trooper was struck by a vehicle monday night. The trooper exited his vehicle to respond to a car fire. He was air lifted to a nearby hospital and is currently in serious condition. They say that the woman driving the car that hit the trooper did remain on the scene. No other injuries were reported. The Durham CountySheriffs Office is seeking applicants for its project life saver program. It is a free service for missing children and adults with cognitive issues. Any family interested in the free service can call the Sheriffs Office. Weve got that number for you. Here it is. Its 9195600897. You can visit their web site. Looks at the link between white blood cells and a womans risk to getting cancer. The first competitor drops out of one of the Worlds Toughest races. Hear from the team ahead. Outside this morning, temperatures are off to a much warmer start than this time yesterday. Across the tar heel state, temperatures are close to 50 degrees. Warm weather is st good tuesday morning. Ketchell. Its shaping up to be an absolutely phenomenal day across the entire region. Raleigh. Sitting at 53 in durham. 49 in clinton and goldsboro. 48 degrees in rocky mount and roanoke rapids. We are going to see the temperatures climbing today thanks to an area of High Pressure sitting just to our southeast. High pressure centers rotate clockwise. So we have the warm air pushing out of the south pod. Kids need the jacket at the bus stop this morning, but short sleeves this afternoon. 75 degrees by the time those kids get off the bus later today. Not as cool this morning, 49 degrees. Up to 59 degrees about i lunch. Really warm looking at a High Temperature of 75. Thats not the end of the warmth. Weve got even warmer weather in the forecast this week. Ill have a complete forecast update coming up in a few minutes. Stefan . We know it is a tough race. The 2016 iditarod is already of the race. The veteran musher scratched monday on a checkpoint. She was injured in a fall after running over a piece of iron rope that was loose under her sled. Its just the feeling being out with the dogs, you know . This was the plan, and, you know, i knew my son would be with me in spirit. Its a huge disappointment. Man, you have to feel bummed for her, too. Shes decided to bow out because she was concerned that she may not be able to take care of her team. She had 16 dogs with her at the time. Still ahead here on cbs cbs North Carolina, she survived the boston bombings but lost her life in a tragic crash. Hear from one of the men who saved her years ago. Plus this story. Didnt have time to think about it. This moment was caught on camera. Hear from the dad whose quick thinking saved a little boy vo with thousands of quality preowned vehicles. And exceptional customer service, head to your neighborhood enterprise car sales and let the people who buy more vehicles than anyone. Im like a boxer in a ring. A small boxer. You dont expect much. And then, wham alright round two bring it, girlfriend rich, creamy, 100 natural cheese. Mini babybel. Snack a little bigger. Good morning to you. Get your second cup of coffee. Its 5 14. Senator ted cruz planning a Campaign Stop in North Carolina. The republican will be in raleigh today. Hell be at the Calvary Baptist church and school where gop frontrunner donald trump is expected in payetteville tomorrow. Its day two decades in the making. The Ground Breaking for the new boehner bridge will be coming through this morning. Year. Breaking overnight. Train derailed in central california. Nobody was killed but over a dozen were injured. The cause a tree downed on the tracks. Republicans in idaho and hawaii today. What you need to know on super tuesday. Kim hutcherson reports. Reporter only four states hold nominating contests on tuesday. In the tight 2016 race, every vote counts. Both campaigned and appeared at a fox news town hall. Bernie sanders took heat for saying white people dont know what its like to be poor did damage control. What i meant is like in the africanamerican communities, you have People Living in desperation or from being abused by white police officers. I know about white poverty. It exists in my state. It exists all over this country. Reporter while Hillary Clinton tried to put questions about her emails to rest. I have asked, release it. They will know how absurd this is. Reporter republican candidates campaigned in michigan but also down south why senator ted cruz won the endorsement of mississippis governor phil bryant. Marco rubio was in his home state which holds its primary march 15th. But a new poll shows him trailing by eight points while staff are privately urging rubio to drop out, his Communications Director came on cnn to say, no way. No way is the not getting out of the race before florida but not after florida. The possibility of donald trump winning the general election is why Michael Bloomberg says he will not launch a campaign for the white house. He originally set a midmarch deadline to make that decision. A woman who survives the Boston Marathon bombing is heartbreaking. Victoria mcgrath died along with her roommate in due buy. She was seriously injured in the 2013 attack. A firefighter carried her away from the scene. The moment was captured by the photographer. Another First Responder bruce made her a tourn a a tourn cut. Im back to sad again because theres a spark that she brought to everybodys life. That spark is extinguished. Its gone. We lose it forever. An emotional response there. The University Says mcgrath and her roommate were set to graduate later this year, making it even more devastating. This morning, south korea individuals mostly in north korea. Its part of a punitive measure against the recent nuclear tests. South koreans will be barred from engaging in financial dealings with those black listed and on the organization. The south korean government said it be watching this. Locally, were going to get outside. Yeah, exactly. Oh, i thought we were going to weather. Thats okay. You see this picture making the rounds on social media yesterday . When you see it, its almost unbelievable. Whats happening there . One of the best parts of spring training belongs to this dad who reached out in time to stop the bat from hitting his son in the face. New this morning, were hearing from both of them. It happened so fast, i didnt have time to think about it. For us, specifically my son, i threw my arm out and tried to block it the best that i could. Talk about a fathers instincts. You can see the 8yearold fan holding a phone. He and his dad had been looking at pictures to send to his mother. I was just about to send it when i felt something hit me. Thats adorable, though. That could have ended really badly. That was a quickthinking father. The best play of the game goes to dad there. I will keep it real here. I went right past it. Im just exited to get out in the sunshine. You just came from the west coast, so you are not used to sunshine here. We have beautiful weather in central south carolina. Not only today but a treat for you, russ. Outside right now, not really seeing anything in the way of wet weather here. Overall it is shaping up to be warmest temperatures that we have experienced all year. Thats changes to an area of High Pressure that is sitting just off to our southeast. That will push in that warm air out of the south today leaving the temperatures climbing all the way into the 70s. Its mild this morning. 50 degrees is the current temperature in raleigh. 5 in roxboro, henderson. 50 in fayestville. Already, our morning temperatures are much warmer than we were yesterday and the suit. We hit a High Temperature of 68 yesterday. Today, well add several degrees to that. Temperatures are already warming up. So 59 degrees by 10 00. 67 degrees at lunchtime. 72 at 2 00. 75 our High Temperature by 4 00 this afternoon. Well see mostly sunny skies all day today, even into tomorrow and most of our day on thursday as well. So were staying sunny with highs in the 70s thanks to this area of High Pressure once we get that warm air push out of the south through thursday. The high starts to slide off a little farther to the east here on friday allowing for a system of low pressure to push in from the deep south. We see clouds increasing and were still dry and warm on friday with temperatures still in the 70s. Were sitting near 70 this weekend despite the fact that we have a few showers likely. Temperatures near 70 both saturday and sunday with a few spotty showers likely into the start of next week on monday. Looking at a high of 75 in raleigh. 74 in durham. 76 degrees in fayetteville. Tonight, the temperatures fall to 50. Mainly clear and mild with patchy fog in the forecast. The sevenday forecast has temperatures continuing to warm up. 76 degrees. Tomorrow 78 degrees on thursday. Were fueling the 70s through the end of your sevenday here. Next chance for a few showers headed our way mainly saturday into sunday. Dont forget, we turn the clocks ahead one hour early on time now is 5 22 for a check on the morning track. We really have no major issues to start off on advertise. Taking a live look at i40 and i440 or you can see traffic moving smoothly in both directions, and you will need the sunglasses for the morning drive today. Lets look at the traffic map here. We have some of the closures in the fortified Construction Zone. The shoulder is closed between exits 293 and 301. We have the exit ramps closed on south saunders street. Keep that in mind for your morning commute. More weather and traffic coming up in a few minutesp. You know it is great to be home. I was really cool yesterday. I screen grabbed this forecast and sent it to all of my friends in seattle and my farmer coworkers. Not trying to make you feel bad, but and they were like, you already have. Way to rub it in, ron. Tournaments in College Basketball kicks off today and where North Carolina and why they teal this years tourney is better than the last. Hundreds of animals vo whats your dog foods first ingredient . Corn . Wheat . In purina one true instinct grain free, real chicken is always 1. No corn, wheat or soy. Support your active dogs whole body health its that time of year that everybody looks forward to. Its march madness time. Cbs North Carolina todd gibson is on his way to d. C. To cover the tournament with live reports beginning later today. Tipoff is at noon. Top seeded North Carolina wont play until thursday. The acc regular season champs get a double bye. Eye nice change from a year ago. Could it be an alltriangle encounter . They face the winner on wednesday at 2 00 p. M. Meanwhile, one North Carolina team is already headed to the big dance. My alma mater unc wilmington clenched the spot last night by winning the colonial athletic conference. They beat hofstra in overtime. Keep it here right now on cbs North Carolina, republican president ial hopeful senator ted cruz is making a round in North Carolina today. Details about how and where you can see him. Washington d. C. Is the place of the a. C. C. Tourney. Weve got details and coverage for local teens in action this afternoon. A local day care now permanently closed. What led up to the shutdown . Weve got those answers. If you are getting up, its going to be an extraordinary day outside. Thanks for watching North Carolina news. Im russ bowen. Im stefan chase. Your morning news and check on traffic. Also, why hes smiling so big. First, lets check in with meteorologist kristin ketchell. The perfect way to disguise the forecast today. It looks great this afternoon. To describe the forecast. Nothing in the way of rain. No major impacts on the area today except for high, thin clouds rolling in this morning into this afternoon. 53 degrees in durham. Its 50 in lewisburg and also in henderson. 49 in goldsboro and clinton 50 deep agrees our current temperature in fayetteville. Kids need a light jacket but i think its safe to wear the short sleeves under that jacket today. Youll need the short sleeves this afternoon with temperatures climbing into the mid70s. Warming quickly, though, 59 degrees at lunchtime. 75 degrees is our High Temperature here as we head into this afternoon really shaping up to be just a phenomenal day around the area. Well let you know how long the warm weather is sticking around. For now, lets get a check on that morning drive. Right now it is 5 31. If you are just about to hit