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Thank you, elizabeth, advocates plan to release a study on going solar at durham Public Schools. Members will speak and environmental benefits of durham Public Schools using 100 solar power. The presentations begins at 9 00 a. M. At the dps board of education building. Dedicated innovative and awesome. The descriptions from parents about teacher of the week. Partnership with the education lottery, Linda Loveland takes us to fuquay marina to meet her. Reporter congratulations, you are wral teacher of the week. Cathy wall is also valentine the fellow teachers and parents rave about her dedication to teaching. Its obvious how she feels about her job. I love coming to work. Reporter starts with the love of learning, something she has always had. I love to go to a museum,ly take a workshop on how to do something with turtles in the classroom, you want to be lifelong learner yourself. Reporter assistant principal says she is one of the most innovative and dedicated teachers she knows. One of my favorite things about her, she incorporates project based learning, and high interest experience for kids. Reporter the key is to use her students interest to guide their learning. She is like, can i look this up. If you can let that happen, thats what teaching is about. Reporter with our teacher to see our teachers of the week, go to wral. Com, teacher. A Group Planning to buy the heck Andrews House and for how much. Facelift for a fayetteville lands mark, crews take the time to repair the clock at the hear it chime again. Its been 3 weeks after thieves ransacked an eastern nonoh carolina boys and girls club and still no one has been arrested. The director says the break in cost them more than 20,000. A broken gym window replaced and several new doors were ordered. Room in the building and took a television and pickup truck before leaving. Army investigating the sudden death of a fort bragg paratrooper. Jacob was found unresponsive in his barracks room. The 22 year old was with the 82nd airborne and joined the army in 2014 and arrived at brag last fall. There are few details about the circumstances of his death. A Wreath Laying Service in raleigh to honor the life of an officer who died while on duty. Adam whose was shot and killed while arresting a driver on february 3rd, 1980, the Police Department will remember him as noon at the Raleigh Police memorial in front of city hall. No word on what caused a fire tadestroyed a home in johnston county. It broke in and out a mobile home on turner fish road near old stage roads 8 45 last night. No one was hurt. Raleigh council wants to wait multiMillion Dollars plan designed to address traffic issues. The area is 6 forks road from the beltline north to lynn road. The project would add landscaped medians, separate bike lanes and expand portions from four lanes to six, costing 45 million would take up to 4 years to complete. The council did not vote on the planks members had concerns about the cost, others questioned widening six forks when leaders are working on a transit plan to get more drivers off the roads. Leaders have signed off on plans to revitalize raleighs moore square , the council of state approved the project. Input was required because square is state land leased by the city. The citys 12 million project includes a cafe and restrooms, construction could begin in the summer. A state building is about to have a purpose. Refurbish a nurses dorm near the old cherry hospital. The group will use it to provide transitional housing and services for the homeless. They will lease the building for 1 a year. The non profit will foot the bill for the half Million Dollars in renovations. The clock that towers over downtown Fay Fayetteville will be tested. They replaced pieces that were removed for repairs. Workers have to calibrate it. The North CarolinaCouncil State approved the sale of one of the Historic Homes on blunt street. The North Carolina association of realtors will buy the heck Andrews House for 1. 5 Million Dollars. The heck Andrews House dates to 1870. One of the first homes built in raleigh after the civil war. Not everyone in North Carolina is rooting for the panthers to win the super bowl, grady the ground hog in rutherford predicted the other team, the broncos will win. This was much to the dismay of the state, panthers fans like renee chou, huge fap. He predicted we would have an early spring. Renae, you are the birthday girl today. Ground hogs are weather prognosticators. When is a ground hog predicting football . Thats a stretch. Put a banana by the panthers thing. Yeah. We know ground hogs like to eat bananas. I think a lot of us are happy, all of the ground hogs i they saw shadows, it is looking like an early spring. Todays weather looks spring like. We get in to the weekend and next week, its looking winter like again. Lets look at what is happening, the rdu sky cam, we are socked in with clouds here this morning, checking the visibility coming up, right now, everything is looking fine, cloud cover, 52 our current temperature, wind is southeast at 8 Miles Per Hour. Our dew point is up at 49. A moist and warm morning, feeling like we do have thunderstorms in our forecast. 48 in rocksboro, 46 south hill. Town by town, 50 goldsboro, 55 fayetteville and Southern Pines. A nice mild start, tracking this band of thunderstorms through the last several days, talking about the front, we have been tracking that since the weekend. We were talking about it over the weekend. Right now, all of the tornado earlier in the red boxes, or watches, have expired. Im not expecting we will have a tornado watch here, but isolated tornado is not out of the question. We have a marginal risk for Severe Weather for today. Look at the storm reports from yesterday, number of tornado warnings from mississippi over in to alabama, we had 7 of those, more wind damage reports, especially clustered here in the southeast mountains of tennessee, thats what we are likely to see is wind damage later on today. This going to come in the time of our evening commute through dinner hours, greg and mike evening. Lunchtime, tune in to our news cast at noon, showers in the area, some of this rain will be heavy, we will talk about how things are developing during the noon news cast. See the band that comes through, timing there on future cast specifically through the triangle 7 00, of course, it could be earlier or later. The front will linger along the coast, bringing showers to our eastern counties. 70 degrees the high for today. We have a marginal risk for Severe Weather today. Damaging winds, isolated tornados, not out of the question. 54 degrees on thursday. All total, look at the really impressive rainfall potential totals here, 12 inches in the west, 23 inches raleigh eastward. Significant rain, could cause flooding problems, especially urban and small stream flood problems. In to the weekend, its feeling like winter. Temperatures much closer to normal. Saturday looks dry. Sunday dealing with showers later in the day. Morning lows are either side of freezing over the weekend. It remains cool in to monday and tuesday. The forecast over in to california looks nice for the super bowl. A closer look at that in a couple of minutes. Traffic wise, everything looks fine this morning, a mess of an evening commute. This morning, looking good so boulevard looking good and over near durham, 55 at 1 00, mlk parkway. Next in sports, coach k misses his first duke basketball game in two decades. Pet picture of baby, ready for the snow with her pink coat and the search pets on wral. Com. Last night duke played without Mike Krzyzewski on the bench. He did not make the trip. Duke released a statement shortly before the game sharing krzyzewski felt under the weather during the team dinner on monday night. And told by his doctors to stay at home, First Time Since 95, that coach k has missed a duke game. Duke expecting him back quickly. Associate head coach on the bench to coach duke in the game. Georgia tech attacking early, jacobs on the lop for two of the first points. Jackets by four at the half. Allen was on. 7 3s for allen. 27 points, duke pulled away to beat georgia tech, 8071, yesterday was an off day for the panthers, back to work today, getting ready for super bowl 50, our reports from california will continue throughout the day today. Back to basketball, clemson winning at wake forest, blossom, huge night. 22 points, 13 boards. The tigers win 7672. Today is National Signing day for college football, coverage thats a look at sports, have a great wednesday. Today runners from all over the globe will race up the empire state building. This is video from last year, the runners will attempt to make it up 86flights, 1600 stairs , the fastest runners cover all 86 floors in 10 minutes. Their knees ache after its all over. Approval of a Charter School report, considered to be too negative. The improvements made before it goes on to lawmakers and a scare in the air , the investigation that is underway after an explosion leave as hole in a plane. Pick 3 numbers, 403, summit summit up w t, rete adrer ga gio ittoth b i veap. Tha apwewaliu ly isg g atinteis hthwi mp l seinfunt coyo tw e vee in hep. Sityt cl itlet rsar fi wighe. Medesawermea haedugonca atheunpe a e, ceouurtecu d gevi ash r ni ananarofhe poinfr f e , udar ly tatiicngto ee reortre tesareer pe rnpan. Sc in anan msoit our temperatures are feeling nice. 51 hillsborough. 52 hinderdon. 48 wilson. By lunchtime, a few showers, later this afternoon, it will be a deluge, looking at heavy rain along with scattered thunderstorms, lunchtime 65, the rain starts to move in around noon with patchy showers, by 4 00, a better chance for rain, scattered thunderstorms through the evening. Some of which could produce Severe Weather. We will talk about the threats for us today in a couple of minutes. New overnight, a chinese chemical maker wants to buy syngenta in a deal worth 43 billion. It would be the biggest ever syngenta ag says the board is recommending shareholders accept the offer. They rejected a bigger takeover bid from u. S. Based ag giant monsanto which offered 46. 5 billion. Another round of recalls for toyota. Recalling 320,000 trucks and suvs because roof mointed air bags can mounted air bags can inflate without a crash. The 2003, 2006 land cruiser and the 200464 runner. Two lux sus models included, the 2003 through 6lx470 and the 20046gx470. The Company Blames improper programming in the air bag control computer. This week, we learned yahoo will make serious cuts, now we internet giant is laying off 1700 workers, that is 15 of the work force. It will close 3 International Offices and selloff up to 3 billion in assets. The fate of the ceo is unclear, she said she is committed to turning things around. Yahoo stock plummeted by 35 in just the past year. A pilot makes a split second decision, when his plane was in distress in midair. Midair. The water landing caught on video next. What a neighbor is telling authorities about the relationship between a murdered accused in her death. Dallo Airlines Plane was flying between 1214,000 feet, when passengers heard an explosion in the planes cabin. Two people were injured, before the pie will the made an emergency landing. Somalia authorities found a body they believe fell from the plane. Police in virginia gave more details in their investigation of the abduction and murder of a 13yearold girl, Authorities Say a neighbor said nicole love el said she would sneak out of the house to meet her boyfriend and killed on the same day she vanished. She was stabbed to death and found in suri county, North Carolina. Two Virginia Tech students are charged with the crime. Natalie keepers, the student accused of helping, is charged with being an accomplice before the girls death. Davidize enhow ser charged with first degree eisenhower is charged with first degree murder. Robert durst expected to plead guilty to a gun charge in new orleans today. This move would bring him a step closer to facing a murder charge in los angeles. The 72 year old is accused of killing his friends and long time confidant, susan burrman in california 15 years ago. She was killed before investigators planned to speak to her about the 1982 disappearance of dursts first wife. Durst has maintained he had nothing to do with burrmans bill cosby will be in court for a pretrial hearding. The attorneys asked the judge to throw out a Sexual Assault charge against him because of a deal made with the former da. The actor is accused of drugging the victim and sexually assaulting her at his home in 2004. A Denver Broncos player sent home after he was questioned in a prostitution sting. Officers pickedded up ryan murphy and his brother in a Motel Parking Lot in san jose, he was questioned and released. His brother and a suspected prostitute received citations. He wasnt charged, but the broncos sent him to denver. Murphy has been a member of the practice squad since november. A plane made a dwramatic landing caught on camera. The pilot made the decision to land on the water in honolulu when he had technical problems with the landing gear. The only person on boards not hurt. He pulled it off, emergency the pilot is 68 years old, he is a veteran, 40 years of flying experience. Im sure that paid off. Happy birthday to you today. I used to dread birthdays. Now im like okay. Its a blessing. Thats what im trying to tell myself. Wish i could celebrate later as far as weather wise. Early february. Im sure you see different kinds of weather on your birthday. 70 degrees and thunderstorms. Im sure you had wintery weather on your birthday. We can see anything this time of year. Look at what is happening now, we check out the rocksboro sky cam, our snow capital of our viewing area, of course, none of that to be seen today. The flags are flying in the we are going to see windy conditions, even outside of the thunderstorms. We will have gusts out of the south and 2025 Miles Per Hour b when the thunderstorms come through, the potential to see stronger wind gusts causing minor damage. Talking more about that coming up. 52 is our current temperature, a mild morning, southeast wind at 8 Miles Per Hour right now. Dew point of 49. Temperatures are mild everywhere, it is muggy, too. 50 goldsboro, 48 rocky mount and rocksboro, 55 Southern Pines and fayetteville. Watching the visibilities, havent seen real problems yet. 2mile visibility in fayetteville, 2mile southern pine, visibility has to get down to a quarter mile before we are talking about fog. We are seeing lowering cloud decks down to the south and west of raleigh, 5mile visibility in rocksboro, starting to see that drop a little bit as well. Here comes the next big system, we have been talking about this it back to the west, mike and amy, we are talking about it over the weekend. Some of the rain arrive by lunchtime today, the bulk of the stronger storms with this come in, Late Afternoon and in to the evening. This storm does have a history of producing Severe Weather and a slight chance of that here. This morning, a chance of a sprinkle wouldnt be out of the question, a better chance of patchy showers by lunchtime. Its dry for the morning commute, if you are going to be heading out at lunchtime for a meeting or heading out for a lunch meeting and lunch dates, you will need your umbrella. Here comes the stronger line of thunderstorms, we will see that some point during the evening. The evening commute, or through dinner time, that is when we will have the best chance of Severe Weather. The front will stall out and continue to have a chance of rain from raleigh, during the day thursday, and gradually this front pulls away. Settled day. We may have lingering showers. Cooler temperatures by then, too. 70 this afternoon, a marginal rise risk for Severe Weather. Isolated tornado is not out of the question. Talking about heavy rain with the system, lingers in to thursday, 12 inches in the western part of the viewing area and 23 in the east, that could cause flooding problems. Another thing we will watch for this evening. Greg and mike will have everything covered for you, thursday morning, i will be here, we will see what problems have been caused by this. Sunday looks wet and cool here, 56, in california, the weather looks fan task for the super bowl fantastic for the super bowl. We are excited to host the super bowl. What a nice warm day they will have in santa clara. Pretty weather there, here, it stays chilly, and sunday a chance of a shower. Case the broncos win . No. Why would i . As if that were a possibility, brian . Just asking the question. Im a television nursery porter. I have to Television News reporter, i have to ask the question. A single car accident in to a utility pole, it knocked down part of the pole, we have Power Outages reported on the south side of durham, starlight drive and University Drive. We have not heard officially but wouldnt be surprised if they blocked University Drive in the area around starlight drive. Working on getting details about that accident and we will share them with you as we find out more. Consider alternate route, 55 this morning, would be an option for you or 7 51. The durham freeway, not bad at tw Alex Alexander drive. I40 to mangum 6 minutes. Difference in the lives of children. Still to come, the success of the helping hand project. The local University Alum grabbing gold at the olympics. S co o mas, wasng gs iol d n we tried tutbut didnnect then we abouans thftndthhed cosfoe ha dss miinug nout inam. Cua e thntofents rn zis