Beaten and stabbed by her 8 yearold daughter in her North Raleigh apartment in may 2013. The same jury found Travion Smith kildee of her first killed her and was convicted of firstdegree murder. On friday, the state and defense rested. Today, the jury is expected to get the sentencing case. The state requires a unanimous decision by all jurors. When the jury comes back with a decision we will stream live on www. Wral. Com. It is set to start at 9. 30. A michigan man will be arraigned withconnections to a seven hour crime spree that killed six people and left to injured. Asked on champion reports, authorities are now working to piece together the timeline of the suspect. A 45yearold uber driver who reportedly picked up passengers in between shootings. Multiple murder and apons charges connected to a deadly shooting rampage in kalamazoo. The 45yearold uber driver targeted victims at random, mark dutton gets chills thinking about his encounter. Its crazy to think someone could have gone out and done these horrible things and came in with a straight face like he is doing s job. Reporter he and his friends heard about the killing spree and got nervous when dalton picked them up in a car that matched the one police were looking for. Him. I said, you are not the guy, are you . He said, no. Reporter 53yearold Richard Smith and his 17year old son, tyler, re killed car shopping at this dealership. Barbara hawthorne was among those killed at this acker barrel. When a tragedy like this strikes you never expected to be this close to home. Reporter the first victim in the spree was a woman shot multiple times at this apartment complex. She is expected to survive. The sheriff says her quick actions saved the lives of children including 12yearold, joy coleman. He shot her gun he shot her she asked him how me. No history. The tran08s chief Security Officer released a quote thing were horrified and heartbroken kalamazoo. Our hearts and the dems are with the families of the victims of the devastating from injuries. Today a North Carolina based gun maker is filing a lawsuit went to the sandy hook mass massacre. Freedom group want a judge to dismiss the suit filed by families of the guns. Bushmaster gunsmith the ar 15 style rifle used to kill 20 firstgraders and six educators 2012. The company says it is protected by 2005 federal law that shields gun manucter their products. A superior court judge is expected to hear arguments this afternoon. 40 in raleigh. State troopers say a driver was in reverse on i40 near old reedy creek road when he crashed into another car around 3 00 am inthe morning. The driver, Benito Martinez died in the crash. A passenger in the front seat was treated for minor injuries. The driver and passenger in the other car were also taken to the hospital. A mile to start to the workweek. No more 70s. But you know, not that after at all. Thats right. It could be, you know, 15 degrees. It is still february. So we will be happy for the 50s instead 15. Lets take a look at solo from 5. It is gray out there this morning. We have been single cloud cover, drizzle, patchy light rain and a little bit fog. There in eastern wake county 52 Holly Springs. 53 zeppelin, 52 degrees in wake forest. 55 in fayetteville, and in goldsboro. But, temperatures are not going to warm up much from here. We have a cold front that will slip down into South Carolina opening the door to cooler air writing today which just means temperatures will basically hold study. Midfifties at lunchtime and 4 00 and into the upper 40s at 8 00. As the day wears on, we have a better chance for rain especially south of road. Looks like it may be a fairly wet night for a lot of folks. I will show you that on future cast in a few minutes. Brian is taking a look at whats happening out there. Still some fog in spots. Here and there, especially southwest of the triangle. I want to thank a twitter follower from sending us this recency fog in the distance that it is not really think or two that is take. Slow down this morning. Take a look at the road weather index and show you where you normally southwest of the triangle from Harnett County on into plea, chatting and parts of moore county. Not widespread but in some areas keep it in mind as you head up this morning. Take you to live coming up, starting to see some delays on 540 westbound especially between fallsof neuse. Also slowdowns on 40 eastbound between the 54 interchange afterward 751. Leaving chapel hill heading into south durham, a little bit of slowdown. As soon as you get the him 751, the dried out to 55 in the durham freeway looking pretty good. In Holly Springs, a report of an accident on the fed five bypass on Holly Springs road. Sing a slowdown on the westbound side of 55 although it looks like it ends around new hill road. Does not go as far up as Holly Springs but is something you will want to think about if youre heading out of fuquay holly rings. Leaving raleigh through the park, six minutes and 40 westbound. There is at eight minute drive with slowdowns and 40 eastbound from 54 to 751. Seven minutes om downtown durham. Apple continues the fight against the court order to hack into a terrorist cell phone. Who is now supporting the tech giant and where they will be protesting tomorrow. At one time, more than a dozen candidates were running for the gop president ial three in nevada. Isnoth alru ird victing dsouth caro ra amoru, antetoorauin po a r wed. Telu at ateanotr. 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Fun, not like it was over e weekend. Heres a look at the radar picture. We are tracking a cold front that started up in virginia sinking southward across our area. Yes. And, the rain has really fizzled out with this over the last couple of hours. But it will move on down south to the South Carolina line. As does, a better chance of showers stop umbrella. Goldsboro, lillington, fayetteville, clinton, pounds, a better chance of showers after lunchtime. Take a look at our top tower camera. Just a nute ago, maybe this was just a batch of clouds see it. But our mix 101. 5 tower is going to appear its not. But its on the left side of your screen stuck under e clouds. But you can see the layers of clouds in the atmosphere. Look at that, here comes another batch of clouds blowing over. Kind of neat to see whats happening at about 2000 feet. 54 is our current temperatures. We do have this big, thick keeping is overcast is morning. It also sunk down to the ground in some spots as fog. 52 is out to be go. Right now 50 degrees in roxboro. 56 in rocky mount and wilson, and 55 degrees in southern pines. Really warm for a february morning, but 20 degrees cooler than our high was yesterday. We saw lows oh mid70s. Awfully nice. Visibility in irwin at a mile and a quarter. Low cloud cover and a little bit of patchy fog out there remaining this morning. Heres a look at the band of showers from overnight last night, it will continue to sink southward. That front slips south alone cooler air to ve in. Highs only stay in the 50s this afternoon. And then some rain along the front helping to bring us showers as we get into the afternoon, mainly from raleigh southward. Heres lunchtime. You can see some of the rain beginning develop from, say, lillington southward. And then it does move northward the evening commute, there could be patchy rain anywhere. Be sure to tune into greg and mike following those showers during the commute. They are going to have a busy week thursday overnight. We are going to have some rain. Tomorrow morning we will be tracking showers. Brian and i will be here showing you how that affects your morning mmute tomorrow. And then on wednesday we have a strong front coming through that will bring us a good chance of thunderstorms. Heres 7 00 and. The line of storms and most likely this will produce Severe Weather, possibly tornadoes. Damaging wind are a good likelihood for us wednesday. The timing will be Late Afternoon into e evening. Today, our chance of rain goes up in the afternoon during the evening but just a little bit around the triangle. Maybe a little bit higher chance heading southward from the triangle. Tuesday itll be a cool day, high of 48, almost 10 degrees below the normal. The normal now is 57. Record, 79. Our biggest weather story of the week will be what happens on wednesday. Elevated risk for vere weather. That of course is several days out ill. It looks like tornadoes are not out of the question on wednesday. So, this is something that we will continue to follow closely and update that forecast for you wednesday. And of course we will be here walking you through any Severe Weather that happens. After that it looks quiet, thursday through sunday, we will see sunshine and temperatures close to normal. Thank you ry much, elizabeth. Two of the four by seleucus hit by a car over the weekend in Johnson County are recovering at wake med. Our last check, lynn lashley and mike dayton were listed in critical condition. They were on massengill pond road saturday with chris graham and Joel Lawrence when the car hit the four of them. Police say the driver was 54 yearold donnie williams. Joel lawrence says he remembers the moment something nt wrong. I dont remember hearing the car. But, i do remember thinking, going on here. And, i am about ready to go down. And i member seeing lynn flying through the air and i saw michael done ahead of them. The Highway Patrol says charges are pending against williams and they do not believe alcohol or speed were factors. North carolina schools may be making a mistake that could cost the state federal education funding. The u. S. Department of education send state education leaders a warning after they found that schools fail to testing of students on state exams last year. Wral education reporter, lly hinchcliffe, joins us this morning to talk about this. Good to have you here. Thank you. Are interesting, how did you come across this story . We were one of 13 ates that received a letter from the u. S. Department of education. Wanted to know every school that failed to testing of students. The simulated we had more than 300 schools in our state that did not testing of students. How many students are supposed to be tested each school year . 95 of all students. When i looked at the data the North Carolina schools a sentiment, some schools did not even come close. Wake unty schools are on that list . Yes. More than 30 schools including 23 of the 27 high schools. I reached out to wake schools and acknowledge the taxing very few of our high schools test 95 of students. I found that night delhi actually had the west participation. What is the reason behind this . Simply kids are not showing up for these tests . Yes. And when students do not show up that counts against e school. Another some schools have taken a proactive approach. Randolph county for example has some of the highest test state last year. They said, what we do is send letters home. We call some parents and did some cases drive to students houses and say we will take you to school so you can take these tests. Thats why they have high participation rates. To know if wake county schools might consider those possibilities . Or do they accept the fact that they will not have high participation rates . I dont think they accept the fact. They tell me they try to make phone calls and reach out to students to get them in. Another thing i heard from schools is that we dont have enough makeup days for student to take e test. Kelly, thank you very much. We have a searchable database for schools in North Carolina that failed to testing of students last year. See for yourself. If your schools on the list, go to www. Wral. Com and search education. Thank you very much. More news after this break. It is 8 25, im renee chou with your top stories. Closing arguments begin this morning in the sentencing phase of the Travion Smith murder trial. The jury will deliberate whether to send smith to death row or life in prison without parole. That same jury found smith guilty of the rder of Melissa Raleigh apartment. Charges are pending against the driver who hit for over the weekend. They were on massengill pond road when they were hit by a car driven by 50yearold donnie williams. At last check, two of the bicyclists were listed in critical condition. Duke University Scholars will examine the impact of Justice Scalias death during a discussion today. The blic isllowed to attend, it will be on dukes east campus. Mild temperatures to start off the morning. Up ry much. It will be nice if he could jump back into the 70s like we did yesterday but that is not likely to happen today or the rest of the week. The radar picture showing a few sprinkles. Most of those have fizzled out for now, as we head through the next few hours, though, they will likely redevelop top of the triangle, thats when we have the best chance of rain during the day and overnight we see rain spreading back to the north, and more folks will see rain tonight. Our sky cam over downtown raleigh looking very great but fairly dry. Raleigh, 54. 56 in rocky mount and wilson, 55 in fayetteville, 50 degrees in roxboro. Temperatures will hold here through much of the day with highs only in e mid50s. Tomorrow, 48 for the high. Isolated showers. But wednesday is going to be our big weather story with a good chance of some Severe Weather and thunderstorms on wednesday. We will see a high of 66. Brian . 8 27. A minor accident leaving garner heading into raleigh at westbound. This is the ramp that takes you out to 440 westbound, from 40 westbound. This continues on into raleigh heading toward rock quarry road. You can see a minor accident in the median, looks like Raleigh Police are on the scene, maybe that is a state trooper. They might be clearing that out very shortly. Something to keep in mind over the next little while. Singled in traffic on the northbound side of the durham freeway, 11 minutes to make the trip from singled in traffic on the northbound side of the durham freeway, 11 minutes to make the trip from 42 mangum street. You can see that update that looks like its increasing a little bit, up to 12 minutes. Nine minutes of use the alternate route of 55 westbound between i40 and the durham freeway interchange. Might be best to stick to the durham freeway. A little congested between the alexander drive area heading into downtown grant avenue. Also have an accident on dillard ive near tryon springs road. Ahead on fox 50, here why a Fayetteville School today. Monday morning and the traffic s building. The North Carolina naacp holds a News Conference to respond to new congressional maps drawn up by the General Assembly friday. Www. Wral. Com tara lynn is live in raleigh, lawmakers hope the maps will satisfy the court order to redraw districts. But we understand they uld fail face challenges. May not satisfy other people. Lawmakers approve the new voting maps late friday as they rushed to meet a federal deadline. This issue started because a lawmakers rely too heavily on the first and 12th congressional districts. This new map will pack fewer africanamerican voters into those o districts, which were the focus of the court ruling. The new map is also more competitive than the old ones drawn between 2011, however it still gives republicans an advantage in 10 of the districts. Today, the naacp will hold a maps. They said in a press release they are concerned and plan to action . Thats what well have to find out at the press conference. Afternoon. All right, tara lynn live at outside. Thank you very much. City leaders in charlotte controversial changes to a nondiscrimination ordinance. The proposed changes would community from discrimination in businesses and public restrooms. Governor pat mccrory is calling it misguided and down he will support legislative action if it sses. The man suspected of injuring a toddler in a drive by shooting will be in court. Friday. He is in jail on 1. 5 million bond. A toddler was shot inside the home on great bend drive, that child was taken to the hospital but hasnt been released. Investigators say the toddler was not the intended target. They also believe the shooting was not a random ent. Police were attempting to serve rrants on laquan cannady on a home along the fire took road. Including failing appear in possession of a stolen car. He refused to come out of the house. Several nearby homes were evacuated as a precaution. He did surrender without incident about noon. He faces additional charges of child abuse involving children living at that home. A project to put sandoval an area of eroding beach along Hatteras Island is one step closer to reality. The National Park service has it approved a special e permit for dare county. It is from a project in buxton to protect highway 12 from flooding. Officials say the project now need a permit from the army corps of engineers. The area stretches from the previous site of the Cape Hatteras lighthouse to appoint 2 miles north of buxton. It would receive 2. 6 million cubic yards of sand. The sand could be pumped onto the beach starting in ne. You can learn about an important local leader during an africanamerican heritage tour. The focus is professor edward evans, a school and Church Leader in fayetteville around 100 years ago. He and his wife, sally, were graduates of the school that later became fayetteville state university. The fayetteville area tour tracing his steps and stopping at several historic sites. It starts at 9 00. A Fayetteville Elementary School will welcome a special visitor to celebrate black History Month. Astronaut and u. S. Navy Lieutenant CommanderVictor Glover junior will visit for this and easily Elementary School today. Commander glover is not only a nasa astronaut, he is a Fighter Pilot and a legislative fellow in the u. S. Congress. He will be speaking at the schools black History MonthRecognition Assembly this afternoon. What a treat for ose kids. I can still remember the inspirational figures that came to my school. They do have an impact on you. To any of them inspire you to become a journalist . Know. But i remember Skipper Bowles come into my high school, he was a gubernatorial candidate and very much against smoking. Lot of kids at r school. Elizabeth, did you want to were little . I did not, actually. I had a good friend who did and she became a meteorologist and it s funny, because you know, grade i would have never be meteorologist. But, you never know who you were ran across that inspires you to do something that you had not thought of before. Lets take a look at satellite dar picture. Have clouds out there this morning. A couple of sprinkles. Most of those down into South Carolina now. We have a better chance of rain from raleigh southward for much of the y today. Then we start to see that rain shifting northward. Its going to be a pretty wet night, probably going to end up with a rainy commute in a lot of places. In durham, 54. Town by town 55 in urban, 50 degrees in sanford, it is going to be a great day for us. Just some patchy light rain and temperatures Holding Steady in the mid50s at lunchtime. We stay in the mid50s all day increasing later this afternoon and evening. Tuesday stays fairly dry after we get through the morning. Wednesday will be the day at will be most concerned about. We have potential for strong thunderstorms and we will talk more about that coming up in a bill . Elizabeth. A special donation from unc sylvia hatchell. Shprend presented a donation to an alumni fund in honor of unc players and alumni. Wrals debra morgan helped with a donation. 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That is by the park on your way to my favorite restaurant, which , well, you know, im not sure that they paid for the advertising. Share with us later. It is a good one. It is a good one. There are lots of good restaurants in blowing rock. Around here it els like blowing rock, misty and risley in some places. Tracking the rain up north near the virginia line along the on down to the triangle area right now, by the afternoon, it will find itself down here in South Carolina, and, it will have rain that goes along in with the rain pushing back northward across the region overnight. Its going to be a fairly wet night for us, another pretty little town in our viewing area is wilson, this is the end of nashua street down here. You can see the pretty buildings and trees lining nashua street. But, it is rather windy ght now. Wind east at 7 miles per hour, 50 in roxboro, town by town, 49 at south hill, 45 in goldsboro, sometimes, erwin, fayetteville and clinton, temperatures in the mid50s in most places. Visibility starting to come up a little bit, early this morning there was patchy fog especially right here into chatham, harnett and lee counties. It was not despread but most of that is lifting now. Even though we are not seeing much show up on the dar currently, dont be surprised into in the next hour or two, temperatures are not ing to warm the heart they did yesterday. As that found slips southward, that oler air building. Temperature started in the low 50s this morning, ending in the low to mid 50s this afternoon. Almost Holding Steady. Later today, ecipitation will ride along that front helping to bring us a better chance for rain which you can see here on future cast. We start here at 9 00 a. M. 15 minutes from now. Trying to lunchtime. Then we start to see that rain riding along the front into our southern counties. There is plenty of it, though. By 7 00 we will have scattered showers. Around dinnertime, or this evening, it is a little wetter, and an overnight and into tomorrow morning we have a chance of some rain across e region. Into the afternoon a little bit of a break, and we will be watching a powerful low that develops across the mississippi valley. For the week. Look at this, huge system here with some thunderstorms. That rosen wednesday afternoon. That. Looks like a good chance of Severe Weather, possibly tornadoes, even isolated tornadoes in our viewing area are not out of the question. And when you can tell that a couple of days in advance, you know that is a david will have today will be fairly quiet. A slim chance of patchy ght evening. It does look like a rainy night, then that rain tapers off during the morning commute tomorrow. Tomorrow, and even cooler day. 48, the forecast, normal High Temperature 57. That will be on the cool side. While the temperatures bump up to mid 60s potentially wednesday, we have a very unstable air mass in play. That front comes through and we have the potential for maging wind. Have a lot of trees that may come down because it has been so wet lately, possibly tornadoes. After that thursday, possibly looks blustery but the weather will be dry into the weekend. High temperatures will be in the 50s. To this weekend but it will be dry by the end of the week. Notice those morning lows, back down freezing. Thank you. President obama made remarks and tested at the National GovernorsAssociation Dinner and reception at the white house. Vice President Joe Biden and First Lady Michelle Obama also attended. The president has made it a focus during his final year to talk about bridging some the bipartisan divide in washington. At the event, governor mccrory congratulated colorados governor on the broncos super bowl victory by wearing this broncos jersey. It did not stay on for ng. That, he takes that off, and, his true lors show. As part of the wager, mccrory announced 100 cases of food from North Carolinabased butterball will go to food things in colorado. A mothers dying wish was granted as she watched her daughter walked down the aisle. But the ceremony might not be what you picture. Attendant, and she married her husband on a flight to seattle. The brides mother is battling stage iv cancer and wanted to see where her daughter works and wanted to see hermarry the man she loves. As you can see, it all came together friday. Since then, the story has put on social media. A 106yearold woman was so excited to meet the president over the weekend that she burst into dance. So nice to see you do you want to say hello to michelle . Yes what a neat lady. Virginia mclaurin visiting the white house, shaking the hands of the president anton first lady, michelle obama, how much she loves eting her. She received a Community Service award for helping students with mental and physical sabilities, and in president , she said she thought she would never live to get into the white house. The white house posted this video on social media with the hashtag, blackhistorymonth. Her 107th birthday is in less than a month. Dont you want to hug her . Yes we are going to continue the theme. In spokane, washington, a woman named flossy rned100, and they decided it would be a good segment for the news. Later today, flossys family will be coming out here to throw you a big birthday party. Are you excited for your birthday . Not one bit. [ laughter ] you would rather be taking a nap . Yeah, flossy would rather be taking a p. She was not too thrilled about kidding. She just kind of sat there and, you know, suffered this reporter, to some degree, taking sips from her coffee mug there on good morning spokane. [ laughter ] for the last 10 years she has probably had to endure this every year. Okay, flossy. What is the secret to living that one . By the way, when she asked her that, she said, i dont know, i dont fight it, i ve it. Isnt that a great response . Thats true. She asked how she felt. She said, how do you think you would feel if you were 110 . When brian is 106, thats exactly what his answer is going to be. [ laughter ] i hope to be like virginia mclaurin, you know, dancing. And then ere isrumpster over there. Me take my p. She says she takes a lot of naps. Heres another 81yearold lady in mount pocono, pennsylvania. She says a couple of people came up to her and tried to grab her purse out of their car. 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