Last saturday or sunday and this weekend, well be way above freezing. Details on that in 15 minutes. Lets show you whats going on for today. A bright start to the day. A look at the durham sky cam, a few thin wispy high clouds out there, most of those about 25,000 feet off the ground and allowing a lot of fair skies in between. 23 in lewisburg. Tarboro at 26. Also in durham. As we move to the south, 28 for smithfield and Southern Pines about the same in goldsboro and fayetteville. Right around the freezing mark. Not much in the way of cloud cover. Last night a few high clouds moving from the north and west and largely dissipated. You saw a couple of streaks on that camera. A few patches of high clouds around from time to time. Lots of blue sky,bout 29 degrees as we get to 8 00 a. M. With light winds. By lunchtime, we are around 45 degrees and it looks like, as well reach 51 by 3 00 or 4 00. Temperatures will run a few degrees on the short side of normal. Brian is here now with an update on traffic. So far, a quiet morning. Pretty quiet. We had a report of a quiet morning. I want to talk about your trip in and out of downtown durham. Looks pretty good overall. Green line between downtown and i40 indicating a delay free 7 minute trip. 5 minute eastbound on chapel hill. 40 eastbound trip looks fine now. As we get closer to 8 00 with a little congestion and also with some sun glare delays. We could see some slowdowns. Right now, at least, you are looking good heading into the park from south cha pill hill and uth herryman. So far, through the forth fight work zone, no delays to report smooth trip from 440 after u. S. One. On the east side clay to, reports of an accident on 42, around news lony drive. We saw some delays earlier, well keep an eye on the sensor rings, something that you want to keep an eye on the eastern side of clayton. No other accidents to report. Back to u, bill. Bracing for voters confusion. Lawmakers continue to talk about the ssibility of two elections. Some say this could start a chaos. Congressional district maps drawn back in 2011 relied on passed newly drawn replacement maps even as they ask the Supreme Court to let them use the old ones. With all of that, up in the air, the state is bracing for two sets of congressional elections. We were given a great task in a short period of time. A bill passed in the house that would keep candidates running towards a march 15th primary under the 2011 district map. If the Supreme Court has no moved to keep those old maps in play, those candidates must refile for june 7th primary based on the new map. The tight schedule would also do away with runoff elections. There is no runoff, no comparison between the two choices which North Carolina had had before. There is a possibility that a single candidate might run for two offices at once. So, to recap, today is the deadline for the new Court Ordered maps. The senate will review the district congressional maps that were approved by the house yesterday and they will take a if all of this sounds confusion, thats because it is. For more information, you can log on to wral. Com. You said it the best, renee. A lot of moving parts in his one. Mikaya thurmond, thank you very much. Today is the deadline to register for the election. If you provide proper document. Also important to remember that, on election day, voters will be asked to show an acceptable photo id. We are still awaiting a ruling from a federal judge considering whether the states voter id law is tis criminal tri. Police in rauley are looking for people they say may be responsible for a shooting. The scene, swayne street. One man was injured there. He was taken to wake edward with nonlife threatening injuries. Police are following up on leads but, at this hour, there president obama and the first lady michele will pay their respects to justin Antonin Scalia as he lies in repose. The death has spark add fierce debate in washington on the campaign trail as to who should replace him. President obama will not be attending the Funeral Service but Vice President joe biden will be there. New overnight a welcome home this morning for para troopers assigned to the 82nd division in fort bragg. The troop awrns from iraq and faces. Newsroom. Tell us how that went. As you might imagine, that was a very happy occasion. These droops are now back home after nine months of service. Family members waited anxiously pope air field. It was about 3 00 a. M. When folks were able to greet them as they walked in. There were a few ceremonial numbers because folks were able to cross the line and hug their loved ones. They first deployed last june, spending the last month in operation resolve. Cordell whites little girl was just two weeks old when he deployed. Seeing them taking care of their selves while im away and seeing my daughter, her raising my daughter by herself and my daughter getting bigger and learning, thats the hardest part because im not there. I deployed and basically you have to set all the emotions assaye, go day by day and once i came back, i get it all poured out once i saw my family. Specialist Xiomar Ruckel says he is very excited to see his moms cookies. The troops will have several days of rest to be able to do so. I spoke to one of the officers about whats next for the troops. Theyll have a fourday weekend. Thankfully, they have a good weekend ahead of them. Then theyll head back to post to start their integration. Well have more on wral. Com. Have the kleenex ready when you see the photos. So happy for ose families to get to spend some quality times together donald trump responds to comments by the pope. Why his stance on the pope changed a bit and president obama sets to visit cuba. Why he will visit and who he and that feeling. You know the one. That grandslam, acedthepresentation feeling. Multiply that feeling. Its the deal of all deals. A moment worthy of celebration. Now multiply that. Youre everyones hero in the championship of all championships its that feeling. Multiplied. Yea, that feeling this is it the final full day of campaigning in South Carolina before voters go to the polls for tomorrows president ial primary. Donald trump holds a double digit lead in most polls but there is a real battle for second and third. A new fox news poll has donald trump at 32 in South Carolina. Ted cruz has 19 . Marco rubio at 15 and those are the three candidates with double digit scores. Donald trump softened his stance on statements made by the pope says that trump is not christian if he seeks to build a border wall. Earlier, trump called that comment disgraceful but toned his reaction down a bit at a town who will meeting for three of the republican candidates. I have a little nicer statement than was reported by you folks in the media. After i read it, it was a little sotter. The bottom line is that we have to have a board e we have to ve security. We have tremendous illegal immigration. Jeb bush who also attended the town hall gathering said that he didnt think for anyone to question anyones faith. Esidential candidate Hillary Clinton is questioning whether Bernie Sanders is a loyal dem chasm he askiesed sanders of attacking the two most democratic president s, he said that he was just describing e nafta agreement as disastrous. Obama will meet with raul castro, but not his brother fidel. He will meet with dissidents. Congressional leaders will tackle the zika crisis. The question is, where do we fund the response . That the president can find you get a cold. You cant breathe through your nose. Suddenly, youre a mouthbreather. Well, just put on a breathe right strip which instantly opens your nose up to 38 more than Cold Medicine alone. 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As we look at the Current Conditions at the Raleigh Durham airport, 28 degrees, winds are calm. Dew point at 19. We have about 30. 58 inches for we have pressure centered around southeastern North Carolina. 23 grees in roxboro. We have 29 degrees around irwin. Now, as we take a look at how that compares to 24 hours ago, remember, we started off sunday morning, fairly cold but colder out there this morning, anywhere from about 6 to 10 degrees for the most part across areas from the triangle area eastward towards the triad, not that much of a different. High clouds for over that part of the state. A little bit more thickly at times last night. As we take a look at satellite radar, you see a couple of fair weather clouds yesterday but a lot of sun as well. Those, as they have interacted more and more with sinking air, associated with the High Pressure ridge that stretches along the northeast earn united northeastern North Carolina has tended to cause some of that cloud cover to dissipate because of the sinking motion warms up the air that the clouds are in and evaporates the ice droplets or crystals. Well be watching the next few day as cold front off to the northwest. The front will be making pretty slow progress towards the southeast the next couple of day, does not come through here and cool things down. Ahead of it there is warm air across the nation south and thats going to be dragging into North Carolina as this high moves away to the east and we get into more of a southerly and southwesterly wind flow. Taking a look at future cast, you see a few of those wispy, overnight tonight a few more and well turn partly cloudy. Tomorrow, we go partly to mostly cloudy as the high and midlevel clouds thicken up a little bit more but despite those clouds, the southwest wind will push our temperatures today, looking for a high of 51 degrees. Looks like well be about 29 or so at 8 00 with a mix of sun and high clouds. Still about 51 5 00. Tomorrows high will be about 63. Thats above our normal of 56. Not really close to our record of 75 for back in 1939 67 monday with more clouds and sun. A couple of sprinkles possible mainly southeast of us. A little cooler then with a high of 57. We get colder on tuesday with a stalled front to our south and low pressure nearby that will leave us with a good chance of rain. We bounce back up to about 48 on wednesday, still a few patchy areas of rain and rain showers there. Over to brian now for an update on the traffic. A couple of accidents popped up here. Its 7 19 now. A crash on the northern side raleigh, a minor accident on affect you on any major routes this morning. An accident we have been following in Johnston County and apparently part of highway 42 is blocked around neuse colony drive, just in the past couple of minutes. We are hearing about that as they get an accident cleared up, working on getting more details. We hope to have more details for you. Lets take a look at the drive times coming from northern wake county. Getting getting to 5 40, there is the look at inbound traffic. So far looks pretty good, about a 12 minute trip from wake forest to 540 this morning. Lewis forest road, the scene at lee land drive. That traffic is moving to the ride. The ride from rollsville to 540 will take you about 11 minutes. Once you are on 540, the westbound trip from capitol to minutes right now. Back to you. Brian, thank you very much for that. The trials of five baltimore sorry. House republicans say that the fastest way for president obama to obtain money to obtain the zika vice is to tab leftover funding from the battle against ebola. 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The city of flint, michigan, will get an extra two Million Dollars to help replace its old lead water pipes. The deteriorating pipes contributed to the contamination of the citys Drinking Water supply. The grand money is coming from the states distress city funds. Flints mayor, karen weaver, wants to start removing the lead pipes imdiely but governor nighter wants an pipes before removing them. And federal investigators will be in hawaii looking into the crash of a helicopter that critically injured a 15year old. Cameras were rolling when the cop tear made a hard landing. It started coming really low and straight at me, essentially. It seemed out of place and not normal so i switched to video real quick and shot the video clip. The rest, you can see. Good samaritans jumped into the water to help rescue the people inside. So far, no word on what caused the aircraft to go down do you get enough sleep at night . Chances are, though, you do. The results of a new c. D. C. Study on sleep in america. How North Carolina ranks with the rest of the country. And prosecutors will be back today with more evidence that they say should put Travion Smith on death row. Witnesses who do not want the convicted killer to die. Your buddy ron once said he could install your ceiling fan. He couldnt. And that one time ron said another chili dog was a good idea. Yeah, it wasnt. So when ron said youd never afford a john deere tractor, you knew better. Now ron does too. The e series. Legendary john deere quality. Unexpected low price. E series compact tractors come with living with chronic migraine feels like each day is a game of chance. I wanted to put the odds in my favor. So my doctor told me about botox an fdaapproved treatment that significantly reduces headache days for adults with chronic migraine. 15 or more headache days a month, each lasting 4 hours or more. Its proven to actually prevent headache days. And its injected by my doctor once every 3 months. 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A welcome home this morning for paratroopers assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division at fort bragg. These troops just served 8 months in support of Operation Inherent resolves in iraq. Its beautiful weather for them, especially this week, right, mike. Thats the way it looks. Were going to have some cloud around for the weekend. Temperatures will be warming up some. Today, well still be on the short side of normal. Most of us in the mid20s to 30 degrees. 20 Degrees South hill, 28 in fayetteville. There is a look at satellite and radar. We saw quite a bit of sunshine. Last night, fair skies for the most part. Fairly thin and streaky clouds. There are a lot of fair skies out there, and thats what well see through out the day. About 29 degrees at 8 00 this morning. By the time we make it through lunchtime, we are up to about 45 and during the afternoon by 3 00 or 4 00, we hit our high around 51. Just on the short side of normal. Over to brian for a look at traffic. 7 28 now. Median of 540 westbound right there neuse road. As you head eastbound on 540, scoot over into the center and right lanes by falls. Give them room to work. 14 minutes to get, there and that will likely increase. Taking a look at the commute map, a crash on the east side of clayton bypass. Keep in mind an earlier accident in clayton on 42 at neuse colony drive in the clearing stages. It just reopened but we are still seeing some heavy congestion. Flu season is not over yet, North Carolina. So far for the juryn th trt betias mon yaile courtre y. G,bi anity t witnesseisar , ildhhie role e pethwise se. Susp cifing bebe c noed cein ansi atirl 12 juroag ts,lyth or alei oueartki va most0 g likerreda. Wanted to lex ti to ttg e hool um. Boar to rena il s hero ion. Thfoergoves alstat llll couna c e the ng and y dente hevepopulatisomni fecoul trigethnald diy paedsl waorrs nature sin ca fialcod s bea tilytcaith en ceaila th st guona of wal uf urey for spng on wielspri a ar0. 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Going to be a little bit on the cool side of normal, colder this morning than yesterday. Take a live ok here. Pretty quiet start to the day. There may be a couple of streaks of high clouds that come in from the northwest on occasion but those dont be quite spread. 28 degrees the temperature in temperature wake forest about 25 to 24 in zebulon. We take a look at the wider view and the Raleigh Durham airport also at 28 degrees. Colder toward the virginia line, mid20s in roxboro and south hills. Upper 20s in goldsboro and fayetteville. 342 degrees around clinton. Taking a look at the contrast thats coming up between last weekend and the weekend ahead to 34 degrees on saturday. 32 is the high. Could not get past freezing at past weekend. This weekend, a whole at this. World out there 63. 2 sunday. Well 67 on sunday. Yesterday, not too much in the way of cloud cover. Last night, fair skies for the most part. Large clouds largely dissipated. They have been having to compete against the fact that as the cloud move over North Carolina, they run into an area where a ridge of High Pressure from thenortheastern United States creates some siding air and while the air subsides like that, it heats on and when it warms up a little bit, it can evaporate cloud particles. We were watching that high move off to the east tomorrow. On the west side of it, south there is a cold front well to the northwest, stretched across the midwest and out into the plains. Looks like that front is going to be moving toward us slowly over the next couple of days. It will finally move through North Carolina, probably saturday night into or i should say sunday night into monday morning before it gets here, warmer air to the southwest helps to make its way into our area. So after being on the cool side today, we see a warming trend for tomorrow. A warming trend a little more as we head into sunday. By monday, that front starts to come across the area. That will cool us off to start the week and an upper level trough comes in as we head into monday and tuesday, sending a disturbance our way. Today, more sun than clouds. 45 at noon, about 51 by 3 00 or 4 00. Back to 45 by 8 00 p. M. Later ton, a low of 48. Tomorrows high about 63. Sunday, we are looking for a time of the year. Below the old normal. We are not right back into 1896 when it only got to 30 on that date. We do stay a little cooler on monday with a slight chance, southeast of the triangle, 56 the high. 42 on tuesday. Lets turn it over to brian. 7 48, an accident on the north side of raleigh causing a little bit of a delay now on 540 westbound. This is right there at the falls and neuse road interchange. Whats new about this scene is that there is fire and ems. They get this accident cleared up and we are seeing a little bit of a delay building. Take a look at the sensor, about 18 minutes with most of those taylorsville from capitol boulevard. By the time we get to falls and neuse, looks pretty good. Seeing hail bit of delay building on a 540 westbound leaving from the eastern side of raleigh or maybe louisburg road, westbound on 540, youll run into those significant delays this morning and thats steadily climbing, something to keep in mind as you head out. Well keep our eyes on those. Durham, the freeway looks good this morning. Slowdowns on the eastbound side of i40 with some congestion and sun glare delays. Brilliant sunshine throwing drivers down the eastfacing highways. And what mon road, some west bound congestion. Back to you. Thank you, brian. All this month on local dish, we are looking at unique ways to prepare North Carolina sweet potatoes. We sure are. This week, brian, brian doing traffic, has some ideas that will warm you up on a cold winter day. We will make roasted potatoes with kale. Does that work. I guess it does. We have diced North Carolina beats. Nothing like beats. Combine it well i was going to give you a bigger bowl but tommy, our photographer, felt like you could do it in a smaller bowl. Hmm. Well, ive tried to do it. I lost a raisin and two pieces of sweet potatoes. Thats not terrible. Not terrible thats all im going to do. You are good. Spread this out on a large baking sheet. Spread it out evenly and head over to the stove. In a sauce pan, we have some butter, chopped North Carolina pecan and fresh thyme. Stir it until the butter melts cover pan with aluminium foil. White it bakes, we make our dressing. A simple mixture of sherrie vinegar and dijon mustard. Time to build the salad. Kale with crushed with pepper flakes. Its fun . I like it. Yeah . I do. Especially you have the beets and raisin and pecans. I do like the roasted beef and sweet potatoes. You can just do that. With that topping, you can do anything. There you go. Get a copy of the recipe on wral. Com. In the recipes in the search box and look to a link to the printable version. And next week, lisa and brian serve a sweet potato pizza on a soft pastry crust. A edition of the spiderman amazings fantasy number 15 where it sold for 400,000 last week at an auction. I cant say inks name. Yakobosky wants to use the money to purchase his late fathers long island vegetable farm. Time for a look at whats trending. J k rowlings twitter feud with a member of Scottish Parliament is not over. Now, the writer has picked up a pretty influential friend on twitter. Background. Back in january, natalie mcgeary accused the harry potter author supporting mysoginnists. When rowling responded with threat of a lawsuit, the someone else responded talking about rowling, why apologize to her. Rowling brushed the tweet off with a twist on the chameleon hid air song. They so me rolling, they hate it. Of course, rowling elled rowling. Channelillionaire said. This unexpected fifth bump has been retweeted thousands of time. The twitter beasts have been squashed and new friends have been made. You want to have row willing on your side. If you ever read her twitter feet, that woman can take somebody to asks can. She is rolling in the dough. 7 56. Bill leslie here with the top stories. Prosecutors in the Travion Smith trial will present rebuttal evidence. Thats after the defense presented witnesses fromteaches, therapists and family talking about the abuse he had as a child. And a woman was hit by a car 6 00 last night on garner road. We are told that the driver of the vehicle was detained. The womans injuries are not life threatening. Lets get a check of the forecast your with mike moss, the weather boss. Well finish up the week on a high note. A few high clouds around from time to time. Weve got 29 in durham and 27 up in roanoke rapids, wilson at 26 degrees. 31 here at the station in raleigh. Looking at 24 for sanford. 28 in goldsboro and fayetteville. Clinton and golds groh starting at 32. Mostly clear skies with a few patches of high clouds. At love those tended to dissipate recently. Well be mostly sunny at lunch time about 45 degrees, mixture of sun and maybe high clouds later on in the afternoon with the high of 51. Thats just below normal this time of the year, not much. Falling back to about 45 with partly cloudy skies at 8 00 p. M. Lets go over to brian. 7 57. Mike, as we take a look at the commute map, picking up delays at 540 westbound due to an interchange. We are following an accident on the south side of raleigh on 40 eastbound around hammond road. Not seeing anything on the cameras indicating big delays. However, the sensors are picking up westbound delays headed in that area especially between 440 and lake wheeler roadad as soon as you get beyond that, we are looking pretty good. Earlier accident at neuse colony drive in the clayton area cleared up and traffic is moving along pretty well. Tripe from i40 to mangum street taking out 8 minutes. And westbound 40 taking about 40 minutes. Home safe with the families next on fox 50. A military homecoming in fort been and why h ar ousi vo p. Rs cg e cingh wnr fovo