Temperatures in the mid to upper 50s. Cooler today. Thunderstorms. We will talk about that in the complete forecast in a bit. Barbara social media is buzzing about the Iowa Caucuses this morning after a big upset and surprise tie. The first votes are cast in the race and there are big surprises. John the biggest shock was donald trump not the winner. Republican president ial candidate ted cruz outperformed trump who finished second followed closely by marco rubio. Hillary or bernie or winner on the sent a very profound message to the political barely registering among democrats. On the republicans, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee deciding to end his president ial bid. Barbara several people are being questioned after five vehicles were damaged by bricks thrown off an overpass in cumberland county. One car and four tractortrailers were damaged by bricks on to i95 off the baggett road overpass. Of a tractortrailer. Another brick smashed the sunroof of a car. This is not the first time this has happened in there area so authorities were patrolling nearby hoping to catch one. No one has been seriously hurt. We are told several are being questioned. Durham police are searching for a hitandrun driver. This was on lookwood avenue where a car hit a pedestrian and kept going. It doesnt and the victim has lifethreatening skwrurls. John in wake county we have a stabbing. This is figure lane near knightdale. The sheriff said one person was taken to the hospital. In moore county a woman is recovering after being hit by a car after riding a horse. We see the scene on star ridge road off highway 22 in carthage. They were in the road when hit just before 6 00. The woman is expected to recover. No one in the car was hurt. The windshield was cracked. The cause is under investigation. Barbara two durham men face charges for a Home Invasion in cary. Howard earl and terrell mclamb are charged and are in jail expected to make a Court Appearance today. Six people kicked in the door of a home in North Carolinary north cary. They got away with cash and a cell phone. They were tracked to a motel thanks to a g. P. S. Signal from the stolen cell phone. John in a few hours a murder trial is expected to start that could result in wake countys first death sentence in a decade. Gloria rodriguez is live at the Justice Center with the preview. Gloria good morning to you. Opening statements begin at 9 30. Three people have been charged in connection with the murder of focus is on within manned that is traveon smith. We have video of him yesterday in court. Showed up as last minute motions were heard that could send him to death row. He is accused of beating and stabbing Melissa Huggins jones to death. Investigators say he and Ronald Anthony and sara redden much breaking into cars and they believe smith and anthony killed Huggins Jones as her daughter was in the next room. The mother had just moved to raleigh. Anthony pleaded guilty last year to avoid the Death Penalty. He was sentenced to life withoutle parole. Redden claims she waited in the car as the crime was being committed. According to prosecutors she already changed her story twice. The defense says her most recent story could help them prove she said Ronald Anthony told her he was the one who did all the attacking. She never said Ronald Anthony was the only person who killed him. What she said is that i was not being truthful when i said certain things about what mr. Smith said. Gloria the trial is expected to last four to six weeks and we will have the testimony live on abc11. Com so tune in there for the latest developments. Live in raleigh, gloria rodriguez, abc 11 Eyewitness News. Barbara the Wake County School board is expected to discuss moving a dozen underperforming schools it a year round calendar today. It was brought up last month but members said they wanted more time for discussion and consider foodback. John it is 4 37 and 52 degrees. North carolinas controversial voter i. D. Law on trial. Decision after both sides argue their cases. John will there be an early spring or more winter . There is one little guy who may know the answer and don is keeping eye on more immediate changes. Don we will see some warmer and colder temps. We have a little bit of everything in the roller coaster ride of temperatures. We check the first alert Doppler Network as we go to break and janet . Cough if you can hear me. Dont even think about it. I took mucinex dm for my phlegmy cough. Yeah. But what about mike . It works on his cough too. Cough it works on his cough too. Mucinex dm relieves wet and dry coughs for 12 hours. coughing coughing disrupts everyones life. Thats why theres delsym. Delsyms advanced time release formula helps silence coughs for a full 12 hours. All night. Or all day. Don welcome back. Lets talk about the drive in this morning. It should be an easy one weatherwise. Lots of clouds and mild temperatures. These are normal highs. They wont change much today so this afternoon we will be cooler than yesterday but this morning is easy as far as the weather goes. 48 roxboro right now. 48 roanoke rapids. 50 louis burke, 52 chapel hill and 54 out the door in sanford, smithfield. Fayetteville. 54 Southern Pines and lumberton 51 degrees. Looking at the day we will be in the 50s all day. Lunchtime 55, mostly cloudy. Through 5 00 lots of clouds and 56. Clouds eventually usher in some rain. Tomorrow we could see rain and thunderstorms and we have a risk of severe weather. That is next. John it could be weeks before a decision is made in the federal trial challenging North Carolinas voter i. D. Law. The trial ended yesterday in winstonsalem. The naacp sued the state arguing the law will keep black and latino voters away from the polls. Starting with a march 15 primary voters in this state are required to show an approved i. D. Before they can cast a ballot, barbara the wake county board of commissioners is supporting the first statewide bond in 15 years. A resolution supporting the connect n. C. Bond act. Funds from the 2 billion referendum would be used to pay for New Buildings on College Campuses and new construction in state parks. It will be on the ballot march 15 when voters go to the polls for the president ial primary. Soon there will be no longer time will no longer be standing still in fayetteville. They are expected to start reassembling the market house clock. It stopped working in january and due to its age Replacement Parts had to be made from scratch. They hope to have it up by tomorrow. John will winter stick around or will we see an early spring . All size will be on sir waurltlter raleigh. He will emerge from his hole at noon to force our weather for the next six weeks. This is the 19th year the rodent looked for a glimpse of his shadow at the North Carolina museum of natural sciences. Year he predicted an early spring. Unfortunately we had six more weeks of winter with temperatures roughly seven degrees below average. In fact he has been wrong seven of the last 10 years. What is up with that . Barbara he doesnt look very happy. John stick with big weather. Barbara 4 42 and two Virginia Tech students charged with the murder of a 13yearold girl. John what we are learning following the teenager charged with supporting isis. Hello, raleigh. John the first week of super bowl 50, preparations begin with we will have check this out, bro. Whats that, broheim . I switched to geico and got more. More savings on Car Insurance . Yeah brofessor, and more. Like renters insurance. Nice, brotato chip. Thats not all, brotein shake. Geico has motorcycle and rv insurance, too. Oh, thats a lot more. Oh yeah, im all about more, teddy brosevelt. Barbara welcome back. 4 45 and 62 degrees on tuesday morning. An upset and a tie in iowa. That is one story making head lines. It is still too close to call in the democratic race where Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders remain in a dead heat after the Iowa Caucuses. On the republican side ted cruz upset frontrunner donald trump with marco rubio a close third. All the candidates now move their focus to New Hampshire for next waebgs primary. Dark weeks primary. We have a crash in garner one killed when two trucks crashed on white oak road near i40. It was shut down several hours but has reopened. Opening statements in a Death Penalty trial set to begin in a few hours in wake county. Transferon smith accused of killing Melissa Huggins jones in you can watch it streaming live on abc11. Com. John two Virginia Tech students charged with the murder of a 13yearold girl have made their first appearances in court. David eisenhauer is charged with killing Nicole Lovell and 19yearold natalie keepers is accused of helping him dump her body in North Carolina. Authorities still havent revealed a motive but say eisenhauer and lovell knew each other. Both suspects were engineering students as Virginia Tech and Authorities Say neither had a criminal record. A North Carolina man accused of planning and Islamic State inspired attack has been charged with killing his neighbor. Prosecutors say he admitted to taking a rifle from his fathers gun cabinet and awaiting trial. Authorities to his sons activities. Barbara w. H. O. Declared zika virus an international emergency. They had a meeting with independent experts to talk about the outbreak after the link between it and babies born with small heads. The virus is spread by mosquitos. The last Public Health emergency was in the Ebola Outbreak in 2014. John super bowl 50 just five days away and the hype surrounding the game is growing. Barbara panthers spent their first full day in california ending with the spectacle known as Opening Night. Joe mazur was there in the middle of the craziness. Joe they call it Opening Night week. It is the only event where both super bowl participants will gather and it is a little insane. Hello, raleigh. It added more hype to an the panthers true to form enjoyed themselves. It is an awesome game. We enjoy it and people love watching it. They want to show up and see guys get asked questions. We feed off everything. We feed off what occurs today and hear what i said. Did you Say Something about me . Joe there are folks mining for nuggets about the game there is a lot of selfpromotion and plenty of silliness. The dab means can ha, ha, ha. We are enjoying it now. All of us enjoying the brotherhood. Joe there was Important News im 100 chance that im going to be playing. Gentlemen it was an interesting night for all. Now the hard work goes into over overdrive. John thank you, joe. Our Eyewitness News coverage of the panthers continues all week. Mark armstrong and joe mazur there with behind the scenes action. You can see tisha powells live reports beginning friday. Barbara it will be fun. We count down the hours. Don did they have a picture with miss philippines the one steve harvey called the wrong one. John it is right on the card. Don i thought so. Today a lot different. Even throw it is warm this morning the temperatures wont change much. Best chance of rain tomorrow. 80 . It could be heavy at times. This is a live look at that chance of showers and thunderstorms tomorrow and putting us in a severe risk. The entire area understood a marginal risk. Biggest threat is high winds. Looking into downtown raleigh and northeast winds nine. Durham checks in with a cloudy sky, 51, northeast wind 10. More cloud cover working through right now. We will see clouds all day. A little chance some sunshine breaking through in spots this morning. This is our next storm. It is a huge weather maker in the midwest. They are seeing snow from omaha to iowa and kansas. They have blizzard warnings out for those areas. It is the trailing frontal boundary firing showers and storms knew the arklatex region and arkansas. We will see the southern edge of it. We wont get snow but we could see strong thunderstorms tomorrow. Notice as we go through the day cloudy skies and then as we go through tonight into tomorrow the winter storm pulling north. By tomorrow 9 00 we have clouds with us and tomorrow afternoon that is the line frof strong showers and thunderstorms. You could have a lot of moisture and we could have up to an i think of rain in spots as the line moves through. Once in moves through into tomorrow night and thursday we will see drier conditions. We saw the front work through last night. We are in the cold sector today. Tonight it will lift back north as a warm front giving urgs the possibility of sprinkle around day break tomorrow. This is the better chance of rain as the front approaches tomorrow afternoon. We have showers, thunderstorms and some of them could be strong with gusty winds. Behind it a lot of dry real estate and cooler weather thursday into friday and the weekend shaping up to be nice but a little cooler. A look at this morning and mostly cloudy, above average, by lunchtime mid 50s. Into the afternoon we will be upper 50s with more clouds. Cooler afternoon than yesterday. Mostly cloudy skies, 57 in cary and durham. 56 wendell. 58 smithfield. 57 siler city. Pinehurst 58. 59 fayetteville andically ton. 54 this afternoon in south hill. Tonight the temperatures across the area back down around 50 for overnight lows. I put a chance of showers late mainly thwart mainly toward daybreak. Tomorrow temperatures back into the 70s. 72, ahead of that frontal boundary a push of warm air, the warmest day of the next seven. Thursday 54 with a chance of morning shower mainly east of the triangle. Friday starting to clear and 51. 51 sunday and monday 52 degrees. Longrange forecast we could see colder than normal temperatures next week. But that is a long way off. As far as today lots of clouds this morning. John happy ground hog day. Don yeah. We will talk more about that coming up. John 4 53 and u. N. C. Students employee who caught barbara it is 4 56 and 52 degrees. John it is a slow and painful recovery for a man who suffered burns over 40 of his body. Barbara galen better than was working on u. Tphfpltn. C. Campus when reporter james said he didnt think when he realized the man was on fire. He sprang into action. He is one student who saw flames outside a window across dey hall and rushed. He said this man is on fire. He and alek zhushma rushed to put out the flames even burning their own fingers in the process. Custer said an onlooker called 911 and pulled the fire alarm to get Gaylan Bishop critical help. The amount of fire the difference in 30 seconds would be life or death. The Bishop Family is asking for him. Despite the danger the flames poled custer says he admires bishops fight to live. To have the strength to walk out f tof the place where he was to would see him in there, was incredible. Reporter we have the link on the website abc11. Com. Stephanie lopez, abc 11 Eyewitness News. Barbara it is 4 57. Three women robbed during a Home Invasion in cary. John how police were able to track the suspects and be connected to other crimes. Barbara rough day Everyone Needs a bff. Even your smile. Colgate optic white express White Toothpaste with hydrogen peroxide. For whiter teeth in 3 days. Think of it as your smile bff. Colgate optic white express white. Whiter teeth in 3 days what if the sweet stevia leaf was discovered. Before the sugarcane. After people were enjoying truvia in their coffee and everything else. Sugar would come along and go, hey, im sweet too. Sure, sugar, youre very sweet, but weve already got sweetness minus calorieness. It would be kinda awkward. Truvia