Suspicious person. We will continue to keep our eye on this and bring you more details as they come in. We are following other breaking news, there is a verdict in the Melissa Huggins jones murder trial. She was killed inside of her home, the main suspect facing a possible death sentence. We will listen and when the verdict is red. Anna smith has said that his accomplice, the guy who has pleaded guilty actually killed this mother. We will have to see if the jury believes that or he never actually took the stand in his own defense. We will have to see what the jury will believe. Joel dramatic moments in closing arguments today before you can see Melissa Huggins jones mother there. Her daughters killer, the man who sits there at the back of your screen waiting for the jury to come back into this Justice Center court room. Anna when this first happened this rattled you have indicated you have reached a unanimous verdict. Let me ask you to stand. Is it correct that the jury has reached a unanimous verdict . Es. Have you signed and dated the verdict . Yes. Madame clerk would you announce the verdict. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, your foreperson has returned a verdict, the state of North Carolina versus trey be on smith, we the jury find the defendant to be guilty of firstdegree murder of Melissa Huggins jones. Answer, yes. On the basis of malice, premeditation and deliberation, is this your verdict . So say you all . Es. Ladies and gentlemen if you would indicate whether this is in fact your verdict and with respect to both questions, the answers the clerk has read are correct. Raise your hand if that is true pre12 jurors have raised their hand. Counsel, is there anything further we require with respect to this first phase of the trial . Very good. Members of the jury, based on your verdict we will move to a second phase of this trial. We will release you for the remainder of the day. All of the roles i have been instructing you want continue to apply. Dont talk about this case, dont form or express opinions. We thank you for your service thus far. We look forward to seeing you tomorrow. If you would gather and deliberation room at that time im going to notify the alternate jurors and they will join you as well. You should expect to see them. Your notebooks are still back in the back. If you would get your notebook. Anna we just listen to the jury read their verdict. Travyon smith guilty. This happened in the north hills area. Her daughter found her the next morning beaten to death. I heard some sounds. It was rolling, the wind was ive never seen wind and rain that strong. Anna powerful wind. Overnight rain topples trees in the triangle. Joel a huge gust of wind knocks this big greg on its side. You can see the truck left angling on the edge. Anna pipe burst. A you are shares this video of a water main break that cause flooding in north hills. She heard a metal noise explosion that saw a waterfall. All morning long crews responded to damage like that. Joel they knocked out power to thousands of people. Joins us live this afternoon. Trees started falling. Several came crashing down. This solve the worst of it. You can see the pine trees block the driveway. Part of the roof has been ripped off in one spot. It is actually a crash. Next door another pine toppled down. This slid in half. One person told me a tree crashed outside of his window. Here is how he described what he heard. Just the sound, it was a lot of wind, traveling fast. Amazing. It sounded like a train. It did. No one was hurt. The folks who live at this house do plan to stay here tonight. They have power and food and will be able to stay inside of this home tonight. They are just waiting for someone to remove this tree from their driveway. They need someone to talk the roof in case they have rain in the future. Joel what it was our 24 hours of whether we have had. We were in the 30s, severe almost springlike weather this morning. Anna people were talking about putting a tarp over the roof. Chris later on this evening some more rain but it has been a crazy couple of days. I dont remember going from thought severe storm warnings. You can see them roaring across the region. It is creating a mess out there with temperatures surging into the 50s. That is going to get here this morning. It is going to occur while we are sleeping. 46 00 a. M. Light rain triangle northward, it is moving out and were back to sunshine. We have quiet weather on the way. We deserve it. Anna quiet will be nice and welcome. An argument ends with a man stabbed to death and a 40yearold woman charged with murder. Now an update on this investigation, she joins us live. Woman charged with his murder . The victims family says he has taken the suspect in as a houseguest. You can see the 40yearold woman here in her mug shot taken today. Shes accused of stabbing tommy mcnair to death. She called 911 to report a death. They found his body, that was around 7 30 this morning. Dozens of family members watched his home as they remembered a popular native, they tell us he moved in with mcnair who made sure he had a roof over her head. I hope justice prevails. I spoke to her and talk to her. She seemed like she was going to be all right. If she did this, i hope justice prevails and they get justice for her. Reporter be on this being a domestic situation, and police saying there was an argument that led up to this, we dont know many details about that or the real motive. Or if it was a onesided thing. Holt is being held without bond here at the jail. She will make her First Court Appearance tomorrow afternoon. Anna all right. Thank you. U. S. Airlines are now authorized to fly to cuba. We will show your chances of finding a daily flight. Joel new development in the battle decided today, and a mother shot inside of her own the house was targeted. You are going to hear the emotional plea from that womans son. Anna lets go outside. 58 degrees. So nice. Gone are the big winter coats, gone are the sad faces. We have a lot of breaking news. 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 joel the clock is ticking for lawmakers to redraw lines ruled unconstitutional. A special committee spent hours those voting mammas. A lot of going on with this a lot going on with this. In downtown raleigh with an update. Andrea members of the Congressional Redistricting committee are hard at work at this hour finding mapmakers who will tackle this problem to redraw the Congressional District maps and have them prepared by tomorrow afternoon. The purpose of the Committee Meeting was to vote on the criteria or guidelines they will follow when drawing these new mass. Lawmakers are doing this to meet lawmakers are required to submit new maps bringing Congressional Districts into compliance, ensuring the districts are not racially gerrymandered. The committee voted earlier today agreed to draw lines that would create districts that equal population. And geographical proximity. The rest of the meeting focuses on and a lot of debate and things that fell among party lines. One of the most intensive topics, and to exclude race as a factor when redrawing the map pretty argue they never used it in 2011. They dont want to give the court ammunition to say they are drawn based on race but Minority Committee members push back on that saying republicans cant unring the bell and that race should be necessary to a degree. Making a mockery out of it saying we will do it now. They are not going to let you just ignore it. We respect the court. Reporter while they are working now to redraw these Congressional District maps they are hoping they would hear from the west in court before friday when these are supposed to be prepared and ready to submit. The chief justice is hoping he will decide to delay this matter considering there are 16,000 north carolinians who have gotten absentee ballots to vote in the march primary. All of this could affect when we hold our primary here in North Carolina. There is a lot happening now. We will have to keep our thumb on this issue over the next several days as we are looking to see what will happen with anna a lot of moving parts that could move even more. Thank you. The investigation started in Jacksonville Florida with 10 days of coast guard hearings. It is the cargo ship that sank in october on its way to puerto rico after sailing into the path of a hurricane. 33 crew members were on board and no one survived. The goal is to find the facts behind what happened to the ship. Joel today companies can apply for more air routes to cuba. As many as 100 flights a day. That is a big jump. Airlines have 15 days to submit proposals to the transportation department. Flights could begin as early as this fall. President obama will make his first visit to vietnam. He will become the Third Straight president to visit the the u. S. Looks to strengthen relations with vietnam as they worries over chinese oppressiveness in the south china sea. Back at home Chris Hohmann joins us. One word to describe the weather, wow. Anna a lot of people woke up to the wind and the big storm. Chris see whats happening this instant, from the raleigh Eyewitness News center. Abc 11 Eyewitness News at 4 00 starts now. There is chris Severe Weather within 24 hours, that doesnt happen very often. I have not seen that happen often that quickly. As things settling down a bit. Nice afternoon. It is warming up. Some rain comes her way later on this evening. Clouds are coming our way, clouding up again 58 degrees. Talk about that roaring off the atlantic. Everyone in the 30s. 60 at clinton. It overtook the entire region. There was heavy rain and gusty wind. A west win at nine, that is nice for a change. 61 in fayetteville. A lot of temperatures warmer than they were. This is the line of intent showers with gusty wind rolling we have the sunshine now. Some rain around nashville, just rain for the most part. Notice it coming through, starting to rain around midnight. Then towards midnight, triangle northward. There may be a snowflake briefly mixed in. Dont worry about that at all. It doesnt last long if it occurs. It is gone by the time most of us had out. There may be a lingering light rain to the north and east. Mid30s, 40 in fayetteville. A slight chance of rain in the sand hills. Any cloud cover decreasing, getting sunshine back in here. Seasonably cool, temperatures in the upper 50s. It looks to be a nice day after the system moves out and highpressure moves then. Seasonably so, still on track for the 60s. Weekend. We should start the weekend now. Chris thats a good idea. Anna have you heard about this, Manny Pacquiao apologized for remarks he made about gays. What he said that has him facing blows he is not used to dodging. Joel the most massive diamond ever discovered. See how it sizes up and how much it will cost and eager buyer. We show steve today is your lucky day. Woman surprised oh, my goodness mark youve just won a thousand dollars woman thats amazing thats amazing shrieks woman ok, nice job. Mark, way better than yesterday. 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She wore these jewels for the Philippine Government is allowing one of the three collections to be auctioned. It includes a rare pink diamond said to be the size of a grape. It will go on public exhibition before the auction. Anna she has nothing on this beauty. Check out this 404 carat diamond. The huge rock is a link of a credit card. It is virtually flawless. It could likely cost as much as 20 million. It is the largest diamond ever found. It might be the length of a credit card but it may take several dozen to buy one. Radio flyer is starting to ship these many model s cars. They are not going to be cheap. 499 each. It has working headlights, a trunk, and goes up to six miles per hour. You can preorder the car now. If you are a dead, looking to score some points, get your wife one of these diamonds, and get your kids one of these. Anna hard to keep up with the joneses now. Joel the battle over the modern home under construction in a historic raleigh neighborhood, the fight is now over. Anna some of the best coffee in the east is brewed right here in raleigh. Why it is so special. You can see the water still a 72yearold grandmother stopped over the weekend. My constipation and belly pain. Feel like a raging storm. Ive tried laxatives. But my symptoms keep returning. My constipation. Feels like a heavy weight. That keeps coming back. Linzess can help. Oncedaily linzess treats adults with ibs with constipation or chronic constipation. Linzess helps you proactively manage your symptoms. It may help that are. Easier to pass and may relieve your belly pain. Do not give linzess to children under 6, and it should not be given to children 6 to 17. It may harm them. Dont take linzess if you have a bowel blockage. Get immediate help if you. Develop unusual or. Severe stomach pain. Especially with bloody or black stools. The most common side effect. Is diarrhea, sometimes severe. If its severe, stop taking linzess and. Call your doctor right away. Other side effects include, gas, stomacharea pain. And swelling. Joel we have an update on the news at the top of the hour. The rushhour mess on i40, i 40 eastbound is closed. The call about a suspicious person, you can see the live picture there. Major backups continue. Police are diverting traffic right at the 40 440 split. If you have not gotten on the road this afternoon you may want to avoid this area. Major backups. This Police Investigation continues. Anna now to an emotional plea from a son to the person who shot at his mothers home. Joel bullets came piercing through the walls of dorothys home, she was shot in the leg. It happened friday night. The 72 euros was critically injured and she remains in the hospital. Tim is following this for us. Hes in the neighborhood. Deputies think her house was targeted. You spoke to her son. Does he have any idea why . Reporter he doesnt know why someone would come here and shoot his mother inside her home. He and his sister have been taking care of their mother for the last three years following a coma which left her disabled. She took her first few steps alone without a walker. It was a promising step in her happened. I dont know. There. Instead of her. Reporter investigators are asking people if you have information that can help lead 20 arrest you are asked to call office. Anna that is an unbelievable story. Thank you for bringing that to us. We are working to find out if a fall from a staircase was weatherrelated. The staircase the man used was likely not treated for ice because it is not often used. Anthony wilson shows us what they have gathered about the injuries. Reporter people are talking off camera about the man who found back here badly injured. The vehicle was out of state plates may belong to the victim. There are many unanswered one neighbor told me he saw the police and ems workers here. He saw a man on a stretcher but could not tell if the man was awake or able to talk before he was placed in the ambulance. The victim was taken to wakemed for treatment of injuries and there is a possibility the incident was brother weatherrelated. It is also not clear what happened before he was spotted staircase. We are working to learn more about him and the extent of his injuries. Unknown. When we get the information we will have updates on your mobile app. Chris after a wild morning with gusty wind things settle down. We made into the upper 50s. We wl fall through the 40s. It stays dry. Temperatures south hill. Temperatures in the 30s, they will move out right around sunrise. Upper 50s around fayetteville. Calm weather through the weekend. Joel a dispute over a modern home in the oakwood neighborhood is finally over this afternoon. Marsha gordon and lewis cherries home can stay put. North Carolina Court of appeals ruled in favor of the homeowners. Finish the home. They claimed it did not fit with the character of the neighborhood. After the ruling the owners released a statement sharing relief that they think it is a well reasoned decision that will help protect homeowners from bing subjected inappropriate legal challenges. Anna coffee is the fuel of choice for many trying to make it through the day. A local woman created the best cup of coffee and a national cup of National Competition. She has turned brewing coffee into a fine art. She says there is a science to sifting and measuring, and timing and technique. You are looking for flavor development. You want natural sweetness to be there. You are looking for a specific mouth feel. Bringing these things together into a balanced cup. Anna but how do you do that . That is the question. She took first place. She scored the highest of all the brewers east and west regional meet the best of the west the National Competition in april. The bad news is you cannot by her winning coffee but slingshot may one day sell it in limited editions. We have a closer look at how she brews this cup of joe and why she thinks she one. It is pretty interesting. It is an art. It is beautiful, but a science pretty has it down. Joel she is really into it. Anna a lot of people in the triangle are. These little coffee shops joel i want to taste it. What they will do and when you can get your first look at them. Joel fish is supposed to be healthy but some women are being told not to eat too much of it. The new risks it could create. Anna and they closer look at the trail of damage and the path of destruction at 4 50. Joel yesterday we went outside. It was cold. What a difference a day makes. The eight degrees. Sunshine. Blue skies. Thats what im talking about. Eyewitness news at 4 00 continues. 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Ask your hep c specialist anna moms to be may want to layoff fish. Eating fish more than three times a week could be associated with childhood obesity. Pregnant women who ate fish were than three times per week gave bmi values then people who ate fish less. The effect was greater in girls than boys. That is good for the babys development. Hemophilia is an inherited condition where patients blood cannot clot. The greatest concern is for internal bleeding. Joel much of the work being done is at chapel hill. Caitlin knute has a story of a man front and center through it all. Reporter over the force of his over his life he has seen n. L. Volution entreating hemophilia. Over his life of treating hemophilia. For years he suffered from internal bleeding and did his joints causing damage that left him crippled searching for relief. He moved to find answers at unc. As soon as i was able i participate in the search. Reporter his persistence paid off and he became part of Ongoing Research at unc. Doctors helped him to walk again. They got the disease under control using clotting factors made from human plasma but catastrophe struck. It was realized in the 80s that the clotting factor could transmit the virus, hiv. It was a disaster. 10,000 haitians got infected. Patients got infected. Reporter that included mccoy. He volunteered to be the first person to try it. The treatment was a success and became the standard of care still used today. Recent advancements have made those infusions longerlasting. Treatments a week to true two treatments a week. I realize that is nothing but to me it is 52 puncture is a year. Reporter he calls an exciting time with potential cure on the horizon. We have the promise of jean there be but it is becoming more of a reality. Reporter the work is being done at unc and could happen the next 10 years. As for mccoy he hopes he can be among the first to test that out. I want to see i want to be there. Joel thank you. For more on the latest advancements developed at unc, go to abc 11. Com. Anna you may love wine but likely not as much as we show you how much they are throwing back. Joel and liz horton has been tracking the weather. She is going to join us with the weather images from tuesday. And getting rid of 100 could help stop crime. Anna and one reason you may not want to snuggle up with your phone at night. We have a breaking news situation developing. This is 40 eastbound. We were just looking on our maps. What the traffic is telling us, it is backed up to the one. This is a nightmare. Some situation at rock quarry road, they are diverting traffic. Selling mattresses the traditional way isnt the best way. Most are made in a large factory, and shipped hundreds of miles to a retailers warehouse, where theyre marked up and up before finally selling and delivering them at the original Mattress Factory we take a straightforward approach. We have eliminated the extra steps and created a direct line from our factory to you. Abc 11 Eyewitness News continues. Larry sumners says the bill should be scrapped to make life more difficult for tax cheats and other criminals. He cites a newly published study that argues eliminating larger, nominations would have little downside for legitimate commerce that would make things more difficult for people who are breaking the law. General motors is recalling 200 thousand cars to replace takata airbags. It is part of a broader recall. Regulators announced that last month. 10 people have died from exploding insulators. The recall includes the sab 95 and saturn astra. Anna listen to this for those who use cell phones in bed. A precinct posted these pictures aftermath of a phone overheating and catching fire. The phone was under someones pillow while they were asleep. Joel consumers are loving their iphones. Sales were just about even with december sales. Relative due december last month was the best january for thethere are others who say two theres a storm early this morning. It was loud. South of us reports of trees down. Debris scattered everywhere. Joel Severe Weather was slamming overnight, creating a big mess. Liz horton is here with the wild one was killed but three people were taken to the hospital. In new york snow he roads may travel difficult. Cars were spending near rochester. They are working across the aroundtheclock. If you would like to see more, log on to the home page of zap. News app. Joel Steve Daniels is stepped in to the newsroom to give us a the hour. Steve tonight at 4 00 a verdict a mother beaten to death inside of her apartment. Defendant to being guilty of firstdegree murder. Joel no emotion as the verdict was read. We have new reaction from inside the packed courtroom. Also the aftermath of the storm including this big riddick big rig. We have new images coming in. Chris is tracking whats next. Chris we have some more rain tonight. We will time that out for you and tell you how much rain falls and a look ahead at pleasant weather for a change coming up. Steve we have an update on breaking news on i40 in raleigh. This is a live look outside of downtown. Traffic is moving again after it was shut down. The latest on that and the news happening now. Anna check out this unique species never before recorded by science. This is a picture of it is perfectly preserved in amber. They believe the flour shares ancestry with plans that led to copy beans and potatoes. Say sit up straighter but maybe do a few more lunges. Joel my dad was always telling me to stand up straight. Anna still ahead, a woman robbed trying to deliver pizza. The Information Police are sharing to warn other drivers in the state. Joel a new fly in over the Confederate Flag. And why police were forced to pileanna i77 in western North Carolina is back open after freezing rain cause several crashes and stranded hundreds of drivers for hours. The roads were so i see, tow trucks could not remove the vehicles. Some drivers waited so long they were falling asleep in joel a pizza Delivery Driver robbed at gunpoint, a driver on north Church Street told officers she was robbed while trying to make a delivery. She told police form and approached her. One demanded money. Anna a woman is dead after she was shot on the stomach behind a home in hickory. Officers say factor and the victim were involved in a domestic dispute at the time of the shooting. Joel 1200 jobs are being cut. They are laying off 700 employees. 500 and 50 workers the cut scum because they reduce demand for trucks. Officials say they think they layoffs will be temporary. They have cut 900 jobs last month. Anna a Confederate Flag will courthouse on march 4 on Confederate Flag debris to several people argued that flying the flag honors their ancestors sacrifice but no action was taken say no new proclamation was signed and that means the flag will not fly. Joel the news never stops here. There are plenty of breaking stories at the top of the hour. Happening now, storm aftermath, flash flooding, one home taking the brunt of the storm. I have never seen wind and rain that strong. When gus so strong they blew this truck off the bridge. Guilty verdict. A raleigh mother murdered. Reporter terror attacks. The airline explosion in somali get. Tisha there is a lot happening now 5 00. Steve we have new video of tornado damage, and funeral arrangements finalized for antonin scalia. Anna we will tell you about breaking news. A guilty verdict in the murder of a raleigh mother, Melissa Huggins jones beat to death in her apartment in 2013. Jurors liberated for a short time before finding smith guilty of firstdegree murder. More coming up later. Steve we are tracking a real traffic nightmare unfolding in wake county. I 40 eastbound, just reopening after Police Activity shut it down for an hour. Traffic has been backed up for miles. Tisha this mess was caused by the wild temperature swings in the triangle. It is 30 degrees warmer than this time yesterday. The water main break causing flooding in north hills. It was wild out there. Take a look at what went on as at the line of heavy showers. Roaring through the area, the narrow line
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