On monday 1022. Im john clark. Barbara im barbara gibbs. Thanks you for joining us. It is time for weather and traffic. Good morning. Don good morning to you. Thanks for starting with us. We start with a look at the next 12 hours. We will see temperatures not changing much. A lot of times we will see it go up or down but we will hold in the mid 50s. Current numbers this hour 51 in roxboro, 51 chapel hill. 47 sanford, 56 fayetteville, 46 smithfield. 51 wilson. 49 goldsboro. Right now 51. Patchy fog. Lunchtime cloudy skies and 55 and through the afternoon 56 degrees with a few showers around the area. We will talk about that and we have a very wet next couple of days in the complete forecast. Now we have traffic and weather with amber rupinta. Amber we have a couple of issues starting off this monday. Stray shower or two in some parts of the viewing area and a little foggy. You see haze on one of the d. O. T. Cameras this morning. 540 and gorman excuse me, 40 and gorman here. Still moving smoothly but watch for the fog cover. All the orange you see, sanford around selma and rocky mount and couple of showers coming in around Roanoke Rapids. On 95 north of Roanoke Rapids theres an accident blocking the shoulder. 95 south exit 13. This is still an issue around knightdale two lanes blocked u. S. 64 westbound at smithfield road. John jury selection begins in a raleigh cold case murder. Barbara the victim was a 2yearold Shaw University student. The suspect was her boy friend at the time. Anthony wilson is live with how police were table to tie him to Anthony Police charged him twice twice, the first time when he was an n. C. State student saying he killed her because she refused to have an abortion but that was dropped. Then they checked evidence and charmed charged him in 2014. That is when raleigh and Charlotte Mecklinburg arrested edwin lawing after a grand jury indicted him in the death of lecoy mcqueen the investigators determined she was killed on may 17, 1996, construction workers found her remains off u. S. 1 near kittrell in march of 1997. Lawing was originally kafrpblged but it was dropped. Then he was indicted after additional tests were performed on earlier evidence. Jury selection begins today. We will update you on abc11. Com, mobile app and on twitter. Live outside the Wake County Justice Center in raleigh, news. John also today closing arguments could get under way in travion smiths sentencing hearing. A jury convicted him last week of killing Melissa Hugginsjones in her North Raleigh apartment in may of 2013. He could get the Death Penalty. So far the defense called several relatives to paint a to save his life. You can watch Live Streaming video on abc11. Com. Barbara a military family in the triangle is asking for prayers after a wild violent crash seriously injured the mother of twin girls. Firefighters had to cut look look out of the Lakhisa Williams out of the vehicle. It was when another car started driving in reverse on i40. It left the driver of that car ben night toe martinez Benito Martinez dead and williams injured. Her shows her in the hospital. Joshua matthews says his wifes new injuries come a she was dealing from a broken ankle from a recent fall and had just relearned to walk after injuries suffered in another car crash. The worst things happen to the best people. Im grateful for her to be alive. Barbara troopers believe alcohol was involved to cause martinez to drive in reverse. She may go home in a few days but bubu wont be healed. If you would like to help they started a go fund me page. Abc11. Com. John no charges have been filed in a crash that injured four bicyclists in johnston county. It was saturday afternoon on massing gill pond road. You can see the victims bicycles mangled in the road. Hospital. Highway patrol said two of them we found the driver Donny Williams crying on the side of the road after the accident. Troopers say charges are pending against williams. They say alcohol and speed were not factors. Barbara a dramatic scene from melbourne, australia as First Responders rescue four people in a bus that slammed into a rail overpass. All nine much sent toed hospital with minor injuries. It has been linked to a number of crashes over the years. All the passengers and driver are ok. John police hope you will recognize the suspect in these home surveillance pictures. They believe he is responsible for breaking into cars in North Raleigh february 13. It shows him rifling through a car that was parked inside someones garage. Call the Raleigh Police if you know anything. 6 07. Bill cosbys wife set to face tough questions. Barbara details of her deposition. A house leveled by an explosion. How a thief is responsible for and how a man barely escapes with his life. John have you seen this . The white house guest whose meeting with the president is going viral. Don as you head out the door we had a couple of showers in the northern counties. We are dry in our part of the we will talk more about don welcome back. Looking at the latest commuter forecast. As you drive in this morning wont see a ton of rain but may see patchy fog. It is thick in spots but not everywhere. The temperatures will be in the low 50s and wont change much. 50 south hill, 52 oxford. 50 roxboro. 52 louisburg. 46 smithfield and sanford. 55 Southern Pines and fayetteville. 55 in clinton. Looking at the day ahead. Right now 51 and patchy fog. By lunchtime 55 under cloudy skies. And through the late day 54 degrees with a few showers. And that rain will be with us the next couple of days. Could see up to an inch and a half to two inches. We will talk more about that and we have the complete sevenday forecast in a few minutes. Barbara an arrest marks the latest step in nash countys twist to stop a drug trend. Antonio knight is charged with trafficking heroin. He was arrested friday after chasing him from the lowes parking lot in rocky mount. He was carrying 120 bundles of heroin with a value of 2,400. John to the mustsee video. Talk about making an entrance. Dineers in india had a lucky escape when this car crashed through the front window of the building. This footage shows the moment of the crash as it narrowly avoids seriously injuring people. According to reports the driver lost control when he accidentally accelerated instead fortunately no serious injuries. A special moment at the white house on camera yesterday as president obama greeted 106yearold virginia mclaurin. As you see she was excited to meet the president and first lady. When introduced she busted out some dance moves with the two. She was asked her secret to still dancing at 106, she said you keep moving. She alert said she was able to she later said she was separating black history. She was born in 1909 and had a social Campaign Going to meet the president that included a petition. Barbara kept it moving and made it. John congratulations to her. Barbara 6 12. Twin sisters strike it rich. How a power outage may ha with 20 megs of Internet Speed from centurylink, a family of four can all be online at the same time, streaming, gaming, or downloading movies. Yeah, the internets great, but i think hair and makeup went a little too far. Yeah, thats not working. I much prefer the twoday beard, hornrimmed glasses, justsleptinhiscar kinda thing. Yeah, i miss the rumpled crazy uncle look. Okay. Be paul giamatti. Thats the essence of this role. Feel like a hollywood insider john good morning on monday. Here is a look at the headlines. Jury selection in a cold case murder trial is expected to begin today in raleigh. Edwin law something charged with killing his College Girlfriend lecoy mcqueen in 1996. She was a Shaw University student. Police say he killed her after she refused to have an abortion. 45yearold suspect in connection that left six dead in michigan is due in court 25th. Jason dalton is expected to be arraigned on murder charges. He was arrested without incident after a manhunt. And lawyers for the company that made the rifle used in the sandy are expected to ask a connecticut judge to dismiss the wrongful death lawsuit filed by family members of some victims. Barbara u. S. Supreme court is back in session today for the First Time Since the dead of antonin scalia. Oral arguments start this morning. John roberts is expected to mention scalias passing from the bench. President obama has vowed to pick a Supreme Court nominee to fill the vacancy. Republicans argue naming a successor should be a job for the next president. This is a hot button question. Do you think who do you think should name the next Justice Nominee . Weigh in on abcs twitter poll. Last check 71 say president obama should choose. You have to time to get in a vote. Is scheduled separate criminal charges of Sexual Assault in pennsylvania. John Carbon Monoxide poisoning may be to blame for the death of six family members in michigan. They were discovered yesterday in a home near flint. It appears they had a generator running in the basement after a porpblg. A relative found four children and two adults in their burials. Authorities say bedrooms. Authorities say run generators in well vicinity lated areas. Ventilated areas. A quick destroyed thousands of homes in new zealand and ruined the city center. A Memorial Service held today including a moment of silence at the exact time the earthquake barbara an oklahoma man barely escapes an explosion that leveled his house. John he made it about five steps before the home exploded sending him flying. Amazingly he was not injured in the natural gas explosion. Officials say the salesperson for the new Housing Community went to the home to check the Sprinkler System and opened the garage door he smelled gas and turned to leave. He went five steps and it blew up. You see insulation and glass littering the ground. Four other homes were damaged. Someone stole the stove out of the house and that is what caused the leak that allowed gas it fill the house. Barbara patience paid off for twins in california. They have been splaying catcheroff lottery playing scratchoff lottery but they won 6 million in the set for saliva scratchoff scratchoff. Laura bought it and when she found out she reacted like many oh my god. I was hyperventilating. I was like Kim Kardashians ugly cry. Barbara she tried to caller twin sister and was busy at work so she sent her a text. So far the windfall hasnt changed them. They have only splurged on 20 pairs of socks. They will split it 6040. Laurel gets the biggest shireare. John you have seen the Kim Kardashian cry. Ugly crying. Don i have never heard that before. Wow. That is awesome. Barbara that is pretty awesome. Don it is cool when somebody wins. Today the forecast we talked about the roller closer forecast but look at roller closer coast er forecast. We go back up saturday. We had a couple of sprinkles in Roanoke Rapids but at the moment no rainfall on the most powerful radar in the carolinas. Looking into downtown raleigh disappearing into a little bit of fog. We have patchy fog and 51. Dew point is 50. 96 humidity. Winds calm. Looking in downtown valve. Humidity 88 . South wind two. Not seeing any fog on that picture and it is spotty. 51 right now in roxboro, 50 chapel hill. 46 smithfield. 50 goldsboro. 54 clinton. 55 Southern Pines. Visibility these should be around 10 miles and you are at zero right now goldsboro. No visibility there. So a quarter mile sanford. Half mile chapel hill. Five miles r. D. U. Lots of cloud cover and we are not seeing any showers at the moment. Through the day we will see the cloud cover. Push back in. We will see rain tonight into tomorrow. By tomorrow morning 8 00 a. M. We have showers and it shuts off as we go through the day. By 7 00 a. M. Wednesday the next round pushes through and embedded in them wednesday we could see a strong thunderstorm. The latest surface map shoals the boundary over us and it will be like a Railroad Track of moisture seeing the systems working along there and showers tomorrow and clearing tomorrow and another system pushing chance thunderstorms. Today temperatures in the 50s. 529 00, lunchtime 55, cloudy and patchy fog burned off by lunchtime but clouds still around in the afternoon. By this afternoon in raleigh 54 at 5 00. Across the region 535 chapel hill, 56 wendell and garner. 55 durham, 56 Holly Springs and lillington. 58 pinehurst and 59 in fayetteville today. 55 this afternoon in rocky mount and 50 roxboro. Tonight the temperatures across the region back into the 40s for overnight lows. Cloudy skies and rain around. 44 raleigh and 46 fayetteville and 43 durham. First alert sevenday forecast powered by accuweather showing temperatures tomorrow back into the 40s, 48 degrees, rain likely on wednesday. 67, almost 20 degrees warmer wednesday and cool off thursday as showers around storms work through. Friday through sunday we dry out with temperatures around 50. Tuesday morning we could see up to two inches in some of the western counties. That is spread out so it shouldnt cuss shouldnt cause flooding. Barbara with those temperatures you worry about severe. Don wednesday we are in slight risk. Barbara how are you doing . Amber fog times ahead. A little fog and rain. Lets get to it and peek outside. We are seeing a little haze in some cameras like this 440 and capital. A little hazy over the camera there but you can see that stretch of the beltline is moving fine. As we go to the mapping system there are a couple of accidents coming in. We stop on 40 westbound at u. S. 70 clayton bypass those taillights are westbound and that is a delay for folks from johnston to wake county. A little slow there at the merge. There is the orange. That is some fog. Pittsboro, sanford, west of selma some fog cover and east of rocky mount. Theres a stalled vehicle 4450 westbound brentwood road but our camera there is not showing any delays. Knightdale two lanes blocked 64 westbound at smithfield due to an accident there. Here are the driver times. Seven minutes 40 to 15 fplt. Barbara thank you. Phone reveal. My moderate to severe chronic plaque psoriasis made a simple trip to the Grocery Store anything but simple. So finally, i had an important conversation with my dermatologist about humira. He explained that humira works inside my body to target and help block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to my symptoms. 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That is the closest finish in the history of the daytona 500. John Android Phone users you have two new options. A video game classic makes a comeback. Here is Kendis Gibson and reena ninan with our tech headlines. In our tech bytes new blockbuster phone at the mobile World Congress in spain. Samsung galaxy 17 and edge and card shot. Lot. A g5 removable battery that can be swapped for a range of accessories. Including the camera plus for better selfies and high phi plus and Audio Amplifier made in conjunction conjunction. The legend of zelda for 30 years. The legend didnt look like it will end soon with three games due this year including the next big adventure. Adult men rejoice. Those are your tech bytes. Barbara and teenage boys. John i know nothing about that. Barbara North Carolina senator thom tillis endorses one of the republican president ial candidates. John we will tell you who he and North Carolina woman bad the only station with three newsrooms. Abc 11 Eyewitness News continues. Barbara welcome on this monday. It is 52 degrees. John thank you for joining us. We will get to all the morning news in just a moment but first weather and traffic together. Good morning, don. Don i am happy to be back today. Hopefully you are not home with a virus this morning. As far as the day ahead, we will see the temperatures climbing. We are not changing that much as 54 at rdu, 55 in fayetteville. From cameron to sanford, it is locked in with fog. If you are in that fog it is very thick. Lunchtime, we will go cloudy. Through the late day, 56. Those rain chances coming up. Amber we are seeing some of that fog in our dot cameras. It is 40 at mc 42. Monday morning. We are seeing that patchy fog area this morning. All the orange you see on our map, around hillsboro and west of selma, we are seeing that. We are seeing some showers on up on the beltline and into knightdale, at smithfield road there. No problem into durham. 540 also moving find both directions. Westbound is a fourminute ride. Barbara closing arguments are expected today in the sentencing hearing for trade the on smith travion smith. The implications of this trial are huge. This could be wake countys first death sentence in years. The death sentence penalty is now underway. Smith was convicted of beating and stabbing Melissa Huggins to death in 2013. The same jury that convicted him of murder will decide whether he should get life in prison or the the defense has called several testify about his abusive childhood. The prosecution only calls victims the victims witness. Hannah jones talked about apartment. Smith was accused of the murder along with Ronald Anthony and sarah redden. Anthony pleaded guilty last year to avoid the Death Penalty. Charges against redden remain. Barbara you can watch the hearing live on nbc. Com. Abc 11 Eyewitness News. John jury selection is scheduled to get underway today. In the trial of a man accused of killing a student 20 years ago. Edwin long is accused of killing her remains, later found by construction workers off u. S. One near control 197. He was indicted in december after additional testing. Barbara a man accused of shooting a toddler will take the stand today. Marion laney is charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The toddler was shot inside a home daycare tuesday afternoon. Released. The child was not the target and the shooting does not appear to be random. John a man involved in a locked up this morning. Officers went to a road on friar tuck road to serve warrants on this man. Kennedy refused to come out. Drawn. Police evacuated several nearby houses as a precaution. Four hours later, kennedy was taken into custody. Major barbara Major General will hold a hearing in training and equipping iraqs security officials. John endorsement in our state. Barbara coming up, who is throwing their support behind the president ial candidate. John governor mccoury threatening legal action. Don out the door this morning, we have got temperatures in the 50s across the region. We will see those temperatures hovering in the 50s all dada long. That is all coming up next. Take us behind the scenes of our follow him on facebook at c hi dad. Uh huh. Yeah. Sorry about that. Think about it there must be higher love down in the heart what do you think . And in the stars above hi ted, glad you could join us, we think youre going to like these numbers. Bring me a higher love bus stop forecast this morning. We have got temperatures running in the 50s. You want to spend send raingear. It could be raining this afternoon as the kids come home from school. 50 in roxboro, 52 in chapel hill and louisburg. Southern pines, fayetteville, and clinton. Fog around 54 by lunchtime, 55 under cloudy skies. Rain is going to be off and on the next couple of days. John governor pat mccrory threatening legal action if the city of charlotte approves the controversial nondiscrimination ordinance tonight. The ordinance will allow people to choose whether they want to use the men or womens restroom on based on their gender identity. 12,000 people have signed an online petition against the ordinance saying it would burden Small Business owners and put women and children in bathrooms at risk. The governor says changing basic longestablished values is misguided and has major statewide ramifications. Barbara North Carolina senator South Carolina holds its own primary on the same day as four other states. Tiller said tillis of said tillis said rubio could draw support. John Eyewitness News is keeping you connected to stories online. Amber these are some of the stories that are trending. This is a big one from abc news. Nasa gets a Record Number of astronaut reckoned applications. They received 18,000 applications for people interested in joining the space agencys 2017 class of astronauts. 8000 in 1978. We will be sending all of this on our social media. How about this story . If you are eating, i apologize. Woman says she found a snake this happened in utah at a mormon church. They were preparing food and she thought when she was cooking it it was a burst green bean bert burnt green bean. We will be sending that out on our page. Everybody loves taylor swift and especially one of her bffs that she met when she was 10 days old. This is britney and taylor with one of her bridesmaids this weekend at her wedding. Can you imagine going to a wedding and going is that taylor swift . She met her husband in kindergarten. Barbara they look beautiful. Thank you. John everybody is taking a picture of taylor swift and not the bride. Barbara she was confident enough to ask her to be her maid why fbi director james cuomo says he is not giving up. Barbara they were the hottest gift over the Christmas Season but those hoverboards could soon list. donkey sound elephant sound theres a big difference between making noise, tapping sound and making sense. elephant sound donkey sound when it comes to Social Security, our next president needs a real plan to keep Social Security strong. elephant noise hey candidates. Enough talk. Give us a plan. Barbara a western Michigan Community reeling after a deadly shooting rampage. Mourners remembering six people stop. Barbara uber says our hearts and prayers are with the victims of this deadly crime. Dalton has no criminal history. Between those shootings. John the director of the fbi says he owes it to the victims to unlock a cell phone used by one of the gunmen in the San Bernardino terror attacks. Syed farook killed 14 people in the rampage. The statement continues the verbal backandforth between apple and the justice department. That is when a judge directed apple to help the fbi hack into the passwordprotected iphone. Tim cook has strongly objected to the governments request. The company is expected to file its opposition in court. Barbara the gun manufacturers of the sandy hook gone gun are maker of Bushmaster Firearms argues that it is protected by federal law that shields gun manufacturers for most lawsuits from most lawsuits. An exception allows litigation against companies that know or should know their weapons are likely going to be used in a way that risks injury to others. Hoverboard makers may soon get hit with recalls if they dont get their act together. That is a warning from the Consumer Product safety commission. Some models of these scooters are prone to catch fire and explode. Several airlines have banned hoverboards. John a woman who slammed into a tractortrailer outside charlotte was distracted by her cell phone. Andrea parson was trying to make a call on her phone when she rearended a tractortrailer. Parsons survived the trash the crash. That car is a mangled wreck. I get amazed when i see people swerving on the roads. I see them looking down at their phone while they are driving, it is really really a serious situation. John i was proud the other day. My 17yearold son was driving someplace and all of a sudden my phone rings, it is him. He says i am pulled over right now, stop so i could call you. Good to go. Barbara it is tempting. John big weather today. Something special coming up. First we will show you what is going on as far as rain chances across the region. A spotty shower in the afternoon. Tomorrow into wednesday is when the rain gets heavy. More about that in just a moment. A live look into radar, we are not seeing any showers at the moment. Looking into downtown raleigh, patchy fog. 52, 90 4 humidity. 94 humidity. 90 humidity southwest winds into durham, patchy fog into the distance. Northeast wind at 11. 53 now in chapel hill. 46 sanford, 46 smithfield. Visibility down to a half a mile in smithfield. Goldsboro, you are up to three miles. Lots of clouds around the area. Look at the cloud cover working through. We will see some rain later today about 5 00 this afternoon. I dont think it will be raining in all these places but it could be raining in any of those places. We will see rain for tomorrow morning going through tomorrow. Through wednesday, strong showers and thunderstorms spotstemperatures topping out across the region in the mid50s by lunchtime. Into the afternoon, temps really not changing. Tonight, temperatures back into the 40s for overnight lows. 43 in durham. Your first alert forecast powered by accuweather, temperatures forecast tomorrow, upper 40s. Into the upper 60s with rain, thursday, 50 five, friday 49, saturday 51. This is davis. He plays in the house hockey league. David played after having his gallbladder removed and his spleen removed after a hereditary disease. His parents are asking he get carbs from around the world. Cards from around the world. John i am going to post this. Facebook wont let a lot of folks see it. If you see it on your facebook page, please share it. Barbara that would be nice. John we are pulling for you. Barbara a lot of people were playing hockey this weekend. All the rates had it for free. This morning, no ice falling from the sky. We are thankful for that. We have a little precipitation, a spotty shower or two in some areas. You can see it here, 40 at cleveland roads. That orange, that is the fall cover. You can see sanford, done, selma , sanford, dunn, selma. Our live return here just showing a little slow of the exit ramp. 38 eastbound, you are fine. Capital to u. S. 70, no problems there. Seven minutes 540 up to u. S. 15. Rush. Barbara the latest on a Death Penalty trial in raleigh. John and, this is connor like so many kids, he was missing things in school distracted disengaged just not getting it. We tried tutors but they didnt connect. Then we heard about sylvans new teaching system, sylvansync. Personal lessons, taught by sylvan certified instructors, using Technology Kids love. Ive never seen him more engaged. And the results are kids like connor typically enamel is your teeths first line of defense. But daily eating and drinking can make it weak. Try colgate enamel health. It replenishes weak spots with natural calcium to strengthen enamel four times better. Colgate enamel health. Now, the morning rush. John here is some of what you will be hearing about. Closing arguments expected to get underway in travion smiths sentencing hearing. He is accused of killing Melissa Huggins jones in 2013. Smith could get the Death Penalty. Barbara a 20yearold murder case is making it to trial. Edwin long is accused of killing his girlfriend in 1996. Her remains were found a year later and long was charged. Happening today, bill cosbys wife camille will give her death and statement in the defamation suit. Camille cosby attempted to squash the deposition subpoena. John nascars opening race was a thriller to the very end. Afternoon but needed a late of a second. Good morning, america. Donald trump on a roll. We won with everything. Tall people, short people, fat people, skinny people. Just won. The gop frontrunner now all eyes on the nevada, the next vote casts tomorrow. Can marco rubio and ted cruz stop his momentum. The uber driver accuseded of killing six people. Reportedly picking up fares during the rampage. Now those passengers are speaking out. We were driving through median sfls and uber is responding to the attack. Amazing escape. A megabus evacuated just moments before it goes up in flames. How they all got out alive rocket man out of this world mystery. The newly uncovered tapes revealing the, quote, weird music, astronauts say was playing on the dark side of the moon. What the famous rocket man really heard