Possibly changing our primary date of when we would vote area right now, they are in session but the newre could be new candidates in different districts. They will meet today at 1 00 to discuss their new map. The main focus of the committee will be on the reelection timeline, possibly changing the primary date. It could have a huge impact on candidates and voters. The federal court order requires a new congressional map by tomorrow. It is to take place today. They still need to discuss a new primary date. It to be moved a couple of months. Late may or june is a possibility. We think june may be necessary. They have to do what they have to do and they need time as well. And of course we have a president ial primary and the gloria when it comes to the map , i am told the house may not get to that vote tomorrow until tomorrow. All of this discussion may not be anything if the Supreme Court rules in favor of the state. In that case, we would keep our march 15 primary date, but this is a contingency in case that doesnt happen. Will have the very latest developers coming up at 12 30 so be sure to tune in. Barbara thank you. John noon enw atnew at noon, a victim working near the town of robbins. There was an incident with a which ever wood chipper. Has learned the identity of the victim. Processing the evidence. You see the wood chipper here. 50yearold tony was from North Carolina is the victim. They were setting out signs near the road on rocking him street rockingham street. There were going to be cutting down some trees. They were setting out signs a couple of blocks from here. The killed worker was right here near the back of the wood chipper when the driver struck him. That was around 8 00 this morning. He died here on the scene. Police say the driver experience some sort of medical issue that caused him to crash. The driver is now in serious condition. Robbins police are out here with the workers that were on the scene a few hours ago. They are processing the evidence with equipment. We understand the victims white showed up in the county earlier. They get at his belongings. We are still learning more about him. We will have more at 12 30 as the story develops. Barbara thank you. Happening now, the defense of trivial smith is working to give him off death row. He was found guilty of killing a woman inside her raleigh apartment. The defense continues to call witnesses to the stand. It was a difficult childhood for smith. She broke down at one point. Do you love him . Private. I did. Be part of your life . I do. I would give anything to do that. Barbara very emotional right there. Yesterday, his mother took the stand. s mother was described as an abusive and neglective parents. The jury must decide if he will be sentenced to death or life in prison for the murder. We have more right now on abc11. Com. John a Durham County sheriffs deputy rest of the hospital after colliding with another vehicle this morning around 8 00 on pleasant drive. We are working to learn the conditions of the other driver. Also waiting to learn about charges and how the crash happened. Barbara we are also looking to learn more on a fatal crash in the victims identity has not been released yet. Also, months after a woman was killed in her own home, there is an appearance confession from her husband. John according to a search warrant, he admitted to breaking into her home and hitting her in the head and smiling her. It was later arrested in mississippi when he robbed a bank. During a hit and run it is now being turned over to the da. The victim, and 22yearold, was walking down highway 70 with you was hit. The driver for hit networks and it going and may have been on what president obama says he will press for while visiting cuba. Plus, reaction from capitol hill. I can sleep. John agonizing time for a local family after a young mother and her son disappears. With a believe happened to her. Barbara and update on this in North Carolina that went viral. Take a look at this and our beautiful weather on this thursday. We like to call if i do even around here. It will only get better. As will cool out there today it is still cool out there today. Complete forecast. Doppler Network Phone ringing you cant deal with something, by ignoring it. But thats how some president ial candidates seem to be dealing with social security. Americans work hard, and pay into it. So our next president needs a real plan to keep it strong. elephant noise donkey noise barbara welcome back. Here is a live look now at fayetteville. 46 degrees right now. With a seven day forecast ahead. The family of a missing mother and kit are pleading for their return. They have been missing since february 8. With her son noah. That has been no evidence of foul play, but some cannot believe she up and took off with my daughter has never been a day or two without being around me. I cant sleep. I miss noah. Just call and let me know that you are safe. Barbara family members say she does not own a car so she would not have gone far on her own. Any information on the whereabouts is asked to call the sheriffs department. John soldiers assigned for a job as they leave the military and head to the workforce. A recruitment fairs being held until 3 00 this afternoon. This is happening at the Fort Bragg Soldier Support Center on normandy drive. A hospitals Computer System gets hacked. Barbara details of the ransom demanded in this case. Plus, painful testimony. Stand testifying about the 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. John happening now, president obama is said to make history again. He announced he will visit cuba next month, becoming the first u. S. President in many years to. President obama is going to press the government on policy differences and human rights. That for comes after the obama admin decision formally reopened ties with cuba in 2014. There is criticism about this. Senator ted cruz, was family came to the u. S. From cuba, said the president should not visit wiley castro family is in power. Senator marco rubio also. We have an update on a road rage incident caught on camera two years ago. Barbara the man charged a beard in court yesterday. The video shows turner pushing the driver who he claimed push him off the road. A driver and passenger lightweight fight. Turner fired shots at the truck as he left the property. Yesterday, he pled guilty to two misdemeanor charges. John the university of texas has accepted guns on campus. The University President reluctantly approved the guidelines. State law in texas requires them to do so beginning august 1. Concealed handgun license holders can take the gun into classrooms but not more ribs. Labs but not dorm rooms. Labs will also remain debtfree. Barbara now to a strange hospital hack. The ransom was worth 17,000. The Medical Center in los angeles says it paid the ransom because it was in their best it shows no evidence patient data was compromised. An emotional testimony in the first day of a trial of a colorado woman accused of attacking a pregnant mother and stealing her baby. John this attack happened last year. The victim grew up in North Carolina. On the stand, Michelle Wilson disrupted horrifying detail the attack in march of last year. They were responding to a craigslist ad when lane attacked her, removed her baby, and left mother for dead. She try to choke me. I just remember everything going black. John she of course survived the attack but her baby did not. The defense claims lane did not plan the attack, but was obsessed with pregnancy and barbara this afternoon, Staff Members at an elementary it was a mistake that should not have never happened. John oh boy. Barbara one of those things when you are sending an email and you press sent and then you realize, we minute. John can you imagine opening it and your eyes get wider and wider when you read it. Is not funny. I dont want people to get. Get mad. We have lots of sunshine and blue skies. A little cool for february. Let us show you what is going on right now as far as the next 12 hours. We will see sunshine and temperatures on the cool side around 50 through 5 00 this afternoon. 30s by 10 00 tonight. Into fayetteville, back in the 40s by 6 00. Temperatures falling into the 30s as well. A live look into downtown raleigh. 46 right now under a mostly sunny sky. 47, northeast wind at nine. Durham mostly sunny and 45. East wind at 11 miles per hour. Everybody in the mid 40s from the room to clearing very. 48 fayetteville and clinton. 43 roxboro. 46 wilson. 45 in goldsboro. Skies clearing out for the most part. We had some clouds but they are starting to burn away. Looking back to the west, we have a lot of dry air. Clouds working to the midwest. Back into kentucky and tennessee and arkansas and louisiana, clear skies and sunshine working by 4 00 this afternoon, mostly sunny skies. No less to show you. Through tomorrow, lots of sunshine. Some cloud cover works in tomorrow, but there should be no rate associated with this. We should stay dry saturday and sunday. A few clouds and a little warmer out there. As the high slides so, we will see the winds pick up the southwest a little bit. North. Saturday, we are in the warm sector into sunday. This time of year. Mostly sunny and 49. At 5 00, 51 degrees. 50 today in chapel hill. 51 in durham. 53 in smithfield. Mostly sunny skies. 48 in roxboro. 51 in rocky mount. Temperatures across the region tonight getting back into the 30s and 20s for overnight lows. Will give temperatures down to 27 in raleigh. 30 in fayetteville. Temperatures tomorrow joking back into the 50s thats jumping back into the 50s. Saturday, 65. Sunday, 66. We stay in the 60s until the reignain arrives. Temperatures warming the next couple of days. Barbara sounds good. Toyota is recalling millions of suvs. John a potential problem involving seatbelts ahead. Abc 11 keeping you connected. Find us on facebook. Click on get notifications for the latest Eyewitness News updates. John a consumer alert this afternoon. Play got recalling nearly 3 million suvs. Barbara why a nearly a million of those are in the u. S. The seatbelts may fail and crash the rav4 vehicles are affected. The second row with those seats could have the belt cut and not restrain passengers in a crash. You will find more information on abc11. Com on the homepage. John the Ford Motor Company is touting its pothole Protection Technology on a new sedan. The shock absorbing system automatically stiffens when sensors detect a pothole. It keeps the wheel elevated instead of dropping into the whole. Luxury cars including the four and lincoln mk7 have similar technology. The ford fusion is the first midsize car to offer this new feature. Barbara they night is getting more expensive for parents. The average for watching one for two children, it is 18 an hour. 20 of babysitters get tips on top of the regular pay. Sky and michigan. Like substance on their homes where it is coming from. Answers from anyone. Officials took samples of the mystery substance. Some say it could come from an airplane since an airbase is close by. There is no indication came from a military and craft said about donald trump that the republican frontrunner responding. Barbara a mother makes a crazy the ghost she the only station with three newsrooms in downtown raleigh, downtown durham, and downtown fayetteville. Abc 11 Eyewitness News continues. Barbara happening now, lawmakers are working with a new primary date and to redraw the congressional map after the lines for two districts were deemed unconstitutional. The big vote is expected to happen in both chambers this afternoon. Good afternoon, gloria. Gloria good afternoon. Thats right. Lawmakers could vote on possibly changing the primary date, and that of course will impact all of us as voters because we would vote on a different day. We have video of what happened here this morning. They have now gone on recess, but the committee will meet at 1 00 to discuss a new congressional map. A new map could mean new candidates in new districts and it could affect the timeline. The Court Requires a new congressional map by tomorrow so the vote on a new primary date needs to happen today. I am told the primary could be moved to may or june. This will be in addition to local School Board Elections so we hope there will be some states help there. We know the timing will be necessary to hold these elections and additional training will be required an additional confusion for voters. Will have to do much more education for the voters. Gloria what it comes to the new map, the house will not get to that potential tomorrow. Federal judges ruled two lines here is another curveball because all of this voting and discussion may actually not make an impact because ultimately, it will be up to the Supreme Court to have the final say. That means we can keep our march 15 primary. We will have the very latest today so be sure to turn tune in for the very latest. John thank you. Happening now on i40, several fires sparked by a vehicle fire now out. The brush fire stretched for a few miles. Tim is there with an update. Tim the virus completely out at this point, and traffic here is back to normal. No major issues along this stretch of 540 eastbound. Let me take you to chapter 11 because it was a different story this morning. To different Fire Departments responded to the scene. One lane of 40 was shut down as they worked on the situation. They shut it down for 30 minutes. The cause of the fire they say was due to a broken down vehicle, a ford expedition, that was sparking several claims between exit 309 and 312. The good news is the fire is out and no one was injured. That is the very latest here in johnson county. Barbara thank you. Charges are pending after a driver slammed into a tree cover this morning. The worker was standing near a wood chipper when the collision happened. Nicole is there life now with the latest love now with the live now with the latest. Witnessed the death of their coworker are speaking with investigators. They dont want to talk about it. They are too upset about that. You understand why. Mr. Woods was standing back here when the workers were setting up signs, getting ready to do tree trimming work for the dot. They are contractor workers. The driver struck them. Here you can see the damage. Police say the driver may have had some sort of medical condition that led to the crash. The driver is in serious condition right now. That is all we know about the driver at this point. We dont know what kind of in. There is a state investigator state trooper here. They spent a lot of time on the his wife was out here on the scene earlier. She had driven down to collect her husbands belongings. Everybody is really upset about what they saw here at 8 00 this morning. Awaiting confirmation on what led to the crash here. Tony was was from North Carolina. As we get more information, we will pass along to you on abc11. Com an Eyewitness News starting at 4 00. John very sad. Thank you. Happening now, a hearing for a convicted killer Travion Smith continues now. He was found guilty of killing melissa jones. Her eightyearold daughter found her body. On the witness stand today, standard trying to get the jury to spare her mothers life her brothers life. The people taking the stand are difficult childhood. They say the mother is an abusive and neglectful mother. Barbara more now on the big apple. The white house once apple to do what the california judge ordered, that is to hack into one of the cell phones of the shooter of the San Bernardino terrorist attack. Apple is saying no. This is a landmark case. Google is also weighing in saying they are with apple on this one. They believe there should be no government backdoors. Others are rallying in support of the company. John happening now, a new National Poll says donald trump on the democratic side, Hillary Clinton still holds a doubledigit lead over Bernie Sanders in South Carolina, but the race in nevada is a virtual dead heat. As donald trump stumps for both Companies Getting criticism from pope francis. He suggests donald trump is not blow. They are trying to make a plan for the long exit out of this race. They released a new Campaign Video that shows jeb bush and former president bush together. You have to check that one out. Hillary clintons battle for nevada could be a photo finish. Both clinton and Bernie SandersSouth Carolina voters primaries. Barbara just when you thought it could not get any more interesting. A mother and son are killed. John the family and the money getting up to the murders. A bizarre chase caught on camera. The mustsee video dont see every day. A police chase involving a boat. Barbara the alleged joyride in heavy machinery started when the 59yearold man was on the roadway. It drove up and down the bridge for one hour and a half, damaging the road and sides of the bridge. The driver switched direction several times. One cruiser was damaged. When he finally left the bridge, he saw stopped it with spike strips. We begin with some crazy video of a robbery at a houston restaurant. Victims fighting back, putting their lives on the line. One of the gunwielding robbers holes one of them by the here. They try to keep the robbers in but they managed to get away with the money. Now to florida and in a robbery caught on tape. This time, the robber loses. The man doing the punching is a champion boxer. After delivering for punches, the suspect was knocked out. David west held down the suspect until police arrived. Out to australia. Watch as the guy runs out of this restaurant after setting it on fire. The guy appears to panic in the video. The arson happened last week. Look at this pretty creepy video here. A mother believes it caught a ghost over her babys crib. The ghost figure appeared on the screen right over the crib. Death looks like it looks like a baby, some say. She says this experience has certainly a little bit strange right there. Those are your Eyewitness News mustsee videos. Back to you. Barbara you can see mustsee video any time by going to abc11. Com or by using the abc 11 Eyewitness News mobile app on your phone or tablet. A mother accused of waterboarding her special needs son. John the boy says he went through that. Plus, possibly the worlds most unhappy lottery winner. Winning millions of dollars is not as good as it sounds, they say. Barbara here is a live look this afternoon. It is gorgeous. A few clouds out there. It is a great shot. There are not many clouds out there today. We will see more sunshine to the afternoon and even less in the way of cloud cover. 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A 61yearold was the subject of before he was killed himself. Torturing her son is in jail. Before the role of waterboarding her child under the age of 14. Police say she claims it was her boyfriends idea. Her boyfriend is also charged. The boy told police he was punished because his mother believes he had mistreated the family dog. Happening now, a massive Apartment Fire under investigation in oklahoma city. Barbara the flames from this building, nobody was injured. John a dog is being blamed for starting this fire that badly damaged a house in colorado. Officials ruled out a water valve, a gas leak. More than a month after the drawing for the 1. 5 billion , the florida winters have come forward. Barbara they say they do not want powerball drawing and did not find out until the next morning that they won. They claimed their onetime lump sum of nearly 328 million. A check was made out to a trust created by the couple who the couple says winning all that money is not easy. Lost a lot of sleep. I lost over 10 pounds. You are worried. You are worried what is going to happen. Barbara what is going to happen is you are rich. They planned to retire after 34 years. They left money in a trust for their children. John maybe i can help them out with that money. Don i can help them. Just give it away. You have to take the money. John there you gojohn . Don today, we have some sunshine out there and mild temperatures. Will continue to see the temperatures going over the next couple of days. I will talk more about that in a as far as the next 12 hours, temperatures near 50 this afternoon. And he clouds out there will go away in the afternoon. Going through the evening hours, clear skies without temperatures to the 30s by 8 00 and will stay there through the evening. A live look into downtown raleigh. A north wind at five miles per hour. Durham checks in at 40. A northwest wind and eight. Fayetteville this hour with a couple of cumulus clouds. A northeast wind at 11. A live look out at atlantic beach. You can see the sunshine and some cloud cover but not any big shadows. In the mountains, they had some snow overnight. 36, nac blue skies there as and they see blue skies there as well. Slide south, 49 in lumberton. Most of the nation is actually above freezing. 35 in chicago today. 33 in minneapolis. Cleveland is in the 20s, 26. 63 in kansas city. That warm air will shift in by the weekend. We have dry weather. Clear back into portions of michigan, iowa, minnesota, even kansas. Lots about cover, but not rainfall or snowfall. This dry air is moving into our area and staying there the next couple of days. A few clouds left over from this morning, but they are burning off, and that means lots of sunshine. 5 00 tonight, mostly sunny. By 7 00 tomorrow night, were seeing clouds move through and cloud cover in on saturday morning, but we are not seeing any precipitation. High pressure is in place tomorrow. As it slides south, it will grow on the warmer air and pull it into us. The cold front will stay to the north. We stay in the world sector. We will see temperatures near 60 saturday and sunday. For the rest of this afternoon in raleigh, mostly sunny skies. Below average temperatures. Across the region, temperatures around 50 degrees today. Lots of sunshine. Even colder temperatures tonight. Tonight will be the coldest night in the next seven. 26 in durham. Tomorrow, 65. 66 on sunday in durham. Not really cold, but cooler. Barbara thank you. Eyewitness news is following several big stories. What are the neighbors doing here . Bill hey come in, come in i didnt know your home wifi could stream so many devices at the same time. Dad, its time warner cable. 300 megs. Crazyfast. And we were right across the street the whole time. The whole time. Make your home as connected as possible with time warner cable. With speeds up to ultrafast 300 megs. Get 50 meg internet for 39. 99 per month. 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Barbara also, remember you can stay connected all the to developing stories by going to abc11. Com wear the abc 11 mobile app on your phone or tablet. Don the rest of today, temperatures in the 50s. Tomorrow, 50s. 60s returned saturday. Sunday rain returns going into today starting at 4 hold onto your sombreros, because were about to have a chew fan favorite fiesta up in here. Michaels whipping up a satisfying sandwich thatll make you say chorizomg. Then, marios in the kitchen with the hilarious Craig Ferguson and theyve got a mexican classic that will really give you something to taco bout. Plus, im cooking up a glitzy burrito with a guy who has got all the right moves on the dance floor and in the kitchen the amazing derek huff. Its about to get deliciously loco right now on the chew. [ cheers and applause ] hola welcome to the chew. Thank you