Picture outside lots of headlights in this direction this is i440, just a few cars if you are heading out the door this morning play it safe and take it easy. We do have an alert to pass along to you because of some maintenance were looking at nc 540 the shoulders closed this morning in both directions. Thats between exits 54 and 69 this morning. So if youre traveling in that direction just give those crews plenty of room to do their work on the shoulderment well have more in about ten minutes. All right. Thanks. Team coverage this morning as we are waking up to some bitterly cold temperatures. Its below freezing across central north carolina. Emma wright check canning out the roads this morning where theyre preparing for potentially icy conditions. Reporter we were seeing some roads that have already been pretreated. We were expected to see what alyssa was telling us about a few minutes ago. Right now. We do have some white lines on the road, that is a brine, a salt solution that they
Their lives gave themselves up to a higher call a bigger purpose. That was the scene here tonight. Well have more on how their legacy continues on but for now back to you. The families continue to struggle with the loss of their children. I sat down with the mothers to discuss what life is like one year later. Its an image well never forget. Tell me how my son is. Whats his situation . Begging for answers from police after learning. If hes dead tell me hes dead. If hes alive, tell me hes alive. Hours later it was confirmed his son, his newlywed wife and her sister were murdered by their neighbor, craig hicks. Execution style. Three nights after the as i mother, i have to ask this, how are you wives doing . Theyre taking it very tough. Its hard on them. Theyre heartbroken. My wife is hardly having any sleep. Nearly one year later i asked the mothers the same question. Were still healing. Hopefully with time well feel much better. Something big is missing from my life. And my home. Repor
Tracking the chance for some rain and snow as we head towards friday afternoon. More in just a little bit. Lets switch gears and check in with traffic on this thursday morning. Heres i440, just a car or two out in this direction. So if you are heading out and about, just buckle up. Lets check in with your live drive conditions, all in the green around raleigh. I do want to point out some slow and go on 64 westbound at about 23 miles per hour. Well keep an eye on this. Right now though im going to send it back to mike. Thanks. Continuing coverage this morning as you wake up to these cold temperatures it is below freezing in many places in central north carolina. Emma wright is checking out the roads. Reporter were out here like they put some brine down on the roads. We are on 70 right now. Its looking good. Were not seeing any ice. Theres no need to be alarmed if youre out driving around this morning but we did see some lines of brine out there. It looks like they did pretreat these roa
Do you believe that what you are done here that africanamerican voters have a reasonable opportunity to elect candidates of their choice . I can see the you are brilliant man. You are very good attorney. Im going to answer that by saying these maps were adopted by the criteria adopted by this committee. Angelica 24 yeses and 11 nose. The committee decided i criteria to follow the new map. Districts of equal population and is not use race as a deciding factor as they were accused of doing in 2011. The democrats say the new map is they have probably carved out 10 districts for republicans and only three for democrats. Angelica theres a federal court order to produce a new map by friday. Counting the governor mcauliffe special session tomorrow. They are waiting to find out from the Supreme Court whether the new map will be used on your ballot come march 15. That special session will be here at 10 00 tomorrow morning. Steve president obama will travel to cuba next month. The official annou
Steve and next con accused of killing his wife. According to the search warrant he admitted breaking into stephanie autrys home and hitting her in the head with a hammer and then strangling her with wire. Authorities say he robbed a bank. Tisha search warrants link a raleigh cabdriver to a deadly hitandrun. Was early sunday morning. He hit higgins and kept going. The driver reported being in an accident at the time Police Believe he may of been on his cell phone at the time. No charges have yet been filed. Raleigh police identifying a man found dead. 60 threeyearold andrew terry junior. The initial calls for a drowning. Steve an intense day of testimony for the penalty phase of the trial of trading on smith. The courtroom camera was ordered turned off during that testimony. She never became emotional even when she talked about finding her mom dad in their apartment. The first witness for the defense was his mother. She talked about how his father abused her when she was pregnant. The j