Temperatures. A wonderful way just gets better meteorologist Marty Coniglio joins us. Marty we better enjoy this weekend. Before things change. A man who was put murder is, once greusome crime. Police say he held a raping and torturing her for four months. In 9news reporter here with more. Suspect was february. Yes. Details of the crime in an 18page arrest affidavit. It includes graphic information on the nightmare that a faced in gateway, the tiny town is grand junction. Inside this home police say 61year old Claude Lee Wilkerson carried out his crime. The 26yearold victim was homeless, when wilkerson brought her to his home. Hed promised to let her stay there and pay her for doing work around the house. But the victim says when she got there wilkerson put a chemical on a rag to make her pass out. She then was chained up to a bed. She says wilkerson repeatedly raped her. And treated her like a pet. Rewarding her for good behavior. The whole time a 14yearold runway out the crime. That
More highlights from last nights debate in just a moment but first lets get you set for the friday ahead. Marty is joining us. Today we continue to warm up into a beautiful weekend. Good morning marty what prosecutors closeknit rural town is hard to come to terms with. Prosecutors say a former death row inmate held a young woman hostage for months raping and torturing her. 9news reporter Tarhonda Thomas joins us this morning with more suspect. And how the victim finally got out. Cheryl, the Small Community of gateway is shocked like Something Like this could happen there. Really anywhere. Its a terrible crime. Police broke this case in february. And now were learning details about what happened. A 26 year old woman who was homeless. Offered a place to stay. Police say the person who made that offer was 61 yearold claude lee wilkerson. But when he got the woman to his home. He tortured and raped her. Chaining her up in the house. Only allowing her out a few times. This happended for fou
About your daily dreaded drive. Breaking news, Whitney Houstons daughter died almost the same way her mother did. The autopsy result for bobbi kristina. A medical examiner says marijuana, alcohol, and drugs used for sedation and anxiety were all found in the 22year olds system. She was found face down and unresponsive in january of last year. Her mother had also been found in a tub. Bobby kristina died in hospice care in july. You made it to friday. Happy friday, everyone. Lets get you set for it with meteorologist Marty Coniglio. It is dry, but its sure warm out there. It is warm right now. Its going to be an interesting day for us. Were going to start the same way we have for the last couple of days. Nice high clouds. During the day, were going to start seeing the tail end of a move our way. Its really quite warm out here. 30s, 40s over the front range right now. And not so bad in the mountains with teens and 20s but during the day our southwest wind will shift. Its going to start co
North carolina to new england this morning. Rain, snow and a slippery commute for millions. But al says a big warmup is on the way. Heading to the jury. Closing arguments getting underway this morning at erin andrews civil trial. Did she prove that shes been damaged to the tune of 75 million . Appealing to the lazy . Another packaging debacle for whole foods. This time, for selling prepeeled oranges in plastic containers. The outrage forcing the grocer to apologize and go back to selling oranges the natural way today, friday, march 4th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on friday morning. Im not sure i get the whole foods controversy but i get the party. Myself. I bought the presliced cantaloupe and watermelon. More on that in a moment. Race. Donald trump facing fire from his fellow candidates and his partys 2012 nominee, mitt romney. Governor romney is with us in ou