Of governors was currented about, quote, civil rights protections in North Carolina. As mentioned, a total of seven championships will now take place in other states. That includes the division i mens Basketball Championship set to take place in greensboro. The state Democratic Party wasted no time in releasing statement which reads in part, what a disappointment for basketball fans. Add this to thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of Discrimination Bill have cost North Carolina. Gubernatorial candidate roy cooper had this to say. It seems that almost every day we learn of a new consueeqe of house bill 2. The executive director for the Greater Raleigh Sports Alliance estimated an economic boost of about 5 million when recally hosted the mens basketball regional in 2014. I reached out to governor mccrory for his response to this latest news an we have not statement saying in part, under the ncaas logic, colleges should make cheerleader and Football Players share bathrooms, showers
Police in iowa city are once again looking for a suspect in an armed robbery. There were a string of armed robberies in iowa city in late july and early august. August. Sunday morning at about five witnesses told officers a black male walked into a mcdonalds with a handgun and left with cash and find a suspect and crimestoppers is offering a thousand dollar reward. Reward. At least four businesses in iowa city have been robbed over the last month and a half. Police say First American bank and culvers along highway one, pancheros on Riverside Drive and another mcdonalds along mormon trek have all been sites of armed robberies. Police havent said if any of those are related. A kalona woman is dead after an atv crash over the weekend. Weekend. Police responded to the crash at 100 shilo drive the crash report says the driver was 28yearold alex merrit from iowa city and he lost control of the atv on private property throwing him and 22year old Elizabeth Lenton from kalona off the atv. Lento
Murder trial. New overnight, and suv crash shuts down part of a heavily traveled raleigh road. We kick off the work week with unseasonably warm weather but how long will that last . Happy monday, everyone, thank you for joining us. Im renee chou. Im bill leslie. We begin with breaking news out of Cleveland County west of charlotte where a couple died after a crash in a house explosion. It happened around 10 30 last night, it happened around then triggering explosions at their home. At least two people killed, fire crews are on the scene cleaning up debris and making sure the gas is turned on. Two decades after a Shaw University student is murder, a jury could start deliberating against the man accused of killing her. Investigators charged chris mcqueen. Wrals julia sims joins us outside the justice center. Reporter jurors announced it would not present any evidence leaving them to consider results of a new dna test as well as testimony from witnesses about things they recall from 20 ye
Coast today and the midwest as well on the final day of campaigning before five critical primaries tomorrow. Among them, our state, florida and ohio, which could determine if the republican field goes down to two. Tracie potts is in washington with more on the campaigning, plus reaction to those violent weekend protests at trump events. Reporter five states vote tomorrow with hundreds of delegates at stake on both sides. Florida and ohio the biggest prizes, winner take all. Donald trump is leaving florida by double digits. He is in tampa tonight after a weekend of violent protests. Bernie sanders denies he is sending them. Donald trump is a pathological liar. Reporter Hillary Clinton says trump is inciting them. He lit the fire, then throws his hands up and claims he should not be held responsible reporter clinton says foreign leaders are asking to endorse her to stop trump. She has a big lead in florida but its marco rubio who needs the sunshine state. Words of the president have cons
Theres our rdu skycam, nice and warm, theres our Roxboro Skycam which has been nice and warm. Her temperature in durham, 47, 52 in Holly Springs and wake forest. 46 roxboro, 50 in fayetteville, 49 degrees in rocky mount and wilson. Temperature should be close to 50 degrees as you head out this morning. By lunchtime warming up quickly to 70, highs in the upper 70s with plenty of sunshine. That trend continues into the end of the work week. It looks like we may have 70s into next week which is unusual. Not unusual to have a few days in the 70s this time of year but this kind of stretch of 70s is unusual. An embarrassment of riches. It is 7 02. Lets take you downtown and look at the live commute map. All quite that if we move up toward wake forest at the belt line, there is a report of a minor accident at week town drive. Indicating delays, there are plenty of parking lots into which you could move the minor accident and that is probably what is happening. Something to keep in mind as you