3 3 3 as the rain 3 as the rain continues this morning, it will likely impact your morning commute. News 13s Lauren Brigman has been driving around asheville to see what the roads are like and joins us live from amboy road. Lauren, what have you seen so far . 3 3 3 we are following new developments this morning regarding charlottes controversial new law that allows transgender people to use the public restroom of their choice. North Carolina House leaders now say they plan to take up the issue when the Legislature Reconvenes in april. State House Speaker pro tem paul stam says he and other state lawmakers will use their constitutional power to reverse the law. 3 the new law is called the nondiscrimination ordinance. Bathrooms, but in how businesses treat gay, lesbian and transgender customers. Supporters say the change recognizes the importance of genderidentity. But opponents, including governor pat mccrory, say it flies in the face of tradition and decency. 3 2113 if you have the ana
Between 3 march 15th and june 7th . larry hall thats correct. People will be confused. Were already confused and wont know who exactly they are voting for. Barring a stay by the us supreme court, this means voters will still go to the polls on march 15th to vote in the president ial primaries and the various state races. Then on june 7th, they will vote in the congressional primaries. The house and senate hope to have the maps and the dates approved by five pm today. To beat the federal court deadline. 3 3 as it stands right now, today is still the deadline to register to vote in the North Carolina primary. To register. You must be at your current address for at least 30 days prior to the election. You also have to be 18 years old by the date of the next general election. You cannot be serving time for a felony. For more information about registering, go to wlos dot com and click on news links. 3 3 3 tomorrow marks a huge day in the race for the white house. Voters in South Carolina wi
The poorly educated. But with trump highly favored even before results came in. The real fight was between ted cruz and marco rubio for second place. Cruz, spinning his showing in nevada as progress. ted cruz we are one step closer to turning the the pages on the failures on the obamaclinton disaster. Rubio, touting his establishmentcandidate identity as critical for a general election win. rubio i am a conservative that can unite this party. As the republicans watched the nevada returns. Democrats hit them on the issue of race at cnns South Carolina town hall. sanders this birther issue which we heard from donald trump and others a racist effort to try to delegitimize the president of the united states. Bernie sanders, courting the minority vote ahead of the states saturday primary. And also hitting rival Hillary Clinton over her paid speeches to wall street, demanding she release the transcriptsclinton saying she would. On one condition Hillary Clinton d president ial candidate sure,
To stop a lower court order demanding ledge slaytors draw a new congressional map. That means the new maps that were drawn yesterday will take effect. The first and 12th districts were struck down by a Federal District court that said they were primarily drawn based on race. The state had a deadline yesterday to redraw the maps unless the Supreme Court granted the states request for a stay. It refused to do so late last night, putting those new maps into effect. That means the president ial primaries will still be march 15th but congressional primaries will now be delayed until june 7th. The defense will present its case in the murder trial of a Transylvania County man. Richard oshields is charged in the 2011 murder of toby mathis in what prosecutors call a revenge killing after the death of oshields son. Mathis was convicted in Involuntary Manslaughter of oshields son joey months friday, jurors heard from a former medical examiner and a sheriff offense detective. A bryson city man ple
What would you rather have me do, be nicic to everybody. Reporter over on cnn ted cruz and m mco rubio along with dr. Ben carson got their chance to address questions from South Carolina voters. Cruz whipping out the hammer on trump after receiving a cease and desist letter. What did you think when you actually got the letter. Ill confess i laughed out loud and i dont think anyone is surprised that donald is threatening to sue anyone. Reporter rubio with a more personal message smiling from ear to ear from nikki haleys endorsement. Tomorrow well be campaigning alongside an africanamerican republican senator. All three are doing that here in South Carolina. Reporter on the democratic side, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are battling it out in nevada ahead of that states caucuses this weekend, new polls show the race in nevada at a virtual dead heat. Nevada the Democratic Party is providing an unopened deck of cards at all 250 precinct locations. If there is a tie a single card, a ve