We will have different little pieces of energy like this, disturbances rolling through on and off today as we widen the view out. See more of this across the mountainand across tennessee and kentucky. See more of it today. None will be heavy, every once in a while or sprinkle or flurrys possible. 36 durham and wake forest. 38 holly springs. Above freezing, everywhere except for south hill at 32. Temperatures dropping a couple of degrees before we get to sunrise. 37 rocky mount and goldsboro. Cloudy skies, 32, 39 lunchtime, high of 45, a lot more cloudy for today. Sprinkle or flurrys possible. Colder temperatures than yesterday. Tomorrow colder yet, we will talk about that in a minute. A break in a raleigh murder case. Police arrested a man in the killing of a taxi driver. We reported this yesterday morning about the initial morning at the wake county detention center. We understand this investigation is not yet over. Reporter thats right. 25 year old major earl edwards was finger print
Moved out of the area. Durham. 38 wake forest. 42 holly springs. We wont be cold enough for this to be frozen. Conditions. 37 roxboro. 41 rocky mount. 42 fayetteville. Its cool t. Expect upper 30s this morning, upper 40s lunchtime. Cooler than yesterday. High. 52 this afternoon. Lots of sunshine, still. The sentencing hearing begins today for travion smith. Jury found him guilty of murdering Melissa Huggins jones in her North Raleigh apartment. Tara lynn is live. Smiths life is on the line. Reporter it took the jury one hour of deliberating before they found him guilty. His lawyers will try to argue to save his life as they enter the sentencing phase of this trial today. Smith is accused and now old mother of two, Melissa Huggins joans in 2013. The defense tried to convince jurors, another man, Ronald Anthony was the ring leader. He pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty. It wasnt enough to convince the jury that smith was also responsible for beating the mother to death. Family cri
Victims daughter. Reporter she was the only witness for the prosecution,ing the first witness to take the stand, she did so outside the presence of our cameras due to a judges order. 10yearold hannah jones found her mother dead the morning after the murder. The same jury who convicted smith of murder will decide if he lives or dies. Melissa Huggins Jones was found stabbed to death by her then 8 yearold daughter hannah jones. The child took the stand as her d ngof arnnlis ap aran sh. H s. Ng sh he udmandg rs w a ol teda. D e l daigiores ne ry fayet is t thrordemvi a reew s. Meerca the laser during preparations for touchdown in mexico city. No one was hurt. Many of you have plans to umre n ncocoaicoidsafee di mmdere r orrid emur, ra ch tas kasqecthe r stmt g r pe an duthuay as stabig. Gew,t. Habrd frks enere on stocks close hider led by gains in energy companies, a rise in the price of crude oil, dow up 257 points, nasdaq 98. Sp up 31. The show crime watch daily, has a voice mail , the h
You wont need it at all. Upper 20s and low 30s. A touch colder than the same time yesterday. By the afternoon, seasonably cool. The big warm up they were talking about is going to be coming through the course of the weekend. Hitting the details coming up in the sevenday forecast in 15 minutes. First a look at today, now, we got upper 20s to low 30s. 27 hen berson, 25 lewisburg. Rocky mount 27. Temperatures to the south. Qetville. We didnt have much in the way of cloud cover, a little bit of upper level moisture in from the northwesting see a few of the high clouds to the west. Few of those mibsed in with with sunshine. 8 00, 29 degrees. Lunchtime, sunny, 45, through and a few streaky clouds at times. 3 00 or 4 00, high 51 degrees. Most of us climbing in to the 60s for the weekend. Bracing for voter confusion, North Carolina lawmakers will continue discussions today about the possibility of two congressional elections. Mikaya thurmond joins us now with more on what it could mean for can
Creek drive around 1 30 in the morning. Dominguez who worked as a taxi cab driver had been responding to a call for service. Last night his friends and coworkers still reeling from their grief told us dominguez was someone who was always there for his friends. Police have said this could involve several people, so there could be more arrests. As for edwards, he is being held without bond and his First Court Appearance is later this a afternoon. A man is heading to court in nash county after deputies charged him with breaking into a womans home and raping her. The suspect is 31yearold omar monitor montoya. It happened saturday night. Deputies say there is no relationship between the accuser and the victim. Five people are now missing for the last month. Officials are not saying whether fields body has been found. Chaliceshannon collier is charged with accessory after the fact. An autopsy shows that a man killed by a Harnett County deputy had cocaine and alcohol in his system. A deputy s