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
But got nowhere. Smith says it weighed on him. I didnt go to sleep for two whole days. I couldnt eat nothing, really. Reporter the jury also got a chance to see photographs of the victims body and physical evidence from the crime scene. Much of it bloodstained. This prompted an emotional reaction from the audience and several jurors who openly shed tears. Both of smiths codefendants cooperated with the state, sarah redden testified against him and Ronald Anthony is on the potential witness list. No word on whether or not he will take the stand. We have new information in the murder of a durham toddler, autopsy report shows three year old las teres with bound by the wrists when she was drowned a the father is charged with her murder. He is accused of trying to drown his other two children but they survived. A man accused of killing a raleigh taxi driver made his first court appearance. Reporter there were tears in the courtroom, not only from the family members and friends, of the victi
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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