This is i77 at west boulevard, light traffic through center city and looking at drive times, rock hill in uptown, 21 minutes, 67 miles an hour, that is as good as it gets out of rock hill, concord to center city, 18 and 67, lake norman southbound, 15 minutes, 65milesperhour. Christine, over to you. Christine a big night in campaign 2016 as North Carolina was one of five state where voters headed to the polls for super tuesday 3. John a Record Number of voters turned out statewide. 2. 3 Million People casting ballots. That is a 35 turnout. Similar to what we saw in 2012 in the previous president ial primary. Christine lets start with the president ial race, donald trump beating ted cruz in North Carolina. Marco rubio and john kasich as well, coming in third and fourth respectively in the gop primary. Now, trump won more than 40 of behind at 37 . John Hillary Clinton came out with the win against bernie sanders. She had 55 of the vote to just over 40 for sanders. Christine Hillary Clinto
Cast across the state. Lets get to the results. The big races everyone was watching the president ial primaries on the republican side, donald trump got the win with more than 40 of the vote. Senator ted cruz was 40,000 votes behind at 37 followed by Ohio Governor john kasich and senator marco rubio. In the democratic race, Hillary Clinton wins with 55 of the vote compared to Bernie Sanders and his 41 . Christine five states held primary elections. Hillary clinton taking the wins in florida, ohio, and illinois. Trump won the state of florida as well and the state of illinois. Governor john kasich took the other big prize for republicans, all 66 delegates in his home state of ohio. Now this morning, marco rubio has decided to drop out of the race after losing his home state of florida. John the results in missouri greasy get overlets get over to Kristen Miranda watching the results. Kristen we have to talk about missouri and what is next for the candidates. On apple tv, been watching th
Afternoon 78 degrees under mostly sunny skies. Gorgeous day shaping up today. We will see the temperatures jump even warmer tomorrow. We will talk about that and we have cooler air for the first day of spring in the sevenday forecast but now weather and traffic with amber. Amber good tuesday morning. If you are heading to the polls watch for the volume around the sites. At the open 6 30 until 7 30 tonight. Now it sis pretty light volume with police activity, maybe a disabled vehicle 40 westbound at cary towne boulevard. Looks like a tow truck just arrived. No delay there. A little glistening on the live cameras. This is skibo and raeford in fayetteville a aive camera no problems into fragment Cumberland County off to a nice start. We have some storms that passed through so you may have wet roads. As far as shower activity we are we were seeing showers around 95 and Roanoke Rapids and a little patchy fog in raleigh. Barbara thanksgiving you. John North Carolina one of five crucial state
Inside to cast their vote. You would have to sign an affidavit. Parking at the top of the hill, some voters were upset they did not see the signs that there is parking up here at the door. Elected officials here at this location say no glitches so far this morning. Abc 11 Eyewitness News. John with record early voting, some seeing lower than normal voter turnout so far today. Gloria rodriguez continues our coverage of the polling site in Southeast Raleigh. Have you heard of any problems there . Gloria everything seems to move smoothly. I did hear there was a low voter turnout. It is definitely picking up now. Voters started casting their ballots as soon as the polls opened at 6 30 this morning, many hoping to be the afternoon crowd. I thought it was better to get out early and do it now. Politicians make decisions about what goes on in our everyday lives. A volunteer at the polling site in raleigh tells me it is slower than usual on this election day and early voting could have somethi
Trump and clinton supporters, and the national picture. Steve donald trump coming out on top here in North Carolina, with 80 supporting. Trump leading ted cruz. Tisha Hillary Clinton winning big with democrats in our state. She beat vermont senator bernie sanders, 55 to 41 . Steve and across North Carolina, Trump Supporters of his win over ted cruz. Tisha were live in fayetteville with the Trump Supporters. Greg a lot of the big celebrations here in fayetteville tonight. Here at the Trump Campaign headquarters in downtown fayetteville, the door is locked, the lights are out, and they called it an early night. But it was still a very busy day here for Campaign Workers and volunteers. And there was a stream of volunteers coming in, picking up templates to hand to voters. They expected him to win in North Carolina, and called his victory a message. I think a lot of people, from the farmers and hillbillies, two soldiers and families, it is good to see something come through. Greg volunteer