He was just a kind, loving, respectful kid. Late this afternoon, the defense said that it finished presenting its witnesses and now the state tomorrow will get a chance to present rebuttal witnesses. Itll be a half day session. Court will end at about foon time tomorrow. And then on monday, the judge says theyll have closing arguments and after that, the case will go to the jury for them to decide death or not. Wncn news now. Just a reminder, there are two other people involved in this case. Ronald took a plea deal and is serving a life sentence for the murder. Sara redden testified during smiths trial and is still being held in jail. Shes believed to be the get away driver and is charged with firstdegree murder but has not gone on trial yet. Weve learned new informs tonight from search warrants in the murder of a wake forest murder. Documents show us he asked for number as he strangled her to death in october. Search warrants show he confessed to police that he used a rock to shatter
By lunchtime rain, 54 and through the afternoon 52 and seeing rain south and east. Once it moves out it will be dry. Now traffic with amber rupinta. Amber good thursday morning and we are dealing with rain showers and we have you covered on the roads with weather and traffic. We will show you how it looks. We have just a couple of issues mainly dealing with some of the rain from yesterday. This sis raeford road and skibo. Cumberland county, fort bragg, you will need the umbrella. Pretty much a lot of folks waking up to rain. Breaking news one vehicle giving us some live pictures as they move along via broadband in cary and a little damp there. On the mapping system a lot of green the precipitation falling around goldsboro there and clinton, fayetteville. Orange you see is some fog you within lane is blocked due do an accident on i95. Drive times good and everything on time and we are accident free there. Barbara the triangle appears to have dodged any serious damage from the storms. Ot
John breaking news a big power outage in raleigh. Imagine road that is lights out for the morning commute. Barbara business parking lot taped off. Employees told steer clear. Fter Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders first oneonone debit. Good morning, carolina, welcome on friday february 5. 6 0 6 01. Barbara it is time for weather and traffic together. Meteorologist Don Schwenneker in the first alert storm center. Don good morning to you. Thanks for starting with us. We start with a look at radar and we are seeing a little bit of late snow shower activity in parts of lee county, harnett and moore counties that is dying out. Alamance county a little bit of heavier pocket from Burlington South but that is dying out. Temperatures running in the 30s this morning. Down to 33 roxboro, 37 chapel hill. 36 Roanoke Rapids and 41 smithfield. 40 fayetteville. Looking at the day ahead. 37 with mixed precipitation. By lunchtime partly sunny, 44. Mostly sunny, 48 by this afternoon. A lot of sunshine h
Temperatures in the mid to upper 50s. Cooler today. Thunderstorms. We will talk about that in the complete forecast in a bit. Barbara social media is buzzing about the Iowa Caucuses this morning after a big upset and surprise tie. The first votes are cast in the race and there are big surprises. John the biggest shock was donald trump not the winner. Republican president ial candidate ted cruz outperformed trump who finished second followed closely by marco rubio. Hillary or bernie or winner on the sent a very profound message to the political barely registering among democrats. On the republicans, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee deciding to end his president ial bid. Barbara several people are being questioned after five vehicles were damaged by bricks thrown off an overpass in cumberland county. One car and four tractortrailers were damaged by bricks on to i95 off the baggett road overpass. Of a tractortrailer. Another brick smashed the sunroof of a car. This is not the first
Road is one of the citys higher priorities. How to pay for it, most of that money would come from future transportation bonds. Im steve, wncn news now. Dramatic testimony today in the murder trial of a north hills mother. 23yearold Travion Smith is charged with killing Melissa Huggins jones in 2014. Reporter there were plenty of tears shed today on the witness stand as people remembered the woman who died and the day her young daughter found her body. A devoted mother who dearly loved her family and god. God. Especially her children. The church doors were open. She did everything she could to have her children in church. Reporter thats how Melissa Huggins jones mother described her daughter in court three years after she was killed in her apartment. Blood was everywhere. A construction worker at the apartment complex testified about the morning in may of 2013 when her eightyearold daughter found her mom lying blood covered in bed and came out to ask him for help. He buried his head in