>> i set a back up on a regular made it. >> yeah we made it here and it's 5:00 a.m. and hopefully you had a great weekend. changes are going. >> yes we ended up hitting 82 yesterday but today you may have seen the radar at the top of the show. we've got rain moving into the area so although we don't have much falling at the moment did moment it could be heavy at times this afternoon. that will hold us into the 70s with more clouds around. unfortunately we get an extra hour in the evening but we've got more warm days for the upcoming week. we'll talk about that in your first alert in a few. >> sounds good. let's look at top headlines. four presidential candidates will make appearances in charlotte ahead of the primary right here in north carolina. set to hold a rally at charlotte motor speedway at two. the event is free but you have to register. we posted a link at our website wbtv.com. >> and tomorrow donald trump will speak up in hickory. a rally is planned at 10:00 a.m. in monroe auditorium. the event will take the form of a town hall meeting and has limited seating and you must register online at the site. doors will open at 7:00 a.m. >> later in the afternoon democrat bernie sanders will be in charlotte a few hours ahead of hillary clinton. he'll be at pnc at 4:30 p.m. doors open at 1:30. registration isn't required but admission is first come first clinton will appear at 7:30 at grady cole theert. she'll hold a get out the vote event -- cole theater. >> democratic and republican presidential candidates have drawn a lot of attention so it should be no surprise that mecklenburg county saw more voters this past week than it has in previous voting periods. with more. >> usually line is not so long. >> i like not face the crowd so much. >> on saturday voters who usually vote early were met with a crowd. more than 55,000 citizens cast their ballots a record for the county. compared to 33,000 during the 2012 miami marries. it beats 2008 and 2004 -- primaries. many voters showed up. >> just to get it out of the way. the buzz surrounding some presidential candidates. >> trump is the biggest noise maker. >> we're going to support our presidential candidate clinton. >> some say they've created a divide between republican and democrat voters. >> it's a fracture of the two sides and they're not very supportive oh of the other side. >> this divide could mean a higher turn out tuesday's primary as well -- according from the board of elections votership has increased by 2,500. another possible explanation for increased voter activity there's divide between both the democrat and republican parties. >> i'm a republican but there are too many rhinos and i do not like our current senator who caves in. >> some people want to stick with obama's policies and some people want to be more radical. >> despite fractures within the parties voters are unifying and making sure they have their >> that was christian flores reporting. tuesday polls open at 6:30 a.m. and close at 7:30 p.m. you can count on wbtv to bring you information on air and online at wbtv.com. >> police investigating after they say shots were fired in a north charlotte neighborhood last night near poek and white road a group of a dozen men were playing poker when one person had a gun and took it out and fired shots -- police say he took off in the woods and nobody was injured and no word if a suspect is in custody. >> investigators are investigating after wells fargo and fifth third bank were held up just before 11 yesterday morning. the robberies are connected. now there's some surveillance photos we have of the suspect we received from deputies. there's the photo we got. are asked to call the sheriff's office. well fighting back against crime. it is bringing people together in one south carolina community. families in rockhill were taking a stand against gun violence. wbtv steve crumb on your side with more. we are marching because we care. >> chance and sing something people are fed up with recent shootings have left one person dead and several others wounded. >> it's time to do something. reverend was one of the organizers of because i care. rockhill's police department is among those answering the call. >> the community has pulled us together to get the community to come out and get people talking to each other bringing up awareness getting to know each other communicating with each other. have an evehicled fear and uneasy necessary -- invoke fear. >> it's scarey raising your kids. you want to make sure they don't end up in harm's way so you try to raise them up to know to stay off the streets and make sure they go to school and make something out of yourself. there's much more to life other than out here fighting and drama. >> that's the message reverend is hoping to get out. >> we've got a lot of different organizations bringing out information. so what we're going to do is try to network and join hands together. >> and that was steve crump reporting. now a number of mentoring organizations were on hand for yesterday's march. >> local teamsters in our area joining forces to save their retirement fund and they're asking for one north carolina congressman. they showed up with signs at congressman patrick mchenry. many are retirees of trucking companies throughout the area. allowed the operator of their pension the central states pension fund to slash benefits between 40 and 60 percent. >> we played by the rules. we paid into the pension fund with the idea that when we retired we would be able to have a comfortable lifestyle because we felt like we earned it. >> the demonstrators plan to take their protest to washington next month. >> here we are it is sunday morning. hope you had a great weekend so far. it is still early here. it's 508. though of course you know you're fighting the same battle as we are. it feels earlier than that. you can see sunset or sunrise. >> that's a problem you have you say the wrong one all the time. we'll try to diagnose that. >> i think it's just called stupid. >> it will be around 7:30 this morning. >> all right. did you say sunset when that is going to be? >> also around 7:30 ish give or take. we're coming up on the eke quan falks. >> -- eke kwa knocks. a week from today is springng eke kwa knocks one week from today so getting close. >> exactly saint patrick day is thursday. >> yes. what else? what else do we have? >> we have easter. >> primary tuesday. >> yeah, man. >> busy week. >> busy month actually but yeah so yesterday was a nice start to the weekend. today we have rain moving in. so a little bit of a damper close to the weekend as far as that is concerned so maybe if you want to get spring cleaning done inside this may be a better day to kind of stay in as opposed to getting outdoors but as far as what's falling out there right now we've got the rain off to our southwest so nothing really falling across at least not the charlotte metro but even most of the viewing area rain free with the exception of mountains and foothills since this is the leading edged of that batch of the southwest. so as we head through the mid-morning the coverage of the showers will be increasing for us. even if you are dry right now that will change as we do go forward in time here. so we'll try and zoom in on the showers if i can here. it looks like my button is sticking and not quite working the way i want it to. perhaps we'll come back to that later but as far as temperatures are concerned we'll be in 60s. upper 60s by noon and low 70s by 4:00 o'clock. so the wet weather and more cloud cover is going impact temperatures keeping them about 10 degrees cooler than yesterday's high. so we'll talk about this unde -- unsettled weather will stick around in the week. we have your forecast in a few. >> thanks, lyndsay and still to come on wbtv news sunday morning an unselfish act saves the life of two people after a health scare. how they're turning what they call a blessing into a way 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teaming up with man whose life was saved -- one year later. they came to hear the story of time jones and don herbert. you may remember jones donated his kidney to herbert who was in stage five kidney failure after the two met during a yard sale. during the surgery doctors found an aneurysm near jones' did knee and ended up saving two lives -- kidney. now the two help -- plan to help another with the money for the benefit. >> it was a trying year. don and i went through complications and god brought us with our story over the year and it's touched a lot of hearts and lives and we're just glad he brought us through it. and we want to see the same results for somebody else. >> we preached what you-all have done helping us -- we appreciate what you-all have done that somebody that you don't know can still want to give back to somebody else. that's what we did tonight try to give back and help another person that's in need. >> the help of life benefit will be held every year to help families dealing with health issues. >> a local financial services makes donation to homeless and readdiction organization based in charlotte. -- they gave away 20 new bikes and 80 interns joined to participate in the outreach event. certainly great cause as well. and girls club during the dance event. last year they raced lee $100,000 -- raised $300,000. they wrere fund raising and they scored perfectly on dances. during this program the youth honoree shared history of how the organization helped him after coming from an abusive home. organization since say stories like this keep them going. >> it makes me feel ill late -- elated. i'm happy for every kid that walks through our doors. they mean the world to me. when they walk through i'm sure we make sure we're behind them and they go college and they'll get a career or they'll go to the military. that's all we want and we want to make sure every bond did supports us. 1.6 million dollars. just i did credible there. >> it looks like fun. >> i hope you're having a great start to sunday morning. hope you had a great weekend. yesterday it felt like summer actually. >> it was humid. not only is it warm but that humidity was up so definitely late spring early summer. but today it's not going to be as hot. >> which i guess the trade off is the rain that you mentioned. >> yeah so hopefully you're outdoors and today may be doing spring cleaning or what have you. we're talking about sunrise or sunset time. here's how that change today with the time change that we had this morning so sunrise will be at 736 to be specific 7:30 down sundown for later on today for the second half of the weekend -- temperatures will be in the 60s. we're right at 63 in the charlotte area right now. also the same for you in gastonia and rockhill. sixty in the area. power doppler radar shows showers over the area. so even in our immediate viewing area we're not picking up much rain but we do have some rain starting to move out towards greenville, south carolina and then back beyond that off to the southwest of where this rain is coming from. it does extend back through central and northeastern parts of alabama. this is all going to be moving in as we head through the morning hours. future cast shows the peak of the activity will be around the mid-morning so if we put this in motion you can see how this moves in from the southwest this is 11:00 o'clock in the morning so there could be rumbles of thunder that's not going to become completely out of the question by any means. through the middle part of the day and once that moves out by this afternoon we just kind government splotchy showers or areas of light rain left in the wake of that to take us through the afternoon and evening. this is 4:00 before we have a lull in the activity overnight and then as we head into monday we may not be completely done. it doesn't look like it will be quite as wet as today but there could still be a hit or miss shower or storm to start out the new school and workweek into tomorrow. so that will be the case as well. as far as amounts are concerned we're not looking for a whole lot here. a couple tenths maybe a quarter inch if we get stuck under a heavier down pour but not a massive washout as far as accumulated rainfalls are expected. temperatures will be in the 60s and 70s in the area with a few rumbles of thunder possible within those showers. seventy-two in charlotte. across the south carolina upstate. you'll probably have mid-70s for chester and lows falling down in the 50s. temps tomorrow in the 70s but then as we do head through the mid of next week we're talking a couple days close to 80 once again by next tuesday and wednesday so we're keeping things well above average over the next seven days. brody back to you. >> still to come on wbtv news not all speech is welcome on facebook. new information on how many users violate the cites's order napses and rules and regulations on a daily basis. welcome back mack users we 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(elephant sound) (donkey sound) when it comes to social security, we need more than lip service. our next president needs a real plan to hey candidates. enough talk. all right i hope you're having a great morning. >> it occurred to me you didn't introduce ourselves -- we didn't introduce ourselves. >> you said your name but then we got distracted and talked about daylight savings time. >> here we are. i tell you i could not fall asleep last night. >> me either. >> i was paranoid about over us we hope you got sleep last night. >> me too. maybe you have not slept. either way we're glad you're joining us. hopefully we can provide you entertainment and relevant news and weather. >> we have a great guests coming in to talk about spring time tips for your diet. >> and we've got spring showers on the way too so even though yesterday was a beautiful day it was warm. it was sunny for the middle part of the afternoon. it was humid but it was warm so that was nice. but today we have changes more cloud cover and rain moving into the southwest. that will keep temps 10 degrees cooler than yesterday's high. so not the best day to get outside today. they'll be dry breaks. we'll let you know when to expect the heaviest rain and dry breaks coming up in a few. >> sounds good. let's get to top headlines here. continuing coverage of 2020 campaign. we're days away from tuesday's is being overshadowed by donald trump's increasingly contentious and violent protests. >> police used pepper spray on protesters. earlier secret service formed a circle around the presidential candidate as man tried to rush the stage in ohio. trump was forced to cancel an event friday as fights broke out between his supporters and protesters in chicago. chaos there spilled into the streets. police made several arrests including c.b.s. journalists. >> there have been coordinated protests at past rallies but nothing as massive as what i saw last night. >> the republican front runner declined to take responsibility. >> they want me to tell my people please be nice. my people are nice. of democratic candidate bernie sanders for in citying gate thing violence. violence. >> what our supporters are doing is responding to a candidate who has in -- in fact in many ways encouraged violence. >> trump's g.o.p. rivals criticize the protesters and faulted the billionaire. >> i still at this moment continue to support the republican nominee but it's getting harder every day. >> responsibility begins and ends at the top. >> trump has rallies in three states scheduled for sunday. >> all right let's take a look at how presidential candidates did in the latest contests. rubio has won the caucuses in washington, d.c. rubio picked up 10 delegates with his caucus win. ted cruz won most in the wyoming. delegates. rubio and trump they won one appease. >> hillary clinton is picking up superdelegates after winning the northern arena caucuses -- all five of the u.s. territory superdelegates are supporting clinton. they are party officials who can back any candidate that they wish. we're hearing from clinton this morning on a different matter. she says she wants stricter rules on auto imports than obama negotiated. under the deal vehicles could be imported tax-free into the u.s. even if most of the parts were made in countries not the trade alliance including china. now clinton commend in ohio with senator brown who poses the treaty provision. >> new this morning authorities in florida say six people including four children are shooting at a gun range in florida. a 21-year-old accidentally fired an antique shotgun. the bullet hit the concrete ground ricocheted and hit the victims. four of the victims injured were children ages eight, 10, 14 and 15. >> this was an accident but always point a weapon in a safe direction and this incidence it was foiptd the ground. we had concrete that caused ricochet -- but weapons are something we need to be reresponsible with and treat with utmost respect. >> all the victims were taken to hospital for non-life threatening injuries. >> the manhunt for two convicts ended with the fugitives sure runned -- sure renting without a fight. uniformed officers were waiting for tactical units when the suspect decided to end the standoff and exited the building. a 26-year-old man accused of crashing into two iditarod mush sures -- was coming home from drinking and one dog was killed. the suspect is being held on two counts of assault reckless assault and endangerment. >> the world doping is looking into systematic doping in more sports in russia and elsewhere. >> johnathan with more. >> a speed skater weightlifter and volleyball player all russian are the latest to test positive for mall done yum -- maria sharapova admitted to using it. >> i made a huge mistake and i have let my fans down. >> in facebook posting friday she said she didn't know the promised to fight her suspension. >> mall done yum is a heart medication available over-the-counter in eastern europe -- that's known for boosting endurance by increasing blood flow. russian officials were baffled when it was banned on january 1st. >> our main goal is to express disagreement with the including of this drug on the list said this person with russia's federal sports agency. nine nine athletes have failed the drug test so far -- this latest scandal could not come at a worse time for russian sports in november russia was suspend interested 2016 rio summer olympics after being accused of running a state sponsored doping program. on friday the international association met to consider reinstate thing team. president. >> -- while pro grass has been need to undertake further significant work to satisfy the reinstate meant conditions so sure shall should not be reinstated at this stage. >> -- russia. >> sharapova said she took this medication for 10 years and she'll contest it with the international tennis foundation and she has been supported by sar run that williams. >> the world anti doping agency is open for more investigations -- but they would require strong evidence and extra funding. we have video showing a man urinating on a kellie logs surveyor belt and it was posted and filmed in the memphis factory in 2014 -- kellogg found out about the video yesterday. the investigation shows the products that could have been rice crispy cereal and puff cakes. since that was shot in 2014 many of those things on the shelf have expired. rain and snow are back in northern california after a lull. forecasters expect up to four feet of snow in higher sierra nevada and up to 18 inches in southlake that how. >> another storm is forecast -- lake tahoe. more weather to talk about. some good samaritans filling in as rescue teams in a flood stricken town in louisiana got together to form a citizens rescue unit and then they went home to home pulling out stranded residents and farm animals. louisiana governor edwards surveyed the damage. many areas along the gulf coast inundated after days of heavy rain. storms killed three people in louisiana one person in texas situation dealing with a lot of rain. i did know you said we have rain moving in today. sit all connected to what they had. >> a little bit not nearly as bad. >> that's good. we won't have it nearly as long or heavy as it fell along the western gulf. at least it moves out of that area because yeah all week it's been really tough out there. yeah we showed you that radar at the top of the show. here's another look at it over the past three hours with that rain moving in from the southwest so we've got pretty big batches moving out of tennessee and georgia right now into western parts of south carolina. that's moving from southwest to northeast. so that will be filling in through the mid-morning hours. as far as the early morning it's not overly wet. there are tiny showers that we've got out there at the moment. if we zoom in you can see some of them there. it's in the foothills where we've got them. we'll bring up tools to zoom in on some of these showers for you so if you're parts of these southern counties a couple tiny showers. went over lincoln on the and to the south of gastonia -- along 321. we've got tiny showers. aside from that everything kind of being pretty tame. these that were over wilkesboro area continuing to move off to the north and east. our coverage is going to increase through each time period here by the time we head through the afternoon and early part of this evening. rain coverage will be on the increase with temperatures in the 70s which is about the warmest that we'll get to today. we'll talk about is -- if this is going to set us up for a cooler wetter week. we have your forecast in a few. >> thanks, lyndsay. >> still to come sunday morning u.n.c. celebrating it's victory against virginia. how about that. pretty good game there. we have highlights and top scores from the big night in the nation's capital. stick around. you are my school reunion's coming 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their last 15 games during their recent play off push -- yeah that's what they need. next up they're going to play the mavericks at 7:00 p.m. and that is at home. how about this? seventh ranked north carolina swept the regular season and the var risen center -- a.c.c. the tarheels were in the a.c.c. for the fifth time in the past six years. finally they came way with their first tournament title. >> joel berry led with 19. marcus page 13 points. really good defense. davidson taking on v.c.u. yesterday it was in the atlantic 10 semifinals. davidson 38 to 25 at the half. sullivan scored 15 points for sixth seeded davidson. the wild cats lost three times this season at v.c.u. >> in the ncaa division regional tournament queens defeated columbus dayton. they're going to add vans to the second round. that will take place today -- advance. getting into march madness here and it's building. >> we forgot to mention that. how could we forget? >> daylight-saving time primary in north carolina st. patrick's day easter spring and march madness. i mean it is a lot. it's almost too much. >> holy cow what an exciting time to be alive. >> whose your favorite basketball team because you went to penn state. >> i did. >> where do your loyalties lie? >> i always liked kansas and they've always been good. >> yeah. >> they've always had a good basketball l team. >> i -- basketball team. >> i think there's more fans that will side with me but i was a u.n.c. fan because of michael jordan. he went to u.n.c. i loved him. >> i think you're good. >> sorry duke nothing against nothing against duke at all. i don't have that passion like rivalry so i don't hate duke. >> i know more people that went to u.n.c.. >> that's a benefit of being outside the state -- you can like others. >> i don't think that's allowed to like both. >> maybe not. i'm trying play it real. >> do -- we don't want hate mail. no hate mail. it's too early. it's five 49 but it's actually like 449 -- so daylight savings time. let's talk weather. >> i'm glad you're watching. lyndsay you have some bad news for our weather sort solve -- sort of. >> i don't like to say good or bad because some people love the rain. we do have rain on our way sunday. there's a live look from our h.d. tower cam 63 right now. it's on the humid side you probably felt high humidity and temperatures in the low 80s. dew points are in the 50s and humid did i think is going to lead to showers out here as we head through the later morning hours -- humidity. not a whole lot being picked up this morning but it just lurking off to the southwest so that rain is going to fill in through the mid-morning hours as we put future cast in motion. so through 12 noon we do have heavier returns showing up on future radar there could be rumbles of thunder. i don't think there's going to be a ton of thunder and lightning but don't be surprised if you hear rumbles of thunder with pockets of rain in the afternoon. by late afternoon evening it looks like the heavy patch has moved off. we have left over lighter showers and lighter periods or pockets of rain that will continue to move late afternoon early evening. then after a brief lull one final wave of showers and storms monday. we'll stay unsettled over the next two days. again we really have been fairly the past week or so. so these spring showers again maybe some of you if you are starting to maybe think about getting garden planted or spring flowers maybe again looking forward to some of that rain. so low 60s in the mountains for highs this afternoon into the foothills upper 60s to 70 with a rumble of thunder possible. we'll be in the lower 70s in charlotte so 10 degrees cooler than yesterday's high which ended up being around 82. so today will be 72. south carolina upstate though some of you will get into the mid-70s for another day with lows tonight falling into the mid-50s so a little cooler tonight. especially north of the city down into the low 50s morganton back towards noon. back to 70 monday and tuesday wednesday we're back toward 80 mainly dry. we're keeping things warm for the next week. we'll stay in the 70s through another front coming in during friday and saturday. so along with that temperatures return to the mid-60s as we prepare to head to next weekend. >> brody back over to you. >> still much more to come in the 6:00 o'clock however. we have a food service company live in studio. a chef will share her recipe for i'm excited to now friendship and sack krif identifies this is a pretty neat story -- sack kra identifies. >> on the surface this looks like an ordinary middle school baseball game lincoln versus mountain charter but a key player is missing. c.j. passed away after an accidental death. he would have played for lincoln charter but it's what his friends did at mountain island that makes this story special. >> the reason why i wanted to have the fund-raiser is because i know his family isn't that fortunate as i am and i felt like they needed help. played little league baseball with c.j. so they knew they had to do something. one saturday they took donations at local businesses collected $3,000 to hep c j's family give him a proper burial. >> -- a lot of them gave up a lot of special events on saturday. i know one had the opportunity to bowl with steve smith and passed that up to help his teammate. >> c.j. always had a big smile on his face and loved his friends and always had their back. >> he didn't always play if he was on the bench he was supporting his team and i felt like that's what we needed to do for him. >> all season long the team will wear c.j.'s initials on the back of their batting helmets always remembering their friend. >> one, two, (3)(c) j. >> i guess that's how much of an >> back to the baseball game where c.j.'s father charlie got to throw out the first pitch and he fired a strike. and then thanked each and every young man for keeping his son's memory alive. >> he is smiling down on me right now and he'll always be my friend no matter if he's not on here with me or out there. he'll always be my friend. >> in mount holly. just a great story and good for those young men going out and helping that family. >> still to come at the top of the hour the latest in campaign 2016 as four presidential candidates plan to make stops in charlotte today and tomorrow where you can go to hear more about issues what each will be focusing in on. you're waking up with hey, what are you doing? getting the coats. for a half hour? bob just got time warner cable. he's getting more. more what? more than 30,000 movies and shows on demand, most for free. look, he's dvr-ing like 6 shows at once. let's go. ah, this grass is so much greener than on our tv. why are your shoes off? because i'm on their bed. i don't want to be rude. discover how much more is included. are those meatballs still circulating? switch to time warner cable today and ask how you can get a now at 6:00 o'clock campaign stops in charlotte 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