"new tonight" on eyewitness news... the 'search' -- for a 'shooter'. 'durham police' and the 'swat team' -- 'surround' a house. 'what' they found inside -- in a 'live' an update. plus...the latest debate over the ballot box comes to an end. the new early voting plans that will impact you at election time. and... "dialing-up danger". a 'warning' -- for 'smartphone owners'. 'what' you need to know. eyewitness news starts right now. developing right now -- a manhunt continues tonight for a gunman -- after three people were shot at two different locations in durham. good evening everyone. i'm tisha powell. and i'm steve daniels. the 'first shooting' happened on 'north maple street' at about 3-05 this afternoon. officers found a 'man and woman' -- who'd been shot. the 'second' shooting... on 'harvard avenue' -- less than 'ten minutes' later. dejuanhoggard is 'live' -- at 'd-p-d headquarters' - with the latest on the investigation. durham police believe the person they are looking for is responsible for both shootings. and tonight they need your help in finding the shooter. durham police staged themselves outside of an apartment on taylor street earlier today...in hopes of finding a gunman responsible for two shootings. "i walked up to my house and went in my backyard and peeked around and they had officers in the back with guns drawn." the first shooting happened shortly after 3:00pm in the 500 block maple street...where a man and a woman were both shot. they were taken to the hospital with non life- threatening wounds. less than 15 minutes later...another shooting. this one in the 2400 block of harvard avenue...with one man being shot and taken to the hospital. "anytime you have an individual that you think might be a hazard or public safety hazard to the community...you want to go in and try and deal with it as soon as possible and not the scene unfolding on taylor street as durham police and swat descended on an apartment complex where they believed the suspect was holed up. "information led us to this particular location and we had good information to believe that the suspect was either at the apartment on this particular street or fled the apartment." for over 4 hours...police focused their efforts on this particular location. around 8:15, swat officers made t into the complex, only to come up short. their suspect...not inside the apartment. still no description on the suspect, but if you know anything about either of the shootings this afternoon, you are being asked to contact durham pd or crimestoppers. live in durham, dejuan hoggard, abc11 eyewitness news. new tonight - center' -- 'confronting' the "head" of "homeland security". secretary "jeh - johnson".... appearing at 'duke university' tonight -- marking the 15th anniversary of 'nine-eleven'. "wildin - acosta"... 'directly questioned' johnson -- about the 'conditions' -- at the "stewart detention center" in georgia. he 'then' -- 'met privately' with johnson. federal agents took 'acosta' into custody last year -- for being in the country 'illegally'. he was released 'last month'... and has applied for 'asylum'. four cary high school students -- accused of committing a robbery in a fast- food restaurant parking lot. it happened in the burger king parking lot -- right across the street from cary high school. according to the 9-1-1 call -- they forced a fellow student to hand over his cell phone and cash! at last check, the teens were in the wake county jail under 80-thousand dollars bond each. they're due back in court next month. a 'kenly' police officer -- now 'charged' -- in a "deadly stun gun incident" -- is 'still' a cop. officer "jesse - santifort" -- is charged with "involuntary manslaughter" -- in connection with the death of "alex - thompson." in court today... a judge 'stripped' 'arrest power'... but 'allowed him' -- to 'remain' on the streets. he also 'refused' the 'd-a's request' -- to 'raise his bond' -- to 20- thousand dollars. the prosecutor says -- santifort told "two different stories" about the 'tasing' -- one time saying -- "thompson tried to run".... and another time saying "thompson lunged at him". she says -- 'two eyewitnesses' -- tell a 'different story'. new tonight - prosecutors dropping all charges against a north carolina man who spent 28 years in prison for murder. the d-a saying there's not enough evidence to try the case again. 43-year-old "johnny - small" a 1988 murder of a wilmington woman at a tropical fish store. small... who was just '15 years old' at the time... maintained he had never even visited the place. "new tonight" -- firefighters -- trying to 'figure out' -- 'what' sparked a fire -- that damaged a 'durham apartment'. it happened at the "foxfire apartments" this afternoon. the 'small fire' -- was quickly 'put out'... but there's 'smoke' damage in the apartment.... and damage in the 'kitchen' -- where they had to remove 'sheetrock' -- to 'get' to the fire. 'no one' was 'at home' -- when the fire started. another fire -- this one in fayetteville parked beside the grace and truth church was on fire. that fire spread to the church. firefighters quickly put the flames out -- but the church's roof was damaged where the bus was parked. no one was hurt -- and the church was not being used at the time. police fire and the 'bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives' are investigating. that's normal when a fire involves a place of worship. now to "vote 20- 16".... and a 'decision' tonight -- that'll 'impact' -- 'how' and 'when' -- you can 'cast a ballot' -- during "early voting". thursday, october 20th... and 'ends' november fifth. joel brown is 'live' at the "state board of elections" -- on harrington street -- downtown -- with more on 'what' the 'state board' decided. joel? after a federal court ruled state lawmakers intentionally discriminated against black voters-- with their 2013 election law-- and big changes would have to be made for this upcoming election... the state board-- spent all day, here-- sorting out, how many days we'd have to cast our ballots. it was standing room only inside the state board of elections... fallout from last month's federal appeals court ruling-- calling the state's 3 year old election law.. "the most restrictive voting law north carolina has seen since the era of jim crow." the judges struck down the voter i-d requirement... and forced the state to return to 17 days of early voting-- instead of the ten republicans wanted. - "this is all a do this is about motivating the democratic base because they have nothing to run on!" nc gop director dallas woodhouse-- defending against accusations republicans were using the law-- to discourage minorities from voting. inside the meeting-- the state elections board had to sign off on new proposals to for early voting dates, hours, and locations in 33 of the state's 100 counties. mark ezell, the lone democrat on wake county's elections board-- won his battle to overturn a republican plan open a single polling place for locations-- the state board agreed. - "we are the largest county in terms of the number of voters in the state and it's essential that we have as many opportunities for people to vote as possible." at raleigh's angus barn restaurant-- a rare bipartisan moment, this election season. democrats and republicans gathered for a political pig picking. we asked about woodhouse's emails to local elections boards-- pleading with members to not allow sunday voting-- used by many black churches as a souls to the polls event. majority of counties have never voted on sunday. we made it couple hundred years with nobody voting on sunday." - "when i heard what dallas had done, i thought it was absolutely atrocious! nobody should be trying to limit access to voting booths. - "but the courts have rules and so we'll have those 17 days, and we're looking forward to a strong campaign." while all the state county elections boards have republican majorities... the state board did give some wins to democrats. we talked about the expanded in wake county. also, 'sunday' voting will be restored in hoke, craven and richmond counties. small adjustments that could have a big impact on this presidential battleground state election. "hillary - clinton" back in north carolina and firing up the crowd at johnson c. smith university in charlotte. lot of ground. she talked about her plan to help bring down student debt.... something very popular with the mostly-college crowd. clinton offered withering reviews of her opponent, "donald - trump", on everything from his temperament to his praise just last night for russian president "vladimir - putin." and republican presidential nominee "donald - trump" is coming back to our state less than a week since he held a rally in greenville. this time .. he's on the western side of the state. trump will host a rally at asheville's u-s cellular center on monday at six. once we find out those details... we'll post them to abc-11-dot-com. just look under the politics section. we've been getting a lot of calls -- into the newsroom this evening -- about a "fireball" -- shooting across the sky. ...a lot of you -- posting about it on social media too. 'chris' is here in the "first alert storm center" -- to explain 'what happened'. chris? a meteor "fireball" was seen in the sky above the triangle at 6:00-6:05 pm edt this afternoon. what is a fireball? you get around the '40 - 440' work zone. breaking news one -- on i-40 westbound between the lake wheeler road and jones franklin street exits. the 'd-o-t' is in the process of shutting down the exit from i-40 westbound -- to gorman street. it will remain 'closed' all weekend. it's scheduled to 're-open' before monday morning's rush hour. you can look for updates on the traffic situation in the i-40 work zone tomorrow eyewitness news. a 'restaurant' -- that'll give 'homeless women' -- from 'wake county' -- a 'second chance' -- is about to 'open'. we first told you about "carrol's kitchen"... back in april. it's on the corner of 'martin' and 'wilmington streets' -- in 'downtown raleigh'. the 'restaurant's mission' -- is to 'hire' single women -- living in 'homeless shelters'... ...give them a place to 'live'... a 'job'... and "on the job" training -- so they can learn 'how' to run a restaurant. "carroll's kitchen"... is expected to 'open' -- in two weeks. the governor's mansion in downtown raleigh glowing orange "ann - mccrory" say they wants to use this month to raise awareness about the need to end hunger in our state. the governor has proclaimed september as hunger action month in north carolina. a 'deadly' -- 'school shooting' -- in 'west texas'. a '14-year-old' -- 'opening fire'. 'what' we've learned -- about the 'victim' and the 'shooter'. plus... a tale of survival. an amazing rescue from the earthquake zone in italy. it's the must-see video of the night. and.... smartphone warning. an s-u-v goes up in flames...while the phon know. but first... a live look outside of the raleigh adelle: at first, i was so happy to teach in north carolina. but we've fallen to 41st in teacher pay, 44th in per-student spending, and a lot of us even have to buy school supplies. governor mccrory talks about raising our pay, but he tried to cut education funding to its lowest budget share in over 30 years. like over two thousand other teachers, i'm having to move to another state z243bz zi0z y243by yi0y school. authorities say -- a 14-year-old 'shot and wounded' -- another student... and then killed 'herself'. 'no motive' has been released... for the shooting at 'alpine high school'. the sheriff says -- the family of the 'girl' who died -- 'moved' to the 'alpine area' about 'six months' ago. she was a 'freshman' at the school. the 'injured student' ran outside to get 'help'... and was taken to the hospital -- with 'non-life threatening injuries'. the shooting 'prompted' a lockdown -- at 'three other' public schools in alpine... which were 'later' lifted. a '52-year-old' turkish man visiting orlando on his honeymoon was shot and killed -- defended his wife during an armed robbery. deputies say "osman - darcan" and his wife were approached by an armed man as they got out of their car at the wyndham orlando resort around 1:40 this morning. the sheriff's office says there was a struggle and darcan was shot. he was pronounced dead at the scene. his wife was not injured. the shooter ran away from the scene. a 'scare' -- at the "cincinnati zoo". about '50 visitors' and '75' staff members -- were 'evacuated... after someone called-in a 'threat' to the zoo. provide 'details' - about what the caller 'said'. the 'zoo' has been the target of 'critics' -- on 'social media' -- after a 'gorilla' named "harambe".... was shot and killed -- by a 'special response team' in 'may' -- when a 3-year-old 'boy' -- fell into the gorilla's enclosure. just days after samsung recalled its galaxy note 7 smartphones, a florida man says he found out the hard way why the recall was issued in the first place. "nathan - dornacher" says his note 7 caught fire.... while it was charging in the center console of his jeep grand cherokee. he had exploded and engulfed the jeep in flames. samsung recalled the smartphones in 10 countries last week, after 35 instances of note 7's catching fire or exploding were confirmed. the f-a-a has even asked airline passengers not to turn or charge them during flights. talk about a "happy birthday"! a 'baby' -- 'born' mid-flight -- is getting "free travel for life" -- on "buraq air". the boy's mom -- was flying from 'tripoli' -- to the capital of "niger" the "bouncing baby boy" -- 'happily'.... but rather 'surprisingly' -- arrived into the world -- with the help of the 'cabin crew'. in recognition of their efforts.... the mother 'named him' -- after the plane's captain. the american flag, raised by firefighters at ground zero of the 9-11 attacks on the world trade center, is back home. it's now on display at the national september 11 memorial and museum in new york. the flag was missing for years but turned up in november 2014 when a man gave it to police in he told them it was given to him by a widow of a 9-11 victim. now to the big board and the must-see video of the night. we begin in the "earthquake zone" in italy -- with an 'incredible rescue'! italian firefighters pulling a cat form the rubble of a collapsed home -- two weeks after the magnitude six-point-one quake hit. the cat, called he was in good spirits, even attempting to scratch the hand of the firefighter who was trying to pull him out. pietro was dehydrated and had a fractured jaw... but he's expected to survive. police in 'florida' -- make "quite a catch". they 'wrangled' -- an 11-foot - 450- feet pound 'one- eyed'... 'snaggle- tooth alligator' -- that was 'lurking' -- near 'two' schools. the trapper says -- they've been "trying" to catch this gator -- for 'quite' some time. the trapper says -- it "lost its fear of hums being 'fed'. passengers traveling to seattle on the carnival legend... got an adventure they didn't expect. they were nearing the end of the seven-day alaskan cruise.... when the boat suddenly lists! a passenger captured video of water from the swimming pools forming a waterfall over the side of the ship....and his family struggling to keep their mostly sunny and hot weather will prevail into saturday, as pressure system remains in place across the region. it will feel like midsummer across the triangle as highs soar into the middle 90s into saturday and heat indicies run close to 100. a cold front will swing through the area on sunday and spark a shower or thunderstorm in the afternoon. this is our next and best chance of rainfall in the area. in addition to bringing rain, the front will also usher in cooler rocking" -- right outside the 'raleigh eyewitness newsroom' -- on 'fayetteville street'. thousands of festival." "hopscotch" has been a "pillar" -- of raleigh's 'music scene' for six years... featuring rock... hip hop... metal... folk and electronic artists. nearly 'half' the performers-- are from right here in north carolina. hopscotch 'runs' all weekend! burritos falling from the sky will soon be a reality. the delivery program preparing to for take-off- just ahead. plus -- the "presidential parasite". the 'new honor' -- for 'president obama'. 'why' one 'scientist' says -- a "tiny worm" -- em in-chief". i never shop without a list. and at publix what's on the list also happens to be what's on sale. stuff you actually want... on sale! isn't that something? that's how i save at publix. how 'bout you? publix. where shopping is a pleasure. some people might say i've sold out, but let's be honest. gold is good, but platinum... platinum's just better. but she's got a heart of... well, you know. ohhh... i still got the platinum touch. music!!! 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