damaging wind we could see. that is my biggest threat. hail? this is not really a hail maker and tornadoes are also at a moderate level so that is something we will also be watching. tonight cool showers and hanging in the 40s. tomorrow morning the temperatures go up. showers likely, but not severe for the morning commute with temperatures at 50 degrees and fog. a busy weather day tomorrow. i will take you through the day hour-by-hour and show you what the radar will look like in a few minutes. >> remember, you can keep up with the weather alerts with the wncn now and mobile weather apps. you can download those now in your app store. this is i-440 and six forks road. looks like traffic there is moving just fine. however, check out this video. a wake county school bus flipped over when the driver no students were on the bug, fortunately when it flipped south of i-540. the driver is charged with failing to maintain lane control. she was not injured. decisions made in secret is what the naacp said led to the unc board of governors firing tom ross and hiring the official margaret spellings. now beau minnick has been digging into the decision- making process. what did you learn? >> the nape is digging into this process to get the answers. they say spelling is not right for the job and says the board needs to change its ways. >> i am asking everyone here to fight the hiring of this congresswoman. >> reporter: this is a fight the naacp is taking directly to the headquarters of the unc system. a lawyer of the naacp delivered a public records request to the unc general administration looking for details with the ways with tom ross and hiring margaret spellings. >> margaret spellings talks about students as customers. >> reporter: there have been demonstrations at recent board of governors' meetings. spellings, however; spoke up, speaking of the demonstrations against her hiring. intensity and reaction. >> reporter: those as opposed to the hiring said it was too political, criticizing her record, including overseeing the launch of "no child left behind" act and a board that collects student lone debt. a u.s. education secretary under president george w. bush. >> the unc boards has not been held accountable. >> reporter: but unc says the presidential search process adhered to board policy and state law, but the naacp says they want the information about what went into the decision to change the leader of the unc system. truth is. >> one of the things that spellings said a little more than a week ago is she welcomes to hear the word from people against her hiring. sharon? a debate you are the now is raging across the country over your smartphone security. apple says it could be under attack if the government gets its way, while federal agents argue they want a one time weapon in the fight against terror. a company fights a judge's order to unlock the data of work-issued cell phone of syed farook. a.m. argued the -- apple argues it is asking them to create a blueprint that puts every iphone user at risk. but bill gates of microsoft says it is not an unreasonable request. >> i think that people want the behalf, that they feel like the safeguards are there. >> a new poll shows that 51% of those asked says apple should help the fbi unlock the phone. 38% side with apple and some of them now are gathering at the southpoint mall in durham. that is where we are, digging into the legality of this whole thing. >> reporter: yes. these rallies are taking place across the country. we called apple and asked if we can have permission to go into the store and cover it because it is a private property, but they said we can cover it from outside the store area. but then the mall said no, we can't, unless we are inside the store, so that is why we are outside of the mall completely here. it could affect billions of phones around the world, change the way privacy is the phone in question, one of the three that belonged to the terrorist was found a black lexus the government obtained a search warrant for. the fbi wanted the password reset and that is when the phone locked out. now the government wants apple to create a way to get in there using a pathway which would provide automatic updates. many fear if that happens it will become a security threat and that is what the protests are all about, but a professor at campbell law school in raleigh who specialized in tech and legal issues says it is really a much broader issue in this case. >> the question comes down to who will decide what remains private and what becomes public? should it be a magistrate sitting in california or do we want to have a full national discussion that may come through the court system, ultimately because of congress. >> reporter: and the professor informed and should be detailed and take some time. he says we should not rush into it and says there is apparently no time critical information on the phone like a location of a bomb or something like that, he says, to discussion should focus on the issues which he says are critical to our privacy here in this country. i am steve fraser, wncn news now. raleigh police are not happy when it comes to beyonce. tonight their union is considering whether they will even provide security for the up coming concert here because of national uproar over whether the star's super bowl performance is anti-police. folks at nc state tell us this would be the first time they would not have help from local off-duty police officers. we will look at what other options carter-finley has for security if the police union says no. and governor mccrory is crying foul on a charlotte city transgender people choose whatever bathroom they want to go into in private businesses regardless of their sex. house speaker tim moore sheas the council has go -- tim moore says is council has gone against all common sense and created a major public safety issue. >> i care. i want my children protected. >> we are afraid of an opposition who is also afraid of me. they are afraid i or people like me will victimize children. >> i identify as gender royal. all of my life i have been offended because people don't bow to me and call me your heinous. everyone is phobic. >> in north carolina the legislature your can vote on transgender policies. well, orange county is planning to been e-cigarettes in bars and restaurants. now more on those dangers and >> reporter: for mark sylvester and his customer, electronic cigarettes have been a way to curve the addiction to regular cigarettes. now the vice president of the vapor grill in chapel hill is looking at the proposal to ban e-cigarettes in orange county. >> they have not found any dangerous evidence in studies or any harm from secondhand vapor. >> reporter: but health officials point to new research from the cdc that may suggest nene health affects to vapors. >> some of the chems have been tested and are known irritants to the lungs and can cause disease. >> that is why a memo was sent to town leaders and mayors saying they are drafting an issue. >> they are looking to take action to protect public health. >> folks we talked to were split on the issue. >> i don't want to breathe it. >> i can see how people find it rude, but otherwise i don't have a problem with it. >> as for sylvester, he thinks the board's decision is premature. >> until there are firm studies that show health issues related to secondhand vapor, i think it should remain the way it is. >> there could be public decisions as soon as march or april. last month durham county issued a ban on e-cigarettes on city, county property, city park, trails and athletic fields. health news regarding the zika virus. the centers for disease control and prevention is investigating 14 new cases of zika in the u.s. actual transmission of the virus is more common than previously thought, it appears. >> in each of the episode, a man was traveling to a zika affected area and developed and within two weeks of the symptoms, the female partner developed symptoms consistent with zika virus. >> doctors say the business way to avoid zika is to avoid mosquitoes by emptying standing water, covering skin and using insect repellant. well, coach roy williams at the center of a rumor in i will. >> we will hear from the legendary coach on the rumors of his retirement. >> and our cold, wet day tomorrow gets warm, windy and stormy. these severe storms in mississippi will be here tomorrow. i will take you through the day hour-by-hour when we return. >> plus, traveling the world in first class for a fraction of the cost. your credit card (donkey sound) (elephant sound) there's a big difference between making noise, (tapping sound) and making sense. 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as for the site, they are about to close out the beta stage and for a link you can >> that is a site i need to check out! well, we are looking at the chance for severe weather tomorrow afternoon? >> yes. two weeks ago it was snow and ice. now over the weekend we had temperatures in the 70s, now completely different weather for us and not the fun kind. the today it is still chilly and rainy, drizzly, misty, cloudy, cool rain. did you get all that? most of us will see dry weather tonight with drizzle and mist. as we widen out and take you here to mississippi, they are getting the worst of it right now, heavy rain along with strong winds and severe thunderstorms and isolated tornadoes. if we turn off the radar and turn on the active warnings, the red box is here and there are about three of them, are current active severe tornado warnings and severe thunderstorm warnings in yellow stretch back to louisiana and there is even a flood warning there in green. we could see all this tomorrow winds with thunderstorms and isolated tornadoes. the temperatures will be totallalling different. it is chill with numbers in the 40s and 50s but tonight is one of those nights our temperatures will go up overnight. with smaller rain chances through midnight we will see temperatures hold in the mid 40s. then the warm front wi pass through and bump us up to 50 by tomorrow morning's commute. it is also tomorrow morning that we start to see rain chances go back up. it is early tomorrow morning we should not see the severe weather. that is late in the morning. the morning commute will be soggy, but not stormy. and also tomorrow, as if that is not enough, right? outside of the thunderstorms it is going to be windy. between 9:00 and midnight tomorrow we have a wind advisory in affect where we could see gusts up to 45 miles per hour. as for the rising temperatures overnight, that warm front will push back to the north. not only will that warm up our atmosphere, but it will make it, we will have a lot of moisture out there and all that will combine to give us a threat of severe weather. let's walk you through the next 36 to 48 hours. we will start off late tonight. again, it will be cloudy, but it will also be dry for a lot of us. misty and drizzly, yes, but no rain on the radar. that changes for tomorrow's morning commute. late in the morning, i would say after 10:00 a.m. we will see a line develop to the west ahead of the cold front and the line will push through and hit all of us, especially around lunch time to early afternoon. there could eventually be two separate lines that could last through the middle of the afternoon. then, as we get to the evening hours, that is when the rain will clear, we will be able to sound the all clear and the cold front will move through. that will kind of wipe the atmosphere clear and drop our temperatures. that is what we will have by thursday morning. we have one more day of this, but tomorrow is the worst of the days. for one of the few times year -- this only happens once or twice, we have gone into the enhanced risk for severe weather, third out of five. we could see 70-mile per hour winds with strong tornadoes between 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. during those times have access to radar. make sure whether it is our phone app or any phone app, make sure you have a chance to get warnings when they are issued. we have to be weather aware tomorrow. it will be warm, windy and wet, and it goes away thursday and friday as cooler weather returns with drier weather that will last through the weekend and we rebound by early next week. our three degree guarantee tomorrow is 70. today we only made it to 46. unfortunately we we would get up to 50, so no money from us for the american heart association but our numbers sit at $2,000 as we are almost to the end of heart awareness month. we hope to get the numbers back up and on track tomorrow. >> we will get the numbers back up. a lot of weather welcome back. well, one thing for sure, coach has no immediate plans to call it quits for north carolina, like a scandal hanging over the program like a big, black cloud. >> when i leave i want to be in good shape. for me this would have been a hard time for me to leave. these days. when i am 94 i will be sitting up here saying the thing. we need to get the thing over with. >> arbitrarily potential recruits with possible sanctions against the school is not a sure thing. invited williams to be on the radio show and the university said no. he is very upset about overnight but the storms breaking news tonight. state of emergency as tornadoes explode across the south. millions under a severe threat. fears the town could be demolished in the dark. trump towers as nevada votes tonight and can he win three in a row? and can anyone stop him. chicago images of the uber murderer in a gun shop hours before prosecutorses say he rampage. a popular sports skast e fights back after being secretly door. could someone be watching you. and eating natural. millions look for on the label, but what does it really mean? amid calls for a crackdown, an answer that might surprise you. "nightly news" begins right now. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. good evening. a violent and unseasonable weather outbreak is happening right now in the south. already several tornadoes have touched down in louisiana. the first images showing a trail of damage and destruction, and forecasters say the risk will continue overnight. at this hour tornado watches are posted

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