Transcripts For WNCN North Carolina News At Noon 20160301 :

Transcripts For WNCN North Carolina News At Noon 20160301

Record, he said its not a cause for someone to be shot. He also said that hes glad that the fbi is investigating. He says he wants answers as soon as possible. The family. They say this has been a very tough night for them. Yesterday, by the time they finished their investigation out here and took the yellow tape down, i still havent been notified it was my son and to this point havent had a phone call. I dont know if you can call it as much frustrating as it is heartbreaking to be in this situation. Reporter the fbi is investigating this. The Raleigh Police chief says she hopes to have a report in five days. As for this Southeast Raleigh community, tensions are very high here, but again, the reverend William Barber of the North Carolina naacp is urging everyone to remain calm. He says they are going to have another Community Meeting this are going to discuss how the community is going to move forward. North carolina news, of course, is going to continue to follow this story. Well have more on our web site, and of course, on the news at 5 00, 5 30, and 6 00. Im emma wright, North Carolina news. We also caught up with attorney general cooper and asked him about the officer involved shooting. He called the situation a tragedy. I know it is horrific for people in the community when someone loses a life. It is clear that investigators and prosecutors should look at this matter thoroughly. Cooper went on to say that authorities should take this case or the facts of the investigation should let this case for the facts and the investigation lead them. And the shooting cut short a budget hearing. Nancy macfarlane who says its too soon to tell whether body cameras would have made a difference. Its certainly obviously we were scheduled to talk about it and it is something that everyone across the country is talking about. The council will rescheduled body camera discussion for next month. Durham city leaders are also working to figure out how to get their officers to wear body cameras. They decided to put off the vote because of a Durham Police policy that keeps video footage secret. They are expected to pick up the issue again in early march. Warm beautiful skies as you take a live look at the raleigh skyline. We could see some wet weather and soon. Heres Storm Team Meteorologist alyssa corfont. Reporter we are tracking the chance for showers late today into the evening hours. The best chance for rain, though, holds off until after let me step to the side here. A absolutely beautiful shot as we look to downtown raleigh. Right now, 71 degrees. Were seeing the winds pick up. If you have been out and about, youll notice they have gradually strengthened. Right now, sustained winds around 14 Miles Per Hour in raleigh. 15 milesperhour in syler city in pinehurst and 12 Miles Per Hour in fayetteville. The wind gusts are starting to pick up. Well check in with those a little later in our broadcast. As far as the temperature is concerned, were seeing a lot of 70s. 70 in lewisburg, and still in the upper 60s around clinton and goldsboro. Here in raleigh, were at 71. Roxboro right now is at 72. Well hit 72 around 3 00. Then well start to cool things off. Back to 66 by 6 00 p. M. Eventually into the upper 50s by midnight. I want to point out the rain chances. Isolated rain chances will really increase for us around 6 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning. Well drop into the upper 40s and good chance of widespread rain. Ill let you know when the rain tapers off and how it will impact the rest of the workweek coming up in the storm team forecast. Right now, one person in custody after a highspeed chase in wake forest. The suspect crashed into a grocery store. No one else was hurt. You can check for updates on wncn. Com and North Carolina news at 6 00 and 7 00 tonight. Parents and School Board Members are weighing in on discipline in schools. During a public forum, educators got into a deep discussion about racial disparities. New statistics show African American students had more suspensions, dropouts, and arrests than other students. The board wants some input from the community now. The Community Needs to acknowledge that its not just address this issue. Its important to have the community involved. Its important to have parents at the table, and its important to have parents at the schools interacting with teachers, interacting with principals. Members of law enforcement, churches, and other advocacy groups were present. Margaret spellings officially starts her job today as unc system president , but students, faculty and staff around the state and in our area, unc chapel hill, are rallying against her deployment. Justin quesinberry joins us saying. Justin . Reporter russ, that rally up moments ago. You can see students remained here after that ended. Organizers urged students, faculty and staff to walk out of class in a public show of opposition to the hiring of margaret spellings. Spellings signed a fiveyear year. They opposed her getting the job, saying it was too political and done in secrecy. The board of governors hired her after ousting president tom ross. Some criticized her record while education secretary under president george w. Bush. She oversaw the law of no child left behind and announced pbs for spending money on a cartoon with lesbian characters. She also spent money on a board that collects. She is a leech profiting off of our suffering. She was the architect of no child left behind, which ruined Public Education in the united states. Today is her first day on the job, and shes already started. What can be accomplished now . To draw attention to our ideology, her long Public Record on these matters, and what that means for the future of North Carolina. Reporter spelling has said that she is surprised by the intensity of the reaction to meeting and learning from people who have questions about her record and her intentions. Our political reporter bill minnich is meeting with her today, talking to her about her first day on the job. You can watch that interview tonight on North Carolina news, starting at 5 00 p. M. Justin quesinberry, North Carolina news, chapel hill. Justin, thank you. Cape Fear Valley Medical Center is restricting visitors in the wake of a rise in flu cases. As of today, children under the age of 12 are barred from visiting patients in an effort to keep them from getting sick. There are some exceptions, though, including if the child needs to visit the terminally ill family member. A man accused of exposing himself and trying to grab a woman on chapel hill is still on the loose. It all happened around 1 15. A man in a red car asked a woman for directions. When she approached him, police say she realized she was naked from the waist down. Thats when he tried to grab unc alerted students about the whole thing. Thats unusual especially that close and everything. Thats very alarming. Police say another group of people also reported a similar incident right around the same time. The cars described as a red fourdower sedan like the one fourdoor sedan like the one were looking at now. If you have any information, please call police. Coming up next are we going to win, win, win, win . Were going to do withle. Reporter from republicans to democrats, voters head to the polls all across the country for super tuesday. What tonights results could mean for the president ial campaign season. State troopers get way more than they bargained for when they attempt to pull over two men in a u haul. Find out why the guys made a break for it up next. This afternoon, were tracking rain back to our west. Umbrella coming up. Its super tuesday. More delegates are up for grabs today than any other day in the contest. The latest polls show donald trump and Hillary Clinton leading in key states. Weijia jiang joins us now live in washington d. C. With more on whats at stake. Weijia, good afternoon. Reporter good afternoon to you and everybody. You are right, it is all about the dash for delegates, and by the numbers, frontrunners donald trump and Hillary Clinton will not be able to seal the deal and clinch the nominations, however, they will be able to pick up enough momentum. They hope it will make them unstoppable. Voters are lining up at polling station on super tuesday in what is expected to be a record turnout. Polls show donald trump with a opponents and most of the 12 States Holding republican trump, 49 reporter pollsters say those numbers are still low. Some people wont acknowledge they are supporting him but cant wait to vote for reporter ted cruz is hoping to make it a twoman race. What we will see, i believe, is donald trump and me coming out both with a significant else far behind. Reporter democrats are already in a twoperson contest. Hillary clinton is hoping to land a knockout blow to senator bernie sanders. Sanders voted early this morning in his home state of vermont, but hes looking for more than votes tonight. The goal today is to end up with as many delegates as we possibly can. Reporter there are 859 delegates at stake for the democrats but polls show Hillary Clinton in the lead in six states. Focus to the general election. I will stand up and fight for you throughout this republicans nominate reporter clinton will hold a rally in florida tonight. The Sunshine State votes on march 15th. That is for the republicans as well. There are already rumblings that some gop members sore upset that donald trump looks like he could win the knock nation, they are thinking of a Third Party Candidate because a trump win would not only mean the nomination is at stake but also for races in congress and governors across the country. Weijia jiang, North Carolina news. A memorial for Antonin Scalia died while on vacation in texas. Todays service is being held in washington d. C. At the may througher hotel. A magistrate judge sides against National Security against personal privacy. The it ruled that they cannot force april toll give agents access to local iphone data. Apple said it would set a dangerous precedent. Police chases caught on camera have become the norm. This one caught michigan officers off guard. They wound up with a crazy pursuit with men in a u haul. Police found out why they wouldnt pull over. Police found out later when the truck lost its tires. The truck was stolen. Around the corner, Daylight Saving time may increase your risk of stroke. Researchers in finland say spring ahead and falling back an hour could put you at a heightened risk by as much as 8 during the first two days of time changes. To come up with the numbers, doctors studied and tracked more than 3,000 patients. North carolina news investigates looking into the our story reached thousands on social media. Doctors say the vaccine can prevent cancers and the cdc recommends it to all children at the age of 11. Convinced. One mother says the vaccine disabled. Each time she got a dose, she became sick. Completely. She cant go to school or anything. The reason why the vaccine is important is because the virus causes cancer. Not only do we know it has high effectiveness, weve already seen the rates of Cervical Cancer going down. You can find the complete story as well as what doctors and researchers say about the vaccine right now on wncn. Com. You can also join the conversation surrounding the story on our wncn tv facebook page. If you have an investigation youd like us to look into, send app send us an email to a warning to doctors linking cravings tore unhealthy for unhealthy food to less sleep. The reason, when you get less than eight hours of sleep, the brain gets a chemical signal for eating called rewarding snacks. We all know about that. Okay, so thats what it is. I can blame it on a lack of sleep. Sure. I get my daily dose of m ms. Look behind you. Wow, it is a gorgeous day out there. It is beautiful. I went out on my break and enjoyed some sunshine. If you havent done so yet, make time to do that. Were at 71 degrees. Those clouds at the airport almost look painted on. Its not. This is a live look over the airport this afternoon. As far as temperatures south hill. Also in the upper 60s around henderson. Then you have the warm spot. Thats roxboro at 72 degrees. Also 70 in syler city. It looks like sanford you are at 72. You are now at 73 degrees. I showed you the sustained winds earlier. These are the gusts up to 25 Miles Per Hour around syler city. And those wind gusts are in the teens out across portion of lee county portions of lee county. Its going to be a breezy afternoon, just as we expected. Our high today right around 72 degrees. Were going to gradually see more cloud cover, say, towards sunset this evening. An isolated shower should not be ruled out. It should be around 66 at 6 00 p. M. 9 00, still the chance for the spotty shower or two. Heres our local satellite radar composite over the past few hours. Not a lot going on. A few clouds moving across the sand hills. I want to show you the big picture. This is a line of showers we were watching back to our west early this morning. Its really gained some steam. As it heads closer to us, our chance for rain will go up. You see the isolated showers right along the tennessee North Carolina line. Those could cross into the area and the instability today with just a spotty shower or two, close to sunset. Most of you will enjoy the dry weather like were dealing with right now. The setup is this. Theres a cold front to our west. Thats why you are seeing increasing clouds, warmth still here for one more day today. Overnight tonight, into tomorrow morning, the cold central North Carolina. Best chance for showers will be tonight from midnight through tomorrow morning until, say, about 7 00 a. M. Behind this front, some cool air really going to rush in nor us. Youll notice that cooler conditions as early as tomorrow afternoon. Here we are, 1 30 this afternoon. Just a few clouds in sight. Were seeing more clouds close to sunset. This is at 6 30 tonight. The sunset is just after 6 00. It should be dark by 6 30. This is the inhouse model. All morning long, its been keeping us dry. Models that painted the picture for a popup shower or two. This is at midnight. West. Then into the Early Morning hours of our wednesday. This is at 5 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning. If you get going early on your wednesday, know that you could encounter wet conditions. The showers, though, will quickly move out. Watch what happens by, say, 8 00 a. M. Along the 95 corridor. A lingering shower. Most of us should be dry. Well continue to see drier weather. Were talking tomorrow and could easily deal with a decent amount of sunshine. Going city by city for you today, a high of 72 in raleigh, 75 in fayetteville. Overnight tonight, rain moving in. Milder temperatures. Remember, we woke up to temperatures in some cases near freezing. I think tonight well drop into the upper 40s. Rain tapers off tomorrow morning. Well see sunshine in the afternoon. A dry day on thursday, but thursday night into friday, another round of wet weather coming through. Thats really going to cool us down. Lets talk about the weekend up. However, it is going to be cooler than normal. 54 on saturday. 58 on sunday. Monday. That makes me happy. Certainly. I like that a lot. So much. Creepy but necessary. Federal protected lan overrun by an invasive species. I wonder what we are talking about. Trying North Carolina news continues to cover the ongoing situation surrounding a deadly officerinvolved shooting in raleigh. North carolina News Reporter steve just talked with the wake County District attorney and joins us live with more. Steve, what hed he tell you . Reporter what he told us was very simple. Lauren freeman said there are a number of pieces which need to can continue the investigation. What she said is they are waiting for the state crime lab at the scene. Examiners report. Lauren freeman also told us that she understands that this is the kind of event that can tear a community apart. Come together. What she wants folks to do is express themselves in a very peaceful manner. As to how long this investigation could take, she says it could take a month or so before her office gets enough information. She says it would be a thorough investigation. They will go wherever it leads and will not cover anything up. Well have more coming up tonight starting at 5 00. Well, we dont have this in our own backyard. An ongoing challenge to control the dangerous snake population continues in south florida. I just saw chills beside me. 2,000 burmese pythons have been for two creeks, make hunters have been allowed to capture as many nonnatives as they can. Hunters managed to catch more than a hundred of them. Thats barely a dent. Thats only 5 . You had goosebumps on both sides. Yeah. I dont even want to look at the camera right now with the video. Lets get to our forecast on a more positive note. Cant rule out a shower near sunset. The best chance for rain thanks a with judge mablean well see life because in everything we do it involves the law. You came to court to testify about what you heard, what you saw, and what you knew. I dont have a hearing problems. This ear works good. This one works too. Shes firm. Im not responsible tore that ticket. Im not going to pay for it. Who says youre not going to pay for it . I make that decision, not you. Shes honest. What you have to say . I announcer this is justice with judge mablean. Fashion designer Charlie Stevens is suing dance instructor Debra Griffin in the amount of 250. She says she sewed tutus for the defendants

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