but got nowhere. smith says it weighed on him. >> i didn't go to sleep for two whole days. i couldn't eat nothing, really. >> reporter: the jury also got a chance to see photographs of the victim's body and physical evidence from the crime scene. much of it bloodstained. this prompted an emotional reaction from the audience and several jurors who openly shed tears. both of smith's codefendants cooperated with the state, sarah redden testified against him and ronald anthony is on the potential witness list. no word on whether or not he will take the stand. we have new information in the murder of a durham toddler, autopsy report shows three year old las teres with bound by the wrists when she was drowned a the father is charged with her murder. he is accused of trying to drown his other two children but they survived. a man accused of killing a raleigh taxi driver made his first court appearance. >> reporter: there were tears in the courtroom, not only from the family members and friends, of the victim in this case, tears visibly fell from the face of 25 year old major earl edwards jr. during his first appearance, moments before he heard the charges against him. edwards is accused in un ue re cllin toueisisr at>>wapemaanred undethca wecoasd av10 in w eyels inst cowh nt ghhull co og brhiscoons wai out h ov virse reli ththc be o le k th, br wh that,im? i sw to ic t mo re sgs on ine?ye-fes and m ren insur re wto sav siththorsiymonrt g iang inscoly hoal 't wrdriopeses tie r:stci disihotorothhi ncof nc s menofst wils at ton >> iu ght ouan or e arho we h. shheifmeans fo mmenti t it e ti cae g adgr> thge te> liweeser this is one of 7 turtles treated by veterinarians. hundreds rescued along the north carolina coast. cold weather stunned the turtles and they could swim. turtles were sent to the aquarium and the turtle hospital in surf city. new orleans is one big party town on this final day of mardi gras. going strong and i'm sure it will get stronger. >> reporter: thousands of mardi gras revelers line the streets to sip booze, catch beads and watch parades. for many big easy residents, fat tuesday is not a spectator sport. jim is part of the krewe of st. anns, dressing up and marching to their own tune. >> nobody watches the parade. everybody participates, coming out of the houses to the sidewalk waiting for us to join in. >> reporter: they spend months hand sewing, glueing and painting costumes. from the masks and the head dresses to the or nate sceptors. -- costumes are not the exception, they are required. >> if you show up in the same costume two years in a row we will throw you out. >> what started as a small group of marchers is band of hundreds, and people who recently passed away are brought along and honored for one more time. >> i'm carrying my bud might who is destined for his spot at the end river at the end of the day. >> reporter: letting the good times roll across new orleans on the final day of mardi gras. no need to travel hundreds of miles away to celebrate. durham's mardi gras celebration kicks off in app hour. the festivities includes the too tooing of the bull, followed by a parade and a block party on rigsby. tuesday , the solemn period of lent begins tomorrow. hundreds of people lined the streets of denver in downtown to afternoon to watch the parade. the players rode through on fire trucks including peyton manning, riding atop engine number 18. though school was in session, students who attended the parade had an excused absence as long as the parents were okay with it. >> you just got back, you did a fantastic job. what kind of final thoughts do you take away. >> how nice people were in san francisco. usually go to a big city and expect stand offishness, they were incredibly nice. they don't know me, the panther fans, when the panthers lost, it wasn't gloom and doom. they are like, hey, partying, we will be back next year, probably because they were there and not somewhere in a bar drinking away their sorrows. everybody was nice to us. security overwhelming. i have never been in a place more secure and difficult to get around because of the security. high powered rifles, officers in full tactical gear, every ten feet. it was amazing. you felt safe, though. >> people going petting the bomb sniffing dogs. it was a love fest. the song by scott mckenzie. it's true. >> good there were so many people there. >> maybe we will be in houston next year. >> let's hope so. we had enough sunshine after the rain rolled by to produce our amazing pic of the day. how cool is that? this is a double rainbow, we were able to fit one in there. this is from wendy cox in bear this is what they saw over the highway 902, her daughter meagan took this picture, wendy sent it to me. amazing pic of the day. i will post this on facebook when we are done with weather. not rain showers this afternoon, we are seeing snow showers across the area, especially in the northern counties, we are seeing the darker blues showing up. if you look at the time lapse, the area of precipitation looks like it's shrinking because the sun is setting, and since we have the heating of the day and create the instability in the atmosphere, we are losing that insaltment when you join greg at 6:00, the area of precipitation will probably be getting small expe smaller, by 8 or -- smaller and smaller, by 8 or 9, decreasing coverage because the atmosphere is becoming more stable, tomorrow, we see the same kind of set up happening. we could see flakes tomorrow afternoon. for our fitness forecast, clouds by 8:00, certainly cold with our 36. drops, snow flakes can't be ruled out. a lot of clouds and little precipitation. raleigh durham, this time last night we were seeing the same plane rolling out. i pointed it out. deja vu. the roads looking dry at rdu. our temperature trend, temperatures were in the 30s this morning, we had 35 officially at the raleigh airport, 44 the high, occurred at 11:03, tomorrow expect to be a few degrees cooler than today. 39 at the airport. 42 fayetteville. 18 at boon. 25 at ashville. snow falling up there. factor in the wind, the windchill is 4 at boon. feels like 14 ashville. feels like 23 greensboro. 33 at rdu. with the heating, cloud cover, the instability, and we saw the little snow showers and a little bits of rain showers. we expand the view, it's about low pressure in the upper atmosphere. creating the instability. once the sun sets we will lose that. partly cloudy skies, mostly clear skies overnight. wake up tomorrow morning w the heating of the day, the clouds should fill in, we may see the same kind of scene repeatd with the snow flakes and sprinkles. temperaturewise, that's what it looks like now. 24 cincinnati. 26 st. louis. 25 nashville. future cast, take on numbers as we go through the night. by tomorrow morning we should be in the mid 20s for lows for the kids heading to school by 8:00 a.m. in the upper 20s to 30. by lunchtime tomorrow, in the mid and upper 30s, we should peak in to the low 40s. by 8:00 wednesday evening the already in the 20s, look to the north and wests ashville 17, cincinnati, thursday morning in ashville. 8 cincinnati. a cold air mass, during the afternoon on thursday, we warm back up in to the 30s. colder air is set to move in for the upcoming weekend. our forecast for fitness fans 27 by 8:00 a.m., here is your seven-day forecast, 39 on thursday. 42 friday before the next surge of cold r air comes in saturday and sunday. still the possibility of upper 20s to low 30s for highs on sunday and if you got children who have fitness outside on saturday. maybe soccer game. >> a soccer tournament saturday and sunday. >> is that you? 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