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Should be given a provisional ballot, there have been some complaints that some poll workers may not be fully clear or up to speed on what forms of id are acceptable. That has frustrated some voters but again, tse problems seem to have been isolated. Very few if any widespread technical issues to report, most of the voters we spoke with our enthusiastic, ready to vote and well informed on the issues. And, they want to cast a ballot for the candidate or issue of their choice. Mainly i want to do something, if they are supposed to help the people, lets help the people. Reporter midday today, the state board of elections called an emergency meeting for 6 30 voting hours in some counties that saw delayed openings this another. Delayed by 15 minutes or more. The counties include cabarets, catawba, haywood and rowan countess, well have much more throughout the newscast on wral at 5 00 and 6 00. Close. Catherine brown, live from raleigh. Voters in the fayetteville have a second issue on the bond, in addition to the connect nc bond. They are trying to decide whether to improve a parts wind random. It would fund new parks and recreation projects including splash beds and two senior centers. Wral is your headquarters for the boating, after the polls close, results will be available for more than 100 races on wral, www. Wral. Com, and wral mobile. We will have tv coverage of key races on the state on wral news that 10 00 and 11 00. Join us for an Election Special 9 00 tonight on wral 2. Over the air at 5. 2, or Time Warner Cable channel, 1255. David crabtree and laura leslie will have the latest results and what they mean for North Carolina voters. And at 4 30, david will join us from studio a. A woman hit by a car in trying to cross capital boulevardyearold wake forest last night when she was hit. She was taken to wake med where she later died. Police do not expect to file charges. We now know the names of three people involved in deadly shooting a fayetteville. Henry porter and his son, henry porter junior, were shot during an argument with david seouls. It happened around 6 30 yesterday on cedar creek road. The father died, the younger porter is being treated. Seouls is in custody, so far no charges filed. A prison guard who oversaw an inmate who died of thirst will not get his job back. Michael kerr died in 2014 while being held in solitary correctional institution. Blackburn, was one of nine prison workers fired for failing to provide adequate of appeals rejected his attempts to get the job back. Raleigh Police Officers the proposal was passed today. Wrals julia sims is in the newsroom. How soon can we expect to see the cameras and use . Reporter the earliest will be 2017. There are some things to work out but the chief told the council today the time is now for body cameras. Todays vote comes two weeks after akiel denkins was shot and killed by a Raleigh Police officer, however they have been monitoring body cameras for months. This afternoon Council Voted to phase in the body cameras over the course of the next three years. The first year, 100 officers will wear the devices. 250 will be added each following year. The cost, a little more than 5 million for the first five years. Chief deckbrown says the cameras should help when it comes to public trust, but cautioned cameras are not the endall beall. But beyond the equipment, its understanding the policing piece. Understanding the community, expectation, understanding all of our roles. This is the city that everyone lives in. Reporter while the Council Voted to move forward, again as i mentioned, there is still a lot of work to do regarding policies. How long will the video be stored . Who will have access to it . They will use the next year to determine policy and test the cameras which could be on the street by mid2017. Secretary of state, john kerry, plans to travel to moscow next week. Well talk about russias withdrawal from forces in syria. He announced he will meet with russian president , vladimir putin. He hopes to push peace talks forward in light of a new development. One day after russian president , but in putin, announced he would pull troops out of syriathrsgroup of russian jets have returned. Families of the pilots were at the air base to welcome home loved ones. Russian forces will remain inferior to conduct offensive operations. It comes as peace talks have resumed in geneva aimed at ending syrias fiveyear civil war. The Obama Administration will not allow oil drilling in the atlantic. This is a major reversal for the white house. In an announcement on twitter, the administration said the fiveyear plan protects the atlantic for future generations. The original proposal from january 2015 would have opened up sites within 15 miles off in virginia, north and south carolina, and georgia to oil drilling. For the first time in nfl official has been saying what many doctors have said for years, there is a link between football and a degenerative disease called cte. Mr. Miller, do you think there is a link between football and degenerative Brain Disorders like cte . Certainly, Research Shows that a number of retired Football Players are diagnosed certainly yes. Jeff miller is the nfls executive Vice President for health and safety policy. He spoke to a House Committee yesterday. In a statement to nbc news, the league said, quote, more questions need to be answered. They also said they want to ramp up research on head trauma and cte. Pope francis announced Mother Teresa will be made a saint on september 4. The nun who cared for impoverished people in india died in 1997 at 87. She was can a fight by Pope John Paul ii. After being connected to a first miracle, answering a womans prayers to cure a brain tumor. Pope francis officially cleared Mother Teresa for sainthood in december when he attributed her second miracle, the final hurdle to make her a saint. It was one of the most notable fayetteville landmarks, but in recent years, the Prince Charles hotel has become an eyesore. Wrals gilbert baez joins us live from downtown fayetteville where the City Council Approved a plan to bring the hotel back to life. Reporter let me put this in perspective. We are outside the hotel, you can see a canopy with no cover. Most of the windows need to be replaced or repaired. Here is here for good reason. Look over here. A chunk of the hotel fallen from the hotel, but all of this is about to change. At last nights fayetteville city council, they voted to support the Property Owners plan to develop the Prince Charles hotel. Investors of the Prince Charles holding llc purchased a building and a jointing parking lot at an auction in 2014 for 200,000. The Company Wants the citys help in developing 10 acres of public and private land surrounding the hotel. Thats what last nights vote was all about by city council. It says that it wants the city to move this project forward, and they are willing to work with the developer to make sure that this project is successful. Very excited about the proposal, what the plans look like, and, you know, we believe that is going to start out as apartments and eventually go to condominiums. And, that whole area around the hotel will be developed into reporter for its part, the city plans to fix up three parcels of land owned by the city and make some of it available for sale. That will help the project. Coming up at 5 30, we will tell you when the renovation project will begin and how long it will be before folks get to move in. We will see you then. Gilbert baez, thank you. Do you want to go around raleigh but dont have a bicycle . The city approved a ridesharing program. It will cost the city 650,000 a year. Officials hope to get some money back to private sponsorships. The original plan would place 30 by docking stations around the city with 300 bicycles. A yearly membership will cost 80. Charlotte is the only other North Carolina city with a program like this. No word on a start date. Companies are adding fiber lines throughout the triangle including at t. Still ahead, or construction means complaints from homeowners. A special visit to a hospital in fayetteville. Police body camera video is released in the death of winstonsalem man. What Officials Say is on the video. We had an awesome day for the primary election, pontiff sunshine, humidity dropped. Temperatures were not all that bad. Mills, 73 we havakin rit shon. 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He also stopped by Spring Lake Middle School and southview middle school. Anniversary world tour. The team plays at the crown coliseum march 21. Watch. And that usually win. Always win. Somebody mustaven sick that day or something. They have to keep the fans coming. Ductwork assistance. We are all winners with the weather today, dont think . Absolutely gorgeous. Hard to come into work when it is so nice. I saw a layer of yellow pollen on my car. I did, too. I was looking at the pine trees, they are starting to get the buds on them and in the next few weeks everything will turn yellow. Lets look at the weather headlines. A dry day today and pleasant evening to two. Humanity will remain but ahead of a cold front it will really warm up. Low to mid 80s tomorrow but once the front passes, cooler weather will be on the way. It will be cooler thursday, more so friday and color into the weekend. Day sunday. Tall tower cam, plenty of blue, a few fairweather cumulus clouds, but the visibility, there is downtown raleigh. On many days you cant even see that far so the visibility is really good because the rain cleared out the skies, you doubt the commandments here, you could say. 77 and partly cloudy at the airport, dewpoint 52, yesterday that two points were in the 50s and low 60s. The winds are variable at 5 miles per hour, numbers close to home in the 70s, 77 moncure, durham, Holly Springs and cary, still some 60s showing up, in the northeastern part of the state there was low cloud cover this morning and you are still hanging onto it this afternoon keeping you more comfortable in ahoskie with 65, here is the dewpoint, measure of the moisture in the atmosphere, when they are in the 40s, it feels pretty good. In the low 50s, not so bad compared to what we had yesterday. Here is the low cloud cover we part of the state but its moving out. The next feature we are watching is a cold front see it ahead of thunderstorms breaking out in iowa and Northern Illinois as well. It is urgent that is primed for severe weather, outbreak moving forward, especially in florida, quantities and into chicago. This is the severe risk for the evening, that is kind of middle of the skill. Green being on the low end, pink on the high end. The potential for mark hale, kind of like we saw yesterday, damaging wind and to a lesser extent, a few tornadoes. 9 00, 10 00, 11 00 when you join me on fox50 at 10 00, well talk about whats going on, hopefully not much in the way of severe weather. Look at the warmth, 81 memphis, 84 atlanta, this one will be to put it into our state briefly hard, so we expect to make it humidity will still be okay and cooler weather for thursday and friday in the coming weekend. Forecast as we head into the evening will be pleasant, we expect mostly clear skies, 67 by 8 00, to where they were. 55 at the airport, 57 for the low tonight, 53 roxboro with white window as we start our day tomorrow, quite start, plenty of sunshine with white southerly wind. 60 by 8 00 a. M. , sunday in the northern counties, 83 n. In fayetteville. We start off right with the approach of a cold front and will see the clouds increase in action and becoming partly cloudy and windy through the southwest at 1050 miles per hour. 83 tomorrow, 73 thursday, a little cooler at first. Humidity will drop more so thursday, friday 66, saturday 60 with partly cloudy skies, by sunday we see a system passing by to the south with moisture, it could be a chilly rain. Some of the models hitting the 40s for the high, we are and tuesday, back up into the 60s, check out the morning tuesday. 30 degrees, potential for a free spirit you knew it was going to happen, with all of the warmth affecting everything and that please coming along. Hopefully by the time we get through the morning, we will be room temperature. Temperatures just kind of bounce back very nicely. Thanks. Amazon may soon let you pay with a picture. Still ahead in whats trending, how the Company Wants option for customers. Tik at trding. Sni soy. I am abo toze s has beigit during the commercial break. Forgot your password . No problem. Amazon hopes to let you pay using selfies. The mega Online Shopping site filed a patent which describes using a camera to identify some amusing facial recognition. You would have to blink to show its not just a picture but a person. You should be able to use the device on all types of phones, desktops, laptops, whatever you Amazon Police not only could it could also deter less responsible people from purchasing items, for example children will not be able to purchase things without permission if they need their parents faces. What if youre identical advantage . There are probably different facial features. I have seen twins who thats true. You dont look like your brother. We are not identical. I have no shot of getting into his amazon account. I have friends that were so clear, even after 30 years it is hard to tell. That will be interesting to see how they deal fully brodoes trto like the an a inery fa thprese om leadeof thefree d toki today athe whouse. Rop thbe thrup sods, m g to some freei nstitutionpotu style you knis. Th cuerds fo hiltotar and iter, lin mael mirda. This freestyle rap session is n up on social media. Can see e prest playraight. Guy festyh thwords he pul up. That is really hard. Those are not necessarily words that go together. Not so with sony . Turning the papers into a wrap. He did a good job. Ive got an interesting video to share. There is a man on youtube who posted this video, he takes copper which melts at 1985 degrees. He melted over a big mac. There is a controversy saying that big macs dont decompose, they are like cockroaches and if there was a nuclear war they standing. You pour the copper on the burger and it seems to bounce off. People are freaking out saying they are indestructible, you should not eat them because they are bad for you. There is a science principle, this is called the laden frost where the temperature between the hot metal and burger causes the moisture to turn into steam, so the copper actually bounces off. Able on the internet are freaking out saying, oh, my gosh, even copper cant burn the burger. There is a science principle behind it. Dont freak out. I saw a video online of them doing the same thing to the apple. It did the same thing. You would think with it being so hot it would burn right through it. I want to make some pennies. I see that copper instinct, they are wasting it. Wendys burgers, same thing would happen . Yeah, anytng fascinating. Thanks for the lesson. We have links to these videos and stories on facebook. Tweet us or send us a message on facebook. Still to come, when you use an app on your phone you may be giving out more information we need jobs that provide dignity and a bright future. New penalties to stop companies from moving profits and jobs overseas. For businesses that create manufacturing jobs, a new tax credit. And lets invest in clean energy jobs, with 500 million solar panels installed by the end of her first term. Weve gotta create new jobs and industries of the future. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. In the race for the white house it is mega tuesday. Some are calling a super voting including North Carolina. Two on the republican side our winner take all. Donald trump could all but lock up the nomination or be derailed by Governor John Kasich in ohio and senator marco rubio in florida. Nbcs steve himmelstein is in miami where there is a lot at stake. Reporter up in ohio today and down here in florida on this mega tuesday, thomas trump, as you said, could have a seeming march to a first ballot nomination victory, if not stopped, at least blocked. But, for the florida senator to win in his home state today, it could take a political miracle. Its a good turnout in florida, marco rubio hopes that can save him. Make sure no one stays home. We dont know how close this is going to be. Reporter many of them say their folks today go to donald trump. I think he is the first guy that will change the country. I want to see somebody strong, a strong president. Not the weak one that we have had for eight years. President weighed in, not naming trump, but deploring the violence and vulgarity of recent rallies. And we have heard silence from too many of our leaders. Reporter house speaker, paul ryan, had criticized trump two weeks ago, but it gop leaders now except he will be the nominee, according to trump. Ryan said he called the trumpet to say the party elite wont pick the nominee. Republican primary

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