Transcripts For WRAZ WRAL 8am News On Fox 50 20160309 : comp

Transcripts For WRAZ WRAL 8am News On Fox 50 20160309

Mooresville. The bike went off the car and 43yearold rider was killed. Donald trump dominated but in a surprise Bernie Sanders is getting a lot of attention after a win. Tracie potts tells us how he forward. Frankly i believe that our strongest areas are yet to happen. Reporter Bernie Sanders with new confidence after an unexpected win in michigan. Thank you, he tweeted early this morning. The polls were wrong. Even sanders did not see it coming. He won with a third of the black vote. Hillary clinton did not mention her mississippi win or michigan loss last night. She picked up more delegates than sanders and our new nbc she beat donald trump by 13 points. Trump won michigan, mississippi and as of this morning, hawaii. We started with 17 and now we are down to four. I want to close things out. Reporter he is hoping to do that in florida tuesday. Ted cruz closing in on delegates. Cruz won idaho tuesday. We are closing the gap in state after state after state. Reporter florida could be it for marco rubio. His best finish tuesday, third. I need everyones vote right now. Lets not get into that. I cant lose any votes. Reporter john kasich insisting that he will win ohio. Tracie potts, nbc news, washington. This morning looks like a twoman race between republican. A poll found that voters think trump hurts the party. Donald trump is visiting fayetteville tonight. Wrals tara lynn is live at it looks like next week trump could be celebrating a win in our state as well. Reporter thats right. Our wral poll shows donald trump has a sizable lead among Republican Voters in North Carolina. Lets take a look at the results. The poll tabbed 200,000 n. Carolinians during a fourday period. They asked who they would vote for during the republican president ial primary. 41 said donald trump, 27 said ted cruz, worker rubio got 14 of the boat and 11 went to john kasich. Donald trump will speak at crown coliseum in fayetteville. This is his second trip. He was in charlotte earlier where he vowed to change laws regarding waterboarding and other interrogation techniques on terror suspects. Ted cruz held to stop the North Carolina sunday and has another plant. At this point marco rubios stops planned at this point. The rally is set for 7 00 in the evening. Fayetteville officials expect a large crowd and traffic to be in this area before that because donald trump will be here at 5 00 p. M. To tape an interview with fox news. Again, they expect to have extra traffic in this area around that evening rush hour. Back to you. Tara lynn reporting from crowd coliseum in fayetteville. Hillary clinton will visit the triangle tomorrow, she will visit Hillside High School at 3 50 p. M. Doors will open two hours before that time. And, at 5 45 she will be in raleigh. If you want to attend, sign up on the website, we have a link on www. Wral. Com. North carolina law that extended the state of employees and fire at will. The court of appeals will hear from whether the law undercuts Civil Service protection allowing workers to keep their jobs as local winds shift. A superior court judge ruled last year the law was unconstitutional. Shifting wind sounds like a weather question to me. The weather is not so much shifting today and tomorrow. We are keeping study with warm temperatures. We are. And incredibly long period of warm temperatures and a good bit above normal. Our normal high is in the 60s. We are looking at a temperature near 80 today and tomorrow. Into next week highs remain in the 70s. We are happy to have the Museum Camera backup from the North Carolina museum of natural sciences. They were doing some work and had to take the camera down for a while but you can see how beautiful it is over downtown raleigh. Our temperatures are warm. 56 durham, 51 cary. 50 in wake forest. Morning lows warmer than normal. 57 southern pines, and our planet by lunchtime, 73 degrees. That is eat your lunch outside kind of weather in my book. Maybe a degree or two warmer than this time yesterday. Yesterdays official high was 78. Warm temperatures by showers in the forecast for the weekend. We talk about which they may be the wettest in a few minutes. Ryan is here taking a look at an accident. Is there a way to avoid that one . Not a very good way. This is 40 westbound at the us 1 interchange leaving South Raleigh tour cary. This morning at 8 07 we had that crash blocking the shoulder and median. Not blocking any travel lanes at this point although traffic is slowing down as it should with flashing lights on the side of the road. Allow extra time making that westbound trip away from gorman street out to us1, if you are on that side of town consider taking 440 down to the i40 interchange and from their pickup 40 westbound on the other side. That is a possibility. That collector lane this morning. Lets take a look at 147, the durham freeway at glover road. Traffic heading away from us northbound through the east end connector Construction Zone is getting busier and moving along fairly well at least in that part of durham. Take a look at some of the te dve times according to sensors on the northbound side of the durham freeway. I42 mangum street, no big backups. Better than the alternate, 55 westbound, 11 minutes from i42 the durham freeway. Good news in south durham, earlier sun glare delays eased up considerably. A couple of accidents in garner including one on crosslink road and garner road. Those are in the clearing stages. Typical congestion on westbound 540, no unusual delays. Fire damages an apartment in raleigh. The men who rushed in to help their neighbor and what they say when they got inside. The legendary producer known as the fifth beatle has died. How George Martin is being remembered. And a close call for a news crew on live tv. Eve today is your lucky day. Woman surprised oh, my goodness mark youve just won a thousand dollars woman thats amazing thats amazing shrieks woman ok, nice job. Mark, way better than yesterday. Maria, that delivery felt a little forced. And steve, steve yeah . Woman i am still missing that raw emotion. Woman pretty awesome for a tuesday, but tomorrow is hump day, so lets really bring it neighbors are being hailed as heroes this morning for rescuing a man from a fire at his home in raleigh. The fire broke out after 5 30 last night in an apartment on bashford road. People who live above the apartment spotted smoke and the men who lived there realized the man inside was not coming out. Three neighbors ran into the burning apartment to pull him out. He was in the kitchen with his back against the cabinet sink. Smoke was, like we could not see in there. It was very scary. These three gentlemen that went in to pull him out did that without any kind of protective gear or equipment. And they truly risked their lives to save this man. So courageous. The man they rescued was taken to the hospital with burns and smoke inhalation. His name has not been released. Raleigh firefighters say accidental or improperly discarded smoking materials caused the fire. A statewide amber alert stays in effect for a missing 15yearold girl. The Brevard County Police Department is looking for dixie mae bailey. The 15yearold is 54 and weighs 4 pounds. Streaks and blue eyes. She was last seen wearing a peach colored pullover, black tights and cowboy boots. If you have seen her call police. Another scare this morning for chipotle. The illness that forced one restaurant to close. Another North Carolina putting the we are thinking about the fifth member, George Martin, a great producer. Just thinking about all of those hits they anked out. And of course his contributions and influence in helping to create that atles sound. One thing we can tell you, theres going to be a lot of sunshine today. Absolutely. We have been talking about the eclipse as well. About this time yesterday we interviewed a nasa scientist about studies they are doing during the eclipse. We did not get to see it ourselves. We have this neat shot i want to show you from one of the satellites in japan from the japan meteorological association. That dark spot that you see there on the earth is the shadow of the moon on the earth. We have a total Solar Eclipse when the moon is in between the sun and earth. And the moon when youre looking at the sun, the moon covers the sun. Looking back at the earth, you see the ons shadow because we have this cool imation. All this happened in asia. We did not get to see it here but we will have a Solar Eclipse that we will see in august of next year. All of these pictures were taken by a japanese satellite called sunflower. Our satellites in the United States e called g. O. E. S. Which of course is an ronym. We will see plenty of sunshine. Solar farm 5 not showing a cloud in the sky. 56 degrees, breeze out of the west at 8 miles r hour. Dewpoint is 52. In south hill 56, 56 degrees rocky mount. 57 in the southern pines, 56 fayetteville. By the time we get to the weekend we have showers in the forecast. 30 chance saturday, 50 hance sunday. Planning. We have a couple of waves that will go a long a front. We could see a couple of showers friday with that front moving in but on saturday, we have a slight chance, and a better chance of showers sunday. Of course we hold onto warm temperatures. 72 saturday and sunday. Here is a look at the pattern. Right now we are enjoying this High Pressure system. Often times they bring us clear skies. We have seen that this week continuing through thursday. Looking at severe storms and heavy rain on the southern end of this front. What is about to happen is instead of this entire thing sweeping across the country the bottom part will get hung up in the south. And the top part is actually going to lean in across North Carolina and stall. Then we are going to have different ways that right along it, bringing us a chance of precipitation. Futurecast shows that etty ll we take it out to the afternoon in North Carolina. Clear skies, potentially faulk tomorrow morning, but thursday stays dry as well. You can see rain dipping into North Carolina. It will stay there for much of the weekend. Our chances friday not great but that chance goes up saturday, sunday and even monday we could have a few scattered thunderstorms along that boundary. Speaking of thunderstorms it is severe preparedness week today, the statewide tornado drill happens at 9 30. The emergency activation system will go off. So you will hear the alarm. A lot of times, kids at school participate. You should participate in your business and when you get home talk about what the plan is or where you will go in your house if there is a Tornado Warning issued. Before you head off to bed saturday, set your clocks ahead. We have rain in the forecast for the weekend. Only about 0. 1 20. 5. Not going to be a whole lot. I would hate to see rain over the weekend. Good retch. George martin who died. He passed away acefully. Nbcs Dan Scheneman takes a look at his life. Reporter he was often called the fifth beatle. George martin loved music, then he joined bbc and became his lifes work. He began oducing music. He was told about a band from liverpool that had been ignored by major british labels. He signed with the enthusiasm of their manager, ian epstein. When he first heard the band, they thought they were unpromising but like the vocals of john lennon and ul mccartney. They were a tremendous team. Reporter it was just the beginning of the long and winding road he would take with the band. Contributed to each other. The four of them became a nodule in the individual parts. Reporter the beatles had the first of many number e records. He is considered one of the greatest producers of all time. But, his other contributions to the beatles was his skill as an arranger. His work were seen in the song such , yesterday, and in my life. He earned six Grammy Awards and a place on the record rock and roll hall fame. Dan scheneman, nbc news. The body of former first lady, nancy reagan, will lie in repose today and tomorrow. The public will have a chance to pay their last respects at the Ronald Reagan president ial library in california. Friday. She died sunday morning of congestive Heart Failure at 94. She will be buried at the died in 2004. No bill for a miami man accused of orchestrating robberyon a truck full of gold bars. A judge denied the release of alberto perez. The fbi says perez is the ringleader who organized a plan to steal almost 5 million in gold from a truck parked along i95 st year. Investigators say he used a gps to track the truck and used a remote to release pepper spray in the, causing the driver to pull over. More arrests are expected. Service resumed for commuter train line reeling from derailment in california. One of the trains jumped the rails and plunged into a creek monday night. Union pacific believes a mudslide swept a tree onto the tracks during the storm causing the train to derail. Rescuers pulled 214 people safety. Nine were hurt, four seriously. While covering the train became part of other story. During a report, a car crashed and came barreling toward reporter alex savage and his photographer, chip vaughn. Chip vaughn could be heard yelling, get out of the y right before the car bumped into the camera. Neither were hurt. In a later report, savage thanked his coworker for saving him. Health workers will spect a chipotle restaurant in massachusetts after several employees became six, at least one has the norovirus. Managers close the store in billerica that crews can do a thorough cleaning job. They hope that they will be told when they can reopen. They say no customers reported any illnesses. Wral is your hoops headquarters for all of the acc tournament games. Today is a big day, pitt matches up with syracuse at noon. At 2 00, duke plays nc state. Clemson and georgia tech play at 7 00 and at 9 00 Virginia Tech plays fsu. Because of the 12 00 game, our noon newscast will air on it is Severe Weather preparedness week. Three simple strategies that could save your life along with the ones you love. Steps lawmakers are taking to block a controversial bathroom ordinance in charlotte. Centurylink prism tv has all your favorite channels, tons of live sports, and more all in crystalclear hd. 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And a recent study found that it can help lower cholesterol 2 times more. Take care of those you love and cook deliciously. It is 8 26. Im renee chou with your top stories. Fayetteville police are investigating a deadly hit and run that happened shortly after 2 00 on raeford road. A green 1997 ford ranger struck a male pedestrian. The scene. The driver took off and the name of the victim has not been released. Durham police are investigating a deadly shooting. They found two men shot near maplewood drive around 10 30 last night. Both were taken to the hospital where one died. Police have not released their names. A lot of sunshine out there. Its going to be another beautiful day. Looking at a gorgeous shot from the museum skycam. We are so happy to have this back online. They were doing some roof repair but finished it up. That camera is back on. It looks beautiful in downtown raleigh. Beautiful across the entire viewing area. 56 in raleigh and rocky mount. 58 fayetteville. Even our morning lows are warmer than normal. Normal High Temperature at this time of year is low 60s and we have seen temperatures well above that the last several days and that trend continues. As tomorrow. Friday we get into some clubs and chance of a shower. Chance of a shower saturday and sunday as well. 8 27 now. We have an accident on 40 westbound at the us1 interchange on the collector lane heading across that bridge over us1. Activity on the right shoulder and a vehicle in the median. It is not blocking any travel lanes. Still seeing slow traffic as you leave South Raleigh on 40 westbound with those delays beginning around the rock quarry road area continuing outdoor us1. 60 minutes to make that trip from 40 w. 440 out to the us1 interchange. Zooming into raleigh you can see the extent of the delays. We can see accidents across lincoln road and another on new hope your buddy ron once said he could install your ceiling fan. He couldnt. 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