Low cloud cover and fog near the virginia line. It is warm, 63 in durham, 64 wake forest. Town by town 59 in roxboro where it is foggy. 59 s. Hill, 64 in fayetteville and clinton. Expect temperatures to remain in the mid70s by lunchtime, and during the afternoon the clouds will break a little bit however there may be a few patchy showers. High of 80 degrees. This evening chance of thunderstorms. We could have large hail or damaging winds with those storms. We will talk about the threats coming up. Brian is here taking a look at the ramp closure at wade avenue and i40. Whats going on . Pretty serious accident from 40 westbound to wade avenue. We will take a live look at the camera. This is i40 and trinity road. Wade avenue interchange, exit 289. This is leaving the chapel hill road area heading toward wade avenue. At this point the ramp is blocked and will likely remain blocks for some time. We have a crew on the way to get details and well let you know what we find out. Lets talk about alternate routes. If you are trying to get to wade avenue from the cary area or west side of raleigh, consider 440 up to wade avenue. If you are taking 40 westbound, get off at the chapel hill road interchange and take edwards mill road up to wade avenue. Very likely that that road will remain closed for some time. Noticing a big effect on traffic on i40 westbound but that will be another point of concern as we head deeper into the 7 00 hour. I want to show you the entire viewing area, taking a look at the road weather index. Some of us seeing fog north and west of the triangle. Allow extra time as you head out. Lets look at the trip from eastern wake county on the knightdale bypass, that camera at 64 business is in and out but traffic flowing freely heading toward 540 toward the belt line. No big delays. The trip from 64 business to 440 taking eight minutes on the bypass. New overnight, a pinehurst man is dead after a single vehicle crash. A car driven by donald myles ran off the road into some trees. This happened on highway 15501 on spring lake drive at 11 30 last night. Firefighters had to cut the roof off the car to reach myles inside. He was the only one inside. The 54yearold was pronounced dead at the scene. The cause of the crash is under investigation. I40 is back open in the numbers are surprising. More than 100 vehicles involved and 20 people hurt. The interstate was shut down near burlington for hours. What rose may have been a factor, and rubbernecking could have caused others. This is a picture from Kristin Morris who says she is lucky to be alive. The white car is hers. We are told no one was seriously hurt in any of the crashes. The president ial candidates are crisscrossing the east coast today and the midwest as well on the final day of campaigning before five critical primaries tomorrow. Among them, our state, florida and ohio, which could determine if the republican field goes down to two. Tracie potts is in washington with more on the campaigning, plus reaction to violent weekend protest that trump events. Reporter five states vote tomorrow with hundreds of florida and ohio the biggest prizes, winner take all. Donald trump is leaving florida by double digits. He is in tampa tonight after a weekend of violent protests. Bernie sanders denies he is sending them. Donald trump is a pathological liar. Reporter Hillary Clinton says trump is inciting them. You let the fire, then throws his hands up and claims he should not be held responsible and he should be. Reporter clinton says foreign leaders are asking to endorse her to stop trump. She has a big lead in florida but its marco rubio who needs the sunshine state. Words of the president have consequences. Reporter slamming trump as he continues his bus tour today. In ohio, john kasich is leading in his home state. Ted cruz claims a tie in North Carolina. It is going to depend on turnout, who comes up in votes tuesday. Reporter in florida nearly tracie potts, nbc news, washington. Three president ial candidates and two spouses of the candidates will be in North Carolina today. We will have more on that coming up in our next half hour. Early voting numbers are in, participation was up in North Carolina. More than six we will have more on that coming up in our next half hour. Early voting numbers are in, participation was up in North Carolina. More than 680,000 people cast ballots ahead of tomorrows primary. The turnout was higher compared to North Carolinas 2012 president ial primary. We saw a 3 rise in the number of registered voters who took advantage of early voting. Wral will have complete coverage of the tuesday primary. Polls open tomorrow morning at 6 30 and close in the evening at 7 30. After they close results will be available for 100 races on wral, www. Wral. Com and wral mobile. We will also have live coverage of key races on wral news. Bonus for our primary Election Special tomorrow night at 9 00 warner cable channel 1255 if you want to check it out. Wrals David Crabtree and laura leslie will have the results and what they mean for voters. A wake county deputy walked away unharmed after wrapping his patrol car around a tree. Take a look at this video, most of the impact is on the passenger side. Troopers say it happened yesterday afternoon, the deputy was responding to a call when he hit a water bottle during a rain shower and loss control. Officers made an arrest in connection to a nightclub stabbing. Douglas hicks is charged with assault with a deadly weapon. He was arrested on scene after man was stabbed at mirage nightclub. The victim, derek etheridge, was taken to the hospital for injuries to his torso and troopers believe they know who is responsible for a deadly crash writing morning. They say celco ramirez was terry lopez. He died at the scene. Troopers say ramirez was driving with a revoked license. He will be charged with hit and run plus death by motor vehicle. March madness is officially upon us. Time to get your brackets ready. Two triangle teams are on their way to the ncaa mens basketball tournament. Unc earns the number one seed in the east, they will play the winner of the Florida Gulf Coast and Fairleigh Dickinson gave. North carolina doesnt have to travel far, they play thursday night in raleigh with tipoff at 7 20. Will play providence. The blue devils matchup with unc wilmington in the first round. Tip time is 12 15 in providence, rhode island. Is a grueling march from florida to North Carolina. Organizers say the balance spelled it was a journey they had to undertake. Also, someerican workers brought us back from the crash. Now, lets move forward. 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. As we first told you friday, a group of marines is running to honor servicemen who died during a trained mission seven marines and four National Guardsmen were killed when their helicopter crashed. In their honor, Sergeant Justin hulett brought together seven groups of military members to run relay style in the marine grade armorial mold memorial march. It is really for the families, you know, just to show them that we are still here for them, we care about them, we love them and its a family. With 45 pound sacks on their backs, the teams are carrying a marine paddle and played with the Fallen Soldiers names. Cary Academy Students who spend spring break in cuba returned home. Last year for the first time the scuba Club Leadership at the school plan to diving and cultural expedition to cuba. The group flew in and out of havana, spending a total of four nights in the city. Students visited communities in the cuban countryside. Next week. Wrals freedom balloon fest is a few months away. As organizers plan the event they are calling on you to be part of it. Today from 7 00 to 6 30 tonight at the bank in fuquayvarina, you can learn about all kinds of opportunities at the freedom balloon fest and check out the balloons on display. It honors the service of our military families. Even may 27 through the 30th. 7 13. If youre doing everything right but find it harder and harder to get by, youre not alone. While our people work longer hours for lower wages, almost all new income goes to the top 1 . My plan make wall street banks and the ultrarich pay their fair share of taxes, provide living wages for working people, ensure equal pay for women. Im Bernie Sanders. I approve this message because together, we can make a Political Revolution and create an economy and democracy that works for all im looking for my extra hour of sleep. Where did it go . Then we are going to be looking for sunshine after that. We are getting greedy, arent we . I think so. We get it back in the fall, but it hurts a little. Give us time to transition in this week. It is our first monday. Plus, we lose that hour of daylight in the morning. It gets light later in the morning, it stays like later in the evening which is nice but for us morning people, you know, last friday at 7 17 the sun had been up for an hour. And now well, it was kind of dark. Im going to take a nap go ahead, bill. It is a late it is a little bit great out there this morning, after lunchtime we see the clouds dissipating. We have potential for clouds out there, will talk about the timeline of rain. Because of rain last night we are dealing with falcon roxboro as well as henderson , oxford, up toward roanoke rapids. All of the towns near the virginia line seeing some fog this morning. People are getting around okay but you can see it looks a little bit sox in this morning around roxboro. 64 is the temperature at the airport with a calm win, dewpoint 63. Plenty of moisture in the atmosphere, when you step out it will feel monkey. Temperatures are warm, mid60s, 64 raleigh and fayetteville, 63 in goldsboro. Visibility, no trouble from raleigh to rocky mount but we have cloud cover. We are dealing with clouds across the viewing area. They are sitting on the ground from roxboro over toward south hill making foggy conditions. If you are heading north of raleigh, plan extra time. Watch out for kids at the bus stop in those areas. I dont think we will see fog anywhere else than seeing in your the virginia line. This is the next system that approaches us, its going to be zipping on by quickly. Ahead of it we have a few showers and when it arrives we have a chance for thunderstorms. I will show you that on futurecast. Expect through lunchtime it will be cloudy but after lunch we begin to clear skies out a little bit. We returned to partly cloudy skies and from 1 00 until 5 00 a couple of isolated showers popup. You may want to keep your umbrella handy. Not everybody will see rain this afternoon but there will be a few showers. Later on after dinner expect a round of thunderstorms to pop through, it will be similar to threat will be from wind damage or hail. We get into the day tomorrow, it looks beautiful, we start with cloud cover but end with sunshine. Tuesday and wednesday both look great. Back to today, our greatest threat will be hail out of the storms. We have severe hail which is the size of a quarter raider. Our winter threat is moderate for today, flood and tornado threat is actually fairly low. 79, High Temperature for this afternoon. We have an elevated risk of Severe Weather from raleigh westward. Thats when we have the best chance of seeing scattered hail and wind damage possible as well. Our primary election forecast tomorrow looks good. Plenty of sunshine. Polls open at 57 degrees and close at 70 degrees. Much cooler weekend and a chance for showers saturday and sunday. Brian if youre taking a look at the accident on wade avenue. Westbound to wade avenue. We will take another look at the camera here at 7 20. We are hearing reports that that ramp will likely be blocked through the rest of the morning commute. We need to think about an alternate route. We have a crew on the way to get details on the crash and will have updates as we learn more. Lets zoom in and give you ideas about alternate routes. We should point out as people are trying to heading out toward wade avenue and finding the ramp closed, we are seeing significant backups are starting to form between chapel hill road and wade avenue interchange. Consider getting off at chapel hill road, taking that from edwards mill road and use 440 as an alternate route. By the way there are a couple of minor accidents, one on Jones Franklin road and western boulevard in another at edwards mill road and wade avenue. Consider using that edwards mill road alternate or 442 get to wait. This will be with us through demand accused and exonerated in the murder of a winstonsalem newspaper editor was found dead in a car. Darryl hunt was found dead in a car near winstonsalem university. He was tried and proven innocent by dna in february 2004. He was missing nine days before being found. He severed from a medical condition that require treatment. They did not say how he died. We know that his name of a man accused of breaking into a home and barricading himself inside for several hours. Darrell hester junior broke into a home yesterday and was confronted by a couple inside. He fired a gun into the ground as he left. Shortly afterwards, he entered an unoccupied home on morganton road. Police and a s. W. A. T. Team surrounded the home until incident in the afternoon. Witnesses say he came out of the home after a police chief bought him a sandwich and pack of cigarettes. He faces several charges including burglary and breaking and entering. Two murders shocked a Small Community in johnston county. A newton grove man was found dead in his home. He was discovered along with a woman. Her name and relationship to the man of mystery until now. That womans mother talked with wral not only about her grief about a growing list of questions. After seeing new stories about the shooting, a woman who only wanted to be identified as speak. She said one of the victims was her 24yearold daughter, jessica piatt, who was at the home of matt jones in newton grove to do someones hair. Her mother says she does not know of anyone who would want to hurt her daughter. She was my best friend. She was everything i had in this world. She would do anything for anybody. She would take the shirt off her back and hand it to you in the middle of the road. She was all about helping. Piatt was the mother of an 8 yearold and 3yearold twins. A spokesperson says investigators are working around the clock to solve the double homicide. So far no arrests have been made. In 23 hours, about, the polls will be open in North Carolina. North carolina is getting a lot of political attention today. Coming up we tell you about the vips visiting the tar heel state today. Also, what we are learning about a young Police Officer maryland. We also look at what details coming up right here. It is 7 26, im renee chou. Your top story, traffic. We have a closure on i40. Pretty serious accident blocking the ramp from 40 westbound on to wade avenue. This is a slight look at the camera. You can see where police have blocked the ramp. We are hearing there are pretty serious injuries with the accident. We have a crew on the scene and hope to have details as our news continues on fox50. Very likely that ramp will remain close to the morning. You can see a backup between us 1 and wade avenue on 40 westbound. If you are trying to get to wade avenue from cary, consider using 440, or edwards mill road, from there you can pick up wade avenue north of pnc arena. There are a couple of accidents including on edwards mill road on wade avenue, not causing any also a report of an accident on Jones Franklin road. Those are in the clearing stages. A pinehurst man is dead after a single car crash. A car driven by donald myles ran off the road and into some trees. This happened on highway 15501 in spring lake. The crash is under investigation. I40 is back open in Alamance County after a series of crashes. More than 100 vehicles were involved in 20 head injuries. Although none were life threatening. The crash shut down part of the interstate New Burlington four hours. We are told that no one was seriously hurt. Now lets get a check of the forecast with elizabeth gardner. Take a look at the skycam shot, you can see gray skies and fog from 85 northward. If you are heading in that direction keep that in mind. 57 roxboro, 59 in south hill. Threat f crews are searching for a man who disappeared while swimming with friends in edgecombe county. Deputies were called to shiloh landing on highway 258 north and princeville. A man was fishing with two of his friends when they decided his name has not been released. Several president ial candidates and their spouses carolina today. They are focusing on the tar heel state before voters go to the polls in the primary. Mikaya thurmod joins us to tell us who is coming at where they will be. Reporter good morning. Candidate, donald trump, will be campaigning in hickory. Candidate, Bernie Sanders, will be in charlotte this afternoon. Hillary clinton will be in the queen city this evening. That is just the beginning of North Carolina campaign appearances. Nearly 24 hours out from the president ial primary, and all eyes are on North Carolina. Campaign appearances from candidates start this morning and run into the evening. Up first, donald trump has a 10 00 a. M. Rally at a university. Trump whos has had several rowdy rally says he will start pressing charges against people that cause trouble. Hillary clinton returns to last week. She will speak with voters in charlotte at the grady call her husband and former president bill clinton will make a stop in eastern north wife. He is scheduled to appear at the Greenville Hilton hotel. At 8 30. Hillary clintons democratic ri