how they are taking the john: cold start to the morning but big warm-up on the way. meteorologist steve stewart is in to tell us when it will be safe to ditch the heavy coat. amber: we have a traffic alert. warmer weather means back to work on the i-4040 work zone. barbara: investigatorsing looking into this crash of a helicopter full of tourists in hawaii. what we are herring about the splash landing and people who john: we just gave you a preview of this on the abc11 faculty facebook age. an fana laurel shows how these two dogs became internet stars. it is 6:01 and 29 degrees. i'm john clark. barbara: i'm barbara gibbs. we will have more on the big stories but first weather and traffic together meteorologist steve stewart in for "big weather." happy friday. steve: you bet. cold out this with temperatures warming up to a little below average. we show you numbers and it is called in louisburg at 23. 24 in order. 28 southern pines and fayetteville 30. a few fair wertather clouds feel temperatures climb to around 50 to 51. the average is 56 so below that we will not be below average for the weekend. for tomorrow and warmer on sunday. we will have the details but now we have the traffic with amber rupinta. amber: happy friday to you. it is a nice start to friday morning. we have the assistance of cop -- chopper 11 h.d. and you can see clear pictures from the skies. this is the crossroads area around cary and everything is flowing without problems or delays. the fact we are going to be seeing the sun sunshine returning the next couple of days means they will be busy d.o.t. crews working on rars through the i-40/440 construction zone. we have our breaking news one vehicle driving through the area where they will be working. all of the snow we saw it january that put a held on things they need to put down a layer of asphalt but when they were putting the plows in an made it harder to see. this weekend they will do the installment and painting lines. should notice difference by saturday. they plan it open the new plainslanes in march. hopefully they can get a lot of work done the next couple of days with the sunshine making a return. you can see we don't have any weather in the way. to precipitation or fog. wake forest looking good on u.s. 1 fplt 1: 1. we will let you know how the drive times are in a few. caitlin: new details about this not far from pearl harbor.ut about the seconds before impact. >> we saw it turn and i said do they land on water because looks like it is coming five seater. built in 1979 owned by a tour company called genesis. so it is clear as we are watching the video something with the tail rotor apparently forth working. properly. the sound from the engine sounds erratic and another indication something was going wrong. the surviving pilot hopefully can tell investigators more as to what happened. goes down in union county killing a anticipate. james cook reported engine problems before the crash. he dropped off client and was happened. a charlotte mecklinburg police helicopter discovered it. we will have more details as we get them. john: a circus company faces 14 serious violations for last hampshire. two were killed and dozens hurt. osha says they didn't build it correctly and i think north weather alerts. chicago slapped with a class action lawsuit over possible lead contamination in their water. it claims the city knowingly did construction work that served the water pipes and says it hasn't properly warned chicago residents of the lead risk. the city has yet it comment. barbara: time is running out to register to vote in the march you need to register by today to participate in the march 15 election. early voting kicks off march 3. john: 6:07 and big changes to downtown raleigh. barbara: details on a ground break flag could containing the way people get around joined and steve stewart is in for "big weather." it is a little chilly, steve. steve: it is. we have temperatures outside for a lot of us in the 20's. but it is quiet. we are not expecting rain in the is steve: happy friday. looking good outside. just cold. live look at durham pretty good. 30 degrees, light breeze five miles an hour. i think we will see a couple of high clouds today ands that it. numbers in the 20's and 30's. colder than yesterday. bus stop make sure the kids bundle up. it will be only 33 by 9:00 and generally fair skies. tomorrow morgue will be -- morning will be warmer near 40. that's it. notice the temperatures for the weekend up. it will be nice. flirting with 70 sunday and quite a bit clouds late in the day. then we take a froze dive -- nose nosedive. looking pretty good at r.d.u. seven-day forecast in a few minutes. john: today the official start to what will be a change to the go raleigh transit station. the mayor is joining other leaders at 10:00 for the renovation ground breaking. this is the moore square station nearly $10 million project with new waiting areas, bathrooms, wi-fi and more bus lines. it should be done in a year. >> i try to get 500 miles on sunday and under four hours. barbara: nascar season set it rev up and danica patrick getting practice on the streets she went under cover as a driver and most didn't recognize her even doing wild maneuvers. john: wow! barbara: that would be cool. john: 6:11 and former governor's name removed from another state landmark. barbara: why this north carolina university has decided time for carlos aycock's name to go. the cr a john: good morning, 6:13 and 29 degrees. here is a look at the headlines. state lawmakers expected to approve major changes to the north carolina voting process today. the house voted last night to shift the march 15 congressional primaries to june 7. if approved voters will go to the polls march 15 and vote in various state race. the sentencing hearing for traveon smith continues today. yesterday the defense called witnesses to the stand who painted a difficult childhood for smith. we will have live streaming video on abc11.com. thousands of mourners from the president to members of congress to former justices and tourists will pay respects to justice antonin scalia. his casket will be in repose at the supreme court where he spent nearly three decades as one of the post influential members. barbara: officials in u.n.c. greensboro are the latest to rename a building remembering charles aycock. trustees voted to rehis name from the audit-term. he led the state from 1901 to 1905 led white supremeist campaigns. you get can have a major impact on health the. more than a third of americans do not get enough sleep which is accept hours or more. those that don't get it put themselves at risk of obesity, heart disease and other issues. americans need to learn healthy sleep habits like going to bed at rg teams and turning off devices. we have issues with getting sleep. what do you say? john: six, 6 1/2 total. barbara: i get between five and six. steve: i make a conscious effort. eight to 8 1/2. john: really? wow. steve: let's see what is going on. it will be a nice day today. the active weather days will be tuesday into wednesday and on tuesday we could be dealing with a decent amount of precipitation. we look at the moisture coming we could get a shower monday but it is heavier rain tuesday that could last into wednesday. nice wind, mid to upper 60's. more clouds on sunday but should stay dry. northern counties may get a shower late but a chance monday but lookly tuesday into wednesday and cold erer, below average starting tuesday and mild into the weekend looking pretty good and we will see cooler weather come in to play tuesday and reinforcing shot of cooler air thursday and that lasts into the weekend. live in durham look pretty good at upper 20's and light breeze. you see under my name as we move it at four miles an hour. 24 oxford, 23 louisburg, 28 smithfield. siler city 30 degrees. colder than yesterday morning and sun coming up warms to the then only low 50's this afternoon. the average high is 56. we are shy of that by four or five to six degrees. sharks and canes at 7:00. tailgaters keep the heavier jacket. when you come out around 43 degrees but nothing to worry about. fair skies with mostly sunny skier skies. as the high settles is swaoeflt have a flow tomorrow and this is mainly high cloud cover. the sun can get through them. we will see that tomorrow. the front stays to the north. as the low pressure is closer it increases the southwest flow and we will have temperatures in the mid to upper 60's and some could flirt with 70. then this moves through and we could have a brief shower and stall to the south with another wave of low pressure meaning more rain tuesday and wednesday. tomorrow the ski resorts looking good. slight chance of a shower, 20% mild temperatures, 40's it near 50. enjoy that because rain is likely into sunday. big race this wind, a lot of folks asking about it. my graphics having a hard time moving. weather will be just fine in n. for the daytona 500. looking fine. temperatures in the 70's. tough to beat that. back to home, high today in the up are 40's to low 50's around the triangle and lower 50's to middle 50's in the sand hills. tonight not as cold, upper 30's so no more 20's for a while. bonus this weekend looking great, warmer tomorrow, near 70 sunday. monday shower chance but rain likely tuesday into wednesday and cooler, back to the 40's for highs. barbara: at least it is not the 20's with the rain. don: absolutely. john: happy friday. amber: seems like it is circle have to get here and i'm ok. happy friday. heading out in chopper 11 h.d., good morning to you gilesuyou guys. they are over the crossroads area is -- no, they moved. 40 and south saunders that is where you will see them. we are off to a great start. all majors accident free, no problems there. fayetteville fort bragg not running into trouble. you can see dry clear conditions there on ramsey street. that is how the entire area is. happy it bring you good news. we take the mapping system and see a lot of green. 540 northern wake county sun making its way up. you hear happy music there and moving fine. drive times good 11 minutes eastbound 70 to 1. same on 85 northbound no problems four minutes u.s. 70 to n.c. 55. john: a story i have been they have more followers on social media than most people on facebook. barbara: two internet sensations here in raleigh. you may have seen this picture floating around the internet. it has been sheared millions of -- shared. snoop dogg tweeting it out. this is knox. anna laurel got to meet knox and his big sister to show us how they are taking the internet by storm. reporter: this is sadie tripod the three-legged economy what warmth >> it is like the pws of the entire house -- boss of the house. she is a grumpy old lady. reporter: they takes videos and posts them. one of sadie went viral. >> it was shocking. i'm in law school and got up for school and happened it check it and i was like oh my gosh there are 30,000 people following my 30,000 in one night. reporter: suddenly people were asking already for more videos. >> i think she's kind of inspirational. i think people relate to her story that she is so strong and happy even though though only has throwings. reporter: last year knox game a sensation as knox the daches. he and sadie have 230,000 followers on social media. >> it is crazy. that many people have seen our lives and our house and our dogs. reporter: knox in the p.j.'s caught stoop dog's eyes. >> it has been shared millions of times. reporter: people love the captions and hash tags all about the from the time in this case and chill live come snuggle me and bring me breakfast in bed because i'm in the moving. i think our audiences connect with them and they have their own story and they have a personality on line. barbara: is that not precious. john: last year sadie broke one fof her good front leg and followers helped hreufrzliz enough money for the surge are. barbara: companies are hiring them to be part of ad campaigns. amber: we will tell you how instagram and facebook are making stars for people in our 4:00 newscast with an fa and joel. john: you have a menagerie at your house, steve. steve: it is a zoo. great story. 6:22 6:22. a yelp review leads to a barbara: one couple is when your cold makes you wish... ...you could stay... ...in bed all day... ...you need the power of... new theraflu expressmax. hi, i'm here with some advice from the future don't buy makeup that settles into lines, it ages you. get simply ageless makeup from covergirl and olay. with b vitamins, and spf. it floats over lines and you look beautiful! and now there's simply ageless liquid makeup it helps you look younger in three ways. so in the future when you're older you look younger. simply ageless from olay... and easy, breezy beautiful covergirl! why are you singing the end? barbara: welcome back, 6:25 and 29 degrees. john: you may call it the price of success. it will cost more to see the carolina panthers in person next year. individual tickets prices are increasing from $48 to $195. finding people to nay shouldn't be hard. including the preseason and postseason the panthers have sold out 137 consecutive home games. carrier according to the latest study. john: getting sued for leaving a lousy review. here is reena ninan and kendis gibson with the tech news. >> who has the fastest wireless service? >> one company crowned t-mobile and the latest test another researcher says verizon is tops based on testing. >> indiana man sues smart tv manufacturer visuoaccusing it of collecting perform data about has viewing habits and sell it to third parties such as advertisers or data brokers. advice yesvisuohas similar challenges. a couple in texas were not satisfied and posted a one star review on yelp. the company sued and says the couple violated its so-called nondisparage nondisparagement clause. barbara: read the fine print. not disparagement. if you don't like it. john: don't criticize us. 6:27. next on "eyewitness news" special reunions at fort bragg. barbara: we will dunkin' donuts' unbelievable selection of breakfast sandwiches freshly made all day -- and now you can enjoy two english muffin egg and cheese breakfast sandwiches for $4. the new caramel macchiato from dunkin' donuts. let hand-crafted layers of espresso, milk, and a caramel-flavored swirl uplift your mood. indulge in a hot or iced macchiato today. barbara: welcome on friday february 19. it is 29 degrees at 6:30. i'm barbara gibbs. john: i'm john clark. anothering another morning with freezing temperatures. steve stewart is here for don who is a little under the weather. steve: hope he gets better quickly to enjoy the weekend. temperatures well before average. we have not been able to say that for a while. hope you enjoy that. today a little cool. cold this morning. we have a 23 in roxboro and 23 louisburg. r.d.u. 29. fayetteville 30 so everyone below freezing. colder than yesterday. on average three to nine degrees colder to start. satellite shows as you few clouds and that's about it. should be nice and sunny and temperatures below average. typically we are around 56 and we may get to low 50's today. big warm-up on the way and now we have traffic with amber rupinta. amber: good friday morning to you. chopper 11 h.d. is giving us some aerials around as steve said weather will cooperate the next couple of days with sunshine and clear skies. this is how it looks now over the 40/440 split. because the weather is captain cooperating they will be laying asphalt there. you should notice an improvement saturday so they will have a couple of days to get much needed work done. the weather hasn't been cooperating for them. today very different story. road weather index none of the colors are showing up. no fog or precipitation, nothing but green on the live returns. we are accident free on all the major interstates. we will check the drive times. they are look beinging nilesce. john: we could have a change for vote 2016. to approve new maps today with a new primary election date. gloria rodriguez is live in joined raleigh with what this means to you before you head to the polls. gloria: good morning. the clock is ticking. alarms have to make key decisions by 5:00 p.m. today to meet the federal deadline and it could change who we vote for and when we vote. >> those posed, no. oria: the state house passed this bill. under this bill primaries for all 13 north carolina members of congress would no longer be on march 15. they would be held on-7. the state senate will vote on the bill today. >> people will be confused. they won't know exactly who they are voting for. gloria: if it passes they will then on-7 we will all go back and vote in the congressional primaries the republicans count on u.s. supreme court chief justice john roberts to delay a federal court ruling. the court ordering north carolina to redraw the maps by today will mean the current maps are racially >> we are optimistic we will get a stay. gloria: but there is a backup plan if that doesn't lap. they don't use race. >> if you want to gag gerrymander this is not a map that will come up. gloria: it is eliminating runoff primaries because there wouldn't be enough time to hold a second tune in at noon for the latest. live in raleigh, gloria rodriguez, abc 11 eyewitness news. caitlin: more than 70 fort bragg paratroopers happy. they arrived shortly after midnight. check out the pictures coming in from overnight. that homecoming. these members of the 82nd airborne arrived at pope after serving a nine-month deployment in iraq. they left last june and were there in support of operation inherent resolve. we want to say welcome home to all of them. thank you for your service and we never get sick of those pictures. if you want to share them on on my facebook passenger.d at the hospital. this is under investigation. john: new details about a reported shooting in raleigh. the call came from capital boulevard and homestead just north of 540. police say there was a fight and shots were fired. we are working to find out if charges have been filed after a pedestrian was hit by a car. it was near the intersection of garner road and rush street south of downtown. police say the woman was seriously hurt. last checked officers detained the driver. barbara: a durham man charged with robbing a business at gunpoint. the police arrested him yesterday. he was wanted on other charges including robbery with draws weapon and possession of a firearm. three armed men held up the and tack several pairs of air jordan tennis shoes. we do not know the identities of the other that. john: proposal to build a wall at the border with mexico. why trump is easing his tone. john: the new action by the united states in response to north korea's recent rocket launch. barbara: weather and traffic together and look at that picture from chopper 11 h.d. wait for t., wait for it. there! barbara: that was worth it. it is gorgeous, the sunrise on friday morning. can you ask for anything more. steve: that is beautiful. it is cold though. temperatures way down right now. numbers across the region basically below freezing. we will warm up to slightly below average and beg warm-up for the -- big warm-up. anniversary on abc. watch the wonderful world of 60 and share your favorite steve: welcome back. organic to you on this friday looking great out there. fayetteville is cold but fair skies. a couple of clouds. light breeze around two miles an hour. areawide temperatures below freezing from 23 in roxboro and louisburg to 32 in clinton. siler city 30 and sanford a called 24. kids bundle up. above freezing by 9:00 but generally fair skies after the cold start. a coil chilly afternoon. the temperatures go up to the mid 60's tomorrow and warmer sunday. down next week. back to 40's for highs tuesday. travel out of r.d.: all major hubs with no delays. the seven-day forecast in a few minutes. john: plan to build a wall along the mexico border was not christian. >> he said something much softer and heard one side much the story probably by the mexican government and didn't see the tremendous strain that the border is causing has a "awfully big wall at the vatican." barbara: korea slapped with tougher sanctions for pushing president obama signed that yesterday. it is weeks after the north launched a rocket carrying a satellite and conducted a fourth underground nuclear test. john: we are keeping you connected to big stories online. barbara: amber is tracking it. amber: a couple of trending stories. this is on abc11.com and pretty cute to start friday. something you don't see all the time on north carolina beaches. this is a seal sunning on the beach on once afternoon. high school students had an early release day and saw it. it made the way back to the water but people loving that. loving this as well. have you seen in the have you seen this panda. it comes out of. cave in the toronto zoo and tumbles down, shakes it off like taylor swift and start rolling again. it is super cute. how about adele. performance at the grammys the other night. she's now talking about it and it is a top trending story from abc news. she said she cried the next day pretty much all day. she said she had a beer and burg are after the show to try to cope as if it happens again she will stop and say this isn't working, i can start over. she was extremely embarrassed. another reason why much loves her because she is like the rest of us. barbara: she is awesome. amber: see sang on ellen and did a redemption. not that she needed one. john: thanks, amber. barbara: ahead on "eyewitness news" new developments in the san bernardino terrorist case. john: f.b.i. searching the home of the gunman's brother but no closer to getting inside his iphone. why apple says hacking it could set a dangerous precedent. barbara: farewell to antonin enamel is your teeth's first line of defense. but daily eating and drinking can make it weak. try colgate enamel health. it replenishes weak spots with natural calcium to strengthen enamel four times better. colgate enamel health. barbara: we are following breaking news from chopper 11 h.d. we want to show you appear accident n. krfpltc. 42 and neuse colony drive in johnston county east of clayton. you can see this is a bad accident with emergency vehicles. this is going to be a problem for the commute. this is breaking up but this is chopper 11 h.d. over n.c. 42 at neuse colony east of calculate in johnston county. we will have more on this in weather and traffic coming up. caitlin: today is the day people will flock to the supreme court pay respects to antonin scalia. his casket will lie in repose in the great hall to accommodate crowds. it will be carried there by supreme court police and clerks as pallbearers. and the former clerks will also be taking turns standing vigil by the casket into tonight. there will be a private ceremony first this morning and then justice scalia's casket will be on display from 10:30 until 8:00 this evening. back to you. john: today a judge in fort worth will decide whether the affluence teen will have his case transferred to an adult system. he was given probation for drunk driving crash that killed four. then he and his mother took off to mexico after the 18-year-old allegedly violated his probation. barbara: to the investigation into the san bernardino terrorist attack. of the brother of syed farook. they spent about four hours there yesterday and were seen taking a computer and folders. he was not arrested and has not been n design a back john: virginit year but it is forth clear when it will be ready for tourists. barbara: the view is a special treat for visitors. that happens only around this time of year. this looks like fire flowing off a cliff. park rangers say it is the supbn glowing through a fire wall. the angle of the sun has to be just right which happens only a couple of weeks in february. it becomes a hot spot for photographers. john: beautiful. barbara: that is incredible. steve: wow! that is cool! john: let's talk about the weekend weather, steve, looking good? steve: we have no concerns at all. i think there might be a shower sunday evening as the front comes in but that is showing signs of change for next welcome. next week we will have active weather days. most active will be tuesday and tuesday potentially a decent soaker but we have a lot of deep moisture coming our way. you see that coming in with the trough. good chance of rain next week and temperatures will go down. this weekend looking great. highs mid to upper 60's, more clouds around sunday but we should be dry during the day. by the evening hours could have a light shower. chance monday likely tuesday and wednesday and rain coming our way and colder with highs below average as we go into next tuesday and lasting potentially national weekend. mild sunday and cooler weather tuesday and reinforcing shot of cool air thursday and potentially more cold air with another trough as we go into the weekend. so enjoy this weekend because temperatures are going down as we go into next week. fayetteville 32 and light breeze. we are in the 20's and 30's with louisburg the cold spot at 23 this morning and sanford not far numbers climbing, 44 by lunchtime and low 50's this afternoon. the average is 56 but this weekend well beyond that beating those numbers probably ben 1:00 tomorrow morning. sharks and kanes tonight. puck at 7:00 and if you are tailgating a little cool. mid 40's. 43 when you head out. clear skies now and a few clouds expected this afternoon. high moves to the southeast and that means a southwesterly flow around the haoeuigh which will warm us up and they high clouds our which. more mid level clouds and upper level clouds later. mid to upper 60's. this front believe moves through sunday night and could bring a shower and stall to the south and bring rain to the area into tuesday. heading out to the mountains to do a little bit of skiing this weekend? saturday with a chance at a shower. we will get rain likely into sun in the mountains. for us looking great, 65 tomorrow. 68 sunday and rain chance monday with rain likely tuesday and wednesday and temperatures going back down to the mid 40's for highs. so enoutwarmth. john: absolutely. barbara: nasty accident. amber: johnston county chopper 11 h.d. there breaking news if you are traveling on n.c. 42 and you go past this intersection neuse colony drive east of clayton n.c. 42, there is a pretty serious wreck blocking the intersection. they are trying to get folks around it but a delay forming there. 540 and leesville nice sunrise and nice dry start. down. volume building on 540 but still on time as we approach 7:00. the rest of the major interstates accident free. we have typical delay 40 westbound clayton bypass about 28 miles an hour average as you approach that delay. your drive times pretty nice on major interstates. 40 eastbound five minutes 64 to 70. beltline just great westbound four minutes capital to u.s. 70. durham freeway six minutes i-40 to u.s. 15 fplt. barbara: coming up the morning rush. john: the big stories you will be hearing about including the big decision facing state lawmakers that could impact how barbara: why with 20 megs of internet speed from centurylink, a family of four can all be online at the same time, streaming, gaming, or downloading movies. but i think hair and makeup went a little too far. yeah, that's not working. i much prefer the two-day beard, horn-rimmed glasses, just-slept-in-his-car kinda thing. yeah, i miss the rumpled crazy uncle look. okay. be "paul giamatti." that's the essence of this role. feel like a hollywood insider barbara: all the news weather and traffic you need before you head out. john: an accident in johnston county is causing traffic difficulties. amber: we are following this breaking news with the assistance of chopper 11 h.d. over johnston county. this is east of clayton n.c. 42 at neuse colony drive a crash blocking the intersection. east of clayton if you head there expect delays or try to avoid the area if possible. for vote 2016 in north carolina. lawmakers proposed moving the congressional primary to june 7 and eliminating the need for a runoff election. the presidential primary will still be in march. if all goes as planned the general assembly will approve the new maps. john: n.c. d.o.t. taking advantage of warmer weather to make repairs to i-40/440 work zone. we are waiting to learn the names of the passengers. john: health officials add that more kraob island to a zika virus alert for pregnant women. aruba and bonn area. it is transmitted by mosquitos birth detect in babies. paratroopers and families are reunited arriving at pope army airfield after serving nine months in iraq. they left last june and were there in support of operation inherent resolve in iraq. barbara: bring on the nice weather. you. 60's and enjoy. we will be cool and wet next week. good morning, america. heart-stopping crash caught on tape. a helicopter with five tourists on board plummeting into pearl harbor. new video of witnesses diving in to rescue the victims. cutting a 15-year-old free from the wreckage. those heroes are going to join us live only on "gma." pope. those stunning remarks saying the gop front-runner is not christian. trump fires back all through the night. >> no leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man's religion or faith. >> and donald trump joining us live this morning. record heat. building across much of the country for the weekend. blazes sparking firenados. the wind warnings and advisories spread from california to new york.

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