moved out of the area. durham. 38 wake forest. 42 holly springs. we won t be cold enough for this to be frozen. conditions. 37 roxboro. 41 rocky mount. 42 fayetteville. it s cool t. expect upper 30s this morning, upper 40s lunchtime. cooler than yesterday. high. 52 this afternoon. lots of sunshine, still. the sentencing hearing begins today for travion smith. jury found him guilty of murdering melissa huggins jones in her north raleigh apartment. tara lynn is live. smith s life is on the line. reporter: it took the jury one hour of deliberating before they found him guilty. his lawyers will try to argue to save his life as they enter the sentencing phase of this trial today. smith is accused and now old mother of two, melissa huggins joans in 2013. the defense tried to convince jurors, another man, ronald anthony was the ring leader. he pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty. it wasn t enough to convince the jury that smith was also responsible for beating the mother
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pines, and in fayetteville, goldsboro, rocky mount and wilson. it really feels jik16 in southern pines, roxborough, 19 in fayetteville, does not take too much went to make it feel a lot colder. in your planner this morning, temperatures in the mid-20s, only warming to 35 by lunchtime. remember, we ll still have wind with us all day long so it ll feel like 20s until lunchtime, 30s in the afternoon, we will cloud up and may see a few patches flurries. looks like a veloping dorm storm friday and potential for wintry precipitation. we will talk more about that in a couple minutes. brian, everett, look, you have more influence on your map. a lot of stalled vehicle causing problems at 7:02. 40 westbound near rman street leading to a delay leaving the lake wheeler road area. also a report of a stalled vehicle contributing to the place on 40 westbound around the clayton bypass. right now the trip from 42 to the balance play taking 17 minutes. allow extra time to garner heading up
all three victims were committed to community service. before their death, they were working on a project to provide [ indiscernible ] for syrian refugees. there class their classmates have continued on network and the response has been incredible. we have laughed with each other, cried together and work together to make sure that we keep the legacy alive. it has been really hard this past year. that goes without saying. hearing from you all is very important to our family. reporter: investigators say he shot the three victims because of an ongoing parking dispute. the families call it a hate crime. at 6:00, there will be another memorial service held at nc third student attended school. a second suspect charged in connection to the murder of a raleigh taxi driver appeared in court today just in a jail jumpsuit conrad patterson stood as the judge issued formal charges. investigators say patterson and junior are responsible for the shooting death of dominguez. doming
now the wer outages. wind being the big story, 35,000 customers without power in wake county, 1200 and durham county. 3700 and granville county which is seen the most problems but it is a crazy morning out there with the severe weather. blustery wind and all of the rain ming down. that s right, we have not had a lot of lightning but a squall line has much from west to east across the viewing area and kicked wind. we had just been wral s just gusts in fayetteville of to 50 miles per hour on custom of places of 45 miles per hour. we start out with e radar, the squall line is beginning to weaken a little bit. 15 minutes or so we had eight or nine counties under a severe thunderstorm warning, much of that has expired but we zoom into the counties that are still affected. that would be wilson county and johnson unty affected. prceton and kenly, your single rain right now and most tuxedos strong gusty winds of those bands of rain. so let s take a look at who is likely to