Do you believe that what you are done here that africanamerican voters have a reasonable opportunity to elect candidates of their choice . I can see the you are brilliant man. You are very good attorney. Im going to answer that by saying these maps were adopted by the criteria adopted by this committee. Angelica 24 yeses and 11 nose. The committee decided i criteria to follow the new map. Districts of equal population and is not use race as a deciding factor as they were accused of doing in 2011. The democrats say the new map is they have probably carved out 10 districts for republicans and only three for democrats. Angelica theres a federal court order to produce a new map by friday. Counting the governor mcauliffe special session tomorrow. They are waiting to find out from the Supreme Court whether the new map will be used on your ballot come march 15. That special session will be here at 10 00 tomorrow morning. Steve president obama will travel to cuba next month. The official annou
Now we have traffic with amber rupinta. Amber we are looking forward to a nice day and we start nice on our roads. Thursday morning commute looking great. This is a peek into fayetteville and owen drive and gillespie and you see it is clear and moving fine. Heading into fort bragg you should not encounter any problems and the weather is departmenting after we had such cooperating. Our road weather index not returning any issues, no fog or precipitation this morning. We start accident free on the majors. This is 540 and glenwood avenue. We will check the drive times in a few. John happening today a special session of the General Assembly that could change how we vote in North Carolina. Governor mccrory summoning lawmakers to west jones street to approve a new congressional map. Gloria rodriguez is there with gloria there is still some controversy over the new maps. It passed with a 2411 vote. The committee decided on criteria to follow in the new map. They include creating districts of
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We will have that and the warm kwrp for the wind warmup for the weekend. John today a special session in the General Assembly that could chang how we vote in change how we vote. Give mccrory summoning laurels to approve a new congressional map. Gloria rodriguez is live in downtown raleigh with what the newly redrawn districts mean to us. Gloria the new map still not pleasing everybody. It sis passed with a it 2411 vote. The committee decided on criteria to follow in the new map including creating districts of equal population and not race as a deciding factor as accused of in 2011. Reaction was mixed. The way they created the districts permanently carved out 10 districts republicans and three democrats. That would say you cannot elect democratic members in these districts. Gloria we are waiting on the Supreme Court find out if the new map will be used to decide who will be on your ballot on march 15. I think it is very unfortunate. We have said this is a thing that throws the election
35 goldsboro, 26 sanford, 37 fayetteville. Looking at the day ahead. 32 and mainly clear. By lunchtime sunny and 46. Going home this afternoon we will have 51 degrees under mostly sunny skies. Tonight we will go below freezing then we have very warm air. We will talk about that. Now we have the weather and traffic with amber rupinta. Amber not a lot to talk about starting thursday morning. You are looking nice at gorillaen the live gorman a live look and it is still dark but you can see everything is moving fine and what is missing . Precipitation. We are not dealing with rain showers, no ice, everything is off to a great start. A little volume around gorman but moving without delay. Also missing from the mapping system accidents. No accidents to tell you about. Majors in good shape and road weather index not returning anything in the weather that might slow down. We will look at the drive times caitlin we start with breaking news to bring you a story that is developing as students and