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he is the one responsible in the death of melissa ggins- jones. this case is about the state of north carolina versus travion smith. at the end of the day, the fact that ronald anthony has pled guilty to first-degree murder has no basis, has no relevance to what you are here decide. the jury is considering first-degree murder and second- degree murder. if convicted of first-degree murder, the jury will have to decide if he should be sentenced to death or life in prison. now to a breaking traffic news, a massive police presence has closed i-40 in raleigh. here s what we know. police are investigating a person on that bridge. i-40 is closed in both directions on rock quarry road. you re looking at the traffic camera. you can see evidence of it being close. it is also close up i-40 overpass. the incident involves a person on e bridge. updates as soon as information becomes available. you can also find breaking news updates on our website, www.wral.com. the court ....
cannabis job fair in the world, happening tomorrow right here in the bay area. plus the nfl draft is underway, 49ers fan girl and sports blogger tracy sand ler is on set talking about how the season is shaping up. we have made it to friday. time on jump around, my good men and women of the bay area, on the love bird out there. look at that. another cruise ship making its way pack it up, pack it in, let me begin, mornings on 2, the 9, you come battle me, that s a sin. crisscross? i forget. i know i m way off base. house of pain. you can tell my knowledge of the music is nowhere near what the deejay s is. welcome to mornings on 2. gasia mikaelian and mike mibach, we have reached the end of the week. still plenty of news on this friday. that s right. presidential politics making its way to the bay area and this morning there are new concerns about security at presidential campaign events following violence last night outside a donald trump campaign st ....
it s really on all kinds of sweetened beverages fruit juice, iced tea, energy drinks, you name it. if it s got sugar in it, 3-cents-an-ounce tax. so, we re starting to see some of the pushback against it, the teamsters having an op-ed today, saying, it s a regressive tax. here s why we re against it. yet last weekend, we saw the mayor have a sit-down with people in the beverage industry, powerful forces, and a person that is known well in union circles, john dougherty, was part of that meeting and seeming to be on the mayor s side. how do we read this when we re told unions could be against it but then you have john dougherty? how do all of these pieces come in to play? what does it mean for the prospects of what the mayor s trying to do? well, there s a difference between john dougherty and the teamsters, right? the teamsters made the wrong bet. this is politics 101, right? the teamsters were on the wrong side of the convention center, as jim kenney would see it, ....
throughout our region. i ve been speaking to administration officials with the bowser administration in d.c. they said their goal is to keep d.c. schools and the d.c. government open on time. federal employees, opm said they ll have a statement later tonight. the latest from metro headquarters, back to you. here s an idea of just how many people this impacts. metro is the second busiest transit system in the entire country. trains make between 730,000 and 740,000 trips on a typical weekday. the metro rail system serves the population of more than 4 million people. about 45% of the population inside the beltway uses some form of mass transit. and that means a lot of people need a new way to get to work of course tomorrow. news4 s derrick ward will be joining us from silver spring where most commuters are just hearing about this news. derrick? indeed they just as befuddled or at sea i guess you would say as some government officials are over this. now metro did put ou ....
passing stop-gap measures to continue funding state government and then working on the actual budget later. then there s also negotiations on trying to figure out spending revenue, education funding, pensions, liquor that may or may not be stalled, so let me go to you, val, first. what s going behind the scenes right now from what you hear? well, in a scene reminiscent of high noon , the republican leaders in the house told the governor, we ll give you 24 hours to get your votes. that 24 hours was up yesterday. the governor says he has those votes. as we sit here at the time of this taping, they re deciding on bringing that up for a vote today. you ll need almost every democrat, if not every democrat in the house, plus another 20 to 25 republicans to get an increase to the personal income tax up to about 3.25% or so. and they ll run that probably today as we sit here. if they don t get that done, they don t have the votes for that, then they ll run another stop-g ....