In north carolina. Acts activists pro protesting federal raids on immigrants. They say its tearing families apart in north carolina, georgia and texas. Its a constant fear. This takes a psychological toll on people, like since i was a kid ive had a mistrust of the police because every time i saw a police car i automatically feared i would be separated from my parents. Dhs secretary jay johnson says the raids shouldnt have come as a surprise and says more will come as warranted. Immigration argument continues to have a major impact on the 2016 race for the white house. However tonights republican debate, the issue seems to be staking a back seat to the drama surrounding who is showing up and who is going heres trace tracie potts. Reporter just released our marist poll showed donald trump flipping the script in iowa now up by 7 over ted cruz who was leading there earlier this month. Hes up by 19 in New Hampshire and 16 in South Carolina. Yet his feud with fox news anchor megyn kelly led to one less candidate on stage tonight. I dont like being taken advantage of. Reporter fox confirms there will be no empty podium. Trump tells South Carolina voters its what the u. S. Should have done with the iran nuclear deal. You walk out and you just leave. Reporter ted cruz challenged trump to a oneon one saturday. Even reserved a spot. Trump has a competing event. He doesnt want to answer questions from the men and women of iowa about how his record doesnt match what he is selling. Reporter drawing attention to where cruz was born trump tweets can we do it in canada . Other candidates are ready to interesting side show, greatest show on earth. This is not a show, this is serious. Reporter Chris Christie recalls being bumped from the main stage. Did i whine and moan . Did i refuse to show up . Did i hold my breath and stamp my feet . No. I said you know what . Give me a podium and a microphone, you dont walk away. You stand up and fight. Reporter tracie potts, nbc news, washington. Check out the wncn political page for an update on the campaigns and candidates. Right now on wncn. Com. Theres new tensions between the u. S. And iran this morning. The iranian navy warned an american warship to leave an area in the sea of oman where they were conducting drills. This is less than a month after iran detained and then released 10 u. S. Sailors who entered irans territorial waters by mistake. Veterans get the chance to meet with potential employers today. A military career fair underway raleigh. That is where we find emma wright live with this story. Emma . Reporter this career fair just kicked off around 11 00, check this out. We have tons of people coming through. We had people lined up for about the past hour waiting for this to open. Were up here in the towers of carterfinley stadium, pretty cool. Theyve got booths lined all up and down here. They say they have about 45 booths in the whole place. They say they are expecting 400 to 500 people throughout this morning and this afternoon. I talked with the company that puts this on, recruit military, earlier. They say they always get a good turnout in raleigh because we have such a large military population in the Central North Carolina and they say not only is the turnout at this job fair good, they say the success rate is as well. They say they added up the year and they say a majority of them now have jobs as the years have come and gone companies have started to realize these are insanely good candidates. These are natural leaders. They just fit so perfectly into any corporate culture. So they are just really good job candidates. They outperform their peers in many cases. It just makes Good Business sense for the most part at this point. Reporter the concept of this job fair is pretty simple. They say if youre a veteran or Military Spouse just come on down, maybe put on your sunday best or a suit if you have one. Go up and down and talk to the companies that youre interested in, they say if you want to come out, you want to be sure you bring an updated resume, this career fair runs from now until 3 00 this afternoon here at the towers at carterfinley stadium. Reporting live in raleigh, emma wright, wncn news. Right now a slightly gloomy raleigh skyline. Its a little gray. Meteorologist Alyssa Corfont with the forecast. The gray skies, the clouds actually a good thing when it comes to keeping us a little warmer. Yes. Especially during the morning hours. The afternoon its going to keep us a little cooler. Here we are at Prestonwood Country Club in carey, cloudy skies dominating our forecast for another afternoon but dont worry, just in time for the weekend the sunshine will be back. Lets go ahead and talk about what is going on now. This is our satellite and radar composite. Showers streaming in from South Carolina this morning. They are now moving across hoke county into southern portions of cumberland county. These showers continue as we head into the afternoon. So our radar scanning the skies, extreme southern portions of cumberland. Sampson, now through hoke county seeing the rain showers this morning. Raeford, again, south of downtown fayetteville. Its going to move right up 95, eventually going to move into Harnett County as well. Dunn may be dry now but if hour or so know youll need the umbrella. Currently 41 raleigh. 40 sanford. 43 pinehurst. North of the triangle temperatures still in the 30s. 38 henderson. 34 roxboro. Heres your fast fast. 42 at lunchtime. A few showers, they start to increase in coverage as we head towards 3 00 and the evening drive home as well. 46 our afternoon high. Back to 42 by 6 00 p. M. Ill have more on how long these rain showers hang around and when you can expect the sunshine and 60s again coming up in the complete forecast. 11 08. This just in affluenza teen ethan couch on his way back to texas from mexico. Immigration authorities in mexico put the fugitive on a plane headed to dallas. His attorneys used an affluenza defense to get him out of serving jail time for a deadly drunk driving accident. Understand right from wrong because of his affluent background. Federal leaders have a new public hearing scheduled today on their controversial city seal. Critics call the seal offensive because it features the markethouse, used to sell slaves in the 1800s. Some say it doesnt truly represent fayetteville and others say its part of the citys history. Shocking abuse case prompts the aspca to remove animals from a hoke county animal shelter. Its at the haven Animal Rescue shelter where more than 600 animals were living in what authorities call deplorable conditions. The owners Stephen Joseph spear and linden spear were charged with several counts of animal cruelty. They operated without a license for 10 years. A trooper shot near to improve. Injured in a gun battle wednesday after israel rodriguez was firing on the troopers that were trying to stop him. Troopers returned fire killing rodriguez. Fields is recovering from gunshot wounds to the leg and stomach area. He were wearing a bulletproof vest thankfully at the time of the shooting. A Georgia State trooper recovering after being shot twice during an altercation, or shooting yesterday. Well tell you more about this later. Burns, oregon, federal agents and Oregon State Police make three more arrests linked to the ongoing armed occupation of federal wildlife refuge. The fbi says the men, one from georgia turned themselves in at a checkpoint near the refuge. This comes after one protester was killed, another wounded in a shootout tuesday night. Ammon bundy, the leader, who is now in custody urging his followers to stand down. Let us take this fight from go home and hug your families. This fight is ours for now. In the courts. The group is protesting issues over federal land rights. A big congratulations to a unique Nonprofit Group called go mentor. This week the organization completed a mentoring Training Program to bridge the gap between the Durham CountySheriffs Office and the community youth. Go mentor has mentors volunteering and listen to this, 55 schools and after School Programs in durham and wake counties. Congratulations. Wncn is making a big switch to cbs programming on february 29th. Well brick you hit shows like the big bang theory, march madness and more, you can find it at wncn. Com. Still ahead soda and racing fuel. Sounds like a dangerous deal. It really is. It could be deadly, but that is not stopping kids from drinking it. Rifle suddenly the nation honors seven brave crew members who lost their lives 30 years ago today when the Space Shuttle challenger exploded shortly after takeoff in cape canaveral, florida. Among the tributes, nasa held a wreathlaying ceremony this morning at Arlington National cemetery. The crew includes seven, including alison onazuka, judith resnick, craig jarvis, rob mcnair and School Teacher christa mcauliffe. Nasa also honoring the crew of apollo 1, they died in a fire in 1967. Florida. The Company Announced plans for a new plant in florida. The original manufacturer was in moscow, produced in pennsylvania last year and shifted south when president obama imposed sanctions against russia after its annexation of cry cry mia. Crimea [ have you heard of dewshine . No. Heres a note to moms and dads, it is dangerous and can kill you and your kids. Some teens died after drinking this bizarre mixture of soda and fuel commonly used for drag racing. It contains methanol, extremely poisonous, as little as two tablespoons can be fatal if ingested. Two more High School Students were sent to the hospital. The agency is urging everyone beyond dangerous. If you dont know what is in it or how poisonous it is you shouldnt take it. Many working with tennessee poison control say they had never heard of dewshine until now. By the way this dangerous mixture shouldnt be confusion fused with a legal drink of the same name made by mountain dew. Federal shipments of hoverboards have been seized. They were intercepted in chicago before they could reach market. In some instances the chargers dont have a shutoff. So when the unit is plugged in the charger will continually send a charge to the battery, possibly overcharging the bat row and causing an explosion. Federal agents have seized about 16,000 hoverboards so far but that number is expected to grow though. Nation of brazil is struggling to contain a scary mosquitoborne virus and warns four million cases of the zika virus spread the next year. Its linked to brain damage in thousands of babies in brazil. Dozens of cases cropped up in several other south american countries as well. Fitbit is arguably the hottest fitness tracker on the market, quickly becoming one of the most controversial as well. Does the wearable tech actually work . Theres a Class Action Lawsuit alleging fraud. Claiming the heart rate monitors dont accurately measure heart rate. It surprised Consumer Reports who tested and recommended the fitbit. The publication says it will continue to monitor the allegations but says if you follow directions the monitor is accurate. Eating foods rich in flavonoids may help combat study published in the journal bmj. 124,000 middle aged and older people were in the study and it helped maintain weight better and some even lost weight. Flavonoids appear in many foods. The National WeatherService Confirms a tornado did touch down in south florida. Yesterday it was rocking and rolling there. Its a storm system moving up the east coast. A ef1 hit broward county, and Fort Lauderdale area. Despite widespread damage only one injury reported. A tornado in january may seem odd but the Severe Weather season is just Getting Started in south florida. They see that weather a little earlier than we typically do. 41 degrees now, no Severe Weather of our own. Just gray skies, a few showers. Its 41 outside the Raleigh Durham international airport. Satellite and radar composite. Over the past few hours we watched these showers now start to pull out of South Carolina and move into, southern portions of north carolina. They are starting to fall now across cumberland county, sampson county, even hoke county. The areas that actually saw rain already today. They saw the showers early this morning, that is where it is falling again. Around spring lake towards fayetteville. Raeford seeing a few showers but looks like the showers starting to taper off for you. The showers are going to continue as we head throughout the afternoon. Keep the umbrella nearby, even if you have not seen rain so far today because i think theres the chance for showers in wake county. 42 our temperature at noon. 44 at 2 00. Our high this afternoon 46. Those rain chances steadily climbing for us as we head throughout the afternoon. They will stay heightened around 6 00. That drive home may take a little longer because of rain, 42 at 6 00. 39 by 8 00 p. M. This evening. Were talking about that system down across central portions of florida. Front extends from florida all the way out into the atlantic ocean. That is where were watching this area of low pressure arrive later this afternoon. That is providing us that chance for some afternoon showers. Well time out the showers, they are here around 2 00. Mainly along our easternmost communities and towards the coast. 6 00 p. M. Same situation. These though could be impacting areas from the triangle and east. If youre further west, say durham, orange county, you could easily stay dry. Then dry weather will spread all across the area overnight. Skies are going to clear quickly. Tomorrow morning it will be cold because of the clear skies but by tomorrow afternoon that sunshine is going to warm us up. The warming trend will just keep on coming as we head throughout the coming days. 51 tomorrow. 55ur if you think that is warm, look at monday, 66 our afternoon high as we start next workweek. Right now were far from that mark. 41 in raleigh. 45 lil lillington. Red soxborough is 34 red soxborough is 34 though. Roxboro. Tonight skies clear and we fall to a temperature near freezing. As we head into the coming days were look at 51 friday, plenty of sunshine. Tomorrow is going to be on the breezy side. Then 55 our high on saturday. Sunday and monday, beautiful. Im already brainstorming what im going to do outside those days. And groundhog day next tuesday. We turn our forecasting rights to the little guy in pennsylvania. Its the one thing on my bucket list in college i didnt get to do. Its a few hours from penn state. Everyone goes, its a big party. Its not too late, we can still make it happen. Lets go up there. Well panthers qb addressing an he will fact in the room. Resealing why some fans have been negative. Cam newton was blunt, didnt hold back. I said it since day one, im an africanamerican quarterback that may scare a lot of people because they they havent seen nothing that they can compare me to. You know what . You got to say hes one heck of a quarterback. Hes great. When it comes down to it, super bowl 50s kickoff sunday, february 7th. Hell be the sixth black quarterback to play in the super bowl. The third to win it if he wins it. Russell wilson won it. Hell have to beat this little controversy. Nfl announcing its conducting a excellency investigation on of Human Growth Hormone use after an aljazeera report that says man mannings wife received it at the home for peyton though. Results of the tests wont be keep it coming up on may carolina today cold weather means you want something warm. Where to get the best soups in the triangle. And helping you plan your weekend. Carolina museum of the budweiser clydesdale family welcomes its newest member. Hes mac in honor of the clydesdales being the icons. Anheiser busch announced he was born tuesday in booneville, missouri. Were familiar with the area. 46, good chance of rain this afternoon, its cool. 50s though return tomorrow and im ready for it, sunshine all weekend long. Who is cooking the barbecue . Have a great day. My carolina today next. Have a great thursday. When it comes to connecting to the world online, people have different needs. Whether its keeping up with loved ones or keeping up with the latest trends. At t uverse high Speed Internet lets you get the fast and affordable internet thats right for you. 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