Kristen do you want me to come off the box . Lyndsay i like that better. Im used to being a tinny bit taller than you. We have the weekend upon us, kind of humid, felt like spring all week, we havent had humidity, started to come up a little more so today youll notice it more. Muggy with the higher humidity and temperatures in the 70s. Cloudy, does that mean a lot of rain . Not necessarily, shower Chance Holding 20 , it is not overly wet tomorrow different story. Were seeing things turn more unsettled for the second half of the weekend. Talk about the weekend forecast in a few minutes. Kristen a looming deadline for voters in North Carolina who want to cast their ballots early. You have until 1 00 today to if you dont participate in early voting you have to wait until election day, this coming tuesday, the primary day. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton continue to lead the two major parties in the president ial election. Donald trump is responding to a controversy. He didnt want people to get hurt and that is why he called off a rally in chicago last many of you watched it unfold. Removed people. Alex giles has more. Reporter protesters clashed with officers and with each other outside the university of illinois after donald trump postponed his rally because of safety concerns. Thank you very much for your attendance and please go in peace. The crowd of thousands erupted after the announcement. We want trump. We want trump. Confronted each other. Some got violent. We want truup. The crowd spilled in the streets of chicago. Kind of a once in lifetime experience to see a president ial candidate, yeah, walk outside an people are yelling at you. Power to the people. Silencing the speech of so many americans, he is making people scared to wake up in the morning. Some say postponing the rally was a mistake. I think a bad precedent it will encourage more bad behavior. Donald trump called in msnbc to defend the move. Chicago is the home of very bad rallies, i didnt want that to happen. We were confident to provide the proper amount of security for mr. Trump to get in the event and leave the event. Get him out of here. Earlier friday, 32 people were arrested at his rally in st. Louis. Folks. He dismissed claims hes dividing the country and using hateful speech. Police arrested five people at the event. Trump has three rallies planned for today. Were hearing more reaction from donald trump saying the violence in chicago was not his fault. I dont take responsibility, nobody has been hurt at our rallies. I hope my tone is not that of causing violent. My basic tone is that of securing our borders, of having a country and a great country. There were several people hurt including a Chicago Police officer who was hit in the head with a bottle. We have put together more video and photos from the cancelled rally, put them on wbtv. Com, you can share that link with people on facebook and twitter as well. As many of you head to the polls as the early voting wraps up, were looking ahead to tuesday. Bernie sanders addressed a huge crowd yesterday in raleigh. Thousands came out, many trailing Hillary Clinton. She will be campaigning in charlotte monday before the primary, she will be holding a get out the vote event at Grady Cole Center in uptown. Starts at 7 30, open to the public and we will be there to bring youcomplete coverage. Republican candidate ted cruz is set to appear at a rally monday at Charlotte Motor Speedway on the property there. Event at zmax. Carly fiorina will be there and glenn beck. There are free tickets online, we have put a link on wbtv. Com. Now this morning a local mother killed in a terrible crash driving her child to school will be laid to rest today. Kandace helms died after a truck crashed into her on tuesday. Two young boys were taken to the hospital but survived. Friends put together a Gofundme Gofundme account for the family, so far has raised close to 4,000. Up that will be used to help pay for the childrens college fund. People gathered in hickory to remember two people shot and killed outside a mcdonalds, cody watts and richelle lail. The kindest human being on the planet. Would give his shirt to anybody or anything. Richelle, a fun, kind hearted person. Would tell you like it is. Deputies charger rick yount withcharged eric yountwith the murder. An accident at wilkinson boulevard and west morehead street, a cats bus in an accident. The three people were taken to the hospital all expected to be okay. After he crashed in a car. A man. This is a Moores Chapel near kendall drive. The man is seriously hurt. Investigators had part of the road blocked off several hours. Police have not said if anyone will face charges. Were learning more about the woman accused of stealing an ambulance in charlotte. Autumn prieschl was arrested at albermarle and denberg drive. We were as she was taken in custody. Police used the on board gps to track it down. Deputies given us new photo of a robber who held up this local are a bees arbys restaurant. He hops overthecounter. He is wearing distinct black and red motocross gloves. If this is familiar to you, call the sheriffs office, you dont have to give your name. Encouraging to you take steps toward better health. Later this morning take part under walk with a doc. Wakes have the chance to ask questions about their health with this months featured physician, melody harrison, a pediatrician at sutton road pediatrics. First time participants get a free tee shirt and pedometer. Will be held at Piedmont Medical Center trail at river walk in rock hill. Registration is not required. River walk is nice, that is a nice place. Nice they are getting it in early. Lyndsay today it is hit or miss with the shower chance. I dont think one time period has a higher chance than others. Overall you should be okay. Al tinnyny shower chance. We spring forward tonight, for we all get excited when we have the longer day, more daylight later in the evening. That means that sunset tomorrow is at 7 30 p. M. That will be nice. Average High Temperature for the day is around of 62. Yesterday we hit 81, 20 degrees above average, were at 62 now in charlotte as of the 5 00 a. M. Hour, were already at the temperature that we typically average for highs for the time of year right now. 60 monroe, albermarle, 59 statesville, morganton 59, 56 in boone. Hourbyhour forecast shows low 70s by noon. 78 by 4 00. This forecast has changed since yesterday, yesterday at this time it was looking like the cold front would make it through we would get up in the low 70s today but that has changed, looking like it will take longer to come through. That is why highs will be in the upper 70s for today. Not as warm as yesterday, still well above average. 60s in ashe, watauga, avery counties. Highest chance is across the high country for later this afternoon Holding Around 30 for us. Everyone has a better opportunity to pick up wet weather tomorrow. Talk about that and what the week ahead looks like in the seven day first alert forecast. Kristen next, nancy reagan fare laid to rest. Another case of zika virus in North Carolina. Details where it has been confirmed and where officials think it came from. Is wbtv news saturday morning. I just picked us up 2 breakfast croissants for 4, when this bear attacked. With one swipe, it devoured one of the croissants. Then jack showed up, and took care of the beast, so i could escape. And thats what happened to your breakfast croissant. And yours . It survived. Enjoy freshly cracked egg with ham and bacon. Or sausage. Two tasty croissants at an eventastier 4 price. Closed captioning on wbtvnews is sponsored by subarusouth boulevard and subaruconcord. Kristen another case of the this makes the fifth travelrelated case in the state. The most recent involves a person in for forsite county. A vaccine could be ready this fall. The virus is hitting puerto rico hard, where there is concern thousands of pregnant women could be infected this year. It has been linked to birth defect that leaves newborns with abnormally small heads and developmental delays. We are getting a look at the view from one of charlottes newest towers, the Mint Museum Apartment Tower celebrated the topping out ceremony. It wont get higher than that, look at the view someone will get of bank of america stadium. That is sweet. The 394 unit, 43story tower will be open to renters this fall. Beautiful night for the return of Food Truck Friday in Charlotte South end. Sycamore brewing behind the atherton mill. Five food trucks there every friday along with live music and beer, also dogfriendly, the old spot is being developed, turned into office space. Looking ahead some of the best beer souths in south end are coming together for the craft crawl. Kickoff to charlotte craft beer week. Features six stops, one every two hours. It runs from noon until 10 00 tonight and you pay for beverages of course. All day lots of free south end swag like bottle openers and shot glasses. Find more information on historicsouthend. Com. They look like they are having fun. If that is your idea of fun. That will not happen to you if you go to the craft crawl. It wont happen on the show either. Your brownies are good. I think they were better than average. Yeah. Kristen warned me she made brownies but they were average, i think they were better than average. That is nice of you, thanks. I feel better now. Only a couple left, better hurry. Lyndsay a lot going on, it will be kind of sticky, the higher humidity but sun is not going to be shining too bright lee all day today, we have a lot of cloud cover that will be out there, cant see it right now, once the sun comes up a mostly cloudy sky, pretty much for the majority of the day time. Hornets colors on the duke energy building. 62 in charlotte right now, the dew points in the upper 50s, any time you get closer to the 60 degree mark for the dew point it starts to feel more humid. Getting closer to that and looks like the dew point temperatures will be in the upper 50s all day long today. Borderline on the humid side. Clean sweeps, so nothing actively falling on the radar. Cloud cover and again that is not totally going to change Going Forward today, will stay partly to mostly cloudy all day long. Talking about rain to the west all week and aerial coverage has just about shrunk. We have a back door cool front coming in later, will drop south across the carolinas throughout the course of the day, that is kind of a trigger combined with the higher humidity weve got in place could be enough to touch off a shower in a couple spots by later today. But you will see on futurecast, not talking about a whole lot. Through the morning hours, here is what the coverage looks like 5 00 a. M. Going forward in time through the early morning, 8 00 a. M. And through early on this afternoon, 4 00 and were starting to see the clouds breakup a little bit by later bottom line not that wet of a day. Maybe there could be a couple sprinkles, rain drops on you for a few of us for later this morning and this afternoon, if you have any outdoor plans, not enough you would need an umbrella whatsoever. Talking light for anything that does fall out there today. Temperaturewise, hold in the mid 60s in the mountains for the foothills you will be in the low 70s, taylorsville 75, 72, rather, 75 lenoir and same in morganton, charlotte area upper 70s not as warm as yesterday when we hit 81, but still above average with the 78. Wind out of the south at 510milesperhour. Upper 70s near 80 across the upstate of South Carolina and like yesterday, where there wasnt a lot of sun, still more clouds but that is not going to stop the temperatures from coming up to well above average levels. 60 shower coverage tomorrow, low 70s, looks a little cooler and wetter for the second half of the weekend. Outside and as we head in the early part of next week, few showers and storms linger in monday, beyond that looks warm, tuesday, wednesday, still close to 80 and by the way, spring starts one week from tomorrow, march 20th. A week from tomorrow. Next sunday. Kristen we lose sleep this weekend. Lyndsay correct, spring forward. Lose an hour of sleep. Kristen we are getting hangses after a local woman found her dog wearing a shock collar coming home from doggie daycare. Youre watching wbtv news saturday morning. Speak out is an expression of opinion from the Editorial Board of wbtv, and is presented by general manager, scott dempsey. Unless youve been away months, you probably know that next tuesday is the North Carolina primary election. So this is usually the week that civic organizations and Media Outlets encourage you to exercise your right to vote. We call it a privilege, an opportunity. Even a responsibility. And it is all of those things. But this year, north carolinians really do have a chance to make a difference. Our primary has been moved up from may to march for the first time. Now there are still a number of viable candidates from which to choose. In the past, the nominees had pretty much been decided by other states by the time we got to vote. And, oh, dont we have a colorful assortment of wannabes . 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Kristen many of you drop your pets off at daycare trusting they will be taken care of but a family turned to wbtv after find what and to be a shock collar around their beloved sophies neck. The owner of lake norman puppy planet said it was an awful mistake. Reporter obvious the second you walk in the door, eightyearold sophie is the apple of danielle and jasons eyes. Least aggressive dog. Started taking the dog to lake norman puppy planet. Everything looked great. I was happy until the last time. This changed it all. Danielle picked up sophie from daycare when she got home, she found what and to be a shock collar around her neck. Its like going to pick your child up at daycare and she has a shock collar on. I dont know if someone new started working. Her second day and she innocently, you know, made a mistake. Melissa owns the daycare, she says this is all a terrible mixup made bay new employee. Im shocked as the owner it happened because i mean, she is a sweetheart, there is no reason for it, none at all. The collars are used on dogs they are training and only with their owners permission. We have different training collars here but once again, the certified trainer insists this isnt a shock collar, instead a static electricity collar with less kick to it. But danielle and jason say it shocked them. It dont take much, it has a good little bite to it. The family is looking for a new home away from home for sophie, while the owner is owning up to their accident. It was truly an honest mistake were very sorry. In denver, blake blake, sarah blake morgan, wbtv on your side. They have put a new protocol in place to make sure it does not happen again. President obama helped kicked off the south by southwest festival how he used a q and a session to talk privacy and security. Tower cam, steve today is your lucky day. Woman surprised oh, my goodness mark youve just won a thousand dollars woman thatamazing that amazing shrieks woman ok, nice job. Mark, way better than yesterday. Maria, that delivery felt a little forced. And steve, steve yeah . Woman i am still missing that raw emotion. Woman pretty awesome for a tuesday, but tomorrow is hump day, so lets really bring it lucky for life. Win a thousand dollars a day, morning all the early risers up with us, we love that. Lyndsay we do love that. Were struggling. Kristen were underslept. We didnt sleep enough. Lyndsay that is what would you call it . Underslept . Kristen overtired. Lyndsay working on the photo collage to illustrate that point, just wait for it. Kristen put it up on the old ig. Lyndsay were not allowed to talk about this anymore. Temperatures, 62 in charlotte, a lot of spots, gastonia, morganton, 56 in boone, 55 rock hill, upper 50s in lancaster and in chester, South Carolina. So another kind of mild start for the time of year, yesterday we were in the low 80s, we wont be that warm today, today in the upper 70s and will be more humid. Little stickier because of the higher humidity, shower chance is pretty low despite the higher humidity and clouds well have with us. Ill show you that on futurecast and second half of the weekend which looks wetter for tomorrow, coming up in a few minutes. Kristen lyndsay, thank you. A celebration for the life and legacy of former first lady nancy reagan. Hundreds of dignitaries and celebrities honored her at a private service yesterday. She planned much of the ceremony herself. She was remembered for her fierce devotion to her husband and country. Ben tracy has more. Likely wouldnt have been a president Ronald Reagan without a nancy reagan. She knew how to love and she loved one man more than the world. Mother with love and honesty. Its no secret that my mother and i had a challenging and often contentious relationship. I tried her patience, and she intimidated me. There were moments in our history when all that was going on between us was love. I choose to remember those moments. Watching from the front row were a former president and four women who know what it is like to make the white house home. While president reagan passed away more than a decade ago, his love for his wife was still very much present. For there could be no life for me without you. A love letter he wrote to his first lady in 1981 was read by former canadian Prime Minister brian mull rooney. How do i love thee . Let me count the ways. For me, there is no way to count. Mommy, first lady, t