Childhood to say that he does not fit into the narrow category of people of eligible for the Death Penalty. Prosecutors say he serves the Death Penalty. Melissa hugginsjones not only suffered physically but emotionally and was no doubt worried about her 8yearold daughter who was sleeping down the hall as she lied dying. She had been struck 18 times at this point. Lying there in a pool of ood. Helpless. Travion smith should be punished. And nished severely. You, as an individual, believe that the Death Penalty is not the appropriate punishment, and the answer to that question is, no. Smith guilty of firstdegree murder in about an hour after two weeks testimony. How long this difficult history has 38 mitigating factors to consider it away along with two aggravating factors, and of course we will progress of e jury. One person is dead after a logging truck crashed in gaston county. It happened on ghway 321. Lo festivals across the 2 lane road. Stopping traffic. Highway patrol has not said what caused the crash identified the victim. 13 people are dead in afghanistan after a suicide bomber targeted the police commander. None of them are civilians. It happened the northern province. In an email, the taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. In ramada, iraqi rces are taking a long time to remove the large number of widely scattered bombs and Explosives Left by isis in homes and roads. Cleanup in the liberated city is going slowly because of the unavailability of machines to detect and destroy the bombs. Officials have to move manually and carefully. The slow work also means families must wait longer before going back to their homes. An er driver accused of going on a deadly shooting weekend faces several murder charges. 45yearold jason dalton shot eight people in three locations killing six. Andrew spencer reports, investigators are looking for a motive. Reporter 45yearold jason dalton appear before a judge monday, two days after his shooting spree in kalamazoo, michigan. Do you understand the charges made against you . The aximum sentence . Yes. Reporter prosecutors are charging dalton with six counts of murder, two counts of assault with intent to mmit related counts. Police say dalton opened fire at three locations over the course of seven hours saturday night, picking up uber fares in between shootings, a total of eight people were shot. Six of them killed. I said, youre not the shooter, are you . I said, are you re . Im just tired. I have been driving for seven reporter s first stop was at an apartment mplex where a woman was shot multiple times. Condition. Dalton opened fire again at a car dealership where he shot and killed a father and son. Minutes later, five people were restaurant. The only survivor there, a 14 yearold girl who remains in critical condition. Dalton was arrested two urs later. Monday, mass was held in honor of victims. Condolences came from president. Barack obama as he addressed the shooting during a press conference. On saturday another community was terrorized by gun violence. We have families who are shattered today. Reporter i am Andrew Spencer reporting. Uber says it is cooperating with the investigation, and passenger say they called police more than an hour before the shootings began to report lawyers for e company that made a rifle used in the sandy hook shootings are using asking the judge to dismiss a wrongful lawsuit filed by the victims families. Freedom group is based in Rockingham County and is the Parent Company of bushmaster firearms. It is protected by federal law that shields gun manufacturers for most lawsuits over criminal use of their products. A judge is hearing arguments in connecticut today. Family say they are suing under an exception to the law. A quick turnaround from the weekend, tomorrow, gop candidates will caucus in nevada. Fresh off the South Carolina primaries, donald trump is hosting to keep his hot reak going. This past weekend, results in South Carolina making this virtually a threeman race between trump, marco rubio and ted cruz. Cruz claims he is the only candidate who can challenge comp. Rubio is trying to make a mainstream appeal to modern republicans. Still ahead at 4 30, we hear from the major players. Primaries for north happen in march scheduled. Republican senator. Richard burrs up for reecon for democrats want the right to run against him, kenneth griffin, ernest reeves, dennis ray and deborah ross will take part in a halfhour commercial free debate hosted by al. David crabtree will monitor the halfhour discussion. Learn more about the candidates thursday night at 7 00 on tran02. He cdc says people exposed to Lumber Liquidators flooring are more likely to get cancer than previously thought. The laminate flooring makes people three times more likely to get cancer than the cdcs original report. The agency estimates the risk of cancer in 6 to 30 cases per 100,000 people. His recommendations will likely stay the same if people take steps to reduce their exposure. There is growing support for national movement, calling for a ycott of beyonces formation tour. The tour will stop in Carter Finley stadium in raleigh may 3. The Raleigh Police protective association meets tomorrow night to discuss the in a statement to wral, the Organization Says that some members are concerned about what they consider, and by Police Messages portrayed during lftime performances. The statement read, many officers believe it was disrespectful to the Police Profession d hope beyonce will look to less controversial images to convey her point. We will let you know what, if any, actions are taken in tomorrows meeting. Major. General. Richard clarke is the commander of the 82nd division at fort bragg. He is in his final days as commander of Coalition Forces fighting isis. Gilbert baez spoke with him by phone and joins us live from fort bragg with first look at how fighting is going. Gilbert . Reporter i spoke with the general for 45 minutes today. He commands about 4100 u. S. And Coalition Forces from 18 different countries. But he is getting ready to hand the command over to the 101st Airborne Division out of kentucky. Back to rt bragg. 70 arrived early friday about 300 members of the 82nd Airborne Division remain in iraq and will be coming home for the next couple of weeks. General. Clarke says during the past trained 16,000 iraqi grounds in the past couple of weeks. He says during the past nine months, they were aimed at helping iraqis regain cities and towns taking er by jik05. If we see them trying to make an attack when the iraqis are in a mporary posture, we are looking at direct support. 85 of our strength, direct support. Reporter clarke says another 10 to 15 are deliberate strikes aimed at derailing the enemies fighting resources like things, ied factories, and l refineries. Clark says loudly to the attacks have diluted the strength and leadership of the enemy, isil or daaesh still very elusive nd dangerous. Happy to say that his soldiers returned to fort bragg, isil now has 40 less control, gerald, over the country than they had nine months ago when he got there. Iraq. All right, gilbert baez, live from rt bragg. Napa valley wine mogul, Peter Mondavi s died. He led the winners for more he died saturday in california at the age of 101. He battled his more famous brother, robert mondavi, for control of the nery. He played a part in transitioning the napa valley area formally known for cheap wine into one of the worlds most premier wine regions. By now you have probably heard that monday, february 29, nbc is joining al. This 4 00 news is also moving over to tran02. This is the afternoon lineup on al. Start with days of our life, a soap opera that has been on after that, the doctors followed by dr. Phil. Then join us for news on wral. As always we will bring you the most important and interesting news of the y. Our commitment to the community is not going anywhere. You have a lot of questions about this. People do. We have answers for you. Check out the section we have created on www. Wral. Com. An investigation into a violent home invasion, still to come, we are ve in cary with the latest details about the crime and has suspects were captured. All of the countrys forces are accessed. A new report from duke and what researchers say is a major problem. New congressional maps could take weeks to move forward. Plus, arguments from the naacp today. Mike . We had on and off gray skies through the weekend but today, now we are adding ring to the mix. What is it doing to the afternoon commute . You can see on the durham mee thn au alive ils. He e een zeof tser ers ly inurham. 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The naacp is concerned about the new maps. Reporter the plaintiffs in the case that challenge the old state Congressional District maps are asking the federal threejudge panel decide by march 18 whether to approve the new maps that were drawn last week. The state naacp is asking the judge is to throw those maps out and run new ones themselves. Now, t ts is a News Conference that happened today, you are seeing naacp leaders press, quote, serious reservations about the new redrawn map. All the Republican Leaders say they did not use race in constructing e district, the naacp say the new maps disproportionally affects minority voters. Naacp attorney Irving Joyner took Supreme Court to combine all of the North Carolina redistricting cases to make a final decision. That includes legislative districts which were drawn using the same racial florida that florida judges found unconstitutional. District judge is lling to recall it with e district about months away. These people that were elected in the constitutional state and federal districts have been at the forefront of rolling back our nstitutional rights. I mean, every north carolinian ought to be concerned out that. Reporter in a statement, state republican party, dallas woodhouse, said the maps follow all instructions that the federal judges gave state lawmakers and should therefore be upheld. He accused e naacp of trying to raise this issue for political purposes. A jury selection is underway in a 20yearold murder case involving a llege this is the second time that edwin lawing has been charged with murder of the court and the queen. The Shaw University student disappeared in 1996, her body was found in vance county the next year. Investigators arrested lawing shortly after mcqueens body was found. Prosecutors dismissed the charge because of a lack of evidence. Investigators say new test back just let them back to lawing in 2014. The race for the gop president ial nomination moves from South Carolina where donald trump scored a big victory to nevada. Marco rubio and ted cruz are betting that they can pull off the upset there. As Danielle Nottingham explains, democrats are making the reverse trip from vegas to South Carolina. Reporter ko, nevada, a town of just 20,000 people is the center of the nevada caucuses today. Marco rubio, ted cruz, and Donald Trumps son are making appearances ere. It is important because it is a republican stronghold in but, that strongholds may the issues which are important are the ones that they trust trump on. Reporter john two men is the political chair at the local Science Department at unlv. Is the race for nevada a fight for second place . Thats one way of looking at it. A lot of people are looking at whether it will be cruz or rubio finishing in second place. At this point i dont think either one of them can close the gap with tran06. 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