At tara lynn is gathering more information right now reporter the gunman is now dead. Now we know his identity. Three of his victims are also dead. A Law Enforcement source tells us that the shooter was 38year old cedric ford. He started shooting around 5 00 p. M. , injuring two people on the street before heading to the plant where he works, excel industry. He had a history with Law Enforcement and they are aware of what may have triggered the shooting but would not elaborate further. Police say he entered the bidding with an Assault Rifle and began shooting. 14 people are also injured, ten of them critically. The gunman was injured by an officer, one of the first ones to arrive on the scene. The Hesston Police department asked the fbi to assist them as thanks, tara lynn. Police received a call about a shooting last night at 8 30 on tivoli court. There was a male victim who apparently was able to take himself to wakemed. His injuries are not believed to be life threatening. Authorities are yet to find a man wanted in a shooting that injured a 13 yearly girl. Laquan alan is wanted for the shooting that happened on nashville road last thursday. This is one in a series of driveby shootings that Police Believe are gang related. A 12yearold boy was also injured in a shooting last week. That one was on burton street. I asked him, where are you shot . He said in the leg. The five republican candidates wrapped up their final debate before super tuesday and it was a brawl from the beginning. This guy is a choke artist you have a combination of factors. He cant do it for the obvious reason. But here is he does not know how to tell the truth. Marco rubio went hard after donald trump ripping the front runners position on immigration, his privileged background and his speaking style. Ted cruz challenged trumps conservative credentials candidates shouting over one another so much that it was hard to follow at times. Much more on the debate coming up in the next half hour. If you want a vote in the primary for North Carolinas u. S. Senate seat, that election will happen march 15th. Republican senator richard burr is up for reelection. Democrats wants the right to run against them. Last night, they took part in the debate hosted by wral. They are former state lawmakers deborah ross, durham businessman condition griffin, chris ray and earnest reeves, a all four made the case for why they should replace burr. Its important that we work together, both parties, to be able to fix the current laws, the current aca thats in place. Unfortunately, the North Carolina legislature has not expanded medicaid and that has made it not work as well as it could in North Carolina. Absolutely, the expansion of the Medicaid Program to cover the gap. The fact that North Carolina has yet to do that is an unconscionable issue. I would repeal the cadillac tax in addition to try to work on a bipartisan basis to work out the mandates which is a problem. After the debate, the executive director of the North CarolinaRepublican Party said that the candidates lacked knowledge in Foreign Affairs and also criticized their support of governmentcreated jobs instead of relying on the private sector. Are you ready for the weekend . Oh, i cant wait, yes after the week we had and have that nice warmup . Yes, yes. Saturday and sunday, well see temperatures warming up. Yesterday, we had wind advisory in effect at this time. And today will still be breezy but no wind advisory. Well have some gusts maybe up to 20 Miles Per Hour and thats the whirly gate park and you can see the whirly sculptures moving around. Pretty to see, part of wilson. Thats where he is from. Right now its 34 in durham. 39 degrees in kerry in cary. Its cold out there this morning. Definitely winter coat weather. By lunchtime, well warm into the mid40s and see a high of 49 this afternoon. The sunshine stays with us all weekend. We do have outdoor plans, the only thing you have to worry about is the temperature. Nice warmup into next week which well talk more about in a few minutes. Brian is talking about bad looking accident there on 540. Yes. We are working in the newsroom to find more about the accident on lumley road. We have lanes closed on both sides. This is eastbound. Two left lanes blocked there and also on the westbound side, down to a couple of lanes as well. But two left lanes are blocked as they try to get back to clearing it up. Looks like two overturned vehicles here in the median. We have a photographer on the way. Hope to have some other information for you here before too long. We are already beyond an hour from capital boulevard to i40. Its crawling through west raleigh right now. Lets show you where the accident is here. Here it is beyond lumley road. Right after that, you can see that the track picks up in terms of speed eastbound delays not eerl as significant as the busy westbound side. Ramp delays on leesville road. Well see backups forming from leadville road. There are not too many good alternate routes. You may want to consider heading down to raleigh. That might save you a little bit of time. 98 looks pretty good as you head towards wake county. Creed more road and beyond. Thats the option for you. Back to you. Thank you, brian. State lawmakers could meet early to discuss charlottes new lgbt protection ordinance. To carry out just one day of a special legislative session. Its a way that children can exploit other children. A controversial teen sexting bill is a step away if becoming law. By nearly a week after a deadly shooting spree in cal is a moo, michigan, investigators still dont have a motive. Jason dalton was interviewed several times and admits to the shootings. His lawyer would not comment opt case. However, lawyers representing his family said that he had been acting depressed. And new tonight, the u. S. Send a missile roaring into the pacific. The launch comes amid growing concern over north koreas pursuit of Nuclear Weapons capable of reaching american soil. State lawmaker he is could come back to raleigh for a special session on charlottes ordinance. Earlier this week, city leaders it against the law for businesses and taxis to discriminate against members of the lgbt community. It also allows them to use the bathrooms of their choice. Yesterday, House Speaker tim moore started asking members if they would be willing to return for a special session. Lawmakers are due to return to raleigh april 25th but that charlotte ordinance goes into effect april 1st. It costs roughly 42,000 a day to hold a special session. It is unclear if moores caucus would support the bid. President obama has launched a program to help teens get their first job. The project support the soothing sultry voice of john legend. Not snoop dog. We had to clarify. Just kidding. Legends is a bit more mellow. Different genre. Are we smooth weatherwise today . It is. A bumpy start but afternoon highs into the 60s. It will be nice. Lets talk more about whats coming our way. This morning into the upper 20s for saturday morning. Usjust be prepared as you get out. Be prepared for winter. Sunny today, breezy, not as sunny, gusts up to 25 Miles Per Hour. Warmup coming sunday and that will continue into next week. Yesterday, members of the National Weather service went out to do a site survey to try to determine whether some of this damage that we had wednesday were caused by tornadoes or straight wind. We had three confirmed. One started Seven Springs at 1 10. And another one in durham and the huntsboro tornado is the one that produced the most it was on the ground for five miles, ef 2, 125 Miles Per Hour. Several mobile homes were destroyed. That was the worst damage that we saw across the area. Into durham, ef 1 with 90 mile perhour winds, only on the ground for about 1 10 mile and did some tree damage. I might be able to pull that back up. Yes, there we go. Down in lane county, we had that storm. Ef 0 with 75 Miles Per Hour winds. It was on the ground for more than a mile. And it did damage a turkey barn and some trees, that sort of thing. It was tough to see all of that come down on wednesday. A lot more tornado warnings than there were tornadoes we were lucky that way. No one was hurt or killed in North Carolina. We were very fortunate because virginia, people there were not as lucky. Winds may gust up to 35 Miles Per Hour. 39 in goldsboro. 36 degrees in Southern Pines. Here is whats likely to happen as you head through the day in Southern Pines temperatures in the mid40s. Well be slow to warm up and only climb into the ummer 40s this afternoon. 49 in erwin. At 3 00 is when we see the warmest temperatures. Into the evening, temperatures will drop quickly. If youre going to be heading out to dinner, movie or an event, well see temperatures drop quickly. Youll need a winter coat into this evening. Saturday, chilly as we. Temperatures in the low 50s here in the afternoon. We continue to see the cold air getting pushed in all the way from canada, thanks to the High Pressure system and a low thats up to the north. Winds between the two of those blowing fairly hard out of the northwest keeping our temperatures cool for the next coupling of days. 49 for today. 51 saturday. We do have that nice warmup in the forecast. It turns warmer and stays that way, monday, tuesday, wednesday, a chance for showers on wednesday and colder temperatures by thursday. But a nice quiet day for us. Nothing too bad coming our way. Remember its going to be pretty cold for the next couple of mornings. Water excited for nice weather for monday on the 29th. Yes. Thats when nbc comes to wral. Yes. A bunch of new friends. Al roker is back. Nice guy with ties to raleigh. Killing call giant basf could be cutting dozens of jobs at Research Triangle park. The company is refocusing its plants biotechnology research. A move that will eliminate 350 jobs including 140 in north america. The plan includes keeping the research and field sites at rtp, they will be reduced in size. President obama is detailing his first job. To recruit teens the president says he learned responsibility and how to work hard by scooping ice cream at Baskin Robbins in an essay posted to the networking site linkedin, the president said that rock hard ice cream was brutal on his wrist. Linkedin has pledged to connect Business Leaders to young people the people. 35 milliondollar was pledged to the president s efforts. Charle is one of the cities that pledged to help. A new bill in new mexico could pass a sexting bill the people convicted of sending images of teens. But the controversial part is that there will be no penalties for teens ages 14 to 17 sharing images as long as it is consentual. The new bill would keep the Law Enforcement out. New Mexico Attorney general agrees and says that the bill will not prevent the feds from prosecuting secting cases. Brian schroeder and the ago department lisa are in the kitchen for sweet and savory advertisers. We are making sweet and safery. Spread a puff pastry on a baking sheet and press the seams together. Prick it with a fork. Brush it all over the bow with over to the stove, where we melt some butter with map will syrup and sauce. Well use that for a sweet potato dip. We saw. We got our sweet potato. We went ahead and bold it and sliced it thats beautiful. Isnt it . A little sprinkle of cinnamon. We get our big puff pastry out of the oven and lisa flattens it into a pizza crust you see you have some there. That one piece got me. Once its flattened, place the potato mixture and proscuitto on it. This is fain sim this is so fancy. This is the fancyiest thing he have ever done as good as it looks. This came right out of your it is 8 25. Big backups and frustrated drivers on i540. Brian, whats going on there . We have an accident around lumley road. Police tell us this is a serious accident with injuries we are working to find out about that. And we have a photograph on the way there. Looks like we have two left lanes on the eastbound side of 540 blocked and two left lanes on the westbound side as well. Heading away from flint avenue toward lumley road. You can see the drive time there at 70 minutes. Stop and crawl all along 40 a look at the accident area itself, zoomed in there. You can see the westbound backups there. As soon as you get beyond lumley road, there is a backup. Aviation parkway continuing all the way towards lumley road. Ramp delays starting to build on leaseville road and creedmore road. Not many alternate. You might want to consider taking creedmore road heading to the belt line and wade avenue. The trip to i40 west looks pretty good. Thats something that well continue to watch. Raleigh police are looking for a shooting suspect. They received a call around 8 30. One male victim got himself to wakemed. His injuries are not believed to be life threatening state Health Officials say there has opinion another flu related death. Four lives have been claimed so far in North Carolina. The c. D. C. Season than last year and the vaccine for this season is a much better match for the most common strain. We have beautiful sunshine but wont warm us up really. No, it wont. Our temperatures dropped down into the low 40s but its beautiful. A look at the apex sky cam, all career aloss apex, looking down salem street, booths full conditions out there. It is cold. We checked some of the temperatures and roxboro is 37. 37 in south hills. 34 in raleigh. Thats the cold spot. Temperatures will climb into the mid40s by lunchtime and a high this afternoon of just 49 degrees looking at breezy conditions, too, not as windy as yet. Gusts to the northwest. A couple more cold starts. Saturday and sunday. Temperatures will be close to freezing. Well see a high tomorrow of 51 but we begin a warmup on sunday. High of 63 degrees and highs in wednesday looks a little bit wet and well talk about the chances for rain in the midweek. Ahead on fox 50, the three most talked about candidates from the republican yesterday. It is almost 8 30. Welcome back. Im bill leslie. And im renee chou. Its case in a murder case of a map accused of killing his girlfriend many. Mikaya thurmond has more. Reporter two people are expected to testify. The lead captain who pursued this case for years as well as the geologist who made the discovery that led to an arrest chris loring was under suspicion for the disappearance of his girlfriend in 1996 but police didnt have the Scientific Evidence to make the charges stick. Her remains were found about 30 miles from raleigh a year ago. The geologist who is expected to take the stand tested a pebble found in the tread of the subjects shoe which matched the rock found where the body was discovered. After the testimony, the state had rest their case. The trial is set to start at 9 30 a. M. Mopped reporting authorities in kansas are trying to figure out what led to a deadly shooting near wichita. 38yearold cedric ford opened fire on several people at three separate locations in the town of hesston, including lawn Care Products factory where he worked. At least four people died, including the shooter who was killed in a confrontation with police. The governor of kansas has ordered state flags to be lowered today in honor of the victims. We learned the name of those involved in a deadly crash in wake county on mitch shellville road and powder road. Winta hill of wake forest failed to yield. Her car was struck by a white suv. Hill died at the scene. Her passenger is in serious condition and two people in the have nonlife threatening injuries. We now know that three tornadoes touched down in our area during wednesdays storm. An ef 2 tornado left a trail of and vance county, packing winds of 125 Miles Per Hour. The twister left a mess along a fivemile paste. Three homes and a dairy farm were damaged. Utility crews spent all day yesterday working to restore power and it could be days before authorities have a total on damage estimates. An ef 1 tornado touched down briefly. There was tree in the front yard that fell through the roof, went into the living room and damaged the living roomage garage. Some homeowners we spoke with expect repairs to take a week. An ef 0 tornado caused damage to a mobile home where a mother and her three children were taking shelter. Joasesjoesefina garcia was inside the home with her three children. They made it out safely touched down in virginia killing three people, including a fouryearold. The governor spent time checking out the damage. Dozens of homes were damaged. Several people hurt. The deadly tornado that cut through the town of waverly near petersburg car offed a path nine miles long the gop president ial candidates wrapped up their last debate before super tuesday. To say that the gloves were off would be an understatement. We saw that. Tara lynn is in the newsroom. It was a night of name calling of course you want to say, what would your mother think . Five candidates on the stage but a conversation between the top three candidates in the race. Marco rubio, donald trump and ted cruz. Marco rubio did not hold back this time against donald trump. He challenged the businessman about a past fine for hiring illegal workers and also pressed him nor details about his health care plan. Trump said he is pro israel but rubio disagrees. As president , however, there is nothing that i would rather do to bring peace to israel and its neighbors generally and i think it serves no purpose to say that you have a good guy and a bad guy. Because i dont know it donald realized this, im sure thats not his intent but the position you take is an anti israel position. We showed you some more of the fireworks about an hour ago. I wanted to show you something that had a little bit more of substance to what these candidates were saying. Many times, the debate moderator has trouble keeping them on track. Of course, they are