Coast today and the midwest as well on the final day of campaigning before five critical primaries tomorrow. Among them, our state, florida and ohio, which could determine if the republican field goes down to two. Tracie potts is in washington with more on the campaigning, plus reaction to those violent weekend protests at trump events. Reporter five states vote tomorrow with hundreds of delegates at stake on both sides. Florida and ohio the biggest prizes, winner take all. Donald trump is leaving florida by double digits. He is in tampa tonight after a weekend of violent protests. Bernie sanders denies he is sending them. Donald trump is a pathological liar. Reporter Hillary Clinton says trump is inciting them. He lit the fire, then throws his hands up and claims he should not be held responsible reporter clinton says foreign leaders are asking to endorse her to stop trump. She has a big lead in florida but its marco rubio who needs the sunshine state. Words of the president have consequences. Reporter slamming trump as he continues his bus tour today. In ohio, john kasich is leading in his home state. Ted cruz claims a tie in North Carolina. Despite the polls. It is going to depend on turnout, who comes up in votes tuesday. Reporter in florida nearly 200,000,000 people have already voted. Tracie potts, nbc news, washington. Three president ial candidates and two spouses of the candidates will be our state today. We will have more on that coming up in our next half hour. Early voting numbers are in, participation was up in North Carolina. Turnout was higher compared to the 2012 president ial in North Carolina. We saw an increase in the number of registered voters who wral will have complete coverage of the tuesday primary. Polls open tomorrow morning at 6 30 and close in the evening at 7 30. After they close results will be available for more than 100 races on wral, www. Wral. Com and wral mobile. We will also have live coverage of key races on wral news. Join us for our primary Election Special tomorrow night at 9 00 on wral 2, that is 5. 2 over the air or on Time Warner Cable channel 1255. Wrals David Crabtree and laura leslie will have the results and what they mean for voters. A wake county deputy walked away unharmed after wrapping his patrol car around a tree. While responding to a crash. Take a look at this video, most of the impact is on the passenger side. Troopers say it happened yesterday afternoon, the deputy was responding to a call when he hit a water puddle during a rain shower and loss control. Stabbing. Douglas hicks is charged with assault with a deadly weapon. He was arrested on scene after man was stabbed at mirage nightclub. The victim, derek etheridge, was taken to the hospital for injuries to his torso and waste. Troopers believe they know who is responsible for a deadly crash friday morning. They say celco Hernandez Ramirez was drunk when he slammed into terry lopez of henderson. He died at the scene. Troopers say Hernandez Ramirez was driving with a revoked license. He will be charged with hit and run plus death by motor vehicle. March madness is officially upon us. Time to get your brackets ready. Their way to the ncaa mens basketball tournament. Here are the selection sunday results. Unc earns the number one seed in the east, they will play the coast and Fairleigh Dickinson game. North carolina doesnt have to travel far, they play thursday night in raleigh with tipoff at 7 20. Duke is the fourth seed and will play in providence. The blue devils matchup with unc wilmington in the first round. Tip time is 12 15 in providence. Basketball, basketball, basketball. Its okay if the weather is not ideal. We can stay inside and watch. We have a couple of days with temperatures well above normal but this weekend does look kind of iffy. We have cloud cover across the viewing area with fog near the virginia line. Our temperatures are one this morning and on the monkeys. 64 durham and cary, town by town 56 in south hill, 64 in rocky mount, 64 in fayetteville, 66 in goldsboro. At lunchtime. By noon the clouds began to thin out, partly cloudy skies this afternoon but scattered showers sort of around the area. And then about the time we get to sunset and after we could have a round of thunderstorms and damaging wind. We will talk about the risks coming up. It does look warm with a high of 80 degrees. Brian continues to follow the accident on the wade avenue ramp. It is a deadly accident on the ramp from 40 westbound onto wade avenue. Police tell us one person died when their vehicle hit a tree on the ramp. That ramp remains blocked right now. You can see heavy traffic on 40 westbound. It will likely remain blocked until 9 00 at least. This is something that will be with us through the morning commute. Lets zoom in to raleigh and show you the extent of the backups. They merging with the fortify work zone delays we typically wade avenue, we are seeing the delays. Us1 traffic coming out of cary backed up as people try to get on that westbound i40 ramp and the traffic is stalled. Traffic can flow off the ramp onto 40 westbound leading to significant ramp delays. Best alternate route this morning is to continue taking it becomes 440, from their chapel hill road and edwardsville, from their heading out toward wade avenue. Westbound, okay through garner at 10 minutes. Those backups through fortify work zone, 20 minutes from 442 us1. At another 10 or 15 minutes between us1 and wade avenue as you approach the closed ramp. Beyond that it is a smooth drive out to the airport and rtp. Back to you. It is a grueling march from florida to North Carolina. Was a journey they had to undertake. That story is coming up. Also, some triangle students are back in the u. S. After a remarkable and unusual trip abroad. The wral balloon fest is in may. You can get a taste of it this morning and learn how you can if youre doing everything right but find it harder and harder to get by, youre not alone. While our people work longer hours for lower wages, almost all new income goes to the top 1 . My plan make wall street banks and the ultrarich pay their fair share of taxes, provide living wages for working people, ensure equal pay for women. Im Bernie Sanders. We can make a Political Revolution and create an economy and democracy that works for all as we first told you friday, a group of marines is running 770 miles to honor trained mission in florida. Seven camp Lejune Marines and four National Guardsmen were killed when their helicopter crashed. In their honor, Sergeant Justin hulett brought together seven groups of military members to run relay style in the marine memorial march. It is really for the families, you know, just to show them that we are still here for them, we care about them, we love them and its a family. With 45 pound sacks on their backs, the teams are carrying a marine paddle and 35 pound plate with the Fallen Soldiers names. Cary Academy Students who spent spring break in cuba returned home. Last year for the first time the scuba Club Leadership at the school planned a diving and cultural expedition to cuba. The group flew in and out of four nights in the city. Students visited communities in president obama visits cuba is a few months away. This morning volunteer organizers are pleased to announce Fidelity Bank as the presenting sponsor. The announcement of the sponsorship comes as festival organizers launch a daylong volunteer drive at the fidelity headquarters in fuquayvarina. Youre looking live from the scene. From now until 6 30 p. M. , swing by Fidelity Bank in Fuquay Varina on south main street. You can learn about all sorts of volunteer opportunities at the wral freedom balloon fest and check out some of the hot air balloons on display. The balloon fest honors the service of our countrys military families. He was exonerated after spending 20 years in prison. 12 years after he was freed, darryl hunt has died. That may be the bengals but they did not write it. They did not. That is a simon and garfunkel song. They did a cover of that sometime in the 80s. We had manic monday earlier, and, you know, a good band. There. Temperature wise. Yesterday we had a round of thunderstorms, probably going to see that again today, too. Lets start off with radar at 4 15, most of the ring over at that point but lifting away from us we have a sprinkle that popped up in the 6 00 hour around franklin county. It is dry now, clouds are starting to thin in the couple of spots but it is so pretty great. How much rain did we see yesterday with thunderstorms . Rdu was the big winner at a little over an inch, halfinch in south hill, a 10th of an inch in roxborough roxboro and less than a 10th everywhere else. The south really missed out on the rain but you may end up with a better chance today. Take a look at the tall tower cam. Right there you can see the view of the tower sticking up above the clouds. What a neat shot that is. Once we get above the deck of cards we are seeing sunshine. There you can see the mix 11. 5 tower. 61 is the current temperature, dewpoint 63. Lots of moisture in the atmosphere and foggy conditions near the virginia line. Temperatures in the 50s from south hill, mid60s southern pines, raleigh, rocky mount, wilson, clinton, everybody else fairly mild. Visibility at a quarter of a mile in roxboro, everybody else either seem low clouds or maybe a midlevel cloud deck at the moment. The rain rolled through overnight, still dealing with cloud cover. This is our next system that rolls through to bring us a chance of showers and storms later this afternoon and evening. Once we get past lunchtime the clouds will begin to thin out. You can see at 1 00 the sunshine peeking through the clouds but after that a couple of popup showers appear across the area, later in the evening and overnight we have a round through with a similar risk to yesterday. Once those move out, there is 7 00 a. M. Tuesday, gradual clearing with sunshine through the afternoon. Tuesday looks beautiful with temperatures warming up nicely. For the storms this evening and overnight the biggest threat will be from severe hail which will be the size of a quarter or larger. Also the chance of wind damage but our flood tornado threat from the storms is pretty low. We have an elevated risk of Severe Weather in the western fringes of the viewing area and a risk for wind damage everywhere but the chance for hail as we get higher in the yellow shaded area. Tuesday looks pretty and nice, a lot of people will be out at the polls for the primary. Tomorrow polls open at 6 30 with upper 50s, but we will see increasing sunshine, high of 79 degrees, looks like a beautiful day. St. Patricks day, thursday, that begins changes across the area. We have a cold front moving through bringing a couple of behind it, especially for the weekend. We may have some rain saturday and sunday with highs in the low 60s. Police say a fight broke out among players and fans at High School Championship game in chapel hill. This was the chaos that unfolded at the 3a boys championship between jay robinson high, wral cruiser shot the video of a spectator appearing to make contact with the players had. The game was played at carmichael arena. A unc spokesperson says officers reported the fight between plans and flares, then moved onto the court. Several plans fans were escorted out of the building, no injuries reported. Robinson high once again, the title match, 5954. The man accused and exonerated in the murder of a winstonsalem newspaper editor was found dead in a car. Darryl hunt was found dead in a car near winstonsalem he was tried and convicted of the murder, then spent 19 years in prison. He was found innocent by dna in february 2004. He was missing nine days before being found. He severed from a medical condition that required treatment. They did not say how he died. One of the president ial candidates who does not have a Campaign Stop ahead of tomorrows primary is john kasich. But he joins us live from youngstown this morning. Thank you for joining us. Good to see you. I just heard that story of a man who had bring in prison for all those years, who did not commit a crime and loses his life. That is a terrible story, god bless. Unbelievable, isnt it . What we find out these days with dna. Anyway, i know thats not what we are talking about while governor, i want to talk about a recent poll that over donald trump in ohio. What happens if you dont win ohio . We are going to win. We have no doubt about it. I have been crisscrossing the state and almost have an 80 approval here. But it is a crazy year as you know but we are going to win in ohio and its going to be a whole new ballgame. Its going to be exciting. I will be able to Campaign Across the country. Im disappointed i was not able to spend time in North Carolina during this week, but you know, i will be back because North Carolina is a pivotal and changing state. My message to everybody was that i was chairman of the Budget Committee in washington, he balanced the budget, jobs were going like crazy. In ohio we took a terrible situation and are up over 400,000 jobs, running surpluses, cutting taxes. I want to take that philosophy back to washington one more time to get the country moving again. Even if you do win ohio, granted it is a winner take all states, it is still an uphill what will be your strategy Going Forward . We still have 1000 delegates to go. We are now short of getting on home turf for me. Well head from here to pennsylvania, we will be in the eastern seaboard and will get to maryland. These are places where i will do well and dont be surprised if i can go to the convention now that it has moved in an area where i have the ability to score some points to have a strong delegate presence going into a convention. It is likely unlikely but you never know. What am i going to do . Keep telling people about my record and vision, where americans were come and get the country fixed. We know there are anxieties but we can overcome them with a positive approach. Thats exactly how i have run this campaign and im still yes, you are. If donald trump is the eventual him . Will have to see how things he has created a very toxic environment. Im going to have to keep thinking about this, because making a recommendation is also want to my kids about the way they are supposed to conduct themselves. Creating a toxic environment of dividing people is not something i like that we will see. We have a ways to go, the last debate was more civil, something i had called for because i was the only one not fighting. We will see where this thing goes. I dont think hes going to be the nominee anyway so i wont have to make a final decision. Governor john kasich, thank you so much. All the best to you. Good luck to unc. I was hoping you would say that. And duke. State cabinet. Linda coleman, our next lt. Governor. Im linda coleman, and im running for lt. Governor because its time to fight back, so our children dont have to do it all over again. Ive fought to improve schools all my life. And now, im going to fight against the republicans in raleigh. Because were in a fight it is 8 26, im renee chou. We are following a deadly crash on i40 in raleigh. Bring us up to date. The ramp from 40 westbound to wade avenue remains blocked, you can see in this live blocking that ramp. Lets take a look at this video shot just a while ago, Police Telling us that driver crashed into a cree tree. We do not have an identification of the victim, Raleigh Police are still working in the newsroom to find out more about the accident. It is likely that the ramp will remain blocked for the next half hour leading to more big delays. Those backups begin in the fortify work zone and continue out toward wade avenue. Beyond that closed ramp, it is a smooth drive out to the airport and rtp. Edwards mill road to get to wade avenue. Let me give you an update on the drive times, all clear from garner but through the fortify work zone, 20 minutes. Or consider using 404 westbound as an alternate. I40 is back open in Alamance County after a series of crashes there. More than 100 vehicles involved, 20 head injuries although none lifethreatening. The crashes shut down part of the interstate near burlington for hours. No one was seriously hurt. Otherwise we are starting off mild, muggy and gray. Take out our rdu skycam shot, definitely looking at cloudy conditions. Starting to see the clouds thinned near Roanoke Rapids toward fayetteville, sunshine more likely widespread after lunchtime after lunch we may see a few showers. It is one this morning, 56 s. Hill, lupita fog near the virginia line this morning, mid 60s from raleigh down to fayetteville, clinton and goldsboro. Chance of storms this evening crews are searching for a man who disappeared while swimming with friends and edgecombe county. Deputies were called to shiloh landing on highway 258 north in princeville. They say a man was fishing with two of his friends when they decided to go for a swim but the man disappeared underwater. His name has not been released. Several president ial candidates and their spouses carolina today. It is going to be a busy day. They are focusing on the tar heel state before voters go to the polls in the primary. Mikaya thurmod joins us to tell us who is coming and where they will be. Reporter good morning. Republican president ial candidate, donald trump, will be campaigning in hickory. Democratic president ial candidate, Bernie Sanders, will be in charlotte this afternoon. Hillary clinton will be in the charlotte later this evening. That is just the beginning of North Carolina campaign appearances. Nearly 24 hours out from the president ial primary, and all eyes are on North Carolina. Campaign appearances from candidates star